d, up the Ohio to Cincinnati, and arrived at
Cleveland, June 26, 1864.

The journey homeward was prosperous with one sad exception. Before the
company left Georgia, Sergeant O. C. Trembley had written to his mother
that she need have no fears for him--his fighting was through, and he
would soon be home. He was one of the most joyous at the prospect before
him of soon being with his friends. Faithfully and well had he served
in every battle of the regiment but one, and had, fortunately, never
been wounded. When the steamer was forty miles below Cincinnati, going
to the rear of the boat on the lower deck, he slipped into the river and
was drowned. His body was found on the third day by a fisherman; was
brought to Cleveland by his friend Hiram Parsons; and, by eight of
Company C, was thence escorted to his home in North Fairfield, Ohio.

There is not space to describe the splendid ovation, given to the
Seventh, with the Fifth Ohio, by the citizens of Cincinnati; and the
members are ashamed to have mention made of the meager reception at
Cleveland, on the Fourth of July.

The following are the names of the little band that returned to be
mustered out of the service, July 6, 1864: M. M. Andrews, J. F. Harmon,
S. M. Cole, J. E. Avery, N. L. Badger, J. M. Burns, H. B. Fry, A. M.
Halbert, E. T. Hayes, I. A. Noble, H. Parsons, Thos. Spriggs, T. J.
Wallace, D. A. Ward, Oliver Wise, and Wm. Woodmansee.

THE RECORD.

GILES WALDO SHURTLEFF,

A member of the Oberlin Theological Seminary, and Tutor in Oberlin
College; commanded the Company, as Captain, until the battle of Cross
Lanes, August 26, 1861, when he was captured and taken to Richmond, as
prisoner of war; spent eleven months and twenty-two days in Southern
prisons, at Richmond, Salisbury, and Charleston; paroled August 18,
1862, and exchanged September 30, 1862; by order of General Burnside, at
Pleasant Valley, Va., Oct, 11, 1862, detached as Assistant Inspector
General of the 9th Army Corps, on the Staff of General Wilcox. While in
this service, he was engaged in the severe battle at Fredericksburg,
December 13, 1862; resigned, and was discharged from the military
service, March 18, 1863.

He was commissioned as Lieut. Colonel of the 5th U. S. C. T., July 29,
1864, which regiment he commanded most of the remainder of his service.
With them he was engaged in the series of battles from June 15 to June
19, before Petersburg; in the battle at the blowing up of th