MS-017 Bickham Collection

A Collection of Historical Manuscripts at the Dayton Metro Library Dayton, Ohio

Processed By: Lisa P. Rickey, Archivist

April 2011 with significant assistance from the earlier efforts of: Elli Bambakidis (2002) Helen Hooven Santmyer (1956)

1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents...... 2 Introduction...... 4 Biographical Sketch...... 5 Bibliography & Further Reading ...... 10 Scope and Content Note...... 12 Box and Folder Listing ...... 13 Item Level Description ...... 16 Series I: William D. Bickham Papers ...... 16 Box 1, Folder 1: “Weekly Anne Gazette”, 1850 ...... 16 Box 1, Folder 2: Manuscript story about California Gold Rush, Undated ...... 16 Box 1, Folder 3: W. D. Bickham: Military papers, 1861-1864 ...... 16 Box 1, Folder 4: W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Documents, 1867, 1889...... 17 Box 1, Folder 5: Loyal Legion of the United States, 1883, 1885, 1894...... 17 Box 1, Folder 6: Memorials to Major William D. Bickham, 1894...... 18 Box 1, Folder 7: W. D. Bickham: Biographical Notes - Ohio State University’s School of Journalism Hall of Fame, 1936-1937 ...... 19 Box 1, Folder 8: W. D. Bickham: Mementoes, 1863-Circa 1903 ...... 19 Box 1, Folder 9: Correspondence from Charles Marley Anderson, 1885 ...... 20 Box 1, Folder 10: Correspondence from Henry Van Ness Boynton, 1890-1891...... 20 Box 1, Folder 11: Correspondence from William W. Burns, 1862, 1864, 1883-1888. 21 Box 1, Folder 12: Correspondence from Salmon P. Chase, 1860-1865...... 22 Box 1, Folder 13: Correspondence from Jacob D. Cox, 1860, 1880...... 23 Box 1, Folder 14: Correspondence from William Dennison, Jr., 1863-1879...... 23 Box 1, Folder 15: Correspondence from Joseph Benson Foraker, 1883-1894...... 24 Box 1, Folder 16: Correspondence from Charles Foster, 1880-1891, Undated ...... 26 Box 1, Folder 17: Correspondence from or regarding James Abram Garfield, 1876- 1881...... 27 Box 1, Folder 18: Correspondence from Murat Halstead, 1863, 1880, 1888-1894 ..... 29 Box 1, Folder 19: Correspondence from Warren G. Harding, 1919...... 31 Box 1, Folder 20: Correspondence from Benjamin Harrison, 1891...... 31 Box 1, Folder 21: Correspondence from William B. Hazen, 1863, 1867...... 31 Box 1, Folder 22: Correspondence from J. Warren Keifer, 1879-1882 ...... 32 Box 1, Folder 23: Correspondence from John A. Logan, 1883-1886...... 33 Box 1, Folder 24: Correspondence from William McKinley, 1891-1896, 1905...... 34 Box 1, Folder 25: Correspondence from M. D. Potter, 1861, Undated...... 35 Box 1, Folder 26: Correspondence from Whitelaw Reid, 1863-1868, 1892 ...... 36 Box 1, Folder 27: Correspondence from William S. Rosecrans, 1862-1864, 1876-1883, Undated...... 37 Box 1, Folder 28: Correspondence from Robert C. Schenck, 1863-1875 ...... 39 Box 1, Folder 29: Correspondence from John Sherman, 1861-1891 ...... 43 Box 1, Folder 30: Correspondence from Woodrow Wilson, 1912...... 51 Box 2, Folder 1: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Union Army Officers, 1863- 1864...... 51 Box 2, Folder 2: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Ohio Governors, 1879-1904 .. 53

2 Box 2, Folder 3: Correspondence from Newspaper men, or about articles printed in the Dayton Journal , 1861-1894...... 54 Box 2, Folder 4: Correspondence from politicians, or about political matters, 1866- 1900...... 56 Box 2, Folder 5: W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1853, 1861-1867, 1891, Undated...... 61 Box 2, Folder 6: Correspondence and Documents concerning the Dayton Daily Journal , 1863-1875, 1895, 1938, Undated ...... 62 Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album, Circa 1860-1870...... 64 Box 4: Scrapbook of Miscellaneous News Clippings, Circa 1864-1887...... 72 Box 4, Folder 1: Loose items from the Scrapbook of Miscellaneous News Clippings, 1863-1889 ...... 97 Series II: Papers of Other Family Members ...... 98 Box 2, Folder 7: Correspondence to Miscellaneous Bickham Family Members, 1865, 1893, 1941-1949 ...... 98 Box 2, Folder 8: D. D. Bickham: Letters regarding Princeton University controversy, 1908-1910 ...... 100 Box 2, Folder 9: D. D. Bickham: Miami Conservancy Tax statements and receipts, 1939-1943 ...... 101 Box 2, Folder 10: History of the Dayton Journal by D. D. Bickham, Undated...... 101 Box 2, Folder 11: Miscellaneous History Notes by D. D. Bickham, Undated ...... 101 Box 2, Folder 12: D. D. Bickham: Cash Book, 1912-1931...... 101 Box 2, Folder 13: C. G. Bickham: Service in Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1901...... 102 Box 2, Folder 14: C. G. Bickham: Letters concerning Military Career, 1897-1917 .. 105 Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1, 1898-1901108 Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #2, 1898-1901119 Box 4, Folder 2: C. G. Bickham News Clippings (1 of 2), 1902-1915 ...... 150 Box 4, Folder 3: C. G. Bickham News Clippings (2 of 2), 1898-1903 ...... 151 Box 5: C. G. Bickham Philippine Insurrection Photo Album, 1899-1902 ...... 154 Box 2, Folder 15: Genealogical Notes on Bickham and Strickle Families, Undated. 154 Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album, 1859-1861 ...... 155 Box 2, Folder 16: Abraham E. Strickle Memorial Album & Civil War Documents, 1862-1914 ...... 162 Box 6: Bickham Postcard Album, Circa 1900-1910 ...... 166 Box 2, Folder 17: J. Jones leases to Wm. Flowers 200 acres of land, Hanover Parish, King George Co., VA, 1728 ...... 166 Index ...... 168

3 INTRODUCTION

The Bickham Collection contains materials created or collected by Dayton Journal editor William D. Bickham, by his sons Daniel D. Bickham and Charles G. Bickham, and by his wife’s family, the Strickle family of Wilmington, Ohio. Materials primarily concern the family members’ careers in the military, politics, and journalism. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and military papers. Materials from the time span 1728-1949 are included, though the bulk is dated 1860-1902. The collection comprises approximately 3 linear feet. The subject matter include late 19 th century Republican politics on state and national levels; military activities during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine Insurrection; and the history of the Dayton Journal newspaper. Several items in the collection are marked as having been donated by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham; one of those items includes a donation date of October 12, 1953. The collection was probably donated sometime after 1951 (when Daniel D. Bickham died) and 1956 (when Helen Hooven Santmyer completed the first catalog of the collection). There are no known restrictions on use or access to the Bickham Collection.

Related Collections: Users of the Bickham Collection may also be interested in these other collections of primary source material available at other institutions: • Bickham Family Papers, 1831-1917, available at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio; • Papers, selections from the originals in the D. D. Bickham family, 1941, available at the Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio (note: may be duplicates of originals from MS-017); • William D. Bickham gold rush materials, available at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California (note: material was published as A Buckeye in the Land of Gold ); • Player file documenting Daniel D. Bickham’s baseball career, available at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.

Notations: The following notations in parentheses have been used to designate descriptions, footnotes, and other information created by different librarians during the processing of this collection: • [LPR] = Lisa Pasquinelli Rickey, who completed processing from 2010-2011 • [EB] = Elli Bambakidis, who made efforts to process the collection in 2002 • [HHS] = Helen Hooven Santmyer, who cataloged the collection in 1956 Helen Hooven Santmyer’s original item-level catalog of the collection can be found in the Dayton Collection, Call No. 016.091 D276C.

4 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

William Denison Bickham

William Denison Bickham was born March 30, 1827, in Riverside (near Cincinnati), Ohio, the eldest of seven children born to William Ard Bickham (ca. 1798-1845) and Eliza Dennison (1802-1893).

William D. Bickham attended both public and private schools in Cincinnati, as well as Cincinnati College and Bethany College (in present-day Bethany, West Virginia). However, William’s formal education ended abruptly in 1845 when his father died and he had to return home as head and financial supporter of the family.

At that time, William started a two-year apprenticeship with the Cincinnati Gazette , where he learned typesetting, and thus began his career in journalism. Afterwards, he worked as an editor at the Louisville Courier , but his family’s finances forced him to return to Cincinnati in 1848.

In the fall of 1848, William took a flatboat journey from Cincinnati to New Orleans and back with his brother John. In 1849, William worked as a clerk at a mercantile business.

Then, in March 1850, William set out for the California gold rush. He spent more than a year in the mines near Grass Valley in Nevada County, California; then, in 1852, he represented El Dorado County, California, at the state’s first Whig convention. Eventually, he settled in San Francisco, where he was a customs officer; one of the founders of San Francisco’s first public library and its first librarian; and was, at different times, an editor of several San Francisco newspapers: Picayune , Evening Journal , Evening Times , and Morning Ledger . Meanwhile, he also still wrote home to the Cincinnati Gazette , describing life in California. 1

William did not strike it rich in the gold rush, and he returned home to Cincinnati in April 1854. For a time, he worked on the Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton Railroad as a brakeman and later a baggage master. Before long, he was involved in journalism again. He was a correspondent for the Cincinnati Daily Columbian and later the Cincinnati Evening Times .

On December 27, 1855, William D. Bickham married Maria Emily Strickle (b. Dec. 1833) at the home of her parents, Abraham Ellis Strickle (1807-1863) and Caroline Goodwin (d. 1867), of Wilmington, Ohio. Maria’s father Abraham was the director of the Clinton County Fair, and William had most likely met the family while covering county fairs for the Cincinnati newspapers, which was one of his usual assignments.

1 For a more thorough description of Bickham’s time in California, see: William D. Bickham, A Buckeye in the Land of Gold: The Letters and Journal of William Dennison Bickham , edited by Randall E. Ham (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1996). Dayton Local History 979.404 B583B 1996.

5 By 1856, William had become city editor of the Cincinnati Commercial , under editor Murat Halstead. In this capacity, William was a correspondent of political news in Columbus and Washington, DC. This afforded him opportunities to meet many public figures who would later rise to even greater prominence as governors, congressmen, senators, cabinet members, and even presidents, several of whom remained in correspondence with him for years. 2

When the Civil War broke out, William spent two years as a war correspondent on the front, sending his dispatches back to the Commercial . He was first assigned to General William Rosecrans’ army, where he was a volunteer aide-de-camp with the rank of captain. 3 He also spent several months with General George McClellan’s army, before being transferred back to Rosecrans. He was present at the battle of Stones River, and Rosecrans’ praise for his actions there earned him the rank of major. 4

While William was reporting from the field, matters on the home front in southwest Ohio were heating up. On May 5, 1863, General Ambrose Burnside arrested congressman and Dayton resident Clement Vallandingham on charges of sedition. Vallandingham was one of the most vocal leaders of the Copperheads, a group of Democrats who opposed the war. In response to his arrest, a Copperhead mob burned down the Republican, pro-Union Dayton Journal newspaper office.

A group of pro-Union Daytonians formed a committee to restore the Journal and sought help from Cincinnati Commercial editor Halstead in finding a new editor for the Journal . Halstead recommended William D. Bickham. The committee offered Bickham the job, and he accepted, moving his family to Dayton.

Bickham took over the Journal on May 11, 1863, printing a small issue for the next several weeks until the main press was repaired. A sum of $6,000 was offered to Bickham as a gift to get the newspaper up and running again; he refused the gift but accepted it as a loan, which he paid off in less than 3 years. The first regular issue of the Dayton Daily and Weekly Journal reappeared on July 28, 1863.

Of the delay and the reopening, Bickham wrote in his “Salutatory” in the July 28 issue: “The delay between the destruction of the old office and the issuance of the Journal in its present form, was unavoidable. Circumstances not within the publisher’s control retarded operations. Some of the conditions were of a private and afflicting nature—with which the public have

2 Some of their correspondence is included in this collection. [LPR] 3 Whitelaw Reid of the Cincinnati Gazette was also a war correspondent with Rosecrans at that time. [LPR] 4 For more information about Bickham’s time with Rosecrans and the battle of Stones River, see: William D. Bickham, Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps: or, the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations with…Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co., 1863). Dayton Local History 973.7416 B583R. [LPR]

6 no concern. 5 Explanations would therefore be superfluous. Suffice it that the Journal is once more before the community, and in handsome form. Let it be hoped that it will move forward uninterruptedly in a career of usefulness and prosperity… “The publisher begs leave to say further, that being desirous to rebuild the Journal upon the foundation laid by the former able Editor, Wm. F. Comly, Esq., he purchased the press of the old Journal office which the wretches of the Vallandingham tribe did not succeed in fully destroying, and the handsome Journal which you now read was printed upon that splendid machine, rebuilt and put into working condition since the fire…” 6

When the Journal reopened in July 1863, its offices were protected by two loaded cannons. Bickham himself was reportedly threatened with bodily harm on numerous occasions through the end of the war. Nevertheless, he stood firmly behind his Republican opinions and his newspaper, throughout the Civil War and through the end of his life.

William Denison Bickham died on March 27, 1894, at his home on Monument Avenue 7 in Dayton. On March 30, he was buried in Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. His wife Maria Strickle Bickham lived 30 more years, dying on October 17, 1924, in Dayton; she was also buried in Woodland Cemetery.

William D. Bickham and Maria E. Strickle had six children: 1. William Strickle Bickham (born Nov. 22, 1856; died June 16, 1912), who moved to Spokane, Washington. 2. Victor Hardy Bickham (born July 4, 1858; died June 22, 1865), who drowned. 3. Abraham Strickle Bickham (born Aug. 28, 1860; died Jan. 7, 1929), who married Amelia Herr in 1900. 4. Thomas Burns Bickham (born May 13, 1863; died June 19, 1863). 5. Daniel Denison Bickham (born Oct. 31, 1864; died Mar. 3, 1951), who married Anna Stout in 1888, then later married Sylvia. 6. Charles Goodwin Bickham (born Aug. 12, 1867; died Dec. 14, 1944), who never married.

5 Bickham is probably referring to the birth and death of his son Thomas Burns Bickham, who was born May 13, 1863, two days after Bickham had purchased the Journal , and died a month later on June 19, 1863. [LPR] 6 W. D. Bickham, “Salutatory,” Dayton Journal , July 28, 1863. 7 W. D. Bickham purchased the home at 117 W. Monument Ave. from Dickenson P. Thruston in 1872. It remained in the Bickham family until 1927 when it was purchased by the Dayton YMCA, which demolished both the Bickham house and the Thresher house next-door to build a new YMCA building. [LPR]

7 After W. D. Bickham’s death, his sons Abraham, Daniel, and Charles continued to operate the Journal , until October 1, 1904, when the Journal ’s ownership was transferred from private ownership to a stock company.

W. D. Bickham’s youngest son Charles G. Bickham was a career soldier. 8 He served as a Colonel on the staff of Governor William McKinley. During the Spanish-American War, he served as a Private in Company G, Third Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and later a Captain in the Ninth Regiment (Immunes), U.S. Volunteer Infantry.9 He served as a Captain during the Philippine Insurrection in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry, under Col. William Birkhimer. After receiving his commission in the regular army as a Lieutenant, he served again in the Philippines with the Twenty-seventh U.S. Infantry under then-Captain John J. Pershing.10

C. G. Bickham was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor in 1904 for “distinguished gallantry” at the 1902 Battle of Bayang, Mindanao, Philippines. However, after twice failing the professional examination required for promotion to captain in 1909 and 1910, he was honorably discharged from the army in June 1910.

During his time in Cuba and the Philippines, Charles wrote several letters to family and friends, many of which his brother Daniel published in the Journal . Brother Abraham also served during the Spanish-American War. It is also worth mentioning that both Charles and Daniel Bickham were members of the Buzfuz Club.11

Strickle Family

Maria Emily Strickle Bickham’s parents, Abraham Ellis Strickle (1807-1863) and Caroline Goodwin (d. 1867), had 10 children: 1. Elizabeth Ann Strickle (1831-[after 1900]), who married John W. Dunham in 1859, then John C. Deuell in 1869. 2. Maria Emily Strickle (1833-1924), who married William Denison Bickham in 1855. 3. Mary Gano Strickle (1836-1897), who married George K. Farquhar in 1858.

8 This collection contains scrapbooks with articles and memorabilia from Charles’ time in Cuba and the Philippines; see Boxes 4 and 5. For information on Charles’ military career in general, see Box 2, Folders 12 and 13. [LPR] 9 The 9 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry was an African American regiment as well as an “Immunes” regiment. The Immunes regiments were made up of men from southern states, who were inaccurately believed to be immune to tropical diseases. [LPR] See: Brad K. Berner, The Spanish-American War: A Historical Dictionary (London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998), pp. 185-86; also, “9 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry,” Spanish American War web site, http://www.spanamwar.com/9thUSvolinf.htm . 10 John J. Pershing eventually rose to the rank of General and led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. [LPR] 11 For more information on the Buz Fuz Club, see: Charlotte Reeve Conover, Dayton, Ohio: An Intimate History (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1932), pp. 244-48. Dayton Local History 977.173 C753DAY 1932. [LPR]

8 4. Katharine Jane Strickle 12 (1838-1919), who married Rodney Foos in 1856. 5. Caroline Margaret “Carrie” Strickle (1840-1923), who married Captain John W. Clous 13 in 1874. 6. Rebecca Harriet Strickle (1843-1933), who never married. 7. Frances Williamson Strickle (1845-1894), who married Col. Henry C. Corbin 14 in 1865. 8. Charles Rockwell Strickle (1848-1863). 9. Alnetta Clark Strickle (1851-1851). 10. Isaac Strickle (1852-1852).

Abraham Strickle died in July 1863 as a result of a fever contracted near Vicksburg during the Civil War. 15 His wife Caroline died in 1867. Afterwards, their unmarried daughters Carrie and Rebecca lived with their sister Maria Strickle Bickham and her family. Carrie Strickle Clous and Katherine Strickle Foos later lived with Maria again after their husbands had passed away. Rebecca, who never married, lived with her sister Maria Strickle Bickham, and later with her nephew Charles G. Bickham, for the majority of her life. 16

12 Katharine Strickle Foos is the source for the majority of the information included here about the Strickle family. See: Katharine S. Foos, The Ellis Family (Dayton: United Brethren Publishing House, 1900), pp. 49-59. [LPR] 13 Captain John W. Clous had a notable career in the military and is featured in several articles within this collection. [LPR] 14 Colonel Henry C. Corbin had a notable career in the military and is featured in several articles within this collection, particularly in relation to the military career of Charles G. Bickham. [LPR] 15 This collection contains an album commemorating Abraham; see Box 2, Folder 16. [LPR] 16 Rebecca’s “autograph album” is included in this collection; see Box 5. [LPR]

9 BIBLIOGRAPHY & FURTHER READING

Bickham, William D. A Buckeye in the Land of Gold: The Letters and Journal of William Dennison Bickham . Edited by Randall E. Ham. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1996. Dayton Local History 979.404 B583B 1996.

Bickham, William D. From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains: Editorial Correspondence of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal by William D. Bickham. Dayton: Journal Book and Job Printing House, 1879. Dayton Local History T78 B583.

Bickham, William D. Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps: or, the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations with…Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co., 1863. Dayton Local History 973.7416 B583R.

Conover, Charlotte Reeve. Dayton, Ohio: An Intimate History . New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1932. Page 245. Dayton Local History 977.173 C753DAY 1932.

Conover, Frank. Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio . Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1897. “William Denison Bickham,” pages 403-404. Dayton Local History 977.172 C753C 1897.

Drury, Augustus Waldo. History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio . Chicago; Dayton: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1909. Volume 1, pages 400- 401. Dayton Local History 977.173 D796.

Foos, Katharine S. The Ellis Family . Dayton: United Brethren Publishing House, 1900. Dayton Local History B92 E47F.

Hamilton, William J. Dayton Newspapers and their Editors: Selected from the Dayton Public Library Newspaper Files . Dayton: Dayton Public Library, 1937. Dayton Local History 071.7173 D276.

Santmyer, Helen Hooven. A Calendar of the Bickham Collection: Letters, Documents, and Mementoes of Possible Historical Interest . Dayton: Dayton Public Library, 1956. Dayton Local History 016.091 D276C.

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio . Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882. “Maj. William Denison Bickham,” Book 3, pages 191-192. Dayton Local History 977.172 H673.

MS-017 Bickham Collection • Box 1, Folder 5: Loyal Legion of the United States.

10 • Box 1, Folder 7: W.D. Bickham: Biographical Notes – Ohio State University’s School of Journalism Hall of Fame. Daniel D. Bickham, “Tribute to Wm. D. Bickham, Civil Wartime Editor,” The Ohio Newspaper 17:4 (Jan. 1937), pp. 5-7. • Box 2, Folder 12: Genealogical Notes on Bickham and Strickle Families. • Box 2, Folder 13: C. G. Bickham: Letters concerning Military Career.

Dayton Local History Resource (LHR) File. Dayton Metro Library.

Dayton Pamphlets File. Dayton Metro Library.

11 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Bickham Collection contains materials created or collected by Dayton Journal editor William D. Bickham, by his sons Daniel D. Bickham and Charles G. Bickham, and by his wife’s family, the Strickle family of Wilmington, Ohio. The collection spans 1728-1949, though the bulk is dated 1860-1902. It includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and military papers.

This collection would be of particular interest to researchers in the following areas: • Late 19 th century politics, particularly Republican, on both the Ohio and national stages; • American Civil War, particularly regarding General William S. Rosecrans, the Battle of Chickamauga, and the Battle of Stones River; • Spanish-American War, particularly regarding the participation of men from Dayton, Ohio; • Philippine Insurrection, particularly regarding the participation of men from Dayton, Ohio; and • history of the Dayton Journal newspaper.

Series I: William D. Bickham Papers Series I, William D. Bickham, consists primarily of correspondence received by W. D. Bickham from various politicians, mostly Republican and many from Ohio, during his time as editor of the Dayton Journal (1863-1894). Many important politicians of the day are represented, including several Ohio governors and future presidents; there are a great many letters from Ohio politician John Sherman. Other materials in this series include documents related to W. D. Bickham’s Civil War service as a war correspondent, a Civil War photograph album, a scrapbook and many newspaper clippings.

Series II: Papers of Other Family Members Series II, Papers of Other Family Members, includes materials pertaining to William Bickham’s other relatives, including two of his sons, Daniel D. Bickham and Charles G. Bickham, and his wife’s family, the Strickle family. This series contains correspondence, scrapbooks, newspapers clippings, and photographs. Most notable in this collection are materials pertaining to the military career of Charles G. Bickham, including service during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, and the memorial album of Abraham E. Strickle, who died of disease during the Civil War.

12 BOX AND FOLDER LISTING

Box Folder Description Date 1 1 “Weekly Anne Gazette” 1850 1 2 Manuscript Story about California Gold Rush Undated 1 3 W. D. Bickham: Military papers 1861-1864 1 4 W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Documents 1867, 1889 1 5 Loyal Legion of the United States 1883, 1885, 1894 1 6 Memorials to Major William D. Bickham 1894 1 7 W. D. Bickham: Biographical Notes - Ohio State 1936-1937 University’s School of Journalism Hall of Fame 1 8 W. D. Bickham: Mementoes 1863-Circa 1903 1 9 Correspondence from Charles Marley Anderson 1885 1 10 Correspondence from Henry Van Ness Boynton 1890-1891 1 11 Correspondence from William W. Burns 1862, 1864, 1883-1888 1 12 Correspondence from Salmon P. Chase 1860-1865 1 13 Correspondence from Jacob D. Cox 1860, 1880 1 14 Correspondence from William Dennison, Jr. 1863-1879 1 15 Correspondence from Joseph Benson Foraker 1883-1894 1 16 Correspondence from Charles Foster 1880-1891, Undated 1 17 Correspondence from or regarding James Abram 1876-1881 Garfield 1 18 Correspondence from Murat Halstead 1863, 1880, 1888-1894 1 19 Correspondence from Warren G. Harding 1919 1 20 Correspondence from Benjamin Harrison 1891 1 21 Correspondence from William B. Hazen 1863, 1867 1 22 Correspondence from J. Warren Keifer 1879-1882 1 23 Correspondence from John A. Logan 1883-1886 1 24 Correspondence from William McKinley 1891-1896, 1905 1 25 Correspondence from M. D. Potter 1861, Undated 1 26 Correspondence from Whitelaw Reid 1863-1868, 1892 1 27 Correspondence from William S. Rosecrans 1862-1864, 1876-1883, Undated 1 28 Correspondence from Robert C. Schenck 1863-1875 1 29 Correspondence from John Sherman 1861-1891 1 30 Correspondence from Woodrow Wilson 1912

13 Box Folder Description Date 2 1 Correspondence from Miscellaneous Union Army 1863-1864 Officers 2 2 Correspondence from Miscellaneous Ohio 1879-1904 Governors 2 3 Correspondence from Newspaper men, or about 1861-1894 articles printed in the Dayton Journal 2 4 Correspondence from politicians, or about political 1866-1900 matters 2 5 W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Correspondence 1853, 1861- 1867, 1891, Undated 2 6 Correspondence and Documents concerning the 1863-1875, Dayton Daily Journal 1895, 1938, Undated 3 NA Bickham Civil War Photo Album Circa 1860- 1870 4 NA Scrapbook of Miscellaneous News Clippings Circa 1864- 1887 4 1 Loose items from the Scrapbook of Miscellaneous 1863-1889 News Clippings 2 7 Correspondence to Miscellaneous Bickham Family 1865, 1893, Members 1941-1949 2 8 D. D. Bickham: Letters regarding Princeton 1908-1910 University controversy 2 9 D. D. Bickham: Miami Conservancy Tax statements 1939-1943 and receipts 2 10 History of the Dayton Journal by D. D. Bickham Undated 2 11 Miscellaneous History Notes by D. D. Bickham Undated 2 12 D. D. Bickham: Cash Book 1912-1931 2 13 C. G. Bickham: Service in Spanish-American War 1898-1901 and Philippine Insurrection 2 14 C. G. Bickham: Letters concerning Military Career 1897-1917 4 NA Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection 1898-1901 Scrapbook #1 4 NA Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection 1898-1901 Scrapbook #2 4 2 C. G. Bickham News Clippings (1 of 2) 1902-1915 4 3 C. G. Bickham News Clippings (2 of 2) 1898-1903 5 NA C. G. Bickham Philippine Insurrection Photo Album 1899-1902 2 15 Genealogical Notes on Bickham and Strickle Undated Families 5 NA Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album 1859-1861 2 16 Abraham E. Strickle Memorial Album & Civil War 1862-1914 Documents

14 Box Folder Description Date 6 NA Bickham Postcard Album Circa 1900- 1910 2 17 J. Jones leases to Wm. Flowers 200 acres of land, 1728 Hanover Parish, King George Co., VA

15 ITEM LEVEL DESCRIPTION

Series I: William D. Bickham Papers

Box 1, Folder 1: “Weekly Anne Gazette” 17 , 1850

May 5, 1850 Ship’s newspaper of the Barque Anne , Pacific Ocean, Sunday, May 5, 1850. En route to California. Contents largely written by W. D. Bickham. Signed with his initials are an essay, “Emigration to California,” 5-3/4 pages; “Fandango,” ½ column; and “A Leaf from My Journal,” 1-1/2 pages. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 2: Manuscript story about California Gold Rush, Undated

Undated Manuscript of a story of W. D. Bickham’s experiences in California in Gold Rush days; fragmentary: includes pages 3-6, 8-13. Written on the blank side of Common Pleas Court forms. [HHS] Note: This item is marked as having been the “Gift of Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham, Oct. 12, 1953” and as being in the handwriting of Major W. Bickham. [LPR]

Box 1, Folder 3: W. D. Bickham: Military papers 18 , 1861-1864

April 16, 1861 Letter from W. D. Bickham to Governor William Dennison, Columbus, Ohio. Bickham offers his services to the country through the governor, “whenever and wherever” they may be useful. [HHS]

May 7, 1863 Pass issued at Headquarters, Department of the Cumberland, Murfreesboro, [TN]; written and signed by J. A. Garfield, Brigadier General. Permits W. D. Bickham to pass the lines to Ohio and return to Headquarters whenever “he may desire.” Described as “Volunteer Aide de Camp” to the General Commanding the Department. [HHS]

Aug. 1, 1864 Certificate of Exemption from the Draft: a substitute furnished, Dayton, Ohio, August 1, 1864; signed by John Mills, Provost Marshal; M. P. Allston, Mem. Bd. of Enrollment; W. S. Schenck, Surgeon of Bd. of Enrollment. In margin in red ink, name of substitute: James H. Allen, “Veteran.” 3 years. [HHS]

17 Ship’s newspaper written onboard the barque Anne , en route to California; written largely by W. D. Bickham. [HHS] 18 Includes offer to Gov. Dennison to serve in armed forces, 1861; certificate of substitute furnished, 1864. [HHS]

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Box 1, Folder 4: W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Documents, 1867, 1889

July 31, 1867 National Soldiers’ Home, Conditional County Bond. A certificate that W. D. Bickham deposited with the Commissioners of Montgomery County the sum of one hundred dollars to be used in paying twenty thousand dollars towards the purchase of land for the National Soldiers’ Home, near Dayton. Signed by J. W. Dietrich, Auditor of Montgomery County. [HHS]

Nov. 26, 1889 Commission of W. D. Bickham as Delegate to the National Silver Convention, St. Louis, Nov. 26, 1889. In the name of the State of Ohio, by the Governor, J. B. Foraker, executed Nov. 21, 1889. Signed by the Governor and by the Secretary of State, Daniel J. Ryan; stamped with the Great Seal of Ohio. Paper size: 16-1/2” x 13-3/4”. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 5: Loyal Legion of the United States, 1883, 1885, 1894

[May 2, 1883] Pamphlet of biographies (military service) of persons recommended for membership, including W. D. Bickham. Includes by-laws, etc. [HHS]

May 2, 1883 Announcement of W. D. Bickham’s election as companion of the Loyal Legion. Signed, A. H. Mattox. Printed form, blanks filled in. [HHS]

May 9, 1883 Letter from A. H. Mattox 19 , Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Mattox today received Bickham’s letter enclosing his Declaration and the check for $30, invitation and yearly dues. He congratulates Bickham and welcomes him into the Loyal Legion. [LPR]

Nov. 7, 1883 Letter from A. H. Mattox, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked “personal.” Mattox received Bickham’s letter containing the letter from Nicholson. Mattox asks if Bickham remembers whether his [Bickham’s] commission from Rosecrans was approved by the Secretary of War. He will get to the bottom of it, if there is to be any trouble concerning Bickham’s eligibility; he will take off his coat and fight to the bitter end. Major Dawes will be in Philadelphia next week and will see Nicholson about it. Dawes will fight for Bickham. He regrets that Dr. McMurdy could not be elected. He also mentions Wood and Richards. [LPR]

19 A. H. Mattox was the Recorder, Commandery of the State of Ohio, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, at Cincinnati, OH. [EB]

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Nov. 22, 1883 Letter from A. H. Mattox, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Mattox received Bickham’s letter enclosing the letter from Rosecrans. He writes, “What a cordial genuine letter it is!” If Mattox understands Bickham’s letter correctly, Bickham is favorable to a transfer to membership “at large.” Mattox writes that President Hayes will be visiting around December 4, and he will talk the matter over with him then. Mattox will see that the very pleasing and cordial letter of General Rosecrans is preserved and, after taking its course, returned to Bickham. He writes: “I can understand how valuable it will be to your children.” He also mentions Dawes and Hickenlooper 20 . [LPR]

Oct. 20, 1885 Letter from A. H. Mattox, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Mattox writes that Bickham’s prompt and enthusiastic reply about the Adjutant General’s Office “quite took me off my feet.” He has no fear of his [Mattox’s] being able to perform the duties. He is afraid to accept it if offered. He thinks Bickham is very kind to write President Hayes and to mention Mattox favorably in the Journal and to his editorial friends. He appreciates Bickham’s goodness. He will give the matter serious thought and talk to Hickenlooper and other friends about it, then write to Bickham. He says that he is “not worth much when it comes to asking for an office or for favors.” [LPR]

Sept. 20, 1894 Printed circular in memoriam of W. D. Bickham; includes biography. Commandery of the State of Ohio, Jacob D. Cox, Commander; Robert Hunter, Recorder. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 6: Memorials to Major William D. Bickham 21 , 1894

Mar. 24, 1894 Memorial to W. D. Bickham, written by John G. Doren. Four typed foolscap pages. Prepared by a committee on the instructions of the City Council, to be spread on the minutes. Signed by the Committee: John G. Doren (Chairman), William R. Comly, D. R. Miller, S. B. Smith, O. M. Gottschall, Harry Widener, David P. Clark.22 [HHS]

[Mar. 1894] Memorial meeting of City Council, minutes, in which tribute was rendered to W. D. Bickham. Six pages foolscap, carbon copy. Remarks principally by John G. Doren (personal, not the prepared tribute), more briefly by Mr. Kuhns, Member of Council, A. C. Marshall, and Rev. D. R. Miller. [HHS]

20 Probably referring to Andrew Hickenlooper, a Civil War general and later politician who lived in Cincinnati at the time. [LPR] 21 Prepared by a committee on the instruction of the City Council, John G. Doren, Chairman. [HHS] 22 All signatures are written in Doren’s hand; was originally found in the Doren Collection. [HHS]

18 Box 1, Folder 7: W. D. Bickham: Biographical Notes - Ohio State University’s School of Journalism Hall of Fame, 1936-1937

Sept.-Nov. 1936 Several items of biographical sketch information, written by his son Daniel D. Bickham, and pertaining to W. D. Bickham’s induction to the Ohio State University Journalism Hall of Fame. [LPR]

Jan. 1937 Printed copy of The Ohio Newspaper containing article about W. D. Bickham and son D. D. Bickham: “Tribute to Wm. D. Bickham, Civil Wartime Editor.” [LPR]

Box 1, Folder 8: W. D. Bickham: Mementoes, 1863-Circa 1903

Jan. 18, 1863 Newspaper clipping from the Louisville Journal headed: The Fifteenth Indiana Infantry. A letter, dated January 18, 1863, describing the action of the 15 th Indiana at the Battle of Stone[s] River; signed O. L. T. Handwritten notes on the back. [HHS, LPR]

Undated [1877-1881] Newspaper clipping, headed “President Hayes in Atlanta,” below a picture of Hayes. An account from an Atlanta paper of the visit of President Hayes and his party to the city. W. D. Bickham named as a member of the party. [HHS]

Aug. 25, 1886 Printed program from the Republican State Convention, Columbus, OH, Aug. 25, 1886; picture of [Ulysses S.] Grant on the cover. [HHS]

Undated [ca. 1888?] Silk badge of the Tippecanoe Club 23 . “Harrison” above his picture on a silk badge. “Our Country’s Hope,” below his picture, and below the motto a picture of a log cabin. [HHS]

Undated [1894] Newspaper clipping: column of quotations from three papers. From the Sandusky Register : Major W. D. Bickham mentioned for Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative [George W.] Houk.24 Would be excellent nomination. From the Cincinnati Enquirer : Major Bickham firmly declines to be the Republican nominee for

23 The Tippecanoe Club was originally formed by the Whigs in support of William Henry Harrison in the 1840 presidential election. It was later revived by the Republican party in support of Benjamin Harrison in 1888. See: “Tippecanoe Club,” The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1997), http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=TC3 . [LPR] 24 George W. Houk was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio’s Third District. He died suddenly in Washington, DC, on February 9, 1894, while still serving his term. A special election was held in May 1894 to elect his replacement. [LPR]

19 Congress; “so much the better for the Democratic nominee.” From the Chicago Inter- Ocean , a paragraph to the same effect as the Sandusky Register . [HHS]

Undated [ca. 1897-1903] Silk badge: “Montgomery for Hanna 25 .” [HHS]

Undated Brief paragraph: humorous reference to the activities of Boynton, Bickham, and Don Piatt. [HHS, LPR]

Box 1, Folder 9: Correspondence from Charles Marley Anderson 26 , 1885

Nov. 28, 1885 Letter from Charles Marley Anderson, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. In re confirmation of appointment of Knecht as Collector. [HHS]

Dec. 6, 1885 Letter from Charles Marley Anderson, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Of Revenue, enlisting Bickham’s help, and asking him to apply to Sherman [John Sherman, Senator from Ohio]. 27 [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 10: Correspondence from Henry Van Ness Boynton 28 , 1890-1891

June 25, 1890 Letter from Henry V. Boynton, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Expresses satisfaction at letter from Bickham, and regret for past unsatisfactory relations. [HHS]

July 18, 1890 Letter from Henry V. Boynton, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for mention in editorial; agrees with him as to merits of the campaigns of Generals [William S.] Rosecrans and [George H.] Thomas. [HHS]

25 This badge is most likely in support of Marcus A. “Mark” Hanna (Republican), who was a United States Senator from 1897-1904. [LPR] 26 Charles Marley Anderson – Democratic Member of Congress, House of Representatives, Dayton district, 1885-1887. [HHS] 27 See also: Sherman letter of Jan. 12, 1886. See also: Doren Collection – John G. Doren – Testimonials for appointment as Postmaster of Dayton, 1885, for JGD’s opinion of both Bickham and Anderson. See also: Doren Collection – John G. Doren – Political Papers, for specification of his charges against Knecht and Anderson. [HHS] 28 Henry Van Ness Boynton was a soldier, journalist, and author. He was Washington correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette . [HHS]

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April 9, 1891 29 Letter from Henry V. Boynton, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. The points made in Bickham’s letter referred to State Department, will be brought to attention of President. Trouble caused by misunderstandings in Italy of Blaine’s speech in translation. [HHS]

Oct. 11, 1891 Letter from Henry V. Boynton, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for kind words; resolves to let no more dissension arise. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 11: Correspondence from William W. Burns 30 , 1862, 1864, 1883-1888

Dec. 20, 1862 Letter from William W. Burns, from Camp opposite Fredericksburg, [VA], to W. D. Bickham. Deplores conditions; states his opposition to any repetition of the attack and takes credit for the abandonment of the idea; hard for an old soldier to protest going into battle when ordered, but feels rewarded by the safety of the Army and the lives saved. [HHS]

May 27, 1864 Letter from William W. Burns, Milwaukee, [WI], to W. D. Bickham. Reply to letter from Bickham on the political campaign: Burns not a partisan but an American. Grateful for the association of his name with those of [John] Sedgwick and [Winfield Scott] Hancock 31 , although partisan politics was responsible for their being left with the Army when he, with others, was thrust aside. Mentions men of old command killed in the Wilderness. [HHS]

Jan. 20, 1883 Letter from William W. Burns, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Acknowledges Bickham’s public spirit and kindness to writer; is sending him copy of resolutions attached to his address by the Agricultural Review office, and a copy of a note from Seymour in regards to his address, chosen from a number because [Horatio] Seymour was first President of the Agricultural Association. 32 [HHS]

Feb. 8, 1884

29 Dated April 8, 1891, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 30 William W. Burns was a professional soldier. He was a Brigadier General in the Volunteers, 1861; resigned after Battle of Fredericksburg; appointed Chief of Commisary, N.W. Dept. He was Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Army, 1865. He retired with frank of Colonel, 1889. [HHS] 31 Major-general John Sedgwick and Major-general Winfield Scott Hancock were both on the Gettysburg campaign and were members of Burns’ “old brigade.” [LPR] 32 See also letter from Horatio Seymour. [HHS] See Box 2, Folder 4, Correspondence from politicians, or about political matters. [LPR]

21 Letter from William W. Burns, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Tells of failure to confirm his appointment as Major General in 1863, or to send him orders to report to Rosecrans. Blames Stanton. Bickham right as General [William T.] Sherman’s being strongest Republican candidate for President. Senator [John] Sherman said to be for Fitz Porter’s bill. Sad about General Grant’s condition. 33 [HHS]

Jan. 13, 1888 Letter from William W. Burns, from Governor’s Island, [state unknown], to W. D. Bickham. Bickham’s letter deserved a kindly answer; waited so long in order not to write emotionally. Remembers an editor is a public servant, not a personal friend, but the achievement of his old brigade at Gettysburg due to its early training, not to the commanders on the field; its habit of military instinct preserved it, saved the day. Names authorities for the statement; he could not say it himself, but hinted it so strongly that Bickham should have been able to read it between the lines. 34 [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 12: Correspondence from Salmon P. Chase 35 , 1860-1865

Dec. 1, 1860 Letter from Salmon P. Chase, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Glad Bickham is in Washington. Bickham refers to use of Chase’s name in connection with cabinet; does not seek a position of that kind; prefers to do work assigned him by Ohio Republicans. Should Mr. Lincoln see fit to offer him the post without solicitation, which he has no reason to expect, he would accept or reject as he should be convinced the good of the cause might required, but wants no administration place. [HHS]

Dec. 7, 1860 Letter from Salmon P. Chase, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Marked “confidential and private.” Meant what he said in last letter: wants no appointment in Lincoln’s cabinet, and would like a plain statement to that effect, to stop the N.Y. papers’ hints. Mr. Fogg, Secretary of National Committee during the campaign, will take Chase’s letter to Bickham; he is on his way to Washington from a visit to Lincoln; reports Lincoln as perfectly firm. Mr. Fogg expresses same wishes as Bickham for Chase, and thinks he should accept offer, if made. Chase not convinced, nor has he any reason to think offer will be made. [HHS]

33 General Fitz-John Porter cashiered, 1863; case reviewed 1879; part of sentence remitted, 1883; cleared, reappointed Colonel, 1886. [HHS] 34 Burns’ “old brigade” was the 2 nd Brigade of the 2 nd Division of the 2 nd Corps. The commanders at Gettysburg: 2 nd Corps, [Winfield Scott] Hancock; 2 nd Division, Gibbon; 2 nd Brigade, Webb. Webb’s brigade bore the brunt of Pickett’s charge; all three generals were wounded in the action. [HHS] 35 Salmon P. Chase was a Senator from Ohio, 1849-1855; Governor of Ohio, 1855-1859; elected to the Senate by the Legislature, 1860, resigned to accept cabinet post; Secretary of Treasury, 1861-1864; Justice of the Supreme Court, 1864-1873. [HHS]

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Mar. 16, [1861] 36 Letter from Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Newspaper clipping only] Let people talk: Cincinnati appointments will not be made until after April election. Wants to know whether Gov. Dennison has sent his (Chase’s) letter resigning his seat to the legislature; has not seen it in any newspaper. [HHS]

Oct. 18, 1863 Letter from Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Regretted not having seen Bickham on trip to Ohio, but could do no more than hurry there to vote and hurry back. Bickham may be right as to principal drawback to success, but what can be expected of an administration of military affairs “divided between them?” Chase wishes that the President [Lincoln] could be induced to take the responsibility of prompt action as readily as he takes the passive responsibility of delay and letting bad enough alone. Thinks a bold, energetic, clear-headed man could move all things. [HHS]

June 28, 1865 Letter from Salmon P. Chase, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. [Newspaper clipping only] Letter of condolence on the death of Bickham’s child, a son [Victor]. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 13: Correspondence from Jacob D. Cox 37 , 1860, 1880

June 19, 1860 Letter from Jacob D. Cox, Warren, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Expresses obligation to Bickham for support for nomination at state convention, but the result no disappointment: he was prepared. National nominations met with favor in Warren: “No bounds to the enthusiasm for Old Abe [Lincoln].” [HHS]

Aug. 14, 1880 Letter from Jacob D. Cox, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. His first speech in the campaign to be at Dayton: will try to reach independent voters by calm and candid argument. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 14: Correspondence from William Dennison, Jr., 1863- 1879

36 Letter is dated 1862 but was probably misdated; should be 1861, when Chase was in Lincoln’s cabinet from the first of the year, 1861. [HHS] 37 Jacob D. Cox was a soldier and politician; Brigadier General of the Volunteer, 1861; Major General of the Volunteers, 1864; Governor of Ohio, 1866; Secretary of the Interior in Grant’s cabinet for 18 months. [HHS]

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Aug. 12, 1863 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Glad to see Bickham at any time, and to do all he can for the paper. Deals with the matter of speakers for the campaign: county committee can invite anyone to attend the meeting in addition to Sherman and Campbell, etc. [HHS]

Oct. 26, 1864 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Acknowledges Bickham’s letter, thanks him for kind words; trusts that the writer’s administration of the Post Office will help correct deficiencies, owing to his railroad experience. [HHS]

Aug. 2, 1877 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for kind words in connection with his nomination for Governor. Congratulates Bickham on the doings of the Convention. [HHS]

Oct. 27, 1879 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for kind words on the subject of his senatorial candidacy; does not misunderstand: assumes Bickham prefers Garfield, which increases his sense of obligation for the generous paragraph [in the Journal ]. [HHS]

Nov. 5, 1879 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for copy of his book just published [ From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains ] and congratulates him on the “magnificent results of the previous day’s elections.” [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 15: Correspondence from Joseph Benson Foraker 38 , 1883- 1894

Oct. 27, 1883 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Expresses gratitude for kindness shown him in the Journal . [HHS]

May 7, 1886 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Executive Mansion, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Expresses regret at impossibility of his going fishing. Hopes to solve state- senatorial problems the next day.

