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there. The village of Clayton was named by Mr. Bird in honor of Senator John M. Clayton, of Delaware, whom William H. Seward then said was fifty years ahead of his time. When Mr. Bird settled in Dover there was no settler between his cabin and Lanesville, a distance of six miles, nor for three miles cast, his being the only house for nine miles, and the first frame house erected in Dover. Mr. Bird was, in 1839, without his knowledge nominated as a candidate for Representative, and was elected and served as a member of the State legislature for one term. Mr. Bird was never a favorite of Dame Fortune. With an insatiable thurst for knowledge, but without the advantages to possess it; he has been doomed to plod along at the foot of the hill, with the privilege only of casting his eyes to the top. At the age of seventeen he he was so hungry for knowledge that he devoured every old text- book or musty old volume that came with his reach. He never had the advantage of a library, but struggled along as best he could, reading everything from which he could extract a useful thought. He finally gave up his laudable ambition for knowl- edge, and resigned himself to the inevitable, and has endeavored to make life as pleasant and happy as possible, by religiously attending to all domestic and filial obligations.
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OSEPH NICKLOY was born in Arcadia, Wayne county, N. Y., August 15, 1818, where he resided until he was about fifteen years old, when his parents, Wendle and Jane Nickloy, removed to Brighton, Monroe county, and purchased a farm about one mile from the shore of Lake Ontario. Mr. Nickloy resided there until 1835, when he sold out and emigrated to Mich- igan, and settled in Rome, this county, purchasing a farm on sec- tion 1, the same now owned and occupied by Russell Whitney. During the winter of 1837-8 Mr. Nickloy purchased a new farm on section 11, cleared it up, and resided there until his death, which occurred in 1852, in his eighty-fourth year. He was a native of Germany, and came to America with his parents when a boy. He married Jane Scott, by whom he had seven children, Joseph being the sixth child. Mrs. Jane Nickloy was also a native of Germany, coming to America with her parents when a
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child. She died in 1835, about three weeks after her settlement in Michigan, aged about fifty years. Joseph Niekloy was raised a farmer, and lived at home until after he was twenty-two years old, when his father gave him forty acres of land, when he commenced for himself. He resided on this land eight or nine years, when he sold it and purchased a farm in Cambridge, residing there four years. He then sold and repurchased his farm in Rome, residing there until 1861, when he sold and purchased the Gabriel Todd farm on section 22, in Rome, residing there until 1865, when he again sold out and purchased a farm on section 31, in Woodstock, where he now resides. He has greatly improved this farm since he has owned it, having erected three barns, and repaired and overhauled his dwelling house. Mr. Nickloy was for many years an active, hard-working. man; with but one object, and that was success and independence. The forty acres of land his father gave him was covered with heavy timber, which he cleared off and made into a good home. His success, as was the case with hun- dreds of others, depended entirely upon labor, judgment and per- severance. It was a common saying among the first settlers that people must "work or starve." But the remembrances of those days are very pleasant, and the experiences made men and women noble, brave and generous. October 27, 1840, Joseph Nickloy married Lorinda Ostrander, daughter of Andrew and Dorothy Ostrander, of Rome, this county, by whom he has had two chil- dren, as follows: Charles E., born in Rome, July 26, 1843, was killed by lightning while working in a corn field, June 18, 1868; Frank M., born in Cambridge, July 15, 1845, a farmer, and runs the home farm. Mrs. Lorinda Nickloy was born in Clarkston, Monroe county, N. Y., November 22, 1822, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1835. Mr. Ostrander first purchased a farin in Whiteford (now Sylvania), Ohio, but did not like it there, and rented his farm and moved to Madison, renting the Webster farm, and died there August 12, 1837. He was a native of Ontario county, N. Y., and was born August 6, 1791. He married Dorothy Eldridge, daughter of John and Betsey Eldridge, of Brockport, N. Y., by, whom he had ten children, Mrs. Nicklov being the third child. Mrs. Dorothy Ostrander was born in Maine, March 25, 1801, and died in Rome, this county, April 11, 1849. Her parents were natives of Maine. About the year 1815 they emigrated to Brockport, N. Y., but the country was then new, and they soon became dissatisfied and returned to Maine, Dorothy, however, remaining in Brockport, where she was soon after mar- ried. She never saw her parents or any of her relatives after their return to Maine. When Mr. and Mrs. Nickloy commenced keep-
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ing house they had one straw bed, with clothing enough to keep warm, but no bedstead. They had an old-fashioned table that Mr. Nickloy's father had when he commenced keeping house, it being 32x43 feet in size, and is still in the family. They had three knives and three forks, and no teaspoons. It was four years before they got teaspoons, but they found very little inconvenience, for they had but very little tea, and no sance or preserves. It was all hard work, anxiety and hope then, and now that they have all the comforts, they reflect back to the old times, and long for the real enjoyments of those days.
