Identifier: ohioinwarherstat00reidw (find matches)
Title: Ohio in the war; her statement, generals and soldiers
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
Subjects: Ohio. Militia Ohio -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Ohio
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Eclectic Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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have, also, beenvery largely aided by services most cheerfully and efficiently rendered by Hon. Bellamy Storerand Rev. B. W. Chidlaw. The volume which records the closing labors of so beneficent auinstitution would be incomplete and unsatisfactory if it did not make special mention of thesenoble men, who rendered such unselfish and signal service to the best Government God ever gaveto man, in the darkest hour of its whole history. JOHN F. MARLAY, Secretary. With this we close. No effort has been made to present m detail this greatRelief Work, in which, through various organizations and in many ways for allthe weary years of the war, those at home strove in labors, privations, andprayers, to emulate the sacrifices and the achievements of the men in the field. Todo that were impossible. But we hope to have left some traces, however imper-fect, which may show to those who come after us that the people of Ohio wereworthy of their Soldiers. And so we turn from the work at home to the front
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0; -^^^s^M&^s^0^- ^^ ^S^^^-; :B>j^Ttrr xx. THE LIVES OF OHIO GENERALS, WITH SKETCHES OF THE YAR GOVERNORS AND OTHER POBLIC MEN, IISrOIDENTS, ETC. Vol. I.—18. Geoege B. McClellan. 275 MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. The uncertain future, O king, has yet to come, with every possible variety of fortune; andhim only to whom the gods have continued happiness unto the end, we call happy. To salute ashappy, one still in the midst of life and hazard, we think as little safe and conclusive as to crownand proclaim victorious the wrestler that is yet in the ring.* IT was the peculiar misfortune of the first General whom Ohio gave tothe War for the Union, that his friends, not even satisfied with proclaim-ing victorious the wrestler yet in the ring, insisted upon crowning himat the very moment of his entrance. Christened Young Napoleon before hehad ever commanded a regiment under fire,f and accepted by the Nation, in itspiteous want of a Leader, at his ostensible valuation, it was not

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