38 Joseph Benson Foraker was a soldier and politician; Governor of Ohio, 1886-1890; Senator, 1896-1908. [HHS]

24 (Note: On reverse, signed W. D. Bickham, the problem was solved on the 8 th by turning out the Hamilton County “fraud” senators, and swearing in the Republicans.) [HHS]

July 14, 1887 39 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Executive Mansion, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Writer annoyed by Sherman’s determination to precipitate conflict at Toledo. In talk at Findlay, Sherman had agreed that to ask for a resolution of endorsement would be unwise, suggesting division where there was none. Now that Sherman has asked for resolution, in newspaper interview, conflict has arisen in the party. Foraker cannot understand the attack of the Commercial-Gazette on him, has been open and frank with Sherman, and will do what he can for harmony. Is glad to see that Bickham in the Journal expresses the same view as his. 40 [HHS]

Feb. 16, 1888 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Executive Mansion, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Accepts an invitation from Bickham. [HHS]

June 18, 1892 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Finds no fault with Bickham for supporting [John] Sherman for Senator and Harrison for renomination, but objects to statement in Journal that Foraker’s opposition to Harrison was due to disappointment, and the intimation that Foraker conspires against [William] McKinley is unjust and untrue. Explains dislike for Harrison, and the reason for his action in regard to McKinley [at Republican National Convention]: he put McKinley in nomination instead of Blaine because hew was authorized to do so by McKinley through Hanna, because Blaine had no chance, and because McKinley would be a stronger candidate than Harrison, though not so good a President, and because it would weaken Harrison if McKinley were given the solid Ohio vote—one of Foraker’s purposes in being there. Comments also on Southern influence in Republican conventions—“rotten borough”—and expresses himself in favor of one-term presidency; objects to Bickham’s citing against him his own 4-term candidacy for Governor, since Bickham urged him to accept the nomination, and did the nominating. 41 [HHS]

Nov. 12, 1892 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham.

39 Dated July 4, 1887, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 40 See also: Letter from Sherman, July 16, 1887, and from the editor of the Bucyrus Journal , John Hopley, July 14, 1887, filed under Bickham Collection – Newspaper Men, Letters from. [HHS] 41 See also: Letter from John Sherman, Nov. 7, 1891, for reference to Foraker’s attempt to win the senatorship from him. See also: Letter from Murat Halstead, Dec. 29, 1888, in reference to Foraker’s desire to have a place in Harrison’s cabinet. [HHS]

25 Expresses surprise at statement in Journal that friends of Blaine were responsible for the nomination of Whitelaw Reid for Vice President. The choice was due to the Harrison men. [HHS]

Nov. 14, 1892 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Answer to letter from Bickham. Foraker wrote as he did in previous letter because he disliked the attempt to fix the responsibility for the defeat of Harrison on the Blaine men. Explains at length his attitude to Harrison. Resents the implication that Hamilton County leaders “stayed away from the polls,” and wants letter of retraction. Has no ill will towards Bickham for his support of [John] Sherman in the Senatorial contest, but did resent the interference of President [Benjamin] Harrison and Governor [William] McKinley by force of patronage. [HHS]

Nov. 23, 1892 42 Letter from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Answer to letter from Bickham. Foraker sees that it is hopeless to try to straighten out Bickham; will let the controversy end where it is. [HHS]

March 1894 Telegram from Joseph Benson Foraker, Cincinnati, OH, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham. Condolences on the death of W. D. Bickham. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 16: Correspondence from Charles Foster 43 , 1880-1891, Undated

[1880] 44 Letter from Charles Foster, Executive Mansion, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Will make it a point to give [Emanuel] Schultz 45 a goof send-off. The Democrats intend to beat him if they can. [HHS]

Mar. 11, 1883 Letter from Charles Foster, Executive Chamber, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. States that matter of listing property for taxation has gone so far that auditor cannot change it, but writer will see him, as Bickham suggests. In regards to tax laws, Senate [State] must pass the House Amendment; Foster asks for the Journal ’s help. [HHS]

42 Dated Nov. 14, 1892, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 43 Charles Foster was Governor of Ohio, 1880-1884; Secretary of the Treasury under Benjamin Harrison. [HHS] 44 The date “1880” is noted in pencil in top margin. [HHS] 45 Emanuel Schultz, Miamisburg, Representative, elected to represent the 4 th District in the 47 th Congress, 1881-1883. In regards to his campaigns, see also: Bickham Collection – Keifer, J. Warren – letter of May 7, 1882; and also Bickham Collection – Political Letters – letter from George R. Sage of Cincinnati, Aug. 6, 1878. [HHS]

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Jan. 2, 1890 Letter from Charles Foster, Fostoria, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. Comments on Bickham’s reply to [Murat] Halstead in the Journal ; in all disputes with him, Bickham has had the best of it. Halstead’s attack on Foster for his liberality to the party the weakest position he has taken. Appreciation of Bickham’s letter, and of public expressions in his behalf. [HHS]

Mar. 10, 1891 Letter from Charles Foster, Fostoria, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. Thanks Bickham for congratulations on nomination [to be Secretary of the Treasury]. Pleased by country’s response. His great solicitude is to retire from the position with as much favor as he enters upon it. [HHS]

Undated fragment Letter from Charles Foster, Executive Department, Columbus OH, to W. D. Bickham. Does not intend to interfere in local affairs. Expects to be in Dayton, would like to meet friends at hotel, and wants Bickham to be there and bring others who would be in sympathy with the purpose of meeting. [HHS]

Undated fragment Letter from Charles Foster, Fostoria, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Such persecution as he indulges in will not permanently injure anyone, but is doing harm to the party. The cry to re-open the Payne investigation 46 is folly unless he has something new. Does not desire Bickham to take up his grievances, but likes the good sense shown in the Journal .47 [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 17: Correspondence from or regarding James Abram Garfield 48 , 1876-1881

Mar. 2, 1876

46 The “Payne investigation”: Henry B. Payne was elected to the Senate by a Democratic legislature in 1885. His son, the Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company, was said to have spent $100,000 for the election. The next legislature, Republican, ordered an examination, investigated fifty-five witnesses, and turned the evidence over to the federal Senate, which refused to act. The charges were never proved, nor ever satisfactorily denied. [HHS] 47 For reference to Foster, see Halstead, Nov. 17, 1880; Sherman, June 17, 1880. [HHS] 48 James Abram Garfield was a Brigadier General of the Volunteers, 1862, Chief of Staff to Rosecrans, Major-General of the Volunteers 1863; Member of the House of Representatives, 1863-1880; elected to Senate, 1880, but never served, as he was elected President that same fall. [HHS] For other references to Garfield, see Bickham Collection – Dennison, letter of Oct. 27, 1879; Halstead, letters of Nov. 17, 18, 1880; Sherman, letters of Jan. 7, 1880, Feb. 4, 1880, and June 17, 1880. [HHS] For military pass signed by James A. Garfield, see Bickham Collection – Documents – W. D. Bickham – Military papers. [HHS]

27 Letter from James A. Garfield, to W. D. Bickham. Unsigned but written in the handwriting of Garfield’s secretary; marked “private.” Objects to papers’ representing him as hostile to Hayes; from start has been in favor of giving Hayes the solid Ohio delegation; thinks delegation should not bind itself to a second choice; Blaine and Bristow would be good candidates for presidents, but the other gentleman names would be a hard load for the Party to carry. The Party must stand clear on the money question: Garfield would rather have it lose on the right side of the question than win the Presidency by taking the wrong side of it. But does not want his views on the question published. Has no objection to anybody’s knowing that he is in favor of a solid delegation for Hayes. 49 [HHS]

May 4, 1876 Letter from James A. Garfield, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Addressed to Toledo, OH.] Reply to letter from Bickham: Garfield called the Postmaster-General and “stated it to him.” Democratic House getting into a worse tangle every day. Not on the reverse: Garfield’s letter was returned to him, owing to the clerk’s error in sending it to Toledo; he mails it again, in order to let Bickham know that he did not neglect his request. [HHS]

Dec. 15, 1879 Letter from James A. Garfield, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Expresses gratitude for letter with enclosures; knew that one of the gentlemen was friendly, had heard nothing directly from others. Has heard rumor that the Kansas Pacific Railway is backing [Stanley] Matthews.50 [HHS]

Nov. 4, 1880 Letter from R. C. Parsons, Cleveland, OH, to James A. Garfield. Parsons had been requested by the officers and men of the “Cleveland Grays” to write and ask permission for them to act as escort to Washington for the Inaugural. Referred by Garfield at Mentor, Ohio, to Chairman, Central Inaugural Committee, by the Chairman referred to General W. T. Sherman, Chief Marshal, Inaugural Procession. [HHS]

Nov. 3, 1880 Letter from J. O. P. Burnside, Captain of the National Rifles, Washington, DC, to James A. Garfield. The National Rifles desire to act as bodyguard of the President-elect at the Inauguration. Referred by Garfield at Mentor, Ohio, to Chairman, Central Inaugural Committee, by the Chairman referred to General W. T. Sherman, Chief Marshal, Inaugural Procession. [HHS]

49 See also: Sherman, letters of Mar. 24 and Apr. 12, in regards to Ohio delegation support for Hayes at National Republican Convention. [HHS] 50 Stanley Matthews had been appointed to the Senate in Sherman’s place when Sherman went into Hayes’s cabinet. In Dec. 1879, Garfield was hoping to be elected to the Senate by the Ohio Legislature. When he became President instead, he appointed Matthews to the Supreme Court. [HHS]

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Nov. 13, 1880 Letter from Ellery C. Ford, Department Commander of the “Boys in Blue,” to James A. Garfield. The “Boys in Blue” feel honored that the Chairman of their National Executive Committee has been promoted to be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and desire to act as escort at the Inauguration. Referred by Garfield at Mentor, Ohio, to Chairman, Central Inaugural Committee, by the Chairman referred to General W. T. Sherman, Chief Marshal, Inaugural Procession. [HHS]

July 2, 1881 Telegram from F. W. Jackson, Jersey City, NJ, to Col. H. C. Corbin, Assistant Adjutant General. 51 Advises of the departure of Mrs. [Lucretia] Garfield on a special train for Washington. 52 [HHS]

July 3, 1881 Letter from James G. Fair, Santa Cruz, CA, to Secretary Blaine.53 Fair asks for telegraphed word as to condition of the President. [HHS]

July 3, 1881 Letter from Albert Daggett, Albany, [NY], to Col. H. C. Corbin, Executive Mansion, [Washington, DC]. 54 Daggett asks for telegraphed word as to the condition of the President. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 18: Correspondence from Murat Halstead 55 , 1863, 1880, 1888-1894

Apr. 30, 1863 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial office, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham, at the war front.

51 W. D. Bickham’s possession of this telegram is accounted for by the fact that Col. Corbin was his brother-in-law. [HHS] 52 President Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881. His wife was in New Jersey. [HHS] 53 W. D. Bickham’s possession of this telegram is accounted for by the fact that Col. Corbin was his brother-in-law. [HHS] 54 W. D. Bickham’s possession of this telegram is accounted for by the fact that Col. Corbin was his brother-in-law. For another reference to Col. Corbin’s reporting on the condition of James A. Garfield, see J. Warren Keifer, July 28, 1881. [HHS] 55 Murat Halstead was owner and editor of the Cincinnati Commercial , and after the merger with the Gazette , editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette . Bickham began his journalistic career under Halstead, going to the front as war correspondent for the Commercial in 1861. Halstead recommended him to the Dayton citizens who were looking for someone to reestablish the Journal , 1863. [HHS] For references to Murat Halstead, see letters of Foster, Jan. 2, 1890; Keifer, Aug. 1, 1882; Sherman, Mar. 24, 1876; Smith, W. H., Jan. 13, 1883, filed Bickham Collection – Newspaper Men, Letters from. [HHS]

29 Acknowledges receipt of rebel papers, and notes to Mr. [M. D.] Potter and himself. Discusses Bickham’s request for leave to return home. Bickham had turned out to be right on question of Murfreesboro; criticizes lack of support for Rosecrans; says people expect a blow from him before long – he has their support. Bickham’s book [Rosecrans’ Campaign with the 14 th Army Corps ] will be out before long. Hopes he will stay with the Army of the Cumberland as long as possible. Knew he would understand the writer’s motive in placing the Dayton matter before him; unquestionably the best opening for a Union paper in the West is the one in Dayton. [HHS]

Nov. 17, 1880 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial office, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked “personal.” Sherman did not help matters with his Dalzell letter. [John] Sherman must go into the Senate or the Cabinet. [Charles] Foster should go into the Cabinet as Postmaster General, looking to second term for [James A.] Garfield, and Sherman back to the Senate. Matthews must wait for the bench and Taft can be sent to France. 56 [HHS]

Nov. 18, 1880 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial office, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Does not think Taft would be distressed, but pleased; otherwise he will get nothing. [Charles] Foster should be Postmaster-General; he would cut a poor figure in the Senate and a great one in the Cabinet. Halstead’s solution: [James A.] Garfield should tell Foster he must go into the Cabinet, then Sherman would distance all for the Senate, but Garfield wants Sherman to “go on as he is upon public demand.” 57 Could Bickham do any good by a trip to Mentor? [HHS]

Dec. 29, 1888 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. No need to burn communication from Bickham which he wanted burned: profound squabble in politics in Ohio coming. [Joseph Benson] Foraker’s [the current governor] trouble his appetite for fighting. Impertinence in Grosvenor to urge Foraker’s claims on Harrison. Halstead thinks it would be better to leave Ohio out of the Cabinet, unless the Treasury could go to [William] McKinley. The Ohio situation worst in Hamilton County, since the defeat of [George] Cox and the ensuing scandals. 58 [HHS]

56 For other letters on Sherman’s return to the Senate, see: Bickham Collection – Corbin, Henry, letter of Nov. 18, 1880; Sherman, John, letter of Nov. 12, 1880. For reference to Matthews, see Garfield, J. A., letter of Dec. 15, 1879, and note. For reference to Taft, see Keifer, J. Warren, letter of May 1, 1879; Smith, Richard, letter of May 22, 1875. (R. Smith’s letter filed under: Bickham – Newspaper Men, Letters from.) [HHS] 57 Charles Foster, under suspicion of having betrayed Sherman at the 1880 convention, withdrew from the Senate race, to permit Sherman to be elected, but was not appointed to Garfield’s Cabinet. Taft (Alphonso) was not given an appointment by Garfield but was sent by President Arthur as Minister to Austro-Hungary. [HHS] 58 George Cox was the Republican boss of Cincinnati. Charles Grosvenor was the Speaker of the House of Representatives. See also: Foraker, J. B., letter of June 18, 1892, for statement that he had not asked anything of Harrison. [HHS]

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Aug. 6, 1889 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Sent Bickham a letter the day before and a copy of it to the Governor. Halstead being urged to announce his candidacy for the Senate; wants Bickham’s opinion. [HHS]

Oct. 13, 1889 Letter from Murat Halstead, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Concerned about documents said to be in the hands of “the enemy,” though he does not see how they got there. Disturbed at not having had a letter from Bickham in reply to his first on the subject; wants to be prepared if “the enemy” have anything to spring on them. Halstead had expressed misgivings to friends, but does not see how “the enemy” learned it. [HHS]

Mar. 28, 1894 Telegram from Murat Halstead to Mrs. W. D. Bickham. Condolences on the death of W. D. Bickham. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 19: Correspondence from Warren G. Harding 59 , 1919

Feb. 28, 1919 Letter from Warren G. Harding, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, to D. D. Bickham. Regrets his inability to secure early discharge from the Army of Lt. W. D. Bickham, II, son of D. D. Bickham. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 20: Correspondence from Benjamin Harrison 60 , 1891

June 3, 1891 Letter from Benjamin Harrison, White House, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Reply to letter from Bickham apologizing for the absence of the city officials from the reception to Harrison at Dayton; Harrison had not been aware of their absence. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 21: Correspondence from William B. Hazen 61 , 1863, 1867

May 30, 1863

59 Warren G. Harding was Senator from Ohio, 1915-1921; President of the United States, 1921-1923. [HHS] 60 Benjamin Harrison was President of the United States, 1888-1892. [HHS] For references to Harrison, see Bickham Collection – Foraker, J. B., letters of June 18, 1892, Nov. 12, 1892, Nov. 14, 1892; Halstead, Dec. 29, 1888. [HHS] 61 William B. Hazen was a soldier; Brevet Major-General of the Volunteers, 1865; Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, 1880. [HHS]

31 Letter from William B. Hazen, Headquarters, 2 nd Brigade, 2 nd Division, Army of the Cumberland, Readyville, TN, to W. D. Bickham. Hazen expresses appreciation of Bickham’s book on Rosecrans’ campaign [Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps ] and of its praise of Hazen’s brigade, whose conduct he had feared had gone unnoted [at the Battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone[s] River]. As Bickham might wish to enlarge on the subject some time, and as Hazen can correct him on details, he writes his own story of the battle, emphasizing the importance of his brigade, and of the resistance it made to attack, as essential to saving the army from total defeat. [This letter includes an account 8 pages long of the battle fought by his brigade.] [HHS]

May 1, 1867 [or 1864] Letter from William B. Hazen, Jefferson Barracks, MO, to [Henry] Corbin. Corbin’s report received and approved; would like a fuller one from Nashville on Corbin’s arrival there. Must expect casualties on way to New Mexico, and would like a few unassigned men to take their places. Has sent $500 and 200 sets of papers; wants to know what more is needed to complete and pay everything. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 22: Correspondence from J. Warren Keifer 62 , 1879-1882

May 1, 1879 Letter from J. Warren Keifer, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Keifer has not from first desired to be nominated for Governor this year. Annoyed by mention of his name, because it does party no good, but also flattered. Personal reasons why he does not want to be a candidate; also does not think he should leave post to which he was elected; since he asked people to elect him, he does not think he should leave in time of crisis. Thankful to Bickham for understanding his refusal. Remarks that Democrats in Congress are demoralized over veto. Thinks [Alphonso] Taft would be a good candidate for Governor: does not object to [Charles] Foster; if a soldier is necessary, why not Judge Force or General Jones from Delaware [Ohio]? 63 [HHS]

Apr. 19, 1880 Letter from J. Warren Keifer, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Bickham’s telegram received by President, who will appoint Judge Littler [?] to Supervisor; if appointment is confirmed, Keifer will be pleased to act as Bickham suggests on matters of concern to Bickham. Keifer embarrassed by delegate-at-large question [Republican National Convention]: his name used by friends of Sherman as one

62 J. Warren Keifer was Brigadier-General of the Volunteers and Major-General of the Volunteers, 1864, 1865; Republican member of Congress from Springfield (OH), 1877-1885, 1905-1911; Speaker of the House, 47 th Congress, 1881-1883. [HHS] 63 For other references to Alphonso Taft’s candidacy for Governor, see also: Halstead, letter of Nov. 17, 1880; Smith, Richard, letter of May 22, 1875 (filed: Newspaper Men, Letters from); Sherman, letter of April 15, 1879. Foster was elected Governor in 1879. [HHS]

32 who, knowing most of the delegates, could be helpful. But Bickham should be one of the delegates at large; if Keifer’s candidacy should endanger Bickham’s prospects, he would withdraw his name. He cannot be a candidate from his district, as he will run for Congress again. Keifer is glad to see that Sherman men are running; believes Ohio will be solid for Sherman, who has a good chance. 64 [HHS]

July 28, 1881 Letter from J. Warren Keifer, Springfield, OH, to Col. H. C. Corbin. Keifer thanks Corbin for his satisfactory dispatch [in regards to the condition of Garfield]. Keifer believes Garfield will recover; is off to Colorado for two weeks. 65 [HHS]

May 7, 1882 Letter from J. Warren Keifer, Speaker’s Room, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Keifer appreciates Bickham’s constancy of support. He expects the nomination in his district. [Emanuel] Schultz will be re-nominated. 66 [HHS]

Aug. 1, 1882 Letter from J. Warren Keifer, Speaker’s Room, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Keifer thanks Bickham for support in late contest. He agrees with Bickham in regard to [Murat] Halstead and Kennedy, and Bickham’s scoring of Halstead did Keifer wood and worried Halstead. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 23: Correspondence from John A. Logan67 , 1883-1886

Dec. 1, 1883 Letter from John A. Logan to W. D. Bickham. [Newspaper clipping only] A friend sent him copies of Journal with positive notes about himself; thanks Bickham. [LPR]

Dec. 6, 1885 Letter from John A. Logan, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Logan acknowledges letter from Bickham; is glad that he approves of Logan’s having declined the Presidency of the Senate. [HHS]

64 Keifer was not a delegate to the Republican National Convention; Bickham was delegate from his district. [HHS] 65 See also: Bickham Collection – Garfield, J. A., for communications to Col. Corbin regarding President Garfield’s condition. [HHS] 66 [Emanuel] Schultz was re-nominated [for Congress], but he was defeated in the election. [HHS, LPR] 67 John A. Logan was a soldier and politician; Major-General of the Volunteers, 1865; member of Congress, 1867-1871; Senator from Illinois, 1871-1877, 1879-1886. [HHS]

33 Jan. 8, 1886 Letter from John A. Logan, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Logan agrees with Bickham that it would be a good thing to have a Republican succeed the late General McClellan; not having the power of appointment, must submit to the powers that be. The House and the Senate may differ as to the man. 68 [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 24: Correspondence from William McKinley 69 , 1891-1896, 1905

Dec. 12, 1891 Letter from William McKinley, Canton, OH, to W. D. Bickham. McKinley announces appointment of Bickham’s son, C. G. Bickham, to be a member of the Governor’s military staff. [HHS]

Dec. 12, 1891 Letter from William McKinley, Canton, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley tenders C. G. Bickham a place on the Governor’s military staff. [HHS]

Nov. 13, 1893 Letter from William McKinley, Executive Chamber, Columbus, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley thanks C. G. Bickham for congratulations on reelection. [HHS]

Dec. 30, 1893 Letter from William McKinley, Executive Department, Columbus, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley reappoints him a member of his staff for the second term as Governor. [HHS]

Mar. 28, 1894 Telegram from William McKinley, Minneapolis, MN, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham. McKinley offers his condolences on the death of W. D. Bickham. [HHS]

Nov. 21, 1895 Telegram from William McKinley, McArthur, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley declines invitation from C. G. Bickham. [HHS]

June 24, 1896 Letter from William McKinley, Canton, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley expresses appreciation of congratulations of the members of his staff [on nomination at the Republican National Convention]. [HHS]

68 George B. McClellan, who died in 1885, had been a member of the Board of Managers of the Soldiers’ Home since 1881. [HHS] 69 William McKinley, Jr., was a soldier and politician; Governor of Ohio, 1892-1896; President of the United States, 1896-1901. [HHS]

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Aug. 6, 1896 Letter from William McKinley, Canton, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley appreciates the invitation to visit Bickham home, and thanks Mrs. W. D. Bickham, but impossible to make the trip to Dayton. [HHS]

Nov. 7, 1896 70 Letter from William McKinley, Canton, OH, to C. G. Bickham. McKinley thanks C. G. Bickham and his mother and other members of the family for the words of good cheer. [HHS]

Feb. 25, 1905 Newspaper clipping entitled, “Bickham objected, McKinley submitted,” by Samuel Flickinger, Dayton Journal . Marked “explanation of McKinley letter of 30 April 1893 referring to Convention Chairmanship.” [No such letter was included in the folder.] [LPR]

Box 1, Folder 25: Correspondence from M. D. Potter 71 , 1861, Undated

Undated Note from M. D. Potter to W. D. Bickham. Potter tells Bickham that he included members of Legislature as regular subscribers. He knows that Gurley 72 has done everything in his power for the Senatorship, notwithstanding his denial he was a candidate. [HHS]

Undated 73 Note from M. D. Potter to W. D. Bickham. Bickham is told that he was mistaken as to R. M. W. Taylor: he did not vote for Bell. Taylor is no politician, but has acted with Republicans. The office is a mercantile one, should be filled by a man from that class. Taylor strongly backed, but will probably not get the appointment, though it would be to Governor [Salmon P.] Chase’s interest: would overcome hostility to him on the part of business men. [HHS]

[1860] 74 Letter (fragment) from M. D. Potter to W. D. Bickham. May send [Murat] Halstead to Washington. Advises Bickham to study brevity, and to use the telegraph when necessary. If Dennison’s message is as long as Bickham

70 November 7, 1896, was the Saturday before election day. [HHS] 71 M. D. Potter was proprietor (with Halstead) of the Cincinnati Commercial . [HHS] 72 This is probably a reference to J. A. Gurley, member of Congress from Cincinnati district, 1859-1863. [HHS] 73 The letter was written after the election of November 1860, when Bell was a compromise candidate for President, and while [Salmon P.] Chase was senator-elect from Ohio, or after he had resigned that position to go into Lincoln’s cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. [HHS] 74 The letterhead is dated 1860 but no complete date is available. [HHS]

35 reports, Potter will cut it. 75 The circulation of the Daily Commercial up to 18,000, and increasing, but paper not paying. However, good time coming if the government can enforce the constitution and the laws. [HHS] Note: This item was listed in Santmyer’s catalog but was not found with the collection in 2010:

Jan. 15, 1861 Letter from M. D. Potter to W. D. Bickham. Potter comments on two of the Commercial correspondents in Washington, and on arrangements for telegraphing dispatches from Washington, which will put the Commercial on an equal footing with the Gazette . Potter discusses matters of pay, advertising, etc. [HHS]

Jan. 28, 1861 Letter from M. D. Potter to W. D. Bickham. Potter comments on libel suit by Judge Carter “2 or 3 years since,” denies any hostility on the part of the paper towards his attorney, Caleb B. Smith. Advises Bickham not to get too excited politically, to keep cool. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 26: Correspondence from Whitelaw Reid76 , 1863-1868, 1892

June 3, 1863 Letter from Whitelaw Reid, from the Gazette rooms, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Reid thanks Bickham for the copy of his book [ Rosecrans’ Campaign ], has reviewed it, and expects Cincinnati Gazette to publish the review. Reid congratulates Bickham on his going to Dayton: better than the dog’s life of an Army correspondent. [HHS]

June 20, 1867 Letter from Whitelaw Reid, Cedarville, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Reid suspects someone wanted the Journal to print a notice of his book, Ohio in the War , without furnishing a copy. He will see that Bickham gets one. [HHS]

Feb. 11, 1868 Letter from Whitelaw Reid, from the Gazette office, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Reid is returning from Mobile [Alabama], found letter from Bickham asking for a copy of Ohio in the War , and a bill. There will be no bill. He went at once to see that the book was sent; had ordered it sent before going South, and found that it had been. Rumors of his connection with the new evening paper are premature: editorship offered

75 At the time of Dennison’s inauguration as Governor of Ohio, Jan. 1860, Bickham was Columbus legislative correspondent for the Cincinnati Commercial . [HHS] 76 Whitelaw Reid was a reporter, war correspondent, editor, politician, and ambassador; he was a long time editor of the New York Tribune . [HHS]

36 him, but he has not accepted. He agrees with Bickham as to wisdom of trying to buy Cincinnati Times , but price too high. [HHS]

Feb. 15, 1868 Letter from Whitelaw Reid, from the Gazette office, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. If Bickham would like sheets from publishers to clip for quotes, Reid will collect and send them. He is not asking that Bickham quote, is grateful for what has already been written. He considers himself lucky in his friends. [HHS]

June 13, 1892 Telegram from Whitelaw Reid, New York, to W. D. Bickham. Reid thanks Bickham for renewal of old friendship.77 [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 27: Correspondence from William S. Rosecrans 78 , 1862- 1864, 1876-1883, Undated

Dec. 14, 1862 Pass issued at Headquarters, 14 th Army Corps, Nashville, [TN]; signed by Wm. W. Wiles, Provost Marshal General. Permits Capt. W. D. Bickham (Major General Rosecrans’s staff) to pass through the lines at will until further orders. [HHS]

Feb. 4, 1863 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, TN, to W. D. Bickham. Rosecrans bestows all he is able to give when he awards Bickham the title of Major for his services in the Battle of Stone[s] River. He commends the newspaper articles Bickham has written. He wishes he had the power to commission him. [HHS]

Nov. 5, 1863 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans, Yellow Springs, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked private. Rosecrans thanks Bickham for his reply to [John Wien] Forney’s 79 correspondent, a “dirty specimen,” etc. He hopes the public will give him credit for as much patriotism as Stanton. He was as much interested in watching the conduct of the Army Police in Nashville, repressing its disorders and punishing its derelictions, as Governor [Andrew] Johnson; was on the spot and as likely to know the facts as anyone. Invoked the assistance of his staff and General officers, requested

77 The telegram was sent after Reid’s nomination for Vice President [with Benjamin Harrison being nominated for President] at the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis, MN. [HHS] 78 William S. Rosecrans was a soldier; Colonel of the 23 rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, later Brigadier-General, U.S. Army; promoted to Lieutenant-General of the Volunteers, 1862, put in command in Kentucky, organized Army of the Cumberland in 3 corps; Battle of Stone[s] River, or Murfreesboro, maneuvered Bragg out of Tennessee. Defeat at Chickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863, cost Rosecrans his command. [HHS] 79 John Wien Forney, editor: in 1861, founded the Washington Chronicle , at the suggestion, it was said, of President Lincoln. The Chronicle was the Administration’s organ, and supported all its war measures. [HHS]

37 Governor Johnson 80 to furnish him with information or charges against [William] Truesdail 81 . No such charges were ever received; no chance of conviction of Truesdail, who was allowed to resign. Government could bring no charges against Rosecrans, who has avoided politics. But cannot say offense is not political, because it is the policy of the administration to cut off Generals who acquire prominence. Cause more likely Stanton’s hostility. He calls Stanton a “coarse passionate and conceited man.” But life is too short for pursuit of personal quarrels; Rosecrans will leave Stanton “to the vengeance of the people.” [HHS]

Jan. 12, 1864 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans to General L. Thomas, Adjutant-General, United States Army. Rosecrans writes a detailed refutation of General Wood’s 82 letter criticizing Rosecrans’ report of the Battle of Chickamauga.83 [HHS]

Jan. 14, 1876 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans, San Rafael, CA, to W. D. Bickham. Rosecrans will send a copy of an essay, asks for Bickham’s opinion of the author’s ideas, and to print the essay if he sees fit to do so. [LPR]

Apr. 9, 1876 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans, Egan, NV, to W. D. Bickham. Mrs. Rosecrans forwarded Bickham’s letter, and has sent Bickham a copy of “Democracy.” Will he please “notice it.” Rosecrans asks what the Bickham boys are being brought up to do, and what the advantages of an editorial life are; Rosecrans wishes men could be trained to be editors as they are trained to be doctors and lawyers. [HHS]

July 9, 1880 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans, San Francisco, CA, to W. D. Bickham. Rosecrans acknowledges Bickham’s letter; shares his views of nomination of Garfield, and agrees as to the honor due those who put their feet on the “third term.” He thinks Garfield is better fitted to be President than anyone named at the [Republican National] Convention. “Breadth, generosity, liberality in him.” The nomination will prolong the life of the Republican Party. Bickham knows Rosecrans well enough to understand what he thinks at stake, even if Bickham does not approve his judgment. He

80 Andrew Johnson was the Military Governor of Tennessee from 1862-1865; later Vice President of the United States. [HHS] 81 William Truesdail was the Chief of Police of the Army of the Cumberland, “Colonel” by courtesy, but in actuality, a civilian; he was inherited by Rosecrans from his predecessor in commands. [HHS] 82 General Thomas J. Wood was a citizen of Dayton, Ohio. [HHS] 83 The withdrawal of General Wood’s division from the line of battle created the gap of which the Confederates took advantage, breaking through between Union divisions, and winning the battle. Wood gave Rosecrans’ order as the reason for his moving his troops; Rosecrans says in this letter to General Thomas that Wood in the circumstances should not have obeyed, but should have sent to Rosecrans for new orders. [HHS]

38 encloses clippings from paper which published Rosecrans’ two letters giving his views. 84 [HHS]

Nov. 19, 1883 85 Letter (copy) from General William S. Rosecrans to General [Winfield Scott] Hancock 86 . Bickham having mislaid the letters of appointment naming him Major, Rosecrans recounts to General Hancock Bickham’s military career, first as volunteer aide de camp in West Virginia, then as war correspondent and aide when Rosecrans was in command of the Army of the Cumberland. Rosecrans wants to know if anything more than this attention is necessary in order to establish Bickham’s record. [HHS]

Undated 87 Letter from General William S. Rosecrans, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Rosecrans thanks Bickham for the kind invitation. He announces the death of Mrs. Rosecrans on last Christmas morning. His daughter, in deep mourning, would not be congenial company for other guests. [HHS]

Undated 88 Letter from Mrs. William S. Rosecrans, Yellow Springs, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Mrs. Rosecrans thanks Bickham for the copy of his book on General Rosecrans’ campaign, and also for the “just appreciation” of Rosecrans’ character. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 28: Correspondence from Robert C. Schenck 89 , 1863-1875

Dec. 17, 1863 Letter from Robert C. Schenck, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Schenck assumes he does not want all of the published numbers of the Congressional Globe ; at $5 a volume, it would cost hundreds of dollars. He has ordered Daily Globe , with full current reports, sent from office, and will furnish bound volumes at end of session. He will send Rosecrans’s official reports as soon as he can get them. [HHS]

Apr. 20, 1865 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only]

84 These clippings have long been missing; they are no longer in the collection. [HHS] 85 Dated Jan. 12, 1864, in HHS’s original catalog. However, although it may refer to incidents of 1864, the letter was actually written many years later. [LPR] 86 Winfield Scott Hancock was a Major-General. [HHS] 87 There is a note in the margin: “See envelope stamp, 22 July, 1881.” [HHS] 88 A pencil note in the margin: May 20, 1863. [HHS] 89 Robert C. Schenck was a soldier, politician, and diplomat. He was a member of Congress from Dayton, 1843-1851; Minister to Brazil, 1851-1853; Brigadier-General of the Volunteers, 1861; promoted to Major General of the Volunteers, 1862; defeated Clement Vallandingham for Congress, 1863; member of Congress, 1863-1871; Minister to England, 1870-1876. [HHS]

39 Schenck will set out the next day for Illinois, as one of the committee to accompany Lincoln’s body to Springfield. He expects to see Dayton people in Columbus. He is hopeful of Johnson, has had three good talks with him, and is satisfied. [HHS]

Mar. 18, 1866 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Schenck likes the ground Bickham takes in reviewing [Andrew] Johnson’s former positions and declarations, his article being among the best. Johnson is “played upon and used by [Fred] Seward, Blair 90 , & Co, flattered by rebels and copperheads, in whom he has yet no confidence,” and seems to have no clear views and purposes of his own. [HHS]

Apr. 3, 1866 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Schenck asks if Bickham hears echo from Connecticut. Is close work, but it always has been so in that Democratic state. “King Andy 91 ” may discover that he is not as strong as the Union party. [James A.] Garfield and others did good work among the “Nutmegers”92 [sic]. [HHS]

Apr. 24, 1866 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Matters shaping well in the reconstruction committee, and Congress will work out a solution to satisfy the people at home, and one upon which they can go into the fight with “Crazy Andy.” 93 [HHS]

Mar. 10, 1867 Letter from Robert C. Schenck, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] In regards to appointments: When Hubbell was rejected, Schenck sent to President Johnson through the Postmaster-General a letter urging the reappointment of Comley, restoration would be an act of retributive justice, but thinks a recommendation from a Representative “so radical as yours” would not be regarded. However, Schenck “will still be effective at the other end of the lever,” the Senate. He thinks it a pity the Tenure of Office bill was not passed a year earlier. [HHS]

Mar. 16, [1867] Letter from Robert C. Schenck, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] The rejection of [Henry C.] Corbin the work of some man he had dismissed from the service, who forged letters against Corbin. The matter was exposed; the Military Committee asked the President to send in also letter from Sherman, March 24, 1867. [HHS]

90 This is probably a reference to Montgomery Blair, a hot-headed Republican politician who turned Democrat after the Civil War because he disagreed with Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction. [LPR] 91 Reference to President Andrew Johnson. [LPR] 92 “Nutmegger” is a nickname for a person from the state of Connecticut. [LPR] 93 Reference to President Andrew Johnson. [LPR]

40 Aug. 30, 1867 Letter from Robert C. Schenck, Atlantic, RI, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Schenck will cheerfully, as always, help in the canvass. Before leaving Washington, explained to General Cowan and General [Rutherford B.] Hayes in conference that he could begin on the 14 th of September, and continue until the election. Stipulated that he must have time for his own district. On vacation, but busy with affairs of Congress. Union Republican Executive Committee will be in Washington the following week for two days, home on Saturday, then to Illinois on personal business, a trip necessary to save thousands of dollars, the savings of 7 years of former labor. “Security debts” – “struggled honestly through without my neighbors,” and the cost of public life had made him poor – so much of an explanation due Bickham and other friends in Dayton. [HHS]

June 16, 1868 Letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Schenck has been wanting to write but has lacked time. Now he wants to outline a few things which he has no time to enlarge upon: the Congressional convention should have been postponed as long as possible; he expects to be re-nominated, but must have rest after adjournment before the campaign. In regards to the case of [O. C.] Maxwell: not Schenck’s fault an earlier investigation was not made. Regrets charges against Maxwell. Investigation to be made, but so far held up for the decision as to removal of the President. Will now be made. 94 In regards to the “Whiskey Ring” accusations, it is not consistent with Schenck’s self-respect to defend himself. At his age is not likely to bargain away his character and reputation, which are his only fortune. Nobody who knows him will listen without defending him. But public faith has lately been betrayed by so many it is no wonder the public mind should be distrustful. Best answer from Schenck to accusations is his record of laborious work to suppress corruption. 95 [HHS]

July 20, 1868 Letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Schenck cannot be in Dayton for welcome home by G. A. R. [Grand Army of the Republic] until August 25. After adjournment, he must organize the Congressional Republican Executive Committee, then have a vacation. After that will campaign for [Ulysses S.] Grant and [Schuyler] Colfax. A rumor current that the “Whiskey Ring” will get Schenck’s bill vetoed; cannot believe “even he” [Johnson] “can be guilty of such consummate folly.” [HHS]

Apr. 22, 1870 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only]

94 In 1868, O. C. Maxwell was Assessor of Internal Revenue in Dayton; on September 22, the Revenue Collector’s office of the district was moved to Hamilton and placed under charge of General Vandeever. This information is from the Dayton Ledger . [HHS] 95 For allusions to General Schenck’s supposed connection with the Whiskey Ring, see the 1868 Dayton Ledger (a Democratic newspaper). [HHS]

41 The Gazette and Commercial 96 may snarl at Schenck, and misrepresent him, but time will show how right he is. And some day he will show up Mr. L. D. C. 97 [HHS]

May 6, 1870 Letter from Robert C. Schenck, House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Schenck so pressed for time he can only answer Bickham’s inquiries by enclosing a copy of a letter written to Judge Thompson of Preble County. If Schenck is to be nominee again, he hopes the convention will not be held until the latest possible date. [HHS]

Nov. 23, 1875 Letter and newspaper clipping from Robert C. Schenck, Cumberland Place, London, England, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Marked personal. Schenck has sent Bickham a copy of Anglo-American Times for November 12, containing article on Schenck’s connection with the Emma mine; today sends copy of article of the 19 th , both published without solicitation, proving one Englishman has thought it but just and affair to look into the facts. He received Bickham’s note concerning the American Encyclopedia – sent it to a friend in New York – hopes to hear of the publisher (Appleton) being sharply rebuked for “mean and malignant use” of Schenck’s name. The author of the article knew that Schenck had never published a pamphlet on poker. Schenck keeps in excellent health in spite of calumnies. [HHS]

Dec. 12, 1875 98 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck, London, England, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Reverdy Johnson 99 , now in London, has written the Baltimore American , vindicating Schenck’s conduct in Emma mine affair. A fair, chivalrous act of justice by an old friend with whom Schenck has difference of late on many points. Schenck wants Bickham to watch for letter and copy it. Schenck has had letter from W. H. Appleton, publisher of American Encyclopedia , apologizing for the introduction of Schenck’s name into “poker article” of Volume 13, protesting regret for the error, stating that the plates will be corrected. This all very well, but truth and justice never “overtake slander.” [HHS]

Dec. 23, 1875

96 The Gazette and the Commercial refer to the Cincinnati newspapers edited respectively by R. Smith and Murat Halstead. [HHS] 97 “Mr. L. D. C.” is undoubtedly Lewis D. Campbell of Hamilton, who had represented the 3 rd district in Congress as a Whig, 1849-1858, twice defeating Vallandingham, then being defeated by him. In 1870, he ran as a Democrat against General Schenck for representative of the 3 rd district, and defeated him by 53 votes. See History of the Republican Party in Ohio . [HHS] 98 Dated Dec. 13, 1875, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 99 Reverdy Johnson was a lawyer and diplomat; during the Civil War, a Union Democrat, Senator from Maryland; after the Civil War, supported Johnson’s reconstruction policy, was largely responsible for saving Johnson from impeachment; Minister to England, 1868-1869. [HHS]

42 Newspaper clipping of letter from Robert C. Schenck, Cumberland Place, London, England, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Schenck thanks Bickham for the strong article in the Journal on Emma mine. Bickham will have had Reverdy Johnson’s 2 letters to Baltimore American , the second embodying a note of Schenck’s to him. A vindication, but Schenck does not expect libelers to admit it. Smalley 100 still sending “dribblings of his spite” to Tribune . Bickham right as to grounds of his offense: was not pushed socially by Schenck in London. [Henry] Watterson 101 a similar case: when Schenck did not run after him, he wrote home charging Schenck with incompetence, gambling, etc., said he played with the Prince of Wales and lost large sums of money. Schenck never met or saw the Prince of Wales at a card table, and has not won or lost 5 pounds since he came to London. Also, Schenck did not pay enough attention to Ben Eggleston 102 when he came into the Congress. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 29: Correspondence from John Sherman 103 , 1861-1891

Apr. 14, 1861 Newspaper clipping of letter from John Sherman, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] There is strong feeling in Washington for no holiday war like Sumter, but war in earnest. Sherman feels that “we are disgraced as a nation; dishonored as men…unless the Confederate States are punished.” He begs Bickham to prepare the public mind for war. [HHS]

