COMPANY B. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. First Sergeant John A. Whiteside. PRIVATES Thomas J. Brown, Jacob P. Bohm, Christian H. Cook, Rich. Foinshall, Harvey Harris,   Dillon H. James, John W. Neff, Henry Neff, Eli A. Patty, Francis L. Raikes, Robert Williams COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Thomas Morton, Lieutenant J. Wesley Sater, Ensign Andrew L. Harris. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Lucien Vanausdal. Sergeant Peter O'Cain Sergeant W. E. Lockwood. Sergeant William Christopher Corporal Martin I. Strader. Corporal Joseph Smith Corporal James Mulharen Corporal Abner Haines, jr. PRIVATES. William Alexander, Joseph P. Acton, Franklin Adams, Balentine D. Carl, Michael Hartley, John Baxter, Henry Becker, Lewis Becker, Benjamin Beeson, George H. Bennett, Philip Bladener, Amos Bodley, William H. Brennan, Thomas Brennan, John Brennan, Henry Bechtel, Samuel B. Campbell, John W. Christman, Elias Clear, John W.Cottingham, Joseph B. Crubaugh, John M. Davis, Martin Davis, Clay I. Day, Henry Davinney, P. DeCamp, W. H. DeGroot, Anderson A. Dinkins, Thomas Doherty, D. C. Donallan, Peter S. Eikenberry, Joseph D. Emory, Joseph Englehart, William H. Espich, William H. Focht, R. V. Freeman, John Gassett, John G. Grace, Adam Green, Lewis E. Grupe, James R. Hamilton,   James Harbaugh, Hugh H. Harper, James W. Henkle, James A. Huganin, Clayton C. Johnson, R. L. Johnson, Foster Kelly, Henry H. Kline, John Mayer, Ephraim Mikesell, Albert Mills, William M. Morrow, Thomas Mulharen, I. McChristie, M. C. McMakin, Joel Nation, Thomas A. Nation, Wilbur C. Nelson, Thomas A. Pollock, John H. Poyner. William B. Pryor, Hiram Rathbun, Daniel W. Ridcnour, James Russell, Andrew J. Saylor, David W. Saylor, William H. Seibert, William Shiers, Samuel Sixsmith, Walter Smiley, Charles W. Smith, Joseph S. H. Smith, Oscar M. Thayer, Lewis Thompson, Richard C. Truitt, Christian Uhlman, Charles I. Vanausdal, John Wilkins, Joseph Wright, Adam Zeek. COMPANY D. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain A. N. Thompson First Lieutenant D. M. Gaus. Second Lieutenant L. M. Gray, Third Lieuenant Edward Cottingham. Ensign Robert Morgan. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Daniel Shewman. Sergeant Jacob S. Fox. Sergeant J. J. Smith. Sergeant John Harvey. Corporal F. N. Austin. Corporal S. H. B. Shear. Corporal Thomas Neville. Corporal John Bride. PRIVATES. Marcus Austin, Isaiah Adams, John W. Anderson, W. H. Benson. John W. Burns, S. D. Brawly, Leander Buman, P. H. Bowman, Archie Bell. W. A. Bromes, James Benner, John Caughy, William F. Davis, J. W. Dinkins, Thomas C. Douglas, Theodore Edmunds, Samuel Foster, Leopold Faulchafer, J. H. Fluhart, Walter C. Fleming, David Guthrie, Henry Gardner, Thomas Harvey, Nanim Hodge, J. N. Hunter, J. M. Irwin, D. P.Ireland, O. E. Jones, Jerome Jorden, W. H. Kirkpatrick, S. K. Kessler, Samuel King, Joshua Kaulsimer, Adam Lonk, David Lonk, Joseph Larison, John Miller,   William Myers, W. A. Morrison, T. J. McKee, Westley McWhiney, William McWhinny, F. H. Marsall, James McClafterly, Amos Mills, John A. Miller, Adam Neff, James Ogden, C. H. Potterf, Alfred Robinson, William P. Reed, Henry Ray, Adam Rantsaw, J. N. Shelly, E. T. Snider, William Shewman, Martin Shewman, William Samuels, S. T. Steppy, L. P. Thompson, C. H. Thompson, Jasper Thompson, Thomas Todd, W. H. Turner, S. A. Wrinkle, Benjamin Warner, William Winson, Albert Williams, David Weisick, W. D. Thompson, Charles O. Teas, Thomas Zeph.

     Many of the Preble county volunteers in these companies enlisted in the Twenty-second regiment, for the three years’ service.

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 which point an immediate return was ordered. This lengthy march was the regiment’s first experience in field service, and, owing to a sudden change of weather from summer to winter, the initiation was very severe.  The regiment took its first taste of warfare before Fort 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 lost, 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

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. William H. Akill, Jacob Akill, William Alexander, Henry C. Azdelott, Franklin Adams, Benjamin Beeson, Aaron Brower, James Brannan, George Bennett, John Bloom, Whitfield M. Button, Thomas M. Betton, Henry Bechtol, William H. ailey, Amos Bodley, Samuel F. Blythe, Thomas Doherty, Thomas L. Donnallon, David C. Donnallon, William Elliott, Charles Evans, Theodore E. Edmunds, Jerome Frazier, Adams Green, Richard S. Holt, John S. Hawkins, Henry Hubbard, Amos Hubbard, Hugh H. Harper, Peter Jones, Samuel Johnson, Charles Kaner, Lewis Kean, John Loots, John Longnecker, William Longnecker, Lewis Mitchell, James Mitchell, Thomas H. Marshall,   Ephraim Mikesell, James McCaffferty, William Myers, Calvin M. Motter, Patterson Mehaffie, William K. Nace, William Norwood, Francis Nagle, Clinton C. Nelson, Miller C. Nelson, George D. H. Preble, William Price, Thomas A. Pollock, Daniel W. Ridenour (became sergeant-major of the regiment, and afterwards second lieutenant), Francis C. Ryan, Joseph Stirling, Abraham I. Scott, Joseph M. Smith, Archibald Smith, William H. H. Saylor, David W. Saylor, John W. Saylor, Jacob Saylor, William M. Swain, Francis M. Truax, John H. Truax, Daniel W. Trussler, Samuel Upham, Charles J. Vanausdal, Lucian B. Vanausdal, Samuel Witt, Joseph Wisemiller, William Wilson, Samuel I. Johnston, Peter Jones, William F. Swain.

THIRTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.

     The Thirty-fifth Ohio was organized at Hamilton in August and September of 1861.  Its members were mainly young and intelligent men.  At the beginning it numbered, all told, less than nine hundred men.  The Thirty-fifth participated in some of the skirmishes during the siege of Corinth, and was among the first to enter the works at that place.  Shortly after commenced the race between Buell and Bragg, the goal being Louisville.  In the movement on Bragg, the fight at Perryville, and the pursuit to Crab Orchard, they bore an honorable part. All through the campaign which began at Murfreesborough and closed at Chattanooga, this regiment was in the front of the marching and fighting.  In July of 1863, Major Boynton was promoted to fill the place of colonel, left vacant by resignation, and from this time the regiment was under Colonel Boynton’s command when he was able for duty. In the two days’ fight at Chickamauga, the Thirty-fifth lost just fifty percent of those engaged.  Scarcely one was taken by the enemy - they were killed or wounded.  Colonel Boynton was conspicuous during the whole fight for his gallantry and skill, and the regiment was highly commended in the reports of that action.  During the autumn of 1863, the Thirty-fifth lay with other regiments at Chattanooga and engaged in frequent skirmishes before that place.  They were on the front line at Mission Ridge.  In February, 1864, this regiment was in the first battle of the Atlanta campaign, at Buzzard’s Roost.  It was with Sherman from the initiation of his Atlanta campaign till the expiration of its term of service, while lying before Atlanta.  They were engaged at Dalton, Resaca, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw, Peachtree Creek, and in several other of the fights of that bloody contest.  The mustering out occurred in August, 1864, at Chattanooga.  During the three years of service, its gallant men could say that they had never been driven from a field.

COMPANY E. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Captain David M. Gaus. First Lieutenant Edward Cottingham. Second Lieutenant Levi P. Thompson. PRIVATES. Marcus M. Austin, Philip Bladner, Volney M. Braffett, William Bowles, Martin L. Bowner, Joseph M. Brown, Reuben Bridge, Daniel I. Beaver, John Caughey, George Clatterbuck, Crittenden A. Cox, John W. Cottingham, Levi Craine, Asbury Dinkins, Uriah Bowler, Frederick Ewalt, David Everts, Walter C. Fleming, John Evans, Donnell C. Folkner, Isaac L. Fisher, James K. P. Garver, Henry Gardner, Charles C. Gavin, Hiram B. Hyde, Francis M. Hyde, Thomas F. Harriman, David Jackson, William D. Jones, Polk King, Benjamin F. Kemp, Tunis W. Kettle, Joseph Larrison, Thompson Ligit, William McLaughlin, John Miller, John A. Miller, Isaac McDivitt, William Morrow,   Samuel D. Macky, William A. Marshall, William A. Morrison, William B. Mikesell, David A. Miksell, David McFadden, David P. Ogden, Benjamin F. Pippin, John W. Porterfield, Frederick W. G. Ridgely, Frederick Rosenbush, Levi A. Silver, Isaac Shumaker, William Shumaker, Solomon A. Spellman, William Shires, Isaiah Surface, James Shumaker, George M. Showalter, John H. Spiles, Andrew J. Slakebake, Henry H. Slakebake, John Sindall, Samuel Sands, Henry Shields, Jesse Thompson, Charles H. Thompson, Isaiah Tracey, Moses Thompson, Benjamin Warner, John Wilt, William S. Ware, William Wilson, Moses I. Whetzel, John A. Wheaker, Daniel Venetia, __ Wagner, Albert Ince. COMPANY G. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Samuel L. L'Hommedieu. First Lieutenant William H. C. Steele.

