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Company C, which was mustered into the service in January, February and March, 1862, had the following officers and men from Pick- away County : Captain, D. W. Crouse; Ist lieutenant, Henry R. Bending; 2nd lieutenant, Joseph Hess; sergeants-Thomas Wolfley, Cyrus E. Irwin, William J. Kinnear, Henry Clemons and Jacob F. Mader, Jr .; corporals -William H. Kirkwood, Charles Miller, James Machin, Jr., Samuel Dunn, Robert Mc- Maines and John Wholaver; musician, John McAllister; wagoner, George W. Hoak; pri- vates-Barnett Abbott, James . Burkley, John Brown, Alexander Calahan, Henry Davis, John Fox, Benjamin Groom, Benjamin F.
Hall, John N. Hammel, Abram Huntsberry, William Justus, George Knadelen, Valentine Lust, William Moore, Lemuel Morris, Law- rence McKee, Joseph Martin, James Mc- Manamy. David McManamy, Daniel Murphy. Frank Nicols. William Oyer, Jonas Oyer, Da- vid Oyer, John Pritchard, William D. Reed, Jonathan B. Rife, David Rife, Daniel Straw- ser, John Shisler, Mangus W. Stretling. James Smith, Vincent Seals, William Smith. John Thomas. Joseph Van Lear, Samuel Van Gundy, John Whitsel, Patrick Whalen, Philip Winer.
69th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.
On the 19th of February, 1862, seven com- panies, which had been organized in camp ner Hamilton moved by rail to Camp Chase. where they were later joined by three com- panies, among which was Company H, from Pickaway County. The 69th left for Ten- nessee on April 19th. From June 20th to the last of July it performed provost duty at Nash- ville. The regiment's first engagement was in driving the Rebels from the town of Gallatin. The fall of 1862, until December 20th, was spent in garrison duty at Nashville, skirmish- ing going on nearly every day. On December 26th the regiment moved toward Murfrees- boro with the army under General Rosecrans and on December 31st and January 2nd took part in the battle of Stone River. Then fol- lowed the Tullahoma campaign, after which the regiment marched to Chattanooga. In the battle of Mission Ridge, the 69th was among the first to reach the top of the mountain. be- ing commanded in this charge by Maj. J. J. Hanna. On March 16, 1864, the regiment started for Ohio on a furlough of 30 days. having re-enlisted as veterans. On April 22nd it again started for the field and joined Sher- man's forces at Buzzard's Roost on the IIthr of May. Here commenced the Atlanta cam- paign. The enemy was engaged near Resaca, at Pumpkin Vine Creek, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Chattahoochie River and at other points. Atlanta was reached on July 22nd; during the siege of this city, nine men
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of the 69th Ohio were wounded. On Septem- ber Ist the 69th took part in the fight at Jonesboro and lost quite heavily. Atlanta was then evacuated and the regiment partici- pated in the subsequent chase after Hood through the upper part of Georgia into Ala- bama. It then returned to Atlanta and joined Sherman's "March to the Sea." In the subse- quent campaign through the Carolinas, the regiment was engaged with the enemy near Goldsboro, on March 19, 1865, which was its last fight. It was in the march through Rich- mond, took part in the Grand Review at Wash- ington and was finally mustered out on July 17, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. The fol- lowing served successively as colonels : Lewis D. Campbell, William E. Cassilly, Marshall T. Moore and Joseph H. Brigham :
Company H, from Pickaway County, was mustered into the service March 5, 1862. Its membership was as follows: Captain, Leonard C. Councellor; Ist lieutenant, Edward R. Black; 2nd lieutenant, Frederick Pickering; sergeants-A. J. Collier, A. J. Penbroke, A. P. Bennett, John Butler and George W. Elk- ridge; corporals-E. F. Steele, J. W. Eng- land, Jacob Brobeck, T. J. Jones, John Henig, G. W. Weaver, R. B. Case and Emanuel Briner; musician, C. F. Collier; wagoner, Daniel Weider; privates-Barnes H. Allwine, John W. Benchman, G. W. Baughman, Will- iam Brunner, Emanuel Budd, George Bowers, David Beck, William Brown, Patrick Bran- nan, William Beckwith, D. A. Blosser, Levi Boysel, Richmond Cook, Emanuel Cave, T. W. Caskey, T. W. Dumond, Thomas England, Marcus Eaton, C. W. Elmore, Isaac Faust, Henry Frankford, E. C. Focke, James A. Griffey, Alfred Griffey, George Gehning, R. R. Hurdle, Elias Hessinger, Frederick Hetten- houser, David Hudson, Francis Hill, James Justice, Andrew Jackson, Samuel. P. Jones, Nicholas Kuhn, W. H. Linville, John Lunden- berger, Lewis Morse, E. B. W. Morris, W. P. Mayle, W. R. Murrell, John O'Connell, Will- iam O'Connell, John T. Palm, John Process, G. W. Pontious, John H. Reid, Christian Roof, Richmond Rey, A. J. Shireff, William Sapp, John Shaffer, M. W. Smith, Pocian Smith,
Daniel Wann, W. A. Worley, John Wefler, George Weiderlich, Julius Woodruff, W. M. Worley, John Young. Simon Young, James Brooks.
