Identifier: ohioinwarherstat02reid (find matches)
Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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; a four months campaign with an army of less than fifteen thousand,brilliantly managed but inadequately opposed; and five weeks of work prepar-atory to a campaign—in these short phrases his career in the war of the rebellionis told. Amid the stumblings of those earlier years his was a clear and vigor-ous tread. While the struggling ISTation blindly sought for leaders, his was abrilliant promise. But he never fought a battle,* never confronted a respectableantagoni8t,t •^^d never commanded a considerable army. Yet what he did hadso won the confidence of the troops, and the admiration of the country, thathis death was deplored as a public cahunity, and he was mourned as a greatGeneral. * Of course it will be understood that the affairs at Bridgeport and elsewhere did not rise tothe rank of battles. t Unless for the few weeks that he might have been said to be pitted against Beauregard.In liis Northern Alabama campaign the whole force opposed to him scarcely amounted to twothousand.
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;iri^:iiiliali 8r Nnw Ym k , QUINCY A. GrILLMOKE. 617 MAJOR-GENERAL Q. A. GILLMORE. QUINCY ADAMS GILLMOEE, Major in the Corps of Engineers,Brevet Major-Genenil in the regular array, Major-General of volunteers,and the great artillerist and engineer of the war, was born at Black liiver,Lorain County, Ohio, on the 28th of February, 1825. His parentage was of mingled Scotch-Irish and German extraction. Iliafather, Quartus Gillmore, was born in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, in1790, on the farm of two hundred acres which his father continued for manyyears to cultivate. This farm was finally exchanged with one of the Con-necticut speculators in Western Reserve lands, for a tract of one thousandacres in Lorain County, and, at the age of twenty-one, Quartus Gillmore thuscame to be one of the Reserve pioneers. He reached the township in which hisfathers tract of wild land lay, on the shore of Lake Erie, in 1811, and imme-diately began his clearing. He remained on it during the war of 1812,t

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