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The first contact the regiment had with the enemy was at Middle Creek, Va., in January, 1862, and this was followed by Pound Gap the succeeding March, after which the regiment was sent to Louis- ville, Ky. It took part in the capture of Cumberland Gap. as well as several skirmishes with the Confederates under Bragg and Kirby Smith. From that time until the spring of 1863 the regiment was engaged in the military operations in the Big Kanawha valley. April 29, 1863, it fought at Grand Gulf, and then joined Grant's army at Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment was transferred to the department of the Gulf, remaining in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, for the balance of the war. On Septem- ber 30, 1864, it was mustered out at Camp Chase, and on Sunday evening October 2, the surviving members of Company D reached Summerfield, where they were given a cordial reception.
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The next enlistments from Noble county were in Companies D and F of the Sixty-Third volunteer infantry, which was organized in January, 1862, by the consolidation of two battalions, recruited the previous autumn. James Taggart was captain of Company D, Wil- liam C. Thomas was first lieutenant, and Angus McDonald second lieutenant. The membership of the company, or at least that part of it that came from Noble county, was made up of William G. Apple- bee, Nathan Baker, Ephraim Bell, Hiram Bell, Mahlon Brown, Will- iam A. Brown, Worthington Coffee, William J. Colliflower, Samuel Coffee, Benjamin Delancy, John M. Dixon, Joshua R. Goodings, Josiah Hart, Samuel Hawthorn, John W. Hughes, William E. Hughes, Paulen Jones, William Lewis, Winchester Lewis, Michael Lyon, James McFadden, William A. McGuckin, Bristol McKensie, David A. McMunn, Isaac Marshall, Gallatin S. Marquis, James C. Matheny, John Minck, Thomas W. Parrish, James M. Pierce, John Reed, John M. Reed, John Ruple, Ezra Shock, Alonzo Shuman, Jacob Shuman, Isaac Smith, James K. Smith, Samuel Smith, Will- iam C. Smith, Zachariah Stokes, Orlando W. Stuckey, William Tay- lor, Andrew Van Sickle, Howard C. Wilson, Thomas C. Wilson, David Winders, Martin Wyrick, Joseph Ziler. Those in Company F were John Caldwell, D. W. Davis, and John Eicher.
On the 18th of February the regiment was ordered to Paducah, Ky .. where it joined the Army of the Mississippi. It was engaged in the battles of Island No. 10, the siege of Corinth, Farmington, Iuka, Parker's Cross Roards, and a few skirmishes during the years 1862 and 1863. In January, 1864, most of the men re-enlisted and received their veteran furloughs. On February 18, just two years from the time it first started South, the regiment again assembled at Columbus, and left for the front, beginning active operations at Decatur, Ala. The fall of Decatur was followed by the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, and Jonesboro. Later it joined Sherman's army and marched through Georgia on the victorious cam- paign to Savannah. It was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 8, 1865.
A few Noble county boys enlisted in the Seventy-Seventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. In Company B were Cornelius Archer, Owen Barnes, Martin Davis, Thomas C. Davis, James P. Daugherty, George W. Delancy, Cornelius Gray, William A. Harper, Edward D. Keith, Robert M. Kelley, Samuel A. Lee, Jefferson Long, Jabez Osborne, Isaac Ward. The county was represented in Company D by David McPeak and Jesse Gray. In Company H there were Samuel Carpenter, Wilson Cunningham and William Hughey. A half dozen were found in Company I in the persons of Isaiah Faulk, Jerome Mobley, Andrew Madlock, Thomas Moore, Jonas Singer and Allen Wheeler. In Company K there were Thomas M. Addis,
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Anthony Allen, John J. Calvert, Thomas K. Crooks, Charles W. Delancy, Martin Essex, Michael Lyons, John Manifold, George Masters, Thomas J. Park, Alexander Smith, Ezra Tuttle, Israel Yarnall, and Job Yoho.
