For commissary, I detailed Lieutenant Gibbs, who accompanied one of the regiments from Cincinnati, and who had seen a good deal of service as clerk in one of the staff departments of the regular army.

I had also for a time the services of one of the picturesque adventurers who turn up in such crises.

In the Seventh Ohio was a company recruited in Cleveland, of which the nucleus was an organization of Zouaves, existing for some time before the war.

It was made up of young men who had been stimulated by the popularity of Ellsworth's Zouaves in Chicago to form a similar body.

They had had as their drill master a Frenchman named De Villiers.