Another Brave Boy
Fallen. — No braver or better soldier has laid down his life for the
cause of the Union than young Theodore Tenney, a private in the Second Ohio
Cavalry, who was killed by a shell in Sheridan’s hard battle near the South
Side Railroad, on Saturday last, April 1st.
The deceased was the youngest son of Mrs. C. E. Tenney, of Oberlin, a
brother of Captain L. H. Tenney, and brother-in-law of Lieut. Colonel A. B.
Nettleton, of the Second Ohio Cavalry.
He was also brother-in-law of Professor Ellis, of Oberlin, and a nephew
of J. H. Harris, Esq., of this city.
Young Tenney first enlisted in the summer of 1864, at the
early age of eighteen, joining a company recruited for the three months’
service, from the residents of Oberlin.
Soon after the expiration of his term of enlistment, he joined that famous
veteran regiment, the Second Ohio Cavalry, and re-enlisted with them last
spring. At the time of his death he was
barely twenty years of age. A manly and
noble-hearted boy, large, athletic and brave, ever in good spirits, congenial
and full of hilarity, he was the life of his mess, and one of the prime
favorites of his regiment. A true
soldier, he shrunk from no duty or danger, and after one of Sheridan’s battles
with Early in the Shenandoah Valley last fall, it was written by his commanding
officer — “Thede’s muscle brought in two graybacks.”
Theodore Tenny — another honored name — will be inscribed on
Oberlin’s monument to her many patriotic sons and martyrs.
SOURCE: “Another Brave Boy Fallen,” Cleveland Daily Leader, Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, April 6, 1865,
p. 4.
