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On July 19. 1862. Governor Dennison appointed Dr. Milton Lemen, Robert Arm- strong, William Curtain. Gabriel Prugh and Judge B. F. Clark. as a military committee for Madison county. On June 24. 1863. the military committee was reorganized, and the following gentlemen were appointed by Governor Tod: Robert Armstrong, Judge B. F. Clark, Gabriel Prugh, Thomas P. Jones and O. P. Grabbe, who served until the war was over.
COMPANY ROSTERS.
In the following the history and description of the various regiments have been compiled from Whitelaw Reid's valuable work on "Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen. Her Generals. and Soldiers," published in New York, in 1868. The company rosters have been taken from the "Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion. 1861-1866," issued and compiled under the direction of the roster commis- sion of Ohio, from the adjutant-general's office, between 1SSG and 1893. It is therefore felt that the following rolls are as complete and as correct as it is possible to make them, though doubtless there may be found omissions and errors.
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SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT, OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The nucleus of the Seventeenth Regiment was an organization raised at Lancaster, Ohio, under the militia law of Ohio. These were later joined by several companies from other counties, among which were those of Capt. Thomas Acton, of London, and Capt. Thomas J. Haynes, of Plain City. Madison county. This regiment was organized at the fair grounds, near Lancaster, by the election of field officers. The Seventeenth left Zanes- ville, whither it had proceeded, on June 20, for Bellaire, and on arriving at Benwood. across the Ohio river from Bellaire. it embarked on June 23 for Marietta, arriving there on Sunday afternoon. The following morning it started for Parkersburg. and in a few hours the Seventeenth was on Virginia soil. It was at once brigaded with the Ninth and Tenth Ohio Regiments, with Gen. William S. Rosecrans in command of the brigade.
The first duty to which it was detailed was the guarding of trains to Clarksburg. West Virginia, and return. Company F was the first assigned to this duty, being sent with two carloads of provisions. Companies A and B were detailed as guard to General Mcclellan. Companies 1. F. G and K were sent down the river on an expedition under the command of Major Steele, with sealed orders, not to be opened until Blennerhassett's Island was passed. One company was put off at Larue, West Virginia, and the other two proceeded on down to Ripley Landing and crossed over by land to Ripley. the county seat of Jackson county. Both detachments were to operate against the guerrillas of the (lifferent localities. The chief of the gnerilla leaders of the district were the two Wests. father and son, who had made their boasts that they would "annihilate the Yankees on sight," but took good care to keep within a safe distance from the Yankees they had set out to annihilate. Two companies were retained at Ravenswood. as a garrison, until July 10. on which date they were ordered to report to the regiment at Buckhannon. Virginia. on July 14. The other tive companies. Colonel Connell. commanding. started to march across to Buckhannon by way of Glenwood. At Glenwood they were surrounded on the 4th of July by a force of abont fifteen hundred Confederates. but being well posted, held their position nntil re-enforced by the Tenth Ohio, Colonel Lytle. Soon after the regiment had consolidated at Buckhannon, it was ordered on an expedition with several other regiments. Colonel Tyler commanding, to Sutton, Virginia. After a long and hard march. Sutton was occupied and fortified.
The Seventeenth having served overtime by a few days, started for home, arriving at Zanesville: Ohio, on August 13, and was mustered out of the three months' service on the 15th at Camp Goddard. The two Madison county companies returned to their homes, and many, if not all of them. later joined regiments in the three-years service, principally enlisting in the different companies from Madison county that went into the Twenty-sixth. Fortieth, Ninety-fifth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiments.
Company C-This company. originally christened "The Eagle Gnards," was organ- ized at London, mider the first call for troops in April. 1861. It was subsequently ordered to Lancaster, Ohio, and there mustered into the service on April 27. 1861, at Camp Ander- son. joining the Seventeenth Regiment. with the following roster :
Officers-Thomas Acton, captain ; Delaner L. Deland. first lieutenant : Oren E. Davis. second lieutenant : Aquila Toland, Jr., first sergeant : Andrew J. White, Charles C. McCor- mack and Robert M. Hanson. sergeants: James C. Peck. Emery Smith, David M. Hull and Isaac N. Davidson, corporals, and James Lyons, musician.
