OUR OLD COMMANDER 
 
 COL. CHARLES B. SEIDEL 
 
 IEMBER OF THE HISTORY COMMITTEE 
 
HISTORY OF THE SERVICE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE THIRD OHIO VETERAN 
 VOLUNTEER CAVALRY 
 
 IN THE 
 
 WAR FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION 
 FROM 1861-1865 
 
 COMPILED FROM THE OFFICIAL RECORDS AND FROM 
 
 DIARIES OF MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT BY 
 
 SERGT. THOS. CROFTS, COMPANY C, 
 
 REGIMENTAL HISTORIAN 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE HISTORY COMMITTEE: 
 COL. CHAS. B. SEIDEL LIEUT. -COL. D. E. LIVERMORE 
 
 DR. CHAS. O. BROWN SERGEANT D. W. WOOD 
 
 TOLEDO, OHIO 
 1910 
 
 THE STONEMAN PRESS, COLUMBUS, O. 
 
Contents 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHAPTER I CAMP WORCESTER 7 
 
 CHAPTER II CAMP DENNISON 18 
 
 CHAPTER III DOWN THE OHIO 20 
 
 CHAPTER IV SHILOH 23 
 
 Marching Across Kentucky Bardstown Mumfordsville 
 Nashville Assigned to General Wood s Division On the 
 March Franklin Columbia Lawrenceburg Scenes at Sa 
 vannah. 
 
 CHAPTER V THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 26 
 
 Crossing the Tennessee Skirmishing Scouting Picket 
 ing Patroling Marking Time An Exhibition of the 
 Grand Strategy of War. 
 
 CHAPTER VI NORTHERN ALABAMA 32 
 
 luka Tuscumbia Russelville Courtland Decatur 
 Mooresville Woodville Gunter s Landing Fighting 
 Guerrillas. 
 
 CHAPTER VII BACK INTO KENTUCKY 46 
 
 General Bragg Crosses the Tennessee General Buell 
 Marches by the Way of Murfreesboro Nashville Bowling 
 Green and Mumfordsville Guarding Wagon Train Frank 
 fort Lexington. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII MOVEMENTS OF FIRST BATTALION IN 1862 54 
 
 With General Wood s Division Scouting Foraging 
 Picketing Patroling Marching after Bragg In the Ad- 
 \rancf. Bowling Green Mumfordsville Bardstown Pike 
 Perryvilk Danville Stanford. 
 
 CHAPTER IX BATTLE OF STONE RIVER 59 
 
 General Rosecrans in Command General Stanley Com 
 manding Cavalry Army Concentrates at Nashville Second 
 Division Cavalry on Right Flank Franklin Wilkinsons 
 Cross Roads Overalls Creek LaVergne Shelbyville 
 Pike Cox s Hill Reports of Battle. 
 
 CHAPTER X Six MONTHS AT MURFREESBORO 74 
 
 Skirmishes at Woodbury Liberty Bradyville Union- 
 ville Snow Hill Franklin Middleton LaVergne Mil 
 ton Smithville. 
 
 CHAPTER XI THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN 102 
 
 On the Left Flank Decherd Manchester Hillsboro Elk 
 River Pulaski Huntsville Fayetteville Winchester 
 Second Battalion at Cowan and Decherd. 
 
 CHAPTER XII THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN 110 
 
 Fording the Tennessee Crossing Sand and Lookout Moun 
 tain Roads Blockaded Skirmish in Chattanooga Valley 
 Fight at Alpine Advance to Lafayette Dougherty s Gap 
 McLemore s Cove Glass s Mill Crawfish Springs Chase 
 After Wheeler McMinnville Murfreesboro Farmington. 
 
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Contents. 3 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHAPTER XIII FIGHTING FOR CHATTANOOGA 118 
 
 Battles of Lookout Mountain Chattanooga Missionary 
 Ridge. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV THE EAST TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN 122 
 
 In the Rear of Bragg s Army Burning Wagon Trains 
 Cleveland Calhoun Loudon Knoxville North Calo- 
 lina Picketing the Hiawassee Re-enlishment and Fur 
 lough Attack on Dalton Move on to Ringold, Ga. Re 
 ports. 
 
 CHAPTER XV VETERANS IN 1864 144 
 
 Columbia On the March to Join Sherman Courtland 
 Road Moulton Cartersville On the Left of Sherman s 
 Army Noonday Creek Kenesaw Marietta Roswell. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI IN FRONT OF ATLANTA 152 
 
 Decatur Covington Raid Battles of Peach Tree Creek 
 and Atlanta Stoneman Raid Flat Rock Shoal Cross 
 Keys Buckhead. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII KILPATRICK^S RAID 160 
 
 Flint River Jonesboro Lovejoy s Station Swimming 
 Cotton Indian River By the Right Flank Battle of 
 Jonesboro The Fall of Atlanta Congratulatory Orders 
 Losses of the Army of the Cumberland. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII HOOD MARCHES NORTHWARD 175 
 
 We Follow Railroad Torn Up Telegraph Cut Battle of 
 Allatoona Ballots and Bullets Northern Alabama Again. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX SHERMAN GOES TO THE SEA 179 
 
 Regiment Dismounted Louisville Raiding for Horses 
 The Law of Military Necessity. 
 
 CHAPTER XX MARCHING SOUTH AGAIN 184 
 
 The Same Old Road Bardstown Pike Bowling Green- 
 Nashville Franklin Columbia Lawrenceburg Gravelly 
 Springs. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI THE WILSON RAID 188 
 
 Waterloo Chickasaw Buzzard Roost Russellville 
 j as p er Elyton Randolph Ebenezer Church Selma 
 Montgomery Columbus Macon Results Reports. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII OCCUPATION OF MACON 199 
 
 Searching for Stolen Goods Chase and Capture of Jef 
 ferson Davis End of the War Farewell Orders Mustered 
 Out Homeward Bound. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 211 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV ROSTER OF SURVIVORS 225 
 
 CHAPTER XXV ROSTER OF REGIMENT 239 
 
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To the Members of the Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Memorial 
 Association: 
 
 COMRADES Three years ago at your annual reunion in Toledo, Ohio, 
 you selected me to write a history of the service of our grand old regiment. 
 
 It was with many misgivings on the part of your historian that he 
 accepted the trust and undertook the work. Knowing something of the 
 many difficulties in the way that must be overcome before the work coul-d 
 be completed in anything like a satisfactory manner. 
 
 Many incidents and details are from necessity left out of the history 
 that would have tended to make it both cumbersome and monotonous. 
 
 Your historian having an earnest desire to serve you to the best of 
 his ability, has tried in all things to be entirely fair and impartial. He 
 now submits to you the result of his labors, hoping for your kindly 
 approval. To all those comrades who have so kindly encouraged and 
 assisted me in the work I tender my most grateful thanks, and in an 
 especial manner are these due to Colonel Seidel, Captain Howland, Lieu 
 tenant Skillman, Sergeant D. J. Prickitt, Philip Henley, William Smith 
 and Dr. G. B. Spencer, for diaries and papers furnished. 
 Very sincerely your comrade, 
 
 THOMAS CROFTS, Regimental Historian. 
 
[INDORSEMENT] 
 
 BOODY HOUSE 
 
 TOLEDO, OHIO, March 8, 1910. 
 
 The History Committee of the Third Ohio Cavalry, in all-day session 
 with the Historian, Comrade Thomas Crofts, held at the Boody House, 
 has this day completed its work, which has been mainly -to listen, as at 
 previous sessions, to the reading and approve of the thrilling story which 
 tells in faithful detail the marches and battles of our noble regiment. 
 
 Our Historian has done his work with painstaking fidelity. We doubt 
 if there exists elsewhere a regimental history which so completely covers 
 the ground. 
 
 As the reading progressed we lived again amid the stirring scenes of 
 that greatest epoch of our history. The story moved on and the hours 
 passed almost unnoticed. Sometimes we laughed and sometimes the tears 
 came, but all the time it was as if we were once more in camp or field, 
 marching "by fours," or lined up for the charge, every nerve quivering 
 at the order to be off and with sabres flashing in the southern sun. 
 
 Old Kenesaw loomed fortress-like and threatening and the campaign 
 was as real as though "Uncle Billy" were again the inspiration of his 
 mighty army and Atlanta our goal. Gravelly Springs ah ! We starved 
 again at the mention. S elma we heard again the shout of the battle and 
 "bombs bursting in air." Macon we wept again for joy as the flag of 
 truce from the Confederate commander brought the news to our battle 
 front that the war was over. 
 
 The clank of sabre, the click of carbine, the incidents of foraging 
 squads, the riotous shout and joy of victory, the remembered music of 
 bugle and regimental band, the hearty comradeship of voices, long silenced 
 in the grave, that came back to us through the mists and vapors of half a 
 century ; the glory of great days when heroic decoration was the dust of 
 the march and the grime of the battle with old glory over all, when liberty 
 and the nation were coming to their new birth, these are items in the 
 inventory of heroic wealth, not told "on charge" or balanced by the clear 
 ing house, but perpetuated for us by this history of the old Third. 
 
 You will read it, comrades, and forget that you are grandfathers. You 
 will say, "I, too, was there," and mid the glow of such memories you will 
 not care that you are old or that you may be poor. You will say : "The 
 memories of these deeds are my riches and Old Glory is worth all that 
 it cost," 
 
 A younger generation, enjoying to the full the heritage that our suf 
 ferings purchased, may pass the story with little note and short remem 
 brance ; but could they hear as we hear the undying voices of the past, 
 
6 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 could they see as we see the glory of deeds that saved the Union, they, too, 
 would forget the clamor of commerce and the jargon of political strife 
 and heed the story that illustrates an epoch that made present greatness 
 possible. 
 
 For the Committee, 
 
 CHARLES O. BROWN, 
 Formerly Regimental Bugler. 
 
 COL. C. B. SEIDEL, 
 
 DR. CHARLES O. BROWN, 
 
 SERGT. DE WILTON WOOD, 
 
 Committee. 
 
The History of the Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 BY THOMAS CROFTS 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 CAMP WORCESTER 
 
 On the 6th day of August, 1861, Lewis Zahm of Norwalk, was 
 commissioned by the Governor of the State of Ohio to raise a regiment 
 of volunteer cavalry for the United States service, for three years or 
 during the war. The campaign of 1861 had demonstrated that the war 
 was to be no small affair; that the leaders of the South had determined 
 to divide the country, and would exhaust every resource in their mad 
 efforts to do so. The terms of the first volunteers called out for three 
 months had expired, they had been discharged, and President Lincoln 
 had issued a proclamation calling for 500,000 volunteers for three years 
 service, and the response rang back from factory and farm, from store 
 and school house, "We are coming, Father Abraham, 500,000 more." The 
 whole North became one vast recruiting camp, and in every town and 
 city and village the sound of fife and drum was heard, banners were 
 everywhere flung out and in the midst of it all were bodies of marching 
 men, forming by companies and regiments, getting ready to go to the 
 front to fight for the Union. As soon as Colonel Zahm had received his 
 commission he set men to work recruiting in all the towns of northwestern 
 Ohio, and before the end of August a goodly number of volunteers had 
 signed the muster rolls and were ready to go into camp for instruction. 
 Monroeville, a prosperous town on the Lake Shore Railroad, fifty-three 
 miles east of Toledo, had been selected as the point where the camp should 
 be located. August 28 the first detachment of recruits for the new regi 
 ment arrived from Toledo. It consisted of some sixty men under com 
 mand of Horace N. Rowland. As neither tents, camp equipage nor 
 cooking utensils had arrived, we were assigned to quarters in an old 
 warehouse. It stood a little back from the main street with a vacant lot 
 in front, in the center of which stood a flagstaff from the top of which 
 waved our"Star Spangled Banner" we had not learned to call it "Old 
 Glory" yet that came later, after we had seen it waving in the smoke 
 of battle. We had no blankets, although some of the boys had foresight 
 enough to bring along bed quilts from home, but the weather was warm, 
 and we had plenty of clean straw, so that we considered ourselves very 
 comfortably situated. It was late in the afternoon when we arrived, 
 
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8 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 and soon after we were ordered to fall in and march to supper. We found 
 our commissary department established in a building near the center of 
 the town with the dining hall on the second floor, and here we ate our 
 first army meal, and this continued to be our boarding place as long as 
 we were quartered in Monroeville. 
 
 There was considerable dissatisfaction manifested at various times 
 in regard to the manner of cooking and serving the meals. There was 
 an abundance, but not much variety ; and it was not always well cooked 
 and seasoned or served in a cleanly manner. The coffee was not always 
 "like mother used to make." The beans and soup were frequently 
 scorched ; the pork was fat, the beef was tough, and the pie, and pudding 
 and cake, and sauce that we had been used to were conspicuous by their 
 absence. But what the men grumbled about was the dirty, slovenly 
 manner in which the cooking and serving was done. The dissatisfaction 
 of the men finally culminated in a riot during the latter half of September. 
 One morning at breakfast the tables were turned over and wrecked and 
 dishes and food tramped under the feet of the angry men in an indiscrimi 
 nate mess. The quartermaster was appealed to, but after examining the 
 kitchen and cooking utensils, he discharged the cooks and waiters. A 
 detail of two men from each company was made to serve in their places. 
 The tables were set up, new dishes bought, kettles and cooking utensils 
 cleaned, and everything put in first class shape. It was 4 o clock in the 
 afternoon before dinner was ready, but it was clean and appetizing, and 
 the men showed their appreciation by giving three cheers for the cooks. 
 Occasionally one of the boys who happened not to be giving strict atten 
 tion to the matter in hand would find on taking a drink of coffee that 
 some obliging comrade had seasoned it with salt, just for a joke; and it 
 was generally taken in good part, which was by far the best way to take 
 jokes in the army. After the arrival of the first detachment there were 
 fresh arrivals of recruits almost daily the men being quartered in 
 different buildings about town. The days were spent in drilling on foot, 
 learning different evolutions keeping step, forming and marching in line, 
 etc. The evenings were passed in singing songs, telling stories and 
 playing various games. There were many good singers among the men, 
 and it was very enjoyable to sit outside the quarters in the quiet evenings 
 and listen to the songs patriotic or sentimental. Sometimes a foot 
 race would create some excitement among the men. The writer recalls 
 one race in which James H. Zedicher of Company C was one of the 
 contestants. Zedicher did not look like much of a sprinter, but some of 
 the men who knew him said he could run. He had all confidence in 
 himself, and after he had prepared himself he told the boys they need 
 not be afraid to bet their nickels on him. When the men toed the scratch 
 no one would have picked Zedicher for the winner but the way he shot 
 
Camp Worcester. 9 
 
 forward when the word was given was a revelation. The other fellow 
 never finished Zedicher got so far ahead he gave it up. After that 
 everybody conceded that Zedicher was in a class by himself. "You can t 
 always tell from the looks of a toad just how far he ll jump." By the 
 tenth of September the regiment had been designated as the Third Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry to consist of twelve companies of 100 men each. While 
 we were still quartered in the town an incident occurred that made a deep 
 impression on the men. Two men belonging to the Marine Corps visited 
 Monroeville and succeeded in getting a member of Company C intoxi 
 cated, and persuaded him that the navy was the only place for a man to 
 be, with the result that he went with them to Sandusky. The orderly 
 sergeant of his company was sent after him to put him under arrest and 
 bring him back. The sergeant succeeded in locating him and brought 
 him back to camp. He was court martialed for desertion, found guilty, 
 and sentenced to be confined in the guard house for three days on bread 
 and water and to stand on a barrel six hours each day bearing a placard 
 containing the word "Deserter." There was considerable difference of 
 opinion in the regiment regarding the punishment in this case, most of 
 the men thinking it was entirely too severe under the circumstances. But 
 no doubt the officers composing the court believed it best to make an ex 
 ample in this case that would deter any others from a like offense. The 
 writer was well acquainted with this comrade and there is no doubt but 
 that he felt his disgrace keenly, although we do not think that any of 
 his comrades ever reminded him of it. He continued to do his duty as a 
 soldier until he was taken prisoner at Lexington, in October, 1862. He 
 did not return to the regiment after he was exchanged and as far as we 
 know was never afterwards heard from. 
 
 About the last of September a lot of axes, hatchets, spades, shovels, 
 and pickaxes arrived and were distributed among the different companies, 
 and the next day details were sent out to the place selected for our camp, 
 and commenced clearing the ground of logs, underbrush and rubbish, and 
 putting it in shape for our tents. On the fourth of October we pitched 
 our tents, and the next day moved with our traps and calamities out to 
 camp. Our first camp was named "Worcester," and was located about 
 half a mile south of Monroeville. The ground was admirably adapted 
 for the purpose on a piece of high, well drained land on the east side of 
 the road parade ground in front next to the road backed by woods, 
 where our tents were pitched. The Huron river furnished an abundance 
 of good water. The camp was laid out with the streets running east 
 and west, officers tents next to the parade ground. The officers had wall 
 tents, while those of the men were known as Bell tents. Whether they 
 were so named after the man that designed them or because of their re 
 semblance to an old cow bell we were never able to determine. Each 
 
10 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 tent was supposed to accommodate twelve men. The only place where a 
 man could stand upright was near the center. We slept on the ground, 
 feet toward the center of the tent, no room for table or chairs, a low box 
 for a seat or table was all that could be utilized. There were no stoves nor 
 fires in the tents, and here we were destined to remain until the middle 
 of January. For more than three months this was our only shelter from 
 rain and snow, storm and sleet, and; cold, and all the rigor of a winter in 
 Northern Ohio. Our cooking was all done over open fires built outside 
 the tents. There was no shelter whatever for our cooking arrangements. 
 Each mess was provided with two iron camp kettles, one for making 
 coffee, and the other for meat and vegetables. They also had a skillet 
 for frying meat. Each mess made arrangements for its own cooking, 
 either by changing off or by hiring one of their number to cook all the 
 time. Cooks were excused from most duties in camp. Each company 
 had a strong picket rope stretched the length of the company street, to 
 which the horses were tied when we were in camp. But after we got into 
 active service we had no use for a picket rope. Our horses were tied to 
 the first thing that came handy fences, trees or buildings. When we 
 moved to camp each man received a knife, fork, spoon, tin plate and cup, 
 canteen and haversack. The clay we moved it rained and everything was 
 damp, chilly and disagreeable in the tents, and wet outside. 
 
 In addition to the articles mentioned relating to his commissary or 
 subsistence department, the cavalryman when fully equipped had a uni 
 form consisting of change of underclothing, socks and shirts, one pair 
 of trousers, jacket, blouse, overcoat, hat, boots and spurs and double 
 blanket, arms consisting of carbine andi sling, saber and belt, revolver 
 and holster, cartridge and cap boxes and screw drivers. Horse and equip 
 ments consisting of saddle and saddle blanket, bridle, halter and watering 
 bit, saddlebags, nosebag, lariet rope, and pin, surcingle, currycomb and 
 brush. So, taking it all together, we had many things to look after, 
 some of which we found in the latter years of the war we could dispense 
 with to advantage. The boys that went out in 1861 were the pioneers 
 of the service, and had to learn many things in the bitter school of 
 experience an experience by which the volunteers who came after were 
 enabled in a large measure to profit. After we moved to Camp Worcester 
 the boundaries of the camp were established, guards posted, and neither 
 officers nor men allowed outside without passes. When our camp 
 equipage came there was a bunch of muskets and bayonets for the camp 
 guard. They came down to us from the Revolution or some other remote 
 period, but they went to the scrap pile when we were through with them, 
 for as the weather grew cold the guards were allowed to have fires on 
 their beats, and the bayonets and gun barrels came handy to poke the 
 burning embers together. 
 
Camp Worcester. 11 
 
 Camp life now commenced in earnest. The bugles sounded the reveille 
 at 5 130 and in a short time the assembly for roll call, when each man 
 must fall in and answer to his name. Then came stable call, when horses 
 must be fed and groomed, then breakfast call. After breakfast the water 
 call would blow and all horses must be taken to water ; then came sick 
 call, guard mounting, and then drill, either on foot or mounted. If it was 
 mounted drill, boots and saddles would sound, followed by the assembly 
 and thus the days passed from reveille in the morning until taps sounded 
 at night. That bugle was constantly calling the men to duty, and we 
 thought its notes seemed to echo with fiendish joy as they broke in on 
 our pleasure and comfort. A story is told of one old trooper who after 
 he had come home from the war paid a bugler $5 to come and blow the 
 reveille under his bedroom window every morning for a week at 3 
 o clock. A friend said to him, "You must think a great deal of those 
 bugle calls." "No," he said, "it s not that, but I just want to have the 
 satisfaction of telling the d d bugler to go to the d 1 and then turning 
 over and going to sleep again." We know that most of the boys will 
 think that he got a lot of satisfaction for a little money. And now a word 
 about the drill : It was the one thing that we always had plenty of. It 
 commenced when we first went to Monroeville and ended with the close 
 of the war. And while we shall have very little, if anything, to say about 
 drilling, after we cross the Ohio into Dixie, yet we wish the reader to 
 understand that it did not stop there, for we never laid in camp at any 
 time during the war for any length of time but the drill was taken up. 
 And this was necessary, not only for our own efficiency, but after the first 
 year in service we were constantly receiving fresh recruits in the regi 
 ment, and it was absolutely necessary on their account. The efficiency 
 of a regiment hinges on its drill and discipline. The great majority of 
 the men realized this, and submitted gracefully and cheerfully to the 
 officers placed over them, and the rules governing camp life. And yet 
 it was not always easy to get along without friction. There were some 
 officers that were not always tactful, and there were some men that were 
 difficult to restrain, but we have no doubt that matters progressed as 
 smoothly in the Third Ohio as they did in any other regiment. It was 
 not an easy lesson for the Union volunteers to learn that obedience to 
 orders is the first duty of a soldier; that it was 
 
 "Their s not to make reply, 
 Their s not to reason why, 
 Their s but to do, and die," 
 
 and that they learned their lesson well was attested on hundreds of 
 battlefields, where they fought and died to uphold the integrity of our 
 nation. 
 
12 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 October 8th Captain Flanagan, who had had some experience in 
 the army, drilled the non-commissioned officers of the regiment in cavalry 
 tactics, which we found were entirely different from infantry. On the 
 tenth our first installment of horses was received and from that time 
 forth they continued to arrive almost daily. As they were unbroken and 
 we had no bridles, and in many cases no halters, simply a rope around 
 the horse s neck, they were sometimes rather difficult to control by the 
 rider, but they did not stay in camp very long until they were ridden. 
 The men made bits out of pieces of wood, or rope, and after fixing a sort 
 of bridle would mount the most unruly of them. Sometimes the horse 
 would bolt with his rider and after a wild run come to a sudden stop in 
 front of some ditch or mud hole, pitching his rider head first into it. The 
 boys got no end of fun out of breaking colts. By the middle of October 
 many of the men were badly in need of clothing. The regiment was very 
 much in the same condition as was the army of Washington at Valley 
 Forge. Some were almost barefooted, and taken all together, it presented 
 a rather dilapidated appearance ; but on the fifteenth the first installment 
 of clothing arrived and was issued. It consisted of drawers, shirts, boots, 
 caps, and one blanket to each two men. We at once commenced to put 
 on airs, and the next day held our first dress parade, orders being for 
 the men to parade in their shirt sleeves. So we were in uniform, and 
 made a very creditable appearance. The music for the parade was 
 furnished by the Monroeville band. The next Sabbath, October 20, we 
 had dress parade at 10 a. m. and preaching in camp by Chaplain Warner. 
 October 22 our lieutenant colonel, Douglas A. Murray, joined the regi 
 ment, promoted from the Second United States Cavalry. A man of fine 
 appearance, he was to be our authority on cavalry tactics. As his name 
 indicates, he was a Scotchman and had a very peculiar brogue, rolling 
 his r s in a wonderful fashion. He gave his commands in a sharp, crisp 
 way, and while it was difficult to understand his words, the men soon 
 learned to know what he meant, although that singular accent afforded 
 us infinite amusement. He conducted our dress parade at 4 p. m., the 
 music being furnished by a drum corps composed of three drummer boys 
 and two Mexican veterans as fifers. The latter part of October the 
 Norwalk band in fine new uniforms visited our camp and gave us an 
 excellent concert which was very much appreciated by the men. It fur 
 nished a very agreeable change to the ordinary routine of camp life. 
 Early in November the men began to manifest a great deal of impatience 
 because our uniforms did not come, many of them were suffering from 
 the lack of clothing and were wishing they had gone into the infantry. 
 
 On November 6th the good ladies of the surrounding country 
 visited our camp and gladdened our hearts with their presence and with 
 the abundance of good things they had brought with them to give us 
 
Camp Worcester. 13 
 
 a picnic dinner. Our cooks prepared coffee, and each company erected 
 tables. We had dress parade at 2 130 and marched from the parade ground 
 to the tables. And what we did to that dinner was plenty. In a case 
 of that kind the Third Ohio was always equal to the occasion. We 
 expressed our thanks to the ladies by giving them three rousing cheers. 
 A few days after the picnic our uniforms commenced coming and we 
 received jackets, pants and blouses, halters, watering bits, saddle blankets, 
 surcingles, currycombs and brushes. 
 
 November I2th horses were assigned, each company receiving horses 
 of the same color. The horses were already branded "U. S." on the left 
 shoulder, and the company blacksmiths branded them with the letter of 
 the company above the "U. S." The horses were assigned to the men 
 by the company officers. Our saddles were being made in Monroeville, 
 and very naturally the men were taking a lively interest in that part of 
 the work and in watching its progress, and we began to realize something 
 in regard to the immense amount of material required to fit out a cavalry 
 regiment. 
 
 On November I5th a consignment of overcoats came, and as there 
 were not enough to go around, they were issued to the men who had no 
 blankets. 
 
 November 2Oth another picnic dinner was given by the ladies of the 
 near-by towns and we had an enjoyable time. A number of the officers 
 made patriotic speeches, and music, sweet music, was furnished by the 
 Monroeville band. There were many visitors in camp. We showed our 
 appreciation by eating the dinner and giving three cheers for the ladies, 
 and also for the band. 
 
 Yet, notwithstanding these variations, camp life was getting to be 
 very irksome and monotonous. Our drilling was simply the dismounted 
 drill. Until we got our saddles we could make no headway with mounted 
 drill. We were simply learning to keep step, to march in column, and 
 from column into line and from line into column, learning the facings, etc., 
 day after day and week after week, until many of the men became 
 impatient, saying we did not enlist to do this ; we enlisted to put down the 
 rebellion. The 1200 men who composed the Third Ohio Cavalry were 
 just a plain average lot of American citizens, who had enlisted from 
 patriotic motives to put down the rebellion, and they wanted to get at it, 
 to get it done and get home again. They could not see the necessity of 
 so much drilling but they saw it later. 
 
 December i6th we marched to Monroeville, one company at a time, to 
 get our saddles and it began to look as if we would get there after a 
 while. And the next day we had our first mounted inspection and review, 
 at which orders were read notifying the regiment to be ready to march 
 on the morrow at 9 a. m. to Norwalk and receive our regimental colors. 
 
14 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 December i8th we marched out at 9 a. m. in column of fours and 
 went through Monroeville. When near Camp McClellan we were 
 joined by the Fifty-fifth Infantry Regiment, and escorted by the Norwalk 
 and Fifty-fifth bands, we marched to the grounds where the presentation 
 exercises were to be held. The Third formed on three sides of a hollow 
 square, in four ranks open order, the infantry occupying the fourth side. 
 Speeches of presentation were made, Colonel Zahm responding for the 
 Third, thanking the ladies and citizens of Norwalk for the beautiful flag 
 and banner and pledging the regiment to guard and protect them with 
 their life s blood and bring them back with honor. The color sergeant and 
 guards then marched to the center and received the colors from Colonel 
 Zahm. Company F was selected for the color company. The presenta 
 tion exercises lasted about two hours, during which time we sat on our 
 horses, after which we formed columns of platoons, with the infantry in 
 advance, and passed in review, saluting the colors, and after some further 
 evolutions we broke into column of fours and marched through Norwalk, 
 after which we returned to our camp just at dark. The next day we 
 drew our spurs. The cavalry drill in 1861 and 1862 was a double rank 
 drill, and it was a cumbersome and unwieldy affair. In forming the 
 company the men led their horses into ranks, and standing holding the 
 reins of their horses in the right hand near the bit, counted off by fours, 
 and at the command, "Prepare to mount," numbers one and three in the 
 front rank led forward a horse s length, and in the rear rank numbers 
 two and four reined back, and all grasping the reins in the left hand 
 near the pommel of the saddle and placing the left foot in the stirrup, 
 with the left hand on the pommel and the right on the rear of the 
 saddle. At the command, "Mount!" all sprang into the saddle as one 
 man, numbers two and four in both ranks riding forward into place at 
 once without further orders. In dismounting the same maneuvers had 
 to be gone through. In 1863 the drill was changed to single rank, which 
 simplified matters. Mounted drill in sections of four or in platoons of 
 eight was simple and easily learned and executed, but when it came to 
 marching and wheeling in sections of twenty-four or in company front 
 it was different. Then if the men on the wheeling flank did not allow 
 proper distance as they came around on a trot the men in the center 
 would get the legs almost crushed off them between the horses, and we 
 soon learned why it was necessary for cavalrymen to wear boots we 
 thought sometimes that we needed castiron ones. 
 
 The citizens of Bellevue had extended an invitation to the regiment 
 to pay them a visit, and December 2Oth we started out at 9 a. m. It was a 
 fine day, and the people of Bellevue gave us a most cordial welcome. The 
 town was decorated with flags, and everybody was out on the streets to 
 greet the cavalry. Tables had been spread and they were loaded down 
 
Camp Worcester. 15 
 
 with good things. We did ample justice to the dinner, after which the 
 assembly sounded. We fell in line, and after an hour s drill, marched 
 back to camp, where we arrived just at dusk, everybody in excellent 
 spirits, having enjoyed the day. We had not yet received our cavalry 
 bridles, but mounted drill was now the order of the day. Mounted drill 
 by companies, by battalions and regimental, besides mounted inspection 
 and dress parade. 
 
 On January 3d we received our cavalry bridles, and on the 5th at 
 dress parade marching orders were read. The regiment was ordered to 
 Camp Dennison, and the movement was to commence on the I3th 
 two companies to go each day. We were to march to Shelby and there 
 load our horses on the cars. On the 8th we went to a new drill ground 
 near Cook s Corners, north of Monroeville, drilling from 10 a. m. untl 
 3 p. m., making charges and evolutions, by companies, squadrons, 
 battalions, and by the entire regiment. There was some wild riding. 
 One horse was killed, one man s leg broken, one officer s horse bolted 
 with him and ran wildly all the way back to camp, his rider hatless, coat 
 tails streaming out behind, and bounding in the saddle like a rubber ball 
 at every jump of the horse. The next day we went to the same ground 
 and for five hours practiced the same evolutions, with no mishaps. We 
 returned to camp, men and horses covered with mud. The regiment 
 was organized into three battalions the First, composed of Companies 
 B, H, L and M, under Major Foster; the Second, Companies A, D, E and 
 F, under Major Parmore ; the Third, Companies C, G, I and K, under 
 Major Seidel. 
 
 In the latter part of the war the battalions were composed of com 
 panies arranged in regular alphabetical order. While we lay at Monroe 
 ville some of the men began to develop a fine ability as foragers, mainly 
 in the chicken line, and it has been charged that the country was so 
 thoroughly cleaned up that the people had to import new stock the next 
 spring. Colonel Zahm had a fine flock of turkeys, and he made the boast 
 that the boys would not be able to get them they roosted too high. Some 
 of the boys heard of the boast, which just put them on their mettle, and 
 after spying out the roosting place, they determined to make an attempt 
 to get the turkeys. It is needless to say they captured the flock, and 
 invited the Colonel to dinner. After dinner the cigars were passed and 
 everybody was in a first rate humor. The Colonel praised the dinner 
 and thanked the boys for the good time he had had. One of the boys 
 replied that he need not feel under any great obligations, as they were 
 his own turkeys. The Colonel enjoyed the joke immensely, and never 
 tired of telling it to his friends. 
 
 After the regiment got into active service there were many times 
 when foraging was absolutely necessary to its existence. When men and 
 
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 horses were compelled to live off the country, and while individual 
 foraging was disapproved of by the commanding officers, yet there were 
 always daring spirits who were willing to take any risk when rations were 
 short. Organized foraging parties were sent out through the country 
 both between the lines and on the flanks and rear of the army, gathering 
 up horses, cattle, hogs, and provisions and forage of every kind. Some 
 times these foraging parties were compelled to go long distances and 
 under strong escort, and many skirmishes were the result. 
 
 January I3th the advance guard of the regiment, Companies B and 
 H, struck their tents and took up the line of march Southward. So we 
 moved out from Camp Worcester, two companies each day during the 
 week. There were several small towns between Monroeville and Shelby, 
 and each squadron as it passed through was entertained at dinner at one 
 or another of them. That day s march was long remembered by the boys. 
 It was Wednesday, the I5th, when our squadron made the trip. The 
 day was clear and cold, the ground was covered with a thin coat of snow 
 which flashed and sparkled in the sunlight an ideal winter day. We 
 were to eat dinner at Plymouth, but the entire population of the country 
 were out to cheer us on and bid us God speed. Houses were decorated 
 with flags and bunting, and all along that line of march, at every farm 
 house and every cross-road, men, women and children were waiting for 
 us with hot coffee, sandwiches, doughnuts, apples, etc., etc. We ate all 
 we could, and then filled our haversacks but there is a limit to the amount 
 of stuff that even a cavalryman can stow away. At Plymouth tables were 
 set down the center of the main street loaded down with a splendid dinner, 
 to which we were made welcome by the people of the town, who treated 
 us with the most cordial hospitality and bade us good-bye with best 
 wishes for the success of our cause. As we resumed our journey South 
 ward, at one of the little red school houses that we passed the teacher had 
 his pupils in line by the roadside and they were singing "Dixie for the 
 Union," and just as the writer was passing, these words caught his ear: 
 "And should your courage falter, boys, remember Bunker Hill, hurrah !" 
 In the months and years that followed, in the camp, on the march, on the 
 lonely picket, in the skirmish, or fierce conflict, when opposing armies were 
 put in battle array, or in the wild charge, where squadrons met, mid rifle 
 shot and bursting shell, how often did memory recur to the school children 
 by the wayside singing "Remember Bunker Hill" ! Yes, we often needed 
 to remember everything that would inspire courage, patriotism, endurance. 
 We reached Shelby just at nightfall, and after unsaddling and feeding 
 our horses, we lay down to rest by the roadside under the shining stars. 
 The night was clear and cold. In the morning we made coffee and ate 
 of the luxuries left over from yesterday for breakfast. During the fore 
 noon we loaded our horses on the cars and continued our journey toward 
 
SERGEANT THOMAS CROFTS 
 REGIMENTAL HISTORIAN 
 
Camp Worcester. 17 
 
 the Sunny South, passed through Columbus in the evening and arrived at 
 Camp Dennison on the I7th about 10 a. m. The last squadron of 
 the regiment arrived on the 2oth, it having taken the largest and best 
 equipped railroad in Ohio just one week to transport the regiment across 
 the state. There were a number of boys who came out with the regiment 
 as servants for the officers. The writer wishes he knew something of the 
 history of those boys so that he could record it. There are only two, 
 however, that he can give any account of. One of these was known as 
 Little Johnny Mitch. When we lay at Monroeville Johnny came to 
 Captain Rowland of Company C and wanted to enlist in the cavalry. The 
 Captain looked the lad over, then shook his head and said, "No, my boy, 
 you are too young to go into the army." But Johnny was persistent, and 
 it resulted in the Captain hiring him to take care of his horse for six 
 months. Everybody that knew Johnny learned to like him. He was 
 short in stature, but a blocky little fellow a good natured, obliging little 
 Dutch boy. Well, when Johnny s six months expired we were at Jeffer- 
 sonville, Ind., and he wanted Captain Howland to enlist him. But the 
 Captain thought him too young and small for the service, so Johnny went 
 across the river to Louisville and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky 
 Infantry, and when he came back to bid us good-bye he was dressed in 
 the army blue, and oh, so proud to be a soldier! We of Company C 
 always took a great interest in Johnny, and he visited us whenever we 
 were near each other. Johnny looked more of a boy than ever when in 
 the ranks of those tall Kentuckians ; and yet what he lacked in stature he 
 made up in pluck and endurance. His Lieutenant said of him, on that 
 forced march to Shiloh : "Some nights when we stacked arms there would 
 not be more than fifteen or twenty men in the ranks ; the rest of them 
 were played out by the wayside ; but Johnny was always up with the 
 company." Well, Johnny soon came under the notice of his Colonel, who 
 took him for his orderly. The Colonel afterwards got command of the 
 brigade, but he kept Johnny with him, and thus things went on until 
 the autumn of 1863. In the terriffic Battle of Chickamauga, Johnny, 
 rinding that the sore need was for men in the ranks, picked up the rifle 
 that had fallen from the grasp of a dying comrade, got some cartridges, 
 and moving up to the firing line, went to work loading and firing steady 
 as a clock. It was while thus engaged that he was struck with a spent 
 ball. Entering his mouth it lodged in his neck, inflicting a dangerous and 
 painful wound. Our men were driven back, and Johnny was left on the 
 field dead, it was supposed. He lay on the battlefield for four days, 
 when he was picked up by the enemy and exchanged. He finally recov 
 ered, but his speech was somewhat impaired. The latest reports we had in 
 regard to him were to the effect that his Colonel sent him North to school. 
 
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 One other of the boys that were with us when we left Monroeville 
 was the son of Lieutenant Brown of Company C. He went with the 
 regiment as his father s servant he was then thirteen years old. Charley 
 learned to blow the bugle, and when the regiment veteranized he was 
 enlisted as a bugler, and in August, 1864, was appointed regimental bugler 
 by Colonel Seidel and served in that capacity until the close of the war. 
 He then went to school and afterwards entered the ministry, becoming 
 famous as a platform speaker, and at our annual reunions the eloquent 
 addresses of Dr. Charles O. Brown of Chicago are the feature of the 
 occasion. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 CAMP DENNISON 
 
 Camp Dennison was located on the west bank of the Little Miami 
 River about twelve miles north of Cincinnati. It was specially fitted up 
 for a permanent camp, with barracks for the men and stables for the 
 horses, and during all our service the only time when shelter and protec 
 tion were provided for our horses was during the few weeks we remained 
 at Camp Dennison. In the heat of summer or the cold blasts of winter, 
 in snow and hail and rain and sleet, our faithful horses had no shelter 
 whatever. The service was hard on the men, but on the horses it was 
 simply terrific. Often they were ridden to the utmost point of endurance 
 for days and nights together with very little food and less care. It is 
 not to be wondered at that they succumbed to hardship and privation and 
 were left by the wayside by scores and by hundreds. Each one of the 
 barrack buildings at Dennison was fitted up to accommodate 100 men 
 three tiers of bunks on each side and tables down the center cooking 
 facilities in one end. While here we had company cooking and company 
 mess. Our recollections of Camp Dennison were not pleasant. The 
 season was just changing from winter to spring consequently we had a 
 great amount of rain, and the parade ground was a perfect sea of mud, 
 in which we paraded, marching and countermarching and charging day 
 after day. 
 
 January 2Oth we received our sabers and belts, cap and cartridge 
 boxes, and commenced to learn the saber drill drilling in barracks when 
 it was too stormy for drill outside. Our first saber drill was something to 
 be remembered. Methinks that could the hosts of rebeldom have seen the 
 way in which we cut great gashes in the atmosphere they would have 
 realized that their cause was hopeless, and would at once have given up 
 the conflict. The saber drill was by far the hardest to master, and the 
 real value of the saber as an arm of the cavalry service has always been 
 a mooted question, and while there is no disputing the fact that in a hand 
 
Camp Dennison. 19 
 
 to hand conflict it is a very effective weapon, is always loaded and never 
 misses fire, yet during the latter years of the war when much of the 
 fighting was done on foot, we often found it very much in the way. In 
 advancing at a double quick it had a most disagreeable habit of getting 
 entangled in a fellow s legs and sending him forward on his nose in a 
 very undignified manner ; and an observant person would have noted that 
 it was the cause of a vast amount of profanity. While at Dennison we 
 also received our revolvers and a part of our carbines. The carbines 
 were of three different makes, the Sharps, Burnside and Remington, all 
 single shot breech-loaders. With the Burnside and Remington there was 
 more or less difficulty in extracting the empty shell after firing, and while 
 the Sharps was a good single-shot gun, yet it was not to be compared with 
 the Spencer, with which we were armed in the latter years of the war. 
 Notwithstanding the fact that everything was being done to get us ready 
 for the front as rapidly as possible, yet many of the men were impatient 
 of delay, and the fear was frequently expressed that the war would be 
 over before we got to the field. The camp was always full of rumors, 
 either that we were to be disbanded or that the end of the war was close 
 at hand, and in any case we would never get to see any fighting. Colonel 
 Zahm heard of the rumors, and one day at dress parade he made a brief 
 speech to the regiment, saying in substance : "Poys, I hear that some of 
 you pe afraid that the war will pe over pefore we get to the front, and 
 that we won t see any fighting. I tells you don t pe afraid ! You get your 
 pellies full of fighting yet!" Future events proved that the Colonel was 
 a true prophet. General Wright and Attorney General Wade inspected 
 and reviewed the regiment while we were at Dennison, and commended 
 us for our fine military appearance. 
 
 The recreations in the barracks in the evenings were manifold. There 
 were songs and stories. Company B organized a literary society, with 
 Lieutenant Culver at its head. They had a number of lectures, debates, 
 etc., that were largely attended and enjoyed by the men. Company L 
 organized a minstrel troupe and gave some performances which drew 
 crowded houses and furnished a lot of amusement. There were games 
 of different kinds cards, checkers, chess. On the Sabbath there was 
 preaching in some of the company barracks, to which all might go who 
 wished, and there were prayer meetings held in some of the officers 
 quarters. While there was not much difference between the Sabbath and 
 other days in the duties of the soldier in the field, yet when in camp there 
 was no drill on the Sabbath day. We would generally clean up and have 
 inspection about 9 o clock, then preaching in the open air if the weather 
 was fair, and sometimes dress parade in the afternoon. 
 
 February Qth three days rations were issued and we were ordered to 
 be ready to move. The next morning the general call sounded, and after 
 
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 breakfast boots and saddles, and forming into line at 8 a. m., we marched 
 out of Camp Dennison and, headed by the Fifth Regiment band, started 
 for Cincinnati. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 DOWN THE OHIO 
 
 The Third Ohio Cavalry never made a finer appearance than it did 
 on the morning of February 10, 1862, when it marched out of Camp 
 Dennison and took up its line of march for Cincinnati to embark on 
 steamers for a journey down the Ohio River. A regiment 1200 strong, 
 well mounted, with bright, new uniforms and arms, with banners flying 
 and with martial music, it took its way, the silvery notes of the bugles 
 echoing and re-echoing among the hills and valleys. We left Dennison 
 at 8 o clock in the morning, but it was 3 o clock in the afternoon before we 
 were in line on the levee in Cincinnati, and it was midnight before all our 
 horses and baggage were loaded on the boats. It took six large steamers 
 to carry the regiment. 
 
 February nth, when morning dawned, we were steaming down the 
 river, which was at its flood, and was a grand sight to many of us, who 
 were looking on it for the first time. The current was very strong, and 
 the boats made rapid progress. There was a great amount of driftwood, 
 and on some of the logs mud turtles had taken passage. Some of the boys 
 tried their revolvers on them and sometimes they would drop off into the 
 river. Our destination was Jeffersonville, Ind., which place we reached 
 at 3 o clock in the afternoon, and went into camp i/i the mud. Our stop 
 ping place was named Camp Wright, and was on the farm of Jessie D. 
 Bright, an opposition senator from Indiana. The river was in full view 
 from our camp, and very soon after our arrival an almost continuous pro 
 cession of steamboats loaded with our gallant boys in blue passed on down 
 the river with banners waving, bands playing and men cheering. It was 
 an inspiring sight and there was no doubt in our minds but that the war 
 would soon be over and we would be marching home again. 
 
 Fort Henry had surrendered to General Grant while we were at Camp 
 Dennison, and on the sixteenth of February the news came that the forces 
 at Fort Donelson had surrendered, opening up the Cumberland River, 
 and forcing the rebels to leave Bowling Green and Nashville and take a 
 line of defense further south. There was much rejoicing in the Union 
 camps over the news. Battery G of the First Ohio Light Artillery cele 
 brated the event by firing 100 guns in honor of the victory. While we lay 
 at Camp Wright we received Sibley tents in exchange for the old Bell 
 tents we had used at Camp Worcester. They were a great improvement 
 
Down the Ohio. 21 
 
 when we were in camp, but of little use in active field service. It was 
 necessary to haul them in wagons, which very often did not get to camp 
 in time, and were altogether too cumbersome to use when on the march, 
 (as we very soon found out). We also received another installment of 
 carbines and revolvers. On the twenty-fourth of February the prisoners 
 taken at Fort Donelson passed through on their way North. They were 
 the first rebel soldiers we had seen. On the 27th the United 
 States paymaster visited us and we received two months pay $26 in 
 greenbacks. Many of us had been in the service six months, yet there 
 were no complaints at the small amount received. We knew the govern 
 ment was doing the best it could for us. Forage for our horses was very 
 short at Camp Wright. In fact, very many times during the war our 
 horses were on short rations of musty corn. On Saturday, March ist, 
 marching orders came, rations were issued, also ammunition for carbines 
 and revolvers. Sunday, March 2d, general call sounded at 8 a. m. 
 It was a disagreeable, cold, rainy morning, but we were all elated at the 
 thought of getting into service. Our tents and baggage were soon packed 
 and loaded into wagons, but it was slow business ferrying the regiment 
 over the river, and it was the middle of the afternoon before we stood in 
 line in the City of Louisville, soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow. 
 We took up the march southward, going into camp in a low piece of 
 meadow land about four miles from the city. 
 
 Our camp was soon converted into a mud hole under the tramping 
 feet of men and horses, and by the time we had our Sibley tents pitched 
 the ground was in such a condition that we were compelled to carry in 
 rails for floors to keep our bodies out of the mud ; and there, lying on 
 the sharp edges of those rails in our wet clothing and blankets, we passed 
 one of the most miserably disagreeable nights of our lives. 
 
 During the night the rain changed to snow and in the morning a 
 sharp, frosty wind was blowing, but we got our fires started and made 
 coffee. The sun came out clear and bright, and as we took up the line 
 of march southward our surroundings appeared much more bright and 
 cheerful. We marched about twenty-five miles and camped near Salt 
 River. March 4th we resumed the march at 8 a. m. and camped about 
 three miles south of Bardstown. The scenery along the way was very 
 fine high hills, deep ravines and fine springs of clear water. We remained 
 in camp on the 5th. (No forage for our horses, weather very cold ; snowed 
 during the night.) We were compelled to use fence rails for our fires. 
 The orders were that we should take only the top rail, and it is needless 
 to say that the order was obeyed to the letter when a man wanted a rail 
 he invariably took the top one. 
 
 During the next three days we continued our march southward. The 
 roads were very bad, the country rough. The wagons were unable to 
 
22 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 keep up with the column, so we had no tents or cooking utensils. March 
 9th we crossed Green river on the railroad bridge at Mumfordsville. 
 
 Here we saw the first signs of conflict. There had been a skirmish, 
 and some of the horses killed in the fight were still unburied. Some of 
 the houses in the town showed marks of shot and shell. Upon a hill were 
 a number of graves, each marked with a wooden headboard with name, 
 regiment and company carved by the hand of a comrade. They were 
 soldiers of the Union who had fallen in the fight; with their blankets 
 tenderly wrapped about them, they had been laid to rest ; taps had sounded, 
 a volley had been fired over their graves, and their comrades had marched 
 on at duty s call. No sadder duty than this falls to the lot of a soldier. 
 We remained at Mumfordsville one day. The weather was wet and 
 disagreeable. Thus far on our march we had had very little pleasant 
 weather. 
 
 On the nth we resumed the march over a rough, broken country, 
 camped about half a mile from Mammoth Cave, and many of the boys 
 spent most of the night in exploring that famous cavern. 
 
 The next morning we continued our march southward, arriving at 
 Bowling Green on the I3th. We remained in camp one day and then 
 moved on toward Nashville. 
 
 On the 1 7th we camped about nine miles from Nashville, and 
 on the 1 8th we arrived at the Cumberland river about noon. The 
 bridges had been destroyed. Crossing on ferryboats, we marched through 
 Nashville and camped aBout two miles south of the city, near General 
 Buell s headquarters. Here we were assigned to General T. J. Wood s, 
 Sixth Division, Army of the Ohio. The next day the regiment was 
 inspected by the inspector of General Wood s division. March 2Oth, about 
 noon, general call sounded, and we packed up and moved out about one 
 mile south on the Nolensville pike. The camp was laid out and tents 
 put up as if we were going to stay awhile. The next day we had inspection 
 of arms by the company officers, after which the regiment was formed 
 and inspected by Colonel Zahm. At retreat orders were read for three 
 roll calls each day, at reveille, retreat and tattoo, the men to fall in with 
 their arms at each roll call. Dress parade and inspection each day at 
 3 P- m. 
 
 March 26th the regiment was inspected by General Wood, who com 
 plimented it highly on its appearance and drill. 
 
Shiloh. 2S 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 SHILOH 
 
 March 2Qth Drew three days rations, broke camp and started south 
 ward at 6 a. m. on the Franklin pike, the regiment at the head of the 
 division. Camped at 3 p. m. in a piece of woods near a stream of good 
 water. 
 
 March 3Oth Started at 6 o clock, passed through Franklin and went 
 into camp. The day was hot, the roads dusty, and many men in the 
 infantry were overcome and compelled to fall out by the wayside. Oh, 
 how they did envy the cavalrymen ! 
 
 March 3ist Started at 5 130; weather hot and roads dusty. Crossed 
 Rutherford Creek and camped, 
 
 April ist Did not move until 10 a. m. Passed the division of General 
 Thomas ; forded Duck River at Columbia and went into camp about three 
 miles south of the town, near the plantation of General Pillow. 
 
 April 2d and 3d Still on the march. Nothing out of the ordinary 
 occurred. On the 2d we passed through Mt. Pleasant. On the even 
 ing of the 3d we camped near General BueH s headquarters. On the 
 morning of April 4th, six companies of the regiment, under command of 
 Lieutenant Colonel Murray, left the main column and started for Law- 
 renceburg, the county seat of Lawrence County, about fifteen miles to the 
 southeast, where it was reported that a small force of rebel cavalry was 
 stationed. We were accompanied by two regiments of infantry, General 
 Milo S. Hascall commanding the expedition. After marching about half 
 the distance the infantry halted while we went on to the town. There 
 had been a small force of cavalry at the place, but nearly all had gone 
 before we got there. Our advance got sight of a few of them as they 
 charged into the town, and fired a few shots at long range as they ran; 
 but as their horses were fresh, our men were unable to overtake them. 
 We camped near the town. The rain came down in torrents, and the 
 night was very dark. We found a lot of pork in the place, to which we 
 helped ourselves, as we were on short rations of meat at the time. The 
 following is Brigadier General Hascall s report of the expedition : 
 
 HDORS, FIFTEENTH BRIGADE, ARMY OF THE OHIO, 
 
 FIELD OF SHILOH, April 12, 1862. 
 
 Agreeably to the order of General Wood, I proceeded on the morn 
 ing of the 4th instant from our camp, 23 miles beyond Waynesborough 
 and about 60 miles from this place, with two regiments of my brigade, 
 to wit: the Twenty-sixth Ohio and the Seventeenth Indiana, together 
 with a detachment of about 600 of the Third Ohio Cavalry, under Lieu 
 tenant-Colonel Murray, of that regiment, and marched for Lawrenceburg. 
 
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 The general had been informed that about 500 of the enemy s cavalry 
 were at that point, with the intention of making a descent upon our train 
 after the troops had passed. My instructions were to proceed cautiously 
 to Lawrenceburg, a distance of about 14 miles from our camp, and capture 
 the enemy, if possible and to disperse him at all events. It happened that 
 the day was very rainy and exceedingly bad for the infantry to make the 
 march, on account of the swollen streams and mud. I proceeded very 
 cautiously, leaving a couple of cavalry at every house we passed, to pre 
 vent any one taking information to Lawrenceburg of our approach, but 
 when getting about two miles from there we had to pass over a succession 
 of hills, in full view of the town, so that further precaution in this respect 
 was useless. 
 
 By this time I had learned that there were not more than from 50 to 
 100 cavalry there at furthest, and being desirous of saving the infantry 
 as much as possible for the forced march that was still before them, 
 before reaching this point I ordered the infantry to halt, and after 
 getting their dinner, to return to the camp they left in the morning and 
 join the other two regiments of my brigade. I then proceeded with the 
 cavalry as fast as the roads would permit, and when getting within about 
 one-fourth of a mile from town, ordered a charge upon the town, which 
 was splendidly executed by Lieutenant-Colonel Murray at the head of 
 his men. I learned that there were 50 to 75 cavalry in town, but as soon 
 as they observed our approach put themselves in readiness to leave. They 
 left principally in the direction of Florence and Mount Pleasant, and, 
 their horses being fresh, but few could be overtaken, though they were 
 pursued some eight miles in both directions by our cavalry. Two of the 
 enemy were severely wounded, as evidenced by the blood upon their 
 horses which fell into our hands. The result of the expedition was the 
 breaking up of the secession rendezvous at that point, the capture of six 
 cavalry horses and saddles, about 4000 pounds of fine bacon, a dozen 
 or two shotguns and squirrel rifles, and two drums. 
 
 I take great pleasure in reporting that a strong Union sentiment 
 seemed to pervade the whole country through which we passed going 
 and returning, my command being everywhere received (except at Law 
 renceburg) with every demonstration of joy and treated with the utmost 
 kindness and consideration. 
 
 Fearing that that portion of the rebel cavalry that fled toward Mount 
 Pleasant might be part of a larger band in that direction, and might 
 seriously embarrass, if not capture, portions of our train, I dispatched 
 Major Foster, of the cavalry, with two companies, to scout the country 
 as far as Mount Pleasant, and then to join his regiment at Savannah ; 
 since which time I have received no tidings from him, but presume he 
 has joined his regiment some time since. 
 
Shiloh. 25 
 
 The remainder of the cavalry, with myself and staff, bivouacked near 
 Lawrenceburg the night of the 4th, and having procured wagons in the 
 neighborhood with which to transport the captured bacon, started early 
 the next morning, and about noon overtook the infantry of my brigade, 
 who were en route for this place. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted, 
 
 MILO S. HASCALL, Brig. Gen., 
 
 Commanding Fifteenth Brigade. 
 
 April 5th We Started early to rejoin the column. Marched by the 
 way of Waynesboro ; camped in a piece of woods. The day was wet and 
 very disagreeable. 
 
 April 6th We were on the march early. We had not gone far, how 
 ever, before rumors of a battle in progress reached us. The roads were 
 in terrible condition ammunition wagons and artillery struggling through 
 the heavy mud ; infantry and cavalry marching along the sides. We 
 received an order to leave our baggage and wagons and hurry up all 
 troops as fast as possible. And so we marched through the rain and 
 mud all that fateful Sunday, our hearts filled with forebodings of impend 
 ing disaster, all the rumors indicating that our comrades on the banks 
 of the Tennessee were sore pressed and badly in need of reinforcements. 
 Toward night we halted and fed our horses and took a few hours rest. 
 
 April /th Bugles sounded just after midnight, and we moved out at 
 i 130. What a night it was ! No one who passed through that experience 
 will ever forget it. The rain poured down in torrents. So intense was the 
 darkness that it was impossible even to see our hands held before our 
 faces. The thunder was terrific, the lightning flashes blinding in their 
 intensity, revealing for an instant the whole scene of struggling men and 
 horses, and followed by darkness that could be felt, and through it all 
 the constant, steady boom ! boom ! boom ! of the cannon on the gunboats, 
 telling us that the battle was not yet over ; that the struggle would be 
 renewed when morning came. Our progress during the night was neces 
 sarily slow, but when day dawned we went forward more rapidly. As we 
 neared Savannah the sounds of battle could be heard moire distinctly. 
 To the booming of the cannon was added the rattle of musketry, which 
 could be plainly heard. We reached Savannah about noon, where we 
 found the remainder of the regiment halted by the roadside awaiting 
 orders. Our infantry was embarking on boats going to the battlefield, 
 while at the landing was a sight never to be forgotten. Wounded men by 
 scores and hundreds lay side by side on the wet, blood-stained ground, 
 waiting until they could be cared for in the buildings and tents that were 
 being converted into hospitals. Many had died during the brief passage 
 down the river, and were laid in rows and covered with blankets until 
 
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 they could be buried. All day long each boat coming down the river 
 brought its load of wounded, and as soon as they were landed the com 
 mand, Forward !" would be given and a regiment of boys in blue, with 
 steady step, marched on board and were off for the battlefield. What a 
 picture of war in all its aspects was presented that day at Savannah! 
 Men pressing forward with banners flying and drums beating in all the 
 pomp and pride of military display, coming back bearing all the signs of 
 conflict bruised and bleeding, dying and dead. We knew then that 
 Sherman s definition was right when he said, "War is hell." We remained 
 at Savannah helping care for the wounded until the gth, when the 
 regiment was stationed by companies about three miles apart along the 
 road between Waynesboro and Savannah, to protect the wagon trains and 
 guard the telegraph line. We were engaged in this work and in picket 
 patrol and scouting duty until April 23d, when the regiment was united at 
 Savannah. 
 
 April 25th Moved up the river to a point opposite Pittsburg; 
 crossed on ferryboats and camped on the battlefield near the landing. 
 
 April 26th Moved out about four miles and joined the division 
 camping near General Wood s headquarters. Orders for drill every day 
 that we lay in camp. Hot weather and poor water caused much sickness 
 among the men. Camp diarrhoea, fevers, etc., incident to change of 
 climate became very prevalent and continued until after the capture of 
 Corinth. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 
 
 April 28th A general movement of the whole army toward Corinth 
 commenced. It was an immense army. General Halleck was on the field 
 in person, commanding the entire force. 
 
 April 29th Moved forward five or six miles in the direction of 
 Corinth. 
 
 April 3Oth The paymaster visited us and distributed a few green 
 backs among the men. His visits were always welcome. There was some 
 cannonading in the direction of Corinth. The general advance appeared 
 to us to be very slow. 
 
 May 2d A part of the regiment went out four or five miles in the 
 direction of Monterey. We had a little skirmish at long range with no 
 apparent results. 
 
 May 6th Went as escort for Colonel Innes looking up roads at the 
 front. 
 
 May Qth Two squadrons of the regiment under command of Major 
 Foster and Major Paramore, while on outpost picket in front of Corinth, 
 
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 had a skirmish with the enemy. As there was some criticism of the 
 manner in which the officers handled their men, we publish their official 
 reports in full : 
 
 Report of Major John H. Foster, Third Ohio Cavalry, of Skirmish Near 
 
 Corinth, Miss., May gth. 
 HDQRS. THIRD REGT. OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, 
 
 CAMP NEAR CORINTH, May 9, 1862. 
 
 SIR : In compliance with your orders of May 8th, 1862, I proceeded 
 with two companies (L and M) of the Third Regiment Ohio Volunteer 
 Cavalry to relieve two companies of the same regiment on picket duty on 
 the Corinth road, about five miles from Corinth. On coming up to the 
 companies on duty I inquired of Captain D. C. Doane, the officer in 
 command, for instructions where to place my pickets. He said he was 
 instructed to place them across the mud-hole, as he called it, the other 
 side or south side of the woods, but had not done so, not considering it 
 safe to do so. I then went across the branch and mud-hole, and discovered 
 four men in an open field near the house. I rode up, and found two men 
 of General Buell s staff and two of General Nelson s staff. I went on to 
 a Mr. Lee s, half a mile beyond there, and ascertained from Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lee where the enemy s pickets had been, and that they had drawn them 
 in that day. I returned to the Shoeff house, where I first saw the officers 
 of General Nelson s staff. They requested me to accompany them to 
 General Nelson. I did so. He informed me he should occupy the Farm- 
 ington road with a regiment of infantry, which road was in my front, 
 and left of the Shoeff house and part of the farm, which I was told 
 was the place where Captain Doane was ordered to place his pickets. 
 General Nelson also said he should place his pickets from the Farmington 
 road to the left side of the Corinth road, half a mile in advance of the 
 Shoeff farm, where, I was informed, was my place to put out my pickets. 
 He suggested that I continue on his right my line of pickets to the Purdy 
 road across the Lee farm, which I did. 
 
 At i o clock next morning I was informed that General Nelson was 
 drawing in his pickets. I sent out and drew in mine from the Purdy 
 road and placed them on the Farmington and Corinth roads, and they 
 remained there until driven in by the enemy. 
 
 About 9 o clock on the 9th instant two companies of the Third Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry came up to relieve us, under the command of Major 
 James W. Paramore, and before I gave him orders in regard to placing 
 his pickets that I had received, our pickets were fired on. I sent a squad 
 of men to ascertain the position and strength of the enemy. They reported 
 about 350 men near Lee s house, across the branch and mud-hole, firing 
 at our pickets. We were then four companies strong (or parts of com- 
 
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 panics) of cavalry, and at that moment Colonel Innes, of the Mechanics 
 and Engineers, came up and a company of his men. He sent them on the 
 Corinth road toward Mr. Lee s house, and I sent one company of cavalry, 
 (Company L, Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry) and soon the 
 skirmishing commenced. Three companies of infantry came up, and in 
 the meantime Major Paramore had ordered his two companies across the 
 mud-hole, half a mile in the rear. I ordered them back to Shoeff s farm, 
 formed a line, and prepared to sustain the men who had gone forward. 
 Colonel Innes took his men (three companies) to the right and toward 
 the Purdy road, to prevent the enemy from flanking us and to get in their 
 rear if possible. I was to remain on the Shoeff field, and to give support 
 to the two companies fighting. If they fell back. I was to fall back to 
 the lower side of the field to draw out the enemy from the woods and 
 then charge on them in open field, allowing Colonel Innes to come in 
 their rear. Such was our position and arrangement when Major Para- 
 more ordered his two companies to retreat. I ordered them to halt. At 
 this I sent 25 men to sustain Colonel Innes on the right and guard a road 
 that led through the woods on my right. 
 
 At this time Captain William M. Flanagan, of Company L, came out 
 of the woods, and said the bushes were so thick his men could not fight 
 to advantage, and asked to dismount his men. I ordered his men to 
 dismount and lead their horses to the rear ; also ten men of each company 
 to dismount and act as infantry, under the command of Captain Flanagan. 
 At this moment Major Paramore ordered the men to retreat, and our 
 men fell back to the lower part of the field before I was aware of their 
 intentions. I rode in front, and ordered them to halt and rightabout 
 wheel and form line. Major Paramore again ordered his men to retreat, 
 saying he would command his own men and I might mine. His men 
 commenced a left wheel to move off, and I deeming it imprudent to 
 hold my two companies, consisting of 70 men, after he had ordered his 
 to retreat, saying he would command his own men, there could be no 
 concert of action between us, and I ordered my men across the branch 
 and mud-hole. 
 
 I have the honor to be your obedient servant, 
 
 Jo>HN H. FOSTER, 
 Major Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry... 
 
 COLONEL L. ZAHM. 
 
The Siege of Corinth. 29 
 
 Report of Majoir James W. Par amor e f Third Ohio Cavalry, of Skirmish 
 Near Corinth, Miss., May gth. 
 
 CAMP THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, 
 
 May 10, 1862. 
 
 SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part 
 taken by my command in the skirmish in front of General Wood s division 
 on Friday, May 9, 1862: 
 
 I left camp at 7 o clock of said day, in command of the Third Squad 
 ron of the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, composed of Companies E, 
 Captain T. D. McClelland, and F, Captain O. G. Smith, with orders to 
 report to General Wood. I did so, and received verbal instructions from 
 him to proceed to the outpost of his division and relieve the two com 
 panies sent out on the 8th instant, in command of Major J. H. Foster, 
 also of our regiment, and station my vedettes the same as his, and await 
 further orders. I proceeded accordingly to the outpost, and found the 
 reserve of the squadron, under Major Foster, stationed at an old deserted 
 house on the left of the road, through the open space shown in the 
 diagram. I halted my command, and was informed by Captain Flanagan 
 that Major Foster, with a detachment of his command, had gone down 
 the Corinth road to take a reconnaissance. I waited until he returned, 
 when I informed him that I had come with my command to relieve him, 
 and asked him where his vedettes were stationed and for instructions, etc. 
 He informed me that he had just been down within two miles of Corinth, 
 and had "waked up the gentlemen in force, and thought we would see 
 some fun, and that he would not return till he saw the result." He then 
 sent back a small patrol on the road to watch their movements. They 
 had not been gone long before they were fired upon and returned the 
 fire, and sent back for reinforcements. Major Foster then assumed com 
 mand of all the forces, and sent out Company L and a part of Company M 
 and five or six of Company E, in command of Captain Flanagan, as 
 skirmishers, to reinforce the patrol. I then asked him for permission to 
 station the two companies under my command in the edge of the woods 
 on the north side of the open field, in a position to command that in case 
 our men should be driven back and the enemy follow them. "No," he 
 replied, "that would not do, for, in case they were obliged to retreat, they 
 could not cross the marsh below," but for me to fall back with them to 
 some point on the road and station them as a reserve. Accordingly I 
 took them back across the bridge where the slough crossed the road, and 
 stationed them in line of battle at the side of the road, in a position to 
 command it. 
 
 About this time a sharp fire was opened up in the woods along our 
 whole line of skirmishers with the enemy, who appeared to be in force, 
 with infantry. Major Foster, who was then stationed near the barn in the 
 
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 open field with a small reserve of Company M, Captain Marvin, sent down 
 and ordered my command forward into the open field, and stationed it 
 to the right and front of his reserve, on the high ground, and within 
 twenty or twenty-five rods of the upper edge of the woods, with a small 
 detachment of Company E on another rise of ground at the farther end 
 of the field. We remained in that position without any command to for 
 ward or retreat, until a small party of infantry (which had come up from 
 a working party in General McCook s division, and deployed in the woods 
 to assist our cavalry) had all retreated and left the woods, some in the 
 direction from which they came and others to the woods in rear of us ; 
 and the cavalry skirmishers, under Captain Flanagan also, with great 
 coolness and good order, were compelled to retire from the woods before 
 a superior force of infantry, which, with all the advantage of thick woods, 
 had fallen back to our right and rear, thus leaving no force whatever be 
 tween us and the enemy, who were rapidly advancing to the endge of the 
 woods and sending their leaden messengers thickly around and among 
 us, and reported by our skirmishers to be a much superior force. Then 
 seeing the danger of our position, where the enemy could advance, under 
 cover of thick woods, within twenty or twenty-five rods of us without 
 our being able to see them and they could us, I took the responsibility of 
 ordering my squadron to about wheel and retreat down to the lower side 
 of the field, which they did on a walk. I then ordered them to halt and 
 about wheel again in line of battle. Captain Flanagan, with his company, 
 had formed on my right, and also brought his men down to the woods, 
 and at the same time faced about in line on my right, which brought us in 
 position to command the open field. Almost simultaneously Major Foster 
 came down with his reserve of Company M and ordered us to retreat 
 across the swale or slough, which order was obeyed, and he led the column 
 across the swale to the rising ground, where he formed his squadron in 
 line on the left of the road and I formed mine on the right. 
 
 General Wagner, who was in command of a reserve of infantry and 
 section of artillery, a short distance to the rear of us, then came up and 
 inquired who was in command of that cavalry. I told him that I had 
 been sent to relieve Major Foster, which I was ready to do. He then 
 ordered me to station vedettes to connect with those of General McCook, 
 and extend across to the Purdy road. Accordingly I immediately took 
 Company F and went back across the swale to the north side of that open 
 field, and there stationed them as vedettes in the edge of the woods, where 
 they could view the field, and extended them across to the Purdy road, 
 which position I held till regularly relieved today, the loth instant. This 
 skirmish occurred between 10:30 and 11:30 o clock of the gth instant. 
 The enemy did not advance farther than the edge of the woods on the 
 
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 south side of the field, where they remained a short time, and then fell 
 back to their old position. 
 
 The casualties were one man of Company L slightly wounded. All 
 the officers and men of the command behaved with uncommon coolness 
 and bravery, executing and obeying every order given with promptness 
 and good order. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 J. W. PARAMORE, 
 Major Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 COLONEL L. ZAHM, 
 
 During the entire month of May in the advance on Corinth, we were 
 constantly engaged in picket and scout duty. Skirmishes with the enemy 
 were of almost daily occurrence, but the casualties were light, as both 
 sides were very cautious about exposing themselves when in range. 
 Sometimes the picket lines were in close proximity, but were cautioned 
 not to expose themselves. May 21 st moved camp within about six miles 
 of Corinth. On May 27th we went with a force of cavalry and infantry 
 to the left and rear of the Rebel lines did not find the enemy in much 
 force. 
 
 May 29th, during the night, we heard many explosions in the direc 
 tion of Corinth, and the illumination of the sky was more than ordinarily 
 bright, indicating that something unusual was going on. We were early 
 in the saddle and moving toward the town. We came to the outer line of 
 works and found them abandoned. The works were very strong. At 
 every point where artillery could be advantageously posted forts had been 
 constructed. The woods in front of their fortifications had been cut down, 
 and all the branches trimmed so that they pointed toward the front. In 
 places where there was no timber they had constructed abatis, using for 
 that purpose everything available telegraph poles, sharpened stakes, 
 small trees, fastened together with telegraph wire, and a net-work of 
 wire woven through the fallen timber, so that it would have been almost 
 impossible for the infantry to get through. But they had concluded not to 
 risk a battle. 
 
 We marched into Corinth and found the town practically abandoned 
 by the white population. Only the old men, the women and the children 
 were left. Most of the people we saw were negroes. Not an armed foe 
 was in sight anywhere. They had not stopped to tell us why they had not 
 stopped to say good-bye. They evidently thought the country was getting 
 too thickly settled and they moved out. A large amount of army supplies 
 had been destroyed, the fires being still burning when we entered the town. 
 Among the relics was a large pile of home-made butcher knives, the 
 handles having been burned off. They had started out with the intention 
 
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 of using them to carve up the "Yanks," but after their experience at 
 Pittsburg Landing, they came to the conclusion that they didn t want to 
 get near enough to the Yanks to use knives. It did not take our leaders 
 long to find out that Beauregard had shown them a clean pair of heels 
 and it was no use to give chase. We were sent on picket to the south 
 of the town and remained until the evening of the 3ist, when we returned 
 to our camp north of Corinth. Beauregard had retreated to Tupelo, 
 about fifty miles south, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. We held 
 Corinth. It was an important point, but somehow we were not greatly 
 impressed with the fruits of the victory. We had had a great lesson in 
 the strategy and the art of war, but we didn t think much of that kind of 
 strategy. The Union commander had more than one hundred thousand 
 men marking time for thirty days, between Pittsburg Landing and 
 Corinth. With that kind of strategy the war would not have been ended 
 yet. If the same conditions that existed at Pittsburg Landing on the 
 morning of April 8th, 1862, had existed in 1864, and General Sherman 
 had been in command, his army would have been in battle array in front 
 of Corinth the next day, and there would have been another battle fought, 
 and Corinth would have been won by the Union arms. 
 
 During the three months that had elapsed since we crossed the Ohio 
 river our regiment had suffered the loss of a large number of men, mainly 
 through diseases incident to camp life, change of water and climate. The 
 water between Pittsburg Landing and Corinth was generally very bad, 
 so that during the month of May our ranks had thinned rapidly. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 NORTHERN ALABAMA 
 
 June 2d the regiment went on a scout out on the Memphis & Charles 
 ton Railroad. On the 3d we returned to camp and joined General Wood s 
 division near Bear Creek. 
 
 June 4th the Third Battalion, under Major Seidel, was attached tem 
 porarily to General Nelson s division as he had no cavalry, the balance 
 of the regiment remaining with Wood s division, the Army of the Ohio 
 were moving east on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, with orders 
 to repair it. Chattanooga was the next objective at which the army under 
 General Buel was directed. 
 
 June 5th Wood s division moved to luka and the First and Second 
 Battalions campedi about a mile east of the town, where they remained 
 until the nth of the month. 
 
 June nth, Companies A and D went on a scout and captured some 
 rebel officers. Nelson s Division came up and Major Seidel reported to 
 
Northern Alabama. 33 
 
 Colonel Zahm that during the seven days the Third Battalion had been 
 with General Nelson s Division they had been on scout or picket every 
 day and on picket six nights out of the seven. That he (Seidel) had re 
 ported to Nelson and asked to have his men relieved by some of the in 
 fantry. 
 
 Nelson cursed him and told him he could take his men off as he 
 had three of them under arrest and was going to have them shot for 
 sleeping on post. When the matter was reported to General Wood he 
 ordered the Third Battalion back to the regiment and the three men were 
 not shot, either. 
 
 June 1 2th, 1 3th and I4th On the march going east along the rail 
 road. On the 1 4th reveille at 3 a. m. Started at 4 o clock. Camped in a 
 piece of woods northwest of Tuscumbia. The wagons did not come up 
 until next morning. Tuscumbia is noted for its famous spring of splendid 
 water large enough to supply an army. It gushes from the rock by the 
 roadside. Our camp was located on the east bank of a large creek, of 
 which the great spring is the head and from thence flowing in a northwest 
 direction, it empties into the Tennesse river below Florence. The health of 
 the men was much improved since leaving Corinth. We had found an 
 abundance of good water after coming into Alabama, which added ma 
 terially to the health and comfort of the men while here. A ripple of ex 
 citement was caused by a slave escaping and coming into our camp, 
 closely pursued by his master, armed with an order from headquarters 
 giving him authority to take his property. Meanwhile Lieutenant Brown 
 of Company C, who, by the way was an ardent abolitionist and earnest de 
 fender of the rights of the colored race, having been a conductor on the 
 underground railroad at East Toledo, Ohio, during the days of the 
 "Fugitive Slave Law," guiding many a hunted slave on his way to Canada, 
 had taken this one under his protection and hidden him in his tent. 
 
