200 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Skelton. June 10, 1865; David Shultz, June 11, 1865; Elijah M. Tam, May 22, 1865; William H. Wingrove, April 16, 1862. Ashbury Welsh was wounded at battle of Mission Ridge November 25. 1863 ; discharged June 18, 1864. Leander Warren was wounded in battle at Chickamauga June 19, 1863; discharged September 19, 1864. Daniel Thomas was captured at Stone river December 31, 1862; discharged September 19, 1864. Thomas B. Yocum, November 8, 1862 ; James Wisenburg, February 20, 1865. DIED. David Diday, of typhoid fever at Corinth, Miss., June 22, 1862. John Brewer, of lung fever in Kentucky, December 31, 1861. Jacob Brewer, of pneumonia at Camp Station, Tennessee, March 29, 1862. Joseph A. Bowles, of typhoid fever at Vinning Station, Ga., July 31, 1864. John Brandon was captured at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863; died in prison at Andersonville, Ga., June 30, 1864, Samuel Early died of wounds received before Kenesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864, at hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn., June 29, 1864. Isaac Green was captured and paroled at Stone River, December 31, 1862 ; died June 22, 1 864, of wounds received before Kenesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864. Christopher Hinkle, July 10, 1864, of wounds received before Kenesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864. Cyrus Hurly was captured and paroled in Kentucky, September, 1862; captured at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863; died in prison, at Andersonville, Ga., June 21, 1864. Conrad King died of pneumonia at Louisville, Ky., June 1, 1862. Edward Keiser died of diarrhae at Camp Dennison, Ohio, February 5, 1865. David Mills, July 26, 1864, of wounds received June 20, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn. John Orr, of chronic diarrhae at Murfreesboro, Tenn. .I my 1, 1863. Elijah B. Rowles, of wounds received at Picket's Mills, Ga., May 27, and died in field hospital May 28, 1864 James E. Ramage, June 28, of wounds received in battle at Liberty Gap June 25, 1863. Win. Scott, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., September 14, 1863, of wounds received in battle at Stone River, December 31, 1862. Abner Wilbert died of pneumonia at Mumfordsville, Ky., February 21, 1862.. Christopher Taylor, September 14, 1863, of wounds received in battle at Liberty Gap, June 25, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Samuel Wingrove was captured in battle at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863 ; died in prison at Andersonville, Ga., June 16, 1864. CO. K,15TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was organized at Flushing, September 5, 1861. Rendezvoused at Camp Bartley for a short time. The officers and members were as follows: Otho S. Holloway, Captain. Robert H. Cochran, First Lieutenant. Vesper Domeck, Second Lieutenant. Nathan Holloway, First Sergeant.. Frank W. Sanders, Sergeant. Alexis Cope, Sergeant. John S. Cochran, Sergeant. Joseph Farmer, Sergeant. Laban Mitchell, Corporal. .Rees Pickering, Corporal. `Thomas Burkhead, Corporal. .Henry E, Stewart, Corporal. .Eli Davis, Corporal. Thomas Bethel, Corporal. Joseph Cordner, Corporal. G. W. Chessel, Corporal. Abner W. Marshall, Wagoner. PRIVATES.—Levi Atkins, Wm. I. Ankrom, J. P. Arned, Joseph Burkhead, John W. Brown, James W. Bateman, John M. Bendure, James H. Bendure, Alvin Barton, Stephen Bricker, Robert A. Buffington, Russels Buffington, Walker Carpenter, Joshua Camp, S. W. Cowels, Brown Deselms, Thos. Dunn, James Eckles, Benjamin Eckles, Benj. Freeman, Simeon L, Faucett, Elder T. Fort, James Ferren, Landon Grimes, John Grimsley, Samuel Geller, Wm. Hazelwood, Lundy B. Hogue, Ephraim Houser, Charles Hall, Simpson G. Haines, Al. Herrick, Samuel Hutchison, John S. Hutchison, Benj. F. Johnson, John W. Looman, Christian Maul, Israel McKnight, William McKnight, James McCourt, James McConnell, Lewis C. Mechem, John Murray, Wallace McGrath, Hector McAllison, James McMillen, Balaam Norris, George W. Poorman, Leonard Pickering, Sqnire Palmer, William I. Porterfield, Peter P. Russet John Ridgeway, David Ralston, David Smith, William Stone, Edward Stone, G. W. Sballcross, Wm. Seals, John G. Sherwood, Samuel Tillett, J. Tillett, J. Q. Tillett, James Thompson, John A. Thompson, Wilson S. Vancuran, Washington I. Vance, David C. Vail, Marshall Wisley, William Walter, William H. Webb. This company was re-organized as a veteran company. PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC. Vesper Domeck entered as. a private; promoted to Second Lieutenant November 8, 1861; to First Lieutenant June 19, 1863, and to Captain January 13, 1865. Robert S, McClenahan was quartermaster sergeant to March 12, 1865, when he was promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to company K; Joseph Cordner enlisted as corporal ; promoted to sergeant January 1, 1864, and to first lieutenant March 26, 1865. David Smith promoted to sergeant January 1, 1864; wounded in arm at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 21, 1864. Washington J. Vance promoted to sergeant June 1, 1862. John Q. Tillett was promoted to corporal January 1, 1864, and to sergeant March 16, 1865. Benj. F. Johnston was promoted to corporal January 1, 1864 , to sergeant June 3, 1865. Henry E. Stewart was promoted to sergeant September 1, 1862. James Eckles, promoted to corporal January 1, 1864. Deselms Brown was promoted to corporal January 13, 1865; wounded at Rocky Faced Ridge, May 3, 186-. Noble Carter was promoted to corporal January 13, 1865. Robert A. Heaney, promoted to corporal January 13, 1865. Wm. L. Reynolds, promoted to corporal January 13, 1865. W. B. Drum was promoted to corporal March 23, 1865; wounded in head at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 21, 1864. Geo. W. Russell, promoted June 3, 1865, to corporal. Otho S. Holloway resigned July 1, 1862. Chandler W. Carroll entered first lieutenant, Co. E; promoted to captain and transferred to Co. K, September 25, 1862 ; mustered out at Huntsville, Ala., January 12, 1865. Robert H. Cochran, first lieutenant, resigned May 30, 1865. Reese Pickering, promoted to second lieutenant January 1, 1864; to first lieutenant January 12, 1865; promoted to captain and transferred to company I, March _9, 1865. Frank W. Sanders was promoted to first sergeant June 24,1862, and to second lieutenant June 25, 1865; killed in battle at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Vincent T. Trago, promoted from first sergeant to second lieutenant March 9, 1865, and transferred to company K; promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to company H June 1, .1865. KILLED IN BATTLE. Thomas Bethel killed at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., July 3, BO; promoted to sergeant April 1, 1862. Ephraim Houser killed at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864. Samuel W. Cowles killed in battle at Stone River, December 31, 1862. Balaam Norris killed at Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863. Nelson J. Reed killed at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864. Samuel W. Wilson killed at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 21, 1864. DISCHARGED FOR DISABILITY. Nathan Holloway, June 24, 1862. John S. Cochran, Septem- ber 31, 1862. Joseph Farmer, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1863. E. T. Frost was promoted to corporal January 1, 1864 ; promoted to sergeant January 13, 1865 ; wounded in the arm at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 21, 1864; discharged June 3, 1865. Wm. Hazelwood promoted to corporal June 1, 1863 ; wounded in the leg at the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19, 1863 ; discharged January 14, 1865. James H. Bendure, June 30, 1862. John M. Bendure, September 12, 1862. Allen T. Brandenburg, July 20, 1863. Stephen Bricker, January 1, 1864 ; was wounded severely in the breast at Kenesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864. Robert A. Buffington, April 22, 1863. Joshua Camp, Jnly 3, 1862. Walder C. Carpenter, January 10, 1863. Richard Coleman, July 10, 1865. James R. Cowgill, October 4, 1865. Christopher Dethling, June 10, 1865. Clark Edgington, May 22, 1865. Robert Erskine, September 9, 1862. Simeon L. Fawcett, March 27, 1865. Benj. Freeman, April 7, 1865 ; captured at Chickamauga, Ga., September 19, 1863 ; released April, 1865. Casper D. Fassee, Juno 10, 1865. Samuel Geller, July 28, 1862. James Gibson, October 4, 1864. L. B. Grimes, March 26, 1863. John Grimsley, January 6, 1863. Simpson G. Haines, December 2, 1862, on account of wounds received at the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862. Charles Hall, February 24, 1862. Wm. Hill, April 11, 1865. Lundy B. Hogue, October 29, 1862. Samuel Hutchison, February 21, 1862. John S. Hutchison, June 10, 1865 ; captured at Chickamauga, Ga., September 19, 1863; released April, 1865. John W. Looman, September 30, 1864. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 201 George W. Male, June 10, 1865. Hector McAllister, January 11, 1865. Wallace McGrath, October 1, 1862, to accept promotion ; transferred as second lieutenant to company C, same date. John McFadden, June 10, 1865. James McCourt, September 30, 1864. James McMillen, June 10, 1865. Jonathan Miller, June 10, 1865. Squire Palmer, J my 21, 1862. Leonard Pickering, June 10, 1865. W. J. Porterfield, June 19, 1862. David Ralston, October 3, 1864. John Rennard, on account of wound received at Stone River, December 31, 1862. Rudolph Rine, June 10, 1865. Peter P, Russell, April 7, 1863 ; received wounds at the battle of Stone River, December 31, 1862. Henry G. Seesholtz, Christian Shrader, Geo, W. Shallcross, Wm. Soden, Wm, Stone, June 10, 1865. Edward Stone, July 16, 1862. Robert Tallman, Frederick Thorn, June 10, 1865. John A. Thompson, February 24, 1862. James W. Thompson for wounds received at Stone River, December 31, 1862. Giles Tillett for wounds received at Shiloh, April 7, 1862. Samuel Tillett, Isaac Terrell, June 10, 1865. Wilson S. Vancuran, June 10, 1865; wounded at Chickamauga, Ga., September 19; 1863. William Waller, February 11, 1862. Wm. H. Webb, June 10, 1865. DIED. Mitchel Laban died at Camp Wood; Ky., January 6, 1862, of typhoid fever. W. J. Ankrom, at Louisville, Ky., of dysentery, January, 1862. J. P. Arnell, at Camp Wood, Ky., March 12, 1862, of typhoid fever. Levi Atkins died at Flushing, 0., May, 1862, of wounds received at battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862. Thomas Dunn, shot by a comrade on the picket line November 22, 1861, being mistaken for an enemy. Benj. Eckels, died at Louisville, Ky., May 3, 1862. of typhoid fever. James Farren, died at St. Clairsville, O., May 6, 1862, of consumption. A. Herrick died at Mound City, Ill., May 21, 1862, of wounds received at Shiloh, April 7, 1862. William McKnight, died at Flushing, 0., June 29, 1862, of consumption. William Seals, died at St. Louis, Mo., December 20, 1862. David C. Vail, died at Louisville, Ky., December 29, 1862, of erysipelas. COMPANY A, 25TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was organized at St. Clairsville, and arrived at Camp Jackson June 12, 1861. On the 28th of the same month the 25th Regiment was organized at Camp Chase, near Columbus. The officers and members of company A, as first organized, were as follows : James F. Charlesworth, captain. William Askew, first lieutenant. Arthur Higgins, second lieutenant, John D. Koontz, first sergeant. W, B. Wright, sergeant. Zenas Smith, sergeant. Henry Johnson, sergeant. Israel White, sergeant. Burget McConneghey, corporal. William H. Spear, corporal. James Miller, corporal. Thomas W. Fawler, corporal. Abraham Heed, corporal. Hiram Nichol, corporal. Robert Kennedy, corporal. Thomas Ferrell, corporal George W. McBride, musician. Robert Fawler, musician. Thomas McBride, wagoner. PRIVATES.-Joseph Acres, Alex. Barrett, Joseph Boggs, Levi Butler, Elias Baile, James C. Bolon, Joshua Burkhead, Leander Beall, Samuel Beall, William H. Criswell, George Cass, John Conway, James E. Clifford, Robert Creighton, John F. Crow, Hugh Donely, Reuben Donely, Robert M. Fulton, Samuel Glasgow, Phillip Gable, Joseph Gallaher, John W. Holland, Eli Hanker; Samuel Henry, John R. Hedge, Charles Hooper, William Harrison, Hiram S. Hahn, D. C. Iverson, B. R. Johnston, A. M. Jeffers, Charles R. King, James Kelly, John W. Kent, D. C. Kinney, Patrick Kain, William Linden, William Lockwood, Henry Lambert, John McMillen, John McConnell, G. D. W. McPherson, James McMullen, Samuel McCrum, Jacob McCabe, John McKirahan, Michael Murry, Robert H. Miller, Henry Meek, John R. Mellor, John F. Peck, Samuel B. Porterfield, Jesse C. Patterson, Levi Ryan, James Russell, John Richards, E. L. Riley, Josephus F. Rial, William C. Rankin, Nathaniel Sutton, Charles Smith, Asa Taylor, Ignatius Tillett, William F. Talbert, Samuel Talbert, Hezekiah Thomas, George W. Verbeck, Simon L. Voorhies, John Weyer, Robert Wright. James G. Whittell, Henry C. White, William H. White, John Zane. PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC. Capt. Wm. P. Scott assigned to Company A, March 11, 1865. First lieutenant Elisha Biggerstaff assigned to company A, June 12; 1864. Second lieutenant Daniel J. Crooks assigned to company A, September 29, 1865. First sergeant Robert M. Fulton promoted to corporal, April 1, 1864; sergeant, April, 1865 ; first sergeant, May 18, 1866. Josephus S. Kinney promoted to corporal, April 1, 1864 ; to sergeant, June 1, 1865. Joseph Acres promoted to corporal, August 1, 1864 ; promoted to sergeant. July 1, 1865 ; re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. Leander J. Beall promoted to corporal, February 1, 1865 ; to sergeant, 1865. Andrew Fulton, promoted to corporal, June 1, 1865 ; to sergeant, May 18, 1866. Simon L. Voorhies promoted to corporal, November 8, 1864. Samuel L. McClellan promoted to corporal. April 1, 1865. John W. Kent, promoted to corporal, June 1, 1865. Albert B. Wayt promoted to corporal. August 1, 1865. M. F. McKirahan promoted to corporal, Sept, 15, 1865. John M. Watkins promoted to corporal, May 1, 1866. Joshua S. Holland (recruited) March 14, 1864. John W. Nevil, Vance Vancuran. DISCHARGED. James F. Charlesworth, mustered out to accept promotion May 16, 1862. William Askew, to accept promotion September 25, 1861. Arthur Higgins, promoted to first lieutenant September 25, 1861 : mustered out to accept promotion November 4, 1864. Israel White, promoted to first sergeant July 1, 1862 ; discharged to accept promotion April 1, 1863. William B. Write, discharged July 18, 1864, (extra term.) Samuel Stewart, promoted to corporal January 6, 1862 ; to sergeant September 1, 1863 ; discharged by reason of enlistment December 31, 1863; Berget McConneghey, promoted from corporal, to sergeant August 1, 1862; discharged by reason of re-enlistment December 31, 1863. Abram Heed, by reason of expiration of term July 18, 1864. Thomas H. Ferrel, promoted from corporal to sergeant September 1, 1863 ; discharged to re-enlist December 31, 1863. Wm. H. Criswell, promoted to corporal September 1, 1862; discharged December 31, 1863, to re-enlist. John McKirahan, promoted June 1, 1863; discharged December 13, 1863, to re-enlist. Robert Kennedy, on disability December 10, 1863. Charles H. King, promoted to corporal January 6, 1862; discharged to accept promotion June 5, 1863; Michael Hurry, promoted to corporal April 1, 1862 ; re-enlisted December 31, 1863. Andrew D. King, promoted to corporal February 1, 1865 ; discharged July 15, 1865. Thomas W. Fawler, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. George W. McBride, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. William S. Tyrrel, December 14, 1865, (extra term:) Alexander Barrett, re-enlistdd December 31, 1863. Joseph Baggs, March 30, 1862, 'on disability. .Elias. Baile, (extra term), July 16, 1864. James C. Bolon, (extra term), July 16, 1864. Joshua Burkhead, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. Samuel Beall, September 12, 1862, on disability. Leander J. Beall, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. Isaac Bennington, October 17, 1865, (extra term.) Martin Bennington, November 23,1865. George Cross, February, 1863, on disability. John Conway, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. Robert Creighton, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. John T. Crow, (extra term.) W. D. Clark, July 16, 1865, on disability. Michael Cook, (extra term.) John B. Day, (extra term.) Robert M. Fulton, re-enlisted December 31, 1863. Samuel Glasgo, (extra term), July 16, 1864. Philip Gable, (extra term.) Joseph Gallaher, (extra term.) Eli Hanker; March 16, 1863, on disability. Samuel Henry, December 5. 