HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY - 291 CHAPTER VI. WAR HISTORY - THE EARLY CONFLICTS - MEXICAN WAR - THE LATE REBELLION - SKETCHES OF THE DIFFERENT REGIMENTS. "Red battle With blood-red tresses deepening in the sun, And death -shot glowing in his fiery hands." BY reference to the map of Loan County the reader will observe a lice crossing it, ranging a little from due east and west, and known as the "Greenville Treaty Line." Another called the " Ludlow Line,'' runs in an almost northwest direction, intersecting the first near the centre of the county. And still another-the "Robert's Line," starting from the Greenville treaty line, a few miles west of the intersection of the Ludlow line, also runs northwest. All the land in Logan County lying east of the Ludlow line, that north of the Greenville treaty line and east of the Roberts line was for a time Indian reservations, was known ;a Virginia Military land, and had been retained by Virginia, with other lands, for the purpose of paying her soldiers who served in the war of the Revolution. In the cession by Virginia to the United States Government, this land, as we have said, had been reserved as a reward to her Revolutionary soldiers. The Government likewise set apart a large body of land in the State of Ohio, for the same laudable purpose - that is, of pacing her soldiers for their services in the War for Independence. It was thus that the Revolutionary soldiers were paid for years of arduous military service. After the close of that war emigrants came flocking to Ohio, many of whom were themselves Revolutionary soldiers. Many others had sold their land warrants to speculators for a mere pittance, thereby receiving but little remuneration from what was designed as a generous act on the part of the Government. How many of the early settlers of Logan County had served in the war of the Revolution is not known at this day. But, as less than two 292 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. decades had passed from its close to the first settlement, it is not improbable that many of these old heroes were numbered among the pioneers of the county. The war of the Revolution, the causes which led to it, and the results achieved by it, are familiar to every schoolboy in the land, and further mention of it in this work is superfluous. The event is merely alluded to as a prelude to the wars which hate followed, and in which the male citizens of Logan County have proven themselves the " noble sons of noble sires." In the war of 1812, when the Cross of St. George was again flaunted in our faces, and but a few hundred inhabitants dwelt within the present precincts of Logan County, the patriotism of this scattered few blazed out, and most of the able-bodied men hastened to enro'l themselves for the defence of their country. During the three years that the war lasted but few skirmishes took place in the Northwest in which some of them were not engaged. In the Indian wars of the early period they were equally zealous and patriotic, and endured many dangers and difficulties. What schoolboy has not read, and felt his hair rise on his head at the time, the hairbreadth escapes of Simon Kenton, long a resident of Logan County; how he was captured by the Indians, and forced to undergo every species of torture, except death itself, known to them, even to running the gauntlet-as we are informed by one authority-not five miles from where Bellefontaine now stands. And "Hull's Trace," as it is called, passed through the county. It is the route pursued by Hull and his army from Urbana to Detroit, where, shortly after, he surrendered the troops under his command without a struggle, an act that covered his name with almost as much infamy as the treason of Benedict Arnold covered his name with infamy. Hull's Trace passed through what is now West Liberty, where the army encamped for the night. The route crossed the Blue Jacket Creek about one mile west of Bellefontaine, and continued on north near the present road from Bellefontaine to Huntsville. Fort McArthur, occupied at intervals by regular soldiers during the war, was in Logan County. We have an account of " Capt. John McCord and his entire company were ordered to Fort McArthur by the Governor to remain one month. "Many of the pioneers remember this old fort. The Indian wars and skirmishes are more particularly given in the chapter devoted to the Indian history pertaining to Logan County. The close of the War of 1812, and the removal of the Indians to reservations, lying far away toward the setting sun, restored peace and tranquility to this portion of the country which remained uninterrupted for a long period of years. In 1846 Mexico ruffled the feathers of the American eagle, and a sanguinary war followed. We cannot enter into all the details of the causes which led to this war. Briefly, it grew out of the annexation of Texas. In 1836 the American settlers in that province defeated the Mexican forces at San Jacinto, captured Santa Anna, the Dictator of Mexico, and under duress wrung from him a treaty acknowledging the independence of Texas. But this treaty the Republic of Mexico ever repudiated. From 1836 on, overtures were frequently made to the United States by the "Lone Star" for admission into the Union. Mexico took occasion several times to inform the Government of the United States that the annexation of Texas would be regarded a sufficient cause for war. In the Presidential contest of 1844, the question was made one of the leading issues of the campaign, and the election of Mr. Polk, whose party favored the admission of Texas, was construed into a popular approval, by the people, of the step. HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 293 There was no longer any hesitation on the part of Congress, and March 1, 1845, Texas was admitted as a State into the Federal Union. Mexico at once broke off all diplomatic intercourse: with the United States, recalled her Minister, and began preparations for war. War soon followed, the result of which was to settle, perhaps forever, the ownership of the great State of Texas. In the emergency arising from the opening of hostilities, Congress passed an act authorizing the President to accept the services of 50,000 volunteers (which were at once to be raised), and appropriating $10,000,000 for the prosecution of the war. In this call for 50,000 men Ohio was required to furnish three regiments. With her characteristic patriot ism she filled her quota in a few weeks. The place of rendezvous was Cincinnati, and upon the organization of the required regiments, there were almost troops enough left to form another regiment. These were furnished transportation to their homes at the expense of the Government. As organized, the three regiments were officered as follows: First Regiment A. M. Mitchell, Cincinnati, Colonel; John B. Weller, of Butler County, Lieutenant-Colonel; T. L. Hamer, of Brown County, Major. Second Regiment-G. W. Morgan, of Knox County, Colonel; William Irvin, of Fairfield, Lieutenant-Colonel; William Hall, of Athens, Major. Third Regiment-S. R. Curtis, of Wayne County, Colonel; G. W. McCook, of Jefferson, Lieutenant-Colonel; and J. S. Love, of Morgan, Major. In these regiments, filled so hastily under the President's first call for soldiers, but few volunteered from Logan County. In fact we have been able to find but a single one who enlisted previous to the second call. This, however, is no reflection on the patriotism of the county, as the first three regiments allotted to the State were filled in a few weeks after the call was made public. S. W. Ashmead enlisted in Company H, Fifth Regiment, in May, 1847. But under the second call, or the "Ten Regiment Bill," as it was termed, permission was obtained to raise a company in Logan County, and a recruiting office was opened in Bellefontaine. The following gentlemen were commissioned officers of the company : Colin McDonald, of Urbana, Captain; John B. Miller, of Bellefontaine, First Lieutenant, and William R. Stafford, of Bellefontaine, Second Lieutenant.. The Logan County Gazette of April 24, 1847, has the following notice of this company : "A detachment of thirty-six men, of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment of United States Infantry, under command of First Lieutenant John B. Miller, and Second Lieutenant William R. Stafford, volunteers, enlisted at recruiting rendezvous at Bellefontaine, left our tillage on Wednesday for the seat of war. They proceeded to Dayton, thence to Cincinnati, etc:" * * * * The following are the names of those of the detachment from this county: First and Second Lieutenants, Bellefontaine; David Carman, Bellefontaine; Joel AnselI ,Bellfontaine; Stephen Campbell, Bellefontaine; Thaddeus Cook, Middleburg; Joshua Culvin, Cherokee; F. Davenport, Middleburg; Michael Duck, Bellefontaine; Samuel Dunham, Bellefontaine; Samuel Edsal, Bellefontaine; Isaac Grimes, County; Richard Humphrey, Middleburg; Samuel Hill, Bellefontaine; John Hibbitts, Cherokee; Henry Houtz, Bellefontaine; Thomas Kennedy, Bellefontaine; John McCoubry, County; L. Penrod, County; Thomas Rogan, Bellefontaine; Alexander Sutherland, Bellefontaine; Chas. Stewart, Bellefontaine; Joseph Stratton, County; John Robertson, County; William Wheeler, Cherokee; J. W. Caldwell, Bellefontaine; William Royer, William Allen, Andrew Hamilton and James Kennedy, County. A few others were in the company from the adjoining counties. From the above list it will be seen that 294 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. Logan County was pretty well represented in the Mexican war. These gallant young men maintained well the valor inherited from their Revolutionary ancestors. We are unable to give, in detail, their history during their term of service. It is enough to say that they were Ohio soldiers. The history of the war with Mexico was one long series of triumphs of the American arms, and is so familiar to the readers of American history, as to require no further mention in these pages. Less than a decade and a half passed, and again the country was involved in war, but this tinge no f'oreign foe opposed us. In 1861 the Great Rebellion assumed a definite shape, and a civil war of the most astounding magnitude-a civil war such as the world had never known, followed. The rival houses of York and Lancaster, with their emblems of "White" and "Red,"shook old England to her center, filling her houses with mourning, her fields with carnage, and wasting the blood of her bravest and best; but compared to cur "war between the States,'' it was but a child's play. Much of the history of our civil war lets never been written-it never can be written. Though an inspired historian were to dip his pen in the "gloom of earthquake and eclipse," he could not write a true history of those four long and gloomy years, when, neither "upon the earth, nor in the sky, nor in the air, were to be seen an omen " of less unhappy times. But the war-cloud passed, and that which had appeared a withering curse in the land, developed into a blessing, and eventually the bonds of union became more firmly cemented between the sections than ever-before. In the union of "the Roses" were found the germ of the future greatness and resplendent glory of England, and who shall dare to say, that in the harmonious blending of " the Blue " and " the Gray " the future greatness of America shall not exceed all her past glory and splendor. But that the issues are dead and buried, which invoked the country in civil war, is no sufficient reason why a tribute should not be paid to those whose patriotism, when the tocsin of war sounded, led them to the post of duty. At the first warning of danger, they left their daily pursuits and offered themselves to their country. Who does rat remember the blaze of excitement, when the news was flashed over the wires, that the old flag had been lowered from the battlements of Sumter and the "Palmetto" hoisted in its place? Volunteers turned out by scores, companies were organized and hurried off to the front. Frorn the most reliable information to