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Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ty, and a trustee of the MilitaryHomes of the United States. He was the first presidentof the Board of Elections, and is engaged in severalbusiness enterprises, being president of the FirstNational Bank. He has the respect of every Soldier towhom he is known, and in this community stands highas an estimable citizen. In war, our leading Soldier ; inpeace, our foremost citizen. None know him but tolove and admire him. GENERAL J. J. ELWELL. From Ohio in the War, Bench and Bar, andother printed sketches is made up the following in re-gard to the career of General J.J. El well : He was born in Warren, O., June 22, 1820. GeneralElwell is a graduate of the Cleveland Medical College ;was admitted to the bar in 1854 and has since been amember of the Cleveland bar. He wTas a member of theOhio Legislature from 1853 to 1855, and was editor andpublisher of the Western Law Monthly ; also a profess-or in the Ohio and Union Law College and ClevelandMedical College. During-this time he wrote a work on
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GENERAL J. J. ELWELL. soldiers and sailors monument. 585 medical jurisprudence, which is a standard work on thatsubject, and has passed through four editions. He entered the military service in August, 1861,bringing an order from the Secretary of War for theraising of the Second Ohio Cavalry on the Western Re-serve, which he helped raise and equip and was 1,200strong. He also equipped the Third Ohio Cavalry andShermans Brigade. Early in 1862, he joined GeneralDavid Hunter and proceeded with him to Port Royal,S. C, and was promoted to Chief Quartermaster of theDepartment of the South, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in this department two years andparticipated in all the operations against Charlestonunder Hunter, Gillmore and other generals. He took ahand in the bloody assault on Fort Wagner on the nightof July 18, 1862, where the Union troops were repulsedwith a loss of 1,500 men in an hour. General A. C.Voris, who was terribly wounded at the time and carriedoff the fie

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