SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.

     The following named soldiers of the Revolutionary War are known to have lived in Sandusky County.
     John Waggoner enlisted at or near Reading, Pa.; Von Heer, captain; rank, private, and in General Washington's Life Guard; served till the close of the war.  Applied for a pension, Sept. 9, 1828.  Claim was allowed.  He married at Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, Sarah Minnie.  At that date he is referred to  as John Waggoner, Sr.  His wife was allowed a pension on applicaiton executed Sept. 13, 1853, while a resident of Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.  John Waggoner died Dec. 15, 1842, aged 75 years.  Buried in the Bowlus Cemetery, and later his remains were removed to Four-mile House Cemetery.  IN a newspaper published in Lower Sandusky of the date of June 3, 1841, is the following paragraph:
     "It is with no little pleasure that on Friday morning lawst, between 5 and 6 o'clock we met our venerated friend John Waggoner of Washington Township, in this county.  He had come to town as he is wont to do for the purpose of delivering a periodical supply of butter to his customers.  Mr. Waggoner is the last, or the last but one, of the surviving Life Guards of General Washington; he is now about 80 years old.
     David Dalrymple enlisted at Petersham, Mass., June. 1780, served till Nov. 1, 1780, as private; Captain, Taylor; Colonel, Michael Jackson; was re-enlisted March 1781, served till November, 1783, private; Captain, Willson; Colonel, Jackson.  Applied for pension Oct. 1, 1832.  His claim allowed.  Applied at Walworth, Wayne County, New York 67 years of age at the time of application for
pension; buried in York Township.
     Phineas Stevens enlisted May, 1775, served eight months as private; Captain, Samuel Patch; Colonel. Jas. Prescott: re-enlisted March, 1776, served eleven months; private, Captain Asabel Wheeler; Colonel, Reed; engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Lake Champlain.  Applied, for a pension May 8, 1818, Ontario County, New York, at the age of 64 years.  Claim allowed.   Died Aug. 8, 1840 in Sandusky County, Ohio; buried in Townsend Township.
     Daniel Bates enlisted in Morris County, New York, January, 1782, served one year as private; Captain, Jonas Ward; Colonel, Seeley, New York.  Applied for a pension in Sandusky County, Ohio, Oct. 2. 1832.  Claim allowed.  Born in Morris County, New York, Mar. 27, 1763.  Buried in Green Creek Township, in Dana Cemetery.
     George Armstrong enlisted at Juniata, Pennsylvania, Dec. 25, 1776; served two months, fifteen days; sergeant; Captain, James
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private; Captain, Robert Matier; Colonel, Smith; reenlisted 1780, served two months as private; Captain Robert Matier; Colonel, Smith: reenlisted 1780, served two months, private; Captain, Hurl; applied at the age of
71 years for a pension at Benton Yates County, New York, Sept. 28, 1832.  Claim allowed; buried in York Township.
     Allen Watrous enlisted at East Hadden, Connecticut, June 1, 1780; served eight months, private; Captain, Benton; Colonel, Sherman; reenlisted __________; served one month, private; Captain, Jonathan Kilbourne; Colonel, Joe Worthington, Connecticut; born in Lyme, Connecticut, 1758.  Applied for pension, Ridgefield, Huron County, Ohio, July 27, 1832.  His claim allowed; buried in Green Creek Township.
     Joab Wright enlisted at Saybrook, Connecticut, 1780; served eight months as private; Captain, Caleb Baldwin: Colonel, Swift, Connecticut.  Engaged in battle at Saybrook, Connecticut.  Applied for pension at the age of 67 years at Thompson Township, Seneca
County, Ohio, July 27, 1822.  Claim allowed.  Died Aug. 16, 1844; buried in Green Creek Township.
     John Burkhardt was born in Switzerland, came to America about 1753 or 1754.  John Burkhart enlisted in Von Herr's Light Dragoons or Troop Marchausse, in 1778.  Later he re-enlisted at Reading, Pennsylvania, and was a member of Washington's Life Guards through the war.  His family lived at Reading, Pennsylvania, until about 1795; from there they moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later to Perry County, Ohio.  John Hurkett (now spelled) moved to Sandusky County, Ohio.  Died 1849, aged 93 years.  Buried in Hessville Cemetery, Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. Archives of the State of Pennsylvania, Second Series, Vol. II,
page 175, edition 189c; he was in the battle of Yorktown and after the surrender of Cornwallis returned home at Reading, Pennsylvania,
and was married.
     Daniel Brainard—Private in the Connecticut Troops; pensioned Apr. 27, 1833.
     Christian Crow—Private in Pennsylvania Continentals; pensioned Dec. 1, 1819.
     Jacob Daggett—Private in Massachusetts Continentals; pensioned Sept. 16, 1834.
     John Davenport—Private in Massachusetts Militia; pensioned Sept. 24. 1833.
     Reuben Patterson—Private in Massachusetts Militia; pensioned May 30, 1834.
     Nathan Goodale—In the year 1793 a Revolutionary soldier by the name of Nathan Goodale with the title of Major, a native of Brookfield, Massachusetts, while living near Belpre, and working on his farm there, was captured by Indians, who started with him for Detroit, for ransom, by the way of Lower Sandusky.  Here he was taken so ill that they could proceed no farther with him and took him to the house of James Whittaker down the river, and there left him.  Here he died and was doubtless buried near the Whittaker home.
     Harrington—Judge Israel Harrington in 1840 writes: "My father was a soldier of the war, preceding the War of the Revolution, and commonly called the "Old French War," which closed when the immortal Wolfe fell at Quebec.  When the Revolution began he was one of those who fought at Bunker Hill, where the lamented patriot Warren fell.  He was a soldier throughout the Revolution.  He died at my house, where I now reside, in 1826."  Other revolutionary soldiers were John W. White, John West, Arthur Ellsworth and Simeon Hoff.

SOLDIERS OF 1812.

     Among the settlers of Lower Sandusky before the organization of the county, the following are known to have served in the War of 1812:
Jeremiah Everett, Thomas L. Hawkins, Charles B. Fitch. David Gallagher. Jonathan H. Jerome, Israel Harrington, Josiah Rumery and James Justice.  Other soldiers of this war settled later, in different parts of the county, but it has been impossible to ascertain the names of more than a few as follows: Samuel Thompson, wounded at Lundy's Lane, was a captain in the Mexican War.  Ephriam K. Townsend, William Fink, Nathaniel B. Tucker, Noah Huss, Alanson Carpenter, Chaplin Rathbun, Thomas G. Amsden, John West, Gurdon Woodward, John Heter, Sr., Merritt Scott, Uriah Craig, Henry Roller, Daniel Greene, W. D. Sherwood, Daniel R. Ellsworth. John Bush,

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Joseph George, John Coonrod, James Morecraft, Hugh Bolen, Jacob Hampsher and Luther Winchell.
     Other soldiers whom we have ascertained served in this war were George Garnick, Daniel Ellsworth, William Sibberell, Aepheus McIntyre, Sr., William Bundy, Samuel Pogue and Joseph H. Curtice.

