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On the beautiful Sabbath day, September 20, 1863, with drawn saber, amid the carnage among the pines of bloody Chick- amauga, he fell mortally wounded at the head of the regiment he loved so well. He was removed from the field by Surgeon Wirth back to Crawfish Springs and died the same evening in the southeast parlor of the Lee House about 4 P. M.
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BRIGADIER-GENERAL THOMAS C. H. SMITH.
Colonel Smith was born at Acushnet, Mass., in 1819 and died at Nordhoff, Cal., April S, 1897. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 with distinguished reputation for force of character. On leaving college he went to Ohio and took up his residence at Marietta, and began the study of law. He completed his course and practiced in Cincinnati until 1848. In 1847 he mar- ried Lucy Woodbridge, of Marietta, Ohio. In 1848 he completed a telegraph line from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, and another line from Sandusky, Ohio, to New Orleans, and in 1851 again re- sumed the practice of law in Cincinnati.
August 23, 1861, he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Ohio Cavalry. He served with the First Ohio Cav- alry in the fall of 1861 and through the winter of 1862 in Ken- tucky, and participated with his regiment in the siege of Cor- inth after the battle of Pittsburg Landing and until June, 1862. He was then promoted to Brigadier-General, to date from November 29, 1862, and was transferred to the staff of General Pope, and served with General Pope during his campaign, while in command of the Army of the Potomac in the summer of 1862, afterwards accompanying General Pope to Minnesota. In 1863 he commanded the District of Wisconsin, performing important service in subduing the resistance to the draft.
His last war service was as commander of the Department of Missouri. During Hayes' administration he served in the Treasury Department in 1878 and was appointed Paymaster and Major in the regular army. He was retired from the army in 1883, at the age of sixty-four, and resided in California until he died.
Colonel Smith was a gentleman of high character and fine executive ability. He served with the First Ohio about ten months and was a brave and very efficient officer, full of zeal and patriotic ardor. During his service with the regiment he was highly respected by both officers and soldiers, and he was mentioned in special orders by General Buell for bravery and military ability while in command of a detachment of the First Ohio in a fight at Booneville, Miss., in June, 1862.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS J. PATTIN.
Thomas Jefferson Pattin was born on a farm on the Ohio River about six miles below Marietta, Ohio, October 11, 1823. His father's name was Thomas Pattin, and his mother's maiden name was Nancy Cole.
He learned the mechanic's trade after receiving a district school education, and in 1850 went to California by the Nic- arauga route, but not meeting the success hoped for in the land of gold, returned in 1831 to Marietta, Ohio, where he married
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Ann Eliza Locker, and shortly afterwards became a member of the firm of Putnam, Poole & Co., manufacturers of wooden ware, ‹ hardware and machinery. He continued in this business until the breaking out of the war. After the war he became con- nected with a firm in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the manufacture of sugar mills and bells, and while returning from a trip to Louis- ville was killed in a railroad accident on the Louisville & Nash- ville R. R., January 7, 1870. He left three sons and one daugh- ter - W. S. and D. P. Pattin, manufacturers of Marietta, Ohio, Dr. Thomas Pattin, who died in 1896, and Miss Louanna Pattin, now living with her mother at Marietta, Ohio.
He was commissioned Captain of Company L, First O. V. C., September 16, 1861; promoted to Major, December 31, 1862; to Lieutenant-Colonel, September 20, 1863, and mustered out November 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky. Colonel Pattin was with the regiment continuously for more than three years, and the history of the regiment during that period is the history of his service. He was a gallant officer, brave and full of that reck- less dash necessary for a good cavalry soldier. He was always at the front, and no officer in the regiment had the confidence of the men in a greater degree than Colonel Pattin.
MAJOR D. A. B. MOORE.
Major D. A. B. Moore yielded up his life in the service of his country, having been mortally wounded in the battle of Stone River. He was born October 9, 1821, at Newark, Ohio, and was the son of Moses Moore, one of Newark's first pioneers and a soldier in the war of 1812.
Major Moore, being an only son, received the full name of his grandfathers, David Moore and Alexander Blackburn. He subscribed himself as D. A. B. Moore, but was familiarly known to his friends as "Blackburn," or as "Black Moore."
In May, 1847, he entered the service of our government, in the war with Mexico, as First Lieutenant of the Licking Rangers, a mounted company which served throughout the war.
In 1856 Governor Salmon P. Chase commissioned him Cap- tain of the Newark Guards, which office he retained until the disbandment of the Guards in 1860.