be obtained, the county turned out more than two thousand soldiers during the four years of the war. And the fields of Stone River, Chicka-mauga, Shiloh, Corinth, Gettysburg and the Wilderness attest their valor. Many a far off grave, beneath the palms and magnolias, tells the history of those who never returned, while "The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo." It is a compliment to the patriotism of the county, worthy of perpetuation on the pages of history, that it furnished a company to the first regiment organized in the State under the President's first call for three years' men. Company G, of the First Infantry was mostly raised in Logan County ; the first Commissioned officers were, Nicholas Trapp, Captain; James W. Powell, First Lieutenant, and John J. Patton, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Trapp was a soldier in the Mexican war, and elected Captain of this company on account of his knowledge of military affairs. He served three years and was mustered out with the regiment, and it is said, performed well his duty as a soldier; he was severely wounded at Mission Ridge. Lieut. Powell resigned July 9, 1862, and was appointed HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 295 Major in the One Hundred and Thirty-Second Ohio N ational Guard, which position he resigned before going to the field, to accept the office of Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army. He is still an officer in the Regular Army; is Senior Lieutenant, and brevet-Captain in the Eight Regiment of United States Infantry, and is in command at Fort Bidwell, Cal. Lieut. Patton resigned June 16, 1862, came home and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-Second Ohio National Guard, served four months, and was then appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, which position he still holds. Dennis Denny was commissioned Second Lieutenant June 16, 1862, and promoted to First Lieutenant July 8, 1864, and as such mustered out with the regiment; the office of Second Lieutenant was vacant when the company was mustered nut. Company G was organized at Bellefontaine on the 24th of August, 1861, and went to the field with 101 men officers and privates. With its regiment, it participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Dry Ridge, Dog Walk, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Dandridge, Rocky Faced Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Resacca, Adairsville, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, etc.; in all of which it acquitted itself with honor and credit. The First Regiment, to which Company G belonged, in the three years" service, was originally organized in April, 1861, under the President's first call for three months' men. It was made up principally from some of the old militia companies of the State, and served mostly in Virginia. It was at the first battle of Bull Run, but did not take an active part except in covering the retreat of the army from that ill-fated field. This closed its period of service under the three months' enlistment. In August the regiment was organized for the three years' service, and Company G mustered in with the commissioned officers as above noticed. It left for Cincinnati on the 31st of October, where it received its arms on the 4th of November, and the next day proceeded to Louisville. The regiment on the 15th marched to Camp Nevin, below Elizabethtown, and reported to Gen. A. M. McCook, then in command of the Second Division of the Army of the Cumberland. Soon after it was brigaded with the First Kentucky, or " Louisville Legion," the Sixth Indiana, First Battalion Fifteenth United States Infantry; and battalions of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Infantry, forming the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division. It received its first baptism of fire at Shiloh. Early on the morning of the 7th of April it moved to the front and formed in line of battle and during the remainder of the fighting acquitted itself in a manner to receive the commendation of the commanding officers. At Corinth, although nut actively engaged, it did considerable skirmishing, and during the pursuit of the enemy by the National forces, the First remained in and about Corinth doing picket and guard duty. In the race between Buell's and Bragg's armies to Louisville, in the fall of 1862, the First participated. On the return race a sharp engagement took place at "Dog Walk'' on the 9th of October between the Rebels and the column of the National army to which the First was attached. A junction was formed with the main army under Buell on the 11th, two days after the battle of Perryville. A short time after the battle of Perryville Gen. Buell was superseded by Gen. Rosecrans, who at once re-organized the whole army. The division to which the First Ohio belonged, commanded by Gen. Sill, was placed in command of Gen. R.W. Johnson. C*en. Rosecrans commenced is movements against Bragg's army at Murfreesboro, 296 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. on the 26th of December, and in the bloody battle of Stone River, which followed, the regiment bravely performed its duty, and did some hard fighting. In the Chickamauga campaign, which was begun on the 30th of August, 1863, the First was actively engaged in fighting and skirmishing during all the operations, including the battle of Chickamauga. and the fighting around Chattanooga, and was led by Lieut. Col. Bassett Langdon. The Twentieth and Fourth Army Corps were consolidated about the 20th of October, 1863, and the First Regiment was brigaded under Gen. Hazen, in the Third Division of the corps. Soon after the First formed a part of the expedition down the Tennessee River to Brown's Ferry, capturing an important post, thus enabling supplies to reach Chattanooga. The battle of Orchard Knob was fought November 23rd, which was the opening, in reality, of the battle of Mission Ridge. About noon of the 23rd the First Ohio consolidated with the Twenty-Third Kentucky, the whole .under command of Lieut. Col. Langdon, was formed on the right of Hazen's brigade and immediately advanced on the enemy, driving in his pickets. During the whole of the fighting the regiment was actively engaged. A war chronicle has the following of the battle of Mission Ridge " The intensity of the Rebel fire was such that five color-bearers of the First Ohio were either killed or wounded. The last one, Capt. Trapp, of Company G, was wounded twice within twenty paces of the crest of the hill, while gallantly heading the regiment. At this time the regiment assumed the shape of the letter A, the nature of the ground being such as to protect its head from the Rebel fire in front; it was halted to gather strength for the final charge. A few minutes sufficed to effect this, and the first and second lines moved up in mass, breaking over and carrying the enemy's works and the crest of the hill. While directing the movement, at the head of the column and within about twentypaces of the crest, Lieut. Col. Langdon was shot in the face, the ball coming out at the back of the neck. The shock of the hall disabled him for a few minutes, but he recovered his feet and charged with his men to within ten paces of the works, when loss of blood compelled him to retire, not, however, without witnessing the capture of the Rebel works. Maj. Stafford, of the First, was wounded at the foot of the hill, but accompanied his regiment to the top, and carried the flag into the ranks on the crest. Lieut. Christopher Wollenhaupt and Sergt.-Maj. Ogden Wheeler were killed near the crest of the ridge. The entire loss of the regiment was five officers and seventy-eight men killed and wounded." On the 28th but a few days after this battle, the First, with other regiments, moved to the relief of Gen. Burnside, at Knoxville. January 17, 1864, the "regiment had a sharp engagement with the Rebels at Dandridge. On the 4th of May it started with Sherman's army on the Atlanta campaign, and in the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Resaca and Adairsville it took part, often suffering severely; it was also engaged in several other light skirmishes. At Kennesaw, on the 17th of June, it took part in the battle with its accustomed bravery. This was its last hard fighting, and soon after it commenced to be mustered out by companies, the last one on the 14th of October, 1864. To sum up the operations of the First during its term of service: " It took part in twenty-four battles and skirmishes, and had 527 officers and men killed and wounded. It saw its initial battle at Pittsburg Landing, and closed its career in front of Atlanta. It marched about 2,500 miles, and was transported by car and steamboat 950 miles." Of Company G, the PAGES 297 & 298 NOT USED HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 299 following was published in 1865, just after the close of the war: •• The casualties in the company were: twelve died of sickness; seven of wounds received in battle; six .killed in action; three wounded and fell into enemy's hands and supposed to be dead; still missing alter action and supposed to be dead, six; discharged on account of wounds, four; discharged on account of sickness, five, and three transferred to other commands." The Thirteenth Infantry, organized in April, 1861, for three months, contained two companies from this county. Company was raised here, and was officered as follows: Samuel W. Ashmead, Captain; Isaac R. Gardner, First Lieutenant, and I. C. Robinson, Second Lieutenant. Company C was also raised here. It was recruited originally for cavalry by Donn Piatt, but was mustered finally into the Thirteenth, with the following officers: Donn Piatt, Captain; Thomas R. Roberts, First Lieutenant. The name of the Second Lieutenant could not be ascertained. A. Sanders Platt. a citizen of Logan County, was made Colonel of this regiment. The following extracts are from a sketch of Gen. Platt by Whitelaw Reid: " When the rebellion broke upon the country, he entered earnestly into the strife, offering his services in any capacity to the Government. April 30, 1861, he was commissioned as Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry, then organized at Camp Jackson, near Columbus. From this camp he was ordered to Camp Dennison, where he remained until the regiment enlisted for the three years' service. An order from the Governor authorized an election of officers, but Col. Platt, unwilling to receive as constituents the men whom he had sought to command as soldiers, declined appearing as a candidate for the Colonelcy. He solicited and received authority from Mr. Lincoln to enlist a brigade for the war. Relying on his own means, he selected a camp and organized the first Zouave regiment in Ohio. He subsisted his regiment for one month and six days, and was then commissioned as Colonel, and or dered to Camp Dennison. The regiment was designated as the Thirty-Fourth. He continued recruiting, with permission from the State authorities, and a second regiment was subsequently organized, and designated the Fifty-Fourth. This regiment was being rapidly filled up, and there is every reason to believe that the brigade would soon have been completed when Col. Platt was ordered to report with the Thirty-Fourth to Gen. Rosecrans, then commanding g in Western Virginia. He proceeded as far as Camp Enyart, on the Kanawha River, where, for lack of transportation, he was compelled to remain. On the 23d of September he led a portion of his own regiment, and a detachment from a Kentucky regiment, across the Kanawha in search of an organized band of rebels, known to be encamped at some point south, and to be preparing to obstruct the navigation of the river. On the 24th the detachment from the Kentucky regiment was sent up Cole River, while Col. Platt continued his march to Chapmansville, where he arrived at 3 o'clock r. M. on the 25th, and found the rebels strongly fortified. He attacked and drove the enemy, in utter rout, from their position, and wounded and captured the commander of the force, Col. J. W. Davis. Col. Platt