Company G of the Seventy-Eighth volunteer infantry was practi- cally all from Noble county. The regiment was recruited during the late fall and winter of 1861 and was mustered into the service on January 11, 1862. At that time the commissioned officers of Com- pany G were: Peter Gebhart, captain ; Joseph Miller, first lieuten- ant; Joseph C. Jenkins, second lieutenant. The muster roll of the company, including the recruits that were added from time to time, was as follows: William J. Anderson, Wilson Archer, William Armstrong, Wilbur F. Armstrong, Charles W. Arndt, Hiram Atkin- son, Lewis Baley, Asa Barry, George Bash, Harmon Bate, Henry Beasley, Benjamin Beach, Doran Bigford, Ezra Bond, James F. Bond, Jeremiah Bond, George W. Butts, Thomas Carney, John C. Carpenter, Thomas Carpenter, Henry Carter, Joab Coe, Joseph P. Cowen, Jacob Cusac, James David, Robert A. David, Samuel Davis, William R. Davis, Adam Dennis, David Dennis, John Dennis, Solo- mon F. Dennis, Isaac Dickson, Joseph Dixon, Israel Dudley, Alonzo C. Earhart, John R. Edgar, Edward Ellis, Josiah Fannaugh, John H. Fenton, Solomon F. Finley, Elijah Fogle, Hiram Fogle, Immer Fowler, Samuel Fowler, William Fowler, William F. Fry, Cyrus H. Gardner, Joseph Gatchel, Martin Gaffney, John Geary, Taylor Geary, Samuel H. Gebhart, Philip George, John A. Gibson, Wilson Gibson, John W. Gillespie, Levi Gould, James Graham, William J. Grimes, Jacob Hagen, Samuel Halley, William Halley, Franklin C. Halter, Conrad Harmon, Israel Hart, James P. Hartsell, John Hayes, Wheeler W. Heath, James F. Henten, Solomon F. Hes- kett, Elisha D. Hickel, Daniel J. Hill, Charles Hines, John R. Hunt, Alexander W. Humphrey, George W. Johns, Barnett Johnson, George W. Johnson, Lyman J. Johnson, James Kells, William Kent, Jonas Knepper, Arius Knight, Aquilla Lindsay, Charles Lindsay, Charles W. Lindsay, Kelsey Little, William Little, Alfred Lippitt, Jacob Looker, Isaac H. Long, William B. Long, Peter B. Lupardis, Samuel McCary, John W. McFerren, Cary McGinnity, James W. Mackey, Leonard Marlow, William S. Mendenhall, Caleb M. Mercer, David B. Mercer, George W. Mercer, Job T. Mercer, Thomas Mercer, Joseph Miller, William S. Miller, James A. Moore, George W. Morgan, Owen Morgan, Lewis Morris, Simon Morris, Owen Mul- linix, Jesse Patterson, Robert Peacock, Sampson Peppers, David W. Pierce, Frank Porter, Aaron S. Purkey, Nelson Rayburn, Iret Rhine- hart, Joseph Rhinehart, Daniel Richeson, Frederick Roach, Henry M. Roach, John W. Robinson, William Robinson, William Rockwell, William Rucker, Ebenezer Russell, Eden St. Clair, Samuel St. Clair,
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Reason St. Clair, Augustus Savely, Adam Schwab, James W. Shaw, William Simmons, Charles W. Spiker, Henry Spiker, Ramsey Smith, John W. Stinchcomb, Benjamin F. Starr, Michael Stewart, John R. Stewart, James Stitts, Enoch M. Stout, George P. Stoneburner, Charles W. Sutterfield, Shubal Tilton, Jacob Trenner, John Trimble, Samuel E. Trout, Jacob Vandyke, John Vandyke, Peter Vandyke, James S. Van Meter, Martin Voxer, Jonathan Waits, William J. Weller, David Wheeler, James Wheeler, Amor Wilcox, Aaron Will- iams, Linley Williams, Samuel Williams, Nathan Willoughby, Alfred Wymer, William Wysell, David R. Yaro, Oliver P. Yaw, Jacob Yoho.
