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Alexander Mathews, native of Louisiana, enlisted at Cincinnati December 12, 1861, by L. M. Thomp- son; age 18, term three years.
William McMillen, enlisted at Cincinnati Decem- ber 7, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 17, term three years; discharged at Memphis, Tennessee, Au- gust 20, 1862, by order of Surgeon John B. Rice, cause disability.
James McNeal, native of Massachusetts, enlisted at Cincinnati, October 22, 1861, by L. M. Thomp- son; age 18, term three years; discharged March 22, 1862, Shiloh, Tennessee, for disability.
Henry McCabe, native of New York, enlisted at Cincinnati December 25, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, term three years.
Alleck Moore, native of England, enlisted at Cin- cinnati November 26, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 49, term three years; taken prisoner April 6, 1862, at Shiloh, Tennessee.
Edward McMahn, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cincinnati, November 16, 1861, by M. T. William- son; age 25, term three years; appointed second sergeant April 30, 1862.
Theodore Murray, deserted July 10, 1862, at Mos- cow, Tennessee.
James Musser, native of Maryland, enlisted at Cincinnati December 8, 1861, by M. T. Williamson; age 30, term three years; appointed eighth corporal April 30, 1862; deserted August 4, 1862, at Memphis, Tennessee.
Thomas Neville, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cincinnati November 13, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 33, term three years.
Patrick Norton, native of Ireland, enlisted at Chillicothe November 26, 1861, by W. H. Skarrett; age 43, term three years.
John P. O'Connell, native of Massachusetts, en- listed at Cincinnati October 28, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 25, terin three years; discharged at Memphis, Tennessee, August 22, 1862, by order of Surgeon John B. Rice, cause disability.
Dennis L. O'Connor, enlisted at Chillicothe, No-
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veniber 16, 1861, by W. H. Skarrett; age 45, term three years; deserted February 7, 1862, at Camp Dennison, Ohio.
John O'Connor, native of Lower Canada, enlisted at Chillicothe, December 9, 1861, by W. H. Skarrett; age 16, term three years; discharged August 20, 1862, at Memphis, Tennessee, for disability.
William O'Donnell, enlisted at Cincinnati, De- cember 26, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 26, term three years; deserted February 1, 1862, at Camp Dennison, Ohio.
David O'Connor, killed at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862.
Jeremiah O'Donnell, native of Ireland, enlisted at Chillicothe, December 6, 1861, by W. H. Skarrett; age 23, term three years.
Dennis O'Connor, jr., native of Ohio, enlisted at Cincinnati, December 5, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, term three years.
John Ollendick, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cin- cinnati January 6, 1862, by M:"T. Williamson; age 19, term three years.
Orlando P. Pierce, native of New York, enlisted at Cincinnati by L. M. Thompson, October 29, 1862; age 43, term three years.
Henry Pulse, native of Indiana, enlisted at Miamitown January 3, 1862, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, term three years; discharged August 15, 1862, at Cincinnati, Ohio, for disability.
William Payne, native of Indiana, enlisted at Cin- cinnati November 25, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 21, term three years; discharged October I, 1862, at Louisville, Kentucky, for disability.
James Palton, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cincin- nati December 14, 1861, by M. T. Williamson; age 22, term three years; deserted November 26, 1862, at Memphis, Tennessee.
William Rooten, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cin- cinnati December 5, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 35, term three years; appointed first corporal De- cember 13, 1861; died September 27, 1862, at Cin- cinnati, of disease.
William F. Smith, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cin- cinnati October 24, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 24, term three years.
Edward St. Helens, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cincinnati November 5, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 41, term three years; discharged November 13, 1862, Memphis, Tennessee.
Joseph G. Service, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cin- cinnati November 13, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, 1861, term three years; sent to general hospital June 3, 1862.
John Shifflett, enlisted at Chillicothe December 6, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 49 term three years; died at Camp Dennison, January 7, 1862.
Alonzo Stewart, enlisted at Xenia December 16, 1861 ; discharged July 20, 1862, at Cincinnati, for dis- ability.
