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Yours, truly, O. S.,
Company M, Ninth Ohio V. C.
TWENTY-SIXTH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY.
The artillery record of Coshocton county is in- cluded in the record of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Battery and in an effort that was made (in combination with a petition from the veterans) on the part of the military committee of the county. The record of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Battery is compiled from the official records.
The nucleus of this organization was a detach-
ment from the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry (in which Coshocton county had two solid companies). Its complement of men was completed by Captain B. F. Potts (afterward Colonel of the Thirty- second Infantry and Brigadier-General United States Volunteers) at Augusta, Carroll county, in the month of August, 1861. After completion, it was attached to the Thirty-second as Company F, and served with that regiment until July 20, 1862. At that time it was detached for artillery duty at Winchester, Virginia, fully armed and equipped as a battery of light artillery, and called " Potts' Ohio Battery."
On General Pope's retreat, in 1862, Winchester was evacuated and its garrison, 'including the Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery, retired to Harper's Ferry on the night of the 11th of September. On its arrival there one section was immediately ordered to Sandy Hook, an important point on the road leading to Harper's Ferry, and about five miles below that place, where for two days it skirmished with the enemy. On the 13th of September the enemy brought to bear upon this section six pieces of artillery, which it withstood for a time, and until an order was received to fall back toward the Ferry. This order was very difficult of execution, as the national forces had evacuated Maryland Heights, and the enemy had gained a position on the flank of the section in order to prevent it from joining the main force; but, with the aid and support of a Maryland regi- ment, the section fought its way to the garrison.
On the 14th a fierce artillery duel was kept up, in which the entire battery was engaged con- stantly from 10 A. M. until dark. It was exposed to a fierce fire from Loudon Heights, and an en- filading fire from Maryland Heights. During the same evening the position of the battery was changed to the extreme left of the national line, where the enemy was massing a force with the intention of making a vigorous attack.
At sunrise on the 15th the rebels opened upon the battery, front, right and left, with twenty-four guns, and for upward of an hour this unequal contest was continued, and for some time after the white flag had been raised by the national forces.
In this engagement the battery occupied an ex- posed position in an open field, and it was within
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ten yards of its position that Colonel Miles re- ceived the wound from the effects of which he died.
After the surrender, the battery, with other troops composing the garrison, were paroled, and sent to Chicago, where the company was rejoined to the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, which had also been surrendered at Harper's Ferry.
On the 21st of January, 1863, being exchanged, the battery company again left for the field, in company with the Thirty-second, and served with it through General Grant's Mississippi cam- paign, until May 16, 1864.
At the battle of Champion Hills. the brigade to which the Thirty-second was attached charged and turned the enemy's left, capturing a battery of six guns. General John A. Logan, having been informed of the proficiency of Company F in artillery practice, issued an order that these guns should be placed in their charge, and to have them in readiness for action next morning. Not- withstanding, more than one-half the horses had been killed, the harness cut and torn throughout, and numerous damages to repair, yet, by the in- dustry and perseverence of the officers and men, the battery entered the column next morning at daylight, ready for action. The company was now called " Yost's Captured Battery," and during the entire siege of Vickburg was actively engaged.
Its position was on the left of Logan's division, but it was afterwards transferred to the right of the same division, and in front of rebel Fort Hill, an extremely exposed position, within three hundred yards of the enemy's works.
Although destitute of the facilities of a regu- larly organized battery, this company endured the dangers and hardships of the entire siege, and received high compliments from Generals McPherson and Logan.
On the 3d of August, 1863, the company was again remanded to the Thirty-second, Infantry, but was soon after again temporarily detached- one half with Battery D, First Regiment Illinois Light Artillery, and the other half with the Third Ohio Battery, and was associated with them in the expedition from Vicksburg to Canton, in October, 1863, the first named battery, commanded by S. D. Yost and Lieutenat O. S. Lee, of the Third Ohio Battery. In the expedi-
tion both batteries were engaged in several skirmishes.
On the recommendation of General James B. McPherson, the War Department gave authority to Governor Tod to transfer the company from the Thirty-second Ohio, and on the 22d of De- cember, 1863, it was made into a distinct organi- zation, and designated as the Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery.
The Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery, becoming en- titled to veteran furlough, it was, on the 1st of January, 1864, ordered home to Ohio, where it remained the customary thirty days.
On the 3d day of February, 1864, it returned to the field at Vicksburg, with recruits sufficient to bring it up to the maximum strength.
The battery was a participant in a number of expeditions from Vicksburg and Natchez, re- sulting in skirmishes. The first raid (in July, [864,) made by the battery and other troops, was led by General Slocum. The second was a cavalry raid from Vicksburg to Natchez, in October, IS64, commanded by Colonel Osband. It was a very rapid and fatiguing march, accompanied by daily skirmishing.
On the Sth of November, 1864, the battery was ordered to report at Natchez, Mississippi, for gar- rison duty. This was the last of its active ser- vice, excepting an occasional brush with guerril- las in the vicinity of Natchez, and across the Mississippi river. After the close of the war it was attached to the Texas expedition, and served on the Rio Grande until August, 1865, when it was ordered to Ohio, and on the 2d day of Sep- tember, 1865, it was mustered out of the service at Tod barricks, Ohio.
Following is a list of Coshocton county soldiers who sleep upon Southern soil:
James Cooper, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., died at Annapolis, Maryland, 1864, from effects of starvation at Belle Isle.
William Wales, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., killed at Stone River, December 29, 1862.
George Murphy, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., killed at Stone River, December 31, 1862.
Christian Meek, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., killed at Stone River, December 31, 1862.
John Mills, Company H, Eighthieth O. V. I.,
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killed at Jackson, Mississippi, May -, 1863. Served in the Mexican war and in three months' service in the civil war.
Elias West, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at City Point, Virginia, June, 1864.
John N. Henderson, Company F, Eightieth O. V. I., died at Corinth, 1862.
John Jennings, Company K, Twenty-fourth O. V. I., died at Andersonville, 1863.
George Traxler, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I., died at Paducah, April, 1862.
James Laughead, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I., died at Vicksburg, July, 1863.
Peter Ray, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Murfreesboro, May, 1863.
William T. Ray, Company 1, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.
Joseph Lacy, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Jacob Leech, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.
Alonzo Barton, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Danville, Kentucky, October 17, 1862 Charles Funk, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Pulaski, Tennessee, November, 1864.
William Rogers, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.
William Doyle, Lieutenant Company H, Eighti- eth O. V. I., died at Rienza, Mississippi, April, 1862.
Jonathan Longshore, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.
Eli Cross, Company H, Eightieth O. V. I., died at Rock Island, 1863.
Adam Weisser, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Nashville, February, 1863.
Joel C. Glover, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at Wilson's Landing, Virginia, September 6, 1864.
Benjamin D. Day, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., died at Murfreesboro, September, 1862.
John Blackburn, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.
John Flagg, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Bowling Green, Kentucky, November, 1862.
Reuben Jennings, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at Wilson's Land- ing, Virginia, July, 1864.
William Welch, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., killed at Stone River, December 29, 1862.
David Owens, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Joseph Thornsley, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Chattanooga, December, 1863.
Julian Suitt, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Silver Springs, Tenn., November, 1862. Ezekial Norman, Company 1, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died at Nashville, February, 1863.
Addison Hay, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G, died at Wilson's Landing, July, 186-4.
The following is a list of Coshocton soldiers buried in the Coshocton Cemetery :
John Watson, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died December 28, 1863.
John Gosser, Company I, Eightieth O. V. I., died March, 1872.
James E. Beebe, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., died May 26, 1878.
John Lynch, Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I., died February 13, 1862.
Samuel Lynch, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died April 6, 1863.
John B. Crowley, Mexican soldier, died Oeto- ber 24, 1857.
William Crowley, died March 8, 1874.
Albert A. Donahue, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died May 20, 1870.
Thomas Parsons, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died July 23, 1877.
John Wilcox, Company M, Ninth O. V. C., died May 6, 1874.
John Taylor, Mexican soldier, died May 15, 1848. Frederick Schweiker, Mexican soldier, died September 8, 1862.
Joseph Richards, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 4, 1869.
John Moore, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died November 30, 1869.
Thomas Hartley, Michigan Volunteer Battery, died.July, 1869.
William Webb, Sixty-first Tennessee, Confed- erate soldier, died June 12, 1863.