When the Civil War broke out he raised a company in Newark and Licking County, and on the fifth of August received his commission as Captain of Company D in the first regiment of cavalry that volunteered from the state of Ohio. Captain Moore served as Major some months previous to his appoint- ment, which was made by Governor Todd in September, 1862.
He fell in the battle of Stone River, December 31, 1862, wounded by a piece of shell, and died in hospital at Murfrees- borough, Tennessee, on the third of January, 1863. During that period the tide of battle turned and hospital and field had been
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taken by the enemy, but through the kindness and courtesy of a Confederate Colonel, into whose hands Major Moore's personal effects fell, his official documents, private papers and personal effects were forwarded to his widow, and upon the back of his commission as Major was written: "Major Moore died in Con- federate hospital, January 3, 1863, at Murfreesborough, Tenn. He was wounded in the head, the ball entering the center of the forehead. R. C. Tyler, Col. and Pro. General."
After nearly six weeks had elapsed, during which time the Federal army had regained its lost position, the remains of Major Moore were disinterred and brought by loving friends to Newark, where they are now resting in the peaceful shade of Cedar Hill Cemetery.
He was deeply imbued with the military spirit and early developed those soldierly qualifications which distinguished him in life and brought him a soldier's death. He died at the age of forty-one years, having enjoyed a brief but an active career.
MAJOR JOHN C. FRANKENBERGER.
John Corwan Frankenberger grew to manhood at Sidney, Ohio, where he was born September 13, 1829. He was attacked with the gold fever of 1849 and went in search of riches by way of New York, the Atlantic Ocean, Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate to California. He could not become accli- mated, and returned as penniless as he went. At the breaking out of the war he was handling the agency for the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, at Dayton, Ohio, and at its close entered the same business again. He died at Toledo, Ohio, May 22, 1879, at which time he was connected with the Daily Bee. He was laid away beside the remains of his wife and only son at Sidney, May 24, 1879, leaving two daughters.
He was appointed Quartermaster of the First O. V. C., Sep- tember 11, 1861, and was promoted to Captain of Company G June 6, 1862, and to Major, September 20, 1863. Mustered out January 11, 1865. Major Frankenberger, as Quartermaster of · the regiment, was a very industrious and efficient officer, and commanded Company G from June 6, 1862, until after the battle of Chickamauga. He was a brave and gallant officer, and he never was more at home than when riding at the head of his command, not waiting for the enemy to find him, but looking for the enemy. On the Chickamauga Campaign, Companies G and M were in the same squadron and held the ford on Chick- amauga Creek at the extreme right of our line. Major Franken- berger was very highly complimented for bravery in this action and was immediately promoted to Major. At the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign he met with an accident by falling and injuring his ankle so that he was prevented from taking part
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in the Atlanta Campaign, much to his regret, and he never fully recovered from this injury. During the summer of 1864 he had command of the dismounted cavalry at Columbia, Tenn.
MAJOR MARTIN BUCK.
Major Martin Buck was born at Northfield, Vermont, Feb- ruary 4, 1822. He was the son of Chester and Dina Buck. Early in life he went to Montreal, Canada, and engaged with his uncle in the milling business. At the breaking out of the Canadian insurrection he commenced his military career as a volunteer in the Queen's service. Returning to the United States on July 20, 1848, he became Adjutant of the Sixty-fifth Regiment New York Infantry and went to the Mexican War. For meritorious conduct he was promoted to a Captaincy. After the close of the Mexican War he lived in Aspinwall and also in Cuba. He came to Hillsboro, Ohio, and was engaged in milling at the breaking out of the war in 1861. He organized Company H, First O. V. C., August 14, 1861, was promoted to Major, Decem- ber 31, 1862, and resigned February 1, 1863. Major Buck, hav- ing served in the British army in Canada during the insurrection, and also having served as an officer during the Mexican War, was well versed in military matters at the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. He was an excellent officer, and served with the regiment through the campaign in Kentucky in the winter of 1861, the campaign of Pittsburg Landing, and the retreat of Buell's army up through Kentucky and Tennessee in the fall of 1862. When the regiment left Nashville a few days before the battle of Stone's River, Major Buck, being sick, was compelled to remain in the camp at Nashville; but on the thirty-first day of December, the day that Colonel Millikin was killed, he left Nashville and went to the front, and after the death of Colonel Millikin, Major Buck commanded the regiment until the next day, when he was relieved by Major Laughlin. He was a thorough military man, had the respect of every officer of the regiment, and was compelled, by reason of his ill health, to resign.
