FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - MILITARY: 1861-5  The Old Guard  1908-9
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Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County,  Ohio
By William Alexander Taylor

1861-5   THE OLD GUARD   1908-9

From the beginning the military spirit was indigenous to the soil,  and
there were from the close of the war of 1812 to the close of the Spanish
American war and since,  notable military organizations in the city, 
which as in the case of the Mexican and Civil war,  furnished recruits
who were so aptly trained and thoroughly imbued with the military spirit
as to successfully lead battalions and brigades to victory and real
battlefields within from thirty to sixty days after having laid down
civil pursuits and being mustered in.

The full military history of the city and county belongs to the domain
of those who are chosen to devote one or more volumes to a single class
of subjects,  and it would take a long chapter to record the names of
their soldiers and officers,  without their titles or "mention in
orders" of their gallantry and achievements.
One of the surviving military organizations is worthy of more than
passing notice and can be made without even the faintest suggestion of
invidioous distinction,  and that is the Old Guard,  composed of the
veteran soldiers of the Civil war and some of whom were,  at the
beginning of the organization,  veterans of the Mexican war.  On every
fitting civic military occasion for a score and a half years,  the Old
Guard and its drum corps has evoked the applause and greetings of the
city as they marched by with the verve and aplomb of Caesar's legions
coming back from the conquest of Gaul.
Here is the present company roll of the Old Guard of Columbus 1908-1909:

Captain,  William Miller;  First Lieut.,  B.F. Ollum;  Second Lieut., 
L.D. Ross;  Adjutant,  David McCandlish;  Chaplain,  II. Bailey; 
Quartermaster,  J. Conway;  
Sergeants:
J.S. Kessie,  J.L. Hale,  J. Peters,  W.K. Stichter,  H.T. Scott,  W.W.
Walmsley,  J.H. Lloyd,  B.F. Manier,  C.R. Rhoads
Corporals:
G. Dorbet,  W.F. Doty,  J.D. Fisher,  W. Haggerty,  J.A. Pettit
Drummers:
C.L. Barlow,  Q.C. Cook,  J.F. Daley,  E.S. Hawkins,  J.D. Kennedy, 
J.D. Newton,  W.U. O'Hara,  Wm. Parks,  G. Sain,  S.H. Timmons
Privates:
J.H. Allen,  Z.F. Amlin,  L. Bauman,  G.W. Bigelow,  J.H. Bliler,  S.
Chapman,  F.D. Clark,  T. C--fton,  D.U. Hall,  A.R. Innis,  Wm.
Kauffman,  L.F. Keller,  J.D. Kenney,  D.S. Latham,  G. Lawrence,  J.W.
Leach,  D.H. Smith,  J.H. Smith,  T.T. Smith,  H. Schaffer,  O.E.
Sells,  A. Stone,  George Stover,  Wm. Thacker,  M.N. Cook,  J. Dice, 
L.T. Ebright,  James Fagans,  F. Fisher,  C. Fishpaugh,  J. Foark,  A.P.
Frame,  C. Graham,  H.R. Guthrie,  J.H. Long,  E.G. Maloney,  W.W.
McMain,  D. McMullen,  J.W. Messick,  R.B. Oren,  W.C. Powell,  George
Rie,  E.E. Rickets,  C. Roberts,  J.A. Thompson,  J.H. Toy,  D.
Wigands,  W.W. Young,  G.F. Geary,  H.S. Gilvert,  W.H. Pence,  W.Y.
Postle,  D. Zook
Honorary:
Gov. A.L. Harris,  Col. James Kilbourne,  Col. Geo. D. Freeman,  Hon.
R.M. Rownd,  Hon. E.L. Taylor, Jr.,   Gen. H.A. Axline,  Judge D.F.
Pugh,  Capt. Geo. W. Ware,  Col. W.H. Knaus,  Col. T.E. Knaus,  Charles
Dunphy,  J.W. Gardner,  J.W. Lindsay


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