73rd Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.
The 73rd Regiment was organized at Camp Logan, near Chillicothe, by Orlando Smith, of that city, who became its colonel. The greater part of the regiment was made up of Ross County citizens. The regiment was mustered into the United States service on De- cember 30, 1861, and left camp on January 24, 1862, for (West) Virginia, where the first campaign proved to be chiefly a campaign of disease, deaths being frequent and nearly 300 men being placed in hospital. In April the regiment marched to join General Milroy's command at Cheat Mountain. Then followed engagements with "Stonewall" Jackson's forces at McDowell, Strasburg and at other places in the Shenandoah Valley. On June S. 1862, the regiment was engaged in the battle of Cross Keys. A month later it started for Eastern Virginia and after crossing the Blue Ridge encamped for a month at Sperryville. On the evening of August 9th it arrived on the battle-field of Cedar Mountain, where it spent the following day in skirmishing. On August 18th, the army, under the command of General Pope, retreated toward Washing- ton. For the next two weeks there was al- most constant fighting. In the latter part of August occurred the second battle of Bull Run, in which the 73rd Ohio and its brigade "undoubtedly saved the army from destruc- tion." Out of 310 men of the 73rd present for duty, 144 were killed or wounded and 20 cap- tured; Lieut. Charles W. Trimble, of Com- pany E, was among the killed. The regiment remained in the defenses of Washington until November, engaged in picketing and recon- noisances, being augmented about the last of October by the arrival of 120 recruits. While near Washington it was brigaded with the 134th and 136th New York and the 33rd Massachusetts regiments, Colonel Smith, of the 73rd, in command. The winter was spent
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at Aquia Creek until the Chancellorsville cam- paign began, on April 27, 1863. In this cam- paign the 73rd formed part of the column which turned the left of Lee's army. On June 12th the army entered upon the Gettysburg campaign. At Gettysburg it was deployed with the other regiments of the brigade on Cemetery Hill and was in the heat of the bat- tle, its losses amounting to 143 officers and men out of about 300. On September 24th the regi- ment was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland. The regiment was in Alabama until October 24th when, as the advance of General Hooker's army, it moved to the relief of Chattanooga. The regiment's conduct in the fight at Lookout Creek was named by Gen- eral Grant, who visited the scene the . follow- ing day, as "one of the most daring feats of arms of the war." In this action the regiment lost 65 men and officers out of about 200. On November 22nd the regiment with the rest of the corps crossed the river and was engaged in the battle of Mission Ridge, after which it marched with General Sherman to the relief of Knoxville. Returning to Chat- tanooga on December 17, 1863, the regiment shortly thereafter re-enlisted as veterans. Upon its return to the old camping ground in Look- out Valley with 120 recruits, after its fur- lough, the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, Third Division, 20th Army Corps Army of the Cumberland. On the morning of May 2nd, 1864, the 73rd Ohio, now number- ing 318 muskets, marched out of its camp to take part in the great Atlanta campaign that was to follow. The engagements of Resaca, Pumpkin Vine Creek and New Hope Church (in which the regiment lost three officers and 72 men, killed and wounded) followed, with many minor engagements. For the next few weeks almost constant fighting characterized the advance upon Atlanta. In this period oc. curred the fighting around Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain and Kenesaw Mountain and the engagement at Marietta, in which the 73rd lost 16 men killed and wounded. On the 24th of May the 73rd lost 19 men. On June 20th the regiment participated in the battle of Peach Tree Creek, when it lost 18 men. During the
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month which followed, the regiment was con- stantly in the front line of works at Atlanta and upon the evacuation of the city two com- panies of the 73rd, forming a part of a recon- noisance, were the first troops to enter the city, thus ending the long and terrible cam- paign. Out of 120 days' campaigning, the regiment had been under fire 103 days and most of the remainder had been occupied in marching and hard work. It had lost 210 men and eight officers out of less than 350. On November 15th the regiment started with Sherman on the "March to the Sea." Upon reaching Savannah the non-veterans of the regiment, numbering 85 men and three of- ficers, were mustered out. On January 2. 1865. the campaign through the Carolinas commenced. the battle of Averysboro being fought on March 16th, in which affair the 73rd lost 15 men, killed and wounded. Three days later the last battle of the war was fought, that of Bentonville, in which the regiment lost five men killed and four officers and 21 men wounded. The regiment took part in the Grand Review at Washington, was later trans- ferred to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was mustered out on July 20, 1865. The success- ive colonels of the regiment were: Orlando Smith, Richard Long and Samuel H. Hurst.
