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regiment marched on the Chattanooga campaign, crossing the Tennessee River at Caperton's Ferry. From thence it marched over Sand and Look- out Mountains to near Alpine, Ga. It then countermarched over Lookout Mountain, up Will's Valley, and re-crossed Lookout Mountain to the field of Chickamauga, where it participated in that battle on the 19th and 20th of September, displaying great coolness and gallantry. During the second day, the 19th, the regiment re-took a Union battery from the enemy, fight- ing 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 Gen. Sherman's armies on the Atlanta campaign, and from that time until the first days of September following was almost constantly engaged in marching and fighting. After the federal occupation of Atlanta, and in the sudden change of tactics adopted by the rebel Gen. 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., notwithstand- ing the fact that the rebels were almost within bayonets reach during all that time.
The regiment was engaged in the battle of Nashville December 15 and 16, and participated in the assault on the enemy's center on the 15th. After the battle and rout, it followed 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 mus- tered out of service. It was sent home by rail to Camp Taylor, near Cleve- land, 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 Brig. Gen. Isaac M. Kirby, who was mustered out with the regiment.
Company F-Capts. Franklin Pope, resigned January 28, 1863; William H. Kilmer, killed at battle of Chickamauga; George W. Hale, mustered out with regiment.
Second Lieut., Jacob Newhard, resigned December 23, 1862.
Sergts. F. G. Hill, J. W. Herndon, G. S. Myers, John Kerr, William Stevens, Harmon Lacy, C. N. Martin, David E. Hale, George F. Mann.
Corps. Joseph Lowdermilch, Andrew McElwain, Willam Hallowell, R. H. Parks, John Scott, Levi Price, Elijah White, John Shepherd, Alfred De Witt.
Privates, W. I. Lawrence, David Allison, Oliver Bolander, 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, Theopholis Gould, Joseph Harsh, P.
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Heller, Thomas Hollanshead, S. H. Link, Benjamin Ream, Fred Ludwig, Claudius Martin, J. P. Gastenslager, 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 Quaintance, Samuel F. Troup, Peter Sipes, J. A. Stewart, Noab Stinn, William Swearingen, Josiah Shaffstall, Edward Shaw, --- Spaf- ford.
Company A-Privates, Abel Thompson, Thomas Thompson.
Company D-George Miller.
Company E-Sergt. Enos B. Lewis.
. Privates, J. Y. Good, Michael Stump.
Company H-Private, H. C. Cross.
Company I-Corp. John Salyers.
Privates, D. Funk, Joseph Funk, Valentine Wisebaker, P. Heckman, Christain 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 men- tioned in the foregoing sketch of the One Hundred and First Ohio Infan- try, is a son of Moses H. Kirby, Esq., of Upper Sandusky, and was born at. Cobumbus 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 Volunteer Infantry) served during its term of three months. When the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry was re-organized for a three years' term, Capt. Kirby again took the field in command of Company D. He served with that regiment in Western Vir- ginia and then in Buell's Army of the Ohio. He marched with it to Pittsburg Landing and participated in the second days' battle there, assist- ing Maj. Wallace in commanding the regiment. He resigned his position in the Fifteenth Regiment May 4, 1862. In July, of the same year, he recruited another company of volunteers for the One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry, of which he was (for the third time) commissioned Cap- tain. The regiment soon after joined Buell's army in Kentucky, and in October, 1862, Capt. Kirby was promoted Major of that organization.
Early in the morning of the first day's fight at Stone River, Col. Stem, commanding the One Hundred and First, was killed, and Lieut. Col. Woos- ter, of the same regiment, was mortally wounded. Maj. Kirby thus suc- ceeded 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 Col. Stem's death-December 26, 1862. He continued in command of the regiment until the early part of the movement against At- lanta, when he was designated as the commander of the First Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, which he led throughout the cam- paign. Col. Kirby was now recommended by superiors in official reports. for promotion. He commanded the brigade during the movement of Gen. 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 promo- tion, and he finally received a commission as Brevet Brigadier General.
