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The indebtedness of Hamilton county July, 1879, was but four hundred and two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars, principally in court-house building bonds.

The valuations of personal property in Hamilton county for 1879 and 1880, exclusive of Cincinnati, which will be found hereafter, as returned for taxation to the county auditor's office last June are as follows:

As a sort of a foot-note or appendix to these notes of progress, we here more appropriately, perhaps, than anywhere else in this division of the History, make mention of

SOME FIRST THINGS.

The first church built in Hamilton county was that at Columbia, for the Baptist society, organized in that settlement March 24, 1790. It was, further, the first meeting-house erected in the territory now covered by the state of Ohio, except the church building of the Moravian missionaries at Schonebrunn and Gnadenhutten, in the valley of the Tuscarawas.

The first ordination of a clergyman in the Miami country was that of the Rev. Daniel Clark, a young Baptist minister at Columbia, by the Rev. Messrs. Gano and Smith, in a grove of elms near that place, September 23, 1793.

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The first school in the county was opened July 21, 1790, also in Columbia, by John Reily, afterwards a distinguished citizen of Butler and Hamilton counties. The next. year Francis Dunlavy was joined in the instruction of the school, taking a classical department, while Mr. Reily confined his labors to the `English studies. The first regular schoolhouse was probably there.

The first ferry from the front of Hamilton county on the river to the .Kentucky shore at the present site of Covington was run in 1790 by Robert and Thomas Kennedy, one of whom lived at each end of the line. Tne first to Newport was run by Captain Robert Benham, under a license from the Territorial government, granted September 24, 1792, from Cincinnati to the opposite bank, the present Newport, on the east side of the Licking.

The first mill run in Hamilton county was started by Mr. Neaiad Coleman, a citizen of Columbia, soon after the planting of the colony. It was a very simple affair, quite. like that known at Marietta in the early day, and figured in Dr. S. P. Hildreth's Pioneer History. The flatboats were moored side by side near the shore, but in the current, and with sufficient space between them for the movement of a water-wheel. The grindstones, with the grain and flour or meal handled, were in one boat, and the machinery in another. This rude mill, kept going by the cultivation 'of the rich soil at or near Columbia, was the chief source of supply for the soldiers of Fort Washington and the citizens of Cincinnati for one or two years. Without it, there would at one time, at least, have been danger of abandonment of the fort, if not of the settlements. Before its construction, settlers who had no-access to hand-mills or who wished to economize their labor, went far into Kentucky to get their grinding done. At one time Noah Badgeley and three other Cincinnati settlers went up the Licking to Paris, for a supply of breadstuff, and on their return were caught in a flood, their boat overturned, Badgeley drowned, and the others exposed to peril and privation upon branches of trees in the raging waters for two or three days. It is possible that Coleman's mill is identical with that mentioned in early annals as the property of one Wickerslham (Wickerham he is called in Spencer's Indian Captivity, probably by error of the types), which is sometimes referred to as the first mill, and was situated at a rapid of the Little Miami, a little below the Union bridge, where Philip Turpin's mill was afterwards erected.

Soon after Coleman started his grist-mill, another, but of different character, was built on Mill creek, near Cincinnati. A horse-mill existed in that town at a very early day, near the site of the First Presbyterian church, and some of the meetings of that society were held in it.

The first cases of capital punishment in the county occurred at the southeast end of Fort Washington in 1789—the execution of two soldiers, John Ayers and Matthew Ratmore, for desertion. The first execution by the civil authorities was that of John May, in Cincinnati, near the close of the century, by hanging, under sentence far the murder of his friend, Wat Sullivan, whom he stabbed with a hunting-knife during a drunken brawl at a party given in a log cabin then standing near the corner of Sixth and Main streets. He was hanged by Sheriff Ludlow, at the spot on the south side of Fifth street, east of Walnut, where B. Cavagna now has his grocery store, and where the first jail stood. The country for fifty miles around turned out its population to see the execution.

Other "first things" will be recorded in connection with the special histories of Cincinnati and other parts of the county, where full notes will be made of these to which we have given rapid mention.

CHAPTER XI.

MILITARY HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY.

The land is holy where they fought,

And holy where they fell ;

For by their blood that land was bought,

The land they loved so well.

Then glory to that valiant band,

The honored saviors of the land!

The God of battles heard their cry,

And sent to them the victory.

They left the plowshare in the mould,

Their flocks and herds without a fold,

The sickle in the unshorn grain,

The corn, half garnered, on the plain ;

And mustered, in their simple dress,

For wrongs to seek a stern redress,

To right their wrongs, come weal, come woe,

To perish, or o'ercome their foe.

A BRILLIANT RECORD.

Probably no county in the United States—certainly none in the States that date their origin since the war of the Revolution—has a more brilliant military record than Hamilton county. In the Indian period, during the last war with Great Britain, the skirmish with Mexico, and the great civil war, the men of Cincinnati, and of Hamilton county at large, bore full and hon0rable part. Their patriotism from the beginning has been clear and undoubted; their readiness to serve the country in any hour of its peril has been equally manifest, whenever the occasion for its exhibition has come. From Fort Washington, near the old Cincinnati, marched the troops of Harmar, of St. Clair, and of Wayne, in their several campaigns against the savages of the north country; and hence, much later, moved gaily out, likewise on the Hamilton. road, and one bright May m0rning, the Fourth regiment of infantry in the Federal army, which formed the main stay of the beleaguered force at the battle of Tippecanoe. From Hamilton county went large and gallant contingents in the War of 1812-15 and the war with Mexico; and her contingent in the war of the Rebellion was numbered by many thousands—a very large percentage, indeed, of the entire force (three hundred and ten thousand six hundred and fifty-four men), recruited in the State of Ohio during the struggle. It is doubtful whether any city in the Union furnished more men to the Federal cause, in proportion to its population, than Cincinnati.

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The record of the entire county, in this regard, is greatly to its honor. Of one hundred thousand two hundred and twenty-four men raised for the Union army in Ohio in. 1861, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two, or very nearly one-twelfth, were from this one comity. It had at any time, considering its numerous population, but an exceedingly light requisition upon it for drafted militia. The total quota assigned it for draft during the war was but two thousand one hundred and forty-eight, of which one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine were furnished in voluntary recruits, and the actual entire draft from Hamilton county, in the four years of war, was but a paltry one hundred and seventy-eight. Through some accident, neglect, or failure of calculation—for it cannot have been through inability to procure the men, or other necessity—this still left the trifling deficit of ninety-five men. But there were only twenty-three counties in all the State that were not deficient in the filling of their quotas; and six of the counties in which there was a shortage exhibit on their military record, notwithstanding the immense disparity of population, greater deficits than does Hamilton county. The general work and record of the county during the bloody years are' better shown by the statistical history of 1862. Upon the first of September of that year, the number of enrolled militia in the county was thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, of whom the volunteers in the armies of the Union numbered fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-five. The number then ordered to be drafted was one thousand one hundred and seventy-five; but so rapid were the enlistments, and so many errors were demonstrated in the figuring of the enrolling, recruiting, and mustering, officers that the number was more than made good (credits of one thousand five hundred and twenty-nine men being obtained through volunteers and errors shown), and there Was consequently no draft.

AT FIRST.

In almost the earliest days of Cincinnati and Columbia, as we have seen in chapter IX., and shall see more fully hereafter, provision was made for an organized militia. One of the first acts of Governor St. Clair, after the erection of Hamilton county, was the appointment of officers at these two places for a battalion of militia; and the protection and defence of the settlements, and the punishment. of the marauding and murdering savages, which had before proceeded in an irregular though effective way, was thenceforth under the eye of the Territorial government. Some of the officers and men of the early companies greatly distinguished themselves afterwards in the battles of Indian warfare and the War of, 1812, and not a few laid down their lives upon the bloody fields. Since the date of their enrollment, ninety years ago, Hamilton county has never been without an organized military force of her own.

HARMAR'S CAMPAIGN AND DEFEAT.

About the middle of the year 1790, Governor St. Mir, upon his return to Fort Washington from a protiacted tour of 'official duty in the more distant parts of the Territory, beginning with the creation of Hamilton' county at Cincinnati the previous January, had a prolonged consultation with General Harmar, who had shortly before, in April, led an unsuccessful expedition against the Indians of the Scioto valley. As a result of the council, it was determined to send a force against the Indians of the Maumee, whose depredations upon the settlements along the Ohio had become persistent and exceedingly annoying. St. Clair accordingly issued circular letters to the militia commanders in Kentucky, Virginia, and western Pennsylvania, calling out their troops to reinforce the regular army for this campaign. The latter formed but two small battalions, commanded by Majors Wyllys and Doughty, with an artillery company of three field-guns. The Pennsylvania and Virginia militia formed another battalion, under Colonel John Hardin; and the Kentuckians mustered three battalions, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Trotter. Virginia seems not to have sent enough troops to form a separate organization, and the whole force for the expedition consisted of but one thousand four hundred and fifty-three men, of whom only three hundred and twenty were regular soldiers. They were very poorly equipped, having few of the necessaries of military life, as camp kettles and axes ; and their arms were generally in bad condition, many of them absolutely unfit for service. Sonie of the Pennsylvanians had no arms whatever. Not a few old and infirm men and mere boys also appeared among the militia. The temper orthe volunteers, too, was by no means good. They were averse to act with the regular troops, and manifested considerable jealousy of them, giving the commander of the expedition, General Harmar, a deal of trouble. There were also unfortunate quarrels for precedence among the principal officers of the volunteers, in which they were stubbornly backed by the men of their respective commands.

On the twenty-second of September, Major Wyllys arrived with his detachment of regulars from the garrison at the falls of the Ohio; on the twenty-fifth came Major Doughty with part of the Fort Harmar garrison, and Lieutenant Frothingham followed soon after with the remainder. The last of the Pennsylvanians came on the twenty-fifth. The Kentuckians had not all arrived when the march began; but, as the tardy volunteers were dragoons and mounted riflemen, they were able to overtake the moving column, which they did on the fifth of October.

About the thirtieth of the previous month, General Harmar moved his force from Fort Washington by a route represented to him by his guides as the shortest and best to the objective points of his campaign, and encamped about ten miles from the fort. Had he been able here, as Wayne afterwards was, in the Mill creek valley, to halt for better organization and equipment of his motley command, and for drill and other necessary preparation for the field, a happier story might be told of the result. He decided to go on at once, however; and on the thirteenth of October the little army neared the Maumee villages. Colonel Hardin was detached with a company of regulars and six hundred militia, as an advance party to find the enemy and keep them engaged

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until the main body could get up. He found the towns abandoned; and when the remainder of the column arrived, on the morning of the seventeenth, they were destroyed, with a large quantity of corn, estimated at twenty thousand bushels, standing in the fields. This was the only real damage inflicted upon the savages by the campaign, and alone redeemed the movement from absolute failure. Colonel Trotter was then sent with three hundred men to scout in the woods, but to no effect; and Colonel Hardin, on the nineteenth, led another reconnaissance in force. Falling in with a much smaller party of the enemy and being fired upon, the whites, without even stopping to form line of battle, disgracefully retreated in disorder, losing nine militiamen and twenty-four regulars killed. Two days afterwards, the whole army began to retire; but on the night of that day, the twenty-first, Hardin obtained permission to lead another detachment the next morning back to the site of the Indian villages in hopes of finding and punishing the enemy. He did so, and was again defeated with much loss; when further aggressive operations were sus pended. The scene of these disasters was near Kekionga, an Indian village opposite the subsequent site of Fort Wayne. The army returned in an orderly way, by slow and easy marches, to Fort Washington, pursued cautiously by the red men, who did no serious injury. Arrived at the fort, the militia were disbanded and dismissed, and the regulars sent again to their garrisons. Harmar hastened to Washington, resigned his commission, and demanded a court of inquiry, which was ordered. Its finding substantially vindicated him, and put the blame of the failure of the expedition mainly upon the inefficiency of the militia force and the insufficiency of their equipment.

WILKINSON'S EXPEDITION.

In July following, at Governor St. Clair's suggestion, the Kentucky board of war—a body of leading citizens and militia officers authorized by Congress—determined upon an expedition against the Elk River Indian towns, in the present Indiana country. It was to rendezvous at Fort Washington, and be under command of Colonel Wilkinson, of that post. On the twentieth of July the Kentuckians duly arrived and mounted, and provisioned for thirty days, began to assemble at the fort, and on the first of the next month a column of five hundred and twenty-five men began the movement. It marched first upon the Maumee villages, but without provoking an engagement, Wilkinson intending merely to feint in this direction, and on the sixth, after some skirmishing, reached an extensive Ouiatenon village called L'Anguille, on Eel river, near its debouchure into the Wabash. It was captured and destroyed, together with two hundred acres of corn in the milk, a number of Indians being killed and others taken prisoners. Among the latter were the son and sisters of the Ouiatenon chief or "King," as Wilkinson calls him in the official report. Advancing to the prairies of western Indiana a small Kickapoo town was burned and the standing corn destroyed, and on the twenty-first of the month, after a march of four hundred and fifty-one miles from Fort Washington, he reached safely the falls of the Ohio, where the expedition was disbanded.

ST. CLAIR'S CAMPAIGN AND DEFEAT.

The Indians derived great encouragement from the retreat of General Harmar, although exceedingly exasperated by the destruction of their villages and crops, and they harried the frontier settlements worse than before. Another expedition became necessary to punish them, and also to establish a military post at an important strategic point, near the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, at the head of the Maumee. Governor St. Clair, having been made a major-general in the regular army and commander in chief of the forces in the northwest, was entrusted with the command in this campaign, with General Richard Butler second in authority. They began preparations early in 1791, and by the middle of July the first regiment of the Federal troops, numbering two hundred and sixty-nine men, reached Fort Washington. Two thousand and three hundred militia and regulars, most of whom were raw recruits, were soon gathered there, and after encamping for a season at Ludlow's Station (now Cumminsville), six miles from the fort, along which is now "Mad Anthony" street, the army marched, September 17th, to the Great Miami, where the city of Hamilton now stands, and where Fort Hamilton—named, like this county, from the then Secretary off the Treasury—was built by St. Clair's men, a strong, well-constructed work, about one thousand feet in circuit. Leaving a sufficient garrison and resuming the march forty-four miles further, the troops halted again for twelve days, to build Fort Jefferson, six miles south of the present site of Greenville. October 24th the final advance into the Indian country began, but under many difficulties. St. Clair was seriously ill with the gout, having to be carried on a litter; the men were deserting singly and in large parties; the trails were exceedingly difficult for artillery and wagons; provisions were scant, and the march proceeded very slowly and toilsomely. Only about fourteen hundred men and eighty-six officers remained when the scene of action was reached, on the third of November. This was upon a branch of the Wabash river, just south of the headwaters of the St. Mary of the Maumee, which was the stream to which St. Clair supposed he had arrived. Fort Recovery was afterward built upon the battlefield, and a t0wn of the same name still perpetuates its memory.

The very next morning, at daylight, the Indians attacked in great force. The first pressure came upon the militia, who, as in Harmar's defeat, speedily gave way, and in their retreat threw two of the regular battalions into much disorder. The enemy were however, checked and temporarily driven back, but their fire was heavy and very deadly, particularly among the officers, and the raw troops were soon in precipitate flight, abandoning the camp and artillery, and strewing the line of retreat with their arms and accouterments. Major Clark's battalion courageously covered the retreat, and prevented the absolute destruction of the columns. The race to the

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rear was maintained without halt until. Fort Jefferson, twenty-nine miles distant, was reached about sunset of the same day. Eight hundred and ninety men and sixteen officers, more than sixteen per cent. of the whole number engaged—were left dead or wounded in this engagement. It is accounted the most terrible reverse the American arms ever suffered from the Indians—even more disastrous than Braddock's defeat. * It. was but a feeble remnant of the expedition that finally, four days after the defeat, found rest and shelter within the walls of Fort Washington.

Among the killed were General Butler, the hero of the Fort Finney treaty, and second in command of the expedition, Lieutenant Colonel Oldham, and other prominent officers. The wounded included Colonel Winthrop Sargent, of Cincinnati, secretary of the Northwest Territory, and the Viscount Malartie, a foreigner of distinction, serving as a volunteer aid upon St. Clair's staff. He had been a captain in the guard of Louis XVI, but left it to join the Gallipolis colony, and volunteered as an aid-de-camp to St. Clair when his expedition reached that point on its way down the river. After the defeat and his wound, which was severe, he had no stomach for more Indian fighting, and soon made his way to Philadelphia, and thence back to France.

Colonel Wilkinson succeeded St. Clair as commandant at Fort Washington; and in the following January, the troops being idle, he called for volunteers from the surrounding county to reinforce his two hundred regulars for an expedition to the scene of defeat, to bury the dead, and bring off the cannon and other public property that might have been left by the Indians upon the field. The yeomanry of Hamilton county, and some of the neighboring Kentuckians, promptly responded, and rendezvoused at the fort. The now lay two feet deep upon the ground, deeper than had been known since the white man's occupancy of that region; and the ice was so thick in the Ohio that the Kentucky volunteers could not ferry their horses over, and had to cross them upon a still stronger tract of ice above the mouth of the Little Miami. On the twenty-fifth of the month Wilkins0n moved out, upon the trace opened by St. Clair, and encamped the first night upon the hill south of Mount Pleasant, afterwards occupied by Cary's academy, and the second night at Fort Hamilton. By the time he reached Fort Jefferson the difficulties and hardships of the march were telling severely upon the detachment, and he determined to send back the regulars, retaining the mounted v0lunteers and the public sleds whereon to bring off the guns. With these he reached the theatre of St. Clair's disaster on the first of February, finding the snow there also deep, but not completely concealing the remains of the dead. As many of these as could be conveniently found under the circumstances were collected and buried in pits; but so many remained unburied that persons with Wayne's expedition eighteen months afterwards reported, doubtless with exaggeration (since the Indians carry off their dead), that six hundred

* Western Annals, third edition, 585.

skulls were found upon the field, and that it was necessary to clear the tents of bones before beds could be spread upon the surface. Three gun-carriages were found and brought away, with some small arms; five others had been so damaged as to be useless. The cannon had disappeared; but as the adjacent creek was covered with thick ice and snow, a thorough search in it, where it was believed they had been thrown, was not practicable. They were subsequently found, however, and mounted on Fort Recovery, where they were used with effect during Wayne's occupancy of the battleground. Evidences were observed of great cruelties inflicted by the savages upon the unfortunates of St. Clair's expedition who had been left wounded upon the field. Wilkinson was not disturbed by the enemy during his brief campaign of humanity, and he returned quietly to Fort Washington when its object was accomplished.

WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN AND VICTORY.

The most vigorous measures on the part of the General Government were now necessary to preserve the frontier settlements in the northwest from destruction and to prevent the early reflux of the advancing wave of civilization. A competent leader was first in demand. From a number of able officers of the army, most of them Revolutionary heroes, whose names were submitted to President Washington, he selected the hero of the storming of Stony Point, the brave "Mad Anthony Wayne"—he who showed so much method, withal, in his madness. In June, 1792, Wayne reached Pittsburgh, with ample powers, and set about the slow, yet, as the sad experience of Harmar and St. Clair had proved, the indispensable preparations necessary to success. He addressed himself at once to the recruiting and drill of the new "Le,: gion of the United States," which was presently, by a bl0ody vict0ry, to pacificate the savages 0f the northwest.

Establishing a camp on the Ohio, twenty-two miles below Pittsburgh—called "Legionville," from the title of his army—he gathered, by December, a considerable force there. About the last of April, 1793, he moved it down the river to Fort Washington, and thence, as it was too numerous to occupy that work, out to a camp he formed in the Mill creek valley, near the village of Cincinnati, about the spot upon which the gas-works were long afterwards erected. This camp was designated by him as "Hobson's Choice," since it was the only one in the vicinity which the high water of that spring made eligible for the purpose.