 When the slave master came to claim his man, Brown stood defiantly 
 in front of his tent and refused to allow a search to be made, or to recog 
 nize the order from headquarters. During the altercation that was going 
 on in front of the tent, the slave inside was an eager and anxious listener. 
 Becoming satisfied that eventually he would be given up to his master, 
 he sprang out of the tent, made a dash for the creek, and at one bound 
 leaped almost to the middle of the stream, then struck out boldly and 
 swam to the opposite shore, climbed up the bank and was lost to our 
 sight in the woods, going like a streak of lightning. He was a mag 
 nificent specimen of physical manhood. We had stood in silent admira 
 tion watching the fugitive make his dash for liberty. He was greeted 
 with a cheer as he ascended the bank and disappeared into the woods. An 
 officer turning to the slave hunter said, "There s your man, catch him." 
 With a look of disgust he replied, "Catch the devil ; the fleetest horse you 
 
34 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 have got couldn t catch that d d nigger." And as far as most of the 
 men were concerned, the fugitive had their sympathy and they hoped he 
 never would be caught. Lieutenant Brown was ordered under arrest, but 
 nothing more ever came of it. 
 
 June 1 6th A report was brought in that a wagon train had been 
 attacked and the regiment went out to the rescue, but it proved to be a 
 false alarm. 
 
 June I /th Orders came for us to pack all extra clothing and send 
 it to Florence. We turned over all except one suit, a change of under 
 clothing and a single blanket for each man. 
 
 It was reported that it was loaded on an old barge which afterwards 
 sank in the Ohio river. At least we never saw it again, and were never 
 reimbursed by the government for its loss. 
 
 June i8th Six companies of the regiment went on a scout to 
 Russellville and Frankfort, but found no rebs. We camped at Frankfort 
 and the next day returned to Tuscumbia . 
 
 June 2Oth Company C was sent to Russellville to remain as an 
 outpost watching the movements of the enemy in that direction. It was 
 eighteen miles south of Tuscumbia, which was our nearest support in 
 case of attack. It was after dark when we arrived at Russellville. Com 
 pany I came out to reinforce us about midnight. We remained at 
 Russellville ten days, during which time we sent in a large number of 
 prisoners most of them deserters from the rebel army who were tired 
 of the war. 
 
 All the time we were at Russellville we were constantly on scout and 
 picket. It took one company to picket the roads leading to our camp, 
 the companies taking alternate nights on picket, and when not on picket 
 we were engaged patroling the roads leading out from the town. We 
 never felt very secure while at this place. It was certain that sooner 
 or later the enemy would attack the post, and when they did it was sure 
 to result disastrously to the few men holding it. We were too far from 
 our supports for such a small force. 
 
 June 29th We were relieved by two companies from the First Ohio 
 Cavalry, and returning to Tuscumbia found it occupied by General 
 Thomas division, our division and regiment having gone on east to 
 Decatur. 
 
 June 3Oth Companies C and I left Tuscumbia at daylight and 
 marched to Courtland, about twenty-five miles east. We arrived about 
 noon. The day was very hot and eight of our horses died from the 
 effects of the march in the hot sun. 
 
 July ist Companies C and I left Courtland early in the morning. 
 Marched to Decatur; arrived about u a. m., where we rejoined the 
 regiment. 
 
Northern Alabama. 35 
 
 The men of the First Ohio, who had relieved Companies C and I, 
 were attacked July ist and in the fight which ensued they lost two men 
 killed and the Captain of Company G mortally wounded. 
 
 We now resume the movements of the balance of the regiment during 
 the time Companies C and I were at Russellville. We left them encamped 
 at Tuscumbia. 
 
 June 2Oth The regiment started on a scout at 5 a. m. ; camped near 
 Courtland, and the next day marched to Decatur and camped, returning 
 to Courtland on the 22d. 
 
 June 24th Part of the regiment went to Moulton, arriving at 10 
 a. m. Captured a lot of tents belonging to "secesh" cavalry ; burned them 
 and returned to camp at Courtland. 
 
 June 26th Started early. Marched to Elliot Place, about eight 
 miles from Decatur, and went into camp. A terrific wind and rainstorm 
 came on in the evening, lasting for several hours. 
 
 June 27th The regiment on the march early, arriving at Decatur 
 during the forenoon. 
 
 June 28th Part of the regiment crossed the Tennessee river and 
 Company H went to Mooresville. Saw some rebs on the south side of 
 the river. 
 
 July 3d Corporal Jacob Bauman of Company A was killed by guer 
 rillas and stripped of all his clothing as he was returning to camp. Late 
 in the afternoon Companies C and G ferried over the river and bivouacked 
 on the north bank. 
 
 July 4th Marched to Mooresville, eleven miles by wagon road. Had 
 a celebration in the afternoon patrotic speeches and a national salute 
 of thirty-four guns the last a volley from the entire battery. 
 
 July 5th The rest of the regiment arrived from Decatur. For 
 the next four days we were engaged foraging and guarding wagon trains. 
 
 July Qth The Second and Third Battalions left the division. 
 Camped at night eleven miles west of Huntsville. 
 
 July loth We passed through Huntsville and camped on Flint 
 river, eight miles east of the town. Huntsville was by far the prettiest 
 town we had seen thus far in the entire South finely located, many 
 handsome residences, the homes of wealthy people before the war. It 
 has a very large spring of good, pure, cold water from which the town 
 is supplied. 
 
 July nth Marched to Woodville and pitched our tents. We were 
 to remain here for some time, guarding the railroad, foraging, scouting 
 among the hills and chasing guerrillas. Woodville, Alabama, was an 
 insignificant town on the railroad some thirty-five miles southwest of 
 Stevenson. It was situated in a rough, mountainous country. The hills 
 and mountains were infested by a gang of guerrillas headed by a man 
 
36 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 named Frank Gurley. These men knew every road and bridle path 
 through all that region, and it was the most difficult thing in the world 
 to locate them and convict them of any crime. There was no doubt in 
 our minds that the people living throughout that region acted as spies 
 on our men, furnishing the enemy with information in regard to our 
 movements, and as they very seldom traveled on the main roads, but 
 used bridle paths across the mountains, it was impossible to follow them. 
 They took no chances in an open fight, no matter what their numbers. 
 They would lay in ambush for our men and it was very seldom that they 
 missed their aim. For a while our pickets were fired on almost every 
 night, until we were compelled to change their location after dark, to 
 prevent their being ambushed. Our duties at Woodville were most 
 arduous. When not on camp guard or picket we were scouting, foraging, 
 or patroling the roads. We had very little time for recreation in camp. 
 W r e were compelled to get all our forage for the horses in the country. 
 
 July 1 4th Companies C and I started on a scout at 8 a. m. with 
 three days rations. Marched all day over the roungh mountain roads ; 
 camped at night on the mountains about twenty-five miles out. 
 
 July 1 5th Passed through New Market. Camped at night at Mays- 
 ville. Plenty of rumors of rebels, but none to be found. 
 
 July 1 6th Returned to Woodville, having marched about 100 miles 
 in the three days. 
 
 July 2 ist Companies C and I started out at 3 a. m. with the wagon 
 train for Stevenson. Camped at Larkinsville, and the next day started 
 at 4 a. m. Camped on Crow creek, four miles from Stevenson. 
 
 July 23d Marched to Stevenson, left the wagon train and started 
 back for W oodville. Camped at Larkinsville. Heard rumor that a force 
 of rebels had crossed the river to make an attack on Woodville, but as 
 there were so many rumors always in the air we did not place much 
 confidence in them. 
 
 July 24th Left Larkinsville at 3 130. Arrived at Woodville at 8 
 a. m. Found that an attack on the place was expected. Moved camp 
 to the bridge at Paint Rock. Strong pickets sent out. Orders to keep 
 the horses saddled and ready to fall in at a moment s notice, but as usual 
 our friends the enemy did not call on us. 
 
 July 25th Moved camp back to Woodville, but changed the location 
 to one that could be more easily defended in case of attack. 
 
 July 27th A regiment of infantry and a section of artillery came 
 up from Huntsville and, accompanied by the Third Battalion, started for 
 Gunter s Landing on the Tennesse river, some twenty miles south of 
 Woodville. It was reported that there was a force of rebel cavalry in 
 the town of Guntersville on the south side of the river, and the object 
 of the expedition was to capture and destroy the ferry-boats on the river 
 
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 in that locality. We left Woodville in the afternoon and arrived in the 
 vicinity of the landing about midnight. We dismounted in a piece of 
 woods about half a mile from the river, and leaving our horses, moved 
 up to the river above and below the landing. The orders were to keep 
 under cover and not make any noise, as we hoped to remain undiscovered 
 until they came over with one of the boats, when we were to charge down 
 to the landing and capture it. As the day dawned and it became light 
 enough for us to see across the river from our hiding places in the bushes 
 on the north side, we saw a number of rebels come down to the river on 
 the opposite side, and it was very evident that they were suspicious. 
 They stood in groups talking and looking across toward our hiding place. 
 Just then a darkey came down the road in plain view from the opposite 
 bank and went to a spring near the landing for a pail of water. As soon 
 as the rebs saw him they hailed him from the opposite shore, "Hello, 
 Sam, are there any Yanks over there?" and Sam answered, "Lawd, yes; 
 heaps on em," and our sneak game wasn t worth the candle. Our cake 
 was dough, and as we came out from our hiding we could hear them 
 say, "Oh, yes, I see em" and then they opened fire on us, but their 
 shots fell short, most of them dropping in the river. We raised the sights 
 on our Sharps carbines and commenced firing, when they quickly ran 
 for cover and did not expose themselves again during the day. There 
 was an island in the river opposite the town. It was covered with a heavy 
 growth of timber and underbrush so that it was impossible to see any 
 thing behind or on the island. We could see nothing of the boats. The 
 artillery was brought up and commenced shelling the town, setting fire 
 to a number of buildings. A raft was constructed and an attempt made 
 to land men on the island under cover of the fire from the artillery. But 
 the rebs had possession of the island, and as our raft neared the shore 
 and the artillery had to cease firing for fear of hitting our own men, the 
 rebs opened on them from the woods, and our officers seeing that they 
 could not make a landing, the recall was sounded and the party came 
 back. In attempting to cross the men placed their guns on the raft and, 
 swimming beside it, pushed it over. It was now late in the afternoon, 
 and we got orders to return to our horses, when we moved back two 
 miles and went into camp. 
 
 July 29th Got up early, fed our horses, and a number of squads were 
 sent up and down the river to different landings and succeeded in destroy 
 ing three flat boats. While we were on the march James Weldon of Com 
 pany K was shot and instantly killed by some one in ambush. He and 
 Corporal Frank Allen of Company C had gone ahead of the advance 
 guard, and the shot was fired from a piece of woods some distance from 
 the road. We were unable to get any trace of the party who fired the 
 shot. The records of our regiment are very incomplete. No record of the 
 
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 wounded was ever kept. And in this case the Ohio Roster says that James 
 Weldon died August I5th, 1862, in hospital at Woodville, Alabama. The 
 writer has a very vivid recollection of the incident. He was with the 
 advance guard at the time, and saw Comrade Weldon a few moments 
 after he was killed. Major Paramore in his report of the expedition says 
 the man was instantly killed, which report is here published in full. 
 
 We returned to our camp at Woodville and the infantry and artillery 
 left us at Vienna and returned to Huntsville by another road. 
 
 JULY 27-30, 1862. Expedition from Woodville to Guntersville, Ala., and skir 
 mishes (28th) at Guntersville and Law s Landing, and (29th) at Old Deposit 
 Ferry. 
 
 Report of Major James W . Paramore, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 WOODVILLE, ALA V July 31, 1862. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to report the entire success of the expedition 
 sent out under my command on the 27th instant for the purpose of de 
 stroying the ferries on the Tennessee river from Law s Landing down to 
 Whitesburg. 
 
 In accordance with instructions, the expedition consisting of the 
 Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, commanded by Major Campbell, and a 
 section of Loomis battery, commanded by Lieutenant Chandler left 
 Huntsville on the morning of the 27th and proceeded by rail to Wood 
 ville, where we were joined by the Third Battalion of the Third Ohio 
 Cavalry, in command of Major Charles B. Seidel, from which place I 
 proceeded with the whole command, as above stated, for the Tennessee 
 River, which we reached about 8 o clock the same day, and encamped 
 opposite Matthew s Landing, a distance of about twenty miles from 
 Woodville, and over a rough, mountainous road. This was the first point 
 on the route where we could get forage and water for our animals, and 
 although it was a fatiguing march, it was accomplished without a murmur, 
 so eager were the officers and men for the accomplishment of the purpose 
 for which they were sent. I sent out the same evening of our arrival a 
 strong picket, consisting of infantry and cavalry, to each of the ferries 
 at Law s and Matthews Landings, and also a squadron of cavalry, in 
 command of Major Seidel, down to Guntersville, to watch the move 
 ments of the enemy, guard the boats, and prevent any one from crossing 
 to give information of our approach. A courier from Major Seidel 
 informed me that he was apprehensive that they would move their boats 
 from Guntersville unless prevented by our artillery. 
 
 Accordingly I left the guards at Matthews and Law s Ferries and 
 proceeded with the command by daylight the next morning to Gunters 
 ville. I found the town strongly garrisoned by Forrest s cavalry and 
 
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 some independent companies of guerrillas and bushwhackers raised in 
 the vicinity, with a heavy picket guard down at the landing guarding 
 their boats and a warehouse filled with forage and commissary stores. 
 I concealed most of my forces and artillery in a wood a short distance 
 back from the landing, and deployed two companies of infantry as 
 skirmishers to reconnoiter the position and ascertain the whereabouts 
 of the enemy at the landing. True to their bushwhacking mode of war 
 fare, the enemy soon fired on them from their concealed positions behind 
 trees and the old buildings on the opposite side of the river. The fire 
 was returned by our skirmishers and cavalry pickets and continued for 
 a short time sharply on both sides, when I ordered one piece of artillery 
 to be placed on the high bluff above the landing in a position to command 
 their camp and the town and the other so as to command the landing and 
 buildings opposite. 
 
 At about 7 a. m. we commenced a simultaneous shelling of their 
 camp and the woods on the island above the landing with an occasional 
 round of canister, which soon scattered the astonished rebels in every 
 direction and set them to riding and running in the utmost confusion, 
 and with the assistance of our carbines and long-range rifles soon cleared 
 the opposite shore. The enemy having taken all their boats and skiffs 
 to the opposite shore and concealed them in the creek between the town 
 and the island (as shown in the accompanying diagram*) it was neces 
 sary that we should cross the river to destroy them. 
 
 Accordingly I set some men to work constructing a raft with such 
 material as we had at our command for the purpose of crossing the 
 river to destroy their boats. The enemy, perceiving our object, gathered 
 in the old buildings opposite and commenced firing on the workmen. I 
 then directed Lieutenant Chandler to shell those buildings, which he did, 
 and they were soon discovered to be on fire, and the flames spread rapidly 
 and consumed that part of the town. 
 
 As soon as the raft was completed Captain Allen of the Fifteenth 
 Kentucky and ten men volunteered for the daring feat of crossing the 
 river in search of the boats, and the raft not being large enough to carry 
 more, one brave fellow swam the river to assist them. The party crossed 
 safely to the island, and proceeded under cover of our guns up along 
 the bank of the creek, and found that their boats had just been destroyed 
 and sunk in the creek, all except one large one, which laid near the mouth 
 of the creek partially sunk, but not destroyed. This they tried to raise 
 and bring across, but the fire of the enemy s sharpshooters rendered it 
 too hazardous, and Captain Allen abandoned it, and returned safely with 
 his men to the command. I then ordered one of the guns down to a 
 position below the landing, where the boat could be seen, and a few well- 
 directed shells totally destroyed it. A vigorous fire was kept up on both 
 
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 sides from about 7 a. m. till 12 m., when the well-directed fire of our 
 artillery had driven them from their camp and town to the mountains 
 for safety, and the firing gradually subsided into an irregular skirmish 
 of sharpshooters with long-range guns from concealed positions. This 
 was continued until about 6 o clock in the evening, when, having com 
 pleted the destruction of their boats, and having no sufficient means of 
 crossing my command to pursue the enemy further, I withdrew all the 
 command except one company of cavalry and one of infantry (which I 
 left on picket at that place to hold and watch the movements of the 
 enemy) back to our old camp near Matthews Landing. 
 
 All this was accomplished without any loss on our side except one 
 man of the artillery slightly wounded in the foot. The loss of the enemy 
 we could not ascertain definitely, but learned from a citizen who crossed 
 the river the next day that their loss was about thirty killed and wounded, 
 besides their camp and town badly damaged by our shells and about ten 
 buildings, including the warehouse, filled with forage and commissary 
 stores, burned. 
 
 Their force at that point and Law s and Matthews Landings was 
 variously estimated at from 600 to 1200, all mounted, with no artillery, 
 and is said to consist of a battalion of Forrest s cavalry, a battalion of 
 Adams cavalry and two or three companies of guerillas and bush 
 whackers raised in that vicinity. 
 
 During that night (Monday, 28th) the boat from Matthews Ferry 
 was moved up to Law s Landing and an attempt was made to cross 
 under cover of night and get in our rear, but by the vigilance of Captain 
 Spaulding, of the Fifteenth Kentucky, and his company, who were on 
 picket guard at that place, they were prevented from crossing, and com 
 pelled to leave their boat, with a loss of two killed and several wounded. 
 
 The next morning I took a part of my forces, consisting of one com 
 pany of cavalry and one of infantry and one gun, and went to that point 
 and destroyed their boat, also giving them a farewell salute of a few shells 
 in their camp, about a mile distant, but with what effect we could not 
 ascertain. Having previously sent out scouting parties and thoroughly 
 canvassed the shore for boats and ascertained that there were none, at 
 least that could be found between that point and Guntersville, we returned 
 to camp and collected our forces and proceeded down the river toward 
 Whitesburg and encamped at Cottonville, near the Old Deposit Ferry. 
 Then I sent a small force, consisting of one company of cavalry and one 
 gun, under command of Major Seidel, down to the ferry to destroy the 
 boat at that point. On their approach the rebel pickets cut the boat loose 
 and it floated down the stream over a mile before it was discovered, when 
 the first shot from the artillery struck and sunk it. Having accomplished 
 their object they returned to camp. 
 
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 The next morning I sent Major Seidel with a detachment of cavalry 
 on a scout to Ferrin s Landing, about four miles below Deposit, to ascer 
 tain if there were any boats at that place, and report if necessary to destroy 
 them. I then left one piece of artillery and one company of cavalry and 
 one of infantry at the road leading to this point to assist in destroying 
 the boats, if necessary, and proceeded with the balance of the command 
 to Vienna, and there awaited their arrival. When they came up Major 
 Seidel reported that he found one large boat on this side of the river at 
 that point and another on the opposite side. He dismounted a part of 
 his cavalry and crossed in the boat lying on this side, and procured the 
 other and brought them both to this shore, and totally destroyed and 
 sunk them without the aid of the other forces. They then pushed on and 
 joined us at Vienna, where our command separated, Major Campbell, 
 with the infantry and artillery, proceeding toward Whitesburg, and I 
 returned with the cavalry the same evening (Wednesday, 3Oth) to our 
 camp at Woodville. 
 
 I regret to record that while proceeding with the command near 
 Vienna one of my men James Weldon, of Company K, Third Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry was shot and instantly killed by a villain concealed 
 in the thick woods near the road. I immediately sent out scouting parties 
 in all directions, with instructions to shoot down all persons found in 
 arms and arrest all male citizens found in the vicinity. Only one was 
 found and arrested McDonald, living in sight of where the man was 
 shot. He denies all connection with or knowledge of the murder, but I 
 think it almost impossible that he could not know something about it, if 
 he was not actually engaged in it. I therefore send him to your head 
 quarters for such punishment as you may think proper, fully satisfied 
 that to put down bushwhacking vigorous and severe measures must be 
 used, and all the citizens in the vicinity where these outrages are com 
 mitted must be held responsible for them. 
 
 It would be injustice to close this report without speaking more par 
 ticularly of the bravery and gallant conduct of all the officers and men 
 composing the expedition. Without mentioning their names, I would 
 say that all are entitled to great credit for the promptness with which 
 they obeyed and executed all orders given and the energy they evinced 
 in accomplishing the object for which they were sent; and I would 
 particularly mention the names of Major Campbell, commanding the 
 infantry ; Lieutenant Chandler, commanding the artillery, and Major 
 Seidel, commanding cavalry; also Captains Spaulding and Allen, of the 
 Fifteenth Kentucky, and Lieutenant Heflebower, of Company G, Third 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, for their co-operation and valuable services 
 rendered in the expedition. 
 
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 During the route we destroyed seven boats, viz : one at Law s Land 
 ing, three at Guntersville, one at Deposit, and two at Ferrin s Landing; 
 but I was hardly satisfied with our operations at Guntersville. I think 
 that nest of treason and rendezvous of guerrillas and bushwhackers should 
 be entirely destroyed and purified by fire, for as long as it is permitted to 
 remain their facilities for reconstructing their boats and its proximity to 
 the railroad will make it a dangerous place for the safety of our trains 
 and railroad bridges and require it to be closely watched. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 J. W. PARAMORE, 
 Major, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Comdg. Expedition. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel MURRAY, 
 
 Commanding Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 August 4th Sergeant Patrick and four men of Company G while 
 returning from a little scouting expedition and only a short distance from 
 the pickets were fired on by bushwhackers from ambush. Sergeant Patrick 
 and one man were killed and two of the men were wounded. One man 
 escaped. The shots were plainly heard in camp. Company C was already 
 mounted ready to go on picket. Captain Rowland gave the command, 
 Forward !" and the company was off at a gallop. We met the man 
 who had escaped, coming in, and a short distance beyond the picket post, 
 found his companions lying on the rocks dead and wounded, but no trace 
 of the men who had so cruelly murdered them. It was an ideal spot 
 for such an ambush a wild, lonely place. On one side the mountain 
 rose abruptly from the roadside. The thick undergrowth afforded a 
 complete shelter, so that the men in hiding might almost touch those 
 riding by with their guns, and still remain undiscovered. If a small 
 party was seen by these people going out, the bushwhackers would lie in 
 ambush until they came back, and without any warning fire their shots 
 at close range, and they very seldom missed their man. They would 
 then betake themselves to their hiding places in the mountains, and it 
 was the next thing to impossible to find them. The people living in the 
 vicinity were either friendly to them or afraid to give information against 
 them. There was a family living in a house near where these men were 
 ambushed. We could get no information from any of them, and believing 
 that it was a nest for spies, the house was burned. We scoured the 
 country for miles in every direction and gathered up and brought in five 
 men on suspicion. They were sent to headquarters at Huntsville and I 
 believe were let go, as it was claimed there was no evidence that they 
 were bushwhackers. The following is Lieutenant Colonel Murray s 
 official report of the affair: 
 
Northern Alabama. 43 
 
 AUGUST 4-7, 1862. Attack on Union pickets near Woodville, Ala (4th), and 
 reconnaissance from Woodville to Guntersville, Ala. (5th-7th). 
 
 Reports of Lieut. Col. Douglas A. Murray, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 COLONEL: I have the honor to inform you that between the hours 
 of 3 and 4 our outward pickets on the Guntersville road were fired at 
 from the bushes by a party of ten guerrillas or bushwhackers. One of 
 the men was shot dead the sergeant, a most worthy, good man, mortally 
 wounded through the head, who died shortly afterward ; the two other 
 men were both dangerously wounded, only one of five escaping uninjured, 
 who, being driven by the murderers, was forced to fall back. He 
 describes the scene above as follows : 
 
 "The party, consisting of a sergeant and four privates, belonging to 
 Company G, Third Ohio Cavalry, who were in the advance of the rest 
 of the company at the outpost of the line of pickets on the road, about a 
 mile and one-fourth distant from the camp, between the hours of 3 and 4 
 o clock p. m., were fired on by a party of ten or twelve armed men. The 
 first intimation they had of their approach was a volley of ball and buck 
 shot. He, being the only one of the party who escaped its fatal effects, 
 fired his carbine and revolver upon the party, but being so hardly pressed 
 by the entire number had to retire. All this was so quickly done that 
 the other pickets had not time to come to the assistance of the unfortunate 
 men. The murderers turned into the bushes, which just at that place 
 w 7 ere thick, the mountain steep and rocky. Lieutenant Heflebower, the 
 officer in charge of the picket, dismounted some of the men and searched 
 all over for them without success. 
 
 Hearing the firing in camp from the line of pickets I immediately 
 sent out a squadron to scour the country in the neighborhood of the 
 scene. After much trouble, found the tracks of the murderers up and 
 across the mountain ; taking a circuitous route to some houses about one 
 and one-half miles from where the firing took place, finding four men who 
 could not account for themselves and from their contradictory statements 
 were arrested. Finding any further efforts to make discoveries fruitless 
 the command returned to camp. I brought each of the prisoners separ 
 ately before the wounded men, then in the regimental hospital, one of 
 whom, N. J. Fletcher, was identified immediately by Private Lewis H. 
 Palmer, who is positive that he is the man that fired on him. Private 
 Steckel, the only one of the party uninjured, also identified him, Fletcher, 
 and one other, John Peters, jr., as being two of the men of the party of 
 ten. The other two state that they were in company with Fletcher and 
 Peters all day, and further their statements are both contradictory and 
 changeable, and I have no doubt that each and all of them are guilty of 
 the murders committed. 
 
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 I had to use, assisted by the other officers of the regiment, the most 
 strenuous efforts to prevent the men from lynching them, their guilt 
 being so palpable. I hear from good authority that three of the ten men 
 that are now in this vicinity bushwhacking are of those I have sent down 
 to headquarters and who have been recently released, and are now boast 
 ing of being Union men. 
 
 Very respectfully, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Third Ohio Cavalry, Commanding. 
 
 P. S. Since writing the above Private Steckel has recognized Lewis 
 Turner, another of the prisoners, also John Peters, as being two that 
 were of the party. Private William Smith, Company C, recognizes one 
 of the prisoners, Fletcher, as being one that fired upon him a few days 
 since; Private Smith is now lying in hospital from wounds received, he 
 states, by his hands. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Third Ohio Cavalry, Commanding. 
 COL. J. B. FRY, Chief of Staff, Army of the Ohio. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 IN CAMP, WOODVILLE, ALA V August 7, 1862. 
 
 COLONEL: I have the honor to report for your information that the 
 squadron of the Third Ohio Cavalry that left these headquarters on the 
 morning of the 5th instant on a reconnaissance to the river opposite to 
 Guntersville returned this day at noon. 
 
 The officer in command of the squadron reports that the encampment 
 of the enemy has been moved back from the river about two miles, and 
 there appears to be a larger force there now than when our troops, 
 accompanied by artillery and infantry, were there. The enemy have dug 
 rifle pits, and have also mounted two pieces of artillery to command the 
 old ferries at that point. The ferry-boats destroyed by our troops are 
 being repaired, and I have heard from good authority will be ready for 
 use this day or tomorrow. It is rumored that they, the enemy, will cross 
 with the intention of destroying the bridges on the railroad as soon as 
 they possibly can. If not too great a liberty, might I suggest that two 
 pieces of artillery may be sent to this point or the bridge near by. I have 
 no doubt if artillery were here and could be spared they would render 
 good service. The country being so miserably adapted for cavalry being 
 as effectual as they otherwise would be on more suitable ground might 
 be obviated by having the assistance of artillery. If artillery cannot be 
 
Northern Alabama. 45 
 
 spared, two companies of infantry would, I have no doubt, prevent any 
 damage being done to railroad in our vicinity. 
 
 The squadron arrested Mr. Hornbuckle, a noted bushwhacker, who 
 attempted after his arrest to escape, and did succeed in getting off some 
 distance ; would have made good his escape but for the steps taken to 
 prevent it. 
 
 Very respectfully, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Third Ohio Cavahy, Commanding. 
 COL. J. B. FRY, Chief of Staff. 
 
 August 5th Albert D. Noble of Company F was killed and John 
 Cannon of Company C wounded by guerrillas. Companies C and K went 
 in pursuit of the marauders but found nothing of them. Three houses 
 were burned in obedience to orders to burn all houses near the scene 
 of these outrages. 
 
 August 6th Pickets fired on at midnight, and the command turned 
 out. A patrol was sent out, but found no enemy. It was no doubt 
 guerrillas. 
 
 August Qth A report was brought to camp that General Robert 
 McCook had been murdered by guerrillas while sick and riding in an 
 ambulance near New Market. 
 
 August loth We started out with three days rations and a guide 
 on a hunt for Gurley and his band of bushwhackers, the murderers of 
 General McCook. We went in the direction of New Market. Camped 
 at night at Paint Rock river. Arrested a number of men on suspicion 
 that they might be implicated or might be able to give some information. 
 
 August nth Arrived at New Market about midnight after a rough 
 march over the mountains. The rebs had been there but had left before 
 we arrived. 
 
 August I2th Started south from New Market; found where the 
 guerrillas had camped the night before. We took up the trail and fol 
 lowed all day over the mountain roads, camping on the trail at nightfall 
 when it became too dark to follow. 
 
 August 1 3th We were in the saddle as soon as it was light. The 
 trail led us into a narrow defile in the mountains, which ended in a pocket 
 with no outlet, and here we came upon the band which we had been 
 pursuing. 
 
 They were compelled to abandon their horses and take to the moun 
 tains on foot, where they fired upon us from the shelter of the rocks and 
 trees, as they retreated up the mountain sides. We captured eighteen 
 horses, one of them a splendid gray which had belonged to General 
 McCook. We also wounded one of their men. We found a number of 
 
46 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 very good horses at a place a few miles away. The same night we 
 marched to Huntsville and camped. 
 
 August 1 4th Officers and men from the different companies started 
 North to recruit men to fill up our ranks. The command started back to 
 Woodville at i p. m. Camped at Flint river. 
 
 August 1 5th Started on the march at 6 a. m. We heard that 
 Gurley had gone to his plantation, and a detachment was sent back to 
 catch him if possible, but a thorough search failed to reveal any trace of 
 him. Reached camp at Woodville in the evening. 
 
 August 2Oth The dismounted men started at 5 a. m. for Decherd 
 for horses, going by the way of Stevenson, arriving at Decherd on the 
 21 st, where they remained until the balance of the Second and Third 
 Battalions came up. 
 
 August 26th The Second and Third Battalions having marched 
 through from Woodville, arrived at Decherd and camped near the station. 
 Rumors that Bragg had crossed the river at Chattanooga, and there was 
 a general movement of our army to be ready to check his advance as 
 soon as his plans could be discovered. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 BACK INTO KENTUCKY 
 
 After the evacuation of Corinth and the withdrawal of the rebel 
 army to Tupelo, General Beauregard was removed and General Bragg 
 placed in command. His army moving east, parallel to that of General 
 Buell, occupied Chattanooga, which was well known to be the 
 objective of the Union army. By the latter part of July it became evident 
 to our leaders that General Bragg had planned a campaign of his own 
 and for a time at least we should dance to his music. On August iQth 
 Bragg commenced to cross the Tennesse river at Chattanooga and points 
 above, and by the 22d his army was all on the north side ; but for several 
 days our leaders were in doubt as to his intentions. Was it northern 
 Alabama? Was it Nashville, or was it East Tennessee and Kentucky? 
 It proved to be the last. General Bragg had conceived the bold plan of 
 a concentrated movement of all the troops he could control in a rapid 
 movement into Kentucky. General Kirby Smith was sent from Knoxville 
 by the way of Cumberland Gap to join General Morgan. Forrest was to 
 move on our communications in middle Tennessee, and then northward 
 into Kentucky. Generals Price and VanDorn were to keep Generals 
 Grant and Rosecrans busy, or follow them if they undertook to reinforce 
 Buell, while Bragg himself, moving rapidly by the way of Sparta, crossed 
 the Cumberland river at Carthage, marched by the way of Scottsboro 
 
Back Into Kentucky. 47 
 
 and Glasgow, striking the Louisville & Nashville Railroad north of 
 Bowling Green, intended to form a junction with Kirby Smith, Morgan 
 and Forrest and take Louisville before Buell s army could intercept him. 
 It was a bold plan and had a fair prospect of success, his hopes being 
 based largely on the expected recruits that his armies would get as they 
 marched through Kentucky, but the people failed to respond to his appeals. 
 
 On the 22d of August General Buell was at Decherd gathering in 
 his army, General Thomas with his division was at McMinnville and 
 General Wood s division was near Manchester. As soon as General 
 Buell learned that Bragg was moving east of McMinnville he put his 
 army in motion for Nashville, by the way of Murfreesboro. 
 
 August 28th The Second and Third Battalions left Decherd guard 
 ing Buell s army wagon train on its way north, and as the guarding of 
 this wagon train was a new experience to us, a few words about wagon 
 trains in general, and this one in particular, may not be out of place. 
 
 Of all the duties that fell to a cavalryman s lot the one that he dis 
 liked above all others was guarding wagon trains. For if you knew where 
 you were going you never knew when you would get there, and when 
 it moved you didn t know how soon it would stop. And if it stopped 
 you didn t know how long it would be before it would start again. And 
 if at a halt you sat on your horse awhile expecting it to move, until both 
 you and your horse were tired and you dismounted for a rest, it would 
 at once move forward, and you could mount and move along at a snail s 
 pace. And so it was halt and move forward, halt and move forward, 
 interspersed with helping the wagons over the mountains, across the 
 streams, over bad places in the roads, from morning until night, and often 
 far into the night, and sometimes all night, before you reached camp and 
 could get your cup of coffee and lie down to rest. Buell s army train 
 when stretched on the road was almost twenty miles long. And when 
 it was on the march the rear of the train never got to camp until after 
 the advance had started out next day. We camped that night at 
 Shelbyville. 
 
 August 29th Moved out at 7 a. m. and camped at Murfreesboro at 
 night. We remained here until Sept. 7th. While at Murfreesboro we 
 were routed out one night soon after midnight and saddled up expecting 
 an attack. 
 
 September 7th We left Murfreesboro for Nashville, Company C as 
 rear guard. About noon some rebels came in sight, but did not attack us. 
 We marched all night. The heavens were bright with fires of burning 
 stores and buildings. Camped in the morning about 4 o clock, three miles 
 south of Nashville. 
 
 September 8th All sorts of rumors in camp. Reported that Cincin 
 nati had been taken by Kirby Smith. Reported that General Forrest was. 
 
48 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 near here with 3000 cavalry. We were saddled up ready to move at a 
 moment s notice. 
 
 September loth We left our camp at 3 a. m. Started north with 
 the wagon train. Went into camp Sept. nth at 3 a. m., having made 
 eleven miles in twenty-four hours.. After four hours rest in camp we 
 moved out at 7 a. m. Camped at Three Springs, twenty-four miles north 
 of Nashville. The advance found some rebs here and had a skirmish. 
 
 September i2th Our regiment was rear guard today. We marched 
 fifteen miles. 
 
 September i3th Passed through Franklin, Ky., and camped. 
 
 September i4th Left camp at 2 a. m. Reached Bowling Green be 
 fore noon. One man and four mules drowned in Cave river. 
 
 September i6th Ordered to saddle up and be ready to move at i 
 p. m. Did not leave camp until 5. Marched sixteen miles ; ran onto some 
 rebs and had a little skirmish near where we camped. 
 
 September I7th Drove in the rebel pickets; took some prisoners. 
 
 September i8th Met Mitchell s forces and went back with them 
 to Glasgow. Captured about 200 prisoners and five wagons loaded with 
 flour and meat, and some whisky. 
 
 September 2Oth Left Glasgow going in a northerly direction. As 
 we were coming in toward Cave City after dark, Company C in the 
 advance, we were fired on by the cavalry pickets of Rouseau s division. 
 They were from the Second Kentucky. They fired one volley and galloped 
 into camp. We followed them right in and gave them the merry ha ! ha ! 
 as we met them going back to their post. We camped at 1 1 p. m. 
 
 September 22 Marched north, forded Green river at Mumfords- 
 ville, the bridge being burned. Camped about two miles north of the 
 town. 
 
 September 23d Marched from Mumfordsville to Elizabethtown, 
 forty miles. Late when we went into camp ; the rebels one day s march 
 ahead of us. 
 
 September 25th Started out with the Fourth Ohio and Fifth Ken 
 tucky Cavalry Regiments. Marched to Millerstown, some thirty-five 
 miles, and camped. 
 
 September 26th Marched in a southeast direction ; roads very bad. 
 
 September 27th Got to Bowling Green turnpike and followed it to 
 Green river and camped. 
 
 September 28th Marched to Brownsville and found our old friends 
 of the wagon train waiting for us to escort them to the Ohio river. 
 
 September 2Qth We lay at Brownsville waiting until the wagon 
 train crossed Green river. For the next four days and nights we were 
 engaged in escorting the train to the Ohio river at West Point, at which 
 place we arrived in the afternoon of October 3d. In coming through we 
 
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 had avoided the main pike, keeping to the west, as the wagon train would 
 have been a valuable prize for the enemy, and it was thought best to keep 
 it as much as possible out of his way. 
 
 Colonel Zahm s report on bringing General Buell s army train from 
 Brownsville to the Ohio river : 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 
 Salt River, October 3, 1862 9 a. m. 
 COL. J. B. FRY, 
 
 Chief of Staff, Army of the Ohio : 
 
 I have the honor to report the arrival of the head of the train at this 
 place at 7:30 this a. m. I found your instructions here. In accordance 
 therewith I immediately had the train move forward for Louisville. They 
 are proceeding- finely; some 150 teams have crossed the river at this time. 
 I had divided the train into three sections. The first section will arrive 
 at Louisville tonight ; the second section will reach half way to Louisville ; 
 the third section will perhaps cross the river yet tonight. 
 
 This morning everything was in order throughout the train ; we had 
 not lost a dollar s worth of property, with the exception of a few broken- 
 down wagons, which we had to abandon. 
 
 I reached Handler s Ferry on the morning of the 27th ; found no 
 wagons there. My courier arrived in the evening; reported that the 
 wagons would cross at Brownsville. On the 28th I proceeded to Moores- 
 ville. On arrival there I found the head of the train in the act of cross 
 ing; some TOO teams had crossed. I found the coming up on the bank 
 of the river very bad and very slow getting up. 
 
 We crossed some 500 teams yet on the 28th. On the 2Qth worked 
 with a will ; kept repairing the roads ; kept two gangs of men ready with 
 a long rope and hook to help the teams up. By 6 o clock we had the 
 teams all across, some 1700 in number, all told. On the- morning of the 
 3Oth I set the train in motion in three different sections, with escort 
 properly distributed. We continued our march without any interruption 
 worth mentioning up to this time, over very rough, some places rocky 
 and hilly, roads. It was not possible to have made twenty-five miles per 
 day over the roads we had to come without breaking down one-half the 
 teams. We worked busily all the while ; kept going as far as the mules 
 could stand it to go. We managed to find plenty of feed and water at 
 our camping places for our stock; in fact everything appeared to move 
 off as well as could be wished for. I shall feel very thankful when the 
 rear of the train gets up, of which I think there will not be much doubt. 
 I do not ask it as a favor to shoulder such a responsibility very soon again. 
 I have never heard of a train moving of this large proportion. At 50 
 
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 feet to the team, which is a small space for them to travel, it made a 
 column of over seventeen miles in length, besides the brigade of cavalry 
 occupying nearly another mile. On the pike I could have made twenty- 
 five miles per day easier than fifteen miles per day the way I came. Up to 
 this point I averaged a daily march of twenty miles and over. 
 
 On my arrival here I received your instructions to move to Shep- 
 herdsville with my brigade, and to let the train proceed on to Louisville 
 without an escort. As the rear of the train will not be up before night, 
 I shall not be able to move to Shepherdsville before tomorrow morning. 
 I was in hopes that we would be allowed to move on to Louisville to give 
 us a little rest, as both men and horses are very much worked down from 
 hard labor performed for four weeks back, and to give us an opportunity 
 to fit out the command in good shape again. As we are now we are in 
 a poor condition to move against the enemy. 
 
 At least one-third of my men (Third Ohio) are dismounted, the 
 horses having sore backs and given out otherwise on these long, hard 
 trips of late. The horses we have on hand are very much jaded and 
 fatigued. Then the command is without haversacks and canteens ; in a 
 great measure many out of clothing. We likewise need more horse equip 
 ments of all kinds and arms, as owing to the want of transportation we 
 had to turn over these articles, as fast as they accumulated, at Savannah, 
 Pittsburg Landing, Tuscumbia, etc., having a good many more sick in 
 Nashville, Savannah, before Corinth who had entered the hospitals or 
 w r ere sent home on sick leave who had to leave their arms with the 
 command. A large number of these convalescents have returned and are 
 without arms, horses, or horse equipments. With the other two regi 
 ments, the Fourth Ohio and Fifth Kentucky, it is about the same thing. 
 On the whole, as stated above, we are rather in a bad shape to make a 
 forced march. Another thing which I hoped to have brought about : My 
 regiment has now seven months pay due them ; both officers and men 
 need money very much, which I had hoped would be paid them on arrival 
 at Louisville, where they would have forwarded it to their families. 
 
 As for myself I am about worn-out and nearly down sick from the 
 hard labors and exposures subjected to for the past month. Our trans 
 portation needs repairing very much before going on again with it. The 
 same is scattered. One part of it, which was left at Nashville, is now 
 moving with this train to Louisville ; one part of it. which we left at 
 Elizabethtown before going southward, I am not aware of its where 
 abouts ; each part of the same has men and horses with it. Our property 
 is scattered throughout the three parts of our transportation. Then again 
 my men ought to have their overcoats, which they had to pack up at 
 Tuscumbia ; where they were sent to I know not. Nights are getting 
 wet and cool, and men doing picket duty need their overcoats. 
 
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 I wish you would consider these matters. Send any further instruc 
 tions by my courier that you may have for me. He will return tonight. 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 LEWIS ZAHM, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 October 4th We moved up Salt river to Shepherdsville and 
 remained one day resting in camp. 
 
 October 6th Moved to Taylorsville, and the next day we marched 
 to Shelbyville. 
 
 October 8th Marched to Frankfort, the state capital, where we 
 found a small force of the enemy. Had a skirmish ; one man of the 
 Fourth Ohio killed and several wounded ; lay on our arms in line of 
 battle all night. We remained at Frankfort until the nth, when we 
 moved to Lawrenceburg, and on the I3th to Harrodsburg. 
 
 October I4th We marched to Danville. 
 
 LEXINGTON 
 
 October i6th The Third Battalion, under Major Seidel, and a 
 detachment of the Fourth Ohio, under Captain Robie, started out in the 
 afternoon with orders to go to camp Dick Robinson to guard some 
 commissary stores that had been abandoned by the rebels in their retreat. 
 Arriving at the camp we found a regiment of Union troops in charge of 
 the stores. We went into camp and Major Seidel sent out a patrol. When 
 they returned they brought in two men mounted and in Federal uniform, 
 who claimed to be Federal officers, but their answers to questions put to 
 them were not entirely satisfactory, and so they were placed under guard. 
 The next morning we started for Lexington, arriving early in the after 
 noon. The Union people gave us an ovation as we entered the town. 
 Their houses were decorated with the Stars and Stripes, and they were 
 in their door yards and on the sidewalks waving handkerchiefs and flags 
 and cheering us as we passed. We had not seen such a demonstration 
 since leaving Ohio. When we reached Lexington we found another 
 detachment of the Fourth Ohio camped in Court House square, and 
 Major Seidel marched his command out on the Richmond pike about two 
 miles and went into camp at Ashland, the homestead of Henry Clay. 
 
 The two prisoners captured at Camp Dick Robinson were left in 
 charge of the men camped at the court house. 
 
 Our camp was in a fine grove of native forest trees on the south side 
 of the road, and a short distance east of the Clay mansion. A strong post 
 and rail fence was between the road and the camp ground, and the only 
 entrance, a gateway through which we marched by two s. Our pickets 
 were posted about half a mile from camp, and in the evening Major Seidel 
 
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 sent Lieutenant Hall with Company K out to patrol the road in the direc 
 tion of Richmond. Soon after midnight Lieutenant Hall sent in under 
 guard two white men and a negro. The men were officers in Morgan s 
 command and for disclosing their identity the negro was shot after we 
 had been captured. As the night passed, Major Seidel became uneasy 
 and anxious, not hearing anything further from his patrol. He realized 
 that we ought to get out, but disliked to abandon his men. Towards 
 morning he sent word to Major Robie to saddle and be ready to move out 
 at a moment s notice. Just as the dawn of day appeared in the east the 
 firing of our pickets alarmed the camp, and as the firing continued we knew 
 that it meant an attack. Major Seidel believed we ought to mount and 
 retreat to Lexington or beyond, but Captain Robie, without consultation, 
 marched his men, dismounted to the east end of the park, formed into 
 line of battle and commenced firing. Major Seidel coming into position 
 with the Third, we opened with our carbines on the enemy who could 
 now be plainly seen just coming over a ridge within easy rifle range, firing 
 as they advanced. It was now plainly evident that we had overwhelming 
 odds to contend with. That long line coming down the slope would soon 
 envelop us and we fell back to our horses, intending to retreat toward 
 Lexington. We had only just reached our horses, however, when we 
 were confronted by another force of Confederate cavalry advancing upon 
 us from the direction of Lexington, and to complete our discomfiture, a 
 regiment came charging down the road from the direction of Richmond, 
 in column of fours. As they came opposite to our position, they fired a 
 volley into our confused and broken ranks, Morgan s battery at the same 
 time coming into position and sending a few shells in our direction. Mor 
 gan was there with the goods, and like Davy Crocket s coon, we con 
 cluded it was best to come down, so we surrendered. We were marched 
 to the Clay mansion and paroled, Morgan taking our horses, arms and 
 most of our personal belongings. We marched down through Lexington, 
 but there were no Stars and Stripes floating. A few Confederate flags 
 were displayed, however. We marched to Frankfort and there took the 
 cars for Columbus, by the way of Louisville and Indianapolis. We re 
 mained at Columbus until we were exchanged, when we returned to the 
 regiment early in 1863. 
 
 In regard to the number of men in the engagement at Lexington, 
 the Third had in the fight six officers and 78 men ; total, 84. They had 
 four killed and 80 wounded and prisoners. 
 
 The Fourth had four officers and 206 men; total, 210 wounded and 
 prisoners. As a part of the Fourth was in Lexington and took no 
 part in the fight, we had not to exceed 250 officers and men in the fight. 
 The Confederates say their force was 1800. It probably exceeded 3000. 
 We do not know what their loss was. Among their killed was Major 
 
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 Morgan, a cousin of the general. As no record of our wounded was kept 
 in either the Third or Fourth Regiments we have no means of knowing 
 the number of wounded. 
 
 On the night of the i8th Major Seidel returned to Danville and re 
 ported what he had learned while held a prisoner in Morgan s house, in 
 regard to Morgan s contemplated movements, after which he went to 
 Camp Chase and remained until exchanged. 
 
 Report of Major Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio Cavalry, of Skirmish Near 
 
 Lexington. 
 
 DANVILLE, October 19, 1862. 
 
 SIR : In compliance to orders I received from your headquarters to 
 go to Camp Dick Robinson and take charge of the provisions left there 
 by the rebel forces I left camp on the i6th of October at 2 p. m., and 
 arrived at Camp Dick Robinson at 5 p. m., finding Colonel Hoskins in 
 charge of those stores, consisting of 2600 barrels of pork and 2000 bushels 
 of wheat. Went into camp at Dick Robinson with intention to return 
 the following morning to Danville. At n o clock of same night I re 
 ceived a message from Colonel Hoskins of the approach of General Mor 
 gan with 500 men strong toward Hickman Bridge with intention to burn 
 said bridge, and recommending one battalion of my forces to be imme 
 diately dispatched to Hickman Bridge to prevent it from being burned 
 by General Morgan s forces. This I complied with, by sending one bat 
 talion of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry under command of Captain 
 Robie. 
 
 The next morning (October I7th) at 5 o clock I started with the 
 balance of my command, consisting of one battalion Third Ohio Vol 
 unteer Cavalry, to join Captain Robie at said bridge. On my arrival here 
 I learned that Captain Gotwald, commanding four companies of Fourth 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, had left Nicholasville for Lexington to drive 
 a portion of Morgan s cavalry forces from that vicinity to prevent their 
 pilage and burning of bridges. I then, knowing that Captain Gotwald 
 could not accomplish his object with the force under his command, went 
 with all the force under my command, numbering in all 260 men, to re- 
 enforce him, which I accomplished by 3 o clock of same day. Finding 
 Captain Gotwald with his force stationed in town, I then went into camp 
 one and one-half miles from Lexington on the Richmond pike. 
 
 At i o clock the same night two citizens living about seven miles from 
 Lexington came in with the following statement, viz. : Morgan s forces 
 of about 500 or 600 men were advacing on the Richmond pike. I im 
 mediately sent out a scouting party of 22 men, under command of Lieu 
 tenant Hall, Company K. Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, to procure all 
 possible information. At about 3 o clock one corporal and two privates 
 
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 returned with two rebel prisoners in charge, captured about five miles 
 from Lexington on the Richmond pike. The balance of the scouting 
 party marched on. On questioning said prisoners I became satisfied that 
 a heavy force was coming upon us. I therefore called out my command 
 immediately and formed in line, when we were attacked by General Mor 
 gan s forces of about 3000 strong and six pieces of artillery pouring in 
 most deadly volleys of musketry and grape on all sides. My command 
 most manfully and gallantly returned their fire and fought them hand to 
 hand until overpowered by an overwhelming force, when we were com 
 pelled to surrender. Our loss was four killed and 24 wounded. 
 
 The loss of the enemy I was unable to ascertain, but saw three 
 wagons of killed and wounded leave the battle ground. Major Morgan, 
 of General Morgan s cavalry, was mortally wounded. The scouting party 
 have not been heard from. As a large rebel force left the scene of action 
 in pursuit of them fears are entertained that all have been captured. 
 
 Much credit is due to Captain Robie, of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer 
 Cavalry, for his cool and gallant behavior during the fight. Capatain P. 
 H. Warner, Company D ; Lieutenant H. Hamilton, Company A, and 
 Lieutenant W. E. Crane, Company C, (Fourth) Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 
 having left the command on the evening previous without permission and 
 remained in town all night, and have not reported themselves yet. 
 
 The greatest credit is due to all officers and men. 
 
 Most respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 CHARLES B. SEIDEL, 
 Major, Commanding Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 COLONEL ZAHM. 
 
 [Indorsement.] 
 
 Respectfully forwarded, with the addition that the four companies 
 of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry stationed at Lexington, under 
 command of Captain Gotwald, have surrendered likewise. Have had no 
 official reports from him. 
 
 LEWIS ZAHM, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 MOVEMENTS OF THE FIRST BATTALION 
 1862 
 
 On July Qth, when the Second and Third Battalions left Mooresville, 
 Alabama, to go to Woodville, the First Battalion, in command of Major 
 Foster, moved with Wood s Division northward into Tennessee. Passing 
 through Fayettville, they arrived at Shelbyville with the wagon train 
 July 1 5th. On the i6th they escorted the wagon train out on the Mur- 
 
Movement of the First Battalion. 55 
 
 freesboro pike, and left at 10 p. m. for Fayetteville. On the i8th they 
 marched to Wartrace. From there they moved to Winchester, where 
 they went into camp. They were kept busy doing- picket duty, scouting 
 and foraging. On July 28th a foraging party captured 87 head of beef 
 cattle that were being driven to Chattanooga for the rebel army. 
 
 August I4th they broke camp at Winchester and marched to within 
 six miles of Manchester and camped. 
 
 August 1 5th Reveille at 4 a. m. ; moved out at 5. Marched to Man 
 chester and camped in a piece of woods south of the town. 
 
 August 1 6th A detachment went out on a scout; went to Beach 
 Grove ; returned to camp at i a. m. 
 
 August 1 7th Reveille sounded at 3 a. m. Moved out at 5. Marched 
 about 12 miles towads Vervilla. Camped at noon near some fine springs 
 of water on campmeeting grounds. 
 
 August 2Oth Moved to Vervilla and camped. 
 
 August 2 ist A detachment of the Third and Eighth companies of 
 the Fifteenth Indiana Infantry went out in the mountains after guerrillas. 
 They went to Altamont and captured about 20 doubtful citizens. Re 
 turning they camped at the foot of the mountain. Company M went with 
 the wagon train to Beech Grove after forage. 
 
 August 22d Returned to camp. 
 
 August 24th Started out at i a. m. Marched to McMinnville. 
 Stopped to feed and rest our horses and then started toward Decherd. 
 Camped after dark. 
 
 August 26th Wood s Division moved to Vervilla. Companies B and 
 H went as rear guard. 
 
 August 27th Started out at 5 a. m. Marched to Hickory Creek, two 
 and one-fourth miles south of McMinnville, and camped. 
 
 August 29th Started at 5 a. m. Passed through McMinnville, and 
 left the infantry at the foot of the mountain. The cavalry, under Major 
 Foster, went up and to within five miles of Dunlap. He drove in the 
 rebel pickets, captured five prisoners and five horses, returned to the 
 foot of the mountain and camped with the infantry. 
 
 August 3Oth On the march early ; passed through McMinnville. 
 We went into camp about 5 p. m. 
 
 September 2d Division moved out at 5 130 a. m. Cavalry rear 
 guard camped at Young s tannery. 
 
 September 3d Foraging. 
 
 September 4th Started soon after sunrise. Passed through Brady- 
 ville ; captured three prisoners ; arrived at Readyville at 10 p. m. and 
 went into camp. 
 
 September 5th We were late in getting started, the road being 
 blockaded with wagons. Our column, delayed on that account, arrived at 
 
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 Murfreesboro a little before noon. We camped near a spring and found 
 the Second and Third Battalions were also there. 
 
 September 6th Started early and passed through Lavergne. Drew 
 up in line and waited for General Wood to come up. Marched to Nash 
 ville and camped at the fair grounds. 
 
 September 7th Started at n a. m. Crossed the Cumberland river 
 on the railroad bridge, marched out six miles and camped. 
 
 September 8th Moved out at sunrise, passed through Saundersville 
 and camped about four miles from Gallatin. The battalion went about 
 two miles beyond Gallatin on the Lebanon pike; returned to camp late. 
 
 September Qth On the march early, Company L in advance, Com 
 pany H rear guard for the Division. Found the stockade at Gallatin 
 evacuated. Country rough and water scarce ; men and horses suffered 
 from thirst. Camped on a stream of water about twelve miles south of 
 Franklin, Kentucky. 
 
 September loth Started at 4 a. m. Came up with the wagon train 
 at Mitchelville. W r e left the pike and got past the train before we reached 
 Franklin. Stopped at Franklin to rest. Camped at Nichols. Company 
 H ordered to Bowling Green ; marched at 7 p. m. ; passed through Wood- 
 burn ; arrived at Bowling Green at 10 p. m. and camped on the old camp 
 ground of the spring before. 
 
 September nth Moved up and camped west of town. 
 
 September I7th Started soon after sunrise, formed in line of battle 
 five miles north of Bowling Green, moved forward, struck the rebel 
 cavalry and commenced driving them before us. At 3 p. m. we camped. 
 Water was very scarce; it commenced to rain about 5 o clock. The 
 wagons did not come up and we had no supper. 
 
 September i8th The Division marched at sunrise. The First Bat 
 talion in advance of the column found the rebels in our front and com 
 menced driving them ; drove them a mile north of Cave City, skirmishing 
 constantly as we advanced. We found some seventy wounded in the town 
 and captured 400 prisoners, a number of horses, some arms and equip 
 ments. 
 
 September igth Formed in line of battle the First Battalion on the 
 right of a section of artillery, the cavalry in front sheltered by woods; 
 the woods in our rear occupied by our infantry. The prisoners taken at 
 Mumfordsville passed through our lines on their way to Buell s head 
 quarters. After they had passed through our skirmishers were called in 
 and pickets posted and the troops fell back to draw rations and rest. 
 
 September 2ist In the saddle before daylight. General Thomas sent 
 the First Battalion in the advance. We came up with the rebel cavalry 
 a short distance beyond our pickets, and commenced skirmishing with 
 them and drove them before us for about nine miles until they reached 
 
Movement of the First Battalion. 57 
 
 Mumfordsville. Here they took a strong position behind some buildings 
 on a rise of ground south of the river. We dismounted and attempted to 
 dislodge them, but after fighting for an hour, we concluded their position 
 was too strong for us and we waited for the infantry to come up. As 
 soon as they arrived they formed in line and charged, driving the enemy 
 from their position and out of Mumfordsville. The enemy lost three 
 officers and eighteen men killed, and fifty wounded and prisoners. One 
 of the officers killed was Lieutenant Colonel Brown, of the First Alabama 
 Cavalry. We encamped south of the town. 
 
 September 22d Started early, Wolford s cavalry in the advance, 
 crossed Green river and before noon crossed Bacon creek, driving the 
 enemy before us and taking a number of prisoners. Some artillery 
 skirmishing in front. Two of our men killed. Pushed on to Elizabeth- 
 town, where we halted and fed our horses then marched about eight miles, 
 towards Louisville, and camped. 
 
 September 23d Marched to West Point and camped at the mouth 
 of Salt river. The enemy had left our front. 
 
 September 24th Moved out in the rear of Crittenden s wagon train. 
 Camped on the bank of the Ohio river. Late in the evening a rumor 
 came that Louisville was attacked and we saddled up and were ready to 
 move in five minutes, but had to wait for Crittenden s Division to pass. 
 Stopped south of the city and lay down to rest. 
 
 September 25th Moved late in the afternoon; camped west of the 
 city. 
 
 September 26th Went out on a reconnaissance seven miles toward 
 Shepherdsville ; returned and camped about two miles south of the city. 
 
 September 2Qth We received some recruits, just arrived from Ohio. 
 
 October ist Moved out at 8 a. m. ; marched southward about ten 
 miles. 
 
 October 2d Advanced five or six miles further south. Skirmishing 
 in front. 
 
 October 3d Companies B and H went off to the left to reconnoiter ; 
 found no enemy. Camped on Salt river ; found the bridge burned ; skir 
 mishing in front. 
 
 October 4th Started out early, without breakfast. Wood s division 
 of infantry and about 350 cavalry, the First Battalion of the Third Ohio, 
 six companies of the First Ohio, and two companies of the Second Ken 
 tucky. The cavalry in the advance. We marched through Fairfield, 
 struck the pike near the fair grounds north of Bardstown. Captain 
 Flannagan, in a linen duster and armed with a double barreled shotgun, 
 had command of the advance guard. As we were moving toward the 
 pike the advance came to some rebel pickets and commenced skirmish 
 ing with them, capturing two Texan rangers. The command formed into 
 
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 line, advancing toward the pike and opposite to the fair grounds. As we 
 moved forward about 3 p. m. a squad of rebels appeared to the left, 
 moving toward Bardstown. Captain Flannagan and the advance guard 
 gave chase, following them down the pike. As our line moved forward 
 General Wharton s division of cavalry (which was entirely concealed from 
 our view by the high board fence of the fair grounds), moving in column 
 by the left flank, came around north of the fair grounds at a gallop, and 
 charged, overwhelming our small force, breaking our line and throwing 
 it into confusion. Captain Flannagan came charging back much faster 
 than he went, the tails of his linen duster streaming in the air. In the 
 mixup and geta\vay we lost forty-two of our men, who were captured, 
 while we took thirty-nine of the enemy prisoners. Our infantry was only 
 about half a mile in the rear, but could not assist us in the scrimmage. 
 Our men who were captured were taken to Springfield and paroled about 
 3 a. m. of the 5th, returning to our lines the same day and going on to 
 the paroled camp at Columbus, Ohio, to await exchange. The division 
 moved on through Bardstown, Springfield and Lebanon, to Perryville, 
 where it was engaged in the battle of the 8th on the right wing of the 
 army. After the battle it moved to Danville. On the night of the I4th 
 it moved out at midnight, and engaged the enemy at Stanford at daylight 
 on the morning of the I5th, following to Crab Orchard. The latter part 
 of October the cavalry was ordered to Lebanon to refit and the infantry 
 was ordered to concentrate at Bowling Green. 
 
 October 3Oth General Buell was superseded by General Rosecrans, 
 who took command of the army, which was designated by the govern 
 ment as the Fourteenth Army Corps. This designation very soon gave 
 place to the more popular and appropriate one The Army of the Cum 
 berland. 
 
 November 3d The cavalry arrived at Bowling Green and the next 
 day the infantry was ordered to move to Nashville. The Confederate 
 army concentrated at Murfreesboro. Immediately on assuming command 
 General Rosecrans proceeded to reorganize the army. All the cavalry 
 was placed under the command of General D. S. Stanley, who organized 
 it into brigades. Ours was the Second Brigade, Second Division. It 
 was composed of the First, Third and Fourth Ohio Cavalry Regiments, 
 and was commanded by Colonel Zahm. 
 
 November 8th Zahm s brigade moved on Gallatin, and driving out 
 Morgan s division, captured some twenty prisoners. The cavalry remained 
 in position north of the Cumberland river, occupying Hartsville, Gallatin, 
 Fountain Head, and Franklin, until Nov. i/th, when Colonel Kennett, 
 commanding the division, moved from Hartsville, crossed the Cumberland 
 river and took position south of Nashville. 
 
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 November 27th The division under Colonel Kennett went out on the 
 Franklin pike, encountered a force of the enemy and routed them, driving 
 them fifteen miles. He captured a number of prisoners and horses. 
 
 December nth General Stanley with a strong force of cavalry went 
 out on the Franklin pike, the First division in the advance ; marched 
 within four miles of Franklin and bivouacked for the night. 
 
 December i2th Moved forward at daylight, attacked the enemy, 
 driving them. Killed one officer and four men, captured twelve prisoners 
 and a large number of horses, wagons and supplies. Returned to camp 
 at night. The regiment camped on the Nolensville pike about three 
 miles from Nashville. 
 
 December I4th The division reviewed by General Stanley. During 
 the month of December the regiment was constantly engaged scouting, 
 doing picket duty and foraging. We were compelled to get forage for our 
 animals from the country most of the time. While at Nashville we were 
 obliged to go long distances, and take strong guards with the trains. 
 Very frequently the foraging parties were attacked and our men had a 
 number of skirmishes on these occasions. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 THE BATTLE OF STONE RIVER 
 
 December 25th We had received orders to pack up and after we 
 were all ready to move the orders were countermanded, and the brigade 
 wagon train with a strong guard was sent out after forage. The train 
 was attacked by the enemy s cavalry, who captured two wagons and eight 
 men of the Fourth Ohio. The remainder of the wagons were brought in 
 safely, loaded with forage. 
 
 December 26th Orders to send all camp equipage to the city ; to 
 take no wagons only such as were necessary to carry rations and ammu 
 nition. Zahm s brigade moved out on the Franklin pike. It was a 
 rainy, disagreeable day ; skirmishing in front most of the afternoon. The 
 enemy made a stand about half a mile from Franklin. Colonel Zahm 
 formed his lines, threw out skirmishers, and moved forward, driving the 
 enemy, when the Third Ohio was ordered forward, charging through the 
 town and driving the enemy several miles beyond, when darkness stopped 
 the pursuit. A number of the enemy were killed and wounded. We 
 captured some prisoners, also a number of arms, horses and mules. We 
 returned to camp late at night. 
 
 December 27th The brigade advanced toward Triune. One bat 
 talion of the Third Ohio sent to Franklin found the enemy in the town ; 
 
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 attacked them, but were unable to drive them out; rejoined command in 
 the evening. 
 
 December 28th The brigade moved forward to Triune ; met with 
 no opposition. 
 
 December 2Qth Moved forward toward Murfreesboro. Found the 
 enemy s pickets ; they fell back as we approached. Encountered the rebel 
 cavalry, driving them several miles to the protection of their infantry and 
 artillery supports. At night we fell back some distance and camped. 
 
 December 3Oth Advanced toward Murfreesboro, skirmishing with 
 the enemy s cavalry all day. Lay on our arms in line of battle all night. 
 Everything indicated that we were in the immediate presence of the main 
 rebel army and that a great battle was imminent, and could not be delayed 
 much longer. 
 
 December 3ist We were early astir and in line, waiting for reports 
 from the patrol sent out in our front. It was scarcely daylight when the 
 sound of artillery and infantry firing off to our left and front brought 
 the tidings that the battle had commenced. The roar of cannon and the 
 rattle of musketry was terrific, showing that on one side or the other a 
 desperate assault was being made, and we soon learned that it was the 
 enemy that had commenced the attack, and that the troops on the right 
 of the Union lines were being driven from their position, closely pursued 
 by their victorious enemy. We were compelled to fall back to prevent 
 being cut off by the enemy. At this point the ammunition train of 
 General McCook was in great danger of being captured, when the Third 
 Ohio was raillied for its protection, and repelling the repeated assaults 
 of the enemy, held them at bay until the wagons moved out to a place of 
 safety. 
 
 As we came up to the Murfreesboro pike we found the rebels had 
 attacked another of our wagon trains, the regiment driving off the enemy 
 and saving the train. The fighting on this part of the line continued until 
 nightfall, but the enemy was unable to drive us any further, although they 
 made frequent attempts to do so. The day s battle closed with the right 
 of the Union army occupying a position parallel to the railroad and Nash 
 ville pike and at right angles to that held when the battle commenced. 
 
 January ist The brigade started with a large train of wagons for 
 Nashville. A short distance west of La Vergne we were attacked by 
 General Wheeler s division of cavalry, who made several desperate 
 attempts to stampede and capture the train, but were finally driven off 
 with considerable loss. We arrived in Nashville late at night, remaining 
 at Nashville one day, and on the 3d started for Murfreesboro in charge 
 of the train. We were again attacked by Wheeler near La Vergne, who 
 was again repulsed with loss. Arrived at Murfreesboro soon after mid 
 night, Jan. 4th. While we had been absent at Nashville the undecisive 
 
The Battle of Stone River. 61 
 
 battle of the 3ist had been renewed. On Jan. ist, 1863, neither com 
 mander was desirous of renewing the conflict. Each was in hopes that 
 the other would retreat. January 2d the conflict was renewed in the 
 afternoon, but this time it was between the left wing of the Union army 
 and the right of the Confederates the advantage being on the side 
 of the Union army. Bragg thought it prudent to withdraw. This was 
 the first battlefield, in the West at least, where the Union cavalry had been 
 used in large bodies. The Confederates had had the advantage of us in 
 that they had consolidated their cavalry so that they were able to use 
 it with effect, while the Union cavalry had been scattered in small bodies, 
 and never were strong enough to accomplish any great results heretofore. 
 But under the new order of things they proved themselves the equals of 
 the Confederates in this arm of the service. The losses of the brigade, the 
 First, Third and Fourth Ohio Regiments, at Stone s River were killed, 
 18; wounded, 44; missing, 59; total, 121. Among the killed were Colonel 
 Milliken and Major Moore of the First Ohio. 
 
 When General Bragg was forced back out of Kentucky he knew that 
 the Union army would in all probability be concentrated at Nashville, 
 which had been successfully held by the Union troops against the Con 
 federate forces under General Breckenridge during Bragg s invasion. He 
 had therefore selected Murfreesboro as the most available point for the 
 concentration of his army from which to threaten Nashville, and block the 
 way of the advance of the Union army toward Chattanooga. The Battle 
 of Murfreesboro had been the result, and General Bragg had been forced 
 to retire, leaving the Union army in possession of the field. The annals 
 of the war do not record a more stubbornly contested battle, the contesting 
 armies being of nearly equal strength. General Rosecrans marched out 
 from Nashville to give battle. General Bragg selected the ground upon 
 which to fight. Each commander had his own plan of battle, and singu 
 larly enough the two plans were entirely similar. The plans involved the 
 massing of troops on the left flank of the battle line of each army ; an 
 attack by the left, followed up along the line from left to right, the right 
 holding its position as a pivot while the army made its right wheel, forcing 
 its opponent back and getting possession of his line of communications. 
 On the morning of the 3ist of December General Bragg took the initiative 
 and made a fierce attack on the right wing of our army, and it was soon 
 evident that here was the point where Bragg was going to force the fight 
 ing. The Confederate left extended far beyond our right, which was 
 compelled to fall back to prevent the enemy from getting in their rear. 
 Slowly and stubbornly contesting every foot of ground, the right wing 
 was driven back until they reached the Nashville pike and railroad, occu 
 pying a position at right angles with the one they held in the morning 
 when the battle commenced. The left and center had held their ground. 
 
6 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Two assaults were made by the enemy on our right wing in their new 
 position along the Nashville pike, but they were repulsed. January ist r 
 1863, was spent by the Union army in strengthening their position. On 
 the 2d Bragg determined to drive back our left, but his attempt only 
 resulted in the loss of about 2000 of his best troops, therefore he 
 determined it was best to retreat. He fell back to Tullahoma, his right 
 occupying Manchester, and his left strongly posted at Shelbyville with 
 cavalry on his right at McMinnville and on his left at Franklin and 
 Columbia. 
 
 Reports of Col. Lewis Zahm, Third Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 Brigade, including skirmishes at Franklin, December 26-27, Wilkin 
 son s Cross-Roads, December 29, Overall s Creek, December 31, La 
 Vergne, January i, Cox s Hill, January 3, and on Shelbyville Pike, 
 January 5. 
 
 HDQRS. 2D CAV. BRIG., IN CAMP ON WILSON S PIKE, 
 
 NEAR NOLENSVILLE CROSSING, December 27, 1862. 
 GENERAL: In compliance with orders received, I moved from our 
 old camp at Nashville yesterday morning at 8 o clock with the First, Third, 
 and Fourth Ohio Cavalry Regiments, 950 strong in all. I crossed over 
 on the Franklin pike, south of General Thomas headquarters, as I after 
 ward learned. I passed the immense trains and troops on the Franklin 
 pike, beyond Brentwood. I halted my command, as I had not seen 
 General Thomas yet. I supposed he was on the move with the troops 
 in front. I kept inquiring along the column, and was told that he was 
 in the advance. I proceeded myself on the Wilson Creek pike some two 
 miles, almost to the head of the column, but then learning from General 
 Rousseau that General Thomas was in the rear, I immediately started 
 back some six miles ; there ascertaining that General Thomas had cut 
 across the country to the Nolensville pike, I thought further pursuit 
 would be useless. I started back to join my command and to carry out 
 the remainder of my instructions. I proceeded to Franklin ; encountered 
 the enemy s pickets two and a half miles out ; drove them in. Skirmishing 
 continued until within half a mile of Franklin, when a sharp skirmish 
 ensued, we driving the rebels. They then made another halt in town. I 
 dismounted some six companies to act as skirmishers on foot ; came round 
 on both flanks with mounted skirmishers, and their reserves finally 
 charged through the river into town, where some considerable firing 
 ensued ; drove the rebels out ; drove them some two miles beyond town ; 
 the lateness of the day prevented further pursuit, for by this time it began 
 to be dark. The enemy was taken by surprise ; could not get their forces 
 together before we were upon them ; therefore made it rather an easy task 
 
The Battle of Stone River. 63 
 
 to drive them, as they were in several directions, formed several lines, 
 but as we advanced and fired they invariably fled. We took ten prisoners, 
 one of them a lieutenant of General Bragg s escort, who was there on 
 business with sixteen men. We captured a private of the same escort. 
 We captured that number of horses, several mules, some shotguns, from 
 the best information received, I made out the force to have been about 
 900, consisting of Colonel Smith s regiment and an independent battalion. 
 I shall send the prisoners to Nashville this morning. 
 
 I learned that quite a force of infantry and artillery were nine miles 
 out of Franklin, on the road leading to Murfreesboro. I arrived in 
 camp here at nearly 9 o clock last evening; reported to General Rousseau, 
 in the absence of General Thomas. We learned that the enemy had quite 
 a force at Triune, some ten miles south of this. General Rousseau and 
 myself came to the conclusion to use my brigade today in reconnoitering 
 the front and right, until further orders could be received from you. I 
 shall therefore send some 500 men toward Petersburg and Triune to 
 reconnoiter; shall likewise send a smaller force over toward Franklin, to 
 ascertain whether the enemy has come back again or not. My force 
 will be back in camp toward evening ; will remain here and picket Wilson s 
 Creek pike, as instructed, until your further orders are received. 
 
 I forgot to mention that we killed three of the enemy ; could not 
 ascertain the number of wounded ; must have wounded some in proportion 
 to the killed. My command behaved nobly, both officers and men. 
 
 The Third Ohio Cavalry had the advance, and did the principal part 
 of the fighting; there was no flinch to them ; they moved steadily onward, 
 and finally made the charge through town. 
 
 I am, General, your obedient servant, 
 
 LEWIS ZAHM, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 GENERAL STANLEY, 
 
 Commanding Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 NASHVILLE, TENN., January 2, 1863 n o clock. 
 GENERAL: I have the honor to report that, at 9 a. m. yesterday, I 
 proceeded with the Third Ohio Cavalry and the Anderson Troop, as 
 directed, forward to guard the trains in motion on the road to Nashville. 
 I took up every train in front of me which was in motion. At Stewart s 
 Creek I found the Third Division train just putting out. It detained me 
 about one hour ; at the same time I learned that a heavy cavalry force 
 was to the left of me. I ordered the train to proceed at a brisk walk. 
 We moved on until we arrived at La Vergne ; the train had passed the flats 
 at La Vergne, myself and command resting on the flat, when my flankers 
 
64: History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 discovered the enemy to our left and engaged him. I immediately turned 
 into the field, formed line of battle, and dispatched orderlies to the front 
 to move the train on a trot. 
 
 The enemy formed; then ensued skirmishing with the skirmishers. 
 The enemy formed a new line, which I counteracted ; kept him at bay 
 ready to receive their charge ; they, however, declined to charge wheeled 
 in column of fours, moved to the left of our train and forward around 
 a hill in front and to the left of the road, with the intention of headr 
 ing off the train. By this time the rear of the train was half a mile 
 ahead of us. I immediately followed the train ; sent flankers at a rapid 
 pace toward the front to watch and engage the enemy if approaching. 
 The enemy did not succeed in heading the train. 
 
