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the regiment, then part of the brigade commanded by Gen. Dick Oglesby, and the division commanded by General Davies, was hotly engaged, losing eleven men killed, forty- four wounded and three missing. This was one of the most fiercely contested fields of the war-one, where about eighteen or twenty thousand Union men, without reserves or intrench- ments, defeated, pursued and scattered more than double their numbers.
As part of General Dodge's command, the Eighty-first continued to campaign in the northern parts of Mississippi and Alabama, and the middle and western parts of Tennessee, until the latter part of April, 1864. It was then moved for- ward to Northern Georgia, and on the 5th of May was ad- vanced to Lee & Gordon's mills, where, with the great army there assembled General Sherman was just beginning the At- lanta campaign. Thereafter, until the final victory at Jones- boro and the occupation of Atlanta by the Union forces, the history of General Dodge's command is the history of the regiment. "In the battle on the 22d of July (the day Mc- Pherson was killed), the Eighty-first, with three companies in reserve, was the second regiment from the right of Sweeney's division. The command stood like a rock, and never was there made a more daring or more effective resis- tance. At an opportune moment, the Eighty-first Ohio and Twelfth Illinois moved forward in a resistless charge, car- rying everything before them. The Eighty-first captured a number of prisoners and three battle-flags. Later in the day, General Logan called on General Dodge for re-enforce- ments to assist the Fifteenth Corps in recovering its works. Mersey's brigade, which included the Eighty-fifth, was sent. It marched on the double-quick nearly two miles, and joined in a charge by which the lost lines were recovered. The Eighty-first furnished a detail to assist Captain De Gress in serving his guns on the retreating rebels. Later, at night, Mersey's brigade was moved to Bald Hill, and there the Eighty-first Ohio and Twelfth Illinois built a perfect laby- rinth of works."*
In September, 1864, the regiment was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. With that command, it made a march to Savannah, and northward through the Carolinas and Virginia, to Washington, D. C.
Whitelaw Reid.
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It participated in the review of Sherman's army at the Na- tional Capital, May 24, 1865. Early in June, it proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to Parkersburg, West Virginia, and thence by the Ohio river. The regiment remained at Louisville until July 13, when it was mustered out. It immediately started for Camp Denni- son, where its members were paid in full and discharged July 21, 1865.
The Wyandot County men who served in this regiment were as follows :
Company D-Capts., Peter A. Tyler, Noah Stoker.
First Lieut., W. D. Tyler.
Second Lieut., J. W. Post; killed at Pittsburg Landing, April 7, 1862.
Sergts., Noah M. Stoker, R. J. Earp.
Corps., Henry Hardly, David Agerter, David Hagerman, Benjamin Ellis, William D. Earp, Charles H. Willard.
Privates, Patrick Downey, James Anderson, Samuel Down, C. J. Fogle, Franklin Kating, J. P. Berry, Jacob Al- bert, J. R. Hagerman, H. H. Hawkins, William Helsel, Charles Caldwell, John Bushong, Henry Down, Anson Jones, Napoleon Crouse, David Dysinger, George Devine, William Davis, J. A. Atkinson, W. R. Heffelfinger, M. W. Kimmell, Ephraim Hoy, T. M. Blake, H. T. Carlisle, Jacob Lime, C. S. Keys, J. K. Hagerman, Stephen Healy, Levi Keller, James Gillin, J. C. Groff, John Finan, J. W. Gillin, J. B. Graham, Patrick Kelly, Martin Lipp, Elijah Longabaugh, J. Mankin, Jared Mills, Henry Miller, Jacob Miller, J. M. Nelson, Jerome Kennedy, Patrick Mulhauser, William Stamford, W. A. Reed, R. M. Reed, William Mankin, J. L. Mills, J .. H. Long, John Rose, O. H. P. Reed, J. P. Rose, J. F. Reidling, James Stol, Benjamin Stewart, W. Quaintance, M. Pendergast, Elias Stevens, James Surplus, Henry Stomb, J. F. Rose, Lawrence Smith, William Sanford, W. F. Savidge, J. E. Reed, Ander- son Sullivan, A. H. Tyler, J. A. Vanorsdall, P. Whinnery, Robert Whinnery, John Thompson, John Wilson.