The following is Judge Burnet's interesting note upon the selection of this camp:

On the arrival of General Wayne, at Cincinnati, with the troops from Legionville, late in 1793, he ordered the quartermaster, with two or three of his officers, to make a careful examination of the grounds adjoining the town, and select the most eligible spot for the construction of an encampment. After a careful execution of the order, they reported that there was no situation near the town, on which the army could be conveniently encamped, and that the only ground which was in any degree calculated for the purpose was on the river bank, between the village and Mill creek. The general replied, "if that be so, we have Hobson's choice, and must take it." From that expression She place selected was immediately called " Hobson's Choice," and has been known by that name ever since. The general was evidently a reader of the Spectator, or was at least familiar with the term which has its origin in a notable chapter of that work.

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Here the work of organizing and drilling the soldiers went steadily on through the summer. Washington wrote to Wayne: "Train and discipline them for the service they are meant for; and do not spare powder and lead, so the men be made marksmen." One of Wayne's sentinels at this time was posted upon the lofty ancient mound which stood until 1841 at the intersection of Mound and Fifth streets. The force suffered much from fevers and influenza and by desertion. Wayne also found it difficult to obtain the mounted volunteers he wanted from Kentucky, as the militia of that State retained the old prejudices, and disliked to serve with regulars. All obstacles were, however, gradually overcome; and on the seventh of October, the faithful and well directed efforts of the Government to secure peace by diplomacy having so far failed, the army began an aggressive campaign. It numbered two thousand six hundred regular troops, three hundred and sixty mounted militia, and thirty-six guides and scouts. One thousand Kentucky volunteers, under General Charles Scott, joined it, soon after, at Fort Jefferson. A strong position six miles in front of this work was pccupied on the thirteenth, and held for several months, while the "peace talks" with the Indians were renewed by the commissioners of the Government. On the sixth of November the Kentucky mounted infantry had a sharp affair with the Indians not far from Fort St. Clair, a work constructed 'near the present site of Eaton, Preble county, in which the whites lost some men and nearly all their horses.

Wayne's army, now called the "Northwestern," wintered at the new camp on the Stillwater branch of the Miami. It was f0rtified, and many cabins put up during the season. Wayne gave the group of huts and fort the name of Greenville, which was retained for the flourishing town that now covers its site. Here he awaited the arrival of the convoys with provisions, and continued his preparations for the struggle. About the last of December a detachment was sent forward to the field of St. Clair's defeat, which built and garrisoned Fort Recovery there. Under the walls of that work an escort of one .hundred and fifty men, commanded by Major McMahon, was attacked by a thousand Indians, led by Little Turtle, the noted Miami chief; but they were beaten off, after a severe action, with great slaughter. The next month Wayne was joined by sixteen hundred mounted volunteers from Kentucky, and on the twenty-eighth of July, 1794, he began his first movement against the enemy. August 8th, the army reached Grand Glaize, near the union of the Auglaise and Maumee, where Fort Defiance was built, and Wayne despatched a firm but conciliatory message to the Indians. In reply they sent word that if he would wait ten days longer at Grand Glaize, they would decide for peace or war; but he would not wait, and continued his movement until the eighteenth of August, when he reached a place forty-one miles from Grand Glaize, where, ascertaining that he was almost in the presence of the enemy, he began to throw up a light work called Fort Deposit, to cover the trains and heavy baggage of the army. On the morning of the twentieth, moving cautiously down the north bank of the Maumee about five miles, the advance guard was ambuscaded by the Indians, and received so severe a fire that it was driven back upon the main body. The enemy was very favorably posted in high grass and among trees felled by a tornado--which gave the action the name of "the Battle of the Fallen Timbers." Among these it was impossible for the cavalry to operate with effect on a considerable part of the line of battle. They were promptly moved against the enemy's flanks, however, while the front line of infantry charged the savages, wnich it did with such impetuosity as to oust them speedily from their coverts, and in less than an hour to drive them more than two miles and disperse them so thoroughly that the battle was not renewed.

The brunt of this gallant affair was borne by less than nine hundred of Wayne's men, opposed to more than twice their number, representing the Miami, Delaware, Ottawa, Shawnee, and Wyandot tribes, and led by several of their bravest chiefs. A number of Canadian militia and British regulars, with their officers, were also on the field as auxiliaries to the savages; and some of them were killed in the fight. In the spring of this year a fortification had been constructed by the British in the neighborhood of the battle ground, upon the territory of the United States. To the vicinity of this (Fort Miami) Wayne now moved, and while engaged in a spirited correspondence with its commander, in regard to the intrusion of the British upon Federal territory, occupied his army with the devastation of the Indian villages and cornfields above and below the British post. Included in the destruction were the buildings and other property of Colonel McKee, the British Indian agent and "principal stimulator," as Wayne calls him, of the war on the side of the savages, having been personally present on the field of the Fallen Timbers,

Having laid waste the country for miles about the fort, Wayne returned to Fort Defiance, and on the fourteenth of September moved toward the junction of the St. Joseph's and the St. Mary's, where the Government had for years desired to plant a military work, and where he built one whose name is perpetuated by the city of Fort Wayne, at the same place. About the middle of October the Kentucky contingent, which had become mutinous and troublesome, was marched hack to Fort Washington and mustered out of service. On the twenty-eighth the remainder, except a sufficient garrison for the new fortification, moved to Fort Greenville, where it wintered. The several tribes, notwithstanding constant British instigation to the contrary, one after another decided to sue for peace. Messages to that effect were received in December and January by the commanders at Forts Wayne and Greenville; prisoners were exchanged; and in the summer of 1795 a great gathering of the leading men of the tribes at the latter place resulted in the treaty of Greenville, bearing final date August 3d, of that year. It was ratified by the Senate of the United States in December; and so, through Wayne's carefulness and foresight in preparation, his masterly strategy in the construction and occupancy of a chain of military posts into the hostile country, and

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the bravery of his "Legion," the terrible Indian wars of the eighteenth century in this country were closed. A peace lasting until the temporary outbreak sixteen years afterwards, under Tecumseh and the "Prophet," was secured by the great convention of Greenville...

A MINOR EXPEDITION.

In the spring of 1794, while General Wayne was for a time in or near Fort Washington, he was directed by President Washington to despatch a f0rce to Fort Massac, on the Mississippi, to intercept an irregular, filibustering army, understood to be in preparation in Kentucky, and expected to invade L0uisiana for the conquest of that province, then under Spanish domination. Wayne detached Major Doyle, with a company of infantry and artillery, to perform the service, which, with other energetic measures undertaken by Washington, effectually broke up the schemes and intrigues mainly instigated, in Kentucky and elsewhere, by the agents of M. Genet, then the French Minister to this country. The "French party" had enlisted tne sympathies of the governor and other prominent men in Kentucky, and arranged for the rendezvous of two thousand men at the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville) to constitute an army of invasion; so that the movement thus checked, in part from Fort Washington, was really somewhat formidable.

A VERY SHORT CAMPAIGN

seemed to be made necessary in southwestern Ohio at one time during the latter part of the first decade of this century, by the suspected hostile conspiracies of Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, who resided at Greenville from I805 to 1809. They were visited there by many Indians of influence and martial prowess; who were roused almost to frenzy by the intrigues of the Prophet and the eloquent appeals of Tecumseh. So strung became the signs of hostility at last that war was confidently expected. The militia of this region were called out and rendezvoused at Dayton, supplies gathered, wagon- and pack-trains organized, and other preparations made. The scare was shortly over, however; and the troops, after about a fortnight's service, were disbanded. One regiment was out from Hamilton county, commanded by Colonel John S. Wallace, of which Dr. John Blackburn, of Cincinnati, was surgeon.

THE TIPPECANOE CAMPAIGN.

It is probable that many other men of Hamilton county, besides the gallant commander, General William Henry Harrison, were out with him in the campaign of 1811, against the Indians of the Indian country; but their names are not now ascertainable. The sole note of the history of the campaign, connecting Cincinnati and the county with it, which we find, is in Mr. E. D. Mansfield's Personal Memories. He was then a little boy, residing with his father at Ludlow's Station, on the Hamilton road, upon which he remembered seeing the Fourth regiment of infantry march from Cincinnati on a pleasant morning in May, on their way to the ultimate victory of the campaign at Tippecanoe the following November, where they found the main body and chief hope of the American army. The renown won by General Harrison it in the campaign also reflects from it honor upon Hamilton county, although he was then residing at Vincennes as governor of Indiana territory.

THE WAR OF 1812-15.

Early in the spring of 1812, before this struggle had been fully enlisted, the President made a requisition upon the State of Ohio for one thousand two hundred militia. More than enough to fill the quota were soon raised, many of them from Hamilton county. They were ordered by Governor Meigs to rendezvous at Dayton, on the twenty-ninth day of April. By the fourth of May one thousand four hundred troops, mostly volunteers, were encamped at Camp Meigs, three miles above that place, and one hundred more were added within a week. Generals Cass and Gano, the latter a Cincinnatian, were in command, under the governor, who was commander-in- chief. The force was divided into three regiments, led, respectively, by Lewis Cass, Duncan McArthur, and another Cincinnati soldier, James S. Findlay, who, although a general in the militia, consented to take a colonel's place. May 25th, the equipment of the troops being measurably complete, Governor Meigs formally surrendered the command of the Ohio contingent to G,eneral Hull, of the United States army, who was to lead it away to the disgraceful surrender at Detroit.

Upon the outbreak of the contest, Governor Meigs had called out the First division of Ohio militia, which rendezvoused in Hamilton county, at Hutchinson's tavern (later Jacob Hoffner's, in Cumminsville), on the road from Cincinniati through Colerain. Mr. Mansfield says the volunteers presented a motley appearance, dressed as they were in a great variety of apparel, some with hunting-shirts, some with butternut jackets, and others in more fantastic costumes. Many of the men had rifles or other arms; but most of them drilled with sticks and cornstalks in place of firelocks. When the governor's call was made, the response was generous from this county, as from other parts of the State. Two companies volunteered at once in Cincinnati. One was of mounted infantry, commanded by Captain John F. Mansfield, a nephew of Jared Mansfield, the surveyor-general.

He was in the Hull surrender with his command, but was presently released. He was extremely mortified by the terrible disgrace, and also taking a fever while crossing Lake Erie, he died soon after his return to Cincinnati—"of fever and a broken heart," says his cousin, Mr. Mansfield, in his Personal Memories. Captain Mansfield is thus further eulogized by his distinguished relative, Hon. E. D. Mansfield, in his Memories of Dr. Drake:

He was a most extraordinary young man, whose character produced a more intense and enduring impression upon those who knew him than did any one of whom I have ever heard. The impression made upon others—an impression deep and durable—is the highest testimony to the reality of a great and noble character. The fleeting effect of brilliant genius, or the doubtful applause given to talent without virtue, may be possessed by many ; but it is seldom we find that perfection of character which demands a praise which never wavers and which no time destroys. Still more seldom do we find in it such kindly affection as draws within its embrace the hearts of both strangers and friends. Such was the character of Captain Mansfield ; and I judge it only by

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the concurrent testimony of a large number of persons, from the passing citizen to the near relatives, from the soldier who served with him to the officer who commanded.

Returning after Hull's surrender, in an open boat on the lake and river, he was seized with an autumnal fever. Enfeebled by disease, he was not less b10ken in spirit ; and his sensitive mind seemed to have sunk under the stain of disgrace and disappointment. In this state Dr. Drake found him, when returned to Cincinnati: No power of medicine or care of friend availed against his deep-seated malady of mind and body. He was already delirious, and soon sank to the grave. He was only in his twenty-fifth year ; and one so young, so unassuming, and so full of worth, was never so much lamented by so many who knew what worth was. The public honors paid to his memory—not a few—were small compared to the tribute of sorrows poured out by hearts bound to him by no tie of nature, but endeared by strong affection.

Neither the roll of Captain Mansfield's company (the Cincinnati Light infantry), nor of Captain J. W. Sloan's dragoons (the Cincinnati troop), nor of any other company known to have been from Hamilton county, is in the office of the adjutant-general of the State ; and we have been unable to recover any such roll from private hands. The rules of the adjutant-general's office at Washington do not permit the copying of military rosters there, through fear of frauds in the procurement of bounty lands and otherwise. Another company that went out from Cincinnati during the war was that of Captain Carpenter, and Captains McFarland and Hugh Glenn are said to have had Hamilton county companies in this service, but we are likewise unable to present a copy of their rolls of honor. The entire regiment commanded by General Findlay was from the Miami country. The two companies first enlisting marched to j0in Hull's army with the Fourth United States infantry, which had crossed from Newport Barracks to take the road northward; and a sermon was preached to them before starting, on the fourth of May, 1812, by the Rev. Dr. Wilson. Mr. Mansfield thus related the incident, at a pioneer celebration in 1874:

Just before they set out they were called into the First Presbyterian church, corner of Main and Fourth streets, to hear an address from Dr. Joshua L. Wilson. The text was, in substance: "Cursed be he that goeth not forth to battle, and pursed be he that keepeth back his hand f10m blood." The brave, earnest, patriotic Wilson never hesitated to speak his mind, and speak it freely. That noble army was surrendered without a cause; and none who did not know those men, can know with what anguish and sorrow and indignation that surrender was received.

August 5, 1812, orders were sent by Governor Meigs to General John S. Gano, at Cincinnati, to march immediately with three hundred men of his division to Urbana, in charge of Captain Sutton. They were to be "under the command of a major," and furnished with a blanket and knapsack, arms and ammunition. "Volunteers under the law of Ohio will be preferred," wrote the governor. No public money was in hand for the purpose of recruiting or equipment; the credit of the Government was low; and many of the military and naval operations of the war were conducted only under pledges or pecuniary obligations for which private persons became responsible. This order gave General Gano a similar opportunity. Fifteen days after the order was despatched he wrote:

I had to get Major Barr to join me to put our note in bank for three thousand five hundred dollars, payable in ten days', which is all we could raise, and the bills on Government will not command the cash here—there are so many drawn they cannot be accommodated.

I have six as good companies as I have seen in the State ; four have marched from here yesterday to join two others at Lebanon, where they will elect their major. . . . The detachment is as follows; Captain Jenkinson with his company of artillery, fitted completely with muskets, etc., etc.: Lebanon Light infantry, in exactly the same uniform as Mansfield's company; four companies of riflemen completely equipt, one company one hundred strong. All can instantly fix bayonets to their rifles; the others every man a tomahawk and knife. The whole are volunteers, except the light infantry of Lebanon.

On the sixth of September, 1813, when the events of the war were rapidly thickening, Colonel Henry Zumalt, of Cincinnati, was ordered by General Gano to march his regiment of militia, near eight hundred strong, "this evening, if possible," to Dayton, thence to Franklinton, the present western division of Columbus. He was to be joined on his way by two companies from Hamilton and two from Lebanon. Extra pay was offered if the troops should be called into actual service. He was instructed to procure musicians, if possible; and an order was given on Major Morton for fifty stand of arms and accouterments.

The story of the war need not be recounted here. It will be sufficient if some mention of the deeds of Hamilton county's sons is made. This was admirably done by General Harrison, in an after-dinner speech at the celebration of the forty-fifth anniversary of the settlement of Cincinnati and the Miami country, held in Cincinnati on the twenty-sixth of December, 1833, by natives of Ohio. We extract in full that portion of his address referring to their exploits:

Your young orator [Joseph Longworth, esq.] has mentioned the performances of our own Buckeye population in the late war, in terms as eloquent as they were just. I could not think of trespassing upon the patience of the company by recounting the merits of all who distinguished themselves ; but I cannot resist the gratification of informing the citizens of Cincinnati that they haye amongst their number some who were as conspicuous for their gallantry as any from Ohio or elsewhere.

As those who are truly brave are always backward and retiring, I think it p10bable that the anecdotes I shall relate are unknown to the greater portion of the inhabitants of this city. To do full justice to mv gallant friend whom I perceive at some distance on my right [Major Gwynne], I must necessarily recount the circumstances which afforded the opportunity for distinguishing himself to which I have referred. The siege of Fort Meigs had continued some days, when the enemy, despairing of making an impression upon our works from their position in front, took possession of one on our right flank, on which, in the night, they erected two batteries, with the view of enfilading our lines. It became necessary to dislodge them, and a sortie for that purpose was ordered. I had no means of ascertaining the force by which these batteries were defended. But it was impossible to suppose it very small, and allow their commander the possession of any military knowledge, as a large river separated them from his main body. It became necessary, therefore, to make the detachment ordered on this duty as strong as circumstances would permit. It was composed of the companies of the Seventeenth and Nineteenth regiments of the line, then in the fort ; the former raised in Kentucky, the latter in Ohio. The whole rank and file of both regiments was about three hundred and fifty. To these were added the battalion of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Petersburgh, Virginia, volunteers of about one hundred, and a small company of Boone county, Kentucky, militia, for flankers. The aggregate of the detachment being about five hundred rank and file, were put under the command of Colonel John Miller, of Ohio, the commandant of the Nineteenth regiment. These troops were drawn up in a deep ravine which flanked the fort, to prevent, if possible, the enemy from knowing the object they were intended to accomplish. Before the advance was ordered the troops were addressed, and the necessity of their succeeding and the motives for every one to perform his duty pointed out. They were ordered to advance with trailed arms, to pre-

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vent their fire from being expended before they reached the enemy, and the most positive directions given to put to death any man who should fire before orders were given to do so.

The advance was made in line, the regular troops on the left, their centre directly opposite the batteries of the enemy, on their right the Pittsburgh and Petersburgh volunteers, and the Kentucky company of militia still farther on that flank. From the shape of the rapine from which the advance was made, the regular troops had, reached the summit before the volunteers, and the latter were in some measure masked by the hill, when the whole of the enemy's fire was poured upon the regulars. The meditated attack was discovered by the enemy, who looked into the ravine by climbing trees, and were of course prepared to receive it. The effect of the fire was dreadful, as may well be supposed, from a thousand Northwestern Indians and upwards of two hundred British troops in position, delivered from the corner of a wood upon troops in line marching through an open plain. I have always been of opinion that the loss was greater for the numbers engaged, and for the period that the firing lasted, than has ever occurred before or since in America. A moment's halt was necessary to close the ranks and to disencumber them of the killed and wounded. This was done with the precision and coolness of a parade exercise. In another moment the "march! march!" was given by the gallant commander, and the whole line, regulars and volunteers, rushed upon the enemy. They did not remain to receive the shock, although still possessing the advantage of position, and then outnumbering the assailants by three to one. With the exception of the extreme left flank of Indians, their whole line, British and Indians, and Tecumseh, the commander of the latter, fled; the British to their boats and the Indians to the swamps. The company to which your fellow-citizen, Major Gwynne, then a lieutenant of the Nineteenth infantry, was attached, was on the right of the line of regulars. The battle being over in f10nt, he discovered that on the right the Kentuckians were still engaged with the Indians who had composed the enemy's extreme left, and that they had cut them off from our line. Seeing that the danger was pressing, without waiting for orders he changed the f10nt of his company, charged the Indians on the rear, relieved the brave Kentuckians, and, with their assistance, completely routed them. That Major Gwynne by this bold and prompt movement saved many valuable lives, there can be no `doubt. The highest reward bestowed upon a Roman soldier was given to him who saved the life of a Roman in battle.

But I perceive that there is another Buckeye at the table who merited well of his country under my command in the late war. I am persuaded that a relation of the circumstances will not be unacceptable to the company. When the enemy were first discovered advancing on Fort Meigs, and their Indians had already encircled the fort, it became necessary to send orders to Brigadier-General Green Clay, who was, as I knew, advancing with a brigade of Kentucky militia to join me. As it would have been improper to. send a written order, when there were so many chances of its falling into the hands of the enemy, a person was wanted who, to the qualities of sagacity, bravery, fortitude, and perseverance, united unquestionable patriotism. For a service of that character it is not usual to command its performance by an officer. Your fellow-citizen, Major Oliver, at that time an officer of the commissariat, proffered his services. They were accepted, and he performed the duty to my entire satisfaction. The hazard of the undertaking was very great, and it was of that kind that even the bravest men would dislike to encounter. The fame which is acquired by such a death, is one of the st10ngest motives to distinguished actions in the field. If Major Olive- had perished on this occasion, and the chances were greatly against him, he certainly would have been "wept" by his nume10us friends, but to requote what has been already given, he would have been "unhonored and unsung." What have been the rewards of Major Gwynne and Major Oliver from their country for the services they rendered," I cannot say. Indeed, it appears that the Buckeyes have been rather unfortunate in that respect, although always in the hour of danger and on the day of battle, they appear to have been frequently overl00ked in the division of the spoil.