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First Lieutenant Levi P. Thompson, Second Lieutenant George T. Earhart. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant William A. Boner. First Sergeant John H. Hitber, First Sergeant James Clancy Sergeant George M. Gover. Sergeant Ephraim A. Day. Sergeant James M. Wyrick. Corporal Lewis W. Byers. Corporal Lester Shaw. Corporal Calvin Livingood. Corporal Thomas Conklin. Musician Charles C. Seteranim Musician Peter Livingood. PRIVATES Joseph Durkell, Joshua Davis, Martin Dayhoff, William F. Flack, Samuel Grosch, Christ Gugel, Harry Howell, Charles M. Kissinger, Albert Lane, Christ R. Moser, William Mudford, Levi Noll, Calvin I. Schmutz, George Schadwick, Louis P. Snyder, Christ Sherer, William McKean, Isaac Andrew, Lewis A. Byers, John Foster, David Regel, William H. Watts, John Dorse, Joseph Ray, Emberson McGriff, Jerome B. Jessup, David D. Samsell, Charles S. Weston, William O. Creager, Charles Dexter, John B. Focht, Charles Krebs, John J. Mikesell, Francis Quin,   Newton Thompson, Thomas C. Sheldon, Elias Barbe, John H. Bowman, Christ Ayer, Benjamin Anderson, John Albright, John Beng, Martin Betts, George Bate, John A. Berry, James Caughill, Daniel Cooper, Hezekiah Campbell, Peter H. Capp, John M. Davis, William Darah, John Rutter, Goolely Fort, John Flanegan, Joseph Fitch, Matthew Fitch, Chas. Fitch, David Hanes, George Henis, Andrew J. Hall, Franklin Kumler, Joseph Robinson, Thomas St. John, Martin Soam, Isaac A. Shaffer, Henry S. Snively, William C. Smith, George H. Shearer.

THIRTY-NINTH OHIO INFANTRY - COMPANY D.

PRIVATE.

Nathan W. Clayton.

FORTY-SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY.

     This regiment was one of the first supplied by the Buckeye State.  Its organization was completed at Camp Dennison, Aug. 13, 1861.  Thirteen nationalities were represented in it, and Frederick Poschner, jr., a native of Hungary, formerly an officer in the Prussian army, was elected its colonel.  General Rosecrans was commanding in West Virginia then, and the Forty-seventh was here made ready for war.  September 24, the brigade advanced on Big Sewell mountain, encamping on an opposite peak to the rebel fortifications.  While here the soldiers suffered almost beyond description.  The heavy and continuous rains swept away bridges and rendered roads impassable, so that the supplies were nearly all cut off.  On quarter rations, without clothes and tents, their earlier experiences of warfare were painful in the extreme.  On the thirtieth of December, 1862, the regiment embarked on steamers for Louisville and Memphis.  Here they became a part of the expedition against Vicksburgh.  In the march that ended at Walnut Hills, behind Vicksburgh, May 18, 1863, many prisoners were captured from General Loring’s forces.  On the nineteenth and again on the twenty-second, Colonel Perry led an impetuous assault on Cemetery Hill.  Each time he gained a footing close under the works, and held it for a time.  The loss, however, was severe.  Soon after the Forty-seventh was dispatched after Johnston’s forces.  It had a part in the attack and capture of Jackson.  Colonel A. C. Perry was made provost marshal, and his regiment destroyed the rebel fortifications and the railroad track about the city.  Afterward we hear of it honorably, in Vicksburgh, Memphis, Germantown, Corinth, Iuka, and Tuscumbia.
     Oct. 21, 1863, the regiment arrived opposite Chattanooga, and three days after the whole army advanced and opened the battle of Chickamauga.  Following this battle the Forty-seventh was made a part of the force sent to General Burnside’s relief at Knoxville, and on Jan. 30, 1864, joined an expedition against Rome, Georgia.  March sixth of the same year, three-fourths of the men re-enlisted, and on the twenty-fifth of April, after a month‘s furlough, they re-assembled, to a man, at Camp Dennison, and on the third of the following month were again in the army at Stevenson, Alabama.  In the Atlanta campaign that followed, this regiment bore no inferior part.  November 15th saw them off with Sherman’s army in its memorable “march to the sea.”  On Monday, December 13th, the assault on Fort McAllister was made, the Forty-seventh in the advance.  At the successful issue, it was found that the colors of this regiment were the first planted upon the fort.  On Christmas, Savannah was occupied.  Shortly after followed a march through the rebel capital to Washington, which ended in a participation in the grand review.  When the Forty-seventh entered the field, it numbered eight hundred and thirty men; at the end of the Atlanta campaign only one hundred and twenty remained.  It was subsequently reinforced by four hundred drafted men and substitutes.  It served as a part of the “army of occupation” till August 24th, when the men were paid off and discharged, having served four years two months and nine days, and in all the slave States except Texas, Florida and Missouri.

FIELD AND STAFF. Lieutenant Colonel John Wallace. Assistant Surgeon Gilmore. COMPANY D. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain John Wallace. Second Lieutenant Joseph L. Pinkerton. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Sergeant Edward N. Bernard. Sergeant Henry N. VanDyke. Sergeant William H. McWhinney. Corporal Ebenezer B. Elliott. Corporal Joseph G. Sloan. Corporal Israel Brown. Corporal William F. Ramsey. Corporal James H. Wilson. Drummer John Pierson. Wagoner William Marshall PRIVATES. John H. Bistick, James L. Brown, William J. Brown, Joseph Bedell, Jacob Ballinger, William M. Bushman, Thomas M. Cook, John Cook, Asa Cook, Samuel F. Goldsmith, Elias Dinkelbeyer, William A. Douglas, Stephen Fay, William Fleming, Benjamin F. Graham, John Gorden, William R. Hamilton, Jerome Hill, John Hoffman, William Highland, James Marshall,   Philander McQuiston, Samuel McCracken, James McClanahan, James C. Magee, William J. McBurney, Theopholus M. Magaw, William M. Miner, John C. McQuiston, Andrew J. Parker, James B. Porter, Robert Potts, Joseph Ramsey, Andrew Park, James B. Ramsey, William H. Smith, George S. Sayres, Isaac U. Silver, Augustus I. Troth, Solomon C. Wilson, Jonathan P. Weed.

FIFTIETH OHIO INFANTRY.

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bered 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 after wards hear of it in pursuit of John Morgan, and still farther, 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. Austin Colwell, John Aldridge, Samuel Bealman, William Billly, William A. Baten, John Bronley, Philip Carr, Adam Cobleus, John F. Curry, Albert Cook, William Collins, George Cook, Theo H. Cook, George Conover, David Deardoff, John Deardoff, Andrew Dunham, John F. Irwin, John Elliott, Clinton A. Fleming, James M. Foster, Theo. P. Fleming, Charles Graham, Henry I. Gephart, Thomas Garrison, Henry Horton, George H. Hildebrand, John T. Hazeltine, John Hattersley, John Hagarman, William D. Jaynes, Joseph Kincaid, Uris Kizer, William L. Karshmer,   Daniel Leeks, Benton Lee, William Mills, James Manzy, Enos Marshall, Matthew McCawley, George March, Henry Miller, Samuel C. Mackey, John H. Manzy, Alfred B Murray, Henry Mullholland, Alfred K. Miller, James M. Pittman, Cyrus Pence, Hugh S. Rogers, Christopher Ray, John Rayburn, Jos. D. Stephenson, George W. Severer, Andrew J. Simms, James K. Sample, John Sample, James Sullivan, James Kimball, Thomas M. Tenell, John B. Thompson, William A. Tenell, John Vanzant, James Wooston, Samuel Werts, David Werts, John N. Williams, James Walker.

