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CORONERS.
1808, Samuel Mitchell (by commission signed by Thomas Kirker, acting governor); 1816, William Brown; 1817, Peter Fleming; 1818, Henry Bresto; - , Henry Monfort; 1823, John Alcorn; 1834, Jonas Albright; 1836, Elias Herdman; 1854, Henry M. Eidson; 1856, Oliver Cleveland: 1858, Isaac L. Johnson; 1862, Benjamin Stover; 1864, Leven T. McCabe; 1867, Joseph H. Quinn; 1874, John H. Bruce; 1876, Warren M. Campbell; 1878, A. H. Stephens.
CHAPTER XII.
VOTE OF PREBLE COUNTY FROM 1808 TO 1880.
THE following shows Preble county's official vote from the year 1808, when the county was established, to and including the year 1879. Except when otherwise indi- cated the vote is that cast for governor:
1808-Samuel Huntington. 183
Thomas Worthington,
Thomas Kirker.
1810-Return J. Meigs. 100
Thomas Worthington .
25
1812-Return- J. Meigs. 66
Thomas Scott 64
1814-Thomas Worthington. 158
Othniel Looker .: 194
1816-Thomas Worthingion 433
James Dunlap.
9 .
Ethan A. Brown
1818-Not given.
1820-Not given.
1822 -- Jeremiah Morrow Allen Trimble
691
203
1824-Jeremiah Morrow.
1030
Gideon T. Stewart, Prohibitionist
Allen Trimble 161
1826-Allen Trimble.
1014
John Bigger 207 25
Alexander Campbell.
Benjamin Tappan
22
1828 - Allen Trimble 963
John W. Campbell. 482
1830 -- Duncan McArthur, National Republican 1405
Robert Lucas, Democrat. 324
1832-For President-Jackson, Democrat 1093
Clay. Whig 1357
.. Wirt, Anti-Mason 14
1834-Robert Lucas, Domocrat. 895
James Findlay, Whig. 1397
r836-For President -- Harrison, Whig.
1717
Van Buren, Democrat 978
1838-Wilson Shannon, Democrat
1198
Joseph Vance, Whig 1761
1840-Thomas Corwin, Whig. 2275
Wilson Shannon, Democrat 1394
1842-Thomas Corwin, Whig
2083
Wilson Shannon, Democrat. 1341
Leicester King, Abolitionist. 51
1844 -- Mordecai Bartley, Whig 2233
David Tod, Democrat 1544
Leicester King, Abolitionist 75
1846-William Bebb, Whig
2073
David Tod, Democrat 1210
Samuel Lewis, Abolitionist 143
1848-John B. Weller, Democrat 1456
Seabury Ford, Whig 2204
1850-Reuben Wood, Democrat I 207
William Johnston, Whig
1707
Edward Smith, Abolitionist
1851-Reuben Wood, Democrat
1225
Samuel T. Vinton, Whig Samuel Lewis, Abolitionist 90
1710
1853-William Medill, Democrat 1113
Nelson Barrere, Whig 1354
Samuel Lewis, Abolitionist 331
1855-William Medill, Democrat
1039
Allen Trimble, American or Know Nothing 287
Salmon P. Chase, Republican 1567
1857-Salmon P. Chase, Republican
1939
Henry B. Payne, Democrat 1403 Phil. Van Trump, American 142
1859-William Dennison, Republican.
2261
Rufus P. Ranney, Democrat 1.496
1861-David Tod, Republican.
2216
Hugh J. Jewett, Democrat .
1869
1862-For Secretary of State --. William W. Armstrong, Democrat 1667 -Wilson S. Kennon, Republican .. 2303
1863 -- John Brough, Republican
2959
('lement L. Vallandigham, Democrat
1601
1864-For Secretary of State -William H. Smith, Republican. . 2448
-William W. Armstrong, Democrat 1491
1865-Jacob D. Cox, Republican (home vote)
.2304
(army vote). 29
Total.
2333
George W. Morgan, Democrat (home vote).
. 1518
(army vote).
6
Total.
1524
1866-For Secretary of State-William H. Smith, Republican. . 2717
Benjamin F. Le Fevre, Democrat 1761
1867-Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican
2422
Allen G. Thurman, Democrat
1867
1868-For President-U. S. Grant
2738
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Horatio Seymour
1904
1869-R. B. Hayes.
2427
1870-For Secretary of State-Isaac R. Sherwood, Republican. . 2463 ..