Privates-William Anderson. Charles Arthur. John Arthur. Joseph Berkemer. Thomas Betts, John M. Bickel, Martin Boling, William Boling, Wilson Burroughs. Henry Bradley. Ethan A. Brittingham, Jacob Bussard. William T. Bussard. William M. Byerly, Isaac W. Byers, Mortemore Carey. Timothy Chamberlain. George Chamberlin. John Clark. Edward Clarridge. Dennis Coffy. Charles Converse. Francis M. Crabb. David M. Creighton, James
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Curtis, Patrick Cusick, George Emerson, Benjamin Emery, John Evans, Jerome W. Field. Thomas Fitzgerald. William M. Flannagan, Thomas Fodey, Thomas Godfrey, John Goodin, John W. Gosslee, John Grey, Benjamin Hale, Timothy Haley, Henry Hamilton, Seneca W. Hancock, Adou Harper, Eli Hilderbrant, John Hilderbrant, Jacob Houston, Francis M. Ingalls, William J. Hutcheson, William Kendall, Samuel Lenhart, Andrew Lewis, Reason F. Lewis. Jacob T. Long, William Lynch, George Lyons, Oresta A. McCaulla, Henry McDaniel, William MeDaniel, John McLain, Simeon L. B. McMillen, William Markley, Michael Masterson, Nathan C. Moore, Benjamin Nattre, Justin Olney, Timothy O'Sulli- van, Minor Paine, James H. Palmer, James M. Real, William Rutter, John Ryder, William Sanders, John M. Scott. Otho M. Scott. Samuel W. Seivers. John Smith, Worley Smith, Thomas Stephenson. Henry Sullenburger, Stephen Telly, Jaines P. Thacker, Thomas Thompson, Jacob Trost. Joseph A. Waggeman, Jolm E. Ward, James Ware, John Welsh aud Melancthon Worthington.
Company G-On the first call for troops in April, 1861, this company was immediately organized at Plain City. and forwarded to Lancaster, Ohio, where it was mustered in at Camp Anderson, on April 27, 1861.
Officers-Thomas J. Haynes, captain: Daniel Taylor, first lieutenant; George W. Douty. second lieutenant : Titus G. Case, first sergeant ; Rodney C. McCloud, Robert F. Flemming and Albert W. Allen, sergeants; Daniel B. Hager. William F. Bancroft, Daniel H. Thomas and David Reece, corporals; Silas G. Chapman and Clark L. Barlow, musicians.
Privates-George Allen, James Anderson, Charles C. Andrew, Benjamin Beach, Joseph Beach, George W. Beals. Levi Berkstruser. James Black, John T. Blake, Patterson Brad- ley, Silas W. Chapman. James E. Conklin, Hiram K. Converse, Hiram Douglas, Washing- ton Durboraugh, George F. Flaherty. George P. Frisby, Wilkinson Guy, Richard D. Haynes. Andrew Hill, Leander Robert. Lorenzo Robert, Lysander G. Huff, Andrew J. James, George Kennedy, David Kent. James M. Kilbnry. William N. Kile, James G. Langstaff. Justin O. Langstaff, Abel Lock, Benjamin F. Incas, John McClung, David McCune. John P. McDowell, Uriah H. McDowell, John Marshall, Leander Mercer, George Miller, James T. Mills, Albert More. Alpheus B. More, Mathew Murphy, George Norris, John Parrish. Eslie Patch. John E. Patterson, John F. Perry. Luther Perry, Samuel K. Reese. Samuel Rulhen, William Rulhen, George Russel. Ruben W. Searfus, Alanson Sester. Llewellyn Shamway, James Shamway. John W. Shirk. Samuel Stamp, James Stanton. Marion Stephens. Eliphas Tarpenning. William Taylor, Daniel Tracy, Frederick J. Wadsworth, George Walker, Lewis W. Wells, John Williams, Warren C. Winget, Joel H. Worthington and Joseph Zennick.