THE MEXICAN WAR.

     In the spring of 1847 Capt. Samuel Thompson of Lower Sandusky, a veteran of the War of 1812, who was wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane, raised a company of volunteers for the Mexican War, known as Company C, the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of which were as follows:
     Captain, Samuel Thompson; First Lieutenant, Isaac Knapp; Second Lieutenant, George M. Tillotson;  Second Lieutenant, Lewis Lepelman; Orderly Sergeant, Isaac Swank; Sergeant, Thomas Pinkerton; Sergeant, Michael Wegstein; Sergeant, John M. Crowell, Benjamin Myers, Edward Leppelman; Musicians, Grant Forgerson and Charles Everett.
     There were seventy-six privates in this company.  The company being ordered to report at Cincinnati, traveled by wagon from Lower Sandusky to Perrysburgh and thence by the Miami Canal in canal boats to Cincinnati.  In June, 1847, were mustered into service as Company C, in the Fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, then forming in that city, officered as follows:
     Colonel, Charles H. Brough; Lieutenant Colonel, Augustus Moore; Major, William P.
Young; Surgeon, Oliver M. Langdon; Assistant Surgeon, Henry E Foote.
     Besides the men enlisted by Captain Thompson, there were eighteen, recruited by Captains Amos C. Bradly and J. A. Jones, in the year previous, among whom were Andrew Kline and his brother Lewis Kline and John Foltz, members of Company F, of the First Regiment O. V. I., making in all, who volunteered from Sandusky County, about one hundred and ten men.
     This regiment went from Cincinnati to New Orleans, thence to Brazos, Santiago, and from that point marched to the mouth of the Rio Grande and was transported thence to Vera Cruz, where it became part of the brigade of Major General Joseph Lane.  From there Captain Thompson, owing to disability, was compelled to return home, and from that time
the command of the company devolved upon Lieutenant Knapp, through the entire service.
     General Lane's brigade left Vera Cruz Sept. 10, 1847, and arrived at National Bridge about the 23d of the month, and passing through the city of Jalapa September the 30th, reached Pueblo on the 12th day of October; Pueblo was garrisoned by the Americans, commanded by Colonel Childs, and was in a state of siege, by a large force under command of General Santa Anna.  When Lane arrived, an engagement took place there, in the streets, in which Company C of the Sandusky County boys participated.  The Mexicans were defeated and the garrison relieved.
     The Fourth Regiment remained at Pueblo until after the treaty of peace was ratified, and on June 2, 1848, left for home, arriving at Cincinnati the latter part of July, where the soldiers were finally discharged; the Sandusky County soldiers, homeward bound, reached Tiffin by railroad, going thence to Lower Sandusky by wagon.
     There were but few sound men in the ranks when they reached home, and a number died from disease contracted in the service; many others were enfeebled during the remainder of life.  Of the men who enlisted from Sandusky County only four arc now known to be living, Andrew Kline and Jacob Faller of Fremont; Lewis Kline, of Michigan, and John Foltz, now of Henry County, and in the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky.  Andrew Kline served in Company H, Seventy-second Regiment O. V. I., in the Civil War, and was promoted to first lieutenant.  Jacob Faller is the only surviver of Captain Thompson's Company.  At the ninety-third anniversary of the defense of Fort Stephenson on Aug. 2, 1906, when the remains of Major George Croghan were there reinterred, five veterans of the Mexican War were honorary pall bearers, viz:  Andrew Kline, Lewis Kline, Jacob Faller, Grant Forgerson and Martin Ziegler, of whom the two last mentioned have since died.

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THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865.

     In the preparation of the account of the part taken by Sandusky County in this great struggle for the maintenance of the Union, the History of Sandusky County, by Homer Everett (1882), and the address of John M. Lemmon at the unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument in Fort Stephenson Park, Aug. 1, 1885, have been, in the main, followed as local authorities.  Space at command will not permit as full an account, as the editor would be glad to give.  Only brief outlines can be here stated.  In rosters of companies, commissioned officers only are named.
     The population of Sandusky County in 1861, when the war broke out, was about twenty-two thousand souls.  It had between the ages of 18 and 45 about four thousand three hundred men, a considerable percentage of whom, of 18 and 45 about four thousand three hundred men, a considerable percentage of whom, of course, would be subject to disability.  Not counting the re-enlistments, in 1862, the county sent 827 men; in 1863, in all about one thousand six hundred fifty; in 1864, in all about two thousand sixty, and in 1865, in all about two thousand three hundred, exclusive of those designated as 100-day men of whom the county furnished from 700 to 900 in 1864.  Thus it appears that about seventy per cent of the male population of the county, of military age, went into the service.  The number from townships, excluding 100-day men, was, according to Mr. Lemmon, as follows:
     York, 176; Townsend, 103; Green Creek, including Clyde, 351; Riley, 79; Ballville, 231; Sandusky, which then included Fremont, 593; Jackson, 110; Washington, 189; Scott, 135; Madison, 86; Woodville, 149; Rice, 100, a total of 2,302.
     The soldiers who went from Sandusky County served in more than 120 different regiments or independent organizations. They served in the following; regiments of infantry volunteers: 2d, 4th, 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 23d, 24th, 25th, 28th, 29th, 32d, 33d. 34th, 36th, 37th, 39th, 41st, 43d, 49th, 50th, 52d, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 60th, 64th, 65th, 66th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 72d, 74th. 82d, 86th, 100th, 101st, 103d, 105th, 107th, 110th, 111th, 123d. 126th, 128th, 129th, 176th, 177th, 180th, 181st, 185th, 186th, 188th, 189th, 191st, 195th, 190th, 197th and 198th.
     And in the following infantry regiments of the National Guards, viz: 139th, 145th, 164th and 169th.  They were also in the 2d, 3d, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 12th Regiments of Cavalry Volunteers; and in the 1st and 2d Regiments of Light Artillery, and in the 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d Batteries.   The county was also represented in Company 7 of Sharp Shooters and in Hoffman's Battalion.  Besides these ninety-two Ohio organizations, Sandusky County had representatives in twenty-eight organizations outside of Ohio, viz: 
2d Colored Troops, 44th Colored Troops, 9th, 16th and 29th Indiana Infantry Volunteers, 1st and 18th Michigan Infantry Volunteers, 54th and 65th New York Infantry Volunteers, 169th and 198th Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, 10th and 18th U. S. Infantry, 1st U. S. Chasseurs, 2d Colorado Cavalry, 6th Illinois Cavalry, 1st Michigan Cavalry, 1st and 6th U. S. Cavalry, 1st Illinois Battery, 5th Michigan Battery, 10th U. S. Battery, 1st Michigan Mechanics and Engineers U. S. Telegraph Corps, President's Body Guard and Virginia Cavalry.  There were also several representatives in the naval and gunboat service.  It is certain enough that the soldiers of Sandusky County were represented in 120 different organizations.  The largest number in one command was in the 72d Infantry, next in the
169th O. N. G., and then there were two companies in the gallant old 8th Infantry, and about one company each in the 21st, 25th, 49th, 55th, 100th, 111th and 186th Volunteer Infantry.  There was also a company in the 3d Cavalry.  In the other named organization the number varied from nearly a company to a small squad.  They fought in the great battles of the war.  Some were at Bull Run, and some at Donelson and New Madrid; at Shiloh, Stone River, Corinth, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Cross
Keyes and Port Republic; in the Seven Days' Retreat at Groveton and Gainesville; Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Chancellorsville; in the Vicksburg Campaign, at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge; in the Atlanta Campaign; the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania; in the Siege of Rich-