Company E, from Pickaway County, was mustered into service December 30, 1861, with the following officers and men : Captain, Justus G. McSchooler; Ist lieutenant, Archi- bald Lybrand; 2nd lieutenant, Charles W. Trimble ; sergeants-Horace S. Clark, Samuel Peters, Samuel F. Jones, John Alexander and Henry W. Meeker; corporals-Ebenezer E. Clark, William B. Davis, Job P. Duvall, Thornton Van Meter, Frank M. Snider. Oliver H. P. Burnett, George W. Gephart and Jacob Grant: musicians-William Hege and William Haddock : privates-John Allton, Joseph Birt. William T. Biggarstaff, Lewis Barnhart, James T. Brown, Thomas Butterman, Andrew Clen- clenin, James Cullen, John Dinley, Isaac Du- vall, Samuel Davis, Joseph Dolon, Charles Davisson, Archibald Drake, Frank M. Fer- guson, John Funn, James Greer. William H. Grindle, Thomas Greer, Thomas Godfrey. An-
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thony Gardner. Peter Gallagher, Patrick Hein. Michael Harkins, Edwin Helwagen, John Henson, Wesley Hayes, William Jackson, John W. Kelte, David Long, James H. Lee, John C. McFadden, John McCollister, Joshua Mor- ris. John McManis, William D. McBride, Dan- iel Marbarger, David O'Donnel, Daniel O. Horn, Peter Rape, Philip Reed, William Ross, Cyrus Rush, John Reynolds, John Shafer, Da- vid Stonerock, William W. Townsend, George WV. Turflinger, George Turflinger, Joseph H. Turflinger, David Thompson, Benjamin Thorp, George Westerville, James Welsh, John White, James Whalen, Marcus Walston, and Henry Furniss.
85th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.
This three-months' organization never reached the regimental point. It was recruited to the proportions of a battalion and retained at Camp Chase to guard Rebel prisoners im- prisoned there. Occasionally a company would be transferred to another regiment and sent to the field. The services performed at Camp Chase were both important and ardu- ous. The colonel of the regiment was Charles W. B. Allison.
