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��he was engaged in numerous battles until the close of the war, among them the battle of Rocky Face Ridge, May 9, 18G4 ; Resaca, May 14 and 15, 1864 ; New Hope Church, May 27, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864 ; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, July 22, 1864; Jonesboro, Sept. 1, 1864; Lovejoy Sta- tion, Sept. 3, 1864; Spring Hill, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1864, in which engagement Capt. Wolff was slightly wounded by gunshot through both legs; at the battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864, during a charge of the enemy, Capt. Wolif became engaged in a hand-to-hand combat between the lines with Col. John B. Austin, of a Mississippi regiment;

��discharge of the regiment, Jan. 3, 1866, at Columbus, holding the commission of Colonel, acknowledged as a brave and good soldier, with an army record of which any man might well be proud ; it is sad to think that, after doing this service for his country, he should be a constant sufferer in his after life. Col. Wolff was mar- ried in March, 1864, to Miss M. J. Browneller, who died in the year 1865. In 1868, he was again married, to Miss Susan Urvan, who died in Mansfield, in 1870. The Colonel is now a resident of Mansfield.

WOLFF, E. M. & CO., marble dealers. Their shops were established in 1869 ; since then they have greatly in-

���GRANITE WORKS AND MONUMENTS OF E. M. WOLFF & CO., MAIN STREET, MANSFIELD.

��the Union forces falling back for a time, charged upon the enemy, who had captured the works, driving them out, when Wolff, eomjng up with Col. Austin, demanded his sword ; but this he at first refused, and bravely defended himself, but was soon compelled to surrender and reluctantly delivered his sword to Wolff, who now has it in his possession ; in the night of the 20th of June, 1864, Capt. Wolff received a wound on the head from a falling limb while in charge of a company of choppers, the effects of which he will, doubtless, carry to his grave, being now a constant sufferer and threat- ened with the loss of sight ; in February, 1865, Capt. Wolff was promoted to Major of the regiment, and, soon after, was made Lieutenant Colonel, and was, at the

��creased their business ; as time progressed they added machinery which no other firm in Ohio has in use, made necessary by the march of time, until now their shops are fully supplied with everything needed in the busi- ness ; the character of the work attests its quality, while sales in all parts of this and adjoining Stales establish its merits ; twenty-two men are now em- ployed.

WOLFE, NORMAN M., born in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, July 6, 1849 ; engaged on the home farm for many years ; took his academical course in Greentown Academy, at Perrysville, spending the winter term at teaching country schools, and finally promoted to the situation of Assistant Teacher of Mathematics

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