 After proceeding about two miles further, discovered the enemy 
 charging up the pike on our rear. I met them and repulsed them. They 
 charged again. I repulsed them again, charged them back for two miles, 
 scattered them, killed nine, wounded eleven, and took two prisoners. I 
 had a few men slightly wounded. After this they troubled my train no 
 more. Not a wagon fell into their hands ahead of the escort. Some 
 four or five wagons broke down, which we left and destroyed. The 
 enemy s forces were Wheeler s brigade, with two pieces of artillery, which 
 they played upon us pretty lively. A short time before we were attacked 
 a large number of the Second Tennessee came running by my column, 
 running away from the front, stating that our forces were in full retreat. 
 I placed a company in the road, halted every one of them, but at the 
 breaking out of the skirmish they ran again like sheep. I am sorry 
 to say that the Anderson Troop, with very few exceptions, as the enemy 
 charged us in the rear, scampered off in most every direction ; did not 
 stand up to the work at all ; the contrary, caused, together with the 
 negroes, Second Tennessee, all running, somewhat of a stampede among 
 the wagons, which caused the few break-downs above mentioned. 
 
 I arrived here at 9 p. m. Found no forage for horses. Sent out a 
 train after forage this morning, so it will be 5 o clock this p. m. before 
 our horses will get a mouthful to eat. Since 3 o clock yesterday morning 
 they have labored very hard, and consequently are not fit for any service 
 today. Both horses and men are very much used up. 
 
 I am awaiting further orders. I have ordered the Anderson Troop 
 to report to me early this morning, but they have not done so up to this 
 time. They are very much demoralized. In any work for me to do, I 
 ask you to please not to count them as being any help to me. I would 
 sooner do without them. 
 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 LEWIS ZAHM, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 GENERAL STANLEY, 
 
 Commanding Cavalry. 
 
MAJOR OLIVER M. BROWN 
 
 DR. CHA. O. BROWN 
 
 MEMBER OF THE HISTORY COMMITTEE 
 
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 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 IN CAMP NEAR MURFREESBORO, TENN., January 6, 1863. 
 
 LIEUTENANT: I herewith have the honor to report the part taken 
 and the work performed by my brigade since our departure from Nashville 
 until the close of the battle before Murfreesboro. 
 
 I left Nashville on the morning of the 26th ultimo, with three regi 
 ments of my brigade, viz : the First, Third, and Fourth Ohio Cavalry, 
 the Fifth Kentucky remaining at Nashville. My force numbered 950 
 men. We marched out on the Franklin pike, the Third Ohio having the 
 advance. When within two miles of Franklin, drove in the rebel pickets, 
 skirmished all the way down to Franklin, drove the enemy out, and 
 pursued him some two miles. From the best information received, the 
 enemy were 900 strong (all cavalry), part of Wharton s brigade. We 
 killed four, wounded several, and took ten prisoners, among them a lieu 
 tenant of General Bragg s escort, several horses and mules, and destroyed 
 their camps, with some tents standing thereon. We retired from Franklin, 
 moved over to the Wilson Creek pike, and picketed said pike. 
 
 On the 27th, sent the First Ohio and most of the Fourth Ohio, under 
 command of Colonel Milliken, on the Wilson Creek pike, toward Triune, 
 to reconnoiter. They proceeded within two miles of Triune, captured six 
 of the rebel pickets, when the enemy opened on them with shells; threw 
 some fifty without damaging us any ; then my force retired to camp. I 
 likewise had sent a battalion of the Third to Franklin to reconnoiter, 
 which drove in the rebel pickets, who had returned in force after my 
 command had left the evening previous. Quite a skirmish ensued, in 
 which three of the rebels were killed and several wounded. After skir 
 mishing some two hours, and the enemy being too strong to drive, the 
 battalion returned to camp in good order without any loss. 
 
 On the 28th, moved with the command to Triune without anything 
 occurring worth mentioning. 
 
 On the 29th, proceeded toward Murfreesboro, moving between the 
 Franklin road and the road called Bole Jack road, which General Mc- 
 Cook s corps moved on. I divided my brigade into three columns, march 
 ing parallel with one another and with the main force, the right, (the 
 Fourth Ohio) moving on the Franklin road, the Third in the center, and 
 the First on the left, the columns being from one to one and one-half 
 miles apart, throwing out skirmishers, connecting one column with the 
 other, and connecting on the left with the main column. We thus 
 proceeded for five miles, when the center column encountered the enemy s 
 pickets, which they drove in, the different columns steadily advancing. 
 
 Shortly after, both the right and the left encountered pickets, driving 
 them in before them. After proceeding about one mile farther, we came 
 upon the enemy s cavalry (Wharton s brigade), engaged them for three 
 
66 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 hours, sometimes the right wing, then the left, then the center, receiving 
 several charges, which were repulsed, driving the enemy some two miles, 
 when the brigade concentrated, repelling a heavy charge from the enemy, 
 driving him back under his guns, which were only a short distance from 
 us. We then retired some two miles and went into camp. 
 
 Some few casualties occurred this day. The officers and men behaved 
 admirably during the whole day. The Fourth had proceeded until the 
 enemy threw shells into them pretty rapidly, when they retired. We 
 were within four miles of Murfreesboro. 
 
 On the morning of the 3Oth was ordered to proceed on the Franklin 
 road toward Murfreesboro, to push the enemy hard. We had encamped 
 that night near the brick church, on the road leading from General 
 McCook s headquarters to the Franklin road. I proceeded that morning 
 with my command and the Second East Tennessee, ( which reported to 
 me that morning), via. that road to the Franklin road, at which crossing 
 we encountered the enemy s pickets and drove them in. Sent a party of 
 the Fourth to reconnoiter on the road leading south to Salem, where they 
 soon came upon a stronger force, and a brisk skirmish ensued. I increased 
 the number of skirmishers, especially to the left, skirmished with the 
 enemy for an hour or more, when a courier arrived, saying that the 
 enemy was approaching with a heavy cavalry force and some artillery. 
 
 In the meantime I had ascertained, likewise, that a heavy force of 
 the enemy was encamped some little distance south of the Franklin road, 
 and east of where my column halted. I did not think it prudent to 
 advance, and, owing to the bad grounds (being all timber) where my 
 force halted, I retired to my camping-ground, near which were large open 
 fields, well adapted for cavalry movements. I soon formed a line of 
 battle. The enemy made his appearance. Skirmishers engaged him 
 pretty quickly. The enemy maneuvered with the design to outflank us, but 
 did not succeed. I forestalled him every time. With the exception of 
 severe skirmishing, nothing transpired. The enemy retired, when I con 
 cluded to join the main body of our army. 
 
 After marching about a mile, met General Stanley, with a brigade of 
 infantry and a battery of artillery, to reinforce me. The General marched 
 the whole command toward the enemy s camp. On reaching its vicinity 
 the enemy drew up in line of battle. Skirmishing ensued. Remained 
 there about half an hour, when the General withdrew, with the remark 
 that we were not ready yet to fight the whole of Hardee s army corps. 
 That night we encamped one and one-half miles from the enemy s camp r 
 and laid on our arms all night. 
 
 At daybreak on the morning of the 3ist, I had my command drawn 
 up in line of battle in the rear of my camp; sent out two squadrons to the 
 front and to the right to reconnoiter. Had been in the line about half 
 
The Battle of Stone River. 67 
 
 an hour, when I heard heavy firing cannon and musketry to my left 
 and a little to the front. Soon after I beheld our infantry scattered all 
 over the fields, running toward my line, when I learned that General 
 Johnson s division was repulsed. At about the same time my skirmishers 
 engaged the enemy, when they were driven in, reporting that the enemy 
 were approaching in heavy force. Sure enough, I soon discovered 
 heavy lines of infantry coming toward my front and on the left, where 
 General Johnson s division had been posted ; also to my right the enemy s 
 cavalry were coming round in long columns, with the evident design 
 to outflank us. 
 
 I concluded to retire slowly toward the main body of our army, the 
 enemy pressing hard on me ; kept him at bay with my skirmishers. I 
 retired in this wise for a mile, when I formed a line of battle with the 
 First and Third, when the enemy charged on them with their cavalry, 
 but were repulsed by my men. About this time the enemy began to 
 throw shells into my lines pretty lively. The first shell that landed 
 mortally wounded Major Moore of the First Ohio. I now fell back, 
 formed a new line, received the enemy s charge, repulsed them, and made 
 many of the rebels bite the dust. Sliells coming pretty thick again, I 
 retired farther, when I made another stand, supported by Willich s regi 
 ment of infantry ; received the enemy s charge, and repulsed him again. 
 I then withdrew my whole command through a large strip of wood to 
 another open lot shells of the enemy helping us along passing by a 
 line of rebel infantry, marching parallel with my column, not over 200 
 yards from us, so that we were nearly surrounded, as the enemy s cavalry 
 were working round our right all the time, and the infantry and artillery 
 following us closely on our rear and to our left. They had cavalry enough 
 to spare to strike, or to take position, whenever required. 
 
 When we arrived on the open ground, General McCook s aide told me 
 the whole of General McCook s ammunition train was close by, on a 
 dirt road running by that point, and that I must try to save it. I soon 
 formed my command in line, when the enemy made his appearance in a 
 position occupying two-thirds of a circle. They prepared to charge upon 
 us ; likewise commenced throwing shells, at which the Second East Ten 
 nessee broke and ran like sheep. The Fourth, after receiving several 
 shells, which killed some of their men and horses, likewise retired from 
 their line, as it became untenable. The First had been ordered to proceed 
 farther on into another lot, to form and to receive a charge from another 
 line of the enemy s cavalry. The Third moved to the left, in the vicinity 
 of a white house. About the time the First was formed, the enemy charged 
 upon the Fourth, which, being on the retreat, owing to the shells coming 
 pretty freely, moved off at a pretty lively gait. The Third moved farther 
 
68 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 to the left, and, somewhat sheltered by the house and barns, the First 
 charged upon the enemy ; did not succeed in driving them back. 
 
 On returning from said charge the gallant Colonel Milliken and a 
 lieutenant were killed, and another lieutenant severely wounded. 
 
 At this juncture the First and Fourth retired pretty fast, the enemy 
 in close pursuit after them, the Second East Tennessee having the lead 
 of them all. Matters looked pretty blue now ; the ammunition train was 
 supposed to be gone up, when the Third charged upon the enemy, driving 
 him back, capturing several prisoners, and recapturing a good many of 
 our men, and saved the train. I was with the three regiments that 
 skedaddled, and among the last to leave the field. Tried hard to rally 
 them, but the panic was so great that I could not do it. I could not get 
 the command together again until I arrived at the north side of the 
 creek; then I found that only about one-third of the First and Fourth 
 Regiments were there, and nearly all of the Second East Tennessee. 
 These I marched back across the creek, when, joined by the Third, we 
 had several skirmishes with the enemy s cavalry all day long ; received 
 several charges, and repulsed them. 
 
 All the officers and men. behaved well through all the fighting up to 
 the stampede, which was not very creditable. All of them that I brought 
 back into action again behaved well during the rest of the day. I must 
 say the Third deserves great credit for this day s fighting for the coolness 
 and bravery of its officers and men, and for its determination to save the 
 train, which they accomplished. I do not wish to take any credit away 
 from the other regiments, as they all fought nobly and did first-rate, with 
 the exception of the stampede. 
 
 On January ist, after being in line of battle since 3 a. m., I was 
 ordered to take the Third Ohio and the Anderson Troop, proceed to 
 Nashville, and escort the army wagon train through to Nashville. I left 
 about 9 o clock. A little below La Vergne was attacked by General 
 Wheeler s cavalry brigade ; repulsed him twice ; killed nine, wounded 
 several, and took two prisoners ; saved all the train but two or three 
 wagons, which broke down in the excitement; saved several cannon 
 belonging to a Wisconsin battery going along with the train, which were 
 abandoned by the drivers, horses still hitched to the cannon. Some of my 
 men mounted the horses and took the cannon into Nashville. The enemy 
 threw shells at us, but did not succeed in hurting any of the men. The 
 Anderson Troop, I am sorry to say, were of very little benefit to me, as 
 the majority of them ran as soon as we were attacked. Arrived at Nash 
 ville at 9 p. m. ; found no forage for my horses. 
 
 Next day, January 2d, had to send out a foraging party. They 
 returned at 5 p. m., when my horses were fed for the first time since 
 leaving the front, the day previous at 3 a. m. 
 
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 At i o clock on the 3d was ordered to leave at 3 o clock to escort a 
 hospital store train and an ammunition train through to the front. When 
 two miles out, had to wait for Colonel McCook to come up with two and 
 a half regiments of infantry and some 150 of the Third Tennessee Cavalry. 
 Two companies of the Fourth Ohio, under command of Lieutenant White, 
 were with me likewise. It was n o clock before we got started. All 
 of this force combined formed the escort of the train. We proceeded 
 about eight miles, when we were attacked by Wheeler s brigade. We 
 repulsed them, taking twelve prisoners, among them two lieutenants; 
 killed fifteen, and wounded many. They did but little damage to the 
 train, which was done through the cowardice of the teamsters. I had 
 one man killed and one wounded. The enemy tried to attack us the 
 second time, but retired before our forces met. We brought the train 
 through safely, and arrived with it at I o clock the next morning. During 
 my three days absence the First and Fourth were busily employed 
 reconnoitering, doing picket duty, and skirmishing with the enemy s 
 cavalry. 
 
 On the 4th, marched my command to the front, near Murfreesboro, 
 to reconnoiter, the enemy having withdrawn their forces. 
 
 On the 5th, marched to the front, some four and one-half miles 
 beyond Murfreesboro, on the Shelbyville road, on a reconnaissance, cap 
 turing quite a number of rebel stragglers ; pushed a squadron of the 
 Fourth some three miles farther, to a point where they could overlook 
 the pike for five miles ahead, when they discovered that the enemy had 
 entirely disappeared. The skirmishers of the Fourth had some skirmish 
 ing with some of the rebel cavalry. By 7 o clock was back to camp again. 
 You will observe that my command had fought nearly every day from 
 the time we left Nashville up to this time. They worked very hard, and 
 deserve a great deal of credit for what they have done, as both officers and 
 men fought bravely. 
 
 Herewith find list of casualties, which are not large, considering the 
 number of engagements we were in. 
 
 All respectfully submitted. 
 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 LEWIS ZAHM, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 LIEUTENANT M. B. CHAMBERLIN, 
 
 Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen., First Cav. Dvu., Army of the Cumberland. 
 
70 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Return of Casualties in the Second Cavalry Brigade (Zahm s) December 
 26, 1862 January 6, 1863 (Stone s River). 
 
 Command 
 
 Killed 
 
 Wounded 
 
 Missing 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Officers 
 
 Enlisted 
 men 
 
 Officers 
 
 Enlisted 
 men 
 
 Officers 
 
 Enlisted 
 men 
 
 1st Ohio Cavalry 
 3d Ohio Cavalry. 
 4th Ohio Cavalry 
 
 Total 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 6 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 15 
 18 
 
 1 
 
 14 
 10 
 16 
 
 3 enlisted men prisoners. 
 15 enlisted men prisoners. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 15 
 
 1 
 
 43 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 
 
 Report of Lieut. Col. Douglas A. Murray, Third Ohio Cavalry, including 
 skirmishes at Franklin, December 26-27, and Overall s Creek, De 
 cember 31. 
 
 IN CAMP NEAR MURFREESBGRO, TENN., January 6, 1863. 
 
 COLONEL : In compliance with instructions received from your head 
 quarters, I have the honor to report, for your information, the part taken 
 by the Third Ohio Cavalry in the several engagements in which the regi 
 ment was engaged since leaving Nashville, Tenn., on December 26th last, 
 on which day we proceeded to Franklin, driving the enemy therefrom 
 and taking possession of the town ; took some ten prisoners. Remaining 
 in town some time, we recrossed the river, and marched across the country 
 to Wilson Creek pike, about fourteen miles from Nashville, and encamped, 
 arriving in camp at about 10 p. m. 
 
 On the 27th, the Third Battalion of the regiment moved toward 
 Franklin, and found that the enemy had in strong force again taken 
 possession of the town ; the battalion drove in their pickets under a heavy 
 fire, killing three of them. Seeing that the enemy were in such force, the 
 commander deemed it prudent to retire, and rejoined the regiment, which 
 picketed the roads, etc., in the vicinity of its camp. 
 
 On the 28th ultimo, proceeded to Triune and encamped, leaving early 
 next morning across the country toward Murfreesboro, proceeding about 
 five miles in that direction, when attacked by the enemy s pickets in force, 
 which we drove, skirmishing, they frequently making a stand, which we 
 each time broke, and still drove them about five miles. 
 
 The 3Oth ultimo, ordered to proceed to Stone s River ; proceeded but 
 a short distance when attacked by the enemy s pickets ; the enemy were 
 in force in our front with artillery. We therefore retired, forming on the 
 high ground in our rear to receive them, their pickets, or patrol, advancing, 
 which we repulsed. In the evening our brigade was reinforced by one 
 
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 battery of artillery and three regiments of infantry, and proceeded in 
 reconnaissance to the left of the enemy s lines, where we found General 
 Hardee s corps d armee ready, in line of battle, to receive us. We retired, 
 and encamped in the woods, about two miles in, front of the enemy s lines. 
 
 On the morning of the 3ist we formed; shortly after the enemy 
 appeared in large force, both on our left, center, and right, evidently 
 endeavoring to cut us off. The brigade of infantry to our left gave way, 
 retreating in confusion through our lines, letting the whole force of the 
 enemy s artillery, cavalry, and infantry fall upon us, which compelled 
 us gradually to retire toward the main body of our army. The regiment 
 covering the entire rear of the brigade, supporting one infantry regiment 
 on our right, drove back, with heavy loss, a large force of cavalry which 
 charged upon us, under cover of a piece of artillery, firing well-directed 
 shells, which passed over us. The enemy being in such force, we had to 
 retire about three-fourths of a mile, when an aid-de-camp of General 
 McCook rode up, informing us that the train close by was General 
 McCook s entire ammunition train, which must be saved at all hazards ; 
 on intimation of which the regiment was immediately formed for its 
 protection, holding the enemy in check until the entire train, with the 
 exception of a few disabled wagons that could not be moved, was safely 
 withdrawn. The regiment then moved between the enemy and train as 
 far as the Murfreesboro pike, where we found the enemy making a 
 fierce attack upon General Thomas train, when we again repulsed them at 
 several points, taking many prisoners and saving that entire portion of 
 the train. The attack of the enemy was furious and desperate, which 
 required the greatest firmness and bravery to resist. Colonel Kennett 
 was an eye-witness to the determined bravery of a portion of the regiment 
 rescuing the train from the enemy, which were in force at the hospital 
 on the Murfreesboro pike. The regiment then formed in the field near 
 the hospital, where the brigade soon assembled and reformed, and 
 advanced toward the enemy s left. Soon came up to the enemy s cavalry, 
 supported by artillery, when several other skirmishes ensued during the 
 evening, the enemy s entire object seeming to be to take the train. 
 
 On the ist instant, received orders to proceed to Nashville in charge 
 of train, consisting of some 200 or 300 wagons. When about two miles 
 on the Nashville side of La Vergne, we were attacked by General 
 Wheeler s brigade of cavalry, which made several dashes on the train, 
 and were repulsed. They then attacked our rear in force. After a well- 
 contested fight, our regiment put them to flight in disorder, killing nine 
 of them and wounding several, and arrived in Nashville at 9 p. m. and 
 encamped. 
 
 The 2d instant, remained in Nashville and procured forage for our 
 horses, furnishing working party and escort to forage train. 
 
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 The 3d instant, left Nashville for Murfreesboro in charge of hospital 
 and ammunition trains. Attacked again in force by Wheeler s brigade 
 of cavalry on the Nashville side of La Vergne, which was repulsed with 
 a loss of fifteen on their side and some eight or nine prisoners taken ; 
 among the latter the adjutant of the Third Alabama Cavalry. Two of 
 our non-commissioned officers, I regret to inform you, were severely and 
 dangerously wounded, whom we had to leave in a house on the roadside. 
 
 Arrived at camp, near Murfreesboro, at i a. m., 4th instant, with 
 the train all safe, with the exception of one wagon of the regiment that 
 was cut off by the enemy, and is now supposed to have returned to 
 Nashville. 
 
 On the evening of the 4th, proceeded with brigade to Murfreesboro 
 as far as Stone s River, and returned to camp. 
 
 On the 5th instant, proceeded again with brigade to Murfreesboro, 
 and beyond it about four and one-half miles, where we halted, taking 
 several prisoners, and returning to camp about 7 p. m. 
 
 I have much pleasure in informing you that the conduct and behavior 
 of both officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the regiment 
 have been highly creditable, with not a single instance to the contrary in 
 the regiment. 
 
 Inclosed please find list of casualties that have occurred since Decem 
 ber 26, 1862, to January 5, 1863.* 
 
 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Third Ohio Cavalry, Comdg. Regiment. 
 
 COL. L. ZAHM, 
 
 Comdg. Second Cavalry Brigade, First Cavalry Division. 
 
 No. 179. 
 
 Report of Maj. James W. Paramore, Third Ohio Cavalry, including skir 
 mishes at Overall s Creek, December 31, and at La Vergne, Jan 
 uary i. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 
 January 8, 1863. 
 
 SIR : There are a few incidents in the recent series of battles in which 
 we were engaged which, not having fallen immediately under your 
 observation or of the regimental commander, have escaped notice ; and 
 
 * Embodied in revised statement. 
 
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 being under my immediate command, in justice to the brave officers and 
 men engaged, I deem it my duty to make this special report. 
 
 In the severe fighting of Wednesday, the 3ist ultimo, which fell so 
 heavily upon your brigade, you will recollect, when we had been forced 
 back as far as General McCook s ammunition train, and were drawn up 
 in front of it for its protection, the furious charge of the enemy s cavalry. 
 At that juncture an aide of General McCook came up to me, and 
 informed me that "that was their entire ammunition train, and must be 
 held at all hazards." I gave orders accordingly to the left wing of the 
 Third Ohio Cavalry, under my command, and I am happy to report that 
 they held their position and received the galling fire of the enemy with 
 the firmness of heroes, and maintained their ground till all the wagons, 
 except a few that were disabled or deserted by the teamsters, had safely 
 reached the lines of our infantry. 
 
 The enemy, seeing our determination and bold resistance, turned and 
 left us. We pursued them over to the Murfreesboro pike, Captain McClel 
 land commanding Companies E and F, taking the right of the pike, and 
 the balance of the command, with myself, taking the left. 
 
 When within a short distance of the hospital we again encountered 
 a large force of the enemy coming back to take possession of the train. 
 We at once engaged them, although at least double our numbers, and 
 after a severe struggle put them to flight, with a loss of several killed, 
 wounded, and prisoners. The bravery and daring of Captains Wood and 
 Colver, and their respective commands on this occasion, challenged my 
 admiration. I also learned that Captain McClelland, with his squadron, 
 engaged the enemy farther up the pike, beyond the hospital, with Colonel 
 Kennett and a portion of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, and, after a fierce 
 contest, repulsed them. 
 
 This result is greatly attributable to the coolness and bravery of 
 Captains McClelland, Wood, and Colver, and their lieutenants. It was 
 also this portion of the regiment that repulsed the attack of the enemy on 
 the rear of our train the next day near La Vergne as we were proceeding 
 to Nashville, and brought safely into Nashville two pieces of cannon, three 
 cassions full of ammunition, and a wagon loaded with new carbines and 
 ammunition, which had been abandoned by their teamsters. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted, 
 
 J. W. PAR AM ORE, 
 Major, Commanding Left Wing, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 COL. L. ZAHM, 
 
 Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 SIX MONTHS AT MURFREESBORO 
 
 Immediately after the Army of the Cumberland took possession of 
 Murfreesboro it commenced to fortify and put it in shape for defense. 
 The troops went into winter quarters and made themselves as comfortable 
 as possible. We were destined to remain at Murfreesboro six months. It 
 seemed a long time to the people of the North, who wanted to see the 
 army move it seemed long to us, who wanted to see the war ended but 
 there are so many things to be provided for and looked after in connection 
 with a large army that the average person does not think of transporta 
 tion, subsistence, clothing, arms, ammunition, etc. Really the needs of a 
 large army are never completely supplied. It was necessary first of all 
 to open up our line of communication. The enemy had played havoc with 
 the railroad between Louisville and Nashville. It was not opened until 
 February, and it was the middle of the month before the cars got to 
 Stone s River, and March before the bridge was completed and the cars 
 were running into Murfreesboro, when the army was put on full rations, 
 and then before an advance movement could be made it was necessary 
 to accumulate sufficient surplus rations and ammunition for the move 
 ment. 
 
 Then comes the animals necessary horses for the cavalry and 
 artillery, and horses or mules for the wagon train. The army is hard on 
 men, but it is terrible on horses. The waste and losses were fearful. We 
 always wanted horses and were always on the lookout for them. The 
 government was buying horses all the time, yet we were always calling for 
 more. To show the difficulty of obtaining horses while we were at Mur 
 freesboro, on April iQth Lieutenant Brown and a detail from the regiment 
 took a lot of worn-out, unserviceable horses to Nashville and put them in a 
 corral there and as there were no horses to be had at Nashville, they got 
 on the cars and went to Louisville. Arrived at Louisville April 2ist. On 
 May 27th they got a bunch of horses, loaded them on the cars, and arrived 
 in Murfreesboro May 29th, only to have their horses taken from them 
 and given to a Tennessee Regiment, while they carried their saddles back 
 to camp, having been gone just forty days. The weather was very cold, 
 wet and disagreeable a great part of the time we lay at Murfreesboro, 
 but we were not idle. That is the cavalry were not. We were kept busy 
 scouting, picketing and patroling the roads, gathering forage, drilling, 
 etc. The Second Battalion was stationed at Readyville with Hazen s 
 Brigade of Infantry, the left of the Union Army, while the First and 
 Third Battalions were in Camp Stanley, near Murfreesboro. The Second 
 Kentucky Cavalry was added to our (Second) Brigade; the Chicago 
 Board of Trade Battery to the division. Colonel Zahm resigned, 
 
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 Lieutenant-Colonel Murray taking command of the regiment, and Colonel 
 Paramore being placed in command of the brigade. 
 
 February 3d The brigade, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Murray, went out on a scout with five days rations ; passed through 
 Auburn, going as far as Prosperity Church ; coming back to Auburn to 
 camp. 
 
 February 4th Marched at daylight in the direction of Liberty ; found 
 a few small bodies of the enemy. Camped near Alexandria. The next 
 morning went in the direction of Rome ; brought in some prisoners ; passed 
 through Lebanon and camped at Baird s Mills. The next day forded 
 Stone s river and returned to camp. 
 
 February 22d Preparations were made to celebrate Washington s 
 birthday, but for some reason there was delay in the arrival of some of 
 the supplies, and the festivities were not held until the 24th. There were 
 speeches by Generals Stanley, Garfield, and others, and then there was a 
 feast of roast ox, chickens, ducks, and pigs, followed by beer and cigars. 
 The band of the Fourth United States Cavalry furnished the music. The 
 regiment went on picket at night. 
 
 February 28th The always welcome paymaster visited us. 
 
 March ist Went on a scout with three days rations. Found the 
 enemy in the afternoon at Bradyville, attacking them. They held their 
 ground for about fifteen minutes, when we charged, driving them several 
 miles and capturing about 100 prisoners and a lot of horses. Three men of 
 the regiment were wounded. Camped near Bradyville, returning to Mur 
 freesboro the next day. 
 
 March 4th Cavalry went out with five days rations. Came onto the 
 enemy s pickets near Unionville ; charged them, driving them and follow 
 ing them so closely that the enemy did not have time to form, but got 
 right out, leaving all their camp and garrison equipage, which we 
 destroyed. We captured about fifty prisoners. Marching to Eagleville, 
 we halted for the night. We did not unsaddle our horses, but lay on 
 arms in line of battle to guard against surprise. We remained at Eagle 
 ville until afternoon of the 5th, when we marched to Chapel Hill, but 
 finding no enemy we returned to our camp at Eagleville. The next morn 
 ing we started for Murfreesboro, but after marching a few miles we 
 received orders to go to Franklin, marching by way of Triune. We 
 camped about nine miles from Franklin, which place we reached about 
 noon of the 8th and went into camp. 
 
 March Qth We took up the march southward, the Third Ohio in the 
 advance. Found the enemy strongly posted covering the fords at Spring 
 .creek ; after some skirmishing, fell back to our camp. The next morning 
 we advanced to the creek and attacked the enemy; dismounted, drove 
 them from the ford, but did not cross at that point. Crossing at another 
 
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 ford, we followed the retreating rebels as far as Columbia, where they 
 crossed to the south side of Duck river. We returned to Spring creek 
 and camped about midnight. The next day we marched to Franklin. On 
 the 1 3th, marched to Triune and camped. 
 
 March I4th The command returned to Murfreesboro, arriving in 
 the afternoon, having been in the saddle for ten days. The men of the 
 Third Battalion captured at Lexington returned to the regiment after an 
 absence of more than four months. On March I7th, grand review by 
 General Rosecrans. 
 
 March 2Oth A courier came into Murfreesboro bringing a message 
 from Colonel Hall, commanding a brigade of infantry at Milton, saying 
 that he was attacked and likely to be surrounded by General Morgan with 
 a large force of cavalry, and asking for a reinforcement of cavalry to 
 come at once to his assistance. The First and Second Brigades, under 
 Colonel Minty, left Murfreesboro about 2 130 p. m. and arrived at Milton 
 about 6 o clock and found that the infantry had repulsed Morgan, who 
 had lost heavily in the fight. We remained at Milton for the night, guard 
 ing the infantry camp with a strong line of pickets. The next morning 
 the cavalry went out on the different roads, endeavoring to locate the 
 enemy. The Third Ohio, under Lieutenant-Colonel Murray, went to 
 Auburn, found a small body of the enemy, and chased them for two miles, 
 capturing two prisoners. In the afternoon we started back to Murfrees 
 boro, where we arrived about 8 o clock p. m. The loss in the infantry 
 was twelve killed and thirty-eight wounded. 
 
 March 26th Delos Ashley of Company I wounded at Bradyville 
 on the 2d, died yesterday, and it was decided to send his body home. The 
 regiment, led by the Fifteenth United States Infantry band, escorted the 
 remains to the train and sent them to his friends at home, his brother 
 Augustus accompanying them. 
 
 April 2cl The cavalry started out with five days rations and sixty 
 rounds of cartridges on a scout after Morgan in the direction of Liberty. 
 Came up with the enemy in the afternoon, driving them about two miles. 
 We lay on our arms in line of battle. The next morning we moved 
 forward and found the enemy in position near Liberty. W r e attacked 
 them, driving them back. The next stand was at Snow Hill, where they 
 had a strong position, their battery being posted at a point where it com 
 manded the pike for half a mile in its ascent up the mountain. After a 
 futile attempt to silence this battery, General Stanley sent the Third and 
 Fourth Ohio Cavalry to their left and rear. After climbing the hill, we 
 formed under cover of the woods on the summit, the Fourth Ohio in 
 front, dismounted, the Third mounted. Our skirmishers found the enemy 
 drawn up in line, and the attack by the dismounted men was made with 
 spirit. In a short time the enemy commenced to give way, and the Third 
 
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 was ordered forward, charging the enemy s line, it gave way and broke. 
 Thus far the fighting had all been under cover of the woods, but we soon 
 came out of the woods and in sight of the pike, which was filled with the 
 demoralized troops of Morgan, rushing madly toward Smithville. As 
 far as we could see the road was packed with horsemen, intent on nothing 
 but getting away. We charged them for about two miles, when the recall 
 was sounded and we returned to the brow of the hill. The enemy s loss 
 was heavy in killed, wounded and prisoners, although many of our 
 prisoners escaped in the woods during the charge. Our loss in the brigade 
 was three wounded. 
 
 Mosgrove, one of Morgan s officers, winds up his account of the fight 
 at Snow Hill as follows : "Morgan s command was worse demoralized 
 by the affair at Snow Hill than upon other occasions where it had fought 
 hard battles and sustained serious defeat. Some weeks elapsed before the 
 fugitives returned and reported for duty, none of them being able to satis 
 factorily explain why they rode away from the battlefield and kept 
 a-goin ." 
 
 We returned to a point about four miles northwest of Liberty and 
 went into camp. The next morning we took up the line of march, passed 
 through Alexandria and camped about twelve miles from Lebanon. 
 
 April 5th Passed through Lebanon and camped at Baird s Mills, 
 returning to camp at Murfreesboro the afternoon of the 6th. 
 
 April loth Drew five days rations and started out on a scout. The 
 next day we found the enemy in force at Franklin. After we had crossed 
 the river we received orders to fall back. Just then the enemy charged 
 our line of skirmishers and they were driven back through our lines. We 
 fell back to the ford, which we were ordered to hold. We camped near 
 the river and the next day returned to Murfreesboro. 
 
 During the latter part of April the division was formed in a hollow 
 square for the purpose of seeing the sentence of a court martial for 
 desertion carried into effect. The man was marched by his guards into 
 the center of the square and in the presence of the division stripped of 
 his uniform, dressed in citizens clothes, branded on the cheek with the 
 letter "D," and then between two guards and followed by the drum corps 
 playing the "Rogue s March," he was paraded in front of the lines all 
 around the square and then drummed out of camp. 
 
 To us the punishment seemed terrible. General Rosecrans no doubt 
 thought the example was needed and would, have a tendency to check 
 desertions. 
 
 April 2Oth We started out with six days rations by the way of 
 Readyville and Woodbury for a raid on the McMinnville & Tullahoma 
 Railroad. After leaving Woodbury, we took cross-country roads, striking 
 the railroad early in the forenoon of the 2ist, capturing two trains of cars 
 
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 and a lot of supplies, which were burned, tearing up the railroad and 
 destroying- bridges as we moved toward McMinnville, where we formed a 
 junction with the troops under General Reynolds, capturing many pris 
 oners. General Morgan escaped, but it was a close call for him. We 
 started back by the way of Smithville and along the pike where Morgan s 
 troopers went in their wild flight from Snow s Hill. Passing through 
 Alexandria and Milton, we returned to our camp on the 26th. During 
 the raid we had had numerous skirmishes with the enemy and captured a 
 large number of prisoners and suffered no serious loss. 
 
 May 3d We started out with sixty rounds of ammunition and one 
 day s rations. Comparing our ammunition with out rations, we concluded 
 that we were expected to do more fighting than eating. But after march 
 ing all clay over the highways and by-ways, we returned to camp at night 
 with our ammunition intact, but out of rations. We had one lone prisoner 
 to show for our day s hunt. 
 
 About the loth of May, our leaders believing that Wheeler was 
 about to make another raid on the railroad, the regiment was stationed 
 near La Vergne, from which point we patroled and guarded all the fords 
 and crossings of Stone s river. We remained about a week, but all was 
 quiet no enemy came, and we were ordered back to Murfreesboro. 
 
 May i Qth We moved camp about four miles out on the Lebanon 
 pike, where we had plenty of good water near camp. Our new camp 
 was called "Turchin," in honor of our division commander. 
 
 May 2ist We organized a little surprise party, planning to make 
 an early call on the Johnnies encamped at Middleton. We marched 
 nearly all night to get there, for we did not want to be late. We got 
 there in time to catch them before they were up. They did not seem to 
 enjoy our visit, for they lit out without saying good-bye. We captured 
 and destroyed all their camp equipage, took seventy-nine prisoners and a 
 large number of horses. Returning to Murfreesboro the next day, we 
 were followed by the enemy, who attacked the rear guard a number of 
 times, but were repulsed by the Third and Fourth Cavalry. Our regi 
 ment lost two men wounded, one man captured. 
 
 About the last of May, C. L. Valandigham was sent through our 
 lines. He had been arrested by General Burnside for making speeches, 
 encouraging resistance to the government, in its efforts to raise troops to 
 put down the rebellion, inciting treason, etc. He had been tried by court 
 martial and sentenced to be sent through the lines. President Lincoln 
 approved the sentence, although he would have preferred that no notice 
 had been taken of Mr. Valandigham s treasonable utterances. He was 
 taken through the lines in a carriage. From Tullahoma he was sent to 
 Richmond and wined and dined and feted and hailed everywhere as the 
 friend of the South. He was put on a blockade runner at Wilmington, 
 
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 went around through Canada to Windsor, opposite Detroit. He was 
 nominated by the Democratic party for governor and received over two 
 hundred thousand votes from the Copperheads of Ohio. 
 
 June 3d We started out on a scout over in the direction of Morgan s 
 bailiwick. On the 4th we passed through Liberty and over Snow s Hill. 
 Striking the rebels about three miles from Smithville, driving them for 
 five miles, we returned and went into camp near Liberty. In the after 
 noon of the 6th ten rebels apparently thinking that we had all gone (as 
 part of the command camped outside of us had moved and our pickets 
 were not posted) came trotting down the pike and almost to our camp 
 before they saw us. They fired their guns, wheeled their horses and 
 started back at a gallop, but some of our men were quickly in the saddle 
 and after them and in an exciting chase of seven miles suceeded in cap 
 turing six of them, the remainder leaving their horses and taking to the 
 woods. The next day we returned to Murfreesboro by the way of Milton. 
 
 June loth Colonel Paramore was superseded by Colonel Eli Long as 
 commander of the brigade. Lieutenant Colonel Murray left the regiment. 
 His farewell address was read at dress parade. Most of the boys were 
 sorry to see him go. The men liked him in spite of his fondness for old 
 Scotch but he would allow it to get the best of him sometimes. 
 
 June 23d Orders to break camp and be ready to move at a moment s 
 notice. All excess baggage to be sent inside the fortifications. Three 
 days rations in the haversacks and nine in the wagons ; it looks like busi 
 ness guess we are going after Bragg. 
 
 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF SCOUTS AND SKIRMISHES OF THE THIRD OHIO 
 
 CAVALRY DURING THE TIME THAT THE ARMY 
 
 OCCUPIED MURFREESBORO 
 
 JANUARY 19, 1863. Skirmish near Woodbury, Tenn. 
 
 Report of Captain Thomas D. McClelland, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 HDQRS. SECOND BATTALION, THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 CAMP NEAR READYVILLE, TENN., January 20, 1863, 
 
 SIR: In accordance with instructions, the Second Battalion, con 
 sisting of Companies E, F, A, and D, reported to Colonel W. B. Hazen, 
 commanding Second Brigade (January 10, 1863), and were marched to 
 this place, a distance of twelve miles. Our time since has been fully oc 
 cupied in patrolling and scouting, with an occasional skirmish with the 
 enemy s pickets and scouting parties, until yesterday we had quite a 
 brilliant little affair with a portion of Morgan s command, under Colonel 
 Hutcheson. About noon, picket firing was: heard to the front. The 
 colonel commanding ordered me to send out and see what it meant. I 
 
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 made a detail from Companies E. F., and A, consisting of 44 men, under 
 command of Lieutenant Hansey, of Company F, and Lieutenant Clark, of 
 Company E. They found it to be our vedettes firing on some rebel 
 cavalry, who had come within range, and upon receiving their fire re 
 treated. Our party followed them, and, after proceeding within two miles 
 of Woodbury, came upon the enemy s pickets, driving them in. At this 
 time they discovered a party of the enemy charging on them in the rear. 
 Lieutenant Clark, who was in command of the rear, immediately wheeled 
 his men, and poured into them from his carbines, a galling fire, and then 
 drew sabers and 1 charged them in fine style, scattering them in all direc 
 tions, killing two, wounding one and taking ten prisoners, with no loss on 
 our side except two horses wounded. The enemy was now in force in 
 front and on the flanks. A retreat was ordered, the prisoners being sent 
 forward under a guard; the party was divided equally, each lieutenant 
 taking command of a party. One formed a line and held the enemy in 
 check, while the other fell back, and vice versa, by which means they 
 succeeded in bringing their prisoners in without loss. The enemy fol 
 lowed to the pickets, and quite a skirmish ensued, without loss on our side. 
 
 Permit me to offer a suggestion. Morgan s brigade is scattered from 
 McMinnville to Woodbury, one and two regiments in a place. Now, in 
 my opinion, with an adequate force of cavalry, and probably some artillery, 
 his command could be taken in detail and routed completely. 
 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 T. D. McCLELLAND, 
 
 Captain, Commanding Second Battalion, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 LIEUTENANT COLONEL D. A. MURRAY, 
 
 Commanding Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 MARCH 27, 1863. Skirmish on the Woodbury Pike, Tenn. 
 
 REPORTS. 
 
 No. i. Colonel William B. Hazen, Forty-first Ohio Infantry, com 
 manding brigade. 
 
 No. 2. Major Charles B. Seidiel, Third, Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 No. i. 
 
 Report of Colonel William B. Hazen, Forty-first Ohio Infantry, Com 
 manding Brigade. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SEO>ND BRIGADE, 
 
 March 27, 1863. 
 GENERAL: The cavalry you sent out today have had a fight with 
 
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 two regiments of cavalry near Burton s, on the Woodbury pike. Lost one 
 officer and ten men. Considerable loss to the enemy. 
 
 W. B. HAZEN, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Brigade. 
 BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES A. GARFIELD, 
 
 Chief of Staff. 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 Report of Major Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BATTALION, THIRD OHIO VOL. CAV., 
 
 READYVILLE, March 28, 1863. 
 
 DEAR SIR : On the evening of March 27th, I was ordered to take my 
 battalion and advance on the Woodbury Pike, to observe the enemy s 
 movements, who was reported advancing on to our lines, and, if possible, 
 to check his advance. I had advanced but a short distance on the above- 
 named pike when I ran against a squad of rebel cavalry, numbering about 
 fifty men. I at once attacked them, and in a short time had them fleeing 
 before me. I had driven them about one and one-half miles, when they 
 were re-enforced. My advance had already engaged them, when I saw 
 a force advancing on my left. I immediately gave orders to fall back. 
 We had retired but a short distance when my advance gave me intelli 
 gence I was cut off. I immediately brought my men in line of battle, and 
 at the same time was vigorously attacked by Colonel [Baxter] Smith, who 
 commanded in person. We returned their fire, and, knowing that I had 
 no time to lose whatever, gave the command to draw saber and charge, 
 which was bravely done by my men. The enemy received our charge 
 with their pistols, but being too vigorously attacked, fled in every direc 
 tion. I then having accomplished my object, rallied my men and pur 
 sued the fleeing foe, when I saw the enemy s reserve charging down the 
 pike on me ; but, taking the offensive with a small number of men, I 
 repulsed his charges three times, and, by falling back carefully, took all 
 my men safely into camp, with the exception of ten enlisted men and 
 Lieutenant [S. J.] Hansey, of Company F, whom, I suppose, were cap 
 tured by the enemy s reserve. We took about the same number of pris 
 oners, including a major, but being too far from camp and not able to 
 get re-enforcements, were obliged to give them up again. 
 
 The enemy s loss must have been very heavy, for I saw as many as 
 twenty horses without riders. The rebel force, to the best of my judg- 
 
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 ment, numbered about 400 men, while I had only sixty-five men. My men 
 deserve much praise for their bravery. 
 
 Respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 CHAS. B. SEIDEL, 
 Major, Comdg. Second Battalion Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 COL. J. W. PAR A MORE, 
 
 Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 [Indorsement.] 
 
 HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, 
 
 April i, 1863. 
 Respectfully forwarded. 
 
 The gallant conduct of the Major and his little command is com 
 mended. The attention of the General commanding is called to it. The 
 question is raised whether these cavalrymen are altogether treated fairly. 
 Could not an infantry support have saved us the loss of a lieutenant and 
 ten good men? It appears to me that cavalry patrols in a country of 
 copse and thicket should be used with more discretion than they have 
 been at the post of Readyville. 
 
 D. S 1 . STANLEY, 
 Major-General. 
 
 HDQRS. 2D BRIGADE, 2D DIVISION, 2IST ARMY CORPS, 
 
 READYVILLE, TENN., April 4, 1863. 
 
 CAPTAIN : I have the honor to make the following report of the 
 expedition made on the 2d instant, under my command, to Woodbury : 
 
 The expedition was to have consisted of Cruft s brigade, which 
 should report to me at this post by 10 p. m. of the ist, and my own. That 
 would enable me to put two columns in motion at n p. m., for the purpose 
 of flanking and getting in the rear of Woodbury by daylight. 
 
 The brigade of Cruft s did not report till something after midnight, 
 enabling me to start one column, composed of the Forty-first Ohio 
 Volunteers and Sixth Kentucky, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson of the 
 former regiment, at I a. m., which went to the right of Woodbury, and 
 a column composed of the Ninth Indiana Volunteers and First Kentucky, 
 under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Suman, of the former regiment, 
 at i 130 a. m., to proceed to the left of Woodbury. The One Hundred 
 and Tenth Illinois, under Colonel Casey, accompanied this column as far 
 as the point on the map accompanying, marked A, where they were to 
 turn to the right, and proceed cautiously to the Woodbury pike, in rear 
 of the picket post of the enemy, marked B, where sixty men were on 
 picket, and remain concealed till the main column, composed of the 
 
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 Second Kentucky and Ninetieth Ohio, with Standards battery and the 
 Second Battalion of Third Ohio Cavalry, all commanded by Colonel 
 Enyart, First Kentucky, which started at 3 a. m., should have driven 
 them on to this regiment, that would capture them. The delay of two 
 hours in this brigade to report made it nearly that length of day before 
 the different columns arrived at the points intended. The One Hundred 
 and Tenth Illinois, in consequence, did not reach the pike in time to be of 
 service. I, however, directed the cavalry to charge this post, which they 
 did in fine style, sabering and capturing a dozen of this picket. We 
 pushed on through the town, and came upon the main body of the enemy. 
 Keeping my main column concealed, I permitted the advance to parry 
 with him for about an hour, giving more time for the columns to get 
 in position. I then pressed him forward, and about four miles from 
 town, upon Wiley s column. Upon seeing troops at this point, they at 
 once scattered through the hills in all directions. The columns all gained 
 their positions promptly, correctly, and unknown to the enemy, marching 
 about sixteen miles to do so. Had I not been delayed two hours, the 
 results of the day would probably have been much more satisfactory, 
 as then my original plan, which was to capture entire their main picket 
 and regulate the speed of all the columns so as to have gathered upon 
 the camp at dawn, would have probably succeeded perfectly. As it is, 
 I have to report three of the enemy killed (his wounded is not known), 
 twenty-five prisoners, fifty horses, four wagons, eight mules, with all 
 their baggage and provisions. Colonel Suman captured one picket post 
 almost entire, as did also Colonel Casey. 
 
 I have to speak in the highest terms of the battalion of the Third 
 Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Major Seidel. A brigade of such cavalry, 
 well mounted, armed with revolvers and sabers, would be invaluable. 
 Colonel Suman reports to me that the First Kentucky, in command of 
 
 Major , straggled in going out, so as at one time to be a mile 
 
 long, and detaining him nearly and hour. We returned to our camp at 
 12 m. See inclosed map, with routes of the columns.* 
 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 W. B. HAZEN, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Brigade. 
 
 Report of Lieut. Col. Douglas A. Murray, Third Ohio Cavalry, command 
 ing Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 
 CAMP STANLEY, TENN., February 8, 1863. 
 
 GENERAL: I have the honor to report, for your information, the 
 part taken by a portion of the Second Cavalry Brigade, consisting of 
 
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 the Third and Fourth Ohio Cavalry, with detachments of the Third and 
 Fourth Indiana Cavalry, from the 3d to the 7th of February, 1863, while 
 attached to the command of Brigadier-General [J. J.] Reynolds. 
 
 Joined the command of the General on the morning of the 3d, and 
 proceeded in rear of the command till about four miles to the front of 
 our pickets on the Liberty pike, when the cavalry, with the exception 
 of the Fourth Indiana, were ordered to the front as advance guard, and 
 to push on to Auburn, and, if possible, to Prosperity Church, about three 
 and one-half miles beyond it. The General learning that the enemy were 
 there in strong force, we moved carefully, with a strong advance and 
 flank guard, without any interruption, as far as ordered. Hearing that 
 about thirty rebel cavalrymen had moved at a rapid pace along the road 
 toward the church half an hour ahead of us, we did not succeed in 
 coming up with them. Therefore, in compliance with instructions, re 
 turned to Auburn and encamped one-half mile in front of the command, 
 throwing out pickets on the Liberty pike, both front and rear, Woodbury 
 dirt road, and both flanks, taking almost the entire command to furnish 
 the requisite number. Nothing occurred during the night worthy of 
 mentioning. Next morning, at daylight, moved on in advance toward 
 Liberty, driving in a picket of the enemy, consisting of about fifty or sixty 
 men. About two and one-half miles this side of Liberty, we passed over 
 on the road that led to Alexandria, where also a small body of the enemy 
 were seen, and a report that the enemy were in force to our right, which 
 was without foundation. Passed through Alexandria, and encamped 
 about three miles from it on the Lebanon pike, throwing out strong 
 pickets front and rear. The pickets reported hearing that small bands of 
 rebel cavalry were in the country, consisting of from five to ten in num 
 ber, plundering and stealing all they could lay their hands on, and com 
 mitting all manner of depredations. Moved early next morning in the 
 advance. Received orders to send scouting parties both on Rome and 
 Gallatin pikes, to proceed about eight miles on both these roads. The 
 Third Ohio Cavalry, consisting of 100 men, took the former, under com 
 mand of Major J. W. Paramore, and made several important arrests, viz: 
 General R. Anderson, senator; Colonel W. L. Martin, representative; 
 W. B. Pursley and John Cox, conscript agents, and G. A. Pursley, lieuten 
 ant so-called C. S. Army, besides three enlisted men. The Fourth Ohio 
 Cavalry, under command of Major [C. G.] Megrue, consisting of 100 
 men, took the Gallatin pike, and made several arrests. The entire com 
 mand, with the balance of the cavalry in advance, proceeded through 
 Lebanon, and took the Murfreesboro pike as far as Baird s Mills, and 
 encamped, throwing out pickets to the front on the road and roads leading 
 from the main road as soon as we arrived in camp. About one-half hour 
 after the arrival of the command, reported currently there that Morgan 
 
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 with his command would to a certainty make a strong attack upon us 
 at Stone s river next day, which turned out to be, like the majority of such 
 reports, without foundation. Received orders from General Reynolds 
 to send fifty men as an escort to an officer and five men, who were to 
 carry a dispatch to General Thomas. The escort had orders to proceed 
 to the river and see the dispatch party across and then return. They met 
 with no interruption, neither saw anything to indicate that any forces 
 were in that vicinity, and arrived at camp about 8 p. m. Left camp next 
 morning in advance, and 1 proceeded to Stone s river without the least 
 interruption of any kind ; crossed the river, which was fordable ; the 
 water about three or three and one-half feet deep, with a very strong 
 current. Received orders to return to the command, and recrossed the 
 river, the rear portion of the train being fired into by a party of rebels, 
 supposed to number about 120 or 130 men, who, after firing, retreated 
 and fled in every direction, I was told. When we recrossed the river, and 
 met the command advancing, ordered again by the General to proceed 
 in the advance to the river, and not cross over until the entire command 
 did so. I threw out strong pickets to the rear and flanks, which I did not 
 withdraw until the entire command had passed over the river, which they 
 did by means of a bridge formed by wagons. We had two small pieces 
 of mountain howitzers with our brigade, which the lieutenant in charge 
 informed me that General Reynolds said to him might with his sanction 
 remain with us. It appears from all I heard that Colonel Wilder will 
 not allow it, as he claims them as his, and wishes them to accompany 
 his brigade (infantry) when they are mounted, which is the intention, I 
 believe. They would be a great acquisition to us, and, if possible, if I 
 cannot obtain those, I hear that there are several such pieces in Nashville, 
 Tenn. Could I not, on your recommendation, procure a section of such 
 guns? I could easily man them, having a number of old artillerymen in 
 the command. 
 
 Our horses had ample forage during the scout ; worked very hard, 
 and traveled over a large section of country. The country passed through 
 was principally hilly, the roads good, and, with the exception of the 
 bridge over Stone s river, the different bridges on the road> were in good 
 order. Our command returned last evening about 8 130 o clock. 
 
 Our casualties were six enlisted men, one of the Third Ohio Cavalry, 
 five of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, supposed to be captured by the enemy. 
 
 The command picked up some fine-looking horses and mules, ninety- 
 one of the former and nineteen of the latter. 
 
 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 
 Lieut. Col. Third Ohio Cavalry, Comdg. Second Cav. Brigade. 
 BRIG. GEN. D. S. STANLEY, 
 
 Commanding Cavalry. 
 
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 MARCH 1, 1863. Skirmish at Bradyville, Tenn. 
 REPORTS. 
 
 No. i. Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army. 
 No. 3. Col. James W. Paramore, Third Ohio Cavalry, commanding 
 Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 No. 4. Capt. William M. Flanagan, Third Ohk> Cavalry. 
 
 Report of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army. 
 
 MURFREESBORO , TENN., 
 
 March 2, 1863 2 p. m. 
 
 General Stanley reports from his expedition to Bradyville : We 
 fared badly for forage. The rebels of Morgan s and Wharton s com 
 mands made a stand in Bradyville. Colonels Paramore and Long went 
 in with sabers drawn, and whipped them in about three minutes. Stokes 
 cavalry advanced bravely with carbines. We took seventy prisoners, 
 including eight officers, their camp equipage, tents, saddles, and some 
 seventy horses, and Basil [W.] Duke s regimental papers. Major [James] 
 Murphy did good service. W T e lost one man killed and one captain and 
 seven men wounded. We found four of their dead. 
 
 W. S. ROSECRANS, 
 
 Major-General. 
 MAJ. GEN. H. W. HALLECK, 
 
 General-in-Chief. 
 
 Report of Col. James W. Paramore, Third Ohio Cavalry, commanding 
 Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 CAMP STANLEY, NEAR MURFREESBORO, 
 
 March 3, 1863. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to submit the following report of the engage 
 ment at Bradyville, Tenn., on the ist instant, between the cavalry under 
 my command, consisting of a portion of the First [Middle] Tennessee, 
 and a detachment of the Second Brigade, consisting of about 100 men 
 from the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, under command of Captain W. 
 M. Flanagan, and 150 men of the Fourth Ohio, under command of 
 Colonel Eli Long, and the rebel force at that place, consisting of Colonel 
 Duke s Second Kentucky Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel 
 [James W.] Bowles, and the Fourteenth Alabama [Battalion], belonging 
 to Wharton s brigade, and commanded by Major James C. Malone, jr.: 
 
 About two miles this side of Bradyville, the First [Middle] Tennes 
 see, under command of Major Murphy, being in advance, encountered 
 
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 the rebel pickets and drove them in. When near the village, they found 
 the enemy strongly posted behind the houses in the village and a high 
 piece of ground. After a short skirmish, they (the First Tennessee) 
 were driven back in some confusion. I then brought up the Third and 
 Fourth Ohio, and formed them in line, the Fourth occupying the right 
 and the Third the left. I also sent a squadron of the Fourth Ohio, under 
 command of Major [P.] Mathews, around to the extreme left of the 
 rebel line, and a portion of the Third around to their right. I then 
 stationed the First [Middle] Tennessee as a reserve, and advanced the 
 remainder of the Third and Fourth Ohio to engage the enemy in front, 
 when we found them strongly posted in a piece of woods, about one- 
 fourth of a mile beyond the village, where they were dismounted and 
 sheltered behind rocks and trees, and gave us stubborn resistance for 
 about fifteen or twenty minutes, when the detachments I had sent around 
 to their right and left flanks arrived in position and opened an enfilading 
 fire on both flanks. The enemy gave way in confusion, when a charge 
 was ordered with sabers and pistols. We pursued them for about three 
 miles, during which we took about 100 prisoners, with their horses, arms, 
 and equipments; wounded from twenty to thirty, and found five dead 
 bodies on the field; also a large quantity of commissary and quarter 
 master s stores fell into our hands. Their rout was complete, and they 
 fled in great consternation, throwing away their guns, overcoats, blankets, 
 and everything that would impede their progress. 
 
 Among the prisoners were eight commissioned officers, including the 
 adjutant of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, with all his books, papers, 
 reports, etc., of the regiment. The enemy s force has been variously 
 estimated at from 600 to 1000, while our force, actually engaged, did not 
 exceed 250, and, considering the disparity of numbers and the advantage 
 of the rebel forces in position, I think it may be considered one of the 
 most daring and brilliant feats of the war. 
 
 When all, both officers and men, behaved with such determined 
 bravery, it would be almost an act of injustice to mention any names in 
 particular. I will, therefore, send you the names of all the commissioned 
 officers of the Third and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. I do not know 
 the officers of the First [Middle] Tennessee, except Major Murphy. 
 Captains C. W. Skinner and H. H. Hamilton, of my staff, were very 
 vigilant and efficient. 
 
 Officers of the Fourth Ohio were Colonel Eli Long, commanding 
 regiment; Major P. Matthews; Captains G. A. Boss, commanding Com 
 pany F; R. E. Rogers, commanding Company G; R. P. Rifenberrick, 
 commanding Company I ; C. A. G. Adae, commanding Company K, and 
 Lieutenants [E. S.] Wood, commanding Company L, and [A. R.] 
 Megrue, commanding Company M. 
 
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 Officers of the Third Ohio: Captains William M. Flanagan, com 
 manding regiment ; H. C. Miner, commanding First Battalion ; J. B. 
 Luckey, commanding Squadrons I and K, Third Battalion ; Lieutenants 
 E. A. Haines, commanding Company H ; Norman Brewster, commanding 
 Company L; [J. W.] Likens, commanding Company M; F. Brainard, 
 commanding Company I, and J. R. Hall, commanding Company K. 
 Casualties as follows :* 
 
 We bivouacked for the night about one mile beyond the village. 
 Nothing occurred during the night worthy of record. 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 J. W. PARAMORE, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 CAPT. W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 Report of Captain William. M. Flanagan, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 
 March 3, 1863. 
 
 SIR: I have the honor to report the part sustained by the Third 
 Ohio Cavalry in the recent skirmish of March i, at Bradyville. 
 
 Pursuant to orders from brigade headquarters, the Third Cavalry 
 marched at daylight on the ist instant. On arriving at the Bradyville 
 pike, which lies but a short distance from our camp, I was ordered by 
 the colonel commanding to place my command in the rear of the Second 
 Brigade. I marched in this order until near the village of Bradyville, 
 and in sight of the enemy, who were in large force and strongly posted 
 in the woods, on advantageous ground, on the south side of town. On 
 forming a line of battle, the colonel commanding the brigade, with 
 promptness and energy, ordered me with my command to take the left 
 of the line. I objected somewhat as to the possibility of forming at that 
 juncture at the left, as it would throw my command upon an imprac 
 ticable, steep, stony side-hill. The Colonel told me it must be accom 
 plished. The enemy commenced about this time to send showers of 
 leaden hail upon us, doing us, however, but little injury. 
 
 As the officers and men of the Third seemed anxious for the affray, 
 I ordered them to ascend the hill, which they did as promptly and quickly 
 as the nature of the ground would admit. After getting my command 
 in line, I noticed at this time that I could gain a strong position on the 
 opposite side of a deep ravine that lay between my command and the 
 
 Nominal list, omitted, shows 1 killed and 6 wounded. 
 
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 edge of town ; but to gain this position I would have to pass through an 
 open field about 150 yards wide, and which would have exposed my 
 command more to the enemy s fire. The Colonel about this time ordered 
 me forward. I commanded the "Forward!" and with a yell, as if the 
 infernal regions had broken loose, we gained the desired position. We 
 then opened a brisk and active fire upon the enemy, who returned it 
 with a stubborn and determined spirit, holding us in check some ten 
 minutes ; but under our regular fire they were compelled to fall back a 
 short distance to the top of a hill and in the woods, where they dis 
 mounted and secreted themselves behind rocks, trees, logs, and every 
 place that would afford them shelter. In this position they awaited our 
 approach. We then left our position in the village, and marched in line 
 of battle to the woods on the south side of town, to the point the enemy 
 had recently occupied. We had hardly reached their former position 
 before we were greeted by a galling fire from the secreted enemy, wound 
 ing three men and killing seven horses. This was the trying moment ; but 
 the gallant Buckeye boys of the Third never flinched. The enemy held 
 us in check some twenty minutes, but their fire was kept up with spirit 
 and energy. The Colonel commanding brigade was present and in the 
 front rank ; ordered us to charge, and charge we did, though a little 
 promiscuously, driving the enemy in utter confusion through the woods, 
 capturing fifteen men before they could mount their horses. The pursuit 
 was continued some time, the enemy flying at breakneck speed over hills, 
 rocks, and hollows, throwing away their arms and every incumb ranee that 
 impeded their flight. We were finally ordered to cease pursuit, which we 
 did reluctantly. Bivouacked one and one-half miles south of Bradyville 
 for the night. At 4 o clock on the following morning we took up the 
 line of march for camp, where we arrived about 4 o clock p. m. of the 
 2d instant. 
 
 I am highly gratified and pleased with the conduct of both officers 
 and men during the skirmish. 
 
 The following is a list of the casualties among men and horses, 
 captures, etc. : 
 
 Captured eighteen men and horses fully armed and equipped. 
 
 The wounded were at once conveyed to camp, and properly cared for 
 by Surgeon M. C. Cuykendall. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 W. M. FLANAGAN, 
 Captain, Commanding Regiment. 
 
 LIEUT. A. M. HEFLEBOWER, 
 
 Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
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 Report of Captain William* M. Flanagan, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, 
 
 CAMP STANLEY, March 15, 1863. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to submit the following- report of the recent 
 scout of the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry : 
 
 Pursuant to orders, we marched on the morning of the 4th instant, 
 at daylight, under command of Colonel Eli Long, of the Fourth Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry, commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. Taking the 
 Salem pike, we marched about ten miles in the direction of Unionville, a 
 small village located on the Nashville and Shelbyville turnpike. On 
 arriving within two miles of the village, we encountered the enemy s 
 pickets, driving them in and following close upon their rear. 
 
 The enemy, occupying that place in force, fled in haste on hearing of 
 our approach. They did not escape in time, however, to prevent a loss 
 of fifty prisoners and their camp and garrison equipage, consisting of 
 tents, cooking utensils, wagons, etc. Not being prepared to carry any 
 of our captured property with us, we remained in camp just long enough 
 to destroy the same. Thence w r e were ordered toward Eagleville, on the 
 Nashville and Shelbyville pike, where we bivouacked for the night, our 
 horses under saddle, as we anticipated the enemy might follow in our 
 rear; but they were judicious enough to approach and reconnoiter in 
 small squads, which sufficed, however, to keep us on the alert, with our 
 arms by our side, during the night. 
 
 We were called up quietly the next morning at 4 o clock, and went 
 as silently as possible about our respective duties. After we had break 
 fasted we fell in line, and, learning the enemy were occupying Chapel 
 Hill, we marched for that point at 12 m. 
 
 We reached Chapel Hill about 4 p. m., but only to find vacant camps, 
 as General Steedman, with his brave and hardy soldiers, had routed the 
 enemy, killing and capturing a large number. Weary and disappointed, 
 we then fell back to our encampment at Eagleville. 
 
 On the following morning we took up our line of march for Camp 
 Stanley, but when four miles out were ordered to countermarch and 
 proceed to Triune. From Triune we marched in the direction of Franklin, 
 and, notwithstanding the roads were in bad condition from recent rains, 
 we made a very expeditious march, encamping at night about nine miles 
 from Franklin. Resuming our march early next day, we reached Frank 
 lin about 12 m., where we encamped and remained over night. 
 
 Early next morning, with the First Brigade, we took the Maury 
 County pike, and, traveling about six miles, turned to the left on a road 
 leading up a narrow valley to Thompson s Station, expecting there to 
 find the enemy in force ; but, being disappointed in this, we marched five 
 
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 miles farther on, making a junction at Columbia pike with a heavy 
 column of troops under command of General Granger. Taking the 
 advance of the whole column, with the First Cavalry Brigade immedi 
 ately in our rear, we started for Columbia, passing through Spring Hill, 
 a point which the enemy s cavalry had just left, retiring toward Columbia. 
 We pressed them closely, skirmishing with them along the way without 
 any casualties on our part. On arriving near Spring creek we found 
 the enemy strongly posted, guarding every ford and disputing with spirit 
 and energy our passage. After skirmishing for several hours with the 
 enemy across the stream, we returned to camp for the night, the enemy 
 still holding his position. 
 
 On the following day we were ordered to drive the enemy from his 
 position on the opposite side of the stream. The Third Ohio Volunteer 
 Cavalry, by order of the Colonel commanding, was dismounted and 
 ordered to dislodge the enemy at the upper ford. I proceeded with mv 
 command to a point within 600 or 700 yards of the ford. I divided my 
 command into three parts. I sent one-third, under Lieutenant [N.] 
 Brewster, to the right of the road; one-third, under Captain fj. B.] 
 Luckey,lo the left, and the remaining one-third I placed under command 
 of Lieutenant [E. A.] Haines near the road, under protection of a fence 
 and a piece of woods, to cover the retreat of the right and left flanks 
 in case a retreat should be necessary. I then ordered both flanks to 
 advance cautiously, taking advantage of any natural cover that might be 
 presented them. 
 
 On arriving within 100 yards of the ford, my right and left flanks 
 were greeted with a brisk fire from the enemy, posted strongly on the 
 opposite side of the stream, but the brave men of the Third did not falter, 
 but returned the fire with energy and spirit, and finally drove him from 
 his position and gained complete possession of the ford. Finding the 
 ford impracticable, we returned and reported accordingly. 
 
 On learning that the enemy had been forced from his position, we 
 were ordered to seek a more practicable fording, which we found a short 
 distance below, and, crossing over, we consolidated with the remounted 
 cavalry under General Granger s command, numbering about 3500, and, 
 being placed in the advance, we marched toward Columbia over a dirt 
 road leading from our place of fording to the Columbia pike. After 
 reaching the pike, one company, under command of Sergeant [James M.] 
 Hipkins, was sent to ascertain the practicability of fording Spring creek 
 in our rear, at the pike crossing, which he reported practicable. 
 
 When within one and one-half miles of Columbia the main column 
 was halted, and the Third Ohio was ordered to proceed cautiously 
 forward under cover of nightfall and ascertain, if possible, whether the 
 enemy still remained in force this side of Duck river. We found the 
 
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 enemy had withdrawn his whole force across Duck river, taking the ferry 
 boats and his pontoons with him, and had planted his artillery on the 
 opposite side of the stream. After waiting in silence to discover, if 
 possible, any movements the enemy might be making, and rinding all 
 within his camp quiet, we returned and joined the main column. We 
 then led, in the advance oi the column, in countermarch to a point this 
 side of Spring creek, where we went into camp about midnight. 
 
 At dawn on the following day we took up line of march for Franklin, 
 where we arrived at 2 p. m., and encamped for the night, and prepared 
 ourselves with rations for [a march] to Camp Stanley. 
 
 On the morning of the I3th, we left camp and marched to a point 
 within two miles of Triune, a distance of about eleven miles, and again 
 encamped for the night. 
 
 We resumed our march next morning before daylight, taking in our 
 course the Nashville and Shelbyville turnpike until we reached Eagleville, 
 when we turned to the left, following a dirt road until we reached the 
 Salem and Eagleville pike, leading to Murfreesboro. 
 
 We arrived at Camp Stanley about 4 p. m. on the I4th instant, with 
 out any casualties or disasters of any character. 
 
 I am proud to say that the officers and men of the Third bravely and 
 heroically endured the toils, fatigues, and dangers of the expedition with 
 out the least murmur or complaint. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 W. M. FLANAGAN, 
 Captain, Commanding Regiment. 
 LIEUT. HEFLEBOWER, Act. Asst. Adjt. Gen. 
 
 SNOW HILL, APRIL 3rd, 1863 
 
 Report of Colonel James W. Paramore, Third Ohio Cavalry, commanding 
 Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 
 CAMP STANLEY, April 7, 1863. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to forward, for the information of the General 
 commanding cavalry, the following report of the part taken by the Second 
 Cavalry Brigade in the recent scout through Auburn, Liberty, Alexandria, 
 and Lebanon : 
 
 We left camp on the morning of the 26. instant, at 6 o clock, with 
 about 400 men, 150 of the Third Ohio and 250 of the Fourth Ohio, the 
 balance of the brigade being on detached and picket duty or dismounted. 
 The portion of the Third Ohio was under the immediate command of 
 
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 Lieutenant-Colonel D. A. Murray, and the Fourth was commanded by 
 Colonel Long. 
 
 We marched on the Liberty pike, in rear of the First Brigade, till we 
 came to Prosperity Church, three and one-half miles beyond Auburn. 
 There a body of Confederate cavalry was encountered by the First 
 Brigade, and^, after a short skirmish, the rebel cavalry moved over to the 
 left of the position occupied by the First Brigade, and crossed the river 
 toward their flank. I was then ordered by Colonel Minty to take my 
 brigade across the river and dislodge them from that position, which I 
 did after a short skirmish, in which we killed one and wounded two or 
 three others. We drove them about one and one-half miles, when dark 
 ness closed the pursuit, and we foraged for our horses, and, returning to 
 the vicinity of the church, encamped for the night ; furnished three com 
 panies for picket. 
 
 On the morning of the 3d instant, in accordance with instructions 
 received, I moved on a by-road about one and one-half miles to the left 
 of the Murfreesboro and Liberty pike, and parallel with it (with a line of 
 skirmishers covering the front of my column and connecting with those 
 of the First Brigade), until I reached the Lebanon and McMinnville pike. 
 I then moved down that pike, toward Liberty, coming in the rear of the. 
 First Brigade. When we arrived at Liberty, I received orders to cross 
 the river to the right and dislodge the enemy s sharpshooters, that were 
 occupying a high hill to the east of the town, and opposing the advance of 
 the First Brigade. I did so, by dismounting a squadron of my command 
 and sending them up the hill as skirmishers, who soon gained its summit 
 and dispersed the rebels. It was accomplished with difficulty, however, 
 as it was a rough, rugged hill, and almost impassable even for footmen. 
 I moved the column over through a kind of gap through the mountain 
 till I struck a cove leading down to the pike. I followed that down to 
 the pike, where I met the First Brigade moving up, and there I received 
 orders to again move to the right across another mountain and occupy 
 a ravine to the right of Snow hill, where we expected the rebels would 
 make a stand. I accomplished that also in safety by climbing the moun 
 tain in single file (there being no road), and leading our horses. After 
 we had gained that position and closed up in line of battle, the First 
 Brigade moved up along the pike and formed in the ravine to our left. 
 During this time skirmishing was going on between the rebels and our 
 infantry and artillery moving up the pike, but with what success I could 
 not learn, as they were then concealed from my view. About this time I 
 learned from Lieutenant [W. L.] Hathaway, of the First Middle Tennes 
 see, that there was a path accessible for horsemen, by which we could 
 gain the summit of the hill and get around to the rear of the rebels and 
 cut off their retreat. Thinking that another dose of flank movements 
 
94 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 might do them good, I determined to make the trial, and started, which, 
 I am happy to state, proved an entire success. "Bonaparte crossing the 
 Alps" was an insignificant affair to our passage over that mountain. But 
 we gained the summit in safety, and shortly met the advance of the 
 enemy coming to drive us back, as it appears they had observed us ascend 
 ing the mountain. We drove them steadily before us till we came within 
 about one mile of the pike, where they had concentrated their whole 
 force, consisting of seven regiments, numbering between 2500 and 3000 
 men, commanded by Colonel Duke, who had just arrived from McMinn- 
 ville. Colonels Gano and Breckinridge were also present. 
 
 Here was a place that required nerve, as well as plenty of ammu 
 nition. To have retreated down that mountain would have been exceed 
 ingly disastrous, and almost an impossibility. After canvassing the 
 ground, and observing that it was a narrow passage or backbone, with a 
 deep ravine on each side, thus preventing them from getting around to 
 our rear, I determined to attack them vigorously, making as much show 
 of force as I could ; also feeling confident that we could whip any force 
 that could get in our front. Accordingly, after consultation with Colonel 
 Long and other officers, we opened the attack by dismounting the Fourth 
 Ohio, and sending them on under shelter of logs, trees, etc., to within 
 easy carbine range, when they opened the most terrific fire upon the 
 enemy for so small a number of men that I ever heard. I then placed 
 the lead horses in rear, and brought up the Third Ohio, and kept them 
 mounted in rear of the dismounted men, ready for pursuit in case they 
 should retreat. 
 
 Inch by inch the foe gave ground, stubbornly striving to resist our 
 progress, but our men fought with determined spirit, and never once 
 faltered. So rapid was their firing that in twenty minutes I found many 
 of the Fourth were out of ammunition, having fired some sixty shots in 
 that time. But the rebels had now begun to retreat more rapidly, and 
 rnany of them dropping their guns and cartridge-boxes, I gave orders to 
 fill the exhausted boxes from these. A concentration of force soon 
 became apparent on the enemy s right, and I extended my left and 
 strengthened it from the center and right. The firing again became fierce 
 on both sides, but the advantage was with us, and after slowly pressing 
 them some 600 yards farther through dense timber and thick chaparral, 
 an exultent shout of victory was carried along our lines, and the enemy 
 wheeled and fled precipitately. I immediately ordered the Third to 
 charge, and they rapidly followed the retreating column, pressing close 
 upon its rear and pouring in rapid volleys from their carbines. The Fourth 
 Ohio was well-nigh exhausted from the severe work they had had, 
 dismounted, but mounted their horses as soon as they were brought up, 
 and followed. The enemy s cavalry had meantime reached the Liberty 
 
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 and McMinnville pike, which runs over Snow hill, and struck to the 
 right toward Smithville. A few hundred yards from where we gained 
 the pike, the latter inclines to the left, and here the rear guard of the 
 pursued party attempted to hold the Third in check, firing one volley and 
 wounding two men, a sergeant and private of the Third Ohio, but they 
 were quickly driven from their position and were then pursued for about 
 one mile. Our horses were much worn or the chase would have been 
 continued farther. As it was, we overtook and captured some twelve of the 
 enemy, belonging to the Second and Third Kentucky Regiments. During 
 the fight and the chase we lost none killed and had but three wounded, 
 the two above referred to and one man of the Fourth, while the rebels 
 lost, in killed and wounded, at least twenty, and my opinion is that the 
 number was greater, though it was almost impossible to obtain accurate 
 information. Several of their wounded were picked up in the road and 
 in the thicket, and carried to neighboring houses by the Tenth Ohio, 
 which had now come up and reported* to me through the commanding 
 officer. The consternation of the enemy must have been as great as his 
 flight was rapid, for the route was strewn with arms, and accouterments, 
 and clothing, and I am the more convinced that a large number was 
 wounded from the quantity of saddles we found scattered in every 
 direction. 
 