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mond, at Franklin and Nashville; in the grand and glorious March to the Sea, and in other marches, sieges, advances and retreats, the brave Sandusky soldiers had their full share.  (Lemmon.)

EIGHTH O. V. I.

     This regiment was first organized as a three months' regiment at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, and sent to Camp Denison for equipment and drill Apr. 28. 1861; it was subsequently reorganized for three years and left camp for West Virginia, July 8, 1861.  Companies F and G were organized in Sandusky County.  Commissioned officers of Company F were:
Captain, George M. Tillotson, died Mar. 4, 1863, at Fremont, Ohio;
First Lieutenant, Charles M. Fouke, resigned;
Second Lieutenant Edward W. Cook, resigned;
Sergeant, Henry A. Farnum, promoted to first Lieutenant and Captain, wounded at Gettysburg, July 3d, 1863;
Sergeant, Thomas H. Thornburg, promoted to Second Lieutenant, wounded at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and at Mine Run, Dec. 4, 1863.
     Company G, Commissioned Officers—
Captain, William E. Haynes; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Tenth Regiment, Ohio Cavalry.
     First lieutenant, Edward F. Dickinson; promoted to Captain and served as Regimental
quartermaster.
     Second lieutenant, Creighton Thompson; wounded at Antietam and resigned.  The regiment, after having been engaged in forty-eight battles and skirmishes, was mustered out at Cleveland, July 13, 1864, its term of service having expired.  General Buckland in his address Aug. 1, 1885, at the unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument, speaking of this regiment, said: "At the great battle of Gettysburg, under the command of its gallant colonel, Frank Sawyer, it achieved immortal renown by charging and driving superior numbers of the enemy from an important position in front of the Union lines, and holding it for nearly two days and until the victorious close of the battle, against the repeated assaults of the enemy.  In this affair the regiment lost in killed and wounded nearly one-half its number engaged.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH O. V. I.

This regiment contained men from various localities of the state and nearly one full company was from Sandusky County.  It was Company F, Captain, Moses H. Crowell, resigned; Captain, Michael Murray; First Lieutenant, Hezekiah Thomas, and Second Lieutenant, George W. Iden.  The regiment was organized at Camp Chase in June, 1861.  On July 29, 1861, it went into service in West Virginia, and was stationed along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Oakland to the Ohio River.  It went through long and arduous service, and was in the battles of Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier, Camp Baldwin, Monterey; the engagements and marches, in the Shenandoah Valley; along the Rappahannock, the second at Bull Run and at Gettysburg, and others in all twenty battles, in which eighteen colorbearers had been killed or wounded.  With its re-enlistment it had served over five years.

FORTY- NINTH O. V. I.

     This was Col. William H. Gibson's Regiment.
     Company F was raised in Sandusky County.  Its commissioned officers were:
     Captain, Joseph R. Bartlett; about the middle of November, 1862, was appointed Inspector
General of the Second Division of the Army of the Cumberland, and assigned to the staff, at first, of General Sill, and afterwards on that of General R. W. Johnson, and acted as chief of Staff and Adjutant General in addition to the duties of Inspector General; promoted to Major, Dec. 5, 1864; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Mar. 29, 1865; commissioned Colonel, June 26, 1865.  Captain, Mathew R. Lutz; promoted from Second Lieutenant, Company B, Feb. 10, 1865.
     First Lieutenant, Morris E, Tyler; promoted to Captain of Company B, July 3, 1862.
     Second Lieutenant Timothy H. Wilcox.
     Second Lieutenant, Edwin Haff; promoted from Corporal. Oct. 31, 1863; wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, and transferred to Company I.
     Second Lieutenant, John F. Kessler; promoted to First Lieutenant on July 5. 1862; promoted to Captain of Company E, May, 1864.
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obtained about forty recruits, it seemed improbable that he could obtain a full company.  In the meantime Timothy H. Wilcox had enlisted about the same number for a company of Home Guards.  It was agreed that if Mr. Wilcox, with his men, would join Company F with Captain Bartlett, that Wilcox should be First Lieutenant of the company.  This arrangement was effected, and the company was soon filled by the combined efforts of Captain Bartlett and Mr. Wilcox, the latter being elected First Lieutenant.  The company went with the regiment into camp at Camp Noble, Tiffin, Ohio, for equipment and drill.  From there the regiment was at once sent into camp at Muldraugh's Hill, near Elizabethtown, where it remained until October 10, when it moved to Nolan Creek and went into Camp Nevin.  It finally moved to Pittsburgh Landing, Apr. 6, 1862.  Here, its Colonel, W. H. Gibson, was assigned to a brigade and the 49th was placed in command of Lieut. Col. A. M. Blackman.  The regiment was conspicuous for its valor in the battles here.  It was in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge.  After the engagement at the latter place, the regiment was re-enlisted and granted thirty days' veteran furlough.  After returning to the service, under the re-enlistment, the regiment was in the engagements at Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattaheechie River, Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, suffering severely in killed and wounded in all these battles.  On its return from the Nashville expedition, the regiment was taken, June 16, 1864, by transports, to Texas, reaching Texas in July; the regiment landed at Victoria and moved to the interior as far as San Antonio. After suffering great hardships in the service there, for four months, the regiment returned to Victoria, where it was mustered out, Nov. 30. 1865.
     During its service eight officers were killed in battle and twenty wounded, six of them mortally; of the privates 137 were killed in battle, seventy-one were mortally wounded, 16; died from hardship or disease and seven perished in prisons at Andersonville and Danville.  Six hundred and sixteen were discharged on account of wounds or other disability.  The men of the regiment received 942 gun-shot wounds.

