Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc.; nine-tenth's of a century of solid local history--pioneer incidents, interesting events--industrial, commercial, financial and educational progress, biographies, etc., Part 52

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228

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at the same time affording ample protection to the National Capital, and other Union cities menaced by the rebel army.

Many interesting reminiscences are rife among the boys of their "brief but brilliant" army life on Arlington Heights, but want of space prevents their repetition here. The 164th Regiment having thus subserved the purposes of its organization, the 54th Battalion again became a distinct entity, and us such fulfilled its destiny, Newell D. Tibbals being elected as major and becoming the commandant of the Battalion.

The ladies of Akron organized a festival in honor of Company F, which came off with great eclat, at the company's armory, on Friday evening, September 2, 1864, with musical, oratorical, con- gratulatory and gyratory exercises, and doubtless there were similar manifestations of gladness, in the other localities inter- ested.

STATE AND NATIONAL THANKFULNESS. - In March, 1865, the Legislature of Ohio passed a joint resolution of thanks to the . National Guard, and authorizing the Governor to have litho- graphed, printed and distributed to the Hundred Days' Men, an appropriate testimonial, but so far as can be learned, no such documents were ever received by any of the members of the 54th Battalion, which is perhaps accounted for by the fact of the issu- ance of a similar testimonial by President Lincoln, as follows:

THE UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

[Picture of Eagle, Flags, Etc.]

THE PRESIDENT'S THANKS AND CERTIFICATE OF HONORABLE SERVICE. 1

To Capt. Darius F. Berger, 164th Reg't Ohio National Guard:

WHEREAS, The President of the United States has made the following Executive Order, returning thanks to the OHIO VOLUNTEERS FOR ONE HUN- DRED DAYS, to wit:

EXECUTIVE MANSION, -

WASHINGTON CITY, September 10, 1864.

The term of One Hundred Days, for which the NATIONAL GUARD OF OHIO, Volunteered, having expired, the President directs an OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT to be made of their PATRIOTIC AND VALUABLE SERVICES during the recent campaigns. The term of service of their enlistment was short, but distinguished by memorable events. In the Valley of the Shenandoah, on the Peninsula, in the operations on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, in the battle of Monocacy, and in the intrench- ments of Washington, and in other important services, THE NATIONAL GUARD OF OHIO performed with alacrity the duty of Patriotic Volunteers, for which they are entitled to, and are hereby tendered, through the Governor of their State, the NATIONAL THANKS.

The Secretary of War is directed to transmit a copy of this order to the Governor of Ohio, and to cause a CERTIFICATE OF THEIR HONORABLE SER- VICE to be delivered to the Officers and Soldiers of the OHIO NATIONAL GUARD who recently served in the Military force of the United States for One Hundred Days.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

NOW, THEREFORE, this certificate of Thanks and Honorable Service is conferred on Capt. Darius Berger, in token of his HAVING HONORABLY SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR ONE HUNDRED DAYS in Company H. 164th Regiment of OHIO NATIONAL GUARDS.

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GIVEN under my hand at the City of Washington, this fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

By the President: President of the United States.

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

Registered No. 33,430.

E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.

THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH O. V. I .- This regiment was composed of material gathered from different parts of the State, recruited for six months, and was organized at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, August 10, 1863. Most of the officers and a large number of the men, had already seen service, so that the regiment, without spending any considerable time in drill, was started for the front on the day of its organization.

Captain Josiah J. Wright, of Akron, having partially recovered from the disability by reason of which he had received an honor- able discharge from the old 29th, October 1, 1862, re-entered the service as second lieutenant of Company K, of the 129th. At Camp Nelson, Ky., the regiment was incorporated into the Ninth Army Corps, and on August 20, 1863, started for Cumberland Gap, sharing in the capture of that stronghold and the capture of over 2,200 prisoners, 14 pieces of artillery and an immense amount of all kinds. of war material, the brigade to which the 129th was attached being assigned to garrison the Gap.

