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+*rnm*County Man Responsible For Finding Account, Place Of Important Battle* _We, who are so broud of our beautiful Ohio take Erie Vacationiand,owe an unpayable debt to our forefathers who consecrated this very land on which we live so happily* With their blood and their lives that we might have rich farm lands, unequalled play land and above all freedom.Some little part of this vast debt We owe came to light with the discovery by H, ti* Peeke of a long forgotten battlefield of the War of 1812, where the first fray of that war Was fought on Ohio sot! and where for all time, degradations by hostile Indians against the Ohio pioneerswas stopped,li0st in the multitude of events in a fast moving world, no existing account of this really Important bat-. tie was known, and the site of it was i grown over until Hewson Peeke, his-* tort an, dean of the Krie-co bar and president of the Firelands HistoricalAssociation, finah found it aftera 30 year search.The battle, fought Sept. 2D. 1812, after Hull had surrMidrprd n Detroit, and this area was b*ing pillaged by Pottnwafcunl Indians loyal to the BriUsh. took place on the Marblehead peninsula near the bay,Soldiers’ HomeO. S. AND H. HOME, June 3— Five members of the Soldiers’ Horne Firing Hijuad will take part in Memorial roiwas for O/.1 federate dead at Johnson's Island Sunday* leaving by boat fran the Sandusky doc k at 2:10 p. m. Sergeant Charles O’Brien will hea/j the group. With l.irn will b'* the following officers* Janies Hdio’ck, Hiram Miller, Michael Savage and Pearl Johnsou.—Mrs. John C. Volka returned lastnight from Columbus, where shehas besn visiting friends and relatives since Wednesday. Mrs. kernel h U. Kiv.ell is spending a fewdays with relatives in Youngstown.Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H, Young and daughters will be house-guoatstooav a’.id tomorrow of Chaplainand Mrs, Gates E. M. Young.■—“Theodora Gw.lt; Wild** and *‘TheBroadway FollicF' will bo shown at 1:00 tonight, Assembly Hail. ^—Cement-mixers worked at Officers Bow and the pool and rock-gardenon the grounds this moruing. ^ repairing damage cmst-d by the ravages of time/' The pool is one that was built by Civil War veterans here, ..—Membership report follows: Cm* \y a r—two; Spanish-A merkran 110*World-563; Indian-two;Border—r.iuc; UeguUirs-two; OhioNational Guard—two; Total—6 and Tcmporary-at-Post— 23. One hundred and two hospital patientsaiG included in the aboveWilliam M. l^ront of Cleft today for Elkhart, Ind. * Smith left from the hospital o Klt;rnduskT. f'u»r readmissions andfive discharge* were effected m e Adjutant-s office yesterday. Put-where the site is marked by a weath-er beaten marble monument raised to honor its dead by the Hon. J. H. Giddings, who as a boy of 16 took part In the skirmishes. It is his eye witness account, of the events as published by him in 1844 in a magazine known as “The Toadies Repository and Gleanings of the West,” that Mr. Peeke discovered with the aid of Harlow Bindley of the Ohio State Historical Society.Giddings describes how he joined the army under command of his good friend Jebediah Burnham. Colonel Richard Hayes was in charge of the larger group that camped near Milan at a place known at the time of the war as Camp AveryBefore General Hull had surrendered at Detroit provisions had been stored at Sandusky for the army in northern Ohio, including the regiment under Captain Parker thatmade history at Fremont.The IItie company that first found hostile Indians in the area had come to Sandusky for provisions which were loaded into row boats to be taken to Camp Avery by way of the Huron River. A storm blew up, and rather than go out Into the lake, the men pulled up on what is now Johnsons Islnpd to wait until the storm should end. A reconnoiterlng party was sent to the peninsula as a precaution. Walking stealthily fromtree to tree in the wilderness, and proceeding cautiously through waist high grass the little band saw a largo company of Indians feasting on corn and honey at the Ratnsdell farm. Young Ramsdeli w'as with the soldiers as a gyide. The scouts returned to the main party to report. The entire company of soldiers then went to Cedar Point, and sent a report to the camp at Avery where 72 volunteers were chosen to put the Indians to rout. Captain Cotton commanded the expedition. Marching two abreast The men went from Milan to Cedar Point by i o’clock in the morning, then rowed over to the Marblehead peninsula.The boats were left with a guard party, which, while searching forfruit, accidentally discovered canoesfilled with more w'ar-like Indians passing down the bay. The guard managed to escape unnoticed and join the main body of the troops, still looking for the Indians that hadbeen raiding the farms.Thp Indiana they were hunting suddenly started firing at the soldiers from tall grass, where they had been hidden. The firrt of the soldiers killed was young Ramsdeli, the guide. The Indians were finally driven off, after hard fighting and the soldiers continued on the march, after seeing the Indians dragging their dead and wounded from the field of combat.The white men also carefully took their dead and wounded with them to prevent tne Indians from scalping them Giddings wrote.The soldiers collected three dead.Ramsdeli. James 8, Bills and Simeon Blackman and buried them between two logs, covered with leaves and wood, but the Indians returned and scalped them, the soldiers discoveredlater.As the march continued, Giddings writes, they were ambushed a second time by hiding Indians who advanced from ri thicket firing rapidly andIn military precision with rifles and screaming their taunting war cries. For a second Vmlt;\ the Indians wore driven off and the soldiers again, took their dead with them.Although the men had marched ail night and fought all day, they carried the eight wounded men on theirbacks to the end of the peninsula and rowed them to Cedar Point where they were transferred to larger row boats and taken down the lake to the Huron River, to be left in care of a medical officer at Huron, while the soldiers, still without rest, returned on foot to their camp at Avery.The monument commemoratingthis exciting Sept. 29, stands 100 feetoff the main road. Going from Sandusky, a motorist crosses Sandusky Bay bridge and takes the east fork of the road on the peninsula side of the bridge, following this road for five and one-half miles. Near a small grocery store and gasoline station, the monument is easily seen off the right side of the road.Giddings and his companions in the battle made a rendezvous to return to the scene 50 years from the day It occurred. All of the soldiers were boys or very young men, but when Giddings, by then a Congressman and famous ant'-slavery leader, returned to keep this engagement, he was alone. All of the others were dead.»He inscribed the names of the men he remembered who died in the battie on the monument he place on the site, which was deeded to the National Society of the Daughters of the War of 1812 by the Kelley Island Dime and Transport Co. This organization placed a tablet on the monument in 1914 and erected a smaller marble stone bearing the names of the soldiers wdio died in or as a result of the battle. They were planning a fitting celebration when the World War broke out and the matter w*as forgotten. From then until now, when it was rediscovered by Mr. Peeke, the battlefield has lain unnoticed. The men who died there nre listed as James S. Bills, Simeon Blackman, Matthew Guy. Alexander Mason, David Mingus, Equilla Puntney, Valentine Ramsdeli and Abraham Simon. CM.T.K*)GypsumMrs. Harve Sievensen returned to her home hero after a visit of-THE REGISTER, SANDUSKY,several months with relativesLima, ’ O.O HID. SUNDAY, JUNE 4. 1D3D in [ i : * lt;■• ment when the election of fleers will be held,of-The annual meeting of the Gypsum Community Church will be held on Mor.oay evening. 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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 04, 1939
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