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NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Andrew Gilberg.
Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas A. Lemmon.
Sergeant C. L. Burnell.
Sergeant John Penny.
Sergeant A. B. Warmsley.
Sergeant Robert Winnings.
Corporal Aaron B. Guard.
Corporal Nathan Long.
Corporal Charles Richter.
Corporal Isaac D. Bolander.
Corporal James D. Hannegan.
Corporal Isaac Scott.
Bugler John M. Robinson.
Bugler Silas S. Hayes.
Farrier James J. Kely.
Farrier George Werner.
Farrier Hugh Gordon.
Saddler Henry Burkhardt.
Wagoner Frederick Eppert.
PRIVATES.
Thomas Atkins, C. Bishop, Michael F. Bright, John S. Bowles, William Bingle, John Brobst, Joseph Broos, George Burnell, Thomas W. Butts, James Crawford, Peter M. Clouse, Jacob M. Clouse, John Colvin, Aaron Davis, Henry Dormann, Jacob H. Gilberg, George Green, Charles C. Hayes, Joseph H. Hayes, Joseph Hooper, Arthur Hills, Patrick Haggerty, John C. Helmick, Henry H. Jones, Bruce Kean, George Kean, John H. King, Edward Ladd, Margina Lapish, John Lowry, M. H. McFarland, John McLean, Isaac McLean, John Martiney, James H. Miller, John H. Penny, Richard Penny, Michael Rierdan, William S. Reagan, Turner Stuart, Elijah Squires, Thomas R. Stevens, John Scriber, Lorenzo D. Tanner, John L. Wright, Lewis Wingert, August Winters, Nicholas Wermer, Jackson Williams.
COMPANY F.
PRIVATES.
William Collins, Kilian Ghret, George W. McGrew, Peter Schots- man, John Tign.
COMPANY G.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain John G. Curtis. First Lientenant John T. Taylor.
Second Lieutenant James T. Porter.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant John Pummell.
Quartermaster Sergeant Evan A. J. Saunders.
Sergeant David Perry. Sergeant Henry Slught.
Sergeant August M. Riddle.
Corporal John M. Robinson.
Corporal Daniel Boham. Corporal Samuel N. Smallwood.
Corporal C. C. Smallwood. Corporal A. J. Bummell.
Corporal Samuel Arnold. Corporal George W. Rockey. Bugler N. T. Pierce. Bugler Samuel W. Lewis. Farrier John Hitchins. Farrier August Rose. Wagoner John Crane. Saddler Andrew Hackenlooper.
PRIVATES.
Richard B. Arnold, O. P. Applegate, John M. Applegate, W. H. Andrews, E. A. Appleby, Joseph Applegate, Henry Barnes, Joseph C. Brady, David M. Barr, Joseph M. Crane, John R. Cummings, C. F.
Clark, Michael Connelly, E. F. Dill, Daniel R. David, Zadok Davis, John Elliott, Edward Eberlee, George M. Elliott, D. E. Fleming, John Flege, James Garbert, H. C. Hoping, Francis Henry, Charles Heller, Joseph F. Hoping, Patrick Higgins, James Jones, Thomas Jones, Ralph Jones, John Jones, Valentine Johnson, George N. Kirby, Simon Karsh, S. B. Layman, Isaac Long, Morgan Leasure, Blasure Miller, Thomas Murray, Peter Morris, John Oding, Alexander Pendry, J. B. Powell, B. Podesta, James Reddish, Allen Reed, David Reed, Charles Ruffin, Charles Sherbecker, Edward Shaw, Leander Smiley, Frederick Schwartz, O. A. Smith, Isaac Faggs, D. Vanblangen, H. C. Warmoth.
COMPANY H.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Chester M. Poor. First Lieutenant B. W. Thompson. Second Lieutenant John H. Hubbell.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant J. E. Overturf. Wagoner D. B. Webster. Farrier Andrew E. Appleby.
PRIVATES.