next attacked and defeated a rebel force at Hurricane, which was co-operating with Gen. Floyd, then at Cotton Hill; and on the ?4th of October he went into winter-quarters at Barboursville. * * * While absent on sick leave he was commissioned Brigadier-General, and on his recovery, ordered to report to Gen. Fremont. He joined that officer at Harrisonburg, in the Shenandoah Valley, and was assigned a brigade in Gen. Schenck's division. When Gen. Siegel succeeded Gen. 300 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. Fremont, Gen. Piatt was ordered with his brigade to Winchester, and was directed to fortify and to command that post. He enjoyed the satisfaction of having his works inspected and approved by Gen. Sigel. "On the 28th of July he was directed to report to Gen. Sturgis at Alexandria, and was assigned to a brigade in Gen. McClellan's army, which was then returning from the Peninsula. Shortly after organizing his brigade Gen. Piatt received information from the Division General that in the press for transportation he had succeeded in securing only twenty cars; that these should be at the disposal of the first regiments ready to take possession of them, and that they would thus ire privileged to go to the front. Gen. Platt immediately took possession of the track, and as soon as the cars arrived, ordered his men into them. He arrived at Warrenton :Junction at. midnight, and the next day, August 26, he reported to Gen. Pope. On the evening of the 27th Gen. Platt was ordered to march to Manassas Junction. He immediately but his troops in motion, and had proceeded three miles, when Gen. Sturgis ordered his return to Warrenton Junction, to protect that point from an expected attack. On the morning of the 28th he was again ordered to Manassas Junction. He reached the Junction at noon on the 29th, having been seriously delayed by trains and troops in his front. * *. * * On the morning of the 30th he received an order to report to Gen. Porter. He had proceeded but a few hundred yard, when he met a brigade belonging to Gen, Porter's corps, which was marching to join the command. Gen. Platt followed the brigade. and found drat it led him to Centreville. Here he halted his brigade, while the one in front marched on toward Washington. Gen. Piatt remarked to Gen. Sturgis that he had gone far enough in drat direction in search of Gen Porter, and that with his permission he would march to the battlefield. He then ordered his men into the road, and, guided by the sound of the artillery, he arrived at the battle-ground of Bull Run at 2 o'clock r. M. The brigade went into action on the left, and acquitted itself with great courage. Gen. Pope, in his official report, complimented Gen. Piatt highly, for the `soldierly feeling which prompted him, after being misled, and with the bad example of the other brigade before his eyes, to push forward with such zeal and alacrity to the field of battle.' * * "Gen. Platt entered the army with no intention of making it his profession, and now, that a large family of motherless children demanded his attention and care, he tendered his resignation and retired from the. service." After the Thirteenth had served out its term of three months, it was re-organized, under the second call for troops, for three years. The Logan County company became Company F, in the re-organization, and was officered as fol lows: Isaac R. Gardner, Captain; James D. Stover, First Lieutenant, and Frank J. Jones, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Gardner died May 31, 1862, of 'wounds received at Shiloh. Lieut. Stover resigned January 3, 1862, and became Captain of Company C, Forty-Fifth Ohio Infantry, and was honorably discharged July 20, 1874. Lieut. Jones was promoted to First Lieutenant, January 21, 1862; promoted to Captain, January 1, 1863; and promoted by President, May 6, 1863. Robert L. Seig was promoted to Second Lieutenant, March 31, 1862; to First Lieutenant., September 11,1862; to Captain, September 30, 1864, and was honorably discharged January 26, 1865. H. S. Leister was promoted to First Lieutenant, transferred to Company C, and resigned June 18, 1865. Upon the re-organization of the Thirteenth, Col. Platt, as we have seen, declined coming HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 301 before his old regiment as a candidate for the Colonelcy, and W. S. Smith, an experienced officer of the regular army, became Colonel. The first service of the new regiment was in Western Virginia, and arrived at Parkersburg with 1,000 men, rank and file: Its first battle of any moment was at Carnifex Ferry, where it made a good record. The Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth regiments, with McMullen's Battery, formed Benham's Brigade, and on the 12th of November it started in pursuit of Gen. Floyd. In this pursuit the Thirteenth held the post of honor. The first skirmish with the enemy occurred at Cotton Hill, in which the regiment lost. one man killed and two wounded. The rebels were driven from Western Virginia,, and the National forces were withdrawn and moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana, the Thirteenth going into camp at that place. On the 11th of December it received orders to join Buell, who was then watching the movements of Bragg in Southern Kentucky. It was ordered to march on the 10th of February, and proceeded to Bowling Green, where it tool: cars for Nashville, and reached Gallatin, forty miles from Nashville, on the 22nd In the battle of Pittsburg Landing the Thirteenth took a prominent part. Composing a part of the Fifth Division, it formed on the right of Nelson's command, and about 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th of April moved forward to the attack. It came upon the enemy, supported by the famous Washington Battery, of N New Orleans. This battery the Thirteenth captured after a desperate struggle, only to lose it main at the hands of a superior force of the enemy. In this affair Ben Runkle, Major of the Thirteenth, fell, severely wounded. In the last advance of the National forces, the regiment made one wore effort to capture the famed Washington Battery, and succeeded. The Thirteenth participated in the advance on Corinth, and performed its share of picket duty in the vicinity of that place. In June it accompanied Buell's army into Alabama, and on the 20th of August received marching orders. Brag had left Chattanooga on his famous advance to Louisville, Ky. Then commenced a. march that has few parallels in history. A writer of the tithe thus speaks of it: "From the 21st of August to the 26th of September, a period of thirty-six days, the National soldiers patiently toiled on after their exultant enemy, enduring the hot rays of the sun, almost unbearable thirst, half rations, and the stifling dust.. What soldier of the Thirteenth Ohio will ever forget this terrible march' On the 26th the troops reached Louisville, having outmarched and passed, on a parallel road, the rebel army.'' The pursuit of Brag was resumed, after a. rest until the 1st of October. In the battle of Perryville, which followed, the Thirteenth did not participate. After the battle the enemy continued his retreat, and Crittenden's Division, to which the Thirteenth Regiment belonged, pursued as far as Mount Vernon: Gen. Buell was relieved on the :30th of October by Gen. Rosecrans, and on the 2nd of December the Fifth Division was reviewed by the Commanding General, who paid a high compliment to the gallant Thirteenth. Foraging and picket duty filled up the time until the advance on Murfreesboro, December 26, 1862. In the advance, Crittenden's division, in which was the Thirteenth, held the left wing, Thomas the centre, and McCook the right. In the battle of tone River, which followed on the 31st of December, the regiment was actively engaged. Among the losses sustained by the Thirteenth, was its Commander, Col. Hawkins, together with 142, officers and men killed, wounded and missing. In the battles of the succeeding days, before the evacuation of Murfreesboro by the rebels, the Thirteenth lost in addition to those already mentioned, 31 killed, 35 wounded, and 6 302 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. missing; total, 185, which with its loss on the 31st of December makes a grand total of 327. Precious to the battle of Chickamauga, when the concentration of the army began, the Thirteenth, with its remaining troops of Van Cleve's division, took post on the southern spur of Mission Ridge. On the 19th of September, in the battle of Chickamauga, the regiment maintained the reputation won at Stone River. During the series of battles of this period, it was commanded by its Lieut.-Col., E. M. Mast, the Colonel '(Dwight Jarvis) being absent on duty. Lieut.-Col Mast was killed, and the Major severely wounded, and the thinned ranks told the sad tale of the loss sustained by the rank and file. On the 22nd of September the regiment had a skirmish with the enemy on Mission Ridge, which lasted during the forenoon. In the fighting which followed in October and November, the Thirteenth bore itself bravely and suffered a severe loss. Early in January, 1864, about three-fourths of the Thirteenth re-enlisted for another three years; and were sent home on furlough. At the expiration of thirty days they reported promptly for duty, and returned in a body to Chattanooga. May 1, 1864, the army received orders to prepare for the Atlanta Campaign. Ringgold, Resaca and Dalton were captured, one after another. At Rocky Face Ridge quite a skirmish took place. In the battles around Atlanta the National forces lost heavily; that of the 27th alone cost the troops engaged nearly half their number killed and wounded. The Thirteenth fought like tigers, Capt. McCulloch was mortally wounded, and many killed. Their ammunition became exhausted, and Maj. Snyder, in command of the handful of the Thirteenth still left, took from the cartridge-boxes of the killer. and wounded their remaining cartridges and distributed them among the men. The Third Division (in which was the Thirteenth) went into the engagement 4,100 strong, and came out with barely 2,500. The Thirteenth lost fifty in killed and wounded. On the 21st of June the term of service of the non-veterans expired, and they were paid off and discharged, and the veterans formed into a battalion of four companies, known as the " Thirteen Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Battalion," under the command of Maj. J. T. Snyder. The old companies were consolidated into companies A, B, C, D, the first commanded by John H. Scott, the second by John F. Millett, the third by James H. Mer rill and the fourth by E. C. Hawkins. The Thirteenth Battalion joined in the advance toward Kennesaw Mountain, and in that battle lost several men killed and wounded. In the battles and skirmishes of Sherman's Campaign the old war-worn Thirteenth took part with its accustomed bravery. It was at the battle of Franklin, Tenn., the last desperate struggle of the war. Soon afterward the news of Gen. Lee's surrender was received, and caused universal rejoicing in the National army. On the 16th of June, 1865, the troops comprising the Fourth Corps (including the Thirteenth Battalion) was ordered to Texas. They remained on duty in that State until December 5th, when they were mustered out of the United States service and sent home. On the 17th of January, 1866, the old Thirteenth Battalion reached Columbus, where their arms and equipments were turned over to the proper authorities, and the few survivors were paid off and honorably discharged. But where were many of their comrades who went out with them nearly five years before? "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." The Seventeenth Infantry was indebted to HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 303 Logan County for Company C. It was recruited mainly in the east part of the county; a majority of the company being from Zane and Perry Townships. It organized with the following commissioned officers : Joel Haines, Captain; Jacob Humphreys, First Lieutenant, and Joseph