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1861, the future general, then in his forty-second year, was not very much better situated than when he had resigned his commission in 1854. But the war coming on, he at once grasped the situation. From the first frenzy of the rush to arms, after the attack on Fort Sumter, Rosecrans devoted his whole time and thought to preventing an invasion of Ohio from over the border. On the 19th April, McClellan, just raised to the command of the Ohio militia, invited him to act as engineer on his staff, and to select a site for a camp of instruction for the volunteers then pouring in. The site he selected was afterwards known as Camp Dennison, and for some weeks he was fully occupied in encamping and caring for the regiments as they arrived. Governor Dennison then sent him to Philadelphia to obtain arms; next to Wash- ington to negotiate with the government respecting the sup- ply of clothing and equipments for the Ohio troops; and early in June he was commissioned chief engineer of the State. A day or two later he was made colonel of the 23d Ohio, and assigned to the command of Camp Chase, at Co- lumbus. Four days after this, his commission as brigadier-gen- eral in the regular army, dating from April 16th, 1861, reached him, and he was appointed to active service in West Vir- ginia. Within two weeks after he assumed the command, his brigade won a victory that decided the first campaign of the war. He displayed not only ability as a strategist, but great gallantry in charging the enemy at the head of his troops. The affair was known as the battle of Rich Moun- tain, and General Rosecrans's conduct merited the praise which it everywhere received. This success was rewarded by his being given the command of the department of West Virginia, on McClellan's departure for the East. He found the strength of his command much reduced by the ex- piration of service of some of his regiments, and the raw troops by which they were replaced had yet to be tested. General Robert E. Lee was sent by the rebel government to oppose him, and the campaign ended by Lee being out- manœuvred by the Union general. The Ohio legislature, by a unanimous vote, thanked the latter, and the legislature of West Virginia passed a like resolution of thanks for his management of civil as well as military affairs. In April, 1862, General Rosecrans was relieved of his command to give place to Fremont, and ordered to Washington, and, about the middle of May, was directed to report to General Halleck, then in front of Corinth. Here, practically reduced in rank by being placed in a subordinate command, he, not- withstanding, did good service, and after the evacuation of Corinth, was ordered to assume the command of the army of the Mississippi, on the departure of General Pope for the East. Through a blunder of two other commanders, who failed to reinforce him, he, almost alone, fought the battle of Iuka. Becoming aware of the enemy's intention to recap- ture Corinth, he prepared to dispute the ground and give them battle. Outnumbered two to one, the Union troops fought valiantly and desperately, and after great slaughter the rebels were driven back. In the very flush of victory, and while in hot pursuit of the enemy, he was refused aid, and ordered back to Corinth, much against his will. He was soon after ordered to Cincinnati. He was then directed to relieve General Buell in Kentucky, and by General Hal- leck ordered to move, with his large but demoralized forces, into east Tennessee. He replied that this was impossible, and continued to reorganize his army. His displeased chief again and again ordered him to move, adding at last that
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"he had been requested by the President to designate a suc- cessor for General Rosecrans." That soldier's reply was: "My appointment to the command having been made with- out any solicitation from me or my friends, if the President continues to have confidence in the propriety of the selec- tion, he must permit me to use my judgment, and be respon- sible for the results; but if he entertains doubts, he ought at once to appoint a commander in whom he can confide, for the good of the service and of the country." Having completed the reorganization of his army, he at length advanced upon the enemy at Murfreesboro, December 26th, 1862. His plan of battle was admirably matured, but was marred by a division commander, who failed to hold his position. Disaster followed, but the general in command never lost his presence of mind. His orders were quick and peremptory. The rebels under Bragg were checked, but the Union forces had lost heavily in officers and men. Bragg at length made a furious onslaught, driving one division across Stone river, and following in pursuit. The Union general had placed a collection of batteries on an eminence, which was destined to turn the tide of the day. When they opened fire the shock was terrific. In forty minutes two thousand rebels were strewed about the field, and the enemy retreated in confusion. The battle of Stone River was over. On the first day, the general's chief of staff, while riding by his side, had his head blown from his shoulders, and others of the staff were struck. After this victory the star of Gen- eral Rosecrans began to descend. He could never agree with Halleck. He had further successes against Bragg. The battle of Chickamauga was fought, and it furnished a ground for the removal of the commander. He was relieved by General George H. Thomas, and was out of active service for three months, residing in Cincinnati. He was warmly regarded by the citizens of Ohio, who generally considered him a much-abused man. He was at length recalled from his retirement to relieve Schofield in command of the de- partment of Missouri. Here he was engaged in suppressing guerilla warfare, and in preparing to repel the rebel Price's threatened invasion of the State. When the latter at last in- vaded Missouri, he successfully drove him out, and inflicted severe punishment upon him. But General Rosecrans never rose again into the full confidence of the administration. The danger in Missouri being over, he was, without explana- tion or warning, again relieved of his command, December 9th, 1864, and so took final leave of active service. At the close of the war, he asked for a year's leave of absence, and at the end of his leave, he resigned his commission in the army. For some years he has been engaged in mining in California, taking no part in public affairs, and strictly con- fining himself to his business. He was, without doubt, one of the greatest generals the war produced, and as a strategist he stood among the foremost.