MAJOR JAMES NICHOLAS SCOTT.
James Nicholas Scott, son of Dr. Joseph Scott, an eminent physician of Lexington, Ky., was born in Lexington, Ky., March 17, 1828.
He came to Ohio in 1848, engaged in farming and stock raising in Ohio and afterwards in Texas. He returned to Ohio the year before the war. In 1853 he married Sarah, daughter of Mr. John Woodbridge, of Chillicothe, Ohio.
He never entirely recovered his health after the war, and through his rapid failing health he was unable to engage in any business, and died April 5, 1867, while on a visit to his sisters in Lexington, Ky.
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Major Scott enlisted in Company M, First O. V. C., August 30, 1861, and was promoted to Captain October 1, 1861, and Major April 1, 1863. Mustered out September 13, 1865. Major Scott was very active in all the campaigns of the regiment, excepting when he was sick, up to and including the campaign of Chickamauga. After that date, by reason of ill health, he was absent from the regiment for some time. He was an officer of intense bravery, and was always with the regiment at the front when there was any prospect of a fight.
He commanded a battalion of the First Ohio Cavalry at Cotton Port on the thirtieth day of September, 1863, where General Wheeler forced a crossing at the ford when starting on his great raid through Tennessee. In this fight he defended his position for some time against the large force of General Wheeler, and several of his command were wounded and taken prisoner.
CAPTAIN LAFAYETTE PICKERING.
Captain Lafayette Pickering, son of James Pickering, was born near Pickerington, Fairfield County, Ohio, April 30, 1828, and died December 14, 1866, near the spot where he was born. In the year 184S he was united in marriage to Miss Mar- garet Winter, near Pleasantville, Fairfield County, Ohio. Dur- ing the late war, when his country called for help, he promptly responded and enlisted September 5, 1861, for three years in Company F, First Regiment Ohio Cavalry. On the organization of his company he was elected First Lieutenant, and soon after the regiment was ordered into service he was promoted to Cap- tain, December 31, 1862, in which office he served faithfully until December 20, 1864, and was mustered out by reason of the expiration of his term of service.
He participated with the regiment in all of the battles of the Army of the Cumberland, and was severely wounded at the battle of Noonday Creek, Ga., June 16, 1864. His death was caused by camp fever, contracted in the service. He was one of the best officers of the regiment, and was highly respected by every officer and soldier. At the time of his death he was a member of the M. E. Church, and said to his wife a few days before his death, when he felt that the end was near, "The harder the battle, the brighter the victory." He left a widow and two boys at the time of his death.
CAPTAIN GEORGE F. CONN. ..
George F. Conn was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, October 30, 1836, and was a teacher before the war. Studied dentistry after leaving the army. Died at Soldiers' Home (National) at Milwaukee, Wis., October 13, 1886.
Captain Conn was appointed First Lieutenant of Company
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B, First O. V. C., August 17, 1861, and was promoted to Captain, June 10, 1862, and resigned September 20, 1864. Company B left Camp Chase about October 1, 1861, and about two months before the balance of the regiment left for the front. It was sent on an expedition against Humphrey Marshall and had a sharp fight at Liberty, Ky., before the balance of the regiment arrived. Captain Conn was with his command almost contin- uously during his three years service, and commanded his com- pany after Captain Laughlin was promoted to Major. While in command of his company at Washington, East Tennessee, defending a ford against the crossing of General Wheeler's forces, September 30, 1863, he was wounded in the hand. He was then sent home on leave of absence and did not see much further active service on account of his health.
CAPTAIN HUGH HICKS SIVERD.
Hugh Hicks Siverd was born December 28, 1839, near Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. He was a spinner in a woolen mill when the war broke out. He died at Winfield, Kansas, October 25, 1895. He was shot and killed while in the performance of official duty.
Captain Siverd had arrested a desperado from the Indian Territory for some crime, and as he was taking his prisoner to jail one of the desperado's pals met them on the street and shot Captain Siverd, killing him instantly. He was held in high esteem by the citizens of Winfield, and his untimely death was mourned by hundreds of the best citizens. As a testimonial to his memory, the citizens of Winfield erected a beautiful mon- ument over his grave.