SHARP FIGHTING-SEVERE SUFFERING, ETC .- Picketing, scout- ing, foraging, etc., in the vicinity of the Gap, until the morning of December 1, 1863, on two hours' notice, the regiment started in the direction of Clinch. River, the next day acquitting itself with credit in a spirited engagement with Longstreet's corps. During the entire month of December, the regiment was constantly on the move, up and down Clinch River, with an occasional sharp skirmish with the enemy, suffering terribly from the inclemency of the weather, and the fact that the regiment had left the Gap with no baggage whatever, many of the men being poorly clad, and almost shoeless, with scarcely rations enough to sustain life,. and those only obtainable by foraging through a region whose inhabitants had already been nearly eaten out of house and home by the contending armies. About the first of January, 1864, the regiment fell back to Cumberland Gap, where it remained until the beginning of February, when it started on a 130 mile march to Fort Nelson, from whence it immediately proceeded to Cleveland, where it was mustered out by companies from March 5 to 11, 1864. Besides Capt. J. J. Wright, Akron was represented in the 129th by Carroll W. Wright, (also an ex-member of the old 29th), M. C. Clark, Dempster Gifford, Marshall Gillett and Marcus B. Wright.

THE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVENTH O. V. I. - This, the last completed regiment sent into the field from Ohio, was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Chase, near Colum- bus, March 28, 1865. After the expiration of his six months' service in the 129th, as heretofore stated, Captain J. J. Wright, again recruited a sufficient number of men to entitle him to a commission, but at the time when the men were forwarded to Columbus, the captain was detained at home by sickness and death in his family,

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and was consequently not counted in on the organization. Later he re-enlisted as a private, and proceeding to Tod Barracks, Colum- bus, was detailed in Major Skile's office, but was soon found to be so well up in military matters, that he was given a captain's com- mission in the 197th regiment, Company D, then being organized.

The 197th was substantially a veteran regiment at the start, all of the officers but five, and more than one-half of the men, being experienced soldiers. April 25, 1865, the regiment proceeded by rail to Washington City, where on its arrival, its fond hopes of seeing active service were blasted, by the news of the surrender of Johnston's army.

The regiment was attached to the Ninth Army Corps, on April 29, going into camp near Alexandria, Va., a few days later being transferred to Camp Harrington, at Dover, Del., and on May 31, to Havre de Grace, Md., and assigned to guard duty along the Baltimore railroad. July 3, regiment was transferred to Fort Washington, near Baltimore, in which vicinity it performed guard duty in camps, hospitals, forts, etc., until July 31, when it was mustered out of service at Camp Bradford, near Baltimore, and immediately transferred to Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, where, on August 6, 1865, the men were duly paid off and discharged. Several other Summit county men were members of the regiment, among the rest Sebra Manley, of Akron.

FIFTH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY .- Ulysses L. Marvin enlisted as a private in the 115th O. V. I., in August, 1862; served as clerk in office of judge advocate at Cincinnati, until commissioned first lieutenant in the 5th U. S. Colored Infantry in August, 1863, as part of the 19th Army Corps; participated in the Peninsular cam- paign in 1864; commanded the skirmish line in the Burnside mine explosion; promoted to captain during the siege of Richimond; wounded at New Market Heights, September 29, 1864; on resuming his duties, two months later, being assigned to the staff of Adju- tant General Shurtliff, was sent to Fort Fisher, from thence to Raleigh, N. C., and was at the final surrender of the rebel army. Breveted major at the close of the war for meritorous service, he was made judge advocate on the staff of Gen. Paine, being mustered out of service in October, 1865. The only names of Akron's colored patriots credited to this regiment, found on the assessor's books, are those of Absalom H. Brooks and John W. Brooks (sons of our former well-known colored citizen John H. Brooks), Gustavus Edrington, (nephew of Mrs. Washington Martin), orderly sergeant of Company F., and Owen Hailstock, though the names of several others are found in other regiments herein mentioned.

