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Sunday, January 31: Sunday again In Camp Cleveland. It does not resemble Sunday here any more than it did In Cumberland Gap. A few of the citizens came into camp to visit friends that are in the regiment. It Is wet and raining some; accounts probably for the dullness of the camp.
Monday, February 1: When will we be able to get away from camp and return to our homes is the absorbing question now. The boys, many of them, are becoming impatient and want to see the home folks. These barracks have been well occupied, seemingly, since we left here in July last. and are now fairly alive with vermin which are not pleasant companions, but they stick close to one. The creepy chills chase up and down the spine at the thoughts you can not avold.
Tuesday, February 2: Well, we turned our accoutrements over to the government today. It has been rumored that we would turn our guns over "Tomorrow" ever since we came into Camp Cleveland. John Hatfield visited the rolling-mill this afternoon. I should like to visit the paper-mill before I leave. A gun was accidentally discharged yesterday, inflicting a flesh wound in the arm of one of the boys, but not seriously. This has been ground-hog day, but not much thought at this time of his hogship in camp.
Wednesday, February 3: It froze up light last night, and it is trying to snow a little this morning. I do not want to live here along the lake shore in winter time. The winds are bleak and cold. I do not want it to snow until we are mustered out of the service. which is to be tomorrow-just like turning our guns in. I hope we will not have to stay here over another Sunday. The boys are becoming impatient to get away from camp. I am looking for letters from home now every day.
Thursday, February 4: The mustering-out officers have not yet put in their ap- peurance. Company I is all ready and waiting on action at headquarters. Just as we were issuing rations to the bunk someone spoke to me and said there was a person at the door inquiring for me. I looked toward the door, and like an apparition to my mind, and all so unexpected. I saw my father standing in the door. I let the rations go for some others to look after. I felt like a new man this evening and am not so anxious to see the mustering-out officers.
Friday, February 5: I remained in camp last night and father went to the Forest City Hotel in town, where I promised to meet him this morning. It need not be surprising that I started from camp and was at the hotel before he was up a half an hour. We had our breakfast at the hotel, which I thought was splendid. After breakfast we started out to do some shopping. We bought a pair of boots for five dollars, a pair of pants for eight dollars, a vest for four dollars and a pair of sus- penders for fifty cents. I have run around so much today over the pavements and enten so much I am very tired tonight.
Saturday, February 6: Father started home about eight o'clock. I broke guard and went down to the station and saw him off for home. I was not in so much of a hurry to get started for home as I had been, but he ald mother was very anxious
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to see me home, and partly on her account, as well as his own he came up to Cleve- Innd to see their boy. I did not return to camp last night. but stayed at the hotel until morning. I have had an awful headache all day. which, I presume, is not to be won- dered at very much.
SICKNESS AND DEATH IN CAMP.
Sunday, February 7: I am feeling some better this morning than I did yesterday. I have a diarrhoea which has left me in a very weakened condition. We have not been mustered out of the service yet. as we all know. and we are here over this, another Sunday. If the officers do not hurry, they will not find nearly so many here to muster out as they brought up to this camp from Cumberland Gap, as many of the boys are sick and several have died since they came here. The elimate, the water, or the rations does not seem to agree with them since having been starved so long and then eating heavily.
Monday, February 8; It is very cold this morning and snowing furiously. The wind is blowing a gale. I broke guard this morning and went to Mrs. Hickey's for my laundry. I stayed there all forenoon and cut apples to dry for what I could ent. and my dinner. Met her son, who was in the navy, but was discharged on account of physical disability. .
Tuesday, February 9: Coll and stormy this morning; the wind coming off the lake blowing a gale and the air filled with snow. When tomorrow comes, we will be mustered out, but tomorrow never comes, so we can not tell when we will get home. The folks at home have been expecting us every day for some time, and no doubt are as badly disappointed as we are ourselves. Yet they can have the assur- ance we are not in the enemy's country and liable to be ambushed by marauding bands of rebels any moment.
Wednesday, February 10: Weather moderated this morning and much more com- fortable. Well, we were marched up town this forenoon and really mustered out today. instead of tomorrow. Are to be paid in camp tomorrow. After being mustered out I went to a restaurant and got a plate of oysters and loitered about town a good while. They seem not to fear our running away now, and after a time, we wandered back to camp for the night.
