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David Marsh, died in hospital at Jackson, Miss, July 17, 1863. Robert Patterson, killed at Atlanta, Ga., August 24, 1864.
John Patterson, died at Cincinnati, O., April 16, 1862.
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Atlas Perkins, died at Gauley's Bridge Hospital, Va., October 3, 1861.
Lyman B. Skinner, killed at Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864.
David Smith, died in regiment hospital, Camp Sherman, Miss., August 18, 1863.
David S. Scott, died in hospital at Camp Union, Va., February 26, 1862.
Thompson Urton, killed at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864. Aaron Wood, died in hospital at Young's Point, La., May 23, 1863. James Stephens, died in regiment hospital at Camp Union, Va., January 9, 1862.
Samuel Johnson, died in hospital at Camp Union, Va., April 29, 1862.
William H. Jackson, died in hospital at St. Louis, Mo., August 16, 1863.
Juston O. Langstaff, killed at Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863.
David D. Laymaster, killed at Atlanta, Ga., August 24, 1864.
COMPANY B, 32ND O. V. I.
Robert N. McDowell, died in prison at Winchester, Va., October 4, 1862.
COMPANY D, 40TH O. V. I.
Jesse B. McDowell, drowned in Big Sandy River at Piketon, Ky., February, 1862.
COMPANY H, 46TH O. V. I.
James E. Gowans, killed November 25, 1863, at Mission Ridge, Tenn.
COMPANY K, 46TH O. V. I.
William Hudson, died June, 1862, at Memphis, Tenn.
COMPANY K, 54TH O. V. I.
James Clark, died at home.
David Cook, died at home.
David Kent, died July 6, 1864, at Nickojack Creek, Ga.
COMPANY H, 63RD O. V. I.
Eli J. Casey, killed at Corinth, Miss, October 4, 1862.
COMPANY F, 66TH O. V. I.
Delmore Robinson, died July 10, 1862, in hospital, Alexandria, Va. COMPANY F, 66TH O. V. I.
Leonard Stithem, died at Urbana, O., January 20, 1862. COMPANY H, 66TH O. V. I.
David Shinneman, died Cumberland, Md.
COMPANY E, 85TH O. V. I.
Henry Smeck, died at home.
COMPANY B, 86TH O. V. I. (Six Months).
James A. Curry, died at Crab Orchard, Ky., October 2, 1863. William Wise, died at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., January 4, 1864.
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COMPANY D, 88TH O. V. I. William Fulk, died at Camp Chase, Columbus, O., April 2, 1863. George F. McIntire, died in hospital, January 22, 1864.
COMPANY K, 95TH O. V. I. S. B. Beard, died June 17, 1864, in hospital at Memphis, Tenn. COMPANY K, 96TH O. V. I.
Jesse N. Perry, died on board the Hiawatha, January 9, 1863. William D. Laughead, died in hospital at Nicholasville, Ky., No- vember 28, 1862.
George W. Mitchell, died at St. Louis, February 11, 1863. Jacob Nonnemaker, died on board hospital steamer near Vicks- burg, January 20, 1863.
George W. Reuhlen, died at Baton Rouge, La., October 4, 1864. Alfred P. Liggett, died at home while in the service, September 15, 1864.
William J. Green, drowned in Mississippi River, at New Orleans, July 23, 1864.
18TH U. S. INFANTRY.
George Stierhoff, killed at Stone River, Tenn., December 31, 1862.
Gotfried Ditmus, died in service.
H. G. Converse, died March 12, 1862.
George Beal, died at Nashville, Tenn., 1862.
David Williams, died in the service.
Henry Rider, killed at Ringgold, Ga., 1863.
Alexander Latham, died at Nashville, April 2, 1863.
COMPANY A, 121ST O. V. I.
Otway B. Cone, died July 21, 1864, in hospital at Chattanooga. Tenn., of wounds June 27.
COMPANY I, 121ST O. V. I.
Robert F. Fleming, killed at Chickamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863.
Lewis J. Ketch, killed at Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 1864.
James Hill served in an Indiana regiment and died in the army.