Gen. Kirby continued in command of the First Brigade, First Division,
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Fourth Army Corps, until the close of hostilities. He was mustered out of service with his regiment in June, 1865. At the present time, he is en- gaged 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 Monroe- ville, Ohio. On the 16th of October, it moved to Zanesville, whence it was taken down the Muskingum River to Marietta, thenco by rail to Belpre, and across the Ohio River to Parkersburg, Va., thence by rail to Clarksburg, reaching that place October 20. From that time until early in January following, the command was constantly engaged in marching,. and skirmish- ing with small parties of the enemy in Western Virginia.
On the 10th of January, 1863, the regiment left Moorefield for Romney. It arrived on the 12th, and remained about six weeks, engaged almost con- tinually in scouting duty in that vicinity, protecting the line of the Balti- more & 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 MeNiel's rebel cav- alry, 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 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 Brig. Gen. Elliott, had an engagement 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 Gen. Milroy, the division commander, directed operations from the Crow's nest of the flag staff as coolly as if on parade. The outworks being carried 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 position, but spiked. At a point about four miles out on the Martinsburg road, at 4 o'clock in the morning, the rebels were found in position, and further rotreat was cut off. In attempting to cut their way through, the regiment lost in killed and wounded about 50 mnen. In this affair, the regiment made three distinct charges, but to little purpose. While it was forming for a fourth charge, Col. Ely, of the Eighteenth Connecticut, then in cominand of the brigade, surrendered to the enemy, and the whole brigade, except Company D, of the One Hun. dred and Twenty-third, were made prisoners and marched away to Richmond, where the major portion of the officers of the One Hun- dred 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' confinement in Libby Prison, were sent to Macon, Ga., thence to Charleston, S. C., and placed under fire-by their inhuman captors-of the Union siege guns. Subse-
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quently they were taken to Columbia, S. C. From that point several officers made their escape, among whom were Capts. J. F. Randolph, Alonzo Robbins and Oswell H. Rosenbaum; Lieuts. B. T. Blair, Frank B. Col- ver, Thomas W. Boyce, George D. Acker, J. B. Pumphrey and V. K. Davis. Capt. Randolph made his escape, with a number of the officers belonging to other States, in a wood-scow, down the Congaree and Santee Rivers, where they boarded the Union gunboat Neipsic. The remaining officers of the One Hundred and Twenty-third made their way successfully to the Union lines in Tennessee. Col. Wilson, Lieut. Col. Hunter, Capt. Chamberlain, Lieuts. Schuyler, M. H. Smith, Frank A. Breckenridge and Charles H. Sowers were exchanged. Capt. Charles H. Riggs died in Charleston, S. C., on the 15th of September, 1864, of disease contracted in prison. Capt. William H. Bender also died at Columbia, S. C., of yellow fever. The privates of the regiment were exchanged within a few months, and sent to the parole camps at Annapolis, Md., and Camp Chase, Ohio.
Maj. Kellogg, who was wounded and made his escape from the enemy at Winchester, collected the stragglers of the regiment at Martinsburg, Va., where the paroled men of the regiment, after exchange, joined him, about the 1st of September, 1863. At this place the regiment was newly armed and equipped; but being deficient in officers, it was engaged mainly in provost and picket duty until March 1, 1864, when it was distributed as guards along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Harper's Ferry and Monocacy Junction,
About the 1st of March, however, the regiment was collected together at Martinsburg, and, with the Army of West Virginia, began one of the most remarkable campaigns, without adequate results, performed during the war of the rebellion. First under Gen. Sigel, and subsequently under Gen. Hunter, this army was marched up and down the valleys, and from mountain range to mountain range throughout the northwest quarter of old Virginia. As pursuers or pursued, they visited, en route, Winchester, New Market (on the 15th of May, where, in a fight with Breckinridge, the regi- ment lost eighty men in killed and wounded), Woodstock, Port Republic, Staunton, Lexington, Buckhannon, Liberty, Lynchburg, Salem, Gauley Bridge, Camp Piatt, Charleston, Parkersburg, Cherry Run, Martinsburg, Harper's Ferry, and many other points. The regiment started on the Lynchburg raid with Hunter, with seven hundred men, and at the expira- tion of two months and a half it returned with two hundred and fifty present for duty.