William N. Allen, William P. Ballance, Edward Brinkley, Spencer Bell, Henry A. Cotman, Asa Cluenger, James Dooley, Samuel W. Davis, Patrick Digman, James Dolan, Joseph Doerler, J. F. Dennis, Charles W. Davis, W. G. Evans, William W. Fanning, Christopher A. Frieschte, Edward Hopkins, Samuel Howes, Valentine Hill, J. L. Lawrence, George O. Ludlow, John McCracken, Charles Marks, James Mee, M. F. Mee, Jackson McCord, Michael Malone, Haspin Mitchell, D. McCarty, B. F. Mahew, B. F. Packer, E. J. Preston, John Peterson, August S. Rice, Simon Rawth, Robert B. Smith, Sen- eca Smith, George Wansbraugh, Arthur Wansbraugh, Benjamin Web- ber, Thomas Dobbins, R. T. Scofield, Charles F. Adams.
COMPANY I. COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
First Lieutenant Charles H. Murray.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant William B. Campbell.
Corporal Frederick Ruggles. Corporal John McCamman.
PRIVATES.
Michael Curry, John Frank, Nicholas Frank, Thomas Hoggans, Herman Keimenschnider, Henry Wetzel, Joseph Woolflayer.
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Norris R. Norton. First Lieutenant William Owens.
Second Lieutenant Elijah T. Van Cleve.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant William H. Britwhistle.
Sergeant William Fenell.
Sergeant Anthony Suygart.
. Sergeant William H. Shaddinger. Sergeant Christopher W. Goshen. Corporal Edward C. Little. Corporal William J. Brown.
Corporal Dedliff J. Hoff.
Corporal Franklin Huber. Corporal Benjamin F. Miller.
Corporal Allen Lewis.
Corporal William Brown.
Farrier Archibald Cameron.
Saddler Samuel Fechner.
Bugler Felix Muller.
PRIVATES.
George C. Allen, Lennox Burnett, Lemuel Crippen, John Colly, John H. Craig, Patrick Dunnican, James Donnell, William Emerson, Dan- iel Flagg, Benjamin K. Emerson, St. Clair Fechner, F. L. Fechner, Hugh Gorden, Frederick Gleich, Charles A. Hedges, Francis F. Howe, Joseph Henley, Alexander Hubbard, Charles C. Jeffries, Monroe Kirk, Theodore Montaginer, Dorsey C. Mitten, Henry C. Mader, Edward Mendenhall, Patrick Maxwell, James Martin, Joseph G. Mariott, James L. Pine, Charles A. Ransom, Charles L. Reynolds, George W. Robinson, Diedrich Ravens, Artillos Starkey, John Seeton, Oran
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Smith, John Shay, Benedict Speath, Henry Snider, Madison Sim, Wil- liam H. Treadway, Marion Tod, Charles Wooden, Luther S. Wright, Joseph Whitesell, Peter Wickham, Jason Webb, Cassius M. Miller, John Kennell.
COMPANY L.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Quartermaster Sergeant Stephen C. Courey. Private James Garbiett.
COMPANY M.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Captain John Henry.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Charles A. Miller.
Corporal James Miller. Corporal James C. Watson.
Corporal William Benson.
Wagoner Lewis Marcher.
PRIVATES.
William Abercrombie, Joseph Burchard, John Boffing, John N. Conrad, John Dieker, Adam Endress, Constantine Fricks, Charles R. Howard, Henry Hayden. .
SEVENTH OHIO CAVALRY.
