. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . ds of battle never ceased;also in the march to the sea. then turning northward, in the threat campaignof the Carolinas, until he fell terribly wounded by a rebel shell at the crossing of the Salkahatchie. I lis career in the field was ended and war-hard-ened veterans wept as he was carried past them to the rear. He was commissioned Brigadier and soon after Major-! ieneral andas soon as he could get around on crutches he was sent to Montgomery,Alabama, as Commissioner of Fre
. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . ds of battle never ceased;also in the march to the sea. then turning northward, in the threat campaignof the Carolinas, until he fell terribly wounded by a rebel shell at the crossing of the Salkahatchie. I lis career in the field was ended and war-hard-ened veterans wept as he was carried past them to the rear. He was commissioned Brigadier and soon after Major-! ieneral andas soon as he could get around on crutches he was sent to Montgomery,Alabama, as Commissioner of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned through the troublesome reconstruction times, be tilled wisely and wellthe difficult position he held. As a commander, be was firm but very kind, a good disciplinarian, coolin battle and brave as a man can be. lie possessed in an eminent degreethat moral courage, all too rare, to do bis duty, that which was right, any-where and under all circumstances. After the war. be resinned the practice of law in New York City whenhe died about 1903. Bellaire, ( Ihio, [artusrv 29th. CAPT. II. S. I, 43d O. V. V. I. COLONEL HINCHMAX S. PRPHET. Forty-third Ohio Iderail Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Hinchman S. Prophet is one of the notable men of the cinof Lima. He has been closely identified with its development ami interestsfor the past thirty-seven years, coming to the city, then a town of forty-fivehundred people, in April, 1872. During these years he has served the county, the city, the church, andthe schools, in various ways, faithfully and well. Mr. Prophet is a lawyerby profession, and is the dean of the Allen County Bar, having been admit-ted February 2, 1860, in the supreme court of Ohio, 49 years ago. On being admitted, he immediately commenced the practice of his pro-fession as partner of the late Judge J. A. Beebe, under whom he had finishedhis course of study. At the first call for troops he enlisted as a private in the Un
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