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Isaac Jarvis was reared on a farm. He was a quiet, well behaved boy at home, and in school; and a first-class reliable soldier in the army.' He was appointed Corporal when his Company was organized and he was present and took part in every movement and action of his regiment from Commerce, Missouri to Corinth, Miss. This included New Madrid, Fort Thompson, Island Number Ten, Siege of Corinth and Farmington. He received a gun shot wound in the leg at battle of Iuka, not severe, and he did not go to the hospital. At Corinth he received two gun shot wounds, one below the eye, the other in the neck. Either would have been mortal. He was killed instantly, and buried on the field near where he fell. After the war the government removed his remains to the National Cemetery. His grave is known and numbered 3846.
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SERGEANT ROBERT TERRY. Co. H, 63d O. V. V. I.
SERGEANT ROBERT TERRY.
Company H, Sixty-third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
Robert Terry was born April 1842. He was the son of Robert Terry, Sr., and Julia Terry, his wife, citizens of Starr Township, Hocking County, Ohio.
His people were of New England stock, but had for a long time been citizens of Ohio. His father was born in New York, and his mother in Connecticut. He enlisted when about twenty years of age, November +, 1861 in Company H. 63rd Ohio Infantry Volunteers and was killed in battle of Corinth, October 4. 1862. He was reared on a farm. A year before the war began, he and his brother Seth. had attended public school in their home township taught by Oscar L. Jackson, and when Jackson was recruiting his Company both enlisted with him. When the Company was organized he was appointed Sergeant, and made a very capable, reliable officer.
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He was of a quiet, modest disposition, and of undoubted bravery. .: good soldier in every respect. He was acting First Lieutenant of his com pany the day he was killed. He received three gun shot wounds at the same time, one above left eye, one in breast, and one in side. He lived .. few hours, and after he fell, spoke words of encouragement to his comrade -. He was buried on the field but since the war his remains were removed and are now in National Cemetery at Corinth, Miss., Grave No. 3821.
His brother, Seth, served in 63rd Ohio to the end of the war. Another brother was also a soldier in another regiment. He had two sisters, Laura Terry, and Julia A. Terry.
DAVID AULD. Of the Auld & Conger Co. 1903.
DAVID AULD.
43rd Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
David Auld, second son of John and Mary Bradford Auld was born in Washington County, Penna. in 1844. His father, born in Green County, Penna., was the second son of Archibald Auld and Rebecca Carroll Auld, both of Scotch ancestry. They came to Cumberland County, Penna. when children three and six years old, and later moved to Green County, Penna. They raised four sons and seven daughters to maturity.
His mother was the second daughter of Eli and Mary McNay Brad- ford, of English ancestry. Eli Bradford came from Adams County, Penna. to Armstrong County, Penna., and settled at Kitanning, and later came to Waynesburg, Green County, Penna. He raised five sons and five daughters to maturity. His mother was born in Green County. Penna. and died in Butler County, Ohio, in 1850, leaving four sons and one daughter. The
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sons were Archibald Bradford, David, Demas and Levi Auld. The latter while in the 174th O. V. I., received injuries from which he died. Tl .. first three enlisted in Company G, 20th Ohio Infantry, ( three months) on May 7th, 1861, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and served in West Virginia under Generals McClelland and Rosecrans.
David and Demas, as drummer and fifer, (being too small for the ranks) were mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, August 27th, 1861. on expiration of term of service, and on September 14th, 1861, enlisted in Company B, 43rd Ohio Infantry for three years. David and Demas served in this command until the close of the war and were mustered out on July 13th, 1865. having also been mustered out and re-enlisted as veteran- December 25th, 1863, having taken part in every operation in which thi- command was ulgageti. Anivalu Bradioni Aund was killed in battle at Corinth, Miss., October 4th, 1862.
David, after the close of the war, lived at Columbus, Ohio, until 1870. when he and James W. Conger, went to Steubenville, Ohio, and carried on the business of general building and slate roofing until 1873. They came to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the business of wholesale roofing slate. In 1885 they added the quarrying of slate to their wholesale business and have continued in these lines until the present time successfully. His father died in 1876. His family consists of his wife, Nellie J. Sayle, their daughter Louise A. Lowry and husband Chas. A. Lowry, who have three children : Charlotte A., three and one-half, Virginia A., two, and David A., one year old, all in good health, prosperous and happy.
