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In the meantime Brig .- Gen. E. B. Tyler had been assigned to the command of the Second Brigade, Ninth Division, Ohio Volunteer Militia, consisting of the counties of Portage, Trumbull and Mahoning, with headquarters at Ravenna. His staff was composed of the following officers: Brigade-Major, J. B. Willis, vice D. C. Coolman absent from the State; Major, H. C. Ranney; Acting Surgeon, C. S. Leonard; Aid-de-camp, Capt. Joseph King. During a temporary absence of Maj. Willis, Samuel D. Harris, Jr., served as Brigade- Major. Gen. Tyler issued enlisting orders for infantry to Capts. W. B. Bing- ham, of Ravenna Township, and William Stedman, of Randolph Township; for riflemen, to Capts. H. H. Willard and J. C. Giddings, of Palmyra Town- ship, and to David C. Stockwell, of Shalersville Township; and for artillery to Capt. C. S. Cotter, of Ravenna.
The days succeeding the mass meeting at Ravenna were days of great excitement throughout the county. War was the topic of the hour, volunteers were enrolling and departing for camp, and general business was almost sus- pended. The Franklin Mills Rifle Company was organized on Tuesday, April 23, by the election of John Morris, of Franklin Mills (Kent), Captain; John Rouse, of Franklin Mills, First Lieutenant; and Isaac N. Wilcox, of Wind- ham Township, Second Lieutenant. This company received orders to report at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, and on Wednesday evening, April 24, left Ravenna for the camp, being the first organized company from Portage County to reach that rendezvous. Upon the regimental organization of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, into which the Franklin Mills company had been mustered as Company F, April 30. Capt. Morris was chosen Quartermaster on Col. Tyler's staff, and William Stedman became Captain of the company.
On Thursday morning, April 25, orders came to Ravenna for another com- pany of volunteers to report at Camp Taylor, and at an early hour the Tyler Guards was organized at the Town Hall, and so named in honor of Gen. E. B. Tyler. The officers elected were Frederick A. Seymour, Captain; William H. Robinson, First Lieutenant: Elliott S. Quay, Second Lieutenant, all of Ravenna. The company left for Camp Taylor the same evening, and on the 30th of April was mustered into the Seventh Regiment as Company G. At the Ravenna railroad depot, just before departure, Capt. Seymour was, pre- sented with a "navy six-shooter" by Judge Luther Day, on behalf of his Ravenna friends, while to each man in the command was given a small silver shield, with the emblematic stars, the name of his company and his own name
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engraved thereon. Those shields were the gift of Gen. Tyler, in token of his appreciation of the company receiving his name. On the 23d of May Capt. Seymour returned from Camp Dennison, whither the regiment had removed, to Ravenna, for the purpose of recruiting his command, and by the 27th the requisite number was ready for service. Those volunteers came chiefly from Garrettsville, Palmyra, Edinburg, Atwater and Deerfield Townships.
By midnight on Thursday, April 25, an order came for the Ravenna Light Artillery, under the command of Capt. C. S. Cotter and Lieut. C. J. Gillis. The muster drum was beaten, the members called together and the following morning the company departed for Camp Taylor. Before leaving, Miss Sereptha Mason, on behalf of the ladies of Ravenna, presented to Capt. Cotter a box containing a rosette for each member of the command, also $12 with which to purchase a flag. By request of Gen. Tyler, Ezra B. Taylor then presented Capt. Cotter and Lieut. Gillis each a fine navy revolver, after which the train sped onward and the people returned to their daily avocations. The battery remained at Camp Taylor until June 3, when, pursuant to orders it returned to Ravenna and partially disbanded. Soon afterward, Capt. Cotter went to Columbus, Ohio, where he received orders for active service. Return- ing home he reorganized and recruited his command, which was regularly mustered into the service at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, July 2, 1861. On the following day it left for the front, and July 17 participated in a skirmish on Scarey Creek, W. Va., where John Haven, of Shalersville, was mortally wounded, being the first Portage County man who lost his life in battle.
