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Many nights with rifle near me Have I passed when clad in blue, Wakened by the loud reveille, Wakened, wet with morning dew; But the worn and weary soldier No such keen delight can know, As to listen to the trumpet Sounding "taps" so soft and low.
The military instinct is innate in man-so is the instinct of organization. Some one has said that many a boy is recalcitrant, and hostile to discipline under ordinary conditions and en- vironments, but put a military cap on him, band him with associates and he will submit to the strictest rules and regulations not only with willingness but with pride. This ac- counts for our military institutions, also for the important place athletics holds in our schools and colleges.
The same instinct perhaps is the foundation for the fellow feeling which every old soldier has for every other old soldier. That other may be a stranger and may hail from some dis- tant State, but the fact that he has "worn the blue" and has marched shoulder to shoulder under the old flag, gives passport to the heart
of every veteran he meets and kindles there a fraternal sentiment which no other trait or qualification can hope to win.
In 1792 under provision of the Consti- tution, Congress passed an act for the enroll- ment in the militia of all able-bodied white male citizens, between the ages of 18 and 45, except certain officers and other persons exempted. That law with some slight modifications (one of which is the striking out of the word "white") is the law of to-day.
The system usually referred to as the "Old Militia System" came into use at the beginning of the 19th century, and terminated at the out- break of the Civil War. Under this system. every citizen was enrolled and almost every county was the home of a regiment or a brigade. There were certain vague regulations requir- ing each member to appear at stated intervals for instruction in drill. The State furnished but few arms and most of the men were equip- ped with cornstalk guns. Allentown was the headquarters of the Northwestern Ohio Divis- ion with Major General Blackburn command- ing, and Brigadier General Armstrong com -- manding the Allen County Brigade. The mus- ters were held at Lima, and they always fur-
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nished an occasion for gaudy attire, as well as for settling old scores. All quarrels and diffi- culties were laid over until muster day when, after performing their duty to the State for a few hours, the men took the matter of "set- tling up" in hand.
At Allentown, also, was located the divis- ion martial band, consisting of fifes and drums played by the Stuckey, Campbell and Westbay boys. That old Allentown tune! It comes
O'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor.
It should be perpetuated in every house- hold in German township, for it belongs there as distinctly as "Maryland, My Maryland" be- longs to Maryland. It took to the war many a gallant boy, who never returned and there is much of pathos and sentiment in its memory.
On these muster days, General Blackburn, as handsome a soldier as ever mounted a charger, headed the procession and was fol- lowed by the band. The company was made up of the Knittles, Herrings, Coons, Ride- nours, Sunderlands, Ehrmans, Sawmillers, Stemens and many others.
On account of his great weight, General Blackburn did not drill the State miliitia, and the work fell on Brig .- Gen. William Arm- strong, who on these occasions, clad in his uni- form and mounted on a large sorrel "Sheriff" by name, was at once the wonder and delight of his children. At one time he led a scouting party through that part of town known as Cole's Grove. His appearance at the time of the late war is thus described by an eye-wit- ness :- "General Armstrong appeared upon the scene about four o'clock P. M. His com- ing had about the same effect as Sheridan's was said to have had upon the troops near Winchester. He was panoplied in all the pomp and circumstance of glorious war; his chapeau was double the size of Nichols' or Lamison's ; his feather was a combination of red and white, and was plucked from the larg- est of the ostrich tribe; his belt was mounted «vith a flaming sash; his beautiful gold epau-
lettes were the size of small saddle-bags and his sword was made for carnage."
Although well along in years, General Armstrong filled out a company for the Civil War and was greatly disappointed as well as hurt to find the quota filled and his company rejected. His son, known as the gallant Mart Armstrong was killed at the battle of Shiloh, . April 6, 1862, and was one of the first victims belonging to Lima. When General Armstrong went after his son's body, it would have re- quired only the slightest encouragement to have had him remain and take his son's place.