Mar. 1864 Letter from John Sherman, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Bickham correct in opinion that popular sentiment is in favor of Lincoln. This “the result of impulse and patriotic sentiment rather than of judgment of his merits as an executive officer.” Sherman looks upon his nomination as beyond doubt, and hopes there will be no competitors, but that the popular opinion may be pronounced by the acclamation of the convention. Does not think there is any disposition in Washington to resist the popular feeling. But many are convinced that Lincoln will carry into his next term the doubts and delays of the first one; feeling against Blair is almost as strong as that in favor of Lincoln; yet Blair will surely be the guiding star of the next administration. [HHS]

100 G. W. Smalley was war correspondent during the Civil War, afterwards foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune ; formed first international newspaper alliance; in charge of New York Tribune ’s European correspondence until 1895; “moved freely in upper strata of English society, knew everybody of importance in England and America” and “was, perhaps, even too eager to let his high connections be known.” From the Dictionary of American Biography . [HHS] 101 Henry Watterson was later editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal . [HHS] 102 For a note on Eggleston, see Sherman, Mar. 24, 1868. [HHS] 103 John Sherman was a lawyer, member of the Whig conventions of 1848, 1852; elected to the House of Representatives as a Whig, 1854; became Republican, 1859; Representative, 1854-1861; Senator from Ohio, 1861-1877; Secretary of Treasury, 1877-1881; Senator, 1881-1897; Secretary of State, 1897-1898; unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1880, 1884, 1888. [HHS]

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Mar. 20 or 24, 1867 104 Letter from John Sherman, U.S. Senate Chamber, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] [Henry C.] Corbin’s appointment rejected upon false and malicious charges; matter cleared up, and after reappointment, he was confirmed unanimously. To this result, Sherman contributed al that he could. Sherman assures Bickham that he is not unfriendly because of Bickham’s support of General [Robert C.] Schenck. Bickham did what was right in the circumstances, and “that contest left not a sting behind.” With one or two exceptions, General Schenck’s friends are his. 105 [HHS]

July 25, 1875 Letter from John Sherman, Mansfield, OH, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Bickham shall have advance copy of speech to be made in Lawrence County. General aspect of canvass favorable, but many Republicans want inflation and will vote Democratic; their loss may be more than made up from hard-money Democrats. [HHS]

Mar. 24, 1876 Newspaper clipping of letter from John Sherman, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] So far as Sherman knows, not one word of truth in suggestion that friends of Hayes intend movement for him to result in favor of Governor [Oliver P.] Morton [of Indiana] for second choice. Morton did not think it; took offense at his (Sherman’s) letter when it was published. Sherman meant Governor [Rutherford B.] Hayes and none other, and thinks if Ohio is in earnest it can be secured. The trouble with H. [Murat Halstead], Smith, and [Benjamin] Eggleston is that they do not see farther than each other; because Eggleston is for Morton and Hayes at the same time, that is enough to induce Smith and H. [Murat Halstead] to oppose Hayes. 106 Sherman respects each of them, but wishes they would look beyond the boundaries of Cincinnati. “The school for scandal, now in active operation, is rapidly diminishing the number of candidates for vice president” – not safe for any man to commit himself even by an expression of opinion. Platform of “our” convention [Ohio State Convention] should not try to do work of the National Convention, should merely reaffirm position of previous summer, on which the Republicans won. To adopt heresies of Indiana platform would be suicide; the people mean to get back on a specie standard, and politicians may as well understand it. Sherman a spectator of events that are passing, with no ambition except to fulfill the duty assigned him by the state, and will not be involved in any premature selection of candidates. [HHS]

104 The original is dated March 20; the newspaper clipping is dated is dated March 24. [LPR] 105 See also: letter from Schenck, March 16, 1867, in regards to Corbin appointment. [HHS] 106 This is a reference to three newspaper men of Cincinnati: Halstead of the Commercial , Richard Smith of the Gazette , and Benjamin Eggleston. [HHS] Eggleston began his career as a merchant, and became a politician, serving as presiding officer of the Cincinnati Council, as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860, as a member of Congress from the Cincinnati district, 1865-1869. Through his large financial interest in the Cincinnati Chronicle , and after its purchase of the Cincinnati Times , in the Times Corporation, he was elected president of the company, and was therefore one of the influential newspaper men of Cincinnati. [HHS]

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Apr. 12, 1876 Letter from John Sherman, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman expresses regret that proposal of his name at the State convention at Columbus should have caused anyone to question his desire for the nomination of Hayes at the National Convention. He (Sherman) made a mistake in not having told his friends to withdraw his name if he was proposed as delegate-at-large. Regrets that the incidents “you mention” should have been made “a handle to raise a doubt as to the sincerity of the Convention for Governor Hayes.” [HHS]

Jan. 22, 1877 Newspaper clipping of letter from John Sherman to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Sherman is glad to learn the feeling in Ohio in regard to the compromise bill. He concurs in Bickham’s opinion. He doubts if more than one of Ohio’s Republican representatives will support it. Even if bill passes, thinks Hayes’s chances are better than [Samuel] Tilden’s, but thinks it a shameful thing to be thus betrayed by political friends. 107 [HHS]

Apr. 30, 1878 Newspaper clipping of letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] The charge mentioned by Bickham a surprise both to Sherman and the President [Rutherford B. Hayes]; for sake of the state would regret if there were truth in it, although [George H.] Pendleton has been lifelong opponent. 108 [HHS]

Oct. 1, 1878 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman introduces Bickham to Mr. Hale as the Proprietor of the Dayton Journal , and the “leading active Republican” of Dayton. [HHS]

Apr. 15, 1879 Newspaper clipping of letter from John Sherman to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Sherman has not read carefully the long article in The Times as to the presidency; nor would he have been troubled with any view attributed to Bickham as he relies with

107 The reference is to the act passed January 29, 1877, which created the Electoral Commission to pass on the electoral votes cast in the 1876 election. Charles Foster was the only Republican member of Congress from Ohio who voted in favor of it. See History of the Republican Party in Ohio . [HHS] Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden ran against one another in the 1876 presidential election. The date of this clipping may be wrong.) [LPR] 108 This is a reference to George H. Pendleton, Democratic member of Congress and Senator from Ohio, and Minister to Germany. Businessman and editor in Cincinnati, until 1852 a law partner of George Pugh, also a Democratic Senator from Ohio. Member of Congress, 1857-1865; a Douglas supporter in 1860; during the Civil War, a Greenbacker. Defeated for the governorship of Ohio in 1870 by Hayes; in 1878 elected by legislature to the Senate, served 1879-1885. Sent by President Cleveland as minister to Germany. Through years of the rough and tumble of Ohio politics, Pendleton kept his nickname “Gentleman George,” and the reputation to go with it; there is no record of any charge against him. For letters from Pendleton in the Dayton Collection, see the Political Letters of John G. Doren. [HHS]

45 “abiding faith” on his (Bickham’s) doing whatever he thought would be for Sherman’s benefit. Can truly say that he has not troubled himself about the presidency; if Grant is nominated he will have no warmer supporter than Sherman. Taft and Swayne would suit him for the Ohio ticket, but the state convention is not apt to make a mistake in regard to nominations. 109 [HHS]

Dec. 31, 1879 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman has heard of political situation in Akron; also that it was overstated and would be corrected; grows out of strong greenback feeling in Akron, encouraged by [A. L.] Conger 110 . [Hezekiah] Bundy 111 a Greenbacker 112 , but Sherman hopes he can be changed; [Samuel] Craighead 113 friendly. Sherman is sending Bickham a pamphlet issued from New York Herald office explaining his position on the financial question, which, misunderstood, has hurt him in the West. [Ulysses S.] Grant will be pressed to be a candidate, and has control of organizations which may give him the nomination unless his friends fear his defeat in the election. [HHS]

Jan. 7, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman mentions two appointments. He has just heard of the nomination of General [James A.] Garfield [for Senate] and hopes to hear of settlement of “Maine imbroglio,” which will leave the question of nominee for President open for “unembarrassed consideration.” 114 [HHS]

Feb. 4, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Controversy between [J. S.] Robinson and [A. L.] Conger; Robinson has promised to reconcile it, and Sherman hopes he will yield to Conger. Also hopes Bickham will carry out his purpose and write to and see Conger. Sherman hears directly from Conger from personal friends; thinks Conger has no ill will towards him (Sherman), but Sherman is his second choice to [Ulysses S.] Grant, and Conger thinks Grant is out of the way so far as Ohio is concerned. Sherman believes Bickham can heal the wound.

109 For other references to Alphonso Taft’s candidacy for governor, see Bickham Collection – Halstead, letter of Nov. 18, 1880; Keifer, letter of May 1, 1879; Smith, Richard, letter of May 22, 1875. [HHS] 110 A. L. Conger of Summit County (Ohio), was the Chairman, State Central Committee, 1879. [HHS] 111 Hezekiah Bundy of Jackson County (Ohio), was a Republican member of Congress, 1864-1866, 1872- 1874. [HHS] 112 Greenbackers were members of the Greenback Party, an American political party that was active from 1874-1884. Greenbackers were against monopolies and protested the National Banking System. [LPR] 113 Samuel Craighead was a Dayton lawyer; Chairman of the Ohio delegation to the Republican Convention, 1872. [HHS] 114 An attempt was made after the 1879 election in Maine to override the result of the election and set up a state government in defiance of the popular vote. Blaine took charge of the effort to establish rightful government, and through his vigorous measures, the scheme of usurpation was defeated. [HHS]

46 Desirable to have the Convention as early as practicable. Thinks the Blaine movement will not be a success, and is not approved by Blaine himself. 115 [HHS]

Apr. 15, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Bickham’s telegram received, “for which I congratulate you as well as myself.” [HHS]

May 3, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] The letter is in regards to the appointment of Mr. Rouzer as postal clerk. [HHS]

June 17, 1880 Newspaper clipping and fragment of letter from John Sherman to W. D. Bickham. [Clipping only] Sherman analyzes causes of his defeat for nomination: no doubt the division of the Ohio delegation was injurious, but not necessarily fatal: every large state delegation was more or less divided. He does not feel sore over his defeat, and is willing to acquiesce in the prudence of the nomination of Gen. [James A.] Garfield, and to bear any disappointment he may feel. One painful suspicion Sherman cannot get out of his mind: that Gov. [Charles] Foster116 was not true to his promise or his duty. This has been brought to him (Sherman) in so many forms from persons disconnected, and by incidents which are clearly proven, that his mind is forming the conviction that Foster not only did not obey the instructions of the state but actually proved treacherous at critical moments. Sherman might have been defeated anyway, but this charge has given him more real pain than all others combined, and he would be glad indeed to be relieved from the suspicion. Among other charges: it was said that Foster was assured by the Connecticut delegation that nine of them were ready to vote for Sherman whenever their votes would promote his nomination; Foster was to notify them and never did. It was alleged that Massachusetts delegates were ready to vote for Sherman at any time, and were dissuaded by Foster, and the same is said of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These are serious charges that Sherman would give anything to have Foster relieved of: if true, no language is too severe to apply to him; if false, Sherman should be relieved of the fear that they are true. Incidentally to a convention, some errors and faults are inevitable, some complaints are groundless; Sherman does not reproach anyone for division of opinion nor for the results of the convention; especially he wants to thank W. D. Bickham for his hearty and earnest support before and during the convention, and assures him of his grateful remembrance.

115 The reference is to the Ohio state convention. Conger was still Chairman, State Central Committee; J. S. Robinson of Kenton, member of Congress, 1881-1885, was Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee. The two disagreed as to the time when the Convention should be held, with consequence that it was not held until April 28 th , after those of most other states, to the disadvantage of Sherman. See Sherman’s Autobiography , Volume II, page 769. [HHS] 116 Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio, was a delegate-at-large to the Convention. For the full story of the accusations against him of bad faith, and his reply, see Sherman’s Autobiography . [HHS]

47 Mentions an appointment in which Bickham took great interest, and which Sherman directed to be made. If it has not been made, advise him. [HHS]

June 28, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Marked “personal.” Sherman thanks Bickham for support at Chicago Convention. Success became impossible, but Sherman’s obligations are all the more binding, and he hopes he may find a way to express his sense of gratitude. [HHS]

July 9, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, New York City, NY, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Bickham’s note about Capt. Brown was forwarded to Sherman. He will be glad to mention the subject of his pardon to the President. Sherman to be absent from Washington 10 days on vacation. [HHS]

Nov. 12, 1880 Letter from John Sherman, Treasury Department, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Bickham’s note was received, and, in compliance with request, destroyed. What Bickham proposes “eminently judicious,” but Sherman does not think his friends should press their desire for his return to the Senate in an urgent way; would not accept the office unless it were the general feeling in the State that he should do so. If it came in that way, he would regard it as the highest honor. As he told Col. Corbin, he is content to leave it to his friends. 117 [HHS]

May 9, 1881 Letter from John Sherman, Senate Library Committee, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Bickham’s letter should have been answered sooner, but while deadlock continued, nothing could be done in case of Williams. Sherman has nothing to advise. [HHS]

Apr. 21, 1883 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Marked “personal.” Suggestion that Sherman be nominated for Governor given full consideration when it was first made. 118 Decision against it: might endanger Republican ascendancy in Senate, and not help in the Ohio canvass. Would not put his personal convenience in the scale: has been so kindly dealt with by Republicans in Ohio that he would obey a call, but thinks it would be a bad political move; wants his name dropped, and hopes Bickham will help. Would like [Samuel] Craighead, Force, [Joseph

117 On the question of the return of Sherman to the Senate, see also letter from Halstead, Nov. 17, 1880, and fragment from Col. Corbin, Nov. 18, 1880, filed under Bickham Collection – Political Letters. [HHS] 118 Sherman was nominated from the floor of the convention, but withdrew his name. [Joseph Benson] Foraker was nominated. [HHS]

48 Benson] Foraker, Townsend, or [Benjamin] Butterworth. Choice of candidate easy. Difficulty with liquor question, tariff, perhaps the wool question, and general indifference to party ties. [HHS]

Mar. 3, 1884 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Sherman agrees with Bickham that all disabled soldiers should be admitted into the Soldiers’ Home without inquiry; if he sees a chance, Sherman will offer amendment to that effect to the Pension Bill. Sherman is grateful for Journal support for 1884 Convention, but thinks it should be composed of unpledged delegates. [HHS]

Apr. 15, 1884 119 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman will see that Bickham’s nephew [Mr. Lair] is given an appointment as Railway Postal Clerk when a vacancy occurs. [HHS]

Sept. 15, 1885 Letter from John Sherman, Mansfield, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman will urge Bushnell 120 to assist Bickham as requested; he will have means at command and knows how to distribute them. Sorry Dr. Smith did not run. Matters are improving: liquor question settling itself in Republican favor. Will be engaged on the stump henceforward. [HHS]

Dec. 7, 1885 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] In regards to charges against Mr. Knecht: Sherman wishes to avoid conflicts in Ohio, and will not commit himself on the question for a month. “Seems to be the fashion to abuse President Hayes for the many kindly things he is now doing.” He does not believe this abuse will affect public opinion, which is growing more “partial” to Hayes and his administration. Sherman thinks the Hamilton County contest unpleasant, but others from Ohio take a different view; can only await events, “always expecting the worst from Democrats.” 121 [HHS]

Jan. 12, 1886 Letter from John Sherman, Senate Chamber, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original]

119 Dated Apr. 15, 1884, in HHS’s original catalog; however, the exact day is very difficult to discern. 120 Asa S. Bushnell, Springfield, was elected Chairman of the State Executive Committee at the Republican State Convention, 1885. [HHS] 121 “Notoriously bold frauds” were committed in Hamilton County in the 1885 election, resulting in the election of Democratic senators to the State Legislature ([HHS] [HHS] 122 Knecht, a Democrat, appointed Collector of Internal Revenue in Dayton through influence of C. M. Anderson, Democratic Representative of the district. [HHS]

49 No doubt as to confirmation of appointment of Knecht.122 Sherman disposed to let the confirmation go over until after the election of Senator, but is inclined to like him (Knecht) “for the enemies he has made.” [HHS]

July 16, 1887 Letter from John Sherman, Mansfield, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman is grateful for the opinions of Bickham. He awaits action of the Toledo Convention, which may settle matters. Sherman may attend as delegate, in which case he would be glad to have Bickham’s opinion and advice.123 [HHS]

June 29, 1888 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman cannot believe that General [Thomas J.] Wood 124 made the remark attributed to him; Bickham to find out and let Sherman know. Sherman will not rest silent under such imputation, but prefers not to believe it. Not worth while to regret the past, but only to take care of the future. He will always be glad to hear from Bickham. [HHS]

Apr. 2, 1889 Letter from John Sherman, Senate Chamber, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Sherman has done and will do what he can for Major Chapin. Exclusion of Ohio Republicans [from the Harrison administration] is marked. Sherman owes Bickham this favor and whatever else he can do. [HHS]

July 5, 1890 Letter from John Sherman, Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Reply to letter from Bickham of the 1 st ; agrees with him. [Benjamin] Butterworth 125 rash, but a “splendid fellow,” and Sherman will stand by him. As for free silver: the wildest delusion. He thinks there will be a compromise. Sorry Williams 126 did not talk with him; he would have tried to persuade him not to vote as he did. [HHS]

Nov. 7, 1891 Letter from John Sherman, Mansfield, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. [Original and news clipping] Bickham’s note very satisfactory. Plan of Gov. [J. B.] Foraker and the Cincinnati Commercial is to claim everything and make false impression upon members elect (of

123 Sherman attended the Convention and was given a great ovation when the resolution pledging the Party in Ohio to his candidacy for President was read ( History of the Republican Party in Ohio ). [HHS] See also: Bickham Collection – Newspaper Men, Letters from – John Hopley, letter of July 14, 1887. [HHS] 124 It is unclear whether this might refer to General Thomas J. Wood of Dayton. [HHS] 125 Benjamin Butterworth, Member of Congress from Ohio, 1879-1883, 1885-1891. [HHS] 126 E. S. Williams, Member of Congress, Republican, from the 4 th District. See letter from E. S. W., July 5, 1890, filed under Political Letters. [HHS]

50 Legislature). 127 Sherman has been assured of support of several of those claimed. He has never doubted Bickham’s position, knowing him frank and courageous. [HHS]

Nov. 24, 1891 Letter from John Sherman, Mansfield, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Thanks Bickham for article in the Journal . The Cincinnati Commercial in this Senatorial contest has been unfair, untruthful and slanderous; present managers have refused to tell the truth or allow it to be printed; when they have lied they have refused to publish a retraction. Sherman has helped the paper in the past, in “Deacon” Smith’s days; will have nothing further to do with them. A new Republican morning daily is needed in Cincinnati. [HHS]

Undated [June 1880?] 128 Fragment from John Sherman to W. D. Bickham. [Original] Sherman thanks Bickham for support before and during the convention and assures him of his (Sherman’s) grateful remembrance. He refers to the appointment he had promised should be made; Bickham to let him know if it has not been done. [HHS]

Nov. 21, 189? Telegram from John Sherman to C. C. Bickham. [Original] Sherman thinks he cannot come to Dayton; if he can, would prefer to stop at hotel, but will call. [HHS]

Box 1, Folder 30: Correspondence from Woodrow Wilson 129 , 1912

Apr. 26, 1912 Letter from Woodrow Wilson, Executive Department, [Trenton], NJ, to D. D. Bickham. Wilson acknowledges letter from D. D. Bickham, recalls their talk with pleasure, and thanks him for clipping from the Enquirer . [HHS]

Box 2, Folder 1: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Union Army Officers, 1863-1864

Mar. 29, 1863 Letter from Col. A. B. Moore 130 , Headquarters, 104 th Illinois, Camp Brentwood, to the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial . Moore repudiates indignantly the charges made against him by Bickham in the Cincinnati Commercial and in his book, Rosecrans’ Campaign .131 Bickham’s account,

127 Reference is to Foraker’s attempt to get the Senatorship away from Sherman. See Bickham Collection – J. B. Foraker, letter of June 18, 1892. [HHS] 128 A pencil marking reads “June 1880?” on the original item. [LPR] 129 Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton, 1902-1910; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and President of the United States, 1913-1921. [HHS] 130 A. B. Moore was the colonel commanding the 104 th Illinois Infantry, 1863. [HHS]

51 read after Moore’s exchange and return to the Army, said to be without one word of truth; the author’s informant or the author himself called “slanderer” and “liar,” and a demand is made that the matter be rectified. [HHS]

May 20, 1863 Letter from Warren S. Fuller 132 , from the camp of the 31 st Ohio, to W. D. Bickham, Aide de Camp of General Rosecrans. Requests that Bickham use his influence with Rosecrans to procure that general’s approval of his application for furlough, already approved by his regimental officers. Necessary that he go home [Wilmington, Ohio] to save the homestead from being sold on a mortgage. Not needed in camp; refusal to allow furloughs causing resignations from the Army. [HHS]

June 2, 1863 Letter from Col. Thomas R. Stanley 133 , from Headquarters, Murfreesboro, [TN], to W. D. Bickham, including a copy of a letter to Capt. [William H.] Patton of the 69 th OVI 134 . Stanley explains the enclosure, which Bickham may print if he sees fit: it is a rebuke to Capt. [William H.] Patton 135 , who has consented to be a candidate on the Democratic ticket. “For an officer to suffer his name to be used as a stool pigeon to catch votes for traitors is inexcusable.” The enclosed letter to Capt. Patton expresses this opinion in no uncertain terms. [HHS]

[1863?] 136 Letter from Lt. Millard 137 . Millard relates an incident which occurred Dec. 29, 1862, the day before the Battle of Murfreesboro. On a halt on the way to the battle, General [L. H.] Rousseau’s staff dismounted and made themselves as comfortable as possible; “our Ass’t Inspector Gen’l and A.D.C.” while seemingly asleep, composed a poem, spoke it to the writer of the letter. On the next day, during the intervals of the battle, he composed the melody. Afterwards, from Headquarters in Murfreesboro, he sent it to J. Church Jr. of Cincinnati, who issued it immediately. Title: “Whisper Good Night, Love.” [HHS]

131 See Chapter XIII, “The Hartsville Disgrace,” an account of Morgan’s surprise and capture of a Federal Brigade, in which Col. Moore is accused of incompetence. [HHS] 132 Warren S. Fuller was a hospital steward with the 31 st Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. [HHS] 133 Col. Thomas R. Stanley entered the War as Colonel of the 18 th OVI. In 1863, he commanded the 2 nd Brigade, 2 nd Division, 14 th Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. [HHS] 134 The 69 th OVI was a regiment predominantly recruited in Butler and Montgomery and neighboring counties. The 69 th was brigaded with the 18 th , under command of Col. Stanley (Reid’s Ohio in the War , Vol. II). [HHS] 135 Captain William H. Patton resigned his commission, July 1863. William H. Patton is listed in Williams’ Dayton Directory for 1864-1865 as “U.S. Army,” so presumably he was not elected to whatever he was a candidate for. [HHS] 136 The item is not dated, but “1863” is written in pencil in the top margin. [HHS] 137 The only clue to author of letter or song in note on p. 3 of extract: “See Capt. Milliard’s letter filed in M’s as to above” The author of the poem, - W - ? B for Reference 1905 in making file.” For authority as to position of Lt. Millard on staff of Gen. Rousseau, v. p. 438, Rosecrans’ Campaign with the 14 th Army Corps by W. D. Bickham: Gen. Rousseau’s Official Report. Lt. Millard was Inspector-General, Staff of General L. H. Rousseau. [HHS]

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May 27, 1864 Letter from James S. Fry 138 , War Department, Washington, DC, to Honorable Robert C. Schenck. Reply to letter from Bickham to Schenck, sent by him to the Secretary of War, by the Secretary of War to the Provost Marshal General [Fry]. Expresses his opinion of Bickham’s comment on an extract from paper which he had enclosed in regard to drafting 100-day men: Indignantly refutes the idea that it “discriminates in favor of the Copperheads.” [HHS]

Box 2, Folder 2: Correspondence from Miscellaneous Ohio Governors, 1879-1904

Nov. 4, 1879 139 Letter from R. M. Bishop 140 , Executive Department, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Bishop acknowledges receipt of gift copy of Bickham’s book, From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains , and thanks him for it. [HHS]

Jan. 2, 1885 Letter from George Hoadley 141 , Office of the Governor, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Hoadley will be glad to send Bickham advance sheets of his speech if it is possible – if he gets them in time to do so. [HHS]

Jan. 16, [no year, ca. 1890-1892] Letter from James Campbell 142 , Executive Chamber, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Campbell regrets that Bickham was not furnished with advance copy of his message; thanks him for the kind things said; asks to be remembered to Mrs. Bickham. [HHS]

May 5, 1904 Letter from Myron T. Herrick 143 , Executive Chamber, Columbus, OH, to the Editor of the Dayton Journal [Daniel D. Bickham]. Herrick expresses gratitude for an editorial in the Journal , entitled “Governor Herrick and His Critics,” and says that as Governor he has tried to do what is best for the state, regardless of his friends. [HHS]

138 James S. Fry was the Provost Marshal General during the Civil War. [HHS] 139 Dated Nov. 8, 1879, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 140 R. M. Bishop was Governor of Ohio (Democrat), 1878-1880. [HHS] 141 George Hoadley was Governor of Ohio (Republican), 1884-1886. [HHS] 142 James Campbell was Governor of Ohio (Democrat), 1890-1892. [HHS] 143 Myron T. Herrick was Governor of Ohio (Republican), 1904-1906; later, ambassador to France. [HHS]

53 Box 2, Folder 3: Correspondence from Newspaper men, or about articles printed in the Dayton Journal , 1861-1894

Apr. 14, 1861 Letter from W. L. Dennis, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham, care of the Commercial , Columbus 144 , OH. Enclosed in a cover printed with the words “‘Palladium and Broad Ax,’ Richmond, Indiana.” [LPR] Dennis writes in response to Bickham’s inquiry last fall about a newspaper enterprise in Richmond, [Indiana]. Dennis had nothing for Bickham until now. There is a prospect to purchase the Palladium and Broad Axe and unite them in one tip top Republican journal. Responsible men with money enough are wanted to make the arrangements. A considerable amount of government patronage would be easily secured for the paper. [LPR]

Apr. 21, 1863 Letter from A. P. Miller, Scioto Gazette Office, Chillicothe, OH, to W. D. Bickham, Murfreesboro, TN. Miller has decided to sell the Gazette in the next two or three months and would prefer to turn it over to Bickham, rather than to any of the other parties who have applied. His price is $6,000. He mentions that he has a first rate Adams power press (new patent) on which the paper is printed; the press is worth $1,500. He also has a large Washington hand press and a Wells jobber. [LPR]

Nov. 16, 1871 Letter from G. M. D. Blass, Enquirer Office, Cincinnati, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. Blass acknowledges receipt of Bickham’s generous contribution to the Robinson Testimonial and has duly entered it upon the subscription paper. He assures Bickham that the family is “in the last verge of destitution.” He says that he and John G. Jones, Esquire, also of Cincinnati have taken the matter into their hands. [LPR]

May 22, 1875 Letter from Richard Smith 145 , Gazette Editorial Rooms, Cincinnati, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. Marked “private.” Smith says the object of the Times is to kill Taft; beyond that he does not know. Opposes Allen 146 because he was a Democrat throughout the War. Taft would help the Party with Liberal Republicans, but “Bible men” and “temperance men”

144 It was originally addressed to Cincinnati, but that was marked out and changed to Columbus. [LPR] 145 Richard Smith was editor of the Cincinnati Gazette , 1854-1883, the date of the merger of the Gazette with the Commercial . [HHS] For other references to Richard Smith, see: Bickham Collection – Newspaper men, letters from – Wm. H. Smith, Jan. 13, 1883; Political Letters – D. Thew Wright; and John Sherman, Nov. 24, 1891. [HHS] 146 William Allen’s name was placed in nomination for Governor at the Republican State Convention, but withdrawn after the first ballot. [HHS]

54 do not like him. 147 He thinks [Alexander C.] Sands 148 is a traitor working actually for the Democrats; money to be made that way. [HHS]

May 3, 1877 Letter from R. C. [Anderson?], Dayton, OH, to W. D. Bickham. The writer was much pleased by Bickham’s article of last Tuesday on anonymous communications. He writes later: “If I do not always approve the violence and vigor of your assaults on your political opponents, I always admire your pluck and your manliness and thoroughly respect both your moral and your physical courage.” [LPR]

Nov. 10, 1879 Letter from Washington McLean 149 , Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. McLean thanks Bickham for a copy of his book, From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains . [HHS]

Jan. 13, 1883 Letter from William H. Smith 150 , from New York, to W. D. Bickham. Smith discusses the acceptability to the Associated Press of the consolidation of the Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial . He approves: case not parallel to those of which the Associated Press has disapproved. He thinks it will work: that [Murat] Halstead will be able to hold his own with the “Deacon” [Richard Smith]. 151 He also discusses other A. P. matters. [HHS]

Feb. 12, 1883 Letter from Coates Kinney 152 , Senate Chamber of Ohio, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked private. Kinney thanks Bickham for his fight for the Senate proposition for the legislative control of the liquor traffic. The attempt in Columbus of the Republican Party to pass legislation to tax and control the liquor traffic helped cost them the 1883 elections. [HHS]

July 14, 1887 Letter from John Hopley 153 , Bucyrus, OH, to W. D. Bickham.

147 Alphonso Taft, as Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, rendered a decision against the use of the Bible in public schools, a decision which twice cost him the gubernatorial nomination. [HHS] For other references to Taft’s candidacy for Governor, see Bickham Collection – Halstead, Nov. 18, 1880; Keifer, May 1, 1879. [HHS] 148 Alexander C. Sands of Hamilton County was in 1875 a member of the State Central Committee ( History of the Republican Party in Ohio ). [HHS] 149 Washington McLean was editor and proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer . [HHS] 150 William H. Smith was a reporter on the Cincinnati Times at 21, later managing editor. During the War, he was an editorial writer for the Cincinnati Gazette . In 1870, he became the Agent of the Western Associated Press, and on consolidation of the body with the New York Associated Press, he was made general manager of the combined body. [HHS] 151 For other references to Richard Smith, see Bickham Collection – Political Letters – D. Thew Wright. [HHS] 152 Coates Kinney was a poet, newspaper man, and politician; member of the Ohio Senate, 1882-1883. [HHS]

55 Bickham was right in his conjecture that the movement to force the fighting is with Sherman’s consent. The change of front on the part of the Commercial-Gazette significant: either [Murat] Halstead went to Europe to avoid the issue, or advantage is being taken of his absence. Strained situation in Ohio: most Republicans prefer Blaine, but think Sherman safer. Believes it a mistake on Sherman’s part to force the issue, and has said so to him. [Quotes from letter to Sherman.] One of two things should be done: make Sherman chairman and “drop this other foolishness,” or let him write a letter protesting the use of his name, urging harmony and putting himself on Blaine’s platform. 154 [HHS]

Oct. 14, 1889 Letter from Guy [Hanly?], Daily and Weekly Times Recorder 155 , Zanesville, OH, to W. D. Bickham. The author requests to be placed on the exchange list for the Journal , writing: “I do not feel well qualified to conduct an Ohio daily without an opportunity to peruse the Daily Bickham. I feel also that I am liable to stray far from the righteous path if I am not occasionally under your eye.” He asks that Bickham remember him to Mr. Comly. [LPR]

Mar. 27, 1894 Letter from W. H. Chamberlin, Agent to the Associated Press, Cincinnati, OH, to Daniel D. Bickham. Chamberlin sends his sympathies upon hearing of the recent death of W. D. Bickham. [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 4: Correspondence from politicians, or about political matters, 1866-1900

Feb. 18, 1866 Letter from Thomas Williams 156 , House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Williams acknowledges letter from Bickham in regards to his speech; thanks him for his good opinion. Representatives will caucus for purpose of effective organization. President “has broken with us outright,” but struck too early on wrong issue; cannot “master the House.” Copperheads jubilant, having been called to White House and addressed by President [Andrew Johnson], who said [Thaddeus] Stevens 157 , [Charles]

153 John Hopley was the editor of the Bucyrus Journal . [HHS] 154 See also: Letters from Sherman, July 16, 1887, and from Foraker, July 4, 1887. [HHS] 155 The Zanesville Times Recorder was a Republican newspaper from 1879-1959; it operated as an Independent paper from 1877-1879 and 1959+ [LPR; Ohio Historical Society’s Guide to Ohio Newspapers ] 156 Thomas Williams was a Republican Member of Congress, 1863-1869; member of the committee appointed by the House to conduct the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson. [HHS] 157 Thaddeus Stevens was a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1849-1853 and 1859-1868, and he was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans. [LPR]

56 Sumner 158 , [Wendell] Phillips 159 deserved hanging more richly than [Robert E.] Lee or [Jefferson] Davis, and who quoted from Williams’s speech. [HHS]

June 7, 1872 Letter from Schuyler Colfax 160 , Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Colfax thanks Bickham for his efforts on his behalf at the Republican [National] Convention. Since his re-nomination was so bitterly opposed by such unexpected enemies as Gov. [Edward F.] Noyes 161 , he would not change the result if he could. [HHS]

June 20, 1876 Letter from R. Hutcheson 162 , New Orleans, LA, to W. D. Bickham. Hutcheson congratulates Bickham on successful fight for nomination of [Rutherford B.] Hayes. Discusses outcome of election; fears only an anti-redemption platform. The best thing for the South would be for it to drop the Democratic Party, and try for the cooperation of decent Northern people, who control the Republican Party, in order to get out of the desperate condition brought on by their own folly in the past. Does not believe the men in New Orleans who are leading off for Hayes are the kind he would like to take into his confidence if elected; the leaders are “a pretty dirty set,” and he names Warmouth, Sheridan, and Sheldon. [HHS]

July 7, 1876 Letter from Stewart L. Woodford 163 , from New York, to W. D. Bickham. [Marked “confidential.”] Woodford acknowledges copy of Journal ; discusses election: believes Republicans will be successful, but is not disposed to take result for granted: has too great respect for [Samuel] Tilden as organizer and worker. Even in Ohio the Republicans must not think the election will run itself. [HHS]

Dec. 1, 1876 Letter from Benjamin F. Butler 164 , Boston, [MA], to W. D. Bickham. Butler thanks Bickham for his congratulations on the triumph of the right in the 7th Mass. District. [HHS]

158 Charles Sumner was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts, 1851-1874, and was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans. [LPR] 159 Wendell Phillips was an abolitionist and activist from Massachusetts who spoke out against Andrew Johnson. Source: Lorenzo Sears, Wendell Phillips: Orator and Agitator (New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1909), 268-269. [LPR] 160 Schuyler Colfax was Vice President, 1868-1872, under President Ulysses S. Grant. Colfax ran unsuccessfully for renomination in 1872; instead, Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson was Vice President for Grant’s second term. [LPR] 161 Edward F. Noyes was Governor of Ohio, 1872-1874. [HHS] 162 No additional information known. [HHS] 163 Stewart L. Woodford was a politician, soldier, and diplomat; Private, 127 th NY Volunteers, 1861; Brigadier General of the Volunteers, 1865; Member of Congress, 1873-1874. At the 1876 Convention nominated Conkling for President, was himself put in nomination for Vice President. [HHS] 164 Benjamin F. Butler was a soldier, politician; Republican member of Congress, Massachusetts, 1867- 1875, 1876-1879. [HHS]

57 Aug. 6, 1878 Letter from George R. Sage 165 , Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked confidential. Sage suggests getting [Emanuel] Schultz elected by means used in Warren County: get names of all voters, have men at polls to check those voting, and at noon send for absentees. Schultz could do this against Vallandingham’s nephew. 166 [HHS]

Oct. 11, 1879 Letter from Dennis Dwyer 167 , Republican Central Committee, Dayton, [OH]. Objects to Republican suggestion of 20 men in line to watch the polls in Jefferson Township, believes members of the Soldiers’ Home would spurn it. The Democratic Committee will cooperate in any plan proposed by members of both parties that the Home, but fears no trouble at the polls; any occurring heretofore was caused by Republican interference from Dayton. [HHS]

Nov. 12, 1879 Letter from W. [William] B. Vickers 168 , Executive Department, Denver, CO, to W. D. Bickham. Vickers thanks Bickham for the copy of his book on the West and for his praise of Colorado. “Ohio editors” made a good impression on Colorado; he would welcome them back on another visit. [HHS]

Nov. 13, 1879 Letter from W. S. Cappeller, Hamilton County Auditor, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Cappeller has received the copy of From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains by W. D. Bickham and congratulates the author upon the success he has thus far attained in the “Journey of Life” by producing such a book. [LPR]

Apr. 30, 1886169 Letter from M. D. Conger 170 , from U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. Conger does not understand Bickham’s letter in regard to his [Conger’s] opposition to confirmation of appointment of Captain John [W]. Clous 171 . Had not spoken of the case nor had any opinion of it. The Congressional Record shows the nomination has been confirmed. [HHS]

Nov. 18, 1880

165 No additional information given. [HHS] 166 For other references to the [Emanuel] Schultz election, see letters from Charles Foster and J. Warren Keifer. [HHS] 167 Dennis Dwyer was Chairman, Democratic Central Committee, Montgomery County, Ohio. [HHS] 168 William B. Vickers was a writer, poet, and newspaper editor in Indianapolis and Denver; he also authored History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado (1880). [LPR] 169 Dated Apr. 30, 1880, in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR] 170 M. D. Conger was a member of Congress from Michigan, 1862-1881; Senator, 1881-1887. [HHS] 171 This letter is probably in reference to John W. Clous, who was Bickham’s brother-in-law. [LPR]

58 Letter from Henry Corbin 172 , Washington, [DC]. 173 Tells how the Secretary of the Treasury, [John] Sherman, driving the letter-writer home, took occasion to speak of his preferences: he would rather return to the Senate than be in the [Garfield’s] cabinet. 174 [HHS]

Jan. 11, 1883 Letter from Horatio Seymour 175 to General William W. Burns. Acknowledgement of a copy of an address by General Burns on “The Preservation of Moisture for Seasonable Rainfall.” Need for more knowledge on the subject. He will do all he can to promote legislation by New York state. [HHS]

June 25, 1884 Letter from Carl Schurz 176 , New York, to W. D. Bickham. Marked private. Schurz explains that he opposes Blaine not because he is a protectionist, but because of the Milligan letters: the election of a man who could write them would be an incalculable evil to the country. [HHS]

June 30, 1884 Letter from James G. Blaine 177 , Augusta, ME, to W. D. Bickham. Blaine thanks Bickham for suggestion; will consider it. [HHS]

July 23, 1884 Letter from Joseph R. Hawley 178 , Guilford, CT, to W. D. Bickham. Hawley accepts Bickham’s invitation to come to Dayton [for dedication of Soldiers’ Monument, July 19-31, 1884]. [HHS]

July 29, 1889 Letter from John B. [Mosby?], John Fehrenbatch, and [William?] L. [Johnson?], from the Gibson House, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham.

172 Henry Corbin was a soldier; Brigadier General of the Volunteers, 1865; Brigadier General, U.S. Army, 1898; Assistant Adjutant General, 1880-1898; Adjutant General, 1898. Corbin was Bickham’s brother-in- law. [HHS] 173 This letter fragment is on stationery of the Adjutant General’s office, Washington; it is unsigned, but certainly from General Corbin. [HHS] 174 For letters to Corbin, see also: Bickham Collection – Hazen, W. B.; Keifer, J. W. For telegrams to Corbin, see Bickham Collection – Garfield, J. A. Corbin was Bickham’s brother-in-law, which accounts for these papers being in the collection. For letters referring to Corbin, see Bickham Collection – Schenck, Robert C., Mar. 16, 1867; Bickham Collection – Sherman, John, Nov. 12, 1880. [HHS] 175 Horatio Seymour was Governor (Democrat) of New York, 1852-1854, 1862-1864; unsuccessful candidate for President on the Democratic ticket, 1868. [HHS] 176 Carl Schurz was a Brigadier General of the Volunteers, 1861-1865; Senator from Missouri, 1869-1875; Secretary of the Interior in President Hayes’ cabinet, 1877-1881; editor, New York Evening Post , 1881- 1884; President, National Civil Service Reform League, 1891, 1901. [HHS] 177 James G. Blaine was Republican member of Congress from Maine, 1862-1875; Senator from Maine, 1876-1881; Secretary of State in Garfield’s administration, 1881; Republican candidate for President, 1884; Secretary of State in Harrison’s administration, 1889-1892. [HHS] 178 Joseph R. Hawley was Major-General of the Volunteers during the Civil War, 1865; Brigadier-General, U.S. Army, 1880. [HHS]

59 The Republican Clubs of Cincinnati are arranging to give Murat Halstead a welcome at the Music Hall next Saturday evening, at which time he is expected home. The committee requests Bickham make a short address on the occasion on behalf of the “Press” and requests his response as to whether he will do so. [LPR]

Jan. 12, 1890 Letter from William Lyon 179 , Senate Chamber, Columbus, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Lyon thanks Bickham for complimenting him on having done his duty in the joint session of the Ohio Legislature. [HHS]

Apr. 14, 1890 Letter from D. [Daniel] Thew Wright [Sr.] 180 , Cincinnati, [OH], to W. D. Bickham. Wright thanks Bickham for the kind notice in the Journal , before the election, and for the “rasping” he gave “Deacon” Richard Smith. He does not know why Smith “scratched” him; thought the paper and [Murat] Halstead were friendly. A Republican victory desirable, as it might have “put a check on some of this ripping business in Columbus.” 181 [HHS]

July 5, 1890 Fragment of letter from [E. S. Williams]182 , House of Representatives, Washington, DC, to W. D. Bickham. The writer has made a speech, published in the Congressional Record , which he wants Bickham to read: believes he expressed not only his own views, but those of Republicans like Bickham. He does not know when Congress will adjourn; it depends on the Senate, which should pass the McKinley Bill. He does not like criticism of Blaine, nor Reed’s conservatism on the silver question. 183 [President William] McKinley in caucus offered amendments to the Conger 184 Bill. [HHS]

Oct. 1, 1890 Letter from Chas. [Rankin?], Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked “private.” He thanks Bickham for his work in the Journal and goes on to share some additional opinions. [The handwriting is very difficult to read.] [LPR]

Jan. 14, 1891

179 William Lyon was Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. [HHS] 180 Daniel Thew Wright, Sr., was a judge in Cincinnati. The signature on this letter matches the signature under his portrait in Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912 by C. F. Goss (vol. 4, pg. 691). Do not confuse with his son, also named Daniel Thew Wright, who was a federal judge in the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. [LPR] 181 For an explanation of (Democratic) Governor Campbell’s “Ripper Policy,” see History of the Republican Party in Ohio , page 591. [HHS] 182 The letter has no signature but is almost certainly from E. S. Williams. Williams was a Member of Congress from Troy, 4 th District, and member of the Committee on Military Affairs. [HHS] 183 See letter of John Sherman, July 5, 1890, as to Williams’s views on the silver question. [HHS] 184 Edwin H. Conger, a Republican congressman from Iowa, was chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, 1889-1890. [LPR]

60 Letter from Lewis B. Gunckel 185 , Dayton, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Marked “private and confidential.” Marked “private and confidential.” Encloses copy of letter sent to Captain Williams. Wants it published in the Journal , with any comments Bickham would like to make. Thanks Bickham for continued support, and would be glad of opportunity to give evidence of his gratitude. [HHS]

Undated [after 1890] 186 Fragment of a letter from an unidentified author, written on the back side of United States House of Representatives stationery. Marked “strictly private.” Begins with “P.S.” The author writes that he does not know whether there will be a very serious movement to defend by renomination… [The handwriting is very difficult to read.] [LPR]

Nov. 17, 1900 Letter from M. [Marcus] A. Hanna 187 , Cleveland, OH, to D. D. Bickham, Editor of the Dayton Journal . Thanks Bickham for congratulatory telegram [on election results]; is sure he is entitled to a share of the credit. [HHS]

Box 2, Folder 5: W. D. Bickham: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1853, 1861-1867, 1891, Undated

[June?] 22, 1853 [1855?] 188 Letter from Edward E. Cross, Washington, [DC], to W. D. Bickham. Cross writes in regards to the fact that Bickham’s “batchelor [sic] existence is near its end.” He is not envious; however, he admits that “he who possesses the priceless affection of a lovely woman has obtained Heaven’s best and kindest gift to man.”