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ICHARD PELHAM was born in Catskill, Greene county,. N. Y., August 8, 1810, where he resided until 1826. At
that time, when he was sixteen years old, he went to Middle- town, Delaware county, and served four years in learning the millwright's trade, and until 1835 he followed his trade in differ- ent parts of the State. In October, 1835, he started for Michigan with a team and wagon, and made the journey, arriving in Wood- stock, this county, December 6th, after being about six weeks on the road. He came with his father-in-law, Joseph Every. When Mr. Pelham arrived in Woodstock, besides his wife and children, he had a chest of tools and one dollar and fifty cents in money. But he was young and ambitious, soon found employment, and with his first fifty dollars he purchased forty acres of land on sec- tion 9, in Woodstock. In the spring of 1836 he was engaged to assist in crecting the Brooklyn grist mill, and during the following four years he worked the most of the time on this mill. He also took a contract to build a saw mill on Goose creek, in Woodstock, for Jesse Osborn and David Tyrrel. In 1840 he went to Ionia county and built a saw mill for John T. Van Vleet. In August, 1837, he located forty acres more land on section 4, and in 1838 he purchased fifty acres of Jesse Osborn, on section 4. In 1845 he purchased of Alvin C. Osborn forty acres more on section 4. In January, 1848, he purchased forty acres on section 3, of Daniel Palmateer. In 1845 be purchased a house and lot in the village of Brooklyn, Jackson county. In January, 1868, he purchased 104 acres of land of Philip A. Hasbrowek, on section 3, in Wood-
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stock. Mr. Pelham still owns all the land he has ever purchased in Woodstock, and has erected a large frame dwelling, with good barns and out-buildings. It will be seen that he has been a very active, industrious man, and must have practiced rigid economy, which together with good judgment has made him well off. There are many instances in Lenawee county where young men came in with families in an early day without any means what ever, who are to-day thrifty, well-to-do men, and Mr. Pelham gives us a striking instance. It should be known, however, that during Mr. Pelham's best and most active days, he was attacked with inflammation of the eyes, and was blind for more than eighteen months, during which time he entirely lost the sight of one, and the other was greatly
impaired. Richard Pelham's father, Henry Pelhan), was born in New Rochelle, Westchester county, N. Y., and was the son of Joseph and Rachel Pelham, who came from France. Henry Pelham mar- ried Margaret Gray, of Middletown, Delaware county, N. Y., where she was born. They had eight children, Richard being the seventh child. James Pelham was a farmer, and owned a farm in Catskill, N. Y., where he died in March, 1813. His wife sur- vived him until 1876, when she died in Olive, Ulster county, N. Y., aged eighty-four. Richard Pelham married, October 22, 1831, Abigail Every, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Every, of Mid- dletown, N. Y., by whom he has had five children, as follows: Hannah S., born in Middletown, N. Y., December 6, 1831, now the wife of James Peterson, a farmer of Columbia, Jackson county, Mich .; Henry, born same place, February 20, 1833, a farmer of Napoleon, Jackson county, Mich .; Loretta, born in Columbia, Jackson county, Mich., April 18, 1836, now the wife of James R. Turpening, a farmer of Woodstock ; Harmon I. Q., born in Wood- stock, this county, July 18, 1840, a resident of Woodstock ; Charles W., born same place, March 12, 1843, at home. Mrs. Abigail Pelham was born in Middletown, Delaware county, N. Y., January 20, 1810, and came to Michigan with her husband in 1835. Her father was a native of Dutchess county, N. Y., and was born April 18, 1766, was a farmer, and owned a farm in Mid- dletown, where he resided until 1835, when he came to Michigan and settled in Columbia, Jackson county, where he died in August, 1853. He married Margaret Ecker, daughter of George A. and Maria (Asher) Ecker, of Olive, Ulster county, N. Y., by whom he had ten children, Mrs. Pelham being the seventh child. Mrs. Maria Pelham was also a native of Dutchess county, of German parents. Her parents met with a misfortune on their passage to America, and lost their luggage en route, and upon their arrival in New York, being unable to pay their passage money, were sold