Thursday, February 11: No pay today and not in a bit good humor about it. but that didn't seem to make any difference to the officers. Put my overcoat on and started for a trip to town. Went to the Forest City hotel and rend the papers and watched the passers by, when I returned to camp.
Friday, February 12: The same old report-will be paid tomorrow. The boys are getting tired of this camp. Had I known we were to stay here this length of time. I would have had father stay a few days longer. There is a great concert in the city tonight. I think by tomorrow night we will be in the city of Columbus, certainly.
Saturday, February 13: The boys were up early this morning watching for the paymaster in all directions, About 10 o'clock this forenoon he made bis appearance in camp and commenced paying the boys. He paid off seven companies by 9 o'clock this evening, leaving Companies I. K and D to be paid later.
HOME AGAIN.
Sunday, February 14: I was greatly in hopes we would not have to spend another Sunday here in this camp, but we will have to put over part of it if we wait for the paymaster and we surely will now. He came out to camp about 10 o'clock and we soon received our pay : $43.95 was given me as balance due for my services rendered U'ncle
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Nam. November 13th we were paid previously when I drew $50.70. making ninety-four dollars and sixty-five cents total for my services for the two hundred and twenty-five days. I did my duty for my country for my 42 and a fraction cents per day, with board and clothing thrown in. We started for Cleveland and found no train to leave before morning, when we stopped for the night nt the William Tell hotel.
Monday, February 15: Furnished our own bedding and slept on the floor last night for which privilege we paid twenty-five cents each. Took a train at 7:40 this morning with light hearts for home and was soon rolling away from Camp Cleveland and the busy city. Arriving at Delaware we had to wait a short time for train. leaving on the Springfield road for Milford Center, where we changed cars again for the village of Cable. It was quite dark when I reached my home four miles south of Cable. My folks not knowing when I would be able to get away. I went into the house without being expected at that hour. The memory of that hearthstone with a big. bright fire burning in the fireplace still lingers plainly in my mind, and the rations my mother issued to her soldier boy, returned from the scenes of war, was not on the basis of any stipulated allowance. There will be no more reveille calling me up for the march through the rain and mud; the long roll of the drum will not call me up hurriedly to meet a charging foe.
NINETY-FIFTH REGIMENT ( THREE YEARS).
The Ninety-fifth Regiment contained nearly two full companies of Champaign county volunteers. Companies E and G. with possibly a few in other companies of the same regiment. The regiment was organized at Camp Chase in August, 1862, and was mustered in on August 18 and 19 for the three-years service. Company E was recruited largely from Wayne, Adams and Urbana townships, while Company G was composed of volun- teers from Salem. Rush and Harrison. Most of the volunteers of Wood- stock and vicinity were in Company G.
It was only eleven days from the time the regiment was mustered into the United States service until it went on to the battle field at Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862. The troops had little or no drilling and as a consequence suffered severely. They fell into the hands of Kirby Smith, one of the famous Confederate cavalry leaders, who shortly paroled the men. A number of the men of this regiment were captured at the battle of Brice's Cross Roads on June 10. 1864, and were imprisoned at Andersonville and other rebel prisons.
The following battles will indicate in a general way the states in which this regiment fought and the amount of service which they saw: Richmond, Kentucky, August 30, 1862; Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863; Assaults on Vicksburg, May 19-20. 1863; Siege of Vicksburg. May 20-July 4, 1863; Big Black River. Mississippi, July 6, 1863; Jackson, Mississippi, July 9-16, 1862; Brandon, Mississippi. July 19, 1863: Hickahala, Mississippi, February 10,
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1864; Brice's Cross Roads (Guntown), Mississippi, June 10, 1864; Harrison, Mississippi. July 13. 1864: Tupelo, Mississippi, July 14. 1864; Old Town Creek, Mississippi, July 15, 1864; Little Harpeth, Tennessee, December 6, 1864: Nashville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864; pursuit of Hood, Decem- ber 16. 1864-January 1. 1865: Siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama, March 26- April 9. 1865. The regiment was mustered out of the service in accordance with orders from the war department, August 14. 1865. The following table shows the enlistments, townships to which they were credited, the date of enlistment, and the ages of the men.