1863, on disability. John R. Hedge, November 1862, on disability. Charles Hooper, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. Hiram S. Hahn, extra term. William T. Hughes, extra term. C. D. Iverson, October 1, 1862, on disability. Benjamin R. Johnston. extra term. Andrew M. Jeffers was sent to the hospital at Strasburg, July 4, 1862, the last heard from. DeWitt C. Kinney, extra term. Josephus S. Kinney, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863, William Linder, extra term. Henry Lambert, re-enlisted, De- cembea 31, 1863. G. D. W. McPherson, October 28, 1862, on disability. Samuel McCrum, extra term. John McConnel, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. Thomas W. McBride, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. Jacob McCabe, reported taken prisoner and died in Richmond. James Mellor, promoted to Sergeant, extra term. Robert H. Miller, July 31, 1863, on disability. John R. Mellor, August 29, 1861, on disability. Henry Meek December 29, 1862, on disability. John Murphy, May 29, 1865, 202 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. on disability, Samuel B. Portorfield, 1862, on disability. Jesse C. Patterson, extra term. Levi Ryan, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. James Russell, extra term. M. L. Riley, re-enlisted, December 31, 1863. J. F. Rial, May 10, on disability. Nathaniel Sutton, May 6, 1862, on disability. Charles Smith, November 10, 1862 on disability. William Simpson, September 16, 1863, on disability. Asa Taylor, extra term. W. F. Talbert, March 14, 1862, on disability. D. L. Tyrell, extra term. Robert H. Vance, extra term. Robert Wright, extra term. William H. White, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., sent to G. H. Dis. James C. Whittle, April 19, 1864, from wounds received at Chancellorsville. Nathaniel Wallace. extra term. Adolph Weidabusch, extra term. DIED. John D. Koontz died January 5, 1862, of diarrhæ, at Barnesville, Ohio. W m. H. Spear died May 29, 1862, at Franklin, Va., of wounds received at the battle of McDowell, Va. Wm. L. Anderson died September 9, 1862, of diarrhæ, at Philadelphia, Pa. Levi Butler, killed May 2, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Va. James E. Clifford, killed July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa, Reuben Donnelly died October 2, 1862, at Alexandria, Va , of wounds received in the battle of Bull Run. Robert A. Fawler died February 27, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pa., of smallpox. William T. Lockwood, killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 2, 1863. Alfred A. McFadden died April 6, 1864, in a hospital at Washington, D. C. James McMullen died January 10, 1862, at Bridgeport, Ohio, of chronic diarrhæ. John Richards, killed in battle on Allegheny Mountain, Va., December 13, 1861. Samuel Talbert froze to death on Cheate Mountain, Va., November 21, 1861. George W. Verbeck died June 15, 1862, at Glencoe, 0., of wounds received at the battle of McDowell, Va. Henry C. White died May 15, 1862, of diarrhae, at Washington, D. C. Thomas G. White, killed in the battle of Hong Hill, November 30, 1864. Company mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, June 18, 1866. COMPANY A, 43D REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was made up mostly of men from Bellaire, Bridgeport and Martin's Ferry. It was recruited from October to December, 1861, when mustered into service. The officers and members of company "A" were as follows : Jacob M. Spangler, captain. Samuel Martin, first lieutenant. John M. Criswell, second lieutenant. Obediah M. Davis, first sergeant. William Meek, musician. PRIVATES. —John J. Albright, John B. Allen, Andrew B. Anderson, Samuel J. Banks, Robert Baggs, Joseph C. Beam, Geo. Brewer, John Beck, Henry Brown, Benjamin F. Brooks, James A. Carter, John R. Campbell, J. M. Criswell, John Conrad, W. B. Clayton, Jacob S. Clayton, John S. Clarke, John W. Campbell, John Conners, Patrick Conway, Robert Duncan, Robert Dixon, William Davis, Robert Douglass John Denn, James Douglass, Thomas C. Doherty, Thomas Douglass, John P. Eckels, Samuel Eckels, Robert S. Everett, G. W. Goodrick, Wm. H. Giffin, David Greenley, Robert Giffin, James Hollis, Patrick Heffron, William Haley, William Hipkins, Jeremiah Hutcher, Thomas G. Hosper, August Hoffman, James Henry, James Hobbs, Edmond Hannon, James Hartup, John W. Hartup, John W. Jackson, James M. Keyser, John G. C. King, John J. Levy, William A. Lilly, Philip Lang, Elias B. Lowman, Charles A. Littleton, George W. Long, William Mohoffy, James F. McGrew, John Madden, Henry McGreivy, Thomas McKail, Tobias Oliver, Hiram Oliver. Robert C. Russell, Patrick Reed, John M. Ryan, Samuel Richardson, Jacob Ruler, Levi Shipman, Luther Stewart, Joseph Samuels, Lewis Schramm, Zane Smith, Cyrus H. Strahl, Robert Turbot, Levi D. Thompson, Michael Tynane, Samuel Vanhorn, Wm. M. Vallee, Daniel Westlake, Benj. F. Westlake, Jeremiah Westlake, Makin Walsh, John Winning, George M. Wise, Warren M. Yates. PROMOTIONS. Obediah M. Davis was promoted from sergeant, company A, to second-lieutenant May 9, 1864, and assigned to company I; then promoted to first lieutenant January 1, 1865, assigned to company C, and then promoted to captain, March 1, 1865, and transferred to company A. George W. Goodrich was promoted to first sergeant, April 1, 1865, promoted to first lieutenant May 22,1865. John K. Campbell was promoted to second lieutenant from sergeant company A May 22, 1865. Robert Dixon was promoted to first sergeant, June 1, 1865. J. B. Smith was promoted from corporal to sergeant June 1, 1864. Jacob Rupper was promoted to sergeant from corporal, April 1, 1865. B. F. Westlake was promoted to sergeant from corporal, June 1, 1865. David Stinson was promoted to sergeant from corporal, June 1, 1868. Samuel Bishop was promoted to corporal November 1, 1864. John B. Alum was promoted to corporal, April 1, 1864. J. C. Plunket was promoted to corporal, November 1, 1864. John P. Eckels was promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865. Martin Welsh was promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865. Robert Long was promoted to corporal, June 10,1865. William Hipkins was promoted to corporal, June 1, 1865. TRANSFERRED. Samuel T. Calvin, Robert McNary, Luther Stewart, Hamdon Heatherington, Louis Schaum, George M. Wise. DISCHARGED. Samuel Martin resigned his commission as captain September 25, 1864. Zane Smith was promoted to first sergeant January 1, 1864. Mustered out to accept a commission in the 7th Louisiana C. T. DIED. Stacy Taylor died in hospital, Decatur, Alabama, April 26, 1864. Joseph Samuels, killed in action at. Atlanta, Georgia, August 4, 1864. George W. Long died in hospital at Marietta, Georgia, September 16, 1864, of wounds received at Atlanta, Georgia, August 4, 1864. William Aarants (drafted) died in hospital in field in South Carolina, March 17, 1865. .John Barnhart (substitute) died in hospital at Philadelphia, Tent., April 24, 1865. George Conaway died in hospital, Marietta, Ga. July, 1864. Jesse Gray died in hospital, Hiltonhead, S. C., April 4, 1865. William Palmer died in hospital at Newbern, N. C., April 16, 1865. Company A was mustered out on the 13th of July, 1865, at. Louisville, Ky. CO. D, 43d REGIMENT O. V. I. Company D, of the 43d Regiment, was recruited at St. Clairsville during the mouths of November and December, 1861. Organized with regiment at Camp Andrews, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The officers and members were as follows : Christian L. Poorman, Captain. Joseph A. Harris, 2d Lieutenant. PRIVATES.—Lewis Applegate, Crawford Armstrong, David Applegate, Thomas Ankrim, Ira Briton, Thomas B. Brown, E. S. Brown, J. C. Bolen, Henry Baxter, Isaac Billingsley, Joseph S. Barnhard, George Bright, Wilson S. Bigley, George Bailey, Elias Beal, Patrick Cochlen, Richard Creighton, James Crimble, W. H. Cope, Jacob H. Cope, John Cunnard, W. H. Crabtree, Jefferson Chamberlain, James Dunn, Robert M. Dent, John Danford, Thomas Durbin, P. S. Evins, Fowler Glenn, Daniel J. Freeman, Gaston Fox, Robert Gleespy, Stewart Harris, John S. Hamilton, Abram H. Handel, Thomas Huntsman, William V. Johnson, David Johnson,. sr., David Johnson, jr., Samuel Johnson, Westley Jones, Colostine Jones, Thomas Kinney, William Kinney, William Lindsey, Henry Miller, Mathew R. McFadden, Thomas Merrill, Henry McFadden, Robert Morrow, James B. McCormick, Andrew McKirahan, John McKeen, David H. McKeen, George F. Majors, Robert S. Moore, Nathan Moore, James Nixon, John W. Newton, George W. Nixon, William Owens, William Patterson, David Poole, Israel Perry, William Paxton, Charles W. Penn, Uriah Rimby, Alcanger Rothwell, James T. Robinson, Ephraim Stull, Richard Shepherd, Humphrey Steadman, Henry Steadman, Thomas Shepherd, Otto Strickland, Isaiah Shepherd, James V. Tiernan, J. W. Taylor, Clark Vanhorn, Henry Wilds, Milo Wilkinson, John R. Wilson, Levi Williams, Elijah M. Weekley, Martin L. Weekley, Zibar Yarnald. PROMOTIONS, ETC. Crawford W. Armstrong, appointed sergeant from private, December 31, 1863 ; appointed 1st sergeant, Aug. 9, 1864 ; promoted to Captain, April 1, 1865. James W. Dunn was appointed sergeant from private, Dec. 1863 ; appointed 1st sergeant April 1, 1865 ; promoted to lieutenant, May 21, 1865. William P. Weekly was appointed corporal Dee. 31, 1863 ; sergeant, April, 1865 ; 1st sergeant, June 1, 1865. William H. Crabtree was ap- HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 203 pointed corporal, Dec. 31, 1863 ; sergeant, June 8, 1864. Samuel S. Delany was appointed corporal, Dec. 31, 1863 ; sergeant, May 1, 1865. Thomas Shepherd was appointed corporal, j une 8, 1864; sergeant, June 1, 1865. Aleanzer Bothwell was appointed corporal June 8, 1864; sergeant, June 1, 1.865. William Orr was appointed corporal, Dec. 31, 1863 ; absent, no discharge furnished. Elijah S. Brown was appointed corporal, Aug. 6, 1864. Andrew McKirahan was appointed corporal, Jan. 1, 1865. Stewart Harris was appointed corporal, Jan. 1, 1875. Mathew C. Henderson was appointed corporal, April 1, 1865. Abram H. Randal was appointed corporal, June 1, 1865. C. Jones, appointed corporal, May 1, 1865, Robert M. Dent was appointed corporal, Jan 1, 1865. RECRUITS. Daniel I. Clark, Francis Clark, George W. Keeper, Jefferson Mayburg, Franklin Taylor. These gentlemen are from Belmont county. There were other recruits from different parts of this state, numbering in all, 36. DISCHARGED. John Cunnard, dicharged Jan. 1, 1865, expiation of term. Jefferson Chamberlain, discharged, Jan. 1, 1865, same. John C, Bolon, discharged, Aug. 8, 1864, to receive promotion. Joseph S. Barn hard, discharged, Jan. 1, 1865. John W. Taylor, discharged, Jan. 1, 1865, (expiration of term). Benton Bitenhour, discharged from hospital, Jan. 17, 1865. Emanuel Goldsborough. TRANSFERRED. Basil M. Simpson, Henry Butts, Thomas Fowler. DIED. Milo Wilkison, promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant, May 9, 1864; died of disease, Jan. 29, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn, Irwin Harrison, died of disease, Sept. 22, 1864. David Johnson, died in prison at Andersonville, Ga., Sept. 14, 1864. Patrick Martin, died in hospital, March 7, 1865. Samuel Meadly, died of disease, at Covington, , Ky., Feb. 24, 1814. George W. Nixon, died of disease, March 5, 1864. Add so Scycler, er died of disease, at Decatur, Ala., 12, 1864. Charles Taylor, died of disease, at Nashville, Tenn., July 14, 1864. Mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, , July 13, 1865. CO. F, 50TH REGIMENT O. V. I. Company F was .raised in Belmont county, and was mustered into service August 30, 1862. The company was organized as follows Thomas Clark, Captain. James G. Theaker, 1st Lieutenant. Robert P. Moore, 2d Lieutenant. Thomas C. Thoburn, 1st Sergeant. Hugh Dubois, Sergeant. George R. Grier, Sergeant. James R. Griffith, Sergeant. Andrew D. Mitchell, Sergeant. Lords N. Soles, Corporal. Isaac I. Cox, Corporal. James W. Shipman, Corporal. George W. Shipman, Corporal. Charles D. Chandler, Corporal. William G. Taggart, Corporal. Tames Henry, Corporal. Jacob K. P. Gahm, Corporal. PRIVATES.-D. K. Allen, Jesse W. Adams, Looman Beck, Wesley Beck, John T. Beck, James Boyles, G. Bliss, John A. Barrd, Gilbert W. Briggs, Samuel Briggs, John Bereg, Robert H. Clayland, John C. Chandler, Watson D. Cochran, Wilson H. Cochran, William Conway, Louis Coy, Samuel Cox, Harry Chambers, C. Cook, I. P. Conry, George Denny, Samuel Davis, Thomas S. Ewan, William Ellis, A. S. Field, Campbell Fitch, Simon Footer, Lafayette Githans, Thomas I. Githans, Charles Goff, Peter Gorman, Robert H. Griffith, A. H. Gody, Robert Goff, James Hutchison, Seth Howell, William Harrison, William Jackson, Charles Johnson, Levi Jones, Harry Jones, Samuel Jones, John Leech, Peter Leoman, William W.. McWilliams, Cyrus S. Moore, James Miller, Thomas D. Moore, Daniel S. Megeary, Joseph Marple, William A. Miller, Samuel Munloch, Peter Murry, John A Patterson, Theodore Porter, Nathan Parker, William Peirsall, George Phus, William Ryan, Philips Renick, John W. Riley, G. P. Riley, A. H. Reed, Jacob Bennet, G. W. Snodgrass, W. T. Steedman, Richard Slocum, H. H. Sprigg, Andrew Steele, George W. Trover, S. H. Taggart, Saul Thompson, John H. Tyson, Reuben Wells, Barnard Williams, Philip Wilson, Barnard White, Henry Wooster, John Young, Stephen Yates. PROMOTIONS, CASUALTIES, ETC. James S. Theaker was 1st Lieutenant from August 18, 1862, until June 21, 1864, when he was promoted to Captain. Thomas Clark was discharged June 21, 1864, on Surgeon,s certificate. Seth Howell was appointed corporal, May 1, 1863 ; severely wounded in the battle, of Franklin, November 30, 1864. David K. Allen, severely wounded in the battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. James Miller, last heard from, August, 1864, in hospital at Camp Dennison, Ohio. Joseph W. Stringer, was taken prisoner, November 30, 1864, at Franklin. DISCHARGED. Hugh D. Dubois, was promoted to 1st Sergeant, June 21, 1864, wounded at Franklin, November 30, 1864; discharged March 5, 1865, by reason of consolidation with the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. George R. Grier, discharged, March 5, 1865, by reason of consolidation with the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Andrew D. Mitchell, discharged, March 5, 1865, by reason of consolidation with the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Charles B. Chandler, discharged, March 7, 1863, for the Marine service. Robert Goff, was appointed corporal; May 1st, 1863 ; discharged March 5, 1863 ; and consolidated with 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. James Henry, discharged, November 24, 1862. Thomas D. Moore, appointed corporal, December 23, 1862 ; taken prisoner, November 30, 1864, at battle of Franklin ; discharged, May 22, 1865. William Taggart, discharged April 2, 1863. Hamilton Warren, transferred from 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, December 31, 1864; discharged, March 5, 1865. Robert H. Clayland, was appointed corporal, September 27 1862, discharged June 7, 1865, at Wheeling, W. Va. Looman Beck, discharged on certificate of disability, March 16, 1863. John A.. Barr, discharged, May 24, 1865. Louis Coy, discharged, October 28. 