SABINE, ANDREW, M. D., surgeon, of Marysville, Ohio, was born in Union County, on the 11th of January, 1831. His mother's name was Euphemia Clement, a descendant of the Holland Dutch who settled in New Amsterdam, now known as New York. John F. Sabine, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont, December 9th, 1802. He emigrated to Ohio as early as 1812, and resided for a while in Worthington, after which, in 1813, located permanently in Union County, where he has continued to reside, highly respected, esteemed, and beloved by all who
know him. He has held various commissions from the Governors of the State for more than forty years. He was also Auditor of the county, and now holds the office of Clerk of the Board of Infirmary Directors. In all of the various offices in which he has served his services have proved valuable to the people, and his life, during the seventy years that he has resided in Union County, has been above reproach. Andrew Sabine, the subject of our biography, is a descendant of William Sabin, who settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and was one of the principal organizers of the town, in 1643. Tradition says he came from Wales, or the South of England, where he had found refuge in flight from France. He was a Huguenot, and was a man of considerable culture ; and possessing wealth, as is showed in the account of his estate and gifts for the relieving of the wants of those who suffered from the ravages of the Indians. There is every evidence that he was an able and worthy man, influential in all the affairs of Rehoboth and Plymouth Colony. He died about 1687, having previously made his will, which is now on record in Boston (Suffolk Records, Boston, Liber x, pp. 60, 61, 62; made June 4th, 1685; probated July 5th, 1687), and is as follows :
"THE WILL OF WILLIAM SABINE.
"Bee itt known vnto all men That I, William Sabine, of the Town of Rehoboth, in the Government of New Plymouth, in New England, Being through the Goodness and Sparing mercy of God in good health and Competency of understand- ing, yett not knowing how soon or how suddaine God may in his all wise providence put a Period to my Natural Life Having for the glory of God and the good of my wife and children and the peaeable Settling of the Estate God by his goodness hath betrusted me withall, hath made this last will and Testament This Fourth day of June in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred & eighty ffive. Desiring and Charging my Deare Children after my Discease to keep with God and Observe his holly Commandments per- forming all those Christian Duties that God in his wholly word requires of them, setting up and upholding both in family and in Publique. IMPRIMIS. I do resigne my soule into the hands of the Lord Jesus my Dear Redeemer and my body to be decently buried.
"ITEM. itt is my will that my lawful debts shall be Dis- charged.
"ITEM I give and bequeth vnto my Deare and beloved wife my Dwelling house and halfe of the Barne and the halfe of my home Lotte and Orchard and a piece of Salt Meadow adjoining to Capt. Hunt's; and my ffresh meadow called Wright's Meadow, and my pasture in mantoms neck, and six acres of Land in the Second Division adjoining to Mr. Smith's and foure 'acres in the greate playne where itt is sodded and free vse and Improvements of Herbage and Commonage ; all said Lands, houses and Orchards, during her Widowhood if she marry not during her naturall Life. Likewise I bequeath to my Deare wife ffoure cows, Two Oxen, a mare and twenty Ewes and all my Swine, and all my household goods and all the Cloath, woll, fflax and Corne within Doors and Barne or vpon the ground.
"ITEM I give and bequeath unto my sonn Samuel, the one halfe of an Eleaven acres of Land in the Second Division, Laying between Samuel and Nathaniel Perry's Land, and John Titus', to him, his heirs or assignes forever.
