CHAPTER XXV

MILITARY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY

The County's Contribution to the Suppression of the Rebellion—A Brave Deed—The Strange Case of Hugh Thompson—The Squirrel Hunters—The Volunteers for the Spanish-American War—Van Wert's Militia Company.

WAR OF THE REBELLION—15th REGIMENT, O. V. I.

The 15th Ohio Infantry was one of the first regiments to respond to President Lincoln's first call for 75,000 men. Company E was raised in Van Wert on the 17th of April, 1801, proceeded to Columbus and went into camp at Camp Jackson. On the 4th of May it was incorporated with other companies into the 15th Regiment and ordered to Zanesville for the purpose of drilling and preparing for active service. It was then ordered to West Virginia and for a time was stationed along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad—from Burton and Glover Gap to Grafton. It took part in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, and Carrick's Ford and at the expiration of the term of enlistment was discharged, August 27, 1861.

At the next call for troops, the 15th reenlisted almost to a man. It was then reorganized at Camp Mordecai Bartley near Mansfield, after which it moved to Camp Dennison, September 26, 1861. On the 4th of October it was sent to Lexington, Kentucky, and a week later was moved by way of Louisville to Camp Nevin near Nolin station on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. It was here assigned to the Sixth Brigade, commanded by Gen. R. W. Johnston of the Second Division under command of General Sherman. On the 9th of December, 1861, the division moved out to Bacon Creek, and the next day the brigade occupied Munfordville. On the 14th of February the division broke camp to move against Fort Donelson, but hearing of the capture of that fort a march was made to Bowling Green, and Nashville was reached on the 2nd of March. After a rest of a day or two they moved to Columbia, Tennessee, on the Duck River, where the rebels had blown up the railroad bridge. After repairing the bridge and building pontoons, the army was ordered to Savannah, Tennessee, and on the 6th of April at sunrise was within go miles of that city, when the report of cannon announced the opening of the battle of Shiloh. They immediately started in light marching order and reached Savannah at 11 o'clock the night of the 6th. Early in the morning of the 7th they landed by boat at Pittsburg Landing and marched at double quick out to the line of battle, where they lay in reserve from 9 A. M. until 11

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o'clock when they relieved the 15th Regiment Regulars. They were actively engaged from that time until 4 P. M., when they made the final charge past the old Shiloh Church that drove the rear guard of the rebels from the field. In this engagement the regiment lost 6 men killed and 62 wounded. At Corinth the Second Division formed the reserve force and so did not move to the front until the 27th of May.

The division next marched to Battle Creek, Tennessee, where it arrived on the 18th of July. Here it remained until the 20th of August, when it moved to Altamont and from there to Nashville, which place was reached on the 8th of September. Again it took up the line of march and reached Louisville on the 25th. The division next pursued Bragg as far as Orchard Knob, and then marched to Nashville, arriving there November 7, 1862. On the 26th of December the army advanced upon Murfreesboro and in the battle of Stone River the 15th Ohio had 18 killed and 89 wounded.

On the 24th of July, 1863, an advance was made on Tullahoma and Shelbyville and in the engagements which followed the regiment took a very prominent part. The division afterward moved to Bellefonte, Alabama, which place was reached on August 22nd. On September 2nd the march was continued in the direction of Rome and on the 11th the division took position with the main army in Lookout Valley. Here the regiment occupied the extreme right flank until the morning of the 19th, when it marched for the battlefield of Chickamauga, and was engaged immediately on its arrival.

Later the regiment took part in the siege of Chattanooga and the assault on Mission Ridge. We next find it with the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marching to the relief of Knoxville, Tennessee, where it arrived on the 8th of December. On the 20th the command moved to Strawberry Plains. In January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment reenlisted and started for Columbus, Ohio, via Chattanooga, to receive furloughs. On the loth of February the regiment reached Columbus 350 strong, and on the 12th the whole regiment was furloughed.

The regiment next appears at Camp Chase on the 4th of March, recruited to the strength. of nearly 900 men. It reached Nashville in March and Chattanooga on the 5th of April. On the 8th it went to Cleveland. Tennessee, and on the 20th to McDonald station, where it remained until the spring campaign. On the 3rd of May camp was broken and the regiment joined the army of Sherman at Tunnel Hill. The regiment afterward participated in the battle of Resaca and in that of Dallas in which it lost 19 men killed, 3 officers and 61 privates wounded and 19 men missing, who were supposed to have been killed or desperately wounded. The color guard with the exception of one corporal were all killed or wounded but that one corporal, David Hart of Company I, brought the colors safely from the field. The army next moved to Kenesaw Mountain and on the 14th of June the regiment lost 1 man killed and 5 wounded from Company A. The regiment next crossed the Chattahoochee and finally appeared before Atlanta. After operating in the rear of Atlanta, the regiment was marched to the relief of Resaca and finally to Columbia. At Nashville the regiment formed the extreme left of the army. It next moved against the enemy's position on the Franklin pike. After following the enemy to Lexington, Alabama, it went into camp at Bird Springs. It next moved to New Market, Tennessee, in March and then to Greenville to guard against the escape of Lee and Johnston. who were being pressed by Grant and Sherman. In April

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it was ordered back to Nashville, which place it reached about the first of May, 1865. Here the regiment lay in camp until the 16th of June, when it was ordered to Texas. On the 9th of July it reached Indianola, Texas, and the same night marched to Green Lake. Here the regiment lay until the loth of August, when it marched toward San Antonio, Texas. On the 21st it reached Salado near San Antonio, where it lay until October 20th, when it entered upon post duty in the city.

Here the regiment remained until the 21st of November, when it was mustered out and ordered to Columbus, Ohio, for final discharge. Leaving San Antonio on the 24th of November the regiment reached Columbus, December 25th, and was discharged on the 27th, after a period of four years and eight months service. Counting the four months served under the first 20th, the total service was five years.

LOSSES.

Killed in Battle

Shiloh, Tennessee 16

Stone River, Tennessee 36

Liberty Gap, Tennessee 11

Chickamauga, Georgia 23

Mission Ridge, Tennessee 6

Buzzard's Roost, Georgia 2

Resaca, Georgia 4

Pickett's Mills, Georgia 39

Pine Mountain, Georgia 3

Kenesaw Mountain, Tenn., June 20 1

Kenesaw Mountain, Tenn., June 21 13

Kenesaw Mountain, Tenn., June 23 7

Kenesaw Mountain, Tenn., June 27 3

Peach Tree Creek, Georgia 2

Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 2

Lovejoy Station, Georgia 2

Siege of Atlanta, Georgia 2

Nashville, Tennessee 7

The total killed, wounded and died of disease in the 15th Regiment was 683, or 41.3 per cent., 20 having died in Confederate prisons. Company H had killed and died of disease 23.4 per cent. Company H had killed, wounded and died of disease 50.9 per cent.

The following is taken from Col. W. F. Fox's "Famous Divisions and Brigades."

"The two brigades in the Western Army are Steadman's First Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Corps (killed and mortally wounded during the war 1,192), and Willich's First Brigade, Wood's Third Division, Fourth Corps (killed and mortally wounded during the war, 1,115), and are only compared with two or three brigades in the Eastern Army that lost an equal percentage and theirs included their missing."

The 15th and 49th Ohio belonged to Willich's brigade.

ROSTER OF COMPANY E, 15TH REG., O. V. I.

It enlisted April 17, 1861, for the three months service and was mustered out at Wapakoneta on August 27th. It took part in the following battles : Philippi, June 3, 1861; Laurel Hill, July 8, 1861 ; and Carrick's Ford, July 14, 1861 :

A BRAVE DEED.

During the Atlanta campaign between Big Shanty and Kenesaw Mountain, the 15th Ohio Infantry was on picket duty. In the evening orders were given to take off all the new recruits and put on only the old tried men.

The night of June 18th and morning of the 19th, Peter B. Cupp and Milton B. Evers of Company H, 15th Ohio Infantry, were on one post. They would fire in the direction of the rebel's picket line and the rebels would reply. About three o'clock in the morning the rebels ceased to reply to picket firing. Cupp, believing that the rebels were withdrawing and knowing that early information to that effect would be of immense benefit to the Union Army started out to reconnoiter. After going about a half mile, he came to the deserted rifle-pits and then to the rebel fort that had engaged in the artillery duel the day before. But all was quiet here. He pushed on for some distance till he came to the hastily deserted camp of the enemy, the fires still smoldering. Here he met and captured two Irishmen belonging to the 26th Georgia, who were deserting. He then started back with his prisoners for the picket line, knowing that the information that he and his prisoners could give would be of immense value. But as he passed to the left of the fort he came face to face with Company D, Second Georgia Heavy Artillery, Capt. S. Yates Levy and Lieutenant Cummins and 16 men (they were just from Mobile, Alabama). They were marching left in front, the lieutenant in command. The lieutenant halted Cupp and demanded that he surrender. This Cupp refused to do, and told them they were within the Union lines and that two regiments had gone around to the right of the fort. Here he called upon his prisoners to, confirm his story, and as they did not wish to be taken back they said that it was true.

The lieutenant then said "Captain, we are gobbled up now." Cupp then demanded their surrender and told them to have their men ground arms, which was done. He then took the officers' swords and revolvers and ordered them to march toward the Union lines. As soon as it became light, the artillery commenced firing over their heads and the captain remarked, "Young man, your men certainly are not aware of the conditions out here," referring

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to the two regiments being out by the fort. To this Cupp replied, "Those guns were loaded in the rain yesterday and it is easier to fire them than draw the loads." This quieted their suspicions and they soon came to the picket line, and to their great surprise and humiliation learned that instead of being within the Union lines they were a half mile in front of our picket lines when captured. For nerve and presence of mind this certainly equals anything in the annals of warfare. It was a close squeeze out of a tight place.