Leaving Ohio at Cincinnati, on January 11, 1862, the regiment proceeded by boat to join the Army of the Tennessee. It arrived at Fort Donelson a few days after the surrender and was assigned to the duty of guarding the prisoners taken there. On April 7, at Pitts- burg Landing, (Shiloh) the regiment was for the first time under fire. It then participated in the campaign against Corinth. After the fall of Corinth it was transferred to Logan's division and while under the command of "Black Jack" fought at Spring Creek, Granada, Miss., Raymond, Champion Hills, and Vicksburg. On the fourth of July, 1863, the Seventy-Eighth was made a part of Sherman's army, and participated in the movements against Jackson, Miss. It re-enlisted, and after spending a few weeks at home on veteran fur- lough joined the army of General Sherman in Georgia. In the battles at Bushy and Kenesaw Mountains it played an important part, as well as in the battles around Atlanta. After the march to the sea and the campaign against Johnston in the Carolinas it went with the Federal forces to Richmond and Washington, participating in the grand review at the national capital. It was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, July 11, 1865.
In August, 1862, the work of recruiting the Ninety-Second Ohio infantry was begun, headquarters of the regimental organization being at Marietta. Notwithstanding the number of Noble county boys already in the field, there were plenty of others who stood ready to heed their country's call. The greater part of Companies D, E, and K, came from the little county among the hills of Southeastern Ohio. The commissioned officers of Company D, all of whom were from Noble county, were William Wheeler, captain; John Brown, first lieutenant ; James M. Joseph, second lieutenant. Following is the muster roll of the company: Anthony M. Allen, Thomas K. Amos, Isaac B. Archer, James P. Ball, Reason A. Ball, David A. Balldridge, John A. Balldridge, Charles G. Barclay, Charles W. Barnes, High- land Barnes, Nathaniel B. Barnes, Swazy Barnes, Vachel Barnes, Elijah Bassford, John W. Barthalow, Sanforth Barton, Thomas W. Betts, Philip Brand, Peter Brand, James F. Brothers, William H.
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Brown, Jonas Brund, Charles W. Buckingham, John Butler, Joseph Calland, Horton S. Calland, Robert W. Calland, William H. Carter, Peter Coe, John Copeland, Edward Craig, John Cronin, Alex. S. Cunningham, George W. Cunningham, Levi Cunningham, Lucius B. Curtis, John W. Davis, James Deal, William Deal, James M. Delancy, William T. Eads, Samuel Eckles, William B. Engle, Syl- vanus Farley, John Fisher, Allen M. Floyd, John F. Gant, William Gibson, Oliver Givens, Jesse Grant, Charles E. Gray, James Griffin, William S. Guiler, George W. Hagerman, David Hamilton, James E. Harding, Erasmus Hartley, John Hawkins, Joseph B. Heddleston, Mead Jarvis, Clark C. Jones, James M. Joseph, James W. Joseph, Thomas Lanan, Jeremiah Leek, Isaac C. Le Fever, James Long, Noah Long, Thomas Long, William Long, Robert F. Lowe, Thomas McGovern, Elias McKeener, John W. McKittrick, John M. Matthews, Asa W. Merrill, Joseph S. Miller, Samuel Mitchner, Lewis Moore, James Morris, William H. Morris, John E. Neptune, William W. Neptune, Joseph Ogg, Archelaus Osborn, James G. Osborn, William Osborn, Levi Robbins, Andrew G. Robert, James T. Rogers, Will- iam B. Roster, John G. Rownd, David M. Scarborough, Samuel Sellers, Aaron V. Shafer, Austin C. Shafer, John H. Shankland, John C. Shipley, Samuel M. Southers, Edward H. Spencer, Isaac M. . Spencer, Jacob Stackhouse, George C. Stephenson, John F. Stephen- son, Elias H. Stillwell, Bradley B. Stone, John A. Sterling, John Summers, Samuel Swan, Samuel Swank, William Thompson, George W. Tucker, Isaac M. Turner, William E. VanMeter, Ellis Vore, Philip Walters, John Watson, Cyrus Wendle, Nathan B. Wharton, Theodore Wharton, Edward Wheeler, Joseph White, Henry Wickham, John H. Wilson, William Wilson, George W. Young, John A. Young, James C. Younger. Company D was mustered in on September 17, 1862.
