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Committee on the Conduct of the War, and about the 18th of June was answered as follows :
"WASHINGTON, June 6, 1862. "DEAR SIR : Your letter of May 23 came to hand. I saw Mr. Wade, as you requested. It is a delicate matter for any one connected with the legislative department of government to interfere with the military details, and I doubt whether Mr. Wade will think it judicious to do anything. Whatever is done in regard to inquiries, will have to be accomplished, I think, through the regular military channels.
"Yours truly.
"V. B. HORTON."
It was then plain to him that there was a power of some description at Washington, by which the architects of de- feat and slaughter at Shiloh enjoyed perhaps something even more than impunity.
Stimulated by this consideration, Colonel W. determined to obtain an arrest and trial without any material trans- gression of martial law. At night of the day on which the railroad train had been captured, about 9 P. M., the division was ordered to march at daylight next morning backwards towards Moscow, eight miles east, on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Deeming this a fair opportunity to provoke Sherman, and being in the right for the reason that several Union families in the vicinity relied for security upon the advance of the Union troops towards Memphis, Colonel W. wrote a respectful remonstrance against the retrograde movement, which would seem to have been oc- casioned by the rebel raid upon the railroad train on the 25th June, 1862.
This he dispatched to General W. T. Sherman by Lieu- tenant-Colonel Walcut and Captain Heath, company A.
In a few minutes they returned, Walcut seeming rather disturbed and Heath amused by the result, which was, that General Sherman was, of course, very angry at such insub- ordination, and returned for answer that if Colonel W. sent any more such notes he would be arrested. On which Colonel W. remarked that an arrest was his object, and
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dispatched the two officers so as to be ready to march, as ordered, at daylight.
Ten minutes after they left, Colonel W. received the following :
[Special Order No. 101.]
HEAD-QUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. LAFAYETTE, TENN., June 25. 1862.
The 52d Indiana volunteers will move early in the morning to the bridge three miles west of this place and form a junction with the 56th Ohio volunteers, the senior officer taking command of both reg- iments. These regiments will guard the bridges and road to German- town, and draw their supplies from Memphis.
Colonel MeDowell, comman ling 2d brigade, will detail the 46th Ohio volunteers to remain and, with one section of artillery detached by Major Taylor, protect the depot in Lafayette and the bridges and railroad.
By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman.
J. H. HAMMOND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
P. S .- The railroad having been broken to-day, and an attack being imminent, great vigilance must be exercised.
J. H. HAMMOND, Assistant Adjutant-General.
With the same pen used in writing this order General Sherman wrote another directing these regiments, 52d Iowa and 56th Ohio, without Colonel W.'s knowledge, to Mem- phis, and next morning, about 10 A. M., he became aware that the 46th, as at Shiloh, was deserted. Several of the pickets also having come in with warnings-from planters that the post would be attacked within twenty-four hours, and Major Hammond having (unknown to Sherman) given warning by the postscript, Col. W. having taken care of his intrenching tools, had the post so fortified during the night as to be able, with 300 men fit for duty, to repel 2,000.
Otherwise he doubtless would have been attacked and perhaps captured, as was a large Union detachment at Murfreesboro the 13th July, 1862.
The general of division (as was understood) intimated insubordination on the part of the colonel for this fortiti- cation without orders.
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He also refused him ten horsemen to keep a lookout for Col. Jackson and Major Porter, who, ten or twelve miles off, on Coldwater, had 800 men, which on occasion could be doubled.
For want of cavalry scouts. to give warning of the danger, these Confederates on Coldwater did attack his pickets about the 1st of July, one of whom, J. M. Harper, a boy of eighteen, was killed.