General Gibson, hearing of it, sent for Cupp and said, "Cupp, how did you do it?" To which Cupp replied, "General, I was drilling under General Willich's tactics and I threw myself into a hollow square and surrounded them."

Cupp was a favorite of General Gibson from that day and he never failed to inquire for him when meeting Van Wert people.

HUGH THOMPSON.

The story of Hugh Thompson, a member of Company H, 15th Ohio Infantry, is as strange as fiction and yet as real as the experience of any of our lives.

In the battle of Chickamauga Hugh Thompson was wounded in the head by a grape-shot. Joseph Baltzell, a comrade near him, noticing that Hugh was wounded and not being able to get an answer from him, picked up his cap and feeling something in it found the grape-shot in the cap. It being dark, he felt of Hugh's head and found a wound on the top of the head over the right ear, passing to about the center of the head and then turning to the right toward the front. He ran his finger along the wound to see if the skull was injured. He then put Hugh's cap on his head, gave him the grape-shot and told him to keep it. He then put Hugh's rifle into his hands assisted him to his feet and told him to come on, as the regiment had been ordered to fall back. He noticed that Hugh seemed to be kind of dazed but thought he would be all right. When morning came, however, Hugh was missing. It was supposed that he had fallen into the hands of the enemy, but not being reported among the prisoners he was given up as dead.

Nothing was heard of Hugh Thompson by his old comrades for many years until a letter was received, asking if a Henry Thompson had volunteered from Van Wert County, and stating that a Henry Thompson living in Kansas thought he had volunteered from some place in Ohio, but had no distinct recollection of the place or regiment. A farther correspondence elicited the fact that he was not certain as to his name, only that he had a Testament with the. name "H. Thompson" written in it. The only distinct recollection that he had was that of being out in a severe snowstorm, almost chilled to death, and of coming to a farm house where the people took him in and cared for him.

He wandered from place to place working at whatever he could get to do. He finally took up a homestead near Harper, Kansas. He was anxious to find out who he was, and where his friends and relatives lived. He recollected going to where there was a large body of water, and he made trips along Lake Erie but could not recognize any place. The Grand Army of the Republic post at his home in Kansas took an interest in his case and sent a full description of him, giving marks that would help his friends identify him, one being two fingers that had been injured, another a large scar on one ankle and a third a scar on the forehead. John Acheson, a man that had worked with him, recollected his having mashed his fingers while loading stone at a stone quarry, and that he had put a chew of tobacco on it, tying up the wound with the pocket of his roundabout, which

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he tore out for the purpose. The scar on the ankle he recollected was made with abroad-axe in hewing and that he had carried Thompson to the house and nursed him while confined to his bed. The scar in the forehead some of his schoolmates remembered was made while playing at school. Thus he was fully indentified by his old associates.

Thompson's recollections were very indistinct. He said he had lived with an Uncle Nat, and that he thought there was a building in which they hung up hoes, rakes, cradles and scythes, and that there was a large door with a smaller one in the large one.

The descriptions though vague, were sufficient to induce the Grand Army post at Van \Vert to send money to bring him here. He was not able to recognize any person. When he was taken out to his Uncle Nat's (Nathaniel Hattery), they found the granary as he had described, with the farm implements. The small door in the large one was in the barn. After looking around, he said there was an apple tree that had split and one part had lain on the ground but still bore apples. The family on the farm said there had never been such a tree in the orchard. They then went t0 an-other uncle on an adjoining farm and there the apple tree was, just as it had been before the war. He had but little recollection of his boyhood days. He said he recollected playing with two neighbor girls, one of whom had red hair and the other black. These were his nearest neighbors, and were recognized. He said "But where is the large body of water ?" Some of those present recollected that he had been with a party that had gone to the Grand Reservoir fishing, which explained why the had searched along Lake Erie for his home. He had no recollection of being wounded but remembered being led between two men and coming to a tunnel. He said they did not enter the tunnel but walked on and it began to get dark, so dark that he could no longer see the men that were leading him. That was the last moment of consciousness until he seemed to wake up in Indiana seven years afterward. He had a cap, such as he wore in the army, and the Testament with the name "H. Thompson" written on the fly leaf that suggested to him his name.

Application was made for a pension and a special examiner was sent. After a thorough investigation he was granted a pension. He was then a man 45 years old, having been 19 when he entered the army, and few of his comrades could recognize him. But this is not surprising, as he had lost his teeth and was prematurely old. His descriptive roll was all right, being only a quarter of an inch shorter in height.

His mind is not entirely clouded, yet he has a guardian to look after his interests and attend to his finances.

Such is the sad picture of the life of Hugh Thompson, who gave more than his life for his country.

46TH REGIMENT, O. V. I.

This regiment was organized at Camp Worthington, near Columbus, Ohio. Three Companies A E and K, were largely made up in Van Wert and the northern part of Mercer County. It left Camp Chase for the field February 18, 1862, with 975 men and on the 22nd reported at Paducah, Kentucky. It was assigned with the Sixth Iowa and the 14th Illinois to General Sherman's division. The regiment with four companies of the 40th Illinois . reached Savannah, Tennessee, on the 8th of \larch and lay within eight miles of the enemy it Pittsburg Landing until the main army arrived four clays later. The regiment was posted on the right of Shiloh Church, when Sherman

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moved up to Pittsburg Landing. On the 5th of April, 1862, Companies B and K were on picket and found the enemy feeling the line throughout the night. In the morning of the 6th the rebel columns were seen deploying in the distance, and at sunrise a rebel cavalry officer emerged from the timber within 30 yards of the picket line where, standing a moment, he inquired, "are these Union pickets?" With the affirmative answer he was told to advance and surrender, but turned his horse away and was shot dead by the unerring rifle of Sergeant Glenn of Van Wert, who was also killed before the day was done. The regiment participated throughout the day and sustained a loss of 28o killed and wounded and 15 prisoners.

On the 27th the army left the field for Corinth. The season was spent along the line of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and at Memphis, and in November the regiment started on a campaign through Mississippi under Grant. About 100 miles out, they were compelled to return to Holly Springs to establish communications. The regiment was again stationed on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and was largely engaged in raiding Northern Mississippi. In June, 1863, it moved to Vicksburg and took part in the siege that followed. The city capitulated on the 4th of July and the regiment marched toward Jackson and at 11 P. M. halted near Big Black River. Companies E and K were sent forward to Berdsong's Ferry, where they found signs of the enemy in front. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston with his army on the way to relieve Vicksburg, already fallen, was on the opposite side of the river and in the morning opened fire on the two companies, which gallantly sustained their position but at heavy loss. The army came up and pushed Johnston into Jackson and after several days of fighting forced him from thecity, when the regiment returned to the Big Black River and went into camp.

On October loth the regiment with the 15th Army Corps under General Sherman embarked for Memphis and from there marched to the relief of Chattanooga, which place was reached on the 20th of November. It next appeared in the battle of Mission Ridge, where it sustained heavy loss, and then entered the Knoxville campaign, afterward going into winter quarters at Scottsboro, Alabama. Here the regiment was supplied with Spencer rifles and the men reenlisted as veterans. In March it was given a furlough and reported again at Scottsboro. It next moved out in May and on the 13th, 14th and 15th engaged in the battle of Resaca and then went to Dallas.

In June the regiment with the division moved to the left and relieved the Second and Third brigades of General Geary's division of the 20th Army Corps. Here the regiment gallantly participated in the battle of New Hope Church. On the 6th of June the brigade passed Ackworth and camped until the 9th, when it moved to the vicinity of Kenesaw Mountain and rejoined its division. During the movements which followed, the brigade was held in reserve until the 15th, when it was ordered to the extreme left of the army. Here the 46th with its brigade, supported by the other brigades of the division, charged a line of the ridge a half mile distant. This was done so gallantly that 22 officers, 400 men and 600 stand of arms were captured. The division was then placed in the reserve until the 25th, when it took position at the base of Kenesaw Mountain and engaged in skirmishing. On the 26th Wolcott's brigade, with two brigades of General Smith's division, was detailed as a storming party. The next day Wolcott's brigade led the column with the 46th in the advance as skirmishers. In this assault the

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regiment captured 60 prisoners but suffered heavily in killed and wounded. After the battle the regiment moved to the Chattahoochee and finally to Rosswell's factory, where it forced a crossing on the 15th of July. On the 19th it moved toward Atlanta and on the evening of the 20th entered the line in front of the city. Here the regiment skirmished until the 22nd, when it assisted in repelling the attack on the 17th Corps. Wolcott's brigade was posted on the left of the 15th Corps and when the engagement opened the brigade faced from the west to the south, partially closing a gap between the 15 and 17th corps. The troops on the right were forced from their position and the enemy gained the rear, while another column in the front was repulsed and that in the rear was captured, and the 46th had the honor of retaking a battery of Parrott guns captured by the rebels earlier in the day. Again at Ezra Church the regiment was engaged, being called to the support of the Third Brigade. During the battle a rebel prisoner informed the officer of the regiment that he was a member of the 13th Louisiana and had confronted the 46th at Pittsburg Landing. This was made known to the men and they redoubled their energies and captured the colors of the 13th Louisiana and assaulted with such impetuosity that the colonel with t0 officers and half his men were killed. The flag, which was a present from the ladies of New Orleans, was presented by Gen. John A. Logan to its immediate captor, Harry Davis, and by him was contributed to the trophies of the State of Ohio. The regiment was employed in skirmishing until the 26th of August, when it participated with Sherman in his flank movement on Jonesboro. On the afternoon of the 29th the rebels led an attack. Three companies of the 46th were on skirmish duty and the others in the reserve. The skirmishers held their grounduntil the enemy passed their flank, when they formed the reserve. The reserve had orders to charge the rebel line as soon as it showed any signs of wavering. This was done and 4 officers and 50 men were captured. On the and of September the regiment was again engaged and captured the fortified skirmish line of the enemy. It then followed Hardin's retreating army until a halt was made near Lovejoys station, and the 46th was deployed in front of General Corse's division of the 17th Corps, the 66th Illinois was deployed and an advance ordered. The enemy was forced to retire and the army went into camp at East Point near Atlanta.