1862, for disability. W, P. Cochran, discharged, March 9, 1863, for disability. W. H. Cochran, discharged, May 23, 1863, for disability. William Ellis, discharged, January 1, 1863, for disability. Campbell Fitch, discharged, January 1, 1863, tor disability. Lafayette Githers, taken prisoner, November 30, 1864, at battle of Franklin ; discharged, May 20, 1865. William Kiphart, discharged, May 24, 1865. William A. Miller, discharged, March 24, 1863, for disability. Joseph Marple, discharged, November 24, 1862, for disability. Theodore Porter, discharged, November 24, 1862, for disability. L. M. Souls, discharged, April 17, 1865. George W. Shipman, discharged, May 12, 1865. William Rynard, discharged, April 10. 1863 for disability. TRANSFERRED. John Leech, William Pursell, G. P. Riley. DIED. James Boyles, died in hospital at Lebanon, Ky., Nov, 29, 1862, of erysipelas fever. James Francis, killed in battle of Perryville, Oct., 1862. Jacob K. P. Githens, died in hospital, Camp Dennison, 0., Oct. 3, 1864. Thomas J. Githens, died in hospital at Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 21, 1864, of dysentery. Charles Smith, taken prisoner at battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864; died March 27, 1865. at Vicksburg, Miss. DESERTED. Gilbert Biggs, John Berry, Samuel Briggs, Samuel Cox, Harry Chambers, Charles Goff, James Hutchison. There were 38 deserters from this company, but the above were all from Belmont county. This company was mustered out at Salisbury, N. C., June 26, 1865. Co. O, 52D REGIMENT, O. V. I. Company C was composed mainly of recruits raised at Barnesville and Somerton. On the 20th of August it was accepted into the service at Camp Dennison, 0., where the 52nd -Regiment was organized. The officers were : 204 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Captain, Jacob E. Moffitt. 1st Lieutenant, Abisha C. Thomas. 2d Lieutenant, Ezekiel E. Mills. 1st Sergeant, William P. Shanklin. Sergeant, William Starbuck. Sergeant, Newton. McGill. Sergeant, William J. Bradford. Sergeant, J. N. Hunt. Corporals—Isaac Yocum, Wm. H. Piper, John H. McHendry, C. W Grimes, James H. Curtis, Newell H. Buchannan, Wm. C. Deems. Drummer, Charles W. Tillett, RESIGNATIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC. Jacob E. Moffitt, resigned, Feb. 2, 1863. Abisha C. Thomas, mustered out. William P. Shankland, resigned, June 18, 1863. Christopher W. Grimes, mustered out ; commanded Co. C, to 1865 ; commanding Co. K, since April 1, 1865. Ezekiel E. Mills, resigned, Feb. 13, 1863. MUSTERED OUT. William Starbuck, Newton Gill, Edwin D. Patterson, promoted from Corporal to Sergeant, March, 1865. Isaac Yocum, N. H. Buchanan, W. C. Deems, Joseph A. Parsons, Chas. T. Whitaker, promoted to corporal. Charles W. Tillett, promoted from private, March 1, 1865. Harrison Moore, promoted from private, March 1, 1865. John W. Hance, promoted to corporal. Thomas B. Barnes, John Bailey, Wm, Carter, Isaiah B. Clift, Wm H. Coventry, William Calvin, Geo. W. Calvin, John Dilliha, George W. Day, James W. Falger, Isaac Hayes, W. G. Hilton, R. W Harris, James Hines, Humphrey Baler, John N. Hunt, Clemmens Hicks, William Hadley, Gilmore Howell, John W. Hardesty, William Latham, John W. Merrill, S. W. Parker, W. H. Piper, Thomas Petticord, John Bucker, John W. Stubbs, Alfred Stiffler, James T. Woodland, W. W. Wildman, Robert Warnock. KILLED IN BATTLE. Fenton M. Carter, killed by cannon shot, May 14, 1864, at Resaca, Ga. L. H. Street. killed by musket shot, June 27, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. Boyd Forbes, killed by musket shot, June 27, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. Wm. F. Beatty, killed by musket shot, July 19, 1864, at Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Alfred Bruster, killed by musket shot, Sept. 1, 1864, at Jonesboro, Ga. DIED. E. B. Clifford, died, Oct. 20, 1862, at Harrodsburg, Ky., of typhoid fever. George W. Campbell, died Dee. 29, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. of chronic diarrhæ, John Forbes, died Dec. 16, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., of chronic diarrhæ Isaac Stid, died Jan. 23, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., of erysipelas, Chapman Harner, died Nov, 11, 1862, at Bowling Green, Ky., of chronic diarrhæ. Ashbury Malone, died July. 25, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., of chronic diarrhoea. John Malone, died March 23, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. W. F. Lewis, died July 10, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn., of diarrhoea. W. J. Bradfield, died Aug, 8, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. Mordecai Carter, died Aug. 8, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. Alexander Hinton, died Sept. 13, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga. John W. Barnes, died March 21, 1865, near Bentonville, N. C., of wounds. James Chance, died March 25, 1865, of wounds. Ezra J. Mann, died May 1st, 1865, at New Bern, N. C. DISCHARGED. Amos H. Hampton, Oct. 24, 1862. E. Bailey, Dec. 19, 1862. B. F. Perky, Dec. 19, 1862. E, C. Tomlinson, Jan. 20, 1863. J. W. Hunt, Jan. 26, 1863. Asa T. Patterson, Feb. 6, 1863. John L. Brister, Feb. 20, 1863. William McDonald, December, 1862. Josiah B. McKee, Nov. 10, 1862. W. A. Brister, Nov. 10, 1862. Francis M. Acton, July 4, 1863. John H. McKendree, Aug. 20, 1864. James H. Carter, March 27, 1865. James W. Lyne, May 1, 1865. Jerome Miller, May 20, 1865. TRANSFERRED. Wm. L. Patton, to Engineers Corps, Aug. 31, 1864. James P. Carter, to V. R. C. Isaac Teets, mustered out June 3, 1865, at Washington, D. C. CO. F., 52D REGIMENT, O. V. I. Company F was recruited at Powhatan, Armstrong,s Mills, Dillie,s Bottom and Captina. It entered service at Camp Dennison, August 22, 1862. Officers were as follows: Captain, J. B, Donaldson. First lieutenant, John Irwin. Second lieutenant, Samuel C. Hutchison. Sergeant, Thomas B. Hammond. Sergeant, James W. McFadden. Sergeant, Samuel M. Gorden. Sergeant, Julius Armstrong. Sergeant, Benjamin F. Thomas. Corporals, Sylvester L. Brice, Conrad Slupman, Albert E. Crist, Anthony T. Lockwood, James McAvoy, James G. King, Isaac Gates, Elijah R. Hudson. RESIGNATIONS, PROMOTIONS, ETC. James B. Donaldson, resigned May 22, 1863. Samuel C. Hutch ison, mustered out. John Irwin, resigned May 20, 1863. Sylvester L. Brice, mustered out. Julius Armstrong, promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to company H. MUSTERED OUT. T. B. Hammond J, W. McFadden, W. S. Swain̊, John W. Hess, Anthony Lockwood, (no dis. furn,d) sergeants ; Michael Long, Isaac Yates, E. R. Hudson, Thomas Tyrrel, Peter Griffin, corporals. PRIVATES—John Anthony, Martin Baker, Eli Barnes, Volney Blue, Alex. C. Crist (no dis, furn,d), J. R Grist, (no dis. furn,d) David Dillon, William Duvall, Steward Doty, Robert Gates, James Gates, J. J. Gillespie, Robert Gillispie, Samuel Gillespie, Wellington Gillespie, F. J. Hendershot, Johnson Hammond, James Holland, G. W. Jones, T. H. Kirkland, John Moore, W. W. Moore, John. McVay, M. C. McCabe, (no dis. J. C. Rittman, Martin Purtiman, Salathiel Pugh, N. Pugh, (no dis. furn,d), h. Roder, William Souste, Joshua Swaney, Jas. Thornburg, James Tyrrell, Isaac Vandign, Jonathan Vandign, Perry Wright.. KILLED IN BATTLE. Albert E. Crist, killed in action at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864. Robert J. Stewart, killed in action at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864. Augustus T. Dorsey, killed in action at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864. DIED. Conrad Shipman, died November 3, 1862, of consumption at Evansville, Md. James G. King died November 22;1862, of fever at Danville, .Ky. Ebenezer Gillespie died of wounds received in action at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864. Cornelius Hess died October 30, 1862, of inflammation of lungs. Valentine Bryson died November 5, 1862, of congestive chills., .near Franklin, Ky. John W. Sidles died December 2, 1862, of chronic diarrhoea,. at Bowling Green, Ky, Asa Vandign died December 19, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. Jacob Shepherd died December 25, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. James Lucas died January 7, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. Joseph B. Roder died January 7, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. Robert Owens died January 1, 1853, at Nashville, Tenn. Joshua Campbell died January 30, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. John Kinney died January 22,1863, at Nashville, Tenn: John Hess died February 3, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. John Siler died February 6, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. DISCHARGED ON DISABILITY. Samuel M Gorden, February 9, 1863, Benjamin F. Thomas, April 6, 1863 ; James McAvoy, January 7, 1863 ; Wm. Bennett, October 27, 1862 ; John Shipman, John Jobes, November 17, 1862 ; Dorsey Danford, December 12, 1862; Robert Carpenter, February 1, 1862 ; Michael Allen, Alex. Landers, John Rush, G. W. Lindsey, February 3, 1863 ; Singleton Owens, Ed. Huffman, Henry Huffman, Daniel Groves, Alfred Doty, February 9, 1863 ; Hezekiah Laffell, February 10, 1863 ; John R. Trigg, February 16, 1863 ; W. T. Minanger, May 5,1863 ; Wm. Gatten, October 11, 1862 ; Win. Richardson, February 24, 1864 ; Frank F. Cook. discharged, but no record given ; Christian May, Oct. 27, 1864 ; Joseph H. Jones, April 25, 1864. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 205 TRANSFERRED. Thomas Boyers, G. W. Wallace, James B. Day, Robert A. Hammond. PRISONERS OF WAR. Thomas Fink, taken prisoner at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 16, 1863 ; supposed to have died. Wrias R. Martin, taken prisner near Goldsboro, N. C., while foraging; supposed to have teen murdered by his captives, March 17, 1865. Mustered out June 3, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Co. H. 618T REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was recruited at Bellaire, Bridgeport, Martin,s Ferry, Jacobsburg and Glencoe, Belmont county, Ohio. It was enlisted between January and April, 1862. It was organized as follows : John Garrett, Captain. David Rankin, First Lieutenant. Milton W. Junkins, Second Lieutenant. Isaiah Grafton, First Sergeant. John Wright, Sergeant. William Smith, Sergeant. William Whims, Sergeant. John G. Laning, Sergeant., Zenas Shipman, Corporal. James W. Grafton, Corporal. David B. Long, Corporal. Wilson S. Mitchell, Corporal, John Kennedy, Corporal. John Drum, Corporal. Joseph B. Dean, Corporal. Jacob H. Long, Corporal. Musicians—John Huntsman, William Martin. Wagoner—William Long. PRIVATES—Wesley G. Ault, Richard Beavers, Solomon Beach, Thomas Brown, Edward Brown, John Cumford, William Clark, John Dwayer, John Detwiler, Joseph Daagan, Alexander W. Daniels, Francis Daine, Alexander Evans, Monroe Francis, Richard S. Francis, John Fry, Nelson Gray, Isaac -A. Grist, William Gaston, Nicholas Hines, Albert Hockady, Samuel Hines, William Jopland, Thomas Jackson, Jacob Jackson, John W. Jackson, John Jones, John Johnston, Sterling Johnston, William Judd, Robert A. Kelsey, Joseph H. King, Peter Kenney, William Lash, James A. Long, S. B. Long, E. M. Mitchell, Michael McClusky, John Macauley, W. A. McKirahan, Jacob May, William Miller, John Moore, George Martin, James Nich- olson, Hugh Nixon, Terrence O,Brine, Robert H. Patterson, John W. Patterson, Samuel Potts, Richard Pearce, David Porter, Walker Pittett, John Porter, John T. Rothwell, James D. Richards, James S. Smith, Alfred Shahan, John Shatzer, George Swartz John C. Taylor, Joseph Penlev. Taylor. James W. Wright, George W. Worley, Michael Welsh, James Weir, Daniel W. Wise, Charles Wright, Fedale Zarne. Company H was partially consolidated with the 82nd regiment, Ohio Infantry, March 31, 1865, and made part of company H of that regiment. CASUALTIES OF CO. H. John G. Lanning, promoted to sergeant February 11, 1864. James S. Smith, promoted to corporal February 5, 1864. John T. Bothwell, promoted to corporal March 2, 1864. David Porter, promoted to corporal February 4, 1864. Westley G. Ault, promoted to corporal June 2, 1865. DISCHARGED. James Cain, released prisoner ; discharged by virtue of War Department. James W. Wright, discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 28, 1865. Mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 24, 1865. COMPANY E, 62D REGIMENT O. V. I. Company E was organized at Somerton and rendezvoused at Camp Goddard. This company was mustered into service October 16, 1861. The company was as follows : Henry G. Jackson, captain. Samuel B. Taylor, second lieutenant. Joel M. Maring, third lieutenant. Samuel D. Hopper, first sergeant. Francis A. Bishop, sergeant. John Couplin, sergeant. Charles E. Rowlen, sergeant. Jonathan Dunn, sergeant. Abel Hicks, corporal. William S. Hobbs, corporal. John B. Powell, corporal. Aquilla Thomas, corporal. William Sullivan, corporal. James Smith, corporal. Wilson Strahl, corporal. Thomas Wilson, corporal. PRIVATES.—Joab Bishop, James K. Bishop, Benjamin Bishop, Stephen I. Brown, Samuel H. Blaney, Charles Biddenhorn, William Burcher, Charles O. Bishop, James O. Couplin, William H. Carter, George Carpenter, Abraham Clark, Stephen Clandy, Henry Clark, Waldon Clark, John A. Driggs, Christopher Dillen, William T. Fletcher, Thomas H. Gibbins, William S. Gregg, Thomas D. Gibbins, David H. Grimes, Lawrence W. Hobbs, Alonzo M. Hobbs, Nathan H. Burford, Benj. S. Hurford, John W. Hopper, William W. Hopper, John L. Hadsall, Henry Howard, William E. Hudson, William W. Johnson, McDowell T. Koontz, George Kadle, Andrew I. Lane, John Livingstone, Franklin Morris, John R. Murrill, James Maxwell, Eli Miller, Benjamin Mahoney, George B. Monette, Washington Nelson, Vance Nelson, Joseph Nelson, Franklin Outland, Joseph Palmer, Elwood Price, Theophilus Peddicord, Lycurgus Peddicord, Gladne Patterson, Crawford Riley, Nathan Strahl, David L. Strahl, E. D. Strahl, William M. Stewart, Milton B. Stay, Thos. Starbuck, William I. Snode, Andrew C. Shepherd, Wm. Street, Evan T. Strahl, Thomas Strahl, Joseph C. Tomlinson, John W. Vandyke, William West, Leander Wiley, James L. Wharton, John Yocum, Joseph Yocum, Thomas Yarnall: CASUALTIES. Samuel H. Hopper was appointed first sergeant December 14, 1861 appointed second lieutenant August 11, 1862 ; ap- pointed first lieutenant May 16, 1863; appointed captain October 15, 1863; wounded slightly in the charge upon Fort Wag- ner, S. C. Thomas Wilson was appointed corporal December 14, 1861 ; promoted to sergeant May 15, 1862 ; promoted to first sergeant September 2, 1862; was severely wounded in the left hand and slightly in right side in the charge on Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted February 26, 1864 ; reappointed first sergeant February 1, 1864, William S. Hobbs was appointed corporal December 14, 1861; promoted to sergeant September 2, 1862; re-enlisted January 1st, 1864; reappointed sergeant February 1, 1864. Charles E. Rowlen was appointed sergeant December 14, 1861 ; re-enlisted January 1, 1864 ; reappointed sergeant February 1, 1864. Wilson S. Strahl was appointed corporal December 14, 1861; promoted to sergeant July 1, 1863; re-enlisted January 1, 1864 ; reappointed sergeant February 1, 1864. Charles G. Bindenharn was promoted to corporal September 2, 1862 ; promoted to sergeant July 1, 1863 ; was wounded in leg by pistol shot, and take prisoner in charge upon Fort Wagner, S. C.; was exchanged July, 1863 ; re-enlisted ; reappointed sergeant, William W. Sullivan was appointed corporal December 14, 1861; re-enlisted ; reappointed corporal. McDowell T. Koontz was promoted to corporal May 16, 