Company E, from Pickaway County, was mustered into service June 10, 1862, for the period of three months, with the following officers and men : Captain, Francis S. Parker ; ist lieutenant, Hyman Dayton ; 2nd lieutenant, Moses Shelt; sergeants-Julius Van Heyde, John D. Brantner, Benjamin I. Lancaster, John O. D. Ryan, James H. Bowman and Robert Morrison; corporals-Henry Grant, John Bolin, Laban Rogers, Jacob Gephart, George W. Thompson, John C. Sweetman, Benjamin Fritch, E. B. Clark and Russell Govench; musician, Elijah N. Betler; pri- vates-Charles H. Albaugh, John Albaugh,
David R. Baird, Patrick Butler, Jacob Burton, Spencer Brooks, William Birch, Alban E. Bentley, William Cox, William Clark, Wesley C. Collins, Thornton Cock, John Dillen, Thomas B. Day, John Dayton, John Dunavan, George W. Irwin, William Elsey, William H. Eaton, Peter Foerst, John Gillmore, Thomas
Greenfield, Thomas Hamilton, William Hud- son, Simon Hillyard, Franklin M. Hawks. Thomas F. Hall, Christopher Hanistine, Silas W. Haines, Malcolm Harris, Daniel Harrigan, John G. Johnson, William B. Kelch, William Killmon, William P. Kelsner, John P. Mason, Lewis Mangus, Dempster L. Meachum, Amos Morris, Peter Maloy, Samuel L. Miner, John WV. Messick, Alexander McCoy, William Mc- Collister, James McCoy, William A. Perden, James P. Richardson, Jeremiah D. Ryan, Ber- nard G. Smith, George Stonerock, Henry Smeck. William Tinkler, Lewis Thomas, James K. Watson, Joseph Wymer, Edward G. Walters, William Ward. Samuel Whitsel, Francis Wellington, Henry Wells, Henry G. Wilson, John R. Yardley, Thomas W. Zim- merman, John B. Miller, Daniel W. Miller, Thomas McCabe, Henry Ogle, Peter H. Teter, Walter Perry, John B. Strawen.
90th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.
On the 15th of July, 1862, this regiment was organized at Lancaster by the military committees of the counties of Fayette, Pick- away, Fairfield, Hocking, Vinton and Perry. It was mustered into the service on August 28th and by the evening of the next day was on its way to Kentucky. From this time until early in November the regiment saw service throughout the State of Kentucky, chiefly in General Buell's army in puruit of General Bragg. Many of its marches in this period were accompanied .with great hardships. On November 8th it broke camp at Glasgow, Ken- tucky, and marched to Nashville, Tennessee. On the 26th of December the regiment moved with the army on Murfreesboro, Tennessee. On December 31st and January Ist and 2nd it participated with great credit in the battle of Stone River. On the 14th of April, Col. Isaac N. Ross resigned and Lieut .- Col. Charles H. Rippey was appointed in his stead. The regiment lay in camp near Murfreesboro, with the rest of the army, until the 23rd of June, when General Rosecrans began his movement on Tullahoma. On the 19th and 20th of Sep- tember, 1863, the 90th Ohio participated in
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the battle of Chickamauga, its losses in this engagement being three officers killed and 83 non-commissioned officers and privates killed, wounded and missing. After this battle, the division and regiment crossed the Tennessee River and marched to Bridgeport, Alabama, where the regiment arrived on the 2nd of No- vember ; it was engaged there in building for- tifications until the 29th and was then placed in charge of 3,500 Rebel prisoners, captured at Mission Ridge. Later, in January, 1864, it moved through Chattanooga to Ooltowah, Tennessee, and there went into camp. Samuel N. Yeomans was now in command of the regi- ment, Colonel Rippey having resigned and re- turned to Ohio. On the 3rd of May the regi- ment took its first step in the great Atlanta campaign. For 120 days, the goth Ohio, in company with the National forces, marched, fought and suffered until the city of Savan- nah was evacuated on the 8th of September, 1864. On the 3rd of October it left Atlanta, being assigned to the movement that was in- tended to intercept General Wood, who was making his way toward Nashville. In this campaign the regiment, with the Fourth Corps, participated in all the brilliant fights which in- cluded that of Franklin and the battle before Nashville. On the 4th of June, 1865, the regi- ment went into camp two miles east of Hunts- ville, Alabama, where it remained until March 1, 1865, when it removed to Nash- ville and remained there until the sur- render of the Rebel Army. It was mustered out at Camp Harker, Tennessee, on June 13, 1865. The following field and staff officers were from Pickaway County : Isaac N. Ross, colonel; Richard H. Tipton, surgeon; George L. Kalb, chaplain; Fred W. Fickhardt, ser- geant-major; Edward P. Garaghty, quarter- master-sergeant; Albert Kinnear, hospital steward.
Company A, which was formed of Picka- way County men, was mustered into the United States service on August 26, 1862, the officers and men being as follows: Captain, Francis M. Black; Ist lieutenant, William A. Denny ; 2nd lieutenant, Andrew J. Willoughby ; ser- geants-William D. Hudson, Benjamin F. T.