FIFTY-FIFTH O. V. I.

This regiment was raised chiefly by Col. John C. Lee and went into camp at Norwalk, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1861.  Colonel Lee resigned May 8, 1863, and the command of the regiment devolved upon Lieut. Col. Charles Gambee of Bellevue, until he was killed at the battle of Resaca, May 15, 1864.  Three hundred and nineteen had re-enlisted and returned to Norwalk, Jan. 20, 1864.  From here it again moved to the front, and marched through Atlanta with the Twentieth Army Corps, toward the sea and on December 21 camped near Savannah.  After much hard service and suffering it reached Richmond, May 11, 1865.
On the 24th it went into camp near Washington.  On July 11, 1865. it was mustered out of the service and paid off at Cleveland, July 19, 1865.  A number of men of this regiment were recruited from Sandusky County in the vicinity of Bellevue.  During the service there were enlisted in this regiment 1,350 men, and of these about seven hundred and fifty were either killed or wounded.

FIFTY-SEVENTH O. V. I.

     Sandusky County furnished a number of men for different companies of this regiment.  When first organized the regimental officers were:
     Colonel, William Mungen; Lieutenant Colonel, William Mungen; Major, Silas B. Walker, and Surgeon, John P. Haggett.
     Company C—
     Captain, Samuel R. Mott; First Lieutenant, John W. Underwood; Second Lieutenant, John Doncynon.
     Company F—
     Captain. Alva S. Skilton; First Lieutenant, George T. Blystone; Second Lieutenant, Edward E. Root.
     Company H—
     Captain, Daniel N. Strayer; First Lieutenant. John A. Smith; Second Lieutenant, Lucius Call.
     The commissioned officers of other companies arc not accessible to the writer.
     This regiment experienced hard service and suffered much sickness, and though starting out, in February, 1862, with over nine hundred men by the 6th of April, 1862, at Shiloh, it could only muster 450 men for duty.  And in the three days' fighting: in and around Shiloh it lost twenty-seven killed and 150 wounded, sixteen mortally.  At Memphis it was strengthened by the addition of 118 volunteers and 205

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drafted men, making its force there 650 men.  It marched thence to Chickasaw Bayou, where
in an engagement with the enemy it lost thirty-seven killed and wounded, and at Fort Henderson suffered about the same loss.  It was at the siege of Vicksburg in service in the trenches or picket duty. In January, 1864, it re-enlisted, with the addition of 207 recruits.  May 1st it moved with the corps in the Atlanta Campaign, and participated in the battles at Resaca, Dallas and Kenesaw, losing heavily in these engagements.  It reached Richmond by way of Petersburg, and thence to Washington, and was in the Grand Review there, May 24, 1865.  On June 24, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of service.

SEVENTY-SECOND O. V. I.