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JAMES W. CONGER. Co. B, 43d O. V. V. I., 1864.
JAMES W. CONGER. Of The Auld & Conger Co. 1903.
JAMES CONGER.
Forty-third Ohio V. V. I.
James W. Conger, (enlisted as James), only son of William Henry Harrison Conger and Martha Auld, his wife; was born in Washington county, Penna., August 6th, 1845. His mother died when he was 15 months old and his father when he was six years old. In 1852, he came to Morrow County, Ohio, and lived with his grandparents, Archibald Auld and Rebecca Carroll, his wife, both of whom were born in County Antrim, Ireland, of Scotch parents. His grandparents on his father's side were English, whose ancestors emigrated from Northumberland County to America in 1664, and located in Morristown, N. J. Later they moved to Washington County, Penna., and in 1794 entered land there which is still in the family. He lived on a farm until the breaking out of the war and enlisted in Company B, 43rd Ohio, at Mt. Gilead, September 14th, 1861, and served in this com-
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pany until December 25th, 1863, when he was discharged on account of having re-enlisted as a veteran in the same company for three years more or during the war. Was mustered out of the service July 13th, 1865, having served three years and ten months lacking one day. In 1864, was offered a commission as Second Lieutenant in an Alabama colored regiment, but declined with the statement, "He would prefer to serve as a private with the boys with whom he was enlisted." Was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant of the 43rd Ohio, May 22nd, 1865, and a short time before the close of the war was offered a commission in the 43rd Ohio. but owing to an unjust law of Congress, requiring soldiers who accepted a commission to forfeit any veteran bounty still unpaid, declined to accept the appointment.
On his return from the army, located in Columbus, Ohio, and soon after became identified with the building and contracting business will David Auld. In fact, as boy partners in 1862. they had the "Battle of Corinth" lithographed from a sketch made by Mr. Auld, and sold this to the members of the Brigade. In 1870, they moved to Steubenville, Ohio, where they had contracts for large public buildings, and in the meantime added slate roofing to their business. In 1873, closed out their general con- tracting business and moved to Cleveland, engaging extensively in the job- bing of roofing slate, with their retail business. In 1885 became interested in the mining of roofing slate in Pennsylvania and Vermont, and are today one of the largest producers in the United States.
His family consists of his wife, Anna M. Higgins, their daughter, May Greenwood Braddock, and husband, L. J. Braddock, residing in New York ; Frank H., associated with him in business, and Howard F., living in New York. By permission of the fourth Auditor of the United States Treasury, he has had a transcript made from the books of the War Department, giv- ing in detail his financial transaction with the Government during his entire term of service, a fac simile of which see on next page. He is a member of the G. A. R., having joined the order in 1867, in Columbus, Ohio, a Knight Templar and 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Shrine, and member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was the Republican Presidential Elector from the 21st Ohio District in 1900.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. LOTTOR FOR THE WLE OLPMTHENT.
TRANSCRIPT OF PAYMENTS
To James Conger. late formate, Co. B. 49 Ulus Vols.
En Det 1, 1861, at Camp Chase, Aby May J. R. Odie
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Hassemer 2851
0.5. 106
Jan. + Feb. 1862
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Hazelton
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Vinay 4 June 1862
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Sullivan
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100
July + aug 1862.
2-210
26:00
Ocampon Bear Creek, Tras
Farrish
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137
Sept + Get 1862 2mois
26 00
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Hendricks 578 50. 153 that to June 1863
Hacker
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100,00
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200
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Feti to aug 11/64 1-04/1.
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20900
Braver 914
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50 00
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Camp mer Relugh, A.C.
Thompson.
1599.
1703 May 1 to July 17/15 2-17h Cl 5646
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167
Bal. Veteran Bounty due.
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125009
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GEO. W. WOLF. Co. I, 27th O. V. V. I.
JOHN BEEMAN. Co. G, 27th O. V. V. I.
JOHN SMEDLEY, Co. 1, 27th O. V. V. I. Wounded July 22, 1864, in hand and land at Atlanta, Ga.
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REMINISCENCES OF SOLDIER LIFE.
REUNION OF FULLER'S OHIO BRIGADE. October 3rd and 4th, 1878.
OFFICERS. President.
