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Edwin P. Green, Esq., also presented a revolver and a large dirk-knife each, to Alden Gage, Henry E. Bryan and Arthur H. Farnam, after proper responses had been made, saying to the company :
"Gentlemen: I have not not selected these three young men -my especial friends- because I do not believe you will all equally do your duty, and that I would not with the same pleasure- do the same for each one of you. Not at all. My heart reaches, but my pocket falls short. Some of you have families, and you are- anxious to know if they will be taken care of during your absence. Let us know where your families are, and if, on your return, they say they have not been cared for, and I have one cent remaining, that I have not divided with them, shoot me as a traitor; and now I say you will only then have done-as you will do during your absence-your duty."
Ralph P. Waterbury, for the Akron Stove Company, presented a revolver to N. B. Bigelow, an employe of the company; Charles Falk a like weapon and a bowie-knife to his brother Fred. F. Falk ;. George Thomas, a revolver to his son, David W. Thomas; Christy & Co., a revolver to John Jackson Tate; J. Baldwin & Co., a revolver to Charles H. Edgerly; and George W. Weeks, Esq., on behalf of sundry citizens of Copley, made donations in money to. C. Conrad, E. H. Pursell, John Mann, S. Fairbanks, Charles Corbus, E. Hull, E. Capron and A. Golden, volunteers from that township.
AT CAMP AKRON.
As soon as company organizations were effected, "Camp. · Akron" was established on the Fair Grounds, near the present residence of Col. A. L. Conger, over-looking the city upon the west,. the fair buildings being utilized as barracks, the ladies of the city generously supplying the boys with rations, blankets, etc.
Here, on Monday, April 29, 1861, Philip P. Bock presented Capt. Buckley with a very fine revolver; Mr. C. J. Slocum, on behalf of citizens of Middlebury, presented the boys from that village with a substantial sum of money each; the ladies of Akron presented Company A with a fine merino banner with "Akron Union Light Infantry, Company A." embroidered on its folds; Rev. Henry Adams, of.St. Paul's Church, in behalf of the Christian people of Akron, presented each member of the several companies with a beautiful pocket edition of the New Testament, with a per- tinent and feeling address, Mr. Adams also giving a prayer book to. each soldier member of his own congregation.
A fine stand of colors, with the legend "Akron Union Light Infantry, Company B," embroidered upon one. of its white stripes in blue silk, was presented to that company, in behalf of the ladies of Akron, in the following neat address by Mrs. S. H. Coburn: "In behalf of the patriotic women of this place, I present you this flag of our Union, feeling assured that there is need of no word of ours to inspire you with courage in its defense. That the Ruler of Battles may guard and protect you, and after giving you a victory over the enemies of freedom, bring you in safety to your
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homes, will be the daily prayers of those whose fingers have fash- ioned this emblem, and in their behalf I bid you God speed in this your glorious undertaking."
IN CAMP TAYLOR.
So immense had been the uprising all over the country, that our boys were beginning to feel somewhat "blue," lest they should not be permitted to go to the front, after all, but on Monday, May 1st,Gen. George W. McNeil, received orders from Gov. Dennison for the Command to report immediately at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, and on Tuesday morning the three companies named marched from Camp Akron to the depot, where an immense crowd of joyful yet tearful friends had assembled to witness their departure. At the depot, Dr. Thomas Earl, on behalf of the ladies of Akron, in brief but fitting words, presented to Company C a beautiful flag, on which was embroidered, "Akron Buckeye Infantry, Company C," Captain Hard, in response, expressing the gratitude of his company for the beautiful gift.
Scores of our citizens daily visited Camp Taylor, the great interest felt for the welfare and comfort of the soldier boys being evidenced by the fact that on Wednesday, May 16, a large company of the ladies of Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson visited the camp, armed with heavily charged baskets of cold chicken, biscuit and butter, cakes, pies, canned fruit, etc., the spread being inost heartily enjoyed by all, while our present fellow-citizen, Mr. John J. Wagoner, then doing business in Manchester, sent them two barrels of roll butter, with the promise of several barrels of eggs should they remain in camp until they could be provided.
NINETEENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The quota of Ohio, under the 75,000 call of Mr. Lincoln, was only about 13,000, and when at least 80,000 of her patriotic sons were not only offered but urged upon Governor Dennison, of course all could not be accepted, and many companies had to be disbanded before being assigned to regiments or mustered into the service of the United States. Among those thus doomed to disap- pointment, were the members of Company C, a portion of the men however, uniting with Captain Buckley's company, or re-enlisting under the first three years' call which had just then been made, in announcing which fact Captain Hard said: "To the citizens of Akron, and to the ladies especially, we extend our gratitude for the respect they have shown us, and will return our banner to them as pure as when received, hoping ere long to bring it forth to a more honorable position in the field."
Companies A and B, however, were accepted, and as before intimated attached to the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry as com- panies G and K, which regiment, on being duly organized and mustered in, was sent to Camp Jackson, at Columbus, May 27, 1861. Here regimental officers were elected, with Samuel Beatty, of Canton, as Col., Capt. Buckley, of Company G, being promoted to Major.
Companies A and B were detailed to guard the ferry at Bellaire, and the balance of the regiment sent to Camp Goddard, at Zanes- ville, to perfect themselves, under that strict disciplinarian, Major
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Buckley, in military drill. June 20, the entire regiment, with others, went to Parkersburg, Va., and were organized into a brigade under Brig. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. This brigade participated in the battle of Rich Mountain, on July 7, the gallant conduct of the regi- ment elicting from Gen. Rosecrans, the following: "The Nine- teenth Ohio distinguished itself for the cool and handsome inanner in which it held its post against a flank attack, and for the hand- some manner it which it came into line and delivered its fire near the close of the action."
The term for which the members of the original Nineteenth had enlisted having expired, on July 23, 1861, the regiment returned to Columbus and was mustered out of service. It was, however, immediately reorganized-and recruited to 996 men, for three years, including many of the original Summit county members of Com- panies G and K.
Leaving Camp Dennison November 19, the newly organized Nineteenth participated in the battle of Mill Springs, in which the rebel General Zollicoffer was defeated; Pittsburg Landing; the siege of Cornith; marched and counter-marched with Gen. Buell in and through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, etc .; crossed Stone River and received the rebel charge under Breckenridge, on June 2, 1863, losing 213 men, killed, wounded, and missing; participated in the battle of Chickamauga, losing 100 men, killed, wounded and missing; at Orchard Knob, November 23, 1863, losing 20 inen, killed and wounded; took part in the charge on rebel works at foot of Missionary Ridge, November 26, with a loss of one man killed and 13 wounded.
At Strawberry Plains, January 1, 1864, some 400 of the surviv- ing members of the regiment enlisted as Veterans for three years more, and were sent home on a 30 days' furlough. On returning to the front, the regiment engaged in the Atlanta campaign, in the Spring of 1864; fought at New Hope Church, (with a loss of 44 inen, killed and wounded), at Kenesaw, at Peach Tree Creek, at the crossing of the Chattanooga, and was daily under fire until the evacuation of Atlanta; the entire loss in the campaign being two- commissioned officers and 13 men killed; six commissioned officers and 96 men wounded, and 13 men missing-total 145.
After the evacuation of Atlanta, the Nineteenth formed a part of Gen. Thomas' division in preventing Hood from following Sher- man in his celebrated march from "Atlanta to the Sea," partici- pating in the battle of Nashville, with a slight loss, and in the Spring of 1865 was sent to Texas, and was mustered out of service on the 21st of October, 1865.
THE TWENTY-NINTH O. V. I.