However, a new era now dawned upon the Shenandoah Valley. Gen. Sheridan was placed in command of the Union troops assembled on the Upper Potomac, and with them he pressed forward to a round of victories. At Berryville, Winchester, Strasburg, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, the enemy were signally defeated, and ere the close of October, 1864, the Shenandoah Valley was cleared almost entirely of rebels in arms. This had not been accomplished without great loss of life, and in the One Hun- dred and Twenty-third alone about one hundred and fifty brave spirits had either been killed or severely wounded.
In December, the regiment, with other troops, was ordered to report to Gen. Butler, commanding on the north side of the James River near Ber- muda Hundred, and attached to the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Gen. Ord commanding. It arrived at Deep Bottom on the 27th of December, 1864, where it remained until the 25th of March, 1865, at which time it broke camp and moved to the Chickahominy to aid Sheridan across that stream.
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The Twenty-fourth Corps was then sent to the south side of the James, {to the extreme left of the Union lines, on Hatcher's Run. On the 30th of March, an advance was made on the rebel works, and skirmishing continued until the morning of the 2d of April, when a general charge was made, and the rebel works were carried. The regiment during this time was for three days and nights on the skirmish line, without relief, and their rations had to be carried to them by Regimental Quartermaster, Lieut. Brown-a most dangerous duty. The loss of the regiment was quite severe while en- gaged in this long skirmish. It captured two battle-flags and a number of prisoners. The rebels were followed toward Petersburg, their forts on the way being captured, excepting at one or two points, where a sturdy resist- ance was made. On the 3d of April, the whole Union army marched in pursuit of Lee's rebel army toward Danville, the regiment reaching Burke's Junction in the night of the 5th, at 12 o'clock. At this point, the One Hundred and Twenty-third was included in a force sent on an expedition to burn High Bridge, fifteen miles in the advance, on the South Side Rail- road. Within half a mile of the bridge, just as the regiment was opening a fight with a brigade of rebel home guards, the rebel cavalry, in advance of Lee's army, came on in their rear, and, after a fight of three or four hours, duration, with heavy loss on both sides, the Union command, including the One Hundred and Twenty-third, was captured. Capt. Randolph, of the reg- iment, was shot through the right lung in this fight, and Gen. Reed, the commander of the expedition, was killed. The One Hundred and Twenty- third, being a second time prisoners of war, was marched along with Lee's army to Appomattox C. H. At that point, the rebel army surrendered to the Union forces under Gen. Grant, and the prisoners were thus rescued.
Immediately after the surrender, the regiment proceeded to City Point; thence it embarked on transport for Annapolis, Md., and finally was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where its members remained until June 12, 1865, when they were mustered out of service.
Following is an almost complete list of the Wyandot County men who served in this regiment:
Field and Staff .- Col. and Brevet Brig. Gen. William T. Wilson, mustered out with regiment.
Maj. John W. Chamberlain, mustered out with regiment as Captain.
Surgeon Orrin Ferris, resigned November 10, 1864.
Assistant Surgeon J. H. Williams, resigned January 25, 1864.
Chaplain, Charles G. Ferris, resigned June 9, 1864.
Company A-Capt. J. W. Chamberlain.
First Lieut. J. B. Pumphrey.
Second Lieut. A. P. Ingerson. .
Sergts. F. M. Anderson, J. H. Boroff, William F. Basom, J. P. Bear, Jac Clinger, D. D. Terry, Joseph Roll, H. S. Kaley, John Wentz.
Corps. D. L. Baker, W. S. Rifenberry, B. R. Reynolds, D. W. Nichols, S. A. Mckenzie, W. H. Egeston, L. M. Zeigler, J. H. Ellis, D. P. Demar- est, F. Egeston, T. C. Thompson.
Musicians, John Emerson, R. W. Lundy; A. S. Thompson, teamster.