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George Mahew, Company K, Twenth-fourth O. V. I., died April 4, 1866.
Fernando Wright, Company F, Eightieth O. V. I., died February 20, 1872.
John Allen, Company G, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 13, 1875.
A. H. Schis, Mexican soldier, died January 12, 1854.
Richard Lanning, Major Eightieth O. V. I., killed at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, Octo- ber 4, 1862.
Thomas Scott, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died July 1, 1862.
Oscar Bunn, Company L, First Iowa Cavalry, died March 5, 1864.
James M. McMichael, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., died February 13, 1862.
Edward McMichael, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 19, 1864.
William Weisser, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., died January 19, 1863.
Patrick S. Campbell, Company H, Eightieth O. V. I., died September 28, 1862.
Methias Denman, Fifty-second O. V. I, died March 16, 1863.
Thomas Southwell, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., died September 22, 1874.
George Wilson, First Ohio Artillery, died No- vember 6, 1863.
James P. Davis, died February 3, 1880.
Martin D. Van Eman, Company H, Eightieth, died -.
Joseph O'Donnell, Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I., died July 8, 1877.
Wils W. Batch, Lieutenant Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-first O. V. I., died January 24, 1881.
David H. Bunn, Company G, Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers, died August 25, 1880.
Bradley Burt, Company I, Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteers, died April 22, 1881.
D. C. Johns, First Ohio Sharp-shooters, Con- pany B, died -.
John Barney.
Messrs. S. A. Boid and Isaac Ferrel furnish the following list :
Captain B. F. Hesket, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I., died January 2, 1863, from the effects of
wounds received at the battle of Stone River, January 2, 1863.
John Q. Winklepleck, Orderly Sergeant, Com- pany C, Fifty-first O. V. I., died at Nashville from the effects of wounds received at Stone River, January, 1863. Both of Chili, Coshocton county, Ohio.
Robert Dewalt, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in 1862, in hospital at Nashville, of diarrhœa : buried at Nashville, Tennessee.
Everhart Caton, same company and regiment, died in hospital at Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, 1862; buried at Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky.
Henry Crossgraves, same regiment and com- pany, killed at battle of Stone River, January 2, 1863.
George Matson, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., killed at battle of Mission Ridge, 1863.
David Carnahan, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in camp hospital at Wickliffe, Kentucky, February, 1862. Buried at Camp Wickliffe.
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David Gibson, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in hospital at Washington, in 1862.
James Brister, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in hospital at Nashville, 1862.
Lester P. Emerson, buried at Chili, Ohio, Ser- geant Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in hospital at Nashville, Tennessee.
W. R. Wilson, Company C, Sixty-seventh O. V. I., furnishes this list :
David Carnahan, White Eyes township, Com- pany C, Fifty-first, died in Camp Wickliffe, Ken- tucky, 1862.
Lanceon Kimball, Company C, Sixty-seventh, was accidentally shot and killed by a comrade while in line of battle in 1864.
Jacob Clarman, Company C, Sixty-seventh, died in Indiana since close of war.
Eli Seward, Company II, One Hundred and Forty-third, died at Wilson's Landing, Va., 1864.
Thomas C. Seward, Company -, Thirty-second, was drowned while trying to run a boat through the blockade at Vicksburg.
Samuel Bechtel, One Hundred and Forty-third, O. N. G., Company H., buried at Hampton Roads, 1864.
George Mccrary, Company I, Ninety-seventh, buried at Nashville, Tennessee.
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George Adams, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Resaca, Georgia, 1864.
Daniel Overholt, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Portsmouth, Virginia.
John Beall, Company K, Thirty-second, was killed at Atlanta, Georgia.
John Bechtol, Company H, Eightieth, died at Memphis, Tennessee.
John Walters, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Portsmouth, 1864.
John Clark, Company -, One Hundred and Forty-third. buried at Hampton Roads, 1864.
John Dennis, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Hampton Roads.
Charles Infield, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Clear Creek, Mississippi.
James S. Wilson, Company I, Ninety-seventh, buried at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
William Shannon, Company H, Fifty-first, killed at Mission Ridge.
Sylvester Levitt, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Manchester, New York, 1864.
William Steward, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Wilson's Landing.