"ITEM. 1 give and bequeth vnto my sonn Joseph an acre of Meadow att Palmer's River, Lying vnder the Hill over the Brooke against the Long Spang, att the Southern end, and ten acres of that Division that is now a Surveying, to him, his heirs and assignes forever.
"ITEM. I give and bequeath vnto my sonn Benjamine, the other half of the Eleaven acres of Land in the Second Division which I Gave to my sonne Samuel, to my sonn Ben- jamin, his heirs and assigns forever.
" ITEM I give to my sonn James the other half of my home lotte and orchoard and Barne and the rest of my
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Lands in the Second Division, and Grate Playne that is not before Disposed. And two acres of Salt Marsh and part of fresh meadow in the forke of Palmer's River, to him, his heirs or assignes forever. Likewise 1 give him a yoake of Oxen and a Mare. .
" ITEM. I give to my sonne John the Mill Lotte wch is twelve acres, and my neck Lotte and two acres to him, his heirs forever.
"ITEM. I give to my sonn Hezekiah, twenty acres att Palmer's River, and two acres of Salt Marsh and a piece of Meadow called the Hole att Palmer's River, and Twenty acres of the Division that is now Laying out to him, his heirs & assignes forever.
"ITEM. I give to my sonn Noah my Lotte of Land upon Ragged playne, and all my Meadow and pond att Mr. Brown's pond and Two acres of Salt Meadow to him, his heirs and assignes forever.
"ITEM. It is my will that my foure sonnes James, John, Hezekiah and Noah shall have my Commonage to be equally Divided betwixt them (excepting the vse and improvement I have given in my will).
" ITEM. I give vnto my Three Daughters Experience, Abigall and Hannah three pounds a piece to be paid by Nathaniel Allen that is due me by bill.
"ITEM. I give vnto my Grand Child Samuel Allen six pounds of a Debt Due me from Nathaniel Allen as appears by bill.
"ITEM. I give vnto my Daughters Elizabeth and Patience, each of them a Cow to be paid within a year after my De- cease.
" ITEM. I give to my foure youngest daughters, Mehitable, Mary, Sarah and Margarett, five pounds a piece at their mar- riage out of the rest of my estate.
"I give my wife two books and to have her choice, and the rest I give to my children, the Eldest to Chuse one first and soe all of them Successively and then to begin againe until they have chosen them all.
"ITEM. Itt is my will that if my wife marry that shee shall then resigne vp the house, barne and Lands to my sonn James whom I doe by this my will enjoyne him and his heirs to pay his mother five pounds a yeare during her natural Life, if she require itt, and itt is my will that my sonn James shall have the said Lands and houses, if my wife marry not, at her Decease.
"ITEM. itt is this my will that my beloved wife shall be executrix and my sonn James, Executor to this my will, and I appoint my sonns Samuel & Benjamin to be Overseers to my will.
" With his Seal and Signed, Sealed in the presence of
Signed, WILLIAM SABINE.
Thomas Cooper,
William Carpenter."