Other companies.
B-John Albert.
C-William E. Reed, William Van Marter.
Company not reported-Fred Agerter, First Lieutenant; Henry Downing, W. C. Keller.
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EIGHTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY
This command was recruited during the months of Novem- ber and December, 1861. It was mustered into service at Kenton, Ohio, its regimental rendezvous, December 31, and it proceeded toward Western Virginia on the 25th of Jan- uary, 1862, where it was assigned to General Schenck's bri- gade. Under General Fremont and Sigel, the regiment per- formed arduous service and considerable fighting in the region mentioned. Subsequently it was attached to General Milroy's · Independent brigade (of Sigel's First Corps), and led by that officer, performed many gallant deeds. In September, 1862, Sigel's Corps was denominated the Eleventh, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. Thereafter, the Eigh- ty-second engaged in all the movements of the Eleventh Corps in Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. Finally, as already shown, the old Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were consolidated as the Twentieth Corps, and under Hooker and Slocum cam- paigned with Sherman through Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia to the National Capital. The regiment made a bril- liant record throughout, and, mustered out of service at Louis- ville, Kentucky, July 25, 1865, was paid and discharged at Columbus, Ohio, on the 29th of the same month.
Among its members were the following Wyandot County men :
Company A-Sergt., Henry Robinson.
Privates, Joseph E. Johnston, J. Shever, Robert Couples, J. H. Robinson.
Company B-W. H. Hollinger, Isaac P. Adams, William Ginther, J. A. Hollinger.
Company C-Second Lieut., Morgan Simonson.
Sergt., A. D. Snyder.
Privates, C. P. Taylor, Francis Taylor, Thomas Ash, Sr., J. B. Dean, Samuel Garrett, Matthew Morrison, N. E. Sibert, J. E. Kirby, William Kirby, E. L. Ross, Ephraim Shever, Joseph C. Snyder, E. L. Ross.
Company G-Private, Philip Winslow.
Company I-Corps., J. C. Chadwick, John Holloway.
Privates, Charles Spencer, W. F. Williams.
Company K-Privates, Isaac H. Cole, Samuel Brown, W. H. Cole, Jonathan Harshbarger, George Eatherton, William Martin, Henry Martin. Vol. 1-14
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Company not reported-Alfred Tracy, William Snyder, John Williams, F. J. Studebaker, Isaiah Williams, Caleb Dougherty, John Morrow.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST OHIO INFANTRY
This organization was recruited in the counties of Erie, Huron, Seneca, Crawford and Wyandot, in the dark days of 1862. Its companies rendezvoused at Monroeville, Ohio, where the regiment was mustered into the United States serv- ice on the 30th day of August. Capt. Isaac M. Kirby's com- mand in this regiment, afterward designated Company F, left Upper Sandusky for Monroeville, on Thursday morn- ing, August 21, 1862. It was then stated that the company was composed of the flower of the young men of the county, with a commander who had withstood the fiery ordeal at Pittsburg Landing. The members of the company, as then published, were as follows:
Captain, Isaac M. Kirby; First Lieut., Franklin Pope; Second Lieut., Jacob Newhard; privates, Hubert Bixby, Theophilus D. Gould, John M. Mclaughlin, C. J. Harris, Edwin Nye, David E. Carney, Aaron C. Shinely, A. H. Tur- ner, Amos K. Slade, Frederick Ludwig, John H. Wells, W. J. Carney, William Shell, Edward W. Shaw, James M. Briggs, Alfred Dewitt, C. S. Vredenberg, Levi Shoemaker, Noah Sterm, Peter Sipes, George S. Myers, William H. Welter, Michael Stump, Amos Strycker, Levi Price, F. M. Sterling, S. H. Brown, James H. Herndon, W. H. Ca- rothers, Cornelius J. Sibert, J. Loudermilch, William Ste- vens, F. G. Hill, James E. Barker, George Mann, John Liles, Joseph Harsh, William Swearingen, Elijah White, Thomas A. Clark, John Krider, William Carmichael, John Scott, Walter Foyer, John Shepard, Russel Shepard, S. F. Troup, Thomas Hollanshead, Josiah Shoafstel, C. Martin, Garret Taylor, George Gouldsby, Thomas Barry, Calvin J. Cutler, George Lawrence, J. W. Norton, J. W. Smith, William H. Kilmer, George W. Hale, David E. Hale, S. R. Myers, S. S. Waggoner, H. H. Lacy, Samuel Martin, John J. Gersten- stager, David Allison, James Stewart, John Hutter, A. A. Spafford, G. F. Spafford, J. D. Rex, W. J. Lawrence, Wil- liam Good, James Reeves, Shepley H. Link, John A. Kerr, William Hallowell, R. Park, James H. Corning, H. H. Dixon,
