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Company E-Private David Goodman.
Company G-Capt. Samuel M. Harper.
Sergts. J. S. Gibson, Walton Weber, F. J. Weber, Lewis Miller.
Corps. John Caldwell, P. C. Kitchen.
Wagoner, J. C. Kitchen.
Privates, John Solley, John Ingerson, F. M. Babcock, Seymour Culver, B. F. Culver, M. G. Clapsaddle, J. R. Ingerson, J. R. Lowry, Abner Will- son, W. B. Kitchen, Ross Ingerson.
Company F-First Lieut. J. F. Harper.
Company H-First Lieut. James J. Zint.
Company I-Second Lieut. William F. Gibbs.
Corp. W. J. Loudermilch.
Privates, J. S. Thompson, E. C. Warner, John Stump, D. D. Armstrong, D. D. Cole, J. A. Bell, Joseph A. Liles, Thomas Petty, J. A. Petty.
Company K-Privates David Jacob, Rezin De Bolt, H. Bland, H. L. Eyestone, H. Badger, George De Bolt, Silas De Bolt, William Cummings, A. J. Miller, H. P. Jaqueth, D. R. Martin, Henry Jacoby, O. Lannon, G. P. Ogg, C. Whittem.
Attached to Companies not known-G. W. Sherwood, William John- son, Ezra Phelps, Sergeant ; Frank Johnson, James Stoner, W. M. Thomp-
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son, Seth Kear, Willson Long, William Cowgill, Jackson Carter, Martin Heistand, Jackson Anderson, Conrad Bope, William Boyer, William Emerson, Bradford Dunn, George Inman, John Anderson, R. Baun, Joseph Barnhiser.
FIFTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Norwalk, Ohio, about the middle of October, 1861. On the 25th of January, 1862, it left Norwalk for Western Virginia, and soon after its arrival on the field of action was attached to Gen. Schenck's brigade. It participated in many minor movements against the redoubtable rebel leader-" Stonewall" Jackson-during the early part of that year, with varying success. When the " Army of Virginia" was organized in June, the Fifty-fifth was brigaded with the Twenty-fifth, Seventy-third and Seventy-fifth Ohio Regiments, and attached to Gen. Schenck's division.
On the 7th of July, the corps of which the regiment formed part, began a march to Sperryville, Va. After a few days' rest at that point, it again marched forward, and on the 1st of September, had passed through the various marches, skirmishes and battles, which marked Gen. Pope's brief but disastrous campaign. A re-organization of the army now took place, and in the many changes made, the Fifty-fifth was assigned to the Eleventh Army Corps. Subsequently, in the fall and winter of 1862, it engaged in the movement under Burnside, which was abruptly terminated by heavy rains and bad roads.
In the Chancellorsville campaign undor Hooker, in May, 1863, the regiment lost heavily. It (with the entire Eleventh Corps), was driven in confusion from the field, and sustained a loss of 153 men killed, wounded and missing. About the middle of May. 1863. it was attached to the Sec- ond Brigade of the Second Division, and remained in the same brigade during the remainder of its term of service. At Gettysburg, the regiment lost in killed and wounded, about fifty men.
On the following 24th day of September. the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps took cars at Manassas Junction. Va., and moved over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and through Columbus, Indianapolis, Louis- ville and Nashville to Bridgeport, Ala., arriving on the 30th. The Elev- enth Corps moved to Chattanooga on the 22d of November. In the battle of Mission Ridge, the corps formed line to the left and front of Fort Hood., and moving forward rapidly, drove the rebel line beyond the East Tennessee Railroad. Immediately after the termination of the Union victories in the vicinity of Chattanooga, the regiment entered on the Knoxville cam- paign, and returned again to Lookout Valley on the 17th of December. This campaign was made over mountain ranges. amid the frosts and snows of winter, many mon shoeless, and all without tents or blankets. On
They the 1st of January, 1864, 319 men of the Fifty- fifth re-enlisted. started for Ohio on the 10th, and arrived at Norwalk on the 20th; on the 22d of February, the regiment re-assembled at Cleveland, and on the 4th of March it was again encamped in Lookout Valley, Ga. About this time the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps were consolidated, and denominated the Twentieth Corps (Gen. Hooker J1: command), and the regiment was attached to the Third Brigade of the Third Division.