Yoakum, William J. Hodges, Daniel M. Mar- tin and Henry R. Markley; corporals-Lancet S. Robinson, Seymour Bolin, William S. Wil- liams, Thomas Ryan, James W. Anderson, Charles W. Thrall, John W. Sheets and David Prichard ; musician, John I. Radcliff ; wagoner, James W. Miller; privates-William Adkins, Samson Adkins, John E. Ashbrook. James Ater, George Ater, Thornton Ater, Jacob Ater, William Bateman, Lewis C. Bower, Jo- seph Briggs, Joseph Brobeck, William Brown, Nelson C. Cady, James Crabill, Martin Cra- . bill, Albert Dolby, George W. Dennis, Wil- liam England, Thomas B. Fragee, William J. Furnace, . Erastus Furnace, Simeon Garret, Daniel Gochenouer,. Isaac H. Gray, Samuel Graham, John Guesman, Robert Hankison, James Hardesty, Elias H. Hines, John Hines, Jacob Hills, John W. Hook, John H. Huffman, Edward Jerome, Elias Justus, John M. Justus, Isaac Lance, James Lane, William Marsh, George W. Markley, William McGath, Wil- liam Mckinley, John McGuire, John McDon- ald, John W. Miller, Jonathan Minton, Jacob Morris, George S. W. Neff. Joseph Neff, Mar- tin E. Neff, Nathaniel Neff, Benjamin S. Nut- ter, Frederick Owen, James R. Patterson, Os- born Phillips, Jesse H. Prichard, Jacob Pursell, Jerry T. Pursell, Robert B. Rice, Jonas Rose, Stephen Rose, James Rumsey, Levi Septer, Jared Septer, Henry Shannon, Floyd Shisler, Jacob . Smith, John Smith, Aaron Stephens, Joseph Tatman, William H. Tilton, John Tim- mons, Luther Tumbleson, William Waston, John Wiegand, Pleasant F. Wilson, John H. Wilson, John F. Williams, George WV. Wood, Joshua O. Yates, John Yates.
William Downs, private, was the only member from Pickaway County in Company D, which was mustered into the service on Au- gust 29, 1862.
Company F was mustered into the United States service August 29, 1862, with the fol- lowing officers and men from Pickaway Coun- ty: Captain, James J. Watkins; Ist lieuten- ant, Thomas Raines; sergeants-James M. Griffith, Nelson A. Patterson, Andrew J. Cochran, Amos S. Leist and Richard A. Pat- ton; corporals-Joshua Skinner, Noble M.
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Cochran, Gideon W. Rife, Charles H. Allen, William Sapp, William Hendrick and Joseph M. Thuston; musicians-George Borden and Abram Vlerebome; wagoner, Israel Funk; privates-Smith Allen, John Archa, Thomas C. Bennett, Walter Betts. Solomon Betz, Wil- liam H. Blosser, Ashton Briggs, James Briggs, Alfred Britton, Harvey Brooks. James D. Chaffin, Elbert Chittum, William Crabill, Alexander Crooks, Lewis R. Davis, John A. Delong. William M. Ely, Aaron H. Eccord, Peter W. Eccord, Samuel B. Erskine. John W. Flowers, James .N. Funks, Philip Garrison, Isaac George, Nation Gooley. Michael Goss, Abraham M. Guseman, Mahlon Grass, Wil- liam M. Haigler, John W. Helvering. James Henderson, Henry Hooper. John Hoskins, Da- vid Johnson, David Lindsey, James Lindsey, John Lister. James W. Loyd, Isaac Ludwig. Emanuel Mangues, Benjamin Martin, John Martin, John McCollister, Samuel W. Mc- Gath. John C. Moffit, George Poland. Almer Porter. David R. Porter, James W. Ramey, John P. Rector, Frank Rector, Henry Rector. John Rife, John H. Rife, Joseph Rife, Joseph E. Riggin. Joseph Scrawger, James Schaffer, Lemuel Skinner, Benjamin Skinner, Isaiah Smith, Jonathan Shulty, William Taylor, John Taylor, Cornelius Thomas, Samuel H. Til- ford, George R. Tilford, Purnell Timmons, A. J. Timmons, James C. Todd, Stephen Tully, John Tully, Jacob Ulm, John S. Will, John E. Wolfiey and John Wolf.