John P. Davis, Company G, Eightieth, buried at Brandy Station, Virginia.
William Nash, Company G, Eightieth, shot and killed himself accidentally at Corinth, Mississippi.
John Wise, Company G, Eightieth, killed at Vicksburg.
Henry Ross, Company G, Eightieth, killed at Mission Ridge.
Jabez Norman, Company -, Ninety-seventh, buried at Nashville, Tennessee.
- Cassaday, Company I, Ninety-seventh, killed by rebels, while in line of battle.
Charles Norman, Company -, Ninety-seventh, died at home, while absent on sick furlough, in 1863.
John Hout, Company G, Eightieth, died at Cairo.
John Armstrong, Company H, Fifty-first, died South.
B. Cullison, Fifty-first, died in Texas, in 1865. James Atkins, Fifty-first, buried in the South.
Frank Landers, Company H, Fifty-first, died in Nashville, Tennessee.
John Fox, Company H, Fifty-first, died at Nashville, Tennessee, 1863.
John McCluggage, Company H, Fifty-first, died in the South.
Abram Balo, Company H, Ninety-seventh, killed at Mission Ridge.
Jackson Hughes, Company D, Seventy-sixth, died at Nashville, Tennessee.
George Ferguson, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., died in 1865 at Macon, Georgia.
Mr. John M. Carhartt furnished the following additional matter:
We, in Roscoe, have erected in our cemetery a beautiful wooden monument, painted white, in honor of our fallen comrades that are buried in the South, and a beautiful wreath adorns that monument every Decoration Day in honor of those dear comrades of ours who fell defending the glorious old flag and our country's honor.
I will now give the names of those heroes from this county that belonged to Company M, Ninth O. V. C., whose bodies lie buried in the South :
John Glass, died at Athens, Ala., April 10, 1864. Lewis W. Barton, died at Athens, Alabama, May 27, 1864.
Daniel Senter, died at Moresville, Alabama, June 8, 1864.
B. F. Wright, drowned on the Sultana, 1865.
Albert Wells, killed by guerillas, 1865.
Robert Deems, killed by guerillas, 1865.
Lewis Longbaugh, killed by guerillas, 1865.
One other boy, whose false friends at home were the true cause of his death. He went home on leave of absence from Camp Dennison, O., and through the influence of enemies of our noble cause, did not return on the expiration of leave of absence. He was, after several attempts, ar- rested by the proper authorities, and taken from one camp to another until he tinally reached the company at Vining Station, Georgia, sick, down- hearted and discouraged, and was taken to the hospital, where he died September 23, 1864. He told me that he was sorry that he did not report to the company at the proper time, and de- nounced those who caused him to remain away. That soldier's name was Franklin Felton.
The above list is evidently incomplete, and the reader is referred to the general history for addi- tional names.
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CHAPTER XLV.
EARLY HISTORY OF COSHOCTON.
Its Site an Indian Village-Early Settlement-Colonel Charles Willianis-Ebenezer Buckingham-Dr. Samuel Lee-Tradi- tion of Louis Phillippe-The Cold Plague-A Lost Child- The Whoo-whoo Society-Journal of Colonel Williams.
YOSHOCTON is built upon the site of an old Indian village, which was centrally located in the region occupied by the Delaware nation, and was for a time its capital. Up the valleys of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas and down the Muskingum valley, at short intervals, were other villages, so that the selection of this plaec, situated in the heart of the nation, as his residence by the great chief, Netawatwees, was a happy one. It was often visited by the famous councilors, White Eyes and Killbuck, as well as by the leaders of surrounding tribes, making it, without doubt, the seat of many councils where ·questions of state policy, involving war or peace, life or death, were debated or determined. In Thomas Hutchins' map of General Bouquet's ex- pedition it is designated simply as " A Delaware Town." According to DeSchweinetz, its name was Goshackgunk; according to Heekewelder, Goshochking. The dwellings were built in the cabin and not in the usual wigwam style. The village extended from the river to Third street, and the principal street corresponded with the present Second street of Coshocton, the eabins standing close together, in two long rows on each side of it. The remains of their fire-places, which are said to have been at the north end of each of the cabins, could be easily discerned by the first white settlers of the place. The village was burned by General Brodhead in 1780.