1862; re-enlisted ; reappointed corporal. John L. Hadshall was promoted to corporal September 2, 1862 ; was wounded in leg by shell in charge upon Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. Wm. W. Hopper was promoted to corporal Feb. 1, 1864; re-enlisted; served in three months, service in the 17th Ohio regiment. Waldon Clark was promoted to corporal July 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted ; reappointed corporal ; was in charge on Fort Wagner July 18,1863 , B. S. Hurford was promoted to corporal July 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted ; reappointed corporal ; in charge upon Fort Wagner. Vance M. Nelson was promoted to corporal July 1, 1863; was in charge upon Fort Wagner July 18, 1863. W. H. Carter was promoted to corporal January 1, 1863 ; wounded severely by musket shot in the shoulder in the charge upon Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. Stephen J. Brown was in charge upon Fort Wagner, S. C. Samuel H. Blaney was wounded severely in right arm by musket shot in charge upon Fort Wag ner. S. C. David T. Burr and Joseph A. Budd were in charge upon Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. Henry S. Clark was taken prisoner in the charge upon Fort Wagner. William Craig detached as artilleryman July 20, 1862. John A. Driggs, William T. Fletcher, Thomas D. Gibbins, William S. Gregg, and Nathan H. Hurford were in charge upon Fort Wagner. Alonzo M. Hobbs was severely wounded in leg by musket shot in charge upon Fort Wagner. John T. Livingston was severely wounded 206 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. in foot by fragment shell at the siege of Fort Wagner. Franklin Morris was in charge at Fort Wagner.. Washington Nelson was in charge upon Fort Wagner July 18, 1863. Joseph Nelson, Gladne Patterson, William T. Street and John W. Snode were in charge upon Fort Wagner. Thomas Starbuck was taken prisoner at Fort Wagner. A. G, Taylor was in charge upon Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. Leander Wiley was wounded severely in the neck by musket shot in the charge upon Fort Wagner. DISCHARGED Henry G. Jackson discharged May 26, 1862, on account of disabilities. Joel M. Marring was appointed as captain, December 7, 1861; resigned on surgeon's certificate, August 11, 1862. Thomas Showers, transferred from company A ; discharged on surgeon,s certificate, January 29, 1863. Able Hicks, appointed corporal December 14, 1861 ; promoted to sergeant, May 15, 1862; discharged August 4, 1862. Jonathan Dunn, appointed sergeant, December 14, 1.861 ; discharged on surgeon,s certificate, December 26, 1862. John Couplain, appointed sergeant, December 14, 1862 ; discharged on surgeon,s certificate, May 8, 1862. Aquilla Thomas, appointed corporal, December 14, 1861; discharged on Surgeon,s certificate, September 13, 1862. James Smith, appointed corporal, December 14, 1861; discharged on surgeon's certificate, September 29, 1862. George Carpenter, promoted to corporal, May 15, 1862 ; discharged on surgeon's certificate, December 23, 1862. Jacob Bishop, discharged on surgeon’s certificate, M.ay 8, 1862. James K. Bishop, discharged on surgeon,s certificate, July 5, 1863. Charles O. Bishop; discharged on surgeon,s certificate, June, 1.862. James O. Couplain was wounded severely in the leg by a musket shot; discharged from effects of wound. Stephen Clandz, discharged for disability, July 5, 1863. Christopher Dillen was taken prisoner at Strasburg, Va ; Discharged by disability, June 17, 1862. John W. Hopper, December 13, 1862, for disability. John R. Merrel, on surgeon's certificate, December 13, 1862. Lycurgus Peddicord, on surgeon's certificate, September 4, 1862. Chas. Patten, on surgeon,s certificate, July 26, 1862. Nathan P. Strahl, on surgeon,s certificate, October 14, 1862. David L. Strahl, on surgeon's certificate, March 29, 1863. Wm. M. Stewart, on surgeon's certificate, March 15, 1863. Milton M. Stay, on surgeon,s certificate; date unknown. Andrew C. Shepard, on surgeon,s certificate, June, 1863. Evan T. Strahl, on surgeon,s certificate, August 4, 186:3. Eugene Stewart, on surgeon,s certificate ; date not recorded. Wm. West, on surgeon’s certificate, January 24, 1863. Thomas Yarnall, on surgeon’s certificate, June, 1863. TRANSFERRED John B. Powell, Aaron D. Yocum, E. D. Strahl, Samuel J. Sill. DIED. B. F. Bishop, at Hampton hospital, Va., September 2, 1862, of typhoid fever. L. W. Hobbs, was killed in the charge upon Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. Wm. E. Hudson, died a prisoner in Charleston, S. C., from wounds received in the charge upon Fort Wagner. Wm. W. Johnson was killed in the charge upon Fort Wagner. George. T. B. Monette, died at Frederick, Md., April 15, 1862, of typhoid fever. Riley W. Crawford was killed in the charge upon Fort Wagner. John W. Vandyke died at Harrison's Landing, August 11, 1862, of brain fever. James E. Stewart, died at Hilton Head, S. C., April 24, 1864, of hemorrhage of the bowels. This company was mustered out June 1, 1864. The history of this company is identical with the history of the regiment, as it never was separated from it. Co. E, 77TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was recruited at Bellaire, Pultney township, Washington, Mead and York townships, Belmont county. It rendezvoused with the regiment at Marietta, where the regimental organization took place. .tease Hildebrand was elected Colonel, The organization of company E, with its members, were as follows : Andrew Smith, Captain. Thomas Garrett, First Lieutenant. Hanson Criswell, Second Lieutenant. Daniel McCabe, First Sergeant. John L. McIntire, Sergeant. Levi M, Sinclair, Sergeant. G. W. Williams, Sr., Sergeant. John L. Thomas, Sergeant. Thomas Anderson, Corporal. John K. Hepburn, Corporal. Israel R. Heath, Corporal. Charles J. Bloom, Corporal. Dennis Hogan, Corporal. Benjamin Dunlapp, Corporal. Jacob P. Kinney, Corporal. James M. Baker, Corporal. John W. Stanhope, Musician. PRIVATES—Edward Burns, Thomas Barker, Peter Brandon, Leander Barnet, Win. C. Berry, Samuel Bennington, William Bennington, J. T. Broxton, James Baxter, Thomas B. Crozier, Jesse Cross, William Craigg, Wm. Chance, Benjamin Doyel, Eli B. Davison, James A. Dumfie, Monterville Drummond, Isaac Fogle, Jeremiah A. Fish, Isaac Gilbert, Moses Gordon, Austin Gill, John Hays, G. W. Hogan, James P. Hammond, David M, Hammond, Robert Hess, Dixon M. Hepburn, Andrew J. Heath, Joseph Hubbs, Hamilton Hunter, Jerome Higgs,. Emmer Jackson, Samuel Jackson, Harrison Jackson, Jacob Johnston, George Johnston, Edward Kinney, William Kinney, Robert Knox, Nathaniel Luke, Chas. Lyttleson, John McMillen, Francis Miller, Wm. P. B. McFarland, Thomas McCormick, Wm. H. O,Neil, Francis Pitner, Jacob Prest, Hugh Paden, William Porter, William. Ritcheson, Reuben Russell, Thomas Rosser, J. C. Sissel, Arthur Sissel, John Seaber, Johnston Sinclair, William Smith, Daniel Shoup, Samuel R. Thomas, John C. Taylor, Wilson S. Venharn, Nathaniel B. Wright, George W. Williams, Jr., William Williams, Andrew Williams, James Wallace, James W. Wallace, Thomas H. Wallace, John Wingrove,. Perry Wright, James Wells. The men of company E re-organized 8,8a portion of companies E and F of the same regiment. PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC. Company E.—Robert Hess, promoted to corporal, March 20, 1864. John Kune, promoted to corporal, June 5, 1863. Francis A. Pitner, promoted to corporal, June 16, 1865. Johnson C. Sinclair, promoted to corporal,.December 1, 1865. Samuel Bennington, promoted to corporal, March 1, 1866. John Wingrove, promoted to corporal, March 1, 1866. George W. Williams, promoted to sergeant until May 31, 1865 ; discharged at same date. Jacob P. Kinney, appointed sergeant, April 27, 1865, and trans- ferred to company F. Eli B. Davison, appointed corporal, April 27, 1865, and transferred to company F. Jeremiah A. Fish, transferred to N. C. S. of regiment and appointed quartermaster sergeant. W. H. O,Neil, transferred to vet. reserve corps, April 21, 1865. Geo. W. Hogan, died of disease at hospital in Louisiana, June 11, 1865. Mustered out at Brownsville, Texas, March 8, 1866. Company F.—George Johnson, Jacob Prest, Reuben Russell, Thomas Rosser, Wm. Smith, James W. Wallace, Geo. W. Williams, Jacob B. Kinney, promoted to sergeant, December 12, 1861. W. P. B. McFarland, discharged on disability, May 30, 1865. Jacob D. Decker, died while a prisoner of war at Tyler, Texas, July 21, 1864. Mustered out at Brownsville, Texas, March 8, 1866. CO. B, 98TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was enlisted at St. Clairsville and organized with regiment at Camp Mingo, near Steubenville, August 22, 1862. Its original officers and members were as follows : Joseph R. Mitchell, Captain. Louis Woodmansee, First Lieutenant, Hiram J. Craft, Second Lieutenant. Jacob L. Holloway, First Sergeant. Thomas J. Hawthorne, Sergeant. Samuel R. Smith, Sergeant. Benjamin R. Griffith, Sergeant. Jacob Hymes, Sergeant. Henry McDonald, Corporal. Hamilton Rogers, Corporal. James F. Watson, Corporal. William H. Roscoe, Corporal. Johnston Mitchell, Corporal. James E. Judkins, Corporal. G. W. Makinson, Corporal. Isaac H. Nichols, Corporal. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 207 Jesse Brandenburgh, Musician. William Reynolds, Musician. John F. Smur, Wagoner. PRIVATES.—William J, Alexander, Charles A. Allen, William Bell, Dighton Berry, John A. Bethel, Josiah Blackford, Smith Branson, James A. Brown, Albert Brown, Samuel Bruce, P. C. Campbell, Hiram Culp, Nathan G. Davis, Thomas Davis, Moses H. Dewault, David L. Dewault, Wm. F. Duff, David D. Dutton, Henry Fitzgerald, Eli M. Fowler, James Galbraith, Alfred Gardner, George H. Glenn, John Graham, George Graham, James Graham. Isaac G rimes, Johnston Hammond, Pennington Harden, Robert Hare, Wm. A. Hastings, Wilson Henderson, Jesse Huff, Job Hughs, W. B. James, John Jamison, George Jepson, Ezra Johnston, A. R. Jones, Allen M. Kirk, Evan B. Kirk, Ebenezer F. Knapp, J. B. D. Keim, Joseph P. Lees, L. S. Lilly, T. C. Martin, Wm. H. Miller, Martin Moore, James McBride, Jas. A. McNary, Mahlon Nichols, Thomas Nichols, Samuel M. Noah, W. W. Orison, John Patton, George M. Patton, Charles L. Pickering, Isaac K. Piggott, John Pollock, Reason Porter, Jesse Pratt, John Ralston, John T. Roseboro, ____ Rogers, Conrad Schmeitzer, Alex. H. Sloan, Joseph Smith, Joseph Spencer, Jerry Stinard, J. B. Stewart. James A. Stewart, Charles Stilwell, Lemuel Stilwell, William Taylor, G. W. A. Thompson, Alexander Thoborn, Ignatius Tillett, Geo. W. Vanscyol, Lewis Walter, Jesse M. Woods, O. A. Zane, Benj. Zane. PROMOTIONS, CASUALTIES, ETC. Joseph R. Mitchell, discharged October 14, 1864, on account of disability. Reece G. Lewis, promoted from first lieutenant company E; mustered out on separate rolls. Louis Woodmansee, discharged on account of disability December 23, 1863. Jacob A. Holloway was promoted from first lieutenant August 1, 1864. Hiram J. Craft was promoted from second lieutenant to captain of company E, July 29, 1864. George W. Makinson was promoted from corporal to sargent September 1, 1864. John Patton entered service as private ; promoted to corporal September 1, 1864. Mahlon Nichols was promoted to corporal September 1, 1864; wounded in battle at Bentonville March 19, 1865. Isaac Piggott was promoted to corporal September 1, 1864. James A. Stewart was promoted to corporal September 1, 1864. William B, James was wounded at Jonesboro, Ga., September, 1864. O. A. Zane was exchanged prisoner at Bridgeport, Ohio. KILLED. L. S. Lilly was killed in battle at Chickamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863. Johnson Mitchell was killed in battle at Jonesboro, Ga., September 1, 1864. Josiah Blackford was killed in battle at Chicamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863. Robert Hare was killed in battle at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. John Jameson was killed in battle at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864. William H. Miller was killed in battle at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1864. George W. A. Thompson was killed in battle at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. Reason Porter was killed in battle at Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862. Jesse M. Woods was killed in battle at Resaca, May 14, 1864. DIED. Hamilton Rogers died of disease at Perryville, Ky., October 19, 1862. Henry McDonald died of wounds received in battle at Jonesboro, Ga., September 1, 1864, John Pollock promoted to corporal November 25, 1862; died of wounds received at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Moses H. DeVault, died of wounds received in battle at Jonesboro, Ga., September 1, 1864. David D. Dutton, died of disease in hospital at Savannah, February 25, 1865. John Graham, died in hospital at Nashville, April 1, 1863, of chronic diarrhæ. George Glenn, died in Flush- ing, Ohio, February 17, 1863, of typhoid fever. George Hale, died of disease in hospital at Nashville, Tenn., August 25, 1864. Addison R. Jones, died in Lebanon, Ky., November 11, 1862, of typhoid fever. J. B. D. Kelm, died November 19, 1863, in hospital at Franklin, Tenn., of typhoid fever. Joseph P. Lees, died of wounds received in battle at Bentonville, N. C., March 10, 1865. Samuel M. Noah, died of chronic diarrhae February 6, 1863, at Lebanon, Ky. William W. Orrison, died of wounds (accidentally) at Convalescent Camp, Nashville, Tenn. Charles L. Pickering, died of disease in hospital at Lebanon, Ky., November 20, 1862. Joseph Spencer, died in hospital of disease, at Louisville, Ky., March 5, 1863. Joseph Smith, died of wounds received in skirmish near Graysville, Ga., November 26, 1863. Alexander Thorburn, died of disease at Cumberland, Ind., April, 1865. DISCHARGED. William T. Alexander, discharged January 31, 1862, to enlist in marine service. John A. Bethel, discharged January 31, 1863, for the same purpose. Smith Branson, discharged for disability December 11, 1862. P. C. Campbell, discharged December 30, 186, on account of wounds received in battle at Perrysville October 8, 1862. Thomas Davis discharged for disability, 1863. David L. Devault, discharged for disability December 14, 1863. Alfred N. Gardner, discharged for disability March 14, 1863. Isaac T. Grimes, discharged January 2, 1863, on account of wounds received in battle at Perryville October 8, 1862. Johnson Hammond discharged March 3, 1864, on account of wounds received in battle at Chickamauga. William A. Hastings, discharged for disability November 18, 1862. Wilson Henderson, discharged January 27, 1864, for wounds received in battle at Perrysville October 8, 1862. Allen M. Kirk, discharged for disability September 25, 1862. Thomas Nichols, wounded in battle at Perryville October 8, 1862 ; discharged for disability April 28, 1864. Jesse Pratt, discharged for disability May 29, 1863. John F. Roseborough, discharged for disability July 14, 1863. John B. Stewart, discharged for disability March 25, 1863, A. M. Sawash, discharged for disability March 21, 1865. Geo. W. Vanscyol, discharged January 19, 1862, to enlist in marine service. TRANSFERRED. Benj. B. Griffith, James F. Watson, Jesse Brandenburgh, Jeremiah Stinrod, William Taylor, Ignatius Tillet, Chas. M. Blackburn, Thomas E. Hale, G. L. Knapp, Philip Vilton, Hiram Riggs. The company was mustered out June 1, 1865. COMPANY E, 98TH REGIMENT O. V. I. Was enlisted in Belmont county, and was mustered into service August 20, 1862. The original officers and members were as follows : Adam Cordner, captain. Zachary C. William, first lieutenant. John T. Collins, second lieutenant. Lewis G. Rece, first sergeant. Lewis Boger, sergeant. John H. Price, sergeant. W. T. Harmar, sergeant. Cyrus B. Lingo, sergeant. E. W. Smith, corporal. William H. White, corporal. George C. Vanlaw, corporal. Clark Wilkison, corporal. Alfred W. Givens, corporal. Thomas Bell, corporal. Jesse Cordner, corporal. Enfield Wineman, musician, Dennis L. Kemp, musician. L. C. Griffith, wagoner. PRIVATES.