A week before that date, Company E had been accepted with Erwin F. Dudley as captain ; William C. Okey, first lieutenant ; and Thomas W. Morris, second lieutenant. The commissioned officers of the company were all from Noble county, as were also the following non-commissioned officers and privates : Isaac Anderson, Elijah M. Ball, James W. Barry, John M. Barry, Joseph Carral, James Caw- field, James W. Church, Aurelius Clark, Jason Clark, William T. Craig, Alvin D. Cunningham, Francis G. Cunningham, William Coffman, George W. Cooper, John C. Cooper, Moses Carter, Abraham Davis, Amos Davis, Benjamin Davis, Caleb R. Davis, Levi Davis, Robert Davis, William Davis, John W. Dennis, James Dobbins, David Dyer, Fred W. Dientsbach, John W. Elliott, Jesse Enochs, John W. Enochs, Royal Fogle, Levi S. Forshey, Thomas Forshey, James K. Foster, Robert Foster, Leonard Frakes, George Frakes, Henry Galloway, James Glannon, Isaac H. Glidden, Sidney J. Glid-
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den, Whitman Goodall, William H. Greene, Theodore Hall, Lu- cius C. Hardy, Eliab Hickman, John W. Hicks, William Hutchins, Carey Hupp, Franklin Hupp, Samuel Hupp, William M. Hupp, David L. Jack, Michael S. Jack, Elijah Johnson, James P. Johnson, John Kirby, John Kirk, William R. Kirk, Payton Kitts, Solomon Kuehns, Benjamin F. Leonard, Samuel Lochmiller, Durbin N. Long- fellow, Joshua McCurdy, Lucius McCurdy, Clark McIntyre, John D. Matt, Gideon Meeks, Stewart Michael, Joseph H. Miller, Hezekiah Moberly, John L. Moberly, Thomas Moore, William A. Morris, Will- iam Ochsenbien, Austin D. Palmer, James N. Palmer, Andrew Peeper, John Perkins, William Phipps, Ithamer Piles, Thomas Piles, Adam Pitzer, Isaac Pool, Nicholas Racy, Philip Ratser, John T. Riley, Josiah Robinson, Oliver P. Sanford, Thomas H. Sanford, Joel C. Scott, James Shepard, William Smith, John Stephenson, George M. Stine, Perry M. Tuttle, Ira Tyson, Isaac'Vanway, David Waning, Jacob Ward, Henry Wild.
Company K was mustered in at Marietta, September 9, 1862, with Thomas Wilson as captain, Albert G. Hughes, first lieutenant, and Riley M. Merrill, second lieutenant. Privates and non-commissioned officers from Noble county : James W. Adams, Jeremiah E. Ankrom, John H. Antill, John F. Baker, Evan R. Bolton, Josiah A. Bowers, Silas Brown, Lorenzo Burton, Joshua Carmichael, Josiah Cash, Adam M. Connor, David P. Craig, Elias Craig, Sylvester M. Craig, John M. Crooks, Robert C. Crooks, Martin Crow, James Curtis, Linas Curtis, Lucius B. Curtis, Theodore Curtis, William R. Curtis, William R. Davidson, Henry J. Freeman, Andrew Gardner, Joseph Gardner, Wiliam Gibbs, William Heck, James Hiddleston, Adam H. Hineman, Jacob Inghram, Louis Johnson, William Kelly, Benjamin Kinkaid, Dudley Kirkbride, Giles Lalıue, Edmond Lindamood, James Lindamood, John G. Lindamood, Milo Lindamood, Peter Logan, Robert Love, Charles McConnell, David McCullock, Enos McFadden, John McFadden, James D. McKee, Allen D. Mc- Peek, Joseph McPeek, Philip McPeek, William T. Mahoney, Rich- ard Masters, Benjamin Miller, John Miller, Martin Miller, Thomas Miller, William L. Morris, Rhebiah Morton, Frederick Nieswonger, Wesley Park, Daniel G. Payne, James M. Payne, Jacob Polen, James D. Ray, Orrison S. Reed, Daniel Salisbury, John Sands, Joshua Sands, Moses Shepherd, Josiah Smith, James Spence, James M. Swallow, Jacob Thompson, Thomas Van Fossen, Robert Watson, Josiah Whittam, Perry Whittam, Milton Willison, Simon Willison, George S. Worstell.