Company K, which was mustered into serv- ice August 16, 1862, had two Pickaway Coun- ty men in its ranks-George W. Rowe, a cor- poral, and William Grim, a private.
114th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.
This regiment was recruited in August, 1862, from the counties of Perry, Franklin, Pickaway, Fayette, Hocking and Vinton. It rendezvoused at Camp Chase and was mustered into the United States service September II, 1862. On the 19th of September it was or- dered to Marietta and on December I it was or- dered to proceed from Marietta to Memphis, Tennessee. At Johnston's Landing on the Ya-
zoo River, it joined General Sherman's army, then about to operate in the rear of Vicksburg. On the 26th of December the regiment landed at Chickasaw Bluffs and participated in the assault on the enemy's works on Chickasaw Bayou. It was actively engaged in this battle and was also engaged on December 28th and 29th, losing a number of kille i and wounded, among whom was Lieut. Joseph T. Marfield. of Company B. Retreating from Chickasaw Bluffs, the army moved up the river on trans- ports and on January roth cast anchor near Arkansas Post. The forces were landed and on the 11th an attack was made, which re- sulted victoriously. The Federal troops then re-embarked on the transports and saile l down the Yazoo to Young's Point, arriving there January 23rd, where the regiment continued until the 8th of March. During the stay of the regiment in this camp it suffered severely from sickness and death, losing over 100 men in the space of six weeks. The 114th Ohio moved to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, from Young's Point, remaining there until April 5, 1863, when it once more actively engaged in warfare, in General Grant's movement against Vicksburg, participating in the battles of Thompson's Hill, May 1, 1863; Champion Hills. May 16: Big Black Ridge, May 17; and the siege of Vicksburg. In the charge at Vicksburg, May 22nd, Colonel Cradlebaugh was severely wounded in the mouth and a num- ber of men killed and wounded. On May 25th the regiment was ordered to Warrenton to gar- rison that point and on the 14th of July was ordered back to Vicksburg, where it remained in camp until August 13th. It was then sent to Carrollton, 60 miles above New Orleans, where it remained until September 6th when it was moved by rail to Brashear City, where it continued to October 3rd. From this date to November 22nd it was occupied in a march to Opelousas and return to New Orleans. On November 28th it embarked at New Orleans and sailed for Texas, going into camp on the Matagorda Peninsula on December 3, 1863. On June 14, 1864, it removed to Matagorda Island and in the latter part of April was or- dered to Alexandria, Alabama. While at Alex-
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andria, the regiment was engaged in the affair at Graham's plantation, 12 miles out on the road. On the retreat from Alexandria in May, the enemy was engaged at Marksville and Yel- low Bayou. On November 21, 1864, the regi- ment was ordered from Morganza, to which point it had proceeded from Alexandria, to the mouth of the White River, Arkansas, and at this place was consolidated with the 120th Ohio. On December 6th the regiment was ordered to Morganza. On January 8. 1865. it moved to Kenna, Alabama, and on the 24th moved to Barrancas, Florida, where it re- mained up to 1865, when it was sent with other forces to Texas. It was mustered out July 31, 1865, at Houston, Texas. It was paid and dis- charged at Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio. "During its term of service the 114th marched on land and water over 10,000 miles, per- formed duty in 10 different States and was engaged in eight hard-fought battles and many skirmishes. It was successful in all ex- cept the affair at Chickasaw Bayou. It lost in killed and wounded, six officers and 80 men. The loss by disease was very great the first year, about 200 men having died, and quite a number discharged for disability."
John Cradlebaugh, a former resident of Circleville and at the time of the breaking out of the Civil War a delegate in Congress from Nevada, was the colonel of the regiment. From the Ist of December, 1862. to the 6th of Feb- ruary, 1863, the regiment was commanded by Lieut .- Col. Horatio B. Maynard, Colonel Cra- dlebaugh being absent in Washington, D. C. From February 6, 1863, when Maynard re- signed, until March, 1863, it was commanded by Lieut .- Col. John H. Kelley. On March I, 1863, Colonel Cradlebaugh returned and took the command. Upon Colonel Cradlebaugh being wounded at. Vicksburg on May 22nd, 1863, Lieut .- Col. Kelley again took command of the regiment and held it until the end of the war. Colonel Cradlebaugh resigned October 20, 1863.
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