 After halting on the hill for an hour, to rest my horses, and also in 
 expectation of further orders from the General commanding, I returned 
 toward Liberty to join the command, and went into camp this side the 
 intersection of the Auburn road. Picketed my front and left flank with 
 two companies. 
 
 On the 4th, I moved forward with the column, passing through 
 Alexandria, where I found and seized a government wagon, which had 
 been captured from the Union forces some time since. From Alexandria, 
 having the right of the column, I moved out the Carthage road, according 
 to orders received, a distance of about three or four miles, when a portion 
 of Colonel Wilder s command was met, coming from Carthage, and 
 orders then reached me to countermarch and return to Alexandria. From 
 the latter place I moved in rear of the First Cavalry Brigade, on the 
 Lebanon pike, and camped, about 5 p. m., one and one-half miles from the 
 village of Cherry Valley, where was found an abundance of forage, 
 belonging to a rebel family. Threw out two companies to my front at the 
 village, and one company on the bluff to my left, as picket. 
 
 On the morning of the 5th, I moved my command shortly after 
 daylight, and prepared to scout the country between this pike and the 
 Lebanon and Murfreesboro pike, with the consent and approval of the 
 General commanding, who added to my command for this purpose the 
 Fourth Michigan and Seventh Pennsylvania Regiments. The Seventh 
 
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 Pennsylvania was then sent across the country to the left to move through 
 Statesville and Painesville [Cainsville?]. They were ordered to throw 
 out a line of skirmishers to their front, to arrest all guerrillas and suspi 
 cious parties, and to take serviceable horses and mules wherever found. 
 The Fourth Michigan was ordered to move to the right of the Seventh 
 Pennsylvania, with similar instructions, their line of skirmishers to con 
 nect on the left with those on the right of the Seventh Pennsylvania. 
 After moving down the pike about one mile farther, I sent out the Third 
 Ohio, their skirmishers connecting with the Fourth Michigan on the left, 
 and their right to move on a line with the left of the Fourth Ohio, whose 
 column was to move in parallel line about two miles nearer Lebanon. 
 By this disposition of forces my line of skirmishers took in some twelve 
 miles of country, and each column was in supporting distance of the 
 others, in case of trouble. I myself, with staff, accompanied the Third 
 Ohio Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Murray commanding. All were in 
 structed to regulate their movements so as to be able to report in the 
 evening at Baird s Mills, nine miles from Lebanon. Not having the 
 official reports of commanding officers of the two regiments of the First 
 Brigade, I am unable to give the result of their expedition. The Third 
 and Fourth Ohio Regiments, of my brigade, succeeded in capturing and 
 seizing no horses, most of them known to have belonged to guerrillas 
 or other parties in the Confederate service, thirty-three mules, and twenty- 
 two prisoners. Some of the latter were afterward released, nothing 
 appearing against them, and the remainder were, by the brigade provost- 
 marshal, turned over to the infantry. Encamped near Baird s Mills. 
 
 On the 6th instant, we moved with the entire command toward 
 Murfreesboro, crossing Stone s river by easy ford. Arrived at camp at 
 2 o clock p. m. 
 
 Respectfully submitting the above, I am, Captain, your obedient 
 servant, J. W. PARAMORE, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade, 
 
 Per WM. E. CRANE, 
 
 Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 CAPT. W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. 
 
 Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas A. Murray, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 CAMP STANLEY, TENN., April 7, 1863. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to report, for the information of the Colonel 
 commanding, that, in compliance with instructions received, the regiment 
 left camp on the morning of the 2d instant, with five days rations, and 
 
Sir Months at Murfreesboro. 97 
 
 proceeded with the brigade on the Liberty pike as far as Prosperity 
 Church, the advance of the First Brigade driving in the enemy s pickets. 
 When the Third Ohio arrived at the church, they were ordered to the 
 left, throwing out a line of skirmishers the enemy being supposed endeav 
 oring to come around on that flank. I formed the line with the left thrown 
 back advancing obliquely to the front pushing the enemy s pickets on 
 their reserve about a mile distant, drawn up in line of battle to receive us. 
 I ordered the left of my line of skirmishers forward, thereby advancing 
 our entire line and reserve direct upon the enemy, who, I should judge, 
 numbered from 100 to 150. As we advanced they fell back, not attempt 
 ing to offer fight. The regiment still advancing, I received orders to 
 halt and keep my position, if possible, which we did, till ordered to forage 
 and return to camp. 
 
 April 3d, left camp, scouring the country to the left of the pike for 
 about four miles, when we turned to the left, getting upon the Alexandria 
 and Lebanon pike leading into the Liberty pike, on which we proceeded 
 some distance ; then turned to the right, and scoured the country on 
 the right of Liberty to within two or three miles of Snow hill. From 
 this point we kept still more to the right , availing ourselves of a bridle 
 path to the summit of a high hill, which, after descending, brought us on 
 a flat to the left and front of Snow hill, where we halted and formed, the 
 enemy firing a few shots from the top of the hill opposite. 
 
 From this point we crossed the McMinnville road, mounted another 
 high and steep hill, which really was achieved with difficulty. Now 
 being in rear of Snow hill, we advanced toward Liberty pike to the 
 rear of the enemy, proceeding but a short distance, when our advance was 
 attacked in force. The Fourth Ohio Cavalry, being in advance, was 
 immediately ordered to fight on foot and advance, which it did well. The 
 Third Ohio was ordered to the front as a reserve, mounted. The enemy 
 retiring, we were ordered to the front, charging and pursuing them fully 
 a mile, killing some (number unknown) and taking twelve prisoners. 
 
 During the pursuit the enemy made two stands, but of no effect ; we 
 drove them as before. They getting behind a very thick cover, in which 
 they were entirely concealed from view, and there being a large field 
 between ourselves and them, with fences between at each end of it, and 
 they, from ambush, keeping up a heavy fire upon us, I withdrew, hoping 
 it would draw them out, which, however, did not succeed as I expected. 
 I left a small rear guard, on which a few of them advanced, who, when 
 they turned upon them, fell back to their former position. The balance 
 of our command then coming up, we formed with them. 
 
 During the pursuit two of our men were wounded, one severely, 
 Sergeant [William] Van Wormer, Company C, and Private Saltzgaber, 
 Company I, slightly. 
 
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 We fell back to Liberty, and encamped about four miles this side of it, 
 
 April 4, left camp and proceeded to Alexandria, and from there 
 about one mile on the Carthage road, when we countermarched and 
 returned to Alexandria, and took the Lebanon pike and encamped. Re 
 maining 1 there about three hours, again resumed the line of march, about 
 five miles farther on, where we encamped. 
 
 From this place I set out, in compliance with instructions, in pursuit 
 of some guerrillas who had fired at the advance guard and fled. The 
 officer commanding the squadron sent Captain [J. B.] Luckey, who made 
 every search possible for them, but without success, and returned to 
 camp, after four hours hard riding. 
 
 April 5, left camp and proceeded on the Lebanon pike but a short 
 distance, when we were ordered to the left, to scour across the country in 
 search of guerrillas, meat, provisions, horses, mules, etc., toward Baird s 
 Mills. I deployed three companies as skirmishers to the right and left, 
 connecting with the Fourth Ohio on their right and the Fourth Michigan 
 on their left. We made several captures ; in all twenty-nine prisoners, 
 fifty-three horses, and seventeen mules. The prisoners, on our arrival at 
 camp, I turned over to the brigade provost-marshal, several of whom 
 have been released, whom no charges could be brought against. En 
 camped on the night of the 5th at Baird s Mills. 
 
 April 6, returned to camp. Stone s river fordable, with not over two 
 feet of water at the deepest part of the ford. 
 
 During the scout our horses had ample forage, and I am happy to 
 state that the conduct of both officers and men of the regiment was highly 
 creditable to them. Respectfully submitted, 
 
 D. A. MURRAY, 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Third Ohio Cavalry, Comdg. Regiment. 
 CAPTAIN W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Second Cavalry Brigade, 
 Camp Stanley, Tenn. 
 
 Report of Lieut. Col. Oliver P. Robie, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding 
 Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 CAMP STANLEY, April 16, 1863. 
 
 SIR : In obedience to your order, received this morning, I have the 
 honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Second 
 Brigade in the late engagement at Franklin, Tenn. : 
 
 I was ordered on Friday, April 10, to assume command of this 
 brigade, consisting of 190 officers and men of the Third Ohio, 257 of the 
 Fourth Ohio, and also a detachment of the Third Indiana Cavalry. 
 
^ Months at Murfreesboro. 99 
 
 We left camp at 6 o clock a. m., and marched to within four miles 
 of Franklin, at which point I received orders from the General commading 
 to move with my command across the Harpeth Fork at a ford three miles 
 to the left of the Murfreesboro pike, and proceed to Franklin, on the 
 Lewisburg pike. Having crossed the ford, and while moving in the 
 direction of the Lewisburg pike, my advance guard captured a surgeon 
 and quartermaster belonging to the Confederate Army ; also two negroes, 
 who reported a force of the enemy between us and Franklin. 2000 strong. 
 A company which had been sent down the Lewisburg pike also reported 
 the enemy in force in that direction. At this moment heavy firing was 
 heard on the Lewisburg pike. Knowing that the Fourth Regulars had 
 been sent in that direction, and were probably engaged with the enemy, 
 I immediately prepared my command to move to their support. While 
 advancing in line, and when within a few hundred yards of the enemy, 
 who were plainly visible in strong force, I received orders from the com 
 manding General to fall back and recross the stream. My command 
 returned in good [order] to within a short distance of the ford. The 
 enemy observing our movements, advanced rapidly and opened fire upon 
 our right. I ordered my men to return the fire, which was promptly 
 done, with good effect, repulsing them twice. 
 
 At this time I ordered the left to hold the enemy in check while I 
 could retire the right of my line. While endeavoring to execute this 
 movement, the enemy charged in strong force, driving in my skirmishers 
 and causing my line to fall back in confusion. I succeeded in rallying 
 my men and formed another line. The enemy having dismounted, 
 advanced rapidly through the open field, and opened fire upon us, at 
 about 300 yards distance. We returned their fire, and drove them back in 
 confusion. I then withdrew my command across the stream, and took 
 position commanding the ford, which I was ordered to hold. My loss was 
 two killed and six wounded. The enemy undoubtedly [lost] more heavily, 
 but they having possession of the ground, were enabled to remove their 
 killed and wounded. 
 
 That night we remained in camp at this point. The next morning 
 I surrendered command of this brigade to Lieutenant-Colonel Murray, 
 who is my superior officer, and took command of my regiment, the Fourth 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 O. P. ROBIE, 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 CAPT. W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
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 MAY 12, 1863. Reconnaissance from La Vergne, Tenn. 
 
 Report of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HDQRS. DETACHMENT SECOND CAVALRY BRIGADE, 
 
 CAMP NEAR LA VERGNE, TENN, May 12, 1863. 
 
 SIR : Pursuant to instructions, I have the honor to report as follows : 
 I left camp with my command as soon as the Third Ohio Cavalry 
 joined, about 2 :2O a. m. today, arriving at the camp of the First Ohio 
 Cavalry at 5 145 a. m. On arriving there, I placed Colonel Eggleston in 
 command of his regiment, 240 men, as he reported, and seventy of the 
 Third Ohio, with the following instructions : To divide his command 
 into three columns ; the right-hand column going to Jefferson, and leaving 
 a guard of forty men in the vicinity of Street s Ford, just south of 
 Jefferson, a point where a major of the First Ohio Cavalry, who is better 
 posted in a knowledge of this country than any one I can find, told me 
 the rebels were most likely to cross. The right-hand column was then 
 to come down Stone s River to the Upper Charlton s Ford, leaving guards 
 at all the fords en route. The center column was to move directly east 
 to Charlton s Ford, and remain there until joined by the other two 
 columns. The left-hand column was to move to Steward s Ferry, com 
 municating with Colonel McCook, and then move up Stone s River to 
 Charlton s Ford, leaving guards at the fords, as in the other case. When 
 the three columns had joined at Charlton s Ford, they were to move 
 together to Rural Hill, under Colonel Eggleston, and from that point 
 throw out small scouting parties in different directions, and, if he en 
 countered the enemy, to resist him sufficiently to make him develop his 
 force. Inclosed please find dispatch from Colonel Eggleston, First Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry. As the country is very rough, and his command 
 has quite a long march to make, I doubt if he will be able to accomplish 
 it today. I will relieve him tomorrow at noon with a portion of my 
 command ; but as it is impossible to place a force sufficient to offer any 
 resistance at all of the various crossing of the stream, some twenty miles, 
 I will only leave a small picket to give warning at suitable places, and 
 keep the rest of my command as well concentrated as I can consistently 
 with patroling the river, and sending small parties across the river to 
 find out which road the rebels contemplate coming. There are 263 men 
 of my regiment here, and 105 of the Third Ohio. There are quite a 
 number of both regiments remaining in camp who should be made to join 
 their commands. It was impossible for me to get them all out in the dark. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Col. Fourth Ohio Vol. Cav., Comdg. Detachment Second Cav. Brig. 
 CAPTAIN W. B. CURTIS, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General, First Cavalry Division. 
 
Six Months at Murfreesboro. 101 
 
 MAY 21-22, 1863. Expedition from Murfreesborough to Middleton, Tenn., 
 
 and Skirmish. 
 
 Report of Major Horace N. Rowland, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 
 Camp Twrchin, Tenn., May 25, 1863. 
 
 COLONEL : I have the honor to report, for your information, that, in 
 compliance with instructions received from brigade headquarters, I, with 
 a part of the Third Ohio Cavalry, consisting of 127 enlisted men and 
 nine commissioned officers, reported on the 2ist instant, at 7 p. m., at 
 the headquarters of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, whence we proceeded, 
 pursuant to instructions, to join the First Cavalry Brigade, which was 
 to form on the Salem pike, with the right resting on the bridge across 
 Stone s River, about two miles from Murfreesborough. From this point 
 my command moved with the column out on the Salem pike until we 
 struck the old dirt road leading to Shelbyville through the town of Mid 
 dleton. The column moved out on this road, and after marching all 
 night, arrived at and surprised the camps of the Eighth Confederate 
 Cavalry and First Alabama Cavalry, in the vicinity of Middleton. 
 
 During the skirmishing, and until the camps were destroyed, my com 
 mand was held in reserve and took no part in either. When the column 
 moved out on the return to Murfreesborough, my command was in the 
 rear of the column. I was ordered to throw out a strong rear guard, 
 which I did, sending out two companies, viz, G andi C. 
 
 Our rear guard was attacked by small parties of the enemy, and 
 skirmishing was kept up for a distance of two to three miles on our return 
 march, the enemy being checked alternately by the Third and Fourth 
 Ohio Cavalry falling back and securing position. Other regiments also 
 took part in the skirmish, but I am not informed what regiments they 
 were. 
 
 My command returned to camp at 2 130 p. m. of the 22d, having sus 
 tained a loss of two wounded and one missing. 
 
 Wounded : Sergt. John Reynolds, Company K, arm shattered by 
 musket-ball, and Private Casper Smith, Company K, leg shattered by 
 musket-ball. 
 
 Missing: Private Thomas H. Horobin, Company G. 
 
 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 HORACE HOWLAND, 
 Major Third Ohio Cavalry, Commanding Detachment. 
 
 COLONEL ELI LONG, 
 
 Comdg. Detachment Second Cav. Brig., Camp Turchin, Tenn. 
 
History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 JUNE 4-5, 1863. Scout to Smithville, Term.* 
 
 Extract from "Records of Events," Second Brigade, Second Cavalry 
 Division, Department of the Cumberland, Commanded by Colonel EH 
 Longj 
 
 June 4th, Colonel Paramore, with the Third, Fourth, and Tenth Ohio 
 Regiments, went on a scout, accompanying- Colonel Wilder s brigade of 
 mounted infantry. Skirmished with rebel cavalry at Snow Hill, twenty- 
 five miles from Murfreesborough. Drove them from their position and 
 encamped near Liberty. 
 
 June 5th, Colonel Paramore moved with his brigade and two regi 
 ments of mounted infantry toward Smithville, twelve miles from Liberty. 
 Just below Liberty, encountered rebel skirmishers. Met no heavy resist 
 ance until reaching Smithville, where (Thomas) Harrison s brigade of 
 rebel cavalry was encountered and fought for some hours. Drove them 
 back a mile, when they again formed in the woods and resisted stoutly, but 
 were again defeated and fell back in confusion. Colonel Paramore lost 
 two men of the Third Ohio, wounded. Rebel loss unknown, they carrying 
 off their wounded. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN 
 
 June 24th We left camp at 5 130 a. m. and marched to Readyville, 
 twelve miles east of Murfreesboro. Here we were joined by the Second 
 Battalion under Major Seidel. It had been stationed here with Hazen s 
 Brigade of Infantry since January loth, covering the left flank of the 
 Union Army, while it lay at Murfreesboro. During that time the bat 
 talion had been kept busy picketing, patroling, scouting and foraging, and 
 when not otherwise engaged, there was always drill to keep the men busy. 
 During their stay they had a number of encounters with the enemy, three 
 of which we find reports of in the official records. The first was on Jan 
 uary i8th, near Woodbury, the battalion being under the command of 
 Captain McClelland, Major Seidel not having returned to the regiment 
 yet after his capture at Lexington. See Major McClelland s report, which 
 with those of Major Seidel of March 27th and April 2d, we reproduce 
 in full, together with the complimentary reports of General Hazen and 
 General Stanley. We were all glad to have the regiment reunited again, 
 and to know that a general movement of the army was being made and 
 we have no doubt but that Bragg and his army would soon be forced out 
 of Tullahoma and across the Tennessee river. General Turchin command 
 ing, the division marched with the Second Brigade under command of 
 
The Tullahoma Campaign. 103, 
 
 Colonel Long. Wilder s Third Brigade is also on the left of the army. 
 Colonel Minty s First Brigade is on the right flank and is marching by the 
 way of Shelbyville. There was heavy cannonading off to the right and 
 in our front all day. We camped at Bradyville. 
 
 June 25th Rained hard all night. On the march at 7 a. m. in the 
 direction of Manchester. Passed through Hawes Gap. Heavy cannonad 
 ing on the right. We passed the artillery and Palmer s Division of In 
 fantry. Heavy work for the artillery climbing the mountains. Stopped 
 early in the afternoon in a piece of woods. Captured some prisoners. 
 Very little forage to be had. Rained all day. 
 
 June 26th Still raining. Saddled up at noon, moved forward about 
 three miles. The brigade went into position in a piece of woodland and 
 waited for the wagons to come up. We were in a wild rough country. 
 Cannonading in the direction of Beech Grove, Hoover and Guy s Gaps. 
 
 June 27th Wagons came up in the afternoon ; three days rations 
 issued. Moved up to Pochahontas and camped. Our troops had taken 
 Shelbyville, Beech Grove and Manchester ; most of the regiment on picket. 
 Some one stole General Turchin s coffee pot. It was of enough import 
 ance to send a staff officer in search of it, but he did not find it; rained. 
 
 June 28th Rained in the morning but cleared up in the afternoon. 
 In from picket early. No time for breakfast. Moved out toward Man 
 chester. Roads blocked with wagons, infantry and artillery. Pioneers 
 repairing roads ; camped about one mile north of Manchester ; wagons 
 came up late in the afternoon ; plenty of good water. We spent the after 
 noon cleaning arms and drying clothes. Inspection of arms. Bragg s 
 army in Tullahoma. 
 
 June 2Qth Did not move. Forage very scarce. Companies C and 
 G went out foraging and got some corn which Colonel Long, who was 
 in command of the brigade, took from us and gave to the Fourth Ohio. 
 There had been considerable friction between Colonels Paramore and 
 Long ever since the latter was placed in command of the brigade, and 
 when Long took the corn Paramore told him what he thought of him, 
 and Long ordered him under arrest, but Paramore refused to recognize 
 his authority. The next morning Long sent over to the regiment for a 
 horse that Company K had captured. Colonel Paramore sent word to 
 Lieutenant Brown not to let them have the horse. Then Long came 
 himself with his provost guard. Brown got his Company under arms, 
 and Paramore ordered out Companies C and G to support Company K if 
 it was necessary, and as Long came up Lieutenant Brown ordered him 
 to halt and his company to a "ready," and told Long if he advanced an 
 other step he would fire on him. Colonel Long retired from the field 
 and reported the matter to General Rosecrans. Both Paramore and 
 Brown were placed under arrest. Paramore was discharged from the 
 
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 service, but there was nothing further done in Lieutenant Brown s case. 
 Colonel Seidel was now in command of the regiment. The third battalion 
 was ordered out in the evening, marched about eight miles, reported to 
 General Brannan and camped about midnight. 
 
 July ist Third battalion went out on the Winchester road on picket. 
 Relieved at noon and went out with Negeley s Division on the Decherd 
 road. Considerable fighting all afternoon. Went into camp at 9 p. m., 
 eight miles from Decherd. The first and second battalions remained at 
 Manchester until 10 p. m., and after a march of about ten miles, camped 
 one mile from Hillsboro. 
 
 July 2d Started at sunrise, marched to Morrison s ford on Elk 
 river. The banks were high and the rebels had a strong position defended 
 by artillery. We lost two killed and nine wounded. A crossing was 
 effected by some of our troops, some miles below, and the enemy aban 
 doned the ford, when we crossed, putting our carbines in a dugout and 
 fording the river. In some places the horses had to swim. The Third 
 Battalion moved up to Elk river near Decherd, found the bridge burned 
 and the rebels entrenched on the opposite bank. The artillery was 
 brought up and drove them off. The Pioneers came up and went to 
 work on the bridge and the next morning we crossed and moved up 
 within two miles of Decherd and camped. 
 
 July 4th The Third Battalion moved out about noon, passed to the 
 east of Decherd and went up the mountains about six miles. The rebels 
 had abandoned all their positions. We returned to the foot of the moun 
 tain, where the infantry were in camp. About 3 a. m. July 5th a terrific 
 storm just before daylight flooded our camp. 
 
 July 6th Brigade left camp about 8 a. m., passed through Decherd 
 and camped about six miles out on the Huntsville road, where the Third 
 Battalion joined us. 
 
 July 8th Salutes were fired from all the batteries in honor of the 
 capture of Vicksburg. 
 
 July Qth Regimental inspection in the afternoon. 
 
 July loth Ordered out on a scout with two days rations. Marched 
 to Fayetteville and went into camp. 
 
 July nth Boots and saddles at 4 a. m., but we lay at Fayetteville 
 all day. 
 
 July I2th Boots and saddles at 4 a. m. Moved at 10 a. m. in the 
 direction of Pulaski ; camped in the evening about thirteen miles from 
 Pulaski. 
 
 July 1 3th Reveille at 4, moved out at 8, got to Pulaski about noon; 
 ran a lot of rebels out, captured quite a number of prisoners. 
 
 July 1 5th Reveille at 4 a. m. Moved at 7, got to Elkton about 
 noon. Could not cross because of high water. Camped about twelve 
 
The Titllahoma Campaign. 105 
 
 miles from Fayetteville, went out foraging, captured two prisoners, two 
 horses and a mule, got a lot of provisions ; we lost two men, captured. 
 
 During the remainder of July the brigade was scouting over the 
 country, around Pulaski, Tenn., Huntsville, Ala., and Fayetteville, Tenn., 
 gathering all kinds of army supplies forage, horses, cattle, mules, 
 negroes several hundred negroes were brought in. We had a number 
 of skirmishes, but all the bodies of rebel troops were either scattered or 
 were driven south across the Tennessee river. 
 
 On the 2 ist we moved to S alem, where we remained for a week, 
 and on the 27th the paymaster visited us and we received four months pay. 
 
 Report of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 
 Brigade. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 IN THE FIELD, FIVE MILES FROM WINCHESTER, TENN., July 8, 1863. 
 
 CAPTAIN : In pursuance of instructions received, I have the honor 
 to forward the following as a report of the proceedings of the Second 
 Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, in the forward movement from Mur- 
 freesboro, from the time of leaving there until present date. Accom 
 panying the same are submitted the regimental reports and reports of 
 detachments detailed from my command at different times. 
 
 The brigade marched out of its camp, on the Lebanon pike, at 6 
 o clock, June 24, 1863. Moved out the Woodbury pike, in conjunction with 
 the Chicago Board of Trade Battery and the First Brigade, Second 
 Cavalry Division, the latter being subsequently countermarched and 
 separated from Brigadier-General Turchin s command, of which my 
 brigade formed a part. At Readyville, twelve miles from Murfreesboro, 
 I left the Woodbury pike, taking the Bradyville and Manchester road, 
 having at Readyville joined to my command the Second Battalion of the 
 Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Camped near Bradyville that night, in 
 close proximity to General Palmer s infantry division. Hard rain all 
 day, and road heavy. 
 
 On the 25th, I marched out at 6 a. m., going by easy motion toward 
 Manchester. Passed Hollow Springs and halted at Lumley s Stand, 
 junction of Bradyville, of Manchester and Shelbyville, and of McMinn- 
 ville roads. Three suspicious appearing persons were here taken, one 
 of whom proved a notorious character, and I then sent parties to recon- 
 noiter as far as Noah s Fork, three miles to the west, and Pocahontas, 
 lying six miles eastward. Courier stations were found at each of these 
 points, and one rebel courier captured at each, together with three other 
 prisoners near the latter point. Left the Second Kentucky Cavalry on 
 
106 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 picket, and retired two and one-half miles to camp. Wet weather all 
 day, and my train not up in consequence of difficult traveling. 
 
 Moved at 9 o clock on the morning of the 26th, having previously 
 sent back to Bradyville nine companies of my command to assist in 
 bringing forward the wagons. Made a halt again at Lumley s Stand, 
 and bivouacked, remaining till 2 p. m. of the 27th, when I received 
 orders to move to Pocahontas and camp. 
 
 Early on the morning of the 28th, moved my command, by order, 
 toward Manchester, via. Lumley s, and thence southwardly, over roads 
 made by continued wet weather almost impassable even for cavalry. 
 Arrived at Manchester at 10 a. m. From here sent one company of the 
 Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry back to Murfreesboro for train left 
 there. Subsequently had orders to send two battalions to report to 
 Major-General Thomas for outpost duty. Detail was made from Second 
 Kentucky Regiment, and sent under charge of Colonel Nicholas, this 
 leaving but one company of his regiment with me. On the same day 
 two battalions of the Fourth Ohio were detached for outpost duty on 
 General Brannan s front, Major Mathews commanding. 
 
 June 2gth, two battalions were detailed from the First Ohio to report 
 to General Brannan for picket duty. 
 
 On June 3Oth, one battalion was detached from the Third Ohio, also 
 for picket duty with General Brannan, this making seven battalions 
 detached from the brigade. 
 
 Remained in camp at Manchester till 10 p. m. July ist, when I 
 marched toward Hillsboro, reaching there at 2 the following morning. 
 Moved on the Pelham road and bivouacked. 
 
 In the saddle again at 5 a. m. July 2d. Returned to Hillsboro, and 
 thence taking the Winchester road. When within a mile of Morris ford 
 of Elk river, my advance discovered a squad of rebel cavalry and gave 
 chase, the remainder of their regiment (Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry) 
 moving up briskly. Pursued them to the river, and drove them into the 
 stream, when sharp musketry firing was opened on the advance from 
 the woods on the opposite shore, and replied to by my men, who found 
 the water too deep to ford readily. The enemy proved to be in consider 
 able force, and additional companies were moved up to support the 
 advance. One officer (Captain Adae) and one man of the Fourth were 
 here wounded, and the firing becoming more heavy, I dismounted the 
 remaining company of the Fourth, and sent them forward as skirmishers 
 on the front and left. I then dismounted a part of the Third Ohio and 
 deployed them in the woods on our right. The numbers of the enemy 
 were augmented by reinforcements from their rear, and they occupied 
 a quite strong position, so that it was found difficult to dislodge them 
 till two pieces of Captain Stokes battery were brought forward, by 
 
The Tullahoma Campaign. 107 
 
 order of General Turchin, and opened upon them. This silenced their 
 fire for a while, but meantime they were reinforced by a brigade of 
 infantry and two pieces of artillery, the latter of which opened upon us 
 a fierce fire with six and twelve-pounder shells and canister. My main 
 command (twelve companies altogether) was now forced back from the 
 woods. Sharp firing was now kept up on both sides for some time, the 
 rebel infantry retiring toward Decherd, with the two pieces of artillery. 
 At about 2 p. m. a large force of our cavalry arrived, with Major-General 
 Stanley, and I then, by order, moved forward across the river, the enemy 
 having fallen back from the ford. Soon came up with his skirmishers, 
 however, and immediately engaged them, the force proving to be one 
 brigade of Wheeler s cavalry, under direct command of General [W. T.] 
 Martin. I pressed them back slowly, having a heavy line of skirmishers 
 thrown forward and extending some 300 yards to right and left of the 
 road. My progress was stubbornly resisted till toward sundown, when 
 the enemy were put in full retreat, and we had full possession of the 
 ground for the night. 
 
 My entire loss during the day was one officer and ten men wounded. 
 Two of the latter were mortally wounded, and died during the afternoon. 
 The loss of the enemy could not be ascertained, their wounded being 
 mostly carried off. A number of dead bodies were found on the field, 
 and Colonel [James D.] Webb, of the Fifty-first Alabama, was found at 
 a farm-house, mortally wounded. 
 
 July 3, I moved at 8 130 a. m., following the brigade of Colonel Minty. 
 Passed through Decherd and went into camp near the town. In the 
 evening, pursuant to orders, sent Colonel Eggleston, First Ohio, with 
 the fragments of the First and Fourth Ohio and Second Kentucky, back 
 to Manchester to bring forward the train of the Second Division. 
 
 July 4, two battalions of the First Ohio and one battalion of the 
 Second Kentucky were returned to the command, and on the 5th two 
 battalions of the Fourth Ohio returned. 
 
 On the 6th of July, I marched out from camp about 9 a. m., following 
 the First Division, General Mitchell. Passed through Winchester, and 
 proceeded on the Winchester and Huntsville road to a point six miles 
 northeast of Salem, and went into camp. 
 
 The battalion of the Third Ohio returned to this camp and rejoined 
 the brigade, this leaving my command short one battalion, Second Ken 
 tucky. 
 
 Remained at same camp during the 7th, the command being mostly 
 employed in foraging during the day. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Comdg. Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Dhnsion. 
 CAPT. W. B. CURTIS, 
 
 Asst. Adjt. Gen., Second Cav. Div., Dept. of the Cumberland. 
 
108 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Report of M city or Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, 
 
 CAMP NEAR SALEM, TENN., July 8, 1863. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to report to you the part taken by the Third 
 Ohio Cavalry Regiment during the scout of the last ten days. 
 
 Colonel [J. W.] Paramore, commanding the First and Third Bat 
 talions, left camp at Murfreesboro the 24th of June, passing through 
 Ready ville, where the regiment was joined by the Second Battalion, under 
 my command. From here the whole brigade advanced into the Barren 
 country, and after a tedious march of four days the regiment arrived at 
 Manchester, where the brigade encamped until July i. At Manchester 
 Colonel Paramore was put under arrest, and I was ordered to take charge 
 of the regiment. From here the regiment and a few companies of the 
 Fourth Ohio, Second Kentucky, and First Ohio Cavalry, and two pieces 
 of artillery, started for Elk River ford, on the Hillsboro and Winchester 
 [road], where we encountered the enemy for the first time on our march. 
 Here I was ordered by Colonel Long, commanding Second Brigade, 
 Second Division, to dismount the greater part of my men and fight on 
 foot, the balance of the regiment to support the battery during the fight.. 
 Finding the enemy too strong, and my command too much exposed, I 
 was ordered to fall back with the regiment until reinforcement had 
 arrived. At I p. m. Major-General Stanley arrived with reinforcements, 
 and, finding that the enemy had abandoned his strong position, my regi 
 ment was ordered to cross the river, which was immediately complied 
 with, and encountered the enemy s pickets after a short advance. My 
 regiment, marching on the right, up the road, encountered the Fifty-first 
 Alabama Cavalry. I immediately sent two companies, under command 
 of Major Howland, on the left, and one company, under command of 
 Captain Gates, on the right, to outflank the enemy, which was so success 
 fully done that the enemy, after a fight of ten minutes, fled in confusion, 
 leaving his dead and wounded behind. Colonel Webb, commanding 
 the Fifty-first Alabama, was severely wounded, and has since died. My 
 regiment lost one killed and four severely wounded. I pursued the 
 enemy about one mile farther, when, being very much fatigued, I was 
 ordered to go into camp near the battlefield. The next day the regiment 
 marched to Decherd, where we encamped until the 5th instant. Leaving^ 
 camp on the 5th instant, we moved near Salem, where the regiment is 
 encamped at the present time. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 CHAS. B. SEIDEL, 
 Major Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 COL. ELI LONG, 
 
 Commanding Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
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 Report of Lieutenant Chauncey L. Cook, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 CAMP NEAR MANCHESTER, July i, 1863. 
 
 SIR: In pursuance to your orders to me, I beg leave to report the 
 following : 
 
 Started out on the road leading to Hillsboro. Found the country 
 mostly wooded and quite level. Found only five houses on the road, 
 but found a number of roads leading off ; think they are plantation roads. 
 Found one wheat-field of ten or more acres cut and in the shock. Found 
 an old picket post three-fourths of a mile from town. Was informed 
 the rebels had three or four men on post last night. Left two men at 
 picket post; advanced with company to the town; formed men in line, 
 and sent out one sergeant and three men. Found in one building, I 
 should think, 100 bushels of corn, some old guns, some army clothing 
 Southern. Did not search thoroughly. There is a reported force of 
 rebels below town, but did not learn the number; think not much of a 
 force. 
 
 Respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 C. L. COOK, 
 
 Lieutenant. 
 COL. ELI LONG, 
 
 Commanding Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 July 28th We marched to Fayetteville and camped, and on the 3Oth 
 we had a very heavy thunderstorm, and our camp was flooded, the water 
 in many places being a foot deep. 
 
 August 2d Reveille at 3 a. m. On the march at 6. Returned to 
 Salem and went into camp early in the afternoon. 
 
 August 3d Reveille at 4 a. m. Started out at 6; reached Win 
 chester and went into camp about 2 in the afternoon. 
 
 August 5th Orders to be ready to move at a moment s notice. 
 Dress parade and inspection every day ; orders very strict against indi 
 vidual foraging. 
 
 August Qth General Crook, who took command of the division, 
 relieving General Turchin, on the 3oth ult, inspected the brigade. 
 
 August loth Captain Luckey of Company C received an order 
 dated August Qth dismissing him from the service for refusing to give 
 up two men of his company who had been out foraging contrary to 
 orders. The officers and men of the regiment regretted very much to 
 see the Captain go, for he was a universal favorite. The Captain was 
 reinstated, and later returned, and was heartily welcomed to our ranks 
 again. 
 
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 August 1 3th Reveille at i a. m., marched out at 3 with three days 
 rations. The Third Battalion went to Fayetteville, Company H to Salem, 
 and the remainder of the regiment to Gum Springs, and during the next 
 three days we were guarding railroad, doing scout and picket duty, etc. 
 
 August 1 5th Regiment marched to Winchester and went into camp, 
 where we remained until the iQth, when the regiment was again divided, 
 the Second Battalion, under Major Rowland, going to Cowan to guard 
 railroad, and the First and Third Battalions starting out on the Chicka- 
 mauga campaign. On the 22d the Second Battalion moved its camp to 
 Decherd, where Major Rowland selected a strong position for his camp 
 and fortified it by building breastworks, and took every precaution to 
 guard against surprise. The battalion was kept busy, on picket and 
 scout ; had a number of skirmishes with small bodies of the enemy ; took 
 some prisoners, and while rumors of forces that were on their way to 
 attack the camp were numerous, yet they were unmolested until Sep 
 tember 24th, when the rebels attempted a surprise, driving in the pickets 
 and charging on the fortifications, where they met with a repulse, losing 
 two officers and eight men killed, our loss being one man wounded. 
 
 On October 5th the battalion left Decherd for Shelbyville, joined 
 the Fifth Iowa Cavalry and camped at 10 p. m. 
 
 October 6th Started early, moved up to Elk river ; found the 
 bridges burned and a force of the enemy on the opposite bank to dispute 
 our crossing; drove them off. Crossing the river, we pushed on toward 
 Shelbyville. Went into camp late at night. 
 
 October 7th Marched to Shelbyville and rejoined the regiment, 
 which with the division was then in pursuit of and close upon the heels 
 of Wheeler, who was headed for the Tennessee river at Muscle shoals. 
 We will now take up the movement of the First and Third Battalions, 
 under Colonel Seidel, in the Chickamauga campaign. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN 
 
 In August, 1863, the two armies occupied practically the same 
 positions that they had held in 1862, before Bragg crossed the Tennessee 
 and invaded Kentucky. In the Tullahoma campaign, he chose to abandon 
 the country north of the river without a fight. Fearing to risk a battle 
 with the Tennessee in his rear, he fell back to Chattanooga and awaited 
 the next move of General Rosecrans. 
 
 The proposition was a difficult one. Chattanooga was protected on 
 the north and west by mountain ranges in such a manner as to make it 
 almost inaccessible, the railroad and wagon bridges across the Tennessee 
 
The Chickamauga Campaign. Ill 
 
 River were destroyed, the mountain roads were extremely difficult for 
 wagons and artillery, so that the movement of the army and its necessary 
 supplies was a perplexing problem. The plan of General Rosecrans was 
 to move the left of his army across the mountains north of the river to 
 a point opposite the town, threatening it from that direction, then crossing 
 the river with the main part of his army at Bridgeport, strike for Bragg s 
 communications to the south and compel him to abandon his position. 
 
 August i Qth Reveille at 4 a. m., left our camp at Winchester at 7 
 o clock, marched in the direction of Stevenson and camped at the foot 
 of the mountains. 
 
 August 2Oth Started soon after sunrise, crossed the mountains 
 and went into camp at Crow creek early in the afternoon. 
 
 August 22d Wagons came up ; they had a hard time getting over 
 the mountains. We started out in the forenoon, passed through Steven 
 son and camped about a mile from the river and five miles from the 
 town. On the 23d we moved up within three miles of Bridgeport and 
 went into camp late in the evening. August 25th Inspection of horses 
 in the forenoon, and in the afternoon inspection of arms. 
 
 August 28th A detail of men worked clearing a road to the river in 
 the afternoon. Volunteers were called for, men who could swim, to cross 
 the river at the ford. 
 
 August 29th Three officers and fifty-two non-commissioned officers 
 and men, with a guide, started out about i a. m. to cross the river at 
 Island Creek ford. The crossing was a dangerous one, as the ford was 
 crooked, and one and one-fourth miles long, and in many places the water 
 reached to the men s armpits. The object was to surprise and capture 
 the rebel pickets posted on the opposite bank. The men had succeeded 
 in getting safely across, when the revolver of one of the officers was 
 accidentally discharged, wounding one of our own men and giving the 
 alarm to the enemy, so that all except one escaped. Soon after daylight 
 the First and Third Ohio and Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiments 
 crossed at the ford and marched in a southeasterly direction, crossing 
 Sand mountain and Lookout valley, and camped on Lookout range, about 
 two miles from the Georgia line. 
 
 August 3Oth Reveille at 4 o clock. Started at sunrise, crossed the 
 state line into Georgia, passed through Trenton and marched within about 
 twelve miles of Chattanooga, but found no force of the enemy. Returned 
 by the way of Trenton and camped about sunset on the mountains. The 
 next day we recrossed the river at the ford and got into camp about noon. 
 Brought a few groceries and some tobacco from Trenton. Pontoon 
 bridge was built across the river at Bridgeport and infantry, artillery and 
 wagons crossed. 
 
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 September ist General muster and inspection in the afternoon. 
 
 September 2d Reveille at 4 o clock. The brigade received orders 
 to march with twelve days rations. Crossed the river at the ford, marched 
 about four miles and camped. Our wagon train went up to Bridgeport 
 to cross on the pontoon bridge. 
 
 September 3d Crossed Sand mountain and went into camp about 
 8 o clock p. m. in Wills valley. 
 
 September 4th Moved about four miles and went into camp in 
 Lookout valley. Inspection in the evening. 
 
 September 5th Started out on a reconnaissance early in the morn 
 ing. Crossed Lookout mountain ; found the enemy in Chattanooga valley, 
 but after a little skirmishing returned to camp ; captured a few prisoners. 
 
 September 6th Moved our camp about five miles up the valley. 
 
 September 7th Wagon train came up and the next day we got 
 orders to march at 5 p. m. with three days rations. Camped at 10 p. m. 
 on Lookout mountain. 
 
 September Qth Crossed the mountain and descended into Broom- 
 town valley. Found the roads blockaded with fallen timber. It was a 
 difficult matter to get the artillery over the mountains. Found the enemy 
 in the valley near Alpine. We got the roads cleared and down into the 
 valley about noon. After a sharp fight with the rebels in the afternoon, 
 we drove them, and camped on the field. Our regiment lost one man 
 killed, one officer and three men wounded, and a number of horses killed. 
 The enemy retreated toward Rome. 
 
 September loth Reveille at 3 o clock. Started out at sunrise. Went 
 within three miles of Summerville, but found no enemy, and we returned 
 to our camp of the night before. 
 
 September I3th Detachments of the regiment out patroling the 
 roads from 3 a. m. until daylight. At 8 a. m. got orders to move. Went 
 out on the Summerville road in the direction of Lafayette, with General 
 McCook ; found the enemy in force ; went within four miles of Lafayette ; 
 captured a number of pickets, returning at night. The next day we 
 ascended Lookout mountain and marched to Dougherty s gap, camping on 
 the mountain on the I5th, in the afternoon. 
 
 September i6th We moved up the mountain toward Chattanooga 
 about fifteen miles, and descending into McLemore s cove, camped on the 
 mountain side at night. 
 
 September I7th The Third Battalion went on a reconnaissance to 
 another pass, but found no enemy. Returned to McLemore s ; remained 
 guarding the pass at McLemore s until the iQth. The view from Look 
 out mountain was very fine. On the iQth we advanced by way of Catlett 
 gap and took position covering the ford of the Chickamauga at Glass s 
 mill, the extreme right of the Union Army. The Confederates held the 
 
OUR MONUMENT AT CHICKAMAUGA 
 
The Chickamauga Campaign. 113 
 
 ford with infantry, cavalry and artillery. We held our position until 
 about noon of the 2Oth, when General Crook was ordered to move to 
 Crawfish Springs, where we were attacked by a heavy force of cavalry, 
 infantry and artillery, and forced back about two miles. The ground 
 that we occupied at Crawfish Springs was rough and rocky, covered with 
 logs and underbrush, making it difficult to maneuver cavalry. We held 
 our new position until nightfall, when we fell back and took position 
 covering the Dry Valley road about six miles from Chattanooga, at mid 
 night. We held this position until the afternoon of the 2ist, when we 
 moved forward until we came against the line of the enemy s skirmishers. 
 We formed a battle line, threw out skirmishers, and remained in position 
 all night. 
 
 September 22d We fell back toward Chattanooga, our advance 
 regiments taking position in front of the gaps in Mission ridge to hold 
 them and prevent the enemy from coming into Chattanooga valley and 
 cutting off a part of our force. Reaching Chattanooga, we crossed the 
 river and went into camp. We lost twenty-five men killed and wounded 
 in the regiment. From September 23d until October 2d the regiment 
 was on duty at the different fords of the Tennessee above Chattanooga. 
 
 September 3Oth General Wheeler with a large force of cavalry 
 crossed the Tennessee river at Cottonport, after shelling the pickets, a 
 detachment of the First Ohio, guarding the ford at that point. It was 
 Wheeler s evident purpose to destroy the railroad in our rear. 
 
 October 2d The regiment concentrated on the river some twenty- 
 five miles above Chattanooga, for a chase after the divisions of Wheeler 
 and Wharton, both of whom were reported north of the river. 
 
 October 3d Started at sunrise to go after the brigade. Crossed 
 Walden s ridge and the S equatchie valley ; climbed the Cumberland moun 
 tains, and camped on the Cumberland plateau, about fifteen miles from 
 McMinnville ; neither forage nor water to be had. 
 
 October 4th Started at daylight, overtook the brigade in the fore 
 noon, passed through McMinnville. The town had been captured by 
 Wharton s Division and a large amount of government stores captured 
 and destroyed. General Crook, with a part of the division, had overtaken 
 Wharton s rear guards at the foot of the Cumberland mountains and 
 defeated them in a sharp engagement. Crook lost in this engagement 
 forty-six men killed and wounded. When we left McMinnville Long s 
 Brigade had the advance. We found the rear guard of the enemy in 
 position about two miles out on the Woodbury pike. The divisions of 
 Wheeler and Wharton had formed a junction and the entire force was 
 headed for Murfreesboro, and in order to hold us back until their columns 
 could get out of the way the rear guard made a stubborn fight, but 
 Wilder s Brigade dismounted and came into line on the right and left 
 
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 of the road, while Long s Brigade charged down the pike, and the enemy 
 were driven from their position. We pursued rapidly, driving them from 
 one position to another for six miles, when Wheeler was compelled to 
 face about and fight. After a sharp engagement, lasting until dark, the 
 enemy were driven from their position and we camped on the field. 
 
 October 5th We were in the saddle early. Passed through Wood- 
 bury. At Readyville we found the rebel camp fires still burning. Here 
 we crosed over to the Liberty pike, so as to come into Murfreesboro from 
 the north. Arriving at Murfreesboro, we found that Wheeler had passed 
 to the left, going toward Shelbyville. We halted for the night at Mur 
 freesboro, lying in line of battle near the fortifications. No forage for 
 the horses. 
 
 October 6th General Mitchell came up and assumed command, and 
 after drawing rations and ammunition we started out after Wheeler; 
 passed through Guy s gap at sundown and halted for the night seven 
 miles from Shelbyville. 
 
 October 7th Started early, Wilder s Brigade in the advance, Long s 
 Brigade following Wilder. Halted for a short time at Shelbyville. The 
 Second Battalion rejoined the regiment from Decherd. We moved out 
 from Shelbyville on the Lewisburg pike. A few miles from the town 
 we came upon the enemy in a piece of woods to the right of the road, 
 and after driving them a short distance, Wilder s men dismounted and 
 Colonel Long ordered his brigade, the Third Ohio, in the advance, to 
 draw saber and charge, and himself leading, drove the enemy four or five 
 miles. The rebel loss in this charge was about 300 killed, wounded and 
 prisoners. Colonel Seidel s horse was killed in the charge, and falling on 
 him, pinned him to the ground, holding him fast until extricated by some 
 of his men. As we neared Farmington the country became more rough 
 and broken, and taking advantage of a place where he thought cavalry 
 could not operate, the enemy took position in a dense cedar thicket, built 
 barricades and posted their artillery. Here Long was forced to await the 
 mounted infantry and artillery. Wilder s men dismounted, went into 
 line, the battery came into position and opened on the enemy. Wilder s 
 men charged and carried the enemy s position, capturing the battery of 
 four guns and a large number of prisoners. Night came on and stopped 
 pursuit. In the fight at this point Colonel Monroe of the One Hundred 
 and Twenty-third Illinois was killed while leading his regiment. 
 
 October 8th In the saddle early ; passed through Lewisburg and 
 Connersville, taking the Pulaski road and pushing forward rapidly, 
 driving the rear guard of the enemy before us. We reached Pulaski, 
 where we found the rebels had taken position to dispute our further 
 progress, but retreated as our advance came in sight, and we were again 
 stopped by darkness. We camped south of the town. 
 
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 October 9th We started out on the Lamb s Ferry road. Our 
 advance came up with the rear guard of the enemy, charging their posi 
 tion. They gave way after a slight resistance. Our men killed four and 
 captured sixty-five. We crossed Sugar and Anderson s creeks, and 
 reached the ford of the Tennessee just after the rear of Wheeler s com 
 mand had crossed. We went into camp after dark near Rogersville. 
 Here we destroyed a large amount of cotton belonging to the Confed 
 erate government. 
 
 General Crook estimated Wheeler s losses in the raid at 2000 men 
 and six pieces of artillery. He left on the field at Farmington eighty-six 
 dead and one hundred and thirty-seven wounded. One entire regiment 
 deserted and scattered in the mountains. 
 
 The loss in General Crook s Division was fourteen killed and ninety- 
 seven wounded. The only Union troops in the fight at Farmington were 
 Miller s (formerly Wilder s) Brigade of mounted infantry, Long s 
 Brigade of Cavalry and a part of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 
 
 On this raid, marches were made on several days of from forty to 
 fifty-seven miles, and only three days rations were issued during the 
 entire campaign. Many of the men were badly in need of clothing. A 
 little was issued at Murfreesboro, but most of the men had received none 
 since June, before starting out on the Tullahoma campaign. 
 
 The campaign had been a remarkable illustration of what men and 
 horses were capable of performing under conditions of deprivation of 
 food and rest. The weather had been bad, raining a great part of the 
 time. The marching and fighting had continued almost without inter 
 mission yet everything was borne cheerfully. 
 
 The following extract is from Colonel Long s official report of the 
 fight at Farmington: 
 
 October 7th "We again overtook the enemy a short distance west 
 of Shelbyville, when I was ordered to charge them, which I did with the 
 Third and Fourth Ohio, and Second Kentucky, the First Ohio having 
 been previously detached. The Third Ohio was in the advance. We 
 drove them three or four miles, capturing 140 prisoners, besides leaving 
 many killed and wounded along the road, and driving some 200 or 300 
 into the woods, thus cutting them off from their command. Lieutenant 
 Colonel Seidel s horse and my own having been shot in the charge and 
 myself wounded, the column was halted until Colonel Miller s Brigade 
 closed up. I had nothing further to do until near night, when one regi 
 ment of my brigade was ordered forward, and I sent the Second Ken 
 tucky Cavalry; but on arriving within charging distance the road was 
 found to be blockaded and the fences in the way on the side, the regi 
 ment was ordered back. It being now night, the engagement closed. 
 
116 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 "The losses in my brigade were very slight compared to the injury 
 inflicted on the enemy ten wounded, two mortally. I would respectfully 
 commend to the favorable notice of the Brigadier General commanding 
 division, the following named officers and^ soldiers whose good conduct fell 
 under my immediate observation : Lieutenant-Colonel Seidel, who be 
 haved, as he always does, most gallantly ; Captain T. D. McClelland, my 
 inspector, and Lieutenant C. J. Norton, aide on my staff. Sergeant 
 Martin, Third Ohio, my standard bearer, had his flag pierced with bullets 
 and the staff shot in twain while carrying it proudly at the head of the 
 brigade. Bugler Henry Deering, Fourth Ohio, and Private Henry Fisher, 
 who has since died of wounds, behaved admirably. Casualties on the 
 trip from Washington, Tenn., to Rogersville, Ala., as far as known : two 
 killed, fourteen wounded, thirty-six missing. 
 
 "(Signed) ELI LONG, 
 "Colonel, Commanding! 
 
 October loth The Cavalry Corps under General Mitchell concen 
 trated at Rogersville, but as all the rebel cavalry had crossed the river, 
 there was nothing for us to do but to move out in different directions. 
 
 October nth Long s Brigade was up before daylight, on the road at 
 6, marching north. Camped thirteen miles south of Pulaski. 
 
 October I2th Reveille at 4. Started at 6; passed through Pulaski 
 and took the Fayetteville road. Camped in the afternoon eight miles 
 from Pulaski. Rained all night. 
 
 October i3th On the march at the usual time. Some of our men 
 out foraging were fired upon; a number were captured, presumably by 
 stragglers from Wheeler s cavalry. They stripped their prisoners and 
 then let them go. Camped on a hill just south of Fayetteville. 
 
 October I4th Rained; rained incessantly. Remained at Fayette 
 ville until afternoon. Marched through Branchville to Salem, arriving 
 long after dark, and the rain pouring down in torrents. Camped west 
 of town. It was one of those nights that made a fellow think of his 
 "am fireside." 
 
 October I5th The Second Battalion ordered to Decherd. Rained 
 all night. 
 
 October i6th Still raining. Started out at 7 o clock on the Hunts- 
 ville road by the way of New Market ; camped on a branch of Flint river, 
 one mile east of New Market. 
 
 October I7th Reveille at 4 o clock. On the march at 6. Passed 
 through Maysville. Camped one mile east of the railroad bridge across 
 Flint river. 
 
 October 22d Moved camp to Maysville. Scouting parties sent out 
 hunting guerrillas ; captured Frank Gurley and his brother. 
 
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 October 26th Marched to Woodville. Our wagons ferried over the 
 creek at Paint Rock on rope ferry. Went into camp in the afternoon. 
 
 October 27th Lieutenant Isbell started for Stevenson with dis 
 mounted men. He took our prisoners along, including Gurley. 
 
 October 28th The Second Battalion, under Major Rowland, went 
 on a scout to Gunter s Landing. Did not find any rebels. Colonel Seidel 
 with a force of men engaged getting a locomotive out of the ditch. 
 Worked until long after dark. 
 
 October 3ist Cars arrived from Stevenson with stores. 
 
 November 4th Dismounted men left at Murfreesboro on the 
 Wheeler raid came in, bringing a lot of extra horses. 
 
 SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS 
 
 HDQRS, DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, 
 CHATTANOOGA, TENN., November 10, 1863. 
 
 VIII. The following reorganization of the Second Division, Cavalry 
 command, is announced : 
 
 The First Brigade will be commanded by Colonel W. W. Lowe, 
 Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and will be composed of : Seventh Pennsylvania Cav 
 alry, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, Fourth U. S. Cavalry, Fifth Iowa 
 Cavalry, Third Indiana Cavalry Battalion. 
 
 The Second Brigade will be commanded by Colonel Eli Long, Fourth 
 Ohio Cavalry, and will consist of: First Ohio Cavalry, Third Ohio 
 Cavalry, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, Tenth Ohio Cavalry, Second Kentucky 
 Cavalry. 
 
 The Third Brigade will be commanded by Colonel J. T. Wilder, 
 Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers, and will consist of : Seventeenth Indiana 
 Volunteers, Seventy-second Indiana Volunteers, Ninety-eighth Illinois 
 Volunteers, One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Volunteers, Ninety- 
 second Illinois Volunteers. 
 
 The commanding officers of the several regiments enumerated will 
 report to their respective brigade commanders herein designated. The 
 brigade commanders will report to Brigadier-General G. Crook, U. S. 
 Volunteers, commanding division. 
 
 By command of Major-General Thomas, 
 
 WM. McMlCHAEL, 
 
 Majo\r and Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 November I3th Major Rowland and six sergeants started for Ohio 
 to recruit for the regiment, Sherman s army passing on its way to Chat 
 tanooga. The regiments were very small. 
 
 November i5th A party of our men, out foraging, fired on, one 
 wounded and one captured. The regiment went out in pursuit, and sue- 
 
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 ceeded in capturing one lieutenant and three men. We received four 
 months pay. 
 
 November i6th The telegraph line to Stevenson broken and Lieu 
 tenant Rowland with Company E sent out to find the break and repair it. 
 They found the break near Stevenson, repaired it, and started back for 
 Woodville, meeting the brigade at Scottsboro on the i8th. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 FIGHTING FOR CHATTANOOGA 
 
 November I7th Orders received for the brigade to move to the 
 front, all dismounted men to remain with the wagon train. 
 
 November i8th The brigade started out toward Chattanooga. The 
 wagons and dismounted men, under command of Captain Livermore, 
 moved to Paint Rock. All superfluous baggage left with wagon train. 
 
 November igth The brigade reached Stevenson about noon, drew 
 rations and started on up the river, reaching Bridgeport in the evening, 
 and going into camp. 
 
 November 2Oth Crossed the Tennessee river in the forenoon and 
 moved up toward Chattanooga. Camped at the foot of Raccoon moun 
 tain. November 22d Marched to Brown s Ferry and crossed the river 
 to the north side, moving up to a point opposite Chattanooga, where we 
 had a fine view of the two armies in battle array. Hooker s forces occu 
 pying Lookout valley, the Army of the Cumberland, under General 
 Thomas, in the forts and breastworks south of Chattanooga, Sherman s 
 army on the north side of the river above Chattanooga, while the rebel 
 lines could be traced from the point of Lookout across Chattanooga 
 valley and along the crest of Mission ridge. General Grant had his plans 
 perfected, and was only waiting for Sherman to get his men in position 
 for the final move. Not in all the war was there witnessed a grander 
 spectacle than that which was to be presented at Chattanooga during the 
 next three days. The contending armies being in plain view from the 
 surrounding hills on both sides of the river, afforded an opportunity, 
 not only to the commanding generals, but to thousands of spectators, to 
 witness all the movements of troops on the field in a great battle, and it 
 may be possible that the knowledge of the fact that the eyes of their 
 commanders as well as of thousands of their comrades were upon them 
 in a measure influenced their conduct in the hour of battle. It is certainly 
 true that in all the conflicts of those three days the Union soldiers dis 
 played a courage and daring, vim and dash that were never excelled in 
 any war, or on any field. 
 
Fighting for Chattanooga. 119 
 
 When the Union army retreated to Chattanooga after the Battle of 
 Chickamauga, General Bragg invested the place, confident of his ability 
 to starve them out, and compel them to capitulate or make a disastrous 
 retreat. Holding as he did Lookout mountain and valley, he commanded 
 the river and the roads bordering it on both sides, compelling the Union 
 commander to haul his supplies in wagons sixty miles up the Sequatchie 
 valley and across the mountains. While we had been able to neutralize 
 his efforts to destroy our communications with his cavalry, yet it looked 
 gloomy enough until about the first of November for our army in Chat 
 tanooga. Cattle were driven from Nashville, but forage was so scarce 
 along the road that when they arrived in Chattanooga they were in 
 extremely poor condition. As one of the men aptly put it, "the army 
 was on half rations of hard bread and beef dried on the hoof." But 
 after the two little steamers were ready to bring rations up the river, 
 Hooker crossed at Bridgeport and moved his army up on the south side, 
 defeating Longstreet at Wauhatchie, taking and holding Lookout valley. 
 Then the cracker line was opened up, the army was put on full rations, 
 and matters began to have a brighter look. 
 
 Orchard Knob was an elevation about half way between Chatta 
 nooga and Missionary ridge. It was occupied by the enemy, who had 
 built a line of breastworks of logs and rails, and was held as an advanced 
 position between their line of pickets and their line of works, near the 
 base of Missionary ridge. On November 23d, as preliminary to the 
 movements contemplated, General Grant ordered General Thomas to 
 make a reconnaissance in force on the enemy s position at Orchard Knob. 
 The Divisions of Generals Wood, Sheridan, and Baird, were selected 
 to make the assault. They were supported by Howard s Corps. At 2 
 p. m. the divisions formed in front of the Union defenses in plain view 
 of both armies and at the word of command moved forward with firm 
 and steady step, as if on review. No halting or straggling, but with 
 quickening pace, as they reached the enemy s line of pickets, which gave 
 way before their advance, and as they reached the base of the knob, with 
 bayonets fixed they cheered as they rushed forward over the breastworks, 
 driving the enemy over the crest and down the slope. As a result of this 
 conflict, General Thomas advanced the right of his army along Chatta 
 nooga creek, to conform with the position at Orchard Knob, while 
 Howard came into position on the left of Thomas, extending the line to 
 the Tennessee river above Citico creek. During the night General Bragg 
 moved Walker s Division from its position at Lookout, in order to 
 strengthen his right, doubtless believing that there was the place where 
 tomorrow s battle would be fought. During the night 3000 men of 
 Sherman s army embarked in pontoons at North Chickamauga creek, and 
 pushing out into the Tennessee, floated silently down, landing on the 
 
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 south bank just below the mouth of the South Chickamauga, and opposite 
 the north end of Missionary ridge. 
 
 The boats were then used to ferry men across, and by daylight of 
 the 24th two divisions were over. The pontoon bridge was completed by 
 ii a. m., and the troops commenced crossing upon it. Early in the 
 morning cannonading in Lookout valley gave notice to friend and foe 
 alike that Hooker was still there, and was going to be heard from. The 
 enemy held a position at the north end of Lookout which they believed 
 to be impregnable, their line of works extending from the palisades to 
 the river across the northern base of the mountain. It was impossible 
 to get on either flank, but the Union guns on Moccasin point and on the 
 hills northwest of Lookout creek, kept up a fierce cannonade of the 
 enemy s position on the mountain, while the infantry, driving the pickets 
 and taking the advance lines, were getting into position for the final 
 struggle. During the morning a thick fog had hung over the valley, 
 concealing the movements of the Union troops from the enemy, but as 
 they advanced up the mountain, they came into a clearer atmosphere. 
 But the fog still hung over the valley, and the rattle of the musketry 
 was heard down in the valley, while the combatants could not be seen 
 for clouds of fog. By I p. m. the Union lines had advanced until they 
 were well up toward the last position. The enemy had disputed every 
 foot of the ground.. The artillery could no longer be used, on account 
 of the proximity of the Union lines to the position of the enemy. The 
 lines were formed in a sheltered position for the final assault, and it was 
 discovered that ammunition was running low, and there was no way of 
 replenishing it. The order was given to fix bayonets, and at the word 
 "Forward !" the line advanced at quick step, and as they came into range 
 of the withering fire of the enemy, the command "Charge !" was given, 
 and the men swept forward with a cheer. Heedless of the leaden storm, 
 they struggled up the rocky steeps, passing one obstruction after another, 
 and at last reaching barricade and breastwork, they went over with a 
 rush, and the enemy, driven from every point, retreated down the eastern 
 slope, and the Battle of Lookout Mountain was won. Hooker s men 
 were out of ammunition, but a brigade from Chattanooga came up carry 
 ing a partial supply, which was distributed among the skirmishers. Dur 
 ing the night some of Hooker s soldiers scaled the palisades and hoisted 
 the Stars and Stripes upon the point of Lookout, where the next morning 
 it could be seen proudly floating by the men of both armies a signal 
 of victory. 
 
 While Hooker s men on the right had been scaling the rocky steeps 
 of Lookout, Sherman on the left had not been idle. By i p. m. enough 
 of his army had crossed the river for him to commence his attack on 
 the right flank of the rebel army posted on Missionary ridge. Forming 
 
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 his line of battle, he advanced, carrying the first two positions of the 
 enemy with little effort ; but coming to the vicinity of the tunnel, he met 
 with more serious opposition, and the coming on of night ended the 
 conflict, the men lying on their arms in line of battle. The morning of the 
 25th revealed the fact that during the night the rebels had abandoned 
 all their positions on the eastern slope of Lookout, and withdrawn their 
 forces to the east side of Chattanooga creek. Hooker followed, driving 
 his opponents, and taking position on Missionary ridge, near Rossville, 
 prepared to attack the left of the enemy s position. A signal station was 
 established on Lookout, from which all the movements of the Confed 
 erate forces could be observed, and signaled to General Grant at Orchard 
 Knob. 
 
 Bragg s army now occupied a position in two lines along Missionary 
 Ridge one line at the base and the other at the summit both lines 
 protected by breastworks. He had massed heavily on his right against 
 Sherman, who commenced the battle early, but was unable to dislodge 
 his enemy. Grant, from Orchard Knob, was anxiously watching the 
 result of Sherman s endeavors, and as one repulse followed after another, 
 and the day was passing, he ordered General Thomas to get ready to 
 move against the enemy s line at the base of the ridge. It was what 
 the Army of the Cumberland had been waiting for, and they were soon 
 in line, outside their works, and ready to advance. The signal six guns 
 fired in rapid succession from Orchard knob echoed among the hills, 
 and the line moved grandly forward across the valley. Shot and shell 
 and leaden hail beat against their ranks, but there was no pause, no 
 wavering only a steady line of marching men, with waving banners, 
 going forward with a power that was resistless. Hooker s men had 
 planted their colors on the summit of Lookout. The Army of the Cum 
 berland went forward with the determination that theirs should wave 
 over the rebel works on the summit of Missionary Ridge. The line of 
 works at the base of the ridge was reached, and springing over, the 
 enemy was driven out and up the hill and up the hill followed that line 
 of marching men and waving banners, and reaching the summit a fierce 
 hand to hand struggle took place, with the enemy losing ground at all 
 points. Their officers vainly endeavoring to stem the tide of battle, were 
 finally overwhelmed and borne from the field in the panic of their utterly 
 routed army, and our banners were floating in triumph from the crest of 
 Missionary Ridge. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 THE EAST TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN 
 
 Late in the afternoon of the 24th Long s Brigade of Cavalry 
 crossed the river on Sherman s pontoon bridge ; crossed Chickamauga 
 creek, moving to the rear of the right of Bragg s army. During 
 the night we captured a wagon train loaded with forage, halted and fed 
 our horses and after parking and burning the wagons started in the 
 direction of Ringold. In the forenoon of the 25th we captured a train 
 of fifty-two wagons, loaded with army supplies, food and clothing. After 
 taking all that we could use of the supplies, we burned the train and then 
 marched to Cleveland. 
 
 November 26th The Third Ohio and two companies of mounted 
 infantry started at 7 a. m. for Charleston. Found the enemy occupied 
 Calhoun with infantry and artillery ; had a skirmish ; tore up some 
 railroad track, returning to Cleveland in the afternoon. 
 
 November 27th Pickets fired on at 2 a. m. Saddled up and got into 
 line, but were not attacked until daylight. As soon as it was light a 
 general attack was made on our position by a very largely superior force, 
 consisting of infantry and artillery. Seeing that they had us at a disad 
 vantage, as we had no artillery, Colonel Long concluded that discretion 
 was the better part of valor, and retreated in the direction of Chattanooga, 
 going into camp on the river bank, a disagreeable and rainy night. Our 
 loss was two killed and fourteen wounded. We captured about 250 
 prisoners. 
 
 November 2Qth In the saddle at 5 a. m. and again on the march 
 for Cleveland. The infantry (General Howard s Corps) with us. It 
 looked as if we were on our way to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville. 
 We camped near Cleveland. 
 
 November 3Oth Marched to Benton, and the next day we continued 
 the march, reaching Athens. 
 
 December 2d Started on a forced march to London, in an effort 
 to save the bridge across the Holston river. When about six miles from 
 Loudon we came up with the rebel cavalry. Colonel Long with the 
 Second Brigade, the Third Ohio in the advance, charged them with drawn 
 sabers, and in column of fours, driving them the entire distance to 
 Loudon. In their mad race to get away from us, the enemy threw away 
 clothing, blankets, saddle bags, arms, and everything that would impede 
 their flight. Reaching Loudon, we found it occupied by the enemy with 
 infantry and artillery, and being unable to dislodge them, we bivouacked 
 for the night. The enemy evacuated the town during the night, destroy 
 ing the bridge, a number of locomotives and cars, and a large amount of 
 stores and clothing. 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 123 
 
 December 3d Colonel Long received orders to march to Knoxville 
 to open communication with General Burnside. We left Loudon at 8 
 a. m., marched all day and night. During the night we passed in sight 
 of General Longstreet s camp fires, reaching Knoxville at 3 a. m. Decem 
 ber 4th, bringing to Burnside and his beleaguered army the welcome 
 tidings that deliverance was at hand. We found them almost on the verge 
 of starvation. Longstreet did not wait, however, until the infantry came 
 up, but early on the 4th raised the siege and retreated eastward. 
 
 Our campaign since leaving Woodville, Alabama, fifteen days ago, 
 has been very severe. We have drawn no rations since leaving Chatta 
 nooga, living entirely off the country. Our principal hardship has been 
 that we have no coffee. Coffee is the great luxury of the soldier s life 
 in camp. With him it is certainly the "cup that cheers." The weather 
 has been anything but pleasant and enjoyable, and men and horses have 
 given out under the strain. There are only about 300 men in the regi 
 ment for duty. Immediately after Longstreet raised the siege foraging 
 parties went out, and the garrison at Knoxville was on full rations again. 
 
 December 6th We left Knoxville, marching to> Marysville and 
 camped for the night. 
 
 December 7th The Second Brigade, under Colonel Long, started 
 out in a southeasterly direction to chase after and if possible capture 
 Longstreet s wagon train. As the country is very rough and mountainous 
 and the roads bad, we were in hopes that we might overtake it. Camped 
 in the hills, where we found plenty of forage. 
 
 December 8th On the march early. Marched all day through a 
 rough, hilly country ; camped at night near iron works on the Tellico 
 river. 
 
 December gth On the march; crossed the big Smoky mountains 
 and came down into the valley in North Carolina. Marched to Murphy; 
 found a few rebels in town, drove them out and went into camp south 
 of the town on the Hiawassee river. We remained at Murphy one day ; 
 found that our train was too far ahead for us to overtake it ; the country 
 is poor and barren and forage very scarce. 
 
 December nth We took up the line of march back to East Tennes 
 see, and after a rough, hard journey arrived at Charleston on the I5th 
 and camped. The next day the regiment was sent to Columbus to guard 
 a ford on the Hiawassee river, and to do patrol and picket duty. Here 
 we went into camp, expecting to remain for some time. 
 
 December i8th A detachment of the regiment under Lieutenant 
 Howland sent out in the direction of Tellico plains to hunt up a squad 
 of rebels reported to be in that locality, failed to find them and returned 
 to camp at 5 a. m., December I9th. 
 
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 December 24th Two men from Company E were captured near 
 Benton while out foraging. 
 
 December 27th Wheeler attacked one of our wagon trains near 
 Charleston, but was driven off after a sharp fight, Colonel Long with 
 150 men charging with drawn sabers. Wheeler s loss was nine killed, 
 thirty wounded and 131 prisoners. Our loss was two killed) and twelve 
 wounded. 
 
 There were twenty-one deserters from the rebel army came into 
 camp today. In fact there is hardly a day passes that some do not come 
 in. Wonder if they are not trying to get home to spend the winter and 
 go back to the army when the spring campaign opens. Its dollars to 
 doughnuts that you ll find most of them in the rebel army next summer. 
 
 December 3ist The last day of 1863, and to let us know that they 
 have not forgotten us, some kind-hearted person has sent us some coffee, 
 sugar, salt, soap, and candles the first government supplies we have re 
 ceived in a month. While in East Tennessee we were compelled to subsist 
 on the country, gathering forage for our horses and rations for ourselves. 
 The only rations we received from the government were the kind that I 
 have mentioned so that when we were not busy at something else we were 
 gathering in supplies. Our main living consisted of corn dodgers, fried in 
 pork fat, which were all right once in a while, but became monotonous 
 when we had them week-days and Sundays, too. We had to go out and get 
 the corn, bring it to camp, shell it and take it to the mill and get it ground 
 to make our dodgers. At the mill the farmers were very good to us. 
 They would waive their rights and let our grist go in first, so that we 
 would not have to wait our turn. The mills were run by water power and 
 were slow enough in all conscience. They reminded me of the story of 
 the boy who went to mill once when the water was low and the mill run 
 ning accordingly. Finally the boy got out of patience and said : "I 
 could eat the meal as fast as that mill grinds it." "Yes," said the miller, 
 "but how long could you eat it." "Until I starved to death," promptly 
 answered the boy. Well we ought not to complain ; the old mill kept us 
 from starving to death, at least. 
 
 January ist, 1864 Cold, terrible cold; known all over the United 
 States as the cold New Year s. We were provided with what were popu 
 larly known as dog tents, which were a very good protection for summer 
 campaigning, yet were not the best in the world for winter quarters. 
 Some of the messes had built log huts with fireplaces, and were more 
 comfortable, but most of the men did not care to go to the trouble, fear 
 ing that if they did we would move the next day. In some respects our 
 winter in East Tennessee was unlike any other part of our service. A 
 large part of the country is very rough and mountainous in that it re 
 sembled the country around Woodville, Alabama. The soil, in the valleys 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 125 
 
 is fairly fertile and productive, but in the mountains it is poor, yielding 
 but a scant return for the toil of the husbandman. It is traversed by 
 many mountain streams, which find their outlet in the Tennessee river. 
 Most of these streams were without bridges and in crossing them on our 
 numerous scouts and foraging expeditions, we were compelled to ford 
 them, plunging into the icy waters which were often so deep and swift 
 as almost to carry our horses off their feet. These, with the rough moun 
 tain roads, made travel very diffcult. The climate during our stay in 
 the winter of 1863 and 4 was anything but pleasant and agreeable; many 
 cold rains and severe mountain storms. The people were kind and 
 hospitable, and the great majority of them were loyal to the Union. Many 
 of them were poor and unlearned, and some of their habits and customs 
 were such as would not recommend them to refined society. Very few of 
 the old women that did not smoke, and in some localities they were 
 inveterate snuff dippers. Having very few slaves, they had no interests 
 in common with the slaveholding aristocracy of the South, and they were 
 true as steel to the Union, and nowhere did people make greater sacrifices 
 for the cause than did they. Most of them were small farmers, making 
 a scant living on their mountain farms. The young and able-bodied men 
 were in the Union Army, while the old men and the women and children 
 were left to cultivate the farms, and take care of the homes. They wel 
 comed the Union army with simple hospitality. The old men always 
 greeted us cordially. Their invariable salutation was, "Howdy; won t 
 you light and take a cheer." The march of Longstreet s army, and the 
 many marauding parties that were roaming about in the mountains filled 
 them with terror, and hundreds of families packed their few household 
 goods into wagons and came and camped inside our pickets, feeling secure 
 if they were only near our camps. Many thousands of these refugees 
 were sent to places of safety, and fed and cared for by the government 
 until the close of the war. And when they returned, in most cases, it 
 was only to find blackened ruins where home had been. And many of 
 the families separated by the war were never again reunited, for father, 
 husband, brother, or son, had fallen in the conflict. They were at peace. 
 The strife with them had ended, but with these the struggle was only 
 just begun. Although hearts were breaking and the burdens of life 
 heavy, they must be borne patiently. Although the future seemed hope 
 less, it must be faced with courage. 
 