Privates, Jacob Switzer, David Thompson, O. R. Torrey, E. H. Van Buren, John Thompson, Byal Tracy, W. Walters, Silas Wood, A. Davis, L. L. Wilcox, George B. Smith, George W. Smith, J. Suber, H. Stansberry, McKendree Smith, J. R. Cross, L. L. Wilson, Jacob Teal, John Davis, G. W. Davis, R. J. Craglow, E. P. Cozier, W. H. Crites, John Ellis, William Ellis, W. M. Ellis, R. J. Ewart, Elijah Emptage, George W. Finnell, R.
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L. Ewart, A. Corwin, C. B. Drum, D. E. Gibson, Eli Frost, A. Debaugh, Albert Frost, D. Gipson, David Gibson, F. M. Harris, James Haner, W. J. Hildreth, H. Hunter, Edgar Haner, G. P. Hoysington, James Gregg, E. G. Emptage, D. H. Inman, A. Ingerson, Welcome Inman, J. W. Kemp, I. B. Kemp, W. K. Humbert, H. W. Karr, J. O. Heckathorne, W. Inman, A. Kennedy, C. M. King, H. P. King, Frank Leeper, S. C. Heckathorne, Hiram Long, J. W. Bower, Coonrod Hufford, David Mincer, H. M. McMil- lan, Isaac Michaels, H. Perrin, S. M. Parsons, J. H. Niebel, B. O. Neal, T. A. Miller, I. Price, Henry Palmer, John Parlet, L. Rickenbach, N. L. Robinson, E. S. Rummell, R. V. Rummell Jedediah Sears, J. Shannon, F. Robinson, R. W. Smith, J. C. Bear, Alexander Carothers, S. C. Cole, J. S. Anderson, John S. Anderson.
Company F-Capts. Curtis Berry, Sr., resigned January 31, 1863; Alonzo Robbins, mustered out with regiment.
First Lieuts. M. W. Willoughby, mustered out with regiment; James H. Gilliam, died in service.
Sergts. A. N. Sawyer, Eli Maskey, M. F, Allison, W. G. White, B. F. Willoughby, Jamuel Dunn, S. K. Cook.
Corps. F. Blond, Thomas Clark, W. R. Willoughby, William K. Fry, John Keys, G. G. White, N. McFarland, A. L. McBride.
J. B. Willoughby, John Swinehart, Eli Smith, musicians; J. P. Dry, color bearer; J. Gephart, teamster; N. B. Brisbine, hospital steward.
Privates, Isaac Van Doran, J. A. Smith, A. B. Smith, N. D. Young, Ezra Snyder, C. Washburn, Joseph Williams, L. P. Willoughby, J. Whin- nery Levi Woodling, John Snyder, N. Cowgill, C. Cooper, R. B. Craig, J. Cook, E. L. Dunn, D. W. Dougherty, M. M. Gipson, David Galbreath, W. H. Fisher, David Hall. W. A. Gipson, Joel W. Gibson, Samuel Henley, W. H. Hefflebower, S. Hoffman, A. D. Hesser, Jacob Hayman, E. B. Holly, H. Hough, G. W. Hufford, Simon Huffman, Robert Irvin, C. H. Kiehl, J. A. Hefflebower, LaFayette Lee, Benjamin Kriechbaum, Peter J. Lott, John Mackey, W. L. Maurice, Lewis Corfman, George Mackey, E. W. McJenkins, R. N. McConnell, M. O. McClain, A. H. McClain, David McClain, S. R. Cook, John H. Miller, J. L. Milum, William Mitchell, D. McClain, J. G. Norton, Levi Noll, A. P. Reardon, H. B. Ragon, C. E. M. Oliver, J. B. Oliver, M. P. H. Oberlin, B. C. Rummell, I. H. Cathright, George Seager, O. J. Scott, J. S. Barclay, H. L. Simmons, Nelson F. Bowsher, R. Bulun, David Bowsher, N. Chambers, R. Cathright, A. Caylor, Peter Altvater, David Stalter, Charles Bolyard, Lewis Blond, Reuben Berleen.
Company D-Sergt. Thomas Parkin.
Corp. H. H. Pennington; Elias Osborn, musician.
Privates, C. C. Roberts, James Kenan, Isaac C. Stalter, Pitt Stevens, Peter Swartz, George Hatfield, B. Delapline, J. A, Heckman, B. L. Hoover, B. Kinney, W A. Mitten, G. W. Naugle, D. C. Moron, Henry Reynolds, J. G. Reynolds. Gilbert Richmond, B, W. Moore, A. Folkner.
