Six Yellow Chairs

Business name:

Six Yellow Chairs

Address:

30 Knox Run Road

City:

Lanse

State:

Pennsylvania

Zip Code:

16849

Phone number:

(814) 345-5151

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Civil War Diaries Coming Home to Medina County: What's Brewing

June 20, 1840. According to the book's editors, the names of the siblings were "irresistibly printable." I agree – they are Philansey, Reuben, Orange, Orson, Lorenzo, Ransom, Mary Joanna, Emma Sabrina, and Lorissa Melinda. Lorenzo worked on the family farm and taught school until he enlisted in the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K, in April 1861. He started his diary "the day he traveled from Homerville to Medina and signed up." The entries tell about his experiences, his travels, sermons he attended, sick friends, and letters he wrote and received. On September 17, 1862, he took part in the Battle of Antietam in a close quarters melee around Bloody Lane, a sunken road. "Corporal Lorenzo Vanderhoef went down on his face with one wound, only to be hit again as he lay helpless, taking 'four gunshot wounds, one (slight) in the head, one near the lower point of the breastbone, one downward through the left shoulder joint..., and the fourth in the right side.'" "As night fell, Lorenzo's inert body had been left for dead near Bloody Lane." On Sept. 18, Vanderhoef lay unclothed – his body stripped of anything useful by a burial detail. According to the Vanderhoef family's oral tradition, "On the day following the battle, the driver of the ambulance recognized the face of his friend Vanderhoef. As he looked down at the body, it moved." Lorenzo was taken to a makeshift hospital where the house's owner, a Southern sympathizer, volunteered to care for him in her private rooms. He spent the rest of 1862 recovering from his wounds, but lost the use of his left arm. He moved to Grand Haven, Michigan, completed a course in accounting and general business at the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., then was a partner in an insurance business in Grand Rapids, Mich. He married Anna Grove in 1868; they had their first child, Lora, in 1870. The family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1877 where he worked in the Treasury Department. Anna bore four other children, one who died in infancy, Wilford, and twins Ralph a... (cleveland.com)