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John Mealman
William Israel, sergeant
William Moore
Thos. De Britner, corporal
John McGiven
Edward Milner, corporal
Joshua Reaves
C. Donover, corporal
George Shipley
James Edwards, corporal
John Dedrick
Edw. Davis, corporal
Jonathan Warne
Henry Wolford, corporal
John Woodbeck
Josiah Barron
Peter Wirick
Moses Beard
David Brown
Thomas Read
Thomas Barron
Henry Carrel
Joseph Bell
Bernard Duwit
Joseph Coyle
Jacob Hart
David Delong
Aaron Hedges
William Kirk
James Miles
Henry Hite
Philip McWilliam
George Launce
Thomas Merritt
William McGiven
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William Maple
Jonathan Stull
Samuel Poke
Jacob Dedrick
David Wilson
Philip Shoaf Jolın Sealer
Thomas Wilkins James Warnock
Michael Dedrick
Atkinson Mitchell
Robert Warnock
David Burns Joseph Bowers
Andrew Wirick
David Delong
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CAPTAIN BEATTY'S COMPANY.
Cyrus P. Beatty, captain
John Shipley
David Burt, lientenant
Michael Wirick
Nicholas Stoner, ensign John Leverick Henry Whetstone
Alexander Harper
George Miller
Joseph Archer
Eli Bingham
James Delong
John Wiley (absent)
James Thomas
William Roak
William Linn (absent)
William Van Horn
Samuel Beymer (absent)
Garret Reasoner
William Gibson
Richard Scott
William Gibson, Jr.
James Shipley James Fuller John McKee
John Beymer
Robt. Atkinson
Arthur Adair
Elijah Williams
George Shivel
William Talbutt
William Anderson
James Noble David Clark
Andrew Henderson
James Parkhill
Thomas Dennis
Jonathan Eastman
William Oyler
William Stewart
Hugh McCoy
Samuel Styers
Rodney Talbutt
Isaac Styles
Robert Lansing Ford Barnes
James Waddle
John Bollen (absent)
James 'Bigham
William Morehead (absent)
James McMullen (absent) Joseph Wilkey
John Conner
On the back of the muster roll of the above company, Lieut .- Col. Z. A. Beatty writes that he has inspected the ammunition, arms, etc., of the detach- ment, and finds them to be as follows: Powder in horns, two and one-half pounds ; balls in pouches, ninety ; pouches and horns, eleven ; rifles, thirteen ; muskets, one. By a note on the muster roll we learn that Lieutenant-colonel Beatty forwarded this report to Colonel Bay on August 11th, Beatty being then at Zanesville. He explains in this note why no non-commissioned offi-
Robert Lowery
Ezekiel Shipley
Joseph Ward
George Warne
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cers have been appointed, the officer desiring to become better acquainted with the men before making those appointments.
OFF TO THE WARS.
In the early days of Cambridge, the only blacksmith shop in town was that of William McCracken, father of Alexander McCracken. Day after day, the sound of the hammer was heard in his place, and trade was busy. But then came the war of 1812, and all the able-bodied men of the place en- listed for active service. William McCracken quenched the fire in his forge, put down his hammer, locked the door, and set off with a musket. But to this the worthy people of Cambridge could not agree. Some one must shoe their horses, and there was none in the land of Guernsey who approached McCracken in skill and capacity. So a collection was taken up, to which the interested ones gladly contributed, a substitute was hired to shoulder the musket, and William McCracken perforce returned to his forge, kindled the fires and once more the blacksmith shop rang with the sound of the hammer.
SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812.
At a meeting of the soldiers of the war of 1812, held in the court house square September 3, 1869, the following registered their names for the pur- pose of petitioning the general government for pensions :
Elijah Grimes, aged eighty years, residing at Cambridge. George Macomber, aged seventy-five years, of Cambridge.
Peter Klingman, aged eighty-one years, of Cambridge.