When on April 12, 1861, the firing on Fort Sumter sounded the tocsin of war throughout the Union, it fully aroused the military spirit in our little city. On Sunday the 14th, Presi- dent Lincoln issued his first call for troops. Charles N. Noyer, a printer, was the first in the field from Lima. He enlisted with the Springfield (Ohio) "Zouave Guards" and left for Columbus about the 16th of April.
On the 19th of April the first company of volunteers was organized, and left for Colum- bus April 22, 1861. The following is a list of the officers and members of the company : Captain, Mathias H. Nichols; Ist lieutenant, Charles M. Hughes; 2nd lieutenant, T. J. Hustler ; sergeants-J. A. Anderson, J. N. Cunningham, William Bradley and W. H. Ward; corporals-C. C. Oldfield, Milton Titus, J. B. Davison and Samuel Mc- Clure; privates-Joseph Shotwell, Jesse Tar- man, J. E. Tracy, William Gaunt, H. A. Hub- bard, D. F. Cahill, Jacob Gensell, D. D. Gil- bert, S. Ward, Jerome Straley, J. H. Linton, A. H. Chapin, S. W. Hull, T. S. Lisle, W. B. Sheadan, N. G. Franklin, J. A. Adgate, A. Huffman, Madison Alexander, J. M. Breese, G. A. Taylor, G. E. Poag, Aaron Buck, James A. Boyd, C. R. Tagan, J. N. Hover, S. R. Gil- bert, E. Bates, C. Chaney, S. Henderson, G. W. Standiford, S H. Saxton, G. Tunget, P. Roush, J. Roush, E. W. Crumley, James Mc- Clure, H. L. Stattman, N. Gunkle. A. Coon, J. B. Wilson, J. W. Rydman, Daniel Sowers, D. H. Brice, C. D. Anderson, D. Carlisle, W. V. Beatty, D. Brandt, Martin H. Ingledness, Charles Brenman, W. H. Junkin, Moses P.
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Hawk, Stephen C. Kent, Silas W. Faulkner, John W. Barton, Thomas P. Conner, R. B. Underwood, S. H. Underwood, F. D. Hip- kins, Henry Gafney, D. A. Elder, Samuel Loomis, James Langan, David M. Bailey, Thomas H. Hullinger, Silas Reed, Joseph Mc- Coy, David Sowers, Percival Tracy, John Hughes, Alf B. Crall, Thomas P. Johns, James A. Sutton, Abraham Fleming, Jacob Sham- barger, Josiah Snyder, James W. Bailey, Wil- liam Hardesty, D. D. Imler, Peter Tracy and James R. Cunningham. "Nichols' Guards," as the above company was called, went to Co- lumbus on the 22nd of April.
About 10 days later another company of volunteers was recruited, embracing the fol- lowing list of names : Captain, C. N. Lamison; Ist lieutenant, Martin Armstrong; 2nd lieu- tenant, George A. Taylor; 3rd lieutenant, John N. Nuce ; sergeants-S. B. Stevens, Christian Niese, William J. Bashore and Fraley Fink ; corporals-Daniel Willower, William Howell, A. J. Bowers and Pierson S. Hubbard; en- sign, Samuel Miller; privates-Cuno Gitzen, W. H. H. Shockey, Elias Howell, Lewis Spyker, Peter Getson, Arthur Reed, M. L. Bowyer, Hugh W. Ward, John W. Ditto, B. Bowers, Eli Flemming, G. W. Shannon, E. S. Jolley, W. H. Standish, J. C. Terry, J. Hurts, Jacob Levain, T. J. Myers, M. Mart, Peter McVesty, A. Fulmer, A. Hickerson, W. Van- manter, M. Brown, W. D. Cunningham, L. E. Stevenson, W. E. Grubb, M. V. Cremean, Frank Wright, J. Shobe, J. Dwine, J. Poyen- mire, S. Cremean, G. W. Christe, J. Parrott, William Hull, W. Jaggers, Seth Dixon, W. D. Johnson, H. Levain, J. McVain, E. R. Bett, C. Hook, G. Nuller, E. N. Tanyhill, G. Strow, W. Walls, T. Snyder, D. McCain, C. Buyer, W. F. Maltbie, D. J. Shuler, J. W. Meyers, A. Smith, Hance Martin, P. Aplin, J. J. Rhine- hard, P. Maloney, C. M. Minturn, F. H. Rum- baugh, S. D. Evans, H. Cremean, A. W. Mauk, Isaac Shobe, E. Shobe, Nathan Wil- liams, George Daugherty, George Comer, L. F. Hemmard and J. Lowery.