After participating in the campaign against Hood, the regiment returned to the vicinity of Atlanta on the 5th of November. On the 15th it started for Savannah and was engaged in the movements about Macon and finally in the skirmishes around Savannah. After the fall of the city, 'the regiment embarked, January t0, 1865, for Beaufort, South Carolina. On the 27th it took up the line of march and, reaching Bentonville, was engaged, charged the enemy, captured and held his works and received special compliments for gallantry. At Raleigh the news of Lee's surrender was received, and shortly after General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman. The regiment -then moved to Washington City and on the 14th of May participated in the Grand Review, after which it went to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was mustered out of the service, July 22, 1865, a term of service in which it lost 20 men captured and 705 men killed and wounded or died of disease.

The 46th Regiment had a large number of recruits from this county, whose names are given below :

Company A.—James Allen, Morris Alger, John W. Andrews, William G. Andrews. Alvin

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H. Brown, Samuel A. Brown, Abram B. Brown, John Boroff, John Book, Philip Beinz, Henry G. Beatty, Andrew S. Baker, Henry Brink, David Balden, Aquilla Crogan, Perry J. Cure, William Custer, George Custer, Christian Coble, D. P. Dunathan, William Dixon, Washington Evans, Andrew J. Freshour, Thomas J. Freshour, Collin Fox, John Hippard, Leonard Houts, Henry Houts, James W. Hamilton, Benjamin Hartzog, Amos Knough, Samuel Knough, W. H. H. King, James S. Lindsay, Nathan Lemunion, Joseph Little, James H. Moore, Silas B. Mortimer, William More, Thomas McGlaughton, Lewis F. Ross, David M. Riley, Nathaniel Roush, Albert L. Rucket, William E. Sill, Philip Siller, Abraham M. Truby, Harrison Wilson, Joseph Woolery and John Walbourn.

Company E.—John S. Brown, Samuel Brown, David Belden, Henry Barton, Frederick Boyer, Henry Beackel, Jacob Beam, Elias Barker, Samuel Bower, Baldwin H. Clark, Sidney Dague, Henry Hanson, John D. Hickernell, James P. Hickernell, Mathew W. Heller, John Hankers, William Jones, John H. Mehm, Peter Moore, John A. Martin, Christopher C. Nichols, William Pontius, Calvin Park, James H. Roberts, Henry Scharending, Christopher Shaffer, William Stove and Dennis Wade.

Company G.—Laurens B. Shaffer. Company I.—John W. Clempson, Henry B. Fallagher and John Mullen.

Company K.—John Acheson, Samuel H. Alexander, Jackson Balding, Bernard Balding, W. O. Bowdle, Benjamin Baltzell, Jackson Boroff, James Bennett, Benjamin Baltzell, Philip Beinz, John Brown, Frederick Brorein, Patrick Brady, Archibald Casteel, Michael Conlon, Calvin Casteel, Davis Clemson, Amos Clemson, Tier Coates, Leander B. Dayman, Isaac Dillbone, W. W. DeMoss, Abraham DeLong, W. W. Dennison, Peter Dunifon, Nathaniel Dunifon, S. F. Dix, James Doseward, Robert N. Deal, Isaac Delbone, George W. Darnell, Otho Fox, William Greaves, John Geesler, Robert W. Gamble, C. E. Graham, Reuben W. Gamble, James Gordon, Philip B. Glenn, Jonathan Hireck, Jacob Hair, James Herrod, Martin Hipshire, Melancthon Hughes, John Miller John Miller, Levi More, James H. Moore, George Miller, Andrew Miller, Davis Morehead, Henry Morehead, Henry Hipshire, James W. Hamilton, Henry Houts, George Huffmann, Levi J. Huffman, John Holland, Leon, ard Houtz, William Hewing, Daniel Hipshire, James Hipshire, Benjamin Houck, Obadiah Hall, Cyrus Houck, Daniel Hummel, W. E. Ireland, Robert Ireland, Elihu Ireland, Emanuel Jackson, Edward Johnson, Robert Jones, Joseph A. Jones, Peter Kline, Tilman F. Lewis, Nathan Lewis, W. H. Laird, William H. Lott, Chester Lee, Isma Malick, John F. McCullough, Samuel Miller, David Magner, J. E. Morrison, Stephen L. Mead, Calvin Miller, Enos North, James Prichard, Nicholas Potts, John S. Penn, Jacob Pratzler, Laborn Prince, Charles W. Reis, Henry Rees, Warren Roebuck, Perry H. Routan, Shiel Reeser, Caleb Roberts, Samuel Slater, John Slater, John L. Spier, Lemuel Seniff, Zenas H. Smith, Samuel Simes, Jacob Speeler, Francis M. Smith, B. L. Snow, Solomon Stern, Paul Troup, Jacob Traxler, Elmore Vangundy, Casper VanWalt, James H. Watson, Washington Wise, Noah Wiseman, Leander Wentz, John H. Wheeler, Isaac N. Well, Henry Weaver, Emanuel Young, Peter H. Young and William H. Zimmerman.

99TH REGIMENT, O. V. I.

The 99th Regiment was organized at Camp Lima, Ohio, and mustered into service August

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26, 1862. Of this regiment, two companies were raised in Allen County, two in Shelby, two in Hancock and one each in Auglaize, Mercer, Putnam and Van Wert.

For the regiment 1,700 men were recruited, but 700 were at once transferred to the 118th Ohio.

The regiment left Lima, August 31, 1862, with 1,021 men under orders to report at Lexington, Kentucky. While en route it was learned the enemy had taken Lexington and the regiment was ordered to Cynthiana. After a few weeks it went to Covington and entered the fortifications of Fort Mitchel. In September it went by steamer to Louisville, and was so disposed as to assist in the defense of the place against the threatened assault of the confederate forces under Bragg. On the 1st of October, the regiment was transferred to Col. Stanley Mathew's brigade, which was composed of the 51st and 99th Ohio, the Eighth and 21st Kentucky and the 35th Indiana. This subsequently became the Third Brigade, Third Division, 21st Army Corps. The regiment now marched in pursuit of Bragg's retreating forces as far as Wild Cat, from which place the brigade moved to Mount Vernon and again in regular order to Somerset, Columbia, Glasgow and Gallatin. From this last point it was ordered to Lebanon to intercept the command of John Morgan. The march to Lebanon and back to Silver Springs was made in one day and Morgan's command was first dislodged but it followed the brigade on its retreat and captured about t00 of the Union forces, who were not able to keep up with the rapid march of the brigade.

About 20 of these stragglers belonged to the 99th Ohio. After a few days rest the regiment moved toward Nashville, and . took position about seven miles from the city. Here the troops suffered greatly from sickness and when the forward movement to Stone River was ordered the regiment could only muster 369 privates, two field officers and seven line and three staff officers who were fit for duty. On December 26th the regiment advanced toward Murfreesboro, being under rebel fire part of the march. At the battle of Stone River it formed on the extreme left of the line. On the morning of December 31st the division crossed Stone River, but on account of the disaster on the right was ordered back to hold the ford, while the First and Second brigades were sent to reinforce the corps of General McCook. On January 1, 1863, the Third Division crossed the river and took a position which it held until Friday afternoon, when the rebels formed in heavy column and doubling on the center drove Van Cleve's division across the river. This division was at once reinforced and drove the rebels back, capturing all the artillery used in the attack. Bragg commenced his retreat under cover of night. In this fight the 99th lost three officers and 17 men, killed, and two officers and 41 men wounded and one officer and 29 men captured.

After the battle the regiment took position at Murfreesboro on the left of the line.

On June 30, 1863, it marched to McMinnville, where it remained until the 16th of Au-gust when it moved to Pikeville.

After various marches and duties the regiment moved to Ringgold and participated in the battle of Chickamauga. Soon after the 20th and 21st corps were consolidated and the 99th Regiment was transferred to the Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Corps.

This brigade camped for a time opposite Lookout Mountain, but on the 1st of November moved to Shell Mound. There it did duty guarding and repairing the railroad from Chatanooga to Bridgeport. On the 22nd it moved up the valley and on the 24th participated in

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"the battle above the clouds," being the second line of the charging column. As the lines swept around the mountain the Second closed up on the First until, nearing the point, it rushed impetuously through the first line and held the advance until relieved by fresh troops after nightfall.

The next day the regiment was engaged at Mission Ridge, occupying the extreme right of the Federal line. After following the rebels to Ringgold, the regiment returned to Shell Mound, where it remained until February, 1864, when it moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, and on the 3rd of May entered upon the Atlanta campaign. It next participated in the actions of Rocky Face Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's station, in all of which engagements the regiment bore an honorable and prominent part.

On the 28th of June it was assigned to the Fourth Brigade, Second Division, 23rd Corps, and on the 19th of July took possession of Decatur. The regiment participated in the actions before Atlanta, and moved to Jonesboro and Lovejoy's station. It was next assigned to the First Brigade and returned to Decatur, having lost in the Atlanta campaign 30 men killed, and 56 wounded. On the first of October the regiment started in pursuit of the command of Hood, moving to Centerville by way of Resaca, Johnsville and Waverly. For a few weeks its communication was cut off, but it finally received word by courier to march to Franklin.