A glance at the president of the day [Major Daniel Gano] reminds me of the important services rendered by his father; and as he is the proper representative of that father, it is within the rules that I should mention them. When I first saw the late Major-General John S. Gano, it was in the hard winter of 1791-2, at the head of some forty or fifty volunteers, united with a body of regular troops, on an excursion to the scene of the disastrous battle-ground of the preceding fourth of November. An uncommon fall of snow made it necessary for General (then. Colonel) Wilkinson, who commanded the detachment, to leave the infantry and proceed with the mounted volunteers. The great depth of snow prevented the accomplishment of the pious purpose of burying the dead, for which the enterprise was undertaken. In a few weeks from this time, Captain Gano again joined us on the hazardous expedition to erect the fort which was named St. Clair. With similar small bodies he was ever on the alert—ever ready to afford any assistance in his power toward the protection of the frontiers, until the general peace with the Indians in 1795. In the last war he served under my command as major-general at the head of the Ohio quota of militia, and during my absence on th northern frontier he commanded the Ninth Military district, as general-in-chief. I can state with confidence that in all of these situations, whether at the head of forty men or of some thousands, he discharged his duty with the strictest fidelity, usefulness, and honor.

It is unnecessary for me to speak of the military services of my long tried and valued friend immediately on my right [General Findlay]. It is well known that at the head of a gallant regiment of volunteers, disciplined by himself, he served on the first northwestern campaign of the late war. It is equally well known that, if his advice and that of his gallant compeers (the other colonels of the army) had been adopted, the campaign would have had a different result, and the honor of our arms would not have been tarnished by an inglorious surrender.

THE MEXICAN WAR.

Upon the requisition of the President under an act of Congress approved May 13, 1846, Ohio was called upon to furnish three regiments of infantry to the army being prepared for the invasion of Mexico. They were promptly raised and forwarded, notwithstanding many citizens of tne State were opposed to the war, and one of them had said, upon the floor of Congress, that, were he a Mexican, he would welcome the Americans "with bloody hands to hospitable graves." Colonel Curtis, George W. Morgan, and A. M. Mitchell commanded the first regiments despatched. The next year a fourth regiment was called out, and sent to the field in command of Colonel Charles H. Brough, who died some years after in Cincinnati.

Of the entire.. Ohio contingent, however, the roll of but one company is on file in the adjutant-general's office at Columbus. It is that of Captain Otto Zirckel's command, in the Fourth regiment of Ohio volunteers, commanded by Colonel. Brough. The regiment was mustered into service at Cincinnati, May 27, 1847, by Colonel Ewing, United States army, and Mustered out at the same place July 18, 1848. The following names are recorded upon the roll of Captain Zirckel's company as those of Hamilton county men:

Musician Henry Snyder.

PRIVATES.

Christopher Kastner, Charles Hantzsche, Benedict Diesterweig, John Gobler, George Schatzman.

The rendezvous at Cincinnati was at Camp "Washington," established for the purpose of this war in a convenient locality near Mill creek, upon ground now covered, in part, by the city workhouse and the house of refuge. The headquarters of the camp are still snown, in a long, low building, now used for residence and saloon keeping, not far south of the workhouse. The district yet bears the old name, though not in a corporate capacity, it now and for many years past being a part of the city.

THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

It would require a huge volume to write, in full detail, the honarable record made by this county during the great civil war. Special chapters will be given in this work to "Cincinnati in the War," "The Siege of Cincin-

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nati," and "The Morgan Raid Through Ohio;" and due notices of patriotism and patriotic efforts will be made in the histories of the townships. These will allow us to be very brief in this introduction to what is, after all, the best exhibit of good deeds during the fearful struggle—a roster of the immense contingent furnished by Hamilton county to the Federal armies.

The number of camps of rendezvous and equipment established in the county would, of itself, furnish evidence of the activity of her people in the maintenance of the war. The following minor encampments may be enumerated:

Camp Harrison, north of Cincinnati; established by order of Governor Dennison, and named from ex-President Harrison.

Camp Clay, at Pendleton, in the then eastern suburbs of Cincinnati.

Camp John McLean, near Cincinnati; named from Justice McLean, of the United States Supreme court. The Twenty-fifth Ohio infantry, commanded by Colonel N. E. McLean, a son of the judge, was quartered here.

Camp Gurley; named from the Hon. John A. Gurley, one of the members of Congress from Cincinnati.

Camp Dick Corwine, also near the city; named from Major Richard M. Corwine.

Camp Colerain, near the place of that name, ten miles north of Cincinnati.

Mention is also made of a Camp Wheeler, near Unions Ridge, in this county, where "Tod's Independent Scouts" made their headquarters in July, 1863.

In September, 1861, the Thirty-first Ohio infantry rendezvoused at the orphan asylum in Cincinnati; and many other public buildings in and about the city were temporarily used for quarters at various times during the war.

The great camp, however, one of the most famous cantonments in the county at the time, was Camp Dennison, near Madisonville, in the eastern part of the county, on the Little Miami railroad, seventeen miles from the then limits of Cincinnati. It was named from Hon. William Dennison, governor of the State at the outbreak of the war, at whose request a site for such earn') was selected in the latter part of April, 1861, by General Rosecrans, then a retired army officer in business in Cincinnati. One of the prime objects in establishing a large encampment in this region was to give a feeling of security to the people of the city, in view of the doubtful position of Kentucky at this early stage of the war. Captain George B. McClellan, president of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, also a young officer of the regular army, who had resigned to engage in civil pursuits, had been appointed by Governor Dennison major-general of the Ohio militia; and by his invitation Rosecrans accepted the post of topographical engineer upon his staff, and proceeded to select the camp. The site chosen was a stretch of level land, not very broad or long, but sufficient for most purposes of the camp. The ground was necessarily leased at the high rates put upon it by the owners; and the governor was much blamed for what was deemed an extravagant outlay. It was named from him by General McClellan, who was put in command of the camp, but soon left it to assume his new duties as a major-general in the regular army. At first it was in charge of the State, and gave the governor and other Ohio officers infinite trouble through complaints of bad treatment, insufficient food, clothing, tents, arms, etc., and other ills. It was early turned over to the General Government, however; and was one of the two great camps (the other being Camp Chase) maintained by the United States in Ohio during and for some time after the Rebellion. Scores of regiments were recruited or rendezvoused, equipped, and drilled here. Countless thousands, of "boys in blue', passed its gates going into or out of the service, or returning from rebel prison pens to refit for the field. Little of it now remains, save a glorious memory, the cemetery where 'rest its hero dead, and the old sign at the entrance. The very name of the post office maintained there, sad to say, has been changed. The old camp, however, with all its bustle, in the pomp and circumstance of war, will long live in the recollections of the myriad citizen-soldiers who from time to time inhabited it.

The military committee of Hamilton county should not pass without a notice. Its intelligent activity and patriotic zeal, in aiding the recruitment of troops and otherwise forwarding the Federal cause, were eminently serviceable to our armies, and were gratefully acknowledged by the authorities of the State and the Union. It was originally appointed by Governor Dennison, and was maintained, with some changes in its personnel, until the close of the war. At the end of 1863 it was composed as follows: General Joshua H. Bates, chairman; W. H. Davis, secretary; Hon. N. W. Thomas, Colonel A. E. Jones, W. W. Lodwick, John W. Ellis, Francis Weisnewski, Thomas Sherlock, Eli Mqshmore, Amzi Magill. Its headquarters were of course in Cincinnati.

It may here also be observed that', besides the long list of general officers in the service, who reflected honor upon Cincinnati, and who will be enumerated hereafter, the county elsewhere furnished to the Northern armies distinguished soldiers in the persons of Brigadier-General Jacob Ammen, of Lockland, and brevet Brigadiers Thomas Kirby Smith, of Colerain, E. Barrett Langdon, of Linwood, and Benjamin C. Ludlow, of Cumminsville, a native of the old Ludlow's Station, at the same place; besides many of lesser rank.

We now come to

THE IMMENSE ROSTER

of the Hamilton county contingent in the late war. It has been compiled from the rolls in the bureau of the Adjutant-General of the State, where every courtesy and convenience have been kindly afforded for the work. Happily, few Rebellion 1olls are missing from this great collection, except in some cases of three-months regiments or companies; and fortunately, too, for twenty-nine regiments of infantry, eight regiments of cavalry, and seven batteries, at the time this compilation was made, the records had been reduced to such system and shape that it was possible to present a full roster of each of these commands. For the others, the muster-in rolls must in general suffice, as is usual in histories of this

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kind. The writer has been embarrassed, not only by the magnitude of the list, but by the difficulty, in many cases, of identifying officers or men as belonging to Hamilton county. No means exist in the adjutant-general's office, apart from the rolls, for such identification; and these are not always reliable. Entire companies, raised in other parts of the State, were re-enrolled at Cincinnati or Camp Dennison, and appear accordingly upon the rolls, and large numbers of men from other parts of the State and country went to these places for their original enlistment; while many Hamilton county citizens were enrolled at points outside of the county or "in the field," particularly for veteran services, and cannot now be recognized, except by those who personally know the facts, as Hamilton county volunteers. Notwithstanding the faithful use of Mr. Reid's invaluable book, Ohio in the War, and other available sources of information as to the locale of companies, regiments, and individual enlistments, it is probable that some hundreds, at least, are herein accredited to this county that belong to other counties, and that quite as many whose names should appear upon this roster, have been omitted, because the rolls do not furnish the data by which they can be recognized as of the Hamilton "Grand Army." But every effort has been made to secure as full and nearly accurate a roster as possible under the circumstances.

In general, it has been thought safest to include in this roll of honor all who were recruited in Cincinnati or the townships of Hamilton county, so far as shown by the records; and to omit those enrolled at Camp Dennison, unless some other evidence has been found that they belong to the county. Many names, it will be observed, are duplicated, and some, perhaps, triplicated, by re-enlistments, transfers, or promotions. In all cases, if the period of service is not specified in the history or roll of the regiment, it will be understood that the muster-in was "for three years, or during the war." The orthography of the rolls has been followed; but discrepancies of spelling to be found in them make it reasonably certain that many whose names appear herein will experience that peculiar sort of fame of which Byron speaks—having their names spelt wrongly in print.

HAMILTON MEN IN KENTUCKY REGIMENTS.

A number of companies recruited in this county, which could not be received for the three-months' service, rendezvoused spontaneously at the Methodist camp-meeting ground, on the Colerain pike, eleven miles from the city (Camp Colerain). Among these were the Valley guards, recruited in and about Clifton, Cumminsville, and Carthage, of which the following named were officers:

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Flamen Ball, jr.

First Lieutenant W. H. Hickock.

Second Lieutenant Frederick Cook

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant John Joyce.

Sergeant Henry Hayward.

Sergeant William Scanlan.

Sergeant S. J. Lawrence.

Corporal John Shaw.

Corporal C. Drier.

Corporal Henry Jessan.

Colonel P. J. Sullivan was recruiting a regiment in Cincinnati, and finding it could not be received at Camp Harrison, marched a number of his companies, about eight hundred men in all, to the camp-meeting ground. They included the Rough and Ready guards, Captain Spellmyer; the Miami guards, Captain Boyer ; the Zouave cadets, Captain Joseph A. Stacy; the Beck guards, Captain Beck; the Fulton Continentals, Captain David Johns; and the Union artillery, Captain Joseph Whittlesey. The several companies subsequently went to Camp Clay, where they were joined by a company from Louisville, for which no provision was made in Kentucky, the governor of that State having declined to furnish the men asked from that State. Patriotic Ohio, however, supplied the deficiency in great part; and President Lincoln, upon the solicitations of Judge Chase and other Ohioans, consented to receive as the First and Second Kentucky regiments the organizations effected at Camp Clay. They were equipped and prepared for the field at the expense of this State, but were in time recognized by the authorities of Kentucky, who issued commissions to their officers. They were as follows:

FIRST KENTUCKY INFANTRY.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel James N. Guthrie.

Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Enyart.

Major Bartholomew Loper.

Quartermaster Captain Gilbert Clemmens.

SECOND KENTUCKY INFANTRY.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel William E. Woodruff.

Lieutenant Colonel George W. Neff.

Major Thomas G. Sedgwick.

Quartermaster Captain Joseph Blundell.

By far the larger part of these, like the men of the regiments, were Hamilton county citizens—Cincinnatians. The commands saw their first service in the brigade of General Jacob D. Cox, in the army of West Virginia. They served a .longer term than the period of original enlistment, and made very creditable records in the field.

THE HISTORIES AND ROSTERS.

For the material of the following introductionary histories, recourse has been had almost exclusively to that unrivalled repository of information concerning Ohio in the war—Mr. Whitelaw Reid's great work bearing that name.

FIRST OHIO INFANTRY.

(Three months' service.)

COMPANY B.

PRIVATES.

John Bischansen, Nicholas Kirchhimer, Charles Kneip, John Link, Robert Visel, Martin Ritter, Henry Speier, Nicholas Schmid, William Schubert, Albert Voelkle.

(Three years' service.)

COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

Sergeant Major Charles H. Winner.

COMPANY C.

PRIVATE.

Charles A. Stine.

COMPANY D.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Corporal Alfred Smift.

Teamster Daniel Groves.

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PRIVATES.

Matthew Asken,

Jacob Effinger,

Abraham Busch,

Samuel S. Dean,

Richard Gregory,

Hugh Gray,

William A. Huddard,

George Jamison,

Chester C. Logan,

Cornelius Lowe,

Franklin Moon,

John Phillips,

William A. Withrop,

Benjamin Young,

Lewis Young.

SECOND OHIO INFANTRY.

This was enlisted at first for three months, under the call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand men. It was mustered into service at Columbus, April 17, 1861, only three days after Fort Sumter was evacuated. It was at the first battle of Bull Run, and bore honorable part in the service around Washington until July, when it was mustered out at the expiration of its term, and reorganized at Camp Denison as a three-years' regiment in August and September. A majority of the field, line, and staff officers had already seen service with the three-months' men. The regiment moved into eastern Kentucky in September, 1861, and by its good behavior did much to ingratiate itself and the Union cause in that region. Its subsequent service was with General Buell's army, Generals Rosecrans, Thomas and Sherman. It was in the battle of Stone River and Chickamauga, in those of the Atlanta campaign, and in several minor actions. The nucleus of the regiment, like that of the Sixth and others raised in Cincinnati, was formed in one of the peace organizations of the city. It was commanded during part of its career by Colonel Leonard A. Harris, ex-mayor of Cincinnati, -and a native of that city. Most of the field, staff and band, two companies, and some recruits scattered through other companies, were from Hamilton county.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel Anson G. McCook.

Colonel Leonard A. Harris.

Lieutenant Colonel John Kell.

Lieutenant Colonel Obediah C. Maxwell.

Major William T. Beatty.

Surgeon Daniel E. Wade.

Surgeon Benjamin F. Miller.

Assistant Surgeon Thomas J. Shannon.

Assistant Surgeon William A. Carmichael.

Quartermaster Ira H. Bird.

Adjutant George Vandegriff.

Adjutant John W. Thomas.

Chaplain Maxwell P. Gaddis.

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.

Sergeant-Major Horace R. Abbott.

Quartermaster Sergeant Albert F. Fisher.

Commissary Sergeant Jacob Hogue.

Principal Musician Charles Seibold.

Prisoner of War.—Joseph C. Ault, Hospital Steward.

Died.—Marion A. Ross, Jacob Thompson, Sergeant-Majors ; Samuel Price, of the band.

Transferred.—George Cochran, Quartermaster Sergeant ; William Dodge, Principal Musician.

Discharged.—George H. Hollister, Julius F. Williams, Aaron W. McCune, Sergeant Majors ; Enoch P. Hoover, Hospital Steward; George Thayer, Ordnance Sergeant.

REGIMENTAL BAND.

Burton C. McCoy, Leader; First class musicians, John W. Bates, Charles Bates, John Clinton, Cyprian H. Winget ; Second class, Hiram Cook, Franklin Steven, David Shafter, Ransford R. Whitehead, Thomas Witmore ; Third class, John Busby, George Brant, John H. Brown, Jason M. Case, George W. Owens, Rosoloo Smith, Benjamin F. Tufts.

COMPANY D.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain William A. Smith.

Captain James Warnock.

First Lieutenant George W. Landrum.

Second Lieutenan, John F. Davis.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Anthony W. Henry.

Sergeant Henry E. Ross.

Sergeant Ezekiel A. Howard.

Sergeant James Purden.

Sergeant George W. Briggs.

Corporal John H. Quigley.

Corporal Isaac W. Craig.

Corporal Albert Jenkins.

Corporal John C. Wones.

Corporal George Rust.

Wagoner James Cowan.

PRIVATES.

William Allen, George Ansfaugh, Joseph Hinkley, Joseph N. Cutler, Thomas Clark, Francis M. Cox, John H. Dressing, Henry Gilson, Michael Gallivan, John B. Hunston, Theodore Hughes, John Huddleston, Alfred Jones, Alexander Johnson, Michael Lynch, John Ludrick, Lewis Mangum, George Mollitor, William Menke, George W. Mitchell, Joseph McAfee, Thomas O'Connor, Marcus O'Connor, Philip Reilly, David W. Slusser, William Simpson, Michael Tovey, Amos Westfall, William A. Williams, James Welsh, Richard Benson, Walter B. Bell, John Gifford, Samuel Graham, John Kennedy, David S. Long, Michael Mclneray, John McCune, Bernard O'Meally, William Porter, Charles A. Proctor, Hugh Redmon, Julius Shelley.

Prisoners of War.—Albert E. Thatcher, James Peese, John Darragh, Walter S. McHugh, James McNally, William Patton, Peter Reenan, Jonathan Simpson.

Killed in Battle.—Corporal William H. Jones. Privates Michael Bausch, Henry Demeling, James Doyle, Harry Harle, James Henry, John Meade, Thomas Tracey.

Missing.—Corporal William Cunningham.

Died.—Sergeant Thomas J. Moore, Corporal John C. Elliott, Privates Daniel Bannon, Charles H. Beal, Frederick Ropp, Thomas Stack, John E. Weaver.

Discharged.—First Sergeants George N. Gates and John F. Davis, Privates Michael Costegan, Murty Gallevan, Augustus Wood, William Harvey, Marion Julian, James Matthews, William McCarter, Archibald McAfee, Michael Newman, William Pitman, George W. Ross, Henry Straddling, William J. Weist, Hannibal Wilson.

Transferred.—Sergeant Julius F. Williams, Musician William Dodge, Privates Marcus L. Brown, Lawrence Coen, Jacob A. Hogue, George Moore, Abraham Smith.

COMPANY F.

PRIVATES.

Frank Nolte, Charles McGurn, William M. Tatman (both discharged).

COMPANY H.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain John Henell.

Captain Jacob Totrell.

First Lieutenant Jerome A. Fisher.

Second Lieutenant Henry Purlier.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Sergeant Alfred Lafore.

Sergeant Augustus Crawford.

Corporal James McLaughlin.

Corporal Charles E. Brown.

Corporal Isaac Wilson,

Corporal James C. Norton.

Corporal John Keifer.

PRIVATES.

Charles H. Abbott, Jonas Boggs, James Duncan, Michael Doherty, George Epke, William Gold, John R. Hallam, Jeremiah Hogan, Robert L. Lind, Theodore Spinner, John Striker, John Whistler, Thomas Wiggins, Ernest Beerbaum, John Battles, George Cook, William T. Gray, Halford H. Heick, John Norvasky, James Rice.

Prisoners of War.—Sergeants George M. Hall and Benjamin Johnson: Corporal Philip Lipps; Privates Robert Baggott, Charles W. Chard, John Dumas, William Egan, John Hillstrip, Bernard Hester, Henry Lanfersiek, John Miner.