Immediately on the mustering out of the original Nineteenth, as above set forth, the Twenty-ninth Regiment was recruited, under the auspices of that grand old friend of freedom and justice, Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, of which, on its organization in Camp Giddings, at Jefferson, Ashtabula county-the home of its patron saint-Major Lewis P. Buckley, of Akron, was elected Colonel.
Companies D, G and H, were substantially raised in Summit county; Company D, with Pulaski C. Hard as captain, Myron T. Wright, first lieutenant and James H. Grinnell as second lieutenant;
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Company G, with John S. Clemmer captain, James Treen, first lieu- tenant, and Josiah J. Wright as second lieutenant; Company H, with Jonas Schoonover as captain, Andrew J. Fulkerson, first lieutenant, and Henry Mack, second lieutenant.
C OL. LEWIS P. BUCKLEY,-born at Cayuga Lake, N. Y., in 1804 ; at 17 entered Military Academy at West Point, becoming very proficient in both literary, scientific and mili- tary studies, resigning before gradu- ation because he would not submit to the customary insolence of the pro- slavery "F. F. V"-ism, then largely dominating that institution; came to Akron about 1834, opening a grocery store at Lock Eiglit, Ohio Canal, in the building still standing there, with his family residence in the base- ment ; in 1835 built a frame block on the present postoffice site, corner Howard and Mill streets, afterwards converted into a hotel, known as the Chidester House, a year later erect- ing for his own family residence, the house now occupied by Mrs. William T. Allen, on South High street ; was member of Village Coun- cil in 1839; in 1840 established foun- dry and plow works at Lock Two, and stove and tin shop on Howard street; also officiating as collector of tolls on Ohio Canal during 1841, in which, through the alleged rob- bery of his deputy, while en route to Wooster, to deposit the monthly col- lections for October of that year, he became an apparent defaulter in the sum of $3,985.45, which, after the ab- sorption of the residue of his own means, was inade good to the State by his bondsmen. Though thus un- fortunate, the majority of his fellow- citizens believing in his personal integrity, in 1842 elected him Justice of the Peace, which position he ably filled three years. In 1849, Mr. Buck- ley went to California, where he re- miained about three years. On his return to Akron followed a variety- of employments until the breaking
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out of the war, in 1861, when he promptly raised a company for the original 19th O. V. I., of which regi- ment he was elected major. On ex- piration of three months' service, raised a company for the 29th O. V. I., of which he was made colonel, ably serving until failing health con- pelled his resignation, Jan. 26, 1863 ; was then assistant doorkeeper in House of Representatives at Wash- ington through two sessions of Con- gress, dying in Akron June 25, 1868. universally lamented, his memory being perpetuated' in Buckley Post, G. A. R., and his full length portrait in one of the large stained-glass win- dows in our beautiful soldiers' me- morial chapel, elsewhere written of.
This regiment was organized August 26, 1861, under the first three years' call, but owing to unavoidable hindrances, it remained at Camp Giddings until December 25, and at Camp Chase, Colum- bus, until January 17, 1862. But the time was by no means lost, as by its nearly five months' constant practice, it was probably as thoroughly perfect in drill as any regiment in the service during the entire war.
NATIONAL AND REGIMENTAL FLAGS.
The ladies of Summit and Ashtabula counties having prepared beautiful stands of national and regimental colors, on November 27, the flags were duly presented by Mr. Giddings with a char- acteristic speech, briefly tracing the causes that led to the rebellion.
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"Its first overt acts," said Mr. Giddings, "were put forth in Con- gress by subjecting the people of the free States to gag rules; by striking down the right of petition; by arraigning and publicly censuring representatives for the faithful discharge of duty; by annexing, unconstitutionally, slave territory and extending and strengthening the encroachments of slavery." Continuing at some length, and formally presenting the banners to Col. Buckley, Mr. Giddings said: "Bear in mind that you go forth to fight the battles of the human race for all coming time; and should the roar of can- non, the rattling of muskets, the clashing of sabres, the din and smoke of battle surround you, remember the cause in which you are engaged, and be assured that if you fall, we who are left will care for your widows and children. Your heroic deeds shall be enshrined in our memories, recorded in our history, admired by coming generations and approved by a holy and just God."