March 12, 1861 Letter from Stephen Gano, [Cincinnati, OH], to W. D. Bickham, Columbus, OH. Gano inquires whether the Ohio legislature has made any alterations in the times of holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the different counties. He asks for a list of the times of court sessions in all the counties of Ohio. [LPR]

Dec. 22, 1863 Letter from Edmund Kirke 189 , from the Sherman House, Chicago, IL, to W. D. Bickham.

185 Lewis B. Gunckel was a member of the House of Representatives from Dayton, 1873-1875; also a member of the Board of Managers, Soldiers’ Home. [HHS] 186 The fragment is composed on the back side of United States House of Representative stationery, pre- stamped for dates beginning with “189_.” [LPR] 187 Marcus A. (Mark) Hanna was Chairman, Republication National Committee; Senate from Ohio, 1897- 1904. [HHS] 188 The letter appears to be dated 1853; however, the final digit is difficult to read. W. D. Bickham was married in 1855. [LPR] 189 Edmund Kirke was a pseudonym of James R. Gilmore. [HHS]

61 Kirke thanks Bickham for attention to his request. If he returns to West in March will avail himself of Bickham’s very kind offer. [HHS]

Feb. 17, 1864 Letter from John L. Whetstone, Cincinnati, OH, to W. D. Bickham, Editor of the Dayton Journal . Whetstone writes regarding a recent article in the Journal pertaining to the invention of the orograph. The article had credited only Whetstone with the invention, a mistake which Whestone corrects by pointing out that Mr. George E. Sellers was a co- inventor of the machine. 190 [LPR]

Sept. 16, 1867 Letter from A. P. Russell, Ohio State Agency, New York, NY, to W. D. Bickham. Russell is sending a book to Bickham and has suggested that a few copies be sent to the booksellers. Russell is glad that the prospects for carrying the suffrage amendment 191 are improving; every day must help it. He sends his regards to Mrs. Bickham and Mrs. Dunham. [LPR]

May 25, 1891 Letter from A. Hodge, Dayton, OH, to W. D. Bickham. Bickham has been named as Chairman of the Committee to receive Ex-President Hayes, in his arrival in Dayton, and attend him to his peace of entertainment. [LPR]

Undated Fragment of letter from Len A. Harris 192 , [Cincinnati, OH], to W. D. Bickham. The fragment includes only a partial sentence: “advanced – without there should be a decided change, that I think you will not be too early.” [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 6: Correspondence and Documents concerning the Dayton Daily Journal , 1863-1875, 1895, 1938, Undated

May 14, 1863 193 Stock subscription to restore the Journal : original list of subscribers (autographs). Three sheets, bottom quarter of first sheet missing. Page 1: conditions of trust agreement. Page 1 reverse, and other pages: signatures of subscribers, with dates of payment of subscriptions, and initials of payees. [HHS]

190 An orograph is “an instrument for measuring distances and heights, and for drawing profiles,” invented by John L. Whetstone and George E. Sellers, of Cincinnati, Ohio (see: Official Catalog of the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations , 1853). [LPR] 191 This “suffrage amendment” refers to the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, which extended the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (slavery). Not to be confused with the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, which extended voting rights to women. [LPR] 192 Len A. Harris was a regiment commander of the 137 th Ohio National Guard (Hamilton County) and was mayor of Cincinnati from 1863-1866. [LPR] 193 Undated in HHS’s original catalog. [LPR]

62 Undated Booklet containing list of subscribers, written in one hand [W. D. Bickham’s?]. [HHS] The title of the booklet reads: “List of Subscribers to Journal fund, & Committee circular.” A stock account note from 1873 appears on the last page. [LPR]

Undated [1863] Printed circular: notice of appointment of G. W. Davies, C. Herchelrode, L. B. Gunkel [sic] [Lewis B. Gunckel], Simon Gebhart, and M. Burrous to receive subscriptions for the re-establishment of the Dayton Journal after its destruction by mob on May 5, 1863. Signed by Lewis Marot, propr. [HHS] The following note is typed at the top of the circular: “The burning of the Dayton Journal by the ‘Copperhead’ mob, May 5, 1863, in retaliation for banishment of C. L. Vallandingham; and the hurried exit of its editors and owners Lewis Marot and W. F. Comly; ended for the time Union publications and caused circulation of the following in Dayton” [this circular]. [LPR] The following note is typed at the bottom of the circular: “This committee sought help in Cincinnati of Murat Halstead. He sent W. D. Bickham to Dayton for conference that brought Bickham to the Dayton Journal to start his first regular issue July 28, 1863.” [LPR]

1865-1868 Envelope containing about 116 receipts (with a few bills), dated 1865-1868, for repayment by W. D. Bickham of subscriptions to Journal Fund. About 70 on uniform receipt forms; all receipts stamped with internal revenue stamps. [HHS] Note: This item was listed in Santmyer’s catalog but was not found with the collection in 2010:

Nov. 13, 1865 Note in regards to rates of pay to compositors. From the compositors (seven signatures) to W. D. Bickham, thanking him for an increase in pay to 40 cents per 1000 ems. [HHS]

Nov. 13, 1875 Note in regards to rates of pay to compositors. From W. D. Bickham to the compositors, announcing decrease in rate of pay to 35 cents per 1000 ems. [HHS]

Nov. 13, 1875 Note in regards to rates of pay to compositors. From W. D. Bickham to the Manager of the Christian Publishing House, Dayton (copy). Announcing decrease in rate of pay to his compositors. [HHS]

Aug. 10, 1895 Notice (typed, mounted on cardboard) from Headquarters, Department of Police, Aug. 10, 1895, forbidding members of the Dayton Police Department to give any information to the Dayton Journal , also forbidding the use of the patrol house, station house, precinct

63 stations, or any part of the Department by reporters of the Journal . [HHS] Issued by T. J. Farrell, Supt. of Police.

Undated Newspaper clipping describing the 1863 burning of the Journal by a mob and of its subsequent recreation with W. D. Bickham as editor. [LPR]

Jan. 20, 1938 Dwight Young, Dayton Journal and Dayton Herald , Dayton, OH, to Dan D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Young thanks Bickham for the very fine letter in regard to the revamping of the Journal and the Herald that he sent to Mr. Rock and to Young. He appreciates all the things Bickham had to say and understands his loyalty to the Journal . [LPR]

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album, Circa 1860-1870

Note: According to a bookplate in the front cover, this item was presented to the library by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.

This album contains slots for approximately 200 cartes de visite. Most photos are albumen prints. People often collected and traded these photograph cards. [LPR]

Items are listed in the order in which they can be found in the album, according to the following arrangement: Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4

Empty = the space contains no photograph or other item. Stock card = the space contains only a generic published image or scene, rather than an original photograph.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 1

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in military uniform; notation on back says “Carrie Strickle.” 194 Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Photograph of James Barnett in military uniform; signed, “Your friend, James Barnett, 1 st Ohio Artillery.”

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 2

194 The man might be Carrie Strickle’s husband John W. Clous. [LPR]

64 Item 1: Photograph of R. H. Farquhar in suit; “R. H. Farquhar” written in pencil on the back. Item 2: Empty Item 3: Photograph of J. P. Drouillard in military uniform; signed, “Always Truly Yours, My Dear Bickham, J. P. Drouillard, U.S.A.” Item 4: Photograph of unidentified man in suit.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 3

Item 1: Photograph of Mrs. D. S. Burnet; “Mrs. D. S. Burnet” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 2: Photograph of Mrs. Mary Gano; “Mrs. Mary Gano” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Photograph of Mrs. Rosecrans; “Mrs. Rosecrans” written in pencil beneath the photograph. 195 Item 4: Photograph of unidentified woman.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 4

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in suit. Item 2: Empty Item 3: Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Item 4: Lithograph of unidentified man in suit.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 5

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in suit. Item 2: Lithograph of unidentified man [Winfield Scott 196 ] in military uniform. Item 3: Photograph of General George H. Thomas in military uniform. Item 4: Photograph of unidentified man [Philip Sheridan 197 ] in military uniform.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 6

Item 1: Photograph of General [Ambrose] Burnside in military uniform; “Burnside” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 2: Photograph of unidentified man in military uniform; appears to be William Tecumseh Sherman. Item 3: Photograph of W. [William] S. Rosecrans in military uniform; “W. S. Rosecrans, Maj. Genl.” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 4: Photograph of unidentified man in military uniform.

195 Polly Horn, a William Rosecrans researcher and member of the Big Walnut Historical Society (in Rosecrans’ hometown of Sunbury) confirmed that this she is “very sure” this photograph depicts William’s wife, Ann E. Rosecrans. [LPR] 196 Identity confirmed based on comparison to other photographs of Winfield Scott. [LPR] 197 Identity confirmed based on comparison to other photographs of Philip Sheridan. [LPR]

65 Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 7

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Photograph of unidentified man in military uniform. Item 3: Photograph of General [Joseph] Hooker in military uniform; “Hooker” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 4: Photograph of unidentified man in suit.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 8

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Photograph of Thomas J. Blakeney in military uniform; signed, “Thos. J. Blakeney, Maj. 1 st Cav. Calif. Vols.”

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 9

Item 1: Photograph of Captain Curtis in military uniform; “Capt. Curtis” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 2: Photograph of unidentified man in military uniform. Item 3: Lithograph of unidentified man in military uniform. Item 4: Photograph of unidentified male child.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 10

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Photograph of Father Trecy in suit; “Father Trecy” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Photograph of Charles R. Thompson in military uniform; signed, “Yours Truly, Chas. R. Thompson.” Item 4: Photograph of John W. Taylor in military uniform; signed, “John W. Taylor.”

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 11

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in suit. Item 2: Photograph of Lt. Col. Simmons in military uniform; “Lt. Col. Simmons, C.S.” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Photograph of John L. Clem 198 in military uniform; signed, “Yours, Jno. L. Clem.” Written on the back in pencil: Harpers Weekly , 6 th Feb 1864, see page 85, vol. 1864. Item 4: Photograph of Maj. W. M. Wiles in military uniform; “Maj. W. M. Wiles” written in pencil beneath the photograph.

198 John L. Clem, nicknamed “Johnny Shiloh” or the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga,” was a young boy determined to join the Union Army. A popular legend says that he was at the Battle of Shiloh with the 22 nd Michigan. [LPR]

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Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 12

Item 1: Photograph of F. H. Gross in military uniform; signed, “F. H. Gross, Med. Director 14 th Arms Corps.” Item 2: Photograph of [Oliver P.] Morton in suit; “Morton” written in pencil beneath the photograph. 199 Item 3: Photograph of Governor David Tod in suit; “Gov. David Tod” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 13

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 14

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in suit. Item 2: Photograph of Frederick W. Lander 200 in military uniform; “Lander” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Empty Item 4: Photograph of unidentified home.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 15

Item 1: Photograph of group of 9 men in military uniforms; four names written in pencil on the back: “Lt. Benj. Custer, Lt. (Col.) Will Jones, Lt. Forsyth, Lt. Bown. Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 16

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 17

199 This photograph depicts Oliver P. Morton, a Republican governor of Indiana from 1861-1867. Identity confirmed based on comparison to other photographs of Oliver P. Morton. [LPR] 200 Frederick W. Lander was a Union general during the Civil War. Identity confirmed based on comparison to other photographs of Frederick W. Lander. [LPR]

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Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 18

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 19

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 20

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Photograph of an infant; “J. Jennie March” written in pen beneath the photograph. Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 21

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 22

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 23

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Photograph of an unidentified female child.

68 Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 24

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Photograph of Post Hospital, Fort Brown, Texas; “Post Hospital, Fort Brown, Tx” written on the back.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 25

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Photograph of an unidentified woman. Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 26

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 27

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Photograph of General J. [Jacob] D. Cox in military uniform; “Gen. J. D. Cox” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 28

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 29

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

69 Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 30

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 31

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 32

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 33

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 34

Item 1: Empty; “Cobden” written underneath the opening in pencil. Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty; “Fred Seward” written underneath the opening in pencil. Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 35

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 36

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card

70 Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 37

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 38

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 39

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 40

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 41

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Tintype photograph of unidentified man in a suit. Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 42

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 43

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Item 1: Empty Item 2: Empty Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 44

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 45

Item 1: Photograph of a woman; “Jessie” written in pencil beneath the photograph and on the back. Item 2: Photograph of John C. Frémont in suit; “Fremont” written in pencil beneath the photograph. Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 46

Item 1: Photograph of unidentified man in suit. Item 2: Photograph of unidentified infant. Item 3: Photograph of unidentified infant. Item 4: Photograph of Braxton Bragg in military uniform; “Bragg” written in pencil beneath the photograph.

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 47

Item 1: Stock card Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Stock card Item 4: Stock card

Box 3: Bickham Civil War Photo Album – Page 48

Item 1: Empty Item 2: Stock card Item 3: Empty Item 4: Empty

Box 4: Scrapbook of Miscellaneous News Clippings, Circa 1864-1887

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Note: According to a bookplate in the front cover, this item was presented to the library by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.

Items are listed in the order in which they can be found in the album:

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 1

Undated Illustration, “Egyptian Girl.” News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 2

Undated George W. Bungay, “The Dandelion” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Hezekiah Butterworth, “Anecdotes of Southey” (essay). News clipping.

Undated M. R. N., “A Vision of the Night” (poem). News clipping.

July 29, 1879 Hamilton Fish, Jr., letter to the Editor of the New York Tribune : “Washington on Profanity: An order issued one hundred years ago today—A suggestion from Hamilton Fish, Jr.” News clipping. Fish shares an order issued one hundred years ago by George Washington, which he found in a copy of [Edward Carlisle] Boynton’s History of West Point . [LPR]

Undated “The Young Mother” (essay). News clipping.

Undated From the San Francisco Newsletter , “The Little Woman” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled poem about “Southey.” News clipping.

Undated “Tom Corwin and his Son-in-Law.” News clipping. Discusses the marriage of Thomas Corwin’s daughter Eva to George R. Sage, a young lawyer from Cincinnati. [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 3

Undated

73 William Cullen Bryant, “The Mother’s Hymn (Blessed art thou among women)” (poem). News clipping.

March 4, 1864 Letter from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Nashville, TN, to Gen. William T. Sherman. News clipping. Marked private and confidential. Grant thanks Sherman and McPherson, as well as the men, for his success. [LPR]

March 10, 1864 Letter from William T. Sherman, near Memphis, TN, to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. News clipping. Sherman acknowledges receipt of Grant’s letter and will send a copy to Gen. McPherson. Sherman compliments Grant on his success and cites many examples. [LPR]

Undated “Curious Historical Fact.” News clipping. The note discusses a Bible printed by Christoph Sauer. [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Discusses the southern and northern attitudes towards African Americans. [LPR]

Undated John G. Whittier, “In School Days” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Discusses Duke de Reichstadt, the son of Napoleon and Marie Louise. [LPR]

Undated “Excellent Appointment.” News clipping. Discusses the appointment of Mrs. Manorah F. Lowe, widow of Col. John W. Lowe (12 th O.V.I.), as Postmistress of Xenia. John W. Lowe died at Carnifex Ferry. [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 4

Undated “Gen. Sickles in New-York.” News clipping. Discusses the visit of Major General Daniel E. Sickles to New York, as well as a meeting of the Union General Committee. [LPR]

Undated “The Sanctity of Marriage” (essay). News clipping.

74

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 5

Undated “The Apostles’ Creed” (essay). News clipping.

Undated “What the Sparrow Chirps” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “When my Commission Comes.” News clipping. Discusses a historic record of the marriage of John Smith and Polly Myers at Peoria, Illinois, by O. M. R., Justice of the Peace. [LPR]

Undated Goethe, “The Brooklet” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 6

Undated “Undine” (essay). News clipping.

Undated “An Incident of Shiloh.” News clipping. Discusses an incident that took place at the Battle of Shiloh. [LPR]

Undated “Sherman’s March to the Sea” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Mary Harvey, “Angel Whispers” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “There’s but One Pair of Stockings to Mend Tonight” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “The Little Pair of Boots” (poem). News clipping.

[1867] Untitled notice. News clipping. General [William Henry] Harrison died on the 4 th day of April 1841, “just 26 years ago.” [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 7

Undated

75 Illustration, “Undine (from a painting by Miss Starr).” News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 8

Undated “Gen. Schenck’s Speech on the Southern Relief Bill.” News clipping. Contains the text of a speech recently given by General [Robert C.] Schenck regarding the bill for the relief of the destitute South, as reported by the Daily Globe . [LPR]

Undated “Gen. Phil. Sheridan in Pittsburg—His Views of What is needed by the South.” News clipping. Contains the comments of General Philip Sheridan regarding what should be done to help and rebuild the South. [LPR]

Undated H., “A Lament” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Pen Sketch of Gen. Schenck.” News clipping. A description of the character of General [Robert C.] Schenck, written by the Washington correspondent to the Cincinnati Gazette . [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Discusses the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis. [LPR]

Undated Robert Southwell, untitled poem. News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 9

Undated “Alexander Campbell: Brief Sketch of His Life and Public Career.” News clipping. Lengthy article discussing the life and career of religious leader Alexander Campbell. The article continues on page 10. [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 10

Undated “Archbishop Purcell: Sketch of the Prelate’s Life from the Universal News of London— Commended Principally for his Ability, Services to the Church and Devotion to the Union—A Sketch which Induces Reflections.” News clipping.

76 Lengthy article discussing the life and career of John Baptist Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati. [LPR]

Undated “Dedication of a Disciples Church in Cleveland.” News clipping. Discusses the dedication of the New Disciple Church in East Cleveland. [LPR]

Undated “What’s the Matter?” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 11

Undated Illustration, “Far Niente (from a painting by Charles Landelle),” from Appleton’s Journal , No. 82. News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 12

[Dec. 1865] “The Last of the Great Senators: Dying Hours of Thomas Corwin.” News clipping. A special correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette discussing the life’s work of Thomas Corwin, in his last hours. [LPR]

Undated Longfellow, “On Translating the Divina Commedia, Fourth Sonnet” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 13

Jan. 20, 1867 James Challen, untitled poem. News clipping.

Mar. 31, 1874 Alice Williams, “The Soul’s Plea” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled notice. News clipping. Announces that Brevet Brig. Gen. Henry C. Corbin has been promoted to Senior Captain in the 38 th U.S.I. and is ordered to report at St. Louis. [LPR]

[July 1866]201 Death notice. News clipping. Mary Ann, wife of Nelson Speer, died July 25, [1866]. [LPR]

201 The Index to Death Notices and Marriage Notices Appearing in the Cincinnati Gazette (2007) by Jeffrey G. Herbert states that death notices for Mary Ann Speer, who died July 25, 1866, were included in the Cincinnati Gazette on July 26 and 28, 1866. [LPR]

77

Undated “The Family: Little Feet” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Arrival of Gen. Sickles: A Public Reception to be Given Him—Resolutions Passed by the Union Republican Committee—Meeting of the Officers of the Excelsior Brigade.” News clipping. Major-General Daniel E. Sickles arrived “here” (probably Cincinnati) by steamer, accompanied by his daughter, as well as Brevet Col. E. W. Dennis and Captain J. W. Clous, of his staff. Also discusses a meeting by the Union Republican General Committee. [LPR]

Undated Thomas Buchanan Read, “New England in the West” (poem). News clipping.

[Apr. 1865] News clipping. Official notice from E. M. Stanton, War Department, regarding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 14

[July 1867 202 ] “Rev. David S. Burnet. Impressive Funeral Services. Discourse of Rev. Mr. Errett.” News clipping. Article concerning the death and funeral of Rev. David S. Burnet, including the address of Rev. Isaac Errett, editor of the Christian Standard . [LPR]

Undated Isaac Errett, “Early Conversion and Training of Children” (essay). News clipping. Article continues on page 15.

Undated “Hymn of the Nativity” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 15

Undated “Grandfather” (essay). News clipping.

Apr. 26, 1866 James Challen, “Bozrah” (poem), written for the Christian Standard . News clipping.

[May, no year]

202 David S. Burnet died in Baltimore, MD, on July 8, 1867. [LPR] [source: http://www.therestorationmovement.com/burnet.htm].

78 Death notice. News clipping. William Pierson, in his 78 th year of age, died at Indianapolis on May 12.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 16

Undated “My Boy” (essay). News clipping.

Undated “Mothers” (essay). News clipping.

[Jan. 1863] Death notice. News clipping. Charlie Strickle 203 , son of A. E. and Caroline Strickle, in his 15 th year of age, died at Memphis on January 6.

[Jan. 1863] News clipping. Obituary for Charlie Strickle, who died at Memphis on January 6.

[Jan. 1863] Death notice. News clipping. Charles, age 14, only son of A. E. Strickle, of Wilmington, Ohio.

Undated From the Springfield Republican , “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Mrs. H. G. Leggett, “The Family” (poem), written for the Christian Standard . News clipping.

Undated Charles Dickens, “The Ivy Green” (poem). News clipping.

Undated E., “Trust” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 17

Undated “The Wife” (essay). News clipping.

Undated

203 Charles Rockwell Strickle died January 6, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee, and was buried in Wilmington, Ohio. [LPR] [source: Katharine S. Foos, The Ellis Family (Dayton, OH: U. B. Publishing House, 1900), p. 52]

79 “Heavier the Cross” (poem). News clipping.

[July 10, 1863] News clipping. Obituary of Captain Abraham E. Strickle 204 , who died at the home of W. D. Bickham.

Undated “Hold On, My Heart!” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Hymn” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “The Family: A Happy Wife” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Funeral notice of the late Mrs. Judge Burnet. News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 18

Undated “Fellowship with God” (essay). News clipping.

Undated Untitled anecdote beginning with “Years ago I met with a waif of English rhyme…” News clipping.

Undated Whittier, “The Little People” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled poem beginning with “The cat and dog resolved to be good…” News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 19

Undated “St. John, the Aged” (poem). News clipping.

Undated John Greanleaf Whittier, “The Christ” (poem). News clipping.

Undated

204 Abraham Ellis Strickle died July 9, 1863, as a result of “the fever” which he had contracted in the Union army. He died at the home of his daughter Maria Strickle Bickham (wife of W. D. Bickham) in Cincinnati, Ohio; he was buried in Wilmington. [LPR] [source: Katharine S. Foos, The Ellis Family (Dayton, OH: U. B. Publishing House, 1900), p. 49]

80 J. R. Lowell, “Charles Dickens” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 20

Undated “Country Children” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Childhood” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Note regarding the will of M. Guizot. News clipping.

[June 1870] “Charles Dickens” (obituary). News clipping. A notice regarding the death of Charles Dickens, at his residence in Gads Hill, Kent, on Thursday, June 9, 1870, aged 58 years. The article includes several references to death from Dickens’ works. [LPR]

Undated “A Fellow by the Name of Holmes” (essay). News clipping.

Undated Untitled article regarding the mental state of Mr. Thackeray’s wife, from Lippincott’s Magazine . News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 21

Undated From Household Words , “A Woman’s Question” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Miss Muloch, “Plighted” (poem). News clipping.

[1875 205 ] News clipping. Notice of the December 15 th marriage of Mr. Austin Glazebrook, of Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Emily C. Bickham. The two were married at the home of the bride’s mother in Riverside, Ohio, near Cincinnati.

Undated News clipping. Pascal, quotation beginning with “One very common error misleads the opinion of mankind universally; that authority is pleasant, submission painful…”

205 According to History of Kentucky: The Blue Grass State , Vol. III (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923), Austin Glazebrook and Emily C. Bickham were married in 1875. [LPR] [source: http://newsfeed.rootsweb.com/th/read/KYBIOGRAPHIES/1999-05/0926943682 ]

81 [1874 206 ] News clipping. Notice of the November 24 th marriage of Captain John W. Clous, U. S. Army, to Miss Carrie M. Strickle, daughter of the late Captain A. E. Strickle, of Wilmington, Ohio. The two were married at the home of Wm. D. Bickham in Dayton, Ohio.

Undated Mary L. Ritter, “Sub Silentio” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Kate Hillard, “The Beaker” (poem). News clipping.

[1874] News clipping. Notice of the November 24, 1874, marriage of Captain John W. Clous, of the 24 th U. S. Infantry, to Miss Caroline M. Strickle, daughter of the late Captain A. E. Strickle, of Wilmington, Ohio. The two were married at the home of Wm. D. Bickham in Dayton, Ohio.

Undated From the German of Goethe, “New Love, New Life” (poem). News clipping.

Undated From Galaxy , “Only a Kiss” (poem). News clipping.

[1873 207 ] “Crystal Wedding.” News clipping. Article commemorating the “crystal wedding,” or 15th wedding anniversary, celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Foos. The article lists the names of several relatives who were present, as follows: “all of Mrs. Foos’s six sisters, with al of their children: Mrs. Lizzie Duel, of California; Mrs. H. C. Corbin (U. S. army) and four children, from Texas; Mrs. W. D. Bickham and four children, of Dayton; Mrs. G. K. Farquhar and four children, of Wilmington; Miss Carrie Strickle and Miss Rebecca Strickle, of Dayton. Mrs. P. G. Foos, mother of Captain Foos, and Miss Clara Foos, and Miss Lizzie Foos, his sisters, were also present.” [LPR]

Undated News clipping. Notice of the November 19 th marriage at Rome, Italy, of Sophia, eldest daughter of the late Daniel and Maria A. Van Matre, of Cincinnati, to Adriano Bompiani, of Rome, attorney-at-law.

206 Caroline Margaret Strickle and Captain John W. Clous were married November 24, 1874, at Dayton, Ohio. [LPR] [source: Katharine S. Foos, The Ellis Family (Dayton, OH: U. B. Publishing House, 1900), p. 56] 207 Katharine J. Strickle and Rodney Foos were married June 24, 1858, at Wilmington, Ohio. Therefore, their 15 th wedding anniversary celebration would have been in 1873. [LPR] [source: Katharine S. Foos, The Ellis Family (Dayton, OH: U. B. Publishing House, 1900), p. 56]

82 Undated News clipping. Notice of the November 19 th marriage at Rome, Italy, of Miss Sophia Van Matre, a lady well known in Cincinnati and in Dayton, to Adriano Bompiani, attorney-at- law, of Rome. At one time, she was a correspondent for the Dayton Journal and the Cincinnati Gazette. [LPR]

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 22

Undated “The Solemnity of Marriage” (essay). News clipping.

Undated John Esten Cooke, in Hearth and Home , “Thackeray and his People” (essay). News clipping.

Undated “The Pump and the Star” (poem). News clipping.

Box 4, Scrapbook – Page 23

Dec. 2, 1871 Jennie Nelson, “From India” (letter). News clipping. Reprinted letter from Miss Jennie Nelson, who left Dayton the previous fall, for missionary service in the East Indies.

Undated A. E. H., “Across the Gulf of Mexico, and Up the Rio Grande” (essay). News clipping.

Undated News clipping. Untitled notice: “A western paper says that Governor [Rutherford B.] Hayes does not want the editor of the Dayton Journal as private secretary, because his head of hair will not match the furniture.”

Undated News clipping. Untitled notice: “The Boston Post asks will the Dayton Journal consolidate with the National Republican ? Will the Boston Post attend strictly to the Democratic funeral until the corpse is safely buried?”

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Undated Jane Grey Swisshelm, “Go to the Dutch, Oh! Ladies, and Learn Wisdom” (essay). News clipping. This reprint of Swisshelm’s letter is introduced in the following way: “The following letter from Mrs. Swisshelm, the great woman reformer, to the Chicago

83 Tribune , is egg-full of sense, and ought to be read by every mother and daughter in the land.”

Undated “I am Dying, Egypt Dying.” News clipping. A reprinted article from the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer , regarding the death of General W. H. Lytle, of Ohio, “who was killed in 1863, in a heroic attempt to reinforce General [George H.] Thomas.”

Undated “Mrs. Gaskell.” News clipping. A biographical sketch of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, female novelist. [LPR]

Undated [W. D. Bickham], untitled article. News clipping. The article describes the provenance of a hickory cane given to Major William R. Goodwin by Logan, the Mingo Chief. Major Goodwin was the grandfather of Mrs. Bickham. [LPR]

Undated [W. D. Bickham], untitled article. News clipping. The article describes a group of relics contributed by M. Ohmer. Among the relics are two German Bibles, one containing names from the Strickle family, the other containing names from the Keifer family. [LPR]

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Undated “The Marseilaise Hymn” (hymn). News clipping.

Undated M. D., “Little Whimpy” (poem). News clipping.

[Apr. 1876 208 ] “Mexico—The Diaz Revolution—Capture of Matamoras—A Smart Fight—The Casualties.” News clipping. The article discusses actions taken by Mexican revolutionary Gen. Porfirio Diaz at Matamoras in April 1876.

Undated Austin Dobson, “Before Sedan” (poem), from McMillan’s Magazine . News clipping.

208 Mexican revolutionary Porfirio Diaz entered Matamoras on April 1, 1876. [LPR] [source: John Mason Hart, Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 122-123]

84 Undated Death notice. News clipping. Dorothea Ann, wife of Admiral J. F. Schenck, died September 7.

Undated News clipping. Obituary of Mrs. Dorothea Schenck, wife of Admiral Schenck.

Undated “My Ain Counterie” (poem). News clipping.

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Undated T. Buchanan Read, “Drifting” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “The Beautiful Snow” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled poem beginning with “O power to do! O baffled will!” News clipping.

Undated News clipping. Notice that Privates Harry Mead and Will S. Bickham, of Company A (Harries Guard), were detailed as orderlies on Governor [Thomas L.] Young’s 209 staff, soon after the arrival of the Dayton militia at Columbus.

Undated Mrs. E. B. Browning, “My Heart and I” (poem). News clipping.

Undated W. S. Gilbert, “The Little Maid of Arcade” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Leigh Hunt, untitled poem beginning with “Jenny kissed me when we met…” News clipping.

Undated “The Rio Grande Troubles—Precedents for Sending Troops Across the Border— Testimony of the Secretary of War.” News clipping. The Secretary of War discusses precedents for sending troops to pursue Mexican raiders across the Rio Grande. Captain [John W.] Clous 210 , of the 24 th infantry stationed at Fort Brown, testified briefly. [LPR]

209 Governor Young probably refers to Thomas L. Young, who was governor of Ohio from 1877-1878. [LPR] 210 Captain Clous is John W. Clous, brother-in-law of W. D. Bickham.

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Undated Bayard Taylor, “The Song of the Camp” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Untitled article listing “valuable books now on hand and ready for delivery.” News clipping.

Undated From the second volume of Wilhelm’s History of the Eighth Infantry , “Maxims of Garrison Life.” News clipping.

Undated A. T. L., “Shelved” (poem). News clipping.

Sept. 17, 1877 Received by cable to the Herald , “A Great Work Completed.” News clipping. Article discusses the welcome news that Henry M. Stanley, African explorer, has been found alive.

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Undated Edward Lear, “Nonsense Songs: The Two Old Bachelors” (poem). News clipping.

Sept. 13, [1868-1877 211 ] Unattributed Special to the Enquirer , “Assistant Adjutant General.” News clipping. The article announces that Captain Rodney Foos, former Clerk of the Supreme Court and recent Executive Clerk in the Governor’s Office, has been made assistant Adjutant General of the State, a position made vacant by the promotion of Captain C. W. Karr to the office of Adjutant General. [LPR]

Mar. 8, [1877 212 ] “A White-House Reception: Mrs. Hayes’s Gorgeous Costume—The Visitors and Presentations.” News clipping. Article describes an apparent welcome reception for President Rutherford B. Hayes and Mrs. Hayes at the White House. [LPR]

Mar. 6, [1877] “Festivities at the White House: A Dinner-Party and a Visit by a Glee Club.” News clipping.

211 The article mentions “Governor Hayes.” Rutherford B. Hayes was governor of Ohio from 1868 to 1877. [LPR] 212 Rutherford B. Hayes was president from 1877 to 1881; this article appears to describe a welcoming reception, just after his election. Hayes took office as president on March 4, 1877. [LPR]

86 Article describes festivities at the White House, apparently shortly after the inauguration of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Includes a list of guests at the social gathering, with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bickham being among them. [LPR]

[Mar. 1877] “Reception at the White House.” News clipping. Article describes a reception given at the White House by President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes. Includes a list of guests at the social gathering, with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bickham being among them. [It appears to be the same gathering as the one listed previously.] [LPR]

Undated Edward Lear, “Nonsense Songs: The Pobble who has No Toes” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Edward Lear, “Nonsense Songs: The New Vestments” (poem). News clipping.

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[March 1878 213 ] “Army Casualties.” News clipping. Article is an obituary of Captain Campbell D. Emory, 9 th Infantry, brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army, who died March 11, at San Antonio, Texas, where he was on duty. Includes lengthy description of his military career. He was the son of Gen. W. H. Emory; a descendant of Benjamin Franklin; and a nephew of distinguished professor Alex D. Bache. [LPR]

[Feb. 1867 214 ] “Death of Alexander Dallas Bache.” News clipping. Article is an obituary of Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, a scientist and Chief of the United States Coast Survey. Includes description of his education and career. He was a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, his grandfather Richard Bache having married Franklin’s daughter Sarah. [LPR]

[March 1878] Death notice. News clipping. Captain Campbell D. Emory died on March 11, at San Antonio, Texas.

Undated C. E. R., untitled essay about coral. News clipping.

213 According to the Official Army Register , Captain Campbell D. Emory, 9 th Infantry, U. S. Army, died March 11, 1878, at San Antonio, Texas. [LPR] [source: Official Army Register for January, 1879 (Washington, DC: Adjutant-General’s Office, 1879), p. 251] 214 Alexander Dallas Bache, a well-known scientist and surveyor, died February 17, 1867, in Newport, Rhode Island. [LPR]

87 [1877 215 ] Untitled article. News clipping. Article discusses Sebastian Lerdo, recently ousted president of Mexico, who is now a fugitive. [LPR]

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Undated Gail Hamilton, “Young Tom Macaulay: Son and Brother” (essay). News clipping.

Undated Gail Hamilton, “Brother Tom” (essay). News clipping. Essay continues on page 31.

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Page contains the continuation of the Gail Hamilton’s “Brother Tom” and nothing else.

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[Jan. 1879] “Death of Lieut. Dodt” News clipping. Obituary of First Lieutenant Helenus Dodt, Adjutant of the 24 th U. S. Infantry, who died at Fort Duncan, Texas, on the night of December 30, 1879 [1878], of pneumonia. 216 Includes a biography and detail of his military career. [LPR] Note: A copy of this article can also be found on page 35. [LPR]

Undated “The Water Mill” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Bret Harte, “Under the Guns” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Joseph Brennan, “To My Wife” (poem). News clipping.

Undated

215 Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada was the second president of Mexico, from July 19, 1872, to Nov. 20, 1876. He was succeeded by Porfirio Diaz. [LPR] 216 The article states that Dodt died on December 30, 1879. However, this is incorrect. He died on December 30, 1878, and the article was most likely printed in early 1879. The article also mentions that his funeral will take place on Sunday, January 5. If he had died on December 30, 1879, then January 5, 1880, would have been a Monday; however, January 5, 1879, was in fact a Sunday. This fact is confirmed by records of the National Cemetery at San Antonio, which lists his burial as January 5, 1879. Furthermore, the Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 , Volume 1, page 123, lists his term as Adjutant from Aug. 1, 1872, to Dec. 30, 1878. [LPR]

88 Bayard Taylor, “The Song of the Camp” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Carolus, “Little Phil” (poem). News clipping.

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Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Announcement that the President has nominated Captain John W. Clous, 24 th U. S. Infantry, to be Major and Judge Advocate. Includes brief biography and detail of his military career. The article also mentions that Joseph H. Potter has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Announcement that Captain J. W. Clous, U. S. Army, Judge Advocate of the Department of Texas, was recently examined for admission to the bar. [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Announcement that Col. G. Norman Lieber, Acting Judge Advocate General, and Major J. W. Clous, Judge Advocate, U. S. Army, were admitted and qualified as attorneys and counselors of the Supreme Court of the United States. [LPR]

Undated From Galaxy , “Parting” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Samuel V. Cole, “Waiting” (poem). News clipping.

Apr. 1, [no year] “Nominations.” News clipping. Announcement that the President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Col. Thomas H. Higer, 18 th infantry, vice General Terry; Col. Joseph H. Potter, 24 th infantry, vice Gen. Howard; Capt. John W. Clous, 24 th infantry, to be major and judge advocate vice Goodfellow, deceased. [LPR]

Undated Charles G. Halpine, “The Same Canteen” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “S. A. Bar Association—The Regular Quarterly Meeting—Programme in Preparation— New Members Elected.” News clipping.

89 Article discusses a recent meeting of the San Antonio Bar Association, of which J. W. Clous was a member at the time. Clous announced at the meeting that he would be leaving soon due to his military obligations. [LPR]

Undated “Interesting Reminiscences of the Rebellion.” News clipping. Article recalls the activities of General [Edwin Vose] Sumner 217 during the Civil War. [LPR]

Undated Untitled notice. News clipping. Notice: “Gen. Stanley, who is soon to lose the special staff services of Captain J. W. Clous, 24 th infantry, pays in a General Order a high tribute to the marked ability of that officer.”

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[March 1878] “A March to that Bourne: The Last Sad Honors to the Memory of Col. C. D. Emory.” News clipping. Article describes the funeral of Colonel Campbell D. Emory. [LPR]

Undated From the New York Sun , “America Needs No Army” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Death notice. News clipping. Miss Annis Augur, daughter of Gen. C. C. Augur, commanding the department of Texas, has died.

[circa 1882] Untitled notice. News clipping. Notice that Charley Stoddard and Dan D. Bickham have been admitted to Princeton College in the freshman class of 1882-1883.

Undated Mary H. Krout, “Little Brown Hands” (poem). News clipping.

Dec. 26, [1882 218 ] “The Transit of Venus: Result of Observations at San Antonio, Texas—Statement of Professor Asaph Hall—Importance of the Event.” News clipping.

217 Edwin Vose Sumner (1797-1863) was a Union general during the Civil War and was the oldest commanding Army officer on either side during that conflict. [LPR] 218 A similar article is included on page 37 of the scrapbook and includes the year: Dec. 26, 1882. [LPR]

90 Article discusses the activities of Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Naval Observatory, regarding the transit of Venus. Major [John W.] Clous participated in making an important set of measurements of Venus. [LPR]

[Dec. 1882] From the Army and Navy Journal , “Admiral Schenck.” News clipping. Obituary of Admiral James F. Schenck 219 , U. S. Navy (retired), who died December 21, at Dayton, Ohio. Includes detail of his military career. [LPR]

May [no year] Death notice. News clipping. Annis Augur, aged 18 years and fourth months, daughter of General and Mrs. C. C. Augur, at San Antonio, Texas, died on May 30.

Dec. 9, [no year] “Texas: Trial of Flipper.” News clipping. Article discusses the case of [Henry] Flipper, on trial for embezzlement, in the court of the Judge Advocate in San Antonio, Texas. 220 [LPR]

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Undated “Cleaning the Closet” (essay). News clipping.

Undated News clipping. Reprinted letter from General E. O. Ord commending the troops who serve in the desert in Texas.

Undated News clipping. Notice that a General Court Martial will convene on Thursday, the 21 st , for the trial of First Lieutenant M. W. Saxton, 24 th infantry. Captain J. W. Clous, 24 th infantry, is appointed Judge Advocate of the court.

[Jan. 1879] “Death of Lieut. Dodt.” News clipping.

219 James Findlay Schenck (1807-1882) was a rear admiral in the U. S. Navy, serving in the Mexican War and the Civil War. [LPR] 220 Although his full name is not given in the clipping itself, this article refers to Henry Flipper, the first African American to graduate from West Point, who was in December 1881 undergoing a court-martial for embezzlement. He was eventually cleared of the embezzlement charge but was convicted of “conduct unbecoming an officer” and was dismissed from the military. John W. Clous, Chief Advocate, was the chief prosecutor in the case. [LPR] [For more information, see: The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point by Don Cusic and The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism & the Myth of Henry O. Flipper by Charles M. Robinson, III.] [Additional source: “Henry Flipper Court-Martial,” http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3498200099.html.]

91 Obituary of First Lieutenant Helenus Dodt, Adjutant of the 24 th U. S. Infantry, who died at Fort Duncan, Texas, on the night of December 30, 1879 [1878], of pneumonia. 221 Includes a biography and detail of his military career. [LPR] Note: A copy of this article can also be found on page 32. [LPR]

Undated “Wishes” (poem). News clipping.

Undated News clipping. Reprinted letter from Henry D. Thoreau to a female friend, “Mrs. B.” 222

Undated Untitled notice. News clipping. Notice that Captain J. W. Clous, 24 th infantry, judge advocate of the Department of Texas, is the author of an interesting compilation of legal authorities on the subject of the status of civilian employees of the Army residing on United States military reservations.

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Undated “More of the Murder of the Colson’s Family: How the Reds did their Work—Where They Came From and Where They Went.” News clipping. Article describes the murders of members of Nic Colson’s family near Fort Clark [in Texas]. His son was killed by Indians and on a later occasion so were his wife and two daughters. [LPR]

Undated Caroline A. Mason, “December” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Henry W. Longfellow, “Holidays” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “St. Paul’s Parish.” News clipping. Article discusses the recent formation of St. Paul’s Parish, of which J. W. Clous was one of the original organizational officers. [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Article discusses [James A.] Garfield’s quoting of [the poet Alfred] Tennyson upon the death of [Abraham] Lincoln. [LPR]

March 14, 1883

221 The article gives Dodt’s death year incorrectly; it should say 1878. See note with entry on page 32. 222 One might wonder if the recipient of this letter was W. D. Bickham’s wife, Mrs. Bickham.

92 News clipping. Reprinted letter to the editor of the Dayton Journal from an unidentified writer in San Antonio, Texas. The correspondent writes that General Diaz, accompanied by Señor Rubier and others, arrived at San Antonio, Texas, from Monterrey, Mexico, on the 14 th instant.

Undated “Sad Incident.” News clipping. Notice that Miss Jennie Nelson of Hillsboro, formerly a teacher at the Cooper Female Seminary, who left Dayton five or six years ago for missionary service in India, was recently brought home “hopelessly insane” and is institutionalized at the Asylum for the Insane at Athens.

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Undated From the New York Mail , “Rhyming Table of Presidents” (poem). News clipping.

Dec. 26, 1882 From “our regular correspondent,” “Transit of Venus: Results of Observations at San Antonio, Texas—Statement of Professor Asaph Hall—Importance of the Event.” News clipping. Article discusses the activities of Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Naval Observatory, and a party who were stationed at San Antonio, Texas, to make observations of the transit of Venus. Major Clous and Gen. [C. C.] Auger [Augur] were among the participants. [LPR]

Undated “English as She is Taught.” News clipping. Anecdotal list of curious answers made by pupils in the public schools in regards to the definitions of certain words, as contributed by Mark Twain to the April Century . [LPR]

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Article discusses Mr. Jerome’s recent gift of $5,000 to Princeton College. Includes a reprint of Jerome’s letter of bequest. [LPR]

Undated George Alfred Townsend, “John A. Logan” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Great Love and I” (poem). News clipping.

Undated From Longman’s Magazine , “To a Boy Piping” (poem). News clipping.

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Undated Mrs. Browning, “Not to be Won That Way” (poem). News clipping.

Undated H. S. Taylor, “The Man with the Musket” (poem). News clipping.

Undated Florence Tylee, “How the King Came Home” (poem). News clipping.

Undated “Rev. Dr. Leonard’s Assistant.” News clipping. Article discusses Rev. Charles M. Pyne, a retired Army captain and a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, who has been engaged as assistant to the rector, Rev. Dr. William A. Leonard, of St. John’s parish. [LPR]

Undated “Mrs. Wilcox Takes the Cake.” News clipping. Anecdote about Mrs. Eliza Wilcox, a clerk in the United States Treasury Department, as well as a daughter of Andrew Jackson’s adopted son. A lock of her hair was deposited in the cornerstone of the Treasury Department building. [LPR]

Jan. 5, 1887 From Overland Monthly , “Wiegenlied” (poem). News clipping.