Enrolled
Company E.
Township.
1862.
Agc.
James M. Gray
Wayne.
August
5
34
Lewis J. Sheward.
.Wayne
August
21
James W. Rudisell
.Wayne.
August 11
21
Patrick O'Brien
Urbana
August
7
19
Daniel D. Taylor.
I'nion.
August
2
20
James W. Taylor
I'nion
Angust
14
23
Caleb O. Shronde
I'nion.
Angust 11
10
C. O. Williams.
Wayne
August 11
3-4
Jacob LaRue
Wayne ( Deserted)
August 8
11
William W. Poysell
August 14
Mason Tucker
Union.
July 29.
24
Calvin Hexs
I'nion
July 24.
19
William Hopper
Salem
August
23
Samuel W. Poysell
1 .. A. Ganson
Union
August 11
28
C. M. Clark
Wayne.
August 11
28
Jacob Rhodes
August
0
32
Peter Snapp.
Salem
August 17
24
Daniel Taylor
I'nion
August
20
J .. G. Brown
-Warne
August 11
31
Ell Johnson
Wayne
August
4
41
John MeCumber
-Rush
August 18
38
E. W. Barber
Wayne.
August 11
David McCarns
.Wayne
August
6
8
20
James T. Borem.
( Deserted )
August
8
23
Alexander Cowan.
Urbana
July 26
36
W. W. Middleton
Wayne
August 18
21
James Lodrick
Union
July 23
23
David Smith
Wayne
August 11
37
Jarius Purkeypike
Johnson
August
0
30
William Brown.
I'nion
August 9
38
William J. Light
Wayne
August 14
28
John W. Martz.
Adams
August
37
Isaiah O'Bryant
Adams (Deserted )
August 10
19
James C. LaRue
Harrison
August 19.
H. C. Peterson
July 31
August 14
Cyrus W. Guthridge
Wayne.
August
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Enrolled
Company E.
Township.
1862.
Age.
Orlando Castle
Urbana
August 11
19
A. W. Estlack
Adams
August 9
37
R. J. McVey
Adams
August 11
21
Lewis J. Coverstone.
Adams
August
9
24
George A. Collins.
Urbana
July 23.
30
Amos P. Flowers
Adams
August 11
20
William W. Ward.
Urbana
August 6
36
James R. Coulter
Urbana
July 30
39
Warner F. Hedges
Adams
August
5
26
William Arnett
Adams
August
0
38
Alexander Rhoades
Adams
August
6
10
John W. Lemon
Adams
August 11
23
William Clary.
Urbana
August 11
25
William R. Shaul.
Wayne.
July 30
26
Richard MeCumber
Rush
August 18.
34
William Bower
Adams
August 11
20
Charles A. MeColly
Wayne
August 11
20
Alexander Swisher
Wayne
August
7
21
Jeremiah M. Emrick
Goshen
August
1
37
David O. Taylor
Salem.
August 14
19
Harvey Stump
T'rbana
August
6
20
Jacob Lodrick
Adams
August 12
17
Joseph S. Lamb.
August 18.
36
James A. Messick
Goshen
December 1
21
Isaiah Fuson.
Adams
August
27
Jeremiah Richwine
Adams
August
6
32
Michael Graybill.
Angust 11
30
William R. Warrock
Urbana
July 21.
23
Jacob Rinesmith
Salem
August 6
41
Alexander McGahan
Salem
August
28
Samuel R. Moore
Salen
August
8
22
Ezra Tritt.
Salem
August
23
William A. Snook
Salem
August
5
28
H. E. Dodson
Salem
August
8
23
Jacob Dolby
Salem
August
8
37
James M. Pine
Harrison
August
8
38
Christian Hines
Harrison
August
7
42
Daniel Coleman
Salem
August
8
25
Joseph Coleman
Salem
August
7
23
Samuel Lafferty
Salem
August
8
22
Samuel Willett
August
6
30
David F. Comegys
Salem
August
8
25
Henry Toomir
Salem
Angust
6
26
Enoch P. Terril
Harrison
August
7 33
Truman Jackson
Harrison
August
40
J. A. Caruthers
August
22
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Joseph M. Maitland
Salem
August
23
George W. Pine
Harrison
„August
40
Cephas Atkinson
Wayne.