William Heisley, Democrat
1814
J. Odell, Prohibitionist. 4
1871 -- Edward F. Noyes, Republican
2355
George W. McCook, Democrat.
1769
46
1872 -- For Secretary of State-Allen T. Wickoff, Republican.
2625
Aquilla Wiley, Democrat
2198
T. Schumacher, Prohibitionist .. 20
1872-For President-U. S. Grant
2715
.. Horace Greeley 2101
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Black
18
O'Connor
2
1873-Edward F. Noyes, Republican.
2154
William Allen, Democrat.
1818
Gideon T. Stewart, Prohibitionist.
70
Isaac Collins, Liberal.
64
1874-For Secretary of State-A. T. Wickoff, Republican.
2335
William Bell, jr., Democrat
2163
John R. Buchtel.
42
1875-William Allen, Democrat
2389
R. B. Hayes, Republican.
2611
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George H. Pendleton.
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1875-J. Odell, Prohibitionist
1876-For President-Samuel J. Tilden 2551
R. B. Hayes. 3004
1877-William H. West
2461
Richard M. Bishop.
2356
Lewis H. Bond
II
Henry A. Thompson.
197
First Sergeant Daniel Kensello.
Second Sergeant Jesse Mitchell.
Third Sergeant Bartley M. Burrows.
Fourth Sergeant Isaac Harold.
First Corporal Frederick Utt.
Second Corporal James Taylor.
Third Corporal Peter Shideler.
ยท PRIVATES.
Henry Banta, Tobias Clapp, William Hendricks, Walter Goodner, Alexander McNutt, Daniel Lease, Phillip Brett, James McDawee, Baltzer Snyder, Elijah Spencer, Adam Reed, Parson Purviance, Al- exander Penlon, Jacob Keslon, Levi Gard, William Bishop, Samuel Kercheval, John Kercheval, William Nelson, Smith Charles, Samuel Williams, John McDonald, Charles Demoss, Silas Davis, Jacob Reims, Isaac Harter, Robert Douglass, Daniel Wennoc, John Bell, David Stephens, Abner Dooley, David Brower, Elijah Harshman, Jesse Moore, George Vance, Christian Saylor, Elisha Davis, James Shan- non, Daniel Vanwinkle, Jephtha West, Enos Purse, Mitchel Flem- ing, Thomas W. Porterfield, Paul Beard, Samuel Case, Robert Gam- ble, Stephen Rhea.
SILAS FLEMING'S COMPANY.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Lieutenant Silas Fleming. Ensign Isaac Sutton.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant George Davis. Sergeant James Maxwell. Corporal William Bunch. Corporal Dennis Pottenger.
PRIVATES.
James Somers, John Somers, Israel Hewit, John Hudlon, William Trollinger, Charles Johnston, Moses Evans, Thomas Smith, Heze- kiah Powell, Thomas Childre, William Swisher, George Kelley, Dan- iel Nolling, Christian Halderman, Samuel Caster, Jacob Kinger, Will- iam Hold, Abraham Hapner, Levi Purviance, Michael Crowl, Robert McCormack, John Bridge, Stephen Macey, Jephtha York, Abraham Irvin, John Douglas, Richard Williams, John Leadwell, John Bishop, John Allen, Thomas Lewellen, Phillip Lewellen.
Upon the outbreak of the war of 1812 Governor Meigs called out the First division of Ohio militia, the response from which, and from other volunteers, was prompt and decided. Several companies in this com- mand were from Preble county, wholly or in part. We present below as many of their rolls as we have been able to procure from the office of the adjutant general of the State and from private sources. The only roll of Preble county men found in the very meagre records of the State office relating to the war of 1812 is that of Captain Sloane's company of Ohio militia, attached to the - battalion, Third regiment, Fifth brigade, First division of Ohio, ordered into the service of the United States for the protection of their frontiers, October 8, 1812, and stationed at Fort Nesbit, under command of Major General Adams." The expiration of pay upon these rolls is noted at January 7, 1813, four months after the term of enlistment began. The roster is as follows :
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Richard Sloane. Lieutenant John Hawkins. Ensign John Harter.
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1879-Charles Foster .
2952
Thomas Ewing
2427
Gideon T. Stewart
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CHAPTER XIII. PREBLE IN THE WAR OF 1812.
