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Major A. S. Hall.—We learn by the Portage Democrat, that the report of the terrible nature of Major Hall’s wounds is a mistake. In the battle of Pittsburg Landing he was wounded by a shot on the head, with a ball nearly spent, from which he was insensible for several hours. He has however recovered so as to be able to write to his father.
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The Sixth Ohio Cavalry, of which one Company is from this county, has been ordered to the Camp at Wheeling Island, to report to Gen. Fremont. They will then be furnished with their arms and Horses, and enter active service.
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Movement Of Troops From Camp Chase.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment, Col Lewis D. Campbell, and the Seventy-fourth, Col. Granville Moody, have been ordered to Nashville, Tenn. The former was to leave Saturday and the latter Sunday.
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Our troops are not idle at Pittsburg Landing, though no general battle is yet reported. A reconnoitering party of our men has put to ignominious fight three or four thousand rebels near Pea Ridge, who left in such hot haste as to abandon everything without making a show of resistance. Our men captured a large amount of booty and twelve prisoners, who said that the South was sick of the war. If their own conduct can be accepted as evidence, they told the truth.
 Ashtabula Sentinel 30 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 30 April 1862
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The newspaper is on microfilm at the Ashtabula Public Library.
This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
Army Correspondence.
Through the favor of Arron E. Austin, Esq., we have the following letter received from his son, of the 14th Ohio Battery, written on the Hospital Boat coming down the Tennessee.
We have met the enemy, and have whipped them, but we have suffered fearfully. The 14th Battery has gone up, we can muster only about forty men fit for duty. From our detachment Robert McMillan was killed instantly, J. S. Reed, Wm. C. Hall, Lucean Waters and H. F. Gaylord, badly wounded; Arthur Henderson and myself slightly. Fred Pierce was just touched on the shoulder by a ball. I am taking care of the boys.
Our guns are all gone. We were ordered to take such a position and hold it, and we did so long as we could, and would have done so until this time, if our support had not run.The regiments on our right and left supporting us, did not two hundred shots from both regiments; but as soon as the enemy were in musket range, they ran like dogs, and we stood at our guns receiving the whole fire of the enemy, who tried to silence our gun. When we were ordered to limber ——–. The rebels were not over sixty yards off, and before we could get our gun limbered, five of our six horses were killed and the six wounded. The order came to leave our gun, when we fired the load we had in at the devils. At that time I was hit on the behind and knocked down. Daniel Simms started to put down another load, but Pierce made him leave. Our boys behaved like veterans—not a man left until he was ordered. No. Six fired the last shot, and the rebels were not over thirty yards off when we left. Our guns are retaken, but were dismounted and spiked and the wheels knocked to pieces. The 14th Illinois were our rear support to cover our retreat. Had it not been for them we should all have been killed. One of our Captains, wounded, said to me, “You can never be accused of cowardice, the only fault was, you stood ground to long. I never saw guns handled so lively in such a fire. We could see the bullets strike the ground at our feet and the trees at our heads. He said that he wondered that any of us escaped alive. Our Captain was wounded the first fire. His right arm was badly shattered. We went into battle at quarter to eight, and came out, what is left of us, at eleven. The battle raged all day; and they made a desperate effort to take us at night, but were repulsed. On Monday we drove them off; and I suppose they are now in Corinth. The loss on both sides is terrible. Our killed and wounded must be six or eight thousand. Theirs must be greater still. The fought like tigers. There are over a thousand on this boat wounded. I write this by the Captain’s bedside. He is doing well. I am still in fighting order.
Yours, Charlie.
 Ashtabula Sentinel 23 April 1862  Ashtabula Sentinel 23 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 23 April 1862
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This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
Naval School Appointment.—The examination of candidates for the appointment of a pupil to the Naval School at Newport, R. I., which was held in Warren on the 8th resulted in the appointment of George Brown Jr., son of George Brown, merchant of Ashtabula.
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Maj. A. S. Hall, of the 24th Ohio, we learn was wounded by a cannon shot, which took off the right arm below the elbow, and then carried away the left shoulder. We have not heard from him since the first report, but his recovery was thought impossible.
 Ashtabula Sentinel 23 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 23 April 1862
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This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
ASHTABULA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Troy Bailey, President and Jim Gilbert, Publications of the ACGS presented a program on April 25 at the Geneva Public Library to assist researchers in using the 1940 Census. Jim Gilbert explained that this newly- released census can be accessed at Ancestry.com at this time without a paid subscription. However, the census is not indexed and a search cannot be done using an individual’s name. If the subject of the search lived in the same place in 1930 and again in 1940 it is possible to find the district and enumerator number from the 1930 census and then check that section of the 1940 report. It is still necessary to then search the entire district report page by page to find the person. When the indexing is completed—projected to be complete in late June—it will once again be possible to sort by name only. Examples from Ashtabula County and other areas were demonstrated.
Troy Bailey showed the audience how to sign in as a volunteer indexer. Volunteers are currently at work entering the census information into a data base. More volunteers are needed to complete this important task. Troy showed the screens and easy steps needed to sign in at FamilySearch.org and selecting Indexing. The instructions are clear and user friendly as is the program itself. There is an opportunity to give credit for the work completed to ACGS which can benefit the Society by providing a seminar on genealogical research.