General John W. Fuller. Vice Presidents.
Major James Morgan, Twenty-seventh Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment. Captain W. H. H. Minturn. Thirty-ninth Chio Veteran Infantry Regiment. General Wager Swayne, Forty-third Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment, Colonel Charles E. Brown. Sixty-third Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment.
Secretary.
J. W. Thompson, Forty-third Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment.
Treasurer. A. J. White, Thirty-ninth Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment. Committee on Publication.
Major Charles H. Smith, Twenty-seventh Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment, Chaplain R. L. Crittenden, Forty-third Ohio Veteran Infantry Regiment. Colonel Charles E. Brown, Sixty-third Chio Veteran Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant D. W. Chase.
The Governor of Ohio, R. M. Bishop, tendered the use of the Portrait room in the Capitol Building for headquarters, to which all members were invited to register their names and obtain badges. An informal meeting was held in the afternoon of the 3rd at which old friendships were re- newed and army associations revived.
The meeting was held in Representatives Hall of the Capitol Build- ing which was appropriately decorated for the occasion. The Elite of the City of Columbus gathered there with the old veterans to extend to them their cordial and hearty welcome. General Charles C. Walcutt presided. The exercises of the evening were opened by reveille under the direction of Captain Horn, U. S. A., after which Chaplain R. L. Chittenden offered a prayer. The Amphious Chorus of Columbus sang "Marching through Georgia" and the Garrison Band furnished the instrumental music, which
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with the hearty welcome of the citizens of Columbus through General John Beaty, was thoroughly enjoyed and heartily appreciated by the veterans. The interest of the evening. however, concentrated in the address to the Brigade by General John W. Fuller its former commander. His appear- ance was the occasion of a most hearty outbreak of enthusiasm and his address was often interrupted by bursts of applause, when he renewed the transactions of those memorable days in the history of the Brigade, in which they played so prominent a part in the repulse of the rebel army, in their desperate onslaught. at Corinth, Mississippi. They seemed to live over again the terrible scenes of the battle fields around Battery Robinet, where so many of their number offered up their lives on the altar of theis country.
At the close of General Fuller's address, General Wager Sunnyno .... introduced, known and endeared to the entire brigade as a brave and noble soldier and for his devotion to the cause, his kindness to the soldier and his firmness and decision in the hour of danger. His address reviewed briefly the objects that were to be accomplished by the war and the results since developed. Chaplain Eton, Twenty-seventh Ohio, followed General Swayne with a fine address, and he was followed by short and informal addresses from various members, General M. Churchill, Captain W. H. H. Minturn, and Captain R. R. Shaw, of the Sixty-third.
Letters of regret were read from Major-General Rosecrans, Major- General D. S. Stanley, Major-General G. M. Dodge, Brigadier-General John W. Sprague, Major-General John A. Logan, and others.
ADDRESS BY GENERAL JOHN W. FULLER.
To His Ohio Brigade, at Columbus, Ohio, October 3rd, 1878.
When friends who have long been steadfast are scattered by life's vicissitudes, and meet and greet in after years, one theme is uppermost in every heart-the story of the days when they stood side by side together ; the days in which they learned to trust each other and when the trials and triumphs of each were common to them all. And thus it is, my comrades, when once the joyous word with which we greet each other has been spoken, it seems so very natural to wander back in fancy to those incidents and scenes forever fresh in all our memories, forever woven with the days when we all stund as One.
It is an old story to you all, and yet I could say nothing you would hear more willingly tonight. So, drawing as I must from memory, I pur- pose to sketch briefly an outline of the services of the old Brigade to which you all belonged, while I had the honor to command.
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It was about the 1st of July, 1862, when the resignation of Col. Groes- beck left me senior officer of the brigade. And here let me say, that proud as I am of having been your commander, I know there were others equally able to take the place. and to whose ability and ever-ready co-operation we are greatly indebted for what was done. I have sometimes thought that few brigades in any army could show so many able officers : Smith, who fell so young, and Sprague and Swayne and Noyes; all not merely com- petent, but all distinguished. And there were others who needed only op- portunity to make their mark. Did you ever think how many of our officers were detailed for important trusts elsewhere? General Pope began by taking Col. Noves for service on his staff ; then Surgeon Thrall was taken from his regiment that he might serve as Medical Director of the army. Col. Swayne must needs serve as Provost Marshall for Western Tennessee. Lieut. Vogelson was made Chief Commissary for a corps, with rank to cor- respond ; and when was wanted one to plan and care for an emancipated race General Grant selected one of our chaplains for that task. We lost a faithful officer but the black man gained a friend whose labor and suc- cess in his behalf soon made the name of Eaton known throughout the land. There were many, too, who graduated in our camp and took higher rank elsewhere. Lathrop, who fell in battle near Athens, Ala., and Thomas our generous host today, both captains in our line, left us to lead new regiments.