     Col. Ralph P. Buckland, on Oct. 11, 1861, issued a call to the people of Sandusky County for volunteers to fill a regiment.  He was authorized by the governor of Ohio to raise, to be known as the Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  This call was so cheerfully responded to, that by the middle of January following, the regiment was sufficiently full for organization, which was accordingly
effected, Jan. 17, 1864; but owing to vicissitudes of the service, thereafter, many changes in this regard became necessary and were made, as will appear in the roster of commissioned officers of the regiment.
     Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, H and I were formed almost entirely of citizens of Sandusky County; Company G, with a small portion of Companies H and A, were recruited in Erie County, and Company K was mostly recruited in Medina County, while a few men in Companies C and E were of Wood County, Ohio.  Company K was disbanded and distributed among the other companies and its officers discharged in order to make full companies, and a company which had originally been recruited for the Fifty-second O. V. I. was assigned to the Seventy-second at Camp Chase and denominated Company K, and thus the regiment was complete in numbers —
     Regimental and Staff Officers—
     Colonel, Ralph P. Buckland; appointed Brigadier General, Nov. 29, 1862. 
     Lieutenant Colonel, Herman Canfield; died Apr. 7, 1862, from wounds received at Shiloh.
     Major, Leroy Crockett; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Apr. 6, 1862; died of disease Dec. 10, 1863.
     Adjutant, Eugene A. Rawson; promoted to Major, July 23, 1863; died of wounds received at battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, July 15, 1864.
     Alonzo C. Johnson, Adjutant, July 23, 1863 resignation accepted Aug. 1, 1864.
     Quartermaster, Daniel M. Harkness; resigned Jan. 16, 1863.
     Surgeon, John B. Rice; detailed Surgeon in Chief of Memphis District, Apr. 28, 1864.
     Chaplain, Abraham B. Poe; resigned Jan. 15, 1863.
     Assistant Surgeon, William M. Kaull; resigned June 4, 1863.
     Assistant Surgeon, John W. Goodson; dismissed the service of the United States Mar. 30, 1863.
     Steward, William Caldwell; appointed Assistant Surgeon Apr. 27, 1863; resigned on account of disability, Jan. 7, 1865.
     Principal Musician, Nicholas B. Caldwell; died of disease, June 5, 1862, at hospital, Keokuk, Iowa.
     Company A—
     Captain, Charles G. Eaton; promoted as follows: To Major, June 20, 1862; to Lieutenant Colonel, Dec. 24, 1863; at close of the war was breveted Brigadier General,
     Charles L. Dirlam; mustered as Captain, Apr. 28, 1864.
     Jonathan F. Harrington; mustered as Captain May 28, 1865.
     Merritt Sexton; mustered as Captain, Apr. 11, 1865.
     Joseph Seaford; mustered as Captain, May 25, 1865.
     Charles L Hudson; appointed as Captain, Sept. 4, 1865, but never mustered in.
     Charles H. McCleary; mustered as Captain, June 11, 1865.
     First Lieutenant, H. W. Gifford; promoted to Captain, June 20, 1862; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 27, 1862, of wounds received at battle of Shiloh.
     Second Lieutenant, Spencer Russell; promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862; promoted to Captain, May 17, 1862; resignation accepted, Aug. 21, 1863.
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prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads, June 11, 1864.
     Jonathan F. Harrington; mustered Second Lieutenant, Mar. 1, 1863; First Lieutenant, Apr. 9, 1864; Captain, May 25, 1865.
     Morris Rees; mustered Second Lieutenant, Mar. 1, 1863; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads; promoted to First Lieutenant, Apr. 6, 1864, and afterwards promoted to Captain.
     Merritt Sexton; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 24, 1863; as First Lieutenant, Apr. 28, 1864, and Captain, Apr. 11, 1865.
     Lorenzo Dick, appointed Second Lieutenant, Apr. 6, 1862; mustered as First Lieutenant, Mar. 1, 1863; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     Joseph Seaford; appointed Second Lieutenant, Feb. 26, 1863; mustered as First Lieutenant, Jan. 3, 1865; mustered as Captain, May 25, 1865.
     James H. Stewart; appointed Second Lieutenant, Jan. 15, 1863; resignation accepted
May 3, 1863.
     Alonzo C. Johnson; mustered as First Lieutenant and Adjutant Aug. 11, 1863; resignation accepted Aug. 1, 1864.
     Charles L. Hudson; mustered as Second Lieutenant Nov. 22, 1864; wounded at Tupelo; mustered as First Lieutenant and Adjutant Apr. 11, 1865; appointed Captain Sept. 4. 1865, but never mustered into service.
     Joy Winters; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 29, 1864; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     Charles H. McCleary; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 29, 1864; mustered as First Lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1864; mustered as Captain, June 14, 1865.
     Rollin A. Edgerton; mustered as Quartermaster- Sergeant. Nov. 14, 1861; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 24, 1863; resigned on account of disability Sept. 28, 1864.
     Andrew Unckle; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 9, 1864.
     Edward McMahon; mustered as Second Lieutenant, May 14, 1864; mustered as First Lieutenant, Apr. 11, 1865; later taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     David Van Doren; mustered as Second Lieutenant Lieutenant, Apr. 9, 1864; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     Josiah Fairbanks; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 9, 1864; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     Zelotus Perin; mustered in as Second Lieutenant, Apr. 9, 1864; taken prisoner at Brice's Cross Roads.
     John G. Nuhfer; mustered as First Lieutenant, Apr. 12, 1865.
     Company B—
     Captain, George Raymond; resigned May 23, 1862.
     John M. Lemmon, mustered in as Captain, Jan. 29, 1864.
     First Lieutenant, Henry W. Buckland; promoted to Captain, June 20, 1862. Second Lieutenant.
     William T. Fisher; promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862; resignation accepted July 27, 1863.
     Alpheus B. Putman; mustered as Second Lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1862; mustered as First Lieutenant, Mar. 2, 1864.
     Company C—
     Captain, Samuel A. J. Snyder; mustered as Major, July 27, 1864.
     First Lieutenant, Milton T. Williamson; Aid-de-Camp to General Denver, June 2, 1862.
     Second Lieutenant, Daniel W. Hoffman; promoted to First Lieutenant, Mar. 1, 1864; left a prisoner of war and severely wounded at Tupelo, Mississippi, July 13, 1864.
     Company D—
     Captain, Andrew Nuhfer; wounded severely at Shiloh, Apr. 6, 1862; taken prisoner at the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, July 11, 1864.
     First Lieutenant, Manning A. Fowler; promoted to Captain, Mar. 8, 1863; resigned July 23, 1863.
     Second Lieutenant, Jesse J. Cook; resigned June 6, 1862.
     Company E—
     Captain, John H. Blinn; resignation accepted Jan. 15, 1863.
     First Lieutenant, Charles D. Dennis; mustered into service as Captain, Mar. 1, 1863.
     Second Lieutenant, William A. Strong; resigned on account of disability, Aug. 4, 1864.
     Company F—
     Captain, Leroy Moore; taken prisoner June 11. 1864, at Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi; service expired Mar. 12. 1865.

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     First Lieutenant, Alfred H. Rice; discharged for disability Aug. 18, 1863.
     Second Lieutenant, John B. Gilmore; mustered in as First Lieutenant, Apr. 24, 1864; taken prisoner at Battle of Brice's Cross Roads June 11, 1864; died in prison Oct. 9, 1864, at Charleston, South Carolina.
     Company G—
     Captain, James Fernald.
     First Lieutenant, William C. Biddle; commissioned as Captain, Apr. 23, 1864.
     Second Lieutenant, John H. Boyer; resigned Dec. 10, 1862.
     Company H—
     Captain, Michael Wegstein; killed in Battle of Shiloh, Apr. 6, 1862.
     First Lieutenant, Anthony Young; promoted to Captain, June 20, 1862; resigned July 23, 1863.
     Second Lieutenant, Andrew Kline, promoted to First Lieutenant; discharged for disability, Sept. 11, 1862.  He served in the Mexican War in 1846-7.
     Company I—Captain, Jacob Fickes; resignation accepted Feb. 4, 1863.
     First Lieutenant, Albert Bates; resignation accepted Aug. 7, 1863.
     Second Lieutenant, James Donnell; resigned Sept. 3, 1862, at Memphis.
     Company K—
     Captain, T. M. Thompson.
     First Lieutenant, W. H. Skerritt; elected as Division Quartermaster, Apr. 15, 1862
     Second Lieutenant, Caleb T. Goshom; resignation accepted Jan. 15, 1863.
     To do justice to the brave commanders and officers, and to recount the many deeds of valor of the men, of this regiment, would require a volume, and we shall have to be content with the brief mention here made.  This regiment reported to General Sherman at Paducah and was assigned to a brigade composed of the Forty-Eighth, Seventieth and Seventy-second Ohio Regiments with Colonel Buckland in command.  At Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, Jackson, Nashville, Tupelo and wherever engaged, the officers and men of the Seventy-second proved equal, in heroism, to all expectations of them, as true soldiers.  It was at Brice's Cross Roads. Mississippi, June 11, 1864, where it suffered its greatest reverse, losing in that engagement eleven officers, and 237 men, killed, wounded and captured.  The greater portion were captured.  But here, these men were conspicuous for bravery amid the disaster which had overtaken them, through no fault of theirs, nor of the officers of the regiment, but. according to the accepted belief, owing to the blunder of General Sturgis, there commanding.  The regiment was mustered out at Vicksburg, Sept. 11, 1865.

ONE-HUNDREDTH O. V. I.