H. Pool, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Haines resigned June 6, 1862, and in 1864 was made Colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment of the Ohio N ational Guard. First Lieutenant Humphreys died December 21, 1861. Second Lieutenant Pool was promoted to First Lieutenant, February 5, 1S62, and afterward resigned. John D. Inskeep was promoted to Second Lieutenant, June 6, 1862, and to Captain September 9, 1863, and in that position was mustered out with the regiment at the close of the war. The President's second call on Ohio for troops found two companies in camp on the Fair Grounds near Lancaster, Ohio, engaged in drilling, preparatory to entering the United States service. These companies were made the nucleus of the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, for the three months' service. It operated in Virginia during its term of service, and was mustered out at Zanesville, Ohio, on the 15th of August. Efforts were at once made to re-organize it for three years, and on the 30th of August it assembled at Camp Dennison, where Company C, Capt. Haines, joined it. On the 30th of September, the regiment was ordered to Kentucky, and reported at Camp Dick Robinson on the ?d of October, 1861. It moved from there to Wild Cat, and participated in that battle, in which it had seven men wounded. It was brigaded with the Thirty-First and Thirty-Eighth Ohio, Gen. Albin Schoepp commanding. In the battle of Mill Spring the Seventeenth took part. The rebels, under Gen. Zollicoffer, were defeated. It next proceeded to Louisville, Ky., where it took boats and went to Nashville, Tenn., arriving there on the 3d of March, 1862. From Nashville it proceeded across the country to Shiloh, but being detailed to guard a wagon train through, did not arrive in time for the battle. It participated in the seige of Corinth, and was in several skirmishes, in which it sustained some loss. It was in the race between Buell's and Bragg's armies from Tennessee to Louisville, and was at the battle of Perryville, though not actively engaged. At the battle of Stone River, the Seventeenth, with its brigade, was stationed on the extreme right of the National forces. It went into the battle on the 31st of December, and, with its brigade, charged the rebel Gen. Hanson's brigade, drove them in confusion, killing their General and some one hundred and fifty of the rank and file. The Seventeenth lost twenty men wounded. The next active service of the regiment was in the Tullahoma campaign. At Hoover's Gap. the Seventeenth, under command of Lieut.-Col. Durbin Ward, charged the Seventeenth Tennessee Rebel Infantry, strongly posted. In the face of a heavy fire they drove the enemy and occupied their position. In the battle of Chickamauga the regiment was on the extreme right of the centre, attached to the corps commanded by Gen. Thomas. This was by far the hardest fighting in which the regiment had yet been engaged. Its loss in this battle was over 200 in killed and wounded, not counting those with slight flesh wounds. Capt. Rickets was killed in the early part of the fight; Lieut.-Col. Ward fell in the afternoon on the front line, badly wounded. During the siege of Chattanooga the Seventeenth was in several severe skirmishes. At Mission Ridge, though in the rear of the line at the start, it was in front when the top of the hill was gained, In this brilliant charge Maj. Butterfield was mortally wounded while leading the regiment. Capt. Benjamin Showers, next in rank, completed the 304 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. charge, capturing a rebel battery, and turning the guns upon the flying enemy. January 1, 1864, the subject of re-enlisting as veterans was agitated, and 393 agreed to embark in another three years' campaign for ,the Union cause. On the 22d of January they started home on furlough, and at the expiration, returned to the field with over 400 recruits. Col. Ward, though still suffering from his wound, took command of the regiment, and in the skirmishing around Rocky Face Ridge it took but a subordinate part. In the lactic of Resacca it bore its full share of the fighting, suffering a heavy loss. In the skirmishes which followed at New Hope Church, Pumpkin Vine Creek, and several other places, some of them considerable battles, the Seventeenth was actively engaged. It took mart in the battle of Kennesaw and Peach Tree Creek on the 20th of July, where it suffered extremely from the heat. In the battles around Atlanta, it did its share of the fighting. Lieut.-Col. Showers escaped from a rebel prison in time to take command of the regiment, and lead it with Sherman in his "March to the Sea." The expedition through the Carolinas closed the active service of the Seventeenth. It soon after went to Washington, passed in review before the President, and in July, 1865, was mustered out at Louisville, Ky. The regiment was in the service from the beginning of the war; was always at the front, and never did a day's garrison duty. It served under McClellan, Buell, Rosecrans, Thomas, Grant, H leck, Sherman and Schofield. It was never driven before the enemy, save at Chickamauga, and even then it only quit the field under orders. The Twenty-Third Infantry was the nest regiment in which Logan County was represented by an organized body of men. Company F was raised in the county, and mustered into the service with the following officers: Israel Canby, Captain; C. W. Fisher, First Lieutenant, and R. P. Kennedy, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Canby was mustered out at the end of three years, not having re-enlisted as a veteran. Lieut. Fisher was promoted to Major of the Fifty-Fourth Ohio, October 31, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, November 27, 1862, and was honorably discharged September 29, 1863. Second Lieut. Kennedy was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1862. The following sketch of this officer is from Reid's "Ohio in the War," and we give it in full: "R. P. Kennedy was at College in Connecticut at the commencement of the rebellion. He hastened to his home in Ohio, and joined the Twenty-Third Ohio, as Second Lieutenant, June 1, 1861. On February 9, 1862, he was promoted to First Lieutenant, and served as Assistant Adjutant-General on Gen. Scammon's staff at the battles of Cub Run, South Mountain and Antietam. On October 7, 1862, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of United States Volunteers, with the rank of Captain, and assigned to duty on Gen. Crook's staff. He served in this capacity during the campaign of the Army of the Cumberland, from immediately after the battle of Stone River until after the battle of Mission Ridge, in November, 1863. Capt. Kennedy served on Gen. Garrard's staff through the Atlanta campaign, and at the close of it was ordered by Gen. Grant to the Department of West Virginia, and was made Adjutant-General of that department. On November 16, 1864, he was promoted to Major and Assistant Adjutant-General of Volunteers, and Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, in which capacity he served on the staff of Gen. Crook, commanding the Department, until March, 1865, when, for gallant services, he was made Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out of the service September HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 305 10, 1865. His brevet rank of Brigadier-General dates from March 13, 1865. George Seaman was promoted to Second Lieutenant December 26, 1862, and killed May 9, 1864, at the battle of Floyd Mountain. At the time he was commanding Company D. Edward A. Abbott was promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company I ; was afterwards promoted to Captain, and transferred to Company F, and in that capacity mustered out with the regiment. Robert S. Gardner was promoted to Second Lieutenant September 7, 1861, and Assistant Quartermaster of the United States Army. The Twenty-Third Infantry is memorable in that it had for its first Colonel, William Starke Rosecrans, an officer who, soon after his entrance into the service, became one of the most distinguished leaders of the National armies. The Lieutenant-Colonel, Scammon, and the Major, R. B. Hayes (now President), ' also became distinguished officers, and served with credit until the close of the war. The Twenty-Third was organized at Camp Chase, and mustered into the United States service for three years, June 11, 1861. Before leaving for the field, Col. Rosecrans was promoted to Brigadier-General, and Col. E. P. Scammon succeeded to the command of the regiment. On the 25th of July it was ordered to West Virginia, where it at once entered upon the theatre of war. Its operations during the summer and autumn were confined to looking after bands of guerillas and detachments of rebels prowling through the country. Orders were received on the 17th of April, 1862, to quit winter quarters, and on the 22nd the regiment moved in the direction of Princeton, under command of Lieut.-Col. Hayes, which place was reached on the 1st of May, On the morning of the Stb it was attacked by four regiments of the enemy, under command of Gen. Heath, and, after a determined re sistance, were overwhelmed and forced to retire, which was accomplished in good order. While lying at Green Meadows, orders were received on the 15th of August to hasten with all despatch to Camp Piatt, on the Great Kanawha., where it arrived on the morning of the 18th, having marched 104 miles in a little more than three days. Its officers claimed this to be the fastest march on record, as made by any considerable force. It proceeded to Parkersburg, and from thence to Washington City, where it arrived on the 24th of August. From Washington the regiment moved, with Gen. McClellan's army, to Frederick City, from which place the rebels were driven, after a slight skirmish. Middletown was reached September the 13th, where was commenced the battle of South Mountain, which culminated in the great battle of Antietam, on the 17th. In both of these engagements the Twenty-Third participated. At South Mountain, Lieut.-Col. Haves, Capt. Skiles, and Lieuts. Hood, Ritter and Smith, of the Twenty-Third, were badly wounded, while over 100 were killed and wounded out of 350 who went into action. The colors of the regiment were riddled, and the blue field almost carried away by shells and bullets. The Twenty-Third received orders to return with the Kanawha Division to West Virginia on the 8th of October. While at Hagerstown a false report sent the division after Stuart, who it was said was raiding in Pennsylvania; but discovering the error, the troops returned, having breakfasted in Pennsylvania, eaten dinner in Maryland, and supper in Virginia. On the 15th of October the Twenty-Third arrived at Clarksburg, and on the 18th of November it went into winter quarters at the falls of the Great Kanawha. During the summer of 1863, the regiment was occupied mostly in scouting and picking up guerilla bands, whenever opportunities offered. It was not until April 29, 1864, that a movement was made of greater importance than small scouting 306 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. expeditions. This was a contemplated raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad under Gen. Crook. On the 9th of May the battle of Floyd Mountain took place. This was one of the severest battles of the war, while it lasted, but was of short duration. Capt. Hunter, of Company K, Lieut. Seaman, commanding Company D, were killed; Capt. Rice, Company A, was slightly wounded, and Lieut. Abbott was severely wounded. The next day another battle took place, but in it artillery was mostly used. But little more fighting took place during the expedition, beyond the usual amount of skirmishing along the march. The regiment joined Gen. Hunter's command on the 8th of June at Staunton. The first term of service of the Twenty-Third having expired, those not re-enlisting as veterans were sent home, also the old colors, which were no longer in condition for service. From June 10th to July 1st the regiment was continually on the march, skirmishing, in which it suffered greatly from fatigue, as well as in being continually harassed by the enemy. It reached Charleston July 1, and remained there until the 10th, when it embarked for Parkersburg. On the 24th a battle was fought at Winchester, in which the National forces were defeated, after a hard fight, lasting from early in the morning until 9 o'clock at night. The Twenty-Third lost in this engagement 153 men, ten of whom were commissioned officers. Lieut.