PREBLE county was well represented in the war of 1812, but as the records have been kept very loosely, it is im- possible to give the names of all the Preble men who served "a tour of duty." A portion of those given (Captain Sloane's company) were obtained from the ad- jutant general's office at Columbus, and the companies of James I. Nesbit and Lieutenant Fleming from an old record book in the possession of T. J. Larsh, esq. Be- side the roster given, there were full companies or com- panies made up in part of Preble men, under the com- mand of John Fleming, Joseph C. Hawkins, David E. Hendricks, Lieutenant Black and Captains Ramsey, Rex and Phillips.
The following is from the recollections of Col. George D. Hendricks :
"Captain James I. Nesbit, of New Lexington, built a stockade fort seven miles north of New Paris, and was stationed at that place with a small detachment of Preble drafted men, and upon the siege of Fort Meigs, was ordered to that locality. This left the settlements at Eaton and about New Paris and Richmond, Indiana, exposed to Indian dep- redations from the northwest. The settlers, as a means of safety, built block-houses in many places. One of them was upon the Brook- ville road south of Robert Miller's residence, then owned by John Hop- kins.
"On Sunday, when many of the settlers had assembled for divine worship, and after the close of a very impressive service, one of the elders proposed to raise a volunteer corps (to be composed of men who were exempt from the draft because of their age), to guard the frontier against the mauranding bands of savages who had recently killed one man on Whitewater, and two men on Twin creek.
"The proposition met with general approval, and about twenty men volunteered. John Goldsmith was first on the list, and then came Silas Dooley, sr., Moses Dooley, sr., James Crawford, Ehhu Hopkins, William Sellers, Elder George Shidler, John Garter.
"Rev. George Shidler was elected captain, and Moses Dooley, lieuten- ant. They garrisoned Fort Nesbit until relieved by Captain Richard Sloan, of Israel township. Lieutenant Black was stationed at Fort Black with one half of Captain Sloan's company."
CAPTAIN NESBIT'S COMPANY.
List of officers and men called out of the Third reg- iment of the Fifth brigade of the First division of Ohio militia, agreeable to general orders bearing date the four- teenth of April, 1812, as returned by Samuel Ward, ad- jutant :
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain James I. Nesbit. Lieutenant Joseph Lower. Ensign Henry Johnston.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
1878-For Secretary of State-Milton Barnes.
2595
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David R. Paige
2396
Jere. N. Robinson
66
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NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant William McCreary. Sergeant Charles Hold. Sergeant Simon Cassiday. Sergeant Michael Stow.
Corporal John Mitchell. Corporal Andrew Spacht. Corporal Jetrach Fall. Corporal William Davis. Fifer John Byers. Drummer Thomas Madill.
PRIVATES.
Samuel Bloomfield, Jacob Loy, jr., John Benfield, John Ozer, James Small, Andrew Surface, Jacob Shidler, Nathaniel Bloom- field, Samuel Smith, Littleberry Blackley, John Bloomfield, Samuel Bennett, Jacob Shanks, Joseph Singer, John Hutt, James Abbott, James Farris, David Farris, Nathan Ramsey, Andrew Morton, James McGaw, Thomas Hill, John Wolfe, James Moses, Robert Sanders, Benjamin Harris, Asabel Woodward, Eli Woodward, John Reiley, James Sutton, William Mings, John Payton, James Cott, Lemuel Hopkins, Robert Sprawl, Joseph Hawkins, Joshua Cloyd, Enoch Banfield, David Stephens, James Abshire, William Highland, John McNilt, Adam Hallowill, John Menix, Andrew Stone, George Stran- der, James Killough, Samuel Hamilton, John Harris, James Swaney, George Thompson, Samuel Huston, James Murphy, William Right, William Allen, Levan Right, William Hayre, William Phillips, Will- iam Hendricks, Thomas Foster, Joseph Work, David Lyons, Chris- tian Shoemaker.