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Christian H. Glazer, Andrew McElwain, H. D. Vroman, Franklin Culver, August Wise, August Sickfelt, Daniel Good, J. McAnderson, William Nichols, Oliver Bolander, David Good, Levi Schwartz, David Miller, John Grossell, Benjamin Ream, Jacob H. Flickinger, Jacob Good, Marcus L. Lowell, John H. Swinehart.
On the fourth of September, the regiment left Monroeville and was hurried by rail to Cincinnati, and thence to Coving- ton, Kentucky, to assist in repelling a threatened attack by Kirby Smith. Remaining at Covington until September 24, it was sent by rail to Louisville, Kentucky, and there attached to Gen. William P. Carlin's brigade of Gen. Robert B. Mit- chell's division, Buell's army. When that army again moved southward, the battle of Perryville resulted, and in this, its first action, the regiment behaved handsomely. At Nash- ville, Gen. Jeff C. Davis took command of the division (vice Gen. Mitchell assigned to the command of the post of Nash- ville), and on the 26th it marched with the Army of the Cum- berland, General Rosecrans commanding, to battle with the rebel forces under Bragg in front of Murfreesboro.
The afternoon of the same day (December 26), the enemy was met and a line of battle formed. Gen. Jeff C. Davis' Second brigade, consisting of the Twenty-first (General Grant's original command in the rebellion) and Thirty- eight Illinois, Fifteenth Wisconsin, and One Hundred and First Ohio regiments of infantry and the Second Minnesota battery, soon engaged the enemy with spirit, sustaining a sharp fire until he was dislodged. Although the day was fast drawing to a close, and little was known of the precise nature of the ground over which the armies were moving, General Davis resolved to follow up his advantage. The enemy retreated about two miles to a rugged hill, the road passing through a defile known as Knob Gap. Deploying on either side of the road, with one section of their artillery in the defile and other pieces on the crest of the hill, they waited another encounter. In the short, sharp action which ensued, Carlin's brigade performed its work most gallantly. The enemy was driven from his position and two bronze field pieces were captured from him on that part of the line covered by the One Hundred and First.
Four days later (December 30), Carlin's brigade was the first of the Union army to arrive on the battlefield of Stone
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River, (a small, limpid stream named after a Pennsylvanian named Stone, who, with a party of three or four others' first discovered it about the year 1760). It at once engaged the enemy's outposts, and drove them back on his main line, and just at night became briskly engaged. The regiment lay on its arms through the night, and was fully prepared to receive the shock of battle that came with daylight on the following morning. The brigade stood firm, repulsing every attempt to break it, until Johnson's division and Post's brigade of the First division on the right being driven from their positions, the enemy appeared on the right flank and rear of the brigade, when, in obedience to orders, it fell back and took up a new position, holding the enemy in check until he again threw a force on the flank and rear. The regiment continued in the hottest of the fight, taking up six different positions, and stubbornly maintaining them during the day. Col. Leander Stem was killed, and Lieutenant Colonel Wooster was mor- tally wounded while respectively leading the One Hundred and First on to victory. The regiment was held on the front line on the right of the army until the afternoon of January 2, 1863. When disaster was threatening the left of the Union forces, it was one of many regiments transferred to that part of the field, and with the bayonet helped to turn the tide of battle. During the series of actions termed the Battle of Stone River, the regiment lost seven commissioned officers, and 212 men killed, wounded and missing.