-Col. Comly was among the wounded. During the month of August a series of marches " up and down the Valley," with numerous skirmishes, were indulged in by both armies. Nothing important, however, occurred until the 3rd of September, at Berryville, when a desperate fight took place, which lasted from just before dark until 10 o'clock at night. The Twenty-Third lost Capts. Austin and Gillis, both brave officers. On the 18th the battle of Opequan was fought. It was a severe one, and both sides lost heavily, but the National forces were finally victorious. Large numbers of the rebels were captured, together with eight battle flags. The battle of north Mountain followed on the 20th, and was more a charge than a regular battle. One man killed and one wounded was the loss sustained by the Twenty-Third. The neat fighting occurred on the 19th of October, at Cedar Creek. A historian of the war thus concludes his description of this battle: "The situation in a few minutes after the attack was about thus: Crook's command, overpowered and driven from their advanced position, were forming on the left of the Nineteenth Corps, which corps was just getting into action, the left being hotly engaged, but not so much so as Crook's command yet. The right of the line had not been engaged at all, and was not for some time after. While the line was in this situation the trains were all slowly moving off. A desperate stand was made by the shattered lines of Crook's command to save the headquarters' train of the army, which came last from the right, and it succeeded. Many brave men lost their lives in this. Col. Thoburn, commanding First. Division; Capt: Bier, Gen. Crook's Adjutant-General, and others. Col. Hayes, commanding the Second Division, had his horse shot under him, and narrowly escaped with his life; Lieut.-Col. Hall, of the Thirteenth Virginia, was killed." Soon after the scene above described, Sheridan, who was " sixteen miles away,'' appeared on the field, and seemed to infuse new spirit into the troops. A few changes were made, a few orders given, and the day was won. On the 7th of November the Twenty-Third was detailed as train-guard to Martinsburg, and, on the march, the men voted at the Presidential election. On the 13th it returned to Winchester with a supply train of 700 wagons, and on the 14th went to camp at Kernstown, HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 307 where the army of the Shenandoah was lying. Here the regular camp routine ensued, until the 29th of December, when the regiment marched to Martinsburg, and went into camp. On the 1st of January, 1865, it embarked for Cumberland. Here Col. Haves was promoted to Brigadier-General and Lieut.-Col. Comly to Colonel, both to date from October 19, 1864. Its operations to March 1, 1865 , were confined to Grafton, Beverley, and Cumberland, with occasional skirmishes with the enemy. The hard fighting of the war was now over, and the regiment lay at "inglorious ease" through May, June, and a part of July. On the 26th of the latter month it was mustered out of the service at Cumberland, took the cars for Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, when the men were paid off and discharged. Probably no regiment of the war furnished more brave and distinguished officers than did the gallant old Twenty-Third. Its first Colonel, Rosecrans, had few superiors in the army as a strategist and commander. Although his sun went down in clouds, there is little doubt to-day, that others received the laurels that Rosecrans actually won. And then there were Gen. Scammon, Gen. Haves, Gen. Matthews, Gen. Kennedy, Gen. Comly, Gen. Hastings, and many others, who, though not adorned with the Brigadier's star, were equally as brave. Scammon was the first Colonel after Rosecrans; Haves was also Colonel; Comly was the first Major, afterwards Colonel, and promoted to Brigadier-General for meritorious service; Hastings entered the regiment as Second Lieutenant, and worked his way up to Lieutenant-Colonel, and was breveted Brigadier-General for gallant services at the battle of Opequan in Virginia. It eventually became proverbial in the army that the Twenty-Third Ohio was a regiment of officers. The Forty-Second Infantry, Gen. Garfield's old regiment, contained a company from Logan County. Company K was from this county, and officered as follows : Andrew Gardner. Jr., Captain; Thomas L. Hutchins, First Lieutenant, and Porter H. Foskett, Second Lieutenant. The following information, pertaining to Company h, is from a history of the regiment written by F. H. Ma son, of Company A : "Capt. Gardner resigned on the 28th of January, 186:3, and Lieut. Hutchins was promoted to the vacancy thus created. Capt. Hutchins continued in command until the final discharge of the regiment from the service. Lieut. Foskett was promoted to First Lieutenant, and afterward to Captain, and transferred to Company I; thence he was transferred to Company D, and finally resigned in 1864. A. L. Bowman, who was originally an enlisted man of Company K, was made Sergeant-Major of the regiment, then promoted from that grade to Lieutenant, and was mustered out at the close of three years' service as First Lieutenant of Company K. George K. Pardee, another enlisted man of the same company, joined the regiment in the fall of 1862 on its arrival at Oak Hill, after the Cumberland Gap campaign. After three days' fighting at Chickasaw Bluffs, during which he had behaved with conspicuous credit, he was promoted upon the recommendation of Col. Sheldon to a lieutenancy. He was consequently made Adjutant, and in the latter part of 1863 received promotion to a captaincy. He commanded various companies during the temporary absence of their officers, and was finally transferred to the captaincy of Company D, which command he retained until the regiment was mustered out of service. Company K lost six men killed in battle, and at the breaking-up of the regiment in Arkansas, in November, 1864, sent twenty-nine of its men who had enlisted in 1862, to join the Ninety-Sixth Ohio Infantry." The Forty-Second was organized at Camp 308 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. Chase, in September, 1861. Being fully completed and equipped it took the field on the 15th of December. Its first service was in Eastern Kentucky, where it operated against Gen Humphrey Marshall. On the 10th of January, 1862, a lively skirmish was had with the enemy at Middle Creek, in which Maj. Pardee, with 400 of the Forty-Second took an active part. The arduous duties of the campaign in Eastern Kentucky, the exceedingly disagreeable weather, and the want of supplies. were disastrous to the health of the regiment, and some eighty-five died of disease. It was brigaded at Cumberland Ford with the Sixteenth Ohio, the Fourteenth and Twenty-Second Kentucky, Col. John F. De Courcey, (Sixteenth Ohio) commanding. In the skirmishing, and the retreat before Kirby Smith, the Forty-Second suffered severely from a lath of suitable supplies, and of water. On the long, weary march from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River, the regiment, acting as rear guard, lost but one man At Portland, Jackson Co., Ohio, it received clothing and other necessary equipage, and on the 21st. of October it proceeded to Gallipolis, thence up the Kanawha and into Virginia. It returned to the Ohio in November, and embarked for Cincinnati, and from there it proceeded to Memphis. Gen. Morgan's Division to which the Forty-Second belonged, was here re-organized, and designated the "Ninth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps." In December the regiment with other troops under Gen. Sherman embarked at Memphis, and proceeded to the Yazoo River Country. During some hot fighting which followed around Vicksburg, the Forty-Second was actively engaged, and lost several men killed and wounded. In January, 1863, the regiment, with its division, went on the expedition to Arkansas, and was engaged in the assault on Fort Hyndman, in which it led the advance. few days after the fall of Fort Hyndman the troops returned, and went to Milliken's Bend, where preparations were made for the coming campaign. The Ninth Division, to which the Forty-Second belonged, took the advance in the movement toward the rear of Vicksburg, and in all the fighting and skirmishing around that rebel stronghold, the Forty-Second bore an honorable part; particularly in the action on the 22d of May it lost heavily. After Vicksburg had fallen, the regiment marched to Jackson and assisted in the reduction of that place. Its next service was in L Louisiana, where it went in August, participating in all the skirmishing, marching and scouting of the Louisiana Campaign of the latter part of 1863, wintering at Plaquemine, La. In March, 1864, it moved to Baton Rouge, where it was detailed as Provost Guard for the city. During the summer the Forty-Second was attached to the First Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth Corps. Soon after a test drill was held in the Nineteenth Corps, and Company E, of the Forty-Second, carried off the first prize. The regiment. engaged in several expeditions, but had little more hard fighting. On the 15th of September, Companies A, B, C and D were ordered to Camp Chase, where they were mustered out on the 30th. Companies E and F were mustered out on the 5th of November, and the other four companies December 2, 1864. One hundred men remained, whose term of service had not expired, and they were organized into a company and transferred to the Ninety-Sixth Ohio. The regiment participated in eleven battles, in which it lost one. officer and twenty men killed, and eighteen officers and 325 men wounded. To the Forty-Fifth Infantry Logan County furnished more men than to any other one regiment during the war. Three whole companies-C, D, and E-were mainly recruited, in this county, while some of the other companies contained Logan County men. HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 309 Company C, when mustered in was officered as follows: James D. Stover, Captain; W. G. Franklin, First Lieutenant, and William McBeth, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Stover was honorably discharged July 20, 1864; Lieut. Franklin was promoted to Captain, November 27, 1862, and to Major, June 16, 1865, but was mustered out as Captain; Second Lieut. McBeth was promoted to First Lieutenant, October 24, 1862, and to Captain, February 1, 1864, but mustered out as First Lieutenant; Samuel E. Allman, was promoted to Second Lieutenant, November 16, 1862, to First Lieutenant, February 1, 1864, and resigned September 15, 1864. Company D was originally officered as follows, viz : Robert Dow, Captain; Adam R. Eglin, First Lieutenant, and William Gee, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Dow resigned October 24, 1862; Lieut. Eglin was promoted to Captain, and as such mustered out with the regiment. Stephen L. Dow was promoted to Second Lieutenant, but was mustered out with the regiment as Sergeant. Company E organized with the following officers: Lewis Taylor, Captain; John M. Holloway-, First Lieutenant, and Joseph R. Smith, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Taylor was honorably discharged January 4, 1865; Lieut. Holloway resigned November 20, 1862; Lieut. Smith was promoted to First Lieutenant November 16, 1862; to Captain, July 13, 1864, and assigned to the command of Company B, and in that capacity was mustered out with the. regiment. A. A. Stewart, of Company E, was promoted to Second Lieutenant April 16, 1863; to First Lieutenant, July 13, 1864, and resigned July 24; 1865. J. H. James