     Sandusky County contributed Company K to this regiment.  The officers of the regiment were:
     Colonel, John C. Groom; Lieutenant Colonel, Edwin L. Hayes; Major, Patrick Slevin ; Surgeon, George A. Collamore; Assistant Surgeon, Henry McHenry.
     The commissioned officers of Company K were:
     Captain, Nathaniel Haynes; First Lieutenant, Sanford Haff; Second Lieutenant, William Taylor.
     This regiment was organized at Toledo, Ohio, in July and August, 1862, and moved to the defense of Cincinnati September 8, and thence to the front in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and farther south. It participated in the defense of Knoxville; and in the spring of 1864 in the Twenty-third Army Corps joined General Sherman, and was present at almost every battle from Rocky Face Ridge to Atlanta.  In the assault on the Confederate works in front of Atlanta this regiment lost 103 men out of 300 taken into the fight. It participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville.  During its term of service it suffered as follows:  Sixty-five killed in battle; 142 wounded, of whom twenty-seven died of their wounds; 108 died of disease; 325 were captured by the enemy, and eighty-five died in Confederate prisons.  It was mustered out of service at Cleveland, Ohio, July I, 1865.

ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH O. V. I.

     Field and Staff Officers: Colonel, John R. Bond; honorably discharged, Oct. 18, 1864.
     Lieutenant Colonel, Isaac R. Sherwood; promoted to succeed Colonel Bond; February, 1864.
     Lieutenant Colonel, B. W. Johnson; reigned Feb. 6, 1862.
     Lieutenant Colonel, Moses R. Brailey.
     Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas C. Norris; mustered out as Major.
     Majors: Moses R. Brailey, Isaac R. Sher-

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wood, Benjamin F. Southworth and Henry J. McCord, Surgeon, Lyman Brewer, Chaplin A. Hollington.
     The commissioned officers of Company A were:
     Captain, John V. Beery; First Lieutenant, Joseph H. Jennings; Second Lieutenant, Orin B. Frome.
     The commissioned officers of Company G were:
     Captain, H. J. McCord; First Lieutenant, M. P. Bean; Second Lieutenant, George W. Moore.
     This regiment first entered the field at Covington, Kentucky, in September, 1862, and after moving about in Kentucky, it took part in the pursuit of Morgan in his raid into Indiana and Ohio, after which it returned to Kentucky, thence to Tennessee; and after many movements and minor engagements it finally reached Red Clay, Georgia, Slay 6th. On May 12th it marched to the front of Resaca and took part in the battle there, the second day.  It took part in the entire campaign against Atlanta; was actively engaged in the Siege of Kenesaw, the battles of Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, Dallas, Chattahoochee, Decatur, Peach Tree Creek, and in the Siege of Atlanta.  In the Atlanta Campaign this regiment lost in killed and wounded 212 out of 380 men. Finally, on Dec. 1, 1864, it was back at Nashville, and was engaged in that battle and there captured three Confederate battle flags and a large number of prisoners. This regiment also took part in the pursuit of Hood.  At the battle of Franklin this regiment was highly complimented for holding the right of the turnpike, while other regiments gave way.  If space allowed, much more of the splendid service of this regiment could be related.  When finally mustered out there were only 401 soldiers left of 1,050 that entered the service in the regiment.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH O. V. I.

     To this regiment of Ohio volunteers. Hoffman's Battalion, Sandusky County furnished the following named soldiers:
     Company C—
     Captain. Philletus W. Norris.
     First Lieutenant. Amos C. Bradley; promoted to Captain, Jan. 5. 1863. Second Lieutenant, George Carver; promoted to First Lieutenant and then Captain.
     Sergeants: Lewis D. Booth, George W. Hollenbeck, James L. Clapp, Shelby A. Gish, Styles Rich.  Hollenback was promoted to First Lieutenant.  Eugene O. Mitchell became First Lieutenant.
     Corporals:  Nathan Tefft, Jonathan L. Smith, Charles N. Mallery, Emery Bercaw, Samuel M. Alexander and Miron M. Starr.
     Privates:  Israel H. Bitter, Josephus Gaver, Rodolphus Lagore and James Williamson.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH O. V. I.

     As finally organized, the following is the roster of the officers of the 169th regiment; commonly known as one hundred day men:
     Field and Staff Officers: 
     Colonel, Nathaniel Haynes; Lieutenant Colonel, J. H. Carr; Adjutant, John L. Green, Jr.; Quartermaster, H. J. Kauffman; Surgeon, Peter Beaugrand; Assistant Surgeon, S. B. Taylor; Sergeant, Ferguson Green; Commissary Sergeant, Theodore England
     Commissioned Officers of Companies:
     Captain, A. Beider, A; M. J. Tichenor, B; Harry C. Shirk, C; Abraham Gift, D; W. K. Boone, E; Charles Thompson, F; J. H. Jennings, G; Jacob Thomas, H; A. C. Anderson, I; Hanson R. Bowlus, K.
     First Lieutenants, David W. Hardy, A; W. M. Bacon, B; Thomas I. Robinson, C; Henry McGill, D; W. H. Flick, E; Charles Baldwin, F; John Lichty, G; W. J. Havings, H; W. H. Goodson, I; Jonathan Loveberry, K.
     Second Lieutenant:  Jesse W. Flickinger, A; Emanuel Sanders, B; Samuel B. Hughes, C; David Hoitzer, D; Benjamin F. Baltzley, E; George J. Krebs, F; S. Long, G; Solomon Warner, H.; Sidney Sinclair, I; Philip Overmyer, K.
     The regiment was mustered into the service May 15th and 16th and the organization ocmpleted the 17th at Cleveland.  On the 19th it left Cleveland for Washington City, where it arrived May 21st, at mid-night.  From there the regiment moved to Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia, reaching the fort Sunday night the 22d of May, which was to be the home of the men for their term of service.  The splendid fellows composing this regiment did not have opportunity

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to show, in battle, their courage, but were not lacking in their guard duties, to prevent any sudden attack on the Capitol, which was probable at any moment.  The men suffered greatly from sickness, and forty-three died during the service; sickness and death, toward the close, seemed to lurk in every part of the fort and barracks.  Some days scarcely a real well man could be found in the regiment.  When it started homeward August 22d, there were at least 500 of the men on the sick list, over 300 of whom had been taken from the hospital, for home.  The regiment was mustered out at Clevveland Sept. 4, 1864, having been in the service 125 days.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIXTH O. V. I.

