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The next day after the tents arrived, August 20, Col. Ford issued a special circular, No. 6, in which he prescribes camp routine and which he heads as follows : " Headquarters Thirty- second Regiment. Camp Buckingham."* He had changed the name of the camp in honor of the then Adjutant General of the State. While he remained in camp. the latter name was used ; on his departure. September 2, the old name was again adopted.
Col. Ford had secured Capts. Milton W. Worden, William B. Bowland, Joseph Gladden and C. R. Lord, all of whom were busily en- gaged recruiting men. As early as August
10, a company from Mount Vernon and one from Carrollton came to Mansfield for this regi- ment, and were quartered in the city until the camp was selected. By the latter part of August. another came, and went immediately into camp. At that date, there were four com- panies, which, the newspapers said, aggregated 750 men. Recruiting went rapidly on in this regiment. August 24, Maj. Edie, an United States officer, arrived, and the men were sworn into the service. The camp at that time, each day, presented a lively appearance. Some minister from the city generally preached Sab- bath afternoon to the soldiers, although his audience contained often more citizens than soldiers. When the regiment was organized, Ford was made Colonel ; E. H. Swinney, Lieu- tenant Colonel; S. M. Hewett, Major; R. F. Jackson, Adjutant, and R. H. Bentley, Quar- termaster.
September 3, the Thirty-second received orders to repair to Camp Dennison. Though not quite full, the Colonel left recruiting offi- cers behind to fill the quota as fast as possi- ble. Early Tuesday morning the regiment left Camp Buckingham and marched to the depot, where sixteen passenger cars awaited them, into which they went, and were soon leaving home. This was the first regiment that left Richland County for the three-years service. War was a reality now. They were leaving home, many of them forever, others to come back only in the body. while the spirit had gone to its Maker from some bloody field of battle, or from some lonely glen or vale ; others, maimed for life, while others, who are yet liv- ing, came back in the full vigor of manhood, to recount in story and song their life in the camp, on the march and in the field.
On the opposite page will be found the roster of the Thirty-second Regiment-three-years service-showing only the names of those officers who went from Richland County.
* There seems to be a little confusion in the columns of the local papers regarding the name of the camp. Immediately underneath the order quoted, the Herald alludes to the change and says, " Col. Ford makes it, though the State had given the name 'Mordecai Bartley.'" " We think the Colonel has about made the State knock under," says the local column. However, old soldiers say the State did not " knock under," and that, though the Colonel tried to make the change, he did not succeed. The camp for the Sherman bri- gade, nrar town, was, however, named Buckingham, probably to compromise the matter. During the draft, it was also changed to Camp Mansfield.
HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY.
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ROSTER OF THE THIRTY -SECOND REGIMENT.
Rank.
Name.
Date of Appointment.
Commission Issued.
Remarks.
Colonel
Thomas H. Ford.
July 26, 1861 ...
Sept. 6, 1861.
Discharged November 8, 1862.
Lieut. Col ...
Robert H. Bentley
Dec. 25, 1862 ...
Dec. 25, 1862. .
Resigned July 27, 1863.
Major.
Alexander R. Patterson
May 18, 1865 ...
May 18, 1865. .
Resigned as Capt. in Jan., '66.
Chaplain
...
William H. Nickerson.
Sept. 5, 1861
Sept. 16, 1861 ..
Resigned March 17, 1862.
Captain
William B. Bowland.
August 31, 1862. Sept. 16, 1861 ..
Resigned June 17, 1862.
Captain
Milton W. Worden
August 31, 1862. Sept. 16, 1861 ...
Honorably disch'd June 18, '63.
Captain.
Alexander R. Patterson
May 4, 1863 ..
Jan. 19, 1863.
Promoted to Major.
Captain
William Wise.
Nov. 18, 1864.
Nov. 18, 1864 ...
On detached duty.
Captain.
Daniel W. Wilson
May 18, 1865. . May 18, 1865 ...
Mustered out with regiment.
First Lieut ..
