Lincolns Body Guard the Union Light Guard of Ohio With Some Personal Recollec
Lincolns Body Guard the Union Light Guard of Ohio With Some Personal Recollec
Robert W Robert Wesley Mcbride
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A company of infantry from one of Pennsylvania's fa- mous regiments of "Bucktails" was camped in the grounds just south of the White House, and a daily detail from its ranks was posted in front of the House, one on each side of the great portico, the beats of the sentinels beginning on each side of the entrance and running east and west about as far as the east and west sides of the main building. Posted thus, they were more ornamental than useful. They were not allowed to challenge or stop any... person who sought to enter the White House, and its doors opened then as freely to visitors as they do to-day. A company from a New York regiment of cavalry, known as "Scott's Nine Hundred, " was his original cav- alry escort, but in 1863 Governor David Tod, of Ohio, LINCOLN'S BODY GUARD 21 tendered the services of a picked company of cavalry from that State. His offer was accepted, and in Decem- ber of 1863 the company, 108 men strong, reached Wash- ington. The company was known as the "Union Light Guard, " or "Seventh Independent Squadron of Ohio Vol- unteer Cavalry.
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