London also furnished four other boys in the one-hundred-days service. James M. Dungan. William L. Fickey. Charles R. Cover and Isaac G. Peetrey were forbidden by their parents to enlist in Capt. Thomas Acton's company, so they ran off to Springfield to enlist. There Cover and Peetrey and Dungan and Fickey applied at two different recruit- ing stations. Cover and Peetrey were admitted into Company F of the Second Regiment. mit Dungan and Fickey were a little too late and were not admitted. Undaunted. they took the next train for Columbus and there were admitted to Company B of the Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT, OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The Twenty-sixth Regiment was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, in July, 1861, and was recruited from the counties of Butler, Ross. Delaware, Guernsey, Mahonning, Cham- paign. Scioto and Madison. When its organization was completed it was ordered to the upper Kanawha valley, where it did service until January, 1862. most of the time en- gaged in severe scout duty. In the movement by General Rosecrans on Sewell Mountain the Twenty-sixth Regiment claims to have led the advance, and to have brought up the
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rear on the retreat from that point. Soon afterward it was transferred from the Depart- ment of West Virginia to the Department of the Ohio, afterward named the Department of the C'inberland. It was then brigaded with the Fifteenth, Seventeenth and Fiftieth Indiana Regiments, under the command of Colonel M. S. Hascall, and placed in Brig-Gen. Thomas J. Wood's division, of which it constituted a part until October, 1863. When the Army of the Cumberland was organized into corps, at Louisville, in September. 1862. the division was assigned to the Twenty-first Corps, and so remained until October. 1863, when the Twentieth and Twenty-first Corps were consolidated with the Fourth Corps, and the Twenty-sixth Regiment became a part of the Second Brigade ( Wagner's), Second Division (then Sheridan's) of the Fourth Corps.
The Twenty-sixth Regiment formed a part of the advance colmim on Nashville, after the capture of Ft. Donelson, and shared the forced marches, hardships and privations of General Bnell's army in its advance to Pittsburg Landing to the relief of General Grant. In the advance from Shiloh, through the swamps of northern Mississippi. upon Corinth, the Twenty-sixth occupied the first line. and was the first to enter the place. During the summer of 1862. the regiment bore its full share of the hardships of General Buell's fruit; less campaign. In August of that year the Twenty-sixth took part in the attack, near MeMinnville, Tennessee, upon Forrest's brigade of cavalry, capturing prisoners, General Forrest's body servant, battle borse and private carriage. In the memorable forced marches of Buell and Bragg. from the Tennessee to the Ohio, and thence toward Cumber- land Gap, in the fall of 1862. the Twenty-sixth Ohio did its full duty.
BORE THE BRUNT OF BATTLE.
On December 26, 1862. General Rosecrans commenced his advance from Nashville against Murfreesboro. During this action the Twenty-sixth Ohio, under Major Squires, supported in part by the Fifty-eighth Indiana, made a gallant and successful charge, storming and driving from a strong position, in the village of Lavergne, a far larger force of the enemy that for many honrs had held the left wing of the army at bay, and seriously impeded the progress of the movements in execution. At the battle of Stone's River the Twenty-sixth. under Major Squires, was one of the several regiments which stood firm against the charge of the Confederates on the 26th, when three-fourths of the federal forces on the right had given way and were in full flight : and though for many hours the heavily-massed columns of the enemy were thrown against them, they still stood their ground ; and the Twenty-sixth formed the apex of the convex battle-front that all Bragg's victorious army could not bend or break. One-third of the regiment's strength was lost in killed and wounded.
In the advance on Bragg's lines at Tullahoma and Shelbyville the regiment bore a conspicuons and honorable part. In the advance on Chattanooga, in December, 1863. the Twenty-sixth led the advance of Crittenden's corps, which was the first to enter the place. Colonel Young leading the regiment over the northern bluff of Lookout Mountain. Af Chickamanga the Twenty-sixth was in the thickest and bloodiest of the fight, where it acquitted itself with honor. At the storming of Missionary Ridge by the Army of the Cumberland. the Twenty-sixth Ohio maintained its reputation. It occupied nearly the center of the front line of assault and was there called upon to sustain the concentrated fire of the enemy's circular line of forty canon and thousands of muskets. The assault was made in the face of this terrible fire, the column fighting its way step by step up the slope, every minute becoming weaker by the exhaustive outlay of strength and thinner by the murderons fire until, with less than half a command, with the entire color-guard disabled. the colonel, bearing his own colors. charged his foaming horse over the enemy's work and the rebels threw down their arms, abandoned their guns and gave way in a rout. In this action the Twenty-sixth Regiment captured abont fifty prisoners and two cannon.