Robert H. Bentley
August 10, 1861. Sept. 16, 1861 ..
Promo'd to Capt., Dec. 25, 1862.
First Lieut ..
Francis H. Robbins.
Feb. 8, 1862 ..
Feb. 8, 1862.
Resigned April 27, 1863.
First Lient ..
Alexander R. Patterson
Feb. 8, 1862.
Feb. 8, 1862.
Promoted to Captain.
First Lieut ..
David Shellenberger
March 15, 1862. May 5, 1862.
Resigned Jan. 7, 1864.
First Lieut ..
Alfred G. Phillips.
May 4, 1863 ... .
June 29, 1863.
Killed July 22, 1864.
First Lieut ..
William Wise.
Nov. 10, 1863 ...
April 6, 1864 ..
Promoted to Captain. l'romoted to Captain.
First Lieut ..
John Mitchell
Nov. 18, 1864 .. Nov. 18, 1864 ...
Mnstered out with regiment.
Sec. Lieut ...
Francis H. Robbins.
Jan. 9, 1862. ..
Jan. 9, 1862.
l'ro. to First Lieut, Feb. 8, 1862.
Sec. Lieut ...
Cerventes Fugate.
April 5, 1862. . March 5, 1862.
Died May 13, 1862.
Sec. Lieut ...
Calvin A. Bowland.
April 10, 1862.
Dec. 27, 1862.
Resigned January 17, 1863.
Sec. Lieut ...
Linus R. North
Jan. 18, 1863. .
Feb. 18, 1863 ...
Resigned June 24, 1863.
Sec. Lieut ...
Daniel W. Wilson
June 18, 1863. . August 25, 1863.
Promoted to First Lieutenant.
Sec. Lieut ...
Solomon Kauffman.
May 18, 1865
May 18, 1865 ..
Arriving at Camp Dennison, the regiment was completed, armed and equipped for serv- iee, and spent some time drilling and prepar- ing for active duty.
In following the history of the Thirty-sec- ond in the field, nothing better can be given than the history as published in the work by Whitelaw Reid, entitled "Ohio in the War." It is as follows :
"On the 15th of September, 1861. the regi- ment left Camp Dennison for West Virginia. As was the case with most, if not all, of the first regiments from Ohio, they were poorly equipped, and armed with the almost useless old smooth-bore musket of by-gone days. The regiment was moved by railroad, and arrived at Grafton, September 18, and marched the next day for Beverly, W. Va., where it arrived on the 22d.
At this point, Col. Ford reported for orders to Brig. Gen. Reynolds, then commanding the distriet of Cheat Mountain, with headquarters at Huttonsville, and was assigned to the com-
mand then stationed on Cheat Mountain sum- mit, with Col. Nathan Kimball, of the Four- teenth Indiana Volunteers, commanding the post.
"The Thirty-second had been hurried to the field without discipline of any kind; in fact, it was hardly organized. Here, upon the rugged heights of Cheat Mountain, amid the wild scenery of the Alleghanies, the regiment received its first lesson in the art of war. On the 3d of October, 1861, the Thirty-second, under orders, made a forward movement and led the advance of the army against Green- brier, Va., through the mountains and pines of that region by midnight. The regiment re- mained at Greenbrier during the fall of 1861, engaged in watching the movements of the enemy, then commanded by the afterward re- nowned rebel General, R. E. Lee.
" On the 13th of December, part of the Thirty- second, under command of Capt. Hamilton, ac- companied Gen. Milroy in his advance on Camp Alleghany. In his report. Gen. Milroy
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First Lieut .. Daniel W. Wilson
August 11, 1864. August 11, 1864.