As this place was in the hands of the enemy the march was continued to Nashville. It next appeared in line in front of Nashville and on the morning of the 15th of December moved. against the entrenched army of Hood. It drove the enemy from one position to another until it found them posted on a hill covered by a stone wall. The division without orders charged the position, carried it and turned the gunsupon the retreating foe. The enemy was pursued to Columbia, where this regiment was consolidated with the 15th Ohio, and the 99th ceased as an organization. The regimental colors were then sent to Governor John Brough of Ohio, who acknowledged their reception in a very complimentary letter. Among the officers killed, none stood higher or deserved a higher encomium than Cap. William C. Scott, killed at the battle of Lookout Mountain.

ROSTER OF COMPANY A, 99TH REGIMENT.

William C. Scott, captain, age 29; died Jan. 4, 1863 of wounds received at Stone River.

William T. Exline, captain, age 24.

Edward King, Is t lieut.. age 37.

Henry P. Holmes, 1st lieut., age 22.

Daniel J. McConnel, 1st lieut., age 32.

Thomas J. King, 1st lieut., age 24.

William S. Williams, 2nd lieut., age 26.

David Harnley, 1st sergt., age 28.

John S. Eyler, sergt., age 25.

Wilson Johnson, sergt., age 21.

Robinson F. Leffingwell, sergt., age 20.

Alexander R. McCoy, sergt., age 26.

David A. Elder, sergt., age 2g.

John Wentz, sergt., age 27; killed at Lookout Mountain, Nov. 24, 1863.

Clinton Arnold, corporal, age 28.

Solomon R. Moneysmith, corporal, age 33.

William P. Bray, corporal, age 22; killed June 18, 1864, at Ackworth, Ga.

William A. Hill, corporal, age 24; died Jan. 10, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

George W. Quirk, corporal, age 35.

Henry Fuhrman, corporal, age 21.

Edward W. Larue, corporal, age 19; captured Sept. 20, 1863, at Chickamauga.

James W. Wells, musician, age 22.

Israel Downing, wagoner, age 20.

Allen, James L., private, age 21.

Allen, William T., private, age 24; killed June 18, 1864, near Ackworth, Ga.

Algire, Alpheus, private, age 36; captured Aug. 14, 1864, near Dalton.

Ammons, Hiram, private, age 27; died March 10, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

Algire, Joshua, private, age 33.

Aubert, William, private, age 25.

Ayers, Andrew, private, age 2g.

Barrett, William R., private, age 29.

Bevington, John, private, age 20.

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Bibler, Harrison, private, age 19; died Aug. 19, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn.

Binkley, Henry, private, age 19.

Binkley, William H., private, age 21.

Booth, Michael, private, age 21; died Feb. 27, 1863, near Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Bryan, Enos, private, age 21.

Burk, Edward, private, age 22.

Bryan, Emanuel, private, age 21.

Cable, George W., private, age 21.

Carpenter, Charles W., private, age 18; captured Sept. 19, 1863, at Chickamauga, Ga.

Casteel, Benjamin, private, age 25; killed June 21, 1864, near Kenesaw Mountain.

Casteel, Samuel, private, age 24.

Clouse, Jacob, private, age 23.

Clouse, William M., private, age 19.

Cluff, Marcus, private, age 20.

Connor, Alexander W., private, age 22.

Crugh, Jacob, private, age 20.

Crugh, William H., private, age 21.

Davis, John, Private, age 44; died Dec. 20, 1863, at Bowling Green, Ky.

Estill, Thomas J., private, age 18,

Exline, George W., private; age 19.

Eysenback, Louis, private, age 20.

Fisher, Benjamin, private, age 26.

Foster, Davis J., private, age 2o; died June 27, 1863, at Louisville, Ky.

Foster, William, private, age 20.

Gamble, George W., private, age 44.

Hamilton, Reuben, private, age 23; killed Jan. 2, 1863, Stone River, Tenn.

Harnley, Abraham, private, age 36; killed Jan. 20, 1864, near Kenesaw Mountain.

Hartzog, King S., private, age 24.

Hickman, Simeon M., private, age 24.

Hill, George W., private, age 20; died Nov. 9, 1862, at Bowling Green, Ky.

Hire, Thomas W., private, age 20; wounded in action. Hitesman, John, private, age 18.

Jackson, Simeon A., private, age 19.

Jacobs, Henry, private, age 30.

Johnson, Daniel, private, age 24.

Johnson, Joseph E., private, age 19.

Johnson, Sylvester W., private, age 25.

Johnson, William H., private, age 20.

Justus, John W., private, age 33; died Feb. 10, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn.

Kear, Benjamin F., private, age 19.

Kesler, Peter, private, age 23

Kompf, Jacob. private, age 22; died Jan. 12, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Leathers, Harrison, private, age 28.

Lichty, John F., private, age 21; died Feb. 4, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

Little, George W., private, age 23; died Jan. 15, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

Mann, James O., private, age 20; died April 18, 1863, at Camp Dennison, O.

Medaugh, John, private, age 20.

Miller, Cornelius H., private, age 2o; died March 14, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

Mortimore, George W., private, age 23.

Patten, George, private, age 24; died Jan. 3, 1863, at Nashville.

Patten, John, private, age 32; died Dec. 2, 1862, at Bowling Green.

Pollock, Horace P., private, age 28; killed Nov. 24, 1868, at Lookout Mountain.

Protsman, Henry J., private, age 18; died Dec. 29, 1862, at Nashville.

Reichard, Calvin, private, age 19.

Roberts, William A., private, age 19.

Rothar, Johann, private, age 35.

Russell, John, private, age 19; died Dec. 9, 1862, at Nashville.

Schnepp, Adam, private, age 24.

Schnepp, Henry, private, age 30.

Schnepp, Solomon, private, age 19.

Shaffer, George, private, age 32; died Jan. 20, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

Shinneberry, Benjamin, private, age 19; wounded in action.

Spahr, Jesse, private, age 2o; killed Jan. 2, 1863, at Stone River.

Thomas, Thomas, private, age 35.

Tucker, Alfred, private, age 32.

Vail, William G., private, age 18.

Walter, Christopher, private, age 27; died Dec. 21, 1863, at Nashville.

Warren, Hiram B., private, age 20; died April 30, 1864, at Bridgeport, Ala.

Weigly, Albert, private, age 18; died Nov. 18, 1862, at Silver Spring, Tenn.

Welsh, Israel, private, age 32; wounded Dec. 15, 1864, battle of Nashville.

Wentz, George, private, age 22.

Whipple, David R., private, age 28; died June 29, 1863, at Murfreesboro.

Wyant, Henry, private, age 27; died May 31, 1863, near Murfreesboro.

COMPANY F, 99TH REGIMENT.

Gordon, Charles M., corporal ; died June 19, 1865.

Kesler. Jacob, age 18.

King, Henry, age 19.

King, Philip, age 21; killed at Nashville, Tenn.

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Mapes, George W., age 22 ; killed Jan 2, 1863, at Stone River.

Mapes, James F., age 21; killed Jan. 3, 1863, at Stone River.

Miller, James K., private, age 18; died at Shiloh, May, 1862.

Morrison, Henry, Sergeant.

Shaffer, George; wounded at Stone River, died in 1863.

COMPANY E, 99TH REGIMENT.

Counselor, David, private, age 19.

52ND REGIMENT, O. V. I.

This regiment was organized in August, 1862, by Col. Daniel McCook, and on the 25th of August left Camp Dennison for Lexington, Kentucky. While en route the ladies of Cincinnati presented a banner to the regiment. On September 6th the regiment went into camp at Louisville, Kentucky. And there the 52nd Ohio and the 85th, 86th and 105th Illinois were brigaded and on the 1st of October, 1862, the brigade moved out in pursuit of Bragg's retreating forces.

The enemy was encountered at Chaplin HilI and a fight ensued in which Bragg informed his troops that Barnett's battery must be taken, saying, "It is supported by green troops and can be easily taken." The effort was made but the regiment and battery stood like veterans and sent the attacking column back in confusion. On reaching Nashville on December loth the regiment was placed on garrison duty in which capacity it remained until March 7, 1863. In the battle of Chickamauga the brigade belonged to the reserve corps and was moved to Rossville Gap, finally taking position on the Ringgold road. On the 20th the regiment was assigned a position toward the front near McAfee's army. At noon the brigade was ordered into position about two miles to the right of the church. While moving to this position, the brigade was subjected to aterrific fire at short range but moved on in gallant order.

On the 21 it the brigade was posted on the right of Rossville Gap, and was under fire from 2 o'clock until dark, when the Federal forces withdrew to Chattanooga. On the 28th two regiments were ordered to report to General Hooker in Lookout Valley and the 5211(1 Ohio and the 86th Illinois were detailed and were temporarily constituted the Third Brigade, Second Division, 11th Army Corps. This was then stationed in two of the gaps near the base of Lookout Mountain, where it became an almost constant target for the rebel gunners. On the 6th of November the regiment returned to camp at Chickamaugua Creek. At daylight on the morning of the 24th of November, the regiment reported at Caldwell's Ford, where under cover of darkness General Sherman had just thrown a bridge across the river.

