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BOYD RICHARDSON was a native of Grayson County, Va. He came to Ohio in 1814, and bought and cleared a farm in the southern part of the town- ship. He was a staid Baptist, and was noted as a man who attended to his own business. He took the world easy ; ate, drank, slept and enjoyed himself more than one in a thousand. He was a great hunter in his youth, and in his older days he enjoyed telling of his youthful exploits, hair-breadth escapes and deeds of daring. He died in 1862.
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JACK M. SALLY was a native of Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1814. At one time he owned the Paul Igou farm. He became dissipated in his habits in the prime of life. He was charged and found guilty of stabbing Thomas Bloc- som in a drunken affray, on the way from Urbana. The parties were in a wagon, and were more or less under the influence of whisky. They disagreed, quarreled and fought. Blocsom got the better of Sally, and Sally drew a pocket-knife and stabbed his assailant in the ribs, from the effects of which he died in six days. Sally was tried, found guilty and sentenced to the peniten- tiary for one year. Through the efforts of his step-son, Hiram Durnell, he was reprieved by Gov. Wilson Shannon, after serving a part of his term. He died at the house of Elijah Breedlove, about the year 1844.
THOMAS WILSON was born in the State of New York. He came to this township from Clark County, in the year 1832, and settled on the farm on which he lived and died, nearly a mile southeast of Middletown. He bought the land of Gallaway, the original proprietor, for $1.25 per acre. He married Lockie Pemberton, in the year 1827. She was born in Clark County. His children were James, Hiram, William, Isaac, David K., Margaret, Catherine, Hannah and Cinderella. Three daughters and two sons survive the father. Mr. Wilson died about 1875.
DAVID WILSON was born in Pennsylvania in 1803. He came to Wayne Township in 1832. By his first wife (Owens) he had no children. By his second wife, whom he married in 1844, he had seven daughters-Sarah, mar- ried William Corbet ; Rebecca, married Marion Corbet ; Nancy J., married Amasa Corbet ; Christina, married Aaron W. Devore ; Margaret, unmarried ; Nettie, married Coleman Spain; Emma, married Oliver Haines; Laura Alice, died, aged eleven. These two brothers, Thomas and David, were for nearly half a century the substantial citizens of their neighborhood, and their influ- ence for good did much to mold the society about them. David died in March, 1876, aged seventy-three years.
JEFFERSON DEMPCY was born in 1802, and came to Ohio from Pennsyl- vania in 1835. He bought a piece of land nearly a mile west of Brush Lake, paying $3.50 per acre for it. He continued to reside on his farm about thirty" years. His wife was of Quaker origin and a most excellent woman. They reared a family of four sons and three daughters. Their sons were Ezekiel, Ezra L., Isaac and Marshall L .; the daughters were Anna W., Margaret E., and Mary M. Ezekiel married Ann E. Cox. Ezra L. married Lucretia Pen- nington and resides within the township; has an interesting family. Isaac married Hannah Wilson. Marshall L. married Sallie Hunter. He served with distinction as an officer in the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the rebellion. He resides at Cleveland, and has twice been elected Repre- sentative from Cuyahoga County to the General Assembly of Ohio. Anna married John Swisher, and lives in Pennsylvania. Margaret E. married L. C. Guthridge, and lives in Mingo. Mary M. married Charles A. Barley, and lives in Illinois.
WILLIAM CLINTON came to Ohio in November, 1837, and settled at Clin- ton's Corners, January 1, 1838. Married his first wife, Sarah Parker, in Maryland, December, 1814. By this wife he became the father of three chil- dren-Thomas, Margaret and Sarah. Thomas went to New Mexico nearly forty years ago: Margaret married Edward Middleton ; Sarah was the first wife of Thomas Douglass, of Goshen Township. Mr. Clinton married for his second wife Peggy Gary ; by her he had three children-Henry, Margaret and
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Elizabeth. Henry died at the age of eighteen. For his third wife he married Polly Guthridge, daughter of William Guthridge. He had no children by the third wife.