During the Atlanta campaign, the regiment participated in all the move- ments, battles, etc., in which the Twentieth corps was engaged. At Resaca, on the 15th of May, it lost more than ninety men killed, wounded and
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missing. It was also engaged at Cassville, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, and in the series of engagements around the city of Atlanta. It left Lookout Valley May 2, 1864, with about 400 men, and during the campaign of four months' duration had lost over 200.
On the 15th of November, the regiment and corps began the march, with Sherman's armies, from Atlanta to the sea. It entered Savannah on the 21st of December. On the 29th of January, 1865, the command got fairly started from Savannah on the march northward through the Carolinas. No incident worthy of particular notice occurred until the 16th of March, when at the battle of Averysboro, or Smith's Farm, N. C., the Fifty-fifth lost thirty-six men killed and wounded. The regiment was again engaged at Bentonville, N. C., on the 19th of March, and lost two killed, twenty-four wounded, and seven men missing. With Sherman's forces, it finally reached Washington, D. C., and paraded in the grand review May 24.
Upon the disbanding of the Twentieth Corps, the Ohio regiments be- longing to it were organized into a Provisional Brigade, and assigned to the Fourteenth Corps. They proceeded to Louisville, Ky., starting on the 10th of June, where, on the 11th of July, the Fifty-fifth was mustered out of service. It was paid and discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 19th of July.
Following are the names of officers and men from Wyandot County who served in this regiment:
Field and Staff -- Maj. Rudolphus Robbins, killed at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864; commissioned Second Lieutenant January 20, 1862; Captain, De- cember 20, 1862; Major, May 25, 1863.
Adjt. Frank W. Martin, commissioned June 22, 1862; promoted to Captain April 22, 1863; resigned June 6, 1863.
Company A-Capt. Robert W. Pool, resigned August 29, 1864. Company B-Private, Joseph Earp.
.Company C-Capt. Henry Miller, resigned September 28, 1864.
Privates, Philip Brewer, W. A. Gibson, George Hawk, William Thomas. Company D-Private, W. H. Brewer.
Company F-This company. when first organized, was composed of the following members:
Captain, David S. Brown, resigned March 6, 1863.
First Lieutenant, Jacob Thomas, resigned July 17, 1862.
Second Lieutenant, Leander M. Craun.
Sergeants, Charles D. Robbins, promoted to Captain, resigned March 29, 1864; John S. Shaner, William H. Ashbrook, Butler Case (who subse- quently became First Lieutenant, and resigned as such April 10, 1864), and J. Hallabaugh.
Corporals, J. R. Burkhart, J. Rumbaugh, William Rook, David Green,
J. B. Gatche]], Martin Thomas, William J. Craun and Jacob Gatchell. Drummer, Urias Swank.
Teamster, P. Mclaughlin.
Privates, John H. Andrews, Samuel Adams, Anson Brewer, George W. Boyd, Amos Bowsher, John Byers, Moses Brown, J. W. Betz, John Burk- hart, Samuel Cannon, Henry Casper, William B. Craven, R. W. Coots, E. P. Cole, William Clark, William Cupp, Henry Cowley, Noah Doll, Clark Edgington, William F. Edwards, Samson B. Flinchbaugh, Taylor Filson, Abraham Fulk, Abraham Freese, L. Fulmer, William Harley, J. Harley, Henry Hoppwood, John Henry, S. Hackenberger, George Hallabaugh, J. A. Kittle, James Kine, David Koble, John Lambright, C. Long, William C.
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Law, Wesley Lane, Isaac Lambright, William Likins, William P. Mahon, George W. Michael, Benjamin Myers, John R. Myers, Levi Martin, J. Mc- Bee, J. McPherson, J. Malon, John O'Brien, Dorris Pike, Jeremiah Pisel, John Pierce, J. Robertson, Albert Roberts, Leander Riesenberger, Henry Ream, Andrew Robenalt, David Raymond, Israel Spoon, Adam J. Shaner, I. Smith. J. Saul, J. G. Sharp, J. Shuster, Michael Spout, Jacob Sprout, William Stoffulmyer, M. Tress, William C. Thomas, J. H. Vail, Hugh M. Van Wagoner, William H. Waters, S. Waggoner. Subsequently the fol- løging additional names appeared upon the rolls, Jacob Spoon, Thomas Corbin, Washington Michaels, A. J. Shannon, Fredrick Sipher, J. W. Sul - liger and Anson Edgington.
Company K-First Lieut. J. F. Rieser; Sergts. Benjamin Welsh, H. W. Kramer; Corps. George Rice, Isaac Dippy, Christian Wise, W. H. Cole, Hugh Guthrie.