Joseph Waller, aged seventy-eight years, of Cambridge. George McGannon, aged eighty-three years, of Cambridge. William Phillips, aged seventy-eight years, of Cambridge.
William Turnbaugh, aged eighty-one years, of Cambridge. John McGiffin, aged eighty-five years, of Cambridge. Adam Rankin, aged seventy-five years, of Midway. Thomas Brown, aged seventy-six years, of Washington. Andrew Bay, aged seventy-one years, Leatherwood. Thomas N. Muzzy, aged eighty years, of Cumberland. George McCormick, aged eighty-one years, of Antrim. Adam Bucher, aged eighty-two years, of Rochester. Edward Milliner, aged eighty-four years, of Millinersville.
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Others who reported later were: Samuel F. McKinnie, aged eighty- seven years, of Washington township; Joseph McKinnie, aged seventy-six years, of the county, and also Robert Richey.
Governor R. B. Hayes and Col. John Ferguson spoke on the occasion of the meeting above referred to.
THE MEXICAN WAR.
The part taken in the war with Mexico, from 1846 to 1848, by the citi- zens of Guernsey county was not great. The reason was that the county was thinly settled at that date, and for the reason that Ohio was only called upon for three regiments of troops. While many from this county intended to go, the quota for the state was made up before the companies could be raised here. Some, however, did enlist in other counties and served through the war. It was supposed that a large parade of soldiers would be held here on the drill grounds of the home militia company, the same to be made up from several companies from Columbus and other points, and at which time many here in Cambridge intended to offer their services, but a change was made by a sudden military order, and the parade did not come off, hence no chance was given here to enlist. There have, however, resided many soldiers who be- came settlers of Guernsey county, after having served from other Ohio counties.
The following is to be found in the Times for August 6, 1831 :
BRIGADE ORDERS.
"The Commissioned and Staff Officers of the Second Brigade, and the 15th Division of Ohio Militia, will parade in the town of Washington, on Tuesday, the 30th day of August next, at 10 o'clock A. M .- and continue under the command of the Brigadier-General, until 3 o'clock P. M., on the succeeding day-armed, uniformed and equipt as the law directs.
"By order of the Brigadier-General,
"WILLIAM SKINNER, "Brigade Inspector.
"All officers will appear in white pantaloons.
"July 25th, 1831."
THE CIVIL WAR.
Without attempting to give the causes that led up to the breaking out of the Civil war-that terrible conflict between the North and South-the writer
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will hasten on to the pleasing task of setting forth in record form the deeds of sacrifice and valor performed by the soldiery of Guernsey county, between 1861 and 1866, that future generations may read with a just pride of the loyalty displayed by their forefathers. Considering her population and size, during that conflict, no county sent forth more men in defense of the flag than Guernsey, and Ohio, as is well known, outrivaled most states in the Union. So frequent were her regiments going to the front, that at one time, late in the struggle, the governor took exceptions to the letter President Lincoln wrote to New Jersey, when that state sent a regiment out. Mr. Lincoln wrote the governor of that state, and kindly thanked its people for the regiment. Ohio's war governor had never once been thanked by a personal letter from the good President, and yet the troops were constantly going forth, at his bidding, to do battle. Then Lincoln, after receiving the reprimand from the governor here, sent him one of his characteristic communications, in which he said that he no more thought of sending a letter of thanks to Ohio than he did every morning when Mrs. Lincoln passed him a fresh cup of coffee-that he always knew he was welcome to it and that it was coming, too. This was the greatest compliment the state of Ohio could expect and was satisfied, as was her governor.
As the first soldiers were about to leave Cambridge, in 1861, the follow- ing appeared in the Jeffersonian and will, by their kindness and permission, here be quoted, for its intrinsic value in this war chapter of the county's history.
OFF TO THE WAR.
"The first company of Cambridge volunteers left this place on Tuesday morning for Columbus, there to await the orders of the President. They are a fine looking body of men, and they will no doubt 'stand by their colors' through 'thick and thin.'