COL. BUCKLEY'S RESPONSE .- After thanking the ladies and Mr .. Giddings for the beautiful emblems, Col. Buckley, said: "Sir, you have spoken in high commendation of my command. I can assure you that I feel honored in having command of such a regiment. It will be my pride and ambition, with my fellow officers, to make it, in all things pertaining to a well-drilled and well-disciplined regi- ment, one of the best in Ohio. And now, fellow-soldiers, in the presence of this assembly, and before high heaven, let us swear upon the altar of our country, to defend this flag so long as there be one true heart and strong arm to hold it to the breeze."
OFF FOR THE FRONT.
January 17, 1862, the regiment was sent to Cumberland, Md., the brigade to which it was attached-commanded by Col. E. B. Tyler, of the Seventh Ohio (a Ravenna boy)-was assigned to Gen. Lander's division, which, on his death, March 1, 1862, passed to the command of Gen. Shields. Being a part of the Army of the Poto- mac, the 29th participated in the battle of Washington, March 23, 1862, defeating the rebels under Stonewall Jackson; the battle of Winchester, May 25, the battle of Port Republic 'June 9, (several being captured by the rebels); the battle of Cedar Mountain, Au- gust 9, 1862; second battle of Bull Run August 30, 1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862; battle of Chancellorsville May 1-4, 1863; battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863.
In September, 1863, after aiding in quelling the New York draft riots, the Twenty-ninth was transferred to the Army of the Ten- nessee, and, under Gen. Hooker, participated in the battles of Lookout Mountain, November 24 and 25, Mission Ridge, November 26, Ringold, Ga., November 28. Re-enlisting as veterans, Deceni- ber 11, 1863, after a home furlough of 30 days, the regiment returned to the front, taking an active part in the Atlanta campaign, at Dug Gap, Ga., May 7, 1864; at Dallas, Ga., May 29, 1864; at. Pine Knob, Ga., June 19, 1864; at Peachtree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864; and, after the fall of Atlanta, making the famous march from "Atlanta to the Sea," and after the capture of Savannah and Charleston, remaining in South and North Carolina (taking a hand in the battle of Averysville, N. C., March 16, 1865), until the close of the war, on April 29 proceeding via Richmond to Washington, and on June 10, 1865, taking part in the grand review, in the capital of the Nation it had helped to save.
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From Washington the regiment was sent to Louisville, Ky., where, Col. Jonas Schoonover commanding, it remained about one month, when it was returned to Cleveland, and at Camp Taylor, July 22 and 23, 1865, the men, 426 in number, were paid off and duly mustered out of service, many having been in continuous service for over four years.
C OL. DAVID W. THOMAS,-born in Millersburg, O., March 9, 1841 ; came with father to Akron in 1845; educated in Akron public schools ; at 16, went to Tallmadge and learned the carriage blacksmithing trade with Oviatt & Sperry ; in April, 1861, enlisted in Co. G, 19th O. V. I., for three months, participating in the battle of Rich Mountain and serving till end of term. In October, 1861, enlisted in Co. H, 29th O. V. I. for three years, taking part in the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville (where he was slightly wounded by a frag- ment of shell) and Gettysburg ; then went to New York City to quell the draft riots there; from thence to the southwest, being at Wauhatchie and Lookout Mountain. Re-enlisting as veterans, in December 1863, regiment joined Sherman in his Atlanta Canı- paign and on his "March to the Sea." Promoted by regular gradation, at Savannah, he was assigned as Cap- tain to Co. A, (the post of honor) and as such mustered out at Louisville, Ky., June 22, 1865. Returning home engaged with father in lumber and building business, and on death of father, in 1872, with Charles Miller, R. N. Kratz and others, now being President of The Thomas Lumber & Building Company, organized in 1887. In 1876 Capt. Thomas was elected Colonel of the 9th O. N. G., afterwards consolidated with the 8th Regiment, as elsewhere related; is an active
COL. DAVID W. THOMAS.
