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History of the Pirst Regiment of Infantry Ohio National Guard HISTORY OF THE PIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY OHIO NATIONAL GUARD THE CITIZENS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO '905 COL. CHARLES F. HAKE. JR. HISTORICAL SKETCH FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY OHIO NATIONAL GUARD f' HE FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, O. N. G., of the 3>: ganization, comf)osed largely of veterans in their prime, with a contin­ present day was originally an outcrop of the Zouave !«! gent of young'men, soon made themselves felt in our community, and Battalion known to the State as the First Ohio Battalion. :«; were received, courted and cheered upon |J1 public occasions. The :»: In the year 1876, a meeting, composed of veterans of officers elected first were H. G. Kennett,Colonel; A. T. Goshorn, :»: the war. met at the law office of Karr & Karr, on Third :«: Major; Geo. Vandergrift, Captain Compaay A; H. C Young, Captain street, for the purpose of discussing the \ feasibility of :«: Company B; James Morgan, Captain Company C; Smith A. White- forming a military company for the better protection of\our citizens, :»: field, Captain Company D; with their armory at copier Central avenue :»: and to carry out the military xieas inculcated by their warv'epcperience. 3ii: and Court street. 'Tlie commanders of this battalion were in succession Among those, prominent in its inception were General Henry G. Ken- 'jt as follows: Generals Kennett, Hickenlooper and Lucas. :«: nett, C. W. Karr, W. L. Robinson, F. G. Jobson, H. C. Yoimg, Geo. 2Z This move stimulated the entire military of the State, and after­ Vandergrift. C. A. Farnham and others. After a second meeting the 3C ward caused that attention to the laws for the better establishment of little room was found to be too small, and a meeting was called to meet 3C the National Guard as it exists at present—equal to that of any State 'sz at the old engine house on Gedrge street, and so great was the'^attend- 3C in the Union. Howsver, at this - period, the State failed to provide ance and the enthusiasm displayed, it was resolved to raise a battalion :«: proper laws and encouragement, and the interest in the battalion died of four companies, instead of one company. The unsatisfactory laws :«: out for want of proper support. B Company, Lytle Greys, maintaiined 3»; of the State weit fully debated and a plan decided upon, adopting the 3>: their organization, adopting the grey uniform. C Company also held State laws rather than remaining an independent organization. En­ 'it out, and had a fancy uniform. About this time the Third German thusiasm marked each step. Uniforms were procured by subscription 3>: Battalion was organized; composed of four companies. 3>: through the exertions of many members, especially G,eneral Kennett 3): Col. W. L. Robinson gathered together the scattered independent and Major Goshorn—raising $16,000 for this purpose. Drilling went 3)3>: organizations, the Wayne Guards becoming Company A; Lytle Greys 33iC; actively forward; Currier's Band was called into existence, and the or­ 3£ becoming Company B, maintaining their old letter from the Zouave 13); 3i: 3C HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FIRST REGIMENT IN F A N T RY — 0 HIO NATIONAL GUARD 3i; Battalion; Cincinnati Light Guards becoming Company C, maintaining maintain the armory (comparatively an old barracks) on Court street, their old letter from the Zouave Battalion; Harrison Light Guards be- 3i; near Main. In the years of 1883 and 1884. during the memorable coming'Company E; Yagers, now the Moore Light Guards, becoming Company F; Robinson Light Infantry becoming Company II. W. L. i % Robinson was elected Colonel April 28, 1875, and formed the First 3i; Regiment Ohio National Guard. They presented a fine appearance on 3? parade, although their uniforms were of various hues and each organ­ 3!; ized company had its colors. Capt. Karr, of C Company, was appointed 3£ Assistant Adjutant-General of the State, under Governor Hayes; and 3!; 3>: when Gen. Thomas Young was Governor, Karr became Adjutant- 3); General, and to his work, and encouragement, and activity, we are in­ 31; 3!; debted for the present laws, although, as time progressed, they have been amended and perfected. He encouraged the formation of new 31. companies. 