Killed in Battle.—Corporal Samuel Hall; Privates George Capp and Patrick O'Donnell.

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Died.—Privates George W. Hackwalder and James L. Shell.

Discharged.—Sergeant Henry Purlier; Privates William Camer, Lawrence Fagan, John Gold, Ezra Mock, Patrick McCarty, Joseph Nealy, Thomas H. Orr, Frederick Quamby, George Thayer, William H. Walker.

Transferred.—First Sergeant Aaron W. McCune; Sergeant James A. Suter; Privates Timothy Brannon, James Crouch, Joshua Dunkley, Charles F. English, James Kirby, John Mageer, Richard N. Ross, Joseph Wellington, Jesse C. Young.

On muster-in but not on muster-out roll.—Musician Kendall Edson.

COMPANY I.

Private John Kramer, transferred

THIRD OHIO INFANTRY.

This regiment was raised for the three months' service, and was re-enlisted for three years. It was first, mustered into service April 27, 1861. Its earliest duty was in the preparation of Camp Dennison, a few miles from Cincinnati, and it did not take the field until after its re-organization in June. Its most notable service was as mounted infantry in Colonel Streight's expedition into northern Georgia, in early April, 1863, when almost the entire command was captured. One company of the three years' regiment was from Cincinnati, and the other companies from the city were in the three months' service.

(For three months).

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel. Lewis Wilson.

Fife Major Jerome F. Dandelet.

COMPANY B

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain George M. Finch.

First Lieutenant Edwin D. Saunders.

Second Lieutenant Frederick S. Wallace.

Lieutenant Stephen M. Athearn.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Charles Swift.

Sergeant Roswell G. Feltus.

Sergeant William Buchman.

Sergeant William Suckles.

Corporal William Young.

Corporal James M. Walker.

Corporal Joseph L. Flenner.

Corporal Milton H. Lydick.

Musician E. Vanpelt.

Musician George T. Suter.

PRIVATES.

W. H. H. Taylor, jr., Charles L. Feltus, Henry Hofkamp, William Kiefer, Edwin C. Saunders, J. Martin, M. B. Chamberlain, C. D. Griggs, A. B. Benton, Charles Hulvershorn, James Vanpelt, J. J. Beahr, Frank A. Armst10ng, E. S. Cooke, George W. Johnson, J. Frank Miller, William W. Miller, William C. Mudge, Thomas L. Wentworth George L. Pendery, John Davis, George F. Walters, J. B. Holman,, John C. Martin, Enoch C. Jacobs, D. S. Pearce, J. L. Hann, Charles B. Schondt, A. J. Noble, William Scott, Charles M. Stout, R. C. Steen, 0. Taxis, Edmond H. Davis, A. King, John L. McElhaney, Joseph A. Clark, W. H. Speed, S. A. Harrison, William Weye, D. W. Snyder, Joseph Foss, Robert Cameron, F. McGrew, Thomas Colgan, A. Alexander, Charles Guiss, Charles L. Shannon, A. Stevens, Samuel Warwick, T. P. Cavanaugh, W. H. McDevitt, P. Bohl, Urath B. Jones, N. B. Holman, John Holtzwiger, John M. Hubbell, William A. Koon, William Torrey, Joseph Ryan, John Nealy, Henrv L. Williams, George C. Kithchen, Andrew Reuss, Henry De Bus, William Sterritt, William Stewart, J. N. Kuntz, W. K. Perrine, Lewis Roderige, James R. Smith, Frank Thieman.

COMPANY C.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain J. E. Baldwin.

First Lieutenant J. E. Riggs.

Second Lieutenant G. H. Aiken.

Lieutenant George Vandergriff.

Lieutenant C. A. Newman.

Lieutenant Eugene C. Wilson.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant W. E. Oakley.

Sergeant C. S. Burns.

Sergeant Charles Mendenhall.

Sergeant W. G. Ross.

Corporal B. T. Wright.

Corporal D. W. Pierson.

Corporal P. R. Mitchell.

Corporal L. V. Horton.

Bugler J. F. Dandelet.

PRIVATES.

E. R. Davidson, J. Calhoun Wright, M. Strohmeier, C. W. Miner, David S. French, Jacob S. Burnett, A. E. Doisey, C. F. McKenzie, W. H. Childs, George H. Hull, W. P. Egan, Charles Faulman, Thomas Jones, 0. T. Gunn, E. J. Lukens, George McCammon, J. T. Piggott, jr., Ira Athearn, E. E. C. Swift, W. W. Wilmot, Charles B. Ellis, Thomas 'F. Wheeler, B. H. Parsons, S. H. Bascom, Thomas Coen J. W. Johnston, George H. Palmer, J. W. Craven, P. Bucher, George W. Ward, T. Brickham, J. Small, C. H. Phelps, Isaac West, B. H. Snyder, R. W. McComas, Thomas Webb, J. H. Simpson, Nathan Guilford, Alfred Koste, L. H. Hill, E. H. Hussey, M. B. Bailey, A. H. Russell, William Mitchell, G. Rudolph, H. P. Radcliff, T. Deming, E. E. Isabel, B. B. Fearing, T. Wilton, R. R. Martin, H. Tilden, Benjamin Harbison, John Snosey, jr., F. S. Taylor, jr., Henry Schultz, W. C. Williams, Ogden Mender, John A. Wright, J. A. Arthur, Frank Sterns.

COMPANY I.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Leonard A. Harris.

First Lieutenant William J. Smith.

Second Lieutenant John Herrel.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Alexander Campbell.

Sergeant Francis N. Gibson.

Sergeant John Anthony.

Sergeant Charles C. Martin.

Corporal Timothy Crannon.

Corporal Jerome A. Fisher.

Corporal F. Rickey.

Corporal John Davis.

PRIVATES.

Herman Act, Patrick Burk, John Barrett, Victor Burnham, John H. Burnham, Joshua Bailey, Henry Bleaker, Edward Brady, Marshall Bruce, Frederick Brodey, Edward Blackburn, Edward Clyde, John Cosgrove, Frederick Carson, William I. Campbell, George Curtis, John Davis, James Disberry, Irwin C. Darling John Dixon, William Dorley, Simon P. Elliott, Christopher Ellis, John Ernest, John Ford, Martin Foltz, John Feber, Benjamin Gylle, Jasper Holman, Adam

Hass, Henry Hosmanger, Jere Hogan, Thomas Hartless, James Hoban, Herman Kopper, William Johnson, Frederick Johnson, John Johnson, Norris Jallison, Henry. Kokenbrink, Thomas Kenneday, Timothy Lawton, Martin Leopold, Valentine Lenhart, James Lozier, Henry McCren, George N. McCabe, John McGovern, George Miller, John Mitchell, Patrick Morrisey, James Manshot, Henry M. Nichols, Sames N. Nutt, Alfred G. Norissey, Charles Newman, Paul Newmiller, James O'Conner, John O'Connell, John Penny, Thomas Powers, Thomas Payne, Thomas Reynold, Francis Rhody, Anthony Schwagart, William Stager, Henry Sanders, Thomas Simons, William Schafer, John Sailman, William Swift, John Stewart, David Thayer, Henry Vanfield, Christopher Whaking, William Walfeck, Charles Young, Herman Bartlett, Charles Cary, Paul M. Farnsworth, Charles Kent, Peter N. Smidth.

(For three years.)

COMPANY G.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Philip Fithian.

Captain Edward M. Driscoll.

First Lieutenant John Richey.

First Lieutenant William A. Curry.

Second Lieutenant Charles T10wnsell.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Henry D. Bauder.

Sergeant Thomas W. Kruse.

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Sergeant Gilbert B. McWhick.

Corporal Philip Stegner.

Corporal Jesse Bronson.

Corporal Thomas B. Teetor.

Wagoner William Stoul.

PRIVATES.

Rudolph Baehr, August Brewer, James Curry, William Dooley, Callahill Dooley, Edward English, Benjamin Holmes, Harry Hamilton, George W. Howell, Lewis Klingler, William Lawler, Frank Metz, Albert Musser, Edwin McMillen& John McClamthan, Frank O'Connor, Robert Potts, Henry Phillips, Albert Stimson, John Stanferman, Charles Schwab, August Schwager, Andrew Schneiler, Fred Vanlieu, Herman D. Willman, Joseph Weber, Manasses Brown, George Bellville, Caspar Davis, Calvin Bills, Fred Eichenlaub, Parker Ernst, David Finch, James Frank, Frank Gallagher, Richard Howe, Harrison Kipp, James King, William Linch, John D. Moore, William McMillen, Daniel O'Keef, Charles Phillips, John Pohlman, Jacob Smith, Daniel Spencer, Michael Straber, Frank Stanferman, Thomas Tydings, John Wellman, Conrad Webber, John T. Welsh.

Killed in Battle.—Sergeant William V. McCoabrie, Corporal Joseph Bahlman. Privates Louis Whitmore, Henry Barney, Henry Lochemey, John B. Naylor.

Died.—Sergeant Charles Cannon. Private Charles Hart.

Discharged.—First Sergeants William A. Curry, David J. Krule ; privates John Atkins, Michael Black, John Baird, Benjamin Bonner, Henry C. Bliner, Benjamin Crawford, William Cartman, William Chase, John F. Droste, George A. Henry, John Knapp, James Lawrence, Arthur Lyle, George Richey, James Smith, Cincinnatus Stinson, James Vaulien, Edward Wessel.

Transferred.—Sergeant Sebastian E. Francis, Musician Richard De-Butts ; privates August Birnbriger, John Coste, Alexander Driscoll, Frank Dick, Charles Graham, Joan Hartley, William N. Keys, John Lanch, John Lawrence, Emil Miller, William Mills, William H. McGraw, Edward Massey, James O'Conner, Charles T. Palmer, Nathan-Reed, George F. Say, Yeustace Smith, Martin Smith, Joseph Schweder, Daniel Shaw, Sylvanus Stewart, Joseph Shries, Thomas Thackeray, Copple Tippanhauer, James Vermilyea.

On muster-in, but not on muster-out roll. Privates James Cottle, Charles French, Richard Linch, James Linton, Joseph D. Murry, William Vandine.

On muster-in roll March 31, 1864, but not on muster-out roll.—Private Cornelius Driscoll.

FOURTH OHIO INFANTRY.

Mustered into service April 4 and May 5, 1861.

Private George Wilson.

FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.

This was also originally one of the tnree-months' organizations, and was made up of young men from Cincinnati and the vicinity. It went into Camp Harrison, near that city, April 0, 1861; was mustered into the Federal service May 3d; was transferred to Camp Den- nison May 23d; re-enlisted in a body for three years the next, month, and was re-mustered June 20th, and started for the field in western Virginia, July l0th. Its first service here was under Brigadier General Charles W. Hill, under whom a very toilsome march was taken over the spurs of the Alleghanies, in a vain effort to intercept the retreating troops of the rebel General Garnet. It then engaged in guard duty and drill at Parkersburgh until August 5th, when it moved to Buckhannon, and lay there until November 3d. Near this point companies A, B, and C had a sharp fight with a party of rebels, losing one man and killing several of the enemy. Thence the regiment marched to New Creek on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and presently to Romney, where it had hard service, entire companies being sent out daily on scouts, and supplying very large details for picket duty, some of whom had their posts six or seven miles from camp. Colonel Dunning, of the Fifth, here' took com mand of the forces in and about Romney, in place of General Kelly, who was disabled by a wound. Hearing of a rebel force of fifteen hundred at Blue's Gap, sixteen miles out, he moved a detachment against it during a driving snow storm on the night of January 6, 1862, surprised the enemy, killing twenty of them, capturing a number, with two cannon, and destroying the mill and other property of the rebel Colonel Blue, at that point. This was the beginning of the Fifth Ohio's reputation for bravery and thorough-going dealing with the rebels. The confederate papers soundly anathematized the regiment led "by a butcher," and advised their commanders to show its members no quarter. Within fifteen hours from the time of starting the regiment was back at Romney, having in that short space of time marched thirty-four miles and fought a spirited and successful action.

General Lander took command of the forces shortly after, and the regiment was moved in rapid succession to a number of places, marching and countermarching for more than a month, and suffering much from the inclement season. February 13th, with the Eighth Ohio and a cavalry force, it made a reconnaissance in force on Bloomney Furnace, during which the cavalry engaged the enemy and won a victory. March 18th, under General Shields, it participated in another reconnaissance to Strasburgh, the enemy being pushed several miles beyond Mt. Jackson, but without bringing on an action. On the twenty-second, from Winchester the regiment was moved out hastily and the next day reached Kerns-town and took a position to support a battery, where it was attacked, with other forces in the battle, about nine A. M. It held its place until afternoon, when five companies were detached and moved alone against an overwhelming force, whose fire they sustained alone in an open field for some time, returning it with interest, until reinforcements came, when the united commands advanced and soon routed the enemy. Five color-bearers of the regiment were successively shot down in this short but sharp fight, among them Captain George B. Whitcom, of Cincinnati. The Fifth is believed to have saved the day, at least on this part of the field. Not long after the rout here the enemy began his retreat, getting off without further disaster in the darkness of the night. The Fifth lost forty-seven killed and wounded in the battle of Winchester. The regimental colors received forty-eight bullet holes in this action, and the State flag ten. A movement was soon after begun beyond Strasburgh, through Woodstock, and to the Shenandoah, where a destroyed bridge and Ashby's cavalry on the other side checked their advance. A dash was made by the Fifth and some cavalry into Mt. Jackson, but the enemy fled before their arrival. The regiment then encamped at Newmarket, Colonel Dunning commanding the brigade. In a fortnight it advanced to Harrisonburgh, where, May 7th, a beautiful stand of colors was presented by a deputation from the city council of Cincinnati, as a token of appreciation at home of the regiment's bravery and efficiency in the late battle.

May 12th another march was begun, which continued to Falmouth, one hundred and fifty miles distant. May

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25th it moved to Front Royal,. and June 3d reached the Shenandoah again, having marched in three weeks two hundred and eighty-five miles through mud and rain without meeting an enemy and with scarcely half rations. June 9th, however, at Port Republic, it became hotly engaged, and behaved with its usual courage and dash. After some firing by volley, it charged two rebel regiments covered by a fence and drove them into the woods, where they were again charged and one field gun captured. Moving to the left, it repelled a charge upon one of our batteries, but had presently to cover a retreat, in which it lost one hundred and eighty-five men taken captive. Its total loss in this affair—killed, wounded, and prisoners—was two hundred and forty-four. Many incidents of personal valor and cunning occurred to the Fifth here. Lieutenant Kirkup, of Cincinnati, after being taken, escaped his guard and went but a little way, when he met two rebels and claimed them as prisoners. They gave up, and under their guidance he got out of the mountains and rejoined his command. The colors were Saved on the retreat by color corporals Brinkman and Shaw wrapping them about their bodies and swimming the Shenandoah, whence they made their way to General Fremont's command four days after. The retreat was kept up to Luray, where rest was had till June 24th, when the regiment moved through Thoroughfare Gap to Bristow's Station, and was thenceforth on daily march for five weeks, over more than five hundred miles, compelled thereto by the rapid and obscure movements of Stonewall

Jackson in the valley. When at last halted at Alexandria, the men or the Fifth were completely fagged out, were shelterless, and nearly naked. After rest and re-equipment on the twenty-fifth of July it went by rail to Warrenton, remaining there some days, and thence marching to Little Washington. Here General Tyler, commanding the brigade, took leave of it, and particularly of the Fifth, which was specially endeared to him. General Geary, afterwards governor of Pennsylvania, succeeded him. August 9th, from Culpeper Court-House, the regiment made a forced march to the battle-field of Cedar Mountain, in which it took full part, Colonel Patrick commanding. The Union forces wire pressed back by overwhelming numbers, and the Fifth lost eighteen killed, thirteen officers and eighty-nine men wounded, and two missing, out of two hundred and seventy-five in the action. Among the badly wounded was Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong, who was obliged to retire from field service.

The Fifth participated in the retrograde movements of Pope's army and the terrible battles on the plains of Manassas. After brief respite it joined the forces pursuing the rebels, passing through Frederick City and other points, and reaching the -field of Antietam September 16th. Here it was closely engaged the next day, under command of Major Collins, once in a hand-to-hand conflict, in which many* of the men used the butts of their guns, until the enemy slowly and stubbornly gave way. At another point the brigade to which it belonged, reduced to five hundred men, held its ground against a much larger force, and was so poorly supported that it had to fall back to avoid being outflanked. In this battle the Fifth emptied its cartridge boxes three times, firing about one hundred shots per man, and marking the front of its positions by rows of dead rebels. It lost fifty-four men killed and wounded, of one hundred and eighty engaged. Its next camp was at Dumfries, in December, where the garrison was attacked on the twenty-seventh by Stuart's cavalry, the action lasting through an entire afternoon, when the rebels retreated. Lieutenants Walker and LeForce, of company G, were killed, three of the regiment wounded, and five taken. The Fifth then rested at Dumfries till April 24, 1863, when it joined the advance of Hooker across the Rappahannock, and was engaged throughout at Chancellorsville, performing a distinguished part in that bloody action. It was also in the great battle of Gettysburgh, July 3d, and in the fruitless pursuit that followed. Lieutenant Brinkman, one of the heroes of Port Republic, was killed at Gettysburgh. In August, the regiment was sent to New York city to quell the draft riots, and remained there till September 8th, when it returned to Alexandria, and after sundry marches was taken by rail to Murfreesborough, Tennessee, receiving many tokens of regard as it passed through Ohio, but not being allowed to visit Cincinnati, where many of the men had not been for two and a half years. October 3, 1863, they reached the intrenchments at Murfreesborough, and finding the enemy in the vicinity, whom they assisted in repelling. Rejoining the Potomac troops, the Eleventh and Twelfth corps, which had been transported to Lookout valley, the Fifth took part in the famous "battle above the clouds;" afterwards did post duty at Bridgeport, Alabama, was in the advance on Atlanta and some of the battles of that campaign, in one of the first of which Colonel Patrick lost his life. The time of the regiment expired during this movement, and it was moved to the rear in charge of prisoners. Many of the men, notwithstanding their hard service, decided to re-enlist, and had the privilege of a, short furlough. They soon rejoined the conquering host pressing upon Atlanta, and were in the march to the sea and through the Carolinas and the great reviews at Washington, from which they returned to Cincinnati. They were mustered out at Louisville, July 26, 1865, and finally paid and discharged at Camp Dennison.

Scarcely any Ohio regiment has a more remarkable history. It took part in twenty-eight engagements, including six pitched battles, with many reconnoissances and skirmishes, marched on foot one thousand three hundred and seventy-five miles, travelled nine hundred and ninety-three miles by rail, and sustained a total loss of five hundred men, killed, wounded, and prisoners.

(Three Months' Service).

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel Samuel H. Dunning

Lieutenant Colonel John H. Patrick.

Major William Gaskill.

Adjutant Harry G. Armstrong.

Quartermaster Caleb C. Whetson.

Surgeon Alfred Ball.

Assistant Surgeon Curtis J. Bellows.

Chaplain Samuel L. Youstice.

Sergeant Major James W. Miller.

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Quartermaster Sergeant William P. Jackson.

Commissary Sergeant William F. Sheffield.

Hospital Steward William F. Tibbals.

Principal Musician William McAllister.

Principal Musician Thomas Davis.

Principal Musician Edward White.

Band Leader William J. Jewess.

Band—Henry W. Scherer, Edward Schellhorn, Peter Spryer, William C. Lynn, Andrew Mather, Alexander H. Bierman, James A. Campbell, Alexander H. Hatcher, Thomas C. Sheppard, James D. Fuller, James H. Rider, James M. Heyl, Thomas Marlatt, Robert Davis.

(All other rolls of this regiment, for the three-months' service, are missing from the adjutant general's office).

(Six Months' Service).

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel Samuel H. Dunning.

Colonel John H. Patrick.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry G. Armstrong.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Kilpatrick.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kirkup.

Major William Gaskill.