The genealogical descent is as follows : i, William Sabine ; ii, Benjamin; iii, Nehemiah ; iv, Nehemiah ; v, Nehemiah ; vi, Nehemiah ; vii, John Fletcher and Andrew Sabine, the subject of our sketch, who is the eighth in lineal descent, and brother of Hylas Sabine, of Volume I of our work. His earlier educational advantages were such as were ordinarily obtained in the common schools of his day, until he entered the academy at Marysville, where he obtained a thorough academical training, preparatory to his collegiate course, which he subsequently pursued in the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, of Delaware. He taught school for some time, in order to obtain sufficient funds to complete his education, and thus fit himself for the more important branch of his life-work, viz .: the study and practice of medicine, which was his previ- ous choice. After passing the prescribed course of study in the above institutions, he matriculated at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and graduated in March, 1856. He first located at Rosedale, Madison County, Ohio, where he remained until he was appointed physician of the Central Lunatic Asylum, Columbus, Ohio, in which position he served
for three years, and received testimonials of the appreciation in which he was held. He then removed to the territory of Kansas, and located in the city of Atchison, where he was engaged in a successful and remunerative practice until the war broke out, at which time, on request of Dr. S. M. Smith, surgeon-general of the State, he returned to Ohio to accept an appointment as assistant-surgeon of the 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which campaigned in the Upper Kanawha Valley and New River during the summer, fall, and winter of 1861. Nearly all this time he was the only medical officer with the regiment. As soon as they had entered winter quarters they were ordered to join General Buell, at Louisville, Kentucky. He was in the winter and spring campaign against Bowling Green and Nashville, and with Buell's army on the march to Shiloh, and in time to assist the surgeons in caring for the . wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and at the siege of Corinth. During the summer of 1862 he marched and countermarched on the line from Corinth to McMinnville, Tennessee. He was also on the forced march after General Bragg, and marched from McMinnville to Louisville, Perryville, and near Cumber- land Gap, and back to Nashville, Tennessee, in December, 1862. He was detailed as surgeon of field hospital for Gen- eral Crittenden's corps, at the battle of Stone River, in which position he served and enjoyed the reputation of being a skillful and successful operator, having performed most of the major operations of surgery, until the wounded were all re- moved to the General Hospital, at Nashville. During this battle he was taken prisoner twice, but succeeded in escap- ing, and returned to his hospital. In February, 1863, Dr. S. M. Smith, surgeon-general of the State, recognized his great success and ability, and sent a telegram announcing that Dr. Sabine had been promoted to the office of surgeon of the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He immediately joined the regiment, at Young's Point, Louisiana. While here the addi- tional honor was conferred upon him of appointing him chief of a Board of Examiners to examine hospital stewards and assistant-surgeons, with a view to promotion. Early in April he was with Steel's division, on the Deer Creek expedi- tion. He was present at the capture of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14th, 1863, and on the 18th, with his command, at the investment of Vicksburg. During the siege of Vicksburg he was one of three surgeons who constituted the "Operating Board " for General Steel's division. He was also division sur- geon of the campaign in pursuit of Johnston, after the capture of Vicksburg. After the reorganization, the Ist Division 15th Army Corps was commanded by General Osterhaus. He was with the first division which covered the movement of the 15th Army Corps, to the relief of Chattanooga, arriving just in time to participate in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Taylor's Ridge. In the Atlanta cam- paign, which commenced May Ist, 1864, he was one of the three surgeons that composed the "Operating Board" for the Ist Division, 15th Army Corps. This campaign consisted of a series of marches, battles, and sieges until September, and during this time his regiment lost from sickness only seven- teen men, out of a total (on May Ist) of five hundred and forty-eight. In the campaign from Atlanta to the sea his command had a battle at Griswoldsville, in which about sixty were wounded. Several capital operations were performed, and the wounded were transported over two hundred miles in ambulances and wagons, and every one recovered. He was also with Sherman's army in the winter campaign of 1864-5, through the Carolinas. He was present at the cap-
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ture of Columbia, South Carolina, and in the battle of Ben- tonville, and finally participated in the grand review which took place at Washington City, D. C., May 24th, 1865. Dur- ing all these sieges in the field he served with distinction for more than four years, and was always one of the operating surgeons of his division, and had as much experience and as good success as any other surgeon in the army. He was always found at his post, and was never known to have been excused from duty on account of sickness. He participated with his command in all of its battles, skirmishes, hardships, and exposures. His rank as surgeon was among the fore- most, and as a practitioner he is now among the most suc- cessful. His skill in surgery and his knowledge of its needs is well attested by his retention in the field during the late war. He campaigned in all of the States in rebellion, ex- cept Texas and Florida, marched by land and water in pur- suit of the enemy over twelve thousand miles. In politics he is a Republican, and always loyal to his party. He at one time was nominated for the Legislature, in Clark County, Indiana, and ran a thousand ahead of his ticket. When he resided in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, he built a hy- draulic cement mill, which proved to be one of the most useful and successful enterprises of the State. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, and the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and surgeon of the Grand Army, of Marysville Post. Being of Huguenot parentage, the Doctor retains something of the pride of ancestry. He is well and compactly built, of dark complexion, black hair and eyes, straight and regular features ; in disposition firm, stead- fast, and persevering, He possesses a commanding figure, with an appearance of reserve to strangers. His bearing is dignified, but withal very courteous, affable, kind, and agree- able to every one, without regard to rank or station, and he enjoys great popularity, both professionally and as a citizen. As a friend, he is true in all his attachments, and can be relied upon as well in the hour of adversity as in that of prosperity. As a business man he is thorough, prompt, and scrupulously honorable in all his transactions with his fellow- man. He is rather of a domestic and studious turn of mind, preferring to devote his time to the interests of his home, the companionship of his books, and the demands of the profession of his choice-a profession in which, as surgeon, he enjoys the well earned reputation of having attained great skill. On all the great questions of the age, political, scientific, and social, he has kept abreast with the times. While the Doctor believes that great good is accomplished by the various Christian organizations, he has not identified himself as a communicant with any particular one. He is public-spirited, enterprising, and liberal, and ever welcomes all commendable social enterprises that have for their end the welfare of the community and the bettering and uplifting of humanity. He has, by his untiring energy and adaptation to his profession, amassed a respectable competency. He was married to Miss Nannie Christabelle, eldest daughter of Captain William B. Brown, October 28th, 1879. One daughter is the fruit of this union, and is now living-Christabelle Sabine, born May 14th, 1881.