John Sullivan, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cincin- nati December 31, 1861, by L. M. Thompson ; age 45.
Henrick Siefert, native of Germany, enlisted at Cincinnati January 4, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 31, term three years.
George M. Schlundts, native of Germany, enlisted at Cincinnati October 14, 1861, by L. M. Thomp- son; age 27, term three years.
John Stapleton, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cin- cinnati January 6, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 46, term three years.
Henry Shefer enlisted at Cincinnati January 2, 1862, by L. M. Thompson; age 39, term three years. Isaac Stem, enlisted at Cincinnati, November 30, . 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 17, term three years; discharged December .28, 1862, Cincinnati, probate jndge.
William H. Skarrett, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cincinnati November 2, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 26, term three years.
James H. Stewart, native of Virginia, enlisted at Cincinnati, September 28, 1861, by L. M. Thomp- son; age 37, term three years; appointed first ser- geant October 5, 1861.
Michael Lerry, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cin- cinnati November 29, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 29, term three years; discharged October 6, 1862, Cincinnati, of wounds received at Shiloh.
Granville Log, enlisted at Cincinnati December 13, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, term three years; deserted February 5, 1862, Camp Dennison, Ohio.
Theodore M. Thompson, native of Ohio, enlisted at Columbus October 5' 1861, by J. R. Eddie; age 34, term three years.
Horatio B. Lurrill, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cin- cinnati October 31, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 26, term three years; appointed third sergeant Oc- tober 31, 1861.
John Loy, native of New Jersey, enlisted at Cin- cinnati December 31, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 53, term three years; appointed eighth corporal January II, 1862; died at Cincinnati, May 7, 1862.
Peter Hernick, native of Ohio, enlisted at Cincin- nati December II, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 18, term three years.
David S. Vallette, native of New York, enlisted at Chillicothe December 15, 1861, by W. H. Skarrett; age 50, term three years.
James Wright, native of Vermont, enlisted at New Haven November 23, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 44, term three years; killed at the battle of Slii- loh, April 3, 1862.
James Thomas Wickershany, enlisted at Cincin- nati November 12, 1361, by L. M. Thompson; term three years; deserted January 10, 1862, Camp Den- nison, Ohio, unfit for service on account of disease contracted before enlistment.
John Warner, native of Germany, enlisted at Cin- cinnati, December 12, 1861, by I_ M. Thompson;
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age 22, term three years; appointed fifth sergeant December 26, 1861.
W. C. Wright, enlisted at Cincinnati December 21, 1861, by L. M. Thompson; age 21, term three years; appointed hrst sergeant January II, 1862.
Francis Whilter, native of Maine, enlisted at Cin- cinnati, December 25, by L. M. Thompson; age 53, term three years.
Richard Webster, native of Ireland, enlisted at Cincinnati, November 16, 1861, by L. M. Thomp- son; age 25, term three years.
THE ONE HUNDREDTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
Sandusky county contributed a company to the One Hundredth regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and to record the ser- vices performed by these men it is neces- sary to give some account of the services of the entire regiment.
It was organized at Toledo in July and August, 1862, and was mustered into service in September of that year, and moved to Cincinnati on the 8th of the same month for the purpose of defending that city. The next day it was put in position on Covington Heights, near Fort Mitchell. It marched thence for Lexing- ton, Kentucky, on the 8th of October, where it remained for drill and took a thorough course of instruction in the science of war until the Ist of December of that year. It then moved to Danville, and on the 3d of January, 1863, moved to Frankfort. About the last of February, 1863, the regiment ~marched to Lexing- ton to intercept a rebel raid, and from that point it marched to Crab Orchard, Mount Vernon, Somerset, and to various other points where the presence of the enemy seemed to require. On the 13th day of August, 1863, it went into camp at Danville, Kentucky, to be ready for a march into East Tennessee. Upon reach- ing Knoxville a portion of the regiment was sent up to the Virginia State line to guard the railroad. The portion so de- tached, being two hundred and forty in number, were captured by the enemy on
the 4th of September, und the men sent to Richmond, Virginia. This regiment participated in the defence of Knoxville, and was on active duty during its stay in East Tennessee. In the spring of 1864 the regiment marched in the Twenty- third Army Corps to join General Sher- man, then at Trumbull Hill, in Georgia. Thence it moved on in the Atlanta cam- paign, and was present at almost every battle, from Rocky Face Ridge to At- lanta.