This was organized somewhat peculiarly. Under the gloom indneed by Buell's retreat, in the summer of 1862, and the movement into Kentucky of Kirby Smith and Heath, Governor Tod, August 25th, ordered the Seventh cavalry, or "River Regiment," to be recruited-one hun- dred men in each of the counties of Meigs, Washington, Athens, Gallia, Scioto, Adams, Clermont, and Brown, and three hundred in Hamilton county. Within six days sixteen hundred men were enrolled. It rendez- voused at Ripley, and when the enemy's cavalry appeared at Augusta, Kentucky, a few miles below, company E, of the Seventh, procuring some muskets and other small arms, crossed and drove them out, with considerable loss to the invaders, but none to the bold assailants. Af- ter Bragg's retreat began, four companies were sent on a seout from Maysville into eastern Kentucky, and west to Falmouth. November 22d, the First battalion was sent to the field, and joined General Granger's force at Lexington, whence companies A, B, C, and D marched for the first raid into east Tennessee, upon which a rebel regiment guarding a long railway bridge at Zollicoffer's Station was captured without firing a gun, and another force, six miles distant, was taken after a spirited though brief action. Two fine railroad bridges were burned, and much other property destroyed. December 20th the Second battalion entered the field, with General Granger, as also, eleven days later, the Third. February 22, 1863, the entire regiment marched to Richmond, Kentucky, to repel a reported invasion. The latter part of March it joined in a vigorous pursuit of Pegram's cavalry, and engaged it heavily at Dutton hill, on the thirty-first, when a sabre charge by five companies of the Seventh decided the day. May Ist it was in another attack upon Pegram, at Monticello, and helped to rout him handsomely. June 9th, at the same place, it again, with other cavalry, attacked and drove out the same pes- tilent invader. Upon its retirement it was in turn attacked by Pegram, and fought successfully the desperate action at Rocky Gap, for which General Burnside complimented the regiment in orders. June roth one hundred picked
men of the command joined another expedition to de- stroy the east Tennessee railroads, where immense mis- chief was done the rebels. In July it engaged in the pursuit of Morgan across Ohio, traversing Hamilton county in its march, via Harrison, Springdale, Glendale, and Miamiville; and was the first to attack the bold raider in his last stand at Buffington. Colonel's Basil Duke and Smith, with their staffs and an eseort, sur- rendered to Colonel Garrard, of the Seventh. Septem- ber 3d the regiment entered Knoxville, and assisted in the capture of Cumberland Gap, with its garrison, on the ninth. It marched thence to Carter's Station, and defeated a large force there. It then held a strong post in the mountains east of Knoxville till October 10th, when it took part in the battle of Blue Springs, losing Captain Hyley, of company K, while heading a charge. One of the forts at Knoxville was subsequently named from him. At Bristol, on the Tennessee and Virginia line, an immense amount of supplies and railway prop- erty was destroyed by it. At Rogersville, November 6th, it, with a Tennessee regiment and a battery, was fiercely attacked and overpowered by nearly four times the num- ber of the Union force, losing one hundred and twelve men and some of its best officers. Colonel Garrard was in command, and a'court of inquiry not only exonerated him from blame, but praised his conduct in the affair. During the sicge of Knoxville, the Seventh defended Cumberland Gap, and December 5th joined in pursuit of the retreating enemy, having seven days and nights of almost incessent skirmishing and close fighting. On the twenty-third it drove a force from New Market, and on Christmas, after a long day's hard fight, cut its way out of a largely superior force at Dandridge. For some time in January, 1864, it picketed the fords of the French Broad above that place. On the twenty-seventh it aided in the defeat of two divisions of Wheeler's cavalry at Fair Garden. In May the regiment reached central Ken- tucky, by rail for east Tennessee, to repel Morgan, and on the twelfth participated in the successful attack upon him at Cynthiana. The Seventh alone captured about five hundred prisoners in this fight, but lost some valu- able officers and men. Colonel Garrard's brigade, in- cluding the Seventh, pursued Morgan vigorously to the mountains of eastern Kentucky. July 4th the regiment started for Atlanta, arriving on the twenty-sixth, and taking active part in the operations that led to the fall of the "Gate City." It encamped at Decatur till October 4th, and then engaged for a month in scouting and forage- ing for the Atlanta garrison. It was in the pursuit of Hood, and held the left of the Union line tenaciously at the battle of Franklin November 30th. It partici- pated in the battle of Nashville and the subsequent pur- suit; spent the winter at Gravelly Springs; aided to destroy rebel railways and iron works the next spring; engaged and defeated Forrest at Plantersville April Ist; and after Lee's surrender scouted northern Georgia to intercept Jefferson Davis. After his capture the Seventh was ordered to Nashville, where it was mustered out on Independence day, 1865. It had numbered, including recruits, one thousand four hundred members, of whom
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five hundred and sixty were lost by the casualties of war, including a number of its best officers.
FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel Israel Garrard. Major William Reaney. Adjutant Theodore F. Allen. Commissary Sergeant Frank Powers. Hospital Steward James Laffin.
COMPANY A.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain William Reaney. First Lieutenant Solomon L. Green.
PRIVATES.
Peter C. Apgar, C. H. Alexander, Francis Anbry, H. Bracken- seich, Robert Brewer, Charles Brown, Sampson A. Buchanan, George Brickett, John K. Bell, James Brickett, A. N. Buchanan, John Bennett, Paul G. Blazic, George Bohleper, Jonas H. Baldwin, C. B. Cornelius, John Cowan, Robert Cole, Jerome Clark, Thomas Collins, Patrick Castello, T. C. Duffy, H. Dollman, Peter Dunvester, Jacob Dorney, John Denurge, George W. Dolbow, James Donnel, Francis C. Ever- son, John Faulkner, Thomas Finn, Hiram Fortner, John Gny, Frede- rick Gilb, Leonard A. Gerhart, Charles N. Gudgeon, James Gill, William M. Henry, John Hopper, John Holliday, Thomas Hammon, David Halpins, George Hill, James M. Humphreys, Aaron Homer, Peter Ivory, James Johnson, Benjamin M. James, William Jones, William Kent, Patrick F. Kline, Samuel Leisure, Andrew J. Leisure, George Lawrence, George W. Leonard, David Lind, David Lewis, Henry Lewis, L. Lambert, Albert Mckinney, Joseph McKnaux, John McCann, Wm. McGlinchy, Calvin McCallister, R. V. McAllister, James Morris, William Myers, Levi Morris, James Marguantaylor, Augustus S. Miller, Phillip Mozer, Frederick Nunnamaker, Tipton L. Nolan, John Paden, S. B. Pierson, Thomas Rowan, Samuel Rich, John Rod- derick, Charles Rudder, Lafayette Raney, William Kaney, jr., A. R. Smith, William B. Sloan, C. T. Smith, Harlan P. Shurtleff, William T. Shumard, L. A. Slade, Max G. Vorhis, Theodore Van, John Weller, Christopher Weller, John Walker, George T. Williams, Christopher Warning, Bennett Williams, C. L. Whitten, James Whitten, Joseph Whelan, Theodore Woodward, Homer E. Ware.
COMPANY B.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain W. H. Lewis. First Lieutenant J. P. Santimyer.
Second Lieutenant William G. Burton.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant William Boggs.
Quartermaster Sergeant David Willis.
Commissary Sergeant Joseph Whitaker.
Sergeant William G. Reynolds. Sergeant Michael Covnan. Sergeant Thomas Vale. Sergeant James Ward. Sergeant William J. Wright. Corporal Jackson Campbell.
Corporal Harry Leggett. Corporal Samuel Hill. Corporal Nelson Frazee. Corporal Albert Willis. Corporal William J. Ward.
Corporal Patrick Savage. Corporal Anthony Chevalier. Teamster Sylvester Temple. Teamster John Thompson. Farrier' James S. Harrison. Farrier Wilson Kennedy. Saddler John Yeager. Wagoner Gilbert P. Haley.
PRIVATES.
