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April 20th, 1863 appointed first Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 5th afterward the 8th Tennessee Cavalry.  December 7th, 1863, resigned for the 8th Tennessee Cavalry, then in the Department of the Ohio.

WENTZEL, JACOB E.
FIRST LIEUTENANT, COMPANY "H", 4TH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, AND BREVET CAPTAIN.

     Was First Lieutenant of Company "H," 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and Acting Adjutant; date of muster out, July 15th, 1865.  Was Brevetted as Captain, on the 23d day of July, 185.  Date of enlistment, September 9th, 1861.  Battles engaged in: Stone River, Perryville (Kentucky), Chickamauga, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Selma.  Was with General Wilson's Raid; also General Killpatrick's belonged to General Eli Long's Cavalry Division.

WARD, DURBIN.
COLONEL, 17TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY AND BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL.

     First Volunteered in Warren county, Apr. 15th, 1861, 8 o'clock A. M., mustered as private into Company "," 12th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Apr. 23d, 1861.  On General Schenck's Staff, in West Virginia, July 2d; August 4th, at battle of Rich Mountain; July 13th, made Major, 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Aug. 17th, went to Kentucky, under Thomas; in September, at fight at Wildcat; October 21, Mill's Spring; Jan. 19th, 1862, under Thomas, went with him to Nashville, and with Buell to Pittsburgh Landing in the middle of the fight April 6th and 7th.  Always in Thomas's Old Division, with various commanders of it.  Seige of Corinth, April, May and June, 1862.  Up the Tennessee and back across Tennessee to Louisville, and at battle of Perryville, October 8th; back to Tennessee, and at Stone River, December 31st; January 1st and 3d, 1862, under Rosecrans; through Tennessee to battle of Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, commanded his regiment as LIeutenant-Colonel, and was there wounded.  Unfit for service for six months.  Commission Colonel in winter of 1863-4.  Regiment veteranized and Colonel Ward with it.  Chattanooga, April,

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1864.  ON Atlanta campaign, in all the fights, at Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro' and all other fights, commanding his regiment with his arm in a sling.
     On account of his wounds, resigned, Nov. 8, 1864; returned to Nashville and served without rank, as volunteer aid to General Schofield; was in battle of Nashville, under Thomas, Dec. 15-16, 1864, which was his last fight; was one of the originators of the Army of the Cumberland which was organized at Cincinnati, February, 1868; retired from the service as Colonel of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was Breveted Brigadier-General, for gallant and meritorious conducted at Chickamauga, in winter of 1865.
     Brigade Commanders were Shoepf, Walker, Steadman, Phelps, Hunter, Connel, Turchin, and others.  Division Commander Thomas, W. T. Sherman, Brannon and Baird.  Corps Commanders (always in the 14th Corps), Thomas, Palmer and Jeff C. Davis.  Served under, and came in contact with, most of the great soldiers of the war; McClellan, Rosecrans, Buell, Thomas, Halleck, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Hooker, McPherson, and Thomas.

WILCOX, C. P.

     No facts sent the Secretary.

WILSON, C. P.

     No facts sent the Secretary.

WILTSEE, W. P.
CAPTAIN COMPANY "D," FREMONT'S BODY-GUARD.

     Entered the army of Captain of Company "D," in a regiment called "Fremont Guards," August, 1861, and served under General Fremont in Missouri.  His command was mustered into the service for three years, but owing to irregular organization - without State and number - it was mustered out of the service on Jan. 8, 1862, by order of General Halleck had the honor of commanding the 4th Ohio Reserve Regiment, during the "Kirby Smith Raid," in the fall of 1862.

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WALKER, CHARLES HAYWARD,
1st LIEUTENANT, COMPANY "K," 45TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

     Served through the war.  His regiment, during its whole term of service, was in North Carolina, under General Foster, with head-quarters at Newberne.  It participated in nearly all the battles, skirmishes and expeditions in that part of the country.

WEAVER JAMES W.
MAJOR AND SURGEON, 93D OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

     Mustered as Assistant Surgeon 93d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 17th, 1862.  Was taken prisoner while in charge of wounded and battle-field of Chickamauga, Sept. 21st, 1863.  Was taken to Libby prison and retained until Nov. 26th, 1863.  Was appointed Executor Officer Hospital, 3d Division, 4th Army Corps, Feb. 22d, 1865; remained as such until date of discharge from service, June 8th, 1865.  Mustered out as Surgeon same regiment, June 8th 1865.
     Participated in battles of Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Dandridge, Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Kenesaw, Chattahoochee River, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville.

WOOD, E. E.
1ST LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT, 168TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

     Served as a private until he received the commission of 1st Lieutenant.

WILSON, ROBERT BRUCE,
FIRST LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT, 194TH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

     Entered service, Apr. 12th, 1861, and was finally mustered out in November, 1865.  Joined A Company formed at Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, for three months' service, under original call

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of President Lincoln, and was elected Fourth Sergeant; Company was assigned as "F," of the 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  Re-enlisted with Campany and Regiment, for three years' service at Camp Dennison, June, 1861, and appointed Second Sergeant; promoted to Orderly Sergeant, 1861, and to Second Lieutenant, Company F," 12th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1862.  Commissioned as First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 194th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, March 16th, 1865.
     Served under the following Brigade Divisions, and Corps Commanders:  Brigadier-General, J. D. Cox, Kanawha Brigade; Brigadier General, E. P. Scammon, 1st Brigade Kanawha Division; Brigadier-General Benham, 1st Brigade Kanawha Division; Colonel Carr B. White, 1st Brigade Kanawha Division; Brevet Brigadier-General, A. G. McCook, 1st Division, A. of S.;
     Division Commanders: Major-General J. D. Cox, commanding Kanawha Division, Army of West Virginia; Brigadier-General E. P. Scammon, commanding Kanawha Division, Army of West Virginia; Brigadier-General Egan, commanding 1st Division, Army of Shenandoah.
     Participated in the following engagements:  Scary Creek, Carnifex Ferry, both in West Virginia; Second Bull Run, Virginia; Frederick City, South Mountain, and Antietam, Maryland; and, in West Virginia - Fayetteville, Princeton, Cloyd Mountain; also, in Virginia - Lexington, Long Bridge, Lynchburg.
     Served on the staff of Brigadier-General E. P. Scammon, as Assistant Provost-Marshall, and on the staff of Brevet Brigadier-General A. G. McCook, as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st Brigade, 1st Provost Division, Army of the Shenandoah, from March 16th, 1865, to the close of the war.

WEST, BYRON D.
COMPANY "A," 6TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 

     Enlisted in the call for three months troops, in 1861, and served until end of the war, honorably, bravely, and faithful.

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YOUNG, HENRY C.
FIRST LIEUTENANT COMPANY "D," 137TH OHIO NATIONAL GUARDS, 8TH ARMY CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

YOUNG, THOMAS L.

     No facts sent the Secretary.

ZIMMERMANN, EUGENE.

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     The Secretary was instructed by the Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Society of Ex-Army and Navy officers to embody the following resolution in this book: -

RESOLUTION OF THANKS

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     RESOLVED, That we appreciate the able, efficient and energetic manner in which Lieutenant A. H. Mattox has discharged the duties of Secretary of our Society; and we especially commend and thank him for his zealous labors, personal industry and good taste exercised and displayed in the preparation of the historical sketch called "History of Cincinnati of Ex-Army and Navy Officers," now being printed for distribution, in fulfillment of a resolution adopted at a previous meeting of the Society.

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Memoranda

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     The following pages are for the convenience of members who wish to add notes, facts, and memoranda.

SHARON WICK'S NOTE:  They are all BLANK.

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