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complimented the regiment very highly on its gallantry and good conduct in its charge into the camp of the enemy. The loss of the regiment in this affair was four killed and fourteen wound- ed, some severely. On the return from this ex- pedition, it was ordered to Beverly, where it remained the rest of that severe winter. The time was profitably spent in still further disci- plining and organizing the regiment, which made necessary some changes in the roster. The following-named officers retired, and their places were filled by promotion from the ranks : Capt. J. A. Lacy, Company A; W. M. Stanley, Company K, and J. Dyer, of Company I ; Chap- lain, Nickerson ; First Lieuts. C. C. Brandt, J. W. MeLaughlin, Albert J. Spaulding and C. C. Nichols ; Second Lieuts. John Vanmeter, H. H. Fickel, B. F. Guck, R. F. Jackson (Adjutant), George F. Jack, W. H. H. Case and D. Stam- baugh. Surgeon John N. Mowry also retired and was succeeded by Dr. James G. Buchanan, of Willsville, Ohio.
"Still retained in Gen. Milroy's command, the regiment took the advance of the expedi- tion under that officer, which resulted in the capture of Camp Alleghany, Huntersville, Mon- terey and McDowell. About the 1st of May, a further advance was made to near Buffalo Gap, seven miles from Staunton, Va. The enemy was met at this point, and, after some severe fighting, the National forces fell back to the main army, camped at McDowell, in the Bull Pasture Valley, where Gens. Schenck and Milroy had united their forces, numbering about seven thousand men.
" The rebel General, Stonewall Jackson, ad- vanced against the National force on the 8th day of May, and was met on the side of the Bull Pasture Mountain. A severe battle en- sued, which lasted from 2 P. M. until dark, with varied success on each side. The Nation- al forces fell back to Franklin, W. Va., closely followed by the rebel army. In this battle, the Thirty-second lost six killed and fifty-three
wounded, some mortally. It was the last regi- ment to leave the field. Lient. C. Fugate, of Company E, a young officer of fine promise, was among the mortally wounded ; he died at Franklin five days after the battle.
" On the 12th day of May, Maj. Gen. Fre- mont, commanding the Mountain Department, effected a junction with Gens. Schenck and Mil- roy, bringing with him about twelve thousand men. Before this junction, however, the rebel General Jackson had retired from the National front. The combined National forces lay at Franklin inactive until the 25th day of May, when they were ordered to the support of Gen. Banks, then operating in the Shenandoah Val- ley against the rebel army under Jackson. While the army was in camp at Franklin, the Thirty-second was transferred from Milroy's to Schenck's brigade, composed of the Thirty- second, Fifty-fifth, Seventy-third, Seventy-fifth and Eighty-second, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
" In Fremont's pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley, the Thirty-second bore its part and participated in the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic, on the 8th and 9th days of June, 1862. The regiment returned to Strausburg about the last of June, was trans- ferred to Piatt's Brigade, and moved to Win- chester, Va., July 5, 1862. It remained at Winchester doing garrison duty until the 1st of September, the day the place was evacuated by Gen. White, when the regiment moved with the brigade to Harper's Ferry, and assisted in the defense of that place. After making a hard fight and losing 150 of its number, the regiment, with the whole command, was sur- rendered by the commanding officer of the post to the enemy as prisoners of war. The history of this unaccountable affair is yet to be written. The Thirty-second was paroled and sent to An- napolis, Md., whence it was transferred to Chi- cago, Ill.
" In the defense of Harper's Ferry, the regi- ment lost some gallant officers and brave men.
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Capt. S. R. Breese, Company H, who succeeded Capt. Baxter, was killed by a musket ball, Capt. M. W. Worden lost a leg, Lieutenant A. G. Hostetter was severely wounded in the foot, and Lieut. E. B. Adams, of Company F, lost a hand. Col. Ford was placed under arrest and sent to Washington for trial by a mili- tary commission, on the charge of having neg- lected his duty in the defense of Maryland Heights. This trial resulted in his dismissal from the service November 8, 1862, by order of the War Department .*
"At Chicago the regiment became almost completely demoralized. It had not been paid for eight months, and many of the men took " French leave " and went home to look after their families. Capt. B. F. Potts was sent to Columbus to ask Gov. Todd to procure an order from the War Department, transferring the regi- ment to Camp Taylor, near Cleveland. This application was successful, and the Thirty- second, or all that was left of it-thirty-five men, arrived at Camp Taylor December 1, 1862.