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into servitude by the vessel captain. She died in Columbia, Jack- son county, in 1838, aged sixty-two years. Joseph Every brought his mother, Abigail (Emery) Every, to Michigan with him in 1835. She was then in her ninety-eighth year. She lived in Woodstock for over two years, and died when she was ninety-nine years and nine months old. She was blind about twenty-five years, but enjoyed good health during her entire life.
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IRA MORLEY was born in Aurelius, Cayuga county, N. Y., April 6, 1806, where he resided until 1812, when his parents, Obadiah and Sarah Morley, moved to Harmony, Chautauqua county, where he resided until 1835. He was raised in a new country, as Chautauqua county was just being settled up when his father settled there. The old farm was on the shore of Chautauqua lake, and for twenty years he spent his spare time on or about the water. The old farm consisted of four hundred acres, which was purchased of the Holland Land company, and Mr. Morley cleared and improved nearly all of it. Obadiah Morley married Sarah Fuller, by whom he had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, Hira being the fifth child. Obadiah Morley was a native of Connecticut, learned the trade of mill- wright, and went into the State of New York when a young man, and at one time owned a part of the land upon which the city of Auburn now stands, and erected for Col. Hardenburg the first mill there. He died in Harmony, Chautauqua county. of heart disease while working in his garden, in April, 1846. Mrs. Sarah Morley died on the old farm, December 12, 1871, in her ninety- fourth year. Hira Morley resided in Chautauqua county until the spring of 1835, when he came to Michigan and settled in Wood- stock, this county, purchasing 160 acres of land on section 25, where he now resides. He brought his family on that fall. At that time there were only four families, Joseph Robinson, Charles M. Mckenzie (who lived at the head of Devil's lake), Joseph Younglove and Richard Osborn, in his neighborhood, there being no settlers north of him nearer than Mr. Blackmar's, on the Chi- cago turnpike, four miles distant. Mr. Morley is the only man living who settled in his neighborhood in 1835. He had been
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brought up in a new country, and understood thoroughly how to manage to live comfortably with whatever could be obtained. If he could not get good wheat flour, he could get along with corn meal. When corn meal could not be had he subsisted upon vege- tables and what game his rifle would kill. He lived the first win- . ter in a shanty covered with deer-skins, and took comfort too. January 4, 1828, Hira Morley married Betsey Dickerson, daughter of William and Susan (Rogers) Dickerson, of Westfield, Chautau- qua county, N. Y., by whom he has had seven children, as follows : William R., born in Harmony, August 17, 1829, now a resident of Brooklyn, Jackson county; Julia, born same place, July 25, 1831, now the wife of Albert Uptergrove, of Campbell, Ionia county, Mich .; Celestia, born same place, August 4, 1833, now the wife of James W. Westcott, of Wheatland, Hillsdale county, Mich .; Amos, born in Woodstock, this county, January 30, 1837, died April 7, 1880; James, born same place, February 22, 1843, a resident of Addison village; Sarah A., born same place, Septem- ber 7, 1846, and died March 23, 1849; Manly, born same place, September 23, 1850, works the home farm. Mrs. Betsey Morley was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., August 23, 1808, and came to Michigan with her husband in 1835. Her father was born near Albany, N. Y., was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a pioneer of Chautaugna, settling there in 1810. He died on his farm in Westfield, of a cancer, in 1818. He married Susan Rogers, daughter of Frederick and Betsey Rogers, of Fairfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., by whom he had five children, Mrs. Morley being the oldest. Mrs. Susan Dickerson was born in Ver- mont, near the Green mountains, and died in Ellisville, Fulton county, Ill., in 1875.