FIFTY-FOURTH OHIO INFANTRY

     Recruiting for this regiment began late in the summer of 1861.  It was organized at Camp Dennison, where it remained for drill the following fall and winter.  It went into the field the seventeenth of the following February, with an aggregate number of eight hundred and fifty men.  The first engagement was in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Apr. 6, 1862.  At the end of the two days’ fighting a loss was sustained of one hundred and ninety-eight men killed, wounded and missing.
     On the twenty-ninth of April, movement was made upon Corinth. On the morning of the evacuation, the Fifty-fourth was among the first to enter the town.  It was afterwards designated to perform provost duty, the commanding officer of the regiment being appointed commandant of the post of Corinth.
     During the summer there were several short expeditions.  At Chickasaw Bayou, December 28th and 29th, in an assault on the rebel works, there was a loss of twenty men killed and wounded.  The first of the year 1863 we hear of the Fifty-fourth in the capture of Arkansas Post.
     On the sixth of May the regiment began its march toward Vicksburgh, engaging in the battles of Champion Hills and Big Black Ridge on its way.  In a general assault on the enemy’s works, on the nineteenth and twenty-second of June, it met with a loss of forty-seven in killed and wounded men.  During the entire siege of Vicksburgh, this regiment was continually employed in skirmishing and fatigue duty, except six days consumed in a march of observation toward Jackson,
Mississippi.
     It was engaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 26th, and the following day marched to the relief of the garrison at Knoxville, Tennessee.
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organization January 22d, and at once started to Ohio on furlough.  In April it returned to camp with two hundred recruits, and at once entered on the Atlanta campaign.  It participated in a general engagement at Resaca and Dallas, and in a severe skirmish at New Hope Church.  In the general assault upon Kenesaw Mountain, June 27th, there was a loss of twenty-eight killed and wounded, at Nicajack Creek thirteen killed and wounded, and in the battle east of Atlanta, July 21st and 22d, ninety-four killed, wounded and missing.
     Following these, it was in the heavy skirmish at Jonesborough, and acted a part in the pursuit of Hood, till the march for Savannah was begun.  Its last battle was at Bentonville, North Carolina, Mar. 21, 1865.
     Moving by way of Richmond, the regiment arrived in Washington city, where it took part in the grand review.  In August it was mustered out.  The aggregate strength of the regiment at that time was twenty-four officers and two hundred and thirty-one men.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Williams, jr. Adjutant George W. Wilson. COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Captain Robert Williams, jr. First Lieutenant Granville M. White. Second Lieutenant John Bell. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS First Sergeant David A. Rees. Sergeant Miles W. Elliott. Sergeant James M. Dimpsey. Sergeant Peter J. Gasnell. Sergeant William H. Elliott. Corporal Henry B. Neff. Corporal Carlisle Leeds. Corporal Dillon H. James. Corporal Cyrus Pattenger. Corporal Adam C. Neff. Corporal John W. Kelley. Corporal James M. Anderson. Corporal David F. Price. Musician Leonard W. Brown. Musicial David R. Stephenson. Wagoner Henry Spreng. PRIVATES. Frank B. Adams, Elijah Athey, James W. Armstrong, Jacob Barber, Alexander W. Boyer, Cyrus Ballard, Thomas J. Brown, Nicholas Barber, Christian W. Baker, John M. Breeder, Charles K. Bennett, Thomas Bennett, Jacob Campbell, James Cavener, Christopher H. Cook, Samuel Cook, Andrew J. Clark, James M. Casselman, Henry W. Carroll, William G. Cochran, John H. Cochran, Albert G. Cochran, Thomas Davin, Jackson B. Ford, John Frazier, Samuel Glunt, Jesse Glunt, John Glunt, Gordon, George W. Peter Haines, John Hawk, Joseph Huffman, George Haughn, Lewis Huffman,   Nathan H. Henderson, Francis V. Hale, Joseph Haines, Henry D. King, Alonzo D. Kimball, Allen H. Lowe, Thomas J. Mitchell, Nathan D. Mitchell, George W. Miller, Henry Marshland, William H. Moravy, John W. Neff, Milton U. Neff, Albert S. Robinson, William H. Robinson, James H. Robinson, William H. Runyan, Hiram Seas, Samuel Smiley, William F. Smiley, John Speilman, Joseph Scott, Joseph Tipton, John W. Thompson, Elias Vanatta, George W. Wilson, Richard C. White, Lyndon Walker, Joseph Wright, John Wingler, James Wingler, William C. Wilson, Franklin W. Whiteside. COMPANY G. PRIVATES. Henry C. Fornshell, Lusten D. Fornshell,   Calloway King, Elisha M. Hancock

SIXTY-NINTH OHIO INFANTRY.

     The organization of this regiment took effect early in the year 1862.  April 19th it was ordered to report for duty at Nashville,  Tennessee, where it arrived five days after.
     The first action was with Morgan's men near the town of Gallatin.  Here one man was killed.  When Bragg's army attempted a flank movement toward Louisville, the Sixty-ninth was left at Nashville as a part of the garrison for the city.  On the thirty-first of December, the first
day of the battle of Stone River, the regiment with its brigade was engaged with the enemy, taking position in the advance line of General George H. Thomas’ Fourteenth corps.  It became involved in the disaster on the right, and was compelled to fight its way back, suffering severely in killed and wounded.
     January 2d the Sixty-ninth was in the brilliant but desperate charge across Stone river, in which the rebels were driven back with heavy loss.  On June 24, 1863, the Tullahoma campaign began.  It was also in the battle of Mission Ridge, and was among the first to reach the top of the mountain.  Major J. J. Hanna, then in command, received much commendation for his efficient and brave conduct.
     The re-enlistment of the regiment and its succeeding furlough of thirty days but gave new inspiration for work, and on May 14th occurred the engagement with the enemy near Resaca.  Between this time and the fight at Jonesborough we read of several engagements and many killed and wounded.  This battle caused the evacuation of Atlanta, and the National forces occupied that city.
     The regiment participated in the subsequent chase after Hood, after which it returned to Atlanta and joined Sherman’s march to the sea.  The last battle in which it had a part occurred near Goldsborough, North Carolina, Mar. 19, 1865.  Then came the march through Richmond, the grand review at Washington, the transfer at Louisville, and lastly the muster out of service, on the seventeenth of July, 1865.

COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Sergeant William R. Windsor. Corporal William B. Bowman. Corporal William Austin. PRIVATES. Abram Baker, John C. Caskey, Harrison Darland, William Y. Hahn, William H. Harvey, Henry Hildebrand,   Stiles C. Ireland, John A. Irwin, William G. Jordan, Jerome Jordan, James R. McGill. COMPANY E. PRIVATE. James Marshall

SEVENTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.

     The organization of this regiment was completed at Camp John McLean, near Cincinnati, Dec. 18, 1861.  By the first day of spring a prolonged march in West Virginia fairly initated the men into the hardships of a soldier’s life. '
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they received a spirited attack from the enemy.  The Seventy-fifth, being in the advance, stood its ground manfully, and the enemy finally gave way.  Shortly after this, in an attempt to guard the stores accumulated at McDowell, a little village at the foot of Bull Pasture mountain, a severe battle occurred with the rebel General Jackson.  At the close, so severe was the loss of the enemy, that he reported it as “the bloodiest of the war for the number engaged.”  No prisoners were taken on either side.  The Seventy-fifth gained especial laurels to its name under the immediate eye of General Milroy, who warmly congratulated Colonel McLean on the gallantry of his regiment.
     Following a number of engagements which our space will not permit us to describe, came the relieving of General Fremont, when Major General Pope took command; and the next affair in which the Seventy-fifth faced the enemy was at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, on the eighth of August, 1862.  During the week that followed, there were frequent engagements, and at Freeman’s Ford there was a heavy loss.
     Jackson finally flanked Pope, got in his rear, burnt his wagon-trains and three trains of cars, and was again at tacked by General Pope at Groveton, near the old Bull Run battlefield, Aug. 28, 1862.  For a time the fighting was bloody in the extreme, and the Seventy-fifth lost one hundred and fifteen in killed and wounded.  It was observed, as an evidence of the severity of the fire, that ninety shots took effect on the colors of this one regiment, during the battle.
     Nothing of importance now occurred in the history of the regiment until the second of May, 1863, at Chancellorsville.  The history of that battle is well known.  The Eleventh corps, surprised and overwhelmed by the impetuous rebels, fell back in almost complete demoralization.  Yet McLean’s Ohio brigade, a part of that corps, merited the highest praise for the cool, steady manner in which it received the enemy under the most trying circumstances, In the short space of one-half hour, one hundred and fifty men were killed or wounded.
     After this battle, the Seventy-fifth returned to its old camp near Brook’s station, when it became a part of the force that confronted the enemy at Gettysburgh, on the first of July, 1863.  The regiment was under fire every day of the battle until its termination.  Of sixteen officers that went into the engagement, three were killed, seven dangerously or fatally wounded, and four taken prisoners.  Of two hundred and ninety-two enlisted men, sixty-three were killed, one hundred and six
wounded, and thirty-four taken prisoners.
     On the sixth of August, Colonel McLean, with the Ohio brigade, consisting of the Fifty-fifth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fifth, and Eighty-second infantry regiments, was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and on the eighteenth went into the trenches on Morris Island.  The duty here was severe in the extreme, owing to the intense heat and the impossibility of getting even temporary relief.  More men died from disease than were killed by the enemy’s shells.
     Early in the year 1864, the regiment was mounted, and was afterward known as the Seventy-fifth mounted infantry, performing all the duties of a regular cavalry regiment.  Immediately after this, we hear of it, broken into sections, being sent in different directions to hinder blockade running, to bring cattle needed by the National army that had been driven away by their owners, to protect the Unionists from rebel persecutions, and to repel threatened attacks.  Frequent skirmishing with the Second Florida cavalry was ended, on the tenth of August, 1864, by General Birney being relieved of his command by General Hatch.  The expedition that followed, into the interior of Florida, ended disastrously in the capture of about half the command.
     In October and November of the same year, six companies were sent to Columbus, to be mustered out, their term of service having expired.
     After the fall of Savannah, the Seventy-fifth was sent to Jackson, Florida, to organize a veteran detachment.  This was accomplished on the fifteenth of January, 1865.  In August, 1865, it retired from service with honor to its members and to their State.
     The colonel of this regiment during a large part of its service - Andrew L. Harris, originally captain of company C, from Preble county, now auditor of said county - was specially distinguished for his bravery and efficiency in service, and received particular notice for his daring in leading a desperate charge during the service of the regiment in Florida.