member of the G. A. R. organization, at its annual encampment in 1880, being elected Department Command- er. Sept. 11, 1868, was married to Miss Alice Hale-who died Jan. 4, 1880, leaving four children-George H., James A., Frank and Elizabeth. Dec. 18, 1884, Col. T. was again married, to Mrs. Isabella Gage, widow of the late Alden Gage, and daughter of the late Charles Webster, founder of the Web- ster, Camp & Lane Machine Con- pany.
AKRON IN THE TWENTY-NINTH.
Following is a list of the soldiers furnished by Akron, Middle- bury 'and Portage township, so far as the present available docu- ments will furnish them:
Lewis P. Buckley, Augustus Belden, S. H. Beatty, Thomas J. Bare, Levi J. Baughinan, Solomon J. Baughman, Lester P. Burke, Charles Bedell, Henry Curtis, Christian Conrad, John Capen, Thomas Cummings, John Cephas, Charles H. Edgerly, Alexander French, Jacob Fritz, A. J. Fulkerson, William Fisher, Charles Foster, Dudley Fisher, Stephen Griffith, George W. Gibson, John Gross, Hammond W. Geer, James H. Grinnell, Adam Hart, G. W. Geer, Newton P. Humiston, George F. Hewitt, Charles D. Hine, John Huggett, Marcus F. C. Humphrey, Roswell Hoffman, John Helfinger, William Hawk, George Hamilton, S. J. Iles, Morgan Johnson, John Kelley, John A. Kummer, Jehial Lane, Jr., Joseph
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Loomis, Richard Lewis, Joseph Limric, Byron Lowe, W. C. Lantz, W. L. Lowe, William Lane, Jehial Lane, Sr., John McNeil, G. F. Mest, George Montenyohl, Frank Metzler, J. H. McDonald, B. F. Manderbach, John Madden, Charles H. Paine, Elisha H. Pursell, Herman Ridder, Hiram Root, Jacob Rhodenbaugh, Orson H. Remington, John Rowland, Charles A. Rotart, DeWitt C. Stephens, George Sherbondy, James B. Storer, James K. P. Souers, Ezra Spindle, Daniel Shaff, John Steese, Charles Sherbondy, Jacob Scholberger, James Treen, John Treen, George Treen, James Treen, Jr., C. T. Tooker, William H. Tooker, David W. Thomas, Charles Upham, Valentine Viers, William Wirt, Carroll W. Wright, John F. Weidle, Josiah J. Wright, John Watson, Lewis Wagner, Samuel S. Wood, George Wells, William Woodward, J. L. Wagoner, Jolın G. Wait, John Whitney, George Welch, Samuel Winkleman, John G. Weidley, Frank O. Weary, musician Co. G, Charles Young, Conrad. Zittle.
CASUALTIES TO TWENTY-NINTH.