—Lewis Adison, Henry Ault, John M. Battin, Wilson Battin, Henry C. Beall, Mahlon Brown, Henry Bright, Martin G. Budd, Thomas Burnes, Milton Carpenter, Thomas Carpenter, David Cecil, Evan Chandler, B. L. Craig, James Creighton, William Davis, Ezra Davis, Michael Delany, Henry Defenbaugh, William Dermolt, David R. Eggey, John E. Evans. E. D. Evans, John Finch, John Finney, Nehemiah Fisher, Ed. S. Foreman, 0. E. Folk, John Gallagher, Archy Garrett, Reuben Green, Samuel C. Green, Alex. Green, Wm. M. Green, Nicholas Gregg, Abner 1. Gregg, Robert Harris, George Hinkle, George E. Hoops, Nathan Humphrey, Abner L. Hunt, John W. Jones, Caleb Jones, William T. Jones, William L. Kemp, John A. Kemp, William Knight, B. H. Lane, B. F. Leach, Wm. K. Lightfoot, Benj. Loper, William B. Lucas, Robert N. Luke, John Moore, Wm. H. Morrison, James Murry, Edward McGinnis, Broomhall McKessen, William McKirahan, William McMannis, William H. McMillen, R. Nevill, Thos. J. Pickering, James Powell, William H. Powell, Isaac Reader, George Russell, Wm. Spencer, Wm. Thornberry; Franklin Thornberry, Jacob Francis, Lucas Topton, John Vanfassin, Enos Waters, Jas. K. White, John White, Jonathan Wheeler, Erasmus Wilson, Nicholas Wilson, Abner Wilkissen, Joseph Whitey, Alben Wilkissen. 208 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. PROMOTIONS, RESIGNATIONS, CASUALTIES, ETC. Adam Cordner, resigned January 54, 1863; William C. Lochary, promoted to captain, February 7, 1863; killed at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863; John T. Collins, promoted to first lieutenant February 7, 1863 ; promoted to captain January 15, 1864; resigned July 29, 1864. Hiram J. Craft was promoted to captain company E, July 29, 1864. Reece G. Lewis was promoted from corporal to sergeant, February 7, 1863 ; promoted to first lieutenant December 7, 1864. Ezekiel W. Smith, promoted from corporal to sergeant, January 1, 1863 ; to first sergeant, December 17, 1864. James Murray was promoted from corporal to sergeant, December 17, 1864. Milton Carpenter, exchanged prisoner of war. KILLED. Lewis Boyer, killed in action at Graysville, Georgia, Novem- ber 26, 1863. Michael Delaney, killed in action at Perryville, October 8, 1862. William H. Davis, killed in action at Bentonville, North Carolina, March 19, 1865. John E. Evans, killed in action at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. William M. Green, killed in battle at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. William H. McMillen, killed in battle at Jonesboro, Ga., September 1, 1864. Isaac _Reeder, killed in battle at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, DIED. William T. Harmer, died November 9, 1862, of wounds received at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. Cyrus B. Lingo, died December 24, 186-, at New Albany, Indiana, of typhoid fever. Henry C. Bell, died June 21, 1863, at Nashville, Tennessee, of phthysic. William H. White, died November 5, 1862, of wounds received at Perryville. Thomas Burns, died November 5, 1862, at Louisville, Kentucky, of disease. Martin G. Budd, died April 16, 1865, of chronic diarrhoea, at Louisville, Kentucky. Wilson Battin, died of measles at Lebanon, Kentucky, January 6, 1863. Nehemiah Fisher, died October 16, 1862, of wounds received at Perryville, Kentucky. Nicholas Gregg, died December 12, 1862, at Columbia, Kentucky, of disease. Archie Garrett, died October 1, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, of chronic diarrhoea. Robert Harris, -died May 6, 1864, of disease, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. William. Knight, died April 7, 1863, of measles, at Franklin,. Tennessee. Broomhall McKissen, died October 14, 1862, of wounds received at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. George Russle, died November 30, 1862, of disease, at Lebanon, Kentucky, Wm. Spencer, died November 7, 1862, at Lebanon, Kentucky, of disease. Lucas Tipton, died December 11, 1862, at Bardstown, Kentucky, of typhoid fever. DISCHARGED. John H, Price, discharged Jan, 1, 1863. Jesse Cordner, discharged February 9, 1865: Clark Wilkison, discharged January 20, 1863. Enfield Winneman, discharged February 1, 1863. Henry Bright, discharged May 20, 1863. John M. Battin, discharged January 1, 1863. James Creighton, discharged May 7, 1863. Evan N, Chandler, discharged January 15, 1863. Edward S. Foreman, discharged February 2, 1863. Alexander Green, ,discharged December 20, 1862. Samuel C. Green, discharged March 4, 1863. Nathan Humphrey, discharged November 17, 1862. Caleb Jones, discharged September 13, 1862. W. T. Jones, discharged August 6, 1863. John A. Kemp, discharged January 28, 1863. Benjamin F. Leach, discharged April 25, 1863. William H. Kiraham, discharged December 31, 1862. William McMannis, discharged April 25, 1863. Thomas J. Pickering, discharged January 16, 1863. Jonathan Wheeler, discharged February 7, 1863. Abner Wilkison, discharged May 9, 1865. TRANSFERRED. Jacob Travis, Alban Wilkinson, R. N. J. Luke, John Moore, John Bell, Eli Garretson. Co. E. was mustered out of service on the 1st of June, 1865, near Washington, D. C. Co. B, 126TH REGIMENT, 0. V. I. Captain Wm. B. Kirk recruited this company from Flushing, St. Clairsville, Barnesville, and other points in Belmont county. 1 It was mustered into service on the 4th of September, 1862. The following was the original organization : Wm. B. Kirk, Captain. George W. Hoge, 1st Lieutenant. Robert Hillis, 2d Lieutenant. John A. Shaffer, 1st Sergeant. Joseph L. James, Sergeant. William B. Johnson, Sergeant. Henry Cecil, Sergeant. Joseph H. Palmer, Sergeant, Reuben McGregor, Corporal. Joseph H. Close, Corporal. George Bowles, Corporal. Isaac M. Clevinger, Corporal. Barkley Cooper, Corporal. Thos. L. Hoge, Corporal. Wm, Copeland, Corporal. Samuel Bailey, Corporal, George Clinton, Musician, Andrew Richards, Wagoner. PRIVATES.-G. M. Bailey, Warren Bailey, Hiram W. Ball, Robert Bendure, Abner Bethel, Wm. Boyd, Enos W. Brown; B. H. Bryan, Philander Chandler, Clark Chandler, David A. Chandler. John Clark, Wm. W. Cooper, John Crawford, Samuel Criswell, Solomon Donner, William E. Dove, Isaac Eddy, Jonas Faucett, W. W. Groves, John C. Howell, Wm. P. Huffman, George Haines, Joshua C. Howell, G. S, Huston, Abraham Kelly, Melancthon Keyser, Daniel Kibler, Joseph Knight, Oliver P. Knapp, Wm. H. Loy, Edward Mathews, N. H. Majors, George McFarland, William Moore, John A. Morris, Isaac N. Mumma, John W. Near, George Obarn, John H. Patrick, William J. Patrick, Jacob Perkins, David Polan, John A Polan, Nimrod Pumphrey, Leander J. Reynolds, Simeon L. Russell, Anthony Romans, Adam Socrist, Chester K. Smith, Daniel H. Starkey, Samuel Starkey, Philip L. Speck, Daniel Thatcher, Benj. H. Vanfossen, George Vanfossen, Washington Waddell, George Weldon, James Winrod, James Parks, John Scales, Eli- jah Ferguson, John W. Vanfossen, Henry R. Lupton, Isaac Haines, Henry Hissey. PROMOTIONS, 'CASUALTIES, ETC. Samuel B. Swank, took command of company, Dec. 31, 1864, to June 25, 1865. Robert Hilles, died, May 13, 1864, by reason of wounds received in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. William B. Kirk, discharged, June 25, 1863, disability. Joseph C. Watson, discharged, May 15, 1865. George W. Hoge, discharged. Nov. 18, 1864, to accept a commission as Colonel of a new Regiment. George Vanfossen, promoted to sergeant from corporal, April' 1, 1865, Isaac N. Mumma, promoted to sergeant from corporal, April 1, 1865. John Clark, promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865• Benjamin Vanfossen, promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865. Anthony Romans, promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865. H. W. Ball, Was exchanged prisoner of war ; captured in Battle Monocacy, July 9, 1864 ; joined company, April 23, 1865. Daniel H. Starkey, captured in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; Exchanged and joined company, April 25, 1865. Samuel Starkey,. promoted to corporal, April 1, 1865. NO DISCHARGES GIVEN. Barkley Cooper, promoted to 1st sergeant, April 30, 1864; wounded and captured in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Abranam Kelley, 1st sergeant from Nov. 1, 1862, to April 30, 1864; captured in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864; paroled Feb. 28, 1865. John Adams, (drafted), wounded in battle near Petersburg, Va., June 22, 1864. Geo. M. Bailey, was sick in hospital at muster out. Oliver T. Knapp, sick in hospital at muster out. Daniel Kibler, exchanged prisoner of war; captured in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864; paroled Feb. 28, 1865. William Moore, wounded and captured in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. George, Osborn, wounded in battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1865. DIED. Joseph Q. James, killed in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Joseph Knight, killed in battle of Cedar Creek, Oct, 19, 1864. Adam Secrist, killed in battle of Opequan, Sept. 19, 1864. William W, Cooper, died May 8, 1864, of wounds received in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Joshua C. Howell, died, May 10, 1864, of wounds received, May 9, 1864. Waitman McDaniel, HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 209 (drafted), died of wounds received in battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864. John A. Polan, died of wounds received in battle of Wilderness, May 19, 1864. William J. Patrick, died April 1, 1864. of wounds received in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864. George Weedon, died May 19, 1864, of wounds received in battle of Wilderness, May 1, 1864. Isaac H. Clevenger, died Feb. 5, 1863, pneumonia, at Martinsburg. Samuel C. Bailey, died Oct. 6, 1864, of chronic diarrhea, at St. Clairsville, Ohio. Abner Bethel, died Sept. 11, 1863, of fever, at Alexander, Va. Clark Chandler, died Jan. 17, 1863, of typhoid fever, at Martinsburg, Va. Isaac Haines, missing in battle of Wilderness, May 6, 1864, John F. Linton, (drafted), missing on march from Snickers Gap, Va., July 21, 1864. Edward Matthews, missing in battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864. DISCHARGED. William E. Dove, March 24, 1865 ; Henry R. Lupton, .March 27, 1865 ; Robert Bendure, Jan. 4, 1864 ; James Parks. March 11, 1865; Leander J. Reynolds, Jan. 31; 1865; William Boyd, Aug. 6, 1863 ; B. H. Bryan, Jan. 7, 1865; Joseph H. Close, Feb. 23, 1863 ; Henry Cecil, Feb. 23, 1863 ; John Crawford, March 25, 1863 ; Isaac Eddy, May 14, 1865 ; Abel Gilbert, May 27, 1865 ; G. S. Huston, Jan. 1, 1865; Thomas L. Hoge, Dec. 2, 1862 ; all the above for disability. Demas Imes (drafted), June 28, 1864 (war department); John A. Morris, mustered out, May 18, 1865; George W. Price, May 14, 1865, for disability ; John A. Shaffer, April 29, 1864, disability ; C. K. Smith, Feb. 9, 1865, disability ; John Souls, discharged June 12, 1865, disability ; Washington Waddell, mustered out, May 24, 1865; James Winrod, June, 1865. TRANSFERRED. Reuben J. McGregor, William R. Johnson, David A. Chandler, Joseph H. Palmer, Philip L. Speck. Company was mustered out near Washington, June 25th, 1865. CO. D, 129TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was composed of men from Belmont, Fairfield, Monroe and Licking counties. It was mustered into the United States service at Camp Cleveland, August 10, 1863. The following are the names of those from Belmont county : David J, Bailey, captain. Thomas Danford, first sergeant. John G. Mechem, sergeant. Charles H. Damsel, sergeant. Lewis C. Mechem, sergeant. Robert Crozier, corporal. Samuel B. Crew, corporal.  Adam Moore, corporal. Joseph McMullen, corporal. Daniel Stukey, corporal. PROMOTIONS. David S. Bailey, promoted from private to first lieutenant, July 14, 1863 ; to captain, July 22, 1863. John G. Mechem, promoted from private to first lieutenant, July 22, 1863. Thos. Danford, appointed seargeant, July 23, 1863. Charles H. Damsel, appointed sergeant, July 23, 1863. Lewis C. Mechem, appointed sergeant, July 23, 1863. Robert Crozier, appointed corporal, August 23, 1863. Samuel B. Crew, appointed corporal, July 23, 1863, Adam Moore, appointed corporal, July 23, 1863. Joseph McMullen, appointed corporal, July 23, 1863. Daniel Stuckey, appointed corporal, July 23, 1863. John W. Fays, appointed corporal, July 23, 1863. PRIVATES—William Addair, Washington Addair, Benjamin F. Baker, James C. Davenport, Christopher Dawson, Benjamin Elliott, Joseph Ebright, John H. Ellis, C. C. Grimes, died in U. S. hospital at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, February 26, 1864; John Gallagher, William Gotten, Eli Hodgin :Edmund Hibbard, Henry Huffman, William Hannon, James W, Hinion, Levy W. Jones, Henry Lisle, Daniel Lewis, Joseph Martin, Samuel Mc: Hendrey, Thomas McCoun, Lewis C. Norris, James Porterfield, Thomas C. Payne, Reuben Powell, Samuel Roddy, John Rush Milton Reeves, John S. Scribner, A. B. Shrimp, James W. Shipman, Mead P. Strahl, James T. Stidd, David Stidd, Charles Lovel, George E. Tallman, Wm. B. Wheeler, Amos Williams, John T. Ward, John W. Wright, William Wheeler. Mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, March 4, 1864. 27—B.&J.Cos. 170TH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARDS. This regiment was recruited at Bellaire, Ohio, where it was organized May 13 and 14, 1864, to serve one hundred days. It was mustered into the United States service on the 13th of May, 1864, and left for Washington City on the 17th, but being detained by the destruction of the bridge at Harper's Ferry, it did not reach its destination until the 22d. The regiment was mustered out September 10, 1864. The field and staff officers of this regiment were as follows : Colonel, Miles J. Saunders. Lieutenant Colonel, Arthur Higgins. Major, Wm. W. Junkins. Assistant Sergeant, James B. Crawford. Adjutant, Edward S. Affleck. Quartermaster, John Conwell. NON-COMMISSIONED. Sergeant Major, George W. Baggs. Hospital Steward, Benjamin F. West. Commissary Sergeant, James M. Paul. Quartermaster Sergeant, John W. Cassell. COMPANY A. Captain, William Robinson. First Lieutenant, George Griffin. Second Lieutenant, Wilber H. Tallman. Henry Miller, Thompson S. Woods, .David Steadman, Andrew Baggs, Wm. Hastings, sergeants. Robert T. Howell, Frank Cross, Joseph Boyles, Wm. Truman, Wesley Cross, James Enlow, Wm. S. Warfield, Wm. Church, corporals. Musician. Zera Sharp. PRIVATES.