Marching orders were received by the Ninety-Second on October 7, and from that time until the following January it was on duty in the Kanawha valley. In January, 1863, it went to Nashville, Tenn., where it became a part of Crook's brigade, and from that time until
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it was mustered out in June, 1865, it was almost continually on the firing line. The first engagement in which it took an active part was the battle of Hoover's Gap, and it was one of the Ohio regiments that marched with Sherman through the heart of the Confederacy to Savannah, fighting in all the engagements of that memorable cam- paign.
The next regiment to be organized in Southeastern Ohio was the One Hundred and Sixteenth infantry, which was mustered in at Marietta in the month of September, 1862. True to her traditions, Noble county was one of the first to answer the call with the result that a large part of Company F and practically all of Company H were recruited in the county. Those in Company F were Dighton Bates, William H. Bell, Robert Bramhall, John R. Brokaw, James Carson, Joel B. Cummings, Alfred W. Davis, John Dillon, William Fisher, Jacob Gregg, James Harrison, James F. Hughes, Joseph S. Johnson, George W. Johnston, George W. Johnson, Amos S. Jones, Edward S. King, Samuel King, Silas King, William King, Charles Latch, John T. McCoy, Henry Martin, Jacob Martin, John Martin, Samuel B. Matthias, Robert Martin, Garrison Miracle, Jacob Phelps, John Phelps, Richard T. Phelps, James T. Piggott, John Rake, John Rawlings, George Ray, Jacob Schwall, Thomas Shahan, Jonas Steed, George W. Smith, Jonas Smith, Freeman C. Thompson,* James Wilson, Richard Wilson, Samuel Wilson, Isaac M. Yoho, Peter Yoho.
Wilbert B. Teeters, who had gone out as a sergeant in Company I of the Twenty-Fifth regiment, was made captain of Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth regiment, in August, 1862. William H. Spriggs was first lieutenant, and William L. Moseley second lieuten- ant. The non-commissioned officers and privates in Company H were Nathan Archer, John Armstrong, William A. Arnold, Reason Baker, Payan Bartlett, David M. Bock, Leroy D. Brown, Nathaniel Butler, William Y. Cain, Jacob Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, John Catlett, U. J. Cheshire, Henry C. Clary, Leonard Craig, Henderson Crooks, James M. Dalzell, Benjamin C. Drake, Jacob Dudley, Joseph Dud- ley, Jacob L. Durnall. William J. Emmons, Charles W. Engle, Charles A. Gally, Joseph Geralds, Daniel Gorby, Matthew Grandon. Jacob Gregg, Jacob L. Gregg, Isaac Groves, John A. Groves. James Harrison, William H. Hesson, Alvah D. Hopper, Samuel Hull, Wesley James, Henry T. Johnson, Jesse Joseph, Alex. D. Kackley, John W. Kackley, Eli T. Kirkbride, James P. Kyser, John J. Kyser, George Lamp, Benjamin Larrick, John Larrick, Noah Larrick, Will- iam McBride, John T. McCoy, Stephen C. McCoy, Joseph A. Mell-
* For bravery at Fort Gregg, Freeman C. Thompson was awarded a medal by the secretary of war.
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wee, Elijah J. Matthews, Henry C. Mathews, Samuel B. Mathews, Barney Moore, Lafayette Moore, Michael J. Moore, Nathan K. Moore, William Moran, Aaron Morris, Apollo Morris, George Mor- rison, John M. Mott, Greenbury Murdock, Robert Pethtel, James H. Petty, John H. Phelps, George C. Pickenpaugh, Andrew Powell, Joseph Purkey, Zachariah Raney, Jeremiah C. Rhodes, Solomon Rich, James I. Rodgers, William C. Rowland, Isaac Russell, Benja- min F. Sammons, Joseph Secrest, Simon Secrest, Hugh Shafer, James I. Shafer, David Shepherd, Irvin F. Smith, Joseph Smith, Thomas Spear, Asbury Stephens, James A. Stoneking, Dexter W. Sullivan, Jeremiah Swain, Michael Swaney, Isaiah Tribby, Andrew Trimmer, William Vorhies, George Walters, Mark E. Ward, Yoho Watson, Wesley J. Westbrook, George Wharff, Oliver K. Wharff, Damascus Wharton, Pardon J. Wiley, Elisha D. Williams, John W. Williams, William H. Williams, Jacob Wounhas, Joseph C. Wilson, Reuben Yoho.