Privates, John Brand, M. C. Crass, - Nuss, Fred Althauser, Joseph Hoover, H. J. Compton, W. H. Edgington, Hiram Gantz, Jacob Grunditsch, Levi Kotterman, Christian Gottier, Oscar Midlam, Curtis Hoff, George Har- man, Jacob Yeager, William Winich, Edward McFarland, Henry Little, Aaron McCoy, George Lott, Peter Marquart, H. Huffman, Henry Carr, Jacob Shuler, Henry Vaughn, John Webb, George Wisenbarger, Henry Yeager, John Keller, Adam Wiswasser.
Company H-Sergt. W. B. Conger. Corp. G. W. Ragon. Privates, Adam Beer, James H. Cram, C. Linn, Samuel Stom, Z. W. Ahlefeld, J. G. Armstrong.
Company not reported-Capts. Augustus M. Wormley, Jesse Bowsher ; First Lieut. Pliny E. Watson; Second Lieut. James K. Agnew; Privates, John Emerson, Patrick Laughrey, G. W. Price, R. Rolson, Isaac Price.
EIGHTY-FIRST OHIO INFANTRY.
The command first known as ' Morton's Independent Rifle Regiment," but soon afterward designated the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was recruited to the number of eight companies in the summer of 1861. The fourth Company (D), Capt. Peter A. Tyler in command, was composed almost entirely of Wyandot County men. Benton Barracks, near St. Louis, Mo., was the rendezvous in which the regiment entered upon its first mili- tary duties.
The regiment marched out of Benton Barracks September 24, 1861, and from that time until about March 1, 1862, was employed on the Northern Missouri Railroad, and its vicinity, in keeping the region free from bands of cowardly, yet murderous and destructive Missouri guerrillas. It was then orderel to report at St. Louis. It was armed with short Enfield riflo Was embarked on board the steamer Meteor, and about midnight of .. th of March it disembarked at Pittsburg Landing. A few days later, regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade (Col. McArthur in com- mand) Second Division (Gen. C. F. Smith) of the Army of the Tennessee, then commanded by Gen. U. S. Grant.
During the battle of Pittsburg Landing, which was fought on Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th days of April, 1862, the Eighty-first behaved most gallantly. Its members were ever ready to confront the enemy, many rebels fell lifeless before the furious and unceasing fire of their Enfields, and during the second day, in a wild and impetuous charge, the regiment cantured many prisoners and a full battery of artillery. Until the early part of the following October, the regiment performed the various duties
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assigned it in West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi; but, after the evacuation of Corinth by the rebels, its actions were unimportant. How over, in the battle of Corinth, fought October 3 and 4, the regiment, then part of the brigade commanded by Gon. Dick Oglesby, and the division commanded by Gen. Davies, was hotly engaged, losing eleven men killed, fourty-four wounded and three missing. This was one of the most fiercely contested fields of the war-one, where about eighteen of twenty thousand Union men, without reserves or intrenchments, defeated, pursued and scattered more than double their numbers.
As part of Gen. Dodge's command, the Eighty-first continued to cam- paign 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 forward to Northern Georgia, and on the 5th of May was advanced to Lee & Gordon's mills, where, with the great army there assem- bled Gen. Sherman was just beginning the Atlanta campaign. There- after, until the final victory at Jonesboro and the occupation of Atlanta by the Union forces, the history of Gen. Dodge's command is the history of the regiment. " In the battle on the 22d of July (the day McPherson 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 resistance. At an opportune moment, the Eighty-first Ohio and Twelfth Illinois moved forward in a resistless charge, carrying everything before them. The Eighty- first captured a number of prisoners and three battle-flags. Later in the day, Gen. Logan called on Gen. Dodge for re enforcements 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 Capt. 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 labyrinth 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 Wash- ington, D. C. It participated in the review of Sherman's army at the National capital, May 24, 1865. Early in June, it proceeded to Louisville, Ky., via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Parkersburg, W. Va., and thence by the Ohio River. The regiment remained at Louisville until July 13, when it was mustered out. It immediately started for Camp Dennison, 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 Albert, J. R. Hagerman, H. H. Haw- kins, William Helsel, Charles Caldwell, John Bushong, Henry Down, An- son Jones, Napoleon Crouse, David Dysinger, George Devine, William
* Whitelaw Reid.
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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, Law. rence Smith, William Sanford, W. F. Savidge, J. E. Reed, Anderson Sulli- van, A. H. Tyler, J. A. Vanorsdall, P. Whinery, 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 Down- ing, W. C. Keller.
EIGHTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY.
This command was recruited during the months of November and De- cember, 1861. It was mustered into service at Kenton, Ohio, its regimental rendezvous, December 31, and it proceeded toward Western Virginia on the 25th of January, 1862, where it was assigned to Gen. Schenck's brigade. Under Gens. Fremont and Sigel, the regiment performed arduous service and considerable fighting in the region mentioned. Subsequently it was attached to Gen. 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 Poto- mac. Thereafter, the Eighty-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 Twen- tieth Corps, and under Hooker and Slocum campaigned with Sherman through Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia to the National capital. The regiment made a brilliant record throughout, and, mustered out of service at Louisville, Ky., 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, Jon- athan Harshbarger, George Eatherton, William Martin, Henry Martin.
Company not reported-Alfred Tracy, William Snyder, John Williams, F. J. Studebaker, Isaiah Williams, Caleb Dougherty, John Morrow.
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ONY HUNDRED AND FIRST OHNE INFATTI.
This organization was recruited in the counties of Erie, Huron. Seneca, Crawford and Wyandot. in the dark days of 1862. Its companies rendez- voused at Monroeville, Ohio, where the regiment was mustered into the United States service on the 30th day of August. Capt. Isaac M. Kirby's command in this regiment, afterward designated Company F, left Upper Sandusky for Monroeville, on Thursday morning, 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. Isaan M. Kirby; First Lieutenant, Franklin Pope; Second Lieutenant, Jacob Newhard; privates, Hubert Bixby. Theophilus D. Gould, John M. Mclaughlin, ( J. Harris, Edwin Nye, David E. Carney, Aaron C Shinely. A. H Turner, Amos K. Slado, Frederick Ludwig, John H Wells, W. J. Carney, William Shell, Edward W. Shaw, James M. Briggs, Alfred Dewitt, C. S. Vredenberg, Levi Shoe- maker. Noah Sterm, Petet Sipes, George S. Myers, William H. Wel- ter, Michael Stump, Amos Strycker, Levi Price, F. M. Sterling, S. H. Brown, James H. Herndon, W. H. Carothers, Cornelius J. Sibert, J. Lou- dermilch, Willlam Stevens, 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 Shoaf- stel, 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. Gerstenstager, David Allison, James Stew- art, John Hutter, A. A. Spafford, G. F. Spafford, J. D. Rex, W. J. Law- rence, William Good, James Reeves, Shepley H. Link, Jolm A. Kerr, Will- iam Hallowell, R. Park, James H. Corning, H H. Dixon, Christian H. Glazer, Andrew McElwain, H. D. Vroman, Franklin Culver, August Wise, August Sickfelt, Daniel Good, J. McAnderson, William Niebols, Oliver Bo- lander, David Good, Levi Scwartz, David Miller, John Grossell, Benjamin Ream, Jacob H. Flickinger, Jacob Good, Marcus L. Lowell, John H. Swinehart.
On the 4th of September, the regiment left Monroeville and was hurried by rail to Cincinnati, and thence to Covington, Ky., to assist in repelling a threatened attack by Kirby Smith. Remaining at Covington until Septem- ber 24, it was sent by rail to Louisiville, Ky., and there attached to Gen William P. Carlin's brigade of Gen. Robert B. Mitchell'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 Nashville, Gen. Jeff C. Davis took command of the division (vice Gen. Mitchel! assigned to the command of the post of Nashville), and on the 26th it marched with the Army of the Cumberland, Gen. Rosecrans command ing, 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 hist (Gen. Grant's original command in the rebellion) and Thirty eighth Illinois, Fifteenth Wisconsin, and One Hundred and First Ohio Regiments of infantry and the Second Minnesota Battery, soon en- gaged the enemy with spirit, sustaining a sharp fire until he was dislodged.
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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, Gen. 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 en- counter. In the short, sharp action which ensued, Carlin's brigade per- formed 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 battle-field of Stone 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, hold- ing 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 Lieut. Col. Wooster was mortally wounded while re- spectively 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 Janu- ary 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 en- gaged on expeditions through the regions surrounding Murfreesboro, suffer- ing 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 marching up and down the country, the purposes or utility of which were oftentimes wholly unknown, lasted until April, when 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 direction 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 campaign was with Davis' division at Winchester, Tenn. On the 17th of August, the
*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 supplies 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 Gen. Rosecrans.
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