These two companies were both attached to the 20th Ohio Infantry, May 7, 1861. In the
same month Captain Lamison was elected ma- jor in this regiment.
The following is an extract from a letter written by a Lima boy while in camp at Co- lumbus. It gives a vivid picture of those turb- ulent times : "Columbus presents a wonder- ful scene to one who has been accustomed to peace, and the calm of the rural home. Hur- ried preparations for the war are seen on every side. The beat of the drum, the march of the military companies, the constant huzzas for the Union, the singing of the 'Star Spangled Ban- ner' and the curses upon traitors-all present a novel condition of things.
"In Camp Jackson you will now see Prof. Lorin Andrews, Judge John A. Corwin, mem- bers of Congress, members of the Legislature, lawyers and ministers of the Gospel, all in the field, drilling companies and being drilled, pre- paring to meet in battle the Southern traitors. Hence the present manifestation is not the wild rushing together of madmen, but the calm de- termination of men of the highest intelligence, having the highest end in view that could ani- mate a nation.
"Nothing is more interesting than a visit to the camp-ground. Those of the companies who are not on drill you will see lounging around under the shade of trees, reading the latest news, writing letters with nothing but a board held on the knee for a table, or reading with calm thought their testaments! I do not believe there is a soldier yet arrived in camp unprovided with a Testament! Surely this is a Christian warfare. The Word of the Lord is our shield."
The following is another extract written from Benton's Ferry, Virginia, June 18, 1861. -"On Saturday, the 15th, we crossed the 'Rubicon' and landed on the Virginia shore. Getting aboard the cars we started, as did Abraham, not knowing whither we went. After a pleasant trip along the Ohio, we halted at a small town, Moundville, deriving its name from the ancient mounds around it. In an ex- cavation of one a skeleton was found seven feet in height, which proves that there were giants in those days. Here we took quarters
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in a brick house, formerly a tavern. Our du- ties were to guard public property, telegraph office and railroad bridges.
"Monday we again boarded the cars bidding adieu to the Ohio River and the 'Buckeye' shore. We proceeded onward toward Grafton, passing through valleys and villages, towns and tunnels. After a distance of 80 miles we find our destination to be Benton's Ferry, 17 miles this side of Grafton. Here we received our uniforms, which consist of pants of gray satinette, with a black stripe, and waist coat or jacket of the same material. Our quarters are freight cars left for that purpose. We have been treated kindly by the citizens of Virginia all along our route. We were greeted with loud huzzas, waving hats and handkerchiefs. We have secessionists here, though we know not how many. We are in good health and good spirits.
"Captain Nichols' company is stationed at Littleton, guarding the road. There are com- panies now at all important points on the rail- road from Bellaire to Grafton, guarding bridges and stations.
"There is a report that one of Captain Nichols' boys, Simeon Hull, was accidentally wounded this morning.
"We are ready to fight and should we not return to the State of our birth we will feel that our lives were a just and worthy sacrifice upon our country's hallowed altar."
The "Home Guards" were organized under the reserve militia law, April 23, 1861, with A. N. Smith, captain; W. A. Hover, Ist lieuten- ant, and George Wilson, 2nd lieutenant.
In April the following practicing physix cians in Allen County agreed to furnish medi- cal attendance, free of charge, to the families of the volunteers during their absence in the service : D. B. Stickney, of Acadia; and W. McHenry, E. Ashton, F. S. Kendall, R. Kin- caid, C. I. Neff and D. H. Anderson, of Lima.