The great battle followed and the rebels were driven from their position. The regiment afterward joined the march to Knoxville and on the 15th of December commenced the return to Chattanooga, on the night of the 19th going into camp on Chickamauga Creek. On the 26th it moved to McAfee's Church and went into camp near its position at the opening of the battle of Chickamauga. On the 14th of February it moved to Chickamauga station and on the 23rd returned to Ringgold, where on the next day it witnessed the taking of Tunnel Hill. In the Atlanta campaign the regiment took honorable part in the actions at Dalton and Resaca. At Kenesaw Mountain the brigade attempted the impossible task of carrying the works in front, in which effort it suffered severely and lost its leader, the colonel of the 5211d. It then participated in the Atlanta movements and accompanied Sherman to Savannah and in the march through Georgia and Carolinas. This campaign over. it participated

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in the Grand Review in Washington and was mustered out June 3, 1865.

ROSTER OF COMPANY A, 52ND REGIMENT, O. V. I.

Israel D. Clark, captain, age 42. William H. Buck, 1st lieut.

William H. Kaufman, 2nd lieut., age 24.

Luicius G. Dunkam, 1st sergt., age 45.

Jacques H. Scott, sergt, age 22. Isaac N. Groscost, sergt., age 25.

Enos J. Cordel, sergt, age 18; captured in action near Columbus, S. C.

John Eckfeld, sergt., age 38.

Robert E. Baxter, sergt, age 28; captured July 19, 1864, at Peach Tree Creek.

Jacob H. Beck, corp., age 20. James Carnelian, corp., age 23.

W. H. Clutter, corp., age 19; discharged on account of wounds received in action. Daniel Riley, corp., age 18.

Joan Baker, corp., age 32.

James J. Jackson, corp., age 31.

Daniel Schumm, corp., age 22; died Feb. 8, 1863 at Bowling Green, Ky.

Joshua W. Harper, corp„ age 28; died Dec. 20, 1862 at Nashville.

Robert M. Sproal, corp., age 21. James Offara, musician.

Charles Comman, musician. Samuel Cafdenger, wagoner.

Anshutz, William H., private, age 24. Berthhoff, Henry, private.

Bush, John, private, age 28; died April 6, 1863 at Nashville.

Binkley, John, private, age 40.

Bowers, Andrew, private, age 21; killed Aug. 8, 1864 near Atlanta.

Burcaw, Henry, private.

Billings, Calvin, private, age 27. Barr, Richard, private, age 24.

Beck, George W., private, age 19; died Nov. 26, 1862, at Nashville.

Bowers, Anthony M., private, age 18; died May 6, 1863 at Nashville.

Baxter, James W., private, age 31.

Beasner, George W., private, age 18.

Baxter, John S., private, age 18.

Britsan, Daniel, private, age 18.

Burt, Samuel A., private, missing from forage train, April 15, 1865, near Cape Fear River, N. C.; killed or captured.

Baxter, John D., private.

Baney, William, private.

Beck, Jacob H., private, age 20.

Black, Joseph, private, age 25; captured Sept. 1, 1862.

Bieran, Harry, private, age 34.

Cable, John I., private, age 27.

Calvert, William, private, age 19.

Cashin, James, private, age 18.

Cummins, Charles, private, age 18; killed May 15, 1865, at Resaca, Ga.

Cusic, John, private, age 24.

Dryer, Henry, private, age 27.

Denman, Mathias, private, age 19; died March 16, 1863, at Nashville.

Emerson, Nimrod, private, age 21.

Elder, Jacob, private, age 23; killed Aug. 7, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga.

Foulk, Jeremiah, private, age 22.

Foust, Lester B., private, age 22; died April 20, 1863, at Nashville.

Fitzsimons, James, private, age 40.

Frankinberg, John H., private, age 31.

Goliver, Tovanion, private, age 19.

Goliver, Benjamin M., private, age 20.

Graham, John, private, age 40.

Highland, James A., private, age 21.

Hill, Calvin H., private, age 26.

Hill, Patrick, private, age 21.

Howard, John H., private, age 25.

Hunsacker, Solomon, private, age 22; died Nov. 20, 1862, at Bowling Green, Ky.

Hughes, Charles W., private, age 44.

Jackson, James G., private, age 32; died Feb. 7, 1863, Nashville, Tenn.

John, Isaac N., private, age 21; died April 19, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn.

Kannel, Joseph, private age 22.

Kerns, Christian, private, age 32.

Kissinger, Alexander, private, age 18.

Kniss Alfred, private, age 31.

Leslie, Francis W., private, age 18.

Lillie, Thomas, private, age 26.

Murphy, John W., private, age 24.

Melchi, Benjamin, private, age 18.

Myers, Johnathan H., private, age 22.

Moffey, Lycurgus, private, age 42.

McGill, Thomas, private, age 18.

Murphy, Samuel private, age 21.

Miller, Osbern E., private, age 18.

Meely, Levi A., private, age 23.

Marshall, Samuel B., private, age 28.

Marsh, Samuel J., private, age 18.

Merrit, Thomas, private, age 44.

McGonagle, McCaslin, private, age 18; captured July 19, 1864, at Peach Tree Creek.

O'Neal, William, private, age 22.

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O'Hara, James, private, age 18.

O'Brian, John, private, age 30.

Payne, William H., private, age 18.

Robert, Jesse, private, age 25; killed July 19, 1864, at Peach Tree Creek.

Rutan, Joseph W., private, age 18; died Sept. 29, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn., of wounds received Aug. 7, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga.

Royce, Edwin W., private, age 30.

Rowland, Levi M., private, age 26; captured July 19, 1864, at Peach Tree Creek.

Rhoden, John L., private, age 19.

Styner, John H., private, age 18.

Starkey, Isaac J., private, age 21; missing Sept. 19, 1863, in battle at Chickamauga; no further record.

Seeman, John, private, age 23.

Truby, Christian, private, age 45.

Tutor, William R., private, age 35.

Vangundy, John, private, age 21.

Wortman, George W., private, age 22.

Watters, Joshua, private, age 20.

Winget, Archibald, private, age 19.

White, John, private, age 40.

Zelner, Martin, private, age 18.

Zelliner, Joshua, private, age 19.

64TH REGIMENT, O. V. I.

The 64th Regiment was organized at Camp Buckingham, near Mansfield, Ohio, in 1861.

ROSTER OF COMPANY F, 64TH REGIMENT, O. V. I.

John H. Finfrock, captain, age 25.

Norman K. Brown, captain, age 27; 2nd lieut., Nov. 30, 1861; 1st lieut., Nov. 3, 1862; capt., March 1863; major, March 18, 1865.

William H. Farber, captain, age 19.

Simeon B. Conn, 1st lieut., age 29.

John K. Shellenbarger, 1st lieut., age 18.

John Blecker, 2nd lieut., age 33; 2nd lieut, Nov. 3, 1863; wounded Dec. 31, 1862.

Thomas J. Clark, 1st sergt., age 21; died Dec. 6, 1862.

Harrison C. Brown, 1st sergt., age 21.

Asa D. Farnam, 1st sergt., age 28; wounded Dec. 31, 1862 and Nov. 30, 1864.

Lewis High, 1st sergt., age 36; 2nd lieut. Co. K, April 1863.

David E. Barret, 1st sergt., age 25; wounded Sept. 20, 1863.

George H. Leiter, sergt., age 21; wounded June 18, 1863.

John Hayes, sergt., age 20.

Edward Geier, sergt., age 19.

Marcellus Farnam, sergt., age 18; wounded May 9, 1864 and Nov. 30, 1864; died Aug. 17, 1865. Leonard Conn, sergt., age 24.

Joseph T. Beard, sergt., age 18.

Samuel Paugle, sergt., age 19; killed Nov. 29, 1864.

Uriah S. Wise, sergt., age 21.

David W. Singleton, sergt, age 19.

Edward H. Hearn, sergt., age 27; died April 20, 1862.

Daniel W. Cluff, corp., age 18; wounded Nov. 30, 1864.

Christian Weaver, corp., age 18; wounded May 26, 1864.

Joseph M. Strait, corp., age 21.

John H. Leiter, corp., age 22; died Aug. 11, 1865.

John Linkhart, corp., age 27; wounded Dec. 31, 1862 and Nov. 25, 1863.

James L. Heath, corp., age 29; killed May 9, 1864. Lewis J. Barrett, corp., age 26.

Henry David Major, corp., age 2o.

James W. Tolan, corp., age 19.

Asa Hoit, corp., age 19; died May 14, 1864, of wounds received May 9, 1864.

Philip H. Anshutz, musician, age 18.

Emery R. Underwood, musician, age 26; died April 14, 1863.

Benjamin F. Griffith, Wagoner, age 45.

Alspaugh, Robert, private, age 28.

Aler, Noah, private, age 19.

Alexander, George W., private, age 24; wounded Nov. 30, 1864.

Adams, George H., private, age 26; wounded May 9, 1864.

Ackerman, Henry, private, age 18; wounded Nov. 30, 1864.

Aubert, Henry, private, age 34

Brown, Christian, private, age 18.

Bolenbaugh, George, private, age 18; died Aug 30, 1864, of wounds received July 26.

Bartlett, William, private, age 19.

Bair, Jehiel, private, age 22.

Brochas, John, private, age 23; wounded and missing Dec. 31, 1862.

Byerly, Samuel, private, age 20.

Beard, Thomas, private, age 40; died Sept. 3, 1865.

Beiler, James M., private, age 18.

Bank, William R., private, age 19.

Cupp, Washington, private, age 28.

Cummins, Jerry, private, age 41.

Case, Worlin, private, age 20.

Chilcote, George S., private, age 18; wounded May , 14, 1864.

Courtright, William N., private, age 20.

Christ, John, private, age 18.

Cable, Jacob W., private, age 21.

Collins, Charles, private, age 33.