Index to Regimental Histories
CIVIL WAR.
FIRST OHIO CAVALRY. 80
TWELFTH OHIO CAVALRY 86
THIRTEENTH O. V. I.
91
SEVENTEENTH O. V. I.
94
THIRTIETH O. V. I ..
95
THIRTY-SECOND O. V. I.
99
THIRTY-FOURTH O. V. I.
103
FORTIETH O. V. I ..
104
FORTY-SIXTH O. V. I. 106
FIFTY-FOURTHI O. V. I.
107
FIFTY-EIGHTH O. V. I.
109
SIXTY-THIRD O. V. I.
111
SIXTY-SIXTH O. V. I. 112
EIGHTY-SECOND O. V. I.
114
EIGHTY-SIXTH O. V. I. (3 months)
117
EIGHTY-SIXTH O. V. I. (6 months) .
118
EIGHTY-FIFTH O. V. I ..
118
EIGHTY-EIGIITH O. V. I
120
NINETY-FOURTH O. V. I.
121
NINETY-FIFTH O. V. I.
123
NINETY-SIXTH O. V. I. 125
ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH O. V. I ..
129
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH O. V. I. 130
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST O. V. I. 132
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH O. V. I. 137
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH O. V. I. 141
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THIRD O. V. I. . 139
143
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH O. V. I ... 145
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOURTH O. V. I. 145
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVENTH O. V. I.
147
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIRST O. V. I. (one-year service) 149
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVENTH O. V. I .. 150
SEVENTH INDEPENDENT COMPANY, OHIO SHARPSHOOTERS. 151
TENTH OIIIO BATTERY, LIGHT ARTILLERY. 153
THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS. 154
EIGHTEENTH U. S. ARTILLERY 156
159
FORTY-SEVENTH U. S. C. T .. 160
160
SPANISH WAR.
FOURTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 162
FIRST OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY 165
SEVENTEENTH U. S. INFANTRY 166
COLONEL GEORGE RUEHLEY
168
MEXICAN WAR 170
WAR OF 1812. 175
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION 181
OUR BOYS OF OTHER STATES. 184
OUR HEROINES 186
ROSTER OF REGIMENTS. 191
SOLDIERS BURIED IN CEMETERIES - JEROME TOWNSHIP. 201
OUR HEROIC DEAD.
203
TWENTY-SEVENTH U. S. C. T.
UNITED STATES NAVY
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTH O. V. I.
OHIO CAVARYMAN "Going to the Front."
SONGS OF WAR TIME. By W. L. CURRY.
The music that inspires soldiers during war is not con- fined to the shrill fife, the rattling drum and thrilling bugle. While many a soldier on the weary march, almost ready to drop from exhaustion, has been cheered and enthused by drum and bugle, yet the old patriotic war songs sung in camp and on the march served as a tonic that buoyed the soldier up to new effort when overcome by hunger and fatigue.
Some writer has said, "Let me write the songs of a na- tion and I care not who makes the laws." In times of war it is remarkable what an influence music has upon the sol- diers. The Russians chant their hymns as they are led to battle, as did the Boers in the recent war with England. The French army marches to battle singing the Marseillaise hymn. The German sings "The Watch on the Rhine," while the Englishman is wild with enthusiasm when he hears "God Save the Queen." The soldiers of the Union army during the Civil War were cheered when in camp, on the march, and on the battle line by many war songs which still touch a chord in the memory of every soldier and patriotic citizen.
In the great crises of a nation, men seem to be born for any emergency ; not only great generals are produced to lead the armies in case of war, but men great in oratory, literature and poetry come from all the walks of life. So it was when the Civil War began. Generals, orators, men of literary genius and poets were ready to take their places as actors in the great drama of the sanguinary struggle to fol- low.
In the beginning we had few patriotic or war songs that appealed to our people both old and young. Following the attempt of John Brown to arouse the whole nation by incit- ing an uprising of the slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, came the song echoing all over the Northland, "John Brown's Body Lies Mouldering in the Grave, and His Soul
Is Marching On." The melody of this old song had the right rhythm and swing for marching, and it was sung by the soldiers more than any other song during the war. How well the thrill of these old songs is remembered by the vet- erans of the war, and the wives, the sisters, and any of the fathers or mothers who may yet survive.