On the 22nd of April, Thomas K. Jacobs introduced in the House a bill authorizing county commissioners to levy a tax of half a mill for the support of the families of volun- teers during service. On April 23rd, Repre- sentative Baldwin introduced a bill embracing
the principles of the Jacobs resolution, which was accepted.
From the "Allen County History" of 1875 we take the following :
"In August, 1861, Lima was selected as a military station with Colonel Pillars, com- mandant. The camp was opened August II, 1862, by the 99th Ohio Infantry, and before the close of the month about 1,600 men were camped there.
"Up to September 25, 1861, Allen County turned out between 900 and 1,000 troops, com- prised in the following named companies : Capt. Norman Tucker's Company I, 27th Ohio Infantry ; Capt. George A. Taylor's company in Morton's Rifle Regiment; Capt. Hiram Stott's company, of Ohio Cavalry; Capt. George M. Baxter's Company I, 32nd Ohio Infantry; Capt. Martin Armstrong's company in Morton's Rifle Regiment; Capt. Israel T. Moore's company in the 54th Ohio Infantry ; and Capt. Charles M. Hughes' company in Morton's Rifle Regiment. Together with the men represented in the above-named compa- nies, there were 25 men in the 14th Ohio In- fantry, 25 men in the Fourth Ohio Infantry, 50 men in the 12th Ohio Infantry, about 25 in the United States Army, and others in various commands. Before the close of the year, be- tween 1,100 and 1,200 volunteers were mus- tered into service.
"In July, 1862, the Eighth Military Dis- trict was organized with rendezvous at Camp Lima. The 99th Ohio Infantry was ordered to be mustered in here. The regiment was full on August 1Ith, about the time a second order was issued to form the 118th Ohio Infantry; up to September 1, 1862, out of an enrollment of 3,792, there were 1,4II men enlisted. There were 163 Allen County men in the 'Squirrel Hunters,' who, in 1862, defended Cincinnati, and to whom the Legislature decreed that hon- orable discharge be given in 1863.
"The Ohio regiments, in which any con- siderable number of Allen County men served, are the 27th Ohio Infantry, Morton's Rifle Regiment, 32nd Ohio Infantry, 54th Ohio In- fantry, SIst Ohio Infantry, 99th Ohio In- fantry, 118th Ohio Infantry, 151st Ohio Na-
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tional Guard, and Mclaughlin's Squad. Almost every Ohio command contained rep- resentatives of Allen County. In the United States Army and Navy many served of whom there is no record. The total num- ber of troops whose names are on record is 1,920." Of these, few are left and each year the number of those who knew the Civil War with its memorable times steadily lessens. The story is one which speaks of duty nobly done, of self-sacrifice which has only found its justi- fication and reward in our "Union strong and great."
After the close of the war, the General As- sembly repealed the National Guard law and military spirit for a time as manifested in mili- tia companies was at a low ebb. The people were weary of war and waste and were anxious to resume the pursuits of peace and progress. A few military companies came into existence under provisions of the act of 1866, by which the services of a few of the National Guard or- ganizations whose terms of enlistment had not expired were retained in the volunteer militia. These, however, were conducted principally upon a social basis, being composed of veteran volunteers who did not wish to forget the mem- orable times through which they had recently passed. About the year 1870, however, the dormant military spirit had begun to revive and numerous companies of infantry and bat- teries of artillery were organized. The mili- tary enthusiasm took possession of leading cit- izens in many cities and hamlets, which grad- ually accomplish the passage of military laws making better provisions for the soldiers. To the energetic policy of Adjutant General Meily was due the purchase, in 1879, of 1,300 wall tents and flies with poles and pins complete. He made the bold stroke of purchasing them and the State was compelled to pay the bill. Prior to this date the several organizations had been compelled to furnish their own tentage and company outfits for their annual tours of duty in the field. With the above acquisition the soldiers were in better condition to do their work and many of the companies and batteries attained an unusual degree of proficiency. In all calls to duty they acquitted themselves hon-
orably and well, and at no time has the Ohio National Guard proven unequal to any emer- gency in which their services were required. Notable instances are the Cincinnati riot in 1884 and the Wheeling Creek coal riot in 1894, the latter familiarly called the "Wheel- ing Creek Campaign," in which 3,371 officers and men were called into service.