July 31
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Enrolled
Company E.
Township.
1×62.
Age.
Benjamin Hill.
Salem
August
8
41
Alexander Pittman
Harrison.
August
44
Moses Curl
August 10
40
Daniel leonard
Salem
August
21
Henry Melhorn
August
28
Mahlon P. Frank
Salem
August 13
18
William P. Crawford
Rush
August
2.
18
George Riddle.
August
3
18
Frederick Hoisington
Rush
August
3
18
Jacob Black
Rush
July 25.
22
Daniel W. Smith
Rush
August
3
18
Thomas Hudson.
Rush
Angust
6
20
Isaac N. Parker.
August
25
Daniel Waldron.
Rush ( Deserted)
July 21
24
Adolphus Green
Rush
August
2
44
James Dee.
Rush
August
3
21
John Foot
Rush ( Deserted)
Angust
7
6
20
William Ream
Rush
August
18
David Smith
August 12
26
Hanson Veach
Rush
August 11
23
John Edwards
Rush
August 11
27
George W. Standish
Rush
August
9
23
Benjamin Horr
Salem
August
8
F. B. North.
Salen
August
24
John Mailison
Salem
August
10
Lewis H. Taylor
Salem
August
23
Wallace Ellsworth
Rush.
August
Perry Ellsworth.
Rush
August 22
25
Newton Ellsworth
Rush
August
8
21
F. M. Willoughby
Rush
August
2
28
Clark DIx
Rush
August
2
S. K. Smith
Rush
August
2
40
John M. Smith.
Rush
August
2
1.8
John A. Dix
Rush
August
19
Charles Willoughby
Rush
August
S 28
Dtis W. Smith.
Salem
August
18
Peter Strickler.
Salem
August
24
John M. Thackery
Jackson
August
10
21
Samuel Taylor.
Rush
August
18
William McClurg.
Rush
August
23
Lucas Burnham
Rush
August
26
William H. Brownfield
Harrison
August
21
John H. Hunter
Harrison
August
0
23
William Coffman
Rush
August
6
George W. Clark
August
4
Harrison Lansdown
Angust
23
C. C. Wait.
Rush
Angust
2
S. P. Burns
Ilush
August
27
Thomas M. Ream.
Rush
August
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Enrolled
Company E.
Township.
1862.
Age.
A. C. Stover
Urbana
July 26
20
William E. Shellkett
Harison (Deserted ) ___ August
6
28
Hamilton M. Terril
Harrison
August 11
22
William Taylor
Harrison (Deserted )
___ August 11
23
Milton G. Terril
Harrison
August 11
21
William H. Cummins
Adams
August 11
20
John Hockey
Salem
August
G 20
H. D. Pyle.
Harrison
August
Benjamin Sweet
Harrison
August
18
sandford Sweet
Harrison
August
George Kiser.
Harrison
Angust
6
23
S. R. Hutchinson
Rush
August
7.
39
Christopher Fry
Harrison
August
8
23
William Wilkins.
Harrison (Deserted)
August
6
29
Benjamin F. Stauffer
Harrison
August
9
18
G. G. Conner
Rush.
August
25
John Single.
Harrison
August
8
26
William B. Kiser
Adams
August
7
23
William H. Kinsinger
Adams
August
7 22
21
William Smith
Rush
July 24
19
Richard Taylor
Harrison
August
0 29
8
30
Joseph L. Wren.
Harrison
August
4
19
Augustus W. Shellkett
Harrison ( Deserted)
Angust
4
19
F. M. Davis
Valem
August
4
10
John Willet
Rush
August 11
28
Clinton B. Sears
Urbana
July 24.
18
Jobn Schmidt
Rush
August
3
29
Burton Mitchell
August
7
22
4
1 18
7 32
William J. Mann
Rush
August
John S. Espy
Adams
August
7
George W. Runyan
Adams.
August
8
The Ninety-fifth Regiment lost a total of two hundred and fifty-six men during its three years at the front and Companies E and G contributed sixty- seven of this number. Eight of the two companies died in Confederate prisons, eight died from wounds and eight were killed in battle-making a total of twenty-four. Against this total there were thirty-eight who died from disease while the war was in progress.