JOHN B. PADEN was born in Cumberland County, Penn., on the 15th day of August, 1800. He came to Champaign County in 1833, and settled in Wayne Township his present residence, in 1837. He was a weaver by trade, but gave most of his time to farming. Served the township six successive years as Constable. Married his first and second wives in his native State. Married his third wife in the year 1841, in this county. His two sons, Ross and James E., did honorable service as soldiers in the war of 1861-65, being members of Company H, sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Paden is a full cousin of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States.
EZRA LAMBORN came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1835. He bought a tract of 700 acres of land, west of Brush Lake, east of Cable, paying $2.50 an acre for it. He had three sons and two daughters-Marshall, Nathan, Ezekiel, Margaretta and Rebecca. Marshall married Mary Cone ; Nathan married Laura Burnham, and Ezekiel married Ella Gray. Margaretta married Ephraim Woodward; Rebecca married David Edwards.
WILLIAM LARY, born in 1800; came to Ohio in 1826, and the same year settled in the northeast part of the township, near the present residence of Sylvester Spain. The land was owned by his cousin, Thomas Lary, and, in 1829, was sold for $1 an acre. Mr. Lary moved with his family, in 1829, to the Peppermill, in Salem Township. Afterward he again became a citizen of Wayne, and lived for thirteen years on the Camby farm, now owned by John Tehan, in Mingo Valley. In 1843, he bought fifty acres of land of Reese Miller, southwest of what was then Mead's Mill, near the Big Spring. Here he resided until the year 1864, when he died, aged sixty-four years. He had seven sons. Of these, John H., James M. and Ira W. are well-known citizens of the township ; the others are non-residents. He had two daughters-Martha died in Mingo in 1879 ; the other married George Allen, and is a resident of Middletown.
ELIJAH BREEDLOVE came from Ross County Ohio, and settled in the west- end of the township, in 1832, on the farm now owned by his son, Lewis I. He was born in Virginia. Was a man of great business energy, and contributed largely to the business prosperity of Wayne and Salem Townships. He had four sons-William, Lewis I., David C. and Thomas H., who became citizens of the township. His youngest son, Thomas H., made a creditable record as a soldier in the sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and bears honorable scars that attest his devotion to his country. One daughter, Mary Ann, is the wife of E. W. Stafford, of Urbana. Mr. Breedlove died in 1861.
RICHARD BALDWIN was born in Virginia in 1795, and came to Ohio in 1805. His wife was Elenor Williams. He became a citizen of Champaign County in 1824, living in Salem Township up to 1839, when he purchased land in Wayne Township and settled thereon. He bought the farm now known as the Wright farm, near Mason's Mill, paying for a part of it $1.25 per acre, and for the rest about $12 per acre. He owned six hundred and twenty-seven acres. In 1848 or 1850, he built the mansion now occupied by the relict of M. A. Wright. This house cost $4,000, besides the labor not estimated. Mr. Baldwin engaged extensively in farming and stock-dealing, and at one time was the leading live-stock trader in the King's Creek Valley. He died in 1870. " Wilson, his oldest son, married Mary Ann Johnson ; Sophia, the oldest daughter,
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married William R. Clark ; John died at the age of five years; Isaac Newton lives in Cincinnati and is unmarried ; Mary Ann married Amos M. Wilson ; Luretha married Joseph W. Johnson; Hannah E. resides in Cincinnati; Rich- ard Watson died in the service of the country (see his record elsewhere); Eliza E. married George W. Cable, and now lives in Iowa; Sallie O. married John. M. Hunter, and lives in West Liberty, Ohio; Clara M. married Moses Taylor; she died in 1878.
ELI AND ABRILLA COWGILL .- This worthy couple are natives of Ohio, and though belonging to the present generation, deserve a niche in the temple of history. The husband is the son of Thomas Cowgill, Sr., who came to Ohio in 1817. The wife is a native of Logan County, and the daughter of Joshua Antrim. They are ministers of the Friends' Church, and in years past have resided on their farm, west of Mingo. In June, 1876, they left their native country to visit churches of their denomination in different parts of Europe. They labored nine months in Ireland and Scotland, then crossing the German Ocean, spent some weeks in Norway, visiting the humble Norwegian in his hut and partaking of his hospitality ; then, crossing the Skager Rack, they spent some time in Denmark, visiting a few members of their church ; then through the Prussian dominion ; saw the very old cities of Altona, Hanover and Ham- burg. Next, they traveled in Germany and Holland, and at length reached London in August, 1877. Then, in the northern part of England and Wales they spent nine months, receiving marked recognition at the hands of the dig- nitaries of the church and State. They re-embarked for home April 16, 1878, and reached their native heath May 5. They now reside at Camp Chase, near Columbus.