The town of Coshocton was laid out in April, 1802, by John Matthews and Ebenezer Bucking- ham, Jr. In their survey they were assisted by Gibson Rook, and two town lots were given him for his services. The town was christened Tus- carawa, but the name was changed to Coshocton by act of the legislature in 1811.
Charles Williams is generally regarded as the first settler of Coshocton. In March, 1801, he and Isaac Hoagland moved with their families from Denman's prairie, situated several miles up the
Walhonding river, to the site of the future town. They erected a temporary abode on the now va- cant lot on the river bank, below the Tusearawas bridge, where there was a fine sugar camp. This house was the first erected in Coshocton. It was built of buckeye logs; was twelve feet square, and for a few weeks occupied by Charles Wil- liams and Isaac Hoagland, with their wives and several children. During this year Mr. Williams built a log house near the northeast corner of Water and Chestnut streets, and removed his family to it. On the 11th day of February, 1809, the house was consumed by fire, and two chil- dren, one of Mr. Williams' and one of his brother James, perished in the flames, All the household goods were also destroyed.
In 1800, John Matthews and Ebenezer Bucking- ham, who were the principal surveyors of much of the land in this part of Ohio, located the Bow- man section of land upon which Coshocton now stands. During the same year that the Williams house was built, Matthews and Buckingham, in- tending to make a permanent location, creeted a log house somewhere between the river bank and the Central House-corner Second and Main streets. It was also about this time that Dr. Increase Matthews, one of the proprietors of Putnamı, Muskingum county, visited Coshocton, being invited by his brother to engage in build- ing a mill on Mill ercek. He found in Coshoc- ton the two houses already mentioned; but speaks of having seen here on that occasion his own brother, John Matthews, Stephen Bueking- ham, Ebenezer Buckingham, jr., and a sister, afterwards Mrs. Fairland, keeping house for them. This intended settlement by the Buckingham's, was in the fall of 1802 abondoned, and they re- moved from the county. The reason of this re- moval was principally the prevalence of malarial diseases. For many years the place bore the name of being very unhealthy, and many who came here with a design to settle, left on that account.
Both the proprietors of the town soon aban- doned it, and in some way disposed of their in- terest in it. John Matthews went to Zanesville, was for a time interested in a store there, but finally built Moxahala mills, on Jonathan's creek, where he died sometime after.
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After Matthews and Buckingham left the place, William Seritchfield purchased and occupied the Buckingham house, as it was called. About the ycar 1804, William Whitten, a blacksmith, and afterwards the first justice of the peace, settled here, and lived in a cabin a little back of the pres- ent residence of William Burns, on Second street. About this time Calvin Bobbett also built a cabin just north of this, on lot 219. Not far from this date George Mccullough and Thomas Evans re- moved to the place. The former married a daughter of William Scritchfield and lived in the Buckingham house. "This was perhaps the first wedding in the county. What would we not give to be able to describe it. But the mem- ory thereof has faded away, and there is no one to tell the story. Imagination must be left to picture it to the reader, for there has been no chronicler of the events of that memorable day." Thomas Evans was a shoe maker and carried on his craft in a cabin which stood on Second street, excepting such times as he went from house to house with his kit, " cat-whipping," as it was then called.
About the year 1808, Andrew Lybarger, a tan- ner, moved into the place. He lived for a time on the northeast corner of Second and Walnut streets, carrying on the tannery just across Sec- ond street.
In I808, Zebedee Baker, a saddler, settled in the town. Several years later he moved to Mills Creek, and years afterwards returned to Coshoc- ton.
In 1809 or 1810, Abraham Wisecaver and James Colder settled here. Wisccaver was a hatter, and lived on or near lot 170, Second street. James Col- der was a merchant, and exhibited his goods on lot 214, Second street. This was no doubt the first attempt at merchandizing in the place. Colonel Williams, however, had previously kept on hand a stock of goods, which he traded with the In- dians for peltry. Adam Johnson also brought here in ISI1 and exposed for sale a stock of goods, in the log house which stood on the north- east corner of Water and Chestnut streets.
In March, 1810, Captain Joseph Neff came to this place. He was by trade a tailor and for many years followed the business. Owing to removals because of the unhealthy climate and other causes,
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