The " animus" so often as above indicated was exemplified by twice brigading Col. W. under volunteer officers with- out military knowledge or capacity, though he had been for many years general of Ohio militia; had graduated high (sixth in engineering) at West Point thirty-five years before, and commanded the best-instructed regiment in the division, or perhaps in the army, as proven at Shiloh, where his military education availed the government more thau the expenses of West Point for centuries. Yet he was retained under the same command after the battle, and the brigade commander to whose position and respon- sibility he had been transferred at the most critical and dangerous period of the conflict on April 6, 1862, was rec- ommended by Sherman and Grant for promotion, as here- inbefore stated, while Col. W. was ignominiously and ille- gally dismissed the service for the performance of the highest moral duty incumbent on a gentleman, a citizen, and a soldier. That duty, so far as his circumstances will permit, is perfected by this " Memoir," which will be found as correct as another regarding the same events has been found truthless.
And the above exposition may be considered as in some sort the conclusion of the defense he was not permitted time to make at Memphis in 1862, though not all exhaust- ive of the subject. And if the colonel of the 46th Ohio, by a moderate and judicious use of stimulants, &c., had done no other service than obtaining through a court-mar- tial the official and historical information herein recorded,
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the same should have been not only in mitigation of his having remained under the influence of liquor to the ex- tent charged during the whole campaign of 1862, but should have been worthy to some extent of the promotion and emolument accorded to others for his meritorious con- duct in this behalf, outside the battle of Shiloh ; and for the service performed, by a method so unexampled in mil- itary history, he trusts he may at least be exculpated from groundless charges, through which he has been consigned to poverty and obloquy through nearly twenty years of his old age.
July 16, 1862, Colonel Worthington was ordered by General Sherman to join his brigade, which would be at Lafayette the 17th July, 1862. The brigade arrived, and the command of the post devolved on the chief of the brig- ade, Colonel McDowell, 6th Iowa volunteers.
On the 18th, about 8 A. M., the 46th marched out of the fort, and Colonel Worthington was congratulated on his escape from capture by the construction of the fort, and joined freely in convivialities common on such occasions with the officers of the division. He was consequently afterwards charged with drunkenness on duty as com- mander of the post, when at Memphis, the 10th of Au- gust following, on the occasion of his having had printed for the information of General Halleck sundry extracts of his diary running from the 20th March to the 5th of April, 1862. On the 9th a copy of these extracts was handed to Sherman by Captain H. H. Giesy, of the 46th, and he was at once appointed major in anticipation of Colonel Worth- ington's dismissal by a court-martial ordered on the 12th.
The action of this court may be gathered from papers herewith published; and on the 16th of September Colonel Worthington's command of the 46th Ohio ceased by Gen- eral Sherman's order approving the sentence of the court cashiering him for "drunkenness on duty" and " conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman."
T. WORTHINGTON.
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APPENDIX.
A list of Officers, non-commissioned Officers, and Privates be- longing to the 46th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry who were present at the first fire, battle of Shiloh, 6th of April, 1862, at noon.
COMPANY A.
Captain J. W. Heath.
Lieutenant H. Michael.
Sergeant Amasa King. W. C. Davis. James M. Donathan. E. C. Heath.
Corporal E. Thomas.
Wm. Lytle.
J. M. Archer. A. H. Brown. S. F. Ross.
Private J. Allen.
M. Agler.
W. Agler.
S. Brown.
S. B. Mortimore.
A. B. Brown.
J. H. Moore.
J. Boroff.
Wm. Moore.
J. Book.
Thomas McGlaughlin.
H. Bryant.
H. Billman.
G. Custer.
P. Siler.
Wm. Custer.
S. B. Smith.
G. Counterman.
W. E. Sill.
A. Argham.
D. P. Dunathan.
Wm. Dickensheets.
G. Donafon.
T. J. Freshour.
Private A. J. Freshour. T. M. Harper.
Christ. Holzer. John Heppard.
A. D. Johnson.
A. Johnson.
E. D. Keopple.
A. Krongh.
W. H. H. King.
J. S. Linsey.
L. Sennigon.
Joseph: Sine.
J. Lehman.
J. Mortimore.
N. Rousch.
A. Ricketts.
A. M. Truby.
J. W. Tullis. D. Wollet. Ailer Williams.
D. H. Wolf.
COMPANY B.