CAPTER XIV. PREBLE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
[THE following rosters of companies and parts of com- panies enlisted from Preble county in the late war, are copied from the records and rolls in the office of the adjutant general of the State, where every courtesy to this end has been extended by the officers in charge. The records of military service of the State contingents in the various wars of our country are, however, notori- ously imperfect, especially in the cases of men in the three months' service, and in the Mexican war, and the war of 1812. Indeed, in the last few instances, the copyist has been unable, from the few rolls on file, to identify a single soldier as a representative of Preble county. And in the immense mass of rolls containing the lists of the late war, it often happens that no means of satisfactorily locating a soldier, or even a company, presents itself. An entire regiment, representing, perhaps, fifty localities, may appear as enrolled at Camp Denni- son, Camp Chase, or other place of rendezvous and organization, without any indication upon the rolls, or elsewhere in the office, of the places or counties to which the men should be credited. Even the excellent work of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, "Ohio in the War," -- to which we acknowledge indebtedness for the material of the regi- mental histories following, is sadly deficient in this par- ticular. Furthermore, it sometimes occurs that names belonging to the State are duplicated in the rolls; so, "Camden," for example, may mean Camden township, Lorain county, and not Camden village in Preble. A
man may thus appear upon the Preble county roll of honor, who really belongs to Lorain; or a Preble man may not appear at all, because his enrollment at "Cam- den" appears in a position with other Lorain county names, and is presumed to belong to that county. If any names therefore are omitted from this chapter which should appear in it, these facts may account for the omission, as also if any appear in the list which should not be there. The spelling of the rolls -- which are some- times strangely inconsistent with themselves-has been followed in the rosters, and upon it must be laid, in any case, the attainment of that peculiar sort of fame which Byron mentions as "having your name spelt wrong in the Gazette." An earnest effort has been made to pre- sent a full and accurate record-an effort which it is believed has been measurably successful. When not otherwise specified, it will always be understood that the service was for three years, or during the war.]
TWENTIETH OHIO INFANTRY.
The Twentieth Ohio was organized in May, 1861, for the three months' service. Captain John C. Fry, with his company joining the three years' organization, was made colonel of the regiment in January, 1864. At the time of its re-organization for three years, Colonel Charles Whit- tlesey of Northern Ohio was put in command. A gradu- ate of West Point, eminent as engineer and geologist, he could well carry forward the defenses of Cincinnati begun by General O. M. Mitchel, and then in progress. During the winter of 1861-2 batteries were guarded in the rear of Covington and Newport, and in February of that year the regiment, with the exception of company K, embarked for the Cumberland river. At Fort Donelson, on the evening of February 14th the Twentieth had its first experience of battle. It was placed in reserve at the extreme right, and, after the surrender of the fort, being sent north with prisoners, was scattered all over the land. By the middle of March seven companies had come together, and early in April, at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, the regiment had its share in the loss of members, and no less in the glory of the victory that closed the day. Lieutenant Colonel Force commanded during the engage- ment, Colonel Whittlesey being at the head of the brig- ade. On the sixth of June, 1862, the regiment became a part of the garrison at Bolivar. August 30th the rebel General Armstrong was held in check with such success that Colonel Force, Major Fry, Captain Kaga, Adjutant Owen, Lieutenants Ayers, Hills and Millick, of the Twentieth, were mentioned with especial honor in Colo- nel Leggett's official report. Having assisted in driving Price from Iuka, the regiment, now a part of Logan's division, marched southward till the capture of Holly Springs, when, facing about, by slow steps January 28th it received a reinforcement, at Memphis, of two hundred men. In February the regiment went to the relief of Porter's fleet, blockaded in Steele's bayou. In May, mov- ing in advance of the Seventeenth corps as it approached Raymond, Mississippi, a loss was sustained of twelve killed and fifty-two wounded. In January, 1864, two- thirds of the men present re-enlisted and joined the cele-
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brated Meridian expedition. In the spring the regiment went north on veteran furlough, and after thirty days at their homes, rendezvoused at Camp Dennison. In July, before Atlanta, the Twentieth lost forty-four killed, fifty- six wounded, and fifty-four missing. During the engage- ment instances of personal daring were numberless, and not a few have been recorded as worthy of especial dis- tinction. On the thirty-first of August followed the bat- tle of Jonesborough, and October 5th began the pursuit of Hood. The middle of November saw the regiment with Sherman's army en route for Savannah. Doing some excellent work at Beaufort, South Carolina, the Twentieth remained in camp until the thirtieth of January, when it started on the Carolina campaign, which ended in John- ston's surrender. Leaving Raleigh May Ist, the joyful men marched to Washington by way of Richmond, were at the grand review of the twenty-fourth of May, and on the twenty-fourth of July arrived in Columbus, where they were mustered out of service.
THREE MONTHS' SERVICE.
The following named Preble county boys in company B, were mostly or all of them students at Miami univer- sity, Oxford, at the outbreak of the war, and joined a company raised at once from the classes of that school, commanded by Captain Ozri Jamison Dodds, then a student at the university from Cincinnati.
COMPANY B.
NON-COMMISIONED OFFICER.
First Sergeant John A. Whiteside.
PRIVATES.