- Wm. Alexander, W. W. Atkinson, W. W. Berry, John C. Beck, Alexander Blazier, Samuel Bales, G. W. Bailey, G. W. Baggs, (appointed sergeant major and transferred to field and staff) Wm. Brooks, George Banford, James Coss, Martin Coss, John Coss, Hamilton Crawford, Newport Campbell, Marion Chalfant, James Duncan, Wm. Dysart, James Field, Isaac Fitch, John Giffin, Jesse E. Gill, Alexander Gill, James Goudy, Henry Reason, Levi Henry, Isaac Henry, John Haley, James Haines, Wm. Hukell, J. W. Hunter, John Kinsey, Isadore Lilly, James Lyle, Washington Lyle, James Low, Edward McDowell, (captured by the enemy July 24, 1864) Peachy Miller, Reese McDonald, Jas. McDonald, Jas. McIntosh, John McKnight, Leander Neelan, Armstrong Neelan, John Neininger, Theodore Porter, Jerome Porter, Sylvannus Parker, John H. Patterson, Frederick Rasher, Charles M. Rhodes; Rittenhan, James, Ryan, Clement Russell, Sanson Scott, "Benjamin F. Stephen, John Shaffer, Samuel Short, Silas Sells, Henry Stratton, Francis Seals, Edward Trueman, Benjamin F. West, (appointed hospital steward and transferred to non-commissioned staff), Ebenezer Woods, James Weir, Charles Zane, John Watkins. COMPANY B. W. B. Glasco, captain. Wm. S. Fisher, let lieutenant. Wm. Kelley, 2d lieutenant. Henry Fisher, sergeant, Lewis M. Casman, sergeant. Wm. F. Gamble, sergeant (captured, July 18, 1864, near Rocky Fording, Va.) Joseph E. Johnston, sergeant. Robert M. Henderson, sergeant. Benjamin W. Hamer, corporal. Amos Spear, corporal. Michael Fierbaugh, corporal. Cyrus. M. Barton, corporal. Emanuel Bell, corporal. William S, McKee, corporal. L. W. Hamill, corporal, John A. Denning, corporal. Daniel Weyandt, musician. Thomas B. Stubbins, musician. Jacob Warner, wagoner. PRIVATES—John Addleman, Maurice Albaugh, Isaac Brown, B. E. Betts, Nathan Boyer, Abraham Baker, Jeremiah Brown, (furloughed May 17 to May 27, and failed to report), Zadec Bliss (mustered out, absent—sick), Henry F, Clark, wounded in action, July 18, 1864; J. C. Creagor, furloughed for one hundred days on surgeon,s certificate ; Joshua, Cox, Phillip Cahill, John L. Caldwell, Arthur Conlin, mustered out, wounded in action 210 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. near Rocky Fording, Va., July 18, 1864 ; Stevenson Creal; mustered out, wounded in action near Rocky Fording, Va., July 18, 1864; John Cammina; died in general hospital, Annapolis, Md., August 10, 1864; Harrison 1)eLong, mustered oat, September 10, 1864; WM. Dunlap, died in general hospital at Frederick, Md., July 28, 1864 : David M. Dickson, Richard Edwards, Wm. C. Edwards, John S. Eagleson, appointed acting adjutant, August 17, 1864; Richard E. Fowler, Francis Fowler, Thomas E. Fowler, Wm. E. Fowler, Ezra Griffith, Francis A. Grace, David Greenlis, John Gundy, Daniel F. Heaston, Joseph N. Heaston, James A. Henderson, George Harper, killed in action at Rocky Fording, Va. July 18, 1864; John G. Jones, Leander Long, Isaac H. Lyons, Cyrus McCurdy, Allen Miller, Andrew McBeth. George Moore, Wm. L. McMillen, John A. Myers, Enoch Miller, Walter McClintock, James Norman, Absalom Price; Israel L. Parsons, died at Fort Simmons, June 27, 1864; John Patterson , Win. Rutter, wounded in action near Rocky Fording, Va., July 18, 1864; J: L. S. Russell, Alpha H. Sheltz, John Sams, Joshua Turner, Wm. Zimmerman, John Trawl, Daniel Turner, John Thompson, Jeremiah Warner, Lewis M. Willett, Daniel Warner died of wounds received in action at Rocky Fording, July 18, 1864; John L. Webster, wounded in action July 18; Harvey Waters, Wm. Walker. COMPANY C. Samuel Glover, captain. George C. Gorden, first lieutenant. George W. Green, second lieutenant. John. Boger, sergeant. George Crozier, sergeant. Ferdinand Dorsey, sergeant. Wm. Dent, sergeant. William Beebout, sergeant. Frederick Boetticher, corporal. Joseph' L. Gorden, corporal. W. H. Gibson, corporal. Dorsey Orloff, corporal. Madison Scott, corporal. Wm. Trigg, corporal. Daniel Steiner, corporal. Davis P. Woodburn, corporal. John Wade, David C. Burgundthal, musicians. PRIVATES.—Samuel Aberigg, William Anthony, Alfred Baker, Daniel Baker, John Boston, George Brock, John Brown, Jam Burgy, Arnold Burkhart, Leander P. Barnes, George Carpenter, Robert Carpenter, Andrew J. Cline, Joseph Cross, Jo-slab Dillon, Housen .Dennis, Lewis Eggers, Armor Ewers, Samuel Gorden, Thomas Gorden, Bentley T. George, Noah J. Grimes, Sylvester Green, Michael Hess, Isaiah Helms, William Harriett, Henry Hoffman. George Kelch, William Kelch, Samuel Kocher, Gustavus A. Korner ; John H. London, wounded in the thigh and captured at Martinsburg, Va.; left in hospital at Martinsburg by the rebels ; Sylvanus Lockwood, Caleb Morrison, Alonzo Mead, Joseph Moore, Francis Miller, Thomas L. Moore, John Mosier, Henry Petzold, James L. Piggett, Charles L. Peters, Marion Runnels, Jefferson Rowles, George L. Scott, William Shepherd, James R. Simpson, P. Mead Strahl, Lewis Specht, Joshua W. Stackhouse, Moses Stricker, Isaac Starkey. Henry Warren, Milton Warren, John L. Widman, Thomas Wilkinson, William Wingrove, George W. Wright ; John Wright, promoted to corporal, June 15, 1864; Thomas Yocum, Benjamin Zercher. COMPANY D. Jacob Cramblet, captain. David S. Coultrape, first lieutenant. Benj. G. Hamilton, second lieutenant. Elias W. Davis, sergeant. W. H. H. Price, sergeant. Citizen J. Kennedy, sergeant. Robert N, Simonton, sergeant. Daniel Smith, sergeant. W. P. White, corporal. David W. Adams, corporal. Robert W. Erwin, corporal. Edward Caves, corporal. James Scott, corporal. Andrew J. Wagstaff, corporal. Joseph H. Law, corporal. Robert C. Guthrie, corporal. James Bliss, musician. Wm. D. Lukens, musician. Samuel Weaver, wagoner. PRIVATES.—Christopher Arkle, James Adams, James H. Bendure, John Barr, Gabriel J. Crabtree, Alfred H. Clark, Wm. Copeland, John W. Copeland, Enoch C. Copeland, John Copeland, Thomas Cox, Mathew S. Cole, John N. Crowl, Wm. R. Crim. Joel Cramblet, Joseph Copeland, James P. Erwin James Eslick, John B. Evans, John E. Fowler, John Gladman, Samuel F. Gallagher, Isaiah Hoagland, J. C.. Hurless, J. H. Y. Histon, James F. :Rouse, Watson Hammel, George W. Hammond, IL W. Hest, Thomas Hillyer, Win. Hillyer, Henry Hillyer, John D. Horn, Samuel Hitchcock, G. M. limn, Alfred P. Jones, J .R. Johnson, Win. L. Johnson, D. A. Lukens, Thomas J..Lukens, John S. Moor, James H. Merryman, Fanquiker McRea, David Mahon, Joseph D. Moore, Thomas McClintock, Lafayette Martin, John Poulson, Isaac Patterson, John A. Pitts, Wm. J. Ross, Jesse Richardson, Wm. Rowland, Wm. Reynard, Joseph Robinson, David M. Scott, John Spray, Matthew W. Simpson, John K. Stine, Samuel Straus, Jacob Underhill, Archibald Underhill, Samuel Utterback. Henry W. Wilson, John D. Woods, W. R. W hite. COMPANY E. Albert W. Lee, captain. Alexander C. Patton, first lieutenant. Mathew N. Henderson, second lieutenant. Marcus Howell, sergeant. Wm. A. Frater, sergeant. John P. Harvey, sergeant. David A. Duff, sergeant. Landon Grimes, sergeant. Samuel B. Ward, corporal ; promoted to sergeant May 17, 1864. John M. Linn, corporal; captured at Martinsburg July 25, 1864, Eli Siebert; corporal. Abram Loper, corporal. John E. Stewart, corporal. Robert W. Palmer, corporal. Robert A. Todd, corporal. John L. Grimes, corporal ; wounded in action July 18, 1864. Joseph Linder, corporal. Samuel Satterthwait, musician. PRIVATES.—Robert Barnes, Robert D. Bell, Thomas Burtoff, Thomas Boyd, Wm. S. Barnes, Francis Couron, Boyd W. Dysart, J. C. Duffie, James A. Duff, Sylvanus C. Dysart, James C. Dysart, John L. Dunbar, George Frazier, J. D. Fread, James P. Ferguson, Wm. Fresh, Thomas M. Graham, Edward J. Graham, Peter Graham, George Goudy, David Gibeny, Thomas Gilhan, Chas. T. Gilhan, Win. Grimes, George W. Hayes, Alex. C. Henry, Alexander Hammond, promoted to corporal, May 12, 1864 ; Elisha Huff, William H. Johnston, Samuel Jackson, William King, Joseph Lynn, Joseph Lyle, Charles Lee, promoted to corporal July 24, 1864; Ephraim Louis, Jesse Mitchell, David K. McCance, Geo. Maholin, Wm. McNary, left sick in hospital at Pittsburgh, Aug. 26, 1864. Isaac Miliner, Leander Milburn, Marion McCallister, Jas. Moore, died at Annapolis Junction, Md., August 8, 1864, Jas. C. McConnell, T hos. McKee, Calvin Moore, Calvin Patton, Geo. W. Porter, Geo. Patterson, Geo. W. Peregoy, Leven Powell, Claudius. Richner, James M. Rogers, captured July 24, at Winchester ; returned to company. Addison Sells, Evan Stephens, Nimrod Stevens, Samuel M. Thompson, Michael Umbenhow, captured at Winchester, July 24; escaped and returned to company ; Henry Williamson, Mordecai, David Davis. COMPANY F. Leonard Peck, captain. Jas. H. Graham, first lieutenant; died in hospital, August 11, 1864, John H. Hammond, first lieutenant. J. H. Lewis, sergeant. Lewis W. Furbay, sergeant. Isaac Booth, sergeant. Elisha Moore, sergeant. James M. Adams, sergeant. James W. Honerth, corporal. Ezra Thompson, corporal. John Hanna, corporal. James Coulter, corporal. John E. Dutton, corporal. John E. Keyser, corporal. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 211 George Holmes, corporal. Edward Hagan, corporal, Franklin Anderson, musician. Israel Waterman, musician. William Harriman, wagoner. PRIVATES.—Owen Anderson, Geo. Atkinson, Geo. Baldwin, Abner R. Blackburn, John Butler, William Barkhurst, Henry Brown, John B. Beck, Isaac Carter, Edward Carter, Ezra L. Carrick, John Clark, John Coulter, William Custard, John Darmour, Theodore Dickerson, George Ely, Isaiah Fields, jr., Geo. Frater, Benj Griffith, Samuel Gooding, Joseph M. Hargrave, John R. Hawthorne, Joseph Harrison, John Holliday, Archibald Hammond, Francis Hawthorne, Andrew Jamison, Jos. L. Kerr, Robert Kerr, Estep Lynn, John A. Lemmon, Wm. Lawrence, Sylvanus Lamb, Win. McCombs, Horner C. Moore, Jas. Minteer, W. H. H. Mercer, died in hospital at Sandy Hook, August 24, 1864; Charles McCombs, Samuel McGrew, Wm. Poland, Jacob Peterman, Wm. Perry, Charles E. Speer, James Stone, Silas Stevens, Eli Shields, John Singer, Robert B. Stevens, Jas. Smallwood, Joseph Shepherd, .Robert Smallwood, Joseph Thompson, Michael K. Tolan, John W. Townsend, Samuel Walker, Wm. A. Wallace, Abraham Wilson, Warren Worstel, George Wilson, Sylvanus White, William A. Watkins, Robert White, Willing Dickson. COMPANY G. ____ James, captain. Joseph J. Mead, first lieutenant. John Smith, second lieutenant. Robert N. Theaker, sergeant. Luther Etzler, sergeant. Thomas C. Mercer, sergeant. Wm. P. Henderson, sergeant. Wm. Henderson, corporal. Reuben K. Ashton, corporal. James A. Brown, corporal. Thomas C. Dugan, corporal. Edward J. Updegraff, corporal. Ellis B. Steele, corporal. Isaiah Parlett, corporal. Benjamin White, corporal. PRIVATES—David Ashton, James W. Alexander, wounded in action at Winchester, July 24 ; William Allander, wounded in action at Martinsburg, July 25; Thomas C. Brown, Adoniram Barton, Mathew Blackford William Brown, William Bernhard, Wilson Cochran,Brock, H. W. Bigley, Orlando Cope, Isaac G. Cope, Cochran, A. F. Clark, Charles J. Dungan, Thomas G. Dugan, Abel Dungan, W. D. Devault, John H. Denham, William Davis, William Davidson, wounded in action at Martinsburgm July 25, Oliver Embree, David Fowler, Joseph Fryman, John B. Gill James Gardner, Alexander Henderson, John L. Henderson   Perrine Henderson, Byron Hogue, David Harriott, William Jones, Henry Jones, Albert Lawson, promoted to sergeant July 8, 1864, Theodore Lash, William if. Lash, Elisha W. Lewis, John Lemmon, Isaiah Loper, Charles H. McCall, Charles Mead, Gilbert Neelan, Jesse Nichols, Mortimore Nichols, Elisha Oxley, Charles W. Perry, Thomas H. Perry, died, Jesse Pratt, Alonzo Porterfield, William Palmer, Benjamin .Renard, Samuel Roberts, Harrison Roberts, Wesley A. Steele, William Sloan, David D. Stillwell, Nathan Smith, Thomas Seals, George Shive- ly, Wm. Tarbert, Leander Vickers, Joel Walker, James Wear, wounded in action at Winchester July 24, David Wells, Benjamin Westlake, J. L. Van Pelt. COMPANY H. Edwin Regal, captain. John E. Cannon, first lieutenant. Robert P. Hanna, second lieutenant, George A. Crew, first sergeant. George Lanning, sergeant. Thomas Dawson, sergeant. James McWatty, sergeant. Daniel L. Parish, sergeant. Thomas A. Jobes, corporal. William Peregoy, corporal. William McCullough, corporal. Thomas H. Baldwin, corporal. Thomas H. Culberson, corporal. W. W. Mansfield, corporal. John C. Dickerson, corporal. John W. P. Gallaher, corporal. Geo. W. Rife, musician. Jonathan Copeland, musician. Jonathan McGuire, wagoner. PRIVATES.—David R. Beatty, John Beatty, Anthony Beck, David Boals, Benjamin Bogardus, John C. Brown, Samuel H. Brown, Samuel Bruner, John Calderhead, died of typhoid fever at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Md., August 3, 1864, Moses W. Cannon, John W. Cassell, John A. Chandler, Silas Clark, John P. Cramblet, Robert D. Crawford, John Crumley, Samuel H. Culbertson, Homer Day, Joshua Dickerson, William J. Dickerson, Joseph Dyson, George Fogle, John W. Fogle, Nathan Fogle, Daniel Garvin, David Gutshell, James F. Hanna, Harmon Har ris, Francis W. Hibbard, John Hill, Samuel Howell, A. R. Kennedy, J. C. Kilgore, Joseph V. Lee, Lemuel Luke, Thomas Mansfield, James Maxwell, David McCall, William McCall, Alexander McConnell, Barnet McCoy, Andrew McFarland, Robert McFarland, William McLaughlin, William McMillan, W. V. Minteer, John T. Morrow, Cyrus Paul, Joshua Polen, James Poulson, William Rowland, Noah Scott, Shannon Leslie, Jas. T. Shannon, Milton Taggart, William S. Tweed, Benjamin Van Kirk, William Welsh, James White, David J. Wiggans, George B. Williams, James Wilson, Robert Wilson, Walding Young, William A. Pittinger, .Robert A. Hammond, J. M. Lee. COMPANY I. Nathan H. Rowles, captain. Elias B. Lowman, first lieutenant. Daniel Westlake, second lieutenant. William Rankin, sergeant. Samuel S. Martin, sergeant. Cyrus H. Strahl, sergeant. John T. Wortman, sergeant. Jas. F. Anderson, sergeant. Nelson Moid, corporal ; captured at Martinsburg, W. Va., July 25; rejoined company Aug. 24. James K. Crozier, corporal. Joseph H. Heatherington, corporal ; captured at Martinsburg, Va., July 25, 1864. C. W. Hall, corporal. Leander Greenlee, corporal. William McFarland, corporal ; appointed sergeant Aug. 11, 1864. John Dunfee, corporal. James McGregor, corporal. PRIVATES.—Lafayette Austin, Lycurgus Austin, Isaac Anderson, John C. Abel, Daniel W Archer, Frederick Bickel, John Bair, Samuel Boyd, John W. Cunningham, Robert Clark ; died at Division Hospital, Sandy Hook, Md,, July 27, 1864; Jacob Dunfee, Alfred Dean, James Davis, William Fry, Charles A. Fuller, William J. Forbes, Joshua Foster, W. H. Ferry, Patrick Gibler, W. H. Greenlee, Frederick Garlach, Edward Grubb, Melvin Groff, William Hall, John E. Heatherington, John Goldsworthy, captured at Martinsburg, W. Va., July 25, 1864; Samuel Hines, Alexander Hammond, John H. Henderson, Stephen Hipkins, Hiram M. Ingler, W. W. Jones, Isaac A. Keyser, William A. Keyser, Jesse B. Keyser, Jacob T. Keyser, Jacob P. Keyser, George King, J. H. Long Alexander Lyal, Thomas McMahon, James McMahon, Samuel McMillen, Robert McClellan, Henry Murz, Joseph C. Nelson, John Nesbit, A. R. Norman, Abraham Porter, W. S. Patterson, John W. Patterson, Harrison Richardson, Samuel Richardson, John T. Steele, Abraham Sprowl, W. A. Starkey, Jacob Turnbull, Thomas Reese, Harvey J. Tarbet, William F. Tarbet, Joshua Vessels, Joseph Vessels, George W. Westlake, Albert G. Wineman, Harrison Williams, W. C. White, Samuel Zimmerman. COMPANY K. Lewis Lewton, captain, mustered out as colonel of the 170th regiment O. N. G., August 15, 1864. William H. Oglevie, first lieutenant. George W. Healer, second lieutenant. James Gilbert, sergeant. James M. Paul, sergeant. William Philips, sergeant. W. S. Grove, sergeant. John W. Osborn, sergeant. Robert Wilkins, corporal, promoted to sergeant July 18, 1864. William S. Haverfield, corporal. M. K. Turner, corporal. Samuel A. Osborne, corporal. James H. Haverfield, corporal. Morrison Moorehead, corporal. Thomas Miller, corporal. John Stubbins, musician. George W. Lewton, musician, Eli Nicholas, wagoner. 212 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. PRIVATES.