On the 6th of August, 1864, it was en- gaged in an assault on the rebel works in front of Atlanta, with a loss of one hun- dred and three men out of three hundred taken into the fight. Thirty-six men were killed on the field, and eight more died from wounds within the next thirty days. The colonel was disabled for life. After the evacuation of Atlanta the regiment joined in the pursuit of Hood, and partici- pated in the battles of Franklin and Nash- ville. With the Twenty-third Army Corps it then went to Wilmington, North Caro- lina, and was there actively engaged. Then it marched into the interior and from Goldsborough to Raleigh with Sher- man's army. Next it moved to Greens- borough, and from there to Cleveland, Ohio, where it was mustered out of the service on the 1st day of July, 1865, having served two years and ten months from the time it was mustered into the service.
LOSSES OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH.
This regiment lost during its term of service : Sixty-five men killed in action, one hundred and forty-two wounded; twenty- seven died of wounds; one hundred and eight died of disease; three hundred and twenty-five were captured by the enemy, and eighty-five died in rebel prisons. It gloriously participated in the battles of Lenoir Station, Knoxville, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Etowah Creek, Atlanta, Columbus, Franklin, Nashville,
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Town Creek, and Wilmington. At the or- ganization of the regiment the following were the officers: John C. Groom, col- onel; Patrick Slevin, lieutenant-colonel; Edwin L. Hayes, major; George A. Col- lamore, surgeon; Henry McHenry, assist- ant surgeon.
There were a number of changes by resignation and promotion of these offi- cers, which are not necessary to be stated in this history.
The officers and privates of company K, of this regiment, were from Sandusky county, and were as follows:
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Nathaniel Haynes. First Lieutenant Sanford Haff.
Second Lieutenant William Taylor.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Joshua H. Green. Sergeant Zeno T. Brush.
Sergeant William Ferguson.
Sergeant Ephraim Wheeler. Sergeant Frank W. Russell. Corporal Horatio W. Allen.
Corporal William Harris. Corporal John Elliott.
Corporal Henry Donneyson.
Corporal William Wotcott.
Corporal Henry B. Nichols.
Corporal Edward Heath. Corporal William G. Parks.
Musician Richard Moore.
Musician William Young.
Wagoner Frederick Brown.
PRIVATES.
Cornelius Abbott, William H. Anderson, George Ames, George L. Bixler, John Berkley, Charles Ben- nett, Henry Adams, William H. Batesole, Bliss Baker, Samuel Binkley, Cyrus T. Call, Corto Call, Daniel Carnicomb, P. Carnicomb, Evander Dunning, Edwin R. Dunning, John Donmire, John Dillon, James Dymond, John A. Ensperger, Taylor Fuller, James H. Fowler, John Fowler, Peter Fleagle, John Fleagle, William Gambere, Jonathan Herbster, Nor- man Hill, George J. Hill, Charles Hardy, Hiram L. Hines, James E. Hislet, Christian Hoopnail, Abra- ham Hoopnail, Charles F. Hiseman, Lyman K. Jones, William H. Jackson, Cyrus W. Jones, Eliph- alet Jackson, Rodolphus Kepfer, Reuben Klose, Barney Kline, Joseph A. Loveland, Henry Lance, Philip Lutes, William Mowrer, Daniel Munger, Orin
Mott, - McCreary, Hiram May, Thomas McKil- lips, John McKillips, William Midcup, Hezediah McDowell, Judge T. Metcalf, Carlol Nash, Joseph M. Parish, William Parish, George Pierson, Joseph Pierson, Sylvester Peasley, Lyman G. Richards, Silas L. Richards, Alexander Reigurt, William Rogers, Michael Stull, Alexander Scrymger, John A. Shively, Frederick Shahl, Henry T. Smith, John F. Schwartz, Henry Shultz, John Sevibeck, Benjamin Smith, Reuben Stine, John W. Stone, Joseph Sharp, John M. Steward, Joseph Wentting, Sheldon West- over, Samuel Whitehead, Nathan Warring, Hiram Stull, William H. Havice, William Young.
ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH OHIO VOL- UNTEER INFANTRY.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
Colonel John R. Bond, honorably discharged October 18, 1864, and succeeded by Lieutenant- Colonel Isaac R. Sherwood, February 2, 1864.
Lieutenant-Colonel B. W. Johnson, resigned Feb- ruary 6, 1862.
Lieutenant-Colonel Moses R. Brailey.
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac R. Sherwood.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas C. Norris, mustered out as Major.
Major Moses R. Brailey.
Major Isaac R. Sherwood.
Major Benjamin F. Southworth. Major Henry J. McCord. Surgeon Lyman Brewer.
Chaplain A. Hollington.
The following will show the men of this regiment from Sandusky, and a history of the services they performed with the regiment during the war for the suppres- sion of the Southern Rebellion. The sketch is prepared from information furnished by Captain J. V. Beery, and the diary of Corporal Joseph Schwartz, kept by him while in the service, and also from informa- tion given by private Robert Long, of company A, of the regiment, and was compiled by H. Everett, esq., as a part of his intended history of Sandusky county, in the year 1876, and published by him in February, 1877.
Sandusky county furnished one full company, A, for this regiment, and also a major part of company G. Company A, usually designated as Captain Beery's company-because its enlistment and or-
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ganization were accomplished chiefly by his zealous labors-was organized at Fre- mont, August 11, 1862, mustered into the United States service at Camp Toledo, Ohio, September 5, 1862, and moved thence to the front with the regiment, September 11, 1862.
The following named officers and pri- . vates constituted this company :
COMPANY A.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain John V. Beery.
First Lieutenant Joseph H. Jennings. Second Lieutenant Orin B. Frome.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant William Beery. Sergeant Charles Ables. Sergeant Charles Baker.
Sergeant David Fausey.
Sergeant Merrit Holcomb.
Corporal Zemira G. Burton.
Corporal Charles F. Edwards.
Corporal Christopher C. Wonders.
Corporal James L. Tindall. Corporal George D. Evans. Corporal John P. Walker.
Corporal Henry VanBuskirk. Corporal John R. Ramsey.
Musician James Current.
Musician Isadore Shell.
Wagoner John A. Grant.
PRIVATES.
William H. Arlen, David A. Andrews, James Ben- nett, John Boyer, John Buchold, George W. Beery, Henry H. Baker, William S. Baldwin, Isaac Baugh- man, Elias Babine, Eli Bruner, Martin Bumthaver, John Burns, James C. Carpenter, William Craig, George Charter, George Dixon, Linden Donalds, Jacob Decker, John D. Evans, Nelson R. Forster, John K. Farver, Charles F. Flowers, Frederick Geisicker, John Gillard, James B. Garten, Manning- ton Garten, George Grace, Louis Hemminger, John Hatler, Harmon Hazleton, Sylvanus Hathaway, William H. Huffman, Charles A. Hamshur, Elias Holenbaugh, Herbert L. Hathaway, Anson L. Hariff, Charles A. Hariff, Samuel Jackson, Joseph Jackson, Joseph C. King, Nicholas Kihn, Jared M. Lern, Robert Long, Franklin Lance, George W. Long, William Little, Henry Leflar, Edward Myers, John Mosier, Henry C. Munson, John Madden, George Myers, Herman McDaniels, John H. Mc- Nutt, Anthony Nonnemaker, Jonas Neff, Orin Overmyer, Theodore Ogle, John R. Parker, Joseph A. Porter, Elisha Prior, Emanuel Roush, Samuel Ridley, John K. Rickard, Edward Sibrell, David H.
