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History of Marion County, Ohio
CONTAINING
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN;
HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
MATTERS, ETC. ETC.
~ILLUSTRATED~
CHICAGO:
LEGGETT, CONAWAY & CO.
1883.
PART IV.
CHAPTER IV.
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES
AND SOLDIERS'
ROSTERS
Pg. 454
FOURTH INFANTRY
"JACK CADE."
[PORTRAIT OF J. H. VAUGHAM]
TWENTIETH INFANTRY.
TWENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
SIXTY-FOURTH INFANTRY
SIXTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
EIGHTY-SECOND INFANTRY.
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NINETY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
The
Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry was raised in the Eighth
Congressional District, comprising the counties of Marion,
Union, Delaware, Knox, Morrow and Logan; and, embracing
representatives from various avocations of life, embodied as
noble and intelligent a body of men as were mustered into the
service of their country.
The regiment was organized at Camp Delaware Aug. 29,
1862, numbering 1,014 men, rank and file. Its principal
officers had seen service, and were well qualified for their
respective positions. The field officers were Joseph W.
Vance, Colonel, of Mount Vernon; A. H. Brown,
Lieutenant Colonel, of Marion; Charles H. McElroy, Major,
of Delaware; D. W. Henderson,
Surgeon, of Marysville.
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Sept. 1, 1862, the regiment left Camp Delaware, by way of
Columbus, for Cincinnati; September 8, went into camp three
miles back of Newport, Ky., and occupied the advance on that
part of our line during the threatened attack of Kirby Smith
upon Covington, Newport and Cincinnati.
October 8, the regiment, in the brigade of Gen.
Burbridge, A. J. Smith commanding the division of the
Thirteenth Army Corps, marched to Falmouth, thence to Cynthiana,
Paris, Lexington and Nicholasville. At the latter place,
they remained in camp two or three weeks; thence marched to
Louisville, where they remained in the mud on the Ohio River for
a few days; then embarked for Memphis, Tenn., on the 19th of
November, where they were encamped about a month. While
there they were reviewed by Gen. Sherman, and
ordered to embark on the steamer Hiawatha and proceed down the
river with the forces under his command, the objective point
being Vicksburg, Miss. The men were blissfully ignorant of
the severe service awaiting them, but were soon brought to a
realization of circumstances that every participant must look
back to with horror. The whole
regiment and its outfit of wagons, teams, etc., together with
the Seventeenth Ohio Battery, with its guns, horses and mules
were packed on this small craft. Nearly every member of
the battery was sick with the measles. The horses and
mules were placed on deck, their heads tied on either side,
forming between them a narrow aisle. Only partial rations
of hard bread and roasted coffee could be had, the only resort
being flour and green coffee, which required cooking and
roasting. It may have been a necessity, but certainly it
was a bitter fatality. The only facility for cooking was a
small stove on the after deck, to reach which it was necessary
to run the gantlet of two hundred pairs of treacherous heels and
the filth of such a stable. First, the coffee and the meat
were cooked and eaten with hard bread, but the supply of the
latter was soon exhausted, and the men were forced to mix flour
with water and bake it on the same stove. With the best
effort possible, it was often 2 o'clock before all had their
breakfast with the half-cooked material. As if this were
not all that flesh and blood could endure, cold rain continually
drenched all who were not under cover, and for want of room many
were forced to remain on the hurricane deck, famished with
hunger and tortured with sleeplessness. All day and all
night the little stove was occupied by men preparing the
unhealthy rations, that, while they saved from immediate
starvation, were not slow, in connection with other causes, in
developing diseases that were equally fatal to those who were
exposed and those who were packed close in the ill-ventilated
and over-crowded apartments. Everywhere were sunken eyes,
thin cheeks and tottering steps. Surgeon
Henderson, with his assistants, labored incessantly to check
disease and relieve the sufferings of the men, but typhoid,
measles and erysipelas were masters, everything seemingly
rendering them aid. Death did a frightful work.