Major John Collins.

Major Henry E. Symmes.

Major Krewson Yerkes.

Surgeon Alfred Ball.

Surgeon Alexander E. Jenner.

Assistant Surgeon Charles Greenleaf.

Assistant Surgeon Curtis J. Bellins.

Assistant Surgeon Orestes L. Fields.

Assistant Surgeon William F. Tibbals.

Assistant Surgeon James G. Jenkin.

Chaplain Samuel L. Yousteer.

Adjutant Thomas Hefferman.

Adjutant Charles Smith.

Adjutant William H. Thomas.

Adjutant Henry A. Tortman.

Adjutant Henry C. Koogle.

Quartermaster John M. Paver.

Quartermaster Caleb C. Whitson.

Sergeant Major James Richey.

Quartermaster Sergeant Michael Ward.

Commissary Sergeant Andrew J. Barr.

Hospital Steward Robert S. McClure.

Fife Major Edward White.

Drum Major James Lyons.

Died.—Sergeant Major Robert Graham.

Discharged.--Sergeant Majors Herman Selmer, Stephen Coddington, James Clark, Joseph Miller, Augustus Moovert; Quartermaster Sergeants William Calter, Peter A. Cozine, George P. Humphreys, William P. Jackson, Matthias Schwab, William Tomlinson; Commissary Sergeants Edward R. Anthony, Charles Baldwin, Joseph L. Gaul; Drum Majors George W. Bennett, William McAllister; Fife Majors Thomas Davis, Henry Kent.

Transferred.—Sergeant Major Thomas Hussey; Quartermaster Sergeant William Daum; Commissary Sergeants Alfred G. Swain and William Sheffield; Hospital Stewards Francis McNally and Edward White.

REGIMENTAL BAND.

Leader, William J. Jervis; first-class, Henry W. Scherer, Edward Schellhorn, Peter Schreger; second-class, W. C. Lynn, A. H. Bierman, Andrew Mather, J. A. Campbell; third-class, A. H. Hatcher, Thomas C. Sheppard, James D. Fuller, James W. Heyl, Robert Davis, James H. Rider, Thomas Marlatt.

COMPANY A.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Jacob A. Remley.

Captain Frederick W. Moore.

Captain Charles Friedshurn.

Captain Thomas W. Scott.

First Lieutenant George H. Whiteamp.

First Lieutenant Thomas Hussey.

First Lieutenant Austin T. Shirer.

First Lieutenant Caleb C. Whitson.

First Lieutenant Edward R. Anthony.

First Lieutenant William B. Neal.

Second Lieutenant Peter A. Cozine.

Second Lieutenant Robert H. Barret.

Second Lieutenant Joseph W. Miller.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant George Heinzenberg.

Sergeant Christian Krauft.

Sergeant George Beinhart.

Sergeant Jacob Rice.

Sergeant George Spinger.

Corporal Daniel O'Leary.

Corporal Anton Brightman.

Corporal Christian Dues.

Corporal James McFarland.

Corporal Jacob Fuchs.

Corporal Frederick Helwig.

PRIVATES.

Robert Barbour, John Birgler, Henry Boy, Cornelius Collins, Robert H. Crook, David Casner, David Fitzgerald, Henry Griese, George Hamm, Adam Heintz, Nicholas Hernet, Noah Harris, Stephen H. Keegan, Conrad Machback, Patrick Malone, Charles H. Miller, George W. Moore, William T. Patterson, Archibald Robbins, Killian Stranbert, Ralph Sutherland, Henry Yeager, Allen H. Leonard. Frederick Best, Charles Backley, Frederick Bojison, Paul Beinhart, Charles B. Baab, Charles Burgman, John Baker, William Deter, St. Clair French, Thomas Ferguson, Henry Farwig, David E. Harper, Stephen Instner, Philip Myers, James Marshall, Jeremiah Pendergrass, Henry Polk, Levi Reischeimer, William Retteger, James M. Reed, Charles Trible, Morgan Wade, David Watkins, Patrick Walsh, Henrv Winters, Michael Welch, John Young.

Killed in Battle.—Corporals William Craft, Jacob Direling, Martin Benneger, William Sharp; Color Corporal William Wessling; Privates, Pleasant A. Brown, Conrad Brown, Jacob Gutzter, Edwin Lockwood, Christian Metzkei, Jesse Riffle, John Snatzer.

Died.—Privates Adam Backman, Winfield S. Cook, Marcus D. Caldwell, Frank Ebbler, John R. McKinley, John Sanning, John Thomkins.

Discharged.—Sergeants Wesley Crouch, Frederick Fuchs, George Kleister, Hess Vincent, Thomas W. Scott; Corporals John Geyer, Matthew McFarland, Jacob Ries, William Swinburne; Privates William H. Avery, Byron Andrews, James Burns, Robert G. Bell, John H. Bowser, Daniel Brady, Andrew W. Barber, Thomas B. Beal, Frederick Boch, George W. Butler, Leander W. Butz, Charles Bausch, Charles Burckhart, Edward Baird, Andrew Bowman, Patrick Birmingham, Henry Brant, James Blakesley, William T. Barrett, Edward Burkhart, Joseph Burkhart, William Baehr, Nicholas Becker, Frank Betz, Joseph B. Channel, Mortimer Cole, Peter H. Coffman, David C. Cross, Patrick Carroll, Jacob Christ, Hugh Coleman, Oliver C. Donnelly, Francis Daum, James Dwyer, Charles Evans' Henry Enye, Francis Engal. Charles Ewighause, August Evans, George Fletcher, Joseph Fleming, Harmon Foelkin, Caleb Glazier, Frank Hotchkiss, Patrick H. Kiggins, George Hochsoilder, James Hastle, William H. Justice, Seth James Peter Keifert, Jacob Kunst, Frederick Keirchgreber, Frederich Kohr, Robert H. Kind, John H. Lindenwood, Alonzo Leavitt, Martin Marsh, Francis M. Meek, William Meyer, Henry Menke, William Mullerhause, Antone Muller, Truman McMaster, Patrick Maloney, George Munjar, Benjamin Meyers, Willis I. Mills, Joseph Noyes, Christian Asteroth, oseph A. Patterson, David Ross, Daniel C. Roderick, Lawrence N. Shorts, Peter Sell, John Sullivan, Frederick Sleiter, Christopher Snyder, Joseph Seifert, Lawrence Seifert, John Stoftul, Frank Stortz, Peter Shyrer, James Thrasher, Ludwig Thobaben, Edward Welch, Richard Wessel.

Transferred.—Musicians, James D. Fuller, James M. Hoyle, William T. Jervess.

On muster-in but not on muster-out rolls.—Javer Stewart, Frederick Geyer, Robert Kind, Henry Megers, Michael Batch, John Booker, Samuel Bolser, Henry Bateman, Edward Cahill, Ignatius Cannon, Frederick Daum, John S. Dale, William Doolay, William Darrel, John F. Drosty, Daniel W. Dewitt, John Ellick, Lawrence Ferncoast, Jacob Fuchs, William Fotts, Charles-Hoffman, Michael Hite, John W. Jewett, Lewis Klingler, Frank Kebbler, George Lambertson, John Miller, Peter Marks, William Morris, Thomas Miller, Philip Marshofer, John Pritchard, William Phillips, George Strubert, George Smith, August Shyltheise, Albert Stimpson, Charles Schwabe, Austin F. Sherir, Sylvanus Stuart, James L. Thomson, Joseph Cordeman.

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COMPANY B.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Robert L. Kilpatrick.

Captain James L. Thompson.

First Lieutenant John C. McDonald.

First Lieutenant Hugh Marshall.

First Lieutenant George A. Thorpe.

Second Lieutenant Robert Graham.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Sergeant George Haig.

Sergeant Charles Hamilton.

PRIVATES.

Hugh Breen, George Baner, John Cook, David C. Custard, William Foster, James Hughs, George Haines, Isaac Hillyer, Eldridge Lemoin, William Mothersill, John D. Miller, Donald Macdongal, James Mahood, John Pigman, Dennis Reardin (No. 2), John Roth, Cooney Roth, Charles Riter, Joseph Schlick, James Swinson, Frank Stall, August Seifert, Casper Webert.

Discharged.—Sergeants George Dalzell, Albert Fuhrman, Thomas F. Soden ; Corporals Edwin Booth, Henry M. Gastiell, Hugh Liddy, William Muirson, Leo Pistner, John Ridman, Henry Teal, Frank Burns, James Bowrie, James Craig, Henry Cunningham, James Davis, Robert E. Davis, Henry Dopke, William H. Dunlap, Daniel Dooley, Alloy Emeru,' John C. Edwards, David Ford, John Feidler, John Gray, Joseph Grau, William B. Goodling, Edward Garrett, Fred Hoff, Joseph Hopkinson, William G. Howell, John G. Hoyhicht, Henry Hove, Levi Jackson, William Kelley, James Kelley, George Koyer James Lyons, John Lee, Henry Lotze, Charles Lapp, James Moore, Charles Meyers, Edward O'Mallay, Peter Philips, Martin Richardson, Michael Roth, 'Thomas Southwait, Michael Sherer, Peter Spreyer, George Thomson, George Turpin, Henry Weaving, Thomas Watson, Michael Walsh, Daniel Carroll, George C. M. Heglin, Timothy Keeshaw, Lewis Koehan, Andrew Manning, John C. Peterson, Dennis Reardin (No. r), Jacob Schutt, Thomas Virtue, Robert H. White, Killed in Battle.—Corporals Thomas Hozs and Patrick Sullivan ; Private George H. Neihaus.

Died.—Private George Howard.

Transferred.—Michael Collins, Thomas Davies, Porter Dennin, Clemens Rozeman.

COMPANY C.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Henry E. Spumes.

Captain Morgan S. Shaw.

Captain Charles B. Jacobs.

First Lieutenant Theodore A. Startsman.

First Lieutenant Fred Fairfax.

First Lieutenant Wilson B. Gaither.

First Lieutenant Herman Stricker.

First Lieutenant John M. Paver.

Second Lieutenant Charles Friedeborn.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant James H. Cline.

Sergeant Peter Schneider.

Sergeant Frank Millen.

Sergeant William G. Rafferty.

Corporal Charles S. Horn.

Corporal Robert Kind.

Corporal Harrison Goddard.

Corporal William W. Watkins.

Corporal Aaron H. Templeton.

Corporal Francis H. Defile.

Corporal James Crawford.

Musician James Dwyre.

PRIVATES.

William F. Black, Charles E. Burr, James Browsley, George S. Bostler, George M. Clayton, Luther Conklin, Alfred Craig, Mathew Clyne, John Carroll, John H. Donaldson, Charles A. Etzler, Orlando Fox, James Fox, John Fries, Jacob Frietze, John Feldner, Matthew Flemming, Charles Gord, William Gearnard, Leonard Hessnold, William Haunsz, Charles Johnston, John Kern, James A. Morrow, Ludwig Mauhlig, Christian Querner, Benjamin Roasker, Andrew J. Sellers, John F. Spriggs, Frederick Sommers, Xavier Switzer, Peter Smith, Cyrus E. Watkins, Benjamin Yeates, John Myers, Herman Brown, John Casey, George B. Campbell, William Egner, Theodore Fox, James Jones, Thomas Kennedy, John Loback, John McDonald,

Philip A. McConnel, Sylvester P. Maxon, James O'Connor, Richard Reeves, John Stotsman, Jacob Wright, Charles Wier, Thomas Wilch.

Killed in battle.—Corporals John W. Clayton, Parker S. Robinson, Charles Talbott, George W. Young ; Privates William Bogart, William H. Bogart, Charles Gill, Henry C. Jacobs, Charles L. Perkins, William H. Arbor.

Died.—Corporal Richard Bussey ; Privates John Brumry, Daniel W. Beck, Joseph Coleman, John F. Coverdale, George Case, Bonkratz Deinline, Peter Gisswood, Hezekiah Smith, Frederick Lousing, Silas C. Woolsten.

Discharged.—Charles Fairfax, Henry P. McKenzie, James A. McCollough, Herman Stricker, George W. Stone, William P. Sands, Paul Crolley, George W. Gough, Samuel Hall, John Stallcup, Henry A. Wetsell, Charles S. Howard, Agustus Querner, Henry Albers, Cornelius L. Andrews, James Bogart, Charles Bascom, Moses Bray, Thomas Bradley, David Crolley, William Cotter, James S. C10ss, John Clucos, David A. Casstellen, Daniel K. Charles, Michael Cassiday, Daniel Cook, Wyatt Cordell, William Clark, Emery B. Day, William Douglass, John C. Doudney, Bartholomew Ehlenbest, Frederick Easton, Reuben T. Everhard, Henry Foot, Frederick Foot, Frederick Faulkinburg, Joseph Fettevar, George Fiestone, Leonard Griggs, John Goodhue, John Gardner, David Goodrich, George Gardner, Henry Hess, Thomas Hudson, James S. Hayden, Joseph Horton, George Hazen, Reuben Knox, James Leonard, David McDaniel, Thomas G. Morrow, William Miller, James Morrow, William McCormick, Frederick Miller, Edward Newman, Samuel E. Palmer, Samuel E. Pierpcint, Charles Querner, Michael Swier, Charles Sanders, Henry Stuffrigen, George W. Shipley, John Story, William J. Skimball, Charles S. Swaine, Edward Shellhorn, Robert Shipps, George Shane, John C. Stebbins, Joseph Tonacliff, Grafton M. Thrasher, Jacob T10y, Frederick Vocht, Henry Walters, Harvey Woodard, William Wiedeman, Nicholas Walters, Richard B. Wright, Joseph Wippragtiger.

Transferred.—First Sergeant Joseph L. Gaul; Sergeant Andrew J. Barr; Privates William D. Bloom, Thomas H. Turner, Henry Hill, Francis W. McNally, Augustus Moonert.

On muster-in, but not on muster-out roll.—Corporal Henry S. Fecheimer.

COMPANY D.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Robert Hays.

Captain Robert Kirkup.

Captain Jere Robinson.

First Lieutenant Robert Logan.

First Lieutenant James Clark.

First Lieutenant Herman Belmer.

Second Lieutenant Krewson Yerkes.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Sergeant Donald McLeod.

Sergeant John Lee.

Sergeant Thomas Gorman.

Corporal Henry Huber.

Corporal David C. Harrison.

PRIVATES.

Archibald Bowie, Paul Bealer, James Craig, Henry S. Cohn, Andrew C. Chamberland, William H. Dunlap, Charles Dubois, Richard Evans, John Fords, John Fisk, John Farleigh, Benjamin Fry, Henry Fulman, Gottlieb Fiedel, Christopher Gable, Henry B. Houseman, James Hopkinson, Peter Huber, Francis Henskie, James H. Jacobs, George W. Lively, Henry Longa, Henry Myers, James H. Mahon, Malcolm McMillen, Joseph Morean, James O'Connor, Martin Pistner, Martin Richardson, Henry Rist, Joseph Roth, Charles Robinson, Joseph Steinbecker, Jacob Schillenburg, Lucas Sebastian, Michael Shirer, John Shumate, Oliver Sturgis, Charles Smith, William Swigart, Frank Thomas, John M. Taylor, Daniel Winters, William Wright, Noah Anderson, William Bingham, William J. Bradford, Alexander Bradford, James Bains, Marion M. Black, Daniel Blankman, Dennis Berry, William Conger, William Cox, Milton Carlile, Daniel Corigan, Jere Cronin, Samson Delworth, Samuel W. Downing, Martin Enderidan, Patrick Fitzgerald, Michael Fitzgerald, Peter Gremmell, William Garber, James Graham, John Hannah, James H. Howard, William Henderson, John Harris, Nicholas Haust, William J. Hastings, Peter Jordon, William Johnson, Henry Johns, Levi Jackson, William Keene, William Kelley, John Kirby, Matthew Kenney, William Lister, Daniel McGlinn, Joseph Myers, Charles B. Martin, Burnett Moran, Patrick Maloney, Robert Miller, Charles Murphy, Joseph Lipphart, Frank Long, Emerson Horton, John Nelson, Josiah

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Paris, William Patterson, Edward Rice, Henry Rick, Archibald Robbins, James Ryan, James Roecamp, Charles Scott, John Smith, Modest Urbine, James Vaughan, Newman Whitney, James Wilson, Samuel Winston.

Killed in battle. —Sergeant David Johnson; Corporals Charles E. Gray, Hugh Liddy; Privates Daniel Bowie, Peter, Gewton, Martin Healy, Albert C. Harrison, Henry Hill, John Hollihan, Charles Hansel, Henry Lippen, Henry Myers, James Roberts, Frederick Shoemaker, Henry Shaw, Peter Strassell.

Died.—Frederick Morey, Albert Buchart, John Burke, James Davis, John Logan, John Lenhart, John Nolan.

Discharged.—First Sergeant Wilson B. Gaither; Sergeants Patrick Conway, Joseph Doak, Tobias Hattie, John McElhaney, Jere B. Roscoe; Corporals Thomas Aitkin, William T. Darlington, Charles Dillon, Richard E. Forger, George Gates, George Granger, Michael H. Garry, Joseph Morgan, George Peare, Ferdinand W. Schulties; Teamster John Solomon; Musician George W. Foster; Privates William Alexander, Sebastian Butz, Frederick Bruning, Henry A. Bierman, Samuel Balby, Joseph Bradford, Benjamin Clyne, James Culbertson, Robert Dow, William Dow, Henry Doner, Baltizer Ernest, Marshal H. Folger, William Franks, Adam Felix, Trimble Ford, William Fortney. John Farrington, Valentine Gibb, William J. Gordon, Eddy Goin, John Gibney, William B. Gooding, Peter Griffin, Joseph Hollinger, Richard Hassett, Abraham Hening, Thomas Humphreys, Thomas Hussey, Robert Hoendorf, Charles Harris, Franklin C. Harvey, Edwin Hughes, Philip Hockindhammer, Thomas G. Hooper, Lemuel Hisson, Benton Jones, John Kuster, Peter Kummer, Jacob Kummer, John Knosp, Thomas Lewis, Philip Lippert, Simon Marienthal, Matthew McCracken, Jonathan Mitchell, Peter A. Mark, Josiah McKnight, Andrew Nordheim, John O'Neil, Bruman Osmers, Alexander Patten, John Rentz, Andrew Ryan, Michael Richett, Andrew Simons, James Steward, George W. Schmidt, William Spearing, Xavier Stoll, James Trooborn, John Troy, Orlando Van Skiver, James York.

Transferred.—Sergeants Eli Delzell, James Clark; Corporal John McGregor; Privates James Deamon, Owen Healy, William McAllister, Thomas Mountjoy, Henry Williams, Ulysses Cox, Leopold Ahlenfeld, John Laken, George Lanehart, William Schmitte.

Mustered out with company D, but not on company rolls.—Private Emmet Goddard.

COMPANY E.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain George B. Whitcom.

Captain Louis C. Robinson

Captain William U. Dick.

Captain Krewson Yerkes.

Captain Joseph Plaisted.

First Lieutenant George A. Thorpe.

First Lieutenant Henry Brinkman.

First Lieutenant Stephen Coddington.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,

First Sergeant Charles Williams.

Sergeant Martin Ruffley.

Sergeant Christian Kroog.

Sergeant Samuel McCormack.

Corporal William Miller.

Corporal James Smith.

PRIVATES.

Harry Bloomer, John Baskerville, George Beercis, Thomas Bruner, James Cavenaugh, John D. Craddick, John Carney, George F. Duncan, Joseph Dupee, Francis G. Davis, John W. Free, William Galbreath, Marcellus Gray, Gustavus Hirsch, Joseph Hughes, James Jackson, William Ketcham, Lawrence King, George Kellogg, John Line, James M00rehead, Christian Millinger, Aaron Miller, John W. Morgan, John Manch, Henry McGiven, Joseph Nedderman, Jere Simpson, Alexander Tilton, Samuel Tapping, Henry Weismiller, William Wyatt, Gottleib Winkelman, James Anderson, Daniel Burns, John Barrett, Thomas H. Burgess, William Crouse, Henry Carr, James Duckworth, Andrew L. Dohavant, John Dalton, Cornelius Donohue, Francis Gaffney, Theophius G. Hammond, William Hefferman, Patrick Kennedy, Henry E. Miller, Charles Muegga, Patrick Martin, Micafah T. Nordyke, James Riley, John Reinhart, Arnold Stuttleberg, Patrick Shea, William Vaughn, Edward R. Wood.

