oll would be full ere there would be opportunity for himself to
enlist.

At eight o'clock, Monday morning, it was announced that no more could be
received. Before noon the Company had partially organized itself.

On Thursday, April 25, it took the cars for Camp Taylor, at Cleveland,
O. No member will ever forget the crowd of thousands at the depot, the
speeches, sensations, and the tears, shed by friends at the parting. It
was a sad day when these young men realized that they were called to
engage in their country's battles. Their love of home was equal to that
of those who remained. But at the voice of duty there was scarcely a
question with regard to the course to be taken. No large bounties from
state and town were offered them. The monthly rate of wages was not
thought of, nor even known by many.

The advantages resulting from being in the "line of promotion" found no
place in the most fanciful imagination. It was undoubtedly true that an
indifferent spectator might have discovered some vanity displayed in the
pride of a prompt performance of duty; yet the members always counted it
a necessary evil attendant upon a proper course of action.

They made claim to no peculiar sanctifying grace which exalted them
above the weaknesses common to their race.

If the principles of Oberlin in her earlier years sent out the student,
with his life in his hands, to speak against the flagrant evils of his
time, the delicate lady to seek an opportunity to teach the oppressed
and relieve their wants, the same principles in this later day prompted
him to give his life into the hands of his country to seek a similar end
by sterner means.

[Sidenote: The Three-Months Roll.]

The company was mustered into the U. S. service for three months at Camp
Taylor, April 30, 1861.

The roll presented the following names:

G. W. Shurtleff, _Captain_.
J. N. Cross, _First Lieutenant_.
E. H. Baker, _Second Lieutenant_.

_Sergeants._

O. P. Brockway,
E. R. Stiles,
W. W. Kinsley,
H. G. Orton,
E. W. Morey.

_Corporals._

J. F. Harmon,
T. E. W. Adams,
C. P. Bowler,
S. M. Cole,
E. W. Goodsell,
L. A. Bartlett,
W. W. Parmenter,
I. F. Mack.

_Privates._

E. B. Atwater,
B. A. Abbott,
M. M. Andrews,
Wm. W. Arnold,
Jno. Austin,
J. E. Bates,
Jno. Baldwin,
Foster Bodle,
E. M. Bostwick,
J. M. Burns,
C. H. Buxton,
J. W. Cheney,
Buel Chipman,
H. D. Claghorn,