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B ENJAMIN VAN CAMP was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y ., July 29, 1806, where he re-ided until 1812, when his parents, William and Nancy Van Camp, removed to Utica, N. Y., residing there about one year, and then went to Junius, Ontario county, living there until 1825. They then moved to Groveland, Livingston county, remaining there about five years, and in 1830 removed to Sandusky, Ohio, where William Van Camp died in 1836. William Van Camp married Nancy Gallo-
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way, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., by whom he had nine children, Ben- jamin being the fourth. Mrs. Nancy Van Camp was a native of Ogdensburg, and died in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1840. Benjamin lived with his parents until he was seventeen years old, when he commenced working by the month on a farm. In 1825 he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he worked three years in a saw mill. In the spring of 1830 he came to Michigan and settled on section 12, in Tecumseh, this county, locating eighty acres of land. He arrived in Tecumseh with his wife and two children, on the 12th day of June. He resided there for twenty-five years, cleared the entire eighty acres, built a good dwelling house, with barns, etc., and purchased more land near by for a wood-lot. In the spring of 1832 he was warned to appear at Tecumseh, armed and equipped for the Black Hawk war. That spring Mr. Van Camp had the misfortune to fall a tree upon himself, which so disabled hin that he was declared unfit for military duty. He was therefore detailed to warn out the settlers. The warning notice read: "By order of Captain Drown, I warn you to appear at Tecumseh, to-morrow morning, precisely at 9 o'clock, armed and equipped as the law directs, fit for military duty, with twenty-four rounds of powder and ball, nine days' provisions, and a blanket." In 1855 Mr. Van Camp sold his farm in Tecumseh, and purchased of Isaac Smith 200 acres of land on section 10, in Woodstock, where he now resides. When Mr. Van Camp came to Tecumseh in 1830 he had a span of horses and a few provisions. He soon found that he could not keep horses, and traded them off for two yoke of oxen. He immediately started for Detroit with his oxen and wagon for provisions, the mud being very deep the entire distance. He was gone nearly one week on the trip, and fifteen hundred pounds was all his team could possibly draw. On the road he met about 3,000 Indians on their way to Detroit to receive their annuities. In 1832 the people commenced going to Monroe for their supplies. They always went in companies of five or six wagons, in order to help one another out of the mud. The teams generally consisted of about two yoke of cattle each. It was very often the case that eight or ten yoke of oxen were attached to one wagon to pull it out of the mud holes. It took a man of some courage to face all the scenes and dangers of the old times. Want, hunger, wolves, bears, Indians, fever and ague, and hard work, comprised the expe- rience of the early pioneers of Lenawee county. One year it was very sickly, when there were not well ones enough to attend to the sick. Dr. Patterson was the physician then, and the people were so poor that they could hardly pay him for his services. Some of the German settlers, as well as others, saved what medicine they
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could from his prescriptions, and when they got better they wanted the Doctor to take back what medicine they had saved, and allow them for it in their bills. The Doctor did it, and after accumulating a large amount, he said, he put it all into a large jug, added whisky to preserve it, and whenever he got a case that he could not handle he gave a dose from the jug and took his chances on the result. July 16, 1828, Benjamin Van Camp married Sarah Nixon, daughter, of Patrick and Betsey Nixon, of Groveland, Liv- ingston county, N. Y., by whom he had seven children, as follows: Walter, born in Groveland, August 15, 1829, a farmer of Somerset, Hillsdale county, Mich .; William, born same place, March 22, 1831, a merchant of Sedalia, Mo .; Louisa, born in Tecumseh, March 8, 1833, now the wife of Joel White, of Cleveland, Tenn .; Richard, born same place, March 10, 1835, a farmer of Somerset; Francis, born same place, January 3, 1839, a farmer of Woodstock; Martha, born same place, May 28, 1840, was the wife of Myron Wade, and died March 7, 1866; Alfleda, born same place, April 1, 1842, now the wife of Dellman Wade, of Portland, Ingham county, Mich. Mrs. Sarah Van Camp, was born in Groveland, April 27, 1805, and died in Woodstock, May 28, 1869. September 15, 1870, Mr. Van Camp married Mrs. Lucy Selby, widow of Orson Selby, and daughter of Joseph and Mercy Nichols. Mrs. Lucy Van Camp was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, March 17, 1815. She was stricken with paralysis in 1877, since which time she has been nearly helpless.
