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Ashtabula County Bicentennial 2011

Names of Civil War Volunteers Ashtabula Co. 29 Jan 1862 Part 1

Names Of Volunteers, Now in the United States Army, from Ashtabula County.

Ashtabula

Eagle Brigade—Artillery.

Robert C. Wamington Capt. Galin A. Knapp Lieut. C. G. Tower Lieut. C. T. Bennet Lewis C. Shepard R. W. Scoville Wm. Regan W. W. Karbach Theodore Seivers Charles Prescott Horace Wetmore M. L. Murray Charles [...]

Company I, 19th, Regiment, Civil War 20 May 1861

ASHTABULA COUNTY VOLUTEERS

The following is the roll of that known as the Ashtabula Company. Col. Fowler, having resigned the Company, Mr. W. B. Hoyt was elected in his place.Captain H we understand, is a preacher, so that both these companies are commanded by clergymen, regular “look to the Lord and keep [...]

Company D, 19th, Regiment, Civil War 20 May 1861

ASHTABULA COUNTY VOLUTEERS

One of two Companies quartered at Ashtabula, received orders, and left for Camp Taylor, at Cleveland, on Friday last.

The following is their muster roll, with the names grouped according to their residences—known as the Rock Creek Company.

Officers of Company D. 19th, Reg’t O. V. M.

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Army Correspondence Camp Cadwell 15 May 1861

ARMY CORRESPONDENCE

Camp Cadwell, Ashtabula, May 15th, 1861

To The Editor of the Sentinel.

It is now ten or twelve days since we arrived in Ashtabula, and a more verdant and dusty company of men  never passed by the name of soldiers. We were perfectly ignorant of military discipline then, [...]

Ashtabula News 16 July 1879

The Weekly Welcome 16 July 1879

The big storm last Friday did but very little damage here. The lighting struck several trees, and a number of telegraph poles. Haying is about half done, and wheat harvesting well under way.

R. W. Griswold the market gardener, cut and sold about 2,000 cucumbers last week; [...]

Ashtabula News 25 June 1879

The Weekly Welcome 25 June 1879

A laborer employed on the A. Y. & P. docks at the Harbor, was killed Saturday morning. He attempted to jump from a moving car to a pile of cole, and fell upon the track in such a manner that the wheels passed over his head, killing [...]

Ashtabula News 18 June 1879

The Weekly Welcome 18 June 1879

Strawberries are plenty and selling at 8 cents per quart.

Work men are engaged on the gulf culvert for that was left unfinished last winter. This culvert is on the J. & F. R. R., about a mile from town. The work being done is putting in [...]

Ashtabula News 28 May 1879

The Weekly Welcome 28 May 1879

Editor Welcome;

We had a refreshing rain on Sunday last.

The schooner “Wind the Wave,” owned by parties in Ashtabula, cleared this port Saturday afternoon, making her first trip this season loaded with staves for Buffalo.

The A. Y. & P. R. R. Co. are grading for [...]