"On the 2d of December, Capt. B. F. Potts was appointed by Gov. Todd, Lieutenant Colo- nel of the regiment, and that energetic officer went immediately to work 'reconstructing' the command. Within ten days, order prevailed, and 800 men had reported for duty. This happy result was not attained, however, without de- cisive action in the case of several officers, who were charged with inciting disaffection and re- volt among the men. Secretary Stanton, of the War Office, ordered their instant dismissal, which was consummated on the 23d of Decem- ber, 1862. The men were paid in full, and, on the 12th of January, 1863, declared to be ex- changed. On the 18th, orders were received to proceed to Memphis, Tenn. In re-organiz-
* The evidence afterward addnced proved almost conclusively the correctness of Col Fort's position and that he was not, as he always asserted, in any case to blame for the day's disaster. That he was made a "scapegoat " to shield the blunders of a superior officer was pretty well established, and he was afterward re-in- stated by President Lincoln. He did not, however, accept the posi- tion, but retired from the service.
ing the regiment, Lient. Col. Potts was made Colonel, Quartermaster R. H. Bentley, Lieuten- ant Colonel ; Capt. A. M. Crumbacker, Major ; Assistant Surgeon Brundige, Surgeon, and Lieut. George Sinclair, Captain. The regiment left Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, January 20; reached Memphis on the 25th of January, 1863, and was assigned to Logan's division, Seven- teenth Army Corps. At the battle of Cham- pion Hills the Thirty-second made a bayonet charge and captured the First Mississippi Rebel Battery-men, guns and horses-with a loss of twenty-four men. For this gallant achieve- ment, the captured battery was turned over to the regiment and manned by Company F dur- ing the entire siege of Vicksburg. The total loss of the regiment during the campaign and siege of Vicksburg was 225, rank and file. It participated in the battles of Port Gibson, Ray- mond, Jackson, Champion Hills ; was in the extreme front of Logan's division when Vicks- burg surrendered, and was assigned to post duty under Gen. Logan.
" In August, 1863, the regiment accompanied Stevenson's expedition to Monroe, La .. and McPherson's expedition to Brownville, Miss., in October of the same year. It was also with Sherman in February, 1864, at Meridian, and lost twenty-two men at Baker's Creek, Miss .; February 5, 1864, in which last affair Capt. W. A. Mc Allister was severely wounded while gallantly leading the advance.
"Col. Potts had been assigned to the com- mand of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, in the autumn of 1863, and was thereafter but seldom in com- mand of the regiment. In December and Jan- uary, 1863-64, more than three-fourths of the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and on the 4th of March, 1864, it was furloughed home. It rejoined the army at Cairo, Ill., on the 21st of April, with its ranks largely angmented by re- crnits. The only change made while at home was the addition of Dr. T. P. Bond, of
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Champaign County, as Assistant Surgeon. On the 27th of April, the regiment embarked at Cairo with its division and corps, on transports, landing at Clifton. From there it marched to Ackworth, Ga., where it joined Gen. Sherman on the 10th of June, 1864. The Thirty-second was identified with the movements of the Sev- enteenth Army Corps in Sherman's advance against Atlanta ; participated in the assault on Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, and Nicka- jack Creek, near Howett's Ferry, on the Chatta- hoochie River, July 10, 1864. Also in the bat- tles of July 20, 21, 22 and 28, before Atlanta, and lost more than half its number in killed and wounded. In the affair of the 22d of July, Adjt. A. G. Phillips, of Mansfield, Ohio, was killed while encouraging the men, and Capts. Huber and Potts were severely wounded. The regiment was commanded, in those battles, by Lient. Col. J. J. Hibbetts, Col. Potts being in command of the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. (On the 12th of January, 1865, Col. Potts was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, on the special rec- ommendation of Gen. Sherman, for gallantry before Atlanta, July 22, 1864.)