June 29, [1886 223 ] “Mrs. Cleveland’s ‘At Home’—The President’s Wife Begins her Series of Afternoon Receptions.” News clipping. Article discusses Mrs. Cleveland’s receptions, which would be held on different days than those previously held by Cleveland’s sister. [LPR]

Undated From the St. Louis Republican , “Perplexity” (poem). News clipping.

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Undated Comic strip adaptation of Longfellow’s “Building of the Ship.” News clipping.

[1885 224 ]

223 Grover Cleveland was unmarried when he became president in 1885. He married Frances Folsom on June 2, 1886. The mention of Mrs. Cleveland’s receptions being on different days than the president’s sister usually held receptions indicates that this is a new change. Also, note the date June 26 being just a few weeks after the wedding date June 2. Therefore, this article was likely from 1886, the year they were married. [LPR]

94 Unattributed, “Judge Advocate Clous.” News clipping. Article discussing the placement of Captain Clous as judge advocate in the court martial trial of Gen. William B. Hazen. [LPR]

Undated Untitled notice. News clipping. Notice that “The President’s last two staff appointments in the army are natives of Germany… They are Major John W. Clous, Judge Advocate, appointed in April; and Major Schwan, recently appointed A. A. G. from the 11 th Infantry.”

Undated From Harper’s Bazaar , “A Story of Lot’s Wife” (anecdote). News clipping.

Undated Untitled article. News clipping. Article states that: “The selection by President Cleveland of Captain John W. Clous, 24 th Infantry, to be major and judge advocate U. S. A., vice Goodfellow, deceased, gives genuine satisfaction among the officers of the army stationed here…” Includes brief biographical information and detail of Clous’s military career, including service under Brigadier General C. C. Augur in the department of Texas. [LPR]

April 2, 1886 News clipping. Reprinted letter from J. W. Clous to Geo. “Pschal” [Paschal] 225 , District Attorney, at Fort Sill, [OK]. Clous conveys his gratitude to the members of the bar and friends in San Antonio, following his recent promotion. [LPR]

Undated “Brigadier General Potter.” News clipping. The “one-legged veteran” Col. Joseph H. Potter, 24th U. S. Infantry (colored), was nominated for a promotion, instead of the predicted Col. Wesley Merritt. Includes a detail of Potter’s military career. [LPR]

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Undated “Lounger on the Avenue” (essay). News clipping. Discusses Ruskin and Millais.

224 General William B. Hazen was court martialed in 1885 in relation to a disaster involving the Lady Franklin Bay Polar Expedition; therefore, it is likely that this article is from 1885. [LPR] [For more information, see T. J. Mackey, The Hazen Court-Martial (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1885).] 225 George Paschal was a San Antonio District Attorney and later Mayor. Source: Thomas W. Cutrer, "Paschal, Franklin Lafayette," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpa45 ), accessed March 26, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. [LPR]

95 Undated “Lounger on the Avenue” (essay). News clipping. Discusses the military careers of Maj. Gen. [Wesley] Merritt, as well as Custer, Upton, and Mackenzie, all famous members of the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War. [LPR]

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[Jan. 1888] “New Year Day, 1888—Brilliant Scene at the White House—Many Distinguished Callers—Diplomats, Judges, Army and Navy Officers, Senators and Members and Other Eminent Citizens Exchange Greetings with the President and Mrs. Cleveland.” News clipping. Article discusses activities at the White House on New Year’s Day, 1888, including lists of visitors. Among the visitors were Gen. [C. C.] Augur and Maj. Clous. [LPR]

Undated “Carrying Small Bundles.” News clipping. Anecdote about Mrs. Cleveland carrying her own bundle while shopping, rather than having someone carry it for her. [LPR]

Undated “Board of Charities.” News clipping. Article regarding the recently appointed board of visitors to the charitable and corrective institutions of Montgomery County. Mrs. W. D. Bickham is included among the listing. [LPR]

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Dec. 20, 1887 From the Epoch , “Mrs. Grover Cleveland at Home.” News clipping. Article describes the home life activities of First Lady Mrs. Cleveland. [LPR]

Page 42 is the last consecutive page of the scrapbook to contain any items.

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March 16, 1867 J. M. G., “An Act of Justice,” written to the Editor of the Army and Navy Journal . News clipping. Discusses the nomination of Henry C. Corbin as Captain in the 38 th U.S. Infantry, which was rejected by the last session of Congress. [LPR]

96 Box 4, Folder 1: Loose items from the Scrapbook of Miscellaneous News Clippings, 1863-1889

[Jan. 1863] Death notice. News clipping. “In Memphis on the 5 th instant, CHARLES only son of A. E. Strickle, of Wilmington, Ohio, aged fourteen years.” [LPR]

[1886] “The Corps of Judge Advocates—A Personal Tribute.” News clipping. The article discusses the appointment of J. W. Clous by President Cleveland, as well as its relation to the court martial of Gen. [William B.] Hazen. [LPR]

[1886] Untitled article. News clipping. The article discusses the appointment of J. W. Clous by President Cleveland, as well as its relation to the court martial of Gen. [William B.] Hazen. Nearly identical to the previous item. [LPR]

Undated [circa 1887] George W. Houk, “For the Journal: The German Empire.” News clipping. Historical and political sketch of the German Empire. [LPR]

Mar. 20, 1889 Invitation to a banquet at The Arlington, Washington, DC, given by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia. The name “J. W. Clous” is handwritten on the back. [LPR]

Undated “From Frederick, III: A Proclamation to the People. To make Germany the center of peace—He prays for strength to carry out this work—A letter to Bismarck on the policy of the Empire.” News clipping. Reprint of an address given by Frederick III of Germany as well as a letter from him to Bismarck. [LPR]

Undated “Army and Navy Homes: Gallant Men and Charming Women. A circle which has an interest all its own—Pleasant words about well-known people—Admiral Potter’s House and others equally noteworthy.” News clipping. Includes some mention of General Philip Sheridan, among others. [LPR]

Undated News clipping about Dollie Logan Tucker, daughter of Gen. [John A.] Logan 226 and wife of Maj. [William F.] Tucker. [LPR]

226 Major General John A. Logan was a Civil War general and later U.S. Senator from Illinois. [LPR]

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Undated News clipping pertaining to Col. and Mrs. [G. Norman] Lieber 227 , with an adjacent notice pertaining to Gen. Drum 228 . Col. Lieber is acting as Judge Advocate General during Gen. Swaim’s suspension. [LPR]

Undated News clipping regarding “the Army Wilsons,” of Washington, DC. Col. Wilson 229 makes introductions to “Mrs. Cleveland 230 .” [LPR]

Undated News clipping regarding Col. M. V. Sheridan 231 , brother of General [Philip] Sheridan. [LPR]

Undated Bayard Taylor, untitled poem beginning with “Take them, O Fatherland!” News clipping.

Series II: Papers of Other Family Members

Box 2, Folder 7: Correspondence to Miscellaneous Bickham Family Members, 1865, 1893, 1941-1949

Aug. 31, 1865 Letter from W. D. Bickham, Dayton, OH, to his wife, [Mrs. Maria E. Strickle Bickham]. Bickham writes that he and “Pip” had the bed to themselves last night. Bickham leaves for New York on the 12:20 train today. He expects to be back Saturday or Tuesday of next week. He asks Maria to please tell [Rev?] that General Schenck cannot tell them whether his engagements will permit him to speak in Clinton, but he [Schenck] thinks that he will do so. He tells her: “Kiss the little fellows for Papa. God bless you.” [LPR]

Sept. 2, 1893 Letter from James Boyle, Office of the Governor, Executive Department, Columbus, OH, to [Charles G. Bickham]232 . The editor of a military journal in Chicago will be making a special feature of the exercises on Ohio Day at the Columbian Expedition. He wishes to include biographical sketches of all members of the Governor’s staff. Therefore, Boyle requests a biographical

227 Colonel G. Norman Lieber served as acting Judge Advocate General from 1884; as Brigadier General, he served as Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army, from 1895-1901. [LPR] 228 Lieutenant General Hugh Aloysius Drum served in the U.S. Army, 1898-1943. [LPR] 229 Probably refers to Col. John M. Wilson, who was Army Chief of Engineers from 1897-1901. [LPR] 230 Probably refers to Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland. [LPR] 231 Michael Vincent Sheridan was a brigadier general in the United States Army. [LPR] 232 The name of Charles G. Bickham is not printed anywhere on the original letter; however, it had been written in pencil next to the salutation “My dear sir”. [LPR]

98 sketch and portrait of Bickham be sent to Captain H. Heistand at Camp Buckeye, in Chicago, for use in the article. [LPR]

June 28, 1941 Letter from Curtis W. Garrison, Director of Research, Hayes Memorial, Fremont, OH, to Daniel D. Bickham. Garrison is returning the letters written to W. D. Bickham, which Daniel Bickham loaned to them for the purpose of making reproductions. [LPR]

Oct. 15, 1943 Letter from “Bill” [William Bickham]233 , New York, NY, to “Father” [Daniel D. Bickham]. Bill hopes to make a short visit in two weeks. He is having trouble getting a reservation on a train, as “apparently the whole of the several trains are reserved solid for military and war production priority folks.” His Traffic Manager knows how to get a reservation and may be able to get one for him. The manager “says Dayton is one of the hardest places in the country to get to by train these days.” He intends to finance his trip using the last of the Bonus bonds he received from the government for his service during “the last war” (World War I). He supposes that “it seemed wise to clear up those relics of War I before all the billions of bonds of War II increased the pressure of inflation with money not worth so much!” He writes about his son Bobby playing football and liking his new school. He writes about difficulties with food supplies: “It would be nice if I could bring you a pound of butter and a big roast of beef, but we can’t get it anymore here. Chicken and chicken and Nucoa 234 and once a week some lamb and a little butter…” He mentions Cora [his wife], “Mother R” (probably his mother-in-law), and the Sparks’ Kentucky Farm. [LPR]

Aug. 19, 1949 Letter from J. Cutler Andrews, Department of History, Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, PA, to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Andrews thanks Bickham for his very full account of his father’s journalistic career. He is an Ohioan himself and particularly interested in the record of the Civil War correspondents who represented Ohio newspapers in the field. [LPR]

Nov. 27, 1949 Letter from Lee Allen, Cincinnati, OH, to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Allen, a baseball historian, believes that Bickham is the oldest living former member of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.235 He is familiar with the game Bickham pitched in 1886 and would like to know whether Bickham was right or left-handed, his approximate height, and playing weight. He would like to visit with Bickham if possible. [LPR]

233 Daniel D. Bickham had a son, William (born 1891) who, at the time of the1920 federal census, was an attorney in Manhattan. [LPR] 234 Nucoa was a brand of margarine. [LPR] 235 It is unclear whether this assessment is correct. [LPR]

99

Box 2, Folder 8: D. D. Bickham: Letters regarding Princeton University controversy, 1908-1910

June 19, 1908 Letter from H. B. Fine, Princeton University, Office of the Dean of the Faculty, [Princeton, NJ], to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Fine writes that Dr. [Woodrow] Wilson 236 has requested him to reply to Bickham’s letter. In regards to a recent incident at the university, Fine clarifies that Nichols and his two companions were not punished for accidentally killing a man but because they were riding through the streets of Trenton with three women of bad character. The boys were suspended for one year, rather than being finally dismissed. [LPR]

Feb. 16, 1910 Letter from Matthew C. Fleming, of Dexter, Osborn, & Fleming, Counselors at Law, New York, NY, to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Fleming writes regarding a controversy surrounding a gift of $500,000 from Mr. [William Cooper] Procter to Princeton University. President [Woodrow] Wilson has forced Procter to withdraw his gift, in an attempt to create the impression that he has been withstanding the encroachment of wealth and aristocracy and has posed as an advocate of democracy at Princeton.. Fleming believes that this issue has been raised by Wilson in order to mislead the alumni and to gain for himself a following which he could not otherwise hope to have. Fleming goes on to discuss the nomination of Adrian H. Joline 237 for the Board of Trustees. Fleming goes on to advise Bickham to read the Evening Post of February 15 for details on the facts of the controversy. In Fleming’s opinion, there is no basis for opposition to Mr. Procter’s gift and the whole thing is simply the result of jealousy on President Wilson’s part of Professor [Andrew F.] West 238 . [LPR]

Feb. 24, 1910 Letter from William Cooper Procter 239 , Cincinnati, OH, to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Procter thinks that Mr. Joline is “peculiarly suited for a Trustee especially at the present time.” He hopes that Bickham will be released from any obligations to support Mr. Barr. [LPR]

236 Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton University, 1902-1910; Governor of New Jersey, 1911- 1913; and President of the United States, 1913-1921. [LPR] 237 Adrian H. Joline was a lawyer in New York City and an 1870 graduate of Princeton; he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton University in 1904 (source: obituary, New York Times , Oct. 16, 1912). [LPR] 238 Andrew F. West, Dean of the Graduate School. [LPR] 239 William Cooper Procter was a grandson of William Procter, one of the founders of Procter & Gamble Company; William Cooper Procter served as company president from 1907-1930. [LPR]

100 Feb. 24, 1910 Letter from [Daniel D. Bickham] to William Alton, Chicago, IL. He writes his opinions on the situation at Princeton, the controversy between [Andrew F.] West and [Woodrow] Wilson. He admires Wilson but does not necessarily agree with his ideas. The last line is: “Don’t line up for any man till you know he stands for what you want.” [LPR]

Mar. 17, 1910 Letter from John D. Davis, Vice President, Mississippi Valley Trust Company, St. Louis, MO, to Daniel D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Davis received Bickham’s letter. He agrees with Bickham that when the situation at Princeton is over, they should get together to “bury the hatchet.” [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 9: D. D. Bickham: Miami Conservancy Tax statements and receipts, 1939-1943

1939-1941 Miami Conservancy Tax due statements for D. D. Bickham, 5 total.

1939-1943 Miami Conservancy Tax paid receipts for D. D. Bickham, 5 total.

Box 2, Folder 10: History of the Dayton Journal by D. D. Bickham, Undated

Undated [After 1936] “History of the Journal ” by D. D. Bickham. 2 typed copies, 22 foolscap pages each – fair copies. Original manuscript on sheets pasted together to make galleys. 1 chart on graph paper, “Genealogy of Dayton Newspapers.” Not dated, but written after 1936. [HHS]

Box 2, Folder 11: Miscellaneous History Notes by D. D. Bickham, Undated

Undated Miscellaneous historical notes and writings, including topics such as “Political Parties of the United States,” “Dayton in Ohio History,” and his father William D. Bickham. [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 12: D. D. Bickham: Cash Book, 1912-1931

1912-1931

101 This ledger contains financial records and notes kept by Daniel D. Bickham in relation to his family, including his children, his mother, and their home. [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 13: C. G. Bickham: Service in Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1901

[Jan.?] 21, 1898 Letter from Guy V. Henry 240 , from the Army and Navy Club, Washington, DC, to Col. [John W.] Clous 241 . He will do what he can for “our young man” [C. G. Bickham], whom he has seen; the young man is well spoken of. The young man is not in his command but they will come together in Cuba. He [Henry] was transferred here [Washington, DC] to go, via Newport News, and he was sorry to leave his Tampa commission. He asks Clous to write Mrs. Bickham, telling her that he [Henry] will look after her son. He does not see why [Henry C.] Corbin 242 can’t get Bickham a stay in a U.S. Volunteer [Infantry] Regiment. [LPR]

Apr. 28, 1898 Telegram from H. E. Mead, Columbus, OH, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Message reads: “Charlie desires me wire you don’t come till next week, camp not presentable earlier.” [LPR]

Aug. 22, 1898 Notice from Postal Telegraph-Cable Company to D. D. Bickham, [Dayton, OH]. Notice informing D. D. Bickham that his telegram sent today has not been delivered to Charles G. Bickham at New Orleans, LA, because the party has already left that city. [LPR]

May 2, 1899 Telegram from C. G. Bickham, Jersey City, NJ, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, 117 W. Monument Ave., Dayton, OH. Message reads: “Regiment here send civilian clothes Mackintosh and linen camp made near Harrisburg PA ninth Co E.” [LPR]

July 18, 1899

240 Guy Vernor Henry, Sr., was an officer during the Civil War, and he was appointed a brigadier general of the Volunteers during the Spanish-American War; he was also Governor of Puerto Rico (source: New York Times , Oct. 28, 1899). Not to be confused with his son, Guy Vernor Henry, Jr., who also served in the Spanish-American War. [LPR] 241 Col. Clous probably refers to John Walter Clous, who reached the rank of colonel in 1892 and served as a Brigadier General of the Volunteers in the Spanish-American War (J. W. Clous’ obituary, New York Times , Sept. 2, 1909). General John W. Clous was W. D. Bickham’s brother-in-law; their wives were Caroline Strickle and Maria Strickle, respectively. (See 1900 U.S. Federal Census: John W. and Caroline Clous are listed at the Bickham home, 117 W. Monument Ave., Dayton, Ohio.) [LPR] 242 Most likely refers to Henry Clarke Corbin, who was Adjutant General of the U. S. Army (ranked brigadier general) at the time. [LPR]

102 Letter from Charles G. Bickham, Camp Meade, PA, to Assistant Adjutant General Carter, War Department, [Washington, DC]. Bickham writes that he has received the commission as captain in the 28 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry, and he accepts. He includes his birth date and address. [LPR]

July 31, 1899 Telegram from C. G. Bickham, Lebanon, PA, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, 117 W. Monument Ave., Dayton, OH. Message reads: “Send evening clothes and taxedo [sic] eagle hotel Lebanon Pa.” [LPR]

[circa Sept. 20, 1899] Fragment from [C. G. Bickham], 28 th Infantry, to Mrs. Maria S. Bickham, Dayton, OH. All that remains of this correspondence is the exterior envelope and the uppermost portion of 5 individual sheets of paper, with fragments of writing but no full words visible. The envelope and the sheets of paper are embossed with the words “Twenty- Eighth Infantry.” 243 [LPR]

Dec. 22, 1899 Letter from Charles G. Bickham, Manila, [Philippines], to his mother, Mrs. W. D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Bickham says that the copies of the Journal are very welcome, as the place is lonesome. He says that there is fighting but it is not anywhere near him. He says that their greatest concern is that they “do not disturb or in any way annoy the natives.” He mentions his mother’s birthday, “of which I believe this is the forty-fifth—that’s where you stopped, wasn’t it?” He writes that he has not seen General [Thomas J.] Wood for some time but that Wood writes to him, such as when he [Wood] receives a box from Ethel and Rebekah Stoddard and divides it with Bickham. He asks his mother to “give my love to those two fine girls,” as well as a few others. [LPR]

May 6, 1900 Letter from Sgt. Charles E. Molen 244 , Co. B, 28 th Regt. Inf., Taal, province of Batangas, Philippine Islands, to the Editor of the Dayton Daily Journal [Daniel D. Bickham]. Molen requests a copy of the Journal dated Feb. 14, 1900, because it has a full account of the Battle of Putol Bridge, as given by Captain C. G. Bickham. He reports that Captain Bickham is getting along all right and that he is the best captain in the regiment. He says, “In battle he is at the head of his company where all brave captains should be. There is not a man in his company that would not do for him as they would for an only

243 Although there is no identifying information about the sender, it can be presumed to have been sent by Charles G. Bickham to his mother, Maria Bickham, since C. G. Bickham commanded the 28 th Regiment of the U. S. Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines in 1899. [LPR] 244 Charles E. Molen, of Liberty, Ohio, was a sergeant serving in Company B, 28 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry, which was under the command of Captain Charles G. Bickham (see: 1900 US Federal Census). [LPR]

103 brother.” He asks that if anyone should see his uncle, J. B. Hunter, please tell him that he is all right. [LPR]

[No date], 1901 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, San Francisco, CA, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, 117 W. Monument Ave., Dayton, OH. Message: “Arrived safely after a pleasant voyage.” [LPR]

Undated Letter from Mary B. Campbell, 1715 N. Broad St., [city unknown], [state unknown], to Mrs. [W. D.] Bickham. Campbell writes that it was awfully sweet of Mrs. Bickham to lend her such an interesting account of the fighting. Captain Campbell had sent her a scrap in a great rush with very little news in it. She does not doubt that Mrs. Bickham hears frequently from the Philippines and is well informed through “your clever son” [C. G. Bickham]. She asks how Captain Bickham is. She was sorry to hear of the illness of Mrs. Bickham’s grandson. She asks for Mrs. Bickham’s advice about going to Manila: does she think it wise and safe to take the babies? [LPR]

Jan. [no year] Telegram from “Charles” [C. G. Bickham], Plattsburg, NY, to D. D. “Beckham” [sic] [Bickham], Journal office, Dayton, OH. Message reads: “Leave here Wednesday morning at eight thirty am.” [LPR]

Jan. 13, [no year] Telegram from Charles Henry Jones 245 [sic], Philadelphia, PA, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, [Dayton, OH]. Message reads: “Cable tenth says ‘Have been in action but am all right.’” [LPR]

Jan. 18, [no year] Telegram from “Charlie” [C. G. Bickham], Plattsburg, NY, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, 117 W. Monument Ave., Dayton, OH. Message reads: “Leave here Monday night sail probably twenty third.” [LPR]

July 1, [no year] Telegram from J. W. Clous 246 , Governors Island, NY, to Dan S. [sic] Bickham, Journal office, Dayton, OH. Message reads: Time for immediate effort for Charlie’s reentry into service arrived.” [LPR]

Sept. 25, [no year] Telegram from “Charlie” [C. G. Bickham], Pittsburgh, PA, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, 117 W. Monument Ave., [Dayton, OH].

245 This message seems to have come from Charles G. Bickham also, but it is unclear why it seems to have been signed by one “Charles Henry Jones.” 246 General John Walter Clous was Daniel Bickham’s uncle. [LPR]

104 Message reads: “Piqua about ten morning second, second rear car.” [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 14: C. G. Bickham: Letters concerning Military Career, 1897-1917

Sept. 25, 1897 Letter from William R. Day 247 , Washington, DC, to Mrs. W. D. Bickham. Promises to refer to the President the matter of C. G. Bickham’s appointment as consul at Budapest. [HHS]

Mar. 31, 1899 Discharge of C. G. Bickham from Co. G, 3 rd Regiment, Ohio National Guard. Discharge papers signed by Wm. W. White, 1 st Lieutenant; approved, Charles Anthony, Col. Com.; by order of Asa S. Bushnell, Governor (stamped signature); signed by Th. B. Kingsley, Adjutant General. [HHS] Enlisted Apr. 21, 1898.

July 17, 1899 Commission of C. G. Bickham, from the Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, DC. C. G. Bickham is extended the commission of Captain, 28 th Regiment of Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. [LPR]

Nov. 21, 1899 Mimeograph copy of The Tartar Times (souvenir edition). A souvenir newspaper with items pertaining to the U.S.S. Tartar and the 28 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry. [LPR]

Apr. 29, 1901 Post card from the Office of the Chief Ordnance, U.S. Army, Washington, DC. Postcard informing Captain Bickham that his return pertaining to Co. “B”, 28 th Infantry, for Ordnance and Ordnance Stores in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1900, Dec. 31, 1900, and Mar. 31, 1901, have been examined and found to be correct. [LPR]

[1904] Citation accompanying the award to C. G. Bickham of the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Bayang, Mindanao, the Philippine Islands, May 2, 1902. Signed by General Frederick D. Grant 248 , Brigadier General, Commanding Department of Lakes. [HHS, LPR]

June 30, 1904

247 William R. Day was Assistant Secretary of State under [John] Sherman, 1897; briefly Secretary of State, 1898; member of commission to make peace with Spain, 1898; Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1899-1903; Justice of the Supreme Court, 1903-1922. [HHS] 248 Frederick Dent Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, was a major general, serving in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. [LPR]

105 Letter from John J. Pershing 249 , Headquarters, S.W. Division, Oklahoma City, OK, to C. G. Bickham. Pershing congratulates C. G. Bickham on the award to him of the Congressional Medal of Honor. [HHS]

July 8, 1904 Letter from William Birkhimer 250 , U.S. Army General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, to C. G. Bickham, Fort Sheridan, IL. Letter of congratulation to Captain Bickham on his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. [HHS]

Jan. 24, 1909 Letter from Captain M. E. Saville, 27 th Infantry, Camp Columbia, Cuba, to General [Henry C.] Corbin. (Marked “Copy.”) Saville asks that Corbin pardon his intrusion, as he writes in the interest of Charles Bickham, Corbin’s nephew. He has known Bickham for several years and was his instructor at the Officers School at Fort Sheridan (Illinois). He extends high praise of Bickham’s honor and intelligence. Bickham has been ordered up for examination for promotion. In Saville’s opinion, Bickham will not pass any kind of a mental examination due to the effects of his tropical service in the Philippine Islands. [LPR]

Feb. 2, [1909] Letter from Henry C. Corbin, Horseshoe Plantation, Tallahassee, FL, to “Rebecca.” 251 [In reaction to Saville’s letter,] Corbin writes that he is sorry to hear the news about “Charlie” [Bickham], whom he considers “a fine soldier and generally admired by all soldier folk.” He has sent the original letter to Major Liggett, for use in the case of any question about the exam results. [LPR]

Feb. 26, 1909 Letter from Henry P. McCain, Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, DC, to First Lieutenant Charles G. Bickham, Dayton, OH. McCain informs Bickham of the results of his recent examination at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Bickham failed to pass a satisfactory professional examination in Administration (practical), Field Service Regulations (practical), Small Arms Firing Regulations (practical), and that the President has approved the report and finding of the board and has suspended him from promotion for the period of one year. [LPR]

May 5, 1910 Letter from Captain [H. S. Wygand?], Recorder, Infantry Examining Board, Fort Leavenworth, KS, to First Lieutenant C. [G.] Bickham, 27 th Infantry, Fort Sheridan, IL. The Recorder informs Bickham that the Examining Board is not yet in receipt of Special Orders, No. 99, War Department, current series, ordering him to appear for re-

249 John J. Pershing was General of the Armies. [HHS] 250 Colonel, 28 th Regiment Volunteers; CGB’s commanding officer in the Philippines. [HHS] 251 Corbin had a daughter named Rebecca, but it is unclear whether this letter is written to her.

106 examination for promotion, and until this order is received it will be impossible to give him a definite answer regarding the time of his re-examination. [LPR]

May 7, 1910 Letter from Captain [H. S. Wygand?], Recorder, Infantry Examining Board, Fort Leavenworth, KS, to First Lieutenant C. [G.] Bickham, 27 th Infantry, Fort Sheridan, IL. The Recorder informs Bickham that his re-examination will take place at nine o’clock a.m., May 14, 1910. Bickham’s year of suspension ends on June 5, 1910, and the re-examination must take place before that date. [LPR]

June 7, 1910 Letter from James M. Cox 252 , Washington, [DC], to C. G. Bickham, care of the Princeton Inn, Princeton, NJ. To “my dear Charlie.” Cox is working with Rep. Longworth and Sen. Burton on the Secretary of War, in whose opinion nothing can be done, on the matter of Bickham’s failure to pass the examination for military promotion. He said that the report shows that Bickham failed at the examination but it is not regarded as a bad failure. [HHS, LPR]

June 16, 1910 Telegram from Washington notifying C. G. Bickham of honorable discharged. Also, telegram (copy) to Adjutant General, War Department, from C. G. Bickham acknowledging receipt of honorable discharge. [HHS]

June 21, 1910 Memo from F. C. Ainsworth, Adjutant General’s Office, War Department. (Copy) In response to a request from Senator Dick 253 : the facts in the record of C. G. Bickham: failed in two examinations; had not professional qualifications for Captain; honorable discharged. Order issued on June 15, 1910, acknowledged June 16, 1910. [HHS]

Apr. 12, 1917 Letter from John J. Pershing 254 , Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, TX, to C. G. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Pershing replies to letter from C. G. Bickham: will be glad to keep him in mind, but the intentions of the Government are not to call for volunteers, and at present no indication has been given as to method for the appointment of officers. Can only recommend; will be glad to consider C. G. Bickham for recommendation when the time comes. 255 [HHS]

Apr. 14, 1917

252 James M. Cox was Democratic member of Congress, 1909-1913; Governor of Ohio, 1913-1915, 1917- 1921; defeated candidate for President, 1920. [HHS] 253 Charles W. F. Dick was a U.S. Senator from Ohio (1904-1911). [LPR] 254 In 1917, John J. Pershing was the commanding general for the formation of the U.S. National Army; he was later the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during WWI. [LPR] 255 The United States had just entered into World War I, the U.S. Congress having declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. [HHS]

107 Letter from Atlee Pomerene 256 , U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, to Dan D. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Pomerene writes in answer to letter from D. D. Bickham in behalf of his brother, C. G. Bickham: C. G. Bickham should apply to the Adjutant-General, giving his record. He may use Pomerene’s name; Pomerene will do what he can. [HHS] Pomerene thinks that it is much better than to attempt to take if up now with General Scott 257 ; General [John J.] Pershing is not there. [LPR]

May 9, 1917 Letter from Henry P. McCain, Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, DC, to Charles G. Bickham, Dayton, OH. McCain thanks Bickham for his offer to organize a regiment of troops. However, since there is no present law authorizing the organization of a volunteer force, the Department does not contemplate such action. [LPR]

Undated Application and endorsements of Charles G. Bickham to be Consul at Athens, Greece. List of letters of endorsement, including names of John Sherman, Secretary of State, and M. [Marcus] A. Hanna, Senator. [HHS]

Undated [post-1910] “Army Career of Charles G. Bickham” as recalled by Daniel D. Bickham. Daniel D. Bickham describes to the best of his recollection the military career of his brother, Charles G. Bickham, which began with the Ohio National Guard in 1898 and ended with his retirement in 1910 as a First Lieutenant, 27 th U.S. Infantry. [LPR]

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1, 1898-1901

Note: According to a bookplate in the front cover, this item was presented to the library by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.

Items are listed in the order in which they can be found in the album:

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 1

Undated “Flags Presented. Beautiful Ceremony at Fernandina. Mayor Lindemuth Makes the Presentation before an Assembly of Three Battalions of Soldiers and their Officers.” Article describes a ceremony in the camp at Fernandina, Florida, when the colors for the Third Regiment were presented by Mayor Lindemuth. Includes addresses given by Mayor Lindemuth and Col. [Charles] Anthony. [LPR]

256 Atlee Pomerene was a Senator from Ohio (Democrat), 1911-1923. [HHS] 257 Most likely refers to Major General Hugh L. Scott, U.S. Army Chief of Staff from 1914-1917. [LPR]

108 Article continues on the following page.

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 2

Undated “The 28 th at Putol.” News clipping. Article introduces a poem written from Private Mathews, Company A, 28 th Regiment, one of those who “fought so successfully and valiantly against the Filipino insurgents at Putol Bridge.” The article mentions that Captain Charles Bickham also fought in the same battle. [LPR]

[1900 258 ] Map, “Disposition of Forces…Santiago De Cuba.” News clipping.

Apr. 1898 “Home Companies G and I Depart for Springfield.” News clipping. Article describes the recent departure of Companies G and I for Springfield, where the Third Regiment is mobilizing. [LPR]

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 3

May 10, 1898 “Handsome: Silver Service Presented to Capt. John A. Miller by Co. G.” News clipping. Captain John A. Miller, Company G, Third Infantry, Ohio National Guard, was presented with a service award. He has retired. [LPR]

July 10, 1898 “Dayton Boy Wounded.” News clipping. Reprint of a “postal” from Charles Pandorf, Company I, Third Regiment, O.V.I., to Mr. Earl Lines, stating that Pandorf found Lines’s brother wounded in Santiago. [LPR]

July 6, 1899 “New Regiments: Full Text of Government Order Calling for Them. Where they will be recruited, how they will be numbered and how officered.” News clipping. Article discusses the recent order for the enlistment of volunteers for the service in the Philippines. Describes how volunteers will be recruited; how the regiments will be numbered, and how officers will be commissioned. [LPR]

July 6, 1899 “The Colonels: Officers who will Command the New Regiments.” News clipping. Article names the officers who will command the new regiments, including their names and which regiments they will command. [LPR]

Oct. 3, 1899

258 A handwritten caption “map 1900” is located beneath this clipping. [LPR]

109 “At the Presidio: Twenty-eighth in Camp There at Last. Solid Comfort Once More for Officers and Men—Letter from Lieutenant George Wood.” News clipping. Reprint of a letter from Lieutenant George Wood, recently arrived at Presidio. Article is continued on page 4. [LPR]

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 4

Continuation of Lt. George Wood’s letter from page 3.

Nov. 5, 1899 “Tropical Oahu: Captain Stivers Vents his Enthusiasm. Will Accept a Deed for the Sandwich Group from Uncle Sam Any Time.” News clipping. Reprint of a letter from Captain Charles P. Stivers, 31 st U. S. V. I., who is currently in the Sandwich Islands. [LPR]

Nov. 1899 “George H. Wood: On Board U. S. Transport Tartar . Pleasures of Rolling in the Broad Pacific. The Dayton Lieutenant is Not Seasick and has not Missed a Meal.” News clipping. Reprints of letters from Lt. George H. Wood, 28 th U. S. V., dated November 1 (on board the Tartar ) and November 4 (from Honolulu, Hawaii), 1899. Description from article headline: “Interesting letter describing the trip to Honolulu. The picturesque harbor of San Francisco and the beautiful scenery of the Hawaiian Islands, with their balmy temperatures, move Lieutenant Wood to express his admiration. Will write next on arrival at Manila.” [LPR]

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 5

Nov. 9, 1899 Receipt from Wells Fargo to send two boxes valued at $50 from Mrs. Bickham, Dayton, Ohio, to Charles Bickham, at San Francisco, [CA]; paid $4.30.

Dec. 1899 “All Dreams of Military Glory Rudely Shattered: Philippine Experiences of Early December. Lieut. Geo. Wood writes that Everything was Warlike except the Enemy.” News clipping. Reprints of letters from Lt. George H. Wood, dated November 29 (at Bacoor, Philippine Islands) and Dec. 6 (at Big Bend), 1899. Description from article headline: “A place where home is always spelt with a capital “H,” and where the weather is too warm to worry about fierce mosquitoes and insects. Scouting was the only amusement, and men were given instructions to run if they struck the enemy.” [LPR]

Dec. 3, 1899 “City Boys at the Front: Eight Philadelphians serving as Officers against the Philippine Rebels, in Twenty-Eighth Regiment.” News clipping.

110 Article discusses officers of the 28 th Regiment, eight of whom are from Philadelphia. They are: Major John Biddle Porter, Captain Charles Scott Campbell, Lieutenant Charles C. Allen, Lieutenant Frederick B. Nielson, Lieutenant Ralph M. Mitchell, Lieutenant C. Rodman Jones, Lieutenant George T. Newhall, and Lieutenant Robert S. Hansburg. The article includes brief biographical sketches and photographs of all eight men. Article continues on pages 6 and 7. [LPR]

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 6

Continuation of “City Boys at the Front” article from page 5. Article continues on page 7.

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 7

Continuation of “City Boys at the Front” article from page 5 and 6.

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 8

Dec 23. 1899 “George H. Wood: On Board U. S. Transport Tartar . Pleasures of Rolling in the Broad Pacific. The Dayton Lieutenant is Not Seasick and has not Missed a Meal.” News clipping. Reprints of letters from Lt. George H. Wood, 28 th U. S. V., dated November 1 (on board the Tartar ) and November 4 (from Honolulu, Hawaii), 1899. Duplicate of the article of the same title from page 4 of the scrapbook.

Jan. 1900 “Judge Advocate: Lieut. Geo. Wood’s New Position. Enjoyed a Green Xmas in the Philippines. Charley Bickham had Quarters on a Nepa259 Launch, the best in those parts.” News clipping. Reprints of letters from Lt. George H. Wood, dated Dec. 10 (at Big Bend, Philippine Islands); Dec. 20 (at Big Bend, Philippine Islands); Dec. 24 (at Bacoor, Philippine Islands); and Dec. 27 (at Bacoor, Philippine Islands), 1899. Description from article headline: “The Lieutenant’s Company gets away from Bacoor for a few days only to be sent back to a station in a ruined church. The United States should go in for a driving hard campaign. It would be a national disgrace to pull out now, in Wood’s opinion.” Article continues on page 9.

Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #1 – Page 9

Continuation of George Wood’s letters from page 8.

Jan. 11, 1900

259 Nepa is a building material used in the Philippines. [LPR]

111 “Broad Pacific: Almost Boundless Sea of Water. Letters from Lieutenant George H. Wood. The Dayton Officer writes last from Bacoor, opposite Cavite Island.” News clipping. Reprints of letters from Lt. George H. Wood, dated Nov. 7 (on board the Tartar); Nov. 10; Nov. 12; Nov. 15; Nov. 16; Nov. 19; Nov. 21; Nov. 22; Nov. 25 (at Manila, Philippine Islands); Nov. 26 (at Bacoor, Philippine Islands), 1899. Description from article headline: “Started from Honolulu at election time in dense ignorance of the popular result. A landsman’s views of nautical law. The almost eventless trip from San Francisco to the Philippines. Lieutenant Wood expected to see active duty when last heard from.” Article continues on page 10.

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Continuation of George Wood’s letters from page 9.

Feb. 13, 1900 “Leaden Hail does not Dismay the 28 th Boys. Receive their First Fire from the Rebels. Captain Charles G. Bickham tells of the sensations caused by the patter.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Captain Charles G. Bickham, from Perez des Marines, Province of Cavite, Philippine Islands, dated January 10, 1900, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Officers of the 28 th receive personal mention from Colonel Berkheimer [William Birkhimer] in his official report of the affair, the regiment being credited with striking one of the severest blows yet landed on the elusive natives. All ready for another.” Article continues on page 11.

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Continuation of Charles Bickham’s letter from page 10.

Mar. 1, 1900 “Lieut. Geo. Wood Gives Further Choice Incidents Concerning Life on the Line in Luzon. All-night March which Rivals some of the Great Rebellion Experiences.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Lieutenant George H. Wood, from Calamba, Philippine Islands, dated January 23, 1900. Description from article headline: “Stationed at Calamba when this letter was written, but no telling where the command now is. Hot coffee for tired troops secured by a little ‘pirootin’’ round. Mother Earth good to weary soldiers.”

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Mar. 1900

112 “Wild Marching from Niac to Nasugbu Town. Sort of Miniature Advance to the Sea. Grand Canyon of Magallance a Picturesque Places for Filipino Ambuscades.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Nasugbu, Philippine Islands, dated March 8, 1900, and March 11, 1900. Description from article headline: “Hurry call at 3 a.m., caused by a belated Filipino, who was evidently desirous of knowing how much noise it would require to arouse an American camp. Evidently he did not wait to note his superlative success. Wood’s ‘bummers’ will not starve.”

May 8, 1900 “Fram Nasugbu. Lieutenant Wood’s Business Better than a Crossroads Grocery Store: One Thing Lacking and that is Iced Holly Water, like Dayton’s Best.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Nasugbu, Philippine Islands, dated March 14, 1900; March 18, 1900; March 22, [1900]; and March 25, 1900. Description from article headline: “The Irish Contingent in Company G had no St. Patrick’s celebration for the Shamrock does not grow in the Philippines. There has been no fighting since Imus. Nasugbu’s glory has departed.” Article continues on page 13.

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Continuation of George H. Wood’s letters from page 12.

June 13, 1900 “A Philippine Battle. The Fight at Putol Bridge.” News clipping. Reprint of a poem “The Story of the Twenty-eighth,” written by Corporal C. M. Jack, Company B, 28 th Infantry. Reprint of a letter written by Corporal C. M. Jack, Company B, 28 th Infantry, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated April 10, 1900, to the Editor of the Madison County Democrat . The letter discusses at length the Battle of Putol Bridge and the actions of Colonel [William E.] Birkhimer. The article also names Captain [C. G.] Bickham. [LPR] Article continues on page 14.

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Continuation of C. M. Jack’s letter from page 13.

June 18, 1900 “Lieutenant Wood: Rivals R. L. Stevenson’s Pirate. Camping on the Burning Sands of Nasugbu. Marvelous climate, where stores can be beached with small chance of loss.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Camp Wood, Nasugbu, Philippine Islands, dated April 25, 1900; April 29, 1900; May 2, 1900; and May 6, 1900.

113 Description from article headline: “Humdrum side of soldier life revealed in a gossipy letter, which shows that his busiest days are not those when he is chasing the elusive Filipino. Moving camp has its woes and bothersome responsibilities.”

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July 1900 “Stunning Fight Just out of Taal: Americans Fought nit he Open Against the Enemy Stoutly Entrenched.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated July 28, [1900], to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Volley firing for an hour and not one American soldier received the scratch of a wound. Insurgents shoot like [William Jennings] Bryan talks—in the air. Happy family amid the ruins of Taal.”

July 23, 1900 “Hiking at Taal: Seeking the Elusive Filipino. Treachery of Native Guide Demonstrated. Led the Americans into an Ambush which they turned to Good Account.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated June 10, [1900], to his aunt. Description from article headline: “Desperate wounding of gallant Captain [Frank F.] Crenshaw as a result of the native deviltry. Dispiriting march out of the desolate mountain country carrying the wounded on hand-made stretchers.”

July 25, 1900 “Now Judge Wood. The Lieutenant in a New Role, Becoming a Sort of Pooh Bah of Balayan. Solomon in all his Glory was not arrayed like a Filipino Captain.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Balayan, Philippine Islands, dated May 30, 1900; June 3, [1900]; June 5, 1900; June 10, 1900; and June 21, 1900. Description from article headline: “Further word from Captain Crenshaw shows that he will survive the wound which Captain Bickham told about. Filipino rebels waiting for [William Jennings] Bryan’s election 260 upon which they build all their hopes, as they say he will remove the troops.” Article continues on page 16.

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Continuation of George H. Wood’s letters from page 15.

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Aug. 1900

260 William Jennings Bryan was a candidate in the 1900 presidential election; however, he did not win. The incumbent William McKinley was re-elected. [LPR]

114 “Dayton Boys Foregather over in Manila. And Great must have been the Joy Thereof. Lieutenant George H. Wood Simply Hints at the Pleasurable Experience.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Office of the Inspector of Customs, Taal, Philippine Islands, dated June 26, 1900; and from Manila, Philippine Islands, June 28, 1900. Description from article headline: “The home comers sailed on July 3d for Singapore en route to Europe. Further experiences with the elusive natives of Lian and their rounding up at Balayan with barren results.”

Aug. 16, 1900 “General Corbin. Final Word to the Wise on the Word Militarism. Perverted Use of the Word by a Class is an Insult to the American Soldiers.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Henry C. Corbin, Second Lieutenant F Company, First Lieutenant K Company, at Washington, DC, to Hon. Seth W. Brown, Lebanon, Ohio, dated August 13, 1900. Corbin writes regarding the use of the term “militarism.” [LPR]

Aug. 17, 1900 “Night Marching. Fate of the Soldier in the Philippines. From Balayan to Taal, then Back and Back Again in Awful Mud and Rain.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Manila, Philippine Islands, July 1, 1900; and from Headquarters, 28 th U.S.V., Taal, Philippine Islands, July 10, [1900]. Wood writes of meeting Dayton friends, having a picnic, and attending an English church. He also writes of the march from Taal to Balayan in the rain. [LPR] Article continues on page 18.

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Continuation of George H. Wood’s letters from page 17.

Aug. 18, 1900 “Night Marching. Fate of the Soldier in the Philippines. From Balayan to Taal, then Back and Back Again in Awful Mud and Rain.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Manila, Philippine Islands, July 1, 1900; and from Headquarters, 28 th U.S.V., Taal, Philippine Islands, July 10, [1900]. [Duplicate of previous article.]