—Jesse Arnold, James A. Amspoker, William B. Adams, Evan Berry, Jacob Brough, Samuel Browning, Clarkson Bower, Stewart Beebe, Joseph W. Chaney, Thompson Craig, J. M. Clark, W. A. Clark, Abel Carson, promoted to corporal July 18, 1864; Dunlap Dickerson, B, Dickerson, Albert Dewey, William H. Duffield, Abraham Eli, Samuel Finney, C. J. Ferrell, Nathan B. Haverfield, Joseph H. Haverfield, William Henderson, Henry Hagadorn, Samuel M. Hines, Christian A. Hines, John W. Hines, Geo. W. Howard, William T. Hedge, Hiram Merriman, Thomas Johnston, died of typhoid fever in hospital near Sandy Hook, Md., August 11, 1864; Joseph L. Johnston, Alexander B. Kerr, discharged on account of disability June 22, 1864; Samuel Leeper, Archibald Leeper, died of fever in Pleasant Valley Hospital, near Sandy Hook, Md., August 12, 1864; William Lee, Adison Layport, W. C. Laizure, Stephen R. Magee, John A. McAfee, Henry Mattern, James R. Marsh, John McBride, Henry McKee, Wm. Maggett, John B. Marshall, Nathan H. Mansfield, Samuel B. McConnell, John H. Nichols, discharged for disability June 18, ; James A. Penn, John A. Penn, Thos. Phillips, Griffith 'Roberts, Wm. T. Ramsey, Thos. J. Ritchey, R. M. Sheets, Thomas H. Selby, George Shivers, Samuel Shivers, Emanuel Smith, promoted to corporal July 18, 1864 ; Thomas W. Thompson, Albert Tipton, Randolph Tipton, Lafayette West, Finney Ray, promoted to corporal July 18, 1864. MISCELLANEOUS. The following is a list of recruits and veteran volunteers mustered into West Virginia organizations and credited to Belmont county, Ohio, since January 1, 1864: FIRST W. VA. CAVALRY. Jesse Chamberlain, Calvin C, Hasson, John C. Majors, John Cass, Joseph P. Burdett, Adam Coss, William Heskett, Josiah Hatcher, George W. Jeffries, Wm. D. McKirahan, James Martin, Jonathan Milburn, Curtis B. Stedd, Jacob Watson, William Gill, John Estep, Patrick Menehan, Robert Armstrong, W. H. Brown, Reuben H. Lucas, Aaron Moore, John N. Elliott. FIRST INFANTRY. William Humphreyville, John Barton. FIFTH CAVALRY. William Fowler, Stephen G. Jones, William Clark. FIRST ARTILLERY. Erasmus F. Baily. Co. C,116th REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was composed of Monroe county men, with the exception of five from Belmont county. It was mustered into service under Capt. Frederick H. Arckenoe on the 19th of September, 1862. The company was mustered out of service at :Richmond, Va., June 14, 1865. The following named gentlemen were from Belmont county : Abel C. Barnes, wounded at Cedar Creek ; Franklin Barnes, mustered out at expiration of service; Miller Brown, three months, extra pay as a prisoner of war confined in Libby prison ; Samuel Dobbins, three months, extra pay as a prisoner of war, confined in Libby prison ; Walter Theaker was appointed cor poral June 15, 1863. Co. H, 86TH REGIMENT O. V. I. Abraham Porter and Campbell K. Smith, of Bellaire, Ohio, were members of this company. It was mustered into the service of the United States for six months at Camp Cleveland, O., July 14, 1863. .Mustered out February 10, 1S64. Co. K, 78th REGIMENT O. V. I. William E. Barnes enlisted December 11, 1861. Mustered out with company at. Louisville, Ky., July 11, 1865. COMPANY C, 60TH REGIMENT O. V. I. Captain B. Kyle's company was mustered into the service at Camp Chase, April 5, 1864. Belmont county contributed about twenty-five men to this company, as follows : PROMOTIONS. John R. Merrill, promoted to sergeant, June 1. 1865. Adam Stewart, promoted to corporal, November 5, 1864. Oliver C. Torbet, promoted to corporal, February 1, 1865. PRIVATES,—Oliver C. Jones, John T. Skinner, James W. Skinner, George A. Shry, Joseph G. Snade, Allen B. Thomas. DISCHARGED ON DISABILITY. Jeremiah Horton, July 4, 1865. James A. Barnes, May 12, 1865. Joshua Fred, April 27, 1865. Wm. W. Clark, January 13, 1865. IN . C. Manning, Philip S. Williams, June 21, 1865, DIED. Jesse E. Berry, killed in action at Petersburg, Va., June 17. 1864. Joseph Mayhugh, killed on duty near Petersburg, Va., June 28, 1864. John D. Bryan, killed in action at Nye River, Va,, May 12, 1864. Charles W. Carter, died in Camp Chase of disease, April 10, 1864. John M. Johnson, died at Baltimore, Md., October 8, 1864, of disease. Wm. W. Kyser, died July 22, 1864, of wounds received while in action. Tillman Nichols, died of wounds received in action at Cold Harbor, Va., July 2, 1864. Milton H. Shry, died October 6, 1864. John S. Summers, died September 2, 1864. Thomas Stephenson, killed in action, Oct. 27, 1864, at Matcher,s Run, Va. Company mustered out at Delaney House, D. C., July 28, 1865. COMPANY D, 60TH REGIMENT O. V. I. This company was composed of men from different counties in the state. Those from belmont county are indicated below. The company was organized by Captain W. W. Robbins and went into Camp Chase, April 6, 1864. It was mustered out at Delaney House, D. C., July 28, 1865. PROMOTIONS. Joseph E. Lewis, sergeant. Wm. J. Parsons, sergeant, DeL. Eckels Marquis, promoted to sergeant, May 1, 1865. Corporals —Samuel W. Gordon, Hemy S. Barnes, Ellis Brill. PRIVATES.—John Alwood, Owen Delong, Wm. S. Dyer, John H. Ellis, George W, Gebhart, Calvin N. Malone, Anthony B. Shimp, Cornelius Stidd, Israel A. Thompson, George H. Tillman. DISCHARGED. John W. Hays, April 17, 1865. Wm. H. Barnes, February 9, 1865. Evan Dickison, May 19, 1865. G. W. Hance, Juno 72 1865. Wm. M. Nace, January 17, 1865. DIED. James A. Vance, died December 30, 1864, in Salisbury, N. C., in rebel prison, while a prisoner, of war. James Barnes, died May 10, 1864, in ambulance, caused by a gun shot wound in hip; received May 9, 1864, at Nye River. by W. Crew, died October 10, 1864, in Alexandria, Va., of chronic diarrhoea. Samuel Griffith, May 12, 1864, killed at Spottsylvania, Va.; shot through head in a charge against the enemy. John H. Moore, died August 28, 1864, in A ndersonville, Ga., of dysentery, while a prisoner of war. Charles 0. Morrow, died December 26, 1864, in Salisbury, N. C., prison. Dewitt Steel, May 9, 1864, in Fredericksburg, Va., of measles. CONCLUDING REMARKS. The historian, in making out the above record of Belmont county, has endeavored to give as complete a list of the volunteer soldiers who enlisted from said county, as was possible for him to do. It may be that there yet remains some names which are omitted, of persons who enlisted from this county at remote points in this and other states, and which were not disclosed to the author. There were four companies of "Departmentals," from the county, the rosters of which were not on file in Columbus. An effort to get them from Washington City was unsuccessful. Belmont county has borne a conspicuous part in the suppression of the rebellion. Many of its noble patriots fell in defending the Union. It early responded to the President’s call for three months, men, and sent three companies into the field—most of whom subsequently re-enlisted. Over two thousand served in the three years' sevice, many of whom became veter- HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 213 ans. The 170th regiment of hundred day men were all from this county, and like those who preceded them, did good service and acquitted themselves like men. But, alas! many who left the county as brave soldiers, full of hope and patriotic zeal, never returned again. Some may ask where are they ? Ah! their lives have gone out on the memorable battle fields of Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Nashville, Cheat Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, McDowell, Greenbrier, Second Bull Run, Little Rock, Jonesboro, Wilderness, Monocacy, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and many others. Belmont also contributed to the long list of starved soldiers of the horrible prisons of Andersonville and Libby. Its war record is a good one, and is well worthy the space it occupies in this history. CHAPTER XX. GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF BELMONT COUNTY BY T. W. EMERSON. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. It is thought proper to introduce this geological sketch of Belmont county by a brief outline of such of the general principles of geology as will enable those who have given little or no attention to the subject to read the sketch with interest and profit. Only such of these principles will be introduced as are necessary to a full understanding of the subject, and those in as brief a manner as is consistent with clearness, the use of scientific terms being avoided so far as it is possible to do so without sacrificing scientific accuracy. Yet, as the work is intended to be useful rather than merely readable, the use of technical terms will, of necessity, be resorted to, especially in the general articles on sandstone, limestone, and coal. Geology is sometimes poetically called "the story of the rocks. It might be more logically defined to be the history of the earth as determined by the rocks. Imperfect, as all human sciences must necessarily be, it can not properly be called a complete history of the earth ; but, so far as it goes, it is a clear translation from the rocky records of at least an outline of the world's history : a chronicle of the perpetual changes and succession of great events which have wrought out of the gray vague of chaos the varied and beautiful world of to-day. It is a. history, without dates; written, not in the mutable language of human speech; not in the perishable and infinitely varied characters which represent human thought ; but in the plain picture-language of Nature—a language without idiom or inflection, perfect, simple, and universal ; the same in Europe, India, and the islands of the sea. True, geology, like other sciences, has become more or less involved in technicalities ; but that arises from the imperfection of human language; from the inability of the translators of Nature,s book to express in their own dialect that which is plain and simple in the original. The literal translation sacrifices half its beauty for accuracy; the free translation loses its accuracy in attempting to reproduce the beauty. There is but one way to preserve both : that is to read the simple record from the original. "To him who, in the love of Nature, holds communion with her visible forms," there need be—there can be—no difficulty in understanding the "various language" which she speaks. KINDS OF ROCKS. The geologist is accustomed to regard the earth,s crust as consisting of masses and layers of rocks miles in thickness, covered generally with a thin robe of soil at most a few inches deep. It is his business to divest each locality of its thin garment of soil, and to study the solid structure beneath. This he cannot do literally but by studying the exposures of solid rock here and there, and comparing and collating the various results. he can arrive at length at a very satisfactory knowledge of the whole structure. The nature and method of formation of each kind of rock being known, we have only to determine the kinds of rock of a certain locality, and the order in which they occur, and we are then enabled to reproduce the entire geological history of the locality. It is hardly necessary to state that there is no great variety-in the kinds of rocks of Belmont county. To treat of the numerous kinds of minerals that may be found among the pebbles and river stones of the Ohio river basin, or of other similar deposits, would be foreign to our subject. The framework of our hills consists mostly of deposits of sand stone, lime stone, and clay in their various forms, interlaid with seams of coal. Of these four minerals, therefore, it is necessary to treat somewhat in detail. The names and character of other minerals will be introduced only so far as they are connected with these. SANDSTONE AND CLAY. In our every day experience we are accustomed to think of sand as pulverized sandstone, but it would be more strictly correct to regard sandstone as consolidated sand. The sand we see along our roads has of course been worn off from the stones of the road-bed by travel and weather, and washed into beds by rains. A bed of sand thus collected, mixed with quantities of iron in small particles, would, if undisturbed, solidify in the course of years. The iron would rust, and the oxide thus formed would cement the sand into solid rock. The sands at the bottom of the sea are often found hardened into stone, where lost anchors, cannons and other articles of iron have lain for several years. The same result is sometimes produced where springs containing some of the forms of lime in solution flow among sand-beds; the calcareous matter acting as a cement to the loose grains of sand. There is considerable proportion of iron in the sandstones of our higher formation. The yellow color of the higher soils and clays is due mostly to the yellow oxide of iron, or rust. The red color of bricks is due to another oxide of iron, formed by the union of the oxygen of the air with the iron which the clay contained. It is not uncommon in this county to find sandstones containing blue iron ore ; but most of the iron at the surface of the ground, when the air and moisture can reach it, is in the form of yellow oxide. Sandstone, then, being composed of grains of sand cemented together by forms of iron or lime, it is worth while to inquire further into the nature of sand itself. Pure sand is rarely, if ever found in the interior. It may be seen along the seashore and on the shores of lakes, where it is washed clear of the mud and clayey particles, which form so large a part of our interior sands. Pure sand is perfectly white. It is called silica, and substances containing it are said to be silicious. Silica, or pure sand, consists of little irregular shaped particles of a mineral, called quartz. Quartz exists in a great variety of forms ; but all the different kinds may be grouped into two classes, the crystallized and uncrystallized. The uncrystallized forms are flint, jasper, chalcedony, hornstone and sandstone. In its crystallized, form it takes various names according to its color. The crystals are regular six-sided prisms, as shown in Fig. 1.* When it is free from coloring matter it is transparent as the most perfect glass ; in which case it is called pellucid, or limpid quartz. Some of the pellucid quartz found near Hot Springs, Arkansas, are so pure and hard, that they are called "Rocky Mountain-diamonds." The amethysts used for sets in jewelry are violet-colored quartz-crystals ; and the agates so common in jewelry stores, are half-pellucid quartz, with dark bands, or with figures of the appearance of moss. Opal is another form of quartz, usually containing a little water in composition. Quartz is one of the hardest of all minerals ; it is so hard that it cannot be scratched by the hardest steel point. It does not melt in the hottest fire ; it will not dissolve in water ; and neither aqua fortis, muriatic, or sulphuric acid, produce any effect upon it. Yet stubborn and unrelenting as this mineral is, it may easily be dissolved by pulverizing it into sand and heating it with potash, lime, (quicklime), or soda (not the substance commonly called soda, but that chemically so called). It is by this process of heating quartz, in the form of sand, with potash, lime or soda, that glass is made. So we see that our common, coarse, and too often unvalued sandstone comes of a good family, and has many eminently respectable relations. It would be an easy matter to show him near of kin to the great family of granites, and to many other families less useful but more highly appreciated than himself; but want of space forbids. There are usually other elements besides quartz and and iron in sandstone. The most conspicuous of these is mica. The little, glittering scales which school-boys call "isinglass," are mica scales * See illustrations Geological Essay. 