Killed in Battle.—Sergeant Edward Swain; Corporals George W. Gentle and Ingersoll B. Sheridan; Privates John W. Armstrong, Thomas Burns, Alonzo Carnahan, John Fortune, John Garner, Peter Hassel, Joseph Hunter, Franklin Huntly, Jacob Kalcoff, William B. Mayjers, Robert Spellman, William Spellman.

Died.—Sergeant Lawrence Vial; Privates John G. Hudson, Frederick Lanfersiek, James Pollock, Perry Wright.

Discharged.— First Sergeants Charles A. Thorpe and Joseph Plaisted; Sergeant Charles A. Walker, Morgan S. Shaw, William H. Williams; Corporals Simson H. Cottle, Emery A. Hurlbut, Benjamin F. Kephart, Randolph Minnick, Benton R. Noble; Musician Philip C. Maddocks; Teamster Thomas R. Folger; Privates George W. Aldridge William Anderson, John Anderson, William L. Anginbaugh, Joseph E. Asper, Robert Baskerville, Patrick Brady, Charles M. Brown, John Brinkman, Alfred Coleman, Charles Cobb, Joseph Corderman, Thomas Dale, James Dillon, Joseph Derwoet, Alva H. Doan, Abraham Egger, William Enyart, Francis Enyart, Charles A. Fisher, William Fisher, Frederick Funk, Cyrus C. Foote, William Foley, John A. Fenner, William Gould, Louis Gegan, Joseph Goodall, John J. Gold, Joseph Huff, Edwin Hindley, Michael Huber, Perry Hallan, Henry Hueneman, Edward H. Hardin, Jonas Heaton, Joseph Heil, John Heyer, Eli Heifner, Thomas Hudson, William G. Hanley, Jonas Hale, Frederick Hauck, Shelton Ingram, John Inquire, James F. Jones, Peter J. Jennings, Peter Kraning, John Know, William L. Kee, Adam Long, Henry Lawson, John Lewis, Joseph Lansinger, Isaac Listen, John R. Lamb, Edward Myers, Robert Morse, James May, John Martin, Peter A. Miller, Thomas Poland, George Petzer, George Peet, Michael Phelan, Elmer S. Rosebrough, Jacob B. Rahn, Thomas Rice, John Rice, Alfred G. Swain, Lewis C. Smith, Edward Stoner, Henry Strock, Eli Tarbutton, Robert H. Thrush, Henry Tealbozle, Charles A. Thorpe, Henry Wisselman, John W. Wright, Nathan Williams, Theodore Wright, Alfred Winter, A. Wilson, Albert Wolf, Robert Young, Jacob Yeager, Henry Yeager, ,William Brown.

Transferred.— First Sergeants Herman Selmer and James Richey; Sergeants Henry A. Trotman and Henry C. Koogle; Musician Washington G. Bennett; Privates John Collins, George Gates, Franklin Morrell, Gersham D. Miller, Andrew Seary, James Woods.

COMPANY F.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Theopilus Gaines.

Captain James Kincaid.

Captain Benjamin Jelleff, jr.

Captain Stephen Coddington.

Captain Henry C. Koogle.

First Lieutenant Robert Brumwell.

First Lieutenant Alexander A. Littell.

First Lieutenant Lewis S. Stevens.

First Lieutenant Joseph Grunkemeyer.

First Lieutenant Jere Robinson.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Spillman Jones.

Sergeant Vansant Morris.

Sergeant Charles Henke.

Sergeant George Enocke.

Corporal Frederick Hoff.

Corporal John Lemon.

Corporal William Parker.

Musician William Lister.

PRIVATES.

Ferdinand Axtell, Edwin Booth, Henry Dowka, William Foley, John Gray, Henry Lotze, Herman Pieper, Henry Wellman, Abner C. Wilson, Christian Behring, George W. Belcher, John P. Burns, John Brace, Windsor M. Buck, Philip Bolther, John Dillon, Gideon Hyde, Michael Laducer, John Lottmair, John Leonhard, David McNally, Charles W. McFarlin, Cornelius Morris, John Tompkins, John Thompson, William Umstead, Jeremiah Kennedy, Lewis Landers, Francis Malloy, William McDonald, David Mc011ister, Jacob Minet, Frank Miller, Nicholas Nernsgen, Henry Ohr, Nicholas D. Patry, Patrick Varley, Cornelius Welsch.

Killed in Battle.—Sergeant Charles Van Hautan; Corporals Valentine Heide and John- McCabe; Privates Frederick W. Drexelions, Richard Heringer, Charles Hinck, John H. Haner, William Huchnenkoch, John Miller, Frederick Preismyer, Horace Squires, Michael Voglebauch.

Died.—Corporal John F. Behrens; Privates Isaac A. Baum, Richard Carston, Thomas McCune, John McClintock, George W. Noggle, William H. Nash, George W. Westerman.

Discharged.—First Sergeants Jeremiah Robinson and Charles D. Moore; Sergeants William H. Lee, George W. Heide, James Kelley,

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Joseph W. Miller, James Fitch; Corporals Joseph Grunkemeyer, Jesse McLane, John Baker, Joseph Smoozka, John Stevens, Francisco Leach; Privates William' T. Aichles, Daniel Belsher, Joseph Brogie, Carston Bode, William B. Bennemyer, George Brown, James Britt, Henry Brokamp, Michael Boyle, John W. Carr, Daniel L. Carson, Andrew Crawford, John Coleman, William F. Cain, Patrick Claffy, Charles T. Doney, Reuben Daily, James Emerson, Frederick Evers, James Farrell, Jacob Folhorbst, Charles Goble, Thomas Hender, Moses Harmon, Edward Hemstreal, Henry Hanker, Ferdinand Habenicht, John Ingle, John Jungciaus, Peter Kunkel, Frederick Knost, Francis Kroger, David Ketcham, Francis Ludlow, John Loughner, Jonas Lantz, Andrew Myers, Michael Moran, Frederick Mohus, Jacob Mumford, Christian Myers, James McFarland, Patrick McDonald, Wiliam McGaffick, William S. Moore, James McKnery, John Martin, David W. Merrell, John Messersmith, August Minning, John Myer, John McGrork, Isaac N. Moses, Henry Myers, Edward McLean, Barney New, Andrew Nesselhof, George Oswalt, Daniel Oswalt, John L. Oswalt, Loyd Pardee, John Patterson, Pleasant W. Randall, James Robinson, Lewis H. Stevens, Joseph B. Stevens, John Slopner, Jacob Stube, James F. Schuier, Adam Fritsch, John H. Wellerman, Cornelius Welsch, William A. Hinch, Charles Lapp, Charles Viner; Corporals James Reynolds, jr. and John Lally, Teamster John B. Maddocks.

Transferred.—Corporal Charles Lillett; Privates Henry Carr, John Craddick, Barney Fledderman, Seth James, Jesse McLean, Martin Madder, John Springmyer, George Tyce, James Trasher, G. Winkelman.

COMPANY G.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Alonzo C. Horton.

Captain Waldo C. Booth.

Captain Theodore A. Startzman.

Captain Austin T. Shirer.

First Lieutenant Frederick W. Moore.

First Lieutenant Cohn F. McKinzie.

First Lieutenant Alexander Lytell.

First Lieutenant Morgan S. Shaw.

Second Lieutenant Patrick McCann.

Second Lieutenant Augustus Moonert.

Second Lieutenant Charles Walker.

Second Lieutenant Charles S. Jessup.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Philip Nunn.

Sergeant George B. Annawault.

Sergeant Herbert L. Sheppard.

Sergeant John T. Callander.

Corporal David P. Bell.

Corporal Thomas K. Ross.

Corporal Andrew M. Morris.

Corporal William Soller.

Corporal Henry Eichler.

Corporal Frank Horst.

Corporal William Kruse.

Musician Henry R. Haywood.

PRIVATES.

Henry Adams, Jason Atterholt, Benjamin D. Barton, James Blake, Frank Bush, Thomas Carroll, Patrick Carroll, John F. Collins, William Eichler, Henry Eifert, Jacob Fry, George Geisendorf, Anthony Gerst Samuel G. Hyndman, Samuel Jenkins, John Julien, John P. Julien' Andrew Lister, Francis Murphy, James McMillen, William H. Ransom, Thomas Trustman, August Worthmiller, William C. Wilson, Nelson Barrett, Alexander M. Gates, Mallam, John Madden, Michael Quim.

Killed in battle.—Corporals Wilson Gregg, Allonzo Myers, George H. Thompson ; Privates Andrew Coleman, Anthony LaForce, Thomas Nolan, Thomas Mundy.

Died.—Privates James Estelle, Symond Kohn, Anthony Murville, William Papner, Richard P. Ryan.

Discharged.—Sergeants Benjamin Ford, William Hallam, Charles S. Jessup, James Leeke, Patrick McCann, John A. Mohr, William Winter. Corporals Henry K. Horton, Charles A. Sperment, William H.Webber Musicians Edwin Lockwood, John L. McDougall; Privates Edward R. An' thony, George Bahn, Noah Brake, Edward Barrett, Richard Conolly, William Dorum, Andrew Donovan, Samuel Edgar, Lewis Fries, James Farmer, John C. Foener, William Galbreth, Christopher Google, Oscar Gunranet, Marion Hargrave, Samuel Hatcher, George Kerr, Lewis Lee_ son,Andrew Mather, George Morris, David Pickett, James H. Rider, Mer edith H. Surrener, Frank Schaffer, John Speck, William Ubert, John A. Van, Frederick Wolschlager, William P. Worth.

Transferred.—Corporal Charles Baldwin ; Musician James S. Cross; Privates Charles Ambruster, William. H. Harlon, Francis M. Neil, George W. Shipley, Henry Webb.

On muster-in, but not on muster-out roll.--Sergeant Edward D. Spooner ; Privates Joseph Burkhardt, Charles Evans, John Sullivan, John Snatse, Charles Tribbe.

COMPANY H.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain John F. Fletcher.

Captain William V. Neely.

Captain Joseph M. Jackaway.

Captain Alexander Mott.

First Lieutenant George Frazier.

First Lieutenant Joseph L. Gaul.

First Lieutenant Henry C. Koogle.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant George W. Tyrrell.

Sergeant Eugene Jacobs.

Sergeant Herman Annegam.

Sergeant Patrick Healy.

Corporal Conrad Baker.

Corporal Henry Kane.

Corporal William C. Powell.

Corporal Martin Van Hughes.

Corporal William Barnum.

Corporal Joseph S. Miller.

Corporal Michael Varner.

Wagoner William Myers.

PRIVATES.

John Carey, William Cooper, Joseph M. Evans, Terrence Earle, Christopher Farlan, Martin Gillum, Timothy Grady, John Lantenschlager, John Michael, John McDermott, William Kenney, John Robinson, Frederick Sunderman, George Simpson, Miles Stansifer, John J. Wilson, Hugh Best, Oscar Brown,. ohn Dyer, Thomas Dunn, Martin Earson, Richard Farrell, Patrick Flanney, Frederick Gilman, Michael Kilkarry, Natus Legg, William Moran, Martin Moore, John Madden, John Neil, Charles Peterson, Phineas Platt, Richard Price, David Quick, Jacob Snyder, Alfred Wagoner.

Killed in battle.—Privates Herman Drentler, Jeremiah Hanley, John McGoverney, Michael Pennyfeather, John Tigur, John Uplicher, William Washman, Frederick Wermsing.

Died.—Sergeant William Boyd, Corporal Martin Hoare ; Privates John G. Johnte, Leander H. Fisher, Thomas Kelley, William Tyler, Moritz Wenalestein, Alexander Weichell.

Discharged.—First Sergeant Alexander Mott ; Sergeants James B. Russell, Henry Surds, Joseph M. Jackaway, Charles B. Jacobs ; Corporals James Card, John Crawley, Daniel Salmon, Jeremiah Osterhaus ; Musicians Frank Henlan, George B. Ray ; Bugler William Davis ; Wagoner Joseph D. Murray; Privates Adam Alexander, Jesse Alexander, Joseph Branjanbey, James Belleville, Augustus A. Bond, Robert Bussemeyer, Belthazer Clauer, David Clark, Alfred B. Chognill, John W. Day, Elijah Dix, James B. Davis, John G. Engler, Samuel Frank, Michael Freund, George H. Frazier, William Goddard, Lafayette Hughes, Alberto Harley, James Jones, Joseph Kaufman, Michael Kaufman, Joseph Kerler, Michael J. Kelley, George Limmerie, James Linton, Peter Morling, Thomas Manning, Joseph Mantz, James McInnes, Joseph McConnaughey, William Mahoney, George Murray, Joseph A. Miller, Christian Meuller, David D. Millnime, Segfried Mack, John H. Porter, George Peppard, Lawrence Price, Jesse Parker, William T. Phillips, William Partee, Charles Ponce, William H. Pritchard, William Ray, Henry Richper, Samuel Robbins, David Ricketts, John Roetgerman, Joseph Raddiger, John Ryder, Simon Rousch, William Ray, John A. Sherman, Isaac R. Snyder, Abraham Schnell, Isaac Steffe, Benjamin J. Scott, Joel Straub, George Steffe, Joseph Snyder, John Schlatter, John Scott, Clinton F. Taggert, William Warnafeldt, George Moore.

Transferred.—First Sergeant Michael Ward ; Privates George Bridgman, James Lyons, James Murray, John V. Smith, Edward White.

COMPANY I.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain John Collins.

Captain Thomas W. Hefferman.

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Captain John C. McDonald.

Captain Edward R. Anthony.

First Lieutenant Joseph Rudolph.

First Lieutenant James Timmons.

First Lieutenant Charles S. Jessup.

First Lieutenant Henry C. Koogle.

Second Lieutenant William H. Thomas.

Second Lieutenant Hiram R. Treher.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant John Ross.

Sergeant Joseph H. Christy.

Sergeant John Griysinger.

Sergeant Joseph B. Bailey,

Sergeant Victor H. Felix.

Corporal Henry J. Heckrotte.

Musician Joseph Rankin.

Teamster Frederick Farmer.

PRIVATES.

Manuel Benetes, Charles R. Barkley, James Conway, William Davidson, William Doyle, Delos Hills, Kneelan Hills, George P. Johnson, George R. Jones, Henry Miller, James McClellan, Daniel J. O'Connell, Austin Parrotte, James W. Stephens, Thomas Watts, John Weber, William Zurfas. James J. Atkins, Michael Coiling, Joshua Davidson, Edward Martin, Paul C. Preston, William Riley, Smith Richardson, Elihu Rising, John Smith, Henry Sullivan, John Zimmerman.

Killed in battle.—Sergeant George Kent ; Corporals Thomas B. Isdell, Frank Luchte ; Privates Albert C. Day, George Exall, Peter Gillion, Charles H. Helfred, Andrew Zurfas.

Died. —Corporal Patrick Fitzgibbons ; Privates William B. S. Anderson, Henry A. Balser, William Bragg, John A. Cowan, Alexander S. Rower, Leverette H. S. Whitcom.

Discharged.—First Sergeants Martin Baninger, William H. Thomas, James Trumons, Hiram R. Treher ; Sergeant Frederick W. Savin Corporals Henry Wilson, Frank S. Wallace ; Musician H. C. R. Ru dolph ; Privates Mintonville Ackley, John Butler, Francis M. Bates, Cassius N. Bentz, John Conway, George W. Chambers, Henry Domaille, Stephen D. Evans, John Evans, John R. Gray, Henry P. Hewitt, John B. Huffman, Robert B. Isdell, Samuel Jones/Benjamin F. Knight, Albert H. Lewis, William H. Mantz, Thomas McLaughlin, Orlando Moon, Samuel Remley, Jacob Schmucker, William Sheffield, James Wilson, James A. Warring, William F. Wallace.

Transferred.—Corporal Joseph B. Hedrick; Musician Henrv Kent ; Privates Thomas Finan, Wesley C. Hickman, William H. H. Hubbell, Samuel J. Knof, William C. Tomlinson.

On muster-in, not on muster-out roll.—First Sergeant Harry G. Armstrong; Privates Henry Hayward, Thomas Marlatt, Samuel Robinson, Frank Seaman.

COMPANY K.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Charles H. Jackson.

Captain James Kinkead.

Captain Rolandes E. Fisher.

Captain Martin Barringer.

First Lieutenant Thomas W. Hefferman.

First Lieutenant Stephen Coddington.

First Lieutenant Matthias Schwab.

Second Lieutenant Charles W. Smith.

Second Lieutenant Morgan S. Shaw.

Second Lieutenant William P. Jackson.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Benjamin E. Ford.

Sergeant Meredith H. Surriner.

Sergeant Samuel T. Wolf.

Sergeant William H. Harrison.

Corporal Frederick Wulschlager.

Corporal George Crystal.

Corporal Frank Shafer.

Teamster Alexander Patton.

PRIVATES.

M. Ackley, Richard Barton, Edward Cecilious, Henry Durr, John Evans, William J. Hastings, Jeremiah Hirsch, Thomas Higgins, Willis J. Mills, Horace Marsh, Charles Querner, Henry C. R. Rudolph, Martin Rice, John Speck, Henry Schraff, Tim Shay, Daniel Sullivan, James Thompson, Jacob Van Pelt, William Wetdeman, Thomas J. Blair, John Butler, Antoine Buckley, Charles Bowman, Charles Cronin, Alex ander Chatman, William B. Davidson, James H. Dow, Frank Davis, William B. Duncan, Peter Derbey, Charles Edwards, Robert Gill, William Hughes, John Henderson, George Martin, James Ryan, John Summer, John N. Smith, John Shewbridge, William J. Scott, Henry 'Fick, John Williams, Thomas White, Milo Wiley, John Williams.

Killed in Battle.—Sergeant James J. Kelley ; Privates George H. Bahn, William Givens, Alfred J. Jones, Lorenzo Kendall, John H. Sass.

Died.—Sergeant Oscar S. Kincaid ; Privates Charles H. Lyon, Conrad Schmuch.

Discharged.—First Sergeant R. E. Fisher, Sergeants Edwin F. Arm-stead, Walter Elliott, Edward L. Quinton, Matthias Schwab, Cadwallader J. Collins, William Bowman, Andrew B10wnell, Thomas Collins, Charles Ellick, Lycurgus C. Earhart, Daniel Hudson, Thomas Lukens, Roderick Maguire, Samuel Morehead, Charles Pendry, William Trindle, James Wheeler, Joseph Westendorf, William C. Wright, Henry C. Campbell, John Gray, William Asbury, William Boggs, George Bascom, George W. Bailey, Mark A. Bairs, Joseph H. Baldwin, Frederick B. Barney, John Craft, Lewis Copp, Cubbertson Collins, Frank Cuppin, John Crippin, George C. Cloud, Jeremiah Calden, Jacob S. Crane, Herman Clousing, John Cruger, Samuel Craig, Richard Calhoun, Charles Connelly, James Doyle, Thomas P. Davis, Charles Dimmick, Peter M. Drum, William Evans, Job Esline, John Finley, Jacob Fritch, Joseph Ferguson, David J. Gibbon, Lewis C. Gill, Frederick Greenfield, Edgar F. Howell, Peter Hemmer, Hiram H. Huntley, Thomas Hastings, William R. Hille, William Hodwell, John A. Jamison, James Kamboll, William G. Keeley, William H. Knight, Howard H. King, James Lamb, John Mason, William Mayan, James Minnis, Cleon McDonald, Peter Mettler, John P. Medaris, John M. McClennan, John P. Murphy, Charles C. McKinsey, James W. Maddox, George Phillips, Hiram Preston, William K. Rodgers, John E. Rosser, Clinton J. Riley William H. Rungle, Philip Riggs, William C. Ramsdell, Charles Rose: burgh, George E. Shoney, Andrew Settle, Daniel Smith, John Sweeney, Cephas Shull, James Sproul, Christopher Silk, Samuel H. Smith, Truman B. Sloan, John G. Selig, Samuel Trindle, Frank 'Taylor, George Wilhelm, Henry Wamsley, Thomas Welstead, Andrew White,-John Weisner, William D. Ware, Herman Weichert, Levi With10w, William Weaver, Robert Webster, Oscar Wright, Samuel Walton, Samuel Wise, George Williams, Frank Wilder.