Smith H. Apple, Theodore Apple, Michael Armstrong, Frank And- rot, Snyder Anten, John Boston, James Bodly, George Bodman, John Baptiste, John Breslin, Samuel Blangy, Isaac Burroughs, F. W. Cressky, Charles Cornell, John Cummings, H. S. Coleman, James Castner, George Castner, H. B. Coleman, Charles Cellor, E. Callaghan, Aquilla "Durham, N. T. Drake, E. Dawson, C. G. Dollman, Joseph Dressback, Levi Epple, James Farly, James Flick, Martin Flick, J. M.
Fletcher, Aaron Fowler, G. W. Gordon, W. Gaushaus, Conrad Groter, Patrick Graham, John Gamble, George Garrard, A. G. Green, Frank Gallagher, J. P. Hall, C. G. Hooper, Stephen Hahn, William J. Hart- ley, George Hillgahnan, William Kennedy, J. Jacobs, H. H. King, Jonathan Kennedy, Morris Kelly, J. C. McAvoy, John McCain, Thomas McKatrick, John McDonald, William Masters, John Men- ough, M. Macke, J . Murphy, James Magell, Mike Maroghan, Henry Myer, Hugh McDonnel, Luke Moore, George Noble, Bryan O'Riley, S. Patterson, Thomas Pattinson, William N. Peters, Richard Reynold, James Riley, Joseph Sterling, Patrick Shaw, Nicholas Sallnar, George Studer, J. Sommers, Perry Sharps, Alexander Thompson, Robert Tornley.
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain William T. Simpson. First Lieutenant Mathias Schuler.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Quartermaster Sergeant James S. Everich.
PRIVATES.
Louis Ackley, Joseph Adams, William S. Archer, James Ambrose, Charles Brossart, Michael Burns, Josiah Bell, James Butler, Frederick Buckey, Joseph Bernard, Samuel Coleman, John Conway, Michael Dneber, William Davison, David Everley, Charles L. Engart, James S. Everrick, Christopher Fegin, Michael Fox, Lonis A. Funk, Patrick Fleming, Robert Faulkner, John Graham, Benjamin Guion, Frank Grabe, Joseph Gonlet, Lewis Gerline, Christopher Harpst, Daniel Harris, John Heron, James A. Hank, William Hulse, George W. Houston, Joseph F. Hermise, Thomas Haney, John Harroll, Martin Hegr.ey, Franklin Hall, James N. Holrihan, Alfred Jacobs, Henry Jeffers, Alonzo P. Kendall, Warner Kooks, John Kelly, William H. Kelly, Patrick Kilkelly, Frederick Kenitz, Winfield Kelly, George Knapp, John Keely, Harmon Kesler, John Lively, Joseph Lotkering, George W. Lloyd, Milchi Myers, William Morgan, George Mullaly, George P. Main, John W. Manly, Nathan B. Meader, Frederick Moor- hoff, Isaac C. Masson, Patrick Mitchell, Isaac McDaniel, James Mad- dox, Henry Porter, Robert Palmer, Truman Pier, Benjamin F. Powers, John W. Randall, Joseph Roark, Andrew J. Roby, Gideon Roby, Eugene Smith, James H. Spier, jr., Samnel Shephard, Ferdinand Shultz, Patrick Sylvester, George W. Smith, Thomas Smith, Henry F. Scward, James Saffin, John H. Shephard, James Tilter, John Uncap- her, Jacob Ukele, John Van Blairicum, John Vogt, Reeder Vanoms- dol, Adolph Wilderstein, Joseph Walkenhorst, J. J. Weiller, Thomas Wetzel, Edward Welch, James Ward, George H. Warry, Thomas Wolf, Thomas E. Young, Jacob Bukart, Albert B. Crasly, Palmer Hol- land, Alexander Kennett, Charles Negley, Samuel J. Patterson, Francis N. Strandley, George Wallack.
COMPANY D. COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Captain Ira Furgusson.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant D. N. Fisher.
Farrier Madison Eppert.
PRIVATES.
David C. Barrow, William Fox, N. P. Moore, E. R. Miller, G. B. McGill.