Thomas J. Brown, Jacob P. Bohm, Christian H. Cook, Rich. Foin- shall, Harvey Harris, Dillon H. James, John W. Neff, Henry Neff, Eli A. Patty, Francis L. Raikes, Robert Williams.
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Thomas Morton. Lieutenant J. Wesley Sater. Ensign Andrew L. Harris.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Lucien Vanausdal. Sergeant Peter O'Cain. Sergeant W. E. Lockwood. Sergeant William Christopher. Corporal Martin I. Strader. Corporal Joseph Smith.
Corporal James Mulharen. Corporal Abner Haines, jr.
PRIVATES.
William Alexander, Joseph P. Acton, Franklin Adams, Balentine D. Carl, Michael Bartley, John Baxter, Henry Becker, Lewis Becker, Benjamin Beeson, George H. Bennett, Philip Bladener, Amos Bodley, William H. Brennan, Thomas Brennan, John Brennan, Henry Bechtel, Samuel B. Campbell, John W. Christman, Elias Clear, John W. Cotting- ham, Joseph B. Crubaugh, John M. Davis, Martin Davis, Clay I. Day, Henry Davinney, E. P. DeCamp, W. H. DeGroot, Anderson A. Din- kins, Thomas Doherty, D. C. Donallan, Peter S. Eikenberry. Joseph D. Emory, Joseph Englehart, William H. Espich, William H. Focht, R. V. Freeman, John Gassett, John G. Grace, Adam Green, Lewis E. Grupe, James R. Hamilton, James Harbaugh, Hugh H. Harper, James W. Henkle, James A. Huganin, Clayton C. Johnson, R. I. Johnson, Foster Kelly, Henry H. Kline, John Mayer, Ephraim Mike- sell, Albert Mills, William M. Morrow, Thomas Mulharen, I. Mc- Christie, M. C. McMakin, Joel Nation, Thomas A. Nation, Wilbur C. Nelson, Thomas A. Pollock, John H. Poyner, William B. Pryor, Hiram Rathbun, Daniel W. Ridenour, James Russell, Andrew J. Saylor, David W. Saylor, William H. Seibert, William Shiers, Samuel 'Sixsmith,
Walter Smiley, Charles W. Smith, Joseph S. H. Smith, Oscar M. Thayer, Lewis Thompson, Richard C. Truitt, Christian Uhlman, Charles I. Vanausdal, John Wilkins, Joseph Wright, Adam Zeek.
COMPANY D.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain A. N. Thompson. First Lieutenant D. M. Gaus. Second Lieutenant L. M. Gray.
Third Lieutenant Edward Cottingham.
Ensign Robert Morgan.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Daniel Shewman.
Sergeant Jacob S. Fox.
Sergeant J. J. Smith.
Sergeant John Harvey. Corporal F. N. Austin.
Corporal S. H. B. Shear.
Corporal Thomas Neville.
Corporal John Bride.
PRIVATES.
Marcus Austin, Isaiah Adams, John W. Anderson, W. H. Benson, John W. Burns, S. D. Brawly, Leander Buman, P. H. Bowman, Archie Bell, W. A. Bromes, James Benner, John Caughy, William F. Davis, J. W. Dinkins, Thomas C. Douglas, Theodore Edmunds, Samuel Foster, Leopold Faulchafer, J. H. Fluhart, Walter C. Fleming, David Guthrie, Henry Gardner, Thomas Harvey, Nanim Hodge, J. N. Hun- ter, J. M. Irwin, D. P. Ireland, O. E. Jones, Jerome Jorden, W. H. Kirkpatrick, S. K. Kessler, Samuel King, Joshua Kaulsimer, Adam . Lonk, David Lonk, Joseph Larison, John Miller, William Myers, W. A. Morrison, T. J. McKee, Westley McWhiney, William McWhinny F. H. Marsall, James McClafterly, Amos Mills, John A. Miller, Adam Neff, James Ogden, C. H. Potterf, Alfred Robinson, William P. Reed, Henry Ray, Adam Rantsaw, J. N. Shelly, E. T. Snider, William Shewman, Martin Shewman, William Samuels, S. T. Steppy, L. P. Thompson, C. H. Thompson, Jasper Thompson, Thomas Todd, W. H. Turner, S. A. Wrinkle, Benjamin Warner, William Winson, Albert Williams, David Weisick, W. D. Thompson, Charles O. Teas, Thomas Zeph.
Many of the Preble county volunteers in these compa- nies enlisted in the Twenty-second regiment, for the three years' service.
TWENTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY.
This regiment was one of the offshoots of the ap- pointment of Major General John C. Fremont to the command of the western department. Although its ranks were mainly from the Buckeye State, and officered by Ohio men, its place of organization near St. Louis and Missouri gave it for a time the name of " Missouri Thirteenth." On the twenty-sixth of January, 1862, the regiment received orders to proceed to Cairo, Illinois, and there report to Brigadier General Grant. On its ar- rival, it was first ordered to Sinithland, Kentucky, then toward Fort Henry, from which point an immediate re- turn was ordered. This lengthy march was the regi- ment's first experience in field service, and, owing to a sudden change of weather from summer to winter, the initiation was very severe. The regiment took its first taste of warfare before Fort Donelson, but the surrender of that work occurred without its having any decisive part to perform. Its first action of any account was at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing. During the two days' fight, the regiment lost, in killed and wounded, eighty- nine officers and men. The brave Lieutenant Colonel St. James fell the first day. Captain Wright was after- ward promoted to fill his place, and Captain Wood to the place of Major C. W. Anderson, resigned. Surgeon
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Bell had resigned, and his place was filled by Dr. Henry E. Foote, of Cincinnati.
On July 7, 1862, the Secretary of War issued an order transferring this regiment to the State of Ohio, where it properly belonged, to be named the "Twenty- second." The resignation of both superior officers left the regiment, on the sixteenth of September, under the command of Major Wood. While at Trenton, Tennes- see, a detachment was successful in capturing the notori- ous guerrilla chief, Colonel Dawson, who afterward died in the State penitentiary at Alton, Illinois. Following this, we hear of the Twenty-second at Jackson, Corinth, Memphis, Haine's Bluff, Helena, and finally at Little Rock. In February, 1864, one hundred and five officers and men re-enlisted as veterans, and the regiment re- ceived eighty-one recruits.
October 26, 1864, orders were received that the regi- ment should report at Camp Dennison, Ohio, to be mus- tered out of service. This was completed on the eighteenth of November, after a faithful service of a few days beyond three years.
COMPANY E.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Peter O'Cain. First Lieutenant Daniel W. Sherman. Second Lieutenant William E. Lockwood.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Joseph D. Emery. Sergeant John N. Hinman. Sergeant John G. Grace.
Sergeant Isaiah A. Adams.
Sergeant Thomas B. Thompson.
Corporal Michael C. Price.
Corporal William M. Poland. Corporal Franklin Adams. Corporal Andrew J. Saylor. Corporal Stephen Billheimer. Corporal Robert Dunny. Corporal William H. Braman. Corporal George M. Crum.
Musician Joseph M. Smith. Wagoner Joshua Howard.
PRIVATES.
William H. Akill, Jacob Akill, William Alexander, Henry C. Azde- lott, Franklin Adams, Benjamin Beeson, Aaron Brower, James Bran- nan, George Bennett, John Bloom, Whitfield M. Button, Thomas M. Button, Henry Bechtol, William H. Bailey, Amos Bodley, Sam- uel F. Blythe, Thomas Doherty, Thomas L. Donnallon, David C. Donnallon, William Elliott, Charles Evans, Theodore E. Edmunds, Jerome Frazier, Adams Green, Richard S. Holt, John S. Hawkins, Henry Hubbard, Amos Hubbard, Hugh H. Harper, Peter Jones, Samuel Johnson, Charles Kaner, Lewis Kean, John Loots, John Longnecker, William Longnecker, Lewis Mitchell James Mitchell, Thomas H. Marshall, Ephraim Mikesell, James McCafferty, William Myers, Calvin M. Motter, Patterson Mehaffie, William K. Nace, William Norwood, Francis Nagle, Clinton C. Nelson, Miller C. Nel- son, George D. H. Preble, William Price, Thomas A. Pollock, Dan- iel W. Ridenour (became sergeant-major of the regiment, and after wards second lieutenant), Francis C. Ryan, Joseph Stirling, Abraham I .. Scott, Joseph M. Smith, Archibald Smith, William H. H. Saylor, David W. Saylor, John W. Saylor, Jacob Saylor, William M. Swain, Francis M. Truax, John H. Truax, Daniel W. Trussler, Samuel Up- ham, Charles J. Vanausdal, Lucian B. Vanausdal, Samuel Witt, Jo- seph Wisemiller, William Wilson, Samuel I. Johnston, Peter Jones, William F. Swain.
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