When the Rebels gave up Corinth, our army occupied the ridges to the south and near the town; and it was the good fortune of this brigade to find a pleasant camp on Clear Creek.
It was good fortune too, for us, that the commander of our division had once commanded the Brigade. For Stanley recollected your good be- havior at New Madrid ; and, on the other hand, you all remembered Stan- ley as a skillful officer, and you believed he was brave as Marshall Ney. It was here that most of you met the distinguished soldier whom his friends
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delighted to call Old Rosy, and who was then assigned to command the Army of the Mississippi. You have not forgotten his genial face nor the tireless energy with which he looked into every detail.
In September, 1862, rumors were current that the enemy was ap- proaching and soon we learned that our garrison at luka, some 20 miles to the east. had been compelled to abandon its position and fall back toward Corinth. A strong reconnaissance showed that the rebel General Price was in Iuka, whereupon Gen. Grant ordered a simultaneous attack by Rose- crans, who was to approach from the south, and by Ord from the west. The day before the attack Gen. Stanley had been misled by his guide. We had marched far out of our way, and late at night found ourselves some miles in rear of the leading division. It was the fault of the stupid guice, whom Rosecrans himself had sent to show the road. so Stanley said; but Rosecrans was so indignant at the mistake, that when he rode into our bivouac at midnight. and came to the spot where several officers Were cating supper, in spoke his mind with greater freedom than was pleasant for his subordinates to hear.
When Rosecrans learned that Stanley's division was so far behind he forwarded that dispatch which caused Gen. Grant to postpone the time for Ord's attack. Gen. Grant took it for granted. when this dispatch was read. that Stanley could not get up in time, and that Rosecrans would not attack until the succeeding morning. Hence his orders to Gen. Ord to wait. If Gen. Grant had known then, as well as afterwards, how long your legs were when there was a fight ahead, he would never have changed the origi- nal plan ; for at 3 o'clock next morning you were under way and before noon had overtaken the rear of the leading division.
Iuka was a stubborn fight but the brunt of the battle fell on Hamilton's division ; and it was only when dusk was falling that Rosecrans ordered you to the front. You moved forward with a cheer drowning for a moment the roll of musketry ; then on the crest, face to face with the enemy, you opened that deadly fire which ever thereafter marked this brigade when in the fore- front of battle. But darkness fell quite suddenly and Rosecrans, wonder- ing why he heard nothing of Ord, sent orders for us to halt and wait for daylight Yet before dawn some skirmishers (of the 39th) reported that the 11th Ohio Battery, which had been lost that afternoon, could not be carried off since it was completely covered by our line of fire, and we had only to advance and take it back ; and so it proved ; for when at dawn the brigade moved forward, the battery was found, and Neil ( whose name is in this city of Columbus), with others of his comrades, was gladdened with the sight of all the guns.
But the rebel Gen. Price knew exactly where Ord was, and foreseeing that his troops, as well as Rosecrans' would fight tomorrow, he quietly withdrew under cover of the night and marched away. In Iuka early the next morning, Rosecrans and Ord shook hands, Rosy complaining that Ord had failed to play the part assigned him. in the plan of battle, and Ord showing his orders of postponement.
Ord's command marched back to Corinth, then to Bolivar, while Rose- crans followed the rebels in their circuit to the south and west, keeping between them and his base at Corinth, and watching for that move which would follow the union of the corps of Price with the army of Van Dorn,
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which was reported near to Ripley. It was not a long suspense, for a few days showed the enemy's intention, either to take and occupy Corinth, or, leaving Corinth on their right, to assail General Ord at Bolivar, Tenn. We waited until Oct. 2nd before it was certain that Corinth was their objective point. Then began the concentration of Rosecrans' troops to meet the at- tack.