A company was organized in Lima by Luther Melancthon Meily and enrolled on January 4, 1875, under the local designation of the "Melancthon Light Guards." Mr. Meily had, when only 18 years of age, helped to or- ganize the 27th Ohio Infantry at Lima in the summer of 1861 and served three years as cap- tain of Company I in that regiment. He went to Sedalia, Mississippi, and then to Pittsburg Landing and after the battle of Atlanta, three months after the expiration of his time, he returned home. He was appointed Adju- tant General of the Ohio troops in 1878. Later he went to Colorado and New Mexico, in both of which States he built a railroad. He died in Lima in 1894. Mr. Meily was a faithful sol- dier and a man of great executive ability.
The "Melancthon Light Guards" were as- signed to the 11th Regiment Infantry, O. N. G., as Company C of that regiment, on July 6, 1876. In 1883 the IIth Regiment was re- organized as the Second Regiment and |the Lima company remained with it, retaining its designation as Company C. The local name was changed about 1889 to "Lima City Guard," a name which it still retains. The company participated in the Cincinnati riot in 1884, the "Wheeling Creek Campaign," and in the Springfield riot in 1904.
After participating in the Spanish-Ameri- can War, the company was mustered out of the State service April 14, 1899; was afterwards reorganized as Company C, unattached infan- try, and assigned to the newly reorganized Sec- ond Regiment Infantry. O. N. G., November 13, 1899.
When war with Spain was declared, the Second Regiment Infantry, O. N. G., was composed of II companies, of which Company C was one. In response to the first call for vol- unteers, these II companies were ordered
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April 25, 1898, to the regimental rendez- vous at Kenton, Ohio, and enrolled for the vol- unteer service. Four days later they were or- dered to the general rendezvous for the Ohio troops at Columbus, Ohio. The regiment went into camp at this place April 29th and was mus- tered into the volunteer service of the United States as the Second Regiment, Ohio Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, May 10, 1898. On May 18, 1898, the regiment was ordered to Camp George H. Thomas, at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, where it was brigaded with the First Pennsylvania and the 14th Minnesota regi- ments as the Third Brigade, Second Di- vision, First Army Corps. Orders were received on August 28th to move to Knoxville, Tennessee. The regiment marched to Rossville, a distance of eight miles, there boarding the trains for their new destination. The new camp was a short distance from Knox- ville and was called "Camp Poland." With the exception of Company C, the regiment, on No- vember 15, 1898, moved to Camp Fornance near Macon, Georgia, arriving there Novem- ber 16, 1898. Company C remained at Knox- ville as guard for the division headquarters and acted in that capacity until the removal of those headquarters, accompanying the same to Ma- con early in December.
The Second Regiment was unfortunate in not being favored with active service in foreign lands, but performed faithfully the various rou- tine duties of camp life, until they were mus- tered out at Macon, Georgia, February 10, 1899, when they quickly dispersed. for their home stations.
It is interesting to note the transition of the recruit from the raw material to the disciplined and efficient soldier, thus becoming one of the essential parts of a great army. At first there is the enthusiasm kindling the patri- · otic fire, dampened later by the unaccustomed fatigue, broken rest, the tedious and monoto- nous routine of camp duties ; healthy appetites changed to loathing by the coarse and poorly cooked food; unwise choice of camps bringing into rampant life that dread enemy of the sol- dier in the field-typhoid. This tedious, fear- ful life, from the point of view of the boy sol-
dier, is most disappointing as compared with the original hope of meeting the enemy in act- ual strife. As soldiers for centuries past have passed through these trials to spirit and body, so did our laddies pass through them, gaining wisdom, adaptability and self-reliance until our Company C was one of the best companies of a regiment described by General McCook (one of the "fighting McCooks"), who inspected it in October, 1898, at Knoxville, as one of the finest and most efficient infantry regiments in the service.