Crawshaw, James, private, age 18; died April 30, 1862. Croninger, Calvin, private, age 18.

Clinger, Daniel, private, age 36.

Conn, William M., private, age 21.

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Conn, John C., private, age 32; killed Dec. 31, 1862.

Cullor, William J., private, age 23.

Clymer, Joseph C., private, age 21.

Dwire, Shaphat, private, age 33.

Devore, Henry, private, age 44; died Feb. 20, 1862.

Easely, Benjamin, private, age 19.

Easeley, Samuel, private, age 21.

Feister, John, private, age 18.

Fisher, Alexander, private, age 18.

Ferree, John S., private, age 19; died Feb. 7, 1862.

Ferree, John, private, age 21.

Fisher, Joseph, private, age 31; missing in battle Nov. 30, 1864.

Ferguson, James, private, age 21.

Geier, Ferdinand, private, age 19.

Geier, Albert, private, age 21; wounded Dec. 31, 1862 and Sept 18. 1863; killed June 27, 1864.

Gisk, William, private, age 33; died July 4, 1862.

Griffith, George W., private, age 20.

Galliher, Joseph D., private, age 18.

Herring, Emanuel, private, age 19; died Feb. 15, 1865.

Herring, Simon, private, age 26; killed Dec. 31, 1862.

Herring, Irwin, private, age 21; died March 3, 1862.

Harp, Joseph, private, age 31.

Hinkle, David, private, age 22.

Hartscheek, John, private, age 24.

Hosstatter, George ,private, age 25.

Halley. Jacob, private, age 21.

High, William, private, age 21.

Hines, Jacob, private, age 22.

Hayes, Samuel H., private, age 18; wounded Nov. 29, 1864.

Kreischer, Philip, private, age 24.

Loren, Samuel M., private, age 42.

Lantz, William H., private, age 21.

Lewis, Isaac, private, age 43.

McCarthy, William, private, age 18.

McQueen, Adam J., private, age 43.

McClure, William T., private, age 23; died April 28, 1865.

McClure, William T., private, age 2o; wounded Sept. 20, 1863.

Myers, James C., private, age 27.

McClure, John W., private, age 21.

Moore, Albert, private, age 18.

Milliken, Jeremiah, private, age 18; died March 26, 1862.

North, Christopher, private, age 29; wounded Nov. 30, 1864.

Place, Charles, private, age 21.

Piper, Isaac, private, age 19; captured Aug. 14, 1864; died Feb. 12, 1865, in rebel prison at Andersonville.

Peterson, Andrew, private, age 19; wounded May 9, 1864.

Point, Amos, private, age 18.

Ramsey, Reuben, private, age 19; killed Dec. 31, 1862.

Ramsey, Elijah, private, age 20; died June 4, 1864, of wounds received May 9, 1864.

Ramsey, William J., private, age 22.

Robinson, John G., private, age 20.

Richards, William H., private, age 43.

Richards, Charles, private, age 43; died Nov. 13, 1862.

Rison, David C., private, age 24; wounded Nov. 29, 1864.

Slade, Frederick, private, age 19.

Sipsey, Charles F., private, age 24.

Spahr, Casper H., private, age 21; died April 29, 1862.

Swope, David, private, age 26.

Sprowl, Joseph, private, age 25.

Stitts, John, private, age 38.

Switzer, Frederick, private, age 44; died June 11, 1862.

Shaffer, David, private, age 33; missing in battle Nov. 30, 1864.

Stem, Thomas C., private, age 18.

Stickel, John, private, age 38.

Shrider, William, private, age 22; died March 1st, 1862.

Thorn, William, private, age 42.

Trimble, Jackson M., private, age 22.

Updegrove, Robert L., private, age 18.

Vaughn, Samuel, private, age 23.

Wisener, Andrew, private, age 40; died Dec. 19, 1862.

Wilson, Eli C., private, age 18.

Waltz, Lewis, private, age 20; died May 14, 1862.

Wiler, Jacob, private, age 20: wounded May 9, 1864.

Wyrick, John W., private, age 29.

Warnick, John, private, age 43.

Wechter, George, private, age 34.

88TH REGIMENT, O. V. I.

The 88th Regiment was stationed at Columbus to guard prisoners and do police duty, and was not taken out of the State. It participated in the pursuit of Morgan and in suppressing the Holmes County rebellion in 1863.

ROSTER OF COMPANY K, 88TH REGIMENT, O.V. I.

Waldo T. Davis, captain, age 23.

Edward L. Quick, 1st lieut, age 26.

John H. Patterson, 1st lieut., age 23.

Reuben P. Moon, 2nd lieut., age 32.

Henry Butler, 1st sergt., age 24.

Philip Hawkins, sergt., age 28.

Elijah H. Patterson, sergt., age 21.

John H. Grove, sergt., age 30.

Nelson Fugate, sergt., age 20.

Jacob Worts, corp., age 27.

Hugh Hamilton, corp., age 31.

Fernando Gretchus, corp., age 22.

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Lemuel W. Bethards, corp., age 20.

William H. Nicodemus, corp., age 30.

James Malick, corp., age 28.

Benjamin C. Swineford, corp., age 20.

James Fife, corp., age 28.

Badger, Thomas C., private, age 23.

Bailey, Isaac W., private, age 32.

Baldwin, Mortimer, private, age 33.

Barber, Warren, private, age 27.

Baxter, John C., private, age 29.

Benedict, Sylvester, private, age 29.

Bethards, James W., private, age 26.

Bethards, John G., private, age 31.

Balyeat, Reuben N., private, age 22.

Boohn, Reuben, private, age 20.

Calhoun, Abraham, private, age 23.

Carson, John S., private, age 20.

Clark, William, private, age 39.

Clay, John N., private, age 20.

Craven, John A., private, age 18.

Dart, Alonzo, private, age 33.

Daugherty, Jacob, private, age 18.

Davis, Jesse, private, age 38.

Dean, Royal, private, age 30.

Doran, Lewis, private, age 18.

Dutton, John M. V., private, age 29.

Eagy, Johnathan, private, age l9.

Eagy, Oliver, private, age 22.

Faulkner, William M., private, age 25.

Fife, Albert, private, age 27.

Finkbinder, Levi, private, age 31.

Fireword, John, private, age 19.

Fisher, Samuel J., private, age 18.

Foley, William. G., private, age 18.

Forsythe, John, private, age 38.

Fryer, Andrew S., private, age 18.

Giffen, Reuben T., private, age 19.

Glenn, John S., private, age 19.

Goetehus, Henry E., private, age 18.

Grebanure, John C., private, age 21.

Grasviner, John S., private, age 31.

Gunsett, Henry, private, age 21.

Guy, Levi, private, age 20.

Gwyn, Ira, private, age 18.

Gwyn, John, private, age 21.

Hawkins, Samuel, private, age 20.

Hawkins, Timothy, private, age 20.

Harriman, David H., private, age 20.

Harvey, Samuel W., private, age 44.

Hattery, John W., private, age 19.

Hattery, James, private, age 25.

Hoff,. John W., private, age 30.

Hubbel, Hiram, private, age 20.

Jewell, John W., private, age 22.

Knight, Robert F., private, age 18.

Larue, John C., private, age 25.

Lemunion, Daniel R., private, age 32.

McCausland, Hugh, private, age 21.

McClure, James A., private, age 25.

McCoy, Joseph G., private, age 20.

McVey, Benson, private, age 18.

Mahen, Granville M., private, age 18.

Miller, George L., private, age 20.

Miller, Elijah, private, age 21.

Miller, Samuel, private, age 22.

Mullen, William R., private, age 20.

Mulloy, Bayan, private, age 20.

Myers, James, private, age 31.

Myers, James F., private, age 18.

Myers, Robert G., private, age 18.

Myers, Thomas, private, age 20.

Ottendorf, Lewis, private, age 8.

Osborn, Daniel J., private, age 39.

Parrott, Joseph J., private, age 31.

Parrott, Wesley W., private, age 27.

Patterson, James P., private, age 27.

Rhodes, Adam, private, age 37.

Rhodes, David D., private, age 19.

Rhodes, Jeremiah, private, age 18.

Rhodes, John E., private, age 26.

Rice, Silas, private, age 23.

Rider, John, private, age 18.

Rider, William, private, age 30.

Sayers, Ezra, private, age 30.

Slade, Kingsly P., private, age 27.

Suavely, Andrew, private, age 24.

Suavely, Jahn, private, age 37.

Stantz, Henry T., private.

Steel, John W., private, age 20.

Sweet, Abel K., private, age 20.

Thornbury, George W., private, age 26.

Timbers, Simon, private, age 18.

Toland, Isaac W., private, age 18.

Townsend, Benjamin, private, age 21.

Waltz, Emanuel, private, age 25.

Waltz, Josiah, private, age 23.

Wheeler, John L7, private, age 35.

Wilson, Samuel, private, age 27.

Wisener, Lorenzo D., private, age 18.

Wyant, Jacob, private, age 21.

Yant, Franklin, private; age 32.

Yoh, John, private, age 21.

Zimmerman, John C., private, age 20.

20th REGIMENT, O. V. I.

COMPANY B.

Johnson Maus.

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COMPANY G.

John G. Spahr,

Nicholas Gersler,

Isaac Balyeat,

Littleton L. Roberts,

John Murphy,

Ebson Stewart,

Joseph Wart,

Frederick Reed.

30th REGIMENT, O. V. I.

COMPANY C.

Joseph B. Fronefield,

Martin I. Beauchamp.

COMPANY E.

Josiah Bowers,

Robert J. Wyborn.

FIFTH OHIO BATTERY.