The Ravenna Martial Band escorted each command to the depot, and the departures were signalized by patriotic speech-making, and tender, tearful adieus. Every household in the town was represented, and no series of events in the history of Portage County have ever brought her people so closely together in heartfelt sympathy. The Stars and Stripes were displayed at every available point, and unbounded enthusiasm in the Union cause filled the hearts of all good citizens. In the Portage County Democrat of May 1, 1861, the writer found the following beautiful poem, which fully expresses the feelings of the great majority of the people of this county at that time:
TO THE PORTAGE COUNTY VOLUNTEERS.
Dear ones. farewell! With trembling voice, and low We bid you hasten at a Nation's call! How we shall miss you-He alone can know, Who bends from Heaven to watch our tear-drops fall, The while with close-clasped hands we kneel and pray, God's blessing, and his tender care to be
The shield of those we love-while far away With strong, true hearts-they fight for Liberty!
And yet we hide our pain-and as we take Perchance the last sweet meaning from proud eyes, We thank our God that for our country's sake, Our woman hearts may make such sacrifice! And oh! if, where the star-gem'd barners wave-
Where sword and spear gleam in the noonday sun,
One-wildly worshiped-finds an early grave, And sleeps in death, ere victory is won;
Still-though our lips be white as winter's snow. Still-though we drink from wasting sorrow's cup And die in anguish-not a tear shall flow In vain repentance that we gave you up! Go! He who rules our Nation's destiny- Who whispered "Peace" and the wild waves were still,
Will lead our loved ones on to victory,
And give us strength to say again-farewell.
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During this period of martial excitement another good work was effectually pushed forward, which was only second in importance to the raising of volun- teers. This was the organization at different points in the county of Relief Committees, and the collection of clothing and money for the equipment of the volunteers, or the relief of their families. On Friday, April 26, H. Y. Beebe, of the Ravenna Relief Committee, having procured in Ravenna a sufficient number of blankets to give one to each man in the Tyler Guards and Ravenna Light Artillery, took them to Camp Taylor for the boys of those commands. Three trunks filled with flannel shirts, lint and bandages, made by the women of Ravenna, at the Town Hall, on Saturday and Sunday fol- lowing the departure of the volunteers, were also forwarded to Camp Taylor. Through the efforts of Mrs. John L. Ranney and Mrs. Beckwith, the women raised a fund, purchased a handsome flag for the Tyler Guards, and on the 30th of April sent it to that company. The citizens of Franklin Mills (Kent), headed by Marvin Kent, pledged $5,000 to be paid as needed for the benefit of the members and families of the Franklin Mills Rifle Company, each man being also provided with a blanket and other camp necessaries by their friends at home.
The Seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, into which the first two companies raised in Portage County were mustered, effected the following regimental organization on the 2d of May, 1861: E. B. Tyler, of Ravenna, Colonel; William R. Creighton, of Cleveland, Lieutenant-Colonel; John S. Casement, of Painesville, Major.
From this time forward volunteering and recruiting progressed rapidly, and every township in the county was soon represented in the Union armies by a greater or less number of volunteers. A martial spirit prevailed in nearly every household, and each family vied with their neighbors in the exhibition of military ardor and patriotism. The war had now begun in earn- est, and the most sanguine soon discovered that putting down the great Rebell- ion was no holiday task. Most of the three months' men re-enlisted for three years, and the places of the few who returned were at once filled from the ranks of the many anxiously awaiting at home the call to arms. Thus the days passed in Portage County during the first stages of the war, but as months lengthened into years, and the many brave boys who, when the tocsin of war first sounded, went forth in all their vigorous manhood to do battle for their country's unity, came back no more, then indeed was there deep anguish and mourning in many a previously happy home.
The military record of Portage County will compare favorably with any other county in Ohio. The census of 1860 gave it a population of 24,208, out of which more than 2,000 men went into the army, more than 300 of whom laid down their lives as a sacrifice on the altar of their country. According to a military record book in the Auditor's office in Ravenna, the following number of soldiers was furnished by the several townships of the county: Atwater, 107; Aurora, 82; Brimfield, S8; Charlestown, 59; Deerfield. 113; Edinburg, 46; Franklin, 159; Freedom, 55; Hiram, 120; Mantua, 85; Nel- son, 118; Palmyra, 38; Paris, 79; Randolph, 210; Ravenna, 235; Rootstown, 61; Shalersville, 72; Streetsboro, 96; Suffield, 132; Windham, 115. Total, 2,070.
The Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, mustered into the three months' service at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, April 30, 1861, embraced two full companies from this county, F and G, and this regiment subse- quently re-enlisted for three years almost to a man. The Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, mustered into the service near Cleveland, Ohio, October
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31, 1861, was largely recruited from the northern section of Portage County; while Companies A and F, of the Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, organized at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, November 26, 1861, were also raised in Portage. The One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, mustered into the service at Camp Massillon, near Massillon, Ohio, August 30, 1862, contained two companies, D and I, from this county. The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, mustered in at Camp Taylor, October 6, 1862, contained one company, D, principally recruited in Portage County. The Ravenna Light Artillery, composed of Portage County men, went out in April, 1861, and September 25, 1861, was mustered into the First Ohio Light Artillery as Battery A, for the term of three years. The Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, organized in October, 1861, at Camp Hutchins, Warren Co., Ohio, was mostly recruited upon the Western Reserve, Portage County being well represented in that gallant regiment. Several other com- panies in the foregoing regiments, besides those mentioned, contained soldiers from this county, but none were so purely representative of this portion of the State as the ones given.
The brave boys of Portage County went into every arm of the service, and nothing illustrates so well their deep devotion to the Union cause as this fact. Their patriotism could not wait until they were needed to fill up the decimated ranks of the first companies that went into the field, and many left the county and joined other commands or branches of the service. We find the county represented in the following Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiments: First, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-third, Thirty-seventh, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty- third, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- eighth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty- eighth, Seventy.first, Seventy-second, Eightieth, Eighty-second, Eighty- fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty sixth, Eighty-eighth, One Hundredth, One Hun- dred and First, One Hundred and Third, One Hundred and Fourth, One Hun- dred and Fifth, One Hundred and Seventh, One Hundred and Eighth, One Hundred and Ninth, One Hundred and Tenth, One Hundred and Eleventh, One Hundred and Twelfth, One Hundred and Fourteenth, One Hundred and Fifteenth, One Hundred and Eighteenth, One Hundred and Twenty-second, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh (colored), One Hundred and Twenty-eighth, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth, One Hundred and Forty- third, One Hundred and Fiftieth, One Hundred and Seventy-first, One Hun- dred and Seventy-seventh, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth, One Hundred and Eighty- seventh, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth, One Hundred and Ninety-first, One Hundred and Ninety-third, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh, and One Hundred and Ninety-eighth. Portage County men served in the Third, Seventh, Fifteenth and Twenty-second Michigan Infantry Regiments, the Fifth Virginia, Fifteenth Pennsylvania, Seventeenth Wiscon- sin, Twenty-third New York, Seventy-fifth Illinois, Eighty-fifth Indiana, and in the First and Twenty-seventh Colored Infantry. The First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth and Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiments contained many Portage County boys; while the Sixth United States Cavalry, the First and Third Michigan Cavalry, the Fifth Pennsylvania, and
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Sixth Illinois Cavalry had each some men from this county. The county was largely represented in the First Ohio Light Artillery, and had a goodly num- ber of her sons in the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Bat- teries; also in the First and Sixth United States, and in the Fifth New York and the Eleventh Michigan Artillery Regiments, besides having many of her citizens in the United States Marines and Navy.
The following list of commissioned officers, who were citizens of Portage County at the time they entered the service has been compiled from White- law Reid's "Ohio In The War." As we have already given in this chapter the names and rank of the several officers who went into the three months' service from this county, it is unnecessary to again refer to them, and we will, there- fore, continue the list after that period:
Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- Erastus B. Tyler became Colonel June 19, 1861, was promoted to Brigadier-General May 20, 1862. Frederick A. Seymour became Captain June 14, 1861, was promoted to Major March 2, 1863, Major's commission revoked, and again issued August 13, 1863, resigned March 29, 1864. William H. Robinson became First Lieutenant June 14, 1861, and died at Gauley Bridge, W. Va., of typhoid fever, October 8, 1861. John B. Rouse became First Lieutenant June 19, 1861, and resigned August 8, 1861. John Morris became First Lieutenant June 19, 1861, and resigned December 5, 1861. Elliott S. Quay became Second Lieutenant June 19, 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant November 30, 1861, subsequently to Assist- ant Adjutant-General on Gen. Tyler's staff in May, 1862, resigned in October, 1862, and died at Ravenna, October 20, 1863. A. H. Day became Second Lieutenant June 19, 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant April 1, 1862, to Captain November 2, 1862, and resigned January 18, 1863. Seymour S. Reed became Second Lieutenant December 12, 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant May 20, 1862, and mustered out November 1, 1862. Frank John- son became Second Lieutenant April 1, 1862, and was killed at Cedar Moun- tain August 9, 1862. Henry M. Dean became Second Lieutenant September 1, 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant November 1, 1863, and mustered out July 6, 1864. H. C. Ranney appointed Assistant Adjutant-General on Gen. Tyler's staff in October, 1862, vice Quay resigned. J. G. Willis appointed Quartermaster of the regiment in the fall of 1862, was afterward Brigade Quartermaster on Gen. Tyler's staff, and resigned in the fall of 1863.
Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- William B. Hazen, Captain in the Eighth United States Infantry, was appointed Colonel of the Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry August 7, 1861, and Brigadier-General November 29, 1862, which rank he now holds in the Regular Army. C. W. Goodsell became Captain October 29, 1861, and resigned January 30, 1862.
Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- James A. Garfield was appointed Colonel August 14, 1861, promoted to Brigadier-General in March, 1862, to Major-General in September, 1863, and resigned December 5, 1863. Frederick A. Williams became Captain September 20, 1861, was promoted to Major March 14, 1862, and died at Ravenna of camp fever July 25, 1862. Horace H. Willard became Captain November 18, 1861, and was honorably discharged January 3, 1864. Howard S. Bates became First Lieutenant September 20, 1861, and resigned February 8, 1862. Orlando C. Risdon became First Lieutenant October 7, 1861, was appointed Colonel of the Fifty-third United States Colored Infantry in May, 1863, and breveted Brigadier-General March 13, 1865. William H. Clapp became Second Lieutenant September 20, 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant March 14, 1862, and to Captain and Assistant
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Adjutant- General May 15, 1863, and is now a Captain in the Regular Army. Samuel H. Cole became Second Lieutenant October 5, 1861, and resigned May 9, 1862. Henry C. Jennings became Second Lieutenant March 9, 1862, First Lieutenant December 16, 1863, and resigned as Second Lieutenant. J. S. Ross became Second Lieutenant March 14, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant July 25, 1862, to Captain May 1, 1863, and mustered out September 30, 1864. Charles E. Henry became Second Lieutenant July 25, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant May 1, 1863, and mustered out with the regiment in the fall of 1864. Horace S. Clark became Second Lieutenant May 25, 1864, was promoted to First Lieutenant July 25, 1864, and mustered out the following autumn.
Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. - Samuel H. Cole became First Lieutenant August 12, 1862, and resigned June 17, 1863. Frederick L. Dunning became Second Lieutenant February 18, 1864, was promoted to First Lieutenant October 12, 1864, and to Captain June 16, 1865, but mustered out with the regiment as First Lieutenant June 15, 1865.
Fifty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- Henry Boehl became First Lieu- tenant January 8, 1862, and resigned November 28, 1862.
Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- Joseph R. Mell became Second Lieutenant January 1, 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant April 29, 1864, transferred to the Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the same rank April 29, 1864, and mustered out with that regiment July 24, 1865.
Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- George F. Robinson became Second Lieutenant March 21, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant January 15, 1863, to Captain July 22. 1863, and mustered out March 12, 1865.
Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. -- Edwin L. Webber became Major December 31, 1862; was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel July 25, 1863, and mustered out with the regiment July 3, 1865.
One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. - Lorin D. Woodworth became Major August 9, 1862, and resigned December 9, 1862. Rev. Buel Whitney became Chaplain September 10, 1864, and was mustered out with the regiment June 17, 1865. John A. Wells became Captain January 26, 1862, and resigned March 27, 1863. Marcus C. Horton became Captain November 21, 1862, and was killed near Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864. David D. Bard became First Lieutenant August 23, 1862, was promoted to Captain May 29, 1863, and killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864. Lewis D. Booth became First Lieutenant August 17, 1862, and honorably discharged February 22, 1864. Edward E. Tracy became Second Lieutenant July 17, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant February 27, 1864, to Captain January 6, 1865, and resigned April 1, 1865. Luther R. Sanford became Second Lieutenant August 5, 1862, and died February 26, 1863. William Grinnell was promoted from the ranks to Second Lieutenant, and to First Lieutenant March 27, 1863, to Captain January 9, 1864, and honorably discharged as First Lieutenant May 28, 1864, on account of wounds received at the siege of Knoxville, Tenn. Horace L. Reed became Second Lieutenant May 29, 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant August 19, 1864, and mustered out May 15, 1865. G. P. Reed was promoted from the ranks to Second Lieutenant Angust 19, 1864, and having lost a leg at Kenesaw Mountain January 11, 1864, was honorably dis- charged.