Company E-Privates, LaFayette Dunn, John Halsey, Calvin Dunn, Isaac Holden; John Loder, Corporal.
Company H -- Capt. V. R. Davis, mustered out with regiment.
Privates, James Culver, Conrad Haas, G. W. Eyestone, W. L. Foy, J. C. Andrews, Charles Hotelling, Lewis Foy, Lewis Rank.
Company K-Privates, P. Hennessy, A. L. Ragon, William Montee, Isaac Nutter, G. R. Marvin, Thomas Irvin, Benjamin Spittle, W. Costoloe, W. Straub, Leonard Zent, Jacob Switzer, C. Simmon.
Other Companies:
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First Lieut. R. D. Ferris, resigned March 12, 1863; T. C. Burnet, Samuel Hayman, William Hoover, J. H. Dunlap.
Brevet Brig. Gen. William T. Wilson, who served throughout its term of service as Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, was one of the most prominent residents of Upper Sandusky during what has been mildly termed "the late unpleasantness." He was also known both before and subsequent to that period as the publisher and editor of the Wyandot Pioneer, a Republican newspaper.
In April, 1861, he was commissioned Captain, and led into the field one of the three Wyandot County companies, which served in the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry during its first term of three months. Soon after its muster out, the same regiment was re-organized to serve for a period of three years. Many of the original members of the old organization returned to the front with the new, and among them was the Upper Sandusky editor, now the second officer in rank in the regiment. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel August 7, 1861, and served with credit until August 11, 1862, when he resigned and returned home. Like his townsman, Gen. Kirby, however, he could not remain in the rear while his country needed his serv- ices, and on the 26th day of September, 1862, he was appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, with which regiment he served until it was mustered out June 12, 1865. Toward the close of his term he was commissioned Brevet Brigadier General, to take rank from March 13, 1865. He now resides in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOURTH OHIO NATIONAL GUARDS.
This regiment was formed by the consolidation of the Nineteenth Bat- talion Ohio National Guard, of Wyandot County, and the Sixty -fourth Battalion Ohio National Guard, of Wood County, at Camp Chase, on the 11th of May, 1864. The regiment was ordered to report without delay to General Wallace, at Baltimore, Md.
Upon its arrival in that city, Companies G and K were detached for duty in the fortifications, and the remainder of the regiment reported to Gen. Morris at Fort McHenry. From there, Company E was ordered to Wil- mington, Del .; Company B, to Camp Parole, near Annapolis, Md., and Company I to Fort Dix, at the Relay House. On the 18th of May, the reg- iment was relieved from duty at Fort McHenry, and was ordered to the Re- lay House, where it enjoyed comparative quiet until the 1st of July, when the rebel Gen. Early came down the Shenandoah, threatening Balti- more and Washington. Companies B, G and I were in the engagement at Monocacy Junction, and suffered severely, losing in killed, wounded and prisoners about fifty men. On the 13th of July, the regiment was ordered to Washington, D. C., and from there moved toward Winchester, Va., passing through Leesburg. It was halted at Snicker's Gap, and after a day's delay was moved back toward Washington; but it was again faced toward the Shenandoah Valley, moving via Harper's Ferry, under the command of Maj. Gen. Wright.
At daylight on the 13th of August, a portion of the regiment, while guarding a train near Berryville, Va., was attacked by Moseby's command, with two pieces of artillery. Some confusion was caused by the first fire, but the men soon rallied, drove back the enemy and saved the train. The detachment lost five killed, six wounded and sixty captured. The men of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth were much fatigued and worn by the arduous service performed, but they never complained.
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On the 31st of August, 1864, the regiment was mustered out of service, having lost during its term of a little more than one hundred days, about one hundred and twenty-five men killed, wounded and captured. Many of those taken prisoners were intentionally starved to death at Andersonville and other rebel prison pens.
The Wyandot County men who served in the regiment were as follows: Field and Staff-Col. Samuel H. Hunt.
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