J. Stephens,

Samuel Grendon,

V. Stephens,

Ephraim B. Grendon.

P. C. Grendon,

McLAUGHLIN'S SQUADRON OF CAVALRY.

James J. Merrick, Company A.

Adam Merrick, Company A.

Eli Taylor, Company A.

John Stauter, Company A.

Nathaniel Allen, Company B.

Robert Fife, Company B.

32nd REGIMENT, O. V. I.

William G. Walters, Company B.

John F. Friedly, Company F.

Joseph Roether, Company F; killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Henry G. Lehmann, Company H.

47th REGIMENT, O. V. I.

Wilson S. Gauze, Company C.

L. D. Avery, Company C.

Lafayette Riker, Company C.

Eli Riker, Company C.

Amos W. Chilcote, Company D.

Albert Foust, Company G.

John Medougle, Company G.

G. W. Baston, Company B.

81st REGIMENT, O. V. I.

Edward Cremean, Company B.

John Jordon, Company B.

Peter Snyder, Company K.

Jacob C. Hurless, Company H.

G. H. Rider, Company A.

Samuel S. Rider, Company A.

192nd REGIMENT, O. V. I.

Thomas F. Priddy, Company B.

Shafner M. Gilliland, Company B.

Francis T. Gilliland, Company B.

Enoch M. Hoaglin, Company B.

Mathias M. Rittenhouse, Company B.

John C. Ramsey, Company B.

John Everett, Company B.

Daniel Snyder, Company C.

William H. Noel], Company D.

196th REGIMENT, O. V. I.

Peter Bolenbaugh, Company F.

Franklin Baker, Company F.

George Mericle, Company F.

MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.

Felix B. Shaw, Company I, 3rd O. V. I.

Theodore P. Aldrich, Company E, 78th O. V. I.

Charles Landon, Company C, 3rd O. V. I.

William Sands, Company G, 2nd Ohio Heavy Art.

James Long, Company H, 59th N. Y. V. I.

James Heffelfinger, Company I, 3rd O. V. I.

James Heffelfinger, Company B, 43rd O. V. I.

William T. Sterling, Company K, 96th O. V. I.

Frederick Geissler, Company C, 41st O. V. I.

David Sterling, Company F, 31st O. V. I.

John Albright, Company D, 82nd O. V. I.

John W. Brubaker, Company B, 102nd O. V. I

William Meely, Company G, 43rd O. V. I.

George E. Brubaker, Company B, 102nd O. V. I., died Aug. 864.

James Brewer.

Michael Clouse, Company A, 41st O. V. I.

Harrison L. Allen, Company E, 7th O. V. I.

John A. Switzer, Company D, 9th O. V. I.

Wesley Kesler, 4th O. V. I.

Samuel Johnson, Company D, 34th O. V. I.

Ruben Hook, Company A, 41st O. V. I.

Peter Swoveland, corp., Company H, O. V. I.

Francis Lewis, Company D, 27th U. S. C. T.

John Wyant, Company F, 41st O. V. I.

Josiah Bowers, Company E, 88th O. V. I.

William H. Gibson, Company G, 34th O. V. I.

John B. Melchi, Company L, O. H. Art.

Richard Pearson, Company G, 110th O. V. I.

Solomon R. Moneysmith, corp., Company A, 5^th O. V. I.

James R. Crooks, sergt, Company B, 178th O. V. I.

Henry Zelner, corp., Company F, 118th O. V. I.

Abraham Hawkins, Company D, 69th O. V. I.

William W. Beall, Company E, 80th O. V. I.

William W. Beall, Company E, 129th O. V. I.

Henry A. Tindall, Company G, 54th O. V. I.

Frederick Lillich, 1st lieut., Company B, 2nd O. M.

James H. Simms, Company C, 34th O. V. I.

Henry S. Hudspeth, Company H. 160th O. V. I.

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Fred Reid, Company G, 2nd O. H. Art.

William Freck, Company F, 38th O. V. I.

John Hilton, Company C, 74th Ind. V. I.

Jesse Longsworth.

Benjamin F. Filler, Company F, 66th O. V. I.

John Whitcraft, Company B, 31st O. V. I.

Edward Jolly, Company D, 180th O. V. I.

Levi Barber, Company E, 118th O. V. I.

Henry Weller, Company F, 65th O. V. I.

Justice Rutan, Company I, 9th O. V. Cav.

Alex. F. McVicar, Company K, 118th O. V. I.

139th REGIMENT, O. N. G.

COMPANY D.

John E. Ramsey,

Joseph Larue, sergt.,

Daniel McManima,

COMPANY H.

Jacob B. Lichty,

John Everett,

William H. Witten,

John J. Switzler,

Adam Smith,

William E. Wagely,

John High,

William G. Walters,

David Wallick,

Wesley J. Walters,

Moses H. McCoy, corporal,

J. McConnell.

COMPANY I.

William Sheets,

John Wilkins,

George Sheets,

Lewis F. Switzer.

S. L. Ramsey,

MISCELLANEOUS REGIMENTS, O. N. G.

Amos Tony, Company A, 151st O. N. G.

Franklin Carlo, Company I, 134th O. N. G.

Isaac N. Glover, Company H, 132nd O. N. G.

Samuel R. Glover, Company H, 132nd O. N. G.

Andrew Agler, Company H, 129th O. N. G.

Wilson Adeiblue, Company C, 169th O. N. G.

Isaac W. McIlwain, Company F, 154th O. N. G.

James H. Bell, Company D, 160th O. N. G.

William W. Hillerman, Company F, 135th O. N. G.

THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS.

Early in September, 1862, Kirby Smith with 15,000 veteran Confederate soldiers entered Kentucky and took possession of Lexington, Frankfort and Maysville and then turned his forces toward Cincinnati. His forces were swelled by Humphrey Marshall's command and also by Morgan's guerilla cavalry. Bragg was at the same time marching upon Louisville with his army. At this juncture things looked decidedly threatening.

Gen. Lew Wallace was placed in command at Cincinnati. As soon as he arrived in the city, Thursday the 4th of September, he put Cincinnati, Covington and Newport under martial law, issued a proclamation suspending all business, stopping all ferry boats, and summoning all citizens to enroll themselves for defense and sent every citizen without distinction to the trenches. The enemy within a few days approached within five miles of the city on the Kentucky side and skirmished with the Federal outposts. The Governor called for volunteers and there being no arms each volunteer was required to bring his arms and ammunition. Thus the rifles of the early settlers with their powder horns and shot pouches well supplied with powder and bullets were brought into requisition. In answer to this call of the Governor, a company was formed and bullets molded. The company hastened to Cincinnati and was there placed upon a steamboat with steam up, ready to be conveyed to any point needed.

That the troops thus recruited and armed called forth many amusing remarks is not to be wondered at. Various headgear from the coonskin cap to the homemade straw hat was in evidence; as to clothes, from the homemade jeans roundabout to the castoff dress suit ; and as to footwear, from the homemade moccasin and the gum boot to the congress shoe.

And the bedding was equally picturesque—heavy comforter, quilts and white and colored blankets. No wonder it called to mind that ancient ditty:

Hark ! Hark ! hear the dogs bark

The beggars arc coming to town,

Some in rags, some in tags,

And some in velvet gowns.

The old saying that prevention is better

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than cure proved true in this case. Thorough preparation, with the troops placed in position behind hastily constructed breastworks and trenches, all of which was doubtless communicated to the enemy by traitors in our midst, caused the commander of the rebel forces, General Heath, with his 12,000 veterans fresh from their victories at Richmond, when he drew up before this array of determined citizen soldiers, to deem it prudent to take the matter into serious consideration before making the attack. After viewing the situation from all points, the sagacious leader of the rebel forces decided that it was best to withdraw while he could and under cover of darkness and a violent thunderstorm made a hasty retreat.

There were a few amusing instances in the situation. While the masses needed but t0 be called, yet there were a few timid ones and these were hunted out by armed squads with fixed bayonets—some from back kitchens, closets, cellars, garrets, and even under beds where they were hiding, and one was found in his wife's clothes at the wash tub. He was marched across the river and placed in a working squad amid the shouts and laughter of the multitude.

Of the company from Van Wert, only two made any display of cowardice, and they had been the loudest in their talk 0f what they would do, but when ordered on the boat refused, saying they had come to defend Cincinnati and not to go over to Kentucky to fight. But when placed in the ranks with comrades that they knew had been selected for the occasion, they confined their opposition to grumbling, and when on the boat with the gang-plank up they subsided. The following is the roster of Van Wert's contribution to the "Squirrel Hunters" of Ohio, in 1862, that saved the city without the shedding of blood.

ROSTER OF SQUIRREL HUNTERS OF VAN WERT COUNTY.

Thaddeus S: Gilliland, capt. ; Alonzo W. Baker, 1st lieut.; Frank Bickford, 2nd lieut. ; Andrew McGavern, 1st sergt. ; George S. Edson, 2nd sergt. ; Charles P. Richey, 3rd sergt.; John A. Smith, 4th sergt.; Benjamin A. Welch, 5th sergt.; John Strode, 6th sergt.; David S. Hoit, 1st corp. ; Chas. W. Goss, 2nd corp.; Stephen Capper, 3rd corp. ; George W. Mosure, 4th corp. ; Austin Gish, 5th corp. ; C. C. North, 6th corp. ; Benjamin F. Swineford, 7th corp.; James Mount, 8th corp.

PRIVATES.

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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

COMPANY D, SECOND INFANTRY, U. S. VOLUNTEERS.