Transferred.—Sergeant Stephen Coddington, John T. Callender, Peter A. Cozine, John Ross ; Privates Henry Bloomer, Thomas F. Campbell, George P. Humphries, William P. Jackson, William Siebert, Alfred Spencer, Edward White, Charles Williams.

On muster in, but not muster out roll.—Private George Scott.

On muster-in rolls of recruits, but not accounted for on muster-out rolls of regiment.—Privates Frank Anthony, Thomas Byrnes, Barney Burns, Edward Barrett, David Breedloor, George Curtis, Frank Dorst, Charles Druning, Patrick Donahue, John Duffey, James Dorsey, Leonard Gungel, James Gillen, John Govert, Sidney Haggarty, Charles Hassett, Edward Hawthorne, William Jackson, Carl Kray, David F. Lewis, Robert S. McClure, John F. Mealy, John Mahony, Jasper N. Meeks, Henry Moore, Henry G. Miller, James McFarland, Henry McGrew, John Payne, William Roberts, Thomas W. Scott, John Tucker, Edwin R. Trenner, William Thompson, Albert Wood, Charles Williams, John Williams, Robert T. Wilson, John Wilson, Patrick Walters, James Wood, August C. Buckley.

Drafted men and substitutes for Hamilton county assigned to this regiment, but not accounted for on its muster out rolls.—Lewis Burke, John Britton, James Campbell, James Stevens, John Williams.

SIXTH OHIO INFANTRY.

The nucleus of the Sixth was an independent organization in Cincinnati—the Guthrie Gray battalion. It was recruited in April, 1861, for three months, and mustered April 18th, at Camp Harrison, by Major (afterwards Major General) Gordon Granger. It reorganized in June for three years, and mustered June 18th, with one thousand and sixteen officers and men. It arrived at Grafton, West Virginia, June 30th, marched to Philippi Independence day, and thence to Laurel Hill, where it took part against Garret's rebels and in their pursuit, ending in the action at Carrick's Ford July l0th. On the twentieth it moved to Beverly, where Colonel B0sley took command of the post, and in August reached Cheat mountain,

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where it lost Captain Bense, Lieutenants Scheiffer and Gilman, and forty men of company I, taken prisoners while on picket. In November the regiment was transported to Louisville to join Buell's Army of the Ohio, and placed in the Fourth division under General Nelson, and Fifteenth brigade, Colonel Hascall, commanding. It remained in camp of instruction at Camp Wickliffe, sixty miles south of Louisville, till the middle of February, 1862, when it was taken up the Cumberland river to Nashville, just after the surrender of Fort Donelson. It was the first of the Army of the Ohio to reach that city, and its regimental flag was the first national color hoisted on the State house. Here the Sixth was changed to the Tenth brigade. March 27th the army pushed southward, and the Sixth was in the advance of Buell's forces that came up to relieve the distressed combatants at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, reaching the line just in time to repel the last charge made by the rebels upon the left that day. It was not very actively engaged the next morning, but supported a battery gallantly, under heavy artillery fire. After the battle it was encamped upon the field until May 24th, when it joined the advance on Corinth, took full part in the operations there and in the pursuit for sixty miles southward, returning through Iuka, Tuscumbia, and Florence to Athens, Alabama, and there staid in camp till July 17th, when the whole division was removed to Murfreesborough, and then to McMinnville. The Sixth was here quartered in the village, and did duty as provost guards. August 17tn the retrograde movement of General Buell to the Ohio began; the Sixth moved with its division to Louisville, and was there brigaded with the Third brigade, Second division, Fourteenth Army corps. It engaged in the chase of Bragg's retreating forces, until near Cumberland gap, and again encamped near Nashville November 23rd. In the advance of Rosecrans' army upon Murfreesborough the last of December, it did full share of skirmishing and picket duty, and was very heavily engaged on the thirty-first, losing one hundred and fifty-two by various casualties. but only six prisoners—of three hundred and eighty-three on the field. Other but smaller losses were sustained shortly after. It went into camp for several months, eight miles east of Murfreesborough, and while here, received from the ladies of Cincinnati a beautiful stand of colors, and from the city council a regimental banner, which were thenceforth proudly borne by the Sixth to the close of its service.

While at Cripple creek, it made several reconnoissances to the front, marched with the army against Tullahoma June 24, 1863, and remained encamped at Manchester from July 7th to August 16th, when the campaign against Chattanooga began. It was in the battle of Chickamauga, and lost one hundred and twenty-five officers and men of three hundred and eighty-four engaged. Colonel Anderson was wounded in the first day's fight, and Major Erwin commanded the regiment till the return of Lieutenant Colonel Christopher from recruiting serf vice. At Chattanooga, after the battle, the Sixth went into the Second brigade, Third division, Fourth corps. It shared fully the privations of the starvation period there, and a number of picked men from it were in the action at Brown's Ferry October 25th, which relieved the partial blockade. It was with its corps in the advance on Orchard Knob, near Chattanooga, November 23rd, and in the charge up Mission Ridge two days after. Major Erwin was killed in the preliminary skirmish of that day. On the twenty-eighth it moved to the relief of Knoxville, then menaced by Longstreet, and encamped near it December 7th. The, winter and part of the spring were spent in East Tennessee, in the severest service the regiment had, marching much, living in shelter tents, and subsisting scantily. April 12, 1864, it rested near Cleveland, and did garrison duty till May 17th, when it left to join the Atlanta campaign, and guarded the railroad bridge at Resaca till June 6, when it was ordered home to be mustered out, which was done at Camp Dennison on the twenty-third. It had marched three thousand two hundred and fifty miles, and otherwise travelled two thousand six hundred and fifty, making in all five thousand nine hundred miles. It was in four pitched battles, losing three hundred and twenty-five killed, wounded and missing, and in several minor actions. It had but sixteen deaths by disease, and at least two hundred of its officers and men never lost a day's duty. Thirty officers and four hundred and ninety-five enlisted men were at the muster-out.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel William K. Bosley.

Colonel Nicholas L. Anderson.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander C. Christopher.

Major Anthony C. Russell.

Major Samuel C. Erwin.

Major James Bense.

Surgeon Starling Loving.

Surgeon Alfred H. Stephens.

First Assistant Surgeon Fisher W. Ames.

First Assistant Surgeon Israel Bedell.

Second Assistant Surgeon William W. Fountain.

Adjutant Charles H. Heron.

Adjutant Albert G. Williams.

Adjutant Everett S. Throop.

Quartermaster Edward M. Shoemaker.

Quartermaster Josiah W. Slankar.

Sergeant Major Frank H. Mellon.

Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin A. Hannaford.

Commissary Sergeant Julius L. Stewart.

Hospital Steward Charles E. Lewis.

Principal Musician George W. Pyne.

Principal Musician John H. Bueltel.

Discharged.—Sergeant Majors, William E. Sheridan, Henry Gee, Albert G. Williams, James E. Irwin, James E. Graham; Quartermaster Sergeants, Charles C. Peck, William R. Goodnough; Commissary Sergeant Josiah W. Slanker; principal musicians, Joe A. Fifer, Benjamin F. Phillips.

Transferred.—Quartermaster Sergeant Robert W. Wise.

COMPANY A.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Marcus A. Westroll.

Captain Charles Gilman.

Captain Frank S. Schieffer.

First Lieutenant Henry McAlpin.

First Lieutenant Jonathan B. Holmes.

First Lieutenant James R. Reynolds.

Second Lieutenant James M. Donavan.

Second Lieutenant Charles H. Foster.

Second Lieutenant George T. Lewis.

Second Lieutenant William P. Anderson.

Second Lieutenant William R. Goodnough.

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NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Henry A. Petty.

Sergeant John W. Moore.

Sergeant Edwin Edwards.

Sergeant Robert Delaney.

Sergeant Brian P. Critchell.

Corporal John A. Cashing.

PRIVATES.

William P. Babbett, Theodore Creager, Henry C00n, William De Charmes, Charles F. Dressel, Alexander Drennen, John A. Forbes, Darius H. Gates, John W. Hussey, George C. James, Michael J. Kelley, Charles D. Martindale, Charles Messerchmidt, Isaac Newman, Christopher Roth, Clement Schivarte, Theodore W. Leib, Oliver H. P. Tracy, James Valentine, John A. West, Henry W. Wilson; Underc00k (colored), James Malone.

Killed in battle.—Sergeant James F. Canady; Corporals Kirkland W. Caving, James M. Newman, Frank B. Brown, Henry Daggett, Frank H. Halliday, William Kromer, Edward B. O'Brien.

Corporal Joseph Kell; Wagoner George W. Kelly; privates, Samuel N. Collings, Henry M. Lewis, Charles D. Murdock, Clement H. Marzeretta, Edwin L. Smith.

Discharged.—First Sergeants Thomas H. Hunt, Jonathan B. Holmes; Sergeants William P. Anderson, Albert De Villa, Charles D. Jones, Everett Throop; Corporals Joseph A. Culbertson, Frank R. Jones, Israel Ludlow, Charles Loomis, Channing Richards; Drummer Alfred West; Privates William Bradford, Henry M. Cist, Josiah A. Christinan, George De Charmes, Isaac H. Delong, Frank R. Davis, Charles M. Evans, Wood Fosdick, Spencer Franklin, James B. Fairchild, Louis A. Foot, Thomas Fitzgibbon. Theodore C. Fitch, Lee M. Fitzburgh, William M. I: Gwynne, Dudley S. Gregory; Welcome L. F. Gates, John W. Gamble, Henry F. Hawkes, Henry Hook, George Hadel, William H. Jenkins, John Krucker, Charles Kensey, David Love, Edward Manser, Elias R. Manfort, John E. Miner, James Moore, Robert P. M00re, Levi Newkirk.. Samuel H. Perry, Walter W. Paddock, Edward S. Richards, James R. Reynolds, Herman Rodell, Edwin F. Smith, Thomas M. Selby, Peter Shaw, John R. Stewart, Charles N. Thompson, Thomas D. Vetach, Byron D. West.

Transferred.--First Sergeant Frederick N. Mellen; drum-major, Jacob A. Fifer; Chief ,Musician Benjamin F. Phillips; Bugler George W. Fyne; Privates Henry Herman, James Henahan, Charles C. Peck, Josiah W. Slanker, Julius L. Stewart.

On muster-in, but not no muster-out roll.—Private Herman F. Roenel.

COMPANY B.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Joseph A. Andrews.

Captain Henry McAlpin.

Captain Jules J. Montagnier.

First Lieutenant Charles B. Russell.

First Lieutenant James K. Reynolds.

First Lieutenant Henry C. Choate.

First Lieutenant Jonathan B. Holmes.

Second Lieutenant Thomas S. Royse.

Second Lieutenant Albert G. Williams.

Second Lieutenant Wesley B. McLane.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant George B. Young.

Sergeant Thomas M. Carr.

Sergeant Frederick J. Miller.

Sergeant Guy C. Nearing.

Sergeant Henry M. Palm.

Corporal John Harvey.

Corporal Louis N. Kibby.

Corporal David Schreiber.

Corporal Frederick Rodenberg.

Corporal Henry W. Kahle.

Wagoner Michael Coleman.

PRIVATES.

John Alver, William R. Bartlett, Christian Behrens, Alonzo Burgoyne, John C. Bagott, William Barnes, Thomas M. Cleveland, John Cline, Carlton C. Cable, Rush Drake, John Duffey, William E. Doherty' Charles Fitzwater, Emil Fitz, Albert Goetle, Horace Gates, John Keiss, Sebastian Lerg, James Mitchell, Daniel T. Miles, Hiram Marsh, Henry Miller, William M. Owen, Robert Rippon, Robert Rowell, Louis N. Ries, Adam Rohe, Josiah H. Stratton, Samuel F. Smith, Andrew Schuttenhelm, Moses Thaunhauser, James Warren, Edward Wells, James B. Watkins, Richard J. Williamson, John A. Zeigler, Undercooks (African), Daniel Jennings, Pink Beagler.

Killed In battle.—Corporals Philip B. Helfenbein, David H. Medary, Edwin H. Rowe; privates, Richard R. Allen, John Boerst, Albert Hardy.

Missing in action.— John Logan, Benjamin Lewis.

Died.—Privates, John Aufderheide, Michael Behrman.

Deserted,—Corporal Charles W. Tolle; Privates Squier D. Gray, Ellis E. Lloyd, Jacob Houck, William A. Mallance, Noah H. Phillips, Edwin Stace, Joseph Scholer, John Wilson.

Discharged.—First Sergeants George W. Cormany, Charles H. Foster, James Y. Semple; Sergeants Hibbard H. Hendricks, Stephen A. Thayer, Edward B. Warren; corporals, Edward Brettman, John R. Taylor; musician, Gustavus Franke; privates, Edwin H. Andrews, John Collins, Theophilus Davis, Edward F. Gettier, John Helfenbein, Jacob Hannanum, Hugo Hochstedter, Henry P. Jones, Henry Keiss, Joseph Loeser, William J. Souther, Paul Merker, John P. Marvin, Arthur Parker, Henry E. Roberts, Samuel D. Schroley, Frederick H. Smithorst. William H. Windeler, Samuel Winram.

Transferred.—Sergeant William J. Thorp; Corporals Ebenezer Hannaford, William Rowell; Privates Robert Andrews, Charles Burkhardt, Anson Clapper, Edwin A. Hannaford.

COMPANY C.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain J. W. Wilmington.

Captain Richard Smithgate.

First Lieutenant Francis H. Ehrman.

First Lieutenant John R. Kestner.

Second Lieutenant Charles Gilman.

Second Lieutenant Leonard Boice.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Matthew H. Hamilton.

Sergeant John C. Pope.

Sergeant Francis H. Thieman.

Sergeant William Boyd.

Corporal Edward P. Thorne.

Corporal James Jordan.

Corporal Merwin Crowe.

Corporal Jilin Sykes.

Corporal John Heffernan.

PRIVATES.

Frederick Arberdale, William Bente, Anton Brown, John Callahan, John Collins, Henry F. Engals, James Estell, David Fitzgibbon, Joseph T. Fox, Hugh P. Gaddis, William J. Hadskeys, Henry Hane. David Henson, Kayran Horan, Casper Keller, John Lurch, William Leickhardt, William Lidell, George Lind, Francis Ludwey, Edward Luthey, Mitchell S. Morsbeck, Bernard C. Myers, Thomas J. Ryan, George Santhoff, Ernest Schrieber, Francis Scott, Augustus Seiver, William L. Smith, Henry Stocklin, Jacob Stocklin, Alfred H. Sulser, Lawrence Swartz, Bernard Uhling. Under-cook Nathaniel Burnett.

Sergeant Bernard O'Farrel; Privates Gustave Bettge, John Burke, Joseph Davis, Clements Dulle, Joseph M. Donohue, John Farmer, William H. Holder, Joseph W. Haslen, James W. Hitchens, Charles Keever, John B. McGee, James B. Meehan, Herman Mosier, George Moore, George Mackley, Gustave .Rhein, Frederick Smith, Joseph Trickier, William H. Van Pelt, George Walters.

Killed in battle.—Corporal Alves Kaelin.

Died.—Drummer William Schock, Corporal Hibbard P. Ward, Privates Francis Kelley, William Taaffe, Herman Volkers.

Discharged.—John R. Kestner, John Crotty, William Brown, August Peters, Francis R. Fresch, Ezekiel Craven, Francis Farley, Thomas Kerwin, J. H. Achtermeyer, George M. Backus, Rufus E. Byam, William A. Baldwin, Dennis Collins, James Collins, Charles Gauckler, Frederick B. King, Joseph Kunkle, Horace A. Kelley, Henry W. Kruse, William Koehler, Herman Kluffler, William L. Mackenzie, Martin Meehan, Francis M. Murphy, Thomas Oliver, Michael Roger, Simon B. Rice, John K. Smith, James W. Sharp, Andrew Schube, John Saquens, Theodore Wager, Edward Williams, Joseph Weisbrod.

Transferred.—Privates, Edwin Ayres, Adolph Imaus. James M, Peak, William Whiteside.

On muster-in but not on muster-out roll.—Privates John R. Auchtumyer, William Burt, Jasper Kelley.

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COMPANY D.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Ezekiel H. Tatem.

Captain Charles B. Russell.

First Lieutenant John C. Parker.

First Lieutenant George W. Morris.

Second Lieutenant Thomas H. Boylan.

Second Lieutenant Harry Gee.

Second Lieutenant Joseph L. Antram.

Second Lieutenant William R. Glisan.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant William F. Bohning.

Sergeant William Bowers.

Sergeant Evel West.

Sergeant Amos Willoughby.

Sergeant Dennis O'Brien.

Corporal William A. Clockenburg.

Corporal William A. Yates.

Corporal William Drips.

Corporal John Turner.

Musician William A. Cormany.

Musician Oliver D. Blakeslee.

PRIVATES.

Joseph Anter, George W. Brown, August Bristol, John Butcher, Herman Brockman, Frederick Bastian, Charles H. Bansley, Luther Carpenter, William F. Dill, Frank Dellar, William Darby, Joseph Desar, Hugo Edler, William F. Failor, John Farrell, Alexander K. Green, Conrad Herring, Thomas Herring, Reinhold Hoffman, Antone Inner, Frank Korte, John J. Lodge, Thomas J. Moyan, A. W. H. Martheus, John Metchley, Frank A. Manus, Thomas H. B. McNeil; George F. Mosher, William C. Rees, Thomas J. Rice, George Richarter, Andrew Remlinger, Michael Renner, Frederick Speck, William Saxon, Frederick Soghan, George G. Sabin, 'Thomas Scannell, William Vont, William H. Weeks, Stephen H. Weeks, Martin Weiderrecht, John L. Williams, John Wakemann.

Killed in battle.—Sergeant James F. McGregor; Privates Joseph Imm, George Kopp, Augustus G. Young.

Died —Anthony Canell, Adam Hugel, Joseph Post, Samuel W. Stephenson, Charles Van Way, Simon Week.

Thomas Daniels, Edward Chatlin, Joseph Livesley, James Mahon, Adam Roberts.

Discharged—First Sergeants James H. Cocknower, George F. Marshall, James W. Moyan; Corporals Hume Wallace, William Hawkins, James Johnson, Giles D. Richards; Privates John Birmbaum, John C. Bender, Christopher C. Cones, Albert Drips, Charles DeLeon, Jacob Gross, Samuel Keller, Henry H. Lanius, Frederick Lancaster, Charles Mitchell, John E. Rees, John F. Wolfik, Thomas Wolcott, George W. Weise, William W. Williams, William R. Glisan.

Transferred.—Corporal Liberty H. Jinks; Privates Frederick H. Alms, William F. Doepke, George W. Lawrence, Levy L. Pritzel, Killian Strassher, Edwin D. Smith, Nicholas Stumppf, Edward Ulm.

On muster-in but not on muster-out roll.—Privates, Levi L. O'Brien, Jacob Speck.

COMPANY E.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Samuel C. Erwin.

Captain William E. Shenden.

First Lieutenant John F. Hoy.

First Lieutenant James M. Donovan.

First Lieutenant James F. Graham.

First Lieutenant Frank S. Schleifer.

Second Lieutenant George W. Morris.

Second Lieutenant Henry C. Choate.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Abram R. Lemmon.

Sergeant James Lawler.

Sergeant William Fisher.

Sergeant Joseph Turley.

Sergeant William Lieke.

Corporal Pulaski W. Fuller.

Corporal Alex. Rigler.