Captain Siverd enlisted in Company B, First O. V. C., August 21, 1861, and was promoted to Sergeant-Major; promoted to Second Lieutenant, October 1, 1862; First Lieutenant, April 1, 1863; to Captain, December 14, 1864, and was mustered out with his regiment at Hilton Head, S. C., September 13, 1865, having served almost one month more than four years. Cap- tain Siverd was an ideal cavalry soldier, full of dash, with an utter disregard of danger, and at all times full of enthusiasm. He was for a long time Provost Officer of the brigade, and many of the surviving members of the brigade will no doubt have a very distinct recollection that at some time during their ser- vice they were put under arrest by Captain Siverd for straggling. He was one of the best known young officers in the regiment, as he was always at the front, and where there was a fight or any prospect of a fight, Captain Siverd was always found in line.
LIEUTENANT FRANK P. ALLEN.
Franklin Putnam Allen was born at Darby Creek, Madison County, Ohio, August 31, 1841. His father, William Allen, was
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of the Ethan Allen family, and his mother Harriet was a daugh- - ter of Joshua Ewing, also of revolutionary stock, and the first white settler of Darby Creek.
He enlisted in Company K, First O. V. C., September 22, 1861, and was an efficient Corporal and Sergeant, re-enlisted as a veteran, was on non-commissioned staff as Quartermaster- · Sergeant, and later was commissioned as First Lieutenant, but died without learning of it. He was a much loved man and officer, trusty and intelligent, and was a fighting soldier. At Ebenezer Church, Ala., April 1, 1865, as he laid his hand on the gun of a rebel battery, hot and smoking, claiming it as his capture, he fell, shot through the groin. He lived to be taken from Selma on a hospital boat, on which he died near Cairo, Ill., May 25. A month later his body was removed to the home burial ground at Plain City, Ohio. His parents lie beside him now; but in their grief they rejoiced in the message he left the day he was shot: "If you get home, tell pa and ma it is all right with me; it all came right after I was hit."
LIEUTENANT AMOS D. LEIB.
Amos David Leib was born near Bremen, Fairfield County, Ohio, on January 12, 1827, and died at his Island Home in the same county December 14, 1892. He spent his childhood days and early youth under his parents' guiding care, receiving a good country school education and taking a course of study at the Ohio Wesleyan University.
At the breaking out of the war was a salesman at Keokuk, Iowa. After the war he filled many responsible positions in his county and was unswerving in his connections of duty as a citizen. The deprivations and exposures of army service short- ened his life by many years. In 1866 he married Elizabeth Ann Pope, of Marysville, Ohio, who still survives him with two chil- dren, a son and a daughter.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics . a zealous Republican.
He enlisted in Company F, First O. V. C., September 5, 1861, and at the organization of the company was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant, and soon afterward was promoted to Battalion Quartermaster-Sergeant and to Second Lieutenant, Company I, November 20, 1862; to First Lieutenant and Regi- mental Commissary, April 18, 1863, and mustered out January 10, 1865. Lieutenant Leib served as staff officer almost con- tinuously during his term of service and was a prompt, ener- getic, efficient officer and had the confidence of his superior at all times. In addition to his duties as Commissary, he ren- dered important service during active campaigns in carrying orders on the field, and was always ready for any duty required of him. He was twice a prisoner of war. Once he was taken
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a prisoner on a train, captured by Dick McCann near Lavergne, Tenn., in April, 1863, but was soon paroled. He was also cap- tured by General Wheeler's cavalry while carrying dispatches near Cotton Port, Tenn., September 30, 1863. Johnnie Clem was a prisoner at the same time, and when they were paroled, Clem accompanied Lieutenant Leib to his home in Ohio. When Colonel Cupp was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, Lieuten- ant Leib had his body taken up and accompanied the remains home, and they were interred in Fairfield County, Ohio.
LIEUTENANT HARVEY FERGUSON.
Harvey Ferguson was born April 26, 1829, in Ross County, Ohio, and came with his parents to Newark, Licking County, Ohio, when about six years old, where he ever afterwards re- sided. His education was obtained in the public schools of Newark. After leaving school he learned the carpenter trade with his father, but engaged in different occupations at dif- ferent times. Was Sergeant-at-arms two terms and Postmaster one term in the House of Representatives, Columbus, Ohio. In the years 1851-2-3 was Deputy Clerk in Newark Postoffice under Postmaster William Bell in 1855. In 1856 and 1857 was engaged in the grocery business with Enoch Wilson, Newark, Ohio. Was married to Mary C. Frey, September 22, 1852. Died June 12, 1876, in Newark, Ohio.