 January 8th Orders came to re-enlist, the government offering a 
 thirty days furlough and $402 bounty to the men who came out with the 
 regiment in 61 if they would enlist for three years more. 
 
 January I2th Lieutenant Gates and four men were captured at 
 Boyd s Mills while out foraging. 
 
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 January i6th A detachment under Lieutenant Rowland went to 
 Benton in the evening ; found a dance in progress ; captured one man and 
 six horses; got back to camp at 5 a. m. 
 
 January 25th It was reported in camp that a Federal officer who 
 had escaped from rebel prison, was in the mountains east of us and 
 trying to get to our lines. A detachment was sent out and succeeded in 
 finding him about fifteen miles out. It was Colonel Cliff. There were 
 half a dozen mountaineers with him. He had been a fine specimen of 
 physical manhood, but was now wasted by starvation, his uniform in 
 rags, hair and beard long and unkempt, and altogether a most pitiable 
 object to look at. He was brought into camp, where he was cleaned up 
 and cared for and sent on to Brigade headquarters. 
 
 January 27th We received mail for the first time in two months. 
 The arrival of mail in camp was always an important event, and especially 
 so when we had no direct communication, and days and weeks had passed, 
 and the men were anxious to hear from home. Generally, however, our 
 mails came fairly regular, and a letter mailed anywhere in the United 
 States and addressed to the Third Ohio Cavalry would have found us, 
 no matter where we were, without any other directions. The postoffice 
 department allowed letters to go out from the army without prepayment 
 of postage, and at Nashville the Christian Commission paid all the delin 
 quent postage on mail arriving for the army. While we lay at Columbus, 
 Captain Clock, with a detachment composed of Companies L and M. on 
 one of the numerous raids made on Benton captured two guerrillas. 
 
 When the brigade left Woodville for Chattanooga, November i8th, 
 1863, the dismounted men were left to guard the wagon train under 
 command of Lieutenant-Colonel Robie of the Fourth Ohio. Captain 
 Livermore was in command of the men of the Third Ohio. The same 
 day we moved to Paint Rock bridge, parked the wagons, and put the 
 camp in as good a state of defense as possible. The government was 
 unable to get horses as fast as they were required for the service. We 
 had a large number of worn-out horses in corral, and we were kept busy 
 foraging for them and for the mules belonging to the wagon train. The 
 horses made a great amount of trouble getting out of the corral. The 
 fences were very poor. The men had to go long distances after forage. 
 Many refugee families came into camp to seek protection from the bush 
 whackers in the hills. On the 25th of November a bushwhacker was 
 shot. December gth a detachment was sent with the unserviceable horses 
 to Nashville, riding the best of them and driving the others. 
 
 December I7th We received a drove of beef cattle to feed and care 
 for. There are some cows among them from which we get plenty of milk. 
 
 December 2ist Bushwhackers were reported in the hills and a de 
 tachment went out after them, but, as usual, failed to connect. 
 
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 December 24th Saddles, bridles, etc., of dismounted 1 men sent to 
 Maysville on the cars. It looks as if we were to move from here before 
 long. 
 
 December 26th Orders to be ready to march at 8 a. m. tomorrow. 
 During the five weeks we have been at Paint Rock we have been kept 
 busy doing picket duty and guarding forage trains. There are over 200 
 men here without horses. 
 
 December 27th A rainy, disagreeable morning; we left camp at 
 Paint Rock at 7 o clock. The roads were in a terrible condition. Many 
 places the mud and water about knee deep. It was difficult to get the 
 wagons through ; some of them were upset. We marched in the direction 
 of Huntsville. The rain continued to pour down all day. Camped on 
 Flint river, having marched about fifteen miles. It continued to rain very 
 hard all night. 
 
 December 28th The weather was cool; it stopped raining, and we 
 took up the line of march at 8 a. m. ; marched up Flint river as far as 
 Brownsboro, but we were unable to cross on account of high water; con 
 tinued up the river reaching Maysville, we went into camp about 2 p. m. 
 The roads were very muddy. 
 
 December 2Qth We left Maysville at 9 a. m. and got across Flint 
 river at noon. The current was very swift ; two wagons upset in a ditch, 
 and Company M s wagon upset in the river, but we finally all got across 
 and camped about five miles east of Huntsville in a piece of woods. 
 
 December 3Oth Started at 7 o clock and arrived at Huntsville at 10 
 a. m. ; found a lot more dismounted men of the brigade, also a lot from 
 Nashville with fresh horses. We continued north, camping about four 
 miles out on the Athens road ; forage and provisions plenty. 
 
 December 3ist Rained during the night and most of the day. We 
 set out on the march at 7 a. m. ; passed through some good country ; 
 crossed Limestone creek on a covered bridge ; forded Swan creek, 
 marched within four miles of Athens and went into camp in a piece of 
 woods. It commenced to get colder in the evening, with a falling tem 
 perature and a fierce, bitter wind all night. 
 
 January ist, 1864 A bitter cold wind 1 blowing strong from the 
 southwest. Overcoats and horse equipments frozen stiff. Reveille at 4 
 o clock, on the march at 6, passed through Athens. Marched about nine 
 miles out on the Prospect road and camped in a piece of woods. 
 
 January 2d Reveille at 6 o clock; on the march at 8; weather still 
 very cold. Crossed the state line into Tennessee ; passed through Pros 
 pect ; crossed Elk river on pontoon bridge, and went into camp about 
 five miles north of Prospect. The teams did not get in, so we had no 
 tents. 
 
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 January 3d The wagons arrived about noon, when we moved up 
 to Pulaski, and went into camp in a beech grove on a hill, one mile south 
 of town. The next day the men who came out in 61 commenced re- 
 enlisting, and on the 5th Captain Miner reported that three-fourths of 
 the men had re-enlisted and made application for thirty days veteran 
 furlough. 
 
 January 6th We received a lot of fresh horses. On the 8th we 
 turned our condemned horses into the government corral. 
 
 January Qth The brigade was ordered out into line and the camp 
 and men searched for $4000 in gold that had been stolen from a citizen. 
 The search failed to reveal anything. The next day one of the men 
 that helped steal the gold came forward and confessed, informing on 
 the others. There were five of them. He gave up his share of the gold 
 $800 but the others refused to tell where the rest of it was hidden and 
 it could not be found. The men did not belong to the Third Ohio. They 
 were turned over to the civil authorities to be dealt with according to law. 
 
 January I2th The re-enlisted men started home on veteran furlough, 
 arriving at Nashville on the I4th. On the 27th they were mustered out 
 and in again. They left Nashville on the 6th of February, and arrived 
 at Bellevue, Ohio, on the Qth, where they were met by Majors Rowland 
 and Skinner and Captains McClelland and Culver, with a brass band, 
 taken to Monroeville and entertained. Speeches were made by Colonel 
 Zahm, Rev. Painter, Captain Culver and Chaplain Warner, and the next 
 day the men left for their homes to enjoy their thirty days furlough. 
 
 January I2th The remainder of the brigade started southward, 
 leading the horses belonging to the re-enlisted men. Crossed Elk river 
 at Elkton, and camped about a mile from the river on the Athens road. 
 
 January I3th Started at 7 a. m. ; camped about eleven miles from 
 Huntsville. 
 
 January I4th Marched within about three miles of Huntsville and 
 turned the lead horses into the government corral. We remained at 
 Huntsville until the 23d, when we broke camp and forded Flint river ; 
 camped at Maysville late at night. 
 
 January 24th Started early, passed through Woodville and camped 
 about three miles out on the Larkinsville road. 
 
 January 25th Started at daylight, passed through Larkinsville and 
 camped at Scottsboro late at night; the roads simply awful. 
 
 January 26th Started soon after daylight, passed through Bellfonte, 
 forded Mud and Crow creeks and camped on Crow creek, about four 
 miles from Stevenson. 
 
 January 27th Took up the march as usual, passed through Steven 
 son, crossed the Tennessee river at Bridgeport and camped on the south 
 bank of the river. 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 129 
 
 January 28th Started at daylight, left the wagon train and pushed 
 on up the river ; crossed Lookout creek and camped at the foot of Lookout 
 mountain on the ground made famous by Hooker s men in their battle 
 two months ago. 
 
 January 29th Crossed over into Chattanooga valley and camped 
 about two miles from Chattanooga. We remained here until the 2d of 
 February, when we broke camp about noon, passed through Chattanooga, 
 crossed Chickamauga creek had to haul the wagons up by hand 
 camped late at night. The next day we started at sunrise, passed through 
 Harrison. Camped about three miles from Georgetown. 
 
 February 4th Started early, passed through Georgetown, crossed 
 Hiawassee river at Charleston ; camped at Calhoun at Brigade head 
 quarters. 
 
 February 5th Moved up the river to Columbus, where we joined 
 the other part of the regiment. 
 
 February I2th The second detachment of re-enlisted men from the 
 regiment started home on veteran furlough. 
 
 February I4th They arrived at Nashville and on the 26th they were 
 paid off in Louisville, arriving home the next day. 
 
 February 12th A detachment of the Fourth Michigan came up to 
 relieve us and we were ordered to be ready to move at 7 o clock in the 
 morning, when we marched to Calhoun and went into camp. 
 
 February i6th Brigade mounted inspection by General Elliott at 11 
 o clock. We remained at Calhoun until the 2d of March, on duty con 
 stantly guarding the fords, picketing the roads, foraging, scouting and 
 patroling. The weather was cold and stormy, and while so many of our 
 boys were home on veteran furlough, the men at the front had to do 
 double duty. Often when a detachment was on scout, there were no 
 men left in camp to relieve the pickets, and they had to remain on post 
 for seventy-two hours at a stretch. At some points the rebel pickets were 
 on one side of the river and ours on the other, and frequently they would 
 arrange a meeting for the exchange of newspapers, or our boys would 
 exchange salt and coffee for tobacco. In fact the pickets generally did 
 not appear to manifest any animosity toward each other. 
 
 February 22(1 The brigade went out on a scout with three days 
 rations; crossed the Hiawassee river, passed through Cleveland, and 
 passing through Red Clay, advanced on the Spring Place road. There 
 is a general movement against Dalton. We are on the left wing of the 
 army. 
 
 February 23(1 Passed through Spring Place and advanced toward 
 Dalton ; drove in the rebel pickets and charged into a fortified camp of 
 infantry within four miles of Dalton. After driving the enemy a short 
 distance, they were reinforced, and we withdrew to Russell s Mills, and 
 
130 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 from there to Varnell s Station. On the 24th we moved down the valley 
 and encountered the enemy along the eastern base of Rocky Face ridge. 
 Advancing down the valley, our infantry drove the enemy from a hill, 
 but reinforcements arriving, they charged and drove our men back. The 
 fight was kept up until nightfall. The next morning we moved up on 
 the left of the infantry ; had some skirmishing ; fell back about three miles, 
 after dark. We returned to camp at Calhoun on the 28th. Captain 
 Wood of the Third Ohio was killed in the attack on Dalton on Feb 
 ruary 24th. 
 
 March 2d We left Calhoun and marched to Cleveland and went 
 into camp. 
 
 March 6th Went out about fifteen miles on a scout, but saw no 
 signs of the enemy, returned to camp. We remained at Cleveland until 
 March I4th, when we moved camp to Ooltewah, and the next day took 
 up the line of march for Ringold, Georgia, where we went into camp. 
 
 March i6th Moved our camp about three miles in the direction of 
 Chattanooga, crossed Chickamauga creek and camped. We had ten days 
 of very cold weather, and a great snowstorm on the 22d. Snow fell to 
 the depth of six to eight inches. The boys had a great snowball battle 
 in a field that lay between our camp and that of the mounted infantry. 
 Our duties were mainly picket and outpost. On the 27th we went on a 
 scout, going through Ringold gap and along the east side of Taylor s 
 ridge; drove in the rebel pickets. We got a few shots at the Johnnies, 
 but not at very close range, and it is not very likely that we did much 
 damage. We returned to camp in the afternoon. On the 28th we had a 
 heavy hail and rainstorm. Weather continued cold and disagreeable up 
 to the middle of April, raining a great part of the time, making a soldier s 
 life anything but pleasant. On April 5th we went on outpost picket about 
 ten miles out, returning to camp in the afternoon of the 7th. On the 
 Qth we were ordered out at 3 a. m. It was intended to surprise and 
 capture some of the enemy s pickets, but we did not get through the gap 
 before daylight. So we were ordered back, only a small party being sent 
 through the gap to locate the picket post. The next morning we were 
 out in the wee small hours and succeeded in capturing five of the enemy s 
 pickets and chasing the rest of them to their camp at Tunnel Hill. 
 
 OFFICIAL REPORTS, EAST TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN 
 DECEMBER 28, 1863. Action at Calhoun and Skirmish at Charleston, Tenn. 
 
 REPORTS. 
 
 No. I. Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding 
 Department of the Cumberland, with complimentary letter to Colonel Eli 
 Long. 
 
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 No. 2. Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Sec 
 ond Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 Report of Major General George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding 
 Department of the Cumberland, with complimentary letter to Colonel 
 Eli Long. 
 
 CHATTANOOGA, TENN., December 29, 1863. 
 (Received 1 145 p. m., 3Oth.) 
 
 SIR : Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 Division of Cavalry, reports from Calhoun, Tenn., December 28th, that 
 the rebel General Wheeler, with 1200 or 1500 cavalry and mounted 
 infantry, attacked Colonel Laiboldt, escorting a supply train from Chat 
 tanooga to Knoxville, about 10 this a. m., at Charleston, on south bank 
 of the Hiawassee. The train and escort had reached and encamped at 
 Charleston last night, and Colonel Laiboldt s skirmishers were hotly 
 engaged with the enemy this a. m., before Colonel Long was apprised of 
 their approach. He immediately mounted the small force for duty in his 
 camp at the time (150 men) and crossed the river to Colonel Laiboldt s 
 support. The rebels shortly afterward gave way, Long pursuing them 
 closely. 
 
 Discovering a portion of their force cut off on the right, he charged 
 them with sabers, completely demoralizing and scattering them in great 
 confusion in every direction. Several of the enemy (number not known) 
 were killed and wounded. One hundred and twenty-one prisoners, 
 including five commissioned officers, were captured. The main rebel 
 column fled, and was pursued for five miles, on the Dalton road, and, 
 when last seen, was fleeing precipitately. Long s loss was one man slightly 
 wounded. For this and many other gallant acts of Colonel Long, since 
 serving in this department, I earnestly recommend him for promotion 
 to brigadier-general of volunteers. 
 
 The officer in command of the courier station at Cleveland also 
 reports that he was attacked early this morning, December 28th, by a force 
 
 of 100 rebels. He drove them off. 
 
 GEO. H. THOMAS, 
 
 MAJ. GEN. H. W. HALLECK, Major-General. 
 
 G eneral-in-Chief. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, 
 
 CHATTANOOGA, January i, 1864. 
 COLONEL ELI LONG, 
 
 Commanding Brigade, Calhoun. 
 
 COLONEL: Your report of your engagement with the enemy on the 
 morning of the 28th was duly received. It was a very pretty affair indeed. 
 
132 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 I have the honor to inform you that there are now en route to your 
 station four pieces of artillery, escorted by two regiments of infantry. 
 This artillery is intended as a reinforcement to your post. The infantry 
 will return to this place. 
 
 The battery was ordered to Calhoun before we heard of your de 
 feating Wheeler. 
 
 I am, Colonel, very respectfully, WM. D. WHIPPLE, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 P. S. The command will probably move from Harrison tomorrow 
 morning. It is reported that Wheeler is at Georgetown preparing for an 
 attack on Harrison. 
 
 Report of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second* 
 
 Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION CAVALRY, 
 
 CALHOUN, TENN., December 28, 1863. 
 
 GENERAL: I have the honor to forward, for the information of the 
 Major-General commanding the department, report of attack made this 
 a. m. upon this place by the rebel General Wheeler. The attack was made 
 at about 10 o clock by a force of from 1200 to 1500 cavalry and mounted 
 infantry, led by General Wheeler in person. Brigadier-General Kelly, 
 with his brigade, formed part of this force. Their object was evidently 
 the capture of the supply train which arrived here last evening under 
 charge of forces commanded by Colonel Laiboldt. 
 
 Colonel L[aibolt] encamped on the Charleston side of the river, 
 and his skirmishers were at work with the enemy before I was apprised 
 of their approach. I immediately mounted the small command which 
 remained in camp not on duty (about 150 men), moved across the bridge, 
 and found the infantry pretty sharply engaged, the enemy occupying 
 position in the woods. The latter shortly afterward gave way, and I 
 then started rapidly after them. Discovering a small portion of their 
 force now cut off on the right, I ordered a saber charge, and followed 
 a retreating column of several hundred which had taken out the Chatata 
 road, running up the Hiawassee. 
 
 Our rapid pursuit and vigorous use of the saber completely demoral 
 ized this force, which was thrown into great confusion, and scattered in 
 every direction, their men throwing away large numbers of arms, accout- 
 erments, etc. Several of the enemy (number not known) were killed and 
 wounded, and we captured 121 prisoners, including five commissioned 
 officers. Drove the remainder till I had arrived at a creek, which was 
 scarcely fordable, and deemed it prudent to follow no farther. The main 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 133 
 
 rebel column had fled out the Dalton road. I sent a small force out that 
 road, who followed some five miles, and the enemy is still retreating 
 toward Cleveland. My own loss is one man seriously wounded. 
 
 Since returning to my headquarters, I have received a dispatch from 
 the officer commanding couriers at Cleveland. He was attacked early 
 this morning by a force of about 100 men, and drove them off. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant. 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade. 
 
 BRIG. GEN. W. D. WHIPPLE, 
 
 Chief of Staff, Army of the Cumberland. 
 
 Report of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, of raid on the East Tennessee\ 
 and Georgia Railroad, and including operations November I7th, 
 1863 January 3, 1864. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 CALHOUN, TENN., January [19], 1864. 
 
 GENERAL: I have the honor to submit detailed account, as follows, 
 of the operations of my brigade since marching from Woodville, Ala., 
 pursuant to orders received on the night of November 17, 1863: 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchell, Ninety-eigthth Illinois Mounted In 
 fantry, and Major Gray, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, having reported to 
 me for orders, with detachments of their regiments, I marched on the 
 morning of the i8th, with a command about 1000 strong. Reaching 
 Bridgeport on the evening of the iQth, I crossed the river next morning 
 near Kelley s Ford. 
 
 On the 22d, Major Dobb joined me with a battalion of the Fourth 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and Lieutenant-Colonel Jordan reported with 
 a part of the Seventeenth Indiana Mounted Infantry, and additional 
 detachments of the Ninety-eighth Illinois Mounted Infantry, and Fourth 
 Michigan Cavalry, increasing my command to 1500 men. Marched that 
 evening to Brown s Ferry and crossed the Tennessee river to north side, 
 opposite Chattanooga. 
 
 On the 24th, receiving orders from Major-General Thomas to march 
 to Cleveland, Tenn., and destroy as far as possible the enemy s lines of 
 communication in that direction, I crossed by pontoons above Chatta 
 nooga, and struck the Chattanooga and Cleveland dirt road, running 
 along the railroad. A few miles east of Chattanooga I cut the telegraph 
 wire, and at Tyner s Station burned two rebel caissons. At other points 
 between this and Cleveland the telegraph was severed, and the railroad 
 
134 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 was destroyed in frequent places by burning and tearing up the track. 
 
 On the night of the 24th, I bivouacked thirteen miles from Chat 
 tanooga and sent a party forward to Ooletwah, who found and destroyed 
 some 4000 pounds of flour. On the following day I burned two freight 
 cars, together with 100 cords of tan bark, belonging to the Confederate 
 States of America. Nearing Cleveland, rebel pickets were encountered 
 and driven in. The advance regiment (First Ohio) then charged into 
 the town and drove out Colonel Woodward, with the Second Kentucky 
 (rebel) Cavalry Regiment. 
 
 Next morning I sent a detachment, under Colonel Seidel, Third 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, 
 with directions to go, if possible, to Hiawassee river, and ascertain the 
 enemy s strength at Charleston; also to tear up the railroad. Major 
 Patten, with First Ohio Cavalry, was sent down the Dalton road and 
 Major Dobb, with Fourth Ohio, back on the road we came, each party 
 being directed to damage the railroad. Colonel Seidel went as far as 
 Charleston and found Kelly s brigade stationed at Calhoun with artillery, 
 and drove the cavalry across the river, losing one man wounded. Major 
 Patten destroyed ten miles of the Dalton track, and considerable damage 
 was done on the other road. In Cleveland I found a considerable lot of 
 rockets and shells, large quantities of corn, and several bales of new 
 grain sacks, all belonging to the rebel government. Destroyed all that 
 was not appropriated to use of my own command. Burned several rail 
 road cars found here ; also the large copper rolling mill the only one of 
 the kind in the Confederacy. 
 
 Early on the morning of the 27th, I was attacked by General Kelly 
 with a brigade of cavalry and a section of two pieces of artillery. Started 
 my command out the Harrison road, sending forward the prisoners under 
 charge of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. Retired slowly, the enemy 
 pressing us closely and shelling vigorously. A strong line of skirmishers 
 was kept up till we had passed Candy s creek, keeping in rear of my 
 column and holding him in check, when the enemy retired. My loss 
 during the action was two killed, fourteen wounded, and thirteen missing. 
 Most of the latter have since joined. The enemy s loss was not fully 
 known, but he suffered in killed and wounded more severely than we. 
 I moved on, via. Harrison, to Chattanooga, and reported in person at 
 the headquarters of the Major-General commanding. 
 
 During this trip I captured 233 prisoners, including a number of 
 officers ; also eighty-five wagons and eleven ambulances, which, together 
 with their contents, were burned. Among this number of wagons was the 
 train of General Wright s brigade. 
 
 On the 29th November, I again marched for Cleveland, pursuant 
 to orders received at Chattanooga, and reported to Major-General Sher- 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 135 
 
 man. From there took road to Benton, sending my ammunition wagons 
 with the infantry column on Charleston road, striking the Federal road. 
 I came upon a drove of about 300 hogs belonging to the Confederate 
 government. Moved on to B[enton] with the main column, sending 
 the Fourth Michigan on reconnaissance to mouth of Ocoee river, and the 
 Fourth Ohio down the Federal road. The latter party captured another 
 drove of about 500 hogs. 
 
 December ist I marched to Columbus, on Hiawassee river; then, 
 returning to Benton, detached the Fourth Michigan and Fourth Ohio to 
 go back to Cleveland, with captured hogs and prisoners taken on the 29th 
 and 3Oth. One regiment was sent to secure the boats at mouth of Ocoee 
 and float them down to Charleston, and, with the remainder of the com 
 mand, I proceeded to Charleston. Orders from General Sherman directed 
 me to move on immediately to Athens, and I reached there some two 
 hours after midnight. From Athens I sent back 150 dismounted men, 
 under charge of Captain Wade, Ninety-eighth Illinois Mounted Infantry, 
 to garrison the town of Calhoun, and hold the bridge at that place ; also 
 twenty-five men, to be joined by twenty-five others from the two regi 
 ments then at Cleveland, to take the captured hogs to Chattanooga. De 
 tachments of the Third U. S. Cavalry and Fifth Ohio Cavalry reported 
 to me for orders, and I marched for Loudon in advance of General 
 Sherman s forces. Near Loudon my advance regiment (Third Ohio) 
 was met by a force of rebel cavalry, routed them and took about thirty 
 prisoners, losing one killed and two wounded. General Vaughn, with a 
 force of infantry and some artillery, occupied the fortifications about the 
 town, and opened upon my column with shell. Not being able to dislodge 
 the enemy any other way, I determined to charge the works. I dis 
 mounted my command, and moved forward in line, but on approaching 
 his position, I found him stronger than anticipated, the confronting force 
 being fully equal, if not superior, to my own in numbers, besides the 
 advantage of position being greatly in their favor. I then fell back, and, 
 after reporting to General Sherman, bivouacked about a mile from Lou 
 don. During the night Vaughn destroyed his stores, took up his pontoons, 
 and, after running into the river four locomotives and forty-four cars, 
 evacuated the place. 
 
 On the 3d December, being ordered to move forward to Knoxville 
 and open communication with General Burnside that night if possible, 
 I crossed the Tennessee river and marched via. Maryville. Traveling 
 from Mfaryville] I could get no information as to the position of the 
 forces or condition of affairs at Knoxville. All reports that could be 
 obtained indicated that the town was completely surrounded by Long- 
 street, but near 2 a. m. I struck Colonel Wolford s cavalry pickets some 
 
136 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 two miles from Kfnoxville] and camped within his lines. Reported in 
 person to General Burnside the following day. 
 
 On the night of the 6th, pursuant to orders from General Sherman. 
 I marched to Maryville, and was here joined by the two regiments which 
 had been sent back to Cleveland. From this point I was directed to start 
 in pursuit of a train of some 300 wagons which had been cut off at 
 Loudon when we marched on that place, and was now making its way 
 into North Carolina. Crossed Little Tennessee river at Motley s ford, 
 and after crossing Tellico and Unaka mountains and Long ridge, follow 
 ing up the Hiawassee, I arrived at Murphy, N. C, on the Qth of December. 
 Met no force of the enemy except a few of Morgan s men and a company 
 of home guards stationed at Murphy. My advance guard had a slight 
 skirmish with these and drove them from the place. Marched six miles 
 from Murphy and camped. 
 
 Up to this time, since leaving Chattanooga, I had taken ninety-five 
 prisoners, including seven officers ; also a few horses and mules. Found 
 the road from Maryville to Murphy, for the most part, good. After 
 leaving Tellico Plains the route lies through a mountainous country, but 
 the road over the mountains is well engineered and practicable for wagons. 
 The country is very poor, the fields poorly cultivated, and grain and 
 forage more scarce than any locality previously visited during my entire 
 trip. It is well watered, however, by frequent creeks and mountain 
 streams. Frequent incursions have been made in there by rebel cavalry, 
 and but few cattle of any kind, horses or mules, were found. 
 
 From the best information I could obtain along the route, it appeared 
 that the rebel train was some five or six days march ahead of me, and 
 traveling with apprehensions of pursuit, so that it was evident it would 
 be impossible to catch it. My horses were all jaded with hard marching, 
 and many of them already given out, leaving a number of the men dis 
 mounted, and from the great scarcity of horses in the country I could 
 not supply their place. Therefore, after sending a force ten miles farther 
 into the country to get all possible information, I determined to halt. The 
 reports of the expedition confirmed previous intelligence. After remain 
 ing in camp one day to rest my horses, I started back on the nth of 
 December, and at Tellico Plains found General M. L. Smith encamped 
 with his division of infantry and awaiting my return. 
 
 Through him received instructions from General Sherman to rest 
 my horses as long as necessary, and then proceed to Chattanooga via. 
 Charleston. Remained in camp until the morning of the I4th, Major 
 Smith s Battalion, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, being meanwhile re 
 lieved and ordered to Athens. 
 
 Arriving at Calhoun on the I5th, had orders requiring me to remain 
 at that place, guarding the railroad and river as a line looking toward 
 
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 Georgia. The detachment of Third U. S. Cavalry was relieved from duty 
 with my brigade, and the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Colonel Heath, 
 temporarily attached. I at once prepared to establish a line of couriers to 
 Loudon and Kingston, communicating with General Elliott, chief of 
 cavalry, and the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was assigned to the duty. 
 With the Fourth Michigan, I opened a line of communication to Chat 
 tanooga. The Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was sent to Columbus, on 
 the Hiawassee, to guard the river there and the adjacent fords. 
 
 On the 22d, the courier post at Cleveland was attacked by sixty 
 rebel calvary and driven out, with a loss of a few horses and arms, and 
 one man wounded. The rebels retired shortly afterward, leaving two 
 wounded, and the couriers resumed their post. 
 
 On the morning of the 28th, a wagon train which had arrived at 
 Charleston the evening before under escort of convalescents, etc,, of 
 General Sheridan s command, and commanded by Colonel Laiboldt, was 
 attacked by General Wheeler with about 1500 rebel cavalry. As soon 
 as I was made aware of the attack, I mounted the small portion of my 
 command not on duty (less than 150 men), and as soon as the train had 
 crossed the bridge, moved over the river. Colonel Laiboldt was now 
 sharply engaged, and soon had the enemy s lines wavering. I then drew 
 sabers and charged, driving before me a force of some 400 or 500; 
 pursued them to Chatata creek, capturing 121 prisoners, including five 
 officers, and many stand of arms. The enemy lost several killed and quite 
 a number wounded, among the latter two colonels. The main rebel 
 column retreated out the Dalton road. A detachment of my command 
 followed them some five miles, and left them in full retreat. 
 
 December 3Oth, the Fifth Ohio, by orders, was relieved from duty 
 with me, and their removal caused the removal of the courier line to 
 Kingston, as my command was too small to renew it. 
 
 On the 3d instant, Captain Beebe reported to me with a section of 
 his battery, Tenth Wisconsin, and remains here on duty. On the 6th, 
 the Fourth Michigan returned to this camp, the courier line from Cleve 
 land to Chattanooga having been withdrawn, and I then established a 
 line from Calhoun to the Tennessee river at Cotton Port, connecting with 
 line at Washington. 
 
 A great many of my horses were unshod when we started from 
 Alabama, as some of the regiments had not been able to get any horse 
 shoes since Wheeler s raid into Middle Tennessee, and there were no 
 extra shoes in the command, nor could any be obtained at Bridgeport 
 or Chattanooga, or anywhere on the whole march. More than one-half of 
 the horses of my command were old, and not yet recovered from the 
 hard marching after Wheeler. During the three days I was encamped 
 in the vicinity of Kelley s Ford, it was with the utmost difficulty that I 
 
138 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 could get about half rations of short forage for my animals, and during 
 the two days that I lay at Chattanooga I could not draw a grain. On 
 coming to Chattanooga the second time, I was there thirty-six hours and 
 got one feed of corn. On the march to North Carolina, after marching 
 thirty miles, I had to encamp in the mountains without any forage what 
 ever. Between the time we left Alabama, November i8th, and the time 
 we arrived here, December I5th, we traveled (i. e., the main column) 463 
 miles, and the day we arrived in Knoxville we had marched on that and 
 the two previous days 115 miles. I have been thus explicit in order to 
 explain to the commanding General the reason why my command de 
 creased with such extraordinary rapidity from dismounted men. 
 
 I would respectfully present to the favorable notice of the Major- 
 General commanding, for good conduct under all circumstances and 
 unremitting attention to their duties, all of my staff, viz : Captain William 
 E. Crane, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, acting assistant adjutant- 
 general; Lieutenant William H. Scott, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 
 acting ordnance officer and inspector ; Lieutenant C. J. Norton, Second 
 Kentucky Cavalry, aide; Lieutenant H. H. Siverd, First Ohio Volunteer 
 Cavalry, acting provost-marshal ; Lieutenant J. B. Hayden, Fourth Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry, acting quartermaster and commissary of subsistence, 
 and Assistant Surgeon John Cannan, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, act 
 ing brigade surgeon ; also Lieutenant-Colonel Seidel, Third Ohio Volun 
 teer Cavalry, whose regiment was in advance approaching London, and 
 Captain F. P. Gates, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalary, whose company 
 had the advance of the regiment on approaching Loudon, for the gallant 
 manner in which they drove the rebels on that occasion; also Major T. J. 
 Patten, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, whose regiment, being in advance, 
 was led by himself in person in fine style in the fight with Wheeler at 
 this point, and also for good conduct on that occasion, Captains Woodlief 
 and Erwin and Lieutenants Hall, Roush, Riggs, and Brison, of that 
 regiment. 
 
 The men all did as well as they could. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 Colonel, Conidg. Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 BRIG. GEN. WILLIAM D. WHIPPLE, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
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 Reports of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 Brigade, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 NEAR BURNT MILL, ON CLEVELAND AND SPRING PLACE ROAD, 
 
 February 22, 1864 2 :2o p. m. 
 
 GENERAL : Please find below copy of dispatch received by me yester 
 day (21 st) evening at 4 p. m. : 
 
 CHATTANOOGA, February 21, 1864. 
 "COLONEL ELI LONG: 
 
 "Move out upon Spring Place road with 600 men and establish 
 communication with Cruft at Red Clay. Push on as far as possible 
 in direction of Dalton, keeping up communication with Cruft to 
 observe movements of enemy, and prevent or give timely warning 
 of any attack of enemy to turn Cruft s left flank. Should the enemy 
 retire, send word to Cruft that he may advance from Red Clay. 
 
 "W. D. WHIPPLE, 
 "Assistant Adjutant-General." 
 
 I left Calhoun at 6 a. m. this morning with 600 cavalrymen, with 
 ten wagons with forage, and four ambulances. I hardly think they could 
 have known the location of the roads at department headquarters, for 
 this is the nearest point on this (Cleveland and Spring Place) road to 
 Red Clay, and it (Red Clay) is ten or twelve miles from here. I shall 
 encamp tonight at some mills nearly two miles from here on the Conne- 
 sauga, where I shall remain until I hear something from you. If not 
 inconsistent, please explain to me as clearly as you can what is expected 
 of my command. 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERAL CRUFT, 
 
 Comdg. First Division, Fourth Army Corps, Red Clay. 
 
 P. S. I have met or heard of nothing as yet. 
 
 AT CROSS-ROADS OF BENTON AND DALTON ROAD AND VARNELL S 
 STATION AND KING S LOWER BRIDGE ROAD, Six MILES 
 SOUTHEAST OF VARNELL S STATION AND NINE AND ONE- 
 HALF MILES FROM DALTON, February 23, 1864 1 125 p. m. 
 SIR: At 11:30 this a. m. I attacked and drove out of their camp 
 at least a regiment of rebel infantry, three and one-half miles this side 
 of Dalton. They had winter quarters (log-huts), and as they were com 
 pletely surprised they had no time to move any plunder out of their 
 huts, and from their appearance and the small amount of plunder in 
 them I believe they were preparing to leave. The cars were whistling 
 
14:0 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 furiously while the skirmish was going on. I have not force enough to 
 cope single-handed with all of their cavalry, but I think you may advance 
 with safety if you can still keep your supports, Palmer s troops, etc., 
 within supporting distance. I believe they are leaving the place, and 
 they should not be allowed to do [so] undisturbed. I shall be compelled 
 to go somewhere to get some forage. Please let me hear from you as 
 fully, in detail, as you can. I shall either wait here or move up on the 
 road to Varnell s Station until I hear from you. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 MAJOR W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 I have twelve prisoners. Can t you send me the Fourth Michigan 
 Cavalry and Second Kentucky and Warner s Company, when I may be 
 able to do something? ELI LONG. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 VARNELL S STATION, February 24, 1864 8 a. m. 
 
 SIR: I have just arrived here. Will push down the dirt road that 
 runs alongside of the railroad as far toward Dalton as practicable. I 
 believe there are some rebel cavalry on the main Cleveland and Dalton 
 road. I will be compelled to go back to the Connesauga or somewhere 
 else tomorrow unless I have better luck in foraging today than I did 
 yesterday. Please to forward a copy of this to General Palmer. A 
 brigade of infantry was encamped where we had the skirmish yesterday. 
 I have met nothing this morning. Let me know your location by the 
 bearer. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel Commanding Brigade. 
 MAJOR W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 P. S. I have not received the dispatch sent to me at 2 p. m. yes 
 terday, nor heard of the bearer. E. L. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 ON THE ROAD FROM DALTON TO VARNELL S STATION, JUST 
 EAST OF TUNNEL MOUNTAIN, February 24, 1864 2 p. m. 
 
 SIR: I have just driven in with one squadron the infantry pickets 
 on the dirt and railroads three miles from Dalton, and am now in line 
 with pickets skirmishing in front. Their cavalry ran into their infantry 
 
The East Tennessee Campaign. 141 
 
 supports, which they seem to have on all of the roads. I am now five 
 miles from Dalton, and do not think it prudent to go any farther until 
 I hear further from you and the result of your reconnaissance. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 Colonel, Commanding Second Brig., Second Cav. Div. 
 
 MAJOR W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 P. S. I send with the bearer one company to remain on picket at 
 Varnell s Station to watch the Cleveland and Dalton road that goes down 
 on the other side of the railroad. E. L. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 HENDERSON S HOUSE, FIVE MILES FROM DALTON, ON RAILROAD, 
 
 February 24, 1864 6:30 p. m. 
 
 SIR: I have just returned from another reconnaissance toward 
 Dalton. Ran into a large infantry cantonment three miles or less from 
 Dalton, and ran out again. I had several men wounded. Who is 
 intended to command, Colonel Grose or myself ? Please give some direc 
 tions about it. I don t think they have all left Dalton as much as I did. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Comdg. Second Brigade, Second Division. 
 MAJOR W. H. SINCLAIR, 
 
 A ssistant A dju tan t- General. 
 
 FEBRUARY 25, 1864 12:15 p. m. 
 
 I have my command near a gap road which runs through the ridge on 
 your left, with pickets down the railroad some quarter of a mile. Nothing 
 can come through the gap without my knowing, and I think this is the 
 only road between here and Dalton through which a force can get on 
 your flank or rear, and as my ammunition is nearly exhausted, I will 
 remain here until further orders. 
 
 Respectfully, ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Cavalry. 
 GENERAL CRUFT. 
 
 FEBRUARY 25, 1864 4:15 o clock. 
 
 GENERAL: The fire has just driven me out of the woods on the 
 ridge that I was occupying. I still have a picket on the road in the gap, 
 however. A few minutes since about forty infantry skirmishers moved 
 
142 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 up on our right, advancing toward your lines. The rebel lines, I think, 
 extend farther east than yours. At any rate, they came to the foot of 
 the ridge I have been occupying, and I think there may be some danger 
 of their lapping you on your left unless your lines extend completely 
 across the valley in which your left rested this morning. Please let me 
 know for my guidance where your left now is. Cannot your quarter 
 master send me some forage? Your commissary would not deliver me 
 any rations on Captain Knifrm s order, which please find enclosed with 
 note of commissary. 
 
 Respectfully, ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Comdg. Second B\rig. } Second Cav. Div. 
 BRIGADIER-GENERAL CRUFT, 
 
 Commanding Division. 
 
 P. S . The rebel cavalry pickets are in sight in our front. Please 
 indorse Captain Kniffin s order, so that I can get the rations. E. L. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION CAVALRY, 
 
 NEAR LEE S HOUSE, GA., February 27, 1864. 
 
 GENERAL : I have the honor to submit the following report : 
 
 In compliance with orders received February 21, 1864, from head 
 quarters Department of the Cumberland, I left Calhoun, Tenn., Monday, 
 February 22d, 1864, in command of 600 men (350 mounted infantry and 
 250 cavalry), and marched out on the Spring Place road. Monday even 
 ing I encamped near the house of Mr. Waterhouse, on Connesauga River, 
 about thirty miles south of Calhoun. I met no enemy during the day. 
 
 I left my encampment near Waterhouse s Tuesday morning, Feb 
 ruary 23, at 7 a. m. (having communicated with General Cruft at Red 
 Clay the night before), and marched toward Dalton. My advance guard 
 drove in the enemy s vedettes when within four miles of Dalton. I im 
 mediately pushed on my column rapidly and attacked a regiment of rebel 
 infantry, which was encamped within three miles of Dalton, driving them 
 from their camp and capturing twelve prisoners belonging to a Mississippi 
 regiment. The enemy then formed, and I withdrew my command to 
 Russell s Mill, a distance of four miles east of Varnell s Station, and en 
 camped for the night. There I received a communication from Major- 
 General Palmer requesting me to advance in the morning, February 24th, 
 in the direction of Dalton via Varnell s Station. 
 
 I left my encampment at Russell s Mill at 6 a. m., February 24th, 
 and reached Varnell s about 7, where I halted until about 10 a. m., in the 
 meantime sending small forces on the different roads leading from Var 
 nell s. They met no enemy, and I pushed on toward Dalton, marching 
 on a road running parallel to the Cleveland and Dalton railroad. When 
 within five miles of Dalton I met with the enemy s pickets. My advance 
 
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 squadron drove them to within three miles of Dalton. I then fell back 
 two miles, and drew my command up in line on a ridge one mile west of 
 the railroad awaiting movements of the enemy. I remained in my posi 
 tion, when I was joined by Colonel Grose, commanding a brigade of the 
 First Division, Fourth Army Corps. Soon after the arrival of Colonel 
 Grose, I dismounted my command and advanced in line against the 
 enemy, driving their skirmishers about a mile in the direction of their 
 camp, but there I was compelled to fall back, being attacked by a brigade 
 of rebel infantry, who were firing at my men from behind log-huts. I fell 
 back to the line of Colonel Grose, and soon afterward (as it was nearly 
 dark) retired about two miles to the rear, where I encamped for the night. 
 
 The next morning, February 25th, I took a position on the left of 
 our infantry lines and advanced as they did. I moved up about half a 
 mile, when my men became engaged with the enemy. I was then joined 
 by 100 men of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, who had been ordered to 
 report to me by Brigadier-General Cruft. I pressed on against the enemy 
 until I had gotten a short distance in advance of the left of our infantry 
 lines. I then halted, and remained in my position during the remainder 
 of the day. At dark I retired about a mile to the rear where I remained 
 until ii o clock p. m., when I moved my command back on the Dalton and 
 Varnell s Station road, about three miles from the place where we fought 
 during the day. 
 
 On the morning of the 26th, I moved to Lee s house, where our 
 infantry was encamped, and remained there until about I p. m., at 
 which time our pickets were fired upon by the enemy s cavalry, when I 
 marched out and drove the rebels off. I followed them about two and 
 one-half miles in the direction of Tunnel Hill, when I returned to my 
 camp of the morning. 
 
 My horses had had very little forage, not being able to draw any 
 and there being very little in the country. I could not have pursued the 
 rebel cavalry vigorously if the country had admitted of it, which it did not. 
 
 During the night our infantry fell back to a place near Catoosa Plat 
 form, and I am now near my camp of yesterday. 
 
 The following is the list* of casualties in my command since Feb 
 ruary 22d. 
 
 I had no means of ascertaining the injury done the enemy, but it 
 was reported that eight bodies were left on the field. I took twenty-three 
 prisoners. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 Colonel, Comdg. Second Brig., Second Dvu., Cav. 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERAL WHIPPLE, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 * Nominal list (omitted) shows 1 officer and 1 man killed, 19 men wounded, and 2 men 
 missing. 
 
144 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION CAVALRY, 
 
 RED HILL VALLEY, 
 
 TWELVE MILES FROM CLEVELAND^ TENN, Feb. 27, 1864. 
 SIR: After I had left the vicinity of General Cruft s division and 
 come about twenty miles therefrom, he being at Catoosa Platform, a 
 sergeant of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry brought me word that General 
 Cruft was being attacked by rebel cavalry, but as General Cruft expressed 
 no desire for me to return I did not go back, it being nearly night when I 
 received the word by the sergeant, and my horses had no forage today. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Comdg. Second Brig., Second Div., Cav. 
 BRIGADIER-GENERAL WM. D. WHIPPLE, 
 
 Chief of Staff, Army of the Cumberland, Cleveland Tenn. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 VETERANS IN 64 
 
 SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 93. 
 
 HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, 
 
 CHATTANOOGA, April 2, 1864. 
 ******* 
 
 Second Division, Brigadier General K. Garrard, commanding: 
 
 First Brigade : Fourth U. S. Cavalry, Seventh Pennsylvania Cav 
 alry, Fourth Michigan Cavalry. 
 
 Second Brigade: First Ohio Cavalry, Third Ohio Cavalry, Fourth 
 Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 Third Brigade: Seventeenth Indiana Mounted Infantry, Seventy- 
 second Indiana Mounted Infantry, Ninety-eighth Illinois Mounted In 
 fantry, One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Mounted Infantry. 
 
 Chicago Board of Trade Battery. 
 
 The required reports and returns will be made to include March 
 31, 1864, in accordance with former organizations. 
 
 All reports and returns will be forwarded to the chief of cavalry. 
 ******* 
 
 By command of Major-General Thomas: 
 
 WM. McMlCHAEL, 
 
 Major and Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 April 1 5th We broke camp, marched! to Chattanooga, turned over 
 our unserviceable horses, and the dismounted men took the cars for Nash- 
 
SERGEANT DE WILTON WOOD 
 MEMBER OF THE HISTORY COMMITTEE 
 
Veterans in 64. 145 
 
 ville, arriving on the i6th, and the next day rejoined the regiment at 
 Columbia, Tennessee. The first detachment of veteran volunteers and 
 recruits had returned after their thirty day s furlough and went into camp 
 one and a half miles west of Columbia. 
 
 April 2d The second detachment of veterans returning from thirty 
 days furlough arrived at Nashville and went into camp, where they re 
 mained until the I3th, having dismounted drill daily. 
 
 April 1 3th Reveille at 4 a. m., turned over surplus baggage and 
 took up the line of march southward on foot ; camped within three miles 
 of Franklin, having marched sixteen or seventeen miles, many of the 
 men suffering with blistered feet. 
 
 April I4th On the march early. Camped near Spring Hill. 
 
 April 1 5th Passed through Spring Hill, and went into camp on 
 the north side of Duck river, near Columbia. Colonel Seidel was made 
 commander of the post at Columbia ; Captain Colver, provost marshal ; 
 Companies G and H detailed as provost guards. The provost office was 
 located in the Masonic building and the guards quartered in the county 
 jail. The post commander and provost marshal were kept busy looking 
 after citizens and soldiers, speculators and people wishing to trade, 
 making them take the oath and give bond. 
 
 April 25th A Confederate recruiting officer was captured. 
 
 April 27th The mounted men who marched through from Ringold 
 arrived today, and the regiment is all together again. The regiment is 
 now the Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, and with the recruits 
 we have received its ranks are again full and it is rapidly getting into 
 shape for the campaign of 1864. Drilling, dress parades, inspections, 
 are the order of the day, and as soon as we get our horses, we will be 
 off for the front again. 
 
 April 3Oth Moved camp out two miles on the Shelbyville pike. 
 
 May ist General muster and inspection in the forenoon. 
 
 May 2d A detachment went to Nashville after horses, returning 
 on the nth. In the evening of the tenth two of our men were killed 
 near Spring Hill by bushwhackers. 
 
 May 1 6th The paymaster came to camp and left a few souvenirs. 
 
 May 2 ist The brigade marched out five miles to the General 
 Pillow plantation, where we were reviewed by Colonel Long, a tedious 
 day, five hours in the hot sun. 
 
 May 22d Reveille at 3 a. m., broke camp and took up the line of 
 march southward at 6:30; marched twenty-three miles and camped at 
 3 p. m., eight miles north of Pulaski. 
 
 May 23d Started at 5 a. m., passed through Pulaski; camped at 
 Elkton at 3 p. m. ; marched twenty-one miles. 
 
 May 24th Reveille at 2 o clock, but a very heavy rainstorm kept 
 
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 us from starting until 5 o clock ; forded Elk river ; crossed the state line, 
 and camped at Athens, Alabama, at 4 p. m. Marched nineteen miles. 
 Remained at Athens until the 26th. Reveille sounded at 2 o clock; on 
 the march at 5. Crossed the Tennessee river on a pontoon bridge, and 
 went into camp at Decatur, at 2 p. m. General F. P. Blair s Corps is at 
 Decatur on its way to join Sherman s Army. We had not been in camp 
 over an hour when boots and saddles sounded and we started out on the 
 Courtland road after the Rebel General Roddy s command. We chased 
 him for eight miles, capturing five wagons, one flag and fifteen prisoners. 
 Returning to Decatur, we got in camp about 8 o clock. 
 
 May 27th We left Decatur at n a. m. A brigade of infantry in 
 advance found Roddy about three miles out. After some skirmishing 
 by the infantry, we took the advance, driving them to Courtland, where 
 we arrived about 10 o clock p. m. 
 
 May 28th Started out at 7 o clock on the Moulton road leaving 
 the infantry at Courtland. We went by the way of Mountain Home. 
 Passed through Moulton at 2 o clock p. m. ; went into camp two miles 
 east of the town on the Somerville road in a piece of woods on the south 
 of the road. There was considerable firing on the picket line at intervals 
 during the night. 
 
 THE FIGHT AT MOULTON, ALABAMA. 
 
 Sunday morning, May 2Qth After driving General Roddy s forces 
 from Decatur to Courtland on the 27th, he left our front, but no doubt 
 he was watching our movements and noting our strength. And as the 
 command was divided, part taking the road past S wope s Mill on the 
 28th, he may have been deceived as to our numbers. It is certain, how 
 ever, that he believed his forces strong enough to clean us up. Coming 
 into Moulton Saturday night and ascertaining where we were encamped, 
 he got his brigade into position, ready to surprise and stampede us at 
 daybreak. Our camp was in a valley. The land was very uneven. In 
 fact, a succession of hills and valleys, covered in many places with timber 
 and underbrush interspersed with cleared fields. Company I of the Third 
 was on picket on the Moulton road, and during the night they erected 
 a barricade of logs and rails across the road. The orders the night before 
 were not to unsaddle, but a shallow creek that ran through the camp 
 separated Company C from the rest of the regiment, and they not 
 getting the order, unsaddled. As soon as it was light Roddy moved 
 forward in line of battle with the Moulton road as his center. Driving 
 in our outposts, he moved forward toward the position occupied by 
 Company I. Here his advance met with a check, our men defending 
 their works so stubbornly that Roddy was forced to order up a piece 
 of artillery to shell them out. Meanwhile our brigade, aroused by the 
 
Veterans in 64. 147 
 
 rapid firing on the Moulton road, was busy getting in readiness for the 
 fray. But when the booming of the cannon awoke the echoes amongst 
 the hills, "there was mounting in hot haste," for we knew then that the 
 Johnnies meant business. Simultaneously with the report of that first 
 cannon shot the rebel line on the right of the road came into plain view 
 from our camp as it advanced over the ridge and came charging down 
 the slope half a mile away. Bugle calls followed each other in rapid 
 succession, the regiments were formed and marched into position. In 
 a very few brief moments our lines were formed just back of our camp 
 to receive the oncoming attack. Their artillery had the range of our 
 position and were sending shot and shell into our ranks. Our artillery 
 (not the Chicago Board of Trade Battery) were a little slow in getting 
 into position, but when they did commence they rendered valiant service 
 in helping to check the rebel advance. Our regiment was ordered on the 
 right flank, and just as we were wheeling from line into column a shell 
 from one of the rebel guns killed two horses, passing through the first 
 one and taking a leg off the second, but fortunately the shell did not 
 explode. The advance of the rebel right was checked in our camp, and 
 the Third moving to the right came into line, and advancing over the 
 hills, found the enemy in position in a piece of timber. After we had 
 fired a few volleys from our carbines they commenced to fall back, and 
 in a short time were in full retreat toward Moulton. We followed them 
 for a short distance, but as the country was not a good one to charge 
 over with a large body of cavalry, and Colonel Long was under orders 
 to join Blair s Corps, the bugles sounded the recall, and we returned 
 to our camps and got breakfast. We do not know the exact loss of 
 the enemy, as considerable of the fighting was in places covered with a 
 thick growth of bushes, but their loss was considerable. There were some 
 twenty-five killed in our camps and we took sixteen prisoners, amongst 
 ,Aem three officers, one a lieutenant and General Roddy s adjutant. He 
 told us that Roddy was deceived by his scouts, who told him we were 
 green troops going to the front. And he thought in that case he could 
 surprise us in camp, and stampede and capture the whole outfit; but he 
 had hardly got hooked up before he found out his mistake. "It was the 
 same old regiment, only it had got new clothes." Our loss in the 
 brigade was three killed and fourteen wounded. We lost a number of 
 horses, but these were more than made good by captures. Captain 
 Rowland relates the following incident : The evening before his darkey 
 cook had captured a chicken, and was up early and had it in the kettle 
 cooking when the rebels charged on us. After the fight when we 
 returned to our camp he found a rebel lying dead by his camp fire with 
 a piece of his chicken in his hand and a rifle ball in his brain. But it 
 didn t get on the Captain s nerves. He had chicken for breakfast, and 
 
148 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 enjoyed it. After breakfast we started on the march. Passing through 
 Somerville late in the afternoon, we camped fifteen miles out on the 
 Warrenton road at midnight, having marched forty miles and fought 
 a battle. 
 
 May 3Oth Marched only six miles. We halted for our wagon train 
 and the infantry to come up, when we drew rations, fed our horses, and 
 went into camp at the foot of Sand Mountain, about twelve miles from 
 Warrenton. 
 
 May 3 ist Reveille at 3:30. Started at daylight; had a rough, hard 
 climb up Sand Mountain. Passed through Warrenton, went into camp 
 on Drum creek, about ten miles east of Warrenton. A detachment went 
 to Guntersville, on the Tennessee river, with our wounded and did not 
 get to camp until midnight. 
 
 June ist Reveille at 2 a. m., but did not leave camp until noon. 
 Marched all night, halting only to feed our horses and going into camp 
 on a small stream near Van Buren, in the valley between Sand and 
 Lookout Mountains at 10 a. m. of June 2d ; rained most of the afternoon 
 and night. 
 
 June 3d Reveille at 3 a. m. ; on the march at daylight ; passed 
 through Van Buren, crossed the Lookout range, descending at Blue 
 pond; crossed Chattanooga creek, passed through Cedar Bluffs and 
 camped about five miles out; weather rainy. 
 
 June 4th On the march at 7 a. m. Passed through Coosaville, 
 marching over a very hilly but fertile country. Crossed the Oostenaula 
 River and arrived at Rome, Georgia, about 2 o clock p. m. Rome was a 
 very pretty town, lying between the Oostenaula and Etowah rivers, where 
 they unite and form the Coosa. We went into camp two and a half miles 
 out on the Kingston road, having marched twenty-seven miles in a steady 
 rain. W r e remained in camp one day, a day of scorching sun and frequent 
 showers ; received a little mail, the first we have had since leaving Co 
 lumbia. 
 
 June 6th On the march at 6 a. m., crossed Conasana creek and 
 camped on a rocky hill near Two Run creek, east of Kingston. 
 
 June 7th Reveille at 2 a. m., on the march at daylight; crossed the 
 Etowah river on a long covered bridge, four miles south of Kingston ; 
 camped at the railroad bridge across Etowah river, near Cartersville ; the 
 wagon train came up. It was> the first time we have seen them for a 
 week. 
 
 June 8th Company A drew Spencer carbines ; we left camp at 1 1 
 a. m., passing Allatoona furnace ; we camped at 3 p. m., between Allatoona 
 and Ackworth. General Sherman s headquarters are at Ackworth ; the 
 enemy is in a very strong position in front of Kenesaw mountain. Gen- 
 
Veterans in 64. 149 
 
 eral K. Garrard is in command of the division. We are on the left flank 
 of the army. 
 
 June Qth Did not move today ; our mail is coming regularly ; com 
 pany inspection. 
 
 June loth We drew two days rations and left camp at n a. m. ; 
 marched about six or eight miles in a southerly direction. General Sher 
 man moved his headquarters to Big Shanty. 
 
 June nth Moved our lines about three miles to the left. In the 
 afternoon our regiment went out to reconnoiter and came on to the rebel 
 pickets, driving them back on-to their lines of breastworks near Noonday 
 creek. After a sharp engagement we fell back, being compelled to leave 
 two of our men on the field. We brought off ten of our wounded, among 
 them Lieutenant Colonel Rowland, whose horse was shot dead under him 
 at the time he was wounded. We fell back to our former position, build 
 ing breastworks in our front. The orders of the day were to fortify every 
 time we make an advance. We are still getting our regular daily and 
 nightly rains. 
 
 June 1 2th We did not move out of our works today; some can 
 nonading over on the right ; still raining. 
 
 June 1 3th More rain; the roads are in a terrible condition, almost 
 impassable for wagons and artillery. 
 
 June 1 4th Some firing on the pickets. Saddled up two or three 
 times, but did not move out. A part of the regiment on picket. The 
 Confederate General Polk was killed on Pine mountain by a shell from 
 one of our batteries. During the night a section of the Chicago Board 
 of Trade Battery was brought out on the picket line and at daylight 
 opened on the rebel position, creating some excitement on both sides. 
 
 June 1 5th At i p. m. the division moved out of its position, mounted. 
 Advancing about a mile, when we found the advance lines of the enemy. 
 The Second Brigade dismounted, attacking the enemy and driving them 
 about two miles back to their entrenchments, but were unable to dislodge 
 them 1 . After expending all our ammunition we fell back about two miles 
 and worked most of the night building breastworks a mile in advance 
 of our old position. The Second Brigade lost three killed and thirteen 
 wounded. 
 
 June 1 6th The division moved about two miles to the right, where 
 we joined on-to McPherson s left; considerable fighting, McPherson s 
 men capturing the Fortieth Alabama Regiment. Here we went to work 
 and built another line of breastworks. 
 
 June 1 7th Did not move our lines today. Detachments doing 
 picket duty; picket firing and cannonading all the time. Raining nearly 
 all the time. Our battery got into position and opened up on the rebel 
 
150 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 works at the foot of Kenesaw, the rebels replied from their batteries on 
 Bushy mountain. 
 
 June 1 8th Constant cannonading and picket firing. Our horses 
 saddled all day. It rained all day and night. 
 
 June I9th Moved back into the timber about 8 a. m,, and at 10 
 o clock our batteries opened up, but received no reply. Wilder s guns 
 were also brought into action, supported by the Second Brigade, dis 
 mounted. But failing to dislodge the enemy, we withdrew, moving to 
 the left and occupying nearly the same position that we did in the fight 
 on the 1 5th. We got our usual portion of rain. 
 
 June 2Oth More rain and plenty of it. Heavy cannonading to the 
 front and left of Kenesaw. We moved in support of Wilder s and Minty s 
 brigades, and in support of the battery, dismounted. Advanced about 
 a mile, but fell back to our old position after nightfall, in the mud and 
 rain. Part of the command on picket. 
 
 June 2 ist Cannonading continued at Kenesaw. Our pickets are 
 close up to those of the enemy. Much picket firing, and the pickets are 
 compelled to keep under cover. No bugle calls are sounded in camp. 
 In front of our picket lines was an old mill, on Noonday creek, occupied 
 by rebel sharpshooters, who were doing all they could to make life 
 disagreeable for us. The place was covered by the rebel pickets, so that 
 it was not an easy matter to burn it, but the officer in charge of that part 
 of the line determined to do it, and while engaging the enemy in his front, 
 sent a detachment around under cover, which succeeded in capturing the 
 sharpshooters and burning the mill. 
 
 June 22d Moved about a mile to the front and built another breast 
 work. There is considerable firing all along the line. We had a fine day, 
 for a change. 
 
 June 23d Another fine day. The division moved forward at 2 130 
 p. m. Advanced to Noonday creek, dismounted and crossed, but before 
 our line was formed the rebels charged us. We repulsed them and drove 
 them back ; then recrossed the creek and returned to our breastworks 
 after dark. The problem of getting past Kenesaw is a hard one to solve. 
 Johnson from his position on Kenesaw is able to watch every move that 
 Sherman makes, and while acting on the defensive is ready to take 
 advantage of any false move he may make. But Sherman is moving with 
 caution, has his army well in hand, and is constantly pushing and crowd 
 ing. The lines are so close together that we can plainly hear the whistles 
 of the locomotives beyond the rebel camps, while they can not only hear 
 ours but can see them as they come from Ackworth into Big Shanty. 
 
 On June 24th General Sherman issued orders to his army com 
 manders to make preparations for a general assault on the enemy s works 
 on the 27th. The orders to be kept secret even from their staiT officers. 
 
Veterans in 64. 151 
 
 All movements of troops to be made during the night time, and while 
 artillery righting and skirmishing was to be kept up all along the line, 
 each commander was to select a point of attack and make a vigorous 
 attempt to break through the enemy s lines. General McPherson near 
 the southwest end of Kenesaw, General Thomas about a mile farther 
 south, and General Schofield at a point as near Marietta as seemed to 
 offer the best prospect of success. In the evening of the 26th we moved 
 our lines forward about a mile on the left. 
 
 June 27th No bugle calls in camp, but orders to saddle up. Leaving 
 our horses, we advanced about two miles on foot and came into line on 
 the left of the Third Brigade, built breastworks of logs and rails, support 
 ing the artillery, which is hotly engaged shelling the rebel position on 
 Kenesaw. Further to the right we can hear the roar of battle, where 
 McPherson and Thomas are making a desperate effort to break through 
 the lines of the enemy, and while they gained and held some ground, 
 yet nowhere did they break through. When night came on we had lost 
 2500 men, and had gained no material advantage. The bombardment of 
 Kenesaw continued, and during the nights the sight was extremely grand, 
 the incessant roar of the artillery interspersed with the flashes of the 
 guns and the bursting shells amongst the trees made a sight never to be 
 forgotten. The same night General Sherman resolved on a movement by 
 the right and commenced preparations for it. In the evening we returned 
 to the place where we had left our horses. 
 
 June 28th Cannonading and some musketry firing on our right. In 
 our front the pickets made a truce, agreeing not to fire unless an advance 
 was ordered. Some of the pickets met between the lines, trading coffee 
 and salt for tobacco. A detachment from the regiment went on a 
 reconnaissance to the left and rear. Two of Company A men captured 
 by rebels in our uniform. We brought in six deserters from the rebel 
 army. 
 
 July ist Cannonading from our side brought no response from the 
 enemy. 
 
 July 2d We moved out at 9 p. m. ; marched to the right, and camped 
 at midnight south of Big Shanty. Rumors that the enemy are falling 
 back. 
 
152 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 IN FRONT OF ATLANTA 
 
 July 3d Great day. At daylight our men got possession of Kene- 
 saw, and our signal flags are waving from its summit. Sherman s move 
 to the right has compelled Johnston to abandon his position at Kenesaw 
 and retreat toward Atlanta. 
 
 We moved out at 9 a. m., following the line of railroad through the 
 gap between Bushy and Kenesaw Mountains and on to Marietta. The 
 rebels had torn up about a mile of the railroad track and taken the rails 
 away with them. Most of the people had left Marietta, abandoning their 
 homes. We came up with the rear guard of the enemy a short distance 
 beyond the town. They fell back with little opposition to our advance. 
 We camped at night in a piece of woods about four miles east from 
 Marietta. 
 
 July 4th Reveille at 2, a. m. ; moved out at daylight. The Third 
 Ohio in advance of the division, Company C advance guard. About two 
 miles from camp the rebel skirmishers opened up on us from a piece of 
 woods half a mile in our front. General Garrard sent a staff officer with 
 an order for the advance guard to fall back. The battery was brought 
 into position and commenced shelling the woods, while the division 
 formed, dismounted. A strong skirmish line from the Third Ohio was 
 deployed and advanced on the enemy. The ground in our front was an 
 old abandoned plantation, about a mile across. Our artillery continued 
 to shell the woods over our heads until we were nearly across the clearing. 
 When we reached the timber we found we were on the edge of a swamp, 
 and the only place we could cross was on a corduroy bridge on the road. 
 Rallying on the center, we charged across the bridge, driving the enemy 
 from their position and up the hill on the opposite side. When we 
 reached the top of the hill we were ordered to halt, our line being in a 
 sheltered position behind a fence. In our front was an old clearing grown 
 up with thick brush. About noon the enemy had gathered quietly in 
 the brush in our front, and firing one volley, they gave that old rebel yell 
 and came charging on us over that old fence, driving us back half way 
 down the hill ; when we made a counter charge, driving them back again. 
 We continued to skirmish with them until about 4 p. m., when we returned 
 to our horses and moved to our camp of the previous night. 
 
 July 5th Reveille at 2 o clock. Infantry and artillery firing kept up 
 on the right all night. Hardee s Corps in a strongly fortified position 
 at Smyrna camp ground, is covering the crossings of the Chattahoochee. 
 We started out early in the forenoon, marching in a northeasterly direc 
 tion to strike the river at Roswell. There is a ford and a bridge at that 
 point, and if possible we were to save the bridge. Minty s Brigade is 
 
In Front of Atlanta. 153 
 
 in the advance and early in the day came up with a small froce of the 
 enemy, the advance driving them. Coming within a mile of the river, 
 Minty drew saber and went in on a charge, capturing some prisoners, 
 but was too late to save the bridge, which was in flames when he got 
 there. Roswell was a pretty little place on the west bank of Vickory 
 creek, just above where it empties into the Chattahoochee. We found 
 there a cotton factory in operation, making cloth for the Confederate 
 government. It was under the management of a Frenchman, who claimed 
 to own it, and had hoisted the French flag over the building, believing 
 that it would protect his property. There were several hundred women 
 employes in the factory, most of them from the North. Mr. Frenchman 
 was very beligerent; claimed to be a citizen of France, and under the 
 protection of the French flag, and told of all the dire calamities that would 
 befall the United States if we dared to touch his property or his flag. 
 Our boys knew only one flag and that was Old Glory," and in the 
 territory that they occupied all other flags must come down. The French 
 man was made a prisoner, his flag was hauled down, and under orders 
 from General Sherman, the factories were burned. The operatives were 
 sent North. We hauled them to Marietta in the army wagon train, and 
 from there they were furnished transportation on the railroad. 
 
 July 6th On picket along the Chattahoochee. General Wheeler s 
 forces are on the opposite side of the river, and there is considerable 
 picket firing on our front, while from the right our ears are greeted 
 with the sound of booming cannon. 
 
 July Qth Orders came for us to force a crossing at the ford. Our 
 battery got into position, and after shelling the woods on the opposite 
 side, we crossed at the ford, meeting with but little opposition. Wheeler 
 had fallen back. We moved out about two miles ; found very few of 
 the enemy; posted pickets and remained all night. The next morning 
 we recrossed the Chattahoochee and returned to our camp. A number 
 of Company H men were captured. They got too far from the main 
 body. It is a wild, rough country, and it is not safe to wander off too 
 far from the command. 
 
 July nth We moved about one mile south from Roswell and camped 
 in a thick wood. 
 
 July 1 3th The Third Battalion went to Marietta guarding a wagon 
 train; returned on the I5th with the wagons loaded with supplies. 
 
 July I4th The First and Second Battalions went out on a scout, 
 returning the next day. They had a little skirmishing and captured 
 a number of prisoners. 
 
 July i6th We crossed the Chattahoochee and camped about a mile 
 from the river. 
 
 July i /th Part of the regiment went on a scout in the direction of 
 
154 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Stone mountain ; found very few of the enemy ; had one horse killed and 
 one man wounded. Returning to camp, found McPherson s troops were 
 crossing the river at Roswell. General Johnston was superseded in the 
 command of the Confederate Army by General Hood. The authorities 
 at Richmond are dissatisfied with General Johnston s management of the 
 campaign. He does not fight enough to suit them. 
 
 July 1 8th The First and Third Brigades went on a raid on the East 
 Georgia Railroad, intending to strike it near Stone Mountain. The Second 
 Brigade remained to do picket duty and guard the division wagon train. 
 Two deserters from the Confederate army came into camp. 
 
 July i Qth The Second Brigade started after the division at 10 a m., 
 marched to Stone Mountain and tore up the railroad for a number of 
 miles, after which we fell back about four miles, w r here we found the 
 rest of the division and the wagon train. 
 
 July 2Oth Moved up to Decatur. The roads were blocked with 
 infantry and our progress was slow. It is a part of McPherson s Corps. 
 General Hood, thinking that he saw an opportunity to strike Sherman 
 and beat him in detail, he (Sherman) having divided his army, sending 
 the Army of the Tennesse and the Army of Ohio to Decatur, and General 
 Thomas with the Army of the Cumberland having crossed the Chatta- 
 hoochee at Pace s Ferry, was moving toward Atlanta. They had crossed 
 Peach Tree creek when they were unexpectedly assailed) by the entire 
 rebel army. The Army of the Cumberland, however, repelled every 
 assault that was made upon their lines, and Hood and his army were 
 hurled back with fearful loss. The first blow struck by the new com 
 mander under circumstances that gave good hope of success had most 
 signally failed. 
 
 Reports of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second 
 Brigade, of Operations May 26-Jnly 15. 
 
 HDQRS, SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 NEAR ROSWELL, GA., July 12, 1864. 
 
 CAPTAIN : Please find annexed a report of the operations of the 
 Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, since leaving Decatur, Ala., 
 on the 26th of May and up to the ist of the present month, which I 
 have the honor to forward for the information of the Brigadier-General 
 commanding corps : 
 
 Leaving Decatur, I proceeded on the Courtland road toward Court- 
 land, Ala., and soon found the enemy, a portion of General Roddey s 
 cavalry command. Attacking them at once, they were thrown into a 
 hasty retreat, and we captured twelve prisoners and two stand of colors, 
 besides wagons, horses, mules, arms, etc. ; our loss nothing. 
 
In Front of Atlanta. 155 
 
 Next day Roddey s entire command was met near Courtland, and, 
 after an engagement of half an hour, I drove him through town, taking 
 three prisoners and killing Major Williams. We had one man wounded. 
 On the 28th we had no righting, but surprised and captured six of 
 Roddey s men. 
 
 May 29, near Moulton, Ala., I was attacked at 4 a. m. by General 
 Roddey with cavalry and four pieces of artillery. After a severe engage 
 ment, lasting two hours, the enemy was completely repulsed on all sides, 
 and compelled to retreat in great disorder toward Moulton, leaving his 
 dead and some wounded on the field. Roddey s loss was twelve to 
 fifteen killed ; the number of his wounded not known. We took sixteen 
 prisoners, including one lieutenant-colonel and two lieutenantts. Our own 
 casualties were three killed and fourteen wounded. Marched that morning 
 at 8 o clock, passing through Somerville, Ala., and on the 3Oth of May 
 overtook the Seventeenth Army Corps, Major-General Blair. Remained 
 with this command until the 6th of June, when we arrived at Kingston, 
 Ga. Crossing Raccoon and Sand Mountains was very severe upon our 
 horses, although the roads by this route were generally good and water 
 abundant. Our supply of forage was very limited, and we depended 
 for the most part upon the grazing. 
 
 Crossed Lookout Mountain on the 3d June, and marched toward 
 Rome, Ga., surprising and capturing sixteen rebel soldiers and one lieu 
 tenant-colonel. June 6th, marched from Rome to Kingston, and on the 
 following day to Etowah bridge, thence toward Marietta. June nth, 
 while encamped ten miles from Marietta, I sent out the First Ohio Volun 
 teer Cavalry on a reconnaissance toward that town. They met a force 
 of the enemy, and drove them some four miles. The Third Ohio 
 Volunteer Cavalry was sent on another road, and found the enemy a 
 few miles from camp, attacked them, but found they had largely superior 
 numbers, and the regiment was compelled to fall back. Our loss here 
 was twelve wounded and two missing. The enemy had several wounded, 
 and we took one prisoner. Remained in camp at Noonday creek, having 
 frequent skirmishing with the rebel pickets, until the I5th, when I received 
 marching orders. At 2 p. m. I attacked General Wheeler s cavalry 
 command, and fought him for about an hour, but was at length com 
 pelled to fall back, Wheeler being well fortified, and intrenched beyond 
 our power to drive him out. In this engagement we lost two killed, 
 sixteen wounded, and two missing. Rebel loss unknown. On the i6th of 
 June I moved toward the front and encamped near Kenesaw Mountain, 
 remaining here until the iQth, when, upon orders received, I moved my 
 command, and drove the enemy to Noonday creek. Here I formed a 
 junction with the Third Brigade. The enemy made a stand on the farther 
 bank of the creek and fought stubbornly for several hours. June 2Oth, 
 
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 was ordered to reinforce Colonel Minty s brigade, which had encountered 
 the enemy and been driven back to the creek. June 23d, crossed 
 Noonday creek, and was attacked by the enemy some five miles from 
 Marietta. The attack was handsomely repelled, and the enemy driven 
 back, with a loss of one killed and several wounded; our loss, two 
 wounded and two missing. During the remainder of the month my 
 command rested, for the most part, quietly in camp. 
 
 Since leaving Decatur the brigade has marched (the main column) 
 215 miles, much of this distance being mountainous country. Besides 
 horses, mules, wagons, and arms taken, we captured a total of five officers 
 and fifty-four men, and lost, in killed five ; wounded, forty-five ; missing, 6. 
 
 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Brigade. 
 CAPT. J. E. JACOBS, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-Gene\raL 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 NEAR ROSWELL, GA., July 14, 1864. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to forward, for the information of the 
 division commander, the following report, showing the movements and 
 operations of the Second Brigade from the first of the present month 
 to date : 
 
 Being encamped near Noonday creek, north of Marietta, I remained 
 there until the evening of the 3d, then marching to Big Shanty. On 
 the following day I received orders to follow the enemy, who was 
 retreating, and, marching via. Marietta, I pursued him some four miles 
 southeast of that town. At 3 a. m. of the 4th I again had marching 
 orders, and on moving out of camp found the rebels in considerable force 
 a short distance in front of the pickets, with strong breastworks thrown 
 up. This was found to be Wheeler s cavalry, reinforced, as nearly as 
 could be ascertained, by a division of infantry. Fighting immediately 
 ensued, and was continued at intervals throughout the day with heavy 
 skirmishing, in which my loss was but one killed and one wounded, the 
 men being protected by rail breastworks hastily thrown up. We took two 
 prisoners. Not being able to dislodge the enemy or effect any decided 
 result, the command returned in the evening to camp. On the 5th I 
 marched to within one mile and a half of the Chattahoochee river, near 
 the town of Roswell, remaining here until the evening of the 8th, when 
 the brigade moved as advance of the division to Roswell. July Qth, upon 
 orders received, I sent the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, at 3 a m., 
 to McAfee s bridge, across the Chattahoochee, eight miles above Roswell, 
 
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 with instructions to hold it and prevent the enemy from crossing or 
 destroying it. The other regiments of my brigade were held as a reserve, 
 saddled, and in readiness to move at the shortest notice. The enemy 
 held the farther end of the bridge, and skirmishing with them was con 
 tinued until evening, when they fell back, and the Fourth Ohio held the 
 bridge entire, having no loss except one man wounded. Later in the 
 evening the regiment was ordered back to camp. July loth, Lieutenant 
 P. B. Lewis, of Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and topographical 
 engineer on my staff, was captured at Alpharetta, Ga., together with four 
 of the brigade scouts, by a company of rebel cavalry. On the same day 
 the Third Ohio lost by capture four men, who constituted the rear guard 
 of wagon train coming from Marietta. On the nth brigade moved 
 camp to the old Alabama road, where it is intersected by the Rosweli and 
 Cumming road, and continue encamped at that place. 
 