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Speaker, John Scomlon, Joseph Stephenson, A. Smart, Charles E. Sheffer, Richard Smith, Jacob Smith, John Stoll, Joseph Swartz, George W. Van- Sickle, Martin Vanhorn, John White, Jacob Parker.
For the organization of company G, of the One Hundred and Eleventh regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, this county fur- nished the following named officers and privates :
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain H. J. McCord. First Lieutenant M. P. Bean.
Second Lieutenant George W. Moore.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Robert Lattimore. Second Sergeant G. B. McCord.
Third Sergeant P. F. Dalton. Fourth Sergeant Moses P. Boose.
PRIVATES.
R. B. Alexander, James H. Boore, Eli Brough, Daniel Beekley, Coonrod Cramer, Jacob A. Crawn, Jackson Cuisno, George N. Crowell. Henry Disler, R. K. Dalton, Silas B. Dymond, Isaac Down, Addi- son Fulton, David Gemberliz, Bradley Gould, John Geshart, William Groves, Cyrus Hoff, Mathias House, William Vadersoll, William Winters, David Warner, Erastus Alexander, Philip Mathia, A. Hine- line, Jack Shepler, Robert W. Parks, Isaac M. Garn, Herman Ickes, William Fought, Thomas H, Meek, James L. Miller, Henry Oswalt, John Payne, James Park, Peter Rickle, Perry Ritter, Isaac Shole, John A. Siler, Lewis Smith, John Shepler, John Schuster, Orison Smith, Daniel I. Ickes, Josiah Jones, James Keeran, Jonas L. Klure, William Kime, Absalom Mowry, William Garn, Jeremiah Sherer, William H. Stokes, Frederick Wilbur, A. T. Hineline, Nicholas Dewyer, Jeremiah Everett, Allen McKillop, Frank O'Rork, Porter B. Woods, Henry Weston, Jacob Disler.
The foregoing list is furnished by Cap- tain J. V. Beery, and is doubtless correct.
Corporal Joseph Schwarts and Private Robert Long, both of this city, gave the following incidents relative to this regi- ment and the men from this county, which are worthy of mention :
In the winter of 1863 and 1864, while retreating from Strawberry Plains, Ten- nessee, and at the siege of Knoxville, the regiment was often on short rations. In ten successive days rations were drawn only four times-and these rations
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consisted of, one day, half a pint of corn meal; one day about two pounds of fresh pork; another day half a pint of corn meal again, and another day about half a pint of wheat-and on duty all the time, and part of the time on the march. These supplies were obtained by foraging, sup- plies from Union sources being cut off by the position of the enemy.
Eli Babied, Ballville, was wounded at Strawberry Corners.
At Resaca, May 14, 1864, John D. Evans, Madison township, was killed, and Edward Myers, Hessville, wounded.
Charles T. Flowers, of Green Creek, was wounded by bushwhackers on the train to Chattanooga, where he was sent for injuries received at Burnt Hickory.
Charles Smith (Scott), wounded at Burnt Hickory May 27, 1864. Joseph Schwartz also wounded at the same place, and John Scanlon and John Tarver, wounded near Dallas, Georgia, June 3, 1864. Scanlon lost the use of his arm.
James Jackson (Ballville), killed at Franklin. Charles Baker (Clyde), wound- ed at Franklin, December, 1864. David Plants (Scott), wounded shortly before the battle of Franklin.
At Nashville, Lewis Hominger was wounded.
Of this company, A, the following died in the service: Franklin Lantz, at Bowling Green, Kentucky; David Carpenter and J. C. Carpenter, of Washington township; Joseph Stevenson and James Current, of Riley.
The following extract from Reid's Ohio In the War will show the marches of this regiment and the battles in which these men were engaged:
This regiment was organized in the month of Au- gust, 1862, and was mustered into the service on the 5th and 6th of September. It was a Northwestern Ohio regiment, having been raised in Sandusky, Lucas, Wood, Fulton, Williams, and Defiance
counties. It took the field at Covington, Kentucky, on the 11th of September, 1862.