Captain A. G. Sharp. Lieutenant J. Lohrer.
George Crary. Sergeant M. B. Wright. T. Belford. C. G. Prentiss. J. P. Williams.
Corporal I. P. Kammerer.
Corporal N. C. Stiles. A. S. Baker. Sol Cassidy. Geo. M. Carter. U. G. Beatty.
Private O. A. Booker.
HI. Cross.
Jolin Cramer.
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OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.
Private J. E. Copeland. C. Cable. J. S. A. Calwell. W. Dixon. P. Dondel. W. Evans.
C. Fortenbasher.
G. W. Finks. Jas. Gabrill.
A. A. Sheridan.
Sam Heaston.
Theo. Smiley.
W. U. Hoover.
S. R. Snoffer.
A. A. Hatfield.
W. Shiere.
G. Hill.
Jas. South.
C. Huddle.
G. W. Shipman. I. Smith.
Ben Hunter.
H. Heller.
John N. Wallace.
H. Hofricker.
C. Wallace.
S. Hanawalt.
E. N. Williams.
I. B. Kile.
John Walker.
Jolin Kurtz.
E. Wilson.
M. Katzel.
Geo. Webb.
Sam Yerger.
COMPANY C mislaid.
COMPANY D.
Captain HI. C. Geary. Lieutenant Ed. N. Upton. Jos. Mellen. Sergeant Lucius Windle.
Win. R. Steele. Wm. S. Dalton. Geo. Knodever. John Lilley. Corporal A. C. Brown. Geo. Frankenburg. J. V. M. Smith. M. Holland. Henry Morris. J. B. Hendley. John Calvert.
Private Christ. Angle. Joseph Baker. Adrian L. Bancroft. Charles H. Bancroft. Geo. D. Bancroft. Jos. Bell. Andrew Bell. Christian Betzs.
Enoch Brittingham. Francis Brittingham. Allen Boyd. James Butler. Geo. Bear.
Private Wm. Brown. John Cassiday. Alfred Clemens. Francis Drummonds.
Robert Davis. Wm. Fisher.
James Fielding.
Simon Fought. Moses Guant.
Edward Garrett.
Joseph Garrett. George Galloway.
George Geary.
Daniel Gantz.
Eli Golden. Louis Harmon. John Hafey.
Wm. Henipy. Joseph Herner.
Wm. Hess. Eli Howell.
Morris Horn. John Hendrickson. John Humphries. Samuel Hunter. Joseph Hincle. Frederick Jamison. Wm. Joshna.
F. Kopp.
O. R. Mansfield.
Private A. M. Mansfield.
J. Mckinney. E. Mckinney. H. Nichelbach.
E. Rhyne.
John Rinks. John A. Swank. Davy Smith.
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Private Win. Jowitt.
Martin Kanarny. Edward Lewis. John Lewis. Allen McUtchen. Henry McUtchen.
Private Jacob Shilling.
Andrew Sheridan.
Daniel V. Smith.
Daniel O. Smith.
Francis Smith.
Daniel South.
Jacob Schock.
Charles Miller.
Wm. Ward.
John Osborn. .
Jas. White.
Charles Wheeler.
Washborne. Samuel Zimmerman.
COMPANY E mislaid.
COMPANY F.
Captain H. H. Giesy.
Ist Lieutenant J. J. Carran.
Sergeant J. H. Brandt.
J. Smith.
B. F. Hassan.
J. MeDanno.
W. Myer.
Corporal Eli Swartz. S. Stoltz.
G. Oipp.
J. B. Young.
J. Orily.
W. H. Myers.
D. H. O'Neal.
D. H. Swartz.
II. W. Proctor.
E. Moyer. Perry M. Bopre.
J. S. Root.
Private Wmr. Bennett.
J. Ritter.
George Brock.
S. Roby.
N. Beverly.
Wm. M. Swartz.
John Broyles.
H. Swartz.
G. Brown.
.J. Swartz.
W. A. Camp.
W. Stewart.
Jno. Carroll.