The smoke had scarcely risen from the battered walls of Fort Sumter when all over the land was heard "Hail Co- lumbia," "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," "The Red, White and Blue," and "The Star-Spangled Banner."
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."
The rattle of the war drums and the sharp ringing notes of the bugle were heard in every village, hamlet and city, and the boys were marching away gaily with measured step to the wild music.
Then came "Rally 'Round the Flag" ringing from every hilltop and through every valley in the North. It was writ- ten by eGorge F. Root and sung by every man, woman and child as their fathers, husbands, brothers and sweethearts marched away.
"Yes, we'll rally 'round the flag, boys, We'll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom."
I remember most vividly the first time I heard that inspiring song. I had been taken prisoner and was on parole at Camp Chase in the autumn of 1862. Happening in the city of Columbus one evening, I was attracted to the old Buckeye Hotel, located where the Chamber of Com- merce now stands, by sounds of merry making in that his- toric old hostelry. There I found a number of my young friends celebrating in their new uniforms, as a number of them had just been promoted to lieutenancies in their sey- eral regiments. They were singing "Rally 'Round the Flag"
with great enthusiasm and it was very inspiring. I joined in the chorus and we marched out Broad Street to High, and down High to Town and back again, singing as we marched, followed by a great crowd-even the policemen, who always looked askance at soldiers making a noise on the streets, joined in the march and shouts of applause.
When the call was issued by President Lincoln for 300,000 men, there came another song, so appropriate, writ- ten by J. S. Adams :
"We are coming, Father Abr'am, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore;
We leave our plow and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear; We dare not look behind us, but steadfastly before,
We are coming, Father Abra'am, three hundred thousand more."
Three hundred thousand more were singing "Tenting To-night," written by Walter Kittridge, a New England soldier.
"Many are the hearts that are weary tonight Wishing for the war to cease, Many are the hearts, looking for the right To see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, Tenting on the old camp ground."
While the carnage of war was still raging, there came that pathetic, home-sick song by George F. Root, sung by the boys around the campfires on the eve of battle, when the lines were forming :
"Just before the battle, Mother, I am thinking most of you, While upon the field we're watching, With the enemy in view. Comrades brave around me lying, Filled with thot's of home and God; For well they know that on the morrow, Some will sleep beneath the sod."
The battle had ended and many of the boys had fallen in the wild charge. Those who survived wrote to the dear ones in the Northland the sad tidings of suffering and death,
and then could be heard softly and sweetly wafted through the waving pines :
"Do they miss me at home, do they miss me, 'Twould be an assurance most dear To know at this moment some loved one Were saying, I wish he were here; To feel that the group at the fire-side, Were thinking of me as I roam,
Oh, yes, 'twould be joy beyond measure To know that they miss me at home."
When the sad news came from the boys on the battle lines, then could be heard in the homes the pathetic answer :
"We shall meet, but we shall miss him, There will be one vacant chair; We shall linger to caress him, While we breathe our evening prayer. When a year ago we gathered Joy was in his mild blue eye, But a golden cord is severed And our hopes in ruin lie."
The most inspiring poem of the war was "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," written by Julia Ward Howe. It is related that she spent an evening in the camps along the Potomac River; returning to her home, she awakened before daybreak and, in the dawn, wrote that wonderful poem in an hour.
During the great battle summer of 1864, when the Army of the Potomac under Grant was fighting through the Wilderness, and Sherman's Army was driving the Confed- erates through the mountain passes and across the rivers of Northern Georgia, there came from the prison pens that song of hope and confidence :
"Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, Cheer up comrades, they will come, And beneath the starry flag, We will breathe the air again Of the freeland in our beloved home."
There were many other war songs, among which may be named "Brave Battery Boys," "Kingdom Coming," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," and a few other pathetic songs.
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