was promoted to Second, and then to First Lieutenant and mustered out as Regimental Quartermaster. Alonzo Grafton was promoted to Second Lieutenant and mustered out as Sergeant. The Forty-Fifth Infantry was organized at Camp Chase, in August, 1862, and was mustered into the United States service on the 19th of the same month. The following genial sketch of the movements of the regiment was written by Col. Humphreys, in command at the time it was mustered, and with it during its whole term of service "The regiment left Camp Chase on the 20th day of August, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky, and became part of the Army of the Ohio, under command of Gen. Wright. When Gens. Bragg and Kirby Smith invaded Kentucky, the first duty of the Forty-Fifth was guarding the Kentucky Central Railroad; after that it went into camp at Lexington. Ky., and was placed in the brigade of Gen. Green Clay Smith, (Gen. Gilmore's Division), Early in the winter of 1863, the regiment was mustered, and took an active part in the campaign in Kentucky during that spring and summer, participating in the battles of Dutton's Hill, Monticello and at Captain West's When Gen. Morgan made his raid through Indiana and Ohio, the Forty-Fifth, forming a part of Col. Wolford's Brigade of Mounted Infantry and Cavalry, followed him from Jamestown, Ky., and took part in the engagement at Buffington's Island and Cheshire where most of Morgan's army surrendered The command was pushed back to Kentucky as that State had been invaded by the retie Gen. Scott. In the fall of 1863 Gen. Burn side entered East Tennessee, and on that campaign the Forty-Fifth formed for a time a part of Col. Byrd's brigade, Gen. Carter's division, but soon after entering Tennessee, was transferred back to Wolford's brigade, and while stationed at Philadelphia, the brigade was surrounded by a large force of the enemy The command cut its way out, but lost many men, killed, wounded and taken prisoner. The Forty-Fifth again suffered severely send of Knoxville; being for the time dismounted they were attacked by a large Cavalry force, 310 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. and many of the regiment came up missing. * * * A few days later the division commanded by Gen. Saunders was covering the retreat of Burnside's army from Lenore Station toward Knoxville, hard pushed by Longstreet. The order was to hold the enemy in check as long as possible, so as to complete the defenses of Knoxville. The National troops took position on a hill south of the town, where the enemy in force charged them, mortally wounding Gen. Saunders and Lieut. Fearns, the latter of Company G, of the Forty-Fifth. During the siege of Knoxville, the regiment occupied a position south of Holston River, and when the siege was raised by Sherman's advance, it followed the retreating rebels toward Virginia. "In the spring of 1864 the regiment was dismounted, and ordered to join Sherman at Dalton, Ga., and was then assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-Third Army Corps. It participated in the battle of Resaca, where it suffered severely. About the 1st of July it was transferred to the Fourth Army Corps, and served with that body until the close of the war. It participated in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and all the battles from that time until the fall of Atlanta. It came back with Gen. Thomas and took part in the hard fought battle of Franklin, Tenn., where the whole of Hood's army was hurled against the Fourth and Twenty-Third Corps. This, considering the number of men engaged, was one of the most terrific battles of the war. The Forty-Fifth was in the two days' fighting in front of Nashville, when Thomas' army completely routed the enemy. After following Hood's army (or what was left of it) across the Tennessee River, the regiment went into camp at Huntsville, Ala., and just before the surrender of Lee it, with the Fourth Corps, was ordered to Bull's Gap, in East Tennessee, near the Virginia line, and was there when the surrender took place. The regiment returned to Nashville from Bull's Gap, and was there mustered out of the service on the 12th of June, 1865, the war having closed." The Fifty-Fourth Infantry drew a company from Logan County. Company H was mostly from this county, while other companies of the regiment also contained men from the same locality, as well as several officers. Companies E and H were consolidated, and afterward known as Company E. It was originally officered as follows : W. D. Starr, Captain; Samuel Starr, First Lieutenant, and J. H. Snyder, Second Lieutenant. Capt.. Starr died June 5, 1862; First Lieut. Starr resigned on account of ill health, carne home, and recovering his health went into the One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth, as Captain of Company H. and served with it until mustered out. Second Lieut. Snyder was promoted to First Lieutenant, and to Captain, March 3, 1864, and was mastered out with the regiment. Capt. Ashmead, who went out originally as Captain of Company-, went with this regiment as Second Lieutenant of Company C, and was afterward promoted to Captain and transferred to another company. John F. Cutler was made Second Lieutenant of Company E, August 19,1862, and promoted to First Lieutenant November 27,1863. The material composing the Fifty-Fourth Regiment was from Allen, Auglaize, Butler, Cuyahoga, Greene, Hamilton, Logan and Preble Counties. The regiment went into the field on the 17th of February, 1862, with an aggregate of 850 men. It reached Paducah, Ky., on the 20th, and was assigned to a brigade in the division commanded by Gen. Sherman. On the 6th of March the command ascended the Tennessee River, to Pittsburg Landing, and encamped near Shiloh Church. The regiment took part in the battles of the 6th and 7th of April, and in the two days' fighting lost 198 men, killed, wounded and missing. On the 29th of April it moved in the HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 311 army against Corinth, participating in all the fighting, and when the place was evacuated, was the first organized body of troops to enter the town. After several short expeditions it accompanied Gen. Sherman to Chickasaw Bayou, and was in the engagements of December 28 and 29, in which it lost twenty men, killed and wounded. It was next at the capture of Arkansas Post, after which it proceeded to Young's Point, La., and was employed in digging a canal, and other demonstrations connected with the siege of Vicksburg. On the 6th of May, 1863, it began its march to the rear of Vicksburg, by way of Grand Gulf, and took part in the battles of Champion Hills and Big Black Bridge. It was en engaged in a general assault on the enemy's works on the 19th and 22nd of June, losing; in the two engagements forty-seven killed and wounded. It was almost continually employed in skirmishing and fatigue duty during the siege of Vicksburg, and after the fall of that stronghold it moved with the army on Jackson, Miss., skirmishing constantly from the 9th to the 14th of July. In October, 1863, it proceeded with the Fifteenth Army Corps to Memphis, and from there moved to Chattanooga. It took part in the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 26th, and the next clay moved to the relief of Knoxville, after which it returned to Chattanooga, and on the 12th of January, 1864, it went into winter quarters at Larkinsville, Ala. The Fifty-Fourth re-enlisted as veterans on the 22nd of January, and went borne to Ohio on furlough. It returned to camp in April with 200 recruits, and entered on the Atlanta campaign on the first of May. It took part in the battles of Resaca and Dallas, and was also in a skirmish at New Hope Church on the 7th of June. In the assault on Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, it lost twenty-eight men killed and wounded. On the 3d of July, in a skirmish at Nicojack Creek, it lost thirteen killed and wounded, and in a battle on the east side of Atlanta, July 21 and 22, it lost ninety-four, killed, wounded and missing. It lost eight men killed and wounded at Ezra Chapel on the 28th, and from the 29th of July to the 27th of August it was almost continually engaged in skirmishing before the works at Atlanta. It was in a heavy skirmish at Joneshoro, August 30, and in a general action at the same place two days immediately following. On the 15th of November the Fifty-Fourth started with Sherman on his famous "March to the Sea," and was engaged in the assault on Fort McAllister, near Savannah. The regiment assisted in the destruction of the Gulf Railroad, and on the 7th of January, 1863, marched into Savannah. It moved with the army through the Carolinas, and participated in its last battle at Bentonville, May 21, 1865. The war was now virtually over, and the regiment marched to Richmond, the Confederate capital, and from there to Washington, where it took part in the grand review. On the 2d of June it proceeded to Louisville, Ky., where it remained two weeks, when it was ordered to Arkansas. It performed garrison duty at Little Rock until August 15th, when it was mustered out of the service. The aggregate strength of the regiment at its muster out was 255-twenty-four officers and 231 men. It marched during its term of service a distance of 3,682 miles, participated in four sieges, nine severe skirmishes, fifteen general engagements, and sustained a loss of 506 men killed, wounded and missing. The Fifty-Seventh Infantry, Gen. A. V. Rice's old regiment, was the nest in which Logan County was represented. Company Ii was mostly from this county, and its original officers were Daniel N. Strayer, Captain; John A. Smith, First Lieutenant, and George Bergher, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Strayer was mustered out in August, 1862. First Lieut. Smith was promoted to Captain, 312 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. August 19, 1862, and in that capacity mustered out with the regiment. John A. Plumb was promoted to Second Lieutenant, August 3, 1863, assigned to Company E, and was killed at the batty of Resaca. Stephen H. Carey was promoted to, Second Lieutenant, September 11, 1862; to First Lieutenant, May 9, 1862, and was honorably discharged December 2, 1864. The Fifty-Seventh left Camp Chase on the 18th of February, 1862, under orders to report at Fort Donelson, but .the order was subsequently changed, and it reported at Paducah, Ky., instead. It left Paducah on the 8th of March, and was engaged in scouting most of the time until the battle of Pittsburg Landing. It was engaged nearly the entire day of the 6th; lay on its arms all night in a drenching rain, and at daylight the next morning again went into action. It was engaged during the second day, and again laid on its arms through a night of rain. In both battles the regiment lost twenty-seven killed and 150 wounded (sixteen mortally) and ten captured. On the 20th of April the army commenced its advance on Corinth, and the Fifty-Seventh was assigned to the First Brigade of the Fifth Division. From the beginning of the advance, until Corinth was evacuated by the enemy, the regiment was day and night marching, picketing, skirmishing, or building breastworks. It was engaged most of the summer in scouting in Tennessee and Mississippi, and skirmishing. While at Memphis, in December, the regiment received 118 volunteers and 205 drafted men, making its aggregate force 605 men. It soon after went down the river with the Fifteenth Corps, reaching Young's Point, La., on the 26th of December. From here it proceeded to Chickasaw Bayou, where it took part in the engagement, losing thirty-seven men killed and wounded. The next battle in which the Fifty-Seventh participated was the capture of Arkansas Post. It was actively engaged here and lost heavily. In January, 1863, the forces of which the Fifty-Seventh was a part, moved toward Vicksburg, where the regiment spent some time at work upon the canal. It was engaged, when not at work on the canal, in scouting, until the battles of Raymond, Champion Hills and Black River, in all of which