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Later in the same day the Twenty-sixth and the Fifteenth Indiana, under the command of Colonel Young, captured a six-gun battery the enemy were trying to drag off in their retreat, and flanked and dislodged a strong body of Confederates, who, with two heavy cannon, were attempting to hold in check the Federal troops until their train could be withdrawn. The regiment suffered at this time the loss of about one-fourth of its strength in killed and wounded.
AN UNDAUNTED BAND.
Even before its dead were buried, the Twenty-sixth. now reduced by two and one- halt years of arduous service from one thousand to less than two hundred men, was on its way with the Fourth Corps to raise the siege of Knoxville. They marched barefoot over frozen ground, and bivouacked without shelter, in midwinter, clad in summer clothing, with but half rations, on the dreary and desolate hillsides of east Tennessee. Yet, with elbows out, pants worn half way to the knees, socks and shirts gone to threads, hungry and shivering in the cold of January 1. 1864, the Twenty-sixth, almost to a man, re-enlisted for three more years of service. The regiment was the first regiment of the Fourth Corps to re-enlist, and the first to arrive home on veteran furlough.
Returning to the field at the expiration of it's furlough. the regiment rejoined the Fourth Corps at Bridgeport, Tennessee. It took part in Sherman's movement against Atlanta, being present at Resaca. Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesboro and other minor engagements. The Confederate General Ilood, thinking to circumvent and defeat the plans of Sherman, made bis dash at the rear of Atlanta aud marched on Nash- ville, and the Twenty-sixth, after a three-weeks rest, was again called into arduous serv- ice and took part in the race that ensued. The battle of Franklin was fought ; the enemy checked in his swift march, and the Union forces won the race to Nashville. At this point the two armies again met in battle, resulting in a victory for the Federal troops, the enemy being completely demoralized and put to flight. After pursuing the enemy across the Tennessee river the Union forces fell back to Huntsville and Nashville.
The Texas campaign was now resolved upon, and the Twenty-sixth formed part of that force, participating in the trip down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans; thence in the severe march across the country from Port Lavaca to San Antonio. On October 21, 1865, the regiment was mustered out of the service at Victoria. Immediately thereafter it was sent home to Camp Chase, paid off, and discharged.
Company K-Company K. of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. was recruited at London and bore the name of the "Cowling Videttes," in honor of Richard Cowling, a leading citizen of the county. It arrived at Camp Chase on July 22. 1861, and on the following day was mustered into the Twenty-sixth Regiment. The roster follows :
Captains-William H. Squires, who was promoted to major on December 7, 1862. was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on April 2, 1864, and resigned on November 17, 1864: James R. Warner, who was promoted to first lieutenant. Company E. from second lieuten- ant. April 26. 1862, was made a captain on December 2. 1862, and resigned on January 24. 1864; James A. Spence, promoted from first lieutenant and adjutant. April 2, 1864, was promoted major, February 10, 1864, and was mustered out with the regiment.
First lieutenants-James R. Hume, resigned January 24. 1864; William B. Johnson. promoted from second lieutenant, Company E. April 2. 1864, honorably discharged, October 19, 1864: David D. Brooks, appointed corporal. September 6. 1861. sergeant. Jannary 1. 1863, promoted to first lieutenant January 10. 1865, mistered out with the regiment.
Second lieutenants-Francis M. Williams, promoted from corporal. April 26, 1862, promoted to first lieutenant of Company E. December 2. 1862. killed at Chickamauga. September 19. 1863; Erastus Guy, appointed sergeant from corporal, September 6. 1861.
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promoted to second lieutenant December 2. 1862, promoted to first lieutenant Company B, April 2, 1864, promoted to captain, December 9, 1864, resigned March 1, 1865.
