. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . ■i , ^. PRIVATE CHAS. I. K, 27tu 0. V. V. I. 1S61. Ill! IF. i MAS. 1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES I. ADKINS. Private in Company K, Twenty-seventh Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Dayton, hio. 1 was born in the year 1842 and reared through early boyhood, in afarm home, in Noble County. Indiana. At the age of fifteen, I went toNew Orleans, making that city my home, until the outbreak of the CivilWar. mosl of which time. 1 followed the river, in the capaci


. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . ■i , ^. PRIVATE CHAS. I. K, 27tu 0. V. V. I. 1S61. Ill! IF. i MAS. 1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES I. ADKINS. Private in Company K, Twenty-seventh Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Dayton, hio. 1 was born in the year 1842 and reared through early boyhood, in afarm home, in Noble County. Indiana. At the age of fifteen, I went toNew Orleans, making that city my home, until the outbreak of the CivilWar. mosl of which time. 1 followed the river, in the capacity of a steam-boat cabin boy. I have seen slaves sold in the New rleans auction mar-ket, and I have seen fugitives rush down the stage plank and flee for liberty,others jump overboard and swim for the shore, while bullets froin passengers pistols could be seen skipping in the water about their heads. Thosewhose hiding places writ discovered were brought out hand-cuffed andpursuant to the fugitive slave law. duly returned to the authorities. In the Autumn of 1860, 1 quil the river and sought employment in a


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