"We shall watch the destiny of the Cambridge Volunteers, with all the solicitude which high regard and affection can inspire, and while we shall ever hope to hear that victory and honor have perched upon their ensign, yet our highest happiness, under providence, will be to take them by the hand once more,
"'When wild war's deadly blast has blown.'
"God bless the brave boys is the heartfelt prayer of every citizen of our town.
"Officers-Captain, James Watt Moore; first lieutenant, Charles H. Moore; second lieutenant, John T. Rainey ; first sergeant, Walter Barnett;
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second sergeant, Alfred H. Evans; third sergeant, James Johnson; fourth sergeant, J. C. Wiser ; first corporal, Moses Stockdale ; second corporal, George W. Hutchison ; third corporal, Dr. James Anderson.
"The following is as complete a list of names with places of residence as is now obtainable, of this volunteer company that left this place Tuesday morning. It should be carefully preserved :
Henry H. Mercer, Cambridge
David Frazier, Cambridge
John Frazier, Cambridge
John Nelson, Cambridge John W. Meek, Cambridge Thomas Kilburn, Knox township James W. Moore, Guernsey county Chas. H. Moore, Guernsey county James Johnson, Guernsey county William Armstrong, Cambridge H. S. Hyatt, Zanesville J. D. Meek, Byesville Josiah Scott, Cambridge John Beabout, Center township Robert E. Stiers, Senecaville Samuel Beadling, Cambridge Joshua McPeek, Cambridge Thomas Carr, Cambridge John McKim, Guernsey county Moses Stockdale, Antrim W. A. Arnold, Hartford Thomas Lindsey, Cumberland Perry Singer, Claysville Thomas McManaway, Cambridge Elijah Bell, Cambridge Andrew Waller, Washington Isaac McBirney, Washington W. F. Nicholson, Cumberland Harrison Danifer, Cambridge W. T. Frazier.
C. F. Camp, Claysville James Delong, Cambridge
Jolın Bately, Cumberland E. M. Morrison, Kennonsburg Joshua M. Stiers, Sewelsville J. E. Gillett, Winchester J. M. Anderson, Birmingham F. M. McDowell, Cambridge James Davis. Thompson Rose, Liberty Samuel Shreeves, Cambridge Thomas Temple, Liberty Samuel Gregg, Senecaville M. D. Starr, Claysville R. A. Cusac, Cumberland Isaac J. Murphy, Claysville W. Landy, Cambridge J. B. Barnet, Claysville J. T. Rainey, Cambridge W. Stewart, Gallaghers A. H. Evans, Cambridge George W. McKim, Cambridge John Carter, Cambridge township Daniel J. Buckstone, Cambridge Nathan Downer, Cambridge John B. Meyer, Cambridge Alonzo Miller, Cambridge Andrew G. Beabout, Center township Simon Sines, Center township James Gray, Center township George W. Stult, Salesville G. W. Davis, Bridgeville Ebenezer Williams, Bridgeville John C. Meagher, Guernsey county
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George W. Hutchison, Cambridge James McConehay, Cambridge William Johnson, Jackson township James Turner, Center township Richard Bucey, Center township William Murphy, Westland township Joseph Allen, Cumberland Samuel Conner, Cumberland
John H. Murphy, Cumberland Charles Osborn, Salesville George Klingman, Cambridge John Clark Wiser, Cambridge Stout P. Wallace, Cambridge William C. Crawford, New Concord William Beadling, Cambridge
During the Civil war there were three regular drafts for the filling up of Guernsey county quota, under the various calls for men by President Lin- coln. The first was dated May 17, 1864; the second was June 14th, the same year, and another June 21st. From three hundred dollars to one thousand dollars was paid as a bounty for substitutes. The following shows the drafted men by townships, the same being compiled January 31, 1865 :
Wheeling township, 10; Monroe township, 16; Londonderry township, 21; Washington township, 18; Oxford township, 19; Millwood township 15; Centre township, 6; Wills township, 21 ; Madison township, 8; Jefferson township, 8; Cambridge township, 1; Liberty township, 12; Adams township, 9: Knox township, 10; Spencer township, 14; Westland township, 6; Rich- land township, 7; Valley township, 15; Jackson township, 3; total, 219.
