Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-11-22
"OHIO AND
EMANCIPATION"
Interesting Subject Handled by Mem
Der of a Local Debating Club.

but the rebels had pressed up and
partly possessed the country, and 1t
was only through the vigorous,
prompt and decisive action of Ohio |
and Ohio militia, that West Virginia
was reserved to the Union.
"Shioh was one of the blooodiest
battles of the war, and possibly was
not equalled by any for hard and de-
termined lighting, and was one of the
first battles to call attention to the
fact that hospital stores, nurses and
physicians We're sorely needed. To
supply this want, the Cincinnati Sani-
tary Commission gave prompt and eff
ficient aid. The Soldiers Aid society
of Northern Ohio, the first organiza-
tion Of it's kind in the U. s.. was one
in which the women of the western
Reserve shared in, the honors of the
war. The Aid society of Columbus
sent its bounteous gifts to the scene
of action, and generous women all
over the state We're constantly organ
izing schemes and sending support
and comforts to the boys in blue.
LET us now turn to the National as
pect: When the Nation, striving only
to enforce its laws and maintain its
lawfully elected rulers, suddenly
found itself plunged into war that
promised to envelop half its territory,
it confided it's Grand Army to the
leadership of an Ohio General tMc-
DowelD. When, beaten less by the
enemy than by Its own rawmess, that
army retreated in disorder from the
field it had fairly won, and the panic
of the first Bull Run seemed to freeze
the currents of National life, another
Ohio general (NIcClellan), fresh from
the first successful campaign of the
war, was called to restore public con-
fidence. and reorganize the army OH a
grander scale which increasing perils
demanded; while still another Ohioan
Rosecrans) was left to assume his va
Gated command in the mountains.
"As the war expanded, the state
continued to preserve similar pre-
eminence Through three campaigns,
the greatest of the National armies re-
mained under the leadership of an
| Ohio General. This officer also sue
ceeded the veteran Scott as General
i in-chief in command Of all our armies
An Ohio General CBuelD command
ed the great department lying south
of his native state, till, after pushing
back the war from the border to the
Alabama line, he was caught and sab
merged in the refiuent tide. Another
Ohio General was summoned from
the fields of victory in the Southwest
to take his place. An Ohio General
(NEitchelD, after brilliant service else
where, commanded the Department Of
the South, till, in the midst of his Ia
when active operations in that de-
partment We're resumed, it was re-
served for another Ohio General (Gill-
more), to revolutionize gunnery, in
destroying the fort around which the
war had opened, and in whose down
fall was written the doom of the Re-
bellion.
mo less signal were the services
rendered by the sons of the state
throughout the whole duration of the
war. Its close found another native
of Ohio (Granb after career as Won
derful and varied as that of any Mar
shal of France, in command OF all our
armies, and hailed. by popular &C.
claim, our greatest soldier. Another
(Sheridan), rising from the rank OF
quartermaster, was foremost in en-
forcing the surrender of Lee, and
stood confessed the first Cavalry Gen
eral of the continent. Another (Sher
, NAM, set aside for insanity at the out
set, led the great consolidated armies
, of the West from victory to victory
till their success, as they marched
. down to the sea, and swept like the
Destroying Angel through the birth
place and home of Secession, put de
cided end to the war.
"Other sons of the state had borne
|no less conspicuous part in the Ma
, tional councils. Gne, at the head Of
, the War department, (Stanton, illus
, trated I, by his fiery energy and hi
, wonderful executive capacity, all, ant
more than all that has been said o.