 During the month six prisoners have been taken and twenty-one 
 deserters from the rebel ranks received. 
 
 I am, Captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel, Commanding Brigade. 
 CAPT. R. P. KENNEDY, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 July 2 ist We moved out from our position near Decatur in the 
 evening, in light marching order. Went east along the railroad, passing 
 Stone Mountain. We marched about twenty-five miles and halted to rest 
 and feed our horses at 2 a. m., July 22d. Starting on soon after daylight, 
 we burned a bridge and tore up and destroyed the railroad for five miles, 
 burning the ties and twisting the rails east and west of Covington. We 
 captured two trains of cars loaded with household goods of people who 
 were leaving their homes to get away from the advance of our army. 
 They were allowed to take their goods out of the cars, after which the 
 cars were burned ; also a large amount of cotton. Our march had been 
 through the finest and best country we had seen in the whole South. Fine 
 plantations, large mansions, everything indicating wealth and prosperity. 
 The owners little thought in the early years of the war that there was 
 any possibility of the despised Yankee invaders penetrating thus far. 
 They were, however, rudely awakened from their fancied security when 
 Sherman s army passed Kenesaw and forced its way across the Chatta- 
 hoochee. Many of them in wild alarm, packing up a few of their house 
 hold treasures, loaded them in wagons, seeking safety in flight. We 
 overtook many of them as we were riding to Covington. Some of the 
 drivers had unhitched their horses, mounted and rode away, leaving 
 
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 women, children and household stuff in the wagons by the wayside. Find 
 ing that they were not molested, they soon returned to their homes, 
 satisfied in their minds that the Yankees were not the demons they had 
 been led to believe them to be. The next morning we started back at 
 daylight, burning a lot more cotton on our way back. We camped at sun 
 down, near Stone mountain. 
 
 July 24th Returned to Decatur, turned over our prisoners (about 
 200), which we had taken on the raid. We also brought in a large 
 number of horses and mules, and learned that General Hood had made 
 his second attempt to destroy Sherman. On the afternoon of the 22d, 
 having succeeded in getting Hardee s Corps on the flank and rear of 
 McPherson s army, which composed Sherman s left flank. They had 
 come in over the ground vacated by our division on the evening of the 
 2 1 st. For a time our wagon trains parked near Decatur were in danger 
 of capture, but were finally gotten out and moved to a place of safety. 
 In their fierce onslaught the enemy carried everything before them, cap 
 turing some prisoners, cannon and battle flags, but the veterans of the 
 Army of the Tennessee rallied and made a counter charge, recapturing 
 most of the guns and many prisoners. The Confederates had made a 
 most desperate assault, but had failed at every point. Both armies had lost 
 heavily. Amongst the killed was the gallant General McPherson. It is 
 said that death loves a shining mark. It certainly found one when it 
 struck down McPherson. Standing in the front rank of Generals, he 
 was beloved by all from the commanding General to the humblest 
 soldier. Ohio gave many noble sons to the cause of the Union, yet of 
 all who fell in battle, none acquired greater fame or was more sincerely 
 mourned than he. He sleeps in the beautiful cemetery at Clyde, his 
 home town. A fine monument erected by his fellow citizens marks his 
 grave. In the defense of the wagon train at Decatur four guns of the 
 Chicago Board of Trade Battery rendered heroic service in checking and 
 holding back the rebel lines until the wagons were moved out on the way 
 to a place of safety. 
 
 July 26th We went out at daylight and worked putting up barri 
 cades and defenses. Orders came to get ready to move out in light 
 marching order, pack mules and extra baggage to be left in camp near 
 the infantry lines. 
 
 July 27th Reveille at 4 a. m. Started out at 6 in the direction of 
 Stone Mountain. Encountered very little opposition from the enemy. 
 General Stoneman is in command of the expedition, composed of his own 
 and General Garrard s Division. About eighteen miles east of Atlanta 
 we turned south, while Stoneman with his Division kept on east as far 
 as Covington, when he turned south by the way of Montecello to Macon. 
 General Garrard s orders were to march to Flat Rock and wait for Stone- 
 
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 man. We camped that night at Flat Rock Shoal, on South river. It 
 rained most of the day. 
 
 July 28th Some firing on the pickets during the night. Saddled 
 up at i o clock a. m. ; commenced skirmishing at daylight. We built rail 
 barricades. The Second Brigade with the artillery was in position at the 
 bridge across South river. Here the enemy made an attack and our 
 artillery opened on them, the Third Ohio supporting the battery. But 
 for some reason the enemy did not force the fighting and in the evening 
 withdrew. We fell back toward Lithonia and encamped. 
 
 July 29th We did not move our camp. Foragers were sent out, 
 who found forage rather scarce. 
 
 July 3Oth Reveille at 4 o clock. On the march at 6. Passed through 
 Lithonia and went into camp three miles south of Cross Keys. 
 
 July 3 ist We moved to Buckhead and went into camp. Heavy 
 cannonading and some musketry firing in the works in front and to the 
 right. 
 
 August 6th Stoneman s men are coming in. His command was 
 surrounded and many of them captured. Those that escaped came 
 straggling into our lines, ragged, dirty, and nearly starved to death. Our 
 duties during the first half of August were mostly on the picket line. 
 General Sherman was working down on the right, having destroyed the 
 Augusta Railroad in such a manner that it was impossible for the enemy 
 to repair it in any reasonable time. He had abandoned Decatur, drawing 
 in the left of his army and moving to the right and rear of Atlanta, and 
 bombarding the city with heavy artillery nearly all the time. 
 
 August Qth The brigade marched to Decatur; saw only a few of 
 the enemy. Captured some pickets. Remained at Decatur until sundown. 
 Brought in some horses, mules and cattle. We got back to camp about 
 8:30 p. m. 
 
 August nth Lieutenant-Colonel Howland returned to the regiment 
 entirely well. He was wounded on the nth of June, just two months ago. 
 We have been pounding away ever since, and we are not in Atlanta yet. 
 
 August 1 3th Regiment turned over Burnside and Sharps carbines 
 and drew Spencers. We were inspected by the Brigade Inspector. 
 
 August 15 Heavy musketry and artillery firing in front just as day 
 was breaking. Saddled up, but we did not move until noon. Marched to 
 Decatur and found a small force of the enemy, but they cleared out at 
 our approach, refusing to have anything to do with us. A part of the 
 brigade went about seven miles toward Stone Mountain, but found no 
 enemy. Left Decatur at dark and arrived in camp about midnight. 
 
 August 1 7th Saddled up twice during the day but did not leave 
 camp until 10 o clock p. m., when we started out on the Kilpatrick raid. 
 
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 CHAPTER XVII. 
 KILPATRICK S RAID 
 
 By the middle of August, 1864, Sherman s army occupied a position 
 south of the Chattahoochee river, the left of the army holding the Augusta 
 Railroad east of Atlanta, the right resting on the river at Sandtown. It 
 had been demonstrated that the Confederate works north of Atlanta were 
 too strong to be taken by direct assault, without great sacrifice of life, 
 and General Sherman, preparatory to a flank movement, determined to 
 send a cavalry force and destroy the railroads south of Atlanta. 
 
 General Kilpatrick was selected to command the expedition. He 
 with his Third Division of cavalry occupied a position covering the right 
 flank of the army at Sandtown. The Second Division was in position near 
 Cross Keys, covering the left. 
 
 On the afternoon of the I7th of August the First and Second 
 Brigades of the Second Division received orders to be ready to march at 
 10 o clock p. m., with five days rations. Colonel Minty of the First 
 Brigade was in command, Colonel Long commanding the Second Brigade 
 and Colonel Seidel commanding the Third Ohio. 
 
 At 10 o clock we started out, and after marching all night in the 
 rear of our lines, we arrived at Sandtown and reported to General Kil 
 patrick at 7 a. m. August i8th. 
 
 We went into camp and unsaddled our horses, resting until the 
 afternoon ; drew sixty rounds of ammunition, and late in the afternoon 
 General Kilpatrick formed the command in a hollow square. It consisted 
 of his own, the Third Division, and the First and Second Brigades of 
 the Second Division of Cavalry, and four guns of the Chicago Board of 
 Trade Battery, in all about 5000 men. General Kilpatrick made a brief 
 address. He said that we had been selected for a special service, our 
 arms and equipments were the best that the government could furnish, 
 and that he had all confidence in the ability of the command to perform 
 the task to which it had been assigned. He asked and expected the hearty 
 co-operation of the entire command, officers and men, willing obedience 
 to orders, and at all times prompt and energetic action. 
 
 At 6 o clock the column moved out, the Third Division in the advance, 
 the Third Ohio in the advance of the Second Division. We had marched 
 but a few miles before the enemy appeared in our front, and commenced 
 skirmishing with the advance guard. Skirmishing was kept up all 
 through the night, the roads were barricaded and our progress was very 
 slow, and it was daylight, August iQth, before we had reached the West 
 Point Railroad near Red Bank, whereas General Kilpatrick had expected 
 to reach there by 8 or 9 o clock in the evening and Jonesboro by daylight. 
 
Kilpatrick s Raid, 161 
 
 Here General Kilpatrick requested Colonel Minty to take the advance 
 and push on as rapidly as possible to Jonesboro. He said, "Let nothing 
 delay you ; we should be there now." Colonel Minty says, "I ordered 
 Colonel Long- to dismount his leading regiment, the Third Ohio;" it 
 rapidly deployed, advanced at double-quick, dislodging the enemy. We 
 mounted and pushed forward, but soon encountered more barricades. We 
 dismounted, a section of the battery was brought up and fired a few 
 shells into them, and we went forward, the Third Ohio dismounted, over 
 the works, the First and Fourth Ohio, mounted, around them. And 
 thus we pressed forward all the day, the column keeping well closed up 
 so that very little time was lost at the points where we encountered 
 obstructions. 
 
 When we came to Flint river we found the planking had been torn 
 loose and thrown into the river and floated away, but the stringers were 
 left in fairly good shape. The enemy, dismounted, occupied a strong 
 position on the east bank. Our battery was brought into position and 
 soon silenced their guns. We charged, dismounted, across the bottom 
 land, and with our Spencers drove them out of their works. A part of 
 the command crossed on the stringers and deployed as skirmishers. Rails 
 were carried and placed for planking, and the entire Second Division, 
 except the Seventh Pennsylvania, with two guns of the battery, were 
 soon over and we were pushing the enemy, consisting of the cavalry 
 brigades of Armstrong, Ferguson and Ross, into Jonesboro. 
 
 The enemy had constructed a fort of cotton bales near the depot; 
 a few shells from the battery set the cotton and buildings on fire. Our 
 line moved forward, driving the enemy through the town. As soon as 
 we reached Jonesboro the telegraph wires were tapped and a message 
 caught saying that Cleburn s Division of Infantry and Martin s Division 
 of Cavalry were on the way to reinforce the men we were now fighting, 
 Jackson s Division of Cavalry. 
 
 When Kilpatrick s Division came up they commenced destroying 
 the railroad south of Jonesboro, while the Second Division formed 
 between them and the enemy, to protect them from attack while working. 
 
 At about 10 p. m. Kilpatrick sent word to Minty that about two 
 miles of railroad track was destroyed, and he was going to move south, 
 and instructing him to follow and cover his movement. When Kilpatrick 
 attempted to move south he found a large force of Confederate infantry 
 occupying a strong position behind barricades, protecting the railroad. 
 After feeling of their position he decided not to attack, but to move east 
 toward McDonough, and then endeavor to get on the railroad again near 
 Love joys Station. Minty s Brigade took the advance, while Long s 
 Brigade formed to hold the enemy s cavalry in check and protect the rear. 
 
 By daylight of the 2Oth the entire force, except Long s Brigade, was 
 
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 on the road for Love joys Station, where we expected to resume the work 
 of destroying the railroad. About sunrise Long s Brigade moved out 
 after the command, the Third Ohio as rear guard. The enemy s cavalry, 
 which had been operating in our front all day yesterday, now attacked 
 us in the rear, keeping us busy holding them in check. 
 
 About noon the First Ohio formed in line of battle on the north side 
 of a small stream, and we crossed over into a piece of open woodland 
 on the south side, where we halted to feed our horses and make coffee; 
 just as our coffee was ready, the Johnnies made a charge on the First 
 Ohio, driving them back. Our bugles sounded to horse, coffee was too 
 hot to drink, and many of the boys mounted and rode into line holding 
 their cups of coffee until it cooled. We drove the rebels back and then 
 started southward again. As we neared Love joys Station we found the 
 fences had been opened up for eighty rods on each side of the road by our 
 skirmishers, and the sound of rapid firing in our front told us that our 
 boys were already hotly engaged, and that we had another foe to reckon 
 with besides the one that had followed us so persistently all the day. We 
 came up with the rest of the command about one mile from Love joys, 
 dismounted and went forward at double-quick, coming in with the battery 
 just in time to repulse a charge made by the enemy s infantry on our 
 First Brigade. The Confederate infantry that had checked the advance 
 of the Third Division south of Jonesboro, had moved down the railroad 
 and taken position in a cut some three or four feet deep, and as Minty s 
 Brigade moved forward toward the railroad, coming into line of battle 
 with skirmishers in front, they fired a volley, and with that same old 
 rebel yell rushed forward over the skirmish line, and for a few moments 
 carried everything before them, and it was only the timely arrival of 
 Long s Second Brigade and the battery that saved the First Brigade from 
 being overwhelmed and captured. One of our guns was disabled and 
 could not be hauled off the field. A number of the men of the Third 
 Ohio assisted the battery boys in bringing it off and loading it in a wagon 
 to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. 
 
 Kilpatrick now realized that his position was extremely critical, and 
 that he must devote all his energies to getting his command out, and give 
 up all attempts to further destroy the railroad. Confederate forces of 
 infantry, cavalry and artillery had gathered in from all directions, until 
 we were completely surrounded. In our front was the Confederate 
 General Reynolds, with seven regiments of infantry, occupying a strong 
 position on the railroad, from which we were unable to dislodge him. 
 Directly in our rear, on the McDonough road, over which we must 
 retreat, were the cavalry brigades of Ross and Ferguson, dismounted, 
 and in line of battle behind rail breastworks. Occupying a position on a 
 hill was a three-gun battery, supported by Martin s Division of Cavalry. 
 
Kil Patrick s Raid. 163 
 
 On the right of the road was a force of State troops, and on the 
 left a brigade of Pat Cleburn s Division of Infantry three lines deep. 
 The field over which we must charge was an old plantation, seamed with 
 water-gullies, many of them very deep, crossing our course at right 
 angles. The prospect was anything but inviting, but it was our only way 
 out. Four brigades were ordered to their horses. The order for the 
 charge was to form by regiments in columns of fours facing the rear. 
 Long s Brigade was formed on the right, Minty s in the center, Kil- 
 patrick s Division on the left. While we were forming, the men who 
 were guarding our rear were fighting desperately to hold the infantry in 
 check, the batteries in our front were sending their messengers of death 
 into our ranks, staff officers and orderlies on foaming steeds were carry 
 ing orders to the different commanders, Kilpatrick grim and silent 
 waiting anxiously for the moment to come when he can give the word, 
 and that moment has come in much less time than it has taken me to 
 tell it. He turns to his bugler, who lifts his bugle and sounds the advance, 
 and simultaneously the call is taken up by every brigade and regiment, 
 and the different columns move forward, steadily at first, then at a trot, 
 then at a gallop, and finally the bugles sound the charge, and the earth 
 trembles beneath the beating hoofs of 5000 rushing steeds. The rattle 
 of musketry is drowned in the shouts of the men, who, with flashing 
 sabres and yelling like demons, are riding madly to victory or death. Men 
 and horses go down, but those that are left ride on, the guns of the 
 enemy sweep the field, but they cannot stop the onrushing hosts as they 
 press forward 
 
 "Into the jaws of death, 
 Into the mouth of hell." 
 
 And now the guns are silenced, and shot and shell no longer sweep 
 the field. And now it is a fierce hand-to-hand encounter for a few brief 
 moments, and the enemy s line, pierced and broken at all points, scatters 
 in every direction in a frantic effort to escape from our victorious 
 battalions. The brigades of Ross and Ferguson were out of the fight 
 so far as being of any use in helping to corner Kilpatrick s men. And 
 now the recall is sounded, and the Second Division is formed in line 
 facing the rear, to cover the retreat to our lines east of Atlanta by way 
 of McDonough. Our artillery came up on a gallop and took position on 
 the line and commenced firing. The ambulances came through loaded 
 with wounded, our ammunition wagons and pack mules were the last to 
 come through and take up the line of march. 
 
 Colonel Long was ordered to hold his position until the Third 
 Division was well out of the way, and Minty had formed a new line of 
 defense. As soon as Cleburn found that Kilpatrick was retreating he 
 
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 commenced to press forward, advancing on our line and shelling the 
 road over which our column was moving, and had already gained a 
 position on our left, threatening to cut us off from the McDonough 
 road. Colonel Long was wounded, and Colonel Eggleston, of the First 
 Ohio, took command of the brigade. 
 
 An orderly galloped up with instructions for the brigade to fall 
 back, as Minty had the First Brigade in position to hold the enemy if 
 they followed us. The Second Brigade at once took up the retreat by 
 regiments ; passing through the lines of the First Brigade we bade Cleburn 
 good-bye just as the sun went down. One of the guns which had ren 
 dered such excellent service burst while we were defending this position, 
 and was left on the field. We passed through McDonough, marching 
 most of the night, which was very dark and the rain pouring down in 
 torrents. The Third Division was in the advance, and the frequent halts 
 we were compelled to make made marching tedious in the extreme. 
 
 This was our fourth night in the saddle, and the strenuous work of 
 the last two nights and days, during which time the command had been 
 constantly engaged with the enemy, culminating in that last terrific charge 
 at Love joys Station, had left men and horses almost completely exhausted, 
 and at the frequent halts many of the men would dismount and lie down 
 on the wet ground by the roadside to rest their weary bodies and get a 
 few moments sleep, and it was with the utmost difficulty that they were 
 aroused by their more alert comrades as the column moved on. 
 
 Toward morning we found some corn and halted by the wayside to 
 feed our horses, after which we again took up the line of march. The 
 night s rain had swollen the creeks to rivers, and Cotton Indian creek, 
 which we were obliged to cross, was a roaring torrent, through which 
 the entire command was compelled to swim their horses. The current 
 was so swift that it was necessary to march twelve or fifteen rods above 
 the ford on the south side, slide off the bank into the stream, and as the 
 horses swam across, the current carried them down to the ford on the 
 north side. In crossing one man and about fifty horses and mules were 
 drowned, and for lack of animals some of the wagons had to be destroyed, 
 amongst them the wagon containing the dismantled gun, which was 
 hidden so that it could not be found by the enemy. 
 
 Our position, however, was not by any means safe or assured. While 
 we probably had liittle to fear from the enemy, we had fought at Jones- 
 boro and Lovejoys, yet we might at any time meet with troops sent out 
 from Atlanta to intercept us. And wet and tired as we were, we must 
 still march on. 
 
 We crossed South river and burned the bridge, and pushing on, 
 reached Lithonia on the Augusta Railroad early in the evening of the 
 2ist, where we bivouacked for the night, unsaddled our horses and lay 
 
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 down to rest. On the morning of the 22d we resumed the march, passed 
 through Decatur and returned to our old camp. 
 
 Colonel Minty in his report gave the loss of the Third Ohio as 
 follows : "Eight killed, thirty-three wounded, five wounded and left on 
 the field, three missing." The small number missing speaks volumes for 
 the discipline of the regiment and the able manner in which it was 
 handled. Colonel Minty in his official report further said : "Every officer 
 and soldier in the command acted so well, so nobly, so gallantly, that under 
 ordinary circumstances they would be entitled to special mention. Day 
 and night, from the i8th to the 23d, these gallant men were without sleep, 
 and almost without food. During that time they marched and skirmished 
 incessantly, fought four pitched battles and swam a flooded river, and all 
 without once complaining or murmuring." 
 
 Among those severely wounded and left on the field at Lovejoys 
 Station was Lieutenant George Garfield of Company D, who doubtless 
 owed his life to Private John Grabach of his company, who nobly and 
 unselfishly remained with him and nursed him back to life. 
 
 Colonel Minty is my authority on the Confederate forces that were 
 opposing us the first day, from the West Point Railroad to Jonesboro. 
 Also for the infantry forces on the railroad at Lovejoys Station. 
 
 The following Confederate account of the charge at Lovejoys gives 
 the Confederate forces through which we hewed our way. It was copied 
 from the Memphis-Atlanta Appeal, published at Macon, Ga., early in 
 September, 1864: 
 
 "The newspapers have lately been full of accounts of how Martin s 
 Division of Cavalry was run over by the Yankees at Lovejoys on the 
 2Oth ultimo. The writer was on the field on that occasion, and in justice 
 to the much-abused cavalry states the facts in the matter. 
 
 "Martin s Division, supporting the battery, was formed on the 
 McDonough road ; Ross s and Ferguson s Brigades, on foot, were in 
 front and on each side of the battery, behind rail breastworks. A brigade 
 of Cleburn s Division was on the left of the road in three lines, the last 
 one in a piece of woods about 100 yards in the rear of the position of 
 the battery. 
 
 "On the right of the road the State troops were formed in line. 
 When the Yankees charged they came in a solid column ten or twelve 
 deep, running their horses and yelling like devils. They did not stop to 
 fire, but each fellow for himself rushed on, swinging his saber over his 
 head. They rode right over Ross s and Ferguson s men in the center, 
 and over through Cleburn s lines, one after the other, on the left. 
 Cleburn s first line tried to use their bayonets, but the Yankees cut them 
 to pieces. After the Yankees had cut through all the other forces, and 
 captured the battery, Martin, seeing the field was lost, retreated in good 
 
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 order. The effort to arouse the people against Martin and his brave 
 division is more disgraceful and demoralizing than the Yankees charge 
 itself, and should be frowned upon by all who wish well to our cause." 
 
 During the charge at Lovejoys Station on the 2oth an officer of 
 General Kilpatrick s staff and a small party of our men found themselves 
 cut off from the main body. After making several ineffectual attempts 
 to return, they finally succeeded on the 2ist, and reached the command 
 in safety. 
 
 Report of Colonel Long, Second Brigade, Second Division Cavalry, 
 Kilpatrick s Raid August i/th to 22d, 1864. 
 
 HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 
 BUCK HEAD, GA., August 23, 1864. 
 
 CAPTAIN : I have the honor to report the part taken by this brigade 
 in the late expedition of General Kilpatrick in the enemy s rear In 
 pursuance of orders received on the evening of the I7th, I furnished 
 my command with rations for five days, and moved from camp shortly 
 after midnight, reporting to Colonel Minty, of First Brigade, in charge of 
 First and Second Brigades, with an effective force of 72 officers and 1300 
 men. Lieutenant Bennett s section of Board of Trade Battery reported 
 for duty with me. Marched in rear of First Brigade for Sandtown, 
 arriving there early the next morning. Remained in camp near Sand- 
 town during the day, and reported at headquarters of Brigadier-General 
 Kilpatrick. According to instructions received from him, marched again 
 at sundown, the Third Cavalry Division being in column and Brigadier- 
 General Kilpatrick commanding. My command now reduced about 100 
 men by the giving out of horses on the previous night s march. Traveling 
 all night, we crossed the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, near Fairburn, 
 at daylight on the iQth. Having orders to destroy the road at this point, 
 I detailed for this work the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, who tore up 
 half a mile of the track. Meanwhile, I had moved forward in column 
 with the remainder of the brigade, the First Brigade holding the rear, 
 and had not marched far when artillery was opened by a force of the 
 enemy, who appeared in the woods on our left. I returned to the railroad, 
 mounted the First Ohio, and formed line of battle in the woods. The 
 First Brigade being now already engaged, I advanced my line to co 
 operate with the other brigade, and the enemy retired, and, after 
 considerable skirmishing, was driven back through his camp, which we 
 temporarily occupied. The column was then moved forward, my brigade 
 taking the advance, and I soon found a force on my front ; skirmished with 
 them during the greater part of the day, driving them gradually toward 
 Jonesboro until my advance guard drew near Flint river. 
 
Kilpatrick s Raid. 167 
 
 The enemy had taken a strong position on the farther bank and at 
 the town, and engaged us sharply with musketry and artillery. Dismount 
 ing my command, I succeeded in pressing them slowly back, aided by 
 the fire from our artillery, which had been directed upon their lines. We 
 charged down to the bridge over the river, and after a few shots the 
 regiments crossed on the bridge, which had been partially torn up. An 
 advance toward the town was then made in two lines on each side of the 
 road, the Fourth U. S. Cavalry and First Ohio forming the first line and 
 the Third and Fourth Ohio the second line, the Fourth Michigan being 
 deployed as skirmishers in front. Some little firing occurred as the lines 
 advanced, and the command moved into Jonesboro without further oppo 
 sition. I then ordered forward my led horses, meantime employing a 
 portion of the command in destroying the railroad, burning the track at 
 and below the town for half a mile. At dark went into camp, and rested 
 until ii o clock, when I was ordered forward to the breastworks on the 
 south side of the town, remaining here till near daylight. I then moved 
 out on the McDonough and Jonesboro road, covering the rear of the 
 column, and, arriving at Pittsburg, marched southwardly toward the 
 railroad again, and at an early hour my rear guard (a battalion of First 
 Ohio Volunteer Cavalry) was attacked by a force of cavalry and driven 
 slowly back upon the column. Upon going to the rear and finding this 
 battalion hard pressed, I brought the remainder of the regiment into 
 position, ordered back the Third and Fourth Ohio Regiments, and suc 
 ceeded in checking and driving the enemy. A portion of his force now 
 appeared in my front, and between the brigade and the main column, 
 having come in on a right hand road ; but the Fourth Ohio repulsed 
 this demonstration, and, being then ordered forward, I marched in rear 
 of First Brigade. Arriving near Love joys, on the Atlanta and Macon 
 Railroad, I found the advance brigade engaged with an enemy in their 
 front, and received orders to throw forward a dismounted battalion. 
 Before this could be accomplished the skirmish line was forced back, 
 and I dismounted my entire command, forming a line across the field on 
 my left, and threw up a line of rail breastworks in the rear. The firing 
 now became heavy on both sides. The First Ohio and a portion of the 
 Fourth repulsed the enemy, then, falling back to the breastworks, held 
 him in check until he desisted from firing, and enabled a section of our 
 artillery to be withdrawn from the field. The command was then ordered 
 back to their horses, to mount. Immediately after mounting I was 
 directed to take position in rear of First Brigade, Second Division, and 
 to follow it out (when a general charge was made shortly after), which 
 was done. In this charge Captain William H. Scott, of First Ohio 
 Cavalry, inspector on my staff and a most gallant officer, was severely 
 wounded. 
 
168 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The column was now marched on the road toward McDonough, my 
 brigade covering the rear. The motion of forming and moving out was 
 slow, and the rebel infantry now closed up on my rear, attacking with 
 considerable vigor my line of skirmishers, formed by a battalion of the 
 Third Ohio. The remainder of this regiment was at once dismounted 
 to strengthen this line. The enemy presented a formidable front, extend 
 ing well to my right, and poured in heavy volleys of musketry, while his 
 artillery opened with excellent precision upon the other regiments in 
 column on the road. Lieutenant Bennett was in position in rear, and 
 worked his one piece with good effect. The enemy still pressed forward 
 with increased numbers. The Third Ohio stood well their ground, pour 
 ing repeated volleys into the enemy s ranks, and only fell back from 
 overpowering numbers. Flushed with slight successes, the rebels now 
 made a fierce onset, charging with their main force. In front of the 
 Third Ohio was a declivity descending to marshy ground, and beyond 
 this a creek. The enemy were on the farther side of this creek, and, 
 riding by the side of Colonel Seidel, of the Third, I saw the force 
 advancing to the creek, and directed him to hold the fire of his men, 
 protected somewhat by breastworks, until the enemy should cross, and 
 then to fire rapidly and with precision. Immediately after this I observed 
 Colonel Seidel raise his hand and motion for his regiment to fall back, 
 the cause of this being that the enemy was coming up in heavy force on 
 his right flank and the safety of the regiment being endangered. Just 
 at this moment I was shot in two places, my horse having also been shot 
 a moment before, and I was then forced to retire from the field, turning 
 over the command to Colonel Eggleston, of First Ohio. The Third Ohio 
 fell back, and was soon after relieved by the First Brigade. The com 
 mand, all now moving forward, marched through McDonough and 
 camped that night near Cotton river. On the morning of the 2ist crossed 
 Cotton Indian creek, swimming the horses, and camped at night at 
 Lithonia. Arrived at Buck Head on the evening of the 22d. 
 
 During the expedition the loss in my brigade was severe, but not 
 great, when considering the forces it engaged. The loss inflicted upon 
 the enemy is, of course, unknown, but he probably suffered severely. 
 
 To Lieutenant Bennett and his very efficient section of artillery much 
 credit is due, as also to the First, Third, and Fourth Ohio for their 
 admirable behavior under all circumstances. Officers and men all did well. 
 
 Below will be found a summary of casualties during the expedition, 
 the major part of them occurring on the 2Oth. 
 
 To the officers of my staff who were with me on the expedition are 
 due my thanks for promptitude on all occasions, and for efficient aid 
 in the field and on the march ; and I would recommend to the favorable 
 notice of the General commanding the names of Captain William E. 
 
Kilpatrick s Raid. 
 
 169 
 
 Crane, acting assistant adjutant-general ; Captain William H. Scott, 
 acting assistant inspector-general; Lieutenant E. S. Wood, aide-de-camp; 
 Lieutenant H. H. Siverd, provost marshal ; Lieutenant J. N. Squire, 
 ordnance officer ; Lieutenant J. B. Hayden, acting commissary of sub 
 sistence, and Assistant Surgeon John Cannan, medical director. 
 I have, the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 ELI LONG, 
 
 Colonel Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Comdg. Brigade. 
 CAPTAIN R. P. KENNEDY, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 CASUALTIES. 
 
 Command 
 
 Killed 
 
 Wounded 
 
 Wounded 
 and missing 
 
 Missing 
 
 Officers 
 
 Men 
 
 Officers 
 
 Men 
 
 Officers 
 
 Men 
 
 Officers 
 
 Men 
 
 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 
 4 
 7 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 13 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 2 
 5 
 
 3d Ohio Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 1 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 3 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 Total 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 59 
 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Immediately after the return of Kilpatrick, General Sherman com 
 menced his movement by the right flank to place his army on the railroad 
 south of Atlanta. Sending all his extra baggage and supplies to the 
 fortifications on the Chattahoochee, with General Slocum s Corps to 
 man the works at that point, and leaving General Schofield s Corps in 
 the works near Atlanta to keep up a constant cannonading of the city. He 
 commenced to develop his plan, which was to move one corps at a time 
 from the extreme left to the extreme right, each corps as it came into 
 position protecting its front with fortifications. 
 
 August 25th The dismounted men and the wagon train under 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland sent back to the river, the division moving 
 to Sandtown. 
 
 August 26th Dismounted men and wagon train moved to Sandtown. 
 
 August 27th Division moved toward Red Oak, covering the left 
 flank of the army in its movement against Jonesboro. 
 
 September ist The division moved on to Rough and Ready and 
 commenced destroying the railroad. Two corps of the Confederate 
 army have entrenched at Jonesboro and Sherman s army is concentrating 
 against them. Stewart s Corps still holds Attlanta, but he can t hold it 
 long. In the afternoon a part of the Fourteenth Corps having gained a 
 position from which an assault of the enemy s works at Jonesboro, could be 
 
170 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 advantageously made, General Thomas ordered the charge to be made 
 with the bayonet, and about 5 p. m., everything being ready, the line moved 
 forward with the same resistless force that they had manifested at 
 Missionary Ridge, charging up to and over the entrenchments, regardless 
 of the deadly fire of the enemy, many of whom were captured in the 
 breastworks. Our losses in the campaign south of Atlanta were about 
 1 200. The enemy lost upwards of 2000 prisoners, and left more than 300 
 dead upon the battlefield. The same night Stewart burned locomotives 
 and cars with supplies and ammunition, that they were unable to take 
 with them, and evacuated the city. The noise of exploding shells in the 
 burning trains were plainly heard at Jonesboro, sounding like a fierce 
 battle. The next morning General Slocum sent a force toward the city 
 to reconnoiter. They were met by the mayor and a delegation of citizens, 
 who formally surrendered the place to its victorious conquerors. The 
 rebel army concentrated and fortified at Love joy Station, while Sherman, 
 thoroughly destroying the railroads to the south, retired to Atlanta to 
 await developments and get his army in shape for the next move. The 
 night of the ist the division encamped about five miles south of Rough 
 and Ready. 
 
 September 2d Division moved south ; camped in a pine woods near 
 the railroad, two miles north of Jonesboro. 
 
 September 3d The dismounted men and wagon train sent back to 
 Atlanta. On the 4th the division moved to the left, covering the Atlanta 
 and McDonough road, many deserters from the rebel army coming into 
 our lines. 
 
 September 7th Marched at 6 a. m. ; encamped eight miles south of 
 Decatur. On the 8th we moved up to Decatur, and on the nth moved 
 our camp to Cross Keys. 
 
 The aggregate casualties of the Army of the Cumberland from May 
 ist to September 6th were as follows: Killed, 3041; wounded, 15,783; 
 captured, 2707; died of wounds, 1067; died of disease 207; sick sent to 
 rear, 26,184. 
 
 The following is a copy of Special Field Orders No. 66: 
 
 HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 
 IN THE FIELD NEAR JONESBORO, GA., September 6, 1864. 
 I. The General-in-Chief communicates, with a feeling of just pride 
 and satisfaction, the following orders of the President of the United 
 States, and telegram of Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant on hearing of 
 the capture of Atlanta : 
 
 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 3, 1864. 
 
 The national thanks are rendered by the President to Major-General 
 W. T. Sherman, and the gallant officers and soldiers of his command 
 
Kilpatrick s Raid. 171 
 
 before Atlanta for the distinguished ability, courage and perseverance 
 displayed in the campaign in Georgia, which under divine favor, has 
 resulted in the capture of the City of Atlanta. The marches, battles, 
 sieges and other military operations that have signalized the campaign 
 must render it famous in the annals of war, and have entitled those who 
 have participated therein to the applause and thanks of the nation. 
 (Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 
 
 President of the United States. 
 
 Second, That on Wednesday, the Qth day of September, com 
 mencing at the hour of 12 m., there shall be fired a salute of one hundred 
 (100) guns, at the arsenal at Washington, and at New York, Boston, 
 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Newport, Ky., St. Louis, New Or 
 leans, Mobile, Pensacola, Hilton Head, and Newbern, or the day after the 
 receipt of this order, for the brilliant achievements of the army under 
 command of Major-General Sherman in the State of Georgia, and the 
 capture of Atlanta. The Secretary of War will issue directions for the 
 execution of this order. 
 
 (Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 
 
 President of the United States. 
 
 CITY POINT, VA., Sept. 4, 1864 9 p. m. 
 
 MAJOR-GENERAL SHERMAN : I have just received your dispatch 
 announcing the capture of Atlanta. In honor of your great victory, I 
 have ordered a salute to be fired with shotted guns from every battery 
 bearing upon the enemy. The salute will be fired within an hour, amidst 
 great rejoicing. 
 
 (Signed) U. S. GRANT, 
 
 Lieutenant-General. 
 
 II. All the corps, regiments and batteries composing this army, 
 may, without further orders, inscribe "Atlanta" on their colors. 
 By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman. 
 
 L. M. DAYTON, 
 Aide-de-Camp. 
 
 Report of Colonel Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 HDQRS. THIRD OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER CAV., 
 
 NEAR CROSS KEYS, GA., September n, 1864. 
 
 SIR : I have the honor to submit the following report of operations 
 of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry during the campaign just 
 closed : 
 
172 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The regiment left Columbia, Tenn., on the 226. day of May, 1864, 
 and proceeded to Decatur, Ala., where we arrived on the 26th, and were 
 sent out same day in pursuit of a portion of General Roddey s command 
 (rebel), and skirmished with them, driving them six miles, their wagon 
 train being captured by another portion of the brigade. May 27th, 
 proceeded to Courtland, skirmishing slightly in the advance along the 
 route. On 28th, marched through Moulton, toward Somerville, and camped 
 three miles beyond, and were attacked in our camp at 4 a. m., 29th, by 
 Confederate force under General Roddey. After an hour and a half of 
 fighting we drove them, aiding to capture two field officers, four line 
 officers, and a number of enlisted men. The enemy retired to Moulton, 
 leaving eleven killed on the field. Our loss, one killed and two wounded. 
 Same day marched forty miles, camping ten miles southeast from Somer 
 ville, in the rear of the Seventeenth Corps, with which we marched to 
 Rome, Ga., where we arrived on the 4th day of June. From there we 
 proceeded to join the division (Second Cavalry), which we did on the 
 7th of June, near Etowah, Ga. Marched to the left of the army near 
 Noonday creek, and on the nth the regiment was sent on a reconnaissance 
 to Noonday creek, and had an engagement with Iverson s Brigade of 
 Cavalry, being repulsed with a loss of fourteen killed, wounded and 
 missing. We fought again on the I5th, without gaining any advantage 
 and with no loss. On the 23d advanced across Noonday creek ; had a 
 skirmish with the enemy, and returned with loss of two wounded No 
 other operations until the 3d of July, when we advanced, following the 
 enemy on their retreat from Kenesaw Mountain. The 4th of July skir 
 mished most of the day; loss one man killed. The I4th of July the 
 regiment left camp near Roswell, and marched to Cumming, Ga., where 
 we arrived at 4 a. m. the I5th, but found no enemy in force; captured 
 a large amount of tobacco and a number of horses and mules, and returned 
 to camp same day. The i6th crossed the Chattahoochee river at McAfee s 
 bridge, and went into camp one mile and a half from it. iQth, marched 
 to the Georgia Railroad, near Stone Mountain, Ga., and assisted in 
 destroying the road for several miles, and returned to camp. 2ist, 
 marched to Yellow river; next day to Covington, Ga., on the Georgia 
 Railroad, fifty miles east of Atlanta, where we destroyed the road for a 
 distance of ten miles ; met no enemy in force. 23d and 24th, returned 
 to Decatur, having destroyed a large amount of cotton, captured a number 
 of prisoners, contrabands, horses, and mules. 27th, left camp and marched 
 to Flat Rock, where the division was attacked on the 28th by a superior 
 force and nearly surrounded. The enemy was repulsed, and we returned 
 to Latimar s Corners, where we remained two days, then marched around 
 Stone Mountain to the rear of our army in front of Atlanta. 
 
 On the 1 8th of August started, under command of General Kilpatrick, 
 
Kilpatrick s Raid. 173 
 
 for the expedition to the rear of Atlanta. Left Sandtown at sundown 
 on the i8th, and marched all night, skirmishing most of the time. iQth, 
 fought all day and got possession of the Macon Railroad at Jonesboro, 
 at 4 p. m. ; burnt the public buildings and destroyed the railroad for a 
 distance of two miles. Left Jonesboro at 3 a. m. of the 2oth, and 
 marched to Lovejoy s Station, having a brisk skirmish in the rear on the 
 route. At Lovejoy s met the enemy in large force, cavalry, artillery, 
 and infantry. After fighting an hour we formed in advance of brigade 
 and charged in column of fours on the enemy in our rear, scattering them 
 badly, and causing them to abandon one piece of artillery, which was 
 brought off the field by our brigade (Second Cavalry) ; also captured 
 a number of prisoners. The regiment was detailed for rear guard, the 
 column marching toward McDonough, and was attacked by one division 
 of rebel infantry. After fighting them an hour, losing eight men killed, 
 thirty wounded, and four missing, was relieved by a portion of the First 
 Brigade, Second Cavalry Division. 2ist, marched to Lithonia, being 
 closely followed by the enemy until we crossed South river, where we 
 burned the bridge, thus stopping their advance. 22d, returned to camp 
 at Buck Head, and remained until the 25th, when we left camp and 
 marched to Vining s Station and bivouacked. 26th, marched to a point 
 on the Chattahoochee river opposite Sandtown. 27th, marched a short 
 distance to the left of the army ; regiment placed on picket ; had a 
 slight skirmish on the 28th ; no loss ; relieved at 2 130 p. m. by battalion 
 of mounted infantry. Remained in camp until the 3Oth. At 3 p. m. 
 left camp and marched to the La Grange Railroad, and camped five miles 
 from East Point and ten from Jonesboro. 
 
 September ist, marched to Macon Railroad, at Rough and Ready, 
 eleven miles from Atlanta. The regiment was sent out reconnoitering, 
 and went five miles in direction of McDonough, but found no large body 
 of the enemy s troops. September 4, moved camp to Mount Zion Church, 
 on the left of the army, where we remained until the 7th, when we came 
 to our present camp, near Cross Keys, Ga., where we arrived Septem 
 ber loth, 1864. 
 
 The aggregate loss during the campaign is as follows : Killed, or 
 died of wounds received in action, one commissioned officer, twenty men ; 
 wounded, one field officer, sixty men ; missing in action, two commissioned 
 officers, twenty men ; total loss, four commissioned officers, 100 men. 
 
 Total number of miles traveled during the campaign, 1021. 
 
 Believing the above to be essentially correct, I am, General, very 
 respectfully, your obedient servant, C. B. SEIDEL, 
 
 Colonel, Comdg. Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, 
 
 Military Division of the Mississippi. 
 
174 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, 
 
 BENJAMIN F. W. COSIER, REGIMENTAL CHAPLAIN AN APPRECIATION. 
 
 Amongst the officers and men of the Third Ohio Cavalry with whom 
 the writer became acquainted, he remembers none with greater pleasure 
 than Chaplain Cosier. He came to the regiment in May, 1864, and served 
 with it until the close of the war. 
 
 Methinks there is no position in a regiment that is harder to fill 
 satisfactorily than that of chaplain, requiring as it does peculiar quali 
 fications. Men in the army were not inclined to be over religious. The 
 environments were such as to discourage all efforts on that line. The 
 duties of the soldier were practically the same on the Sabbath that they 
 were during the week. All days looked alike in the army, and it needed 
 a man of great influence amongst his fellows to turn men s thoughts to 
 better things. Men cared little for flowery sermons, but they did care 
 for a man who was a lover of his fellow men and who cared for their 
 comfort; who with them was ready and willing to endure the hardships 
 of the campaign; who knew no fear on the battle line, encouraging the 
 men by his presence and words of cheer; bringing water to the thirsty; 
 aid and comfort to the wounded; consolation to the dying; taking their 
 last messages to the loved ones at home, and pointing them in their dying 
 moments to the "Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world." 
 
 Such was Chaplain Cosier. Is it any wonder that the men of the 
 regiment loved and respected him as the minister of God ; the preacher of 
 righteousness to dying men? He not only preached love to God and 
 love to man, but exemplified it in his life. Like the Apostle James, he 
 showed his faith by his works. 
 
 Chaplain Cosier has gone to his reward. He has heard the voice 
 of the Master saying, "Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
 prepared for you, for I was hungry and ye fed me, thirsty and ye gave 
 me drink, sick and in prison and ye visited me." "For as much as ye 
 did it to one of the least of these my brethren ye did it unto me." 
 
 The time of many of the men who enlisted in 1861, and had not re- 
 enlisted, having expired, they marched to Atlanta on September 2ist, 
 taking the cars to Columbia, Tenn., via. Chattanooga and Nashville. They 
 were mustered out October 3d, and paid off at Columbus, Ohio, Octo 
 ber loth. 
 
 September 22d The division started down the Chattahoochee, camp 
 ing at Point of Rocks, three miles from Sandtown. 
 
 September 24th Crossed to the west side of the river at Sandtown, 
 formed line and moved down to the Sweetwater. The report that rebs 
 were crossing proved to be a false alarm. We returned to the east side 
 of the river at Sandtown and camped. 
 
Hood Marches Northward. 175 
 
 September 25th The wagons came up; we drew five days rations 
 and the wagons went back to Atlanta. The First and Second Brigades 
 crossed the river and marched northward, camping about ten miles south 
 west of Marietta. 
 
 September 26th Reveille at 4 a. m., on the march at 6, Third 
 Brigade in the advance. Second Brigade halted at Powder Springs. 
 Moved toward Ackworth, camped near the railroad north of Big Shanty. 
 
 September 27th On the march at 7 a. m., moved to Ackworth and 
 took the road to Roswell. Bore to the left to cross Little river at Mc- 
 Connell s Mills ; bridge burned. Camped near Benson s Mills. 
 
 September 28th On the march, crossed the Chattahoochee at the 
 Roswell ford ; encamped two miles south of the ford. 
 
 September 2Qth Moved to our old camp at Cross Keys. The next 
 day Lieutenant Lewis returned to the regiment, bringing thirty recruits 
 for the brigade. 
 
 October 2d Moved to the Chattahoochee, near Vining Station ; 
 camped on the east side. Heavy rains had raised the river and washed 
 out a number of bridges. The wagon and part of the railroad bridge 
 are gone. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 HOOD MARCHES NORTHWARD 
 
 October 3d Crossed the river and marched to Powder Springs. 
 Hood s army at this date is north of us, having crossed the Chattahoochee 
 at points below Campbellton, on the 2Qth of September, and at this date 
 is west of Lost Mountain. A member of Company I was shot on picket. 
 
 October 4th A part of the Confederate Army captured the garrison 
 at Big Shanty and at Ackworth and broke up a number of miles of rail 
 road. The regiment moved to the west of Kenesaw ; had a skirmish with 
 the enemy near Big Shanty. 
 
 As soon as General Sherman ascertained to a certainty that General 
 Hood had crossed the Chattahoochee river with his entire army and was 
 marching northward, he at once set to work to checkmate him. Just what 
 the plans of the Confederate commander were, General Sherman could 
 only guess, and he had to plan to meet and counteract him. General 
 Sherman s first move was to send General Thomas to Nashville to take 
 command of all the forces in Tennessee, and along the lines of railroad 
 outside of the points covered by General Sherman s immediate army. He 
 also ordered General Corse to gather what forces he could and concentrate 
 at Allatoona, where General Sherman had all his surplus supplies stored. 
 General Hood, having sent a force on to the railroad north of Kenesaw, 
 
176 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, 
 
 cut the telegraph and tore up the railroad from Big Shanty to Ackworth. 
 He also sent General French with his division to capture Allatoona with 
 its garrison and supplies. General French arrived in front of the place on 
 October 5th, and after getting his men into position, sent in a flag of 
 truce, asking an unconditional surrender, as he had the place surrounded 
 and it would prevent a needless effusion of blood. 
 
 General Corse replied for him to go ahead with the effusion as 
 soon as he was ready. He at once opened up the attack in what proved 
 to be one of the most desperate small engagements of the war. The 
 Confederates attacked with a spirit of bravery and daring that might 
 have gained the victory if the works had been less valiantly defended. 
 All through the day General Sherman from the top of Kenesaw was 
 anxiously watching the battle, hurrying reinforcements forward to the 
 sorely pressed garrison, and signaling to them messages of encourage 
 ment. It was with great satisfaction that he saw the enemy repulsed 
 in every assault and driven from the field. 
 
 General Thomas was in Nashville, and General Sherman wishing to 
 send a message to him and also to congratulate General Corse for his 
 gallant defense of Allatoona, ordered General Garrard to send a Squadron 
 of Cavalry, and Captain Luckey was sent with Companies K and L of the 
 Third Ohio, the former under command of Captain Howland, on the 
 perilous mission. Captain Luckey receiving his message late in the after 
 noon of October 5th, passed through Marietta just at dark, and marching 
 to the south and east of Kenesaw. Soon after starting Luckey halted 
 the command and told the men that they were going on an extra hazardous 
 expedition ; that if any of them wanted to go back to camp they could 
 do so ; but none of the men volunteered to go back. When the command 
 reached the Roswell and Canton road they turned north. The night was 
 very dark, and it commenced to rain, pouring down in torrents, and so 
 dark it was impossible to find the way. Some time after midnight Luckey 
 was compelled to halt and wait for daylight. As soon as it was light he 
 found some corn, fed the horses, and started on. When the command 
 got to Canton they found something to eat and then went down to the 
 Etowah river to cross ; found it swollen by the rains of the night and it 
 looked dangerous to attempt to cross it. Finally a couple of dugouts were 
 found and the men commenced to ferry over. A part was gotten safely 
 across and some one suggested that the rest of the horses would have to 
 be shot, but Davy Cosgrove of Company K swore that if anyone shot 
 Mollie there would be somebody else shot. It was then decided to drive 
 the horses in and give them a chance. A number were drowned in cross 
 ing, and it was dark before the command were all across and started on 
 the march down the river to Cartersville. About midnight we struck the 
 pickets of the Fifth Ohio Cavalry and camped with them until morning. 
 
Hood Marches Northward. 177 
 
 Starting out on the morning of the 7th, we crossed the Etowah again 
 on a pontoon bridge near Cartersville and reached Allatoona in the after 
 noon. The place bore all the signs of a fierce conflict. Many of the 
 Confederate dead lay unburied on the field. We fed and rested our 
 horses, and then resumed the march by the way of Ackworth and Big 
 Shanty. Reaching Kenesaw, Captain Luckey reported to General Sher 
 man, after which we rejoined the regiment near Marietta. 
 
 October 5th On the march at 6 130. Colonel Eggleston, First Ohio, 
 in command of the brigade since Colonel Long was wounded at Love joys 
 Station. Troops crossing the river on three pontoon bridges ; detachments 
 of the Third along the road from the river to Marietta. 
 
 October 7th Sherman on Kenesaw directing the movements of the 
 army from signal station; the railroad torn up by the rebels will soon 
 be repaired ; artillery firing in the direction of Dallas. 
 
 October Qth On the march at 7 a. m. ; passed through Marietta 
 and to the left of Kenesaw Mountain, marching in the direction of New 
 Hope Church. The country is entirely cleaned up of forage. Breastworks 
 and fortifications everywhere. We camped about four miles from Dallas. 
 
 October loth The division on the move at 6 a. m., the Second 
 Brigade in advance. Crossed Pumpkinvine creek; camped at Stilesboro, 
 south of Etowah river. 
 
 October nth In the saddle soon after midnight, and after some 
 delays got started, heading towards Rome. We crossed and recrossed the 
 Etowah river; halted for breakfast at 9 a. m. Some skirmishing during 
 the forenoon. Election day in Ohio, and the Second Brigade is voting 
 for member of congress and state officers. The ballot boxes and election 
 officers are in ambulances. The men on the skirmish line were relieved 
 and came in to vote. Fighting a double battle, front and rear; Confed 
 erates in front, Copperheads in the rear; bullets for one, ballots for the 
 other. It was a busy day. We marched thirty-five miles, driving the 
 enemy before us, at the same time doing our duty as American citizens 
 at the ballot box. Camped one mile south of Rome. 
 
 October I2th Reveille at 5 a. m., on the march at 8. Crossed the 
 Etowah and Oostenaula rivers ; ran into the rebel cavalry, Ross and Arm 
 strong s Brigades, drove them about five miles and camped near the 
 Oostenaula. Skirmishing on picket line all night; one of our pickets 
 wounded. 
 
 October I3th In the saddle early. Found the enemy a short distance 
 from our pickets and commenced driving them ; the Third Brigade dis 
 mounted and advanced in line, the First and Second Brigades mounted 
 in support of the Third. At the entrance to Chattooga valley the enemy 
 took a strong position and made a stand. The Third Brigade going in 
 dismounted, soon drove them out, when the First Brigade went forward, 
 
178 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 charging with the saber, killing and capturing more than 100 men, one 
 battle flag and two pieces of artillery. 
 
 October I4th On the march at 6:30. We recrossed the Oostenaula; 
 passed through Rome ; took the Kingston road, going into camp six miles 
 south of Adairsville. 
 
 October I5th Marched out at 6:30; road blocked with wagon train 
 of the Twenty-third Army Corps. Passed through Adairsville, marching 
 east of the railroad. At noon we found forage and halted to feed. En 
 camped two miles south of Resaca. 
 
 October i6th Moved out at 7:30; crossed the Oostenaula river at 
 Resaca ; encamped a short distance northwest of the town. No feed for 
 horses. Foragers went out five miles after corn. 
 
 October i/th Marched at 8 a. m. ; progress slow. We are headed 
 toward Snake Creek Gap. About noon we turned to the left, crossing 
 Big and Little Snake creeks, marching on the Summerville road. We 
 encamped at dark. 
 
 October i8th Started out at 6:30. Crossed Johns creek at Morris 
 Mills during the forenoon. Passed Floyd s Springs ; crossed Armachee 
 creek ; camped near Summerville. 
 
 October iQth Marched at 6, Third Ohio in the advance. Passed the 
 Twenty-third Army Corps two miles out. Found the roads blockaded 
 with fallen timber. The pioneers went forward and soon had the road 
 so we could pass. Crossed Chattooga river, passed through Summerville. 
 Found the Fifteenth and Twenty-third Army Corps here. Took the road 
 toward Cedar Bluffs. About five miles out we ran on to Wheeler s Cav 
 alry. The Third Ohio, dismounted, deployed and went forward, driving 
 them about ten miles, when we halted on account of darkness, about 
 twelve miles from Cedar Bluff. 
 
 October 2Oth In the saddle early, the Third Brigade in the advance, 
 the Third Ohio rear guard. The advance skirmishing with the rebels. 
 Drove them across Little river; marched along Chattooga river and 
 through the valley. 
 
 October 2ist The Second Brigade started out at 8 a. m., the Third 
 Ohio in the advance. Marched to Edwards Ferry on the Coosa river by 
 the way of Round Mountain Furnace. Countermarched to the furnace 
 and took the road toward Gadsden, down the Coosa river. Came upon 
 the enemy and drove them for two miles, and camped at 3 p. m. The 
 First and Third Brigades marched in the direction of Blue pond, skir 
 mishing with the enemy. 
 
 October 22d Did not move until 2 p. m. Marched to Blue Pond, 
 and turned towards Gadsden, and went into camp ten miles from Little 
 river camp ground. 
 
 October 23d Moved out at 8 a. m., General Elliott, chief of cavalry, 
 
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 with us, heading towards Gadsden. About one mile from camp we came 
 upon the enemy posted behind entrenchments, with artillery. After feeling 
 of them, we returned to last night s camp ground. 
 
 October 24th Moved one mile beyond our former camp ground on 
 Little river and went into bivouac at 2 p. m. Supply train came up and 
 we received rations and mail. 
 
 October 25th Reveille at 2 a. m. ; on the march at 3 130, headed 
 toward Gadsden. Came up with the infantry about 9 a. m., the Fifteenth 
 and Seventeenth Army Corps. The Third Ohio sent forward on the 
 skirmish line. The enemy had entrenched about fourteen miles from 
 Gadsden. The infantry drove them out of their entrenchments and the 
 Third Ohio drove them for seven miles. At one point the rebel cavalry 
 rallied, making a charge on the skirmish line and driving them back on 
 to the main column. We encamped nine miles from Gadsden. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 SHERMAN GOES TO THE SEA 
 
 October 26th Boots and saddles sounded at 5 a. m. Moved out at 
 8 o clock. Camped at our old camp ground on Little river. General 
 Hood s movements now indicating that his objective was Nashville by the 
 way of Decatur and Florence, General Sherman determined to follow him 
 no further, but to cut loose, destroy Atlanta, and march to the sea, leaving 
 General Thomas in command of the troops in Tennessee with which to 
 meet and vanquish Hood. Sherman withdrew from Alabama by the way 
 of Rome to Kingston, where he made preparations for his great march 
 through the heart of Georgia. While General Thomas at Nashville pro 
 ceeded to gather together his scattered forces and stop Hood s advance. 
 General Wilson was placed in command of all the cavalry, under General 
 Thomas. 
 
 October 27th The Third Brigade and the Third Ohio went out 
 on a scout. Marched out on the Jacksonville road to Terrapin creek and 
 camped. The next morning we started out at 6 o clock ; ran into a strong 
 rebel force about three miles from Ludaga. Their position was too strong 
 for us to force and we moved back in the direction of Cedar Bluff On 
 the 29th we marched within eight miles of Rome, and on the 3ist marched 
 to Rome and turned over all our serviceable horses to the Third Division, 
 under General Kilpatrick, which was to go with General Sherman in his 
 march to the sea. 
 
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 Report of Brigadier-General Kenner Garrard, U. S. Army, commanding 
 Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND CAVALRY DIVISION, 
 NASHVILLE, TENN., November 16, 1864. 
 
 GENERAL: Before the new organization of the cavalry, and during 
 the time General Elliott was chief of cavalry, this division was actively 
 employed during the operations of the army against Hood. For the 
 movements of the division during that time, I now have the honor to 
 make a report. 
 
 About the i8th of September, while encamped at Blake s Mill and 
 Roswell, owing to the suspected movements of the enemy, I was ordered 
 to the vicinity of Sandtown, and a reconnaissance on the west branch 
 of the river by a portion of my division ascertained that Jackson s 
 cavalry had crossed and a portion of the rebel infantry was crossing, and 
 the rest of Hood s army moving from Jonesboro toward the West Point 
 Railroad and the river. I was then ordered back to Blake s Mill by 
 Powder Springs, Acworth, Canton, and Roswell ; reached my camp on 
 the 3Oth and found orders to move at once to Sweet Water and join 
 Kilpatrick. On the 3d camped on Sweet Water, crossing the river at the 
 railroad bridge. On the 4th moved to Kenesaw, passing near Marietta, 
 and struck the pickets of the rebel infantry near the railroad. At the 
 time the railroad near Big Shanty was being destroyed, and in view a 
 long line of the enemy s infantry lay across the road and behind breast 
 works. On the 5th moved out toward Lost Mountain and skirmished 
 all day. The Fourth Regulars made a bold advance on the road from 
 near Lost Mountain toward Allatoona, and drove in the enemy s pickets 
 and ran the reserves from some works. It was afterward ascertained 
 from the rebels that the action of the division on this day caused the 
 enemy to fall back from Allatoona, a report reaching them in the hottest 
 part of the action there, that they had been cut off from their army and 
 that a division of cavalry was advancing on their rear. On the /th was 
 ordered to gain the cross-roads at New Hope Church to obtain informa 
 tion. Within two miles of the church struck Armstrong s brigade. After 
 some heavy skirmishing, drove him from the cross-roads and to within 
 a mile of Dallas. Captured a brigadier-general and a colonel in an ambu 
 lance passing from the rear of the infantry to the cavalry. The Fourth 
 Regiment had the advance and made the capture. On the 8th and Qth 
 remained near New Hope, but sent strong detachments toward Burnt 
 Hickory through Dallas and to within five miles of Van Wert, and kept 
 the major-general commanding fully informed of the movements and 
 course of the enemy. On the loth moved to Stilesborough, and at n p. 
 m. moved on again toward Rome, at which place I arrived early on the 
 
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 afternoon of the nth. As the route taken approached near the enemy, 
 considerable opposition was met with on the way, but full information 
 concerning the enemy was obtained. He had crossed most of his infantry 
 at Quincy s Ferry, ten miles below Rome, and was moving in the 
 direction of Dalton. On the I3th the enemy s cavalry appeared on the 
 hills west of Rome. The division crossed the Etowah and then the 
 Oostenaula, and drove the enemy away and five miles down the road 
 toward Coosaville. On the I3th received orders to find out if the enemy 
 had taken up his pontoon bridge, and if so, on which side of the river. 
 The Twenty-third Corps was ordered to support me. After advancing 
 some four miles, struck the enemy. The First Ohio was dismounted as 
 skirmishers, and the Third Ohio was sent out on the flanks mounted, and 
 the Third Brigade, Miller s, was at once dismounted and brought up in 
 line, two regiments on each side of the road. The advance was ordered, 
 and the First Brigade (Jennings commanding) was ordered up, passing 
 the led horses. 
 
 The enemy, after a little skirmishing, fell back, but our advance con 
 tinued. Soon the enemy opened artillery. We were moving through 
 woods, and could not see his position, but continued to advance, the 
 Third Brigade and First Ohio in line on both sides of the road, dis 
 mounted, the First Brigade mounted in column of fours in the road, the 
 head of column on line with the dismounted men and two companies 
 of the Third Ohio mounted on each flank. When within long rifle range 
 of their position, the woods ended, and large open cornfields lay between 
 us and the enemy, who had formed line beyond a creek on a ridge in the 
 edge of some timber. Just as the line was about to emerge from the 
 woods, the charge was ordered. The enemy stood firing his artillery 
 up to the last moment, and the cannoneers used their pistols in defense 
 of their pieces. The artillery, two pieces, was captured just as it was 
 limbered up. The enemy was routed and pursued on several different 
 roads. Their killed, wounded, and captured, which fell into our hands, 
 was over seventy, but every pursuing party reported large numbers left 
 wounded and killed on the roads and in the woods. The main body 
 was pursued on the Coosaville road fourteen miles below Rome and full 
 and complete information was gained in regard to the pontoon bridge. 
 The rebel cavalry was Allen s division, of Wheeler s Corps. One of the 
 brigades was the Texas Brigade. A set of colors of one of the Texas 
 regiments was captured. The loss on our side was fourteen killed and 
 wounded and between thirty and forty horses. The enemy was completely 
 routed, and I learned afterward it was more than three days before this 
 rebel division of cavalry could be collected together. The Hth, I5th, and 
 i6th were occupied in marching from Rome, via. Woodlands, to Resaca 
 and Snake Creek Gap. On the i8th passed around John s Mountain 
 
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 and through Dirt Town en route to Summerville. On the iQth passed 
 through Cover s Gap and Summerville and followed the road to Gayles- 
 ville; struck the enemy a few miles from Summerville and drove him 
 until dark. On the 2Oth advanced through Gaylesville, skirmishing, and 
 drove the enemy beyond Little river. On the 2ist advanced through 
 Blue Pond; took the road to Gadsden; sharp skirmishing, and toward 
 evening engaged a division and a brigade formed behind breastworks; 
 charged the works and took them. On the 22d, 23d, and 24th employed 
 in gaining information and compelled to drive the enemy from point to 
 point. On the 25th the new organization was ordered, but the division 
 was employed as before every day until the order to move to Nashville 
 was issued. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 K. GARRARD, 
 
 Brigadier-General, Commanding Division. 
 BRIG. GEN. W. D. WHIPPLE, 
 
 Chief of Staff, Department of the Cumberland. 
 
 By the following Special Orders No. 3, General Long, who had been 
 promoted on the recommendation of General Thomas, was assigned to 
 the command of the Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 HDQRS. CAV. CORPS, MIL. Div. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 
 
 ROME, GA., October 29, 1864. 
 
 I. Brigadier-General Garrard will immediately organize his division 
 into two brigades, and after furnishing what horses General Kilpatrick 
 requires, mount the Second Brigade of the new organization. As soon 
 as this duty is accomplished he will proceed to Nashville with the division, 
 taking all horses unfit for field service, and gathering all dismounted men 
 found along its route. 
 
 Upon his arrival at Nashville General Garrard will turn over the 
 men and command of his division to Brigadier-General Eli Long. 
 
 II. Brigadier-General Eli Long will relieve, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 Brigadier-General K. Garrard from the command of the Second Division, 
 Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi. 
 
 Upon assuming command General Long will remain in Nashville for 
 the purpose of collecting, remounting, and equipping the dismounted 
 men of his division there. 
 
 By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson. 
 
 E. B. BEAUMONT, 
 Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
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 November ist We started out at 2 p. m. Some of the men were 
 mounted on mules and unserviceable horses ; the balance on foot. Camped 
 about six miles from Rome on the Calhoun road. The next day we 
 arrived at Calhoun about noon, and on the 4th took cars for Nashville, 
 by the way of Dalton and Cleveland. Arriving at Chattanooga on the 
 evening of the 5th, we went into camp, awaiting transportation. All trains 
 being used to carry infantry troops back to Nashville. 
 
 Tuesday, November 8th, 1864 Presidential election, and the soldiers 
 by a very large majority cast their ballots for Abraham Lincoln, and a 
 vigorous prosecution of the war. We lay at Chattanooga until the nth, 
 when we broke up camp and took the train for Nashville. Arriving the 
 next day at 10 o clock, we put up at the ZollicofTer House for the night. 
 In those days when we stopped in Nashville we always put up at the 
 Zollicoffer, and while there was considerable grumbling amongst the 
 patrons of that famous hotel in regard to the bill of fare and sleeping 
 accommodations, yet it had a steady patronage, and no kicking on the 
 rates. The next morning we moved our baggage out to Camp Smith, 
 where we found a part of our regiment and the First Ohio. The next 
 morning we took train for Louisville, arriving on the morning of the 
 1 5th. We went into camp two miles out on the Preston St. pike, to wait 
 for horses. While we lay at Louisville we had drills, dress parades, and 
 inspections, dismounted. There being no prospect of getting any horses, 
 a detail of twenty men from each company, under a commissioned officer, 
 was made on the 8th of December. And mounted on horses borrowed 
 from the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, a cordon of guards was put around 
 the city, and no one allowed to go out. The men gathered up every good 
 saddle horse they could find in the city. About 700 were brought into 
 camp. The citizens came into camp by scores, complaining and pleading 
 for their horses. But it was no use. General Long was inexorable. The 
 government needed the horses, and if the people refused to sell them, 
 we would take them under the law of military necessity, and settle for 
 them afterwards. The impressment of horses continued for several clays, 
 many of the citizens hiding them in cellars and out of the way places. 
 The country was scoured for miles in every direction. 
 
 The following official correspondence indicates the confidence that 
 General Long had in Colonel Seidel : 
 
 HDQRS, CAV. CORPS, MILITARY Div. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 
 
 NASHVILLE, TENN., Nov. 29, 1864. 
 BRIG. GEN. ELI LONG, 
 
 Contdg. Second Division of Cavalry. 
 
 GENERAL : General Wilson requested Major Price to ask what two 
 regiments you would prefer having transferred from your division to be 
 
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 replaced by one Indiana regiment to be assigned to it. The strength 
 of the Indiana regiment will probably be as large as that of the two 
 regiments transferred. 
 
 I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 E. B. BEAUMONT, 
 Major, and Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 The following was General Long s reply : 
 
 CAMP NEAR LOUISVILLE, KY., November 29, 1864. 
 
 MAJOR E. B. BEAUMONT, 
 
 A. A. G., Cavalry Corps, Mil. Div. of the Miss., Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 MAJOR : Please have the order changing the regiments in the division 
 (if the order is to be issued) made out as soon as you can conveniently. 
 
 I want Colonel Seidel of the Third Ohio Cavalry, who is a fighting 
 man and will do good work with the brigade, to command it, and the 
 sooner the Fourth Michigan Cavalry and the First Ohio Cavalry, both of 
 whose Colonels rank him, are taken out of the brigade, the greater it will 
 facilitate me in organizing it and rendering it efficient. 
 
 Hoping that you will attend to this matter as soon as you can, I am, 
 very truly yours, ELI LONG. 
 
 The only thing that was done in the matter was the transfer of the 
 First Ohio Cavalry to Upton s Division, no other regiment being sent to 
 replace it. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 MARCHING SOUTH AGAIN 
 
 We remained at Louisville until Christmas Day, 1864, when we 
 again took up our march southward, full of the hope that the war would 
 be speedily ended. Everything indicated that this was to be the final cam 
 paign. Hood s army had received a staggering blow at Franklin and was 
 overwhelmingly defeated at Nashville, and his broken, demoralized forces 
 driven across the Tennessee and scattered in every direction. Sherman 
 had made his famous march to the sea, and was ready to start north 
 through the Carolinas, and if need be, take Richmond from the South. 
 While the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, under General Grant, 
 were crowding Lee and his brave army to the last extremity. Christmas 
 night we camped at Mt. Washington and the next day marched to Bards- 
 town and went into camp near the fair grounds, where the First Battalion 
 had its fight with Wharton in October, 1862. Captain McCormick of 
 Colonel Minty s staff and Surgeon Shirk were shot by some of Munday s 
 band of guerrillas. 
 
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 On the 29th General Long and the rest of the division came up. The 
 weather was very cold. 
 
 December 3Oth Weather still cold. On the march early. We 
 camped at New Haven on the Lebanon branch of the L. & N. Railroad. 
 
 December 3ist The year 1864 went out as it came in very cold. 
 Reveille at 4 a. m. ; on the road soon after 6. Passed through Hodgens- 
 ville. It was near here that Lincoln was born; a rough, hilly country; 
 the roads very bad. We camped at Elizabethtown, where we bade the 
 old year, with all its hardships and privations, its marches, bivouacs and 
 battles, good-bye. 
 
 January ist, 1865 A cold, clear day; the thermometer registered 
 
 8 degrees below zero in the middle of the forenoon. On the march at 
 
 9 o clock. Roads bad and very rough; camped at Sonora, on Nolin s 
 creek. The Third Ohio had the advance during the day. We marched 
 sixteen miles. 
 
 Janury 2d The morning was cold, but the sun came out bright and 
 the snow melted, making the roads muddy. Reveille at 4 o clock, but we 
 did not march until 7. The road was rough until we reached the pike, 
 four miles north of Mumfordsville, which place we reached about noon. 
 The First Brigade crossed Green river at the ford ; the Second Brigade 
 camped on the north side ; forage plenty. The next morning the wagon 
 train and part of the Second Brigade crossed the river, the Third Ohio 
 remaining on the north side. 
 
 January 4th The Third Ohio crossed the river and the division 
 moved forward, the regiment camping at Bells Station. 
 
 January 5th Reveille at 4 o clock ; on the march at 7. The roads 
 good. We arrived at Bowling Green about noon, and camped about three 
 miles south of the town, near Lost river. The 5th was a cold, wet, 
 disagreeable day, the rain turning to snow during the afternoon. We 
 were on the march at the usual hour, camping at night about three miles 
 from Franklin, Ky. Clothing and blankets wet. 
 
 January 6th The weather a duplicate of yesterday, only worse. On 
 the march as usual. Camped about two miles from Franklin. The 7th 
 was an improvement as regards weather. The sun came out warm and 
 the snow soon melted. We were on the road at the usual hour. Passed 
 through Mitchelville, Tenn., and camped twenty-seven miles north of 
 Nashville. The next day we marched to Edgefield, on the north bank of 
 the Cumberland river, opposite Nashville. The regiment lay at Edgefield 
 until the I2th. All excess baggage was loaded on a boat to go to East- 
 port, Miss. We crossed the Cumberland on the railroad bridge, and went 
 into camp some three miles south of Nashville, on the Franklin pike, 
 on the battle ground where Hood s army was so signally defeated four 
 weeks ago. Signs of a fierce conflict are everywhere visible. 
 
186 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 January I3th On the march at the usual hour; the roads every 
 where in bad condition. The country shows the effect produced by the 
 march of armies; very few fences left; the country cleaned up of all 
 forage; many of the inhabitants leaving and going North. This was a 
 very wealthy and fertile section before the war, but the iron heel has been 
 heavy upon it. We went into camp one mile south of Franklin. On the 
 I4th we moved up to Columbia, camping on the north side of Duck river, 
 the water too high to cross. The next day Miller s Brigade came up. 
 On the i6th a pontoon was laid across the river and McCook s and 
 Johnson s Divisions commenced to cross. But the bridge parted before 
 they were all over. They got the bridge repaired, but it broke again on 
 the I7th. Although we succeeded in getting supplies across from Colum 
 bia, and on the i8th the water had settled sufficiently for us to ford it. 
 We passed through Columbia, camping about three miles out on the Mt. 
 Pleasant pike, near our old camp ground of last spring. Colonel Seidel 
 was mustered out, bidding the regiment good-bye and starting North, 
 which leaves Colonel H. N. Rowland in command. 
 
 January iQth On the march at the usual hour, and as we move over 
 the road how many of the scenes which have now become familiar 
 remind us of the past days. We first marched over this road in the 
 spring of 62, when we were on the way to Shiloh. Again after our re- 
 enlistment one year ago, we started out over this same road to join 
 Sherman in his victorious campaign against Atlanta, and now we trust 
 that we are marching on to victory and the final campaign of the war. 
 We passed again the home of Bishop Polk, the reverend General of the 
 Southern Confederacy, who had sealed his devotion to the cause with 
 his life s blood since we passed his home last year, having been killed 
 by a cannon shot on Pine Mountain in June. We passed through Mt. 
 Pleasant and camped at Faust s Springs, which had been a pleasure resort 
 previous to the war. 
 
 January 2Oth On the march as usual ; camped thirteen miles north 
 of Waynesboro; very little forage. The country almost deserted. The 
 next day we arrived at Waynesboro about noon. Forage more plentiful ; 
 a better country. The brigade camped on Green river. 
 
 January 22d On the march as usual. We camped on Bear creek, 
 in Pleasant valley. The roads bad, and the wagon train did not come up ; 
 it camped five miles back. The next morning at 10:30 train descended 
 the ridge and we moved on at 2 p. m. The roads very bad ; we only 
 made about ten miles and camped at 9 p. m. 
 
 January 24th The brigade halted and the wagon train moved on 
 toward Gravelly Springs. Rations getting short, and foragers were sent 
 out ; they brought in a supply of grain. On the morning of the 25th we 
 started on after the train, and overtook it about eight miles from Thorn- 
 
Marching South Again. 187 
 
 ton s, where we waited for the mounted infantry to come up ; then moved 
 forward and arrived at Gravelly Springs, about two miles north of the 
 Tennessee river, and camped at 4 p. m. We are thirteen miles from East- 
 port, Mississippi; forage plenty, but rations scarce and no foraging 
 allowed. Boats with rations cannot get up the river on account of ice. 
 The men getting some meal ground at the mills, but living mainly on 
 parched corn. On the 28th a small amount of meal and pork was issued. 
 Orders from headquarters were strictly against all foraging. In fact, 
 there was very little to be found on the north side of the river, and 
 as the river was patroled, it was difficult to get over, and there was danger 
 of capture. Yet there were many foraging parties that managed to 
 slip through in the night time, and if they could not get back before 
 daylight, would remain under cover until the next night, when they would 
 come in under the cover of darkness. 
 