He enlisted in Company D, First O. V. C., as private, August 5, 1861. He was appointed Sergeant and then promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company H, April 18, 1863; promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant, to date from May 25, 1864, and was mustered out November 25, 1864, on expiration of term of service. Lieutenant Ferguson served continuously with the regiment from the time of his enlistment until he was discharged, and had special qualifications for the duties of a staff officer, as he was quite active, a good clerk and a fine-appearing officer. Both as a company and staff officer he rendered excellent ser- vice throughout the war, and during the Atlanta Campaign, as Adjutant of the regiment, and was especially active in all of his arduous duties, and was regarded as a very excellent officer by Colonel Eggleston.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES H. GOODRICH.
, Charles H. Goodrich was born at Sharon, Ohio, on Jan- uary 20, 1844. Received his education at Sharon College, and afterwards learned the printing trade in the Noble County Re- publican office at Caldwell, Ohio.
At the close of the war he followed the occupation of a newspaper publisher until November of 1889, he having received the appointment of door-keeper of the National House of Rep- resentatives at Washington, D. C .; but later he was transferred
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to a more lucrative position in the U. S. Treasury Department. He died August 31, 1892, at Washington, D. C. He published during his newspaper career The Noble County Republican, Caldwell, Ohio; The Miller County Monitor, California, Mo .; The Newcomerstown Argus, Newcomerstown, Ohio; The Cald- well Press, Caldwell, Ohio; The Monroe Gazette, Woodsfield, Ohio; The Troy Chronicle and Daily Trojan, Troy, Ohio.
He enlisted in Company D, First O. V. C., August 5, 1861; appointed Corporal, and October 2, 1862, appointed Sergeant; appointed First Sergeant and commissioned as First Lieutenant, Company M, June 28, 1865; mustered out at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12, 1865, having served within twenty-three days of four years. He was a good soldier and won his bars by hard ser- vice in the field.
LIEUTENANT JOHN M. RENICK.
John M. Renick, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Renick, was born near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, October 1, 1831. His occupation before entering the service was that of a farmer. Died at Corinth, Miss., May 28, 1862.
He was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company M, August 30, 1861, and served with the regiment through the campaign in Kentucky in the winter of 1861 and 1862; he was also through the campaign of the siege of Corinth in April and May, 1862, and on that campaign he contracted the disease from which he died. Lieutenant Renick was a gentleman of high character, and had his life been spared, would no doubt have made his mark in the regiment, as he was very much attached to the service. He was buried with military honors, this being the first military funeral of any officer in the regiment.
BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL ELI LONG.
Graduated at Military School near Frankfort, Kentucky. (in charge of Colonel E. W. Morgan, a distinguished graduate of the Military Academy at West Point in the class of General Benham), in the month of June, 1855. At the instance of Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, he was appointed Second Lieu- tenant in the First U. S. Cavalry. Joined his regiment at Lecompton, Kansas, on recruiting service, and stationed at New Albany, Indiana, during the winter of 1856-'57. Rejoined his regiment in April, 1857, was with it on the Cheyenne Expedi- tion, in the summer of 1857. He served on the frontier at Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, Fort Lyon, and other points, partici- pating in a number of hard and dangerous expeditions against the Indians, and when the war of the rebellion commenced he was stationed at Fort Lyon.
In, August, 1861, he prevented serious loss and damage to the Government by surprising and capturing near Fort Lyon,
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without firing a shot, a well armed and equipped company of thir- ty-eight men and fifty or sixty animals, enroute from Denver City to join Price in Missouri. General Long was promoted in his regiment to First Lieutenant, March 21, and to Captain, May 24, 1861. With one squadron of his regiment he went from Fort Lyon to Fort Leavenworth, in December, 1861. In Feb- ruary, 1862, reported with the same squadron for duty to Gen- eral Buell at Louisville, Ky. Participated in the battle of Chaplain Hills, near Perryville, Ky. Remained on duty with his regiment as General Rosecrans' escort until the battle of Stone River, where he was wounded by a ball in the left shoulder while leading his company in the charge made by his regiment on the thirty-first of December, 1862. Through the recommendations of General Rosecrans and General D. S. Stanley he was appointed Colonel of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He participated . in the operations of the cavalry from that time until the battle of Chickamauga, where his brigade was used very roughly, los- ing one hundred and thirty-four officers and men out of nine hundred, killed, wounded and missing (most of them of the first two classes), in very short time. He commanded his brigade in the pursuit of the rebel General Wheeler from the Tennessee River, at Washington, East Tennessee, to the Tennessee River at Lamb's Ferry. There is no doubt about the fact that the division of which Colonel Long's brigade formed a part was the means of keeping Chattanooga in our possession by its rapid pursuit and successful engagements with General Wheeler's command, thus preventing him from destroying the communi- cations of our army.
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