Throughout the regular army were many of Ohio's sons. So as to the navy. Ohio had her full quota of officers and men in both some of whom had won distinction in the Civil War.

When the Spanish War broke out Ohio's population was about one-twentieth of the whole country. Under the first call of the President, Ohio furnished 428 officers and 8,052 enlisted men; under his second call, 73 officers and 6,801 enlisted men, including hospital and signal corps men, engineers and immunes, a grand total of 15,354, and considerable more than her proper quota, based on population. If the call had been for the whole. 200,000 from Ohio, it would have been promptly filled, leaving many disappointed, patriotic young men still clamoring to be taken. The heroic spirit of the Ohio Civil-War soldiers and sailors had descended to their sons.

The following from Ohio were commissioned general officers in the Spanish War from civil life.

J. Warren Keifer, major-general of volunteers.

George A. Garretson, brigadier-general of volunteers.

Each had commands in camps within the United States and served in drilling, disciplining, etc., troops for active field-service. General Keifer commanded troops in the vicinity of Havana, and he commanded the United States troops when they marched into and took possession of the city of Havana on its evacuation by the Spanish army (January 1, 1899).

General Garretson commanded a brigade in the operations at Santiago, Cuba, and in Porto Rico.

Others of Ohio in the regular service were promoted to general officers.

The state furnished ten infantry regiments, all of full strength, save the Ninth Ohio (colored), which had only one battalion; one volunteer light artillery and one volunteer cavalry regiment, and to the Second United States Volunteer Engineers, 273 men; to the Volunteer United States Hospital Corps, 461 men; to the United States Volunteer Signal Corps, 50 men, and four companies of United States volunteers (immunes), 424 men.

The following are the names of the colonels and commanding officers of the Ohio military organizations in the Spanish War:

Colonel Charles B. Hunt, 1st Ohio Infantry. Colonel Julius A. Kuert, 2nd Ohio Infantry. Colonel Charles Anthony, 3rd Ohio Infantry. Colonel Cyrus B. Adams, 4th Ohio Infantry. Colonel Cortland L. Kennan, 5th Ohio Infantry. Colonel Wm. B. McMaken, 6th Ohio Infantry. Colonel Arthur L. Hamilton, 7th Ohio Infantry. Colonel Curtis V. Hard, 8th Ohio Infantry. Colonel Henry A. Axline, 10th Ohio Infantry. Major Charles Young, (Bat.) 9th Ohio Infantry. Major Charles T. Atwell, 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Matthias W. Day, 1st Ohio Cavalry. Ist Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; George H. Thomas, Ga., and at Tampa, Fernandina and Jacksonville, Fla.

2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; George H. Thomas, Ga.; Knoxville, Tenn., and Macon, Ga.

3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; Tampa and Fernandina, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala.

4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; George H. Thomas, Ga.; at Newport News, Va.; Arroyo, Guayama and San Juan, Porto Rico.

5th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camp Bushnell, Ohio, and at Tampa and Fernandina, Fla.

6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; George H. Thomas, Ga.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Cienfugos and Santa Clara, Cuba.

7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; Alger, Va., and Meade, Pa.

8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; Alger, Va.; and at Siboney, Sevilla Hill, San Juan Hill, Cuba, and Montauk Foint.

9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; Alger, Va.; Meade, Pa., and Marion, S. C.

10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; Meade, Pa., and Mackenzie, Ga.

1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio, and George H. Thomas, Ga.

Ist Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was in Camps Bushnell, Ohio; George H. Thomas, Ga.; Lakeland, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala.

Of these regiments the 4th saw service at Arroyo, Guayama, and San Juan, Porto Rico; the 6th at Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Cuba; the 8th at Siboney, Sevilla, and San Juan Hill, Cuba.

The total deaths in all the Ohio volunteer organizations while in the United States service were 230, seven officers and 223 men.

From the declaration of war (April 21) to the peace protocol (August 12, 1898), 114 days, there was the greatest activity, and military and naval operations extended to Spanish possessions half around the world.

In this war Ohio's officers and soldiers, with others North, were organized into brigades, divisions and army corps with those from the South, and all proudly and loyally affiliated, often under officers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War.

The formal treaty of peace (Paris) was not made until December 10, 1898, and an insurrectionary war broke out in the newly-acquired Philippine Islands in February, 1899, which required an army larger (both regular and volunteer) than had hitherto been deemed necessary. In its temporary increase Ohio again furnished her full quota.

Now Brigadier-General Frederick Funston, U. S. A. (born at New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio), successfully executed the plan for the capture of Aguinaldo, the chief insurgent, which brought his insurrection to an end.

And Ohio men participated in the Battle of Tsein Tsein, China, and were of those who marched to Imperial China's capital and within its gates (1899), dictated the release of imperiled Christian missionaries and exacted guarantees for their future. safety and the safety of native Chinese Christians.

For the duration of the war and the small amount of blood shed the results attained, physical and moral, in the SpanishAmerican War, were unparalelled.

The story of Ohio in the three wars, of which I speak, may be summarized thus:

She, by the heroism and loyalty of her people, did her full share:

First In the Mexican War, whereby 545.000 square miles of territory were acquired, and later dedicated to freedom.

Second In the Civil War, whereby human slavery in the United States was abolished (and since, as a consequence, largely throughout the civilized world) and a purer and better civilization succeeded; the Union of the States has been made secure, it is to be hoped through all time, and wherein the political equality of man is vouchsafed under organic law; and,

Third - In the Spanish War, whereby the inhumanity of Spain towards her American and other of her colonial subjects has been ended, and the "Gem of the Antilles" Cuba - has become free and independent, and other of Spain's possessions have not only become free, but made parts of our Republic. and thereby entitled to the protection of our constitution and laws, under the banner of the Union, where, let us hope and pray, they may enjoy the blessings, in the providence of God, of prosperity, contentment and peace.

OHIO IN THE NAVY.

MURAT HALSTEAD.

There is more concern as I understand this occasion, that we should speak chapters of the early history of the state, (the older the better for the days we celebrate), than follow with formal care the texts of the topics set down to be treated. If there is one spot in North America the heart of the mighty progress of the continent, that is the home of the "world power," foremost of the nations of the earth, it is here in the central city of the Scioto Country; and so vast and varied is the theme, that if expressions reflects the general, generous impulse of this year and the day and hour, we cannot go astray from the widespread splendors of the first century of our young state, whose sovereignty is in the blood, bone and brain of our countrymen, whether north or south of the Ohio River, or east or west of the Mississippi.

MURAT HALSTEAD.

The subject "Ohio in the Navy" opens with each hour given to the understanding of it - and we find Ohio's naval story is full of glory, and that her four thousand fighting men, during the war in the sixties for holding the Mississippi valley with her wonderful river system, had hard and desperate work to do, and did it bravely and brilliantly, in fighting down the tributaries to the father of floods, from the Cumberland and Tennessee, with almost incessant skirmishing and a dozen thunderous and bloody battles, until they met Farragut with the prows of his victorious battle boats up stream. "Ohio in the Navy" deserves as compre