During the remainder of the winter, the regiment was constantly engaged on expeditions through the regions sur- rounding Murfreesboro, suffering very much from fatigue and exposure. "It was no uncommon thing," says a writer, "to see as many as fifty men of the regiment marching with- out shoes on their feet,* and so ragged as to excite both the sympathies and risibilities of their companions. This march- ing up and down the country, the purposes or utility of which were oftentimes wholly unknown, lasted until April, when
* We deem the imagination of Reid's informant too vivid in this statement. We were there, and we never saw fifty, nor even one man marching without shoes at or in the vicinity of Murfreesboro during the winter of 1862-63. True, some ragged men might occasionally be seen, or rather men who had stood or slept too near their camp fires and thus scorched and burned their garments, but there was no need at that time for men to march without shoes, for the army was near its base of supplies, and sup- plies of all kinds were issued in abundance. Besides, it is a well-known fact no general officer in the Union army was more thoughtful and zealous in seeing to it that his men were well supplied with food, clothing and equipments than General Rosecrans.
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the regiment was allowed to go into camp at Murfreesboro for rest."
When the Tullahoma campaign was inaugurated during the last days of June, 1863, the One Hundred and First moved with that portion of the army that demonstrated in the direc- tion of Liberty Gap, and was engaged with Cleburne's rebel division for two days at that place. It followed the fortunes of the army up to Chattanooga, and at the close of that cam- paign was with Davis' division at Winchester, Tennessee. On the 17th of August, the regiment marched on the Chat- tanooga campaign, crossing the Tennessee river at Caper- ton's ferry. From thence it marched over Sand and Lookout mountains to near Alpine, Georgia. It then countermarched over Lookout Mountain, up Will's valley, and recrossed Lookout Mountain to the field of Chickamauga, where it par- ticipated in that battle on the 19th and 20th of September, displaying great coolness and gallantry. During the second day, the 19th, the regiment retook a Union battery from the enemy, fighting over the guns with clubbed muskets.
After retiring to Chattanooga, the army was re-organized, and the One Hundred and First Ohio became a part of the First Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps. On the 28th of October, this brigade was ordered to Bridgeport, Ala., and thus missed taking part in the fighting at Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
On the 3d of May, 1864, it marched with General Sher- man's armies on the Atlanta campaign, and from that time until the first days of September following was almost con- stantly engaged in marching and fighting. After the federal occupation of Atlanta, and in the sudden change of tactics adopted by the rebel General Hood, it was actively employed with other Union forces in pursuing, fighting, and heading off the enemy in his designs on the railroad communications of the Union troops. It marched with the Fourth Corps from Atlanta to Pulaski, Tenn., and from there on to Nash- ville. At the battle of Franklin, which took place during the execution of the last-mentioned movement, just at nightfall, the One Hundred and First was ordered to retake a position held by the enemy, which it did at the point of the bayonet, and held the position until 10 o'clock P. M., notwithstanding the fact that the rebels were almost within bayonet's reach during all that time.
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The regiment was engaged in the battle of Nashville De- cember 15 and 16, and participated in the assault on the enemy's center on the 15th. After the battle and rout, it fol- lowed in pursuit of Hood to Lexington, Ala., and marched thence via Athens to Huntsville, where it went into camp. It remained at that place until June 12, 1865, when it was mustered out of service. It was sent home by rail to Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, where its members received final pay and discharge papers.