KING, LEICESTER, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, May Ist, 1789, and died at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles Brown, at North Bloom- field, Ohio, September 19th, 1856. He was a son of David King, who was born April 16th, 1758, and died May 4th, 1832,
and of Hannah (Holly) King, who was born June 4th, 1758, and died July 14th, 1831. Leicester King was married Octo- ber 12th, 1814, to Julia Anne, daughter of Hon. Hezekiah and Susan (Kent) Huntington, who was born December 10th, 1790, and died at Warren, Trumbull County, O., January 24th, 1849. June 10th, 1852, he was married a second time to Marcia Calista, eldest daughter of Dr. E. Crosby, who still (1883) survives him. Mr. King commenced business as a merchant, in Westfield, Massachusetts. In 1817 he came West, for the purpose of settling himself in business in Ohio, and located at Warren, where he remained for about two years. He then, at the earnest solicitation of his brothers-in-law, who resided at Natchez, Mississippi, proceeded thither, intending to estab- lish himself at that point. On arriving at his destination, with the brightest prospects of success, he could not recon- cile himself to the thought of rearing his family under the degrading influences of slavery. For this reason he aban- doned his scheme and promise of pecuniary reward, and took voyage to New York, narrowly escaping death from yellow fever while aboard the vessel. He had about his person a large sum of money, and during the voyage, before losing all consciousness from the effects of the fever, he cut open the mattress of his berth, and there concealed it. On arrival in port he was immediately taken charge of by friends who knew nothing of the circumstance. On his eventual recovery he made inquiries, and learned that the boat had left for a distant port on Long Island Sound, where she was lying dismantled. He proceeded thither, and began the search; found the mattresses thrown into an old warehouse, among them the one he had used, and in it, safely stowed, the money. The same year he again came to Warren, Ohio, and entered upon a successful mercantile career, making Warren his home until 1854, when he took up his residence in Akron. In 1833 he became interested with General Simon Perkins and Dr. E. Crosby in the land upon which is lo- cated the city of Akron. The land was surveyed and the city laid out by General Perkins, the management of the property finally devolving on Judge King, who handled it with great sagacity, and satisfaction to all. He served one term as Associate Judge; and as a Whig represented Trumbull County District in the State Senate for two terms-from 1835 to 1839-when his early impressions of slavery induced him at each session to introduce bills for the repeal of the black laws of Ohio. He was an ardent opponent of the institution of slavery, and afterward allied himself with the Liberty party, refusing the most flattering offers of advancement from the Whigs in obedience to his convictions upon the question of slavery. He was the nominee of the Liberty party for Governor, in 1842, and again in 1844, and of the same party for Vice-president, in 1848, though he subsequently declined, and gave his support to Martin Van Buren, the Free-soil candidate. At a political meeting in Akron, during his first candidacy for Governor, the meeting was opened by the late Father Keep, who brought cheers from his audience by praying, "O Lord, let us have a King for our Governor, and may his name be Leicester." In the cause of abolition he was a zealous and ardent worker. His speeches were spirited and to the point. Unintimidated by threats of mob violence, he persistently and powerfully protested against the encroach- ments of the "slave power;" making, after each nomination for Governor, a spirited canvass of the State, going in his own carriage into almost every township, and by his clear and earnest speeches convincing thousands of the enormity of
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