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FIFTIETH OHIO INFANTRY
This regiment was
organized at Camp Dennison, and mustered into the service August
27, 1862. It numbered an aggregate of nine hundred and
sixty-four men, gathered from the State at large. The
Fiftieth was assigned to the Thirty-fourth brigade, Tenth
division, McCook's corps. On the first of October it moved
out of Louisville, and on the eighth went into the battle of
Perryville. In this engagement a loss was sustained of two
officers killed and one mortally wounded, and one hundred and
sixty-two men killed and wounded.
During the army's advance on Nashville, the regiment
was at Lebanon - then the base of supplies. We afterwards
hear of it in pursuit of John Morgan, and still father,
in the building of Forts Boyle, Sands and McAllister. On
Christmas day, 1863, it was ordered to Knoxville, Tennessee.
The route lay eastward to Somerset, Kentucky, and thence
southward, crossing the Cumberland river at Point Isabelle.
On the first day of the year 1864, movement began across the
mountains. In the severest winter weather, the men dragged
the artillery and wagons over the mountains by hand, slept on
the frozen ground in rain and snow without shelter, and
subsisted on parched corn. Soon after arriving at
Knoxville, it received orders to join General
Sherman's army at Kingston, Georgia.
From the twenty-sixth of May until after the siege of
Atlanta, the regiment was almost constantly in line of battle.
It shared in all the movements of the campaign, and participated
in the actions at Pumpkin-vine Creek, Dallas, New Hope Church,
Lost Mountain, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Culp's Farm,
Nicajack Creek, Chattahoochie River, Howard House, Atlanta, and
Jonesborough. During this campaign the ranks of the
regiment were sadly thinned. Following the battle of
Jonesborough, in pursuit of Hood's army, the regiment passed
through Marietta, Kingston, Rome, and at last halted for a few
days on the Coosa river, at Cedar Bluffs. On the thirtieth
of November it arrived at Franklin, Tennessee. It went
into the battle that followed, with two hundred and twenty-five
men, and came out with one hundred and twelve. It fell
back with the army to Nashville, and in the engagements that
occurred there on the fifteenth and sixteenth of December, lost
several more of its men. The regiment followed the
retreating rebels as far as Columbia, Tennessee, where it was
consolidated with the Ninety-ninth infantry, the name of the
Fiftieth being retained.
We now hear of the newly consolidated regiment in
Clifton, Tennessee, at Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Kingston,
Goldsborough, Raleigh, Greensborough, and at last in Salisbury,
North Carolina, where it was mustered out on the twenty-sixth of
June, 1865. On the seventeenth of July, the regiment
reached Camp Dennison, Ohio, where the men were all paid and
discharged.
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Patrick McGrew
First Lieutenant David A. Ireland
Second Lieutenant William O'Hara
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Charles D. Whitridge
Sergeant Albert Hawley
Sergeant Abram V. Thompson
Sergeant Thomas M. Gray
Sergeant Samuel A. Winkle
Corporal Charles H. Richey
Corporal Thornton P. Thomas
Corporal David B. Austin
Corporal John W. Achey
Corporal Aaron M. Atren
Corporal John G. Harvey
Corporal James C. Watt
Corporal Samuel Kesler
Musician George W. Richey
PRIVATES.
Aldridge, John
Batten, William A.
Bealman, Samuel
Billy, William
Bronley, John
Carr, Philip
Cobleus, Adam
Collins, William
Colwell, Austin
Conover, George
Cook, Albert
Cook, George
Cook, Theo H.
Curry, John F.
Deardoff, David
Deardoff, John
Dunham, Andrew
Elliott, John
Fleming, Clinton A.
Fleming, Theo. P.
Foster, James M.
Garrison, Thomas
Gephart, Henry I.
Graham, Charles
Hagarman, John
Hattersley, John
Hazeltine, John T.
Hildebrand, George H.
Horton, Henry
Irwin, John F.
Jaynes, William D.
Karshmer, William L.
Kimball, James
Kincaid, Joseph |
Kizer, Uris
Lee, Benton
Leeks, Daniel
Mackey, Samuel C.
Manzy, John H.
March, George
Marshall, Enos
Mauzy, James
McCawley, Matthew
Miller, Alfred .
Miller, Henry
Mills, William
Mulholland, Henry
Murray, Alfred B.
Pence, Cyrus
Pittman, James M.
Ray, Christopher
Rayburn, John
Rogers, Hugh S.
Sample, James K.
Sample, John
Severer, George W.
Simms, Andrew J.
Stephenson, Jos. D.
Sullivan, James
Tenell, Thomas M.
Tenell, William A.
Thompson, John B.
Vanzant, John
Walker, James
Werts, David
Williams, John N.
Wooston, James |
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