Among the officers and men mentioned at the close of the war as having served in this regiment from Wyandot county, were the following:
Field and Staff-Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Isaac M. Kirby, who was mustered out with the regiment.
Company F-Captains, Franklin Pope, resigned Janu- ary 28, 1863; William H. Kilmer, killed at battle of Chicka- mauga; George W. Hale, mustered out with regiment.
Second lieutenant-Jacob Newhard, resigned December 23, 1862.
Sergeants-F. G. Hill, J. W. Herndon, G. S. Myers, John Kerr, William Stevens, Harmon Lacy, C. N. Martin, David E. Hale, George F. Mann.
Corporals-Joseph Loudermilch, Andrew McElwain, William Hallowell, R. H. Parks, John Scott, Levi Price, Elijah White, John Shepherd, Alfred De Witt.
Privates-W. I. Lawrence, David Allison, Oliver Bo- lander, James N. Briggs, James M. Anderson, S. H. Brown, H. H. Dixon, C. P. Cutler, William Carothers, J. H. Corning, T. A. Clark, Walter Foyer, William Good, Herbert Bixby, August Lickfelt, Samuel Martin, David Good, John Liles, George Lawrence, William Carmichael, John Mclaughlin, John Hutter, John Krider, C. J. Harris, Theopholus Gould, Joseph Harsh, P. Heller, Thomas Hollanshead, S. H. Link, Benjamin Ream, Fred Ludwig, Claudius Martin, J. P. Gas- tenslager, John W. Norton, William Nichols, S. R. Myers, C. H. Glasser, Daniel Good, Russell Shepherd, George Quaint- ance, Amos K. Slade, S. S. Waggoner, Levi Shoemaker, Levi Swartz, F. Culver, William Shell, A. H. Turner, A. Stricker, A. A. Stafford, F. M. Sterling, C. J. Sibert, David Miller, August Wise, W. H. Welter, J. D. Rex, J. H. Flickenger, H. G. Vroman, John A. Wells, C. S. Vredenberg, Ellis Quaint- ance, Samuel F. Troup, Peter Sipes, J. A. Stewart, Noah
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Stinn, William Swearingen, Josiah Shaffstall, Edward Shaw, Spafford.
Company A-Privates, Abel Thompson, Thomas Thomp- son.
Company D-George Miller.
Company E-Sergeant Enos B. Lewis.
Privates-J. Y. Good, Michael Stump.
Company H-Private, H. C. Cross.
Company I-Corporal, John Salyers.
Privates-D. Funk, Joseph Funk, Valentine Wisebaker,
P. Heckman, Christian Funk, S. P. Renisderfer.
Company K-Private, M. W. Shumaker.
Company not reported-Samuel Snyder, J. L. Miller.
Brev. Brig. Gen. Isaac M. Kirby, whose name has already been mentioned in the foregoing sketch of the One Hundred and First Ohio infantry, is a son of Moses H. Kirby, Esq., of Upper Sandusky, and was born at Columbus in 1834. In April, 1861, he was elected captain of a company of Wyandot county volunteers, and with that command (afterward known as Company I of the Fifteenth Regiment Ohio Volun- teer Infantry) served during its term of three months. When the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry was re-organized for a three years' term, Captain Kirby again took the field in com- mand of Company D. He served with that regiment in Western Virginia and then in Buell's Army of the Ohio. He marched with it to Pittsburg Landing and participated in the second day's battle there, assisted Major Wallace in com- manding the regiment. He resigned his position in the Fif- teenth regiment May 4, 1862. In July, of the same year, hé recruited another company of volunteers for the One Hun- dred and First Ohio infantry, of which he was (for the third time) commissioned captain. The regiment soon after joined Buell's army in Kentucky, and in October, 1862, Cap- tain Kirby was promoted major of that organization.