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- Isaac D. Spauld- ing became Captain November 11, 1862, and resigned April 6, 1863. Ephraim P. Evans became Second Lieutenant September 20, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant April 23, 1863, to Captain July 13, 1864, and was killed in
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battle. Freeman Collins became Second Lieutenant March 3, 1864, and was killed at Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864.
One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry .- George M. Phillips became Second Lieutenant November 23, 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant March 29, 1865, and mustered out with the regiment July 17, 1865. Lewis R. Ranney became Second Lieutenant March 29, 1865, and was mus- tered out with the regiment July 17 following his promotion.
One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry (National Guards) .- Surgeon, Fred C. Applegate, May 7, 1864; Capt., Cyrus A. Mason, May 5, 1864; Second Lieut., A. W. Alcorn, May 5, 1864; and Second Lieut., Frank H. Snow, May 5, 1864, all of whom were mustered out with the regiment August 20, 1864.
First Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. -- Charles S. Cotter became Captain August 5, 1861, was promoted to Major June 9, 1862, to Lieutenant-Colonel October 20, 1864, to Colonel November 26, 1864, and discharged August 10, 1865. Albert L. Beckley became First Lieutenant August 5, 1861, and resigned April 24, 1862. Charles G. Mason became Second Lieutenant August 5, 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant March 12, 1862, and resigned April 26, 1862. Allen W. Pinney became Second Lieutenant August 5, 1861, and resigned March 15, 1862. Joseph D. King became First Lieutenant March 13, 1862, and was honorably discharged November 14, 1862. Edmund B. Belding became Second Lieutenant March 12, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant April 24, 1862, to Captain October 20, 1864, and mustered out with Battery E July 22, 1865. Charles W. Scoville became Second Lieutenant March 15, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant June 9, 1862, to Captain October 20, 1864, and mustered out with Battery A July 31, 1865. Roland G. Day became Sec- ond Lieutenant April 26, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant March 3, 1864, and mustered out with Battery B July 22, 1866. Clark Scripture became Second Lieutenant November 14, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant April 13, 1864, and mustered out with Battery E July 22, 1865. B. K. Davis became Second Lieutenant March 30, 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant May 2, 1865, and mustered out with Battery I July 24, 1865. Lewis B. Max- well became Second Lieutenant May 2, 1865, and was mustered out with Bat- tery H June 14, 1865.
Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. - William Stedman became Major October 21, 1861, was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel August 3, 1863, to Colonel Jan- uary 1, 1864, mustered out October 6, 1864, and breveted Brigadier-General March 13, 1865. William H. Bettes became First Lieutenant December 16, 1861, and resigned March 23, 1862. E. S. Austin became First Lieutenant January 29, 1863, was promoted to Captain May 9, 1864, and killed at Hutchin's Run, October 27, 1864.
Charles H. Bill became Second Lieutenant in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry July 15, 1862, First Lieutenant May 19, 1863, Captain May 11, 1865, and was mustered out September 11, 1865. B. T. Spelman became Captain in the Tenth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry January 15, 1863, and resigned May 31, 1864. William H. Smith became Second Lieutenant in the Four- teenth Ohio Battery September 10, 1861, and resigned April 16, 1862.
Fifty-third United States Colored Infantry .- First Lieutenant Orlando C. Risdon, of the Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was appointed Colonel of the Fifty-third in May, 1863, and breveted Brigadier General March 13, 1865. M. H. Judd and Isaac R. Barton were appointed Captains of the same regiment. All these officers were from Shalersville Township.
Capt. Clifton Bennett, of Freedom Township, served in the First United
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