[Oct. 1900] “Pleasure Round Enjoyed by Men over in Balayan. Fiestas seem to be the Order of the Hour. Engineers are studying the chances of road making in the islands.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Balayan, [Philippine Islands], dated Oct. 30, 1900, Oct. 17, [1900], and Oct. 20, [1900]. Description from article headline: “Lieutenant Wood sees more diamonds among the social elect of Balayan than Dayton can boast, and there may be more which will be unearthed so soon as the natives feel that they are secure in their ownership.”

115 Nov. 8, 1900 “Captain Crenshaw. Touching Tribute from his Associate Officers.” News clipping. Article discusses tributes sent to the father of recently deceased Captain Frank Crenshaw, of the 28 th Regiment Infantry, by Col. William E. Birkhimer, and others. [LPR] Article continues on page 19.

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Continuation of “Captain Crenshaw” article from page 18.

[Nov. 1900] “Off to Mindanao: 28 th Infantry on Special Duty. Selected for a Six Months Campaign. Intended that Col. Birkhimer’s Men Sweep through the Island Interior.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated Nov. 1900, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Captain Charles G. Bickham writes of the intended movement and narrates in what high esteem the 28 th is held by regular officers for efficiency, morale and general health. It seems always ready for work.”

Dec. 1900 “Desperate Fight with Filipinos. Captain Biegler’s Column of Mounted Infantry had a Narrow Escape from Annihilation near Loac. Battled Against Big Odds.” News clipping. Reprint of correspondence from Harry R. Andreas, at Calamba, Isle de Luzon, [Philippine Islands], to The Bulletin . Andreas writes of a devastating encounter involving Captain [George W.] Biegler’s mounted infantry at Loac. [LPR] Article continues on page 20.

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Continuation of “Desperate Fight” article from page 19.

Dec. 18, 1900 “Joy in Luzon over the Result of the Election. American officers known now what to expect. While there may be some trouble yet the Tagal leaders see the end.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Los Banos, Philippine Islands, dated Nov. 1, 1900; Nov. 7, 1900; and Nov. 11, 1900. Description from article headline: “Lieutenant Wood tells briefly the story of poor Captain Biegler’s plucky fight and of his suffering from a wound inflicted by a brass bullet. Hopes that he will live to be returned home.”

Dec. 25, 1900 “Col. Birkhimer shows Natives a Trick or Two. Rebels had the Better of the Game awhile, then the Americans side-stepped and took them from the rear.” News clipping.

116 Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, from Santa Ana, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated Dec. 23, 1900; and from Villaneuse, [Philippine Islands], dated Dec. 25, [1900]. Description from article headline: “Result, a bloodless victory and the destruction of what was the strongest fortification in the islands. Now Mindanao is fast becoming a regular holiday country. But there was some tough marching.” Article continues on page 21.

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Continuation of George H. Wood’s letters from page 20.

[Dec. 1900] “Pushing Campaign: Keeping the Tagals very busy just Now.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from unidentified correspondent, from Manila, [Philippine Islands], dated Dec. 28, 1900. The author writes that “a pushing campaign has been carried on by the 40 th [volunteer] infantry during December in northern Mindanao.” [LPR]

Jan. 1901 “Soldiering in the Philippine Islands. Captain Samuel A. Price Tells of Long Marches. Are Many Deserted Villages.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Captain Samuel A. Price, from the Philippine Islands, undated. Description from article headline: “Route of the troops lies through a most luxuriant region, with coconut groves, high and fertile tablelands and through tropical glens. How the troops spent Christmas.”

Jan. 1901 “Joyous Change. Troops Gleeful over Mindanao and the Chance of Mixing up with the Moros 261 . Seems likely that the Dayton men will get a chance to serve together.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from George H. Wood, on board the U.S. Transport Garonne , dated Nov. 26, 1900; Nov. 28, [1900]; and Dec. 1, [1900]. Description from article headline: “The new location of the 28 th is the second largest island of the Philippine group, and apparently has never been explored, at least entirely. Not much anticipated in the way of trouble.” Article continues on page 22.

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Continuation of George H. Wood’s letters from page 21.

261 Moros was the name that the Spanish gave to the Muslim tribes of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. Colonel Frank D. Baldwin’s and Captain John J. Pershing’s U.S. troops fought several battles against the Moros circa 1902-1903, especially around Lake Lanao. Source: Jerry Keenan, Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001), pp. 268-269.

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[Jan. or Feb. 1901] “How the Troops Took Santa Ana. The Visayan Stronghold’s Defenses were All on One Side and the Americans came the Other Way. Four Months’ Work Destroyed.” News clipping. Reprint of correspondence from Sergeant Harry R. Andreas, Company F, 28 th United States Infantry, in the field between Tagalong and Santa Ana, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated Dec. 16, 1900, and Dec. 17, [1900]; special correspondence to The Bulletin . Andreas describes the siege of Santa Ana. [LPR]

Mar. 11, 1901 “In the Far-Away Philippine Isles. Captain Samuel A. Price Tells of his Soldier Life.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Captain Samuel A. Price, from Santa Ana, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated Christmas Eve [Dec. 25, 1900], to his mother. Description from article headline: “Long and weary marches. Hot fights with Filipinos, hard climbs over the mountain passes, dragging cannon, fording streams and sleeping in wet clothes ready for the next day’s battle.” A note at the end indicates that a second installment of the letter will appear in the next day’s newspaper. However, the second installment does not appear to be included in this scrapbook. [LPR] Article continues on page 23.

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Continuation of Samuel A. Price’s letter from page 22.

Undated News clipping. Announcement stating: “Soldiers and soldiers’ families who required assistance gladly bear evident to the beautiful and tactful service rendered them by Mrs. W. D. Bickham and her associates.”

Undated Photograph of an apparently deceased man lying on the ground, with soldiers marching in the background. Caption reads “An Amego Philiipino” [sic].

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Handout: “Spanish Words for Soldiers.” Includes several important words and phrases in both English and Spanish, including spelling and pronunciation. A handwritten note on the back reads: “I have a duplicate of this code and will use it if occasion arises. Charlie.”

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Box 4: Spanish-American War & Philippine Insurrection Scrapbook #2, 1898-1901

Note: There is no bookplate in the cover to indicate donor.

Items are listed in the order in which they can be found in the album:

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Apr. 27, 1898 “Well Loved Dayton Sons Bravely Embark.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “Companies G Error! Bookmark not defined. and I depart for Springfield, there to be joined to the Third Regiment, which later will join the mobilization movement at Columbus, toward which the Ohio troops are tending—Springfield receives them in holiday attire and the city is theirs.”

Apr. 26, 1898 “Third is Complete: Orders for Columbus Expected Some Time To-Day.” News clipping. Special to the Journal , from Headquarters, Adjutant General [Henry A.] Axline, Columbus, Ohio. From the article: “The Third regiment has reported its complete mobilization at Springfield and will be ordered to move to Columbus some time early on Wednesday.”

Apr. 26, 1898 “The Third Regiment Goes Into Camp. Moved Early from Springfield.” News clipping. [This headline has no article text directly connected to it. It is probably part of the headline from the previous article, but it is difficult to tell from the placement on the page. The text beneath it is a continuation of the previous article “Third is Complete.”] [LPR]

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May 3, 1898 “Was Colonel, Now Private.” News clipping. Article from the Commercial Tribune , reprinted in the Dayton Journal . The article discusses how Charles Bickham became a colonel while on Governor William McKinley’s staff but enlisted as a private for the Spanish-American War. [LPR]

Undated News clipping. Announcement that Charles G. Bickham, Harry Loy, and George Wood have been promoted to corporalships. [LPR]

119 Undated News clipping. Note that Charles G. Bickham is now wearing Captain Miller’s trousers. [LPR]

Undated News clipping. Note that in Howard Saxby’s correspondence to the Commercial Tribune the previous day, there was a picture of three Dayton boys at Camp Bushnell: Eldridge and Joe Mead and Charles G. Bickham. The photo was taken by Charles M. Thruston. [LPR]

Undated Untitled article from the Washington City Post . News clipping. The article praises Col. Charles G. Bickham for enlisting as a private. [LPR]

Undated “War a Great Leveler: If You Don’t Believe It Read of These Examples.” News clipping. The article discusses how Charles Bickham became a colonel while on Governor William McKinley’s staff but enlisted as a private for the Spanish-American War. [LPR]

Undated “Roster Co. G.” News clipping. The clipping includes the names and ranks of all men in Company G, [Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Ohio National Guard], including Charles G. Bickham. This company was composed primarily of Dayton men. [LPR]

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[May 1898] “Camp Bushnell: The Boys in Blue who are Ready and True. Sunday in the City of Tents and a Glimpse at the Soldier’s Life.” News clipping. Reprint of correspondence from “W. S. B.,” at Camp Bushnell, Columbus, Ohio, dated May 2, [1898]; special correspondence to Journal . The correspondent describes the Ohio National Guard camp, Camp Bushnell, including soldier life and training. [LPR]

Undated “At the Camp.” News clipping. Reprint of correspondence from “G. D. B.,” at [Camp Bushnell, Columbus, Ohio]. The correspondent describes the Ohio National Guard camp, Camp Bushnell, including soldier life and activities. [LPR] Article continues on page 4.

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Continuation of G. D. B.’s correspondence from page 3.

120 Undated “Roster Co. I.” News clipping. The clipping includes the names and ranks of all men in Company I, [Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Ohio National Guard]. This company was composed primarily of Dayton men. [LPR]

Undated “Rev. Dr. Hale.” News clipping. The article discusses a recent visit by Rev. Dr. W. A. Hale to the armory of Company G, at the invitation of Captain Miller. It also includes a list of the Third Infantry’s officers. [LPR]

Undated “Off for Cuba: Recruits Leave for Tampa amid Cheers and Waving Flags.” News clipping. The recruits for Companies I and G, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, left Dayton yesterday morning, bound for Tampa, Florida. [LPR]

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[May 19, 1898] “Great was the Public Demonstration as the Third Regiment Passed through this City.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “Thousands gather at the Union Depot and along the tracks to bid the boys god speed. Col. W. J. White the recipient of a tremendous ovation from citizens, teachers and members of the Board of Education. The cannons boomed and the bands played.” [LPR]

[May 1898] “In De Soto Park. Entertaining letter from Lieut. George H. Wood.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Lieutenant George H. Wood, from De Soto Park, near Tampa, [Florida], dated May 22, [1898], to his parents. Description from article headline: “Tiresome journey to reach the southland; but the Boys from Dayton were true to the record.”

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[May 1898] “Our Boys in Blue: Given a Memorable and Patriotic Welcome and Farewell.” News clipping. The article describes the “welcome and farewell” of a train bearing the Third Regiment, as it passed through Dayton on its way to Florida. [LPR]

May 24, 1898 “From Tampa.” News clipping.

121 The Dayton boys of the Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, send news that they have arrived safely in Tampa, Florida. [LPR]

Undated News clipping. Notice: “The Third regiment and others have a hundred thousand gallons of pure water…to drink and an ocean to bathe in.”

Undated News clipping. Notice: “the Third regiment is now associated with the Fifth Ohio, Thirty- Second Michigan and Second Georgia regiments, with Brigadier General [Hamilton S.] Hawkins, formerly colonel of the Twentieth U. S. Infantry. It is known as the First Volunteer Brigade.”

[May 1898] “Third Regiment Boys are Among the Best Drilled Soldiers at Tampa.” News clipping. The article briefly shares news of the regiment at Tampa. [LPR]

May 23, [1898] “Dayton Boys Delightfully Located at Camp De Soto, a Veritable Eden.” News clipping. The article asserts: “The Buckeye troops, the 3d and 5th Ohio Infantry, have the most comfortable, the prettiest, and the most attractive camp in this part of the country.”

May 23, [1898] “First Volunteer Brigade.” News clipping. Notice: “The first provisional volunteer brigade has been formed. It consists of the 32d Michigan, 3d and 5th Ohio, and the 2d Georgia regiments with Brigadier General [Hamilton S.] Hawkins, formerly Colonel of the 20th United States Infantry, in command. All of these regiments are in camp at Palmetto Beach.”

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Undated “Buckeye Troops. One Spaniard who is a Patriotic American.” News clipping. Reprinted from the Chicago Record. The article includes biographical information about Vincente Gurra, who owns one of the largest of Tampa’s cigar factories, and Charles G. Bickham (including mention of his apparent nickname “Blondy”). [LPR]

[May 1898] “With the Third. All of Dayton’s Sons are in Towering Health.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Tampa, Florida, dated May 23, [1898]. Description from article headline: “The camp of the Third is beautifully located contiguous to the Salt Sea—News censorship.” Bickham describes the trip, safe arrival, and the camp. [LPR]

122 [May 1898] “Interesting Letter from Calvin Pease.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Calvin Pease, from Tampa, [Florida], dated May 23, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Camp at Tampa is a pleasant place to visit and the soldiers have fun mixed with work.”

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[May 1898] “Tampa: Our Dayton Soldiers who are Now at the Front. News from Companies G and I.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Guy C. Weeks, from Tampa, Florida, dated May 22, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Their beautiful camp; they make short work of a saucy Spaniard.”

[May 1898] “Third Regiment Now in Seventh Corps, under Command of Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “Col. [Charles] Anthony, of the Third Regiment, is honored by being placed in command of the First Brigade. The Boys will very likely be the first to follow the Fifth Corps, which is made up entirely of Regulars, who will be the pioneers of the Cuban invasion.”

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[May 1898] [Untitled article]. News clipping. The article begins: “It is now definitely announced that the first Florida Regiment of Volunteers will invade Cuba as a part of General Fitzhugh Lee’s corps.”

[May 1898] “Orders at Last Given for the Cuban Expedition.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from New York, dated May 29, [1898]. Description from article headline: “General [William R.] Shafter has his instructions. [Admiral William T.] Sampson’s fighters will convoy the great fleet of transports. Simultaneously a most rigid censorship of press dispatches will be begun. It is estimated that the Regulars and some volunteers will be in Cuba by the end of the present week. Sampson and Shafter will work together.”

[June 1898] “Dayton Soldiers may soon go to Jacksonville—Lieutenant Wood Promoted.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Palmetto Beach, Florida, dated May 31, [1898]. The Third OVI regiment may soon be sent to Jacksonville, [Florida], where Major General [Fitzhugh] Lee’s command is located. Lieutenant George H. Wood, Co. G, from

123 Dayton, is appointed temporary Brigade Commissary on the staff of Brigadier General “Hawlins” [Hamilton S. Hawkins]. [LPR]

[June 1898 ] “More Transports. Enough on Hand Now to Carry Thirty Thousand Troops.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Washington, [DC], dated June 2, [1898]. The article begins: “Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn of the war department today secured additional transports of capacity of approximately 5,000 men for the Cuban army of invasion. This swells the total number of available vessels to over thirty, with a carrying capacity of nearly 30,000 men. The ships secured today will be sent to Florida ports, chiefly Tampa…”

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[June 1898] “Palmetto Beach Hardly a Screaming Success, though Above the Average as a Camp.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Third Ohio, from Tampa, Florida, dated June 3, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Visit with Captain Wright of the record- making Ninth Cavalry. That famous artesian well is hardly a cool and sparkling blessing. But it is a long way better than nothing. The great annoyance is the impossibility of keeping clean. Old soldiers declare it to be a hopeless task.” Article is continued on page 4.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 10.

[June 1898] “Miles in Camp. No Troops have yet Embarked for Cuba.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Tampa, Florida, dated June 2, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Colonel [J. H.] Dorst describes the conditions of women and children in Cuba as pitiable.”

[June 1898] “Vigor will mark the Campaign. The Land and Naval Forces will Cooperate.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Washington, [DC], dated May 31, [1898]. Description from article headline: “An attack will be made on Santiago and eastern Cuba and the fleet destroyed. Another force will be sent to Porto Rico [sic] and with Admiral [William T.] Sampson’s assistance will subjugate that island.”

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124 [June 1898] “Official Plan as Outlined by Secretary Alger: Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Washington, [DC], dated June 1, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Porto Rico to be grabbed quickly for fear of a peace move. Failure of the Bank of Spain hints to the government here that the end of the war is not far off and if the United States is to get land indemnity it must move quickly or Porto Rico may be left out of the new family arrangement.”

[June 1898] “Censor Careful. Good Stories are a Dangerous Commodity Now. How a Chicago Correspondent Impressed his Paper after Having been Sat Upon.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from “Brandy,” from Army Headquarters, Tampa Bay Hotel Florida, dated June 6, 1898. The correspondent writes about censorship of letters sent to newspapers or friends and relatives. He writes, “Woe be unto the man who sends a news letter or a letter address to a newspaper or to any town from which he has come without letting the censor know what is in it or submitting it to the same individual, for it will be stopped in the mails unless ‘ok’d,’ and the correspondent will meet with condign punishment.” [LPR] Article is continued on page 13.

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Continuation of Brandy’s letter from page 12.

[June 1898] “George Wood: Temporarily a Commissary Officer.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Tampa, [Florida], dated June 7, [1898], to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “An interesting letter from Corporal Charles G. Bickham about the doings at Tampa.” Bickham has noticed that two of his letters sent to the Journal were not printed. He supposes they were “held back” [by the censor]. He could not send news by wire, and a letter he began a few days ago was “promptly suppressed by the censor.” He is uncertain when they will set sail for Cuba. [LPR]

[June 1898] “With the Third: Boys have a Red Letter Day in Camp.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Tampa, [Florida], dated June 8, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Censorship is very close and the wild stories printed need scanning very carefully.” Bickham writes that the boys recently received their payment from Uncle Sam for 21 days of service, in the amount of $10.92. Furthermore, he writes of censorship: “The censorship is very close and what you are reading in the papers daily may and may not be true, with the latter being the more probable. As an instance, I wired a long letter on the

125 day we received our first orders, and when the censor got through with his blue pencil [only] the address was left.” [LPR]

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[June 1898] “Still at Tampa: No one Knoweth the Day nor the Hour. The Men of the Third, however, are Anxious for a Removal to the Field of Action.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Tampa, Florida, dated June 12, 1898, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Bickham does not believe that all of his letters have been received by her or by the Journal , and he believes he has not received all those sent to him either. He does not know where he is going next or when. [LPR]’

[June 1898] “With the Third: Sadly Disappointed Soldiers.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Third Ohio, from Tampa, Florida, Camp De Soto, dated June 10, 1898. Description from article headline: “First expedition sailed without them, yet they had been ordered aboard for the voyage to Santiago. Sent home or to the store house all their surplus equipment and are left stripped. Newly organized band have a tough time over ‘the girl I left behind me.’ Tampa soil is not conducive to comfort, nor sweetness of temper.” Bickham writes that the Third Ohio has still not been sent overseas, despite the report that “some fool” sent to the newspapers, stating that the ship Florida had been sunk, with the entire Third regiment on board. The Florida was damaged but did not sink; nor was the Third on board at the time. The boys are growing restless. A band has been formed. [LPR] Article is continued on page 15.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 14.

[June 1898] “Chips of the Old Block.” News clipping. Brief sketch of Abe S. Bickham and Charles G. Bickham, sons of Major W. D. Bickham, as related to the current Spanish conflict. Both men were engaged in editorial work on the Journal when the war with Spain broke out. Abe has been assigned as Captain Quartermaster to General [Fitzhugh] Lee at Chickamauga; Charley is now a Corporal of Company G, Third Regiment. A sketch illustration of both Abe and Charles Bickham is included. [LPR]

[June 1898] “Second Expedition to the West Indies is being Hurriedly Arranged.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Washington, [DC], dated June 14, [1898].

126 Description from article headline: “Tampa will not be used as the point of embarkation next time.”

[June 1898] News clipping. Anecdote: “Charlie Bickham in a letter from Tampa to the Dayton Journal says: ‘[William] McKinley is greater than I ever thought him.’ That seems to us a high compliment for McKinley.”

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[June 1898] “Scurvy Trick: How the Newspaper Men were Corralled.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from “Brandy,” from on board the Olivette , Tampa, Florida, dated June 12, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Despatch boat of a Spanish tinted paper is put under marine guard for safety’s sake.” The correspondent writes of how a group of newspaper men “were caught up in a net and put where they would not bother the censor or anybody else.” Furthermore, a dispatch boat owned by the New York Journal was put under arrest; it will not be released until two days after the expedition has started. He also writes about the confusion and rumors surrounding the wreck of the Florida . [LPR]

[June 1898] “Down at Tampa: How the Men of the Third are Improving.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Bernis Brien, from Tampa, Florida, dated June 14, 1898. Description from article headline: “Lieutenant Colonel White compliments them on good form in drill. The regiment has been shifted many times.” Article is continued on page 17.

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Continuation of Bernis Brien’s letter from page 16.

[June 1898] “Porto Rico Now. Thirty-five Transports Needed, Probably Ten Thousand Spanish Troops There.” News clipping. Reprint of news article from Washington, [DC], dated June 16, [1898]. Description from article headline: “Between twenty and thirty thousand men will be taken to the island. The Department now has available eleven transports, some of which are already in southern ports. Steamship companies are being corresponded with and nearly one hundred have been submitted for inspection to the officials. Atlantic coast patrol system complete.”

[Undated] [Untitled article.] News clipping.

127 The article describes the Third Ohio as the “guess again” regiment, as “none knew when or where it would go,” and the commanders and corps have been switched back and forth many times. [LPR]

[Undated] [Untitled article.] News clipping. The brief article begins: “A letter received from George Wood says the Third Ohio is in fine condition…” [LPR]

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[June 1898] “With the Third. Tampa Full of the Bustle of Preparation.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from “Brandy,” from U.S. Army Headquarters, [Tampa, Florida], dated June 6, 1898. Description from article headline: “Censor has been exceedingly active and the full details will be surprising when released.”

[June 1898] “With the Third. The Old Story of Orders and Counter Orders.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from “B. B.” (probably Bernis Brien 262 ), from Camp De Soto, Tampa, Florida, dated June 22, 1898. Special correspondent to the Dayton Journal . Description from article headline: “Fanciful names the boys apply to the delicacies of the camp menu. Third’s base ball team.” Article is continued on page 19.

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Continuation of B. B.’s letter from page 18.

[June 1898] “On to Cuba! Such is the War Cry of the Soldier Boys.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Bernis Brien, from Camp De Soto, Tampa, Florida, dated June 30, 1898. Special to the Journal . Description from article headline: “Letter from Bernis Brien telling of camp life and camp gossip at Tampa.”

[Undated] “Ohio’s Third Regiment.” News clipping. Reprint of news report from Tampa, Florida, dated June 29, [1898]. The note reads: “Brigadier General [James Rush] Lincoln has assumed command of the brigade composed of the Sixty-Ninth New York, Third Ohio and Second Georgia.” 263

262 The letter “On to Cuba!” on the same page is signed “B. B.” at the end but is identified in the introduction as having come from Bernis Brien. [LPR]

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[July 1898] “With the Third. How the Fourth was Celebrated at Tampa.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from “B. B.,” from Camp De Soto, Tampa, Florida, dated July 5, 1898. Special correspondence to the Journal . Description from article headline: “Tickled are they at the thought of receiving that new stand of colors.” The troops rejoiced at the news of the capture of Cervera’s fleet and “the usual weekly rumor that we would immediately depart for…Cuba.” [LPR]

[July 1898] “Raining at Tampa: That’s the General Condition.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Tampa, Florida, dated July 18, 1898. Description from article headline: “New York Colonel’s advice is a good thing, but the boys are not ‘living in their trunks’ among the scrub. Irrepressible among the seasoned volunteers have sport with the ‘rookies’ and show them favor by borrowing their money freely. The Third Regiment is fully equipped for service.” Article is continued on page 21.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 20.

[Undated] Illustration: “Where Ohio Boys are Camping.” News clipping. The illustration is captioned: “Camp of the Third and Fifth O. V. I. near De Soto Park, Tampa, Fla.”

[Undated] Note: “Corporal Chas. G. Bickham telegraphed last night that he had been ordered to New Orleans on Special duty. No further particulars.” News clipping.

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July 25, 1898 “Captain Charles G. Bickham.” News clipping. Bickham was promoted on Saturday [July 23] to captain. Includes illustration of Captain Bickham. [LPR]

July 21, 1898

263 Brigadier General James Rush Lincoln commanded the brigade consisting of the 69 th New York, 3 rd Ohio, and 2 nd Georgia volunteers. Source: Alfred Seelye Roe, Worcester in the Spanish War (s. l.: Alfred Seelye Roe, 1905), p. 143.

129 “Now Corporal, Will Probably Get a Staff Appointment.” News clipping. Corporal Charles Bickham is expected to receive a commissioned staff appointment when he reports to the Chief Quartermaster at New Orleans. [LPR]

[Undated] Untitled news clipping. Charles Bickham was promoted to corporal “for attention to duty as a private at Camp Bushnell, Columbus.”

July 21, [1898] Original train ticket stub from Tampa to [unreadable]. Original document.

July 22, [1898] Original train ticket stub from [unreadable] to “NO” [New Orleans]. Original document.

June 24, 1898 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, at Tampa, Florida, to his mother, Mrs. W. D. Bickham, Dayton, Ohio. Bickham writes: “Get me commission in immune corps if possible.” He then briefly discusses his reasoning. [LPR]

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July 20, 1898 Commission document from the Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, DC. Commission of Charles G. Bickham to Captain, Ninth Volunteer Infantry. Original document. In addition to the commission as captain, additional orders from the Secretary of War are to report to the commanding officer of the Ninth Volunteer Infantry, Col. Charles J. Crane, at New Orleans, Louisiana, “without delay.”

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July 15, 1898 Circular No. 23 from the Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, DC. Original document. The circular publishes an amendment to Paragraph IV, Circular No. 12, November 7, 1891, regarding oaths of office of army officers. Circulated by Adjutant General H. C. Corbin, by order of the Secretary of War. [LPR]

Aug. 16, [1898] “Texas Immunes Angry: Talk of Lynching a New Orleans Editor because They Can’t Go to Cuba.” News clipping. A regiment of white soldiers from Texas, the First United States Volunteers, are angry because they had been scheduled to leave for Cuba on the Berlin , but then a

130 regiment of African American volunteers, the Ninth United States Volunteers, were substituted in their place. [LPR]

Aug. 17, [1898] “Off for Santiago.” News clipping. Note: “The Berlin left tonight for Santiago with [Charles J.] Crane’s colored immunes aboard as well as some of Hood’s white immunes which are left behind. Riche’s Texas regiment leave in the morning for Galveston.”

Aug. 19, 1898 “Off for Santiago: Ninth Immunes have a Delightful Voyage. Thought they were Booked for Havana with [Fitzhugh] Lee, but the Orders were Changed.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from the Berlin , U.S. Transport, off Cape Crux, Cuba, Caribbean Sea. Bickham writes about the voyage, as well as the switch in orders between the Ninth and the First regiments. In Bickham’ opinion, the Ninth regiment is “so much better disciplined” than the other regiment, whom he calls the “Texas Terrors.” [LPR] Article is continued on page 25.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 24.

[Sept. 1898] “Santiago. Dungeon City in Apperance. People Lived in Constant Fear of Trouble and kept windows Barred with Iron and Doors of Prison Strength.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Santiago, Cuba, dated September 8, 1898. Description from article headline: “Yellow fever an unrealizable scare in the Cuban City. Notes of the Ninth United States Volunteers who are now there on garrison duty. Some of them victims of the all-prevailing malaria.”

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[Sept. 1898] “With Hobson. Interesting Visit to the Maria Teresa . Surprised Quartermaster who Found an Old Princeton Chum Astride one of his Lost Mules.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from San Luis province, Santiago de Cuba, dated September 23, 1898. Bickham discusses the illness among the soldiers. He writes that his company is camped on San Juan Hill. They recently visited the wrecks of the Maria Teresa and the Oquendo 264 and collected relics. He nearly got into a fight with a man [who turned out to

264 The Infanta Maria Teresa and the Almirante Oquendo were Spanish ships under the direction of Admiral Cervera and were both wrecked during the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, on July 3, 1898. [See: Infanta Maria Teresa , http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/spain/spsh-hl/m-teresa.htm ; and Almirante Oquendo , http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/spain/spsh-ag/oquendo.htm .]

131 be named Pat Farnum] over a mule; then the two discovered they had known each other at Princeton. [LPR]

Undated [1898] Untitled news clipping by “K. B.” Note: “I guess Capt. Charles Bickham, of the 9th immunes, colored, is somewhere near Santiago. As ever, K. B.”

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Undated [1898] Illustration: “Scene in Camp at San Juan, near Santiago.” News clipping. Also on the illustration is written: “Waiting for the Relief on Outpost.”

Aug. 23, 1898 Letter from “Charlie” [Charles G. Bickham] to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham]. Original document. Charlie writes that he is just going ashore. He needs a new filter because he left his other with the Third; he asks her to send another one. He gives his address: Capt. C. G. Bickham, Co M, 9 th U.S.V.I. , Santiago de Cuba. Signed, “Charlie.” [LPR]

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[Oct. 1898] “Malignant: The Fever Contracted in Cuba seems to be Cousin to the Break-bone Sort.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, dated October 5, 1898. Description from article headline: “Picturesque journey from Santiago de Cuba to elevated San Luis. Railway traverses a country so rich and fertile as to make one almost weep for the possibilities of it. The people hardly prepared for that desideratum, a stable government.”

[Nov. 1898] “From Santiago: Sickness Still has its Dire Hold in Camp.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, dated November 1, [1898], to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Rainy season, however is about over and there is a lively hope for better things.” Bickham also writes quite a bit about one Captain Markley, son of Major Markley. Furthermore, “The Third battalion, in which I am, is considered the best in the regiment.” [LPR] Article is continued on page 29.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 28.

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[Nov. 1898] “Nice Cubans. They All Deserve Hot-Potting.” Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from San Luis, Santiago, Cuba, dated November 15, [1898]. Description from article headline: “True inwardness of the San Luis rioting. Started and carried on by a lot of rascally Cuban police. Unarmed American soldier shot down by one of these cowards who had been given police authority by the United States Government. Brigade Quartermaster Robin narrowly escaped the same fate. The affair being thoroughly investigated.” Article is continued on page 30.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 29.

Dec. 12, 1898 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, at New York, to D. D. Bickham, Dayton Journal , Dayton, OH. Bickham writes: “Express overcoats, dress, business suits to Hotel Imperial New York at once.” There is a handwritten note on the back from D. D. Bickham: “Mailed passes New York to Washington to Dayton today. Answer when they come. Passes should reach you tomorrow morning. Have hotel send to Post Office. Do you need money? Answer tonight. D. D. Bickham.”

Dec. 24, 1898 Telegram from Charlie [Bickham], at Harrisburg, PA, to [his mother] Mrs. W. D. [Maria Strickle] Bickham, Dayton, OH. Charlie writes: “Will be home nine twenty five tomorrow morning.”

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Undated [Dec. 1898] Untitled news clipping. Note: “Captain Chas. G. Bickham reached home yesterday morning for Christmas.” It notes that he has been sick and is thinner than usual. His leave should end around January 5 unless it is extended due to illness. [LPR]

Undated “Santiago Relics.” News clipping. The article describes “an interesting collection of relics” collected and retrieved from battlefields by Captain C. G. Bickham and on display at the C. H. & D. railway ticket office window. Several relics are described, including an item from the Spanish ship Almirante Oquendo . [LPR]

133 Feb. 1899 Telegram from [Henry O. S.] Heistand, Asst. Adjt. Genl., from Washington, DC, to Captain Charles [G.] Bickham, 9 th Vol. Infy. Dayton Club. Heistand writes: “Your leave extended ten days transport leave New York every Wednesday at noon.”

Apr. 5, 1899 Telegram from Charlie [Bickham], from New York, to [his mother] Mrs. Maria S. Bickham, Dayton, OH. Charlie writes: “Sailed at three this afternoon. Good bye. Love to all.”

[Apr. 1899] “Off to Cuba.” News clipping. Reprint of telegram from Charles G. Bickham, from New York, dated Apr. 5, 1899. Bickham writes: “Sailed at 3 this afternoon. Good bye.”

Apr. 5, [1899] “Sailed for Santiago.” News clipping. Note: “The transport Crook sailed today for Santiago to bring back another consignment of bodies of soldiers and sailors.”

[Apr. 1899] “From Santiago. Outward Voyage of the Crook , Funeral Vessel Delayed by Rough Weather.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from Charles G. Bickham, from aboard the U.S. Transport Crook and from San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, undated. Description from article headline: “Ponce natives who work while other men reap the profit of labor. Great care needed in taking change in Porto Rico [sic], inasmuch as the natives have punched all the coin to keep it in circulation on the island. Santiago beginning to take on modern airs.” Article is continued on page 32.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 31.

[May 1899] “Capt. Chas. Bickham Returns with his Regiment to the United States.” Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Camp Meade, PA, dated May 5, [1899]. Bickham writes that the order to sail came unexpectedly. They left Santiago “with little feeling of regret.” The trip was uneventful. [LPR]

[May 1899] Untitled news clipping.

134 The 9 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry stationed at Camp Meade participating in a procession for the unveiling of a statue of Pennsylvania Governor Hartranft, along with Secretary of War Alger and General [H. C.] Corbin. The 9 th is commanded by Colonel [Charles J.] Crane; Captain Bickham commanded his company. [LPR]

[May 25, 1899] “Mustered Out.” News clipping. Captain Charles G. Bickham was mustered out of the 9 th Immunes at Camp Meade. He is currently at Washington, DC, and will return soon to Dayton. [LPR]

June 8, 1899 Illustration of an American flag, with the newspaper date above it. (It is unclear to which article, if any, this date belongs.) News clipping.

Undated Untitled news clipping. Note about Cervera’s fleet, the previous year. Note about the ramming of the Florida by the Miami in Tampa Bay, ruining the 3 rd and 5 th Ohio’s chances for Cuba, the previous year. [LPR]

July 12, 1899 Telegram from Henry C. Corbin, from Washington, DC, to [his sister-in-law] Mrs. W. D. [Maria Strickle] Bickham, Dayton, OH. Corbin writes: “Appointment of Captain for Charles agreed upon. Do not wish it given to the press for the present.”

Undated Untitled news clipping. Note about Daytonians receiving military appointments. Captain Charles G. Bickham is the fifth Daytonian in two weeks to receive an appointment: he will be captain of the volunteers in the 28 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. The article also notes military appointments for Daytonians Charles [P.] Stivers, Guy E. Manning, Fred Weaver, and Dickinson P. Hall. [LPR]

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July 14, 1899 “C. G. Bickham’s Appointment.” News clipping. Captain Charles G. Bickham has received an appointment as captain of the volunteers, assigned to the 28 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. The article also notes military appointments for Charles [P.] Stivers, Guy Manning, Fred Weaver, and Dickinson P. Hall. [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping.

135 Captain Charles G. Bickham has received an appointment as captain of the volunteers, assigned to the 28 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. It is understood that he will accept the new position. [LPR]

[July 1899] “Captain Bickham Ordered to Join his Infantry at Camp Meade, Pa.” News clipping. The following officers are ordered to report to the 28 th Infantry, at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania: Captain Charles G. Bickham, Captain Samuel D. Crawford, 1 st Lieutenant Henry T. Jenkinson. [LPR]

Sept. 16, 1899 “Dayton Men Ordered to Manilia [sic] with the 28 th U.S.V.I.” News clipping. The 28 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry at Camp Meade has been ordered to San Francisco and from there to Manila. This regiment includes Lieutenant George Wood and Captain Charles Bickham, as well as several others from Dayton. [LPR]

Sept. 26, 1899 “Twenty-Eighth Flying.” News clipping. Five trains carrying the 28 th regiment, U.S. Volunteers, to San Francisco passed through Terre Haute, Indiana, where Captain G. W. “Beigler” [George W. Biegler] joined his company at union station. [LPR]

Sept. 25, 1899 “The 28 th Regiment U.S.V.I.” News clipping. The trains carrying the 28 th regiment from Camp Meade (Pennsylvania) to San Francisco have passed through Ohio, carrying Captain Bickham and Lieutenant [George] Wood, among others. Some members of the Buz Fuz Club traveled to Richmond hoping to meet the trains, but they had already gone by. The Bickham family traveled to Piqua hoping to meet the train, but four of the five had already gone by. They handed care packages through the train windows to members of the fifth train, to be given to Bickham and Wood at a later time. [LPR]

Sept. 14, 1899 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, from Middletown, PA, to his mother, Mrs. W. D. (Maria Strickle) Bickham, Dayton, OH. Charlie writes: “Order received, move immediately San Francisco, express over coat, care Captain C. G. Bickham twenty eight USVI.”

Sept. 21, 1899 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, from Harrisburg, PA, to his mother, Mrs. W. D. (Maria Strickle) Bickham, Dayton, OH. Charlie writes: “Leave here Monday for coast, will wire you closest point we touch to Dayton.”

Sept. 23, 1899

136 Telegram from Charles G. Bickham, from Middletown, PA, to his mother, Mrs. W. D. (Maria Strickle) Bickham, Dayton, OH. Charlie writes: “Leave Monday forenoon, pass through Columbus Tuesday morning early, Piqua relatively later.”

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Oct. 5, 1899 “28 th at San Francisco.” News clipping. Dispatch from San Francisco dated Oct. 3, stating that the 28 th regiment arrived from Camp Meade, PA, last night. George Wood reported in a letter to his wife that the journey was slow after traveling through Ohio. [LPR]

Oct. 3, 1899 “At the Presidio: Twenty-eighth in Camp There at Last. Solid Comfort Once More for Officers and Men—Letter from Lieutenant George Wood.” News clipping. Reprint of a letter from Lieutenant George Wood, recently arrived at Presidio. Article is continued on page 4. [LPR]

Undated “Dayton Boys.” News clipping. Captain Charles G. Bickham and Private Munion are in Company B, and Lieutenant George H. Wood is in Company G, of the 28 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteer Infantry. They are presently in Camp Meade, PA, awaiting transport to Manila. They are still waiting due to lack of [train] cars. [LPR]

Undated “The 28 th Regiment, U.S.V.I.” News clipping. The 28 th regiment, at Camp Meade, includes several Dayton boys, including: Captain Charles G. Bickham of Company B, Lieutenant George H. Wood of Company G, and Private Muhlen of Company B. [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. This brief note lists some officers in the 28 th Infantry: Col. William E. Birkhimer, Lt. Col. Robert W. Leonard, Maj. George H. Morgan, Maj. Elmore F. Taggart, and Maj. John B. Porter. [LPR]

Nov. 25, 1899 Telegram from Chas Henry Jones, from Philadelphia, PA, to Mrs. W. D. (Maria Strickle) Bickham, Dayton, OH. Jones writes: “Regiment arrived, all well, pleasant voyage. Proceed to Bacoor tonight.”

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137 Undated [1899] “Another Fine Regiment is Here on its Way to the Philippines: Twenty-eighth Volunteers has among its Officers and Men Not a Few Veterans.” News clipping. The 28 th Infantry regiment has arrived in the Philippines and marched to the Presidio. The article discusses several officers in detail, including: Col. William E. Birkhimer, Lt. Col. Robert W. Leonard, Maj. E. F. Taggart, Maj. George H. Morgan. Other officers are mentioned by name but not thoroughly discussed. The article also includes a few illustrations: “Waiting for the Dinner Hour”; “The Coffee Pot”; and physical likenesses of Lt. Col. R. W. Leonard, Maj. Geo. H. Morgan, and Maj. E. F. Taggart. [LPR]

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[Oct. 1899] “Off for Manila.” News clipping. The 28 th U.S. Volunteer Infantry has set sail from San Francisco to Manila aboard the transport Tartar . [LPR]

Oct. 25, 1899 “Dayton Soldiers: Twenty-Eighth Off at Last for Manila.” News clipping. The transport ships Tartar , Manuense , and Newport set sail for Manila, with part of the 31 st infantry and the entire 28 th infantry on board them. [LPR]

[Oct. 1899] “On the Tartar : Twenty-Eighth Boarded Safely. Lieutenant Wood Tersely Tells the Story.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Lieutenant George H. Wood, from on board the Tartar , dated Oct. 25, 1899. Description from article headline: “Men from Dayton are all in same ship mess for the voyage. Troops were all paid off just before sailing, the colonel insisting it must be done before he would leave. Party of Red Cross nurses on board of whom the boys do not seem afraid.” Furthermore, the following introduction precedes the article: “The following letter from Lieut. George Wood gives a very entertaining account of the way the 28 th regiment left San Francisco and how they are accommodated in their trip across the Pacific.”

[Oct. 1899] Untitled news clipping. The clipping describes the scene as the 28 th regiment was marching towards the transport to take them to Manila. The regimental band played “Auld Lang Syne.” [LPR]

[Nov. 1899] “Clumsy Tub: Tartar was Built Like a Barrel. Letter from Capt. Charles G. Bickham.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from Charles G. Bickham, from on board the U.S. Transport Tartar , dated Nov. 2, 1899, and Nov. 4, 1899.

138 Description from article headline: “The trials experienced by the Twenty-Eighth in sailing from ‘Frisco. Trip to Honolulu was rather monotonous, writes the Captain. Grateful feeling on retiring that there was nothing to do the next day except ‘to get up and spend it.’ The Dayton soldier meets Captain [Van Ness] Phillips and Major Webb C. Hayes.” Article continues on page 37.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 36.

[Nov. 1899] “From Manila. Voyaging on Transport Tartar . Captain Charles G. Bickham Likes Honolulu.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from the China Sea, Long. 122, Lat. 18, dated Nov. 21, 1899. Description from article headline: “Sandwich Islands contain tremendous commercial possibilities for the future. Prosaic sailing toward the lost day in the reckoning with only the incident of the missing Victoria to enliven one dull night. Tartar Times bids farewell to the 28 th and wishes them success. Poetic tribute to Colonel [Robert W.] Leonard.” Article continues on page 38.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 37.

[Nov. 1899] “The 28 th U.S.V.I. at Bacoor.” News clipping. Reprint of the Nov. 25, 1899, telegram from Charles Henry Jones to Mrs. W. D. Bickham, stating that the 28 th has arrived and will proceed to Bacoor. [LPR]

[Nov. 1899] “Twenty-Eighth Carrying the War into Cavite. Letter from Capt. Charles G. Bickham.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippine Islands, dated Nov. 26, 1899, to his mother [Mrs. Maria Strickle Bickham, of Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Not a moment of leisure for the regiment after arrival at Manila. Transferred Instanter to Bacoor where the natives had been raising cain. Landed in the night, wading through the surf from the inevitable cascoes [sic]. Dayton men given the posts of vital importance.” Article continues on page 39.

Jan. 4, 1890 “Victoria Overdue: No Word Yet from the Missing Transport.” News clipping.

139 The animal transports Victoria and Flintshire carrying horses and mules to the Philippines have arrived at Honolulu without the loss of a single animal. There is another ship called Victoria , a store ship bound for the Philippines, that is long overdue. [LPR]

Jan. 6, 1890 “The Victoria in Port.” News clipping. The British steamer Victoria being used as a transport has finally arrived; the ship has a broken shaft. [LPR]

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 38.

[Dec. 1899] “From Los Pinas: Natives are Deep in Harvest. Consequently They are All Amigos Just Now. Fully Expected that They Will Resume Devilment when Work is Over.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Los Pinas, Philippine Islands, dated Dec. 22, [1899], Dec. 15, 1899, and Dec. 19, 1899, to his aunt. Description from article headline: “Captain Charles G. Bickham, in command at that point, narrates some interesting details of the native life. Traits of character which show the emotional side of the people. Mourning for General Lawton.” Article continues on page 40.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 39.

Jan. 15, [1900] “Fifty Armed Robbers Killed while Attacking a Force of Infantry.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “General Schwan has liberated about two hundred Spanish prisoners. Important towns held—Filipino deserters returning home— $20,000 captured—other American victories.”

[Jan. 1900] “Dayton Officers. Twenty-Eighth right in the Thick of it Now.” News clipping. Commentary and reprint of “cablegram” from Lieutenant Wood and Captain Charles Bickham, from Manila, Philippine Islands, undated, to General [Thomas J.] Wood and Mrs. W. D. Bickham. Cablegram reads: “Have been in action but are all right.” Commentary discusses news from General Otis and the 28 th , as well as the situation in Cavite, which reportedly has been swept of insurgents.