 January 2Qth Sunday, as General Wilson was riding through the 
 camp of the Second Brigade some of the Fourth Ohio men yelled, "Hard 
 tack ! Hard tack !" The General became very angry ; and declaring that 
 he would give us "hard tack," ordered the brigade under arms and into 
 line and kept them until n p. m., some seven or eight hours. We lay 
 in camp at Gravelly Springs until March I3th. After February ist rations 
 came more regularly. The men were kept busily drilling, having inspec 
 tions, reviews, dress parades, patrol and picket, unloading transports, etc. 
 etc. ; getting supplies and everything in good shape for a campaign. Chap 
 lain Cosier was with the regiment, and he was an ideal chaplain ; had 
 services every Sabbath when possible, and always preaching good, strong 
 sermons. He was loved and respected by all. In time of battle he was 
 always up at the front to render assistance. 
 
 In the reorganization of the Cavalry Corps under General James H. 
 Wilson for the campaign of 1865, the Second Division, under the com 
 mand of General Eli Long, was composed of two brigades. The First 
 Brigade consisted of the Seventeenth and Seventy-second Indiana and 
 the Ninety-eighth and One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Mounted 
 Infantry, under command of Colonel Miller, the Second Brigade was 
 composed of the Third and Fourth Ohio, the Fourth Michigan, and the 
 Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, under command of Colonel Minty. The 
 entire division was armed with Spencers. The Fourth United States 
 Cavalry had been assigned to General Wilson s headquarters, and the 
 First Ohio to General Upton s Fourth Division. The Chicago Board of 
 Trade Battery was still with the Second Division. 
 
188 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 THE WILSON RAID 
 
 March I3th The Second Brigade started out at 3 a. m. Marched 
 down the river to Waterloo, and crossed on ferryboats to Eastport, going 
 into camp at Chickasaw. By the I5th the Second Division and wagon 
 train were all across to the south side of the Tennessee, and all is activity 
 and hustle, getting ready to move, disposing of all superfluous baggage, 
 loading wagon trains with rations and ammunition, issuing quartermas 
 ters and commissary stores, shoeing horses, etc. Everything indicated 
 an important movement. General Wilson s train of 250 wagons loaded 
 with supplies for the expedition and guarded by 1500 dismounted men 
 under Major Archer, commenced to move out on the iQth. On the 2ist 
 the boats came up with forage and rations, which were issued to the 
 command, and the next morning at 5 o clock the Second Brigade moved 
 out and went into camp four miles south of Buzzards Roost, Alabama. 
 On the 23d we marched! to Franklin, Companies I and K of the Third 
 guarding the wagon train and did not reach camp until 9 p. m. On the 
 24th we passed through Russellville, camping on the Tuscaloosa road, 
 eight miles south of the town. On the 25th the division on the march at 
 usual hour, 5 a. m. A detachment from the Third was sent out with 
 Captain Lewis, topographical engineer on General Long s staff. The 
 brigade in its march crossed Little and Big Bear creeks, the latter at 
 Allen s Factory, which was burned by Colonel Streight when on his raid 
 in 1863. We camped at Underwood s Mill. On the 26th we marched to 
 within five miles of Thornhill, camping on Splunge creek ; roads bad. 
 Compelled to repair roads and build bridges, we were late getting into 
 camp. The detachment of the regiment out with Captain Lewis did not 
 get in until after midnight. On the 27th we marched to Jasper and found 
 more swampy country and bad roads, which we were compelled to 
 repair. The Seventh Pennsylvania built a bridge across Clear creek. 
 
 March 28th We remained at Jasper until 3 p. m. Rations and 
 forage issued. The town showed the effects of war, most of the buildings 
 having been burned. We camped late at night at Mulberry Fork of the 
 Black Warrior river. Found the roads very bad. The wagons did not 
 get to camp that night, but came up in the morning of the 29th. We 
 have been having so much rain that the rivers and creeks are both 
 deep and rapid, many of them difficult to cross. In crossing the Mul 
 berry the horses had to swim. One man belonging to the Seventeenth 
 Indiana was drowned. The country through which we marched was 
 rough, pine barrens ; the people very poor, very little either forage or 
 rations to be had. Eight and one-half miles from Mulberry fork we 
 
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 came to Locust fork. The stream was deeper than Mulberry, but not so 
 wide or rapid. Upton s Division crossed on the 28th, and on the 2Qth 
 the First and Second Divisions got over. It was a rainy, disagreeable 
 day. We crossed Cane creek and campedi five miles from Locust fork. 
 
 March 3Oth Another rainy day. Reveille at 3 a. m., on the march 
 at 5. Crossed a branch of Black Warrior river, after which we struck a 
 better country, as we neared Elyton. Here we halted and fed our horses ; 
 found a lot of flour, meat, molasses, etc. From Chickasaw to Elyton our 
 course had been in a southeasterly direction. From Elyton to Selma it 
 was nearly due south. At Elyton General Croxton s Brigade of the First 
 Division was detached from the command 1 and ordered to go to Tusca- 
 loosa. Six miles south of Elyton we came to Gilmore s furnace (which 
 was built and equipped at a cost of $3,000,000) . It was burned, together 
 with houses of workmen, etc. Camped at night on the north bank of the 
 Cahawba river. 
 
 March 3ist It rained in the morning, but cleared up, and the rest 
 of the day was fine. We crossed the Cahawba river on the railroad bridge. 
 Dismounting, we led our horses. Many of them had to be blindfolded. 
 Upton s Division in advance ; passed through Montevallo ; here another 
 large furnace was destroyed. Upton found the enemy in some force 
 and inclined to dispute his further advance. The Third Iowa charged, 
 scattering them and capturing about twenty prisoners. We left Monte 
 vallo about 3 p. m., General Long, with the Second Division, taking the 
 road toward Randolph, to the right of the main Selma road; Upton s 
 Division following the main road. There was continued skirmishing, but 
 the enemy were unable to check our advance ; camped twelve miles from 
 Montevallo. Two men killed and a number wounded during the day. 
 
 April ist On the road early; passed through Randolph, General 
 McCook with his Second Brigade, taking the road to Centerville to co 
 operate with General Croxton against General Jackson, who was reported 
 to be on the road between Tuscaloosa and Centerville, with 4000 men. 
 Generals Long and Upton, marching toward Selma, encountered General 
 Forrest in position and ready to give battle at Ebenezer Church, about 
 four miles north of Plantersville. The First Brigade of Long s Division 
 had the advance, and coming into line, after a brief contest charged, 
 driving them from their position in confusion toward Plantersville. The 
 losses of the enemy in this engagement were three pieces of artillery, 
 300 prisoners and a large number killed: and wounded. It was reported 
 that General Forrest himself was in command and was wounded. Our 
 loss in the engagement was twelve killed and forty wounded. The enemy 
 was driven beyond Plantersville, and the Divisions of Long and Upton 
 camped near that place. We were now only about twenty miles from 
 Selma, and were looking forward to a fierce struggle before we got 
 
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 possession of the city. It was late at night when the Second Brigade 
 of Long s Division, which had covered the rear during the day, got into 
 camp. General Wilson s order for the march on Selma, issued at 8 p. m. 
 April ist, was as follows: 
 
 ist. The Second Division will move out at 5:30 a. m. 
 
 2d. The Fourth Division will follow the Second Division. 
 
 3d. Should the enemy show a front requiring more than one division 
 to drive him from his position, General Long will move his division to 
 the right of the S elma road in order to allow the Fourth Division to 
 come up on his left. As the corps approaches the city, General Long 
 will incline toward the Summerfield road, and both divisions will, if 
 practical, march in columns of brigade. 
 
 Our sick and wounded were left in hospital at Plantersville. 
 
 Sunday, April 2d A fine, warm spring morning; the troops were 
 up early. Long s Second Brigade were on the march at 5 -.30, the Third 
 Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel Howland in command, in the advance. A part 
 of Company A, under Lieutenant Skillman, advance guard. The Third 
 Battalion of the regiment, Companies I, K, L and M, under command of 
 Captain Clock, were detached and sent off to the right on a reconnaissance. 
 Our advance guard met with little opposition during the forenoon. They 
 came up occasionally with small bodies of the enemy; skirmishing with 
 them, but no effort was made by the enemy to delay the march of the 
 column. When within about six miles from the city Long s Division 
 moved over to the right and after getting on the Summerfield road fol 
 lowed it. The advance arriving in front of the works about 2:30 p. m. 
 The Third Ohio were deployed as skirmishers, covering the right flank 
 of the division, while it dismounted and got into position for the assault. 
 
 The City of Selma is situated on the northern bank of the Alabama 
 river. It was of vast importance to the Southern Confederacy, because 
 of its great foundries, machine shops, arsenal, and factories. In the 
 early years of the war an elaborate system of defences had been built 
 around it, extending from a point on the river west of the city following 
 a northerly course along the east bank of Valley creek for about one 
 mile, and then taking a circular course to the river above, and east of 
 the city. The outer line of works were about three miles in extent, the 
 north and northeast portions of the city being also protected by an almost 
 impassable swamp. 
 
 That part of the line of works assaulted and carried by Long s 
 Division consisted of a parapet eight to twelve feet high and about the 
 same thickness, a ditch five feet deep and four feet in width, partly filled 
 with water, and a stockade of heavy posts, five feet high, sharpened at 
 the top and set into the ground firmly in front of the ditch. Forts had 
 been erected at advantageous points along the line, mounting thirty-two 
 
The Wilson Raid. 191 
 
 cannon, including one thirty-pound Parrott. Behind these works were 
 more than 7000 Confederate troops, commanded by Forrest and half a 
 dozen other Southern Generals. 
 
 General Upton s Fourth Division, marching in the rear of General 
 Long s Second Division, continued on the direct road to Selma. The 
 roads upon which the two columns advanced toward the city were nearly 
 parallel to each other and about one mile apart. 
 
 Between General Upton and the works of the enemy was a swamp, 
 impassable for cavalry. General Wilson, after examining the works in 
 Upton s front, rode over to General Long s position on the Summerfield 
 road about 4 o clock, and after dismounting, the two Generals went 
 forward to the skirmish line of the Second Brigade, and creeping forward 
 to the crest of the ridge in their front, made an examination of the 
 enemy s fortifications and the ground in their front. At this time the 
 Second Division was formed with its right (consisting of the Second 
 Brigade) in line of battle with the Summerfield road as its center, and 
 the First Brigade in line on the left of the Second Brigade. 
 
 After looking over the grounds in front of the enemy s works, 
 General Wilson ordered General Long to move his First Brigade from 
 its position on the left of the Second Brigade and place it on the right, 
 thus bringing it into position to charge diagonally across the Summerfield 
 road. 
 
 When leaving General Long, General Wilson said, "As soon as 
 General LTpton gets into position I will have him push forward on the 
 left at a signal gun from his battery, at which time you (General Long) 
 must also advance with your division." 
 
 General Wilson s plan of attack was for General Long to form his 
 division on the Summerfield road, and General Upton forming on the 
 Range Line road, both divisions to attack simultaneously. As Upton 
 had the longest distance to march to get into position, he, when ready, 
 was to give the signal by firing a single cannon. 
 
 General Long formed line of battle under cover of a ridge out of 
 range of musketry fire but exposed to the fire of the artillery from the 
 forts, which did little damage, however. The following regiments, dis 
 mounted, formed the line of assault: From right to left, Seventeenth 
 Indiana, One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois, and Ninety-eighth 
 Illinois, of the First Brigade ; the Fourth Ohio and Seventh Pennsylvania 
 of the Second Brigade. The Chicago Board o<f Trade Battery occupied 
 a position on a rise of ground near the Summerfield road about three- 
 fourths of a mile from the enemy s line of works. The Fourth Michigan 
 was posted near the battery. Four Companies of the Seventy-second 
 Indiana, of the First Brigade, were guarding the wagon train. Five 
 Companies were posted at a creek covering the rear, and one Company 
 
192 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 was supporting- the battery. Soon after reaching its position in front 
 of the works at Selma, four Companies of the Ninety-eighth Illinois 
 were sent out on the Summerfield road to guard against any force of the 
 enemy coming from that direction, leaving only eleven officers and 161 
 men from that regiment to take part in the assault. General Long, con 
 templating the strength of the works in his front, and the forces of the 
 enemy defending them, and then looking at his own small division, only 
 1550 men in line, thought the work cut out for him was rather a large 
 job for his small force, and sent a note to General Wilson, asking him 
 to change his plan of attack, and order General Upton to form the 
 Fourth Division in the rear of the Second Division and support it in its 
 assault on the rebel stronghold. General Long was at first led to believe 
 that General Wilson approved the change, but afterward for some reason 
 changed his mind and adhered to his original plan. Meanwhile the 
 afternoon was fast passing and; General Long, knowing that the enemy 
 in his front were being constantly reinforced, and fearing an attack from 
 the rear, became impatient at the delay, and resolved to attack at once, 
 without waiting for Upton s signal gun on the left. He sent his orders 
 to the brigade commanders and to Captain Robinson of the battery, 
 telling him that he intended to move on the works and that he was to 
 support the division with the battery. The following extracts are from 
 General Long s report of the battle : 
 
 "I determined to make the assault at once, without waiting for the 
 signal gun on the left. I moved forward at 5 p. m., my entire line 
 advancing promptly, and in less than twenty-five minutes after the com 
 mand to advance had been given the works were ours. The works 
 carried consisted of a heavy line of earthworks eight or twelve feet in 
 height, and fifteen feet in thickness at the base, with a ditch in front 
 partly filled with water, four feet in width and five feet deep, and in front 
 of this a stockade or picket of heavy posts planted firmly in the ground, 
 five feet high and sharpened at the top. Four heavy forts with artillery 
 in position also covered the ground over which the men advanced. The 
 ground was rough, and a deep ravine had to be passed before the works 
 could be reached. The men fully understood the difficulties before them. 
 There was no flinching ; all seemed confident of their ability to overcome 
 them. As soon as we uncovered the hill about 600 yards from the earth 
 works the enemy opened a rapid and destructive fire of musketry and 
 artillery on the line. But we moved forward steadily until within short 
 range, when a rapid fire was opened by our Spencers, and with a cheer 
 the men started forward for the works on a run, sweeping forward in 
 solid line over fences and ravine, scaling the stockade and on the works 
 with resistless force. The enemy fighting stubbornly, many of them 
 clubbing their guns, but forced to retreat in greatest disorder. Our men 
 
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 continuing in pursuit through the city, and taking many prisoners. 
 * * According to General Forrest s own statement his force ex 
 ceeded the assaulting force in numbers. My entire force in the charge 
 was 1550 officers and men. The carrying of these works and the town 
 by my division resulted in the capture of over 2000 prisoners. 
 
 "We captured no less than twenty pieces of artillery in position, 
 including one thirty-pounder Parrott, and a large number of small arms." 
 
 "When within 150 yards of the works on the Summerfield and Selma 
 road I was wounded and carried off the field, a short time after which, 
 General Wilson was riding by and inquired of my aide-de-camp, Lieu 
 tenant Deering, if we had carried the works. I had the satisfaction of 
 hearing the answer in the affirmative. 
 
 "The Chicago Board of Trade Battery, commanded by Captain Geo. 
 I. Robinson, occupied a position on the hill in the rear of my line. Their 
 rapid and effective firing contributed greatly to the demoralization of the 
 enemy. It was afterward reported to me that this battery did good and 
 efficient service in assisting the driving of the enemy through the town. 
 I have no doubt from the manner in which it had always executed its 
 work hitherto, that it did everything possible to be done. In this affair 
 the entire division did their whole duty, than which no greater praise 
 can be given to a soldier. 
 
 "The First Brigade, owing to longer practice and being more ac 
 customed to fighting on foot, probably kept a better line than the Second 
 Brigade, but so far as courage is concerned and the time that different 
 regiments and portions of the division approached the works, no appre 
 ciable difference could be seen or was reported to me." 
 
 When the division advanced to the assault the Third Ohio was 
 ordered to their horses, and coming up near the Summerfield road 
 received orders to charge into the city. While most of the guns in this 
 part of the rebel works had been captured and were silent, yet the inner 
 line of works were still held by the enemy and one of the forts that 
 covered the Summerfield road was still unsubdued. General Wilson, 
 arriving on this part of the field, sent his escort, the Fourth United States, 
 on a charge against this second line. They coming up against some 
 obstructions under fire from the guns in the fort recoiled and were driven 
 back in some confusion through our ranks. Lieutenant Colonel Howland 
 gave the command forward and charging down the road we went through 
 and over the works, the enemy being in full retreat. 
 
 As we charged down the road General Wilson and staff, mounted, 
 were on a rise of ground to our left waving their hats and cheering us 
 on. Before we reached the works the shades of night were falling, and 
 we could see the flashes of the guns after the fort was hidden in darkness. 
 
194 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The regiment was then dismounted, and together with the Fourth 
 Michigan entered the city, capturing some prisoners. After Long s 
 Division had carried the works in their front, Upton charged into the 
 city on the Range Line road, meeting with but little resistance, and the 
 two divisions met in the heart of the city. Forrest and a large part of 
 his command escaped over the Burnsville road, and thus it was that 
 most of the prisoners and battle flags were captured by Upton s men, 
 who intercepted them in their flight from the fierce onslaught of the 
 Second Division. There was little rest in camp that night. With many 
 of the men the one thing most to be desired was a good square meal. 
 One squad of the Third Ohio happened on to the place where a fine turkey 
 had been roasted and a sumptuous dinner prepared for General Forrest 
 and his staff, to be eaten after the fight. But after the fight they had 
 pressing engagements elsewhere. Well, the Third Ohio was equal to an 
 occasion of that kind, and that particular squad enjoyed the dinner, 
 although none of the ladies of the household appeared and bade them 
 welcome. 
 
 The Third Battalion of the regiment, under Captain Clock, encoun 
 tered a force of the enemy and had a narrow escape from capture. In 
 the skirmish that ensued the battalion lost one man killed, three men 
 wounded and one officer and seven men captured. By making a wide 
 detour and returning to the Selma and Plantersville road it escaped. 
 Sending a couple of messengers in advance to report to General Long, 
 Captain Clock followed with his command, reaching Selma late at night, 
 having marched forty miles. Lieutenant D. C. Lewis of Company M 
 and a number of the men captured perished at the time of the explosion 
 on the steamer Sultana. 
 
 April 3d General Long having been wounded in the battle of yes 
 terday, Colonel Minty took command of the division and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Rowland succeeded to the command of the brigade, leaving 
 Major Livermore in command of the regiment. General Wilson having 
 succeeded in taking Selma now wished to get into communication with 
 General McCook, whose division had been detached, the First Brigade, 
 under General Croxton, at Elyton on March 3Oth, to proceed against 
 Tuscaloosa. At Randolph on April ist, it having been learned that 
 General Croxton was confronted by a superior force of the enemy at 
 Trion, General McCook was sent to reinforce him. At 7 a. m. April 3d 
 Captain Rowland, in command of a battalion of the Third Ohio, was 
 sent with a dispatch to General McCook, notifying him of the capture of 
 Selma and ordering him to rejoin the command. The battalion marched 
 to Summerfield, where they found a small force of the enemy. Following 
 them closely, our men finally charged and drove them through the town, 
 
The Wilson Raid. 195 
 
 but as they took the road that our men wished to take, there was no 
 other course for them to pursue but to go after them. Noticing that the 
 road looked as if an army had marched over it, the question was asked 
 of some of the citizens, what troops were in our front, and we were 
 answered, Chalmer s Division of Forrest s forces. They continued in 
 front of the battalion for a number of miles, our men charging into their 
 rear and hurrying them along. Finally they turned off on a road leading 
 south, while Rowland and his men continued west. The battalion 
 marched to Perryville, where they burned a lot of rebel supplies, and 
 learned that General McCook was on another road marching to Selma. 
 Taking the back track, they came across McCook at Summerfield, de 
 livered their dispatches and returned to Selma. 
 
 General Croxton with his brigade did not rejoin the command until 
 May ist at Macon, having been separated from it one month, during 
 which time they marched over 650 miles in a mountainous country, 
 swimming rivers and fording creeks, destroying iron works, mills, fac 
 tories, bridges, etc. ; having numerous encounters with the enemy, captur 
 ing four pieces of artillery, 300 prisoners and a large number of small 
 arms, with a loss to his command of four officers and 168 men killed, 
 wounded, and missing. April 27th General Croxton was met at the Chat- 
 tahoochee river by a flag of truce from the commanding officer at New 
 man, informing him of the armistice and claiming protection under it. 
 General Croxton replied that he could not recognize the information as 
 official, but presuming it was true he would trouble nobody who kept out 
 of his way, and would observe the armistice as far as foraging was con 
 cerned, but could not consent to discontinue his march. 
 
 In the assault and capture of Selma, General Long, commanding 
 the Second Division ; Colonel Miller, commanding the First Brigade ; 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Biggs, commanding the One Hundred and Twenty- 
 third Illinois ; Colonel McCormick, commanding the Seventh Pennsyl 
 vania, were wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Dobb, commading the Fourth 
 Ohio, was killed. The losses in the division were four officers and 
 thirty-eight men killed, twenty-six officers and 245 men wounded, and 
 one officer and seven men missing. Total, 320. 
 
 The losses in Upton s (Fourth) Division were small, as the enemy 
 in his front abandoned their works without resistance after Long s 
 Division had carried the works in their front. Immense stores of war 
 material were captured at Selma, but we will not enumerate them here, 
 but leave them for the final summing up at the end of the Wilson raid. 
 
 The following is Major Livermore s report of operations April 
 ist and 2d : 
 
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 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, 
 
 SELMA, ALA., April 5th, 1865. 
 
 MAJOR : I have the honor to make the following report of operations 
 on the ist and 2d instant: 
 
 On the ist the regiment marched forty-six miles, but took no part 
 in the engagement. On the 2d instant marched in advance of division 
 toward this place, skirmishing occasionally with the enemy s rear guard 
 until within sight of his works, when two battalions (the Third Battalion 
 having been sent to the right of the road) were deployed as skirmishers 
 (mounted), but did not advance until the first line of the enemy s works 
 were captured, when they were ordered to charge the second line of works 
 on the enemy s left in rear of the Fourth United States Cavalry, which 
 was repulsed. The regiment was then dismounted and marched into 
 town, meeting with but slight resistance, capturing about forty prisoners 
 and several horses and mules. The casualties were six men wounded, 
 none dangerously. The Third Battalion (sent to the right) found the 
 enemey in force, and after a skirmish was forced to return by a circuitous 
 route (to avoid being captured) to the main road and follow the column. 
 The loss sustained was two men wounded, one commissioned officer 
 (Lieutenant D. C. Lewis, Company M), and seven enlisted men captured. 
 Total loss of regiment, eight men wounded, one commissioned officer and 
 seven men captured. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. E. LlVERMORE, 
 
 Major, Commanding Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
 MAJOR ROBT. BURNS, 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Cav. Div. 
 
 On the 3d of April General Forrest, who had escaped from Selma 
 over the Burnsville road, arrived at Plantersville, and captured the 
 hospital with our sick and wounded. The hospital had been left without 
 a guard. He paroled the nurses and slightly wounded, but did not molest 
 the surgeons and the dangerously wounded. 
 
 April 5th A detachment from the regiment went to Cahawba River ; 
 found a small body of the enemy west of the river; skirmished with 
 them and captured a number of horses and mules. 
 
 April 6th The wagon train arrived at Selma. A detachment went 
 on a scout to Burnsville; found a few rebels and had a skirmish with 
 them. The arsenals and government s warehouses in Selma were burned. 
 The negroes in large numbers came in with the wagon train. Orders 
 were issued to organize them into three regiments, one for each division. 
 Major Archer of the Third Ohio was promoted to Colonel in command 
 
The Wilson Raid. 197 
 
 of one of the regiments. The sick and wounded were brought in ambu 
 lances from Plantersville. General Wilson met General Forrest at the 
 Cahawba under a flag of truce, but was unable to come to any agreement 
 with him regarding an exchange of prisoners. During the conversation, 
 however, General Wilson learned that General Croxton had had an 
 engagement with Wirt Adams near Bridgeville, forty miles southwest of 
 Tuscaloosa. General Wilson determined to leave Selma as soon as the 
 bridge across the Alabama river could be completed. 
 
 April 8th Pontoon bridge completed in the afternoon and the 
 Second Division, under command of Colonel Minty, got across, although 
 the bridge was broken a number of times during the crossing. The river 
 is about 500 yards wide, with a very rapid current, and deep enough to 
 navigate by steamers of considerable size. The division marched about 
 five miles in the direction of Benton and went into camp. 
 
 April loth The entire force having gotten across the river, the 
 march toward Montgomery was begun, the First Division, under General 
 McCook, taking the advance, General Upton with the Fourth Division 
 in the center and Colonel Minty with the Second Division bringing up 
 the rear. Encumbered with a large number of prisoners, and our sick 
 and wounded in ambulances and carriages, our march was delayed so 
 that we did not get started until I o clock p. m. Marched eleven miles 
 and camped near Benton at n p. m. 
 
 April nth On the march; progress slow. The Third Ohio on rear 
 guard. Parked the train at Mt. Gilead Church and fed our horses; 
 were compelled to build corduroy road for half a mile across a swamp. 
 Built pontoon bridge across Big Swamp creek; tore down a barn two 
 miles from the crossing to get material to make floor for the bridge. It 
 was 4:30 a. m. April I2th before the rear of the division was across. 
 Sergeant Hill of Company D was drowned near Benton. 
 
 April I2th The regiment marched fifteen miles and camped about 
 fourteen miles west of Montgomery. The roads w r ere swampy and full 
 of holes, and it was necessary to corduroy them in order to get our train 
 over. The First Division was in the advance all the way from Selma, 
 and had considerable skirmishing with the enemy ; but when they arrived 
 in front of Montgomery this a. m., the city was surrendered without 
 opposition. By a singular coincidence we, here in the first capital of the 
 Confederacy, received the news that Richmond had fallen. 
 
 April 1 3th Passed through Montgomery and moved out on the 
 Columbus road, and the next day the command was put in motion for 
 Columbus, Georgia, General Upton with the Fourth Division taking the 
 direct road while Colonel La Grange with the First Brigade of the First 
 Division took the road to Tuskegee ; the Second Division still guarding 
 the wagon train in the rear of La Grange s Brigade. 
 
198 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The following report of the capture of the battle flag of the Twelfth 
 Mississippi Cavalry by a small party of men from the Third Ohio explains 
 itself. Comrade Shoef states that the flag is now in the relic room at 
 Columbus, Ohio: 
 
 HEADQUARTERS THIRD OHIO CAVALRY, 
 
 MACON, GA., April 3Oth, 1865. 
 MAJOR ROBERT BURNS, A. A. G. 
 
 MAJOR : I have the honor to forward herewith the battle flag of the 
 Twelfth Mississippi Cavalry, C. S. Army, which was captured with the 
 commanding officer of the regiment, Major Cox, on the I5th instant, 
 about six miles from Tuskegee, Ala., by John H. Shoef, private. Company 
 H, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He is very desirous of retaining it if 
 he can be allowed to do so. 
 
 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 D. E. LIVERMORE, 
 Major, Commanding Regiment. 
 
 Columbus, Georgia, is situated on the east bank of the Chattahoochee 
 river. There were several bridges and it was important that at least one 
 or more if possible should be captured before the enemy had time to 
 destroy them. General Upton s Division arrivd in front of the defences 
 of the city during the afternoon of the i6th and was at once gotten into 
 line for a night attack. At 8 o clock the order for the assault was given 
 and was executed with the energy and enthusiasm which had character 
 ized all of the movements of the campaign, and after a stubborn contest 
 of two hours duration our men won a complete victory, driving the enemy 
 in confusion across the bridges and following so closely that they had 
 not time to destroy them, although they had made every preparation for 
 doing so. At one of the bridges the rebels had two twelve-pound 
 howitzers loaded with canister in position, but were unable to fire them 
 without killing their own men, our forces being so close after them. The 
 capture of this bridge left General Wilson in position to move at once 
 against Macon. 
 
 There were captured at Columbus 1500 prisoners, twenty-four can 
 non, eight battle flags and immense quantities of Confederate stores of all 
 descriptions. All public property, including the rebel gunboat Jackson, 
 which was almost ready for sea, was destroyed. On the same day 
 Colonel La Grange captured West Point on the Chattahoochee, securing 
 the bridge at that point. 
 
 On April I5th the Second Division was delayed bringing the wagon 
 train across a swamp some 300 yards wide. They marched twenty-two 
 miles, camping about three miles east of Tuskegee. April i6th, marched 
 thirty-nine miles and camped after dark ten miles west of Columbus. 
 
Occupation of Macon. 199 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 OCCUPATION OF MACON 
 
 April 1 7th On the march at 3 a. m. Arrived at Columbus at 7 
 o clock ; marched through the town and went into camp three miles 
 out on the Macon road. At 5 :3O p. m. the Third Ohio, under command 
 of Major Livermore, and the Fourth Michigan, under command of 
 Major Eldridge, Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard of the Fourth Michigan 
 in command of the expedition, started out on a forced march to capture 
 if possible the double bridges across Flint river on the road to Macon, 
 forty-five miles distant. The command was in light marching order ; all 
 pack stock left in camp. Nothing of interest occurred to break the mo 
 notony of the night march. At daylight the command moved forward at 
 a trot and the advance guard was ordered to charge and capture every 
 body that they came in sight of. At Pleasant Hill, four miles from the 
 river, we overtook a refugee train and some rebel soldiers, who showed 
 fight. They soon changed their minds, however. In the skirmish two 
 were killed, one mortally wounded and three captured. From this point 
 a charge for the bridges was ordered and executed with such precipitancy 
 that the guard at the bridges, consisting of fifty men, under instructions 
 to defend and destroy them, was, completely surprised, receiving no 
 knowledge of our approach until the head of our column struck the bridge 
 at a gallop, charging across and sweeping everything before it, not 
 allowing the enemy time to fire a volley. A few scattering shots were 
 fired, but without effect. The whole force then broke and fled, some 
 making good their escape, as their horses were fresh, while ours were 
 worn and jaded from their night march and the final charge for the 
 bridges. We chased them about four miles, and then returning to the 
 bridges took position to defend them against any attempt that the enemy 
 might make to recapture and burn them. In addition to securing the 
 bridges we captured five commissioned officers and forty-four enlisted 
 men, fifteen wagons, 150 horses and mules, and a large quantity of 
 commissary stores. In his report Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard com 
 mended Majors Livermore and Eldridge for the good management of 
 their regiments. The rest of the division came up during the afternoon 
 and camped. 
 
 April igth Started out at 9 a. m. and marched thirteen miles, 
 camping three miles east of Thomaston. In the afternoon Captain 
 Howland with a detachment of the regiment went into the mountains 
 fourteen miles to the north ; captured thirty mules from a refugee train. 
 Lieutenant Keller with a detachment went out in the opposite direction 
 and brought in a bunch of horses and mules. 
 
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 April 2Oth The division started out at 3 a. m., the First Brigade 
 in the advance, moving on the direct road to Macon. When near Spring 
 Hill, twenty-one miles from Macon, the advance, the Seventeenth Indiana, 
 came on to a force of the enemy about 400 strong, behind a rail barricade. 
 Dismounting, our men charged, driving them out from one position to 
 another, capturing a number of prisoners. At Tobosofkee creek a force 
 of the enemy about 300 strong had torn a part of the planking off the 
 bridge, set it on fire and were posted behind rail barricades on the east 
 side, and a small force occupied a stone mill about 100 yards below the 
 bridge. The advance went on the bridge at a gallop, but were compelled 
 to halt where the planking was removed. They quickly dismounted, 
 charged across on the burning stringers, routed the enemy and saved 
 the bridge. Three miles east of the creek and about thirteen miles from 
 Macon the advance were met by Brigadier-General Robertson of the 
 Rebel Army with a flag of truce, bearing a dispatch from General Cobb, 
 stating that an armistice between General Sherman and General Johnston 
 had been agreed upon. The advance was halted and the message taken 
 by an officer to Colonel Minty, who sent it on to General Wilson, who 
 was somewhere in the rear, at the same time sending word to General 
 Robertson to return to Macon, and General Wilson s answer would be 
 delivered to him at that place, and also informing him that the column 
 would move forward five minutes after he received this message and that 
 he must keep out of the way. 
 
 Colonel Minty sent orders to Lieutenant-Colonel White, commanding 
 the advance, to give the flag of truce five minutes start, and then to push 
 forward and if General Robertson did not keep out of the way, to take 
 him and his party prisoners. The following is from Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Frank White s official report of the capture of Macon : 
 
 The flag of truce detained us about half an hour. I then received 
 orders from Colonel Minty to give them five minutes to get out of the 
 way, and then to drive everything before me and save the bridge over 
 Rocky creek at Bailey s mill. I placed Adjutant W. E. Doyle in charge 
 of the advance guard of fifteen men, giving him instructions and sending 
 him forward at a trot, supporting him closely with the regiment. After 
 going about two miles he came in sight of the flag of truce party covering 
 the rear of a force of about 250 men, said to be Blount s Battalion. They 
 were moving slowly, and evidently trying to delay us. Seeing this, the 
 adjutant, as I had instructed him, charged them, causing the flag of truce 
 to run into the woods, capturing three of the officers that were with it, 
 and driving the rebel cavalry pell-mell along the road. They kept up a 
 continual fire on us for some time, but with no effect. On getting within 
 sight of Rocky Creek bridge the enemy were discovered on foot attempt 
 ing to set it on fire. The advance drove them off, and pursued them 
 
Occupation of Macon. 201 
 
 closely to the palisades in the road. Before getting to the bridge the 
 Adjutant had sent to me for a small reinforcement, and I sent him Major 
 Weiler and Lieutenant McDowell with Company E. The Major caught 
 up before getting to the bridge. On arriving at the palisades the advance 
 got up amongst the rebels and some firing ensued, the enemy breaking 
 off the road through the gardens on the right in confusion. The advance 
 tore down a few of the palisades, passed through and rode up near the 
 rebel works. Here Major Weiler and Adjutant Doyle rode up on the 
 works and demanded their surrender, telling the rebels that we had two 
 divisions of our cavalry in their rear. The colonel commanding not 
 being present, the men believed that they were cut off. Subordinate 
 officers surrendered their commands, and the soldiers threw down their 
 arms as directed and marched down to the road, where Lieutenant 
 McDowell took charge of and formed them. The Major and Adjutant 
 were at this time riding along the line of works, telling the men to throw 
 down their arms and surrender; that they were cut off and were our 
 prisoners; that flight was vain and that fighting would avail nothing; 
 and the rebel soldiers were throwing down their arms and hastening to 
 the road, the officers following the men. I came up at this time with the 
 regiment and found the rebel prisoners in line along the road under 
 Lieutenant McDowell. I ordered Adjutant Doyle to the forts on the right 
 of the road to receive their surrender. As soon as the regiment got inside 
 the line of works the entire line surrendered, finding themselves cut off 
 from the town, and Colonel Cumming, who commanded the forces (one 
 brigade) immediately on the road, came down with about 500 men and 
 surrendered to me. I left two companies in charge of prisoners and 
 moved on toward town with the balance of the regiment. At the edge 
 of town I was met by some officers with a flag of truce from General 
 Cobb, asking what terms I would give him if he surrendered the city and 
 forces. My answer was unconditional surrender, and gave the flag five 
 minutes to get out of my way. After passing into the town the distance 
 of four or five squares, another flag of truce met me, stating that General 
 Cobb submitted to my terms, surrendering the city and everything in it. 
 I marched into town and up to General Cobb s headquarters, thus taking 
 formal possession of the city. I placed patrols on duty at once, and 
 camped the regiment in Courthouse square and adjoining street. We 
 captured in the city and in the works Major-General Howell Cobb, 
 Brigadier-Generals Gus W. Smith, Mackall, and Mercer, 3500 prisoners, 
 including over 300 officers of all grades below brigadier-general, five 
 stand of colors, about sixty pieces of artillery and 3000 stand of arms, 
 besides large quantities of quartermaster s, commissary, medical and 
 ordnance stores ; also four two-pounder breech-loading Travis guns 
 intended for General Forrest, and a large number of horses and mules. 
 
202 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 "We had in the action during the day twenty-one commissioned 
 officers and 500 enlisted men. We lost one killed and two wounded. 
 The four two-pounder (brass) Travis guns were boxed and buried in 
 the smallpox burying ground." 
 
 Camped on Rocky creek, about three miles west of town. In the 
 six days since leaving Montgomery we had marched 215 miles. Since 
 leaving the Tennessee river the command had marched upward of 600 
 miles. General Wilson arrived at Macon in the evening of the 2oth, 
 when General Cobb renewed his protest and insisted that he should 
 acknowledge the existence of the armistice and withdraw his troops to 
 the point where they were met by the flag of truce. General Wilson 
 could not take that view of the situation, however, and informed General 
 Cobb that he would not withdraw from the city ; but continue to hold it, 
 and consider the garrison, including the generals, prisoners of war, until 
 his acts were disapproved by competent authority after a full investigation 
 of the case. 
 
 The war was virtually over. Richmond evacuated ; Lee surrendered ; 
 Jefferson Davis a fugitive endeavoring to escape from the country ; 
 Johnston and his army ready to give up the fight. The Confederacy was 
 going to pieces, and the daw r n of peace was at hand. General Wilson in 
 his report to General Thomas enumerates some of the things accomplished 
 by the troops under his command, which, taking into consideration the 
 number of men engaged and the results accomplished, must give it rank 
 as the greatest cavalry raid of our own or any other war. In that report 
 he says : 
 
 "Since leaving the Tennessee river the troops under my command 
 have marched an average of 525 miles in twenty-eight days, captured 
 five fortified cities, 23 stand of colors, 288 pieces of artillery, 6820 pris 
 oners, including five generals ; have captured and destroyed two gunboats, 
 99,000 stand of small arms, seven iron works, seven foundries, seven 
 machine shops, two rolling mills, five collieries, thirteen factories, four 
 nitre works, one military university, three C. S. arsenals and contents, 
 one naval armory and contents, one powder magazine and contents, five 
 steamboats, thirty-five locomotives, 565 cars, three railroad bridges, and 
 immense quantities of quartermaster s, commissary, and ordnance stores, 
 of which no account could be taken, and have paroled 59,878 prisoners, 
 including 6134 commissioned officers. Our total loss was thirteen officers 
 and eighty-six men killed, thirty-nine officers and 559 men wounded, and 
 seven officers and twenty-one men missing. I cannot close this report 
 without calling attention to the remarkable discipline, endurance and 
 enthusiasm displayed throughout the campaign by men, officers and regi 
 ments." 
 
Occupation of Macon. 203 
 
 GENERAL LONG S FAREWELL ADDRESS. 
 On April 2$d General Long issued his farewell address to the officers 
 
 and soldiers of the Second Division Cavalry Corps. He said : 
 
 "According to the advice of the surgeon, I leave you for a time. 
 How long I am unable to say. I do not feel like separating myself from 
 you, possibly forever, without a few parting words expressing my heart 
 felt gratification at your gallant and soldierly conduct since I have had 
 the honor and good fortune to command you, but particularly so in the 
 present campaign. During the first portion of the march unfortunate 
 circumstances placed you in the rear of the corps, thus rendering your 
 labors extremely arduous by having to travel roads originally bad, but 
 rendered miserable by the passage of other troops in your advance. By 
 your untiring energy and hard work you, however, overcame these diffi 
 culties and arrived in front of Selma, garrisoned by a strong force under 
 command of General Forrest, in time to administer to him and his 
 command, behind almost impregnable works, one of the most complete 
 and severe castigations received by any command during the war. Of the 
 circumstances and details of this fight, with which you are all familiar, 
 it is unnecessary for me to speak. It was, however, the turning point 
 the decisive fight of the campaign. The nature of the works assaulted, the 
 character and number of troops behind those works, which numbers, 
 according to the admissions of their commander, General Forrest himself, 
 under a flag of truce, exceeded your own, and the number of pieces of 
 artillery in position, are facts which show beyond controversion that 
 this feat has been equaled by none accomplished by cavalry during the 
 war, and excelled but in a few instances by infantry. Having naturally 
 no love for war, and if it should be my fortune, as I hope it may be, never 
 again to hear the fire of a gun in battle, I shall consider that it is honor 
 enough to last me the remainder of my life to have had the honor to 
 command you on that occasion. Whether or not all or any portion of us 
 may meet again, I shall watch your career with interest, and my prayers 
 shall be for your welfare and happiness. To all and each of you, for the 
 present at least, I bid you an affectionate farewell. 
 
 "ELI LONG, 
 " Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers." 
 
 Late in the afternoon of the 27th orders were issued for the division 
 to march on the morrow. 
 
 April 28th Marched out about three miles when the command was 
 halted, and searched for private property, gold, silver, watches, and 
 jewelry, which it was supposed the men had appropriated during the 
 campaign. Some was found in the first company searched. The others, 
 
204 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 being warned in time, succeeded in secreting what they had in the sand 
 under their feet until the search was over. It is not known what was 
 done with what little was found ; as far as is known no report was ever 
 made of it ; returned to camp at 4 130 p. m. As the armistice is in force 
 and no foraging allowed, an arrangement has been made by General 
 Wilson by which, for the present, we are drawing rations from the Con 
 federate commissary supplies and clothing from the quartermaster s de 
 partment. 
 
 May 4th In the afternoon a pole was raised in the street in front 
 of the Lanier House, where General Wilson has his headquarters. A 
 salute of 200 guns was fired in honor of the Union victories and the 
 prospect of an end to the war. The people of Macon seem to be willing to 
 be reconciled to the Yankee rule. Business in the city is being resumed, but 
 the storekeepers do not like to take Confederate money. No objection to 
 the United States greenback, however. Men from the armies of Lee 
 and Johnston in large numbers passing through on their way home, glad 
 that the war is over. While we are anxious to return home, we realize 
 that a part of the army will be needed to maintain order in the South for 
 some time until the state governments can be organized and gotten into 
 working order. 
 
 After the surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston, Jefferson Davis 
 determined to escape from the country if possible. He started with an 
 escort of four brigades of cavalry; but thinking his chances of escape 
 were better with a small party, he abandoned his escort and, with his 
 family, a few officials of the late Confederacy and a small bodyguard, was 
 making his way south through Georgia. General Wilson having been 
 informed of Davis s flight proceeded to make such disposition of his 
 forces as would best insure his capture. Colonel Minty received orders to 
 picket the Ocmulgee and Flint rivers, and send detachments of his 
 division to pursue and capture him. 
 
 He ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard, commading the Fourth 
 Michigan Cavalry, to march at once with his regiment ; move as rapidly 
 as possibe to Spalding and leave pickets at all fords and ferries between 
 that place and Hawkinsville. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard started out from Macon at 6 p. m. 
 May 7th, and Colonel Minty ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Howland to 
 follow him the next morning with the Third Ohio and Seventh Pennsyl 
 vania Regiments. 
 
 After marching seventy-five miles, the Fourth Michigan reached 
 Abbeville about 3 p. m. May 9th. Here they learned that a party with 
 several wagons and two ambulances had crossed the Ocmulgee river at 
 Brown s Ferry, one and one-half miles above Abbeville, about 12 o clock 
 the night previous ; halted at Abbeville long enough to feed and had gone 
 
Occupation of Macon. 205 
 
 on in the direction of Irwinville. Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard here met 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Harnden of the First Wisconsin, who informed him 
 that he had been following the trail of the Davis party on the north side 
 of the river and that his men were ahead of him following- the trail 
 toward Irwinville. The two regimental commanders separated without 
 agreeing upon any concerted plan of action. Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard 
 moved on down the river, leaving one company at Brown s Ferry. Find 
 ing that there were two roads to Irwinville, Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard 
 decided to take the longer one, and selecting 150 of his best mounted 
 men, he started out at 4 p. m. Arriving at Irwinville at I o clock a. m. 
 May loth, representing themselves as Confederates, they learned that 
 the camp of the fugitives was out one and a half miles on the Abbeville 
 road. Pressing into service a negro guide, Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard 
 marched out and surrounded the camp, and just as day was dawning 
 closed in upon it, capturing the entire party without firing a shot. Just 
 then, however, the advance guard of the First Wisconsin came down the 
 road from the direction of Abbeville, and not recognizing each other in 
 the dim light, each thinking the other to be the enemy, a sharp skirmish 
 ensued, and before the mistake was discovered two men of the Fourth 
 Michigan were killed and one officer wounded, and three men of the 
 First Wisconsin were wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Howland with the 
 Third Ohio and the Seventh Pennsylvania arrived at Hawkinsville the 
 same day, and after a few hours rest started for Abbeville at 2 a. m. of 
 the nth, but before they reached Abbeville they met Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Pritchard and the Fourth Michigan with their prisoners. 
 
 May 1 3th Jeff Davis and his party arrived in Macon in the after 
 noon, escorted by their captors, and left at 5 p. m. by rail for the North 
 via. Atlanta, Augusta and the sea, finally landing in Fortress Monroe. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Howland sent a number of scouting parties in the 
 direction of Milledgeville, returning to Macon with the brigade on the 
 1 7th. The regiment received mail for the first time since leaving the 
 Tennessee river, in March. A number of commissions arrived for the 
 Third Ohio, amongst them that of Colonel Howland, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Livermore and Major O. M. Brown. 
 
 The following is Colonel Howland s report of the movements of the 
 Second Brigade : 
 
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION CAV. CORPS, 
 
 NEAR HAWKINSVILLE, May loth, 1865 10 p. m. 
 
 CAPTAIN : I have the honor to report that I arrived at this place 
 
 about an hour since; that Jeff Davis with an escort of forty men and a 
 
 train of two ambulances and twelve or fifteen wagons crossed the Ocmul- 
 
 gee at Abbeville on the evening of the 8th. And hearing of Colonel 
 
206 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Pritchard, he (Davis) started down the river at 12 the same night. 
 
 Colonel Pritchard arrived at Abbeville the afternoon of the Qth and 
 at 4 p. m. started in pursuit with 150 of the best mounted men of his 
 command, leaving the balance in camp at Abbeville or that vicinity. I 
 got this intelligence from a courier. 
 
 I have directed Colonel Andress to take 250 of the best mounted 
 men of his regiment (the Seventh Pennsylvania), leaving all baggage 
 except rations in camp, and move rapidly to the support of Colonel 
 Pritchard, taking the road from here to Irwinville, thinking he will 
 strike Davis trail before reaching that point. In case he does not, to 
 march in the direction of Waresborough and communicate with me 
 opposite Albany on the Flint river. In case I strike his trail I will com 
 municate with him by sending on Davis back track. I shall move at 2 
 a. m. tomorrow with 250 or 300 of the best mounted men of the Third 
 Ohio (light as possible) on the road leading from here through Millwood 
 to Cedar Hill and Fort Early and follow down Flint river to a point 
 opposite Albany, unless I strike the trail of Davis before reaching that 
 point. 
 
 I have directed Major Livermore to take command of all detach 
 ments left back and proceed to picket the ferries on the river as quickly 
 and as far down as possible, so that in case any of the officers who are 
 trying to escape are yet on the east side of the Ocmulgee he may capture 
 them. 
 
 I have directed Major Greeno to report to Colonel Andress and go 
 with him. It is reported that Clement C. Clay is with Davis. 
 
 I have directed Colonel Andress to keep his command mounted by 
 pressing horses when it becomes absolutely necessary, and receipting 
 for same. 
 
 I shall pursue the same course and spare no effort to accomplish 
 the object of the expedition. 
 
 In laying the course of the two columns I have gone on the suppo 
 sition that Davis wishes to go West, and can see no reason why he 
 should go East or South unless forced to do so. 
 
 I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 H. N. HOWLAND, 
 Colonel Commanding. 
 CAPTAIN SCOTT, 
 
 A. A. G., Second Cavalry Division. 
 
 May 23d The Second Division commenced to break up, Colonel 
 Minty in command of the division, with the Fourth Michigan, the Fourth 
 Ohio, Seventy-second Indiana, the Ninety-eighth and One Hundred and 
 Twenty-third Illinois Regiments taking up the line of march homeward 
 
Occupation of Macon. 207 
 
 bound. As they marched through town the Second Brigade band played 
 for them, to the great delight of the darkeys. The Third Ohio, Seventh 
 Pennsylvania and Seventeenth Indiana are the only regiments of the 
 division left at Macon. 
 
 May 3 ist Company G of the Third Ohio was sent to Thomaston 
 and Company K to Dublin to maintain order and protect property. 
 
 June 7th All the members of the regiment whose terms of enlist 
 ment expire before October ist started home. They were to be discharged 
 under an order from the War Department. This included the recruits 
 who joined the regiment in the summer of 1862. During the month 
 Colonel Rowland went on a tour through Southwest Georgia to secure 
 information for the Freedmen s Bureau, regarding the conditions existing 
 between the freedmen and their late masters. He returned to Macon on 
 the 26th and reported that he found efficient agents of the Freedmen s 
 Bureau were everywhere needed to prevent abuse of power over the 
 weak, ignorant and defenseless blacks by their former owners. In locali 
 ties in any-wise remote from the Union troops, all the oppressions of 
 slavery were in full force. He found the general sentiment of the people 
 who had not been in the Confederate army bitter against the government 
 of the United States, and they would gladly welcome any foreign power 
 that would come and overthrow it, thinking that thereby they would 
 obtain a new lease of slave power. He found some few who were inclined 
 to treat the negro fairly, and adjust themselves to the new order of things. 
 The feeling of hostility toward the government he found mainly amongst 
 the large planters who had formerly been wealthy, but was not partici 
 pated in by most of the returning Confederate soldiers. 
 
 Amongst the men remaining in the regiment camp life became 
 exceedingly tedious and irksome. There was none of the excitements 
 that had characterized our four years of service. The scout, the picket, 
 the bivouac, and the battle, were all done with, we hoped forever. The 
 fierce charge, the cannon s roar, the rattle of musketry, the terrible field 
 of carnage, with its dying and its dead; we had passed through it all. 
 Like a dreadful nightmare, it all seemed. And yet how real it all was ! 
 And we were all anxious to leave the scenes of warfare and strife and 
 go back to God s country, to home and friends and loved ones ; to lay 
 aside the uniform and the sword and take up the implements and avoca 
 tions of peace. 
 
 General Wilson issued the following farewell order : 
 
 HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 
 
 MACON, GA., July 2d, 1865. 
 To the Officers and Men of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the 
 
 Mississippi: 
 
 Your Corps has ceased to exist. The rebellion has terminated in 
 the establishment of your country upon the basis of nationality and 
 
208 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 perpetual unity. Your deeds have contributed a noble part to the glorious 
 result. They have passed into history and need no recital from me. In 
 the nine months during which I have commanded you, I have heard no 
 word of reproach upon your conduct, have had no disaster to chronicle. 
 The glowing memories of Franklin, Nashville, West Harpeth, Ebeneezer 
 Church, Selma, Montgomery, Columbus, West Point and Macon, may 
 well fill your hearts and mine with pride. You have learned to believe 
 yourselves invincible, and contemplating your honorable deeds may well 
 justly cherish that belief. You may be proud of your splendid discipline, 
 no less than your courage, zeal, and endurance. The noble impulses 
 which have inspired you in the past will be a source of enduring honor 
 in the future. Peace has her victories no less than war. Do not forget 
 that clear heads, honest hearts, and stout arms, guided by pure patriotism, 
 are the surest defense of our country in every peril. 
 
 Upon them depend the substantial progress of your race and order 
 of civilization, as well as the liberty of all mankind. Let your example 
 in civil life be an incitement to industry, good order, and enlightenment, 
 while your deeds in war shall live in the grateful remembrance of your 
 countrymen. Having discharged every military duty honestly and faith 
 fully, return to your homes with the noble sentiment of your Martyr 
 President deeply impressed on every heart. "With malice toward none, 
 with charity for all, strive to do the right as God gives you to see the 
 right." J. S. WILSON, 
 
 Brevet Major-General. 
 
 July 5th Colonel Howland started for Hilton Head on business 
 connected with the Freedmen s Bureau. 
 
 While we lay at Macon, Captain Clock of the Third Ohio, on duty 
 as officer of the guard, was killed by a drunken soldier of the Fourth 
 United States Cavalry, while attempting to arrest him. 
 
 On July 22d the regiment received orders to turn over all ordnance 
 and quartermaster s stores preparatory to starting for home. We left 
 Macon at 8 a. m. on the 236., going by railroad and arriving at Atlanta 
 in the evening. We remained at Atlanta until the next afternoon at 
 2 p. m., when we left for Chattanooga and Nashville, arriving at the latter 
 city at 8 p. m. of the 25th. We remained in the cars all night, and the 
 next morning Lieutenant-Colonel Livermore was informed that it had 
 been the intention to retain the regiment in service, but in view of the 
 fact that we had turned over all arms, horses and; equipments, General 
 Thomas revoked the order, and the regiment was ordered to camp at 
 Edgefield to be mustered out. The muster-out rolls were all completed 
 on August 3d, and in the afternoon the regiment had dress parade. 
 Colonel Howland made a short ad dress, telling us "this was the last time 
 
O. SCHIMANSKY 
 PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION 
 
 HON. GAYLORD M. SALTZGABER 
 A VETERAN OF FOUR YEARS SERVICE 
 
 THE AGE OF NINETEEN 
 
Occupation of Macon. 209 
 
 that we would be assembled and in ranks as a regiment; on the morrow 
 we would be mustered out of the service, and as soon as transportation 
 could be obtained we would start North on our homeward journey, 
 bearing with us the proud satisfaction of knowing that we had won for 
 the Third Ohio Cavalry an honorable place, an imperishable name in the 
 records of our country." 
 
 We were to separate after four years of honorable service, the 
 memory of which service would go with us through life. In the years 
 to come, how dear to our hearts would be the comradeship formed as 
 we camped and marched and fought for the Union and the Flag. 
 
 While we rejoiced that the war was over, that peace had again taken 
 up its abode in our land, that the victory had been won by the Union 
 armies, and we believed that secession and treason were forever destroyed ; 
 yet our hearts were saddened as we thought of our brave comrades who 
 had fallen. The lines of march of our victorious armies were marked 
 with the graves of our fallen heroes. 
 
 We were all glad that the task was finished and we knew that the 
 men who had so faithfully performed their duty to their country in its 
 hour of greatest need as soldiers would also as citizens be just as faithful, 
 just as true, just as loyal, just as patriotic, in the performance of every 
 duty. 
 
 August 4th The regiment was mustered out by Captain Neill, U. 
 S. Army, the same officer who had mustered us into service in 1861 ; the 
 last company being mustered out by 12:30 p. m. There was no cheering 
 amongst the men ; everything quiet and orderly. We remained at Edge- 
 field until the 7th, when we broke camp and marched to the railroad, 
 where we found the U. S. Special waiting for us, box cars with soft pine 
 boards for seats. We left Edgefield at 4 p. m. At daylight the next 
 morning we were at Mumfordsville. Arriving at Louisville at n 
 a. m., we went from the train to the wharf, and going on board the 
 steamer General Buell, left Louisville at 4 p. m. and steamed rapidly up 
 the river, homeward bound. The scenery along the river was fine. The 
 men were very quiet, seeming disinclined to be talkative, each occupied 
 with thoughts of home. The morning of the Qth was very foggy on the 
 river and our progress necessarily slow. The Captain stopped the boat 
 for about an hour waiting for it to clear. Arrived at Cincinnati at 7 130 
 a. m. and two hours later left for Columbus, where we arrived at 5 130 
 p. m. We marched to Todd Barracks, but most of us did not fancy the 
 quarters, which were alive with bedbugs and gray-backs, living together 
 on the most amicable terms, and ready to unite and attack all returning 
 soldiers who came their way. We remained at Columbus until August 
 I4th, when Major Price, United States paymaster carne and commenced 
 paying off the regiment but did not get through until the i6th, when the 
 
210 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
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 last man was paid off and received his honorable discharge, and here the 
 men scattered in various directions, going to their homes by the first train 
 to take up the threads of civil life where they had been so rudely sundered 
 in 1861. 
 
 We have endeavored in these pages to give to the reader some idea of 
 the work that the cavalry had to do, but we realize that our task has been 
 but poorly performed. One writer has said : "For boldness, effectiveness, 
 and devotion to duty, endurance, celerity of movement and accomplishment 
 of results, the Federal Cavalry in the West made a proud record, and its 
 history when written in detail, will be full of thrilling interest." 
 
 But it is not at all likely that it will ever be written in detail. Its 
 service was so varied and so much of it performed where there were none 
 to witness and herald it to the world. The newspaper correspondent did 
 not march with the cavalry, and that innate modesty which everywhere 
 marks the true soldier, be he of the cavalry, infantry or artillery, prevents 
 the cavalryman from blowing his own bugle. 
 
 Many of our comrades in the infantry had little conception of the 
 kind and amount of work that the cavalryman had to do. All the time the 
 safety of the camp depended on the vigilance and faithfulness of the 
 cavalry. All the while the camp was sleeping the cavalry was patrolling 
 the high-ways and by-ways between the two armies, that no enemy might 
 creep in and take it by surprise. Who will tell of the many thrilling in 
 cidents that happened out on the patrol, for it was not unusual to meet 
 our enemy patroling the same roads, and sometimes (though that did 
 not occur often) we met and exchanged shots with some of our own 
 patrol. The service demanded of the cavalry required the highhest type 
 of courage. It required every nerve kept at its utmost tension ; it required 
 the utmost vigilance, every sense keen and alert. If there was an exposed 
 point, the cavalry must go there ; if there was country to be explored the 
 cavalry must explore it, although in doing so the chances were favorable 
 for that arm becoming a target for an ambushed foe. Many times the 
 cavalry in the advance would get its orders to march until fired on by the 
 enemy s pickets, then draw saber and charge; saddles might be emptied, 
 but that was to be expected, and those that were left rode on, it might be 
 to victory, it might be to death. 
 
 Nearly half a century has passed since our sabers were thrust into 
 the scabbard, and our banners were furled, and the white winged angel 
 of peace settled over our land. Very many of our wild riders have 
 answered the last roll call, and the remnant that are still with us show that 
 the weight of years is upon them. And yet, as we call to memory the 
 things that happened in those days, our pulses quicken and the old fire 
 lights up our eyes, as again we hear the bugle sounding the charge, and 
 see the sabers flash in the sunlight. 
 
Memorial Association. 211 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 THE THIRD OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY MEMORIAL 
 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 Soon after the close of the war, the survivors of the regiment took 
 steps to perpetuate the ties of comradeship that had been formed during 
 the war and the association named above was organized. It first met in 
 1866, and has continued to meet in annual reunion from that time to the 
 present. Many of the leading spirits who were the life of our gath 
 erings in the years gone by have passed away and, at each succeeding re 
 union we miss some familiar face, and as the annual death roll is called, 
 we hear the names of near and dear comrades, who have gone from us 
 
 "On fame s eternal camping ground 
 There silent tents are spread, 
 While glory guards with solemn round 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
 But as the years are passing and our ranks are thinning, the ties of 
 comradeship only bind us closer to each other. We had a grand reunion 
 in Toledo in 1908. Two hundred and thirty members of the regiment 
 met together and under our old commander, Colonel Seidel, marched in 
 the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was a day that none 
 of us will ever forget. 
 
 The records of the first eight reunions have been lost. 
 
 PRESIDENT SECRETARY 
 
 The 9th was held at Clyde in 1874. . . . 
 The 10th was held at Kelley s Island in 
 
 1875 CAPTAIN LUCKEY J. T. WOODFORD 
 
 The llth was held at Norwalk in 1876 COLONEL ZAHM M. J. LAWRENCE 
 
 The 12th was held at Perrysbtirg in 1877 COLONEL ROWLAND M. J. LAWRENCE 
 
 The 13th was held at Elmore in 1878.. CAPTAIN COLVER T. B. TERRY 
 
 The 14th was held at Toledo in 1879.. CAPTAIN LUCKEY T. B. TERRY 
 
 The 15th was held at Sandusky in 1880 CAPTAIN PEARL T. B. TERRY 
 
 The 16th was held at Tiffin in 1881 CAPTAIN COLVER H. S. STECKEL 
 
 The 17th was held at Bellevue in 1882 CAPTAIN LUCKEY T. B. TERRY 
 The 18th was held at Pemberville in 
 
 1883 MARTIN E. ELLIS F. VANHORN 
 
 The 19th was held at Oak Harbor in 
 
 1884 COLONEL PARAMORE C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 20th was held at Monroeville in 
 
 1885 COLONEL PARAMORE C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 21st was held at Elmore in 1886.. COLONEL ZAHM C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 22d was held at Lakeside in 1887. CAPTAIN COLVER C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 23d was held at Columbus in 1888 CAPTAIN COLVER C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 24th was held at Sandusky in 1889 CAPTAIN COLVER C. FINKBEINER 
 The 25th was held at Chicago, Ohio, in 
 
 1890 CAPTAIN LUCKEY C. FINKBEINER 
 
 The 26th was held at Detroit, Mich., in 
 
 1891 . . CAPTAIN LUCKEY C. FINKBEINER 
 
212 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 The 27th was held at Sandusky in 1892 
 The 28th was held at Genoa in 1893. . 
 The 29th was held at Toledo in 1894.. 
 The 30th was held at Norwalk in 1895 
 The 31st was held at Wakeman in 1896 
 The 32d was held at Bowling Green 
 
 in 1897 
 
 The 33d was held at Toledo in 1898.. 
 The 34th was held at Toledo in 1899.. 
 The 35th was held at Toledo in 1900.. 
 The 36th was held at Toledo in 1901.. 
 The 37th was held at Clyde in 1902... 
 The 38th was held at Genoa in 1903. . . 
 The 39th was held at Norwalk in 1904 
 The 40th was held at Bowling Green 
 
 in 1905 
 
 The 41st was held at Wauseon in 1906 
 The 42d was held at Toledo in 1907.. 
 The 43d was held at Toledo in 1908.. 
 The 44th was held at Oak Harbor in 
 
 1909 . 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 CAPTAIN LUCKEY 
 A. F. HOUSE 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 COLONEL SEIDEL 
 CAPTAIN HOWLAND 
 
 T. B. TERRY 
 CAPTAIN LUCKEY 
 MAJOR ADAMS 
 CAPTAIN PEARL 
 A. J. EYSTER 
 H. GRABACH 
 LIEUT. GEO. FRENT 
 GEO. W. LEE 
 
 THEO. ALEXANDER 
 JAS. BIDDLE 
 A. J. EYSTER 
 COLONEL SEIDEL 
 
 C. H. NELSON 
 
 SECRETARY 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 
 C. FlNKBEINER 
 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 
 THOMAS CROFTS 
 
 The Forty-fifth Reunion is to be held at Monroeville on the third Wednesday 
 in August, 1910. 
 
 OTTO SCHIMANSKY, President. 
 
 THOMAS CROFTS, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Reunion Rhymes 
 
 OUR OLD FLAG 
 
 BT SERGT. TOM CROFTS OF COMPANY C. 
 
 Only a few shreds of faded silk, 
 
 Yet their price can never be told; 
 Only a bent and battered staff, 
 
 That cannot be bought with gold. 
 
 It is all that is left of a beautiful flag, 
 Presented by the ladies of Norwalk lair, 
 
 To the "Third Cavalry Regiment," 
 When It marched away to the war. 
 
 That was a proud day when it was placed in our care, 
 With its broad stripes and its field of blue, 
 
 And its stars shone bright as we made the vow 
 Ever to guard it faithful and true. 
 
 Of the twelve hundred men who made that vow, 
 
 Only a remnant are left, to tell 
 The story of four years of war 
 
 And of battlefields where our comrades fell. 
 
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 And like our "old flag," we bear the marks 
 
 Of "those years" long past and gone. 
 But dear to our hearts is the comradeship 
 
 That was formed in sixty-one. 
 
 And dear to our hearts is our grand old flag, 
 
 For the memories that around it are clustered 
 Of the camp, and the march, the picket and fight, 
 
 While under its folds we were mustered. 
 
 The silent lips of that tattered flag, 
 
 Speak more eloquently than language can, 
 Of heroic struggle and sacrifice 
 
 For freedom, and the rights of man. 
 
 On more than two score of bloody fields, 
 
 With armies marshalled in "battle array," 
 Amidst shot and shell, carnage and death, 
 
 It waved triumphant above the fray. 
 
 Amidst "Stone River s" cedars dark 
 
 Its blazing stars illumed the night 
 In "Chickamauga s" awful storm, 
 
 They shone in splendor, clear and bright. 
 
 It led the way to where "Old Kennesaw" 
 With its frowning batteries stood, 
 
 Then on to proud Atlanta, 
 With its harvest of death and blood. 
 
 At Lovejoy s station in that wild charge, 
 
 How our cheers arose to the sky, 
 As it waved o er the foeman s cannon, 
 
 And his broken ranks turned to fly. 
 
 It was still in the front at Selma, 
 
 At Macon we knew that the end was nigh, 
 And that our proud banner of freedom 
 
 Forever would float on high. 
 
 And so our tattered flag we greet today, 
 
 Greet it with reverence, love and pride, 
 For beneath its folds brave men have fought 
 
 Defending it our comrades died. 
 
 Then give us a cheer for our honored flag, 
 
 A loud huzza and a three times three, 
 For of all the flags this wide world holds, 
 
 There is none so dear to me. 
 
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 MY BUGLE 
 
 BY DR. CHARLES 0. BROWN. 
 
 Mid the hustle of the office, 
 And the jostle of the street, 
 
 Mid the greeting by the wayside, 
 Of the friends I daily meet; 
 
 Oft there comes the thrilling echoes 
 From the fields of long ago, 
 
 And the well remembered music 
 Of the calls I used to blow. 
 
 There was music in my bugle, 
 When it sounded breakfast call, 
 
 And it needed no repeating, 
 For you knew it one and all ; 
 
 Pork and beans were in the kettle, 
 Hard-bread in the haversack, 
 
 Every one could hear the bugle, 
 When it sounded for a snack. 
 
 I could see you as I blew it, 
 
 Snatch your cups and double-quick, 
 
 Every Third Ohio soldier, 
 Big and little knew the trick. 
 
 Reveille in early morning, 
 Say at four o clock or three, 
 
 That was not the same exactly, 
 For you comrades, or for me. 
 
 Oft I saw you coatless, hatless, 
 Sometimes pantless tumble out, 
 
 When the orderly was shouting, 
 "Roust about, men; roust about!" 
 
 And the bugler, like an umpire 
 
 Of a modern baseball game, 
 Sometimes had to dodge the missiles, 
 
 And keep sounding just the same. 
 
 Oh, the echoes of my bugle ! 
 
 I can hear them sounding yet, 
 And remembrance holds their music, 
 
 Which I never shall forget. 
 
 Some were glad notes, and the horses 
 
 Whinnied in the early morn, 
 When the call said to the stables, 
 
 Clean your horses, give them corn. 
 
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 Other echoes tell of guard-mount, 
 
 Clean the camp, and doctor s call- 
 Say, it surely was a caution, 
 
 How the saltz held out for all. 
 
 Other bugle echoes mingle, 
 
 With your shouting in the fight, 
 I can hear their shrill notes calling, 
 
 Calling, in my dreams at night. 
 
 Others still of solemn import, 
 
 Sound the taps of former years 
 O er the graves of fallen comrades, 
 
 Which we watered with our tears. 
 
 Other echoes tell of marches 
 
 Through Kentucky, Tennessee 
 On the pike through Murfreesboro, 
 
 Then in mud up to the knee. 
 
 On to Shiloh and Stone River, 
 
 Chickamauga, Stevenson, 
 Lookout Mountain where Joe Hooker 
 
 Fought above the clouds and won. 
 
 Roddy charged our camp at day-break, 
 
 Breakfast cooking, early day, 
 Quick we formed and quickly licked him, 
 
 Ate our breakfast, went our way. 
 
 On to Ringgold and Resaca, 
 
 Dalton too and Tunnel Hill, 
 Noonday Creek and then Big Shanty, 
 
 Earlier was Cartersville. 
 
 Kenesaw to sky uplifting 
 
 Ragged peak, rock-ribbed for fight 
 W T ith its thousand circling campfires, 
 
 Gleaming through the solemn night. 
 
 And the echoes of the bugles 
 
 Sounding from Joe Wheeler s camps, 
 With our own were often mingled 
 
 Mid the evenings dews and damps. 
 
 On to Chattahoochee Crossings, 
 
 Peach Tree Creek, and Covington, 
 Then we joined Kilpatrick s raiders 
 
 Kept the Johnnies on the run. 
 
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 We were in that charge at Lovejoy, 
 With its cut, and slash, and yell, 
 
 We were with our Uncle Billy, 
 When Atlanta struck and fell. 
 
 Back to Louisville for horses, 
 
 From the barns and parlors, too, 
 
 Thought that horses raised on bluegrass, 
 For our regiment would do. 
 
 South again through old Kentucky, 
 Bardstown Pike, and Bowling Green, 
 
 On through Nashville to Duck River, 
 Camping where we oft had been. 
 
 Gravelly Springs we ll skip the story, 
 Of "Starvation Rendezvous" 
 
 On to Eastport, then to Shelby, 
 Ebeneezer, Selma, too. 
 
 Oh, the bugle, I can hear it, 
 More than forty years away, 
 
 As it sounded for the battle 
 Of that afternoon in May. 
 
 I can hear you cheer our comrades 
 As they scaled the parapet 
 
 I can see our charging column 
 Mid the crash of cannon yet! 
 
 On to Macon and to Edgefield, 
 
 For the muster-out review, 
 Onward, homeward, war is over 
 
 Open arms to welcome you. 
 
 Sometimes mid the falling shadows, 
 
 We can hear another call, 
 Clearly from the camp up yonder, 
 
 Sounds assembly for us all. 
 
 Oh, ye comrades of the great days, 
 When we went two million strong, 
 
 Fall in ! for the march remaining, 
 Now keep step, it won t be long. 
 
 Bravely we ll salute the colors, 
 Hail the land that gave them birth, 
 
 Hail the onward coming morrow, 
 When our flag shall rule the earth. 
 
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 Hail the union that we saved, boys ! 
 
 And the glory yet to be, 
 And rejoice twas ours to battle 
 
 For the nation of the free. 
 
 Cheer with all the old-time fervor, 
 
 That the sons of worthy sires 
 Keep alive on sacred altars 
 
 All of Freedom s holy fires. 
 
 Oh, how beautiful the flag is! 
 
 Oh, how proudly does it wave 
 O er the land of worthy freemen, 
 
 O er the homes of heroes brave. 
 
 Every stripe of fairest color, 
 
 Brightly gleams each fadeless star. 
 Glory to the God of battles, 
 
 Honor to the men of war. 
 
 Once again touch elbows, comrades, 
 
 Bravely hail the last grand round; 
 Cheerfully salute the trumpet 
 
 When the final taps shall sound. 
 
 THE THIRD OHIO V. V. CAVALRY 
 
 Written by Thomas Crofts, Sergeant Co. C, Third O. V. V. C, 
 
 and read at the Twelfth Annual Reunion at Perrys- 
 
 burg, August 22, 1877. 
 
 Again we meet. Another year 
 
 Is marked by time s unerring pen; 
 We meet our friendship to renew, 
 
 And grasp each other s hand again. 
 
 And as we rally round our flag, 
 
 Each squadron in its ranks again, 
 We will, for this one day at least, 
 
 Be Third Ohio Cavalry men. 
 
 But as we gaze along the line, 
 
 Our meager ranks their story tell, 
 Of camp, and march, and flood, and field, 
 
 Where brave men fought and fell. 
 
 And we think of the time when we marched away, 
 Our column a mile and a quarter long, 
 
 And on the muster rolls the names 
 Of a regiment twelve hundred strong. 
 
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 With waving banners and gleaming steel 
 
 Proudly we marched away, 
 Mid deafening cheers of the gathered throng, 
 
 Assembled their tribute to pay. 
 
 For four long years we fought for the flag 
 
 The starry flag of the free, 
 Till it waved in triumph o er every state, 
 
 From the mountains unto the sea. 
 
 Then we furled our banners and sheathed our swords 
 
 At the welcome call of peace, 
 Rejoicing that the day had come 
 
 When war and strife might cease. 
 
 But where is our regiment today? 
 
 Hundreds sleep neath a southern sky, 
 And from the Ohio to the Gulf, 
 
 In every state, our comrades lie. 
 
 Nobly contending for the flag that they loved, 
 In the thickest of the fight they fell, 
 
 Where steel crossed steel and squadrons met, 
 Midst rifle shot and bursting shell. 
 
 Our noble dead ! In memory dear 
 
 They are enshrined today; 
 We drop for them the silent tear, 
 
 To them our heart s best tribute pay. 
 
 THE STORMING OF SELMA 
 
 Reunion Third O. V. Cavalry, Toledo, August 20, 1879. 
 
 BY BUGLER C. O. BROWN. 
 
 In the dim faded distance of bygone years, 
 
 Lie marches and battles, and blood, wounds and tears ; 
 
 Nor would we lay open with enmity s knife, 
 
 These wounds now grown over the scars of the strife 
 
 But we gather to stir in each other again, 
 
 Emotions most sacred of times that have been; 
 
 Of times when our hearts in one heart were wrought, 
 
 By the hardships we bore by the battles we fought. 
 
 To tell over again the triumphs of yore, 
 
 Is to us like the blast of the bugle once more; 
 
 And I m sure, boys, you ll listen though illy tis told, 
 
 To a story which never, to us, can grow old. 
 
 Toward Selma our march we d been heading for days; 
 We paused not for mountains for rivers or frays; 
 
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 We forded the streams a dozen or more 
 
 And kept the rebs running our brave Wilson s corps ; 
 
 For the order had been to ride through and through 
 
 This proud state that sneered at the red, white and blue; 
 
 And to give it a taste of the fearful cost 
 
 Of revolt for a "Cause" that deserved to be "Lost." 
 
