The record-union., 1898-05-28
BRIGA DER GENERAL OTIS.
THE CALIFORNIA EDITOR HAS
BEEN NAMED.
Something About the Man Who IS
to Wear a Generals
Stripes.

President Mckinley has finally nom
mated Colonel Harrison Gray OTIS or
Los Angeles to be a Brigadier- General
in the army. Colonel Otis has an eX-
cellent war record, having served for
three years Of the Civil War with the
Twelfth Ohio Regiment, and after that
in the Twenty-third Ohio Veteran Vol
unteer Infantry Major c. II. Hub
bard. ex-Mayor of this city, served IN
the some regiment with General OTIS,
and peaks highly of his war record.
The following is a brief and author
itative statement from the records,
showing the military service rendered
by Colonel Otis during the War OF the
Rebellion:
He served on the Union side through
out the entire conflict, entering as
private and rising by successive pro-
motions in the field through all the IN
tervening grades to that of Lieutenant
Colonel Of United States Volunteers by
brevet this distinction being conferred
upon him by the President for gallant
and meritorious services throughout the
war" as his commission READS. rms
promotion, as also that of BreVet-
Major. was given him at the close OF
hostilities upon the unsolicited recon-
mendation Of Major-General X b.
Hayes, subsequently President Hayes.
During his forty-nine months service
IN the field, he took part in hfteen en-
gagements, received two wounds IN pat
tie, gained seven well-earned promo
tions, and commanded his regiment
while yet a Captain, being at the time
the senior officer present for duty.
His military service was rendered IN
two of the proudest Of Ohio's regiments
first, in the Twelfth Ohio Volunteers
for three years, and next in the famous
Twenty-third Ohio Veteran Volunteer
Infantry, to which he was transferred
IN 1864 through the consolidation Of the
two commands.
The Twelfth has its just fame pre-
served in the archives Of the War De-
partmeut in the form Of battle roll
embracing fourteen engagements with
the enemy, with total losses in killed
and wounded aggregatng 500 officers
and men The Twenty-third partic-
ipated in seventeen engagements, and
lost in action, from first to last, 567 Off
GERS and men killed and wounded, out
of a total enrolment of 2,230, being
more than % per cent. The Twenty
third is classed in history with the cell
ebrated Three Hundred Fighting Reg
iments'' whose military record is given
in Colonel Fox's valuable work, "Regl-
mental Losses in the American Civil
War-1S61-1S65''- each Of which three
hundred regiments lost over 13O officers
and men killed and wounded in action.
The author of the above-named au-
thentic work says of the Twenty
third Ohio: "a regiment remarkable
for the famous names of its various
commanders. while others with brilliant
national regulations also appeared on
its rolls in subordinate capacities" It's
original Colonel was William S. Rose
Grams: z. P. Scammon succeeded him;
Rutherford B. Hayes was the third Col
oneI-each succeeding the other when
promoted to a higher command. Stan
ley Matthews served for time as Ma
jor and subsequently became a JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States Robert P. Kennedy and Will
lam c. Lyon were officers in the regi-
ment and later became Lieutenant
Governors of Ohio. Russell Hastings
was Captain and then Lieutenant-Col-
Onel, served on the staff Of General
Hayes. and was desperately wounded at
the battle of Opequon.
Cyrus H Hubbard, now of Sacra-
mento, and formerly Mayor of the city,
was an officer in the regiment, served
honorably, was made prisoner at Ker-
nestown CWinchester) in July, 1864, and
escaped, reaching the Union lines after
untold hardships and dangers.
William Mckinley, Jr., served as a
private, as Commissary Sergeant, and
as a commissioned officer, respectively.
He was breveted by the President upon
muster-out, for gallant and meritorious