Company D, Second Infantry, O. N. G., was organized April 12, 1898, and on the 26th of the same month started to Columbus, Ohio, with the rest of the regiment in answer to the call of President McKinley for volunteers for the Spanish War. On May loth the regiment was formally mustered into the service of the United States as the Second Regiment, Ohio Infantry, U. S. Volunteers. The following is the roster of Company D of Van Wert, as mustered into the service : Captain, Edward S. Mathias; 1st lieutenant, Robert Webster ; 2nd lieutenant, Elias W. Martz ; 1st sergeant, Arthur C. Gilpin; quartermaster sergeant,, Georg W. Kline; sergeants—Ernest W. Kear, Wiliam F. Himmelreich, Harry L. Scott and Guy P. Davison ; corporals—Charles M. Siders, Otis C. Ross, Frank E. Estill, Orvill E. Blake, Joe P. Dunlap and Burton L. Smith; musician, Roy J. Moore; artificer, Johnson Wilson; wagoner, James C. Craig; cook, Thomas E. Mullen ; privates, Leon E. Andrews, Ira L. Acheson, William E. Ball, Dan M. Collett, George C. Carnaham, Billie M. Cole, Edward F. Crone, Arthur S. Crone, Thomas A. Campbell, Fred H. Campbell, Curtis L. Conn, Evan R. Daniels, Oria Dominy, Ira J. Dix, Curtis E. Fair, Fred Gorman, William A. Griffith, George Hayler, Jr., Harry G. Hagerman. George M. Hinderleiter, Harry M. Hyatt. Charles N. Imbody, William T. Johns, Samuel Johnson, Fred B. Kimmel, William C. Krout, Carey C. Lichty, Wells W. LeHew, Harry C. Long, Albert T. Mathews, Leonard J. Marker, Adam C. Martin, Joe Miller, Clyde O. Miller, Charles W. Mullen, Elmore K. Murlin, Verne B. McConahay, Carey C. McLaughlin, Ernest McPike, J. Sibley Neel, James Norris, B. Frank Norris, Ben T. Norris, Doit Potts, William E. Reese, Alonzo S. Ricketts, William Sheeter, Charles W. Swartz, Henry Samsel, George H. Trisler, John H. Welker, Corwin S. West and Ernest C. Zeigler—a total of three officers and 69 enlisted men.

Upon the second call for volunteers issued in June 1898, the following named were enlisted : Richard Angevine, Charles Campbell, Daniel V. Carter, Charles Dasher, Manton Dippery, William L. Davis, Charles O. Decker, Jacob Fisher, Harry C. Fritcher, David Guinn, Charles Guinn, George Glosette, Harry S. Harmon, John F. Hoelzer, Howard G. Jones, Pearl Knott, Byron Klein, Garrett Louer, Arthur Miller, Carl C. Michael, Hilas A. Morgan, Glen H. Mcllvaine, Otto R. Pennell, Robert Pennell, Charles H. Price, William Parent; Earl Raudabaugh, Amos P. Strohl, Foster Siders, Elmer Schultz, John Stanley, John F. Streit, William R. Saltzgaber, Curteus W. Wilson, George Wiseman, Frederick G. Martin and Henry Kundert.

On July 1, 1898, Privates William R. Saltzgaber, Albert T. Mathews, Ira J. Dix, Billie Cole, Verne B. McConahay and J. Sibley Neel were appointed corporals.

On July 19, 1898, Private Howard G. Jones was transferred to the Reserve Ambulance Corps of the First Army Corps and later served on the Porto Rican expedition.

On August 10, 1898, Privates Ira L. Acheson and Harry C. Long were transferred to the Hospital Corps of the Second Division of the First Army Corps.

On August 31, 1898, Private Doit Potts died at the Sternberg Hospital, Chickamauga Park, Georgia, of typhoid fever and on October 2, Private Jacob Fisher died at the Second Division, First Army Corps, Hospital, at Knoxville, Tennessee, of typhoid fever.

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On October 13, 1898, Private Samuel Johnson was appointed musician.

On November 1, 1898, Lewis F. Moebus joined the company and on the same day was transferred to the regimental band as was also Private Charles O. Decker. Private Charles 0. Decker was transferred back to the company December 16, 1898.

On December 31, 1898, Corporal William R. Saltzgaber was honorably discharged.

On January 1, 1899, Private Corwin S. West was appointed corporal.

On January 25, 1899, Corporal Ira J. Dix was transferred to the regimental hospital, having been appointed hospital steward, and on the same day Private Otto R. Pennell was appointed corporal.

On February 10, 1899, the regiment was mustered out of the service by 1st Lieutenant John T. Martin, at Camp Fornance near Macon, Georgia. The following is the roster of Company D as mustered out :

Captain, Edwin S. Mathias; 1st lieutenant, Robert Webster; 2nd lieutenant, Elias W. Martz ; 1st sergeant, Arthur C. Gilpin ; quarter-master sergeant, George W. Klein ; sergeants, Ernest W. Kear, William F. Himmelreich, Harry L. Scott and Guy P. Davidson ; corporals—Charles M. Siders, Otis C. Ross, Frank E. Estill, Orville E. Blake, Joe P. Dunlap, Burton L. Smith, Albert T. Mathews, Billie M. Cole, Verne B. McConahay, J. Sibley Neel, Corwin S. West and Otto R. Pennell ; musicians—Roy J. Moore and Samuel Johnson ; artificer, Johnson Wilson ; wagoner, James C. Craig; cook, Thomas E. Mullen; privates—Leon E. Andrews, Richard Angevine, William E. Ball, Dan M. Collett, George C. Carnahan, Edward F. Crone, Arthur C. Crone, Thomas A. Campbell, Fred Campbell, Charles Campbell, Curtis L. Conn, Daniel V. Carter, Evan R. Daniels, Oria Dominy, Charles Dasher, Manton Dippery, William L. Davis, Charles O. Decker, Curtis E. Fair, Harry C. Fritcher, Fred Gorman, William A. Griffith, David Guinn, Charles Guinn, George Glosette, George Hayler, Jr., Harry G.. Hagerman, George M. Hinderleiter Harry M. Hyatt, Harry S. Harmaon, John F. Hoelzer, Charles N. Imbody, William T. Johns, Fred B. Kimmel, William C. Krout Byron Klein, Pearl Knott, Henry C. Kundert, Carey C. Lichty, Wells W. LeHew, Garrett Loner, Leonard J. Marker, Adam C. Martin, Frederick G. Martin, Joe Miller, Clyde O. Miller, Arthur Miller, Charles W. Mullen, Elmore K. Murlin, Carl C. Michael, Hilas A. Morgan, Carey C. McLaughlin, Ernest McPike, Glenn H. Mcllvaine, James Norris, B. Frank Norris, Ben. T. Norris, Robert L. Pennell, Charles H. Price, William M. Parent, William E. Reese, Alonzo S. Ricketts, Earl Raudabaugh, William Sheeter, Charles W. Swartz, Henry Samsel, Amos P. Strohl, Elmer L. Schultz, Foster Siders, John Stanley, John F. Streit, George H. Trisler, John H. Welker,. Curteus W. Wilson and Ernest C. Zeigler—a total of three officers and 98 enlisted men.

The company left Van Wert on April 26, 1898, and joined the regiment at Kenton, Ohio, on the same day. The regiment proceeded to Camp Bushnell at Columbus, Ohio, April 29th, and was mustered into the army of the United States, May loth. It left Camp Bushnell for Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Georgia, May 16th. It. proceeded to Camp Po-land, Knoxville, Tennessee, August 28th, and to Camp Fornance, Macon, Georgia, November 15th, where it was mustered out February 10, 1899.

Company D. was with its battalion at camp Campbell near Camp George H. Thomas, from July 16 to July 20, 1898, for rifle practice, and served in the city of Macon on provost duty from December 24, 1898, to January 7, 1899.

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COMPANY D, SECOND INFANTRY, OHIO NATIONAL GUARD,

Was organized March 4, 1904, at Van Wert, and mustered into the service by Assistant Adjutant General Worthington Kautzman. The following is the roster of the company on January 22, 1906:

Captain, Arthur C. Gilpin; 1st lieutenant, Curteus W. Wilson; 2nd lieutenant, Charles M. Siders; 1st sergeant, Orivlle E. Blake ; quartermaster sergeant, Edward F. Crone ; sergeants—George Tibbott, Leroy W. Clippinger and James T. Ramsey; corporals—Jesse J. Good, Orin L. Tall, Robert Johns, Albert N. Ramsey, Orlie Budd and Ira Snyder; musicians—William C. Linser and Charles O. Spahr; artificer, James W. Holder; cook, Charles M. Howell ; privates—Fred Allingham, Richard, Allingham, Alfred Arnold, Francis Aldrich, James A. Allard, Jesse J. Adams, Harlie Budd, Oscar E. Boyer, Charles Burden, Jesse W. Butler, Angus C. Colby, Ira Davis, Fred W. Davis, Cliff DeLong, Charles 0. Essley, Wilbur G. Edgington, Clyde Fish, Charles V. Grafelmann, Clyde Harvey, Harry 0. Harvey, Harry O. Handwerck, Alfred M. Ireland, Guy V. Johns, Paul W. Kear, Roy D. Kear, John F. Kreider, Andrew C. Kreider, James E. Lhamon, Bert F. Lhamon, Earl Long, Curtis M. Martin, Curtis C. Myers, Oscar Musser, A. B. Miller, William A. Morrison, Clarence McConahay, Merlin L. Ramsey, Cuvie Riggin, Howard W. Sharp, Clayton F. Thatcher, Orman E. Trafzer, Jurry A. Thomas, William E. Urton, Arthur A. Walcutt, Frank Webb, Joe J. Welker and Lewis B. Wilson.