It is not certain that the above list contains the names of all those who volunteered for service in this regiment from Champaign county. In addi- tion to those enumerated the names of a few more are given in the records as belonging to the regiment, although they are not found in the official roster in either company. These follow : Henry C. Funk, William W. Beatty, Isaac Ballinger, Silas Robbins. John C. Cretcher (probably same as Curtis J. Cretcher), John W. Daus (listed as a deserter on the local records) and
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Wilson (or William) Smith. These seven names are given in the list of those receiving bounties, but their names are not in the official record.
WOODSTOCK'S PATRIOTIC RECORD.
The little village of Woodstock contributed practically every one of its young men of militia age to this regiment. In a review of the village's con- tribution a local historian gives the following data concerning the volunteers from that place: Killed in battle or died from disease following service : Daniel W. Smith, Frank Willoughby, Charles Willoughby, Samuel Taylor, John Schmidt, Thomas Hudson, Adolphus Green, William Crawford, George S. Conner and Lucas Burnham. In addition to these the village furnished the following who returned, all of whom were in Company G; Oliver Col- well, Stephen K. Smith, John Dix, Willard H. Smith, Samuel L. Willett, George W. Clark, James Dee, Clark Dix, John Edwards, Newton Ellsworth, Perry Ellsworth, Wallace Ellsworth, John Foot, Frederick Hoisington, Har- rison Lansdown, William McClurg, Thomas Reams, William Reams, George W. Riddle, David Smith, John Smith, George Standish, Cicero C. Waite and John Willett. It will be noticed that not all of these appear listed in the roster of the companies as above given. Some of these undoubtedly enlisted after the original mustering in of the regiment, and this fact accounts for their non-appearance on the local records.
The Citizen and Gasette in its issue of August 24, 1865, notes the return of the Ninety-fifth Regiment. They arrived in Columbus on August 17, and the Champaign volunteers reached home on Saturday. "They have seen hard service and did their full share in defeating the armed rebels in the field. All honor to the brave boys of the Ninety-fifth Ohio."
ROSTER OF MEMBERS FROM THIS COUNTY.
In the issue of August 31, 1865, the Citizen and Gasette gives the sum- mary of all the "officers and men from Champaign county who have belonged to the Ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry." The statement from the newspaper is given, as follows:
Lieut. Col. James B. Armstrong, resigned : Major W. R. Warnock. mustered out with regiment.
Muntered Out With Company Q. at Louisville, Kentucky. August 14. 1885 .- Captain, Oliver P. Colwell; lieutenant. Allen C. Stover: sergeants, Stephen K. Smith, Joseph M. Maitland, Daniel Coleman, John A. Dix ; corporals, John Mallinson, John S. Espy, Otis W. Smith, David F. Comegys; musielan, Samuel L. Willet; privates, Simon P. Burns,
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William Brownfield, Curtis J. Cretcher, William H. Cummins, William Coffman, James Dee. Jacob Dolby, Perry Ellsworth. Wallace Ellsworth, Fred Hoisington. William H. Kinsinger, William B. Kelser, Harrison Lansdown, Henry Melhorn, Samuel R. Moore, William McClurg, James M. Pine, George W. Pine, Thomas Reams, Jobn M. Smith, Benjamin F. Stauffer, Henry L. Toomire, Louis H. Taylor, Joseph L. Wren. Cicero C. Wait. Daniel A. Waldren and Benjamin Sweet.
Discharged .- Captain, Alfred G. Tuther; first lieutenant. Samuel D. Strayer; ser- geants. Ezra Tritt, George Kizer (wounded). Enoch P. Terrell, William A. Snook ; corporals, Clinton B. Sears, Willard H. Smith; musician, Harry E. Dodson ; privates, Moses Curl, Christopher Fry, Mablon P. Frank, Benjamin Hill, Edward B. North, Isaac N. Parker, Hezekiah D. Pyle (wounded), Alexander Pittman, George W. Riddle (wounded ). William Ream. David Smith ( wounded) ), Sanford Sweet. George W. Stand- ish, John M. Thackery. Richard Taylor (wounded), and John Willet.
Transferred .- Corporal, Samuel Lafferty ; privates, George W. Clark. Marvel Cornels, Francis M. Davis, Clark Dix. John FAlwards. Newton Ellsworth, Martin Flaherty, John T. Rockey and Thomas Wood.