Thomas Cowgill, Sr., was a native of Virginia; his wife, Sarah Antrim, was of the same State. The were members of the Friends' Church. They came to Ohio and settled in Columbiana County in 1801. In 1817, they came to Champaign County and settled in the western part of Wayne Township, near the Carmel meeting-house. Mr. Cowgill was for many years a Trustee of the township and sustained a high reputation for honesty. His family consisted of seven sons and four daughters-Henry, Daniel, Thomas, Joseph, Levi, John and Eli ; the daughters were Ann, Susannah, Sarah and Lydia. Of these only Daniel, Thomas, John and Eli survive. These sons and daughters of this early pioneer became staid citizens of the country. They adhered to the doctrine of the church in which they had a birthright. Thomas A. Cowgill, a grandson of this subject, served the county as Representative in the State Legislature repeatedly, and was made Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Sixty- Fourth General Assembly.
THE WAR RECORD.
The citizens of Wayne Township have reason to be forever proud of her soldiery during the great contest of 1861-65. In common with the men of the county and State, the men of this township gave a prompt response to the call of the Government at the outbreak of the war, and through the years that fol- lowed all her demands were answered cheerfully and readily. From Bull Run to Appomattox, from east to west, from first to last the brave sons of Wayne Township bore a part, and bore it nobly and well. No duty was too onerous, no sacrifice was too costly that they did not do and suffer. The record which does not make them " heroes in history and gods in song," will do them in- justice. The splendor of their achievments will never be shrouded in oblivion,
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and their names should and will live side by side with the heroes of Monmouth and Bunker Hill.
The following is an incomplete list of the men who bore arms from Wayne Township. After the lapse of so many years, it is not strange if many a noble, heroic soul has been overlooked, and his name left out of this historic roll-call. It was designed to give a correct account of each, but the means of information at command prevent it. It will be seen that the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry were the regiments and commands to which the major part of these men belonged. A volume in- stead of this brief sketch is due to each of them.
WILLIAM CLINTON .- Born in Cumberland, Md., October 8, 1794. Served in the war of 1812, in Capt. Conner's Company of Col. Stoner's Regiment of infantry-served two months. Enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, October, 1861, at the age of sixty-seven. Served three months and three days ; discharged. Went with the "Squirrel Hunters " to Cincin- nati in the fall of 1862.
ISAAC WILSON enlisted and served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days- under Capt. John Barley.
JOHN WILLEY enlisted and served one hundred and twenty-days, from May to September, 1864, under Capt. Barley.
MILTON BECK enlisted and served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley.
JOHN FOLEY enlisted and served in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth. Ohio National Guards, from May to September, 1864.
JOHN WILSON enlisted in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, under Capt. McAdams. Injured at Cedar Mountain, Va., and, in con- sequence, was discharged. .
JOHN M. LARUE served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days under Capt .. John Barley.
C. M. SMITH, Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, died at Portsmouth, Va., July 28, 1864; buried at Hampton National Cemetery.
STEPHEN STOWE, Company -, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died. in the service. Particulars unknown.
JOSEPH VERTNER enlisted April, 1861, in Company K, Thirteenth Ohio Three Months' Men-Capt. Corwin. Re-enlisted in the Second Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and served three years; wounded; died in the spring of 1868.
ROLLIN J. DEVORE, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, en- listed August, 1862. Served to the close of the war and was mustered out with his regiment.
MARSHALL L. DEMPCY, First Lieutenant of Company -, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Resigned March 23, 1863. Served as a member of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Ohio.
ALEXANDER SWISHER enlisted in Company E. Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July, 1862 ; killed at Richmond, Ky., August 3, 1862 ; buried as un- known in national cemetery at Richmond.