The principal duties of the Second Regi- ment in this war were guard duty, fatigue duty, target practice, skirmish, company, squad, bat- talion and regimental drill, and guard mount and dress parade in the ceremonies. So much cleaning up of camp was performed by this reg- iment that they jokingly called themselves the "Georgia Land Improving Company." Then there were the long marches to participate in the interminable reviews. The grand review at Chickamauga Park shortly before the transfer of the troops to other points was a memorable sight, reminding one of the description of the reviews of Bonaparte. Over 60,000 troops participated in this review.
At the holiday season the companies vied with each other in decorating their quarters, blending the patriotic with the Christmas spirit. From the greens and varied verdure of that Southern clime were made wreaths, arches, monuments and Christmas bells. Outlines of the faces of famous sons of Ohio as also a map of Ohio were shown in the sands bordering on Company C's street. The soldier looks back on all that time with mingled feelings. There come memories of that dread time when the hospital tents were full of fever-stricken pa- tients, when the muffled drum would attract one's fearful gaze to the corporal's guard fol- lowing the army wagon, mule drawn, contain- ing some one's loved one. Then there are the brighter memories, the Christmas dinner, the pretty girls, the pay days with the long wait before and tlie short pay after. Who would forget the beckoning finger of Sergeant Gale, the "goo-goo" that Mahan cooked, the prayer- ful relapses of Private Ralston, the scriptural
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exhortations of Wagoner Berney. to his mules, and "Frenchy" Brown's plaintive matin query of "Have you used Pears' soap?"
But they went to fight and to do their duty and so the service of the Second Ohio passed into history and in time none but pleasant mem- ories will remain.
The following is the honor roll of Ohio volunteers from Lima in the war with Spain : Captain, Frank M. Bell; Ist lieutenant, Merritt D. Reichelderfer; 2nd lieutenant, John M. Bingham; sergeants-Albert E. Gale (Q. M.). Frank Carter, John E. Porter, Carey C. Allen, Lon P. Stephens and Robert McPeak; corpo- rals-Paul R. Ashton, Clarence M. Breese, George A. Smith, Charles W. Baum, Carl H. Griebling, John D. Miller, James I. Heffner, Oscar E. Harper, Frank Link, George H. Quail, Lewis J. Hofmann and Donald N. Davis; musician, Thomas E. Hance; artificer, James L. Ferrall; bugler, Lambert Cordell ; wagoner, Edward P. Berney ; drummer, T. F. Halter ; privates-Brice B. Applas, John Atha, John W. Baker, Roy Barnes, John W. Barrick, Granville E. Beall, Henry A. Betz, Clarence O. Brobeck, Charles J. Brown, Floyd S. Brown, Earl D. Bussert, Cornelius P. Callahan, Thomas V. Conner, Herbert O. Conrad, Frank Cunningham, Carey Doan, George W. Eckert, Fremont L. English, Walter G. Ferguson, Louis F. Furry, Clyde Goble, Harry J. Gor- man, Howard Graham, Charles F. Hadding, Lyman S. Hillabold, Samuel A. Holbrook, William H. Johnston, William Kern, Floyd Kilian, Edward P. Lawlor, John A. Lee, Will- iam L. Linderman, Frank J. Luken, James A. Mahon, Harry W. McGinnis, Rollo H. McKin- ney, Horace G. Murray, William P. Myers, Lorin E. Neely, James H. Neise, Henry O'Brien, Jr., William F. Ralston, Charles Rob- erts, James H. Robinson, John D. Rousculp, Isaac J. Schooler, Noah E. Shoemaker, John A. Stager, Joseph H. Stant, John E. Stemen, George Tibbot, Willis Troxel, Richard B. Wat- kins, Charles J. Wason, Alexander H. Watts, Albert B. Welty, George W. Wood and Fred WV. Zeits.
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