COMPANY I.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant James H. Mills. Corporal John Walker.
PRIVATES.
Charles Dinsmoor, David Forest, Harvey G. Love, Lewis L. Love, Benjamin McClary, David McClary, Gardner B. Stebbins, David Young.
COMPANY K.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Sergeant Patrick McHan.
PRIVATES.
John Bable, Westley Dillworth, Levi W. Sisson, John W. Sisson, Silvetas Shiner, Henry Spiner.
COMPANY L. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
Saddler Jobe Randolf.
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PRIVATES.
Robert Canterbury, William A. Criner, Edward Drake, Joseph Henry, Clark Lewis, Nicholas Throenen.
THE NINTH OHIO CAVALRY.
Previous to October, 1862, a company of fifty men had been enlisted by Captain W. D. Hamilton, of the Thirty-second Ohio infantry; and early in that month the same officer received orders to complete his regiment, the fifty before secured becoming the nuclens. They rendezvonsed at Zanesville. The command remained in the region near Manchester, Kentucky, having frequent skirmishes with the enemy, until June 15th, when an ex- pedition was planned into east Tennessee. At Pine Mountain Gap the rebels were surprised, and nearly all captured without firing a gun. On the first of August it proceeded to Glasgow, where a cavalry brigade was or- ganizing, which was destined to move with General Burnside into east Tennessee. During this march both men and horses were sometimes for two days without food. Knoxville was taken with little opposition. Major Hamilton was appointed provost marshal of the city, and the battalion did patrol and guard duty around the sub- urbs. On the sixteenth of December the. regiment was completed by the organization of the Third battalion. It was finally ordered to report at Decatur, Alabama, on the fifth of May. Previous to this time, portions had been in different localities and had met with a great variety of experiences, some of the men having died in the horrible Andersonville prison. Between this date and June 1st, cavalry skirmishes were of daily occurrence. After sev- eral movements, involving long and fatiguing marches, they joined General Sherman's army in front of Atlanta. About the middle of November the different portions of the Ninth that had been doing duty apart were again joined, and from this time were a part of General Sher- man's army on the march to the coast. The command was finally ordered to Concord, North Carolina, where it remained on duty until the first of July, when it was or- dered home. On the second of August, 1865, the regi- mental colors and other property were turned over to the Government at Columbus, and the veterans once more became citizens and finally separated.
COMPANY E. PRIVATES.
Thomas H. Bell, George W. Behmyer, Frank Bucter, Martin Calner, Thomas Cox, Alvin G. Dunham, Bernard Esther, John Fridler, Jacob Grovenbacker, Gottfried Henninger, William Hampton, Philip Hay- den, Wilson Jones, Richard Jones, Edgar Kain, Joseph Loth, John Laun, James McCarthy, Peter J. Morris, Patrick Mursin, William Putnam, Charles Renolds, David G. Smith, Corsenden Stegall, William Smith, Nicholas Trimble, James H. Vandever, Philip Walten, Frank Wesler.
COMPANY F. PRIVATES.
William Ball, Frank Howard, James Madden, Henry Page, Joseph H. Phelan, George Timony, Charles Williams, Frank Williams.
COMPANY G.
PRIVATES.
John Ardis, Samuel Antrim, William B. Anderson, Jacob R. Armon, David S. Brock, Charles A. Brooks, William Camp, Oliver Coaltrep, John Curless, Thomas Crowin, George N. Davis, Charles Elsan, Ste- phan Funk, Frank Goodwin, John Gilern, Thomas W. Hurtl, Frank Harff, John M. Hendry, Charles Howard, John W. J. Johnson, James
Jones, John Kulter, Charles Koch, Jacob Leiter, William Lightfoot, John A. Mace, James Polk, John Ryan, Jack Rover, Joseph Robinson, Edward Sullivan, Thomas N. Savider, Benjamin F. Sauer, Henry Stahl, Adolph St. Clair, William Troxsell, John B. Vanmetter, Edmund Ward.