3!: Col. C. B. Hunt, a veteran of two wars—Mexican and War of ,th'j Rebellion,—in the lath^served with distinction as Lieutenant of Burd- sal's Dragoons in IRfil, then as Lieutenant-Colonel of the celebrated Merrill's Horse UHfil the close of the war—was elected Colonel June 15, 187(1. '^ ' ' His first eflfort was to uniform the regiment, and through manj- 3s. 3;: trials and hardshiiis, finally succeeded, and tmder his command the fegi- 3C ment became very efficient in drill and discipline. In the great rail­ '£ road strike of 18T7 throughout the country, Columbus and Newark 'if. were threatened by angry niobs among the laborers. The regiment X under Col. Hunt was ordered to Columbus, Gov. Young giving Col. Hunt commaiid of all military duty. So efificient was the command and conduct of the men that lawlessness at both Columbus and New­ 'X ark was supjSressed, good order preserved and property protected. 'X The command remained seventeen days, when they returned home with X a national reputation for .soldierly qualities and manly conduct that 31: LIEUTENANT COLONEL WM. M. SULLIVAN. 3!; remain with them to this day. K It was through Col. Hunt the command was quartered in the same X. floods, turning the lower and western part of our city into a roaring tor­ armory, he working and positively forced the City Council to rent and 'X rent, and thieves and prowlers that exist upon a people's woes became 'X 'X HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FIRST REGIMENT IN F A N T RY — 0 H10 NATION AL GUARD x unbearable, the regiment upon each occasion was ordered out and per­ logical, unreasonable, and irresponsible throngs that do that which they formed police duty in so acceptable a manner that not a complaint was sought to protest against, and precipitate an outbreak, whose inevi­ made. To quote from one of our dailies: "Indeed, the amount of table sequence was disorder, ruin, and death. good the gallant First did has never been rightly measured and re­ The passing years have also softened men's judgments, and many membered." things that were in those days of trial denounced as outrages, samples It was under Col. Hunt that the regiment was called out upon that of villainy, criminal mismanagement, and wanton displays of incom­ ever memorable period to quell the Court House Riot. petency are now regarded with cooler judgment in a far less serious In the one hundred years of her existence Cincinnati has had no light; and in some cases an opinion wholly antipodal prevails. Time is such tragic event as that enacted in and about the Court House, which a great emollient, and soothes many wounds, heals many animosities, will send the year 1884 down through all time stained in blood. and not infrequently does what, if the performance were more sudden, Fires have claimed their victims; crumbling buildings, and panics, the thoughtless would call a miracle. pestilences, and the assassin's weapon have added their long lists of On that memorable Friday night, while there were mutterings of victims; but none were so ghastlv, so steeped in blood, so woe-begetting a storm, there was little to indicate it would amount to more, than a as "The Riot." summer evening disturbance, whose passage leaves the air clearer, Few people who saw the horrors of those days could then have purer, and cooler. It was due to this feeling, that when late at night been made to believe that in less than a decade men would forget the call to arms came, so small a number of the First Regiment re­ the year in which they took place, and thousands could not name the sponded. A fearless band, they gathered in their arnioiy^on Court day or month made meinorable by bloodshed and death. It would seem street, and, like veterans, pushed their way east on Court^reet through impossible that men could forget, but Time is a veritable Lethe that 3£ a threatening mob to the wfest entrance of the Court House, where a 3£ breeds forgetfulness as night swallows light. So, too, the various in­ 'X still denser horde of reckless men opposed their way. There was swch cidents that led to the riot have, in a'great measure, passed from sight, X provocation that many commanders would have seen sufHcient cause and some of the lesser causes are as surely lost as the ten tribes of 3i; for powder and bullet. But Colonel Hunt accomplished by a mere dis­ 3i; Israel. In a general way, people remember that for a long period prior 'X play of arms what in other cases might have requined heroic measures, to the outbreak, justice had. appeared to be evicted from the halls of 'X. and the command entered the Court House, found its way to the tunnel Justice. Men whose crimes, should have insured their death, or, at 'X that leads to the jail, and marched through, driving before it a rebell­ 'X. least, an ostracism that would have driven them from the remotest ious contingent of the pugnacious throng outside, which, as after events contact with the decent things of life, either went free or escaped with I proved, only waited to commit murder. Here occurred a memorable such a punishment as put a premium on crime, and invited contempt for 3>: struggle that tried men's hearts, and put their bravery to the severest law.
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