214 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Like the quartz, with which it is associated, it has been broken up into very small fragments, and pretty thoroughly mixed up with the general mass. In its native state, mica consists of large thin plates or Scales, sometimes as much as a yard in diameter. Specimens of native mica may often be seen used as windows in the doors of parlor stoves. Still another substance called alumina is usually present in sandstone, of which it is proper to speak here, since it is the principal ingredient of clay —a .substance pretty generally known in Belmont 'county. Alumina in its pure form is the hardest of all minerals, except the diamond. The only pure form are the ruby and the sapphire, both of which are well known gems of great value. The garnet consists of alumina and silica colored with oxide of iron. Emery is composed mostly of alumina. Alum is another well known mineral having alumina for its base—whence the name. When sulphur exists in connection with alumina, it sometimes, by a curious chemical process, absorbs oxygen from the air, and is thereby changed into sulphuric acid; this unites with the alumina, and thus forms basic alum, which is chemically called sulphate of alumina. These facts may help to explain the presence of alum in connection with some of our Belmont county sandstones : notably, the well-known "Alum Rocks" of Wayne township. Alumina is composed of oxygen united with a brilliant white metal, called aluminum, which possesses more than twice the strength of iron. Thus we .see that clay, being a silicate of alumina, also conies of good stock, being respectably. connected on both sides. When sands containing clay consolidate into sandstones, they make what are called flagstones. A great deal of the sandstones of the higher formation of Belmont county are of this nature. Some of these make very beautiful paving stones. Those guarried near Badgersburg, in Goshen township, can scarcely be excelled for that. purpose. LIMESTONE. Limestone, marble and chalk are but different forms of the same substance. Limestone is chalk broken up and redeposited by the action of water, and hardened by pressure, heat, or other agencies. Marble is limestone with a crystalline structure produced by the action of heat. When we speak of limestone in its broadest sense, therefore, we include all grades of calcareous rocks, from the hardest marble of the bills of Carrara to the soft chalk we use on our black-boards in school. Only the intermediate form, or limestone proper, is found in this county; and it is in reference to this form alone that the word will be used ; but it may be necessary to speak of the other forms, chalk and marble, in order to explain the true nature of limestone. Limestone is often found crystallized ; that is, turned to beautiful glassy crystals having a cleavage in three directions, at snch angles that the substance always splits into rhomboidal blocks, of the shape of Fig. 2. These crystals, called in general talc spar, have various specific names according to their character. If the limestone contains certain impurities the crystals are of a muddy color, and are called simply rhomb spar, in allusion to their shape ; but this name would apply equally well to any other variety of caic spar. if it is pure, the crystals are as clear and transparent as the most perfect glass, and are known as Iceland spar. In this county, however, the limestones are generally uncrystallized. Occasionally one may be seen which, when broken, shows small " blossoms," and not unfrequently we find beautiful specimens of calc spar in. iron concretions. But no large masses of glistening spar are found, such as may be found in eastern Indiana or northern Kentucky, for example. Our limestones consist of beds of gray, blue, or yellow calcareous rock, usually arranged in layers of hard stone alternating with softer deposits of the same substance; that is the appearance, at least, presented by the outcrops of the Limestone Series along our larger creeks. But the soft, earthy deposits which separate the harder layers are produced by the weathering of stone containing a larger proportion of carbonate or sulphate of magnesia. This variety is consequently called magnesian limestone by chemists. The yellow variety, of which there are two 'conspicuous beds in this county, owes its peculiar color to the yellow oxide of iron. Those varieties with little or no magnesium or silica make excellent quick lime, and are valuable as a. flux or slag in iron smelting. The higher beds of our region are used very extensively for both these purposes. Origin of Limestone.—It is by the study of chalk that we are enabled to go back farthest in the history of limestone. A piece of chalk examined under a microscope will be found to be composed of the shells of minute: sea-animals, called foraminifers. The remarkable little creatures which form these shells are described as "animals that have no organs of sense, and, in gen- eral, not even a mouth to eat with. When a particle of the desired food touches the body, and is perhaps held there by its power of stinging, that part of the body begins to be depressed, and continues to sink inward until the food is in a cavity inside made for the occasion ; then the food is digested, and any part of it not digested is thrown out by restoring the body to its former state."—(Dana.) Some of the shells of these animals are represented in Fig. 3, (from Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. IX,) all highly magnified. They are so small that they make a fine-grained rock. An ordinary chalk-mark destroys hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these little shells. One variety called the globigerina is by. far the most common and best known. The scientific expedition sent out a few years ago by the British Government, in Her Majesty,s ship Challenger, to study the minute life in and at the bottom of the sea, made some very interesting discoveries concerning the globigerina. The observations made on the sea-bottom by this expedition, together with those made by the Coast Survey of our own country, and others, enable us to say positively that limestone formation is going on to-day at the bottom of the sea by the deposition of globigerina shells. Not only that, but we have now positive information as to the life and habits of these animals, They live in the sea at all depths, but chiefly at the surface. "They are more abundant and of a larger size in warmer seas."—(Prof. Wyville Thompson’s Report to the Royal Society.) The shells of the living animals are clear and transparent, differing from the dead shells found at the sea-bottom, much as a living snail-shell differs from a dead one. Within a zone extending fifty or sixty degrees on each side of the equator, the E eas at present swarm with these little creatures ; and at the bottom is forming a bed of soft calcareous mud, usually spoken of as globigerinoe ooze, which serves as a clue by which we may trace out the whole history of limestone. This history may be briefly told: Chalk is formed at the bottom of the sea, of the dead shells of globigerinoe and other foraminifers ; limestone is formed by a breaking up and redepositing of chalk, together with other shells, corals, and crinoids. Says Prof, Huxley : "A hundred years ago the singular insight of Linnaeus enabled him to say that 'fossils are not the children but the parents of rocks,, and the whole effect of the discoveries made since his time has been to compile a larger and larger commentary upon this text. It is, at present, a perfectly tenable hypothesis that all silicious and calcareous rocks are either directly, or indirectly, derived from material which has, at one time or other, formed part of the organized framework of living organisms. Whether the same generalization may be extended to aluminous rocks, depends upon the conclusions to be drawn from the facts respecting the red clay areas brought to light by the Challenger. If we accept the view taken by Mr. Wyville Thompson and his colleagues—that the red clay is the residuum left after the calcareous matter of the Globigerinae ooze has been dissolved away—then clay is as much a product of life as limestone, and all known derivations of clay may have formed part of animal bodies."—[Popular Science Monthly, May, 1875. This is indeed a broad generalization ; but it is warranted by. ample evidence, Which it is not within the province of a sketch like this to consider; It is enough that our Belmont, county limestones contain sufficient evidence, both in their arrangement and in the fossils they contain, of their having been deposited in uniform layers as. sediment at the bottom of the sea, or other vast body of water. Hundreds of minute marine shells of the family of gasteropoda may be seen, even with the naked eye, in the limestone quarried on the farm of Mr. Porterfield, north of St. Clairsville, and used for macadamizing. Many larger species, both of gasteropods and brachiopods, are found in our limestones; to say nothing of the still more minute species which the microscope may reasonably be expected to reveal, As to the silicious rocks, including sand, there is unquestionable evidence, that materials for such rocks are accumulating at the bottom of the polar seas of to-day, and these materials are the remains of plants and animals. There is reason, also, both in fact and by analogy, to believe that our clay material is of smiliar origin ; but while the organic origin of sandstone and limestone is considered by geologists to be. established, the origin of clay from organic remains, is not satisfactorily proved. Limestone Chemically Considered—It is well known that if a piece of pure limestone be subjected to great heat, in other words, burnt, it will become a substance of entirely different nature, quicklime. Whence this change? What has really happened to so change the nature of the substance.? The mpg() is HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 216 limply this : The limestone has been decomposed into two separate elements, one of which, an invisible gas, has been driven off by the heat to mingle with the atmosphere, while the other, I solid quicklime, remains. These two elements are so important in geology that it is necessary to speak of each somewhat ,n detail. Carbonic dioxide is the name by which the invisible /as which is driven off from burning lime is now known. It is be well-known gas formerly called by chemists, carbonic acid. it is composed of two equivalents of oxygen combined with one )f carbon. In its natural state it is a colorless gas, about one Ind a half times the weight of air, Being thus heavier than the ttmosphere, it does not rise like the lighter gases, but seeks the lower levels; and consequently it may be handled by the expert chemist in much the same manner as water. Though perfectly invisible, it may be dipped or poured from one vessel to another, may be bottled up, and may be experimented with in various ways which would be impossible in the case of the lighter gases. If a living animal, as a mouse, be placed in a vessel of pure carbonic dioxide, it will quickly become insensible and die. In the same way men often lose their lives by descending into wells or caves where this gas, which they call dead air or damp, has collected. It is produced in large quantities by the burning of wood and coal, and by the decaying of animal and vegetable matter everywhere ; consequently there is a greater or less amount of it in the atmosphere at all times. It is usually obtained for experiments by the action of sulphuric or nitric acid, or even strong vinegar; upon powdered limestone, marble, chalk, or animal shells. It is obtained in this manner in large quantities for the purpose of charging the beverage misnamed "soda-water." Although it is a gas under ordinary circumstances, carbonic dioxide may, like most other gases, be reduced to a liquid, and even to a solid. An English chemist, Prof. Faraday, found that this gas under powerful pressure sinks into a clear, limpid liquid. Thilorier, a French chemist, repeated Faraday,s experiments, and found that the condensed gas, subjected to a pressure of six hundred pounds to the square inch, turns to beautiful snowy crystals. It has since been reduced to a clear crystaline solid lice ice, by freezing the temperature required being something like one hundred degrees below zero. The other element of limestone, quicklime, is so well known that it needs little description. It is composed of the common gas oxygen united with a metal called calcium. This metal is never found native. It is so rare in its pure state that few people ever have an opportunity of seeing a specimen. Its affinity for oxygen en s so strong that it has to be kept in a carbon oil to protect it from the air and moisture. It is so difficult to obtain, and so hard to keep when obtained, as to render it quite expensive. In appearance it is a beautiful silvery metal, so soft that it can easily be cut with a knife. When freshly cut it has a bright silvery lustre, like a piece of lead ore, or the face of a piece of freshly cut lead ; but its lustre begins to tarnish as soon as it is exposed to the atmosphere. The only natural and permanent form in which this metal exists is in composition with other elements : goneraly united with oxygen and carbonic dioxide in the form of limestone, or with oxygen and phosphoric acid in the form of phosphate of lime, the substance of which the bones of animals are chiefly composed. Thus it will be seen that lime plays an important part in the animal world : its carbonate forming the solid parts (shells) of the lower order of animals, and its phosphate forming the solid parts (skeletons) of the higher orders. How The Lower Orders of Animals Form Their Shells.—To make the history of limestone complete, it will be necessary to show the manner in which the lower animals form their shells of carbonate of lime. Limestone (carbonate of lime) cannot be dissolved in water ; but when it takes on another part of carbonic dioxide it becomes the bicarbonate of lime, a substance which cold water easily dissolves. Water containing bicarbonate of lime in solution is called "hard water"—an element too well known, even in our sandstone regions, to require any description. When hard water is heated, one equivalent of carbonic dioxide is driven off, leaving the insoluble carbonate of lime, which settles to the bottom of the vessel. As most waters in their natural state contain more or less carbonic dioxide the waters of those regions where there are nothing but limestone formations, are usually hard. In many regions there is no other kind than hard water—springs, wells, creeks, rivers, all heavily charged with bicarbonate of lime. Naturally, the tendency of all calcareous matter is to exist in the form of limestone, or of bicarbonate of lime dissolved in water. From this dissolved bicarbonate the soft-bodied sea-animals form their shells, by taking it into the system and eliminating or throwing off the superfluous part of carbonic dioxide. Now, supposing water and carbonic dioxide to have been sufficiently plentiful, there might have been a time, before the seas were "gathered together into one place," when almost all calcareous substances existed in the form of bicarbonate of lime in solution. Such a period, we have a right to believe, would have been a good time for sea-animals having shells. That there was a time when such animals did exist, and that the seas of that period swarmed with animal life just such as we would expect, a glance at some of the older rocks of our globe is sufficient to convince any unprejudiced mind. Some of the older rock-formations are literally made up of such shells. The rocks which form the hills around Cincinnati are splendid illustrations of this point. Cement Limestone.—The subject of cement, or hydraulic limestone demands some attention here, since there are important beds of this substance in Belmont county. Some have insisted that it is carbonate of magnesia which gives to cement its peculiar properties ; while others have claimed the honor variously for oxide of iron, oxide of manganese and soda. The absurdity of some of these views is obvious from the fact that the best cement rocks of Belmont county contain neither soda nor oxide of manganese, and only slight traces of iron. (See table of analysis below). The earlier opinions upon the subject were mostly drawn from an analysis of the cement rock of the Island of Sheppey, England, from which cement was first made for the English market, by a Mr. Parker, who patented it under the name of " Roman Cement." A table of the analysis of this rock is given below, together with an analysis of the famous cement rock of Kingston, N. Y., and analyses of some of those of Belmont county. In each case 100 parts are supposed to be taken, so that the figures represent percentages of the whole amount. No, 1 is an analysis, made by Dr. E. S. Wayne, of Cincinnati, of rock from the cement works of Messrs. T. C. Parker & Son., near Barnesville. No. 2 is from the lowest stratum of cement rock at Bellaire, analyzed by Prof. Wormley, chemist of the Ohio Geological Survey. ANALYSES OF CEMENT ROCKS.