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ERMAN VISSCHER HART was born in Albany, N. Y., September 7, 1784, and was the son of Henry and Eliza- beth (Visscher) Hart. Henry Hart was a merchant and farmer, doing business at the time of his death, in May, 1788, in Washington county, N. Y. He was a native of London, Eng- land, and died intestate, leaving a large estate, both real and per- sonal, which was inherited by Herman V. Hart, his sole heir-at- law. Henry Hart married Elizabeth Visscher (or. Visger), daugh- ter of Herman Visscher, by whom he had two sons, Herman V. being the oldest. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart's ancestors came from Hol- land and settled at or near Albany, N. Y. Herman V. Hart was
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left an orphan at the age of seven years, his father dying before he was four years old, and his mother when he was seven. Being left with a large property his relatives who lived in Canada took him to Montreal, where he was educated in a French school, and resided until he was about seventeen years old, when he became a clerk for the Northwestern Fur Company, and for seven years his lot was cast with the Sioux Indians in the Northwest Territory, where he was engaged in the fur trade. He became very familiar with the habits, language and traditions of the different tribes, and was named by the Sioux, Hoop-e-hon, which in English signifies "crane's legs." During his long residence among the savage tribes he met with several startling adventures and hair-breadth escapes, and upon one occasion in an altercation his interpreter was killed. He remained among the Indians until he was twenty- three years of age, when in 1807 he was called to Albany to attend to the administration of his estate. Immediately after the death of his father, Henry Hart, Jeremiah Van Rensallaer and Abraham Ten Eyck procured letters of administration from the surrogate of Washington county, on the entire estate, claiming that they were creditors. Herman V. was called to Albany in 1807 by his friends to find, if possible, what had become of his property, and soon discovered that the administrators had fraudulently embezzled the whole of it, telling him that the estate had been exhausted in the payment of debts and necessary expenses. With
that determination, force of character and untiring energy which were his distinguishing traits through life, he commenced proceed- ings in the Court of Chancery, of the State of New York, to unwind the tangled web, which the rich and powerful but unscru- pulous administrators, taking advantage of his infancy and ab- sence, had sought to wind around his father's estate. He boldly charged them with fraud and perjury, and, after eight years of anxious and untiring litigation, finally obtained from the Court of last resort, of that State, a decree that the acts of the administra- tors had been corrupt and unjust to him, and that they must pay to him full remuneration for the sums of which they had unjustly defrauded him, the amount being finally fixed by a compromise at $30,000, which was paid over, the entire amount of which was used up in the cost of the suit. Eminent counsel was engaged on both sides, Mr. Hart employing Abram Van Vechten and John V. Henry, of Albany, while the defendants employed Martin Van
Buren, Thomas A. Emmet, and John Woodworth. March 14,
1814, Herman V. Hart married Miriam Leonard, daughter of Enoch and Maria Leonard, of Albany, by whom he had ten chil- dren, as follows: E. Leonard, Henry, Alexander, Herman V.,
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Frederick, Herman V., William, Elizabeth V., Maria and Frances, only three of whom are now living, William, who for many years has been connected with the U. S. Quartermaster's department, and now holds an important position in Washington; Mrs. Maria H. Greenly and Mrs. Frances H. Lantz who reside in the city of Adrian. Mrs. Miriam Hart was born in Albany, N. Y., Jan- uary 10, 1794, and died in Adrian, Mich., May 2, 1864. Her father was a commissioned officer in the Revolution, afterward a prominent merchant of Albany. His ancestors came from Eng- and, and settled in Massachusetts. Her mother was the daughter of Colonel Cornelius Van Vechten, of Revolutionary fame, also born in Albany, and married Anna Knickerbocker. Hernian V. Hart resided in Albany where he was a prominent man, being an alderman for several years, and holding other important positions in the city, until he came to Michigan in November, 1843, and settled in Adrian, where he resided until his death, which occurred March 27, 1875, in his ninety-second year.