J. A. Solidy.
J. M. Cherry.
C. Seaman.
J. H. Cly.
T. Sanborne.
G. Cook.
'T. Sessler.
J. Cook.
D. Shelter.
J. Campbell.
J. N. Shedran.
R. Curphy.
J. R. Sturgeon.
P. Dougherty.
S. D. Evans.
N. Fellows.
W. J. Wictner.
J. W. Fields.
B. F. Winchester.
T. J. Gilbert.
G. Griesly.
N. T. Hill.
S. H. Hopkins.
Private E. Hyer.
F. II. Johnson.
J. H. Kyner.
T. McKiernan.
S. Groves. H. H. Brooke.
N. Naw.
J. Oldham.
Win. M. Richards.
J. M. Stevenson. S. Terry.
A. D. Westhoven. 'Tho. Williamson. C. Zooke.
Anthony McGill.
George Pfalzgraf. John Parkinson. John Senior.
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OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.
COMPANY G.
Captain P. A. Crow. Lieutenant H. B. Wilson. Sergeant D. Stewart. H. G. Johnson Jasper Smith. J. B. Phinney. Waldo Davis. Corporal A. Blane. C. Fisk. A. Mullin. Wm. W. Miller. 'Thos. Higginbottoni. Private John Burton. Edward Buckley. Josiah Bethard. James Barnes.
Private Peter MeKiever. John A. Moore. Asa McCammack. Dallas Merchant.
Bruce Murry. Joseph Mullin. Levi Millington.
Otis Millington. Samuel Millington.
John A. McFall. Wm. Patterson.
John G. Paul. William Perry.
David Riley. Joshua Robinson. Thomas Rice. Samnel Rees.
George Stiner.
Richard Spindler. Alden Smith.
Joseph R. Smith.
Herman Fish.
Omsions Festis.
Gilbert Falls.
Elisha Hunt.
Win. Sherman.
Thomas A. Stids.
Erasmus Tucker.
Theodore Woodruff.
Joseph Wright. Levi Wagner.
Elisha Wood.
COMPANY H.
Captain Mitchel C. Lilley. Ist Lieutenant Thos. C. Platt. 2d Lientenant John Ramsey.
Sergeant Andrew W. McConnell. Michael A. Lilley. Joseph Amos. A. B. Wood.
Corporal Geo. Gonnan. Joli Riemensnyder. Joseph Alexander. James E. Gowans. Private Howard G. Afflick. Neely Alexander. James Angel. Bruce W. Beall. Jefferson Bickett. Madison Bradford. Bruce E. Brown. Henry C. Church. James M. Church.
Private Theodore F. Cook. Ammon P. Converse. Harry Davis. Luke Davis.
George M. Davis.
David J. Davis. John Engel. James Cochenour.
Manikin J. Gibbons.
John Ganger.
Wm. M. Harris.
John Hays.
Michael Ham. Cornelins Kelleher.
Patrick Kelly. Alfred Koch. Horace Latimer. Benedict Levy. Robert M. Lilley. Louis Lofland.
William Butler.
James Clawson. David Cain. Joseph Campbell. John Evans.
James Smith. Philip Sutton.
Wm. Skates.
Thomas Herst. Crittendon Hatley.
Francis M. Hlatley. Thomas Jamison. William James.
John King.
Rufus Ketner.
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Private Martin Meyers. Abraham McDonald. Henry C. MeCracken. Wm. McMullen. William II. Newland. Samuel Richards. John Riley. John D. Reed.
Private Martin Regner. William Sayn. John Scheaf. James A. Shaw. Wilson P. Smith.
William H. Taylor. John C. Timmans.
COMPANY I.
Captain Chas. L. Ly Brand.
Ist Lieutenant Chas. C. Movers. 2d Lieutenant John II. Valentine. Sergeant William H. McGinnis. John H. Valentine. Joseph Crain. William Nash. John Tabler.
Corporal Joseph Fisher. William Thatcher. Adam More. Noah Duncan.