This program was sponsored by Archives.com and two memberships to that site were awarded as door prizes.
The next program will by Sunday, May 20 at 1:00 pm and will be the annual Memorial Tea. Donations of books to the Library will be made in memory of deceased friends and members of ACGS. Donald Miller will appear as Ulysses S. Grant. April, 2012 was the 190th anniversary of Grant’s birth. Refreshments will be served after these presentations. The public is invited to attend this event without charge.
Judy Wareham
 Trumbull Cemetery The Trumbull Cemetery, Ashtabula County, gravestones photos are now on ACGS web site.
The cemetery is located on the east side of State Rt. 534, north of Trumbull Center. Coordinates : 41° 41’ 33” N, 80° 57’ 12.53” W
Thanks to Rochelle Donato and Ruth Pugle.
Google map of cemetery.
The Fourteenth Battery.—This was the only company from this county that took part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing. This battery was in the thickest of the fight, and of course could not escape without great loss. We have been favored with a letter, for publication, from one who was in the action, to his father, Anson E. Austin, Esq., which will be read with interest by our citizens, as being to us the best account we have yet received of the part they took in the battle. The casualties of the battle, so far as we can learn were as follows:
Killed—Robert McMillan.
Wounded—Wm. C. Hall and James S. Reed, both badly, and with little hope of recovery; Capt. Burrows, both bones of his arm shattered; H. F. Gaylord, son of Harvey R. Gaylord, Esq., arm shot off; Arthur Henderson, Charles Austin, slightly; D. B. Linnies, B. Herrick, Samuel Thompson, Serg’t E. C. Ackley, Elijah Bower and Lucian Waters, A. M. Peabody; Serg’t Sair, S. W. Barr, L. Clark, A. W. Love, Milo Stevens, J. Grimes, W. E. Oreutt, Serg’t F. B. pierce, and J. A. Dutton.
Ashtabula Sentinel 23 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 23 April 1862
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The newspaper is on microfilm at the Ashtabula Public Library.
This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
Surgeon Fifield—In the Summit Beacon we find a letter from Capt. M. T. Wright of Company D, 29th, written to his father, giving an account of his own wound and the death of Lieut Williamson, in which he alludes to the Surgeon of the 29th, in a manner that will inspire confidence in those who have friends entrusted to his care. After saying how he was wounded, and that he led on the charge for about 80 rods afterwards, he says:
By this time, though my over exertion, I had brought on a re-action of the blood, and seeing my division deployed regularly, I signaled to the Colonel, who came up to my position in the regiment. I refereed him to W. P. Williamson, whom he detached and placed in command of the division, as I had not an officer left but my 4th Sergeant McAdams, Lieuts. Dice and Grinell, together with Sergeants Knox, Hale and Ewart were all sick in camp. Lieut. Williamson came and I saluted him, saying, to you I entrust my command. “What is the occasion, sir?” he enquired. I replied by pointing to my wound. “Captain,” said he, “it shall be retrieved.” Poor fellow! he had not gone more than twenty rods, when he fell dead by a ball striking him in the inter corner of the left eye, and passed through his head. Thus Company D was again left without an officer. I was carried back to the doctor and had my wound dressed, then placed in an ambulance and started for the city by the side of Valentine Viers, a member of my company, who was wounded in the leg, the ball entering just below the knee and glancing down the leg about four inches and lodged. Dr. Fifield was about half a second taking it out; he is as good a surgeon as there is in the western wing of the army. All other regiments were sending in undressed wounds; he extracted every ball and dressed every wound in our regiment and a great many in other regiments, and after the fight was over, hearing that the ambulance, that I was placed in was broken down, he searched the woods three hours with a file of five men, for me, and found me about a mile from the camp, sitting against a tree about 11 o’clock, P. M., where I had been carried by some cavalry and warmly wrapt in a blanket. I am now doing pretty well; my wound is not very painful this evening.
 Ashtabula Sentinel 16 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 16 April 1862
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The newspaper is on microfilm at the Ashtabula Public Library.
This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
From The Twenty-third.
We had the pleasure last week of meeting with Sergeant Covell of Company B. 23d regiment. He reports the boys all well and in good sprites, waiting for the word “forward.” He sends us the following note.
Rock Creek, April, 12th, 1862.
To The Editor Of The Sentinel.
Company B were all well April 2d, when I left them excepting a few who were complaining of a cold—the effects of a three days scout, when it was raining and snowing nearly the whole time.
Scouting had been the order of business since three of our cavalry were killed by bushwhackers.
From one to three companies were keep out all the time, capturing some twenty-five prisoners, mostly bushwhackers, and a few regular soldiers, besides some fifteen 0r twenty horses.
A forward movement is expected as soon as the roads become passable.
The 23d Regiment were paid April 1st for four months. Company B sent home $4,080. The Regiment has sent about $40,000. I have not yet learned the exact amount.
Yours in haste, C.
 Ashtabula Sentinel 16 April 1862 This article was published in the “Ashtabula Sentinel”
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio 16 April 1862
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The newspaper is on microfilm at the Ashtabula Public Library.
This is part of a series on the Civil War in Ashtabula County as was reported in the Ashtabula Sentinel.
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