     This regiment was raised under the last call, to serve for one year, and was composed of men from different parts of Ohio.  Of these, Sandusky County furnished about seventy-five soldiers, most of whom had seen service before.  The regiment was mustered in at Camp Chase Mar. 2, 1865, and placed under Col. Thomas F. Wildes, from thence it moved to Nashville.  On the 8th it left there for Murfreesboro, arriving the 10th of March.  The day and night previous, the regiment marched through rain and snow, the weather at night turning intensely cold.  There was not a tent to be had in the command that could be legally drawn, as there was no regimental quartermaster yet mustered in to furnish them, if any there were.  The destination was Cleveland, Tennessee, where the regiment went into camp, and soon erected comfortable quarters.  May 2, 1865, it moved to Dalton, and thence to Chattanooga, at the request of Wildes, who had been
breveted Brigadier General, to join his brigade there to which he had been assigned.  On July
20th it was ordered to Nashville.  On September 13th orders were received to prepare muster
rolls for the muster out of the regiment.  On September 25th the regiment was mustered out at Nashville.  The Commissioned Officers of Company E were : Captain, John L. Green; First Lieutenant, Edward Cook, promoted to Captain. Sept. 10, 1865; Second Lieutenant, James
Daugherty, promoted to First Lieutenant, Company A, June 22, 1865.

THE THIRD OHIO CAVALRY.

     The Third Ohio Cavalry was organized at Monroeville, Ohio, in September, 1861.  Capt. William B. Amsden recruited a company designated Company D, in Sandusky County.  The First Lieutenant was Richard B. Wood, and the Second Lieutenant was George F. Williams, promoted to First Lieutenant, June 20, 1862, promoted to Captain of Company F, April 17, 1863.  During the first year of its service it was attached to Gen. T. J. Wood's division, and for its gallant acts reference is made to the history of Wood's division.  It subsequently fought many hard battles to the details of which space here cannot be given.  It finished its long career of arduous and brave service at Macon, Georgia, and was mustered out Aug. 14, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio, having served four years lacking twenty days.

NINTH OHIO CAVALRY.

TENTH OHIO CAVALRY.

     This regiment was organized at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, in October, 1862; left for the field in Tennessee in February, 1863; served the year out in Tennessee and Alabama, part of the Army of the Cumberland; in 1864 served under Sherman in the great campaigns of Atlanta and to the Sea.
     It served with Sherman in 1865 in the campaigns of the Carolinas.  It was in the battle at Chicamauga, Cosby Creek, Tunnel Hill, Siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Sweet Water, Bear Creek Station, Waynesboro, Georgia; Aiken, South Carolina; Monroe Cross Roads, North Carolina and Averysboro, North Carolina.
     William E. Haynes was Lieutenant Colonel of this regiment from Nov. 10, 1862, to Apr. 12, 1865.  James H. Hafford, Jehial Halliday, Francis Howell, Uriah Mitchell and Andrew Powers of San-

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dusky County were also in this regiment — Hafford was Second Lieutenant of Company G; promoted to First Lieutenant, January to, 1863, and to Captain, Nov. 22, 1863.
The regiment was mustered out at Lexington, North Carolina, July 24, 1865.

MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.

     In addition to the soldiers before named, Sandusky County men served in other organizations in the Civil War.  The names of such as can be ascertained are as follows:
     In Company H. 139th O. V. I., were Captain. L. W. Davis; First Lieutenant, L. B. Shaffer and Second Lieutenant. George A. Hall.  In Company I were Captain. Thomas J. Davis; First Lieutenant, Samuel H. Eckelburg, and Second Lieutenant. Abraham Balyeat. William J. Raymond and M. C. Beymer, in 164th O. N. G.; Edwin Snyder, in Seventeenth Battery; Andrew J. Culp, W. H. Deal, J. W. Knapp, Charles Niff, A. J. Paden, D. M. Shively, Clarence Williams, T. M. Hill. Joseph C. Knapp, in the Twenty-second Battery; Denton Devo and Andrew Hush, in the Seventh Ohio Sharp Shooters; Jacob C. Hoover, Byron Holly, Albert E. Ingham, Jacob O. Smith and Nelson R. Forrester, in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery; Lysander C. Ball, Charles F. Everett and Peter Parker, in Naval Service, Mississippi Squadron.

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.
COMPANY K, SIXTH O. V. I.

     May 12. 1898, at Camp Bushnell, Bullitt Park, Columbus, Ohio, the Sixth O. V. I., with Company K, formed of Sandusky County boys, was mustered into the United States service in the Spabish-American War.  The muster roll of Company K was as follows:
     Captain Louis E. Fouke; First Lieutenant, Myron C. Cox; Second Lieutenant, Clarence E. Myers; Sergeants: Quartermaster, Stephen Buckland; First, Roscoe A. Fry; Second, Frank C. Stine; Third, John W. Fouke; Fourth, Wallace R. Stine; Fifth, Ralph W. Stewart.
     Corporals, Guy Emerson, Charles Myers, Shirley A. Proctor, Harry R. Hazel, Guy Wickett, Bert Michaels.
     Musicians: First, Clarence Childs; Second, Ed Heider; Artificer, George Ehman; Wagoner, Ralph Wickert.
     Privates, Fred Albritton, W. C. Anderson, Charles Bellinger, Irvin Boop, Alta Boyer, Ralph Campbell, Geo. Cook, Fred Cooley, James Dickinson, Frank Emerson, Bert Ferrenberg, Harry Fisher, John Florkowski, Patrick Foley, W. A. Garn, R. H. Gilmore, L. A. Goebel, Irvin F. Hague, D. F. HAlter, Arthur Hanawalt, C. A. Harrington, Guy C. Hayman, Harry Hoffman, Albert Levy, Howard Long, Harry Morgan, Bert Mills, David Mish, Harry Myers, Ed. Nickel, Len Nickel, Clarence Over, George Overmyer, J. W. Parks, Fred R. Patterson, W. E. Proctor, Jr., Charles R. Raumsauer, W. F. Raumsauer, William Reamer, J. A. Rearick, Al. A. Reinnick, W. L. Renchler, Edgar A. Rhodes, J. Wilson Rice, W. C. Richards, J. G. Russell, Homer Smith, M. D. Strohl, H. A. Snyder, Louis Strauss, Guy Terry, William Veith, George Walker.
     The regiment left Columbus for Chickamauga May 175h and arrived at Camp Thomas, its allotted place, on the 19th.  Here orders were received to recruit more men and Company K added the following recruits: E. A. Andrews, P. A. Andrews, L. F. Beck, Clarence G. Binkley, Fred Bower, E. E. Bowman, William Burkett, A. M. Campbell, R. J. Campbell, Wesley Cloud, Charles Cook, Daniel Crane, Garfield Dollison, J. C. Dryer, Ed. Everett, Arthur Foust, W. L. Feightner, Wesley Ferenberg, J. B. Forgerson, Willard Forgerson, Edgerton Garvin, Charles Gleason, George Grob, B. C. HAuser, John Heltzel, Frank Heriff, Truman House, Samuel Jackman, J. E. Myers, Frank Newman, W. C. Parrish, Irvin Rich, C. C. Swank, J. W. Tuckerman, John Walsh, Horace Waring, Charles Zimmerman, R. B. H. Corey and Ralph Stewart.  From this place the regiment moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, August 28th, where it remained until December 27th; it embarked on the transport Minnewaska at Charleston, South Carolina, December 28th for Cuba, reaching Cienfuegos January 3, 1899, and was there assigned to guard-duty to keep order and try to establish  government, and protect plantations.  It remained in Cuba about four months, and left on the transport Sedgwick for Savannah, Georgia. 