Died .- Sergeants, Frank M. Willoughby. killed; corporals, Stephen R. Hutchinson (wounded ), Truman Jackson (drowned ). Hamilton M. Terrell: privates, Lucas Burn- ham, George G. Comer, William Crawford (wounded), Joseph Coleman, taken prisoner June 10, 1864. near Guntown, Mississippi, and murdered same day by enemy; James A. Caruthers, Adolphus Green (wounded), Thomas Hudson, Christian Hines, John H. Hunter, Benjamin Herr. Daniel Leonard, Alexander McGaban, Allen McDonald (killed), Burton Mitchell, Elijah Morris, Jacob Ryansmith, George W. Run- yan, Daniel W. Smith (killed), John Schmidt, Peter Stricklin, John Slagle (died Novem- ber 3. 1864. Millen. Georgia, while a prisoner of war). Milton S. Terrell, Samuel C. Taylor, Hanson Veach and Charles Willoughby.
BRIEF HISTORY OF REGIMENT.
A brief sketch of the Ninety-fifth Regiment is given in "Ohio at Vicks- burg". pp. 210-229. The history of the regiment is traced from its organ- ization in July, 1862, until it was mustered out in August, 1865. William Linn McMillen, a prominent physician of Columbus, was the colonel and James B. Armstrong, a banker of Urbana, was lieutenant-colonel. The author of this brief sketch gives an interesting incident concerning Lieuten- ant-colonel Armstrong. "Lieutenant-colonel Armstrong, owning a valuable horse, had persuaded Gen. Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate army, to let him retain the horse, but after being paroled, another officer was in command, who ordered the colonel to give up the horse. Colonel Armstrong put spurs to the horse and galloped away, reaching Ohio in safety." This incident followed immediately after the battle of Richmond, where the Con- federates had sharply defeated the Union forces, killing and mortally wound- ing thirty-two privates; wounding six officers and eighty-six privates; taking six hundred and seventy-two prisoners. The officers and men were paroled
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and returned to Camp Chase. Ohio, being compelled to walk all the way to Cincinnati from the place of their parole.
The Ninety-fifth was the first regiment to enter and plant the flag in the capital of Mississippi, marching into Jackson on May 14, 1863. The follow- ing extract from the article on the Ninety-fifth in "Ohio at Vicksburg" (p. 218) relates to one of Urbana's most prominent lawyers and distinguished citizens :
"On the night of June 18 Captain William R. Warnock, with his Com- pany G, Ninety-fifth Ohio, was ordered to advance to a position in front of the brigade on the left of the road leading to the enemy's works and near to them, and hold the position while the sappers and miners could dig trenches and throw up works of defense. The captain and his men crawled up the hillside upon their hands and knees. The night was very dark. When they reached the crest of the bluff, and not hearing any sound, the captain advanced towards a large tree, which was dimly outlined. When within about fifteen feet of the tree a man stepped out with pointed gun ; a cap was snapped, the gun missed fire: the form of the man disappeared, running across the head of the ravine."
The regiment was mustered in with nine field and staff officers, thirty company officers and nine hundred and seventy-six non-commissioned officers and privates. It was in twenty-three battles and two sieges ; marched through eight states for a total of twelve thousand miles. The Ninety-fifth was around Vicksburg from the early spring of 1863 until the city surrendered on July 4, 1863. Accordingly it is one of the scores of regiments which has a monument on this field of battle. The monument is inscribed "NINETY- FIFTH INFANTRY, COL. WILLIAM L. MCMILLEN, LIEUT .- COL. JEFFERSON BRUNBACK, IST BRIG., 3D DIV., 15TH CORPS." A picture of the monument appears on page 228 of "Ohio at Vicksburg."
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH REGIMENT ( THREE YEARS).
The One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, with the exception of Com- panies I and K, was organized during the last three months of 1863. Com- pany I was formerly a company of the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment and Company K was organized at Urbana and Columbus between December 8, 1863, and March 31, 1864. All the companies in the regiment except I and J were organized at Camp Chase and at Zanesville. Company I was organized at Camp Dennison, being, as before stated, formerly attached to
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