THE HUNDRED AND FIFTH O. V. I .- George Tod Perkins was among the very first to respond to his country's call for troops, entering the service as second lieutenant of Company B, 19th O. V. I. sharing the glory of its brief but brilliant campaign in West Vir- ginia, in 1861, as elsewhere detailed. In August, 1862, he entered the service for three years, as major of the 105th O. V. I., recruited principally from Mahoning, Trumbull, Geauga, Ashtabula and Lake counties, and being emphatically a Western Reserve regi- ment. Mustered in at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, August 20, 1862, it arrived at Covington, Ky., on the morning of August 22, being the first regiment to leave the State under the call of August 4, 1862.

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After many fatiguing marches and counter-marches through Ken- tucky, and much skirmishing with the enemy, its first full taste of the horrors of war was at Perrysville, Ky., October 8, 1862, when the victory was with the rebels, the 105th in its gallant defense, under the lead of Major Perkins, losing, two captains killed, and four other officers wounded, and 47 men killed and 212 wounded, many mortally. Space will not permit us to follow the 105th through all its gallant war history. The Ohio Roster, besides the Per- rysville affair, gives it the credit of participating in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Tenn., January 24, 1863; Chickamauga, Ga., Septem- ber 19-20, 1863; Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23-24, 1863; Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 7-30, 1863; Siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 28 to September 2, 1864. In speaking of the Chickamauga affair, on September 20, 1863, White- law Reid, in "Ohio in the War," says of the 105th: "At the word of command the regiment sprang to its feet, executed the change of front. with as much precision as though on parade, and started forward with deafening yells on the double quick, to what seemed certain destruction. 0*

* * This prompt movement of the 105th was. highly commended by Gen. Reynolds, at the time, and afterwards by Gen. Rosecrans. Its gallant commander, Major Perkins, was. wounded in this charge and conveyed to the rear, and was rendered unfit for duty for nearly four months." The other casualities, in that. conflict, were: one captain, mortally, and three other officers seri- ously, wounded, and seventy-five men killed, wounded and prisoners.

The 105th formed a part of Sherman's invincible army in its- march from "Atlanta to the Sea," and, as showing the hardships. to which it was subjected on that victorious march, Mr. Reid says that when reviewed by Gens. Sherman and Schofield, at Goldsboro, N. C., "full twenty-five per cent. of the men were barefooted; they were ragged and dirty; many in citizens' dress, and some in rebel uniforms."

Major Perkins was promoted to lieutenant colonel, July 16, 1863, and to colonel, February 18, 1864, and after participating in the grand review, at Washington, May 14, 1865, was mustered out with regiment at Washington, June 3, 1865, the regiment, starting at. Covington, Ky., and ending at Washington, including reconnois- sances, counter-marches, pursuit of retreating rebels, etc., having marched more than 4,000 miles without a single foot of railroad transportation.

VARIOUS OTHER REGIMENTS.

Akron and Portage and Middlebury townships were, accord- ing to the assessors' returns for several years pending the war, represented in the following-named organizations, the achieve- ments of which cannot be here given for want of space, but that they all, like those already enumerated, played well their parts upon the tragic stage of war, may be taken for granted.

THE FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT O. V. I .- Mustered in at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, September and October, 1861, for three years-James A. Garfield, colonel, Don A. Pardee, lieutenant colonel, George K. Pardee, adjutant; Company A, Aaron Teeple, (then of Franklin, now of Portage); Company B, Joseph Lackey, second lieutenant, resigned July 5, 1862; Company E, Albert L.

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Bowman, second lieutenant, promoted from sergeant major, March 2, 1863, wounded July 16, 1863, at Jackson, Miss .; Company F, Thomas C. Foote, killed at battle of Black River Bridge, May 17, 1863; Company G, James McGuire; Company K, Franklin C. May, discharged for disability, June 16, 1863; Company A, Hial B. Hart, discharged March 22, 1862, to accept position as hospital steward in U. S. Army.

EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT O. V. I .- Mustered in at Camp Chase, June 10, 1862, for three months; mustered out at Camp Del- aware, September 20, 1862. Akron members: William H. McMast- ers, principal musician; Company H, Homer C. Ayres, first lieuten- ant; Eliakim H. Hastings, sergeant; William W. Kilbourn, corporal; Sylvester H. Beatty, Augustus T. Brownless, Julius G. Brownless, George H. Horn, Henry Clay King, James M. Malone; Company I, Alexander G. Maynes, first lieutenant.

THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH O. V. I .- Henry Ward Ingersoll, Esq., on the expiration of his three months' term of service in the original Ninteenth Regiment, united with the Second Ohio Cavalry, in September, 1861, as sergeant of the band. Return- ing to Ohio after one year's service, on October 20, 1862, Mr. Ingersoll was given a captain's commission by Gov. Tod, for the purpose of recruiting a company for the 125th regiment, then being raised by Col. Emerson Opdycke, of Trumbull county. On consolidation of fragmentary companies, in the final organization of the regiment at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, it was found that others outranked Captain Ingersoll, in number of recruits raised, and he was conse- quently not mustered in under his commission, Mr. Ingersoll afterwards serving 100 days in the army of the United States, as first corporal of Company F, 164th O. N. G., as elsewhere stated.

HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHTH O. V. I .- Mustered in at Camp Chase, March 4, 1865, for one year, mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., September 21, 1865, and paid off and discharged at Camp Chase, September 28, 1865. Akron contributed to this regiment: Jerome B. Clark, Henry Dreese, Frank Elliott, Christopher Gugle, Daniel Neal, Royal D. Potter, William Sichley, Elias W. Turner, Thos Viall.

HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH O. V. I .- Organized at Cleve- land, Ohio, in October, 1864, with a liberal sprinkling of men from the northern part of Summit county, and after an arduous service of nearly nine months, was mustered out at the same place, July 7, 1865. Akron's contingent: Company H, Frank Allen; Company E, Jasper Oviatt; Company B, Clarence M. Peck; Company K, Hubert C. Peck, Nelson Sherbondy, died in service.

SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT O. V. I .- Organized at Newark, Ohio, February 9, 1862, operating in the southwest, accompanying Sherman in his famous "March through Georgia," and from Savannah northward to Washington. Was mustered out at Columbus, July 24, 1865. Akron boys in the 76th, Joseph Bargold, John Fitzpatrick, Almon C. Goble, Alfred H. Goble, Charles Grubb, Patrick Grubb.

MISCELLANEOUS REGIMENTS .- Akron also furnished men for sundry other organizations, during the war, as follows: Simon Perkins, Jr., served as private in Company B, 19th O. V. I., for three months in 1861, afterwards, by appointment of President Lincoln, was captain and assistant quarter-master in the depart- ments of the Ohio and Cumberland; 75th O. V. I., John C. DeWitt;

