Identifier: historyofcuyahog00glea (find matches)
Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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F. Johnson, ofHartford, Conn.: The Northern Ohio Soldiers Aid Society was organ-ized April 20th, 1861, five days after President Lincolnsfirst call for troops, and somewhat earlier than anyother relief association. Its first efforts were directed towards supplying com-forts to the Soldiers at Camp Cleveland, and relievingthe wants of the families of enlisted men. Like thegovernment and people of the Union, they struggledblindly towards the best, learning what that best wasonly after repeated experiment. Out of not infrequentfailure was at length evolved systematic plans andmethods of operation. On July 1st, 1861, No. 95 Bank Street, Cleveland,was rented for the uses of office and store-room—as theserious nature of the national struggle became apparentand the hopes first entertained of its temporary charac-ter faded. Impressed by the magnitude of the task be-fore it, and convinced that individual effort must alwaysbe less efficacious than concerted action, the society,. o 1—1 ■i.
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zu >Pi< v. < Q HW u:•/. Q<So .-fo Q g < w ou w. Pu- SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. ^\1 October 1st, 1861, became auxiliary to the U. S.Sanitary Commission, as its Cleveland Branch ; thence-forth directing its contributions chiefly through theCommissions channels, taking advantage of its agents,,and availing itself of the privileges granted that bodyby the general Government. One of the most impor-tant advantages gained by this connection was the con-stant advice and assistance of the Western Secretary ofthe Sanitary Commission, Dr. J. S. Newberry, a most dis-tinguished and patriotic citizen of Cleveland, whose serv-ices were ever after invaluable to the Cleveland Branch. From April 20th, 1861, to the close of the Free ClaimAgency, in 1868, the Soldiers Aid Society continuedits existence as the exponent of the patriotic sentimentof the people of Northern Ohio. The systematic ar-rangement of its supply and relief work rendered itsoperations regular and important and, it

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