COMPANY H. PRIVATES.
Joseph Brumann, Henry Baistaffer, Henry Fisher, Joseph C. Fox, Jacob Hall, Bernard Hager, Theodore A. Kingston, Eugene Maselli, William Myer, Charles Smith, Valentine Werner.
COMPANY K. PRIVATES.
William Adams, William L. Anderson, Edwin T. Abbott, Isaac Brown, John Briggs, Joseph Brukard, Albert E. Blinn, Danbridge Bush, Abraham Bush, George N. Clark, Henry Cleveland, James Do- ran, George Dermot, Jacob Dermer, William S. Fitch, James T. Glass, William Haines, Alexander Hays, Gustave Horn, Henry L. Hodge, John Higden, Albert C. Jamison, William J. Kirker, John Kohnley, John H. Lindsey, Louis Lyons, Frank N. Lutz, Carl Mecke, John Montgomery, Maxwell Oddinger, Thompson Pitts, Joseph H. Ross, Frederick Storms, William Sanity, John I. Stites, Henry Schrader, Frank Shults, Henry F. Schenk, Henry Stevans, Henry Strans, Wil- liam J. Wilson, Thomas B. Wentworth, Aaron White, George N. Waters, William B. Weer.
COMPANY M. PRIVATES.
William Enright, George Green, Patrick Hazel, John H. Luse, Charles Smith, John Q. Smith.
ELEVENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.
Toward the close of the summer of 1861, William O. Collins, of Highland county, was authorized to recruit a regiment of cavalry to be named the Seventh; but about the first of December the enlistment of cavalry was stopped. The Seventh was then joined to the Sixth, tak- ing the latter's name. The battalion from the Seventh being ready for service, was ordered to St. Louis, Mis- souri, leaving the other two in Ohio and never meeting them again. While the battalion first named was at Ben- ton Barracks, the Indians becoming hostile, it was or- dered to proceed at once across the plains to open and protect communication. The command reached Fort Laramie on the thirtieth of May, having travelled seven hundred miles in twenty-six marching days. While on their way, they were fired upon by guerillas, and suffered greatly from exposure; but the Indian trouble being still farther west, with the exception of a few kept at the fort, they were moved on to the mountains. At last they were established near Pacific Springs and the South Pass, about two hundred miles east of Salt Lake City. In the summer of 1863, Lieutenant Colonel Collins recruited another battalion for duty in the Rocky mountains. The two battalions were raised to a regiment, and were named the Eleventh Ohio volunteer cavalry. The second bat- talion was in Ohio at the time of the Morgan raid, and shared in the pursuit and capture of the invaders. It reached Fort Leavenworth about the last of Angust, and arrived at Fort Laramie the thirteenth of October, 1863. On the first of April, 1865, the First battalion was mustered ont at Omaha, and the remaining companies were returned to Columbus for payment, in July, 1866. They were the last troops in the service from Ohio. Of the service of this regiment, it is impossible to give an outline. A complete history would be full of startling incidents and hairbreadth escapes. Its loss of life fully
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equaled the average loss of life in other Ohio cavalry reg- iments. Its most important battles were those of Mud Springs and Rush Creek. The length of its expeditions, by scouting and escorting parties, was probably not par- alleled in any other service during the war. To make the circuit of the posts required one thousand miles' travel; and to keep up communication with the most dis- tant was at times extremely difficult and dangerous. The regiment was never actually together during its term of service. It was engaged with the Sioux, Snakes, Chey- ennes, Arrapahoes, and Utes. The field of its opera- tions was in the center of the Rocky mountains, extend- ing nearly six hundred miles east and west, and three hundred north and south. No better evidence of the regiment's courage and vigilance can be had than the fact that after the distribution of troops in the summer of 1862, until February, 1865, communications were never interrupted on either route for twenty-four hours in suc- cession.
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