First sergeants -- Moses II. Wood, discharged on October 18, 1861, to accept promotion as captain in a Virginia regiment : Thomas S. Pennington, appointed sergeant, November 15. 1861, discharged, April 18, 1862, on surgeon's certificate of disability; Benjamin C. Putnam. appointed sergeant from corporal, November 9, 1861, first sergeant, April 19, 1862. killed on December 31. 1862, n battle of Stone's River. Tennessee : Benjamin F. Tyler, appointed sergeant from corporal, April 19, 1862. first sergeant, March 14, 1863. discharged. July 25. 1864. on expiration of term of service; John Bradley, appointed corporal. March 1. 1864, sergeant, March 1. 1865, first sergeant, May 1. 1865, mustered out with regiment.
Sergeants-Alexander Dean, discharged, February 7. 1862. on surgeon's certificate of disability : Charles R. Warner, appointed from corporal, November 15, 1861, discharged in August, 1862. on surgeon's certificate of disability: Isaac W. Ray, appointed corporal, November 9. 1861, sergeant, March 14, 1863. mustered out. July 25, 1864, on expiration of term of service; James Withrow, appointed from corporal. August 15. 1862. mustered ont. July 25. 1864. on expiration of term of service: William 1. Fickey, died, October 15. 1861. at Gallipolis. Ohio; leury W. Roland, appointed from corporal, September 1, 1861, mustered out with company.
Corporals-William H. Flack, appointed corporal, September 1, 1865, mustered out with company ; Lucian Dungan, discharged, February 7, 1862, on surgeou's certificate of disability : Charles Auchaner, transferred from Ninety-seventh Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Iutantry, June 7. 1865, appointed corporal. September 1. 1865. umstered ont with com- pany : Claudius (. Ellison, appointed corporal, March 1. 1864. killed, Jime 23, 1864, in action near Kenesaw Mountain. Georgia : John T. Moore, appointed corporal, March 1. 1864, killed. June 27. 1864, in battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia : Patrick Graham, appointed corporal in April, 1862, died. October 3. 1863, at Chattanooga. Tennessee, of wounds received. September 19. 1863. in battle of Chickamauga. Georgia : Charles Philips, appointed corporal. September 6, 1861, discharged. June 16. 1862. on surgeon's certificate of disability : James A. Treahorn, appointed corporal in October. 1861, mustered out. July 25. 1864. on expiration of term of service: Joseph P. Morris, appointed corporal in 1862, mustered out. July 25. 1864, on expiration of term of service; Thaddens K. Lockwood. appointed corporal in October. 1862. mustered out. December 12. 1864, on expiration of terin of service: Gamaliel W. Saunders. appointed corporal. November 9. 1861, died. October 24. 1863. at Chattanooga, Tennessee, of wonds received in battle of Chicka- ยท mauga, Georgia. September 19. 1863.
Musician-John Holden. mustered ont with company. October 21. 1865.
Privates-Marion Anderson. George Bupp. Herrick Benjamin. Albert Bidwell, Elisha Bidwell, John W. Byers, Brooks Bryan, Jacob Bendevolt, Paten Buckley. Peter Bussard, Conrad Busa. John F. Burt. Noble A. Cordray. Andrew J. Clingan. James Campbell, David R. Chrisman, Curtis Campbell. John Campbell, Alonzo P. Clingan. Thomas Cornelia. William IJ. II. Curlis, Nathaniel Clark. Samuel Cisna. Sylvanus Darst. James Dennison. John Devault. Philip Dennison. William Deihl. Joseph O. Dehaven. Virgil M. Durffinger. John ( Ferdinand) Eberly. Jacob J. Edwards, Peter Flack, Jerry Flynn. William Guy. Charles Guy. John Goodin. James Ilowsmon. Philip Hand. Andrew M. Holeycross, James Hunter, Amos J. Hutchinson. Charles Howsmon. Lewis Holswager. John Helms, Albert S. Jones. Thomas Johnson. Joseph Kern. James Ladley. William Lyda. David Laughlin, Emanuel Landis, Travis Lynch, John F. Martin. Albert E. Morse, David Moler, James MeDonald. William A. Magley. Joseph Mahoy. Abel Mock. Jacob Moler, James Moore, William D. Moore, John MeLain. Isaac Mains, George O'Bryan. William Porter. Samuel Powell. George W. R. Peppers, John Philips. Robert C. Powell. John Peters. Joseph B. Rafferty. Lemuel Reed, Zenis S. Robbins, Samuel Roland. Alfred Ray. James H. Roper,
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George Smith, Robert Sulcer, Henry Sullenbarger, William Steel, David Showalter, Nelson Smoyer, William Suver, William S. Swiger, Wayne Simpkins, Benjamin Sanford, Daniel B. Sanford, Sylvester G. Swingle, James T. Sanford, James Treanor, Jehu Tupes, William Timmons. Jonathan Warren, Ira Weaver, Willis C. Warner, Joseph Williams, George Williams, Charles Warner, James Wolf, Nathaniel Wolford, James M. Wright, George Wemes and Marion Williams.