On its way, the regiment disembarked at Milliken's Bend
on the 20th, and made a forced march to Dallas Station, La., on
the Vicksburg, S. & T. Railroad, a distance of twenty-eight
miles, over a narrow road cut through a dense cypress forest,
over stretches of corduroy and thick intervening mud of the low
marshes, burning depots and warehouses, destroying a large
amount of railroad property, tearing up the track for miles,
returning the following day in a pelting storm of cold rain,
having marched fifty-six miles in less than forty hours.
After privations on the boat, this work was terribly painful and
disastrous. The regiment was taken on down
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the river to the Yazoo (the River of Death), and up that river
to Johnson's Landing; there disembarked and marched to
Chickasaw Bluffs and participated in the first attack on
Vicksburg, where the Union forces were defeated. Then
proceeding to Arkansas Post, they took an active part in the
assault upon the works, capturing 7,000 prisoners, losing ten
killed and twenty-six wounded. After this engagement, it
at once accompanied the army under Grant in the flank movement
to the rear of Vicksburg and took part in the siege until the
surrender July 4, 1863. Then it marched on to Jackson,
taking part in the siege until its evacuation on the 17th of
July, thence back to Vicksburg and from there by steamer to
Carrollton, La. From that point it made several
expeditions and scouts. It was next engaged in what was
called the Teche campaign, and participated in the battle of
Grand Coteau, November 3. This was a desperate light
against overwhelming numbers, the regiment losing 110 men,
killed, wounded and missing.
In December, the regiment was ordered to Texas, where
it operated against Dick Taylor's forces until
March, 1864, then returning to Brashear City, La., entered upon
the Red River campaign under Gen. Banks. April 8,
was engaged in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, losing
fifty-six men, killed, wounded and missing; among the former
were the gallant Col. Vance and Capt. Coulter;
among the latter was Capt. Evans, who returned to his
command after an absence of ten months in rebel prisons.
Then followed the engagements of Peach Orchard Grove, Pleasant
Hill and Cane River.
August 1, the regiment embarked for Dauphin Island, in
the rear of Fort Gaines, and were the first troops to land in
rear of that fort, and participated in the siege till the
surrender of the fort on the 8th, with 1,000 prisoners.
September 1, it returned to Louisiana, and in November proceeded
to the mouth of White River, in Arkansas. The regiment was
so reduced in numbers by continued losses, that a consolidation
became necessary, and was effected by special order November 18.
At the request of
the officers, and as a special honor to the regiment, it was not
united with any other organization, but was consolidated into
four companies, receiving one company from the Forty-second
Ohio, whose term of service had not expired with that of their
regiment, making a battalion of five companies, called the
Ninety-sixth Battalion, Lieut. Col. A. H. Brown
commanding. Company B of Knox, E of Marion and K of Union
were consolidated, making Company C, commanded by Capt. Evans.
The battalion continued to operate in Arkansas until February,
1865, whence it removed to the rear of Fort Spanish, the key of
Mobile, Ala., participating in the siege of that fort, which
resulted in its capture on the 8th of April. A few minutes
after the surrender, the regiment was marching to the assistance
of Gen. Steele, who had for some days been investing Fort
Blakely, fifteen miles north of Spanish Fort. Upon the arrival
of Gen. Granger's corps on the field. Gen.
Steele's troop stormed the fort, capturing 5,000 prisoners.
This is said to be the last battle of the war. After the
surrender of Mobile the battalion joined an expedition to
Nannahubbah Bluff, on the Tombigbee River, and also Mcintosh
Bluffs.
The last volley tired by the Ninety-sixth was on April
12, at Whistler Station, seven miles above Mobile, in a lively
skirmish with Dick Taylor's retreating forces.
The regiment returned to Mobile on the 9th of May where it
remained until mustered out July 7, 1865, excepting forty men,
whose term of service had not expired, and who were transferred
to the
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Seventy-seventh Battalion, Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, and
served as a detachment in that battalion until March, 1866.
The Ninety-sixth, from the time of entering the held to
the close of the war, was on continuously active and most of the
time hard service. It embarked at Mobile for Camp Chase,
by way of New Orleans, arriving at Columbus the 29th day of
July, where they were paid off and disbanded, at which time they
numbered 427 men, including one company from the Forty-second
Ohio. The regiment marched 1,683 miles, and was
transported by boat 7,686 miles, by railroad 517 miles, making a
total of 9,886 miles.