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REDERICK HART was born in Albany, N. Y., August 23, 1827, where he resided until he was fourteen years old, when he came to Michigan and settled in Adrian. He was the son of Herman V. and Miriam Hart, whose record will be found on another page of this volume. No man was better known in the city of Adrian than Frederick Hart; and perhaps no man was more universally respected and esteemed, for he was a person possessed of a kind and earnest heart, a universally happy and even temper, ever jovial and genial in his bearing, always carrying an open palm and a pleasant word for every person. To be sure he had his faults-no one is free from them-but Fred. was more than an ordinary man, being singularly endowed with the best qualities of business and social attributes. He was the life of any gathering, and his full, manly and resonant voice carried with it the true ring of friendship and good cheer, and all who were within its sound felt its influence and happy impulse. No . man was, perhaps, more sought after in the dark hours of sickness and death, for his true, sympathetic nature taught him just what to do, and no one was ever more ready or willing to lend a helping
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hand and speak a kind and consoling word, and few in Adrian followed more to Oakwood Cemetery and assisted at the last obsequies, than he. And who was more "useful" or happy at a wedding, in his jolly, good nature, his manly bearing, his social, free and hearty repartee and constant attention to the happiness and joy of all about him? Many, many citizens of Adrian will often think of Fred. Hart as the soul of mirth and joy, and the embodiment of all the accomplishments requisite in the exacting etiquette so necessary on these occasions. He was entirely adequate to all their requirements, and performed them with an ease and grace that always left the most pleasant remembrances. In his busi- ness relations he had few equals and no superiors. He was in the dry goods business in Adrian for about seventeen years. Strictly honest, prompt, energetic and self-reliant, he was possessed of good judgment, quick discernment and perception, and, as a book-keeper and accountant, had no superior. For twelve years he filled the position of assistant secretary of the Michigan State Insurance Com- pany, and so identified himself with the business and interests of the company, that he was perfectly familiar with all its details, and his relations with all the officers and agents were conducted in so simple and thorough a manner that the entire immense business of the company was as familiar and as easy for him to handle and explain, at a moment's notice, as would be the most ordinary busi- ness to many men. He was endowed with a wonderful and accu- rate memory, and could relate circumstances and recall business transactions of years before with remarkable. correctness. His office was always in order, and his papers were in their places, and could be referred to at any time, if they had not been called for in ten years. He was also gifted with a fine executive ability, and early in life identified himself with military and public matters. On the 10th of May, 1848, the year that he was twenty-one years . of age, he was elected captain of the Adrian Guards, to which position he was annually elected, until May 10, 1855, when J. H. Bodwell was elected. Captain Bodwell held the position for one year, when Captain Hart was reelected, and was honored by his comrades every succeeding year, by electing him, until the spring of 1861, when the rebellion broke out. Under his command the Adrian Guards were recognized throughout the State as second to none in soldierly bearing, and for their excellent drill and tactics. Not a member of the old company who went into the rebellion (and they nearly all did), but received an appointment to some responsible position, and many of them rose to the rank of colonels and brevet-generals. The old guards were the pride of his younger days, and to his skill and genius they owed their suc-
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