The regiment remained in front of Covington until the 18th of September, when, in company with four regiments and a battery, it made a reconnoissance to Crittenden, Kentucky. After driving out the cavalry of Kirby Smith from that place, the regi- ment returned to Covington. It remained at Coving- ton until the 25th, when it took transports for Louisville, where it was assigned to General Buell's army, being in the Thirty-eighth Brigade, Twelfth Division, under command of General Dumont. The regiment moved on Shelbyville October 3. On the 8th of October it took the advance in the move- ment on Frankfort, where a slight skirmish took place. It moved on Lawrenceburg October 11, and camped at Crab Orchard, where it joined with General Buell's whole army. After General Bragg's army had escaped through Cumberland Gap the One Hundred and Eleventh moved by rapid marches to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where it remained gar- risoning forts and guarding the railroad from that place to Nashville. On the 29th of May, 1863, the regiment was ordered to Glasgow, Kentucky. At this place the One Hundred and Eleventh was as- signed to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and remained in this brigade, division, and corps until mustered out of the service. From Glasgow it took part in the movement on Scottsville and Tompkinsville.
About this time John Morgan's cavalry made a raid into Indiana and Ohio. The regiment took part in the pursuit. On the 4th of July, 1863, it marched from Tompkinsville to Glasgow, a distance of thirty-two miles, in one day, carrying guns, equip- ments, and forty rounds of ammunition. On the 6th of July the regiment marched to Mumfordsville, and remaining three days, it took the cars for Louis- ville. Morgan having crossed the Ohio River, the One Hundred and Eleventh was ordered to New Albany, Indiana. It then marched to Jeffersonville and took transports to Cincinnati.
On an island ten miles above Louisville the regi- ment was landed, and a detachment of Morgan's command was captured. It arrived at Cincinnati on the 13th. From this city it proceeded to Ports- mouth, arriving at that place on the 18th.
After the capture of Morgan the regiment re- turned to Kentucky. Arriving at Lebanon, Ken- tucky, it marched to New Market, where the Second division, Twenty-third Army Corps, rendezvoused preparatory to the march to East Tennessee. On the 19th of August this movement commenced. The command arrived at Jamestown, Tennessee, on the Cumberland Mountains, eighty-five miles dis- tant from Knoxville, on the 26th. From this point the command moved, by rapid marches, through Yarman's Gap, and arrived on the 30th of August at Montgomery. On the 2d of September it forded
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the Big Emery River, and arrived at Loudon, Ten- nessee, on the Tennessee River, on the 4th. The regiment remained at Loudon until November 14, and took part in the movement north of New Market to check the rebel advance from Virginia. It also took part in several forced marches, scouts, and skirmishes along the Tennessee and Holston Rivers.
The advance of General Longstreet's army ap- peared in front of Loudon on the 22d of October, . and considerable skirinishing was kept up between the two armies. On the 14th of October the com- mand marched to Lenoir, but meeting reinforce- ments here a counter-march was ordered, and the Seeond brigade was ordered to march to Huff's Ferry, three miles below Loudon, and prevent the crossing of General Longstreet's troops. Owing to the almost impassable condition of the roads it was nearly dark before arriving at the ferry. On a high bluff, about half a mile from the river, a brigade of rebels was encountered. The Second brigade was immediately formed in single line and ordered to charge. The charge was successful. In it the One Hundred and Eleventh only lost a few wounded, as it was on the right flank of the brigade, and partly under cover of dense woods. The brigade stood to arms all night in the pelting rain, without food or shelter. At daylight the entire division fell back, and the One Hundred and Eleventh covered the re- treat. At Loudon Creek a brisk skirmish took place between the regiment and the Sixth South Carolina Sharp-shooters, composing General Longstreet's ad- vance. The stand was made to enable Henshaw's Illinois battery to get its caissons up a hill above the creek. In this engagement the One Hundred and Eleventh lost four killed and twelve wounded. After this skirmish the command marched rapidly to Le- noir unmolested, On this night all camp and garri- son equipage and transportation were destroyed, and on the morning of the 16th, at 3 A. M., it moved out for Knoxville, Tennessee.
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