" After the fall of Atlanta, the Thirty-second moved with the army in pursuit of Hood, after which it rejoined Gen. Sherman and accompa- nied him on his march to the sea.
"On the 10th of December. 1864, the Thirty- second was in the advance of the army, and contributed its share toward driving the enemy into his works at Savannah. In this expedition, the Savannah & Charleston Railroad was cut, thus destroying the enemy's communications with Charleston. On the 21st of December, the regiment entered Savannah with the army, and went into camp near Fort Thunderbolt. After the review by Gen. Sherman of the whole army, the Seventeenth Army Corps went by transports to Beaufort, S. C .; thence to Poca-
toligo Station, on the Savannah & Charleston Railroad.
" On the 1st of February, 1865, the regiment moved with the army through the Carolinas, and, with the Thirteenth Iowa, was the first regiment to enter Columbia. (Col. Hibbetts, with a mounted detachment of the regiment, entered and captured Fayetteville, N. C., March 10, 1865, after a severe fight with Wade Hamp- ton's cavalry.)
"On the 20th and 21st of March, it was en- gaged with the enemy at Bentonville, N. C., where, on the 21st, Capt. D. R. Potts, Aid-de- Camp to Gen. B. F. Potts, was killed while gallantly leading the skirmish line of the bri- gade, in an assault on the enemy's works.
"The regiment came out of the woods to see their friends at Goldsboro, moved with the army to Raleigh, N. C., and was present at the surrender of Johnston's army, May 1, 1865. It marched with the army through Richmond, Va., to Washington City, where it participated in the grand review before President Johnson and his Cabinet.
" The regiment remained in camp near Wash- ington until June 8. 1865, when it took the cars for Louisville. It lay there until July 20, when it was mustered out of the service and proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, at which place the men received their final discharge July 26, 1865.
"During the stay of the Thirty-second in Washington, Lieut. Col. Hibbetts was commis- sioned Colonel, vice B. F. Potts, promoted ; Capt. S. Guthrie was made Lieutenant Colonel and Capt. Isaac B. Post, of Company C, pro- moted to Major, vice Crumbacker, resigned.
" The Thirty-second entered the field Septem- ber 15, 1861, 950 strong, and during the war re- ceived more than 1,600 recruits. Only 565 re- mained at its muster-out. It is believed that the regiment lost and recruited more than any other from Ohio."
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.
ORGANIZATION - LIFE AT CAMP BARTLEY-LEAVES FOR THE FRONT - LIFE IN THE FIELD-SENT TO TEXAS- MUSTER-OUT AND RETURN-THE SECOND CAVALRY-ITS SERVICE IN THE WAR-ROSTER.
A T the same time, as has incidentally been noticed, that Col. Ford was raising the Thirty-second Regiment, various efforts were being made to recruit the Fifteenth by officers who had been in the same regiment in the three- months service. Mention of their efforts has several times been made in the course of this narrative. Hiram Miller, A. C. Cummins, A. R. Z. Dawson, A. M. Burns, Thomas E. Douglas, C. H. Askew and others, were all vigorously at work during the summer of 1861, immediately following the three-months service, and by the time the Thirty-second left Camp Bartley, the Fifteenth was so far recruited as to be able to occupy the camp, and commence drill there. The Thirty-second left Camp Bartley, Sep- tember 3. The next day, the Fifteenth, already numbering two full and several incomplete companies, entered. Moses R. Diekey had been commissioned by the Governor as Colonel of the regiment, and had been actively engaged while recruiting went on. Once in camp, Col. Diekey established camp routine and discipline. Drilling the men in the manual of arms, in the handling of tents and eamp equipage, and the various duties of a soldier's life, was the daily order. Recruiting was also actively car- ried forward. When the companies took pos- session of the camp, few if any of them were completely organized. That was, however, quickly done. The next day after they went into camp, the Shelby company elected their officers. A. C. Cummins was made Captain, as he had been in the three-months service. That
officer, before the war closed, raised three com- panies, every one of which he took to the field. He was with the Fifteenth three-years troops till about the 1st of May, 1862, when he resigned and returned home. He was not here but a short time till he raised Company H for the Eighty-fourth Ohio Infantry, three-months ser- vice, and went with that company to the front, remaining with them till they were mustered out late in the fall.
