History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . camedown with typhoid fever, but inside of fourweeks was again with the regiment, and wentwith it to Covington to repel Kirby Smithsanticipated attack on Cincinnati. After hisdischarge, he remained about two months athome, and again enlisted as the first recruitin the Twenty-second Battery, Ohio Volun-teer Light Artillery, having by subterfugesecured his fathers signature to blank formsconsenting to his enlistment. He was pla
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . camedown with typhoid fever, but inside of fourweeks was again with the regiment, and wentwith it to Covington to repel Kirby Smithsanticipated attack on Cincinnati. After hisdischarge, he remained about two months athome, and again enlisted as the first recruitin the Twenty-second Battery, Ohio Volun-teer Light Artillery, having by subterfugesecured his fathers signature to blank formsconsenting to his enlistment. He was placedin command of the first lot of recruits, andsucceeded in holding them in check through-out the winter, with only two desertions. Inthe spring, enough nun having been securedto man four guns, the battery was ordered toWest Virginia. Their services not beingneeded, they returned to Camp Chase, Ohio,and from here were ordered to Parkersburg,W. Va.; then, supported by other trooj)S, i)ro-ceeded to the Iotomac to assist in harassingLee in bis retreat from (lettysbuvg, but ar-rived only in time to see his rear guard cross-ing the river. Returning to Parkersburg, H. TOWLEIt. Towler was ordered to take one gun on boardthe steamer Emma Graham and proceed toa fording place on the Ohio at the mouth ofthe Little Hocking river. Here he was placedin command of a large number of farmerscongregated to repel Morgan. Morgan notcoming that way, Mr. Towler, with two guns,and su])ported by a company of the Eighty-eighth Ohio, patrolled the Ohio until the Con-federate leaders capture. He then returnedto Camp Thomas, near Columbus, where thebattery was mustered into the United Statesservice. Up to this time, there being no bat-tery organization, Mr. Towler was only a pri-vate soldier, but commanded two guns, audwas called sergeant. From here the batterywas ordered to Camp Nelson, near Nicholas-ville, Ky., and attached to a brigade underthe command of John DeCourcey, colonel ofthe Sixte
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