Lieut. Col. A. H. Brown.
Company D—Capts. J. M. Godman, resigned Nov. 8,
1864; J. D. Williams, resigned Mar. 4, 1864.
Sergt. R. F. Bartlett.
Corp. Thomas F. Zuck.
Privates J. Baltzle, G. W. Blanchard, George Blow,
Charles Boynton, G. Brown, J. C. Campbell, Nathan Clark, J.
Hinaman, George Jones, G. H. Jones, Edmund Keller, C. H. Kindle,
J. Logsdon, Daniel May, C. R. Miles, W. H. F. Parker, A. Pike,
W. Roberts, Madison Shields, Henry J. Smith, C. A. Vir den.
Company E—Capt. Samuel Coulter, died of wounds April 8,
1864.
First Lieuts. Val. Lapham, promoted Captain; Minard J.
Lefever, resigned
July 24, 1863.
Second Lieuts. James De Wolf, Simon Glessman, Henry
T. Van Fleet, resigned Feb. 4, 1863.
Sergts. Thomas Carter, William M. Coulter, Benjamin
Little, B. W. Martin, Josiah V. Stevenson, William R. Whitmarsh.
Corps. Collins Blakely, T. D. Bowen, John W Fribley,
Henry Gilden, A. J. Knapp, J. W. Knapp, Samuel Terpany,
John J. Ulsh.
Musician Philip Plummer.
Privates
Joseph C. Arnold,
Charles Baldwin,
William H. Ballentine,
Nathan Betts,
James Bratton,
M. H. Burt,
John F. Burt,
J. G. Burt,
J. H. Bunker,
Benjamin Camm,
John Chambers,
Nathan Corwin,
Marion F. Corn,
W. Z. Davis,
John Dickason,
Wesley Dickason,
S. Dickason,
Henry Gowdy,
Samuel R. Dumble,
P. B. Eatherton,
Charles W. Fields,
David Follett,
James H. Foster,
William Garvin,
Charles Gochenour,
Henry Glenn,
Henry S. Goodrich, |
G. M.
Hefflebower,
William K. Huff,
David J. Humphrey,
Michael Huffman,
Israel Irey,
H. H. Irey,
Leander Irey,
Edward Jeffrey,
Matthew Jenkins,
S. L. Johnson,
John A. Kelly,
Charles W. Kemper,
Albert C. King,
Daniel Kibler,
George W. Knowles,
John Love,
William McMurray,
Robert McWilliams,
Richard T. Mills,
Andrew J. Monroe,
Levi Nickson,
Alvin N. Nortrup,
Anderson Oliver,
Henry H. Payne,
George L. Phelps,
Asa Queen,
Benjamin Rhoads, |
Isaac
J. Riley,
Jonathan Rogers,
Francis M. Scribner,
W. G. Shute,
Henry J. Shepher,
Charles Showers,
Stokes Smith,
Peter Snyder,
Henry Sowers,
William W. Squibb,
George W. Squibb,
Joseph Suit,
Ralph F. Sykes,
W. H. Tucker,
Ira Tucker,
Henry Van Buskirk,
Josiah Voorhies,
James Walter,
James A. Watson,
John Wade,
James M. West,
Isaac Wilson,
Clark M. Wilson,
Benjamin J. Williams,
Chris B. Wilkins,
J. G. Wortman. |
Other companies:
A—J. H. Knode, Sergeant; E. I. Thompson.
B—Francis M. Corn.
C—Cyrus W. Devore, Amos Gochenour, Silas E. Idleman,
John W. Myers, Caleb Underwood, Cyrus W. Wyatt.
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F—Levi Sigfried, First Lieutenant;
Ford Keeler.
?—Samuel Fink.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTH OHIO NATIONAL
GUARDS.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOURTH OHIO NATIONAL
GUARDS.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH OHIO NATIONAL
GUARDS.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.,
[PORTRAIT OF DAVID GAST]
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