Corporal Peter Mabis.

Corporal George Hewson.

PRIVATES.

Joseph Ade, George W. Adams, Israel Arnold, George W. Bowen, Christopher C. Bowen, Anthony W. Bowen, John Benedick, Miles Blake, Reuben D. Burgess, Henry A. Brown, Mannie D. Brown, James Carr, Patrick Corcoran, Eugene Diserms, Andrew Deilman, Charles Eckhart, Adam Emmert, George W. Fisher, John Fisher, Adam Hess, John Hoban, John G. Jager, John Kincella, Wilbarforce Knott, John Kauflin, Joseph Longanback, John E. Long, Abiel Leaver, James H. Lyons, Richard Lambert, Andrew Miser, Robert Porter, John P. Robenstein, Benjamin F. Snell, John H. Simmons, John B. Sampson, Joseph Sommers, Samuel Schroder, William Schroder, Oliver Saffin, George T. Seeley, John C. Spiedel, Abram A. Truesdale, Horatio Tucker, Enoch West, Robert Wise, William Wise, William Betts, Valentine Cummings, John Climer, Jasper Graham, Charles Ireland, John Jounghaus, Henry Morgan, Hugh O'Donnell, John O'Neil, Joseph O'Conner, John Quinn, Albert S. Ritchie, Henry Stanley, Daniel Wilguss.

Killed in Battle.—Privates Robert Davis, Charles Davis, Charles Deekmyer, Simeon Shattuck, Michael Schaub, Robert E. Truxworth.

Died.—Corporal Benjamin F. Terry, Privates Edward H. Hall, Agathon Otto.

Discharged.—Sergeant Earl W. Stimson, Corporals Charles Williams, Robert Howden, Privates Charles H. Baldwin, Oliver Chamberlain, John E. Craig, Herman Fastrom, Joseph L. Ferdon, Matthew Grogan, Thomas Greenwood, Carl Korner, Samuel J. Lawrence, Samuel Pierson, Nicholas Rudolph, Joseph Rebel, Samuel Skelton, John Harrison, Matthew Smith, James L. Terry, Ulrich Wahrenburger, Benjamin V. Williams.

Transferred.—Sergeants Joseph L. Antram, Leonard Boice, James F. Graham, Corporal Peter H. Britt, Privates Nelson A. Britt, George Benn, John Hollister, Peter Kreps, Archibald Mangan, Fairfax W. Nelson, Sherwin S. Perkins, Henry B. Stites.

On muster-in but not muster-out roll.—Privates James H. Clymer, Matthew Gwinn, Junius E. Long, Junius H. Lyons.

COMPANY F.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Charles H. Brutton.

Captain Justin M. Thatcher.

First Lieutenant Charles H. Herron.

First Lieutenant James F. Irwin.

First Lieutenant Jesse C. n Bille.

Second Lieutenant Frank S. Schaeffer.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant William H. Read.

Sergeant Otto Brewer.

Sergeant William E. Jackson.

Sergeant John A. Seigle.

Sergeant John E. Hewite.

Corporal John B. Miller.

Corporal Edward Lawrence.

Corporal August Nearman.

Corporal William R. Wood.

Corporal Frederick Linnubrink.

Corporal Milton Lunbaeh.

Corporal James Wood.

Corporal Thomas Manning.

Musician Joseph Lefeber.

Teamster John McClung.

PRIVATES.

Harry Blake, Edward Beady, John Battell, Lewis Desbordes, David Downey, Henry Eons, Michael Enright, James R. Irwin, Frederick Finer, George Hoffman, Bernard Klotte, William Keisemeier, Ernst Lawrence, John Lawrence, Henry Leonard, John Linciman, Peter Lagaly, Herman Linnis, Franklin Lefeber, James Lefeber, Augustin Martin, Milton McCully, Perry McAdams, Joseph T. Nepper, Seth G. Perkins, Jonathan Reams, Joseph Ruff, Henry Rohl-man, Gustave Stube, Levi Sommers, Henry Smith, Anthony Schaeffer, Frederick Terpborn, Clement Thusing, Stuart Terwilliger, Daniel Toomire, William Witte, Peter West, William Wolf, Charles Young, James Yost, William Young, Michael Carrigan, William Gloeb, Louis Kolp, Michael Miller, William Overund, George W. Plummer, Irvina Rollins, John R. Ramsey, Larkin Smith, David J. Decamp, Jesse C. La Bille, Daniel A. Griffm, Vere W. Royse, John R. Faukeberger, Edward P. Perkins, Jacob Crites, Casper N. Gunther, George Hearth, Thomas Noble, Henry Nearman, Henry Peters, Charles Rocap, George W. M. Vandegrift.

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Killed in Battle.—Privates Thomas Brown, James H. Draus, Lewis Evers, Joseph Hooth, Joseph Toomire.

Died.—Privates Christopher Ark, William Brocksmith, Edwin Crawford, Gottfried Heileman, Andrew Overthal, John Q. Root, Henry Willias.

Under-cooks (African). —Carter Hughes, William Pope.

Transferred.—First Sergeants William E. Sheridan, Albert G. Williams ; Corporal Frederick Hipp ; Privates Joseph Arumar Ambruster, Frank Butsch, Joseph Furst, Charles Hottendorf, Thomas Neald, John Ruff, William Simpson, Toby Sayler, Jacob Weaver.

On muster-in, but not on muster-out roll.—James H. Deans, Herman Placke, Seth G. Perkins, George Stube, Robert Wood.

COMPANY G.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain A. O. Russell.

Captain William S. Getty.

First Lieutenant Jules J. Montaginer.

First Lieutenant Henry C. Choate.

First Lieutenant George W. Cormany.

Second Lieutenant James F. Irwin,

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Abraham J. Price.

Sergeant John W. Easley.

Sergeant Herbert Sullivan.

Sergeant Henry F. Howe.

Sergeant John Peer.

Corporal Dewitt C. Hayes.

Corporal Charles S. Dunn.

Corporal Harry Simmons.

Corporal Charles A. Hucker.

Corporal John Sullivan.

Corporal Thomas Burnett.

Corporal William Lotze.

Corporal George W. Miller.

Drummer Jacob Brauns.

PRIVATES.

Joseph Burkhardt, Peter Balser, Walter Baldwin, Hamer Bradbury, William Bodie, Charles Boutwell, Thomas Cranwell, William E. Collins, Joshua Cain, Andrew M. Dunn, Daniel A, Eagan, Atlas B. Fisher, Horace Fisher, Andy Fenhoff, John S. Gilson, William Ganard, Peter Hofsase, Nicholas Kehr, Andrew Keller, John H. Lookam, Rudolph Mackzum, Robert C. Nelson, William C. Perkins, Albert G. Parent, Benjamin Post, John Richards, George Rhynearson, George W. Knob, William B. Rowe, Isaac H. Sturgis, William H, Sturgis, Anson W. Schenck, William F. Sullivan, John R. Sullivan, William H. Servise, John Singer, James A. Taylor, James H. Willis, Peter Walton, Henry Zwibrick, Alexander Barclay, Henry Berrutter, Ebon R. R. Biles, H. W. H. Dickman, Thomas Fennell, James J. Geldea, Isaac Huff, William Morrington, Charles McDoughtin, Robert Nolan, Michael P. Way.

Under-cooks (African). —J ohn Jennings, George Washington.

Killed in battle.—Private John Huddleston.

Died.—First Sergeant George W. Ridenour, Sergeant William H. Loyd, Corporal Oliver P. Rockenfield, Privates Jeremiah A. Colwell, Samuel P. Stallcup, Robert Taulman.

Discharged.—Sergeant Louis Schram ; Corporals William A. Clark, Walter Lawrence, Julius C. Schenck ; Privates Alfred Burnett, Joseph Biggers, Augustus Clements, William H. Eberle, William J. Graham. Gottlie Heirtsbruner, Charles Hebei,. William R. Joyce, Joseph Metzler, Ambrose A. Philips, Alexander Schenk, August Schraitman, William H. Sloan, James J, Wagner, Joseph McMurmes.

Transferred.—First Lieutenant James F. Irwin, Privates Gustave Binder, Silas S. Dunn, John Fenhoff, William R. Goodnough, Frederick Haha, Joseph hatching, Joseph Long, Maley Lemings, Frank Parsnip, Milton Parvin, Michael G. Ryan.

COMPANY H.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Henry H. Tinker.

First Lieutenant John W. Morgan.

First Lieutenant William E. Sheridan.

First Lieutenant Joseph L. Antmm, First

Lieutenant James F. Meline.

Second Lieutenant Solomon Bidwell.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Benjamin F, Hopkins.

Sergeant Joseph H. McClintock.

Sergeant Charles A. Haller.

Sergeant Joseph S. Wehrle.

Sergeant Joseph Gang.

Corporal Albert Speece.

Corporal Benjamin D. Hall.

Corporal Joseph R. Northcraft.

Corporal Frank P. Winstell.

Corporal Frank D. Wentworth.

Corporal John A. Bonner.

Corporal Henry Shaffer.

Bugler William Schmitt.

Musician John F. Dressel.

Wagoner George Harrison.

Corporal Ashmad Charles.

PRIVATES.

Thomas Armstrong, James F. Attee, William E. Allen, John Cornin, Joseph O. Clark, Joseph Chloe, John W. Douglass, Henry Duvall, William C. Ellis, August Friday. Henry Frazier, Henry Frillman, George Greenfield, Lewis Hahn, Herman Hinkley, John F. Hanley, Hannibal M. Hopkins, Thomas Kennedy, Henry Keith, Patrick Logue, Robert Menah, Daniel McGillicudy, John Meier, Absalom Maxwell, Joseph Nevill, James O'Malley, Cannville Peyrot, Hiram C. Page, Stephen Ross, Joseph Kohler, Charles Schuster, Killian Strosser, Richard Thomson, James B. Willets, George W. Whippy,. George Whistler, Robert Andrews, William Carrington, Henry Cahlenburg, John Maley, John D. Newman, Nicholas Stumpf, Antonia Smith, Henry C. Thatcher, John Wilson.

Killed in Battle.—Privates, Valentine Merdian, Charles Waltermut.

Missing in Action.—Michael Munly.

Died.—Privates, John Christ, Henry Rusher, Martin Seebaur, Benjamin Worrell.

Discharged. —Sergeant William H. Pierce, John Mitter, Samuel Walker, William A, Ream. Joseph Sandheiger, Levi Thompson, Levi II. Banker, John J. Bozle, William Boingard, Deloraine Brown, Eugene Brown, Bryan C. Eager, John M. Gay, Lawrence Gay, Max Hendricks, John Hollister, John G. King, Joseph Legrand, Owen Murphy, Levi L. Pritzel, John Riley, David Singer, Andrew Sullivan, Edward Ulm, Anthony Walsh.

Transferred—Privates, Joseph Hahn, Samuel Lawrence, Maley Leming, Ferdinand Shvenpedder. Edward M. Shoemaker.

On muster in, not on muster out roll.—Privates, W. A. Bouregard, Levi H. Barchus, Robert Davis, Lawrence Guise, George Hoffman, Arthur Imer, John Jager, George Willason, John O'Neil, Joseph Reilly, Avoni Rollins, William H. H. Stout, Henry Williams, Constan tine Zimmerman.

COMPANY I.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain James Bense.

Captain Benjamin F. West.

First Lieutenant Richard Southgate.

First Lieutenant George T. Lewis.

Second Lieutenant Walter Lawrence.

Second Lieutenant Josiah W. Stanker.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS,

First Sergeant William S. Woolverton.

Sergeant John Hanley.

Sergeant Ferdinand McDonough.

Corporal William Langenheim.

Corporal William Crawford.

Corporal Charles Fahlbush.

Corporal Richard Garwood.

Corporal Henry Harmeyer.

Corporal Frederick Larkcom.

Musician Edward Frike.

Teamster Frederick Shoenck.

PRIVATES.

Otto Anner, Newton Burknell, Henry Buddenbaum, Frank Brahm, George Bruner, Adolph Bruner, Edward P. Catlin, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Drehr, Antone Frave, Joseph Gutzweiler, Edwin Green, August Grass, Adolph Hof, Jacob Hauser, Gottlieb Heller, James V..Hirlez, David Hummel, Roland O. Jones, William Jurgans, Dennis H. Kenedy, Christopher Kohli, John C. Lynch, Jacob Liese, Jacob Landis, Eli Miller, Hiram Mosier, William L. May, John McGlone, James Martin, August Nischan, Timothy Ryan, John L. Rea, Matthias Seibert, Christopher Schweitzer, William C. Webber, Sylvester Webber, Wil-

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liam Yager, John Zimmerman. Under-cook (African) George Washington. Peter Bruner, Frederick Beck, John Buckhart. Michael Connell, Samuel Erumiger, Robert Fenley, William Geisel, John Little, Jacob Litzel, Thomas Marshall, John Oysterbag, Robert H. Pence, Michael S. Witmer, Meritz Zink.

Killed in Battle.—Privates Daniel E. McCarty, Heinrich Nortman, Samuel Pulver, Jacob Rappellee, Frederick Springmeyer, Gasquire Yehle.

Missing in Action.—Privates James Carson, William Maygaffoygan.

Died.—Privates Max Essinger, Jacob Hillfecker, William Wenzel,

Discharged. — Privates George T. Lewis, Wesley B. McClane, Henry C. Choate, Henry Gibson, George S. La Rue, Thomas Long, Edward Roderija, John Williams, Frederick Bender, Thomas Cartwright, Frederick Elerman, William Fenistall, Frank Gerhardt, Edward Hof, Otto Hof, Frederick Heckert, John Jackson, John Muhler, John Storker, Orlando M. Smith, William T. Swift, William Z. Thor-burn, James Wilson.

On muster in, not on muster out roll.—Privates, Cornelius Collins, John Brauns, William Lyons, Joseph Fetz, Linck Morris.

COMPANY K.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Charles M. Clark.

Captain James M. Donovan.

First Lieutenant August B. D. Merback.

First Lieutenant Charles C. Beck.

Second Lieutenant Justin M. Thatcher.

Second Lieutenant Edward F. Getlier.

Second Lieutenant Josiah W. Stanker.

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant George B. Nicholson.

Sergeant Jethro F. Hill.

Sergeant William S. Squires.

Sergeant William Gaines.

Corporal Albert Kimble.

Corporal Joseph H. Cohagan.

Corporal Nehemiah V. Pennington.

Musician Lewis Hatt.

PRIVATES.

Christopher Albert, George W. Bowlby, John H. Bowlby, John A. Barth, Louis C. Brehm, George Buskirk, Henry Beckman, Robert S., Culbertson, Francis I. Cullom, Charles Cunningham, Henry Elsing, Frederick Eggerman, Constantine Fecker, William Goodwin, Joseph Grau, John Hafting, Isaac B. Hart, Daniel Henrie, Peter Hoffman, Jacob Hoffnagle, Lorenz Huber, John A. Roo, August Kreyenhagen, John C. Leistner, William A. Lohu, Theodore B. McDonald, Frank Meier, Ped10 Montaldo, John Moorhouse, Theodore Ostman, Thomas Parker, Reason Regin, Clark C. Saunders, Henry E. Scholle, John Leitz, Henry Shelton, George W. G. Shipman, Henry Shockman, Joshua Tomson, Samuel Walker, Charles Warner, Frederick Wehking, George W. Yeager, Gerhard Jumweilde, Frank Christman, Clements Dulle, Wesley W. Long, Charles Weideman, George K. Wilder.

Killed in Battle.—Sergeants Thomas G. Drake, John H. Osling ; Corporal Henry F. Fauk ; Privates Louis F. Fautz, Theodore Wessel-man.

Died.—Corporals Henry G. Kreyenhagen, Joseph Martin ; Privates Henry L. Ford, Frank Guhra, George Kelsch, David Klein, Jacob Nikel, Alexander Schidtman, Raimond Welling.

Discharged.—First Sergeant James F. Meline ; Sergeant H. E. W. Backus, Henry N. Conden ; Corporals James F. Bargulow, Charles Donnelly. Privates George Andrews, Theodore Austin, Frank Crests, David D. Davis, Henry C. Davis, Henry Gauckstadt, Joseph Haddock, Christopher H. Kuhn, Jefferson McClure, William A. Roebuck, Mortimer Singer, James F. Smith, Freeman C. Tryon, Harrison Waltz, Thomas S. Witherell.

Transferred.—First Sergeant Henry Gee, Sergeant William Paper-brook, Musician John H. Buchtel, Privates John M. Darke, Charles E. Lewis, Alexander Love, William McBride, Andrew Murphy.

On muster in, but not on muster out roll.—Privates Thomas Braun, Frederick A. Bemis, John J. Cordry, William Camp, Carneal Conger, Henry C. Fowler, Stephen G10ve, Joseph L. Gibson, Charles Heine, Thomas Johnson, F. H. Lancaster, Frederick Martin, Peter Molloy, John Rut, Frank Ross, Luke Rapplee, James W. Roe, Thomas F. Ricker, Francis Sutchs, Edwin Thomas, Diedrick Evers, John Fagru, Barnard Klenberg, William Lamont, Frederick Madeke, George McLaughlin, Conrad Milcher, Albert Malloy, Michael Nolan, Jacob Schaff ner, Julius Winer, Engelhart Wolfer, Jacob Weiber, Frederick Krause, Louis Stahl, Martin Erhardt.

Transferred.—Sergeant Newton McKee, Corporal George B. Crist, Privates Frederick Bottles, Victor Liest, Jacob Mattern, Darius Crosline, Rinhard Crist, Samuel Doatwart, Sandy Smith (under-cook, African).

NINTH OHIO INFANTRY.

Upon receipt of the thrilling news of the fall of Sumter, the Germans of Cincinnati promptly held a meeting at Turner hall, which was addressed by Judge Stallo, Colonel R. L. McCook, and other prominent citizens. The issue of this gathering was the raising of a German regiment, for which two hundred men enrolled at once, and within three days fifteen hundred were offered. The Ninth was mustered for three months April 22d, at Camp Harrison, and moved to Camp Dennison May 18th, where it was soon after mustered in for the long term, the first three years' regiment from the State, in c0nsideration of which the Columbus ladies sent it a superb bass drum. It numbered one thousand and thirty-five officers and men, with a band of twenty-four. On the twentieth of June it took the field in Western Virginia, made a rapid march from Webster to Philippi, fifteen miles in three hours, and thence to Buckhannon, meeting the enemy at Little Fork bridge, but not in force. The Ninth was engaged at Rich Mountain directly after, and sustained a small loss. From the "advance to Cheat Mountain it was ordered back to Beverly, and thence to New Creek, on the Potomac, arriving July 27th. Uncommonly severe guard duty awaited it here and continued about a month, when the regiment moved to the interior and was assigned to the Second brigade. September 7th the Ninth was engaged near Carnifex Ferry, losing two killed and eight wounded. For two months and half it was encamped on New river, having frequent skirmishes with the enemy, in which a few men were lost. Ordered west, it left "Camp Anderson" November 24th, and arrived at Louisville December 2d, going from there to Lebanon, where if was assigned to the Third brigade, First division, Army of the Ohio. January r, 1862, the division moved on Columbia, and from there to meet Zollicoffer. The Ninth was in the action at Mill Springs, and made the decisive charge of the day. Upon the return to Louisville in February, the Union ladies of the city presented it, and three other regiments, each with a stand of colors, for their bravery in this battle. The regiment was then transported by water to Nashville, reaching it March 2d, and leaving a fortnight after for Pittsburgh Landing, where it arrived too late to join in the battle. It was in the advance on Corinth, and for some way in the pursuit beyond; but was marched to Tuscumbia, Alabama, June 22d. While in camp there the Ninth received an elegant regimental flag, presented by the city of Cincinnati. July 27th it moved toward Decherd, Tennessee, and on this march its colonel, Robert L. Cook, commanding the brigade, fell ill, and riding in an ambulance ahead of the column, was overtaken and cruelly murdered by guerillas. From Decherd the regiment moved with the Army of the Ohio in its toilsome and painful retreat to Louisville, which was reached September 27th. October