James Highlands. Lorenzo Staley.
Private John S. Atwater. Fred'k Bechtel. James Bodel.
George H. Bethard.
Henry Benton.
George Prine.
Jackson Crowell.
Wilbert Clayton.
John W. Clemson.
Jonathan Dent. Thomas Ekens.
Noah Fisher.
Charles Fisher.
James Fairman.
Private Joshua Gipe. Henry C. Gallehey.
George Hess.
Eli Hatfield. Jethro Hall.
Thomas W. Hurtt.
Geo. IInfinad. James Holmes. James Hook. Alexander Jeremiah.
John A. Moore.
Jonas Mechling. William Maxson. John Mullen.
George W. McClain.
Adam Moat. Andrew J. Nolan.
John Phail.
John Brown.
Henry Plummer.
David M. Pence.
John Reid.
John Staley. Aaron Sherman.
William Suddith.
Jacob Stepleton. William B. Weyer.
Henry Waterman.
COMPANY K.
Captain Isaac N. Alexander. Lieutenant C. C. Mooers. A. L Parks. Sergeant Melancthon Hughes. Philip B. Glenn. John W. Penn. Paul Traup. Corporal Caleb Roberts. Zemas H. Smith. Jackson Balding. William Hening. Private John Atchison. William O. Bodle. Archibald Castel.
Private James Clary. Michael Conlon. Patrick Conlon. Cornelius Diets. Abram Delong. Isaac Dilbone.
Nathaniel Donefon.
John Geertler. Benjamin Hauck. Cyrus Hauck. James Herrod. Daniel Hipshire. William Lott. Isma Malick.
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MISSING, KILLED, AND WOUNDED
Private William B. McCabe.
Private Benjamin Nowland.
Andrew Miller. George Miller.
.Daniel Hummell. John Holland.
David Morehead. Henry Morehead
William J. Heathcoat.
William H. Hollis.
Elmore VanGundy.
Paul W. B. Keddy.
Levi Moore.
Alfred Risene :.
John Rensellear.
Henry
James H. Watson.
Thomas M. Galleher.
Lear.der Wentz
William Zimmerman.
Lemuel Seniff.
John Greeves.
Rodolph Shendel.
William Greeves.
John H. Wheeler.
Robert Ireland.
Peter H. Young.
William E. Ireland.
George W. Darnel.
Tilman Lewis.
Chesly Lee.
Nathan Lewis.
William J. May.
John Miller.
James A. McGee.
Phillip Beins.
Laborre Prince.
List of killed, missing, and wounded of the 46th Ohio Infantry.
COMPANY A.
Wounded .- Privates Philip Burtes, severely; W. H. King, severely; James W. Tullis, severely; Am. Trubey, severely; George Dumfon, severely; Daric P. Dunothan, slightly; A. B. Bivion, slightly; A. Croghan, slightly; John Boraff, slightly; John Heppeand, slightly; Joseph Murtomire, slightly; John Horner, slightly; Enoch Thomas, slightly; William Lytle, slightly; Henry Hoots, slightly.
Missing .- Privates Dahel Wallet, Ailer. Williams, Thomas McGlothin.
COMPANY B.
Killed .- Corporal Henry C. Stiles; Privates George W. Finks, Joseph South.
Wounded .- Sergeant John W. Williams, severely: Cor- poral George M. Carter, severely; Privates Henry Weller, severely; Owen Mansfield, severely; Elias MeKinney, se- verely; John A. Swenk, severely; William Shine, slightly; Charles Wallace, severely; E. Williams, severely.
Missing .- Private James F. Kibley.
COMPANY C.
Killed .- Sergeant John Rowles; Privates David Taylor, Lewis Walmire, William Guge, E. M. Shaw, and John Stewart.
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Wounded .- Sergeant E. W. Pettill, severely; Corporals Thomas Baston, slightly, William Noble, M. Leohner, and James Carine, severely ; Privates David Busuff and Devill Culp, severely ; D. S. Evans, slightly; Geo. Harrison, Jacob Hare, A. G. Martin, Miles MeGeown, D. M. Noe, George Parkinson, Frank Smith, and James Thompson, severely ; George Wise and R. M. Yontz, slightly; William Yontz, severely.
Missing .- Privates Owen Hill, William Sneider, J. W. Hanson, Mothen Wyckoff, and A. F. Wise.
COMPANY D.
Killed .- Captain H. H. Geary; Privates George Bear and James White.
Wounded .- Corporal George Frankenburgh, slightly; Privates A. MeGill and D. O. Smith, slightly; Jacob Shil- ling, mortally.
Missing .- Sergeant Wm. S. Dalton ; Privates Andrew L. Bancroft, James Blair, William Hempy, Jacob Heartman, L. Zimmerman, Andrew Sheredon, Christ. Angle.
COMPANY E.
Killed .- Sergeant H. C. Burr, Privates Joel Stuttle and Eli Baker.
Wounded .- Lieutenant W. W. Watts, severely; Privates J. BrentImyer, severely; Alexander Coon, severely; H. Boswell, severely; B. Clark, severely ; II. Fellows, severely; William Jones, severely; H. Shuttle, severely; William Wallinbaver. severely; William Thomas, slightly; Edward Lebring, slightly; William Hines, slightly; J. Andur, slightly; T. Frver, slightly; J. Muslin, slightly; C. Skeels, slightly; A. Wright, slightly.
Missing .- Privates Charles Constock, T. Coats, J. Brown, Cal. Hayes.
COMPANY F.
Killed .- Sergeant Benjamin F. Hasson ; Corporal Eli Swartz ; Privates Nicholas Nan, Jerome W. Fields, and H. W. Proctor.
Wounded .- Privates Silas Roby, mortally ; James Kyner, Christian Zools, Daniel Shelter. Joseph Cherry, John Broyls, Thomas MeKierman, John Oriley, John Kitter, John Steph- enson, Thomas Williams, John Carroll, and Dennis O'Neil,
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severely; First Lieutenant John Carran, severely; Privates Benjamin Winchester and George Presly, slightly.
· Missing .- Privates B. F. Gontz, William Bennett, Jacob N. Cly, John Cook, Francis Johnson, John McDonough, Dennis O'Neil, Paulmas Massey.
COMPANY G.
Killed .- Lieutenant Hiram B. Wilson ; Privates Dallas Merchant, Theodore Woodruff, Levi Millington, and Samuel Millington.
Wounded .- Corporal Thomas Tansy; Privates Richard Spindler, E. Wood, Joseph Campbell, John G. Paul, Asa McCammack, Phillip Sutton, John King, Joseph T. Barnes, Joseph Clossin, and David Cam.
Missing .- Privates Lewis Bowman; James Baker, Henry Farman, Jacob Kissel, Elisha A. Hunt, Thomas Hearst, Thomas Jamieson, Jesse. Milen, Samuel Rees, Joshua Rob- inson, Joseph Wright, and John Herron.
COMPANY HI.
Killed .- Privates James M. Church, Wilson P. Smith, M. J. Gibbons, Martin Regner, Bruce E. Brown.
Wounded .-- Lieutenant John Ramsey, slightly; Sergeants A. A. McConnell, severely; Michael A. Sibley, severely ; Joseph Amos, severely; Corporal Joseph Alexander, se- verely ; Privates H. G. Afflict, severely; John Hays, severely; M. Ilam, severely; Alfred Koch, severely ; W. H. Newland, severely; Benedic Leary, severely ; John D. Read, slightly; William Swayne, severely; Samuel Rich- ards, severely ; Corporals James E. Gowans, slightly; Theo- dore F. Cook, slightly; Martin Meyers, slightly.
Missing .- Corporals John Engle, Peter Hughes.
COMPANY I.
Killed .-- Privates John Brown, Alexander Jeremob.
