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OF WILLIAM McKINLEY
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CHAPTER XI
McKinley appointed a Major—Closing Scenes of the War—Return to Poland—A Mother's Protest—Farewell to Military Life
With the defeat of General Early the campaign in that section of the Shenandoah Valley came practically to an end. The Twenty-third Ohio was moved from one place to another until on the first of January, 1865, it embarked for Cumberland. On that day Colonel Hayes was appointed a brigadier-general, the commission dating back to October 19, 1864.
"We'll have no more war and no more hardships," said some of the privates, but they were mistaken regarding the hardships. In two weeks they were moved to Grafton, to protect the railroad tracks in that vicinity. It was bitterly cold, and to add to the men's discomfort no tents were to be had and very little in the way of rations.