FORTIETH REGIMENT, OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The organization of the Fortieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was completed on December 7. 1861, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and on the 11th of the same month the regiment started for eastern Kentucky, going by rail to Paris, Kentucky, and marching thence to Paintville, where it formed a junction with Colonel Garfield, who at that time was moving up the Sandy river. The regiment took part in the defeat of Humphrey Mar- shall on January 10, 1862, at the battle of Middle Creek, and afterwards remained in camp at Paintville, suffering much from sickness. The following February, it moved to Piketon, where it remained as an outpost, with a Kentucky regiment, until June 13, when they moved on to Prestonburg, which place was abandoned a month later, the Fortieth going to Louisa, where it remained until September 13, on which date it left Louisa and moved to the mouth of the Sandy, and a few days afterward was ordered to Gallipolis, Ohio. On October 4 it moved to Guyandotte, West Virginia, and, on November 14, was again ordered into eastern Kentucky. On February 20, 1863. the regiment started for Nashville, Tennessee, and on its arrival there was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division. Reserve Corps, then at Franklin, which latter point the regiment reached in March, in time to take part in a forced march after Van Dorn. Van Dorn attacked the line with a large mounted force on April 10, the Fortieth then being on picket duty south of Franklin, and was repulsed by that regiment alone.
On June 2. the Fortieth moved to Triune and on the 23rd of the same month the reserve corps was moved forward, forming the right wing of Rosecrans' army in its advance on Shelbyville, Wartrace and Tullahoma. The regiment was stationed at Wartrace and Tullahoma until September 7. 1863, after which the reserve corps pushed rapidly forward to assist in the movement on Chattanooga. The regiment' participated in the battle of Chickamauga, losing quite heavily ; and, after falling back to Chattanooga, encamped at Moccasin Point, opposite Lookout Mountain, and finally went into winter quarters at Shellmound, Tennessee, where four companies re-enlisted.
The regiment shared in the battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, and behaved with great gallantry. It was in the second line of battle. and. upon reaching the rebel breastworks, was ordered to halt by General Whittaker, who was in command, but not hearing the order in the din of battle, pressed on, capturing several pieces of artillery at the "White House," several hundred yards in advance of the other troops. The right of the regiment advanced near the Summertown road, but receiving no support. was obliged to fall back. The Fortieth felt much chagrined at the result, and claimed that if properly supported, it would have captured the rebel guns and stores on the top of the mountain. At the close of the campaign, the regiment returned to Shellmound and was moved on January 20, 1864, going into camp near Cleveland, Tennessee, on February 6. Froni February 22 to the 28th of the same month it was engaged in a reconnaissance on Dalton. On May 2. the Fortieth marched on the Atlanta campaign, participating in many of the battles before that place, and being under fire almost constantly after reaching Dalton. Companies A, B, C and D were mustered out of the service at Pilot Knob, Georgia. Octo- ber 7, 1864. The remainder of the regimeut shared the fortunes of the Fourth Corps in its pursuit of Hood, and in its retreat before Hood from Pulaski. In December those
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