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MILITARY
(Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens.
Evansville, Ind. - A. B. C. Hitchcock - 1913 - 913 pgs)
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
(Shelby
Co., Ohio, Military Index)
COMPANY I, FIFTEENTH O.V.I.
FIFTEENTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEERS
INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized
at Camp Jackson, near Columbus, O., May 4, 1861, but a few
days later moved to Camp Goddard at Zanesville, where
preparations were made for field service. It was then
ordered into West Virginia on guard duty on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway, and advanced as far as Grafton. It took
part in the engagements at Philippi, Lurel Hill, and Garrick's
Ford, and at the expiration of the term of enlistment was
discharged about the 1st of August, 1861.
The next call of the president was for three hundred
thousand men for three years, and the old Fifteenth responded
almost unanimously. It was then reorganized at Camp
Modecai Bartley, near Mansfield, and moved to Camp Dennison,
Sep. 26, 1861. On the 4th of October the regiment went
to Lexington, Ky., but eight days later moved to Camp Nevin,
near Nolin's Station, by way of Louisville. It was here
assigned to the Sixth Brigade, commanded by Gen. R. W.
Johnston, of the Second Diision, under command of Gen.
A. McD. McCook of the Army of Ohio, then under General
Sherman. On the 9th of Dec., 1861, the division
moved out to Bacon Creek, and the next day the brigade
occupied Mumfordsville. On the 14th of the month the
division brook camp to move against Fort Donelson, but
learning of the fall of that fort, a march was made to Bowling
Green, and Nashville was finally reached on the 2d of March.
Here a camp was formed, but on the 16th the march to Savannah
began, that place being reached on the night of April 6.
The next morning the Fifteenth marched to the battle ground,
and remained in the engagement the regiment lost six men
killed and sixty-two wounded.
On the 24th of July, 1863, an advance was made on
Tullahoma and Shelbyville, and in the engagements which
followed this regiment took a very prominent part. The
division afterward moved to Bellefonte, Ala., which place was
reached Aug. 22, and on the 2d of September the march was
continued in the direction of Rome, and on the 11th the
division took position with the main army in Lookout Valley.
Here the regiment occupied the extreme right flank until the
morning of the 19th, when it marched for the battlefield of
Chickamauga, and was engaged immediately upon its arrival.
It then took part in the siege of Chattanooga and the
assault on Mission Ridge. We next find it with the First
Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marching to the
relief of Knoxville, Tenn., where it arrived on the 8th of
December, and on the 20th the command moved to Strawberry
Plains. In Jan., 1864, the greater portion of the
regiment re-enlisted and started to Columbus, O., via
Chattanooga, to receive furloughs. On the 10th of
February the regiment reached Columbus three hundred and fifty
veterans strong, and on the 12th the whole regiment was
furloughed.
They next appear at Camp Chase on the 4th of March
recruited to the strength of nearly nine hundred men.
The regiment reached Nashville in March and Chattanooga on the
5th of April. On the 8th it went to Cleveland, Tenn.,
and to McDonald's Station on the 20th, where it remained until
the spring campaign. On the 3d of May camp was broken
and the regiment joined the army of Sherman at Tunnel Hill.
The regiment afterward participated in the battle of Resaca,
and again in that of Dallas, in which it lost nineteen men
killed, three officers, and sixty-one privates wounded and
nineteen missing who were supposed to be killed or desperately
wounded. The color guard, with the exception of one
corporal, were all killed or wounded, but one corporal,
David Hart, of Company I, brought the colors safely from
the field. The army next moved to Kenesaw Mountain, and
on the 14th of June the regiment lost one man killed and five
wounded from Company A.
The regiment next crossed the Chattahoochee and finally
appeared before Atlanta. After operating on the rear of
Atlanta the regiment was marched to the relief of Resaca, and
finally to Columbia. At Nashville the regiment formed
the extreme left of the army. It next moved against the
enemy's position on the Franklin Pike. After following
the enemy to Lexington, Ala., it went into camp at Bird
Springs. It next moved to New Market, Tenn., in March,
and then to Greenville to guard against the escape of Lee and
Johnston, who were being pressed by Grant and Sherman.
In April it was ordered back to Nashville, which place was
reached about the 1st of May, 1865. Here the regiment
lay in camp until the 16th of June, when it was ordered to
Texas. On the 9th of July it reached Indianola, Texas,
and the same night marched to Green Lake. Here the
regiment lay until about the 10th of August, when it marched
toward San Antonio. On the 21st it reached the Salado,
near San Antonio, where it lay until October 20, when it
entered upon post duty in the city. Here the regiment
remained until the 21st of November, when it was mustered out
and ordered to Columbus, O., for final discharge.
Leaving San Antonio on the 24th of November the regiment
reached Columbus, Dec. 25, and was discharged on the 27th
after a period of four years and eight months service. |
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Name |
Rank |
Remarks |
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Anderson, Alva |
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taken prisoner at Stone River Sept., 1863 |
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Ash, William |
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wounded at Chickamauga July, 1864 |
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Baldwin, Charles |
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May 17, 1862, Shiloh |
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Borer, Lucas |
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killed Dec. 31, 1862 at Stone River |
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Clearity, John W. |
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killed at Stone River |
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Couter, Samuel |
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taken prisoner at Stone River, Sept. 20, 1864 |
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Delancy, James C. |
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taken prisoner at Stone River, June 1865 |
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Fire, F. |
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Nov., 1861 |
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Fletcher, David |
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May 5, 1863 |
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Fletcher, Henry |
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Fletcher, Samuel |
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Gallatine, Benj. |
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wounded at Pickett's Mills, May, 1864 |
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Guthrie, James |
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taken prisoner at Stone River, Sept., 1864 |
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Hart, Thomas S. |
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May, 1865 |
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Hersluser, George L. |
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taken prisoner at Chicamauga, Sept., 1863 |
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Hoadley, S. B. |
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Feb., 1863 |
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Howver, Martin |
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Sept., 1864 |
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Kerkendall, L. F. |
Corporal |
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Larick, Andrew |
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Sept., 1864 |
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Lathrops, Wellington |
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Sept., 1862 |
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Meek, Joseph E. |
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wounded and taken prisoner at Stone River, Sept., 1864 |
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Mellard, Irvin I. |
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Nov., 1861 |
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Mortimore, Joseph |
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Apr., 1863 |
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Morton, William |
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wounded at Stone River Sept., 1864 |
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Myers, Isaac A. |
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Feb., 1863 |
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Price, Willialm |
Wagoner |
Feb. 1863 |
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Rambo, Aaron |
Sergeant |
Discharged 1865 |
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Riggs, Frank H. |
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discharged Sep. 13, 1863 |
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Rockwell, George W. |
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taken prisoner at Stone River Sept., 1864 |
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Sawyer, Gardner |
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taken prisoner at Stone River Sept., 1864 |
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Seiter, John H. |
Corporal |
Nov. 1862 |
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Seiters, Henry |
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discharged Aug. 1862 |
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Summers, George F. |
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taken prisoner at Stone River June, 1863 |
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White, John A. |
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May 1862 |
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White, John F. |
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taken prisoner at Stone River Sept., 1864 |
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White, Winfield G. |
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wounded at Stone River Sept., 1864 |
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Winton, William |
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March, 1863 |
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