FIELD OFFICER Colonel Andrew L. Harris. COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain A. L. Harris. First Lieutenant Oscar Minor. Second Lieutenant James Mulharen. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Sergeant David C. Balentine. Sergeant Thomas Mulharen. Sergeant Benjamin F. Storer. Sergeant William C. Seibert. Sergeant Henry . Lockwood. Corporal Isaac N. Love, Corporal William V. Freeman. Corporal Levi P. Harvey. Corporal William Griffin. Corporal Leander R. Brazier. Corporal Jesse D. Lincoln. Corporal David D. Murray. Corporal John W. Murray. PRIVATES. Robert Appleby, Alexander Appleby, John Brasier, William C. Brown, William Bell, Henry Becker, John Brennon, Samuel Baughman, Milton Brower, Abraham Brubaker, Michael Bartley, Joseph Crabaugh, Elias Clear, Raymond Clear, Absalom G. Collins, William A. Castor, Jeremiah N. Crabaugh, William H. H. Degroot, Henry Dailey, Jacob Detrow, William H. Duggins, John Duggins, William H. Dickey, Washington Emlick, Robert Evans, Jeremiah Foutz, Samuel C. Fisher, Martin Gard, Enoch Gordon, Morris Greenfield, James Hinkle, James Harbaugh,   John Hunters, William Harris, Joseph Harris, John Jennibeck, Martin W. Jones, Timothy Kelley, William King, Henry Kline, Jacob Kizer, Timothy Laughlin, Lewis Longnecker, William Leech, Isaac Monaeneith, William Morrow, Delormah B. Morrow, George W. Martin, Thomas Martin, Peter A. Norris, Isaiah C. Price, Thomas Pattinger, Wilson Pattinger, John F. Parks, Levi D. Parks, Richard Parks, John Pacey, William Pullen, Simeon Perkins, John W. Quinn, John Quilter, Hayden D. Runyon, Albert C. Smith.

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Joseph Smith, William Sliver, John Smith, MarcusTrueaxe,   Horatio Thrash, Lewis Wharton, John Ware, William A. H. Zingling. COMPANY G. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Lieutenant Franklin F. Raikes. Second Lieutenant Henry L. Mosey. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Sergeant Alphonso C. Davis. Sergeant William H. Dunmore. Corporal William H. Patterson. Corporal Samuel W. Pottinger. Corporal John Fowler. Corporal John A. Loop. Drummer John P. Jennings. Fifer Isaac Kail. PRIVATES. John Alloway, John Bennett, John Bechtel, Uriah Beall, William H. Brummitt, Andrew Bowers, John Briggs, Benjamin Butt, Alfred Ekes, Benjamin Hornaday, William Hornaday, Paul Hornaday, Peter Hamilton, Dennis Keriven, Lindley Meradith, Hugh McLane, Leroy McLane, Leander Mikeswell,   Daniel Neff, John Owens, Francis Orebaugh, Jonathan Potts, William Raikes, Wesley Raikes, Elliott Robison, Richard Scott, Thomas Stanton, Salmon Stubbs, Levi Westfall, Simon Walls, Jacob Wysong, William Wadock, William Wyle, William Blossum, William Foultz.

SEVENTY-THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

COMPANY F. PRIVATE. David E. Hoover.

EIGHTY-FIRST OHIO INFANTRY.

     This regiment was raised by Colonel Morton, formerly of the Twentieth Ohio, under orders from General Fremont, as an "Independent rifle regiment," but the organization of that having failed, it was filled up as the Eighty-first Ohio infantry.  It rendezvoused at Benton barracks, near St. Louis, in August and September, 1861, and moved to the field during the latter month.  It endured much the ensuing winter in pursuit of the enemy and while guarding the North Missouri railroad.  In March, 1862, it was moved by steamer to Pittsburgh Landing, and took part in the battle there.  In the subsequent action of Corinth, it lost eleven killed, forty-four wounded, and three missing.  Its after career brought it into the campaigns through northern Alabama and Tennessee, and to Atlanta with its bloody battles; the triumphant marches to the sea and through the Carolinas and Virginia to the capital of the nation, where it took part in the grand reviews, and after a brief period of service at Louisville, it was finally mustered out at Camp Dennison, July 21, 1865.  It had been re-organized as a veteran regiment in January, 1864.  During its service thirty-four of its members were killed on the field, twenty-four died of wounds and one hundred and twenty-one of disease, and one- hundred and thirty-six were discharged for disability.

EIGHTY-FIRST OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

FIELD OFFICERS. Colonel Thomas Morton Lieutenant Colonel DeWitt C. Stubbs. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Sergeant Major John R. Chamberlain PRIVATES. D. H. Bush, J. W. Brown, W. F. Caskey, Arthur Hall, John Loots, Hugh McKinstry,   Fidillis Ott, Benjamin Pippin, James W. Swain, Sampson Swain, Harvey Shutts. COMPANY D. PRIVATES Forman Andrews, Charles Campbell, Isaac I. Clair, Milton Hapner, William R. Lea, James Cuahaiser,   John R. Peters, Reeder Sherman, F. Saylor, William Shelly, Andrew Thompson. COMPANY E. COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Captain R. Y. Lanius PRIVATES. William A. Burns, Frederick Bennett, William D. Clear, Joseph Cail, Benjamin Gardner, Samuel Huess, Alonzo Monderneith, Peter S. Miller, David Monasmuth,   Hiram Nace, Thomas A. Nation, Martin Shewman, James Shewman, John Smith, Lemuel Stevenson, Asbury L. Stephens, William H. Nomer, Richard C. Miett. COMPANY F. COMMISSIONED OFFICER. First Lieutenant Charles W. Lockwood. PRIVATES. James Brown, Henry Baker, Aaron Bunyer, Samuel Bunyer, Henry Bunyer, Thomas Hoover,   John Job, Lewis Overholtz, Frank Ridenour, William D. Stephens, John W. Teaverbaugh, Noah Wehrty.

EIGHTY-SIXTH OHIO INFANTRY.

    This regiment was recruited originally for the three months' service, and then reorganized for six months' service.  The former organization was effected in May, 1862, under a special call to repel Jackson, who had defeated Banks, and was threatening to invade the North.  It did guard duty at Grafton, Virginia, Parkersburgh, and other points, and moved to Beverly and elsewhere to repel an enemy which did not exist.  The regiment was mustered out at Camp Delaware, at the expiration of its term.
     The six months' regiment was raised by a number of officers of the old organization, headed by Major (afterward Colonel) Lement, of Bucyrus.  It was moved to Zanesville to join in the pursuit of Morgan then on his raid through Ohio. but was too late to be of much service.  Returning to Camp Tod, it was in August ordered to Kentucky, as a part of the expedition against Cumberland Gap, which was taken by the Federal forces.  The Eighty-sixth took possession of the "held the fort," remaining there as a garrison, subsisting scantily off the country, and skirmishing often with guerillas until its term of service was over, when it returned to to Ohio and was mustered but at Cleveland Feb. 10, 1863.

(Three Months' Service.) COMPANY A. COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Captain Robert R. VanClevere. PRIVATES. James L. Brown, James T. Barkelow, Samuel H. Bell, Samuel Y. Early, Ezra Eddy, Robert Graham,   Oscar F. Hill, James E. Johnston, Henry H. Kemple, Nathaniel K. Lindsay, Thomas A. Newton, Joseph Y. Ramsey. COMPANY B. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Sergeant John A. Whiteside. PRIVATES. Alfred J. Case, Linton Fornshell, Henry C. Fornshell, John Hirshman Edward Lloyd,   John Pitz, George Stiezenbach, Isaac A. Wiley, Moses Zeigler.

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COMPANY H. PRIVATES. Joseph P. Acton, William C. Acton, George Acton,   John B. Turner, Isaiah N. Welch, William H. Stevens. (Six Months Service.) COMPANY K. PRIVATES. William M. Ammerman, Washington Eddy, Robert N. Grayham, James F. Johnston, William A. Kemple,   Samuel Moore, Thomas A. Newton, Joseph T. Ramsey, William Wright.

EIGHTY-SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY

COMPANY E. PRIVATES. Richard H. Brownage, Abner Haynes, William Nicholson,   James Nicholson, Abel R. Nixon.

NINETY-THIRD OHIO INFANTRY.