Deputy Provost Marshal John B. Cook was shot dead in his back yard in 1865, by persons supposed to have had trouble with him over a proposed draft, which they were evading. John W. Hartup and Hiram Oliver were arrested, tried before a court martial under General Ord. The trial lasted three months and the result was that the men were hung for the crime, one having confessed.
Over two thousand men entered the Union army from Guernsey county, a record to be proud of by the citizens of the county.
The principal commands in which soldiers served from Guernsey county were these : The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Eighty- eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Vol- 11nteer Infantry, One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, First Ohio Cavalry Regiment.
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SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETIES ..
Not alone did the men of Guernsey county show their patriotism in suppressing the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865, but the work of the ladies was potent and duly appreciated by the soldiers in tent, hospital and field. In every township in this county there were societies doing their best to provide things of necessity and comfort for the men in the field. At Cambridge, the Times files of April 9, 1863, have the following item, worth preserving in this connection :
"Our society was organized February 23, 1863, and though we have been cramped for means and by reason of the high prices that prevail, yet we will struggle on and not let this society go down so long as this dreadful war continues. We wish all who have promised to contribute and have not sent their contribution in would do so at once.
"During the winter the ladies have made the following articles: Eight shirts, eight pads, four slings, forty towels, eight rolls of bandages, six eye- shades, four pair of slippers, five sheets. On March 21st we sent to the Cin- cinnati branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, one barrel and one box of fruits, dried fruits, jellies, wines and a half barrel of onions.
"(Signed) SALLIE G. LYONS, "Secretary."
A REGIMENTAL, PRINTER.
In the Cambridge Times of April, 1864, an item appears as follows: "The Eighty-eighth Regiment, having purchased a press and the necessary type for printing general orders, requisitions, reports, etc., has appointed Francis M. Sarchet, of the regiment, as regimental printer. He formerly served an apprenticeship in this office. Though he is a young man, we feel warranted in saying that he is a good printer and will do good work. Suc- cess to Frank !"
JOHN MORGAN'S RAID IN GUERNSEY COUNTY.
We take this account of Morgan's raiders in this county, from the Cam- bridge Times of July 30, 1863 :
"John Morgan, with the remnant of a band composed of the most villain- ous cut-throats and scoundrels, the sweepings and accumulations of two years of murdering and plundering among helpless people, amounting in number to probably six hundred, found his way into this county on Thursday, the 22nd
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inst., and entered the town of Cumberland about three o'clock in the after- noon of the same day. As usual, his pickets were thrown out, and the work of insult and plunder commenced.
"The stores of Colonel Squier and Mr. Holmes, respected citizens of that place, were plundered of clothing and such articles as they seemed to need. Colonel Squier lost about four hundred dollars worth of goods, and Mr. Holmes about three hundred dollars worth. From Mr. Thomas Lindsey one dirty thief stole, or forcibly took, twenty-five dollars. After robbing Lindsey, the Butternut asked him if he was a Vallandigham man. Lindsey replied that he was not, but instead was a good Union man. Butternut then pro- ceeded to electioneer for his friend Val., by telling Lindsey that no better man lived anywhere than Vallandigham; that he ought to support him-using a considerable number of arguments to convince Lindsey that it was his duty to vote for that glorious friend of the South and its cause, Vallandigham.
"In and about Cumberland they succeeded in stealing about one hundred good horses. While in town they quartered upon the inhabitants, from whom they insolently demanded food or whatever else they wished. They left Cumberland about eight o'clock in the evening, after perpetrating all the devil- ment they could, except burning the town and murdering the inhabitants.
"The next place they turned up was at Hartford, in Valley township, which place they retired from without doing any material damage. We did learn that they robbed Mr. George Miller, of Hartford, of one thousand five hundred dollars, but as we have not heard it confirmed, presume it is not so.