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24th O. V. I., Augustus Feederle, Matt Feederle; 16th O. V. I., Dr. Byron S. Chase, assistant surgeon, promoted to surgeon 58th Col- ored Infantry, May 19, 1863; Frederick F. Falk, hospital steward; 25th O. V. I., Frank B. Adams, one year, discharged for disability; 124th O. V. I., Darwin L. Goble, died in the service; 4th O. V. I., F. J. Raymond; 124th O. V. I., E. Wilhelm; 24th O. V. I., A. E. Stewart; 57th O. V. I., Solomon Bachman; 87th O. V. I., Benjamin Fowler; 7th O. V. I., Martin Remmell, transferred to Company G, 5th O. V.I .; Lawrence Remmell, wounded at battle of Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862, killed in battleof Ringold, Ga., November 27, 1863; 72nd O. V. I., Company A., Thomas Rhodes, drafted, mustered out July 30, 1863, near Vicksburg, Miss., on expiration of term of service; 109th O. V. I., Samuel S. Ward; 5th O. V. I., George Limric, Company H, one year, mustered out June 5, 1865; James Frank, Company H, one year, mus- tered out June 5,1865; 77th O. V.I., Charles Cole; 76th O. V. I., Charles R. Pierce, surgeon, entered the service January 9, 1862, for three years, died January 28, 1863; 23d O. V. I., Clarence M. Peck, entered the service May 22, 1861, mustered out on expiration of term; 89th Ind. V. I., John Winkleman; 45th Ind. V. I., John Binker; New York regiment, Conrad Fink; 24th N. Y. I., Donald Treat; 42d Pa. V. I., Alfred H. Goble; 3d Cal. V. I., Milton Lane; 22d U. S. Colored Infantry, Frank M. Hailstock; 27th U. S. Colored Infantry, Moses Jones, James Morrison; 3d N. J. Art., Alfred Wade; 25th Ohio Battery, James H. Golden, Henry Proctor; 22d O. B., William Bloomfield, Stephen Bloomfield; 3d O. B., J. M. Hotchkiss; Shields Battery, H. H. Remington, George H. Barber, Thomas J. Hudson; 10th O. Cav., Lester M. Biggs, Alexander G. Maynes; 6th O. Cav., George Bradley, Thomas Foley, Newton Thayer; 20th O. B., Charles J. Keck; 11th Mich. B., Cyrenus Smith; 4th Pa. Cav., Wil- liam H. Galbraith; 15th O. V. I., James McNeil; hospital nurse, Thomas M. Sawyer; teamsters, Jacob M. Demas, H. H. Geer, George Iles, Charles G. Cleveland, Horace Hill, George W. Fair- banks; 3d Brig. Band, Newton E. Kent; chaplain, Rev. Robert Koehler; 193d O. V. I., Eugene D. Smith, died in the service; 16th N. Y. Calvary, Philip A. Bierwirth, first sergeant, mustered out in August, 1865.

UNDESIGNATED REGIMENTS .- The assessors' returns, for Portage and Middlebury townships, for military purposes, for the years 1863, '64 and '65, in a number of instances failed to designate the regiment and company to which the soldier was attached, the list of names thus found being as follows: John Benker, A. H. Bots- ford, W. W. Buck, R. A. Cowles, Samuel Codding, Delos Condine, Harry Clifford, William McCurdy, Arthur J. Perkins, Jacob Randall, William Smith.

UNITED STATES REGULAR ARMY .- Gilbert S. Carpenter (eldest son of Judge James S. Carpenter), after three months service in Company G, 19th O. V. I., enlisted in Company F, 18th U. S. I., at Columbus, September 14, 1861, as sergeant; promoted to first lieu- tenant; wounded at Stone River, May, 1863; appointed quarter- master and commissary November, 1863; June, 1864, in War Department at Washington; in 1865 sent on secret service to Dry Tortugas and later to Springfield, Ill., with Mr. Lincoln's private papers; promoted to captain December 20, 1866, and constantly on duty in the far Northwest, until transferred to Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, in the Summer of 1889, now (1891) being on recruiting

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duty in Cleveland-a most excellent soldier and officer. Dudley Seward, after four years' service in the 19th O. V. I. and Second Ohio Cavalry, entered the regular service as captain and brevet major of the Eighth Regiment, U. S. Cavalry, serving in Oregon, California, Arizona and other western wilds, between four and five years. George A. Purington, after three months as a private in Company G, 19th O. V. I., and three years as captain, major, lieutenant colonel and colonel in the Second Ohio Cavalry entered the regular army as a captain in the Ninth U. S. Cavalry, and is now major of the Third U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, being one of the most experienced officers in the army, with the brevet rank of colonel, for meritorious services in the late war. Samuel C. Williamson (late Probate Judge of Summit county), at the end of his three months' service as a private in Company G, O. V. I., in October, 1861, enlisted in the 18th U. S. Infantry, serving as sergeant until wounded at the battle of Stone River in May, 1863; after recovery promoted to second and subsequently to first lieutenant; in January, 1867, being commissioned as a captain in the 42d U. S. I. Other Akron U. S. boys: Oliver Perry Barney, John Best, Martin Frank, Charles H. Hickox, George Ley, William H. Martin, James O'Neil; Navy-Frank A. Allen, Patrick Cum- mins, Patrick Delmore, Charles Fink, John Line, George Patterson, Joseph Stadden, Joseph Tallman.