The regiment was armed and equipped at Gallipolis soon after it was mustered into the service, and on October 27 was united with the One Hundred and Tenth, One Hundred and Twenty-second, and One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio regiments in a brigade, at Buchanan, Va. During the winter it was engaged in guerrilla war- fare a large part of the time. About the middle of March, 1863, it joined the army at Winchester, taking part in the military opera- tions around that place. In the month of April it was attached to General Hunter's division and marched up the Shenandoah Valley. At the battle of Piedmont the regiment lost 176 men in killed and wounded. This was the most severe engagement which had been encountered up to this time. From April until July the time was spent in hard marching through Virginia and Maryland. On Sep- tember 3, it was with Sheridan's army at the battle of Berryville, and a few days later at Opequan and Fisher's Hill. In the spring of 1865 the One Hundred and Sixteenth took part in the investment of Petersburg, fighting at Fort Gregg, Burksville and Appomattox. It was mustered out on June 14, 1865, except two companies which were transferred to the Sixty-Second, and on June 23 the men received their last pay from the government at Camp Dennison, where they were formally discharged.
On May 9, 1864, the One Hundred and Sixty-First infantry was mustered in, as part of the National Guard, for the one hundred days' service. It was composed of three battalions, one of which was from Noble county. This battalion, the Ninety-Third, was made up from Companies C, F, and H, containing one hundred and ninety-six men. Company C was officered by William A. Allen, captain ; C. J. Barnes, first lieutenant ; Isaac Philpot, second lieutenant. The muster roll of the company was as follows: Benjamin W. Amos, Francis R.
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· Baldwin, Jesse R. Barnes, Otho Barnes, Nathaniel D. Brock, John Brown, Charles Calland, William Calland, Anthony Courtney, James Cunningham, John Curtis, John M. Dailey, William Dailey, Joseph G. Davis, James Delaney, James Drake, Arthur Dunn, George Farley, Joseph Farley, Thomas A. Forshey, Joel Gant, Samuel Gant, David Gessell, Jolın Gessell, Samuel Gessell, Henry Giller, Richard Hindman, Jesse Hineman, George Kent, William H. McBride, Will- iam McClintock, Andrew McGirk, John R. McGinnis, Josiah Mc- Guire, John Mallett, William D. Messinger, William M. Nowdell, Thomas O'Neil, Richard Okey, Samuel Osborn, John H. Phillips, Lewis Phillips, Charles W. Philpot, William H. Piggitt, James S. Prettyman, William Purcell, Wesley W. Reed, James W. Robinson, James S. Rownd, James M. Shankland, William S. Shepherd, James R. Sheldon, Alfred B. Simonds, James R. Smith, Samuel Snyder, John W. Taylor, Franklin A. Tilton, Isaac L. Tilton, J. B. Tilton, Luther C. Tilton, Thomas Tilton, Worthington B. Tilton, Nathan B. Wharton, William H. Wharton, James Waller, Chris- tian Weinstein, William West, Benjamin Whitington, Martin L. Wilson, William H. Wilson, William P. Wilson, Jesse Youngblue, John H. Youngblue.
The Noble county boys in Company F were John Armstrong, Oren Blake, Israel Blake, Cydnor T. Blake, Richard M. Brown, Sylvester Cunningham, Hebron Dyer, Sidney J. Glidden, Francis R. Headley, Absalom Hardin, Aurelius Hutchins, Andrew .McKee, Welcome Parker, Dunlap Wiley, Jonathan Wheeler, Luther Wheeler, Allen Wheeler, James W. Webber, Enoch F. Webber.