     This regiment was regularly organized at Camp Dayton, near Dayton, during the latter part of the summer of 1862.  It numbered, at the beginning, thirty-nine officers and nine hundred and twenty-nine men.
     The Ninety-third moved with the army to Nashville, and, in December, while guarding a forage-train, was attacked by the Rebels, and, in this, its first engagement, it lost one killed and three wounded.  Suffering severely in the battle of Stone River, it afterwards encamped for a time south, and then west, of Murfreesborough.  Thence it is heard of at Liberty Gap, Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Bellefonte, Stevenson, Lookout Mountain, and Chickamauga.  At the last place there was some severe skirmishing on the eighteenth of September, and on the following day orders were received to join General Thomas, from which time, until the first of October, the Ninety-third acted no unimportant part in the prolonged contest.
     November 23d, a charge upon Orchard Knob ended with a loss of eleven killed and forty-nine wounded.  Six men were shot down while carrying the regimental colors, and three days after this time, in an assault on Mission Ridge, came another loss of eight killed and twenty wounded.
     The last of November the Ninety-third started for East Tennessee.  The campaign of this winter was most severe; at one time the regiment was reduced to four officers and ninety men.
     After much time spent in marching and countermarching, on the third of May the regiment started on the Atlanta campaign, with an aggregate of three hundred men.  On the way they met with numerous encounters, among others the battle of Resaca.  It was in reserve at the battle of Jonesborough.  The three following months send news of the Ninety-third from Atlanta, Gailsville, Chattanooga, Pulaski, Columbia, Franklin, and Nashville.
     During the winter nothing of great importance occurred until the middle of March, when the regiment left for East Tennessee.  It went to Bull’s Gap, thence to Greenville, where it arrived about the first of May.  On the eighth of June the muster-out took place, at Camp Harker, near Nashville.  The men proceeded at once to Camp Dennison, Ohio, where they were paid, and received their discharges by the fourteenth of June.
     Prior to the muster-out of the regiment, eight officers and two hundred and forty-one men were discharged for disability; four officers and two hundred and four men were accounted for as “died of disease, wounds, and killed in action.”  The surviving members have an association for preserving the memory of olden times.  But no such association is needed to keep fresh the sufferings or the glory of the many engagements in which the brave Ninety-third had a park - the records of Stone River, Chickamauga, Brown’s Ferry, Orchard Knob, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Jonesborough, Franklin, and Nashville, are the records of a nation that has a future, as well as a present and a past.

COMPANY G. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Mathew L. Paullus. First Lieutenant Peter L. Paullus, Second Lieutenant Joseph C. Gilmore. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Dennis N. Kelley, Sergeant Thomas Brennan. Sergeant Richard Fenshall, Sergeant Albert C. Sayers. Sergeant Edward Bennett. Corporal John Klinger. Corporal Theodore Johnson. Corporal John A. Paullus, Corporal Jesse P. Miran. Corporal John B. Cook. Corporal John W. Grey. Corporal John McNeely. Corporal John H, Payner. Musician George W. Miller. Musician Francis Earley. Wagoner Samuel Black PRIVATES. Milton E. Bazzle, John W. Bates, George W. Bickle, Samuel Bell, Mordecai Bralton, George W. Castle, Peter Case, Samuel G. Crothers, Daniel Cramer, John B. Cramer, Elias Cramer, George Cook, Thomas D. Boner, David Barnet, James Bulton, John M. Brown, Martin Barnet, Ashny Delamors, Morris Doty, John Eberts, William Fleming, Benjamin Foster, Samuel C. Foster, John H. Gibbons, George S. Hamilton, John Hixon, James D. Herron, James W. Johnson, John Jones, Charles A. Kirkpatrick, James Kennedy, Harvey Kitson, John A. Kindell, George W. Kinney, Jonas Lesh, William Lewis, James Loman, William H. Laird, Henry B. Moren, John Mendenhall, Isaac S. McCracken,   John R. McMillen, John W. Mohler, Joshua Moren, Thomas C. Murray, John Murphy, Harmon Miers, Isaac W. Newton, Nathan W. Neal, George Asbaugh, Richard Overhotts, Carlisle Platt, George Pozner, Valentine Paullus, Alfred Potts, Harvey A. Price, John Q. Pottmyer, David H. Phillips, Robert C. Porter, Thomas Pickens, Hiram L. Robbins, Joseph A. Ramsey, William Reed, George A. Saylor, John H. Spessard, Harvey Storer, Andrew Storer, John Sedwick, D. W. C. Stubbs, John Tingle, Winfield Stickers, William Albright, John T. Witt, Henry C. Williams, John Wagoner, George Wright. John F. C. Wright, Horace T. Witt, Gilbert Wilson, Robert Wright, Peter Zimmerman, Christian Volk. COMPANY H. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Matthias Disher. ' First Lieutenant Jarvis N. Lake. Second Lieutenant William W. Aker. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Joseph H. Miley. Sergeant Peter S. Likenberry. Sergeant Francis N. Austin. Sergeant Cephas C. Fetherling. Sergeant Jeremiah Oldfather. Corporal Daniel Lizer. Corporal Uriah Young.

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Corporal Silas Laird. Corporal Horstinc Silver. Corporal Joseph E. Lesh. Corporal Joseph Lithiser. Corporal Fletcher W. Curtis. Corporal lsaac Renner. Drummer Washington McSherry. Bugler Marcellus M. Griff. Teamster John Smith. PRIVATES. Capius Alexander, William Aker, Smith Andrews, Philip H. Albright, Edward Borden, Samuel W. Barnes, Edwin Bayett, Samuel L. Brown, William E. Biggs, Theodore F. Brower, Thomas E. J. Berry, Hiram J. Crowell, William H. H. Cooper, Franklin Couts, Jacob A. Charles, Jesse Dehay, John Dieffenbaugh, Henry Devinney, Abraham Eikenberry, Reuben Eikenberry, Joseph Eikenberry, David Fouts, Norman Fancher, John Guard, Granville Grine, James Gibbons, Israel Holland, Samuel J. Hickman, Henry Heckman, George Hoerner, Henry Hoerner, Allen Hern, Simon Hart, William H. Huffman, Aaron B. Lorgh,   Alvin Laird, Julius Lehman, Andrew Mikesell, William McHenry, Elwood Morey, Samuel J. Myers, William B. Nelson, Andrew Norris, Francis M. Oblinger, John Pollock, Jamison Pollock, John M. Sloan, Alfred C. P. Thistler, Joseph Shewman, John H. Shuorf, George Studebaker, John Snyder, Thomas E. Spillman, Thomas K. Spillman, Calvin T. Thorp, Isaac N. Schuorf, Joshua Tillman, William A. Tillman, Lewis Utz, Marcus A. Webb, John M. Wellborn, Lewis White, Benjamin F. White, John Werts, Harrison Yost, Samuel R. Jaqua, Henry Keltner, Henry Myers, Henry Siler.

ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

     The organization of this regiment was not completed.  The company to which the following named Preble county soldiers belonged (Captain George Wightman’s),
was transferred to the Sixty-third Ohio infantry soon after enrollment, and mustered into the service “in the field, in Kentucky,” Sept 13, 1862:

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Drummer Henry P. Parish. Fifer Joseph G. Dennis. PRIVATES. Thomas Allen, Moses M. Davis, John Focht, Henry W. Geeding, Samuel Gregg, George W. Hanger, Levi Hays, Eben Kaylor,   Jacob Longman, Henry Lantis, Isaiah Moore, John W. Scott, James M. Wantler, Joseph Wright, Peter Young.

ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIRST OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

(One Year's Service.) COMPANY D. First Lieutenant James H. Stewart. PRIVATES. John W. Austin, Harvey Bell, Thomas Brown, John Berry, Benjamin Graham, Harvey Graham, Nathaniel Lindsey,   John McDill, James Marshall, Thomas A. Newton, David C. Ramsey, James M. Sliver, William H. Sprowle.

FIFTH INDEPENDENT COMPANY OF SHARP-SHOOTERS.

PRIVATES. Ephraim D. Holester,   Benjamin Watkins.

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIXTH OHIO NATIONAL GUARD.

(Hundred Days' Service)

     This regiment was organized at Camp Dennison on the fourth of May, 1864, by the consolidation of the Thirty-fourth regiment with the Eightieth and Eighty-first battalions Ohio National Guard.  The regiment was mustered into the United States service with an aggregate of eight hundred and sixty-four men.
     On the twentieth of May, companies A, B, C, D, E, F and H proceeded to Cincinnati, where they performed guard duty, companies G, I and K remaining at Camp Dennison on guard and patrol duty, until Morgan appeared in the vicinity of Cynthiana, Kentucky, when they were sent to Falmouth, in that State.  The seven companies remained on duty in Cincinnati until July 18th, when the entire regiment was brought together at Covington and moved to Paris, Kentucky.  The regiment was soon ordered to Cumberland, Maryland, to resist the rebel invasion, and, proceeding by way of Cincinnati and Parkersburgh, it reached that place on the thirty-first of July, and went into camp on the hill southeast of the city.  On the first of August, at three o’clock, P. M., the regiment moved on the double-quick through the town and out the Baltimore turnpike about three miles, near to Folch’s Mills, where it met the enemy under Generals McCausland and Bradley Johnson.
     The One Hundred and Fifty-sixth, although exposed to a severe fire of artillery and musketry, maintained itself well, and sustained but slight loss.  The engagement began at four o'clock, P. M., and ceased at nine o’clock.  The regiment lay on its arms at night, but daylight showed that the enemy had retreated.  General Kelley, in a letter to Colonel Marker, complimented the regiment upon the steadiness of its line, and on the accuracy with which it returned the fire of the enemy’s sharp—shooters.
     After this engagement, the regiment remained on duty at and near Cumberland until the twenty-sixth of August, when it was ordered to Ohio for muster out.  It was mustered out at Camp Dennison on the first of September, 1864.

FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS. Colonel Caleb Barker. Lieutenant Colonel William Sayler. Adjutant Robert Miller. Quartermaster Frank M. Whinney. Surgeon G. Miller. Assistant Surgeon James N. Robinson. Assistant Surgeon Caleb L. Evans. Assistant Surgeon Valentine Wolff. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Sergeant Major Charles J. S. Kumler. Second Sergeant Lewis Mackey. Commissary Sergeant Lewis Grape. Hospital Steward Brookfield Gard. Chief Musician Edward P. Lockwood. COMPANY A. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain James R. Bernard. First Lieutenant Simon Degginger. Second Lieutenant Isaac Kingery. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant A. P. Caldwell. Sergeant S. B. Gillmore. Sergeant O. Y. Ross. Sergeant J. S. Brown. Sergeant John B. Shira. Corporal S. P. Smith. Corporal James A. Brown. Corporal W. W. Wehb. Corporal W. R. Marshall. Corporal James Morrow. Corporal T. C. McDill

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Corporal A. McMillan. Corporal R. Brown. Musician S. Pierson Musician A. S. Lee. PRIVATE. W. C. Appleby, S. N. Appleby, Robert Appleby, T. E. Battinger, Nathaniel Bell, William Bell, Charles Ballentine, J. H. Brown, M. Brown, S. H. Brown, Matthew Brown, D. M. Bower, J. P. Buck, W. H. Charles, T. J. Cisle, J. M. Cook, John Cramer, Henry Eticker, J. C. Elliott, J. E. A. Elliott, Ezra Eddy, Washington Eddy, N. H. Foster, J. T. Farris, A. H. B. Gray, J. J. Gillmore, Harvey Graham, B. F. Graham, Robert Graham, James Gordon, L. G. Harper, S. Hamilton, John Hamilton, James Hamilton, John Hawley, S. Ingersol, J. Jeffers, J. B. Johnson, J. F. Johnson, Mark Kingery, W. A. Kempbell, Thomas McQuiston, S. D. McQuiston,   A. C. McQuiston, H. A. McQuiston, U. P. McQuiston, John Montoith, J. M. Collems, Patrick McCoy, Matthew Marshall, J. W. Marshall, William McCan, J. B. Magaw, G. M. McMillen, Robert Niccum, W. H. Newton, J. C. Orr, R. Paxton, R. H. Pinkerton, J. Ramsey, J. A. Ramsey, W. A. Ramsey, J. M. Ramsey, S. R. Ramsey, W. Raynolds, W. H. Shera, B C. Swan, J. A. Smith, Francis Wright, John Wright, William Wright, John C. Windialt, William Burch, M. W. Charles, H. L. Cramer, A. Greenfeld, J. L. Marshall, Alexander Porter, J. N. Robinson, J. S. Rankins, J. C. Steel, J. M. M. Wilson. COMPANY B. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Isaac Henderson, First Lieutenant M. V. Randal, Second Lieutenant D. McClure. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant C. Shinly, Sergeant I. N. McClure, Sergeant William H. Hamilton, Sergeant John L. Morrison, Sergeant W. C. Stifer, Corporal William R. Hestler. Corporal William Mills. Corporal Enos Fonts. Corporal George Disher. Corporal James Curry. Corporal Matthew Simpson. Corporal Levi Smith. Corporal B. L. King. PRIVATES. Israel B. Adams, G. W. Adams, Levi P. Armatrout, James N. Boner, William L. Bunyer, Andrew A. Bunyer, John R. Brown, Philip Coons, Henry Cosairth, Solomon Creager, Robert Collins, John L. Clark, Michael Conk, William Crisler, William Clark, T. J. Dowler, Samuel Davidson, Francis Davidson, Wilson B. Fouts, Henry M. Fidge, Brookfield Guard, S. P. Geeting, Adam Geeting, Jonathan Hill, William Hill, Daniel Henry, Charles Hanaman, Jonathan Hafner, Henry H. Hafner, Harvey Henderson, John Jarrett, A. J. Jarrett, Levi Juday, John Q. Juday, J. H. Juday, Daniel Juday,   Josiah Jones, William Kimmell, Jacob Kimmel, Francis King, John King, jr., Joseph Lee, George Longman, W. H. Law, Lemuel Munay, John McDonals, John F. McCabe, Samuel McCoy, John Mills, Thomas Pierce, Frederick Price, Charles Porter, Allen Shewman, James B. Stevens, Hiram Studybaker, Andrew Surface, Noah Surface, Noah Sayring, Christian Shewman, Monroe Shewman, William Shelly, Peter Sain, James Samuels, McMin Sterling, Cornelius Shewman, Marcus Ullom, Frederick Wyrick, Wesley Whearley, Nelson Whearley, Eli Whearley, Jacob Young, Thomas J. King. COMPANY C. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Ephraim Sheller. First Lieutenant G. A. Ells. Second Lieutenant Joseph S. Brown. NON-COMMISIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Thomas Brower. Sergeant William Cox. Sergeant Abraham Cosler. Sergeant Michael L. Brown. Sergeant William Tice. Corporal David G. Achey. Corporal Robert H. Wilson. Corporal James D. Schmoch. Corporal Jerry D. Hapner. Corporal Jonathan Hoffman. Corporal William Ellis. Corporal Abraham E. Sheller. Corporal Calvin Hiner. PRIVATES. William H. H. Aydlott, Benjamin Aydlott, George W. Anderson, William F. Ackman, Abraham Brown, Daniel Brown, Noah Besixeker, William Bimger, David L. Brown, Jacob Bish, John P. Banker, Eli Brown, William H. Brower, James Bulger, Benjamin Bowman, James W. Corwin, John W. Chase, William H.Clevenger, William H. H. Clevenger, William F. Chase, Allen Chrisler, Benjamin F. Davis, Elihu Davis, David A. Detamore, George W. Emmons, John W. Faubler, John A. Fleagle, William Feel, John A. Faneisu, William Griffith, Cornelius H. Grimes, Anderson D. Harris, Adam Hart, Cornelius Horn, Levi F. Horn,   William House, James B. Hapner, William Hapner, Nathan Hapner, George Hall, Paul Kalter, Joseph C. Klinger, Charles Lynn, Michael L. Long, Leas Levi, Isaac Lusk, William Murray, Oliver P. Miller, James McDermott, Cornelius Mickesell, Squire Mickesell, Henry C. Michael, Michael G. Pipinger, Henry Rookstool, Jacob Rookstool, John Routsong, James M. Russell, Charles J. Read, Eli Studybaker, John A. Studybaker, James F. Shields, John E. Schlosser, William H. Schlosser, Perry Shelt, Jeremiah Shank, Jacob F. Wieland, Thomas Weaver, Franklin H. Wolf, Henry L. Taylor, Jacob Y. Yingling. COMPANY D. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Richard Y. Lanius. First Lieutenant Thomas Spangler. Second Lieutenant Silas Dooley, jr. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant William H. Ott. Sergeant Samuel Tizzard. Sergeant James Booker. Sergeant Jacob Snyder. Sergeant George T. Acton. Corporal Charles M. Bixby. Corporal Nelson Quinn. Corporal Joseph Graham. Corporal Robert Quinn. Corporal John Overholser. Corporal James Nelson. Corporal Oliver Chrisman. Corporal Robert Harris. PRIVATES. Ezra C. Albright, William Acton, John Acton, Joseph P. Acton, James Acton, William Armstrong, Robert A. Boner, Edward M. Bloomfield, George Buntin, Evans Buntin, William Bristow, Henry Brimmerman, N. C. Bernard, Samuel S. Beech, George M. Crum, Henry Covman, John Clark, Elias Dillman, Amzia B. DeGroat, John V. Donohoe, M. S. Dooley, Doctor Evans, Elam Fisher, James H. Gardner, John F. Gardner, Thomas Harris, Elias Herdman, B. F. Homan, Martin Hersh, C. J. S. Kumler, Henry Karns, B. F. Homan, Martin Hersh, C. J. S. Kumler, Henry Karns, F. M. Klinger, E. P. Lockwood, John L. Lockwood,   Robert Larrimer, Oliver Lay, Reeder McCabe, George Mehaffy, William Morton, Albert Minshall, Joseph McCright, John Minnis, Samuel Morris, Henry Morris, William Neal, Benjamin Neal, James Plummer, Lewis Plummer, W. W. Pugh, James L. Quinn, Samuel Quinn, C. B. Richardson, Samuel Shields, William Swain, John Bailey Stephen, John L. Stow, William Shinn, Jacob Shinn, W. W. Sheeler, Jacob Stum, T. T. Stroud, George Smith, W. A. Scott, Joseph Tracy, George Truitt, John Upham, B. F. Vanausdal, David Williamson, F. H. Weaver, Joseph Walters, Eli Wolff,   COMPANY E. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain William A. Swihart. First Lieutenant James Gable. Second Lieutenant E. A. Patty. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant James W. Pottinger. Sergeant Joel Simpson. Sergeant James Gard. Sergeant Dennis Lewellan.

