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Title: The young McKinley; or, School-days in Ohio; a tale of old times on the Western Reserve
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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others whose life could best serve as a model for his own. Colonel Hayes went to Governor Tod, the governor of Ohio, and told him how young McKinley had served the regiment with coffee on September 17, 1862, the bloody day of the war. Let McKinley be made a lieutenant, said the governor. That was a decisive day when he drove the mule teams into the battlefield of death and flame. But a day of a greater deed was at hand. It came at Kernstown, near Winchester. The Union army there was small when it was suddenly confronted by the army of Early, which greatly outnumbered it. There came a moment of necessity. Hayes must bring a distant regiment, under one Colonel Brown, into line, but the way across the field was under the fire of the enemy. Who should be intrusted with this message of life or death ? The eyes of Hayes fell upon McKinley. As a writer says, Hayes loved him as a father loves a son. But Hayes was a man not to be governed by his affections. Take that message to Colonel Brown, said Hayes.
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V COFFEE _M1 McKinley leaped upon a small horse. He was soon under the enemy's fire, the little brown horse flying like the wind.Over fields, over fences, the Union officers watched him; the men cheered. He could not hear their cheers. Shells burst around the rider, but he sat upon his horse like a hussar.The bullets of sharpshooters hissed around him; but on, on he went, over ditches, through bushes, now lost to the view of the Union officers by rolling smoke, now emerging to view.near and nearer to the men waiting orders. He had passed beyond the danger-point at last; the brown horse had borne his rider well. Young McKinley faced the regiment, and led it through the woods toward Winchester. It was one of the decisive acts of the war. When McKinley returned and rode up toward the side of Hayes to make his report, Hayes said: I never expected to see you alive again. On July 25, after this exploit, young McKinley was made a captain. A young man is known by his heroes. Abraham Lincoln was McKinleys

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