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CHAPTER XIII.

PREBLE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION

20TH OHIO INFANTRY	93RD OHIO INFANTRY
22ND OHIO INFANTRY	112TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
35TH OHIO INFANTRY	191ST OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
39TH OHIO INFANTRY	5TH INDEPENDENT CO. OF SHARP-SHOOTERS
47TH OHIO INFANTRY	5TH INDEPENDENT CO SHARP SHOOTERS
50TH OHIO INFANTRY	156TH OHIO NATIONAL GUARD
54TH OHIO INFANTRY	2ND OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
69TH OHIO INFANTRY	5TH OHIO CAVALRY
73RD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY	1ST REGIMENT OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY
75TH OHIO INFANTRY	2ND REGIMENT OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY
81ST OHIO INFANTRY	8TH OHIO BATTERY
81ST OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY	5TH REGIMENT U. S. COLORED TROOPS
86TH OHIO INFANTRY	27TH REGIMENT U. S. COLORED TROOPS
87TH OHIO INFANTRY	THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS

TWENTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY

     This regiment was one of the offshoots of the appointment of Major General John C. Fremont to the command of the western department.  Although its ranks were mainly from the Buckeye State, and officered by Ohio men, its place of organization near St. Louis and Missouri gave it for a time the name of "Missouri Thirteenth."  On the twenty-sixth of January, 1862, the regiment received orders to proceed to Cairo, Illinois and there report to Brigadier General Grant.  On its arrival, it was first ordered to Smithland, Kentucky, then toward Fort Henry, from 2hich point an immediate return was ordered.  This lengthy march was the regiment's first experience in field service, and, owning to a sudden change of weather from summer to winter, the initiation was very severe.  The regiment took its first taste of warfare before First Donelson, but the surrender of that work occurred without its having any decisive part to perform.  Its first action of any account was at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.  During the two days' fight, the regiment loss, in killed and wounded, eighty-nine officers and men.  The brave Lieutenant Colonel St. James fell the first day.  Captain Wright was afterward promoted to fill his place, and Captain Wood to the place of Major C. W. Anderson, resigned.  Surgeon Bell had resigned, and his place was filled by Dr. Henry E. Foote, of Cincinnati.
     Oh July 7, 1862, the Secretary of War issued an order transferring this regiment to the State of Ohio, where it properly belonged, to the named the "Twenty-second." The resignation of both superior officers left the regiment, on the sixteenth of September, under the command of Major Wood.  While at Trenton, Tennessee, a detachment was successful in capturing the notorious guerrilla chief, Colonel Dawson, who afterward died in the State penitentiary at Alton, Illinois.  Following this, we hear of the Twenty-second at Jackson, Corinth, Memphis, Haine's Bluff, Helena, and finally at Little Rock.  In February, 1864, one hundred and five officers and men re-enlisted as veterans, and the regiment received eighty-one recruits.
     October 26, 1864, orders were received that the regiment should report at Camp Dennison, Ohio, to be mustered out of service.  this was completed on the eighteenth of November, after a faithful service of a few days beyond three years.

COMPANY E.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Peter O'Cain
First Lieutenant Daniel W. Sherman
Second Lieutenant William E. Lockwood

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Joseph D. Emery
Sergeant John N. Hinman
Sergeant John G. Grace
Sergeant Isaiah A. Adams
Sergeant Thomas B. Thompson
Corporal Michael C. Price
Corporal William M. Poland
Corporal Franklin Adams
Corporal Andrew J. Saylor
Corporal Stephen Billheimer
Corporal Robert Dunny
Corporal William H. Braman
Corporal George M. Crum
Musician Joseph M. Smith
Wagoner Joshua Howard

PRIVATES.

* Daniel W. Ridenour became sergeant-major of the regiment, and afterwards second lieutenant