"At Senecaville they made a short stay, stole numerous horses, and took the road to Campbell's station. While at Senecaville, we learn that one of the thieves entered a stable belonging to a gentleman of that place, and, with drawn revolver, demanded a horse. The owner, instead of giving him a horse, gave him a blow alongside of his head with a club, which caused Mr. Secesh to give up all intention of dealing in horseflesh for the time being. Said Butternut is now lodged in our jail.
"When the celebrated John was sojourning in Cumberland, a certain Doctor, formerly hailing from the Hoskinsville region, and of Hoskinsville proclivities, had a horse confiscated by the Morgan thieves. The Doctor re- monstrated against the proceeding, and in the bill of exceptions set forth that he had a patient that he must see and that was the only animal he had to ride. Butternut sets forth in his answer that if the said Doctor would give him seventy-five dollars, he would surrender the horse. Whereupon the Doctor forked over the amount, and when John and his thieves retired. the Doctor's horse also retired with a Butternut on his back, and left the Doctor with a
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feeling of goneness in the pocket and to mourn the untimely departure of his trusty pill packer.
"Query, wasn't the Doctor a little verdant ?
"At Campbell's Station, they burned the warehouse and its contents, be- longing to Mr. John Fordyce, after robbing his safe, containing, we learn, about four thousand dollars in money, two thousand dollars of which be- longed to Mr. Thomas Frame; also the railroad bridge convenient, and three freight cars loaded with tobacco, cut the telegraph wires and started for Washington. Here they made a grand stand; threw out their pickets, and prepared for war. We believe they did no damage in Washington, at least we have heard of none, except eating up what provisions the people had on hand, and relieving them of a few horses. At this place, General Shackleton came upon the thief with one thousand Union cavalry, which caused him to skedaddle in doublequick. A smart skirmish ensued at the edge of the town, the rebels firing one volley and running, as usual. In this skirmish, three rebels were wounded, two of whom are since dead and the other expected to die. On the road from Washington to Winchester the rebels made two more stands, each for a few minutes, when they fled. During one of these skir- mishes, three rebels were captured. Near Winchester, Colonel Wallace, with a few troops and one piece of artillery, joined General Shackleford.
"The rebels, after the last skirmish, succeeded in getting some distance ahead of our forces, we failing to get in sight of them again in this county.
"It appears, from conversations with eight of Morgan's men, who were captured, and are now in the county jail here, that the scoundrels despaired of reaching home many days ago, and that they roamed about without any defi- nite object beyond a very slight hope that they might find an unguarded cross- ing on the Ohio river. They claim to have had plenty to eat, and but little time to eat it, so hard were they constantly pressed by our troops. They made it a point to take every horse they met with that was of any value, and when they stole a horse they generally turned loose some poor tired-out animal. How many horses they stole in this county we cannot possibly say, but as they stole all along the route, they must have picked up a considerable number.
"As John Morgan and his band are now captured, the people can settle down and content themselves with at least a hope that one horse-thieving scoundrel and disturber of the peace of the country, will get his just deserts. If our people don't shoot him for the raid, the rebel authorities will be sure to. if they ever lay hands on him. He has wasted and destroyed, on a fool's errand, the best body of cavalry they had in their service, and all to no pur- pose in the world. Such a senseless expedition never started since the world
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began. He has failed to perform a single achievement that is worth thinking of a second time.
