Ladies Turned Soldiers

 The Marietta Register, June 3, 1864

A member of the company of Captain Knowles hired one John ____ of Union Township as a substitute for the 100 days' service, who received a few dollars advance, when he took himself home - terribly afflicted - had the rheumatism so badly that he could scarcely walk!

Two ladies determined to arrest him and send him to his company. They dressed in some soldier-clothes, left or sent home by brothers in the army, put on black hats, blacked their upper lips, with also a touch upon their chins. One took a gun, the other a pistol, and about dark in the evening marched to the home of said John. They took him prisoner. He made all manner of excuses and complaints, but the soldiers were "under orders" to take him to Marietta. 

They started, one on each side of the prisoner - the father and mother following. One of the soldiers slipped and fell, but jumping up moved all forward at a quicker march. They came down about a mile, when the mother plead hard for John, and the soldiers finally agreed to let him off it he would give security to be at his post in Marietta at 9 o'clock next morning.

He did so, and before daylight was on his way to Marietta. However, he was finally refused as a substitute and permitted to go home to his mother - where he threatened what terrible things he would do if the soldiers should come again! The soldiers who arrested him, he says, were certainly drunk, as they could not walk like sober soldiers!

The Honored Dead

The Marietta Register, April 11, 1872

Gen. Benjamin D. Fearing of Harmar, writing to his father, Capt. Henry Fearing, under date of March 10th, sends the following list of Soldiers of Washington County buried in the National Cemetery near Marietta, Georgia. Gen. Fearing says, "There are ten thousand and ninety-four soldiers buried here. These have been gathered from the battle-fields of Sherman's advance on Atlanta. From the banks of Costamanta, at Reesooka, to the banks of the Flint, at Jonesboro, below Atlanta, they have been carefully searched out and brought to this point. There are 114 Regiments from Ohio represented, by 1726 known and 29 unknown soldiers." Those from Washington County are:

Royal Fogle, Co. E, 92d O.

Adam Pitzer, E, 92d O.

Francis Davis, F, 92d O.

Jesse Craft, I. 92d O.

J. Porter, A, 39th O.

Daniel Lye, A, 39th O.

Enos J. Marshall, A, 36th O.

Jesse Johnston, A, 39th O.

J. Colgrove, A, 39th O.

David Dunn, A, 39th O.

B. F. Yardley, B, 39th O.

Thomas Richards, B, 39th O.

A. Parker, B, 39th O.

George Moore, B, 39th O.

A. P. McFarland, B, 39th O.

M. A. Smith, C, 39th O.

George J. Bennett, C, 39th, O.

Fred Cullison, C, 39th O.

N. D. Holland, C, 39th O.

George Drake, E, 39th O.

James Courtney, E, 39th O.

John C. Guthonel, C, 39th, O.

Daniel Hollgardner, E, 39th O.

B. Fouch, E, 36th O.

Frank Redman, E. 39th O.

J. Painter, E, 39th O.

A. Mimshotts, F, 39th O.

Peter Brown, F, 39th O.

S. Arnett, G, 39th O.

W. W. McCown, H, 39th O.

John V. Drake, H, 39th O.

B. F. Kilgore, I, 39th O.

S. A. Kelley, I, 39th O.

H. W. Knowles, K, 39th O.

Barney Heins, K, 39th O.

M. V. Chambers, K, 39th O.

Samuel Jennings, K, 39th O.

J. B. Shepherd, D, 39th O.

William Bush, D, 39th O.

Columbus Griffin, A, 63d O.

David Hines, B, 63d, O.

E. B. Seikel, B, 63d O.

Mathias Riley, B, 63 O.

David Weaver, B, 63d, O.

Eethel Heaton, C, 63d O.

Joseph Fitch, C, 63d O.

Phillip Findling, C, 63d O.

Phillip Schriver, C, 63d O.

Henry H. Smith, D, 63d O.

L. S. Sells, D, 63d, O.

I. W. Green, D, 63d, O

James Donaldson, D, 63d O

Sylvanus Burlingame, D, 63d O.

Charles Henderson, D, 63d O.

William A. Groves, D, 63d O.

M. C. Lowry, E, 39th O.

Ephraim Swank, E, 39th O.

Jacob Welch, F, 39th O.

Thompson Rose, F, 39th O.

Joseph Henry, F, 39th O.

J. M. Wilson, G, 39th O.

Francis Frost, G, 39th O.

H. H. Balcom, G, 39th O.

Solomon Spilter, H, 39th O.

Shadrack O'Connor, H, 39th O.

John T. Hartman, I, 63d O.

G. T. Gooding, I, 63d O.

John Jaggart, I, 63d O.

J. W. Lemmon, I, 63d O.

John Richie, I, 63d O.

Aaron Shoog, K, 63d O.

Asa Kelley, K, 63d O.

L. D. House, K, 63d O.

Joseph Harshberger, K, 63d O.

I. McKee, A, 1st Lt. Art.

T. B. Martingale, C, 1st Lt. Art.

H. C. Gurney, C, 1st Lt. Art.

Willard Bomes, C, 1st Lt. Art.

H. Gilbert, C, 1st Lt. Art.

John Shellhorn, D, 1st Lt. Art.

Andrew A. Poe, D, 1st Lt. Art.

Daniel Davidson, Sec. G, 1st Bat.

Robert Fox, Sec. H, 6th Bat.

Henry Woods, Sec I, 1st Bat.

W. B. Schnelleley, Co. B, 1st Cav.

A. Vandyke, Co. B, 1st Cav.

R. R. Vermillion, D, 1st Cav.

R. W. Maxon, L. 1st Cav.

Craig Bracken, H, 1st Cav.

John Smith, M, 1st Cav.

F. Redinger, F, 7th Cav.

W. Hanna, Co. __, 63d O.

Gen. Fearing says, "If there were other companies from Washington County in Sherman's advance on Atlanta, I can find out for any one interested where members were buried."

Stereoscopes

The Marietta Register, October 18, 1866

B. Marshall, Artist on Front Street, is now making very beautiful stereoscope pictures, and is prepared to take family groups, buildings, and any local views desired. They are bound to have a large "run." He is fitting up his Gallery especially for this business, meanwhile, this pleasant weather, is taking outside views.

Mr. M. has made some important improvements in the mode of making the above pictures, which he is about securing for his own benefit, which he is certainly entitled to.

 

The Waif Given a Home

Marietta Daily Leader, April 7, 1899

Ray H. Van Armor, the two-year-old child who was found in a basket on the doorstep of the residence of Dr. S. D. Hart on Fourth Street when he was a small infant, was formally adopted by the family who have had him in charge since that time. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Huffman [Stephen G. Hoffman] who live on the West Side have been taking care of the little fellow and decided to formally adopt him, which was done Wednesday, Probate Judge Rood issuing the necessary papers to make him the child in law of Mr. and Mrs. Huffman [Hoffman]. He was given the name of Glenn Howard Huffman. [Glenn Howard Hoffman].

The child's parentage is unknown and likely will never be disclosed. The baby was found nearly two years ago on the doorstep of Dr. Hart, the people who left it there no doubt thinking that as the Doctor had been so long in charge of the children's home that he would be very capable of caring properly for the infant.