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THOMAS W. ORGAN, Sergeant of Company H, Capt. William Mayse's Com- pany, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from May, 1862, to September 25, 1862. Second service : Re-enlisted at the re-organization of the Eighty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for six months, under Capt. Robert Lysle. Was present at the capture of John Morgan.
MARION ORGAN .- Born in 1813. Enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in October, 1861 ; contracted disease, and after twenty-two months of sickness died at home, June 24, 1864, in his thirty-third year.
JAMES M. LARY .- Born in 1828. Served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley-May, 1864; discharged September, 1864.
WILLIAM S. RUSSELL .- Born in 1835. Enlisted in Company A, Eight- eenth Regular Infantry, Capt. Henry Douglass, August 16, 1861. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability at Columbus, Ohio, October 1, 1863.
JAMES SWISHER .- Born in 1849. Enlisted as a private in Company E, Fifth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, August, 1863, at Columbus. Wounded at Dallas, Ga .; discharged at Camp Dennison August, 1865. Author of " How I Know."
MILTON WILSON, private Company F, One hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley ; enlisted and served from May to Sep- tember, 1864, one hundred and twenty days in all.
JOSHUA HALE, Corporal of Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Served in Capt. Barley's Company from May to September, 1864.
CALVIN STOKES, private Company H, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, under Capt. William Mayse; served three months. Re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards, and served four months in the hundred days' service.
DAVID GRAY enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October, 1861, under Capt. Fulton. Taken prisoner at Port Republic, June 9, 1862 ; exchanged. Mustered out and discharged with his regiment.
NEWTON GRAY, Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died at Cypress Hill, Long Island, November 3, 1862; buried in Cypress Hill Na- tional Cemetery.
ALBIN Cox served as a private in Company F, One hundred and Thirty- fourth Ohio National Guards, from May to September, 1864, Capt. Barley commanding.
HENRY Cox served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regi- ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. John Barley commanding. Enlisted May, 1864, and served till September, 1864. Service one hundred and twenty days.
WILSON COX served one hundred and twenty days in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Barley, from May to September, 1864.
THOMAS JEFFERSON VERTNER, a member of Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, served one hundred and twenty days under Capt Barley.
WILLIAM H. THOMAS enlisted in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, under Capt. McAdams, October, 1861. Missing at Port Repub- lic, June 9, 1862; was probably killed.
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JAMES THOMAS served in Company -, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, Captain-served afterward in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, one hundred and twenty days.
MANLY HILL enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Infantry in April, 1861. Was taken prisoner and paroled at Shiloh ; was exchanged, returned to duty, and served to the end of his term.
OLIVER P. DEVORE, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died August, 1862, at Alexandria, Va .; buried in National Cemetery at Alex- andria.
LAWLER CHIDISTER, Company A, Sixth-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, killed at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862. Buried among the unknown in Staunton National Cemetery.
JAMES E. PADEN born in 1838; private in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; contracted disease in the service, and was discharged on account of disability ; died at home, March 4, 1865.
Ross PADEN, born in Pennsylvania in 1833; served in Company H, Sixty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted October, 1861; discharged in March, 1862 ; died September 20, 1873.
JONATHAN L. GUTHRIDGE, born in 1833; Company A, Capt. Fulton, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted October 14, 1861; wounded in left leg at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862; the leg was amputated ; discharged October 27, 1862; pensioned ; Postmaster at Mingo, Ohio.
GEORGE BLACK, born in 1844; Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Capt. McAdams ; participated at Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, Atlanta and other battles ; discharged with his regiment, June 17, 1865.
JOHN GRAHAM, born in 1844; enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October, 1861; wounded at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, and discharged on account of his wounds in November following; re-en- listed in the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and served to the close of the war ; pen- sioned.
ROBERT SIMPSON, born in 1833; served first under Capt. John A. Corwin in the Thirteenth Ohio three months' service in 1861; enlisted October 31, 1861, in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry ; promoted to Lieutenant and afterward to Captain, and transferred to Company A; taken prisoner at Port Republic, June 9, 1862, and suffered in prison at Lynchburg and other prisons till September 7, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran ; wounded in the hand at Peach-Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864; mustered out with the regiment.