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Apr. 24, 1899, but was sent to Augusta, where it was mustered out May 24, 1899, and returned home May 26th.  While at Knoxville, Captain Fouke's resignation having been accepted, the command of the company was turned over to Lieutenant Cox, who was promoted to Captain, and Frank L. Mathews, Second Lieutenant of Company H, was appointed First Lieutenant of Company K.  The following is the roster of the non-commissioned officers at the time of the muster out:
First Sergeant, Roscoe A. Fry; Quartermaster Sergeant, Stephen Buckland; Sergeants, Frank Stine, Wallace Stine, J. Wilson Rice, W. E. Proctor, Jr. Corporals, Guy Emerson, Charles B. Myers, S. A. Proctor, H. R. Hazel, B. E. Michaels, Guy Wickert, P. M. Foley, Harry J. Morgan, C. F. Lutz, Louis Strauss, J. W. Park, B. C. Mauser; Cook of the Company, John Walsh; Artificer, Harry Fisher; Wagoner, Ralph Wickert.

COMPANY I, SIXTH O. V. I.

     Captain, William E. Gillette;
     First Lieutenant, Jesse A. Douglas;
     Second Lieutenant, Edward Welsh;
     Sergeants, Elvin J. Robinson, Charles Raymond and Le Roy Lemmon; Corporals, Mack Robinson, Mack A. Dennis, William E. Sellinger, Fred Weeks and Louis Hecker.
     Privates,

OTHER SPANISH- AMERICAN SOLDIERS FROM SANDUSKY COUNTY

     Major Webb C. Hayes,in Roosevel'ts regiment of Rough Riders; Yeoman Rudolph Waler, in the Fifth U. S. Infantry; Granville pia, at taking of Manila; Major Jesse C. Buckland, in the Sixth U. S. Infantry; Privates Benjamin F. Hall and John Nahm, in the Nineteenth U. S. Infantry; Frank M. Schmidt, in the U. S. Cavalry; Charles Hitishu, in the Seventeenth U. S. Infantry; Marshall Greene and Willard Door, in the U. S. Signal Corps, stationed at Manila; Edward Schwartz in the U. S. Hospital Corps, at Camp Wyckoff, Montauk Point; Lieutenant Harry E. Smith in the U. S. Navy; Major Webb C. Hayes and Corporal A. E. Slessman, in the First Ohio Cavalry.  Also Privates Charles R. Heffner, First Illinois Infantry; W. C. Schoedler and Francis Ake in the Tenth O. V. I.; John Rosanski, Harry Price and Fred Steller,  in the Regular Army; Harry Ernst, in the First California Infantry; Edward Webber, in the Eighth Kansas Regiment; Fred Springer, in Company K, Ambulance Corps; Georgs Rollinsand Georgs Barto, in Washington Regiment near Passig, Phillippine Islands, and Rutherford B. Dillinschneider, in Company B, U. S. Infantry, as doing service in the Phillip-

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pines; George Burton Meek, sailor on U. S. Torpedo Boat Window, killed in battle at Cardenas, Cuba, May 11, 1898.
     The father of George Burton Meek received from the Charge d'Affaires at Washington, D. C, of the Republic of Cuba a letter which reads as follows:

"Washington, D. C_ August 24,

"John Meek, Esq.:
     "Dear Sir : Some months ago a, Cuban gentleman, who signs himself Cambreis, from the City of Mexico, sent General Tomas Estrado Palma, of New York, an order for $100.00 to be given to the wife, children or parents of the first American-born sailor who should die in the war to free Cuba.  I have just now been informed that your son, George B. Meek, fireman of the first class on board the torpedo boat Winslow, was the first hero to shed his blood for the independence of our unfortunate and downtrodden people.
     "I beg to enclose you the check, entrusted to my care, this a proof of the gratitude of the Cubans for their friends and allies, the Americans.  Please acknowledge receipt of the same in duplicate.
                         Yours very respectfully,
                                 Gonzalo De Quesado,
      "Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of Cuba."
     The check read as follows:
"No. 4,445 New York, May 17th, 1898.
     "The Bank of America pay to the order of Mr. Tomas Estrada Palma, one hundred dollars.
               "Maitland Cappel & Co."
On the reverse side is endorsed:
"Pay to the order of Gonzalo de Quesado,
               "Tomas Estrado Palma."

     Below is first endorsed:
     "Pay to order of Secretary of Navy," and this is erased and endorsed: "Pay to John Meek by Gonzalo de Quesado."
     Among the many departed heroes of these wars, whose honored graves are found in Sandusky County, may be mentioned without disparagement or thought of invidious distinction, Harrington and Stevens, who fought at Bunker Hill; Waggoner and Burkett, members of General Washington's Life Guard, the latter in the battle at Yorktown; Croghan, the defender of Fort Stephenson; Thompson, wounded at Lundy's Lane, and Captain in the Mexican War; McPherson, killed in battle at Atlanta, the highest Union officer, in rank, killed in the Civil War; Buckland, the hero of Shiloh; Hayes, Major General and President of the United States, and George Burton Meek, the first American-born sailor to give his life to make Cuba free.
          "How sleep the brave who sink to- rest
          By all their Country's wishes blest I
          When Spring with dewy fingers cold.
          Returns to deck their hallowed mold,
          She there shall dress a sweeter sod
          Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
          By fairy hands their knell is rung,
          By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
          There, Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
          To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
          And Freedom shall awhile repair,
          To dwell a weeping hermit there !"