The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-23

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douglas. Thence to the smoke of
the battle was but step, and soon
the cares of business we're forgotten
in the scream of the rebel shells and
the shrill whistle of bullets. The
battery joined the Army of the
Cumberland, December 90. 1852.
No sooner had the rumble of the
departing battery died sway, than
more money and more men were
raised and soon the measured tramp
of the 72nd, 8Sth and 30th Illinois
Volununteers, also equipped by the
Chicago Board of Trade, was heard
In the path, which led toward the
pail of battle smoke.
During the next three years of fire,
lead and blood the Board of Trade
battery played an active part and
covered itself with glory. Often the
ponderous wheels of big business
stopped upon the receipt of news of
'the Battery" January Ord, 1868,
the tumult of "the floor" died away.
4 nthe first news of the Union vic
tory at Stone River was read a
telegram sent by S. II. Stevens, who
had been grain inspector for the
Board In days of peace.
Nashville. Tenn, June 3, 1863"
II ram "Murfreesboro Is ours. Ter
rife fighting on Friday. No more
casualties in the Battery; 1t has won
glorious distinction"
Letters from the gunners during
the latter part of the war related
that the badges each member worse
,"B. OF T. Battery" was a never
failing passport at any sentry line;
the pickets ON seeing 1t would
Iobligingly turn their backs, for the
record of each member had been
Established. II was Lieutenant G:if-
Ifin who fred the irst shot In the
battle of Chickamauga and 1t was
his battery which fred the last one.
When news was reached that Cen
Ieral Rosecrans had ordered that a
,,stand OF colors. bearing the names
of the battles in which the battery
had fought, had been presented to 1t
enthusiasm ran righ. Finally when
the surviving men came back, and
marched through the streets the
whole city turned out to welcome
them. That was on June q, 1865;
and at great banquet spread on
the exchange floor among the grain
and provision pits, the remnant of
the famous command sat down to-
gether for the last time. Never
again were they all united and some
dropped out of the knowledge of
their comrades for years. 1t Is,
however, fact of national interest
that now the record Of all is COM
lplete. be they living or dead.
During the war and through the
reconstruction days that followed,
the commercial interests of the
country represented by the big ex-
changes stood solidly by the green
back and banknote in the days OF
their adversely. Practical patriotism
and free handed symspthy has been
shown by them repeatedly since the
lnD5HOTdJle Ddnuuel WHloH mai hou
the disbanding OF the famous bat.
tery at the Board or Trade here.
When the world was shocked at the
horrors OF the Galveston flood, the
Chicago Board OF Trade asked nc
questions but with promptness ant
decision gathered It's members to-
gether and from their individual con
ltributions they sent the crippled
city $1,000. When Johnstown wal
flooded In 1889 the Board of Trad,
sent $4,000 to relieve the suffering
, In 1890 and 1891 the crops OF Dakoti
4 were short, the farmer practicall.
bankrupt, and TO insure a crop, tn
Board Of Trade forwarded S2,260 2
g In the two years TO purchase see
9 for the farmers. The Board, withou
u delay, voluntarily ana eagerly. b
y individual contributions, sent to th
! families of the policemen killed o
wounded In the Haymarket riot, $l3
900 as slight expression of II
appreciation OF bravery In the publ
B. defense Then too, the big sum {
$21, ,726 .68 was sent to the Sa
Francisco sufferers in 1906 when tn
10 walls were In ruins.