"Rebel raids into loyal states-whether on a great or a small scale-have but one ending, the defeat and utter route of those attempting them. John Morgan ventured this time something out of his usually safe line, and, in crossing the Ohio river, marked his track with foul murders-the killing of peaceful and unoffending citizens. It was but a little while until he found the spirit he had aroused,-the great mistake he had made,-and his fate will be the fate of all such scoundrels who undertake similar expeditions. They are the disgrace of civilization, and the villains will in future be hunted down as men hunt down wild beasts, and when caught, a 'short shrift and a long rope' will be all the compensation these blood-stained wretches will receive at the hands of a justly outraged people. We are told that in one section of this county they were so very urbane and polite that they quite charmed our people. We, for one, are sick of this accursed cant about 'politeness,' 'chivalry,' etc., this trifling with murder and every black crime. And when we look at the horrors so long carried on with impunity by this vile, black-hearted cut-throat and his land-pirate gang, we cannot say that we would object should the result of the whole matter be a "short shrift and a long rope,' from the friends and relatives of the persons he and his band have so foully murdered, and whose property he has so wantonly destroyed."
"CAMBRIDGE SCOUTS" AFTER MORGAN'S RAIDERS.
(Published in the Jeffersonian in January, 1891, by Col. C. P. B. Sarchet, who took part in the campaign.)
Before the raider, Gen. John Morgan, with his rough raiders, reached Ohio, at Harrison, near Cincinnati, on July 14, 1863, Governor Tod had pro- claimed martial law in Ohio, and called out the militia. To this call more than fifty thousand responded. These militia were minute men, who were ready to leave their offices, shops and farms at a moment's notice. The militia of the state had been enrolled and officered by companies. The writer had been commissioned a captain, by Governor Tod, to enroll three regiments in Guernsey county. This had been done and the writer was elected colonel of the First Regiment of Guernsey county, and as we remember now, the then editor of The Jeffersonian, McClelland, late of the Barnesville Enter- prise, and the present editor of the Guernsey Times, D. D. Taylor, mustered in this regiment, and each carried a cornstalk as well as anybody. We want to record the part that the "Cambridge Scouts," a company composed of
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colonels, captains, lieutenants and high privates, under the immediate com- mand of Col. John Ferguson, late from the seat of war, took in the chase after "Morgan's Rough Raiders," July 15, 1863.
The "Cambridge Scouts," in command of Col. John Ferguson, under orders of Governor Tod, left Cambridge for Chillicothe, taking, at Zanesville, the Cincinnati & Wilmington railroad for Circleville. This company of seventy-five or eighty men reached Circleville sometime after dark, and slept on the soft side of the pavement until morning, experiencing at the outset a taste of grim-visaged war. Here we were breakfasted in squads, at the several hotels. Transportation by wagon was to have been ready here to take us to Chillicothe, but this had not been provided, nor could it be obtained now, for fear Morgan would capture the horses. He was reported near Chilli- cothe, with three thousand men, heading north, closely pursued by General Hobson, with the Union forces and militia. Our place of rendezvous was Chillicothe, where we were to be armed and equipped for war. A heavily- loaded canal boat, bound south, came along, the captain was coerced, and the company took the upper deck. All day long, amid the hot July sun, we boarded the perils of "the raging canal," as the cry ever and anon was heard, "low bridge," when we had to flatten out to keep from being scraped off, and drowned in the green scum of the Ohio canal. Arriving at Chillicothe a little after nightfall, we found the men, women and children fleeing for their lives. We were told that Morgan was coming, and that Paint creek bridge had been burned to stop his progress. We debarked from the boat and formed com- pany on the towpath, and marched in quick step through the city, to the rail- road running south to Hampden, where the militia had formed in line to re- ceive arms, and fell into the line. All was darkness and confusion, not a light shone from any house, all places of business were closed, valuables were being carried away or secreted. The arms were being slowly given out, and, to make "confusion worse confounded," a report came that Morgan had cut the railroad near Hampden and was sweeping everything before him. Hun- dreds of men took arms, and strapped their cartridge boxes around them, who perhaps never before had had a gun in their hands, and moved off down the railroad, falling over the crossties and themselves, and on every hand was heard the cry, "You - fool, you keep off my heels." By the time our com- pany moved down to the place of armament, the arms were exhausted, and we were given the freedom of the city, with orders to report at the place of armament in the morning, as more arms were to be sent down from Columbus. We had had no supper, and the quarters assigned was the market house, which was already jammed. As we were marching up through the city, we had
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