On the morning of Oct. 3rd, just sixteen years ago today, the enemy attacked the division of Gen. Davies at the outer line of works, the line constructed by the rebels when Sidney Johnston and Beauregard held pos- session of the town. Davies had been ordered there to retard the enemy's advance until Rosy should be ready to let VanDorn come in. VanDorn's superior strength enabled him to drive Davies from this line. but Davies' men fought stubbornly, and fell back over that two or three miles so slowly that it was near night when they approached the outskirts of the town, and when re-enforcements enabled Davies to stop the enemy's advance. After dark the Ohio Brigade marched to relieve one of the brigades of Davies' division, and was ordered to occupy the high ground near Battery Robinett. Near the crest was formed the line of battle. Directly on the right of the earth-work covering the battery and stretching across the Chewalla road, stood the mien of the 63rd: next came the 27th; and farther still to the right was the 39th regiment. On the left of the battery, facing the left, and nearly at right angles to the main line, rested the 43rd.
Let us go back through the intervening years and in fancy place our- selves on the spot so occupied, and look again over that field which has since been famous. Before you, for 300 yards, lie in confusion the few trees which have been felled to form a partial abattis. Beyond this stands the forest, and through both leads, without obstruction, the road to Che- walla. To the right of the 39th the line of battle is broken for 300 yards, by an impassable swamp, beyond which we see the rising ground occupied by several brigades of our infantry, and on the extreme right, perhaps a mile away, the earthwork called Fort Richardson. Turning to look over your left shoulder you sce a part of the division of General MeKean, and the redoubt called Battery Phillips, which form the left of Rosecrans' line of battle. If you come to a right about, you see directly in the rear the cut through the hill where lies the Memphis railroad, and just over this, on still higher ground. stands Fort Williams, with a 20-pounder Parrot looking out of each embrasure. Your own batteries Co. F, of 2nd U. S .. and Co. C., of 1st Michigan Artillery, are ready for action on the high ground abreast of Fort Williams ; all apparently so near, that but for their elevated position you might look down the cannon's throats. Here you waited during the long hours of the night of October 3rd, and here you fought on the morning of the 4th.
The removal of Davies' skirmish line, which by some mistake was not made known to us, permitted the enemy to advance so closely that, although hidden by darkness, you could hear him planting his guns in the edge of the forest not more than 300 yards in your front ; and during the night the commander of that battery ( I think from New Orleans) reconnoitering the ground between his guns and your lines, was quietly captured, mounted though he was, by Captain (since General) Brown, of the 63rd Ohio.
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It was a night of suspense and anxiety to all. We knew that Gen. Hackelman had been killed, and we had seen Gen. Oglesby carried to the rear, with a wound we supposed was mortal. Hundreds more, wounded during the day's fight, had been borne to the hospitals, and the men of Davies' division, who had fought against great odds all day and had been slowly driven back, seemed well nigh disheartened. You knew you had to meet an enemy not only strong and resolute, but who was also flushed with what he thought was a victory. Hence you listened with anxiety to those sounds of preparation so plainly heard from the hill, where, lying down without sleep, you waited for the assault. It seems strange, in view of the rapid and thorough mode of entrenching afterwards acquired. that no attempt was made to fortify, especially since we now know how much superior the enemy was in numbers. But we had not then learned the use of spades.
With the earliest dawn of day the rebel battery in front cpons frs. What a magnificent display! No rockets ever scattered fire like the burst- ing of those shells. Not long, however, for as soon as there is light enough to aim, the 20-pounder Parrots in Fort Williams suddenly belch forth, and make the place occupied by the rebel battery so hot that it is hurriedly withdrawn. Yet not all, for one gun has been abandoned. and some ven- turesome boys of the 63rd Ohio, with others of the 2nd U. S. Infantry. run forward, and pull it into our lines by hand. Then came fierce fighting between the skirmishers. The enemy had the cover of the woods, while our men crept from log to log in the endeavor to gain the better cover of the forest: Reinforcements to our skirmishers enabled them, after two hours fighting, to drive the rebels back and gave the shelter sought. But not far off the conformation of the ground was peculiarly fortunate for the enemy. He could lie on the crest of a series of ridges and sweep every- thing in his front, scarcely exposing a man to view. Behind these ridges he was massing his men for assault.
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