The Fifteenth remained in Camp Bartley from September 4 till the 26th. All this time it was filling its ranks, drilling and receiving its camp equipage. By the latter day, it was fully organ- ized, and left Camp Bartley for Camp Dennison, where it received its arms. Its outfit being completed, on the 4th of October, the regiment left for the field. At Camp Nevin, near Nolin's Station, Ky., it was assigned to the Sixth Bri- gade, Second Division, of the Army of the Ohio, then commanded by Gen. W. T. Sherman, subsequently by Gen. Buell. On the 9th of December, 1861, the division marched to Bacon Creek, and, on the following day, the Sixth Bri- gade occupied Munfordsville. On the morn- ing of the 14th of February, 1862, the Second Division broke camp, moving in the direction of West Point, to embark for Fort Donelson : but, upon hearing of its capture, marched to Bowling Green. Crossing Barren River on the 27th, the command reached Nashville, Tenn., on the 2d of March. Here the army rested till the 16th, when the march to Savannah began. which point was reached on the night of April
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6, and, on the morning of the 7th, embarked for the battle-field. In this engagement the regi- ment lost six men killed and sixty-two wounded.
In the operations against Corinth the Second Division formed the reserve of the army, taking the front on the 27th of May. It was continu- ally skirmishing with the enemy until the town was taken on the 30th. On the 10th of June, the division marched to Battle Creek, Tenn., arriving there on the 18th of July. The regi- ment was engaged in building a fort at the mouth of Battle Creek until the 20th of Au- gust, when Gen. MeCook's command moved to Altamont, on the Cumberland Mountains, in which direction the army under Bragg was marching. From Altamont the divison marched to Nashville, and from there to Bow- ling Green, and thence to Louisville, arriving on the 25th of September. On the 1st of October, the Second Division marched on the Shelbyville pike, in pursuit of the enemy, until reaching Lawrenceburg, where a skirmishi was had in which the regiment was engaged. The division marched in pursuit of Bragg as far as Crab Orchard, and then marched to Nashville, arriving on the 7th of November, 1862.
On the 26th of December, the army advanced towards Murfreesboro. In the battle of Stone River, the regiment was heavily engaged, losing eighteen killed, and eighty-nine wounded.
On the 24th of July, an advance was ordered on Tullahoma and Shelbyville, which places were occupied by our army after the enemy had been driven from his strong position at Galner's and Liberty Gap. In this engagement, one officer and seven men were killed, and twenty- three wounded. About the middle of August the division was ordered to Bellefonte, Ala., arriving on the 22d, and from there to Stephen- son, Ala. The march was resumed on the 2d of September, in the direction of Rome, Ga., crossing Lookout Mountain and camping at the eastern ford, near Alpine, on the 10th. After re- maining two days the command recrossed Look-
out Mountain to Winson's Valley, and took a position with the main army in Lookout Valley.
On the morning of the 19th, the regiment marched to the battle-field of Chickamauga. In this battle, the regiment lost one officer and nine men killed, two officers and sixty-nine wounded, and forty men missing. The regiment was engaged in the siege of Chattanooga, and the assault of Mission Ridge. On the 28th of No- vember, the regiment then belonging to the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marched with the corps to the relief of Knoxville. Tenn., and moved from there to Strawberry Plains.
On the 14th of January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment, having re-enlisted as veterans, were granted a furlough. On the 14th of March, the regiment assembled at Camp Chase, having recruited to upward of nine hun- dred men. Upon arriving at Nashville on the 22d, the regiment was ordered to march to Chattanooga, arriving on the 5th of April. On the Sth, the regiment moved to Cleveland, Tenn., meeting with a serious accident near Charleston, Tenn., by a railroad train being thrown from the track, by which twenty men were more or less injured.
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