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Sergeant John Q. Pottinger. Corporal William Barnet. Corporal. W. Reed. Corporal G. W. Tucker. Corporal Thomas Grifiin. Corporal I. S. Campbell. Corporal Benjamin M. Fornshall. Corporal James C. Burns. Corporal Hugh McLane. PRIVATES. J. P. Acton, T. C. Ancky, Stephen Bailey, Nelson Bennett, John I. Brown, James W. Brown, D. S. Bostick, Josiah Bookwalter, John Bookwalter, Levi Bookwalter, James Busenbook, Jefferson Clatterbuck, S. B. Campbell-, Stephen Davis, John W. Decamp, B. A. Duggins, R. A. Douglas, Alexander Decker, Jonathan Decker, Morris Doty, John P. Elliott, J. P. Fornshell, Thomas A. Fornshell, David Fleming, Charles Falk, Lewis E. Grupe, Allen E. Huffman, Thomas Huitt, Philip M. Horner, John W. Jones, Finley Kincade, William A. Knidle, Peter Kimmel, Jacob Kinsey, James Kirkpatrick, John Kearns, Henry Keplinger, Benjamin Lamb, John N. Longnecker,   John Leach, Samuel Maddock, A. D. Mills, Marquis Murphy, W. B. Mendenhall, William More, Lewis Overholts, James Pottinger, Alexander Pottinger, Daniel Pottinger, John S. Peters, Aaron Peters, Daniel Peters, H. H. Payne, Gasper T. Potterf, James Potterf, John C. Patterson, Jonathan Payne, Isaac Pugh, Henry Pottenbarger, Samuel J. Reed, Isaac H. Reed, M. S. Randolph, James Randolph, Michael Shannon, Aaron B. Simpson, William H. Sellers, James A. Samuels, Levi Stubbs, Daniel Trussler, John M. Teague, Frank Taylor, Peter J. Walker, William M. Walker, John Shrods, John Williams, William Walls, James Wright, Nathan Hornaday. COMPANY F. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain L. F. Woofter. First Lieutenant F. Newton, Second Lieutenant J. W. Weeks. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Theodore P. Fleming. Sergeant John F. Eliason. Sergeant Cornelius S. Sackman, Sergeant Joseph (Milfer) Mills. Sergeant M. E. A. Purviance. Corporal James A. Morrow Corporal Adam Ranstan. Corporal T. R. Harvey. Corporal O. G. Sackman. Corporal William H. Garritson. Corporal John A. Bridge Corporal C. C. H. Ireland. Corporal John Mills. PRIVATES. J. H. Adams, William Austin, J. W. Aker, N. W. Burnan, James D. Brown, Clinton Brown, Robert F. Brown, Lucas V. Brown, Thomas C. Bronley, H. C. Bronley, Joseph Burgoine, John M. Burnow, George L. Brutch, John W. Barnett, Charles W. Brown, William H. Bell, John Bilbee, T. L. Bradstreet, Isaac Cooper, Newton Cooper, David Emerrick, Thomas W. Ervin, D. P. Edwards, Samuel Fudge, Andrew Fisher, Cornelius Hilton, Abner D. Harvey, William Haller, Eli Huffman, J. J. Hurman, Fleming James, John B. Jagna, Hiram Johnston, John W. Judy, James A. Kessher, Clinton King,   Samuel King, C. R. Letwich, henry Longman, James D. Morrison, William V. Mitchell, A. Commal Mikesell, Peter Mikesell, John A. Mackey, James Murry, Joseph Murry, W. A. McDowland, Thomas McClelland, John Miller, Lewis Mackey, Jacob Nickademus, James H. Paul, T. L. Porterfield, James C. Rayburn, George W. Reinheimer, Jeremiah Snyder, John Stakebeck, Samuel Skeles, John M. Stubbs, William Sparkling, W. C. Street, George W. Thompson, J. G. Thomas, Peter Wortening, W. T. Whitridge, Edward Whitaker, Cyrus Young, Samuel S. Dicks, Asbery Morse, Andrew Scott, Abram Norris. COMPANY H. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain J. R. McDivitt, First Lieutenant J. Skinner. Second Lieutenant P. Dils. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant J. V. Larsh. Sergeant D. D. Murray. Sergeant C. McManus. Sergeant B. W. Huffman. Sergeant W. H. Marshall. Corporal C. Gray. Corporal J. G. Onier. Corporal C. McDivitt. Corporal W. A. Davenport. Corporal L. P. Harris. Corporal J. R. Burson. Corporal J. Runyen Corporal J. W. Lincoln. PRIVATES. D. Ammerman, W. Ammerman, E. B. Aker, J. Brower, W. A. Bailor, J. Bougher, W. Brown, P. Cline, J. E. Daily, J. E. Daily (second), J. Danner, J. H. Elliott, T. Friend, P. T. Gans, J. Grey, J. Greeding, W. Greenfield, A. Hilderbolt, D. W. Harris, H. Huffman, J. G. Huffman, W. Hambridge, J. Hornaday, W. Jellison, J. Kelley, Isaac Lewellen, J. R. Larsh, N. G. Larsh, L. A. Larsh, N. McClellan, J. S. Mills, S. Morris, H. Miles, B. F. McWhinney,   J. McWhinney, H. C. Murry, J. Morrow, J. McComas, F. B. Norris, F. Newton, J. C. Rhea, J. J. Silvers, J. S. Shaw, Oliver Silver, M. N. Surface, A. Surface, P. Surface, J. Surface, J. M. Swain, G. W. Smith, T. B. Stiorr, W. Sillman, D. Suffrins, J. W. Shealer, D. H. Shealer, A. Slick, N. Turner, J. Thompson, J. Turner, G. G. Taylor, Amos Taylor, Israel B. Taylor, A. Tosh, G. A. Wiley, J. P. Wisor, D. Wintz, John B. Parker, Thomas Slick.

SECOND OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Corporal Walter P. Ledyard. PRIVATE. Charles Patterson

FIFTH OHIO CAVALRY

     The work of raising this regiment was begun early in August, 1861, under the direction of Major General Fremont.  The first name, “Second Ohio Cavalry,” was changed to “Fifth” by Governor Dennison, upon the removal of General Fremont.  From the first of November to the February following, the regiment remained at Camp Dennison, engaged in preparation for active service.  On the twenty-sixth of this month, marching orders arrived for Paducah, Kentucky.  Although poorly equipped, the orders were joyfully obeyed, and, after reporting to Brigadier General W. T. Sherman at Paducah, it proceeded to Fort Henry, thence to Danville, and finally up the river to Savannah.  Previous to the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, the battalion was on numerous scouts, and had several skirmishes with the rebels in the vicinity of Purdy.  Early on the morning of the sixth, while the men were preparing breakfast, the rebels began a storm of attack.  The cavalry were soon the aim of the enemy’s artillery, yet not a man of this raw cavalry regiment, in this the first fight - and that fight Pittsburgh Landing—failed to stand his ground.  In fact, the behavior of officers and men throughout this closely-fought and trying battle was highly commended by Generals Grant and Sherman.  The Fifth advanced with the army in the slow siege of Corinth.  The first and second battalions brought on the battle of Metamora.  They fought bravely, capturing many prisoners.  The third battle was with General Rosecrans at Corinth, and the command again behaved well.  A part of it checked the advance of Van Dorn’s ten thousand in the battle of Davis’ Mill.

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The conduct of this heroic handful of men shone so brilliantly, in contrast with the shameful surrender of  Holly Springs, that it caused General Grant to recount their valor in general order, requesting the whole army to follow their example, and ordering that the “Fifth Ohio Cavalry inscribe on its colors, in addition to “Pittsburgh Landing," the name “Davis’ Mill.”  On the twenty-first of March, the regiment moved from Germantown to Memphis, and again picketed that city.  While here, numerous expeditions were made southward against the enemy’s cavalry, by which the regiment sustained some heavy losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners.  The corruption at Memphis was indescribable, and the men, in spite of discipline, would find ways of reaching the city.  At length orders came, and the command moved toward Camp Davis, Mississippi, where it was joined by the Third battalion, under Major Smith, which had been detached for more than a year.  While this battalion was acting independently, it was engaged in forty-seven skirmishes and actions.  It captured more than three hundred prisoners, and as many horses and mules.  It marched over fifteen hundred miles.  In all, the number of killed and captured did not exceed twenty five.  Resting but one day after the union of the three battalions, the work of the regiment was entered upon—the protection of Corinth.  In anticipation of spending the winter at Camp Davis, a complete camp had been built, when from Major General W. T. Sherman came the order “March at daylight (October 17, 1863) toward Chattanooga.”  There was skirmishing on the twentieth at Cherokee station; the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth were likewise employed.  Arriving at Chattanooga, a part remained there and at Mission Ridge, guarding trains, while a part served upon the field, and followed the retreating rebels as far as Ringgold.  After this time this command is heard of at Knoxville and other important points, bearing no small part in the service of suffering and enduring, as well as acting.  During the spring of 1864, the regiment effected a veteran organization.  July 13th, it reached Cartersville, and remained the rest of the summer, protecting the railroad from the incessant attacks of the rebel cavalry.  On the seventh of November, it was transfer red to General Kilpatrick’s cavalry division.  Here the work of concentration had been going on for some days; but so short was the time allowed that hundreds of men were necessarily organized into a dismounted brigade.  The First Ohio squadron, Captain Dalzell, was here attached to the Fifth.  The cavalry arrived at Atlanta, November 14th, and the following morning commenced the “March to the Sea.”  The Fifth was in all the operations of the command, many of them arduous and dangerous, until after the fall of Savannah, when it was placed near King’s Bridge.  On the twenty-eighth of January, 1865, the command, for the first time, trod the “Sacred Soil" of chivalric South Carolina.  On the eighth of February, the Third brigade, of which the Fifth was now a part, completely routed General Hagan’s brigade of six regiments, capturing five battle-flags and a number of prisoners.  After further marching and

