Company B was raised simultaneously with Company A, of the 17th Regiment, and on Wednesday, the 1st of October, organized, and elected W. H.

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Floyd captain, F. M. Kayler first and J. W. Pinkerton second lieutenants and A. J. Fouts as first orderly, and reported at Camp Goddard, Zanesville, on the 2d.
     On or about the 1st of November the regiment was organized - though not yet having quite the complete number of companies - with F. B. Pond, colonel; S. C. Steel, lieutenant-colonel; D. Debois, major, and Forest Hunter, adjutant.
     On Friday, the 15th of November, six companies of the regiment passed down the river having been ordered from Camp Goddard to Camp Putnam, at Marietta, under the temporary command of Colonel Craig, of the 63d Regiment.
     Rumors soon became current that the 62d was to be consolidated with the 63d, in which there were less than three full companies, and Colonel Pond superseded.  On Saturday, the 16th, Colonel Craig issued an order for dress parade by all the companies in camp at 4 p. m.  One company of the 62d refused to go on parade, and members of the other companies who responded to the order displayed on their hats “ 62d or nothing,” “Colonel Pond or nobody,” declaring that they would not be commanded by Colonel Craig - that they would die for their rights as they were willing to die for their country.
     On Saturday night, the 30th, the recalcitrant six companies of the 62d passed up the river on the steamers “Potwin” and “Jonas Powell,” on their return to Camp Goddard, well pleased that they could Ponder over the disappointment of others.  The regiment left Camp Goddard after dark on the 17th of January, 1862, occupying twenty passenger cars, drawn by four locomotives, for Romney, Va.
     There was probably no other regiment from Ohio that performed more active service on the battlefield or on continuous fatiguing marches than did the 62d.  Follow it from Bellaire, on the Ohio, through Maryland and Virginia, through North and South Carolina, marching and countermarching, east and west.  On the 23d of March, 1862, the regiment was at the battle of Winchester.  It had a skirmish at Mt. Jackson on the 25th.  On the 5th of June, near Port Republic, the regiment, with two advance brigades, met Stonewall Jackson, and after a hard fight of two hours was compelled to retire. On the 4th of January, 1863, the regiment went by transport to Beaufort, N. C., thence by rail to Newbern, and on the 25th by steamer to Port Royal, S. C.; on the 8th of February encamped on Helena Island; on the 3d of April crossed over to Folly Island; on the 7th to Morris Island, where, after a hard-fought battle, the rebels were driven from their intrenchments with the loss of fourteen siege guns and all their camp equipage.
     On the 18th of July the assault was made on Fort Wagner, in which the regiment, with the two companies from Morgan, was a prominent feature.  In this unnecessary and precarious attempt the Union forces sustained a loss of 1,500 men killed, wounded and missing.  Of this number the loss of the 62d was 150.
     Subsequently the regiment took part in the siege of Charleston, which lasted until the 23d of October, when it returned to Folly Island.  In January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted, and after the furlough of thirty days rendezvoused

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at Washington, and was sent to the front and took part in all the contests that raged around the rebel capital.  On the 26th it was engaged in an assault made on the rebel works below Petersburg, Va., and was foremost in the assault on Fort Gregg and in the battle of Appomattox, Va.
     In September the regiment was consolidated with the 67th, which had been almost continuously with it through all its marches.  Company I was partly recruited by Basil Rogers and Perley B. Johnson (son of Dr. P. B. Johnson) and partly by Henry S. Williams, of Noble County.  It reported at Camp Goddart I after the return of the visit of the six companies from Marietta, and was attached to the 62d, and with Company" B participated in all the marches and battles of the regiment, and, until his unfortunate death, Captain Rogers was always in the hour of danger found at the head of Company I.
     Captain Basil Rogers was killed at Folly Island by one of his guard.  He had gone the rounds about 12 o’clock and had started back toward the camp, but having some additional instructions to impart, turned back for that purpose when within a short distance of one of the posts, but from the darkness of the night and thick growth of underbrush he lost his way, and was shot by the guard.

COMPANY B.

     The following were members of the company; the dates of their enlistment are from Oct. 20, 1861, to Nov. 4, 1864, inclusive:

     T. T. Mathews
     David Ryan
     Elias Teter
     A. D. Blackburn,
     Ady Lavosier,
     Zachariach R. Winner.
     Harrison Herryman.

COMPANY I, 62D, REGIMENT O. V. I.

     John C. Gregg, chaplain of the regiment, was born in Belmont County in

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1829.  He studied for the ministry, and in 1853 commenced his ministerial labors.  Two years later he was called to the Deavertown conference, where he labored successfully for several years.  He was commissioned chaplain of the 62d O. V. I., and was with the command until it was mustered out of the service.

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