It will not be possible to give all the casualties to Akron and Summit County boys, in this and other regiments, but the fol- lowing in regard to members of the Twenty-Ninth, may properly be given here: William Palmer Williamson, brother of the late Judge Samuel C. Williamson, then second lieutenant of Company G, was killed at Winchester, Va., March 23, 1862, being the first Summit County boy to lay down his life in defense of the Union. His body was sent home by his comrades, and interred in Akron Rural Cemetery. Capt. Myron T. Wright, Company D, wounded in same battle; again wounded at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864; promoted to major, October 29, 1864; mortally wounded at Savannah, Ga., December 19, 1864, dying January 7, 1865; pro- moted to lieutenant colonel January 18, 1865, eleven days after his decease. Corporal Augustus Belden, killed by guerrillas, May 30, 1862; Lieut. James H. Grinnell, Company D, wounded in arm at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862; Capt. Josiah J. Wright, Company G, wounded in shoulder, at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862; Capt. Jonas Schoonover, Company H, wounded at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, and again at Chancellorsville, Va., May 1, 1863, promoted to major at Savannah, January 18, 1865, to. lieutenant colonel, January 28, 1865, and to colonel, July 25, 1865; James B. Storer, promoted from sergeant to sergeant major, March 14, 1862, and to adjutant, January 20, 1863, wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., May 8, 1864, by minie ball, in spinal column, from which ever since he has been a constant sufferer; Valentine Viers, Company D, wounded at Winchester, Va., March 23, 1862; John F. Weidle, Company G, lost a leg at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2, 1863; John Rowland, killed by guerrillas, May 3, 1862; Alexander C. French, Company G, killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862; John A. Kummer, Company G, wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; Thomas C. Bare and John W. Steese, Company C, Ellis T. Treen and William C. Lantz, Company G, killed at Dug Gap, Ga., May 8, 1864; Lieut. B. F. Manderbach, Company G, wounded near Kenesaw, Ga., January 28, 1864. Corporal Hammond W. Geer, wounded at Dug Gap, Ga., May 8, 1864, and discharged for disability, at Nashville, May 27, 1865.
Among the Twenty-Ninth boys captured by the rebels at Port . Republic, June 9, 1862, were Lieut. Thomas W. Nash, Company H;
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Sergt. W. F. Chamberlin, Company H; Conrad Zittle, William Fisher, John A. Kummer, Hammond W. Geer, William Wirt, John Gross, DeWitt C. Stephens, Company G; at Strasburg, Va., May 25, 1862; Ferris Townsend and Newton P. Humiston, Company G; · at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, Sergeant Orson H. Remington, Company H.
CAPT. JOSIAH J. WRIGHT,-born in Swanton, Vt., September 19, 1821; educated in district school; in boyhood, when so small as to require a block to stand on while blowing and striking, working as black- smith's assistant ; at 15 became clerk in country store; in 1840 came to Ohio, working on farm at 50 cents per day ; for a time attended Twins- burg Institute; then taught school winters and worked at blacksmithing summers. After marriage to Miss Margaret A. Waite, of Brecksville, August 21, 1842, Mr. and Mrs. Wright jointly. taught school one year in South Bloomfield, Pickaway county,O. For many years Mr. Wright was a successful and popular auctioneer and commission merchant; in 1851 removing to Akron, where for several years he officiated as constable, mar- shal and general detective. In the war of the Rebellion Capt. Wright took a prominent part, serving as captain of Co. G, 29th O. V. I., until discharged October 1, 1862, on account of wounds received at Cedar Moun- tain August 9, 1862; on partial recovery engaged in recruiting ser- vice ; in 1863 again entering the army as second lieutenant of Co. K, 129th O. V. I., serving till discharged for disability in March, 1864; again engaged in recruiting, and again, in Spring of 1865, entered the army, first as a private, soon being commis-
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sioned captain of Co. D, 197th O. V. I., serving till discharged, at close of the war, August 6th, 1865. After the war Capt. Wright officiated for some time as auctioneer and private detec- tive, and later, for several years, as editor and publisher of the Akron Commercial and its successor, the People's Monthly.
Among the Twenty-Ninth boys who died in the service, besides those mentioned above, were: Stephen J. Iles, Company D, at Cleveland, O., May 8, 1864; George Sherbondy, Company G, at Aquia Creek, Va., April 23, 1863; William Wirt, Company G, at Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 1864; Charles D. Hine, Company G, died at Middlebury, O., March 31, 1863; Newton P. Humiston, Company G, died in rebel prison, July 28, 1862; Joseph Loomis, Company G, died at Cumberland, Md., February 26, 1862; Morgan Johnson Company G, died February 26, 1864.
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