Early in the morning of the first day's fight at Stone River, Colonel Stem, commanding the One Hundred and First, was killed, and Lieutenant Colonel Wooster, of the same regi- ment, was mortally wounded. Major Kirby thus succeeded to the command of the regiment during the remainder of the battle. On the 27th of January, 1863, he was commissioned colonel, to take rank from the date of Colonel Stem's death- December 26, 1862. He continued in command of the regi-
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ment until the early part of the movement against Atlanta, when he was designated as the commander of the First Bri- gade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, which he led throughout the campaign. Colonel Kirby was now recom- mended by superiors in official reports for promotion. He commanded the brigade during the movement of General Thomas' army from Northern Georgia to Nashville, and through the battles of Franklin and Nashville. In the latter, he led the first assault on the enemy's main line of works. He was now again recommended for promotion, and he finally received a commission as brevet brigadier general.
General Kirby continued in command of the First Bri- gade, First Division, Fourth Army corps, until the close of hostilities. He was mustered out of service with his regi- ment in June, 1865. At the present time, he is engaged in the sale of hardware, etc., etc., in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, a town which has been his place of residence during the past forty years.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD OHIO INFANTRY
The military organization thus designated was recruited during the summer and early autumn of 1862. Its place of rendezvous was Monroeville, Ohio. On the 16th of October, it moved to Zanesville, whence it was taken down the Mus- kingum river to Marietta, thence by rail to Belpre and across the Ohio river to Parkersburg, Va., thence by rail to Clarks- burg, reaching that place October 20. From that time un- til early in January following, the command was constantly engaged in marching, and skirmishing with small parties of the enemy in West Virginia.
On the 10th of January, 1863, the regiment left Moore- field for Romney. It arrived on the 12th, and remained about six weeks, engaged almost continually in scouting duty in that vicinity, protecting the line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. While at this place, one whole company of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio, of the brigade, and a small detail from the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio, were captured by McNiel's rebel cavalry, and the train in their charge burned. The men were at once paroled and sent back into the Union lines. On the 1st of March, the
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regiment was ordered to Winchester, Va., arriving at that place on the 4th. From that point it made several raids up the Shenandoah Valley, going as far as New Market.
Nothing further of interest occurred until the 13th of June, at which time Lee's entire rebel army, then on its march to Pennsylvania, surrounded Winchester. On the afternoon of that day, the One Hundred and Twenty-third, with its brigade, under Brigadier General Elliott, had an en- gagement with Early's corps, in which it lost in killed, wounded and missing 105 men. On the 14th the Union forces were driven into their fortifications and hardly pressed by the overwhelming numbers of the rebel army. That afternoon they were under a severe artillery fire for two hours, during which time General Milroy, the division commander, directed operations from the crow's nest of the flag staff as coolly as if on parade. The outworks being car- ried by the enemy, it was then determined to evacuate the place. The troops marched out of the works in silence at 2 o'clock in the morning, leaving the heavy artillery in posi- tion, but spiked. At a point about four miles out on the Martinsburg road, 4 o'clock in the morning, the rebels were found in position, and further retreat was cut off. In at- tempting to cut their way through, the regiment lost in killed and wounded about fifty men. In this affair, the regiment made three distinct charges, but to little purpose. While it was forming for a fourth charge, Colonel Ely, of the Eighteenth Connecticut, then in command of the brigade, surrendered to the enemy, and the whole brigade, except Company D, of the One Hundred and Twenty-third, were made prisoners and marched away to Richmond, where the major portion of the officers of the One Hundred and Twenty-third; remained in Libby prison about eleven months. Lieut. W. A. Williams and Capt. D. S. Caldwell made their escape. Col. William T. Wilson and Lieut. Beverton were exchanged and sent home. The remainder of the officers, after eleven months' confine- ment in Libby prison, were sent to Macon, Georgia, thence to Charleston, South Carolina, and placed under fire-by their inhuman captors-of the Union siege guns. Subse- quently they were taken to Columbia, South Carolina. From that point several officers made their escape, among whom are Capts. J. F. Randolph, Alonzo Robbins and Oswell H. Rosenbaum; Lieuts. B. T. Blair, Frank B. Colver, Thomas
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