QUOTAS, DRAFTS, BOUNTIES, ETC.

After the War of the Rebellion was fairly on, with a fair prospect of several years continuance, in order that each loyal State, county and township might furnish its fair proportion of the physical sinews necessary for its suppression, a census was taken, yearly, of all the male inhabitants, between the ages of 18 and 45, on which to base the quota of men to be furnished by any given locality, under the several calls of President Lincoln, for troops. The quota thus being determined-due credit being given for previous volunteers, and all proper exemptions, for disability or other cause, ascertained-a day was fixed for a draft, at which time, unless the quota had meantime been filled by voluntary enlist- ments, a sufficient number of names of the remaining inhabitants of the township, subject to military duty, would be drawn to com- plete the quota. In order to encourage enlistments and save any given locality from the disgrace of a draft, the plan of offering both private and public bounties was adopted. Pending the draft of 1862, in addition to the $100 bounty offered by the General Gov- ernment, bounties were raised in every township by individual subscriptions, and on July 19, 1862, the commissioners of Summit county-John S. Gilcrest, of Springfield, Nelson Upson, of Twins- burg, and George Buel, of Akron -- pledged the county to pay a bounty of $50, to each non-commissioned officer or private, to the number of 220, who should, within sixty days, volunteer to serve in the 104th O. V. I. then being raised.

As a sample of the alacrity with which the people contributed to this object, the BEACON of July 31, 1862, stated that between three and four thousand dollars had already been raised in Portage township, and the canvass not yet completed; that in Middlebury five parties-John Johnston, James Irvin, David E. Hill, Frank Adams and Kent, Baldwin & Co .- had agreed to pay $10 each, and

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forty-four others from 50 cents to $2.00 each, to each and every man to the number of ten who should volunteer within twenty days; that at Cuyahoga Falls, Messrs. S. W. McClure and Thomas W. Cornell had each agreed to pay ten dollars to each volunteer of the township (being already in for about $200 each), and that the people of the other townships were making equally liberal contri- butions to the praise-worthy object, the issue of August 28th, giving the names of 18 persons in Springfield, subscribing from 50 cents to $5.00 each, or an aggregate of $34.75, to each volunteer to the number of fifteen; while 51 persons contributed sums ranging from $1.00 to $50.00-or an aggregate of $325.00 to be distributed equally among all the volunteers from that township.

THE FIRST DRAFT .- Henry Mckinney, Esq., then of Cuyahoga Falls, was appointed drafting commissioner, and Dr. J. G. Stevens, of Twinsburg, examining surgeon for Summit county, by Governor Tod, commencing at Hudson, August 25, 1862, for Hudson, Twins- burg and Northfield; Peninsula, August 26, for Boston, Richfield and Bath; Cuyahoga Falls, 27th, for Northampton, Stow, Tall- madge and Cuyahoga Falls; Akron, 28th, Copley, Coventry, Mid- dlebury, Norton, Springfield and Portage; Manchester, 30th, for Franklin and Green, for the purpose of hearing and passing upon excuses of those who claimed exemption from military service under the draft.

The day set for the draft to begin by Governor Tod, was Thursday, September 4, 1862, to be continued from day to day until completed. As the day approached, the anxiety became very great and the exertions to raise recruits largely increased, " War Meetings" being held in the several townships and principal villages and school districts of the county, addressed by such speakers as S. W. McClure, Henry Mckinney, George W. McNeil, R. O. Hammond, John F. Earl, N. D. Tibbals, John R. Buchtel, Charles B. Bernard, N. W. Goodhue, Jacob A. Kohler, L. V. Bierce, Arthur F. Bartges, Edward Oviatt, Edwin P. Green, William H. Upson, James S. Carpenter, S. A. Lane and others.

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Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228