FIELD AND STAFF. Major Phineas R. Minor Major Joseph smith. Veterinary Sergeant John G. Colvin. COMPANY E. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Joseph C. Smith. First Lieutenant Caleb Marker, Second Lieutenant Lewis . Swerer. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Robert F. Alexander. Quartermaster Sergeant William S. Harraman. Sergeant John N. Parmerlee. Sergeant Silas M. Brawley. Sergeant John Wilkins. Sergeant Alexander C. Ford. Corporal Leander M. Brawley. Corporal Uriah Vandeweer. Corporal Samuel Swerer. Corporal Adalbert Hazeltine. Corporal Robert Clark. Corporal Calvin Brumbaugh. Corporal Archibald Bell. Corporal Robert M. Wollerd. Bugler Adam Wirts. Bugler David A. I'lliassen. Farrier Alexander Keggy. Farrier David Hart. Saddler Charles Braffett. Wagoner Josiah D. Phillips PRIVATES. James W. Aker, John R. Bowerox, Frank Braddick, Charles H. Brawley, Jacob B. Boyer, James M. Conoway, John Cronen, Daniel Crickenbeyer, William Dullins, Thomas H. Cullins, George Disher, Lewis E. D. Enochs, Lewis Fawble, Michael Floyd, Holly H. Fleming, Wheeler Fum, Leopold Folhopper, Enos Gilpin, James F. Grayhann, William B. Harreman, Moses Harreman, Hiram Hepner, Adam Hapner, Henry Hapner, Gottlieb Hershman, Elias Heilman, Richard Henderson, John N. Judy, John Kitson, Benjamin King, Thomas Loom, James Lynn, Robert T. McKee, Cyrus Miller, Alexander McCoweu, John C. McCowen.   Alfred Mills, John McPherson. Charles H. McManus, John W. McWhinney, William McWhinney, Marcus D. Purviance. Elihu Paxton, Cornelius Reese. Patrick Ryan, Daniel Reid, Jacob F. Rough, William P. Reid, Elias Smith, David Smith, William S. Spencer, Martin Spencer, Henry Spencer, Anderson Spencer. Lemuel Spencer, Mark Spencer, Barton Swerer, Walter B. Swain, Martin A. Swain, Balsar Shaffer, Frederick Strasser, Dewit C. Stout, James H. Tucker, Arthur L. Vanausdal, Albert Williams, Alexander D. Williams, Joseph Wolf, Jacob C. Walls, Ebenezer Wilt, John Wolburn. George Winning. COMPANY F. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Captain Phineas R. Miner. First Lieutenant Charles B. Cooper. Second Lieutenant John D. Truitt. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. First Sergeant Robert W. Morgan. Quartermaster Sergeant David Culver.

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Sergeant John W. Slayton. Scrgeant John W. Christman, sr. Sergeant William A. Snyder. Sergeant Isaac N. Shelby. Corporal Charles Harbach. Corporal William Shearman. Corporal John H. Lonk. Corporal Isaac Masony. Corporal Eli Minor. Corporal Andy M. Weller. Corporal Robert Steel. Corporal Ferdinand Rice. Bugler James Long. Bugler Frank McFarland. Farrier John G. Colner. Farrier Samuel Cuert. Saddler John H. Bruse. Wagoner Ephraim F. Barnes. PRIVATES. Joseph Adams, Jerry Achey, John W. Blair, Thomas M. Brock, William L. Cooper, William H. Colbill, Squire L. Collum, Allen Christman, William Collins, Nathan C. Emerson, Kilian Ghret, Gavland W. Harris, James Hulbert, John Horin, John F. Homer, John Hinkle, James Jarrett, John Kenedy, John W. Knisly, David King, John Lazro, David Lonk, John McCauley, Edward F. Miles, John Mugavin,   George W. McGrew, Samuel Miles, William H. Patterson, John H. Robinson, Willson Randall, Asa B. Randall, John H. Ridgeley, Jeremiah T. Simpson, John F. Shippy, William Samuels, Alfred Stephens, Richard L. Shelly, Peter Schotsman, Sylvester T. P. Shippy, Matthew Tracy, Charles W. Town, Albert N. Thayer, Marcius L. Thomas, John Tign, Joseph Vale, Benjamin Wagoner, James Walters, Thomas Y. Waters, John Wampler.

FIRST REGIMENT OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY.

COMPANY C. PRIVATES. George H. Armstead, Ezra D. Lantis,   Aaron F. Eshelman. COMPANY K. PRIVATE. George W. Myers.

SECOND REGIMENT OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Charles D. Kruse. COMPANY G. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. Corporal Henry C. Aydelott. PRIVATE. James M. Coffin

EIGHTH OHIO BATTERY

PRIVATE. Benjamin Stichme.

TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS

COMPANY C. PRIVATE. David Fry     COMPANY D. PRIVATES. William Booker, Allen Mitchell,   George Simpson.

     Besides the service in Ohio regiments and batteries, many Preble county men were in the gunboat service, and others, owing to the proximity to the Indiana State line, entered the service with commands from that State - the Eighteenth, Thirtieth, Thirty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Sixty-ninth and Eighty-fourth infantry, also the Second and Fourth Indiana cavalry, and the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh and Nineteenth batteries.  The names of this, a certainly respectable part of the Preble county contingent in the great war, it is not now practicable to obtain.
     Besides all these, and those who enlisted from Preble county in the regular army, whose names, like the others, it is not now practicable to obtain, there was also the noble army of

THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS.

     The dangers threatening Cincinnati in the latter part of the summer 1862, led Governor Tod, (as we shall see more fully hereafter, in the chapter on “the siege of Cincinmati,”) to make a general announcement to the men of Ohio, that all who reported with arms in hand would be transported at public expense to that city, and received for the time being, into the service of the State.  Telegraphic tenders had already been made to the authorities of that city, of militia, in large numbers, from Preble, Warren, Greene, Butler, Franklin, and other counties; so that thousands stood ready to answer the call without delay.  Before daylight of the next morning after the proclamation of the governor, the tread of the advance of the grand army of Buckeye yeomen was heard upon the stony pavements of Cincinnati.  As rapidly as possible the thronging hosts arriving were organized into companies and regiments, and sent to the works back of Covington, to the guard stations along the river, or to other posts of duty.  The total number known to have entered this temporary service from the State at large is fifteen thousand seven hundred and sixty six, which was doubtless exceeded by several hundred, at least— of which Preble county furnished three hundred and seventy-two.  To the peculiarity of dress in many of them, and armament of numbers with light squirrel guns, suggested the happy title of “Squirrel Hunters,” for the entire unique contingent, but by whom it was first applied, the historian has failed to learn.  The designation has, however, passed honorably into history.  The squirrel, amid appropriate scenery, and the squirrel hunter, in fitting costume, and in the act of loading his firearm, appear in good style upon the discharge certificates granted the hunters upon the termination of their services; and a spirited page engraving, in the first volume of Mr. Reid’s “Ohio in the War,” further illustrates and commemorates their personnel and deeds.
     The Hunters were not long needed.  Their relief from service began within ten or twelve days after they were called out, and by the middle of September nearly all were relieved and had returned to their homes.  On Saturday, the thirteenth of that month, Governor Tod telegraphed to Stanton, Secretary of War:
"The Minute Men, or 'Squirrel Hunters.’ responded gloriously to the call for the defense of Cincinnati.  Thousands reached the city, and thousands more were en route for it.  The enemy having retired, all have been ordered back.  This uprising of the people is the muse of the retreat.  You should publicly acknowledge this gallant conduct."
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“for the patriotic men of the State who responded to the call of the governor, and went to the southern border to repel the invader, and who will be known in history as the ‘Squirrel Hunters.”’  These papers, handsomely engraved and printed, and issued to large numbers of those entitled to them, read as follows:

THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS' DISCHARGE.

     Our southern border was menaced by the enemies of our Union.  David Tod, Governor of Ohio, called on the Minute Men of the State, and the "Squirrel Hunters" came by thousands to the rescue.
You, _____, were one of them, and this is your Honorable Discharge.
     September, 1862.                          CHARLES W. HILL,
                                                               Adj't Gen. of Ohio.
                                                          MALCOLM McDOWELL,
                                                               Major and A. D. C.

Approved by
     DAVID TOD, Governor

     This was accompanied, in each case, by this ringing letter from the governor, neatly printed for the purpose:

                                                              THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT}
                                                                                                 COLUMBUS, March 4, 1863,    }

To _____________________, Esq., of _________ County, O.:
     The legislature of our State has this day passed the following resolution:
     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate out of his contingent fund, a sufficient sum to pay for printing and lithographing discharges for the patriotic men of the State, who responded to the call of the Governor, and went to our southern border to repel the invaders, and who will be known in history as the "SQUIRREL HUNTERS."
     And in obedience thereto, I do most cheerfully herewith enclose a certificate of your service.  But for the gallant services of yourself and the other members of the corps of patriotic "Squirrel Hunters," rendered in September last, Ohio, our dear State, would have been invaded by a band of pirates determined to overthrow the best Government on earth our wives and children would have been violated and murdered, and our homes plundered and sacked.  Your children, and your children's children, will be proud to know that you were one of this glorious band.
     Preserve the certificate of service and discharge, herewith enclosed to you as evidence of this gallantry.  The Rebellion is not yet crushed out, and therefore the discharge may not be final; keep the old gun then in order; see that the powder-horn and bullet-pouch are supplied, and caution your patriotic mothers or wives to e at all times prepared to furnish you a few days cooked rations, so that if your services are called for (which may God in his infinite goodness forbid) you may again prove yourselves  "Minute Men" and again protect our loved homes.
     Invoking God's choicest blessings upon yourself and all who are dear to you.            
                                  I am, very truly, yours,
                                                          DAVID TOD, Governor.
 

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