it participated with its accustomed bravery. At Champion Hills it suffered severed. In the fighting around Vicksburg it was almost continually engaged, and during the siege lost ', many men killed and wounded. After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment was sent on several scouting expeditions, and on the 8th of October marched to Chattanooga as a part of the First Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Corps. It took part in the battle of Mission Ridge, with heavy loss. On the 29th of November it started to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, but upon its arrival, Longstreet raised the siege and retired into Virginia, and the Fifty-Seventh returned to Chattanooga. a. On the 19th it was again on the march, and on the 20th it arrived at Bellefonte, Ala. By this time the regiment. was almost exhausted by fatigue, privation, hunger and exposure. The men were hatless. shoeless, and half naked; yet notwithstanding all this, the regiment reenlisted on the 1st of January, 1864, being the first regiment to re-enlist in the Fifteenth Army Corps. On the 4th of February it started home on veteran furlough, and on the 16th of March, with 207 recruits, rendezvoused at Camp Chase. It left at once for Nashville, where it arrived on the 29th, and was detained there until April 4, when it left, and proceeded to Larkinsville, Ala., and joined its old brigade on the 17th. On the first of flay it started on the Atlanta campaign, and took part in the battle of Resaca on the 13th and 14th of May. On the 1st of June it participated HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 313 in the engagement at New Hope Church, with a slight loss. It was engaged in the assault on Kennesaw Mountain, losing fifty-seven men killed and wounded. In the fighting around Atlanta the Fifty-Seventh bore its usual part, and lost. heavily. On the 4th of October it started in pursuit of Gen. Hood's army, and on the 15th attacked the enemy at Snake Creek Gap. The rebels were repulsed, and the regiment followed to Taylor Ridge, when another fight occurred, and fhe rebels were again defeated. The regiment accompanied Sherman in his " March to the Sea,'' and participated in all the hardships of that memorable march. After the surrender of Gen. Johnston it proceeded with the army, by way of Petersburg and Richnond, to Washington City, where it participated in the grand review on the 24th of May. On the 2nd of June it was ordered to Louisville, Ky., and on the 25th went to Little Roch, Ark., where, on the 14th of August, it was mustered out of the United States service. The Fifty-Seventh traveled by railroad, steamboat and on foot, during its term of service, more than 28,000 miles; the names of 1,594 men had been on its muster rolls, and of that number only 481 were alive at its master out. The Sixty-Sixth Infantry contained a company from this county, viz: Company D. It was recruited by Robert Crockett, who had been commissioned as Second Lieutenant. It went into the service with the following commissioned officers: Alvin Clark, Captain; Robert Crockett, first Lieutenant, and John O. Dye, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Clark resigned December 10, 1862; Lieut. Crockett resigned May 20, 1862; Lieut. Dye was promoted to First Lieutenant, May 24, 1862; to Captain, November 10, 1862, and resigned August 13, 1864. Other promotions in the company were men from other counties, and their names could not be obtained. The Sixty-Sixth was organized under the President's second call for troops, and was I rnustered into the service on the 17th of December, 1861. On the 17th of January following it left Camp McArthur, near Urbana, for West Virginia, and saw its first active service in the campaign against Romney, under Gen. Lander. At Fredericksburg the Sixty-Sixth, the Fifth, Seventh and Twenty-Ninth Ohio regiments formed the Third Brigade, under command of Gen. E. B. Tyler. Remaining here but a day, it was ordered to countermarch for the relief of Gen. Banks, in the Shenandoah Valley, who was threatened by Stonewall Jackson. On the morning of June 9th, Gen. Tyler's brigade, with two regiments of the Fourth Brigade, were in line awaiting the attack of Gen. Jackson. In this fight the Sixty-Sixth took an active part. The force under Gen. Tyler, numbering about 2,700 men, held Gen. Jackson's army in check for five hours. In the engagement the Sixty-Sixth lost 109 men of the 400 engaged. In July, the Sixty-Sixth, with its brigade, was ordered to join Gen. Pope. It was reenforced by the Twenty-Eighth Pennsylvania, the whole commanded by Gen. Pope. It served in the corps of Gen. Backs at Cedar Mountain. In this battle one-half of the brigade were killed and many wounded. The Sixty-Sixth alone lost eighty-seven killed and wounded of the 200 engaged. After the defeat at Cedar Mountain the regiment moved with its corps to Antietam, and was actively engaged in that battle. In the battle of Chancellorsville it held a position in front. of Gen. Hooker's headquarters, and the repeated attacks made upon it were repelled with coolness and courage. In the battle of Gettysburg it had a position near the right of the line, and after the engagement joined in the pursuit of Gen. Lee. About this time it was sent to New York to quell the riots consequent upon the draft in that State. On the 8th of 314 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. September it returned, and, shortly after, with Gen. Hooker's army, was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, in the vicinity of Chattanooga. In the battles of Lookout Mountain, Ringgold and Mission Ridge the Sixty-Sixth took a prominent part. The regiment. soon after returned to its camp near Chattanooga, where, on the 15th of December, 1863, it re-enlisted as veterans, and changed into the "Sixty-Sixth Regiment, Ohio Veteran Volunteers." It was among the first regimental organizations to which the term " Veteran Volunteers" was applied. After the expiration of its furlough it was sent to Bridgeport, Ala., where it remained in camp for some time, experiencing little active service until the advance on Atlanta. It was engaged in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge and Resaca., in both of which it acquitted its self with credit. During the fighting around Atlanta, the two opposing armies lay for eight days within a few rods of each other, and both lost heavily in the continuous musketry and cannonading. On the night of the 15th of June, the Sixty-Sixth, while moving up a ravine, was opened upon with grape and can! inter, and under a galling fire it moved within a hundred feet of the enemy's works, where it j remained until the next day, when it was relieved by a new regiment. At Culp's Farm, Kennesaw, Marietta and Peach Tree Creek, the regiment bore an honorable part. After the capture of Atlanta it was placed on duty in that city, where it remained until Sherman started on his "March to the Sea" It accompanied him on that memorable march, participated in the capture of Savannah, and the march through the Carolinas. After the surrender of Gen. Johnston it proceeded to Washington by way of Richmond. It was paid off, and mustered out of the service July 19, 1865, at Columbus. The following is a brief summing up of the service of this gallant regiment: It received recruits at various times to the number of 370 (it entered orignally with 850 men), and the number of men mustered out at the close of the war was 272. It lost in killed 110, and in wounded over 350. It served in twelve states, marched more than 11,000 miles, and participated in eighteen battles. The Eighty-Second Infantry was the next regiment that drew on Logan County for recruits. Company E was a Logan County company, and left for the field officered as follows: Charles Mains, Captain; Samuel B. Smith, First Lieutenant, and A. H. Nickell, Second Lieutenant. Capt. Mains resigned July 23, 1862; First Lieut. Smith was discharged August 13, 1862; Second Lieut. Nickell was promoted to First Lieutenant August 13, 1862, and resigned October 24, 1862. Of further promotions in the company we have been unable to obtain any information. The Eighty-Second was mustered into the United States service on the 31st of December, 1861, and on the 25th of January left for West Virginia, It went into camp near the village of Fetterman, where it underwent a thorough system of training. Few regiments from the State did more hard fighting than the Eighty-Second. On the 16th of March it was assigned to Gen. Schenck's Command, and in the exciting movements about Monterey, Bull Pasture Mountain, and Franklin, it took an active part. On the 8th of June the army to which it belonged fought the battle of Cross Keys, but without serious loss to the Eighty-Second. In the organization of the Army of Virginia the Eighty-Second was assigned to an independent brigade under Gen. Milroy. The severe campaigning it had undergone had thinned its ranks, and it numbered but 300 active men. On the 7th of August, Sigel's Corps, to which it belonged, moved toward Culpepper, and on the following morning NO PAGES 315 & 316 HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 317 halted in the woods south of the village, but was too late at Cedar Mountain to participate actively in the battle. During the fighting on the Rappahannock it was for ten day s within hearing and most of the time under fire of the enemy's guns. On the 21st and 22nd, McDowell had severe engagements near Gainesville. In the fight of the 22nd, Milroy led the advance. The Eighty-Second suffered severely, Col. Cantwell, its commander., being killed with the word of command upon his lips. In the early part of 1863, at the request of its Colonel (Robinson) it was relieved from duty at headquarters, and ordered to report to its division commander, Gen. Schurz. By him it was designated a battalion of sharphooters for the division. The next battle in which it bore a part was that of Chancellorsville, on the 25th of May. It suffered terribly in this fight, there being at the close of the engagement, but 134 men with the colors. On the 10th of June it moved on the Gettysburg Campaign. It went into the battle which followed with twenty-two commissioned officers and 236 men; of these nineteen officers and 147 men were killed, wounded, and captured, leaving only three officers and eighty-nine men. This little band of heroes brought off the colors of the regiment. The Eleventh Corps, to which the Eighty-Second belonged, was transferred on the 25th of September to the Army of the Cumberland, then commanded by Gen. Hooker. The next battle in which the regiment was engaged was that of Mission Ridge. In the December following it re-enlisted as veterans. Out of 349 enlisted men present, 321 were mustered in as veteran volunteers, and were at once sent home on furlough. It returned to the field with 200 new recruits, and on the 3rd of March, 1864, it joined its old brigade at Bridgeport, Ala. On the 30th of April the regiment, with its brigade and division, started on the Atlanta Campaign, and bore an active part in most of the battles and skirmishes that followed. It particularly distinguished itself at Resaca and Kennesaw Mountain. After the capture of Atlanta, it remained in camp there until the 15th of November, when it started with Sherman's army to Savannah. While the army was at Goldsboro, in April, 1865, the Eighty-Second and Sixty-First Ohio were consolidated, and the new regiment thus formed was known as the Eighty-Second. On the 10th the troops moved to Raleigh, where they remained until after the surrender of Gen. Johnston. On the 30th of April the corps marched for Washington by way of Richmond, and on the 19th of May arrived at Alexandria. It took part in the grand review at Washington on the 24th of May, after which it proceeded to Louisville, Ky., where it remained until the 25th of July, when it was ordered to Columbus, and was there paid off and discharged. The Ninety-Sixth Infantry drew two companies from Logan County, viz : Company H, and Company I. Company H, was organized with W. B. Niven, Captain; J. G. Hamilton, First Lieutenant, and E. L. Baird, Second Lieutenant; Capt. Niven resigned April 15, 1863; Lieut. Hamilton was appointed Regimental Quartermaster, and Lieut. Baird promoted to First Lieutenant, March 3, 1863, and to Captain, July 13, 1864, in which position he was mustered out with the regiment. Peter Marmon, was promoted from Orderly Sergeant to Second Lieutenant on the 16th of November, 1864. Consolidation prevented further promotion in the company. Company I was recruited by W. W. Beattie, who was elected Captain; Franklin Kendall was First Lieutenant, and W. H. Chandler Second Lieutenant. Capt. Beattie resigned before leaving carne, and Lieut. Kendall was promoted to Captain; Second' Lieut. Chandler to First Lieutenant, and G. W. Kline to Second Lieutenant. Capt. 318 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. Kendall was honorably discharged August 7, 1863, and Lieut. Chandler promoted to Captain, which position he filled until mustered out with the regiment; Lieut. Kline was promoted to First Lieutenant, January 22, 1864, and afterwards made Quartermaster in a new regiment. The Ninety-Sixth Regiment was made up in the Eighth Congressional District and organized at Camp Delaware in August 1862. Its officers were men who had seen service and were as follows: Joseph W. L Vance, Colonel; Albert H. Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Charles H. McElroy, Major. The following general sketch of the regiment, its movements and operations, is by Maj. McElroy, of Delaware "A camp was established for this regiment on the Fuller farm, one and a half miles south of the city, known as Camp Delaware, the ground occupied lying between the Columbus road and the river. On the 1st day of September, 1862, the Ninety-Sixth left camp 1,014 strong for Cincinnati, and on the evening of the same day of its arrival there, crossed over the river and went into camp at Covington, Ky. From that time until the close of the war, it was continuously active, and most of the time m hard service. In the fall of 1862 the regiment, in the brigade of Gen. Burbridge, and under command of Gen. A. J. Smith, marched from Coyington to Falmouth, thence to Cynthiana, to Paris, to Lexington, Nicholasville, through Versailles, Frankfort, Shelbyville to Louisville, leaving Coyington on the 8th of October, and going into camp at Louisville on the 15th. From Louisville it proceeded to Memphis, and on the 27th of December, with the forces under command of Gen. Sherman, left for 'down the river' to Chickasaw Bayou; from there it went to Fort Hyndman, or Arkansas Post, where it was in the left wing, under command of Gen. Morgan. Sergt. B. F. High, Joseph E. Wilcox, W. P. Wigton, of Company F, were killed here; and Isaac Pace, David Atkinson, of Gompany G, were wounded and soon afterward died. After the battle of Arkansas Post, the regiment was at the siege of Vicksburg, where it formed a part of the Thirteenth Army Corps; then followed the battle of Grand Coteau, La., a desperate struggle against fearful odds. After this the regiment was sent into Texas on an expedition of short duration; returning to Brashear City, La., it entered upon the famous Red River campaign under Gen. Banks. The battles of Sabine Cross Roads (where Col. Vance was killed), Peach Orchard Grove, and Pleasant Hill followed." The regiment had now, by continual losses, become so reduced in numbers that a consolidation became necessary, and was effected under a general order from Major General Reynolds, commanding the Department of the Gulf. At the request of the offi cers, and as a special honor to the regiment, it seas consolidated into the Ninety-Sixth Battalion, and not with any other regiment. This was the only instance in that department of any such favor being accorded. Soon after this the regiment (now the Ninety-Sixth Battalion) was ordered down the river, and to Mobile, and was engaged in the capture of Forts Gaines, Morgan, Blakely and Spanish Fort, resulting finally in the capture of Mobile. The division was under command of Col. Landrum, of the Nineteenth Kentucky, and formed a part of the Thirteenth Corps under Gen. Granger. The Ninety-Sixth was mustered out at Mobile, and on the 29th of July, 1865, was paid off and discharged at Camp Chase. "During its service, the regiment marched 1,683 miles; traveled by rail 517, and by water, 7,G86; making a total of 7,686 miles, exclusive of many short expeditions in which it took part. When the regiment was mustered out of the United States service at the HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. - 319 close of the war, it numbered 427 men, in-cluding a company transferred to it from the Forty-Second Ohio, in November, 1864, at the time the remainder of the Forty-Second was mustered out.'' The One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Infantry was represented by a company from this county. The regiment was formed around the old " Hoffman Battalion," which consisted of four companies of men commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel and a Major, and had been occupied on ward duty at Johnson's Island. In the latter part of December, 1863, six new companies were added to the battalion, making it a full regiment. The Logan County company was designated "H," and was commanded by Capt. Samuel Starr, an old ex-officer of the Fifty-Fourth Ohio, who served through with the 128th, and was mustered out with the regiment. The First Lieutenant was Henry C. Reno, who was promoted to Captain, but was mustered out as First Lieutenant. The 128th was occupied mostly during its term of service in duty at the frontier posts of Sandusky and Johnson's Island, and was organized as a regular regiment at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, early in January, 1864. The duty of the regiment was arduous at Johnson's Island, where at all times a large number of Confederate officers were confined as prisoners of war, and considering the proximity of the post to Canada, where a warm sympathy was felt for the rebel cause, the responsibility of the guard was of a weighty character. Although their general duty was at these posts, yet detachrnents were frequently sent off on duty at other places. The regiment was subjected to the most perfect drill and discipline, many of its officers having been discharged from the army at an earlier period of the war on account of disa bility from wounds or sickness. Soon after the surrender of Lee and Johnston the prisoners on the Island became so reduced by discharges on parole, that the regiment left the Island on the 10th of July, 1865, and was mustered out on the 17th at Camp Chase. The One Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment of National Guards drew seven of its ten companies from Logan County, These troops were called out in 1864, by the President, for three months. The One hundred and Thirty-Second was officered as fellows, most of the regimental officers being from this county : Joel Haines, Colonel (formerly Captain in the Seventeenth); John J. Patten, Lieutenant-Colonel (formerly Second Lieutenant in the First); Andrew P. Meng, Major; William J. Sullivan, Surgeon. The Logan County companies were as follows: Company B, W. B. Niven, Captain; E. R. Chamberlain, First Lieutenant, and John Seaman, Sec ond Lieutenant. Company C, J. H. Harrod, Captain; J. L. Clark, First Lieutenant, and J. A. Brown, Second Lieutenant. Company E, J. M. Black, Captain; J. W. Smith, First Lieutenant, and Peter Dow, Second Lieutenant. Company F, J. J. Shriver, Captain; W. H. Huston, First Lieutenant, and D. W. Koch, Second Lieutenant. Company G, H. B. Patterson, Captain; L. M. Willetts, Fiat Lieutenant, anti J. H. H. Gordon, Second Lieutenant. Company I, R. B. Porter, Captain; W. L. Brown, First Lieutenant, and James Eaton, Second Lieutenant. Company K, Spencer W. Garwood, Captain; E. P. Williams, First Lieutenant, and A. C. Humphreys, Second Lieutenant. The regiment was mustered in at Camp Chase on the 15th of May, 1864, and proceeded to Washington City, where it arrived on the 24th, and was ordered into camp at Fort Albany. On the 30th it reported to Gen. A. J. Smith, and was assigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Eighteenth Army Corps. It did duty here until June 11, when it proceeded to Bermuda Hundred, 320 - HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY. where it was again put on fatigue and picket duty. On the 12th of August it proceeded to Norfolk, where it remained until the 27th when it started for home. It arrived on the 30th at Columbus, and was mustered out at Camp Chase on the 10th of September. The foregoing comprises a list of the regiments that drew organized bodies of men from the county, and so far as we have been able to learn, the list is complete. A large number of men from Logan county were scattered through other regiments and commands, but no re ular companies, aside from those mentioned. The Ninth and Twelfth Cavalry, one or two regiments of the Regular United States Infantry, and the First and Second Heavy Artillery, all contained more or less recruits from Logan County. The Thirteenth Ohio Independent Battery was made up, or a section of it, in this county. The organization of it, however, was never fully completed, and after the battle of Pittsburg Landing the members were distributed into other batteries and the number Thirteen dropped. The Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society was one of the earliest organizations in the State for furnishing comfort and encouragement to the men in the field, and delicacies to the sick in camp and hospital. This Society found a ready response among the ladies of Bellefontaine and Logan County, and an organization, in the early part of the war was effected, which, throughout the long and gloomy period of the struggle was productive of great good. An auxiliary society was formed in Bellefontaine, with branches in the different townships of the county, which joined heartily in those kind ministrations of devoted love and affection, that nerved the hearts and upheld the arms of those who stood in the front of the fray. And to the sick and wounded lying in gloomy hospitals, how were they cheered and comforted by the reception of kind words and messages from the " angels of mercy," as much, perhaps, as by the "good things" that always accompanied their kindly messages. Their reward here is the consciousness of having done a noble duty, and "Freely let them wear, The wreath which merit wove and planted there, Foe though I were, should envy tear it down, Myself would labor to replace the crown," As we stated in the beginning of this chapter, Logan County furnished over 2,000 men to the armies of the Union during the war, in addition to National guards and "squirrel hunters." Notwithstanding the alacrity with which volunteers came forward, and men enlisted, the county was subjected to a draft two or three times, but each time for only a small number of men to fill up some call still remaining a little short. That the county was drafted was no reproach to the valor of its able-bodied men, who were ever ready at the call of duty. But calls for troops came so fast, that they could not always be filled in the limited time by voluntary enlistment. The drafts in Logan County were but few, and each time for a small number of men. In conclusion of this' chapter, devoted to the patriotism of the county, we deem it our duty to state that the utmost pains have been taken to obtain facts in regard to the organizations in which the county was represented, and to omit none deserving of notice. We have, in compiling the sketches of the different regiments, drawn freely on Whitelaw Reid's "Ohio in the War" But it contains errors, and in order to avoid these we have endeavored to have those who were familiar with the operations and movements of the organizations described, look over and correct existing errors. So that we feel free to assert, that the history, as it is given, is, in the main, substantially correct. (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE)