Report your six pieces, caissons and full battery, including Geneva company, at Columbus forthwith. Monday if possible. You can hire horses for the guns here or at your point of service. Bring harness and everything else, and twenty men to each gun. You retain colonel rank.
By order: H. B. Carrington, Adjutant-General.
The news spread through the city of Cleveland (four of the batteries were from the city of Cleveland, the other two being from Brooklyn and Geneva) as though borne upon the wings Of the wind. Early Sunday morning Colonel Barnett issued the following order to captains of the companies:
You will report your command of twenty men, ready to march to Columbus, tomorrow at 12 o’clock noon at the public square. You will have your piece, caissons and harness complete, at the depot between Superior street and Vineyard lane, with a detail of ten men to attend to their embarkation, at 9 o’clock a. m., under the command of a sergeant, and when embarked report to your superior officers.
By order adjutant-general of Ohio:
James Barnett, Colonel 1st Regt. Artillery.
S. B. Sturges, Lieutenant-Colonel.
Word having been sent in the meantime to the Brooklyn and Geneva companies.
Another dispatch was received on Sunday by Colonel Barnett, as follows:
Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 1861.