Jan. 8, [1900] Untitled news clipping.

140 Reprint of letters from [General] Otis to the Adjutant General, Washington, DC, dated Jan. 8, Jan. 9, and Jan. 10, [1900]. Otis writes news of the activities of various generals in the Philippines. Among these notes, he writes: “[William E.] Birkhimer, with a battalion of 28 th , struck the enemy entrenched west of Bacoor yesterday morning. Enemy left on the field 65 in dead, 40 wounded, and 32 rifles.”

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[Jan. 1900] “Leaden Hail does not Dismay the 28 th Boys.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Perez des Marines, Province of Cavite, Philippine Islands, dated Jan. 10, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Captain Charles G. Bickham tells of the sensations caused by the patter. Officers of the 28th receive personal mention from Colonel “Berkheimer” [sic] [William E. Birkhimer] in his official report of the affair, the regiment being credited with striking one of the severest blows yet landed on the elusive natives. All ready for another.” Article continues on page 42.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 41.

[Jan. 1900] “Capt. C. G. Bickham writes of Luzon Campaigning.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated Jan. 23, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Rough marching over the mountain trails. Almost over a precipice in a runaway ambulance going down grade. The driver had sand and the breeching held just as one lead mule began to dance on thin air. Picturesque surroundings for a camp with a probably live volcano as a melodramatic incident to the neighborhood.” Article continues on page 43.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 42.

[Jan. 1900] “Made a Mayor: Election in a Filipino Village Supervised by the American Soldiers.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from George H. Wood, from Calamba, Philippine Islands, dated Jan. 28, 1900.

141 Description from article headline: “Senor Tomas Sanson was the successful candidate and was duly installed. Lieutenant George H. Wood has a flying trip to Manila and inspects churches, finding that the figures of the Savior and the Madonna are moulded to suit national exigencies and popular feeling.”

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Feb. 2, 1900 “Hiking in Luzon.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from “On the March,” [Philippine Islands], undated, to [unknown]. Description from article headline: “Term adopted by the soldiers, expressive of their genius for apt depiction. It means marching out hard and fast and then marching back again. Always on the lookout for the enemy, who is just now wanting in his war-like garb, but is to be found as an amigo, working in the fields. Fighting seems to be ended till after harvest.”

[Feb. 1900] “Scared Filipinos: Not Sure They won’t be Eaten, Still Very Shy of the Stalwart Soldiers.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Calaca de Luzon, Philippine Islands, dated Feb. 17, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Captain Charles G. Bickham in a paternal role at Taal. Interesting experiment with the natives in trying to form a government for their own guidance. Subtleties of the monetary system which would puzzle a sixteen to one juggler of words to elucidate. Town election with a Vive Voce vote.” Article continues on page 45.

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Continuation of Charles G. Bickham’s letter from page 44.

Mar. 1900 “28 th Volunteers: Word Received from Them at Batangas.” News clipping. Reprint of a Manila Times Special Correspondence, from Taal, Batangas Province, [Philippine Islands], dated Mar. 3, [1900]. The correspondent discusses the activities of the 28 th Regiment, Volunteers, Companies A, B, C, and D, under the command of Major [George H.] Morgan. He writes: “These are the same companies who, under the leadership of their colonel, did such good fighting at Putol Bridge on January 7.” [LPR]

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[Jan. 1900] “The Fight at Putol Bridge: Some Details of Colonel Berkheimer’s Triumph. An Intended Reconnaissance and its Result.” News clipping.

142 The article describes the Battle of Putol Bridge on Jan. 7, with particular attention to the 28 th Regiment. [LPR] Article continues on page 47.

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Continuation of “Fight at Putol Bridge” article from page 46.

[Jan. 1900] “Extract from an Insurgent Officer’s Diary.” News clipping. The clipping includes extracts from an insurgent officer’s diary, dated Jan. 1-7, [1900], including a few bombardments. The diary was translated after the insurgent officer was killed at the Battle of Putol [Bridge] . [LPR]

[Jan. 1900] Untitled news clipping. The note tells of an ambush near Taal in which Captain Frank F. Crenshaw of the 28 th infantry was badly wounded. [LPR]

[1900] Handwritten note from “Charlie” [Charles G. Bickham]. Original document. The note begins: “Wording to read as follows in the report which he sent in: ‘I feel particularly grateful to Maj. [George H.] Morgan of the 28 th Inf. And Capt. Riley of the 5 th Art.... I respectfully noticed the cheerfulness of Capt. Bickham commanding Co. B…” The author of the original report is unclear but was probably Col. Birkhimer and probably describes the Battle of Putol Bridge. [LPR]

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[Mar. 1900] “Camp Fun at Taal. Rumored Attack from Rebels did not Develop as was Anticipated.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated Mar. 9, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Irrepressible humor of the average volunteer crops out always and everywhere. Captain Charles G. Bickham takes his men for a mountain march after the elusive Filipino, who never waits to receive anybody. Antics of a volcanic mountain at Talasai.”

June 7, 1900 “Filipinos’ Plan Failed. Americans were Ambushed, but Scattered the Insurgents.” News clipping. Captain Frank F. Chrenshaw [Crenshaw], of the 28 th Infantry, was injured in an ambush during a scouting mission. Captain Flint was also wounded in a separate attack. [LPR]

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Jan. 1900 “The Battle of Putol,” from the Army and Navy Journal . News clipping. The article describes the Battle of Putol, on January 7, 1900, in Cavite Province, Philippine Islands. [LPR]

Jan. 13, 1900 “Latest from Manila,” from the Army and Navy Journal . News clipping. The article discusses the military movements in the Philippines the past week, including reconnaissance missions by Col. Birkhimer with a battalion of the 28 th Volunteers. [LPR]

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[Apr. 1900] “Dull in Taal. Soldiers Welcome Anything New.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Co. B, 28 th U.S.V.I., from Southern Luzon, Philippine Islands, dated Apr. 10, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Captain Bickham in his latest role. Raising a sunken steamboat in the Taal River without tools. Filipinos sunk the craft after they had filled her to the guards with sand. Warm words of commendation for Lieutenant George Wood from Major [George H.] Morgan. He is still keeping country store at Nasugbu.”

Undated “Capt. Chas. Bickham Finally Gets that Boat off the Rocks.” News clipping. Captain Bickham managed to raise the boat from the river. He looks forward to seeing “the Buz-Fuz fellows” when they visit. [LPR]

Undated “Dayton Boys in China.” News clipping. Daytonians Messrs. [Harry] Loy, [Eldridge] Mead, [George] Shaw, and [Chal] Graves are on a visit to China, where they stay close to the British provinces “where the protective influence of the Union Jack will keep the ‘Boxers’ at a safe distance. The tourists will visit Manila on the Fourth of July and visit with the Dayton boys in the army there, including Captain Bickham and Lieutenant George Wood. [LPR]

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May 10, [1900] “Raised the Boat: Captain Bickham’s Company Performe a Feat in Taal River.” News clipping. Bickham and Company B succeeded in raising a boat that had been stranded in the Taal River, after two other companies had failed to do so. [LPR]

144 [May 1900] “Letter from Taal: Warm Tribute to Capt. C. G. Bickham.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Chas. E. Molen, Sgt. Co. B, 28 th Regt., U.S.V.I., from Taal, Province of Batangas, Philippine Islands, dated May 5, 1900, to the Editors of the Journal , [Dayton, OH]. Molen requests a copy of the Journal dated Feb. 14, 1900, because it has a full account of the Battle of Putol Bridge, as given by Captain C. G. Bickham. He reports that Captain Bickham is getting along all right and that he is the best captain in the regiment. He says, “In battle he is at the head of his company where all brave captains should be. There is not a man in his company that would not do for him as they would for an only brother.” He asks that if anyone should see his uncle, J. B. Hunter, please tell him that he is all right. [LPR]

[May 1900] “Quieting Down. Little or No Fighting Now in Luzon.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Capt. Co. B, 28 th U.S.V.I., from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated May 27, 1900, to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “No use to talk of self-government for the Filipinos at this time.”

Undated “Lieutenant Georg H. Wood.” News clipping. Wood was appointed Captain of the Port and Inspector of Customs of the Island of Balayan on the 20 th of May, [1900]. [LPR]

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[June 1900] “Hiking at Taal: Seeking the Elusive Filipino.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated June 10, 1900, to his aunt. Description from article headline: “Treachery of native guide demonstrated. Led the Americans into an ambush which they turned to good account. Desperate wounding of gallant Captain Crenshaw as a result of the native deviltry. Dispiriting march out of the desolate mountain country carrying the wounded no hand-made stretchers.”

Undated “The 28 th at Putol.” Reprint of a poem from Private Mathews, 28 th Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, which was initially printed in the [Cincinnati] Commercial-Tribune , undated. Poem continues on page 53.

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Continuation of poem “The 28 th at Putol” from page 52.

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[Mar. 1900] “How Sixty Filipinos Fell,” by Sydney Adamson, a Staff Correspondent of Leslie’s Weekly . News clipping. Description from article headline: “The fight at Putol Bridge, in which the Twenty-eighth Infantry and Fifth Artillery did effective work.”

[July 1900] “[William Jennings] Bryan’s Pets 265 come as Near the Target as He.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated July 28, [1900], to his mother, [Maria Strickle Bickham, Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Stunning fight just out of Taal. Americans fought in the open against the enemy stoutly entrenched. Volley firing for an hour and not one American soldier received the scratch of a wound. Insurgents shoot like [William Jennings] Bryan talks—in the air. Happy family amid the ruins of Taal.”

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[July 1900] “Burning of Taal.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Co. B, 28 th U.S.V.I., from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated July 12, 1900, to [unknown]. Description from article headline: “Tagalog purpose worked out. More innocent diversion of [William Jennings] Bryan’s pets. Historic fort town of the islands lapped up by flames. Captain Charles G. Bickham returning from his holiday with the Dayton visitors [Buz Fuz Club members - Eldridge Mead, Chal Graves, Harry Loy, and George Shaw] to Manila found only grim ruins to remind him of what had been a city. Churches alone were saved intact.” Article continues on page 55.

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Continuation of Charles Bickham’s letter from page 54.

[Oct. 1900] “Delayed Letters: Capt. Charles G. Bickham Writes.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated Oct. 6, 1900, and Oct. 9, 1900, to the Journal . Description from article headline: “Peculiar whims and caprices of a typhoon. Feeling of pride in the Daytonian when placed in charge of an important post. Good fortune attends a detachment of his men on scouting duty, who spent three days in the weather during the terrible rainy season. Preparations for an extended attack on the post were proved useless, for the enemy at the last moment gave up the intended assault.” Article continues on page 56.

265 William Jennings Bryan, a Democratic politician at the time, opposed the annexation of the Philippines. [LPR]

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Continuation of Charles Bickham’s letters from page 55.

[Nov. 1900] “Off to Mindanao: 28 th Infantry on Special Duty. Selected for a Six Months Campaign. Intended that Col. Birkhimer’s Men Sweep through the Island Interior.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated Nov. 1900, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, OH]. Description from article headline: “Captain Charles G. Bickham writes of the intended movement and narrates in what high esteem the 28 th is held by regular officers for efficiency, morale and general health. It seems always ready for work.”

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Jan. 11, [1901] “28 th Volunteers: Five Companies Sweep the Country Round Santa Ana.” News clipping. The article discusses operations of several officers, including Col. Birkheimer and the 28 th infantry regiment. The campaign in northern Mindanao is directed by Brigadier General [William A.] Kobbe. General MacArthur has announced that if insurgents do not return to their homes by January 30, they will be considered enemies of their people. [LPR]

Undated “Forward March: The Twenty-eighth U.S.V.I. goes with Gen. Kobbe.” News clipping. The 28 th regiment has been honored by being taken with General Kobbe on his expedition to clear the opposition to American occupation from the northeastern portion of the Island of Mindanao. The article also mentions Maj. Charles [P.] Stivers. [LPR]

[Dec. 1900] “Rough and Tough: Campaigning It in Mandanao.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Santa Ana, Island of Mindanao, [Philippine Islands], dated Dec. 22, 1900, to [unknown]. Description from article headline: “How the Filipino Gibraltar was reduced. Rebels thought they had a sure enough stronghold and grew bombastic. Wrote letters and sent insulating messages of all sorts to Colonel Berkheimer, who proved a good listener. Highly picturesque description of the final march to victory. Narrow escape of Private Adsetts.” Article continues on page 58.

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Continuation of Charles Bickham’s letters from page 57. Article continues on page 59.

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Continuation of Charles Bickham’s letters from page 57-58.

Undated “Major Taggart Catpures the Most of Aggie’s Cabinet.” News clipping. Major Elmore F. Taggart of the 28 th volunteer infantry captured several members of the revolutionary cabinet. [LPR]

Undated “Volunteers Return.” News clipping. Article lists the dates of various transports from Manila. The Thomas will sail on March 15, with the 28 th volunteer infantry regiment among its passengers. [LPR]

Mar. 12, [1901] “Twenty-eighth Coming.” News clipping. The U.S. army transport Thomas is expected the following day from Mindanao carrying the 28 th volunteer infantry regiment, which is scheduled to leave March 15 for home. [LPR]

[Mar. 1901] “Twenty-Eighth Boys Sail.” News clipping. Mrs. T. J. Wood and Mrs. W. D. Bickham received a cablegram via Philadelphia, relaying the following message: “Have started for home via San Francisco on transport Thomas . Everything and everybody well. Major [Elmore F.] Taggart will remain in the Philippines.” [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. The 28 th U.S.V. regiment is to sail from Manila on the transport Sheridan , according to orders from Washington last week. The article reiterates activities of the 28 th infantry under Col. Berkheimer. [LPR]

Undated “Home Again: Capt. Bickham and Lieut. Wood Receive Hearty Welcome.” News clipping. Captain Charles Bickham returned from San Francisco, where he was mustered out of the volunteer service on May 1, having been in the Philippine Islands with the 28 th volunteer infantry regiment. Lieutenant George Wood, of the same regiment, returned a few days before Bickham. Both officers look remarkably well. [LPR]

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[Aug. 1899] “Roster of Officers, 28 th U. S. V. Infantry. Camp Meade, Pa. Aug. 18, 1899.” From the Army and Navy Journal . News clipping.

148 The article gives a roster of officers in the 28 th U.S.V.I. Then, it provides sketches of the military careers of several officers, including: Col. William E. Birkhimer, Lt. Col. Robert W. Leonard, Maj. George H. Morgan, Maj. John Biddle Porter, Maj. Elmore F. Taggart, Thomas C. Chalmers (surgeon), Capt. Samuel D. Crawford, Capt. Charles G. Bickham, Capt. Peter Vredenburgh, Capt. George W. Biegler, Capt. Adam C. Carson, Capt. John H. Dunn, Lt. John N. Dunn, Lt. John P. Teagarden, and Lt. James D. Danner. [LPR] Article continues on page 61.

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Continuation of “Roster of Officers, 28 th U. S. V. Infantry” article from page 60.

[Sept. 1899] “Inspections at Camp Meade: Twenty-Eighth U. S. Volunteer Infantry,” by P. D. Vroom. News clipping. The article consists of an inspection report regarding the 28 th U. S. Volunteer Infantry, currently stationed at Camp Meade, PA. It discusses the regiment’s organization under Lt. Col. Robert W. Leonard, its numbers, camp location and conditions, discipline, and supplies. [LPR]

Undated “Honor for All.” News clipping. The article praises all the soldiers among the “illustrious victors at Manila and Santiago.” [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. The article begins: “The orders for mustering out the Third are signed and the home coming of the boys will follow immediately…” [LPR]

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Sept. 4, [No Year] “Ohio Soldiers: Third and First Cavalry Ordered to be Mustered Out Along with the Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth.” News clipping. The 1 st Ohio Infantry to be mustered out at Cincinnati; the 1 st Ohio Cavalry and 5th Ohio Infantry, at Cleveland; and the 3 rd , 7 th , and 8 th Ohio regiments, at Columbus. [LPR]

Undated “For the Camp Weary Soldiers: A Rousing Welcome for Companies G and I.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “With a rush Dayton met them and swept them off their feet. They were to have been in Columbus until next Monday; but the committee

149 that descended on Columbus was too much for any opposition and the boys were sent down at once. Now everybody’s happy.” Article continues on page 63.

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Continuation of “For the Camp Weary Soldiers” article from page 62.

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Box 4, Folder 2: C. G. Bickham News Clippings (1 of 2), 1902-1915

Undated “Bound for Manila on the Buford .” News clipping. The Army transport Buford has sailed from New York, on Jan. 22, bound for Manila via the Suez Canal. Lt. C. G. Bickham is among the passengers. [LPR]

June 26, 1902 “Thrilling! Is this Narration of Mindanao Flight.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “Fort Pandahatan proved a stubborn place for the gallant 27 th . It was a fight to make the old boys who swung into Donelson flush with deep red blood of war days.” Reprints of several letters from Charles G. Bickham, dated May 1902, from the Philippines.

Feb. 17, 1909 “Lieutenant Bickham Home on a Furlough: Dayton Editor Enlisted Against Spaniards at Call of War, Received Medal for Crossing Fire-swept Field—Will be Captain,” from the Dayton Journal . News clipping. Lt. Charles G. Bickham is home on 30 days’ leave. He left his regiment in Cuba to report for examination at Fort Leavenworth. He passed successfully and will attain his captaincy. Includes biographical information and photo of Bickham. [LPR]

Apr. 4, 1913 “Awarded Medal of Honor for Bravery in Battle.” News clipping.

150 Lieutenant Charles G. Bickham: Dayton soldier who has been awarded medal of honor by congress for bravery no field of battle in the Philippine service. Includes photo of Bickham. [LPR]

Apr. 4, 1915 “Dayton Soldier Awarded Medal for his Bravery.” News clipping. Charles G. Bickham was the recipient of a Medal of Honor: “Charles G. Bickham, first lieutenant 27 th U.S. infantry, Philippines, February 5, 1902, for ‘crossing a fire-swept battlefield in close range of the enemy and brought a wounded soldier to a place of shelter.’ Received medal April 28, 1904.” [LPR]

Box 4, Folder 3: C. G. Bickham News Clippings (2 of 2), 1898-1903

Undated “Bound for Manila on the Buford .” News clipping. The Army transport Buford has sailed from New York, on Jan. 22, bound for Manila via the Suez Canal. Lt. C. G. Bickham is among the passengers. [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. The article begins: “’Cuba’s government will endure if the men in power will rule with a strong hand,’ said Lieut. C. G. Bickham, son of the former owner of the Dayton Journal , at the Raleigh. Lieut. Bickham’s regiment has been stationed in Cuba, and the lieutenant is in Washington on leave of absence…” A handwritten note on the side of the article reads: “You probably have heard of this young officer.” [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. Reprint of a letter from Charles G. Bickham, undated, to [unknown]. Bickham writes that he had been notified of the hostility of the Moros and that heavy work would be expected of his command. [LPR]

Undated Untitled news clipping. Lieut. Charles G. Bickham sailed from New York for Manila on the transport Buford with the second battalion of the 27 th U. S. Infantry. [LPR]

Undated “Captain Chas. G. Bickham.” News clipping. Bickham left last night to join his regiment, the 27 th infantry, which is stationed at Plattsburg, NY. He has been commissioned as a first lieutenant in the regiment. [LPR]

Undated “Lieut. Charles Bickham with the 27 th U. S. Infantry in Battle Line.” News clipping.

151 A soldier of the 27 th has been murdered, and an expedition of 1200 men, under Col. Frank Baldwin of the 27 th U.S. Infantry, has been formed and will leave about April 27 th to arrest the murderers and punish those who have refused to give them up. Lieut. Charles Bickham of the 27 th regiment is a part of this expedition to the Philippines. [LPR]

Undated “Malta,” from the Clinton Republican . News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Originally printed in the Dayton Journal , reprinted by the Clinton Republican . Bickham describes the dress of the women in Malta. He also says: “We American officers were given a key to the city.” [LPR]

Apr. 1, [No Year] “Breveted for Gallantry.” News clipping. In a letter to the Journal , someone identified only as “C. C.” congratulates the Journal and the Buz Fuz Club that an affiliate of both, Charles G. Bickham, has been awarded the rank of major “for conspicuous gallantry at the Putol Bridge, Luzon, January 7, 1900.” [LPR]

Apr. 17, [No Year] “A Bill Pensioning Thomas F. Walter. Proceedings in the House.” News clipping. The House began its session at 10 o’clock today to expedite the Cuban reciprocity bill. A veto message was received from President [Theodore] Roosevelt of a bill pensioning Thomas F. Walter and was referred to the committee on invalid pensions. [LPR]

[Apr. 1898] “War’s First Reality: Well Loved Dayton Sons Bravely Embark on the Sea of Tense Uncertainty which Now Spreads Far Abroad.” Description from article headline: “Thousands fill the streets, lauding them with cheers which dull the pain of parting. Companies G and I depart for Springfield, there to be joined to the Third Regiment, which later will join the mobilization movement at Columbus, toward which the Ohio troops are tending—Springfield receives them in holiday attire and the city is theirs.” The article includes company rosters. It also includes illustrations depicting: John A. Miller, Captain, Co. G; Benj. F. Boyer, Captain, Co. I; W. W. K. Hamilton, First Lieutenant, Co. I; Guy E. Manning, Second Lieutenant, Co. I; and Arthur E. West, Second Lieutenant, Co. G.

Sept. 17, 1900 “Burning of Taal: Tagalog Purpose Worked Out.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Taal, Philipppine Islands, dated July 12, 1900, to [unknown]. “Burning of Taal.” News clipping.

152 Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, Co. B, 28 th U.S.V.I., from Taal, Philippine Islands, dated July 12, 1900, to [unknown]. Description from article headline: “Tagalog purpose worked out. More innocent diversion of [William Jennings] Bryan’s pets. Historic fort town of the islands lapped up by flames. Captain Charles G. Bickham returning from his holiday with the Dayton visitors [Buz Fuz Club members - Eldridge Mead, Chal Graves, Harry Loy, and George Shaw] to Manila found only grim ruins to remind him of what had been a city. Churches alone were saved intact.”

[Feb. 1902] “Port Said: Leading Products Beggars and Bumboats.” News clipping. Reprint of letters from Charles G. Bickham, from the U.S. Army Transport Buford , Red Sea, dated Feb. 24, 1902, to his Aunt Rebekah; and dated Feb. 25, 1902, from Aden, Arabia, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Through the Suez Canal by night and meetings with passing steamers. Three of them proved to be British transports and Tommy Atkins endangered his voice cheering ‘Old Glory’ and ‘Boys in Blue.’”

[Mar. 1902] “En Route: Transport Buford Now in Manila.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, 1 st Lieutenant 27 th U.S. Infantry, from the U.S. Army Transport Buford , dated Mar. 26, 1902, to his Aunt “R” [Rebekah]. Description from article headline: “Experiences of the soldiers among the people of Aden. Money changers there have their tricks, it appears, as Lieutenant Charles G. Bickham testifies.”

[Mar. 1902] “Hard At It: Letter from Lieut. Chas. G. Bickham.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from the U.S. Army Transport Buford , Philippine Islands, dated Mar. 26, 1902, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “Found the cholera scare on but Manila had been cleaned up. Did not anticipate trouble with the Moros, who have since made matters very warm for his battalion in Mindanao.”

[Apr. 1902] “Mindanao: Datos 266 Fire at the Moon and Retire.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from an Expedition to Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated Apr. 22, 1902, to his aunt. Description from article headline: “They never fail to prepare the way to fight another day. Details of the trip to Lake Lanao with occasional bootless efforts to bring the wily Moros to a fighting stand.”

May 4, 1902

266 A Dato is a type of native chief in the Philippines. Source: Oxford English Dictionary , 2 nd Edition, 1989, online version Nov. 2010.

153 “Moro Savages Tamed: Given the Only Kind of Lesson They Can Grasp.” News clipping. Description from article headline: “Taking of the Bayan Fort ‘one of the most gallant performances of American arms,’ says Gen. Davis. Colonel Frank D. Baldwin’s men of the 27 th carried on a hand to hand struggle through four lines of ditches under the very walls of the fort. Assault unexcelled for gallantry.”

June 2, 1902 “Mindanao: Interesting Retrospect of the Campaign.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, from Balayang, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated Apr. 9, 1902, to his mother [Maria Strickle Bickham of Dayton, Ohio]. Description from article headline: “What the outlook was when the troops first arrived on the scene. The Datos were generally rowing with one another and each one wished exclusive friendship with the army.”

[May 1903] “Mindanao: Campaign of 27 th About Ended.” News clipping. Reprint of letter from Charles G. Bickham, 1 st Lieutenant, 27 th U. S. Infantry, from Malabang, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, dated May 18, 1903, to the Dayton Journal . Description from article headline: “Daring exploit of a forlorn hope before Bacolod. Engineers threw a frail bridge across a deep trend and over it the detachment dashed to victory under enfilading fire.”

Box 5: C. G. Bickham Philippine Insurrection Photo Album, 1899-1902

Note: A label indicates that this item was “Presented by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.” [LPR]

The album contains approximately 67 photographs depicting the Philippine Insurrection. It also includes two photograph of Charles G. Bickham, dated 1881, and one photograph of Charles G. Bickham as a member of the staff of Governor William McKinley, dated 1891. [LPR]

Box 2, Folder 15: Genealogical Notes on Bickham and Strickle Families, Undated

Undated Notes on the family of Abraham Ellis Strickle and Caroline Goodwin. [LPR]

Undated Notes on the family of William Godwin. [LPR]

Undated

154 Genealogy of Thomas Davis (1742-1846) and his descendants. [LPR]

Undated Notes on Mrs. Eliza A. Bickham. [LPR]

Undated Handwritten draft and typescript regarding the Bickham family of Dayton. [LPR]

Undated News clipping discussing how the Bickham family of Dayton is related to the Archduke Charles of the House of Hapsburg. [LPR]

Undated Timeline of ownership of the YMCA property at 117 W. Monument Avenue, owned by the Bickham family. [LPR]

Dec. 18, 1924 Obituary of Maria Strickle Bickham, news clipping from the Dayton Daily News . [LPR]

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album, 1859-1861

Note: An inscription in the front of the book says: “Rebecca H. Strickle, Maplewood, Clinton Co., Ohio.” A label indicates that this item was “Presented by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.” [LPR]

Items are listed in the order in which they appear. Only pages with information are numbered.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 1

Apr. 28, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from G. Thayer, Bloomington Female College.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 2

Dec. 28, 1859 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from her sister “Lizzie” [Elizabeth Ann Strickle].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 3

Sept. 3, 1861 Autograph of Chas. R. Strickle, Wilimington, OH.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 4

155 Apr. 30, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from M. Louise Price, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 5

Undated Autograph of E. M. Wickersham.

Sept. 2, 1861 Autograph of Thos. Morris.

Nov. 6, 1861 Autograph of C. Strickle.

Undated Mark “X” of G. Grout.

Sept. 1, 1861 Autograph of Rob. M. Wickersham.

Undated Autograph of J. N. Blessing, Cincinnati.

Undated Autograph of Fannie W. Strickle, Hazel Green, Kentucky.

Sept. 3, 1861 Autograph of Carrie M. Strickle.

Undated Autograph of Mary L. Linn, Springfield, Ohio.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 6

Nov. 2, 1860 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Lizzie D. McCleary, Smithfield, PA.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 7

Undated Autograph of Clara Spencer, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 8

Undated Note to Rebecca Strickle, from her sister Carrie.

156

Undated Note to “Friend Beca” [Rebecca Strickle], from Mary Dunham.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 9

Apr. 30, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Julia E. Brooks, Buckland, MA; Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 10

Autumn, 1860 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from her sister Carrie, Maplewood, [OH].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 11

Nov. 6, [No Year] Autograph from “Remember Allie.”

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 12

Mar. 24, [No Year] Note to “Becca” [Rebecca Strickle], from Nellie Dunham, Waynesville, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 13

Mar. 26, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Maggie Leeper, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 14 Undated Autograph of Maggie Leeper, Bloomington, IL.

Undated Autograph of Mary B. Fannalt.

Undated Autograph of Belle Warriner.

Undated Autograph of Sallie E. Miller, Richmond, KY.

Undated Autograph of Lutie Harwood, Bloomington, IL.

Undated

157 Autograph of Mary M. Abbott.

Undated Autograph of Mary A. Hardwood, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 15

Undated Quote from Lafe.

Undated Quote from Byron.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 16

Mar. 26, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Lizzie Leeper.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 17

Mar. 3, [1860] Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Em Smith, Wilmington, [OH].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 18

Apr. 26, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from H. M. Kellogg, Bloomington Female College.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 19 Apr. 28, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from G. Thayer, Bloomington Female College.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 20

Nov. 2, 1860 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Kate Wickersham, Wilmington, OH.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 21

Sept. 8, 1861 Autograph of G. M. L. Johnson, Wilmington, [OH].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 22

Undated Autograph of “Bernard.”

158

Undated Autograph of Miss Alice Tillinghast, Cincinnati, OH.

Undated Autograph of Mallie Dunham, Piketon, Pike County, OH. (Note: Mallie Dunham is written once in script and crossed out and is written again in pencil on another part of the page.)

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 23

May 1, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Belle Warriner, [Bloomington, IL]. In a part of her note, Belle writes: “I regret your sudden departure from Bloomington.”

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 24

Apr. [1], 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Alice A. Eddy, Bloomington, [IL].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 25

Undated Autograph of Laura M. Shepard, Racine, WI.

Undated Autograph of Sarah E. Gurny.

Undated Autograph of Eliza C. Lackey, Bloomington, IL.

Undated Autograph of Alice A. Eddy, Bloomington, McLean Co., IL.

Undated Autograph of Eliza Boyd, Bloomington, IL.

Undated Autograph of Louise Price, Bloomington, [IL].

May 1, 1861 Autograph of S. Ariela Bushnell.

Undated Autograph of Hattie Dunn, Bloomington, IL.

159

Undated Autograph of Lizzie Leeper, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 26

Undated Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Clara C. Spencer.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 27

Undated Autograph of Allie Tillinghast, Cincinnati, OH.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 28

Mar. 27, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Lizzie J. Merriman, Bloomington, IL.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 29

Undated Poem: “It Grows Dark, Mother, Very, Very Dark.” Poem continues on the back side of the page.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 30

Nov. 19, 1861 Note to Rebecca Strickle, from “Cathie,” 267 Maple Wood, [OH].

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 31

Undated Autograph of Annie M. McConnell, Springfield, IL.

Undated Autograph of Mary S. Wallace, Bloomington, IL.

Undated Autograph of Clara Spencer.

May 12, 1861 Autograph of W. A. Belding, Mentor, Lake Co., OH.

267 This may be a note from Rebecca’s sister Katharine. A similar note from her sister Carrie was also marked as being from Maplewood, Ohio.

160 Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 32

Oct. 29, 1861 Autograph of Ewing M. Wickersham 268 , Camp Chase, Co. B. 40 th Reg., O.V.W.S.A. 269

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 33

Sept. 6, 1861 Autograph of Benj. Butterworth, Maineville, OH.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 34

Undated Note to Rebecca Strickle, from Fanny Kimble. Note continues on the back side of the page.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 35

Dec. 19, 1861 Autograph of Lide Norton, Springfield, OH.

Undated Autograph of Lavinia V. Selfair, Oakridge, OH.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 36

Undated Poem: “Missing.” Poem continues on the back side of the page and onto the next page.

Box 5: Rebecca Strickle Autograph Album – Page 37

May 1, 1861 Autograph of “Laura S.”

Undated Autograph of N. P. Willis.

Undated

268 Ewing M. Wickersham enlisted April 30, 1861; Sergeant, 40 th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 17, 1861; Quartermaster Sergeant, Oct. 10, 1861; First Lieutenant, Jan. 25, 1864; Discharged, Dec. 31, 1865, on account of the war’s end. He later served in the state of Kansas. Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas, Years 1879 and 1880 (Topeka: George W. Martin Kansas Publishing House, 1881), p. 22. The 40 th O.V.I. was mustered in at Camp Chase on Dec. 11, 1861. Source: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, Vol. 4 (Akron: Werner Printing & Manufacturing Co., 1887), p. 133. [LPR] 269 Unable to determine the meaning of the abbreviation “O.V.W.S.A.” [LPR]

161 Autograph of Fannie Strickle, Sabina, [OH?].

Undated Autographs of Charles R. Strickle, G. K. Farquhar, George [illegible], James Redway, and Dick Farquhar Jr.

Mar. 3, 1860 Autograph of “Remember Emma.”

Undated Autograph of Geo. P. Sparks, No. 1001, West 4 th St., Sligo, [state unknown]. 270

Undated Autograph of G. K. Farquhar.

Undated Autographs of James Hoblet, Brooks Griffith, Bartholomew Higgins, Little Nest, Gwyneth Dunaum, Sybil Dunaum, Hilary Hepburn, Gentleman Waite, and Sophy Kitty Foos.

Undated Autograph of Annie C. Eader, Frederick, MD.

Undated Autograph of J. M. Cameron, Henderson, TX.

Undated Autograph of Emma C. Thayer, Bloomington, IL.

On the back side of page 37:

Undated Autograph of Mrs. G. P. Sparks.

Attached to the front of page 37:

Undated Letter to Rebecca Strickle, from [illegible] in Lancaster, [OH?].

Box 2, Folder 16: Abraham E. Strickle Memorial Album & Civil War Documents, 1862-1914

270 According to the Geographic Nameserver, there are towns called Sligo in the following states: Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Sligo located in Ohio is in Clinton County, which is where Rebecca Strickle was from. It is therefore likely that Mr. Sparks is from Sligo, Ohio. [LPR]

162

Note: According to a bookplate in the front cover, this item was presented to the library by Daniel D. Bickham.

Items are listed in the order in which they can be found in the album:

Nov. 10, 1914 Note from Maria E. S. Bickham: “This little book came into my possession when mother’s things came into my care. Knowing as I do, that this book was obtained and arranged by sister Carrie, under Mother’s direction, I now think it the proper thing to turn it back to Carrie Strickle Clous as her property, which I am sure she will treasure, as a valuable memorial of our beloved father.” [LPR]

July 19, 1863 T. J. [Melish?] to Mrs. Caroline Strickle [wife of Abraham E. Strickle]. Melish, the Strickle family’s former pastor, writes “a few lines expressive of my sympathy with you in your domestic bereavement.” [LPR]

Sept. 10, 1863 Extract of letter from Mrs. Caroline Strickle to [her daughter] Maria [Bickham] . Mrs. Strickle writes about the fair 271 , saying it brings her memories. She is sad but would not ask to be divorced from those memories. [LPR]

Dec. 6, 1863 Extract of letter from Mrs. Caroline Strickle to [her daughter] Maria [Bickham] . Mrs. Strickle writes that she went to the cemetery and is glad for fall. [LPR] According to a note at the top, this letter was written after Mrs. Strickle’s “double loss” of [her son] Charlie on Jan. 6, 1863 272 , and of her husband [Abraham E. Strickle], on July 9, 1863. [LPR]

Jan. 28, 1864 From Samuel H. Hale, Wilmington, [OH]. Mr. Hale wishes to record the Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Goshen, Wilmington, and Columbus Turnpike Company, passed at their first meeting after the death of Abraham E. Strickle. [LPR]

Mar. 13, 1864 From Edwin K. Hawley. Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Jan. 5, 1865

271 She is probably referring to the Clinton County (Ohio) Fair, of which Abraham Strickle had been the director. 272 Charles Rockwell Strickle, son of Abraham Ellis Strickle and Caroline Goodwin Strickle, was born in 1848 and died January 6, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee (source: The Ellis Family by Katharine Strickle Foos, 1900, pg. 52). [LPR]

163 Letter from John Sherman, Senate Chamber, Washington, DC, to Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General, U.S. Army. Sherman requests information as to date of mustering in of Capt. A. E. Strickle, who died July 9, 1863; is making the request for the widow. On reverse, contents and sender noted, question referred to the Treasury Department. [HHS]

Oct. 6, 1864 From B. Bedell. Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Nov. 29, 1864 From Aylett Raines.273 Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Jan. 2, 1864 From J. C. Irvin. Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Undated From J. M. Chapman. Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Sept. 5, 1866 From Wm. _____. Note of memorial and sympathy to Mrs. Strickle. [LPR]

Undated Printed memorial notice by Samuel H. Hale. [LPR]

Nov. 1908 Note from Carrie M. [Strickle] Clous: “This little book was begun by my dear mother, at Wilmington, O., in the winter of 1863-4 to preserve letters written to her after the death of my father, who died in Cincinnati, on July 9, 1863, and of his brief record in the United States Army.” “The purpose of the book was to perpetuate his memory and preserve as record for his children and grandchildren.” She goes on to describe the parts of the book and its contents. [LPR]

Nov. 24, 1914 The note reads: “Given to my beloved nephew, William Denison Bickham.” [LPR]

May 14, 1862

273 Aylett Raines was a well-known minister in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Source: U.S. Federal Census. [LPR]

164 Commission of A. E. Strickle as Captain, Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers; from Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, DC, May 14, 1862, with orders to report to Commissary General in Washington. [HHS]

May 15, 1862 Order for A. E. Strickle to report for duty, from Office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, Washington, DC, May 15, 1862. Strickle is to report to Major General [Henry W.] Halleck. He is authorized to hire a clerk from civil life at $75 per month. Signed by J. P. Taylor, C. G. Sub. Further orders to report to Captain Hawkins, C.S., Hamburg Landing, [Tennessee?]274 , by order of Major General Halleck, signed J. C. Hilborn, A.A.G., from Headquarters at Corinth, MS, June 2, 1862. Certified as correct copies from original orders filed by Capt. Strickle, June 7, 1862; signed J. S. Chandler. [HHS]

Mar. 20, 1862 Representation submitted to the President [Abraham Lincoln] and the Cabinet, March 20, 1862, by the undersigned Senators of the State of Ohio, in behalf of the appointment of Abraham E. Strickle to such position as he could fill. Note on reverse: At the request of A. E. Strickle, solicitation of members of the Senate was stopped when 21 names were signed. No one who was asked to sign refused. Signed, B. F. Coates. [This sheet is loose, not pasted into the album.] [HHS]

Mar. 20, 1862 Similar representation submitted by members of the House of Representatives, March 10, 1862; includes 18 signatures. Similar note on reverse, signed by J. I. Smith, member from Clinton County. [This sheet is loose, not pasted into the album.] [HHS]

Mar. 22, 1862 Letter from William Dennison, Jr., Columbus, OH, to President Abraham Lincoln, [Washington, DC]. Expresses the hope that if an application is made to the President for the appointment of Captain A. E. Strickle to a responsible position, he will find it consistent with his sense of duty and his personal pleasure to grant it. Describes the character and career of Captain Strickle, recommending him unreservedly. 275 [HHS]

Apr. 19, 1862 Letter from Thomas Ewing 276 , Lancaster, OH, to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Recommends Abraham E. Strickle, and introduces him as “the bearer.” [HHS]

Apr. 28, 1862 Note from Abraham Lincoln to (probably) Secretary Edwin Stanton; no addressee. 277

274 Halleck was at Hamburg Landing, in Tennessee, in the spring of 1862. Source: Harry Hansen, The Civil War: A History (New York: Penguin, 2002), p. 326; also Harper’s Weekly , May 31, 1862, p. 349. 275 See also: Lincoln, Abraham, note to Edwin M. Stanton. [HHS] 276 Thomas Ewing was a U.S. Senator (Whig) from Ohio, 1830-1836, 1850-1851; Secretary of the Treasury, 1841; Secretary of the Interior, 1844. [HHS]

165 Lincoln writes: “I endorse the within so far as to say I am for the appointment if one such is secured.” [Signed, A. Lincoln] [HHS]

April 26, [no year] Letter from Salmon P. Chase to Edwin M. Stanton. Recommends Abraham E. Strickle for an appointment as Commissary or Quartermaster. [HHS]

Undated Notation: Aylett Raines, Paris, KY, but no letter or additional note.

July 11, 1863 Letter from W. H. Clement to Mrs. [Katharine Strickle] Foos or any members of the Strickle family. Note of sympathy and regret that he could not be present during the last testimony of respect to his departed friend, Abraham Strickle. [LPR]

Oct. 25, 1863 Letter from ___ [Burnet?]. Memorial note regarding Abraham E. Strickle. [LPR]

Box 6: Bickham Postcard Album, Circa 1900-1910

Note: A label indicates that this item was “Presented by Mrs. Daniel D. Bickham.” [LPR]

“Illustrated Postal Cards Album” This album contains over 100 postcards sent to and from various members of the Bickham and Strickle families, depicting scenes from throughout the United States and the world. Most postcards appear to be dated between about 1900 and about 1910. Some were actually sent by mail with messages, and some appear to have been collected only as a keepsake.