Wounded .- Corporal Joseph Fishey, slightly; Privates John Atwater, seriously; George H. Bethard, seriously; Jackson Crowell, seriously; Adam Mont, seriously; John Stales, seriously; Jetho ITall, seriously; Joshua Gipe, slight- ly; Henry Waterman, slightly.
Missing .-- Privates William Suddith, Andrew Noland, Eli Hatfield, Elijah Hastings.
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COMPANY K.
Killed .- Sergeant Phillip B. Glen; Private William Dermstou. 1
Wounded .- Corporals Caleb Roberts, slightly; John W. Holston, slightly; Jackson Balding, severely; Privates Isaac Dilbone, severely ; N. Donfon, severely ; John Greaves, severely; Tilman Lewis, severely; William E. Ireland, severely; Robert Ireland, severely ; Nathan Lewis, severely ; John T. MeCollough, severely; John Miller, se- verely; James H. Watson, severely; George H. Danel, slightly; John Gressler, slightly; Abram Delving, slightly; Patrick Conlin, slightly ; Danel Hyshire, slightly; William Heathcoate, severely; William H. Hollis, severely; Alfred Risner, severely; Henry Weaver, severely; Thomas M. Galleher, severely; William Zimmerman, severely; D. Hepshire, slightly; W. O. Bodle, severely.
Missing .- Privates Bernard Balding, Archibald Casteel, Lemuel Swift, Otho Fox, William Greaves.
BRIEF RECORD OF COLONEL WORTHINGTON'S SERVICE DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
The Hon. C. C. Carpenter, Second Comptroller, having decided that if anything is due Col. Worthington for army supplies at Camp Dennison, Ohio, in 1861, it would be upon the principle that a man who has rendered his country a valuable service as a soldier, when in reduced circumstances deserves a consideration, &c. This decision may author- ize a statement of the services which are the main cause of such circumstances, besides his service in the Mexican War.
In April, 1861, after enrolling a company of volunteers on the 15th, and calling meetings by printed bills over the whole county, he proceeded to Cincinnati, on his way to Washington, where he had been promised the aid of Gen. Scott (afterward given in 1863) for his advancement in the army.
He was detained by an urgent request from the citizens
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to publish a manual of Infantry Tactics, as there were none then to be had. No publisher being willing to run the risk, he published one, as the duty of a West Point graduate educated by the government for such emergen- cies, costing but one-third that of the official copies.
While attending to the publication of the manual, he detected a grave omission as to the only mode of rapidly changing the front of a line in presence of an enemy. So far as the 46th Ohio was concerned, this omission was cor- rected, and the 46th was the only regiment on the field of Shiloh that could have so manœuvered as to have held, as it did hold, the extreme right of the Union line long enough to make advancing aid available. By this detention at Cincinnati he was accidentally involved in a contract for the water supply of Camp Dennison. By this undertaking he prevented an expense to the government of more than $20,000, but lost his opportunity at Washington, besides incurring a debt which in part is yet unpaid.
Being in Washington at the time of the first battle of Bull Run, he offered a regiment to the War Department. This he recruited and organized, and March 6, 1862, was one of five Ohio regiments at Paducah ordered to report forthwith to Gen. C. F. Smith, at Savannah, Tennessee. The 46th Ohio was the only regiment that promptly executed the order, reaching Savannah on the 8th of March, in time to prevent a draft of perhaps one thousand citizens by the Confederates, of which two or three hundred joined the Union army.
At the battle of Shiloh the 46th Ohio was, without notice, transferred from the centre to the right of the first brigade, being thus placed on the extreme right of the Union line, far detached from the main army. Its right being sud- denly threatened, by a prompt change of front, as above stated, the 46th attacked and repelled a superior flanking force till ordered back, about 2 P. M., April 6, 1862.
The 46th being a part of Gen. Sherman's division, that
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officer obtained credit for a service to which has been im- puted the rescue of two great Union armies from imminent . destruction, and to which service is due his past promotion and present position.
More than a week before the attack, the colonel of the 46th warned both of his immediate commanders of impend- ing danger, urging the immediate fortification of the posi- tion.
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