THOMAS THOMPSON, enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. Fulton.
CYRUS W. GUTHRIDGE, born in 1830; enlisted in Company -, Ninety- fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; taken prisoner at Richmond, Ky., August 3, 1862, and paroled; was afterward exchanged and served his full three years.
JAMES B. PEASE, private Company D, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; captured by the enemy at Chickamauga, September, 1863; prisoner at Andersonville, Macon, Libby, Smiths' Tobacco Factory and Belle Isle eighteen months and seven days, and exchanged; was blown up with the Sultana on the Mississippi, floated fifteen miles on a plank, and was rescued by colored men ; restored to his regiment and honorably discharged ; lives in Kansas.
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ANDREW BLACK, born in -; enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; killed at Port Republic, Va., June 9, 1862; buried among the unknown at Staunton National Cemetery.
WILLIAM EVANS, born in 1827 ; enlisted and served in Company H, Sixty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; engaged at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain ; served thirty-four months.
FOSTER MORGAN, private in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry ; enlisted in October, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran ; made a good record ; mustered out with the regiment.
WILLIAM MCMULLEN, private in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; enlisted in October, 1861; wounded at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862 ; leg amputated ; pensioned.
JAMES SHEWARD, born in 1819; served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards one hundred and twenty days ; discharged, September, 1864.
WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS, born in 1839; enlisted in Company D, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, September 10, 1861; participated at Stone River, West Liberty and Ivy Mountain ; served on detached duty several months with pontoneers, term of service three years and one month; discharged with his regiment, October 10, 1864.
GEORGE G. GILBERT, born in 1844; enlisted under Capt. William Mc- Adams, Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861 ; discharged June 26, 1862, on account of physical disability,
SYLVESTER SPAIN, born in 1837; enlisted May, 1864, in Company F, Capt. Barley, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards ; served one hundred and twenty days ; honorably discharged.
BOOKER R. DURNELL, born in 1838; enlisted in Company K, One Hun- dred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, December 22, 1863; at the charge on the rebel works at Kenesaw, Ga., June 27, 1864, he was probably killed and buried with the unknown ; nothing definite was ever ascertained as to his fate ; he was a brave soldier.
LEWIS Z. SHEWARD, born in 1842; served as a private in Company D, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; was taken prisoner and paroled at Richmond, Ky., September, 1862; died of disease in Indiana, May 9, 1863 ; buried in Marion Cemetery as unknown.
JOHN H. HAMMON, born in 1840; enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company H, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; participated in the battles at Knox- ville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and other hotly contested fields; was discharged with his regiment June 15, 1865, having seen thirty-four months' active service.
EDWARD M. THOMPSON, born in 1844; enlisted and served in Company H, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for four months and was honorably discharged ; re-enlisted with the re organization of the Eighty-sixth and served six months ; re-enlisted in May, 1864, in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards, and served one hundred and twenty days ; In January, 1865, he again enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth regiment, and was discharged in the following September.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, born in 1840; enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry October, 1861; participated with his regiment at Port Republic, Slaughter Mountain, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta and other fields; discharged in 1864 by expira- tion of his term of service.
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HENRY NINCEIIELSER, born in 1827 ; served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guards for one hundred and twenty days ; dis- charged by expiration of term of service.
WILLIAM R. SHAUL, enlisted in Company E, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Capt. Cowgill, July, 1862; was taken prisoner and paroled at Rich- mond, Ky., August 30, 1862; taken again at Guntown, Miss., in 1864; suf- fered as a prisoner at Andersonville, Millen, Savannah, Blackshire and Thom- asville, nine months and 20 days in all; was exchanged, and, serving out his full term, was mustered out with his regiment at Camp Chase, August 19, 1865.
JOHN R. ORGAN, born in 1843; enlisted in Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry October, 1861; commissioned First Lieutenant January 28, 1864; served with more than ordinary distinction ; was killed at the battle of Peach-Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864; buried on the field.
NOTE .- Previous to his enlistment in the Sixty-sixth, he served in a three months' organization.
CLARK served in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio National Guard as a substitute for Wheeling Thompson ; served one hundred and twenty days.
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