Box 2, Folder 17: J. Jones leases to Wm. Flowers 200 acres of land, Hanover Parish, King George Co., VA, 1728

June 6, 1728 John Jones lease, to William Flowers, 200 acres of land, Hanover Parish, King George County, Virginia, June 6, 1728. Original document, 9-1/2” by 12”, written on both sides. Gives boundaries of leased land, and the terms: “the rent of one ear of Indian corn at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel only if the same be lawfully demanded.” [HHS]

277 This note was probably folded around the letter from Gov. Dennison to him, recommending A. E. Strickle for an appointment. See also: Dennison, William. [HHS]

166

167 INDEX

?, Allie...... 157 death of...... 87 ?, Bernard...... 158 Bache, Richard...... 87 ?, Cathie ...... 160 Baldwin, Frank D...... 117, 152, 154 ?, Emma ...... 162 Barnett, James ?, George...... 162 photo of ...... 64 ?, Jessie Barr, ?...... 100 photo of ...... 72 Bedell, B...... 164 ?, Rebecca ...... 106 Belding, W. A...... 160 ?, Wm...... 164 Bell, ? ...... 35 Abbott, Mary M...... 158 Bethany College...... 5 Aden Bethany, West Virginia...... 5 money changers’ tricks ...... 153 Bickham house...... 7 soldiers visit ...... 153 Bickham, Abraham Strickle...... 7 Adsetts, ?...... 147 editor of Dayton Journal ...... 8 African Americans...... 74 illustration of...... 126 Ainsworth, F. C...... 107 service in the Spanish-American War Alger, ?...... 125, 135 ...... 126 Allen, ?...... 54 Bickham, Blondy . See Bickham, Charles Allen, Charles C...... 111 Goodwin Allen, James H...... 16 Bickham, Bobby ...... 99 Allen, Lee...... 99 Bickham, Charles Goodwin. 7, 9, 34, 35, Allen, William...... 54 98, 120 Allston, M. P...... 16 Battle of Putol Bridge ...... 109 Alton, William ...... 101 Buz Fuz Club ...... 8, 144 Anderson, Charles Marley ...... 20, 49 Congressional Medal of Honor 8, 105, Anderson?, R. C...... 55 106, 151 Andreas, Harry R...... 116, 118 consul at Athens...... 108 Andrews, J. Cutler...... 99 consul at Budapest ...... 105 anecdotes discharge (honorable) from army..... 8, Story of Lot’s Wife, A ...... 95 107 Anthony, Charles ...... 105, 108, 123 editor of Dayton Journal ...... 8 Appleton, W. H...... 42 effects of Philippines services...... 106 Army and Navy Club...... 102 examinations ...... 106, 107, 150 artesian well ...... 124 furlough from Cuba, 1909...... 150 Arthur, Chester...... 30 illustration of...... 126, 129 Associated Press...... 55 Malta visit ...... 152 Atkins, Tommy ...... 153 military career .. 8, 108, 105–8, 3–155, Augur, Annis 102–5 death of...... 90, 91 photo of...... 150, 151 Augur, C. C...... 90, 91, 93, 95, 96 photo of (1881) ...... 154 Axline, Henry A...... 119 photo of (1891) ...... 154 B., K...... 132 promotions ...... 119, 129, 130 Bache, Alexander Dallas...... 87 rank of captain...... 135, 136

168 rank of first lieutenant, 27th USI .. 151 White House visit...... 87 rank of major...... 152 Bickham, William Strickle...... 7 service at New Orleans ...... 129, 130 Biegler, George W...... 116, 136, 149 service in Philippine Insurrection .... 8, Birkhimer, William E... 8, 106, 112, 113, 102–5, 111, 112, 113, 116, 149, 3– 116, 137, 138, 141, 143, 144, 147, 155 148, 149 service in Spanish-American War ... 8, Bishop, R. M...... 53 102–5, 119, 120, 126, 3–155 Bismarck, ? ...... 97 service in the Philippine Insurrection Blaine, ? ... 21, 25, 26, 28, 29, 46, 47, 56, ...... 114 59, 60 service in the Philippines ...... 114 Blaine, James G...... 59 service on McKinley’s staff8, 34, 119, Blair, ?...... 40, 43 120, 154 Blair, Montgomery...... 40 Bickham, Cora ...... 99 Blakeney, Thomas J. Bickham, Daniel Denison .. 7, 19, 31, 51, photo of ...... 66 53, 56, 61, 64, 99 Blass, G. M. D...... 54 admission to Princeton...... 90 Blessing, J. N...... 156 and Cincinnati Reds ...... 99 Blondy.. See Bickham, Charles Goodwin editor of Dayton Journal ...... 8 Bloomington Female College ... 155, 158 Bickham, Eliza (Dennison)...... 5, 155 Bloomington, Illinois156, 157, 158, 159, Bickham, Emily C...... 81 160, 162 Bickham, John...... 5 Board of Charities...... 96 Bickham, Maria Emily (Strickle). 5, 7, 8, Bompiani, Adriano...... 82, 83 9, 26, 31, 34, 35, 53, 62, 82, 84, 96, bonus bonds ...... 99 98, 102, 104, 105, 118, 139, 140, 148, books 163 American Encyclopedia ...... 42 death of...... 7 From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains 10, obituary of...... 155 24, 53, 55, 58 Bickham, Thomas Burns...... 7 History of West Point (Boynton)..... 73 Bickham, Victor Hardy...... 7, 23 Ohio in the War ...... 36 Bickham, W. D., II...... 31 Rosecrans’ Campaign with the 14th Bickham, Will S...... 85 Army Corps ... 10, 30, 32, 36, 39, 51 Bickham, William ‘Bill’ ...... 99 valuable...... 86 Bickham, William Ard...... 5 Bown, ? Bickham, William Denison 5, 6, 7, 8, 83, photo of ...... 67 101, 164 Boyd, Eliza...... 159 birth of...... 5 Boyer, Benj. F...... 152 California gold rush ...... 5, 16 Boyle, James ...... 98 Civil War correspondent...... 6 Boynton, ?...... 20 death of...... 7, 8, 26, 31, 34, 56 Boynton, Edward Carlisle...... 73 editor of Dayton Journal ...... 6 Boynton, Henry Van Ness ...... 20, 21 education of...... 5 Boys in Blue...... 29 induction to Ohio State University Bragg, ?...... 37 Journalism Hall of Fame...... 19 Bragg, Braxton marriage to Maria Strickle ...... 5 photo of ...... 72 promoted to major...... 37 Brandy...... 125, 127, 128

169 Brien, Bernis ...... 127, 128 Carter, ?...... 36, 103 Bristow, ? ...... 28 Cervera, ? ...... 129, 135 Brooks, Julia E...... 157 Chalmers, Thomas C...... 149 Brown, ?...... 48 Chamberlin, W. H...... 56 Brown, Seth W...... 115 Chandler, J. S...... 165 Bryan, William Jennings... 114, 146, 153 Chapin, ? ...... 50 Bundy, Hezekiah...... 46 Chapman, J. M...... 164 Burnet, ? (Mrs.)...... 80 Charles, Archduke of Hapsburg...... 155 Burnet, D. S. (Mrs.) Chase, Salmon P...... 22, 23, 35, 166 photo of ...... 65 Chicago Convention...... 48 Burnet, David S...... 78 Christian Publishing House, Dayton... 63 Burnet?, ? ...... 166 Church, J., Jr...... 52 Burns, William W...... 21, 22, 59 churches Burnside, Ambrose ...... 6 New Disciple Church (Cleveland, photo of ...... 65 Ohio) ...... 77 Burnside, J. O. P...... 28 Cincinnati College ...... 5 Burrous, M...... 63 Cincinnati Reds baseball team...... 99 Burton, ?...... 107 Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton Bushnell, Asa S...... 49, 105 Railroad...... 5 Bushnell, S. Ariela ...... 159 Cincinnati, Ohio...... 5 Butler, Benjamin F...... 57 Civil War...... 6, 7, 90 Butterworth, Benjamin...... 49, 50, 161 Army of the Cumberland 6, 10, 30, 32, Buz Fuz Club ...... 8, 136, 144, 152 37, 38, 39, 52 visit to China...... 144 Army of the Potomac...... 96 visit to the Philippines... 144, 146, 153 Battle of Carnifex Ferry...... 74 C., L. D...... 42 Battle of Chickamauga...... 37, 38, 66 California gold rush ...... 5 Battle of Fort Sumter ...... 43 California Volunteer Cavalry Battle of Gettysburg...... 22 First Regiment...... 66 Battle of Murfreesboro...... 32, 52 Cameron, J. M...... 162 Battle of Shiloh ...... 75 Camp Buckeye (Illinois)...... 99 Battle of Stones River6, 10, 19, 32, 37 Camp Bushnell (Ohio) ...... 120, 130 Battle of the Wilderness...... 21 Camp Chase (Ohio)...... 161 coming of ...... 43 Camp De Soto (Florida)... 122, 126, 128, documents pertaining to Strickle, 129 Abraham Ellis ...... 162 Camp Meade (Pennsylvania) ... 103, 134, Murfreesboro...... 16, 30, 37, 52 135, 136, 137, 149 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Fortieth Camp Wood (Philippines)...... 113 Regiment, Company B...... 161 Campbell, ? ...... 24, 60 Clark, David P...... 18 Campbell, Alexander ...... 76 Clem, John L. Campbell, Charles Scott...... 111 photo of ...... 66 Campbell, James ...... 53 Clement, W. H...... 166 Campbell, Lewis D...... 42 Cleveland Grays...... 28 Campbell, Mary B...... 104 Cleveland, Frances (Folsom) .. 94, 96, 98 Cappeller, W. S...... 58 Cleveland, Grover...... 94, 95, 97 Carson, Adam C...... 149 Clinton County (Ohio) Fair...... 5, 163

170 Clous, Caroline Margaret (Strickle)9, 82, Curtis, ? 102, 156, 157, 163, 164 photo of ...... 66 Clous, John Walter. 9, 58, 64, 78, 82, 85, Custer, ? ...... 96 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 104 Custer, Benj. marriage of...... 82 photo of ...... 67 promoted to Judge Advocate ...... 89 Daggett, Albert...... 29 Coates, B. F...... 165 Dalzell, ? ...... 30 Cobden, ? ...... 70 Danner, James D...... 149 Colfax, Schuyler ...... 41, 57 Davies, G. W...... 63 Colson, Nic ...... 92 Davis, ? ...... 154 Columbian Expedition ...... 98 Davis, Jefferson...... 57, 76 Comley, ? ...... 40 Davis, John D...... 101 Comly, ?...... 56 Davis, Thomas ...... 155 Comly, W. F...... 63 Dawes, ?...... 17, 18 Comly, William F...... 7 Day, William R...... 105 Comly, William R...... 18 Dayton militia ...... 85 Conger Bill...... 60 Dayton Police Department...... 63 Conger, ?...... 47 De Soto Park, Florida...... 121, 129 Conger, A. L...... 46 Democrats ...... 6, 26, 32, 44, 49, 55 Conger, Edwin H...... 60 Dennis, E. W...... 78 Conger, M. D...... 58 Dennis, W. L...... 54 Cooper Female Seminary...... 93 Dennison, Eliza...... See Bickham, Eliza Copperheads...... 6, 40, 53, 56, 63 (Dennison) Corbin, Frances Williamson (Strickle) 9, Dennison, William, Jr.16, 23, 24, 35, 36, 82, 156, 162 165 Corbin, Henry Clarke... 9, 29, 32, 33, 40, Deuell, Elizabeth Ann (Strickle) 44, 48, 59, 77, 96, 102, 106, 115, 130, Dunham...... 8, 82, 155 135 Deuell, John C...... 8 Corbin, Rebecca...... 106 Diaz, ? ...... 93 Corinth, Mississippi...... 165 Diaz, Porfirio...... 84, 88 Corwin, Eva ...... 73 Dick, ?...... 107 Corwin, Thomas...... 73, 77 Dick, Charles W. F...... 107 Cowan, ? ...... 41 Dickens, Charles ...... 81 Cox, George ...... 30 Dietrich, J. W...... 17 Cox, Jacob D...... 18, 23 Dodt, Helenus photo of ...... 69 death of...... 88 Cox, James M...... 107 obituary of...... 92 Craighead, Samuel ...... 46, 48 Donelson ...... 150 Crane, Charles J...... 130, 131, 135 Doren Collection...... 18, 20, 45 Crawford, Samuel D...... 136, 149 Doren, John G...... 18 Crenshaw, ?...... 114 Dorst, J. H...... 124 Crenshaw, Frank F...... 114, 116, 143 Drouillard, J. P. Cross, Edward E...... 61 photo of ...... 65 Cuba ...... 150 Drum, ? ...... 98 Cuba’s government ...... 151 Drum, Hugh Aloysius ...... 98 Cuban reciprocity bill ...... 152 Duke de Reichstadt ...... 74

171 Dunaum, Gwyneth ...... 162 untitled essay about coral...... 87 Dunaum, Sybil ...... 162 Wife, The ...... 79 Dunham, ?...... 62 Young Mother, The...... 73 Dunham, John W...... 8 Young Tom Macaulay: Son and Dunham, Mallie ...... 159 Brother (Hamilton)...... 88 Dunham, Mary...... 157 Ewing, Thomas ...... 165 Dunham, Nellie...... 157 Fair, James G...... 29 Dunn, Hattie...... 159 Fannalt, Mary B...... 157 Dunn, John H...... 149 Farnum, Pat...... 132 Dunn, John N...... 149 Farquhar, Dick, Jr...... 162 Dwyer, Dennis ...... 58 Farquhar, G. K...... 162 Eader, Annie C...... 162 Farquhar, George K...... 8 East Indies...... 83 Farquhar, Mary Gano (Strickle)...... 8, 82 Eddy, Alice A...... 159 Farquhar, R. H. Eggleston, Benjamin...... 43, 44 photo of ...... 65 El Dorado County, California...... 5 Farrell, T. J...... 64 Eldridge, ?...... 120 Fehrenbatch, John ...... 59 Electoral Commission...... 45 Fernandina, Florida...... 108 Emma mine affair ...... 42 Fine, H. B...... 100 Emory, Campbell D. Fish, Hamilton, Jr...... 73 death of...... 87 Fleming, Matthew C...... 100 funeral of...... 90 Flickinger, Samuel ...... 35 Emory, W. H...... 87 Flint, ? ...... 143 Errett, Isaac ...... 78 Flipper, Henry...... 91 essays Florida National Guard ...... 123 Across the Gulf of Mexico, and Up Flowers, William...... 166 the Rio Grande ...... 83 Fogg, ?...... 22 Anecdotes of Southey (Butterworth) Foos, Clara ...... 82 ...... 73 Foos, Katharine Jane (Strickle)...... 9, 82, Apostles’ Creed, The ...... 75 160, 166 Brother Tom (Hamilton)...... 88 Foos, Lizzie...... 82 Cleaning the Closet...... 91 Foos, P. G...... 82 Early Conversion and Training of Foos, Rodney ...... 9, 82, 86 Children...... 78 Foos, Sophy Kitty ...... 162 Fellow by the Name of Holmes, A . 81 Foraker, Joseph Benson ... 17, 24, 25, 26, Fellowship with God...... 80 30, 48, 49, 50 Go to the Dutch, Oh! Ladies, and Force, ?...... 32, 48 Learn Wisdom (Swisshelm)...... 83 Ford, Ellery C...... 29 Grandfather ...... 78 Forney, John Wien...... 37 Lounger on the Avenue...... 95, 96 Forsyth, ? Mothers ...... 79 photo of ...... 67 My Boy ...... 79 Fort Brown (Texas)...... 85 Sanctity of Marriage, The ...... 74 photo of post hospital...... 69 Solemnity of Marriage, The...... 83 Fort Duncan (Texas) ...... 88, 92 Thackeray and his People (Cooke) . 83 Fort Leavenworth (Kansas)106, 107, 150 Undine...... 75 Fort Pandahatan ...... 150

172 Fort Sheridan (Illinois)...... 106, 107 Grout, G...... 156 Foster, Charles ...... 26, 27, 30, 32, 45, 47 Guizot, M...... 81 Franklin, Benjamin ...... 87 Gunckel, Lewis B...... 61, 63 Frederick III of Germany...... 97 Gurley, ?...... 35 Frémont, John C. Gurley, J. A...... 35 photo of ...... 72 Gurny, Sarah E...... 159 Fry, James S...... 53 Gurra, Vincente...... 122 Fuller, Warren S...... 52 Hale, ? ...... 45 G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Hale, Samuel H...... 163, 164 ...... 41 Hale, W. A...... 121 Gano, Mary Hall, Asaph ...... 90, 91, 93 photo of ...... 65 Hall, Dickinson P...... 135 Gano, Stephen...... 61 Halleck, Henry W...... 165 Garfield, James Abram .... 16, 24, 27, 28, Halstead, Murat 6, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 29, 30, 33, 38, 40, 46, 47, 59, 92 35, 42, 44, 55, 56, 60, 63 Garfield, Lucretia...... 29 Hamburg Landing, [Tennessee?]...... 165 Garrison, Curtis W...... 99 Hamilton, W. W. K...... 152 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn ...... 84 Hancock, Winfield Scott...... 21, 22, 39 Gebhart, Simon ...... 63 Hanly?, Guy...... 56 Georgia National Guard Hanna, ? ...... 20, 25 Second Regiment ...... 122, 128 Hanna, Marcus A. (Mark)..... 20, 61, 108 German Empire...... 97 Hansburg, Robert S...... 111 Gibbon, ?...... 22 Harding, Warren G...... 31 Glazebrook, Austin ...... 81 Hardwood, Mary A...... 158 Godwin, William...... 154, See Also Harries Guard...... 85 Goodwin, William R. Harris, Len A...... 62 Goodfellow, ?...... 89, 95 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...... 102 Goodwin, Caroline See Strickle, Caroline Harrison, ?...... 19, 25, 26, 30, 50 (Goodwin) Harrison, Benjamin...... 19, 26, 31, 37 Goodwin, William R...... 84, See Also Harrison, William Henry ...... 19, 75 Godwin, William Hartranft, ? ...... 135 Goshen, Wilmington, and Columbus Harwood, Lutie ...... 157 Turnpike Company ...... 163 Hawaii...... 110 Gottschall, O. M...... 18 Hawkins, ?...... 165 Grant, ?...... 46 Hawkins, Hamilton S...... 122, 124 Grant, Frederick Dent ...... 105 Hawley, Edwin K...... 163 Grant, Ulysses S...... 22, 41, 46, 74 Hawley, Joseph R...... 59 photo of ...... 19 Hawlins, ? ...... 124 Grass Valley (Nevada County), Hayes, Rutherford B. . 18, 19, 28, 41, 44, California ...... 5 45, 49, 57, 62, 83, 86, 87 Graves, Chal...... 144, 146, 153 Hayes, Webb C...... 139 Greenbackers...... 46 Hazel Green, Kentucky...... 156 Griffith, Brooks...... 162 Hazen, William B...... 31, 32, 95, 97 Gross, F. H. Heistand, H...... 99 photo of ...... 67 Heistand, Henry O. S...... 134 Grosvenor, Charles ...... 30 Henry, Guy V...... 102

173 Henry, Guy Vernor, Jr...... 102 Jones, John...... 166 Henry, Guy Vernor, Sr...... 102 Jones, John G...... 54 Hepburn, Hilary ...... 162 Jones, Will Herchelrode, C...... 63 photo of ...... 67 Herrick, Myron T...... 53 Kansas Pacific Railway...... 28 Hickenlooper, ?...... 18 Karr, C. W...... 86 Hickenlooper, Andrew...... 18 Keifer family...... 84 Higer, Thomas H...... 89 Keifer, J. Warren...... 29, 32, 33 Higgins, Bartholomew ...... 162 Kellogg, H. M...... 158 Hilborn, J. C...... 165 Kennedy, ? ...... 33 Hoadley, George ...... 53 Kimble, Fanny...... 161 Hoblet, James...... 162 Kingsley, Th. B...... 105 Hodge, A...... 62 Kinney, Coates...... 55 Honolulu, Hawaii..... 110, 111, 112, 139, Kirke, Edmund...... 61 140 Knecht, ? ...... 20, 49, 50 Hood, ?...... 131 Kobbe, William A...... 147 Hooker, Joseph Kuhns, ? ...... 18 photo of ...... 66 Lackey, Eliza C...... 159 Hopley, John ...... 55, 56 Lady Franklin Bay Polar Expedition .. 95 Houk, George W...... 19, 97 Lair, ? ...... 49 Howard, ?...... 89 Lander, Frederick W. Hubbell, ?...... 40 photo of ...... 67 Hunter, J. B...... 104, 145 Lawton, ?...... 140 Hunter, Robert...... 18 Lee, Fitzhugh ...... 123, 126, 131 Hutcheson, R...... 57 Lee, Robert E...... 57 hymns Leeper, Lizzie ...... 158, 160 Marseilaise Hymn, The...... 84 Leeper, Maggie ...... 157 Indiana Infantry Leonard, Robert W.... 137, 138, 139, 149 Fifteenth Regiment...... 19 illustration ...... 138 Irvin, J. C...... 164 Leonard, William A...... 94 Italy Lerdo, Sebastian...... 88 misunderstandings in ...... 21 Lieber, G. Norman ...... 89, 98 Jack, C. M...... 113 Liggett, ? ...... 106 Jackson, Andrew...... 94 Lincoln, Abraham 22, 23, 35, 37, 43, 92, Jackson, F. W...... 29 165 Jenkinson, Henry T...... 136 assassination of ...... 78 Jerome, ? ...... 93 photo of ...... 65 Johnson, ?...... 40, 41 Lincoln, James Rush ...... 128, 129 Johnson, Andrew...... 37, 38, 40, 56 Lindemuth, ? ...... 108 Johnson, G. M. L...... 158 Lines, Earl...... 109 Johnson, Reverdy...... 42, 43 Linn, Mary L...... 156 Johnson?, William? L...... 59 liquor control...... 55 Joline, Adrian H...... 100 Littler, ?...... 32 Jones, ?...... 32 Logan (Mingo Chief) ...... 84 Jones, C. Rodman ...... 111 Logan, John A...... 33, 34, 93, 97 Jones, Charles Henry ...... 104, 137, 139 Longworth, ?...... 107

174 Lowe, John W...... 74 militarism...... 115 Lowe, Manorah F...... 74 military life...... 86 Loy, Harry...... 119, 144, 146, 153 Millais, ? ...... 95 Loyal Legion of the United States ...... 97 Millard, ?...... 52 Lyon, William...... 60 Miller, ?...... 120, 121 Lytle, W. H...... 84 Miller, A. P...... 54 MacArthur, ?...... 147 Miller, D. R...... 18 Mackenzie, ? ...... 96 Miller, John A...... 109, 152 Maine imbroglio...... 46 Miller, Sallie E...... 157 Malta Milligan, ?...... 59 dress of the women ...... 152 Mills, John...... 16 Manning, Guy E...... 135, 152 Mitchell, Ralph M...... 111 Maplewood (Clinton County), Ohio 155, Molen, Charles E...... 103, 145 157, 160 Moore, A. B...... 51 March, J. Jennie Morgan, George H. .. 137, 138, 142, 143, photo of ...... 68 144, 149 Markley, ? ...... 132 illustration ...... 138 Marot, Lewis...... 63 Morris, Thos...... 156 Marshall, A. C...... 18 Morton, Oliver P...... 44, 67 Mathews, ? ...... 109, 145 photo of ...... 67 Matthews, ?...... 30 Mosby?, John B...... 59 Matthews, Stanley...... 28 Muhlen, ? ...... 137 Mattox, A. H...... 17, 18 Munion, ? ...... 137 Maxwell, O. C...... 41 Myers, Polly...... 75 McCain, Henry P...... 106, 108 Napoleon...... 74 McCleary, Lizzie D...... 156 National Rifles ...... 28 McClellan, George B...... 6, 34 National Silver Convention...... 17 McConnell, Annie M...... 160 National Soldiers’ Home...... 17, 49, 58 McKinley Bill ...... 60 Nelson, Jennie...... 83, 93 McKinley, William 8, 25, 26, 30, 34, 35, Nest, Little...... 162 60, 114, 119, 120, 127, 154 New Orleans, Louisiana 5, 102, 129, 130 McLean, Washington...... 55 New York National Guard McMurdy, ?...... 17 Sixty-Ninth Regiment ...... 128 McPherson, ?...... 74 Newhall, George T...... 111 Mead, Eldridge...... 144, 146, 153 newspapers...... 125, 126 Mead, H. E...... 102 Baltimore American ...... 43 Mead, Harry...... 85 Boston Post ...... 83 Mead, Joe ...... 120 Chicago Inter-Ocean ...... 20 Meiklejohn, ? ...... 124 Christian Standard ...... 78, 79 Melish?, T. J...... 163 Cincinnati Chronicle ...... 44 Merriman, Lizzie J...... 160 Cincinnati Commercial .. 6, 29, 35, 36, Merritt, Wesley ...... 95, 96 42, 44, 50, 51, 55 Mexican Revolution...... 84, 85 Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette 25, 29 Miami Conservancy Tax...... 101 Cincinnati Daily Columbian ...... 5 Michigan National Guard Cincinnati Daily Commercial ...... 36 Thirty-Second Regiment...... 122 Cincinnati Enquirer ...... 19, 54

175 Cincinnati Evening Times ...... 5 soldier life ...... 120 Cincinnati Gazette 5, 6, 20, 29, 36, 42, Third Regiment .... 108, 119, 121, 122, 44, 54, 55, 76, 77, 83 123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 135, Cincinnati Times ...... 37, 44, 55 149 Dayton Daily and Weekly Journal .... 6 Third Regiment baseball team ...... 128 Dayton Journal 6, 7, 8, 45, 49, 53, 83, Third Regiment, Company G... 8, 105, 101 109, 119, 120, 121, 123, 149, 152 Dayton Journal , restoration Third Regiment, Company I 109, 119, subscriptions ...... 62, 63 121, 123, 149, 152 Louisville Courier ...... 5 Ohio State Convention...... 23, 44, 45, 46 Louisville Courier-Journal ...... 43 Ohio Volunteer Infantry...... See Ohio Louisville Journal ...... 19 National Guard National Republican ...... 83 Ohmer, M...... 84 New York Herald ...... 46 Ord, E. O...... 91 New York Journal ...... 127 orograph ...... 62 New York Tribune ...... 43, 73 Otis, ? ...... 140, 141 Richmond Broad Axe ...... 54 Palmetto Beach, Florida...... 122, 124 Richmond Palladium ...... 54 Pandorf, Charles...... 109 San Francisco Evening Journal ...... 5 Parsons, R. C...... 28 San Francisco Evening Times ...... 5 Pascal, ?...... 81 San Francisco Morning Ledger ...... 5 Paschal, George...... 95 San Francisco Picayune ...... 5 Patton, William H...... 52 Sandusky Register ...... 19, 20 Payne, Henry B...... 27 Scioto Gazette ...... 54 Pease, Calvin...... 123 Tartar Times ...... 105, 139 Pendleton, George H...... 45 Tribune ...... 43 Pension Bill...... 49 Washington Chronicle ...... 37 pensions, invalid ...... 152 Zanesville Times Recorder ...... 56 Pershing, John J. ... 8, 106, 107, 108, 117 Nichols, ? ...... 100 Philippine Insurrection Nicholson, ? ...... 17 ambush ...... 114, 143, 145 Nielson, Frederick B...... 111 Bacolod ...... 154 Norton, Lide...... 161 Bacoor... 110, 111, 112, 137, 139, 141 Noyes, Edward F...... 57 Balayan ...... 114, 115, 145 Nucoa ...... 99 Balayang ...... 154 Nutmegers...... 40 Batangas...... 103, 142, 145 Oahu, Hawaii ...... 110 Battle of Bayang ...... 8, 105 Officers School (Fort Sheridan, Illinois) Battle of Putol Bridge .. 103, 109, 113, ...... 106 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 152 Ohio Artillery Bayan Fort...... 154 First Regiment...... 64 Big Bend ...... 110, 111 Ohio National Guard...... 108 Calamba ...... 112, 116, 141 Eighth Regiment ...... 149 capture of revolutionary cabinet ... 148 Fifth Regiment ...... 122, 129, 135, 149 Cavite...... 112, 139, 140, 141, 144 First Cavalry Regiment...... 149 cholera...... 153 First Regiment...... 149 Christmas celebration...... 111, 117 Seventh Regiment ...... 149 church attendance...... 115

176 church ruins...... 111 Spanish prisoners ...... 140 churches ...... 142, 146, 153 St. Patrick’s Day celebration...... 113 climate...... 113 Taal ...... 103, 113, 114, 115, 116, 141, combat...... 112, 117, 118, 146, 154 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 152, Datos ...... 153, 154 153 elections ...... 142 Tagal leaders ...... 116 Filipino deserters...... 140 Tagalogs...... 146, 153 fire...... 153 Tagals...... 117 homecoming...... 115, 148 Talasai...... 143 Imus...... 113 transport of animals and supplies.. 140 insurgent officer’s diary...... 143 transport of soldiers...... 112, 136, 137, insurgents ...... 147 138, 139, 148, 150, 151 Lake Lanao...... 117, 153 typhoon ...... 146 Loac...... 116 Visayan ...... 118 Luzon ... 112, 116, 141, 142, 144, 145, volcanic mountain...... 143 152 Phillips, Van Ness...... 139 Malabang...... 154 Phillips, Wendell...... 57 Manila .. 103, 104, 110, 112, 115, 117, Piatt, Don ...... 20 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, Pierson, William ...... 79 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153 Pip ...... 98 Manila, ruins of...... 146 Piqua, Ohio ...... 105 march to victory...... 147 Plattsburg, New York...... 151 marching ...... 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, poems 138, 141, 142, 143 America Needs No Army...... 90 Mindanao . 8, 105, 116, 117, 118, 147, Angel Whispers (Harvey) ...... 75 148, 150, 153, 154 Beaker, The (Hillard)...... 82 Moros ...... 117, 151, 153, 154 Beautiful Snow, The ...... 85 mosquitoes ...... 110 Before Sedan (Dobson)...... 84 Nasugbu ...... 113, 144 Bozrah (Challen)...... 78 native life ...... 140 Brooklet, The (Goethe) ...... 75 natives ...... 115, 116, 142, 145 Building of the Ship (Longfellow).. 94 nepa boats...... 111 Charles Dickens (Lowell) ...... 81 payment of soldiers...... 138 Childhood...... 81 photographs of ...... 154 Christ, The (Whittier)...... 80 poem- The 28 th at Putol ...... 145 Country Children ...... 81 raising a sunken steamboat ...... 144 Dandelion, The (Bungay)...... 73 rebels...... 147 December (Mason)...... 92 recreation...... 110, 115 Drifting (Read)...... 85 recruitment of volunteers ...... 109 Family, The (Leggett) ...... 79 Red Cross nurses...... 138 Family, The: A Happy Wife ...... 80 road making ...... 115 Family, The: Little Feet ...... 78 runaway ambulance ...... 141 Great Love and I ...... 93 Santa Ana, siege of ...... 118 Heavier the Cross...... 80 scouting...... 110, 143, 146 Hold On, My Heart!...... 80 self-government ...... 142, 145 Holidays (Longfellow)...... 92 soldier life ...... 112, 114 How the King Came Home (Tylee) 94

177 Hymn...... 80 Sherman’s March to the Sea ...... 75 Hymn of the Nativity ...... 78 Song of the Camp, The ...... 86 In School Days (Whittier)...... 74 Song of the Camp, The (Taylor)..... 89 It Grows Dark, Mother, Very, Very Soul’s Plea, The (Williams)...... 77 Dark...... 160 St. John, the Aged ...... 80 Ivy Green, The (Dickens) ...... 79 Sub Silentio (Ritter)...... 82 Jenny kissed me when we met (Hunt) Take them, O Fatherland! (Taylor). 98 ...... 85 There’s but One Pair of Stockings to John A. Logan (Townsend)...... 93 Mend Tonight...... 75 Lament, A (H.)...... 76 To a Boy Piping ...... 93 Little Brown Hands (Krout)...... 90 To My Wife (Brennan) ...... 88 Little Maid of Arcade, The (Gilbert) Trust (E.)...... 79 ...... 85 Twenty-Eighth at Putol, The...... 145 Little Pair of Boots, The...... 75 Under the Guns (Harte)...... 88 Little People, The (Whittier)...... 80 untitled ...... 73 Little Phil (Carolus) ...... 89 untitled (Challen) ...... 77 Little Whimpy...... 84 untitled (Southwell) ...... 76 Little Woman, The...... 73 Vision of the Night, A (M. R. N.)... 73 Man with the Musket, The (Taylor) 94 Waiting (Cole) ...... 89 Missing...... 161 Water Mill, The...... 88 Mother’s Hymn, The (Blessed art thou What the Sparrow Chirps...... 75 among women) (Bryant)...... 74 What’s the Matter?...... 77 My Ain Counterie ...... 85 Wiegenlied ...... 94 My Heart and I (Browning) ...... 85 Wishes...... 92 New England in the West (Read).... 78 Woman’s Question, A...... 81 New Love, New Life (Goethe) ...... 82 Pomerene, Atlee...... 108 Nonsense Songs: The New Vestments Porter, Fitz-John...... 22 (Lear)...... 87 Porter, John Biddle...... 111, 137, 149 Nonsense Songs: The Pobble who has Potter, ? ...... 97 No Toes (Lear)...... 87 Potter, Joseph H...... 89, 95 Nonsense Songs: The Two Old Potter, M. D...... 30, 35, 36 Bachelors (Lear)...... 86 Price, Louise ...... 159 Not to be Won That Way (Browning) Price, M. Louise...... 156 ...... 94 Price, Samuel A...... 117, 118 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep...... 79 Prince of Wales...... 43 O power to do! O baffled will! ...... 85 Princeton University ...... 93, 100, 132 On Translating the Divina Commedia, admits Daniel D. Bickham...... 90 Fourth Sonnet (Longfellow) ...... 77 controversy...... 100, 101 Only a Kiss...... 82 Procter, William...... 100 Parting...... 89 Procter, William Cooper...... 100 Perplexity...... 94 Puerto Rico...... 124, 125, 127, 134 Plighted (Muloch) ...... 81 Purcell, John Baptist ...... 77 Pump and the Star, The...... 83 Pyne, Charles M...... 94 Rhyming Table of Presidents...... 93 R., O. M...... 75 Same Canteen, The (Halpine)...... 89 Radical Republicans...... 56, 57 Shelved...... 86 railroad passes...... 133

178 Raines, Aylett...... 164, 166 Sauer, Christoph...... 74 Rankin?, Chas...... 60 Saville, M. E...... 106 Reconstruction ...... 76 Saxby, Howard...... 120 Redway, James...... 162 Saxton, M. W...... 91 Reed, ?...... 60 Schenck, Dorothea Ann Reid, Whitelaw ...... 6, 26, 36, 37 death of...... 85 Republican Clubs of Cincinnati...... 60 obituary of...... 85 Republican National Convention. 25, 32, Schenck, James Findlay...... 85, 91 33, 34, 37, 38, 44, 45, 57 obituary of...... 91 Republican Party...... 38 Schenck, Robert C. .... 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, Republican State Convention...... 19 44, 53, 76, 98 Republicans...... 7 Schenck, W. S...... 16 Richards, ?...... 17 Schultz, Emanuel ...... 26, 33, 58 Riche, ? ...... 131 Schurz, Carl...... 59 Riley, ? ...... 143 Schwan, ? ...... 95, 140 Rio Grande Troubles...... 85 Scott, ?...... 108 Ripper Policy ...... 60 Scott, Winfield Riverside (near Cincinnati), Ohio...... 5 photo of ...... 65 Robin, ?...... 133 Sedgwick, John ...... 21 Robinson Testimonial...... 54 Selfair, Lavinia V...... 161 Robinson, J. S...... 46, 47 Sellers, George E...... 62 Rock, ? ...... 64 Seward, Fred ...... 40, 70 Roosevelt, Theodore ...... 152 Seymour, Horatio...... 21, 59 Rosecrans, ? (Mrs.) ...... 38 Shafter, William R...... 123 death of...... 39 Shaw, George...... 144, 146, 153 photo of ...... 65 Sheldon, ?...... 57 Rosecrans, Ann E...... 65 Shepard, Laura M...... 159 Rosecrans, William S... 6, 17, 18, 20, 22, Sheridan, ?...... 57 30, 32, 37, 38, 39, 52 Sheridan, M. V...... 98 photo of ...... 65 Sheridan, Philip...... 76, 97, 98 Rousseau, L. H...... 52 photo of ...... 65 Rouzer, ? ...... 47 Sherman, ?...... 24, 25, 30, 33, 40, 56 Rubier, ?...... 93 Sherman, John 20, 22, 25, 26, 30, 43, 44, Ruskin, ? ...... 95 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 59, 105, Russell, A. P...... 62 108, 164 Ryan, Daniel J...... 17 Sherman, William T...... 22, 28, 29, 74 S., Laura...... 161 photo of ...... 65 Sage, George R...... 58, 73 Shiloh, Johnny...... 66 Sampson, William T...... 123, 124 ships San Antonio (Texas) Bar Association. 90 Almirante Oquendo ...... 133 San Francisco, California..... 5, 110, 112, Barque Anne ...... 16 136, 137, 138, 148 Berlin ...... 130, 131 Sands, Alexander C...... 55 Buford ...... 150, 151, 153 Sandwich Islands ...... 110, 139 Crook ...... 134 Sanson, Tomas ...... 142 Flintshire ...... 140 Santiago de Cuba ...... 126 Florida ...... 126, 127, 135

179 Garonne ...... 117 land indemnity ...... 125 Manuense ...... 138 malaria...... 131 Maria Teresa ...... 131 payment of soldiers...... 125 Miami ...... 135 railroads...... 132 Newport ...... 138 relics...... 133 Sheridan ...... 148 retrieving bodies of soldiers...... 134 Tartar ...... 105, 110, 111, 138, 139 San Juan Hill...... 131, 132 Thomas ...... 148 San Luis rioting...... 133 Victoria ...... 139, 140 Santiago de Cuba . 109, 131, 132, 134, Sickles, Daniel E...... 74, 78 149 Simmons, ? ships ...... 124, 127 photo of ...... 66 sickness ...... 132 Sligo, [Ohio?]...... 162 soldier life ...... 120 Smalley, G. W...... 43 soldiers' departure ...... 121 Smith, ? ...... 44, 49 Spanish Words for Soldiers handout Smith, Caleb B...... 36 ...... 118 Smith, Deacon...... See Smith, Richard Tartar Times ...... 105 Smith, Em ...... 158 Texas Terrors ...... 131 Smith, J. I...... 165 transport of soldiers...... 131, 132, 134 Smith, John ...... 75 yellow fever ...... 131 Smith, R...... 42 Sparks, ?...... 99 Smith, Richard ...... 44, 51, 54, 55, 60 Sparks, G. P. (Mrs.) ...... 162 Smith, S. B...... 18 Sparks, Geo. P...... 162 Smith, William H...... 55 Speer, Mary Ann...... 77 Soldiers’ Monument...... 59 Speer, Nelson ...... 77 songs Spencer, Clara...... 156, 160 Boys in Blue...... 153 Spencer, Clara C...... 160 Old Glory ...... 153 St. John’s parish (congregation) ...... 94 Whisper Good Night, Love...... 52 St. Paul’s Parish (place) ...... 92 Southern Relief Bill ...... 76 Standard Oil Company...... 27 Southey ...... 73 Stanley, ?...... 90 Spanish-American War Stanley, Henry M...... 86 Bank of Spain failure ...... 125 Stanley, Thomas R...... 52 Battle of Santiago de Cuba ...... 124 Stanton, ?...... 22, 37, 38 camp at Tampa, Florida ...... 123 Stanton, Edwin M...... 78, 165, 166 censorship ..... 122, 123, 125, 127, 128 Stevens, Thaddeus...... 56 cleanliness...... 124 Stevenson, R. L...... 113 conditions of women and children 124 Stivers, Charles P...... 110, 135, 147 Cuban invasion...... 123, 124 Stoddard, Charley ...... 90 Cuban police ...... 133 Stoddard, Ethel...... 103 departure of soldiers...... 152 Stoddard, Rebekah ...... 103 fever ...... 132 Strickle family...... 84 First Volunteer Brigade...... 122 Strickle, Abraham Ellis.... 5, 8, 9, 79, 82, Fourth of July celebration ...... 129 97, 154 homecoming...... 133 Civil War service ...... 162, 164, 165 immune corps...... 130, 131 commissioned as captain...... 165

180 death of...... 163, 164 Taggart, Elmore F. .... 137, 138, 148, 149 endorsed by Lincoln...... 166 illustration of...... 138 memorial album ...... 162, 164 Tampa, Florida. 102, 121, 122, 123, 124, obituary of...... 80 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 135 recommendations ...... 165, 166 Taylor, J. P...... 165 Strickle, Alnetta Clark ...... 9 Taylor, John W. Strickle, C...... 156 photo of ...... 66 Strickle, Caroline (Goodwin). 5, 8, 9, 79, Taylor, R. M. W...... 35 154, 163 Teagarden, John P...... 149 visits cemetery ...... 163 temperance ...... 54 Strickle, Caroline Margaret.... See Clous, Tennyson, Alfred ...... 92 Caroline Margaret (Strickle) Terre Haute, Indiana ...... 136 marriage of...... 82 Terry, ?...... 89 Strickle, Carrie ...... See Clous, Caroline Thackeray, ?...... 81 Margaret (Strickle) Thayer, Emma C...... 162 Strickle, Charles R...... 155, 162 Thayer, G...... 155, 158 Strickle, Charles Rockwell...... 9, 79 Thomas, George H...... 20, 84 death of...... 79, 97, 163 photo of ...... 65 obituary of...... 79 Thomas, L...... 38 Strickle, Elizabeth Ann ...... See Deuell, Thomas, Lorenzo ...... 164 Elizabeth Ann (Strickle) Dunham Thompson, ?...... 42 Strickle, Frances Williamson See Corbin, Thompson, Charles R. Frances Williamson (Strickle) photo of ...... 66 Strickle, Isaac...... 9 Thoreau, Henry D...... 92 Strickle, Katharine Jane ...... See Foos, Thresher house...... 7 Katharine Jane (Strickle) Thruston, Charles M...... 120 Strickle, Lizzie ...... See Deuell, Elizabeth Thruston, Dickenson P...... 7 Ann (Strickle) Dunham Tilden, Samuel ...... 45, 57 Strickle, Maria Emily...... See Bickham, Tillinghast, Alice...... 159 Maria Emily (Strickle) Tillinghast, Allie ...... 160 Strickle, Mary Gano.See Farquhar, Mary Tippecanoe Club ...... 19 Gano (Strickle) Tod, David Strickle, Rebecca Harriet ...... 9, 82, 153 photo of ...... 67 autograph album...... 155 Toledo Convention...... 50 departure from Bloomington...... 159 Toledo, Ohio ...... 25 Strickle, Rebekah .. See Strickle, Rebecca Townsend, ? ...... 49 Harriet Trecy, ? Suez Canal ...... 150, 151, 153 photo of ...... 66 suffrage ...... 62 Truesdail, William ...... 38 Sumner, Charles...... 57 Tucker, Dollie (Logan) ...... 97 Sumner, Edwin Vose ...... 90 Tucker, William F...... 97 Swaim, ?...... 98 Twain, Mark...... 93 Swisshelm, Jane Grey...... 83 U.S. Cavalry T., O. L...... 19 Ninth Regiment...... 124 Taft, ? ...... 30, 46, 54 U.S. Field Artillery Taft, Alphonso ...... 30, 32, 46, 55 Fifth Regiment ...... 143, 146

181 U.S. Infantry Van Matre, Maria A...... 82 Thirty-eighth Regiment...... 77, 96 Van Matre, Sophia ...... 82, 83 Twenty-fourth Regiment..... 82, 85, 89 Vandeever, ? ...... 41 Twenty-seventh Regiment 8, 108, 150, Vickers, William B...... 58 151, 154 Vredenburgh, Peter ...... 149 murder investigation in the Waite, Gentleman ...... 162 Philippines...... 152 Wallace, Mary S...... 160 U.S. Naval Observatory...... 91, 93 Walter, Thomas F...... 152 U.S. Volunteer Infantry...... 102 Warmouth, ?...... 57 First Regiment (Immunes).... 130, 131 Warriner, Belle...... 157, 159 Fortieth Regiment ...... 117 Washington, George ...... 73 Ninth Regiment...... 8 Watterson, Henry...... 43 Ninth Regiment (Immunes) . 130, 131, Weaver, Fred...... 135 132, 135 Webb, ? ...... 22 Ninth Regiment (Immunes), Third Weeks, Guy C...... 123 battalion...... 132 Wells Fargo...... 110 Thirty-first Regiment ...... 110, 138 West, Andrew F...... 100, 101 Twenty-eighth Regiment . 8, 103, 105, West, Arthur E...... 152 110, 112, 116, 117, 135, 136, 137, Whetstone, John L...... 62 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, Whigs ...... 5 145, 146, 147, 148 Whiskey Ring...... 41 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company A White House...... 31, 56, 86, 87, 96 ...... 109, 142 White, ?...... 127 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company B White, W. J...... 121 ...... 103, 113, 137, 142, 143, 144 White, Wm. W...... 105 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company C Wickersham, E. M...... 156 ...... 142 Wickersham, Ewing M...... 161 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company D Wickersham, Kate...... 158 ...... 142 Wickersham, Rob. M...... 156 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company F Widener, Harry ...... 18 ...... 118 Wilcox, Eliza...... 94 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company G Wiles, W. M...... 113, 137 photo of ...... 66 Twenty-eighth Regiment, Company Wiles, Wm. W...... 37 G, Irish contingent ...... 113 Williams, ?...... 48, 50, 57, 61 Twenty-eighth Regiment, inspection Williams, E. S...... 50, 60 report...... 149 Williams, Thomas...... 56 Twenty-eighth Regiment, officer Willis, N. P...... 161 roster ...... 149 Wilmington, Ohio ...... 5 Union Depot...... 121 Wilson, ? ...... 98 Union General Committee...... 74 Wilson, John M...... 98 Union Republican General Committee78 Wilson, Woodrow...... 51, 100, 101 Upton, ?...... 96 Wood, ?...... 17 Vallandingham, ? ...... 42, 58 Wood, George H...... 110, 111, 112, 113, Vallandingham, Clement L...... 6, 7, 63 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123, Van Matre, Daniel...... 82

182 125, 128, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, World War I...... 99 144, 148 World War II...... 99 Captain of the Port and Inspector of Wright, ? ...... 124 Customs of the Island of Balayan Wright, Daniel Thew, Sr...... 60 ...... 145 Wygand?, H. S...... 106, 107 Wood, T. J. (Mrs.)...... 148 Xenia, Ohio...... 74 Wood, Thomas J...... 38, 50, 103, 140 YMCA...... 7, 155 Woodford, Stewart L...... 57 Young, ?...... 64 Woodland Cemetery ...... 7 Young, Thomas L...... 85

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