William Fowler was captain of Company H; Benjamin Clowser was first lieutenant; and Frederick Secrest was second lieutenant. The membership of the company consisted of Charles Arndt, David Ayres, Isaac Bond, Alexander Booher, Virgil M. Bratton, John Brickey, Samuel Brickey, James Brown, Hiram Browning, Ben- jamin Clark, Lawrence Clark, Charles Coffield, Elijah Coffman, Jacob Cope, Robert Courtney, Harpie David, Eli Davis, Joseph Davis, William Donald, Merryman Downey, Thomas Downey, George A. Duddle, Lewis Fowler, William Fowler, John R. Fowler, Rufus Fogle, George Fry, Isaac Fry, John Fulton, George W. Gander, James M. Gray, William Glover, David Groves, Alfred Gaunt, John Halley, Isaac Hickle, Isaac N. Hickle, Abram Hamilton, Walker Hamilton, Elza Johnson, John Johnson, Uriah Johnson, Noah Kack- ley, James Keller, Abram King, Hiram Knight, James Laughlin, Christopher Lippett, Elihu Lippett, Alexander Lyon, George H. Mc- Candless, William N. McCandless, Matthew McCleary, William Mc- Elroy, Finley McGary, Joseph MeLaughlin, William MeLaughlin, Scott Matheny, Thomas N. Newton, Levi Nicholson, Nathan Norman, Elisha Piper, Jonathan Piper, James Rhinehart, Stewart Roberts,
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James Rolin, Ezra Russell, John Russell, James Simon, George Staffer, Jesse Strawd, Daniel Tuttle, Joel A. Tuttle, Joel L. Tuttle, James A Trimmer, Abram Vernon, Mitchel West, Lewis Westcott, Harry Wheeler, Elhannon Wood.
The three companies comprising the Ninety-Third battalion were mustered in, as already stated, on May 9, and the term of their service expired early in September. During that time they saw but little of the strenuous side of military life, being employed most of the time in conducting supplies to Hunter's army in the Shenandoah Valley, though it was engaged in several sharp skirmishes around Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, and Maryland Heights.
One unacquainted with the character of the Noble county people would suppose that by this time the supply of men capable of bearing arms was well nigh exhausted. But every call for fresh troops met with a hearty response and somehow there were always found men in the county ready to enlist. The age limit was not closely applied in making up any of the military organizations of the county. Boys in their teens marched alongside of men whose hair was generously sprinkled with the silver of age, and both made good soldiers. So, when the One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth volunteer infantry was organized at Camp Chase in the fall of 1864, Noble county was represented by nearly all of Company G and a large part of Company I. The commissioned officers of Company G were Allen G. Floyd, captain ; James E. Phelps, first lieutenant ; Simon K. Young, second lieutenant. The muster roll of the company bore the names of David L. Adams, George W. Addlesperger, William A. Allender, Allison Archer, Esau Archer, George W. Archer, John M. Archer, Peter Archer, Church Ball, Adam C. Barnes, John H. Barnes, George H. Barry, Isaac .. Bates, Robert Bates, Allen Berry, Otho Brokaw, Robert Butler, Noah Cale, John H. Camden, John Clark, Thomas Clark, Job Cooper, Francis W. Craig, Henry H. Crane, Henry Cronin, John H. Crow, Greenberry Davis, William E. David- son, Charles DeLong, James Eckles. William Eckles, Henry Enochs, James Enochs, Shephard Enochs, Jesse Finch, John Finch, Wallace Foster, John B. Gibson, James E. Harding, Lorenzo D. Hill, David Hupp, Lewis V. Hupp, Theodore Ijams, Elijah Johnson, George W. Jones, Philip Jones, Thomas Lake, Benjamin Lamley, Edward Lamley, John Lamley, James Lincicome, John Z. Long, Noah Long, Thomas McConnell, Thomas Mercer, Andrew J. Merry, David Mitchell, Na- than Moore, Robert Moran, Arius N. Morris, Christian A. Mossburgh, Henry Musser, Jr., Joseph H. Odell, Theodore Osborn, Jacob A. Pal- mer, Henley E. Peters, John Poulton, John W. Poulton, John Powell, William Rinehart, Frederick Roach, John A. Robinson, Sylvanus L. Robinson, Samuel F. Rock, Henry Ross, Peter Rucker, Philip Shanks, Thomas Shilling, Mathias Sheble, William Shipley, John W.
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