 Our leader, brave Wilson (we sing him with pride, 
 
 Who led us to vict-ry on many a ride; 
 
 Who had learned of the Third that we certainly knew, 
 
 When we needed the "hard-tack" and "sow-belly" too) ; 
 
 Had told us to forage for all we were worth, 
 
 And teach them respect for the Union henceforth. 
 
 We remember them boys those roosters and hens, 
 
 The mules hid in swamps, the pigs in the pens ; 
 
 The smoked shoulders hanging, so tempting, you see, 
 
 Put up by the Johnnies for you and for me ! 
 
 The darkies all grinning from north to south ear, 
 
 And calling out : "Massa, I tells ye, see heah, 
 
 Dere s a mighty smart heap ob hosses jes yon 
 
 In de woods, dat I ll show ye ! so Massa come on !" 
 
 Oh, pshaw ! boys, you know it all what is the use 
 
 Of my telling again how we "cooked the goose" ; 
 
 How we went to the barn yards and milked the fat bossies, 
 
 And then to the stables and just "traded" hosses, 
 
 And rode off the chargers of old Alabam, 
 
 And to balance the bargain just strapped on a ham! 
 
 So with fighting the Johnnies and fording the streams, 
 
 We issued at last where the radiant beams 
 
 Of Dixie s bright sunshine, fell piercingly down, 
 
 On the city of Selma, the reb-guarded town. 
 
 Her ramparts were built in the war s early days, 
 
 (When "niggers" were plenty as McClellan s delays) 
 
 And were made high and strong in the form of a bow, 
 
 From the river above to the river below. 
 
 We had driven old Forrest the day before, 
 
 At the point of the sabre from Boyle s Creek and more, 
 
 We d kept him a running so scared and so fast, 
 
 That he stopped not to breathe, till in Selma at last 
 
 He felt himself safe from our sabres that night ! 
 
 Then he boastfully swore soon as free from the fright 
 
 That he d turn the cursed Yankees back northward again, 
 
 To starve in the swamps, or be "bagged" for Wirz s pen ! 
 
 But as true as I tell you to the last man, 
 
 From bugler to general we had our own plan ; 
 
 And could we ve told Forrest no matter he knew, 
 
 Twas Selma we wanted, with him in it, too ! 
 
 Twas April 2d, 65 
 
 The works with gray-coats were alive ; 
 
 The guns frowned o er the parapet, 
 
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 And tried to say to us "Not yet." 
 
 As on that afternoon we rode 
 
 Into that open field and stood, 
 
 A mounted line of eager men, 
 
 Expecting every moment, when 
 
 The order would be giv n to make 
 
 The very earth around us quake 
 
 With loudest shouts of victory! 
 
 But you remember readily, 
 
 How we were ordered to dismount. 
 
 Ere we had fairly time to count 
 
 The chances of success that day, 
 
 Or sniff the powder of the fray. 
 
 But scarcely had we "hugged the ground," 
 
 When booming guns awoke the sound, 
 
 And shot and shell were quick to say : 
 
 "I m after you right smart today !" 
 
 And you mind boys the ordering of the line, 
 
 With Upton s men coming around so fine, 
 
 To take their "posish" on the left out of sight, 
 
 While we, with old Eli, away on the right, 
 
 Had been waiting, impatient, an hour or two, 
 
 For the order to charge for the bugle to blow ? 
 
 We saw the rebs swarming as thickly as bees, 
 
 And could hear them a talking as plain as you please; 
 
 While only just yonder, in train after train, 
 
 Our boys from their prison were swept south again ! 
 
 Those boys how we pitied them with friends in full view, 
 
 To be hurried off that way, to where, we all knew. 
 
 Stay! Hark! What s that booming back yon in the rear? 
 
 "There s some mischief a-brewing my boys, I fear," 
 
 Says Eli just taking the pipe from his mouth) 
 
 "And I d rather fight Forrest with all of the South, 
 
 In a fair open field with our faces to front, 
 
 Than to turn back for Chalmers be hanged, boys!) I won t! 
 
 We ll wait here no longer here bugler, I say, 
 
 Sound the charge !" Then up from the ground where they lay, 
 
 Sprang the Second Division as if twere one man. 
 
 And were off like clockwork with Long in the van ! 
 
 Oh, the belching of shot and the screeching of shell, 
 
 As though they poured forth from the belly of hell ! 
 
 But did that line waver or pause in its course? 
 
 Not a moment! But swept on, shouting till hoarse: 
 
 "Fort Pillow!" "Fort Pillow!" "Remember it well!" 
 
 Twas the battle cry raised and it drowned the rebs yell. 
 
 And even when Long fell pierced through the head, 
 
 They paused not, but followed as Minty now led, 
 
 And shouted : "Who s with me ? Ho ! Forward my men ; 
 
 Let s over these works though but two to their ten !" 
 
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 And o er the abatis the high palisade 
 
 He climbed and he vaulted, as though he had played 
 
 A fine game of leap-frog; then swinging his hat, 
 
 "Come and follow me, boys, to this parapet !" 
 
 In a twinkling twas done and who can tell how? 
 
 The ramparts were won ! a moment, and now 
 
 The bugle is sounding the Third to go in, 
 
 And charge them on horseback with sabre and din. 
 
 "To the Right, and By Fours ; now Forward," he said, 
 
 And when the "Charge" sounded twas our colonel who led, 
 
 And there was one by him, a stripling I know, 
 
 But he didn t "hold horses" when fight was the show 
 
 No matter ; right on with drawn sabres we went, 
 
 With our spurs in the hub deep, as if we were sent. 
 
 Straight down through the gully up through the stockade, 
 
 Mid the screeching of shells twixt the dying and dead; 
 
 A.nd the Johnnies went flying as if for their lives, 
 
 To find a new shelter and dodge our long knives ! 
 
 We charged to the fort which belched forth its shot, 
 
 And leaving our horses we formed on the spot, 
 
 Where the regulars thought it not healthy to stay, 
 
 And left us to gather the laurels that day ! 
 
 Shall we ever forget it that fearful storm 
 
 Of thick leaden hail as we paused to form? 
 
 Shall we cease to remember how coolly that day, 
 
 Our Colonel gave orders and rode midst the fray? 
 
 We stayed but an instant with loudest yell, 
 
 Mid the whizzing of grape and the screeching of shell, 
 
 We were off at the word we charged on a run, 
 
 We mounted the breastworks* the vict ry was won ! 
 
 Though the sun had gone down ere we finished the fight, 
 
 Yet we slept on our arms in Sclma that night! 
 
 Twas morning and the sun looked down, 
 
 As brightly on the captured town 
 
 As though the scenes of yester s strife 
 
 Had never vexed its quiet life. 
 
 All scattered through our camp there lay, 
 
 At dawn when we awoke that day, 
 
 Cold forms of men in gray and blue 
 
 The vanquished and the victor, too; 
 
 In life divided they were foes, 
 
 In death united they repose. 
 
 Beneath the ramparts sheltering shade, 
 
 A long, deep trench we sadly made ; 
 
 And in it placed with tend rest care, 
 
 Our boys who died for Country there. 
 
 Tis meet we never should forget 
 
 *A second line within the city. 
 
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 Those graves which once our tears have wet ; 
 
 And they who lived not to return 
 
 They, through the spell of thoughts which burn 
 
 On mem rys altar, in our breast, 
 
 Should here be present with the rest. 
 
 Oh, comrades, buried far away, 
 Be in our thought enthroned today ! 
 We ll twine for you with hand unseen, 
 A chaplet of love s evergreen; 
 And into it there shall be wrought, 
 With fadeless lines of grateful thought, 
 An oath as sacred as your grave, 
 That what you died for we will save ! 
 
 WITH SEIDEL "BOOT TO BOOT" 
 
 BY E. LEGGETT, CO. H, THIRD 0. V. C. 
 
 Here s a double health to field and staff 
 
 Brave officers were they, 
 
 Their chivalry and courage high 
 
 No words of mine convey ; 
 
 Though I no more their orders hear 
 
 Nor in their presence stand ; 
 
 On memory s field I still salute 
 
 That fine illustrious band. 
 
 TO THE THIRD OHIO CAVALRY. 
 
 Come, Third Ohio Cavalry, and pitch your tents with me 
 
 Upon historic camping ground along the Tennessee ; 
 
 The echoes of our bugle notes ring clear as silver bell, 
 
 Once more we re riding "boot to boot" with Zahm and with Seidel. 
 
 When the dragon red sought to devour sweet Liberty s fair child 
 Columbia, and when Freedom s shriek rang out with anguish wild, 
 Then Lincoln called, and then, Old Third, your voices swelled the roar, 
 We re coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more." 
 
 You blithely joined the dance of death set to the bugle s blast 
 That government, once crushed to earth, might rise and live and last; 
 You helped to tear hell s ensign down, secession s impious bars, 
 To keep thirteen stripes flying high, and thirty-five bright stars. 
 
 I ve seen your weary ranks drag slow both famished man and horse 
 And seen you burst upon the foe, with more than tempest s force, 
 At McMinnville and Mumfordsville, Bardstown and Bradyville, 
 Where you and Stanley charged the slopes of cedar-crowned Snow Hill. 
 
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 At Lebanon, at Stewart s Creek, Corinth and Lexington, 
 At Noonday Creek and Kenesaw, Moulton and Middleton, 
 At Peachtree Creek and Courtland Road, historic Franklin, too. 
 Where in three different fights the Gray retired before the Blue. 
 
 Stone River s dark and bloody field, where horse and rider fell 
 Before that fearful onslaught that storm of shot and shell 
 You saved the ammunition train and held the foe at bay 
 Till victory flung back defeat that dark December day. 
 
 On Chickamauga s field were you, where shot and rebel yell 
 Transformed the lovely southern glades into an earthly hell ; 
 When Thomas slowly marched away, scorning to fly or yield, 
 The "Old Third" formed the stubborn rear the last to leave the field. 
 
 You braved Old Boreas winter storms in Eastern Tennessee, 
 To save beleaguered Knoxville and set her inmates free. 
 Helped drive away the rebel crew and save the town from loot 
 By riding o er the mountain trail, with Seidel boot to boot. 
 
 And when in front of Selma that final charge you made 
 
 When Rowland led the regiment against that palisade, 
 
 The rebels fled before you, and the victory was won, 
 
 As you rode forward, boot to boot, while Wilson cheered you on. 
 
 Comrades, my head is white with age; my march is waxing slow; 
 My bivouac here is almost done; my campfire s burning low; 
 I soon shall meet the last grand charge of mightiest of foes, 
 Whose shadowy lance no sabre stroke nor parry may oppose. 
 
 I m proud to think my blood drops flowed with yours on Georgia s plain, 
 When treason snatched our stars and we helped wrest them back again; 
 That when Kilpatrick s sharp command five thousand sabres drew, 
 We drove Pat Cleburne s rebel horde as sunbeams banish dew; 
 
 Proud that our swords at Farmington flamed up like wings of light, 
 And that two hundred captives were our trophies of the fight. 
 We heard the order from Seidel ; we charged them horse and foot ; 
 And the Old Rough Riders did it well, while riding "boot to boot." 
 
 I still recall those war-like days of which you ve oft heard tell 
 By Brown and Crofts whose fluent tongues have told the story well. 
 I m glad I mingled in those scenes, of which you ve seen and heard; 
 Proud that I had my comradeship in Ohio s Fighting Third. 
 
 But there s a foe armed with a scythe who marches down the years ; 
 The only one who e er was feared by Seidel s Cavaliers. 
 Give back, Old Time, our sabres bright ; give back each sinewy limb ; 
 Give back the voice that rang with mirth and sang our battle hymn. 
 
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 Restore the good steeds that we rode; roll back our vanished years; 
 Give back the hearts that once beat high, nor quaked at coward s fears ; 
 Give back the rifles that we used, and well knew how to shoot, 
 And let us charge as once we charged with Seidel boot to boot." 
 
 Remember, boys, the "noble dead" who with us wore the blue, 
 Whose blood gave to our country s flag a purer, richer hue ; 
 Their life, their death, their sacrifice, with your own wounds and scars, 
 Have made a nobler emblem of "Old Glory s stripes and stars." 
 
 In dreams these moving pictures show Old Dixie land to me, 
 As when with Crook and Long we marched along the Tennessee ; 
 In dreams I hear our bugle note ring clear as silver bell, 
 Again we re riding "boot to boot" with Rowland and Seidel. 
 
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Roster of Survivors 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Colonel Charles B. Seidel Lyndan, Kentucky 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel D. E. Livermore, 5608 Jackson Ave., Chicago, Illinois 
 
 Major Oliver M. Brown 2222 Jackson Bvd., Chicago, Illinois 
 
 Battalion Adjutant W. S. Foster R. D. No. I, Chicago, Ohio 
 
 Hospital Steward James B. Green Mishawaka, Indiana 
 
 Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Myron H. Barrett. . .Belleville, Ohio 
 Regimental Commissary Sergeant W. O. Johnson Wadsworth, Ohio 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Captain W. B. Gates R. D. No. 4, Ottawa, Kansas 
 
 Lieutenant Isaac Skillman, 213 Mt. Vernon St., Grand Rapids, Michigan 
 
 Lieutenant Joe M. Fox Soldiers Home, California 
 
 Lieutenant Samuel Currie 611 Buffalo St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant A. C. Ritter Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant S. B. Liedorff R. F. D. No. I, Collins, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant M. V. McCrillis Monroeville, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant John Monaghan Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Albert McMaster Muskegon, Michigan 
 
 Sergeant Enos Griss , Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Eugene A. Osborne, Sr 118 Milan St., Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Corporal S. B. Kies West Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Wm. E. Akers Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Samuel Lingo Box 137, Rossford, Ohio 
 
 Corporal C. A. Shively Monticello, Illinois 
 
 Farrier Joel F. Smith Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Joseph Ball R. F. D. No. 4, Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Private Ira Blackman Roxana, Michigan 
 
 Private William Colwell Syracuse, Indiana 
 
 Private George W. Clark Wauseon, Ohio 
 
 Private Samuel L. Ensign. McLane, Pennsylvania 
 
 Private Philip C. Funk Funk, Nebraska 
 
 Private Henry Glenn 122 Howard St., Bellevue, Ohio 
 
 Private Ervin Hewitt . Tontogany, Ohio 
 
 Private William H. Horton Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private William Himberger Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Lewis Johnson 26 Forest St., Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private C. C. Jewell Kent City, Michigan 
 
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 Private Chris. J. Kinzel R. D., Pioneer, Ohio 
 
 Private J. H. Kendall Havana, Ohio 
 
 Private C. A. Lakins R. D. No. i, Ashley, Indiana 
 
 Private James L. Lasley Carey, Ohio 
 
 Private Allan McFerson Rocky Ridge, Ohio 
 
 Private James Price . .R. D. No. 2, Labelle, Missouri 
 
 Private Theo. Rickey Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private Ezra H. Root Milan, Ohio 
 
 Private Frank Slaughter Ellis, Kansas 
 
 Private George W. Wright Genoa, Ohio 
 
 Private John White Fairmount, West Virginia 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 Captain A. H. Pearl Huron, Ohio 
 
 Captain John G. Oates North Fairfield, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Philip Bangle Soldiers and Sailors Home, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Hiram Sexton Breckenridge, Michigan 
 
 Corporal Orin Adams Lacey, Michigan 
 
 Corporal Alanson Adams Soldiers Home, Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Charles E. Husted Box 278, Cripple Creek, Colorado 
 
 Corporal M. J. Lawrence Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Farrier G E Hawley ,. .Wauseon, Ohio 
 
 Private T. P. Barber National Home, Grand Rapids, Michigan 
 
 Private Anson P. Clinger R. F. D. No. 2, Huron, Ohio 
 
 Private D. A. Crippen Republic, Ohio 
 
 Private William Fisar Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private Joseph Gregory 515 Church St., East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private B. Goodell Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Jesse Hollister 716 First St., Toledo. Ohio 
 
 Private Ed. Hollister R. F. D. No. 3, Huron, Ohio 
 
 Private William H. Houpt Springfield, Ohio 
 
 Private H. J. Knapp New London, Ohio 
 
 Private William Mire Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Thomas W. McKim West Unity, Ohio 
 
 Private George W. McKim West Unity, Ohio 
 
 Private Jerome C. Nelson Collins, Ohio 
 
 Private C. H. Nelson St. Cloud, Florida 
 
 Private F. J. Peck Grand Forks, North Dakota 
 
 Private Mark M. Peck Fort Scott, Kansas 
 
 Private Edwin Sexton St. Louis, Michigan 
 
 Private Benjamin Vroman R. F. D. No. 3, Monroeville, Ohio 
 
 Private Styles Webb New London, Ohio 
 
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 COMPANY c 
 
 Sergeant A. J. Eyster 919 Oakwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Thomas Crofts R. F. D. No. 6, East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant George Wertenberger West Salem, Ohio 
 
 Commissary Sergeant A. B. Conant 857 Nessle St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Harlow Burr Hicksville, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant William Van Wormer 17 Alva St., West Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant George J. Miller R. F. D. No. I, East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal C. O. Brown 2222 Jackson Bvd., Chicago, Illinois 
 
 Corporal John Kerman 1074 Hicks St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal H. B. Pike 116 Tenth St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal John A. Rice R. F. D. No. 5, Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Wm. Smith 266 Fourth Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan 
 
 Corporal Isaac Whitson Lime City, Ohio 
 
 Farrier J. E. Thompson 1067 Hicks St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Saddler John Redding West Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private H. D. Benedict Fredericktown, Missouri 
 
 Private L. A. Brown 447 Fifth St., East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private John Broadbeck Box 275, Oak Harbor, Ohio 
 
 Private E. W. Bradley Chino, California 
 
 Private Frederick Barnes 1718 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private John Cooney Dennison, Michigan 
 
 Private B. M. Crandall R. F. D., Walbridge, Ohio 
 
 Private Peter Eddy Blissfield, Michigan 
 
 Private R. B. Gorsuch 650 South Platt St., East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles Hatfield Delta, Ohio 
 
 Private S. H. Hess 638 Lynn St., Fostoria, Ohio 
 
 Private Bernhard Miller R. F. D. No. 6, East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private William B. Meeker Liberty Center, Ohio 
 
 Private Nicholas Nellis Bellevue, Ohio 
 
 Private George R. Underwood Shadeland, Tennessee 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 Lieutenant Joe Berry 208 South Second St., Independence, Kansas 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant David H. Lentz Piqua, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant R. H. Benfer R. F. D. No. 5, Bellevue, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant John Clary Osage, Iowa 
 
 Sergeant Alex Tittle Bellevue, Ohio 
 
 Corporal O C. Russell Bowling Green, Ohio 
 
 Bugler Henry G. Stahl Fremont, Ohio 
 
 Bugler George W. Myers Carrothers, Ohio 
 
 Farrier J. K. White 411 Division St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
228 History of Third Ohio Vetemn Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Private E. W. Amsden Ormond, Florida 
 
 Private Hezekiah Allbee Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private John Bitzer Cologne, Minnesota 
 
 Private Charles Bunsey Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Private Philip Ehman R. F. D. No. i, South Frankfort, Michigan 
 
 Private Hezekiah Edwards R. F. D. No. 2, Fremont, Ohio 
 
 Private William Eno Woodville, Ohio 
 
 Private John R. P. Foster 247 Point View, Dayton, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Grabach Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private John Grabach Grand Island, Nebraska 
 
 Private Samuel Games Montpelier, Ohio 
 
 Private Marion Hawk Fremont, Ohio 
 
 Private Samuel Haines Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private Joe A. Hill Powersville, Missouri 
 
 Private G. W. Hill Warren, Illinois 
 
 Private Jacob Helmkee Fort Wayne, Indiana 
 
 Private James Kelsey Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private William Long 253 East Pearl St., Coldwater, Michigan 
 
 Private O. M. Mallernee Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private H. H. Sloan Genoa, Ohio 
 
 Private Solomon Shively Hastings, Michigan 
 
 Private E. D. Smith Chester, Michigan 
 
 Private John Setzler R. F. D. No. 2, Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private G. W. Smith Gibsonburg, Ohio 
 
 Private John W. Timmons Vicksburg, Michigan 
 
 Private Thomas Warren Flint, Michigan 
 
 Private George D. Welker Fremont, Ohio 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant L. W. Severns Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Commissary Sergeant Thomas Allen Emmittsburg, Iowa 
 
 Sergeant William O. Hissong Tulsa, Oklahoma 
 
 Corporal Milton Cake Ashland, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Lewis Deems R. F. D. No. 2, Lexington, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Nathan Dewitt Falmouth, Michigan 
 
 Corporal Leander Glenn R. F. D. No. 3, West Liberty, Iowa 
 
 Corporal Peter Stillwagan R. F. D. No. 2, West Branch, Michigan 
 
 Corporal Johnson Taylor R. D. No. i, Gal ion, Ohio 
 
 Farrier Thomas H. Sefton Lagrange, Indiana 
 
 Private Hiram Allen Palo, Iowa 
 
 Private William Ash St. Clair, Michigan 
 
 Private William A. Bushong 521 East Fifth St., Ottawa, Kansas 
 
Roster of Survivors. 
 
 Private John Brown Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private John Cunningham New Lexington, Ohio 
 
 Private F. M. Clay 224 South Logan St., Holdrege, Nebraska 
 
 Private Joseph Dufner Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles Endly San Diego, California 
 
 Private William H. Follin R. F. D. No. 5, Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private Abram Gibson R. F. D. No. 3, West Liberty, Iowa 
 
 Private Leonard Gf ell West Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Greenwalt. .1963 West Forty-seventh St., Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Grower Belleville, Ohio 
 
 Private Levi Hissong Butler, Ohio 
 
 Private James L. Kerr R. F. D. No. 3, New Lexington, Ohio 
 
 Private Jacob Laird Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private R. C. Miller 260 Manchester Ave., Wabash, Indiana 
 
 Private Henry Martin 609^2 North High St., Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Private John Martin R. F. D. No. I, Attica, Ohio 
 
 Private Ezra Potter 13^ North Park St., Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private F. B. Platt Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private James Piper Butler, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Princehorn 289 West Fifth St., Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private S. S. Pearson Ottawa, Illinois 
 
 Private Albert Perry Galion, Ohio 
 
 Private Thomas Simmons Butler, Ohio 
 
 Private Daniel Spayde Butler, Ohio 
 
 COMPANY F 
 
 Captain George F. Williams Eckelson, North Dakota 
 
 Captain L. W. French . Wakeman, Ohio 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant D. A. Bishop Boughtonville, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant E. R. Holliday Wellington, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Aaron E. Thompson Chicago, Ohio 
 
 Corporal George W. Lee West Clarksfield, Ohio 
 
 Corporal S. G. Mitchell Avon, South Dakota 
 
 Bugler Abe Sinfield National Military Home, Ohio 
 
 Private Horace Barnes Wellington, Ohio 
 
 Private J. H. Bailey R. F. D. No. I, Kipton, Ohio 
 
 Private William H. Blair .Rochester, Ohio 
 
 Private L. D. Fisher 332 Prairie St., Charlotte, Michigan 
 
 Private F. J. Freer Ashland, Ohio 
 
 Private James R. Hanley Rochester, Ohio 
 
 Private Isaac P. Haskins Wakeman, Ohio 
 
 Private Dean Keefer Chicago Junction, Ohio 
 
230 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Private H. King Bucyrus, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles L. Lee Polk, Ohio 
 
 Private Joseph S. Lutz Jonesville, Michigan 
 
 Private James H. Mann Rochester, Ohio 
 
 Private A. W. Mitchell Rochester, Ohio 
 
 Private Thomas McCoy R. F. D. No. i, West Salem, Ohio 
 
 Private G. W. Ransom Wellington, Ohio 
 
 Private William H. Roberts Competition, Missouri 
 
 Private Louis Shreck Niles, Michigan 
 
 Private William O. Town R. F. D. No. 4, Middlefield, Ohio 
 
 Private John B. Taylor New London, Ohio 
 
 Private William Vanscoy National Military Home, Ohio 
 
 f 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 First Sergeant J. J. Anderson Urbana, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant John M. Bearse Webberville, Michigan 
 
 Sergeant J. C. dayman R. F. D. No. I, Urbana, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant R. R. Wilkinson Charlevoix, Michigan 
 
 Sergeant D. W. Fisher Bettsville, Ohio 
 
 Corporal W. R. Dunlap Benton, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Ansel Elmes Sheridan, Ohio 
 
 Corporal C. J. Hoote Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Corporal James Hyde Bowling Green, Ohio 
 
 Corporal H. E. Mandel R. F. D., No. 3, Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Corporal George Porter Defiance, Ohio 
 
 Saddler J. D. Coleman Bailey, Michigan 
 
 Private Henry C. Broka Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private William Cowgill McComb, Ohio 
 
 Private George F. Crowe Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Private Harmon Cooper Carson City, Michigan 
 
 Private N. W. Eichelberry R. F. D. No. 2, Republic, Ohio 
 
 Private William Finley Luckey, Ohio 
 
 Private Elias Freze Bowling Green, Ohio 
 
 Private L. S. Gibson Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private J. F. Gregg Sycamore, Ohio 
 
 Private George Hospelhaum Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Private A. F. House 8926 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Private Isaac Logan Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private George D. Mauk Dundee, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles J. McDargh 422 Storms Ave., Urbana, Ohio 
 
 Private Martin Marble Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Private James McCallister Hudson, Indiana 
 
Roster of Survivors. 231 
 
 Private J. L. Miller Jackson, Ohio 
 
 Private J. P. Northcutt Urbana, Ohio 
 
 Private William Post Salem, Ohio 
 
 Private L. H. Palmer Sycamore, Ohio 
 
 Private H. L. Steckel Tiffin, Ohio 
 
 Private B. F. Sanford Slam, Ohio 
 
 Private Joseph Smith St. Charles, Michigan 
 
 Private Otto Schimansky Elyria, Ohio 
 
 Private Philoman Turner Port Clinton, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Tryan Calmus, Iowa 
 
 Private James E. Tanner Mt. Victory, Ohio 
 
 Private A. J. Van Etten Pemberville, Ohio 
 
 Private James K. Webb Defiance, Ohio 
 
 Private Nelson Wilkins Scranton, Kansas 
 
 Private Hiram W urtz Attica, Ohio 
 
 Private Ephraim York 626 Sears St., Bucyrus, Ohio 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Lieutenant A. D. Hawes Blissfield, Michigan 
 
 First Sergeant D. W. Weitz Butler, Indiana 
 
 Sergeant D. J. Prickitt West Unity, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Isaac Bricker Ladora, Iowa 
 
 Sergeant Harmon L. Miller. . . .704 E. Warner Ave., Guthrie, Oklahoma 
 
 Sergeant E. S. Frager Wetmore, Kansas 
 
 Corporal D. E. Hart Neligh, Nebraska 
 
 Corporal Michael Lochard R. F. D. No. 3, Osborn, Kansas 
 
 Corporal William H. Letcher Fayette, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Eustace Leggett R. F. D. No. 2, Morenci, Michigan 
 
 Private John P. Beard Montpelier, Ohio 
 
 Private Fletcher Bishop Morenci, Michigan 
 
 Private James M. Biddle Wauseon, Ohio 
 
 Private Irvin Bates Kinde, Michigan 
 
 Private C. S. Bemis , Temperance, Michigan 
 
 Private D. P. Blosier Augusta, Ohio 
 
 Private \Villiam M. Castle Millersport, Ohio 
 
 Private Josiah Dukes Pleasant Lake, Indiana 
 
 Private Nathan Edwards Bryan, Ohio 
 
 Private Lafayette Esterline .* Fayette, Ohio 
 
 Private Michael Fickle Montpelier, Ohio 
 
 Private J. N. Hine R. F. D. No. 7, Wauseon, Ohio 
 
 Private David Hawkins West Fifth St., Pomona, California 
 
 Private Joseph Haines Elmore, Ohio 
 
232 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Private W. H. Hartman West Unity, Ohio 
 
 Private Burdett Lamson 722 West High St., Bryan, Ohio 
 
 Private Horace W. Platt Hamilton, Ohio 
 
 Private J. H. Prickitt 896 West Seventh St., Pomona, California 
 
 Private W. C. Russell St. Cloud, Florida 
 
 Private C. K. Ragan Hanford, California 
 
 Private W. P. Rogers Box 1048, Raton, New Mexico 
 
 Private W. H. Scannell Gary, South Dakota 
 
 Private Charles Super 20 Perry St., Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private F. B. Sheffield Box 382, Morenci, Michigan 
 
 Private Josiah Smith West Unity, Ohio 
 
 Private John H. Shouf Bryan, Ohio 
 
 Private R. R. Tunitin Minneapolis, Minnesota 
 
 Private George W. Yoder Pioneer, Ohio 
 
 Private J. B. Frager R. F. D. No. 4, Washington, Kansas 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Lieutenant Edward A. Haines Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Lieutenant Clark Center 1143 Central Ave., Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Lieutenant George B. Watson Greenwich, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant John W. Blackman Gibsonburg, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant J. E. Mitchell North Fairfield, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Charles McMaster R. F. D. No. i, Chicago, Ohio 
 
 Commissary Sergeant Robert H. Spalding Marblehead, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Adam Fetter Shelby, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Henry Sweetland 525 Sandusky St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Jacob Weis 517 Wayne St., Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Richard Waggoner Beloit, Wisconsin 
 
 Farrier Henry A. Libe Attica, Ohio 
 
 Saddler Conrad Thoman Hicksville, Ohio 
 
 Private Jacob F. Artz Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private Milton J. Bell Plymouth, Ohio 
 
 Private John Bier 1006 Hancock St., Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Private Fred Blum Soldiers and Sailors Home, Ohio 
 
 Private M. L. Bridenstine Forest, Ohio 
 
 Private Leander Bliss R. F. D. No. I, Chicago, Ohio 
 
 Private Urial Bliss Oskaloosa, Kansas 
 
 Private N. B. Downing Norwalk, Ohio 
 
 Private William H. Davis West Clarksfield, Ohio 
 
 Private Anson P. Green Auburn, Indiana 
 
 Private George Goosman 8-10 E. Grant St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 
 
 Private Jacob Hummel Monroeville, Ohio 
 
Roster of Survivors. 233 
 
 Private C. L. Henney Mitchelville, Iowa 
 
 Private George W. Hiberling Fremont, Ohio 
 
 Private George Kryder McClure, Ohio 
 
 Private John Lewis Defiance, Ohio 
 
 Private W. D. Leek Iowa City, Iowa 
 
 Private Mark McMaster R. F. D. No. I, Garden City, Kansas 
 
 Private Dexter McMaster Box 161, Deshler, Ohio 
 
 Private W. W. Parsons R. F. D. No. i, Chicago, Ohio 
 
 Private Joseph E. Schwab Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Private G. M. Saltzgaber Van Wert, Ohio 
 
 Private Hyatt Travis Greenwich, Ohio 
 
 Private Austin E. Taylor Albion, Indiana 
 
 Private Mason Varner Liberty Center, Ohio 
 
 Private W. S. Van Horn 211 N. Co. Line St., Fostoria, Ohio 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Captain O. H. Howland San Diego, California 
 
 Lieutenant J. R. Hall Cannon Falls, Minnesota 
 
 First Sergeant John Maloney Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant James Drury Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant James Fisher Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant Francis Shaw Bayfield, Wisconsin 
 
 Corporal Charles Brunthaver, 503 Twelfth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Corporal D. W. Campbell Kinsley, Kansas 
 
 Corporal G. M. Gottshall Muskegon, Michigan 
 
 Corporal John Toomey Huron, Ohio 
 
 Wagoner Charles Yance Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Private Albert Arnold R. F. D. No. 36, Camden, Michigan 
 
 Private Joseph Brightenburg Vickery, Ohio 
 
 Private J. C. Campbell Gibsonburg, Ohio 
 
 Private Jeremiah Couts Bucyrus, Ohio 
 
 Private Stephen Entsminger Bradner, Ohio 
 
 Private William Grow 1-947 Delaware Ave., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private William Gowitzke. .242 Walnut St., Manchester, New Hampshire 
 
 Private Samuel Grow Lakeside, Ohio 
 
 Private Philip Henley 611 North Anglim St., Cleburne, Texas 
 
 Private Lewis Heller 4108 Muriel Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles Hill Tedrow, Ohio 
 
 Private Jacob Klever 1012 West Broadway, Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private George Letherer Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private V. Lybarger Hicksville, Ohio 
 
 Private Frank McMullen Sandusky, Ohio 
 
234 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Private E. K. Roberts Sylvania, Ohio 
 
 Private Augustus Sipfle Port Clinton, Ohio 
 
 Private John Ward Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Private W. H. Withington Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private George Welever R. F. D. No. 2, Temperance, Michigan 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 Lieutenant John Busing R. F. D. No. 3, Monroe, Michigan 
 
 Lieutenant G. W. Boggs Soldiers and Sailors Home, Ohio 
 
 Commissary Sergeant S. A. Shepherd Kingfisher, Oklahoma 
 
 Sergeant Christian R. Hopkins 712 Spruce St., St. Louis, Missouri 
 
 Sergeant B. F. Kirtz Carey. Ohio 
 
 Sergeant J. G. Miller 249 Wasaon St., Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant D. W. Wood 119 Main St., East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Corporal W. W. Brim Millbury, Ohio 
 
 Corporal James Boggs Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Michael Hughes Kelley s Island, Ohio 
 
 Corporal August Helbing North Fort Worth, Texas 
 
 Corporal William Huling 245 West Broad St., Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Doc Van Howton Holland, Ohio 
 
 Farrier Frank A. Riedy 1027 Market St., Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Wagoner C. P. Bartram Maitland, Missouri 
 
 Private Theodore Alexander. . . .134 N. Church St., Bowling Green, Ohio 
 
 Private Ben Aldrich Sylvania, Ohio 
 
 Private George W. Benedict 266 West Third St., Mansfield, Ohio 
 
 Private J. W. Bradshaw 2131 Flourney St., Chicago, Illinois 
 
 Private H. L. Cook Bowling Green, Ohio 
 
 Private Amos D. Day R. F. D. No. 4, Thayer, Kansas 
 
 Private Jacob Eddleman Metamora, Indiana 
 
 Private Chris Finkbeiner Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private James W. Fuller Breckenridge, Michigan 
 
 Private Henry Frymire 410 May St., Fremont, Ohio 
 
 Private Jacob E. Fuller - Columbus Grove, Ohio 
 
 Private G. W. Goodman Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles Green Graytown, Ohio 
 
 Private B. R. Hull 638 East Broadway, East Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Private David Hatcher Box 413, Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Hendricks Defiance, Ohio 
 
 Private Thomas Hayes R. F. D. No. 2, Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
 Private John Hecksteden 402 Sidney St., St. Louis, Missouri 
 
 Private B. P. Kimball Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private Ira Knull Perrysburg, Ohio 
 
Roster of Survivors. 235 
 
 Private Casper Kahl Defiance, Ohio 
 
 Private William Luckey Box 179, Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private Harvey Long Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private William M. Long Elmore, Ohio 
 
 Private Louis Lafayette 712 Dexter St., Lorain, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles A. Myers Metamora, Ohio 
 
 Private James H. Merrill Marion, Ohio 
 
 Private Peter Necher Swanton, Ohio 
 
 Private Guy D. Pierce Soldiers Home, Los Angeles, California 
 
 Private Charles Price National Military Home, Ohio 
 
 Private Charles H. Robinson Delta, Ohio 
 
 Private George B. Scott Kirkwood, Nebraska 
 
 Private William H. Smith Lock Box 116, Lakeside, Ohio 
 
 Private W. F. Thatcher 635 Wilson Bldg., Dallas, Texas 
 
 Private James Taylor Sylvania, Ohio 
 
 Private Baker Woodruff Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private John T. Woodford Larned, Kansas 
 
 \ 
 
 COMPANY M 
 
 Lieutenant J. W. Likens Fulton, California 
 
 First Sergeant J. S. Chapin. . . .1045 East Fifth Ave., Pomona, California 
 
 Sergeant William S. Furbay Mt. Gilead, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant J. H. Fisher 118 Lincoln Ave., Canton, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant L. R. Miller Dodge City, Kansas 
 
 Sergeant Robert Mears Covina, California 
 
 Sergeant John M. Ropp Delaware, Ohio 
 
 Sergeant H. D. Smith Cardington, Ohio 
 
 Corporal Rufus Aurand Bucyrus, Ohio 
 
 Corporal E. A. Chapin Box 423, Meade, Kansas 
 
 Corporal Daniel Clinger. . .521 South Eighth St., Upper Sandusky, Ohio 
 
 Corporal James S. Dodge Elkhart, Indiana 
 
 Corporal Milton P. Martin R. F. D. No. 4, Mt. Vernon, Ohio 
 
 Corporal John E. Mahaffy Ravenden Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Corporal F. M. Smith Garrison, Kansas 
 
 Bugler Jacob Trott R. F. D. No. 3, Clyde, Ohio 
 
 Farrier Math Harrah Larue, Ohio 
 
 Wagoner E. O. Morgan Pluna Valley, Nebraska 
 
 Private Martin Adams Bellevue, Ohio 
 
 Private Henry Beagle Prattsville, Michigan 
 
 Private Henry Diefenbacher Bucyrus, Ohio 
 
 Private William Downard Wapakoneta, Ohio 
 
 Private Samuel A. Essex Greencamp, Ohio 
 
236 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Private Samuel Everett , Belvue, Kansas 
 
 Private L. Hollingsworth Edison, Ohio 
 
 Private W. H. Hollenshead Norton, Kansas 
 
 Private John T. Jamison Findlay, Ohio 
 
 Private Michael Monlett Sandusky Home, Ohio 
 
 Private James H. Madden R. F. D. No. 19, Elsie, Michigan 
 
 Private Andrew J. Miller Delaware, Ohio 
 
 Private William Pycrof t Marion, Ohio 
 
 Private Rose J. Parks R. F. D. No. 7, Delaware, Ohio 
 
 Private G. W. Preston Galena, Ohio 
 
 Private Stephen Rucle Seelemonia, Indiana 
 
 Private J. A. Simons Greenleaf , Kansas 
 
 Private Jerry Wagoner Dupont, Ohio 
 
 Private L. F. Webster Ventura, California 
 
 Private Frederick Yahn Rockford, Ohio 
 
[TAKEN FROM THE OHIO ROSTER} 
 
 Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 THREE YEARS SERVICE 
 
 This Regiment was organized from the State at large, at Monroeville, 
 Huron county, Ohio, from September 4, 1861, to December n, 1861, to serve 
 three years. 
 
 On the expiration of their term of service, the original members (except 
 veterans) were mustered out, and the organization composed of veterans and 
 recruits was retained in service until August 4, 1865, when it was mustered out 
 in accordance with orders from the War Department. 
 
 The official list of battles, in which this Regiment bore an honorable part, 
 has not yet been published by the War Department, but the following list has 
 been compiled, after a careful research, during the preparation of this work: 
 
 SIEGE OF CORINTH, MISS., beginning . APRIL, 30, 1862. 
 
 MUMFORDSVILLE, KY., .... SEPTEMBER, 21, 1862. 
 
 BARDSTOWN, KY., OCTOBER 4, 1862. 
 
 LEXINGTON, KY., OCTOBER 17, 1862. 
 
 STONE RIVER, TENN., DECEMBER, 31, 1862. 
 
 STEWART S CREEK, TENN., . . . JANUARY i, 1863. 
 
 MIDDLETOWN, TENN., JANUARY 31, 1863. 
 
 CHICKAMAUGA, GA., SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863. 
 
 McMINNVILLE, TENN., SEPTEMBER 28, 1863. 
 
 SHELBYVILLE PIKE (near Farmington, 
 
 Tenn.), OCTOBER 7, 1863. 
 
 DECATUR, COURTLAND ROAD, ALA, MAY 26-27, 1864. 
 
 MOULTON, ALA., MAY 28-29, 1864. 
 
 NOONDAY CREEK, GA, . . . . . JUNE 20, 1864. 
 
 KENESAW ; MOUNTAIN, GA, .... JUNE 27, 1864. 
 
 VINING STATION, GA, JULY 2, 1864. 
 
 PEACH TREE CREEK, GA, .... JULY 20, 1864. 
 
 JONESBORO, GA, AUGUST 19-20, 1864. 
 
 LOVEJOY STATION, GA, AUGUST 20, 1864. 
 
 FRANKLIN, TENN, NOVEMBER 30, 1864. 
 
 SELMA, ALA, APRIL 2, 1865. 
 
 COLUMBUS, GA, APRIL 16, 1865. 
 
 MACON, GA, APRIL 20, 1865. 
 
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3rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Muatared In December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefleld, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., and Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Louis Zahm . 
 
 Colonel 
 
 41 
 
 Aug. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Aug. 6, 1861; resigned Jan. 5, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 brevetted Brig. General to date from March 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13, 1865. 
 
 James W. Paramore.. 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Major Sept. 27, 1861; promoted to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Colonel Jan. 5, 1863; honorably discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to date July 1, 1863. 
 
 Charles B. Seidel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Major from Captain Co. E Jan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16, 1862; captured Oct. 17, 1862, at Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; promoted to Lieut. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Colonel June 17, 1863; to Colonel Aug. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; mustered out Jan. 16, 1865, on expira 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 Horace N. Howland... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 37 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Major from Captain Co. C Jan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5, 1863; to Lieut. Colonel Nov. 23, 1863; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Colonel April 8, 1865; brevetted Brig. Gen 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eral to date from March 13, 1865; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Douglas A. Murray 
 
 Lt. Col. 
 
 36 
 
 Oct. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Regiment U. S. Cavalry 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 10, 1861; resigned June 7, 1863. 
 
 Darius E. Llvermore.. 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 28 
 
 Nov. 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Major from Captain Co. B Nov. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864; to Lieut. Colonel April 8, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John H. Foster 
 
 Major 
 
 47 
 
 Sept. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; resigned Feb. 14, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863. 
 
 James S. Brisbln 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 
 
 
 Appointed Dec. 12, 1861; commission declined. 
 
 Charles W. Skinner 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. H Feb. 14, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 resigned Sept. 10, 1864. 
 
 Leonard Adams 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. G June 7, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louisville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas D. McClelland. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. E Dec. 8, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louisville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Martin Archer 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. G Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to Colonel of the 137th Regiment U. S. Col 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ored Troops April 7, 1865; from which he 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 was mustered out as Colonel with the regi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment Jan. 15, 1866. 
 
 Francis P. Gates 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. H Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Oliver M. Brown 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Aug. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Captain Co. C April 8, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 but not mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Marlon C. Cuykendall. 
 
 Surgeon 
 
 32 
 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 28, 1861; mustered out Nov. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of term of service. 
 
 William B Boyd 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Mch. 30, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Asst. Surgeon from civil life March 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864; promoted to Surgeon Dec. 1, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Stephen F. Selby 
 
 Ast. Sur. 
 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1861; resigned Nov 15, 1863. 
 
 David K. Moore 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 .... 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as John K. Moore; ap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pointed Aug. 19, 18(52; discharged as super 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 numerary Dec. 9, 1862, by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 John G. Blngham 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 Nov. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Appointed Nov. 5, 1863; declined commission. 
 
 William W. Bickett.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Mch. 31, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from civil life March 31, 1864; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lewis R. Zahm 
 
 Adjutam 
 
 17 
 
 Sept. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 27, 1861; resigned Dec. 9, 1862. 
 
 George C. Probert 
 
 ...do .. 
 
 24 
 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Battalion Quartermaster Oct. 26, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 1862, as supernu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 merary; re-appointed 1st Lieutenant and 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adjutant March 31, 1863; resigned March 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864. 
 
 Thomas Nunan 
 
 ... do 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Assigned from 1st Ijieuemmt Co. F July 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; promoted to Captain Co . I Nov. so , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 
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240 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Ag 
 
 20 
 20 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 37 
 25 
 
 21 
 
 38 
 44 
 43 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 28 
 23 
 26 
 
 38 
 
 21 
 34 
 22 
 20 
 25 
 20 
 
 28 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Servic 
 
 Remarks 
 
 David E. Tyler 
 WlHiam S. Foster.... 
 
 Wood Fosdick 
 Victor J Zahm 
 
 Adjutan 
 Bat.Adj 
 
 . . . do . . 
 . do .. 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 t 
 
 June 29, 1861 
 
 Oct. 25, 1861 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 
 Aug. 30, 1861 
 Oct. 6, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Dec. 11, 1861 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 May 9, 1864 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Dee. 3, 1861 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 Sept. 3,1861 
 Aug. 30, 1881 
 
 3yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 8 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Promoted to Sergt. Major from Sergeant Co. 
 B April 4, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant and Adju 
 tant Nov. 30, 1864; mustered out with regi 
 ment Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Promoted from private Co. D, 8th Regiment, 
 O. V. I., Nov. 26, 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 
 1862, as supernumerary, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Appointed Oct. 25, 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 
 1862, as supernumerary, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Appointed Oct. 26, 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 
 1862, as supernumerary, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Appointed Aug. 30, 1861; resigned June 2, 1863. 
 Appointed Batt. Q. M. Sergeant Oct. 6, 1861; 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. G Jan. 21, 
 1863; to 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Quarter 
 master from 2d Lieutenant Co. A May 9, 
 1864; to Captain Nov. 30, 1864, but not mus 
 tered; mustered out Jan. 16, 1865, on expira 
 tion of term of service. 
 Promoted to Regt. Com. Sergeant from Q. M. 
 Sergeant Co. E Oct. 3, 1864; to 2d Lieuten 
 ant Co. F Nov. 30, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant 
 and Regt. Quartermaster from 2d Lieutenant 
 Co. F March 29, 1865; m-ustered out with 
 regiment Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 
 1862, as supernumerary, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Appointed Oct. 26, 1861; discharged Sept. 2, 
 1862, as supernumerary, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Promoted to Batt. Q. M. Sergeant from pri 
 vate Co. I Sept. 7, 1861; to Regt. Q. M. 
 Sergeant ; to 1st Lieutenant and Com 
 missary of Subsistence Dec. 19, 1862; to Cap 
 tain Co. E Nov. SO, 1864. 
 Promoted to Batt. Hospital Steward from 
 private Co. C Dec. 11, 1861; to Regt. Hos 
 pital Steward ; to 1st Lieutenant and 
 Commissary of Subsistence Nov. 30, 1864; to 
 Captain Aug. 2, 1865, but not mustered; 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 Appointed Sept. 23, 1861; resigned Aug. 1, 
 1862. 
 Appointed from civil life May 9, 1864; mus 
 tered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1863. 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. E ; to 1st 
 Lieutenant Co. G March 21, 1863. 
 Promoted from private Co. C Jan. 4, 1864; 
 to 2d Lieutenant Co. G March 31, 1864; vet 
 eran. 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. H March 1, 1865; 
 to 2d Lieutenant Co. D April 8, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. A Dec. 1, 
 1861; to 2d Lieutenant Co. K May 21, 1862. 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; promoted to Sd Lieu 
 tenant Co. A May 16, 1862. 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. D ; to Id 
 Lieutenant Co. H Sept. 11, 1862. 
 Promoted from private Co. E Dec. 1, 1861 to 
 2d Lieutenant Co. D May 20, 1862. 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. A ; to 2d 
 Lieutenant Co* E May 20, 1862. 
 Promoted frm private Co. E ; mustered 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. K Oct. 3, 1864; 
 to 2d Lieutenant Co. C Nov. 30, 1864; vet 
 eran. 
 Promoted from private Co. C Nov. 1, 1861; 
 mustered out Dec. 15, 1862, at Columbus, 
 O., to date Nov. 12, 1862, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Promoted to Batt. Com. Sergeant from Ser 
 geant Co. B Dec. 1, 1861; to Regt. Com. 
 Sergeant ; to 1st Lieutenant Co. H June 
 2, 1863. 
 Promoted from private Co. H ; prisoner of 
 war; mustered out April 7, 1865, at Colum 
 bus, O., on expiratioja of term of service. 
 
 Fraok S Sowers 
 
 R. Q. M 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 Frank Wilham 
 
 Thomas L. McEwen... 
 
 William R. Jackson... 
 Stiles W. Burr 
 Seymour B Ooe 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 B. Q. M 
 . . . do . . 
 Cm. Sub. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 Chaplain 
 ... do ... 
 Ser.Maj. 
 do . 
 
 Reed V. Bolee 
 
 Edward Y. Warner 
 Benj. F. W. Cozier... 
 Henry M Miller 
 
 Calvin S Klmball 
 
 Joseph Berry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 James Ransom Hall. . . 
 Heosry Strieker 
 Edward A. Haines 
 
 B. S. M. 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 Brainerd Fish 
 
 . . . do ... 
 
 Edwin Clark 
 Myron H. Barrett 
 
 George H. Frent 
 Robert H. Bliven 
 
 Jesse N Squires 
 
 ... do ... 
 R.Q.M.S 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 B.Q.M.S 
 
 R. C. S. 
 . . . do ... 
 
 William O Johnson. . . 
 
 
 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 ol 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Francis W Shaw . . 
 
 R. C. S. 
 
 20 
 
 Nov. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Q. M. Sergeant Co. K May 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 James H. Johnson 
 
 B. C. S. 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Q. M. Sergeant Co. F NOT. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1, 1861; discharged to date Nov. 9, 1862, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O. , by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Christian R. Hopkins.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. L Nov. 1, 1861; 
 discharged to date Nov. 12, 1862, at Coluln- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Silas M. Adams 
 
 Hos.Std. 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. A ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 James B. Green 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. F Nov. 1, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Edwin D. Tyler 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. B Jan. 1, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 John 0. Graf ton 
 
 B. H. S. 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Corporal Co. G Dec. 1, 1861; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged Jan. 22, 1863, on Surgeon s cer 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tificate of disability. 
 
 Horace B. White 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 50 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. M Dec. 1, 1861; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 died March 9, 1862, at Cardington, O. 
 
 James M. Burg- .... 
 
 Sad. Ser. 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Sad. Sergeant from private 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. G Dec. 1, 1861; to Reg. Sad. Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expira 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 William H. Gardner... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 3,1864 
 
 lyr. 
 
 Promoted from private Co. H May 1, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out June 15, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Andrew J. Noggle 
 
 B.S.Sgt. 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Saddler Co. D Dec. 1, 1861; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged to date Nov. 12, 1862, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 William Hinman 
 
 Chf Bug. 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Bugler Co. H Dec. l, 1861; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged Nov. 19, 1862, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Jerome R. Graham 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Jerome R. Graves;" 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged Nov. 1, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Joseph Ott 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Corporal Co. C Jan. 4, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 transferred to 2d Regiment Veteran Reserve 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Corps May 2, 1865, as Chief Bugler; died 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 15, 1866, from the effect of freezing. 
 
 George Doll 
 
 Vet. Sur. 
 
 45 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Farrier Co. K March , 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Dec. 19, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lev! Cook 
 
 B. V. S. 
 
 38 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Farrier Co. C Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Artimus Richards 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Nov. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Farrier Co. F Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 James B. Page 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Corporal Co. I Dec. 1, 1861; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged Dec. 9, 1862, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Mustered in September 4, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Dewitt C. Doane 
 Harrison Terry 
 
 William B Gates 
 
 Captain 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 47 
 27 
 
 90 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; resigned Nov. 20, 
 1862. 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Sept. 4, 1861; pro 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant Jan. 16, 1862; to 
 Captain Feb. 14, 1863; resigned Dec. 14, 1864. 
 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant from 2d Lieuten 
 
 Thos. D. McClelland.. 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 40 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ant Co. E Nov. 30, 1864; to Captain Dec. 14, 
 1864; on detached duty at Division head 
 quarters since Jan. 11, 1865; mustered out 
 Aug. 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to Captain 
 Co. E Jan. 16, 1862. 
 
24:2 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Henry Strieker 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from Batt. Serg. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Major May 16, 1862; to 1st Lieutenant Feb. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1, 1863; to Captain July 13, 1864, but not 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered; mustered out Nov. 24, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Louisville, Ky., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Joseph M. Fox 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. E Jan. 6, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out wih company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Frank J. Wilham 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 25 
 
 Oct. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. G April 24, 1863; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Quarter 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 master May 9, 1864. 
 
 Samuel C. Currie 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. L Nov. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1863; transferred from Co. L Aug. 1, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Nov. 26, 1864, at Louisville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas C Baker 
 
 . do 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. G Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. G Jan. 6, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Maylam J Bassett 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. F Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. C June 16, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 James Ransom Hall... 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 | 
 
 Sergt. Major Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 John G. Gates 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Nov. 13, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 2, 1862; 1st Sergeant May 1, 1862; pro 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant Co. B June 19, 1863. 
 
 Lewis B. Tooker 
 
 ... do ... 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed April 4, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 1st Lieutenant Co. K Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 1864; veteran. 
 
 Isaac Skillman 
 
 ... do ... j 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. B April 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Anson C Ritter 
 
 do . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 4, 1861; Q. M. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant Jan. 1, 1865; 1st Sergeant June 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 George Milliman 
 
 QMS 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; died April 13, 1862. 
 
 James B. Howarth 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Jan. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Jan. 11, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Harrison Green ... do ... 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Com. Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 1, 1865; Q. M. Sergeant June 10, 1865; 
 
 1 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 1 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Pitt Simons nnm Spr i 99 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant June 10, 1865; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Edwin Clark . . Sergeant 
 
 25 
 
 Sept . 4 , 1861 3 yrs . 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 Sergt. Major . 
 
 John W . Ward ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4,1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; died Jan. 5, 1863, of 
 
 
 
 
 wounds received . 
 
 Edward I. Hurlburt ...... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861. 
 
 Charles B. Bennett do... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged Feb. 26, 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Dailey Bennett ! - dn 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Richard Meredith 
 
 ... do ... 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 1, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 May 1, 1863; discharged Feb. 18, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 Richmond, on Surgeon s certificate of disa 
 
 
 
 
 bility. 
 
 Thomas Tully 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Eugene A. Osborn 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Bugler Sept. 4, 1861; Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged March 27, 1865, on Surgeon s cer 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tificate of disability; veteran. 
 
 Martin V. McCriUis... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 4, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Boston Lidruff 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant Dec. 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Enos Griss 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant Jan. 11, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 John Monaghan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant June 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Albert McMaster 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant June 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 243 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Jacob Bauman 
 William E. Akers 
 Siberia Kies 
 
 Corporal 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 26 
 
 ?4 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; died July 3, 1862, of 
 wounds received from guerrillas. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged June 20, 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged Aug. 18, 
 
 William McMaster 
 Henry M . Meachan 
 John Leary 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 24 
 ?3 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., on Surgeon s cer 
 tificate of disability. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged April 22, 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged May 18, 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Appointed -. 
 
 David H. Crippin 
 Richard Wilson 
 William Frederick 
 Charles Payne 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 28 
 24 
 94 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 June 29, 1862 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Appointed Dec. 1, 1864; mustered out June 17, 
 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War 
 Department. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 James O Grady 
 
 do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 William Raney 
 
 do 
 
 93 
 
 Feb. 6, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 Samuel Lingo 
 Colonel Shively 
 Milton H. Straight.... 
 
 Jacob Pye 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 19 
 22 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 19, 1863 
 July 17, 1863 
 
 Dec 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed June 10, 1865; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Appointed June 10, 1865; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred from Co. C April 1, 1864: appoint 
 ed June 10, 1865; mustered out with company 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed June 10 1865* mustered out with 
 
 Henry Drage 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ?6 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed June 10, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 Ralph U. H. Osborn.. 
 John Nelis 
 
 Bugler 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 11, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged March 16, 
 1864, at Camp Dennison, O., on Surgeon s 
 certificate of disability. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 Joel F. Smith 
 John B. McFadden 
 
 Farrier 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 43 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; mustered out to date 
 
 William Voltz 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 11, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865, at Columbus, O., by order of 
 War Department; veteran. 
 Appointed Feb 11, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 Edward Morton 
 
 Saddler 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; discharged Aug. 29, 
 
 Thos. G. Humphrey.. 
 Adams, Silas M 
 
 ... do ... 
 Private 
 
 27 
 ?6 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1862, at Columbus, O. , on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Appointed . 
 Promoted to Hospital Steward . 
 
 Ames, Harrison 
 
 Anderson, Isaac 
 Ball Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 34 
 
 90 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Aug. 4, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 25, 1862, at Camp Rosecrans, 
 Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4, 1865 
 
 Bixby, Joseph 
 Blackman , Ira 
 
 Boehn, Peter 
 Brooks , Homer W 
 
 Broughton, Alfred C.. 
 Burch, Hiram C 
 Burch John U 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 25 
 39 
 
 23 
 20 
 
 32 
 25 
 ?,0 
 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 18, 1862 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : reduced April 20, 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865. 
 Transferred to Co. K, 5th Regiment, Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, Dec. 18, 1863, from which 
 mustered out Sept. 9, 1864, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Died June 17, 1863. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, at Columbus, O. , on 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Caldwell William . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 19, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Carlisle, George 
 
 Carpenter, John 
 Chollar , Charles B 
 
 Clark , George W 
 Clark Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 22 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 9fi 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Jan. 1,1862 
 
 Aug. 30, 1863 
 Sept. 13, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Transferred to Co. L Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out Feb. 28, 1865, 
 at Columbus, O. , on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
244 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Clawson , August 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 31, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Conley, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Conley William 
 
 do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Aug. 20, 1864, in battle of Lovejoy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station, Ga.; mustered out June 24, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Chase, O., by order of W T ar Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment; veteran. 
 
 Grouse, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Deckenhousen , Ernest H . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Dolph, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Ecchard, William V... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 4, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 25, 1863. 
 
 Enfirlcs Sil&rS 
 
 do ... 
 
 39 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 9, 1863, on Surgeon s cer 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tificate of disability. 
 
 Ensign, Samuel L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Filler, Christopher 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ford, Isaac W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Foster, Norman T 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 14, 1863, to receive promotion. 
 
 French Stephen 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Frost, Curtis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Funk, Philip 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Funk William 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Glenn Henry 
 
 .do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 30, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Goss, William 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 1,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Granger, Joseph R 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Griggs, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war since April 1, 1865; no further 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 record found. 
 
 Hart Franklin 
 
 do .. 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. F Jan. 4, 1864; veteran. 
 
 Hewitt, Ervin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 17, 1863, on Surgeon s cer 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tificate of disability. 
 
 Hicks, Thomas W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 29, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Himberger, William . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged to date Dec. 14, 1862, by order ol 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department. 
 
 Hopkins, Silas H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Horton, Elijah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. A, 8th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Sept. 12, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Dec. 9, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Horton, William H... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Howard, Charles 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 18, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 
 Hughes, Michael 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. L Nov. 13, 1861. 
 
 Hunt Issue 
 
 do 
 
 42 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 20, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Jewell, Charles C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Johnson, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 16, 1863, at Ready ville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Keeler, Joseph S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 9, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Kendall, John H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 11, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 17, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Kennedy, George W... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 June 29, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Kinzel, Christopher J.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 9, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lakins, Albert C... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 31, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lamphier, Austin 
 
 ...do... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Milo A."; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lapier, Joseph 
 
 !. . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Nov. 25, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Large, John W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 20, 1864, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lasley, James D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 27, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lee, Thomas A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 17, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 3, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Letherer, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K Dec. 11, 1861. 
 
 Lidkey, John A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Leidke"; prisoner of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 war; mustered out June 19, 1865, at Camp 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 McFerson, Allen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "McPherson"; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Martin, Henry G 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Maxwell, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Meir, Alois 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 245 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Perioc 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Meier Xavler 
 
 Private 
 
 29 
 
 Dec. 12, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 27, 1864, of wounds received in ac 
 tion. 
 
 
 Miller, Lev! . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 i 3 vrs 
 
 Died May 29, 1862, near Corinth, Miss. 
 
 Moler, David E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 i 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Morton, Robert E 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Sept . 4 1861 Q TT " 
 
 Transferred to Co. K . 
 
 Noggle, George W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept! 4, 1861 
 
 *> J L& . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 17, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Parkason, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Parker, Hiram O 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 7, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 29, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Pearce, Charles 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 17, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 21, 1864, on Surgeon s sertifi- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate ol disability. 
 
 Pearce, James 
 
 ... do 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Peterson, Charles .. . 
 
 do 
 
 27 
 
 Dec. 4 1863 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Phelps, John D... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4 , 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Polly, Jay . 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4 1861 
 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Jay A. Policy; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 tered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Price, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1864 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Purcil, Patrick . . 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 Sept . 4 1861 
 
 o vr c 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 o yrj . 
 
 eran. 
 
 Raabe, August 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 33 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Reed, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 45 
 
 Sept. 15, 1863 
 
 3 vrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Repetoy , Peter 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 25 
 
 Jan. 4. 1864 3 vrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Reynolds, Horace i...do.. 24 Sept 4 1861 ^ ^rc 
 
 Died Feb. 5, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn.; vet 
 
 1 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Rickey, Theodore ! . . . do ... 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Rinehamer, Frederick.. 
 
 . . do . . . 21 
 
 Dec. 2. 1862 
 
 3 vrs . 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 3, 1865, by order 
 
 
 
 of War Department. 
 
 Ritter, Witter ...do... 31 Dec. 2. 1863 ! 3 vrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as William; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Root, Ezra H do ... 
 
 19 Sept. 4. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Saam, John W 
 
 ... do . . 
 
 33 
 
 Nov. 28. 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 18(>5. 
 
 Satorious, Frank 
 
 rln 
 
 40 
 
 Dec . 2,1 863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Sartories; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Seabolt, Jacob E do 
 
 18 
 
 July 10 1863 9 "*" 
 
 Prisoner of war since April 1, 1865; no further 
 
 
 
 
 
 record found. 
 
 Sekinger, Joseph do ... 
 
 38 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Aug. 16, 1862, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Slaughterbeck, Charles!... do ...! 41 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Slatterback; cantured 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 20, 1864, at battle of Lovejoy Station, 
 
 
 
 
 Ga.: mustered out June 24, 1865, at Camp 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Slaughter, Frank 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 27, 1863 3 vrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, George ! ...do... 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 7, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Sprang, William 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Strang, Jasper 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 3 vrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Strong; died March 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, in hospital at Columbus, O.; veteran. 
 
 Sullivan, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Turner, Marshal M 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Veader, George U 
 
 do 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; discharged Jan. 6, 1864, on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 
 Vokle, August 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 42 
 
 Sept. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Augustine Volk;" cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tured Nov. 14, 1864, at Marysville, Tenn.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 reported May 24, 1865, at Camp Chase, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 as a paroled prisoner; mustered out July 18, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Wait, Charles A 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 15, 1862, on Hamburg and Corinth 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 road. 
 
 Weisonburger, George. 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 30 
 
 Dec. 12, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Welch, Benjamin F 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 23, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Weldon , James 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K Dec. 11, 1861. 
 
 Whidden, James T 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 White, Henry R 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Aug. 20, 1864, at battle of Lovejoy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station, Ga.; supposed to have died Sept. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12, 1864, in Polk Hospital at Macon, Ga., of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 wounds received in action. 
 
 White, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 2, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Absent with leave since Jan. 2, 1865; no fur 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ther record found. 
 
 Williams, James O 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 28, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Willoughby, John W.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. L Nov. 14, 1861. 
 
 Winnegar, William H. 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 29, -864. 
 
 Woodford, John T 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 4, 1861; transferred 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to Co. L Nov. 13, 1861; returned to Co. A 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sept. 18, 1864; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
24:6 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Wright, George W. ... 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 16, 1863, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Wright, Thomas C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Young , Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Young, Martin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. E . 
 
 Zahmn , Michael 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 
 
 Oct. 7, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out June 15, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Barrette, Barton 
 
 Cook 
 
 24 
 
 April 29, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lock, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 34 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mathews, Noble 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 Mustered in September 4, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Leonard B. Chapin 
 
 Captain 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; resigned March 5, 
 1863 
 
 Darius E . Livermore . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Nov. 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. K Feb. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; to Major Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Christopher C. Clay... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. F Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Elisha M. Colver 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to Captain 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. K June 16, 1862. 
 
 Oliver M Brown. . .. 
 
 do .. 
 
 35 
 
 Aug. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. C July 20, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862: captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lexington, Ky.; paroled - -; transferred to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. K April 24, 1863. 
 
 Addison H. Pearl 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2d Lieutenant May 16, 1862; to 1st Lieuten 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ant March 5, 1863; to Captain Nov. 30, 1864,. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 but not mustered; mustered out Dec. 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas Marlin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. M Jan, 6, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Alonzo B. Ennis... 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; promoted to 1st Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant June 16, 1862, but not mustered; re 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 signed July 21, 1862. 
 
 Norman Brewster 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 41 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. L May 20, 1862; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to 1st Lieutenant Co. C June 7, 1863. 
 
 John G. Gates 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war; promoted from 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. A June 19, 1863; to Captain Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, but not mustered; mustered out April 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17, 1865, at Columbus, O., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 James M. Hipkins 
 
 ...do... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. L April 24, 1863. 
 
 Isaac Skillman 
 
 do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. A April 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; commanded Co. A since June 10, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 1st Lieutenant Aug. 2, 1865, but 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 not mustered; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Garner Stimson 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 captured Nov. 15, 1862, in action at Gallatin, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn.; paroled ; appointed 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 10, 1864; promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. I Nov. 30, 1864; veteran. 
 
 John H. Lawrence 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. E April 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Philip B. Bangle 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed Sergeant Sept. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20, 1864; Com. Sergeant Dec. 2, 1864; 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Martin E. Ellis 
 
 Q.M.Ser. 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 11, 1862, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 24:7 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Horace B. Porter 
 
 Q.M.Ser. 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 4, 1861; Q. M. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; captured Aug. 19, 1864, at battle 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Jonesboro, Ga.; paroled ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out June 19, 1865, at Camp Chase, O., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department; veteran. 
 
 Arthur A Rogers 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal April 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; Com. Sergeant ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Jesse If. Squires 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Promoted to Battalion Com. Sergeant Dec. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861. 
 
 Judaon Willard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 5, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn.; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 John Bartlet 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. , on expiration of term of service 
 
 Henry N. Porter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 15, 1862, at Cincinnati, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 David E. Tyler 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; promoted 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to Sergt. Major April 4, 1864; veteran. 
 
 George W Cole . . . 
 
 .do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hiram Sexton 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on ex-/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Cornelius Ellis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Samuel B. B as sett 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Ambrose D. Hawes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; promoted 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to 2d Lieutenant Co. H Nov. 30, 1864; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Titus B. Terry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal April 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out July 27, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Macon, Ga., by order of War Department. 
 
 Henry S Rounds 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 22 
 
 July 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 30, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William A. Segar 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; died June 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16, 1865, at Macon, Ga. 
 
 Franklin Starr 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; died July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7, 1865, at Macon, Ga. 
 
 Seneca Ronk 
 
 . do . 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 2, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 16, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Frederick H. Kellogg.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 2, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 17, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Thomas 0. Bryant 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Nov. 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 2, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 6, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Charles Johnson 
 
 Corporal 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 20, 1864, at Columbia 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 George W. Burgess 
 
 . do .. 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 12, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 John J. Cowels 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 23, 1862. 
 
 Morgan J. Carpenter.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Died April 28, 1862. 
 
 Hiram C. Reed 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 15, 1863, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Byron L. White 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Died March 3, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
 
 James C . Ronk 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died May 2, 1862, on board 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 hospital boat near Paducah, Ky. 
 
 David C. Fields 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died July 4, 1864, near Ma 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 rietta, Ga., of wounds received in action; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 George Wilson 
 
 do 
 
 17 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died Aug. 16, 1864, at Buck 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Head, Ga., of wounds received in action. 
 
 Charles E Heusted 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 19, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out May 25, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Louisville, Ky., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 James Vantassel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out April 11, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Charles Lasselle 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 14,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 13, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Henry Thompson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Aug. 19, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed April 11, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Royal P. Peck 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed April 11, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. i 
 
 Mortimer Lawrence ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed May 13, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John Scott 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 18, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed May 25, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
248 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Samuel L. Hillyer 
 
 Corporal 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed June 16, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Orin Adams 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Alansan Adams 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 6, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William D. Chaffer 
 
 Farrier 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 
 Elisha Jenkins 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 6, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Garrett Hawley 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Absent from Nov. 30, 1861, to Nov. 1, 1863> 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 appointed Feb. 28, 1865; mustered out Sept. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7, 1865, at Camp Dennison, O., by order ol 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department. 
 
 Lawrence Michael 
 
 Saddler 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Myron Sweet 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 42 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Akeins , Jerome 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 6, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Ames , Saren 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 April 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 18, 1865, at Cleveland, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Atkinson , Delmer 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Avary, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Feb. 25, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Barber, Theodore P... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, at Camp Dennison, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 O., by order of War Department; veteran. 
 
 Beckwith, Christ. C... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Dec. 11, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 5, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. B 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Berg, Cornelius K 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Cornelius Kburg; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Blackman, Simeon 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 26, 1862, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Brooks, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 17, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Brown , Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 4, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Brown , Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Brown, Isaac 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Buckley, Frank 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Camfield , Luther 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Detached as Wardmaster in hospital at Louis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Ky.; no further record found. 
 
 Case, Lester 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 1, 1861, at Monroeville, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Cherrington, John G.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 April 1, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Church, Elias 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 1, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Clinger , Anson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Collingwood, Ransom . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Colvin , Jerred 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Corbon , Jude 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 19, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Crippin, Daniel A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out July 20, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Dolan, James P 
 
 do 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 19, 1863 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 
 Drake, Benjamin F 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept". 4 , 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Sept. 21, 1862. f 
 
 Drake, Frederick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 28, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. I April 17, 1865; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Earl, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Jan. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Jan. 11, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Eastman, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4,1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Edwards , Avery 
 
 ...do... 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Absent from Oct. 20, 1861, to Nov. 1, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Fairfax, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 2, 1862, at Cincinnati, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Farr, Martin 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 19, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Finn, and Tin. 
 
 Fay, Franklin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Fay, James W 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 1, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Fisar, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Fizer; discharged Oct. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25, 1864, on Surgeon s certificate of disa 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bility: veteran. 
 
 Fonger , Willi am 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Mch. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Goodell, Bethel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Jan. 4,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gray, James M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Oct. 20, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 29, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Green, Albert H 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gregory , Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hamton, Peter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Mch. 17, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Harding, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Dec. 26, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 249 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Hardy, Eli S 
 Haynes, John P 
 
 Private 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 34 
 97 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 April 5, 1865 
 
 3yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Died Sept. 14, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hayes, William 
 
 Henry , Mendile 
 Hernando, George .... 
 
 Hickock, Herman 
 Hlllman, Benjamin B. 
 Hollister, Edwin 
 Hollister, Jesse 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . do 
 
 32 
 
 32 
 20 
 
 19 
 31 
 22 
 1R 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Aug. 29, 1863 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Discharged to date Nov. 4, 1862, by order of 
 War Department. 
 Shot by guerrillas Feb. 6, 1863. 
 Discharged Aug. 24, 1864, at Camp Dennison, 
 O., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Discharged Aug. 20, 1863, at Columbus, O., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 Horton, Edward W... 
 Houpt, William H. ... 
 
 Huff, Willard A 
 Humphery, Truman .. 
 Ingles Lorenzo . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . do 
 
 19 
 22 
 
 40 
 26 
 18 
 
 Mch. 28, 1864 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 Feb. 12, 1864 
 Feb. 6, 1864 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out June 2, 1865, from hospital at 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Killed Dec. 2, 1863, in action at Philadelphia, 
 
 Jenkins William 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Tenn. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 Keim Conrad 
 
 do 
 
 1Q 
 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Discharged Feb. 9, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Kilburn, Flarius 
 King, Michael 
 
 Knapp, Henry J 
 Kress, Henry E 
 
 Lane, Henry C. G 
 Lavin , Hartley 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 24 
 19 
 
 18 
 42 
 
 25 
 ?4 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 3, 1863 
 
 Oct. 13, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Feb. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Discharged to date Nov. 22, 1862, on Surgeon .s 
 certificate of disability. 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out Sept. 20, 1865, 
 at New York City, by order of War Depart 
 ment. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Transferred to Co. D, 2d Regiment, Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, ; mustered out from 
 same Sept. 5, 1864, at Detroit, Mich., on ex 
 piration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Leonard Henry 
 
 do 
 
 99 
 
 Aug 19 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 
 Lipke, David C 
 McFall, John G 
 
 McGloon, Charles M... 
 HcKim, George W 
 
 McKim, Thomas W 
 
 Mack, Henry 
 Malki, James 
 
 . . do . . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do .. 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 27 
 
 22 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Jan. 1, 1862 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 April 5, 1865 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865: vet 
 eran. 
 Died May 3, 1862, in camp near Corinth, Miss 1 . 
 Mustered out Jan. 11, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Killed Dec. 31, 1862, in battle of Stone River, 
 
 Mason, Almon 
 Mason, Jeremiah B. .. 
 Mason, Norman 
 Menus, John C 
 Mire, William 
 Miller, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 25 
 22 
 38 
 18 
 19 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 Jan 5 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Tenn. 
 Discharged Dec. 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Discharged Aug. 20, 1862, at Nashville, 
 Tenn. , on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Also borne on rolls as Monicse; mustered out 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Also borne on rolls as Myer; mustered out 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Miller, Samuel 
 Monday, William 
 
 Morris, Amos A 
 Nelson, Charles H 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 90 
 
 Mch. 4, 1864 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs . 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 4, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Died July 10, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Nelson, Jerome C . . 
 
 .. do . 
 
 18 
 
 Nov 23 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Parker , John 
 Peck, Flavus J 
 Peck, Marcus M 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . do 
 
 29 
 18 
 18 
 
 Aug. 17, 1863 
 July 1,1863 
 Aug. 31, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 13, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged Jan. 23, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Peck, Uriah A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 16 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 cate of disability; re-enlisted Feb. 22, 1864, 
 for 3 years; mustered out with company 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out July 14, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 Perham , George 
 
 . do . 
 
 ?Q 
 
 July 16 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Prisoner of war since Jan. 12, 1864; died Sept). 
 
 Rice, Myron 
 Rice, Rodney 
 
 . . do . . 
 do 
 
 18 
 30 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 21, 1864. at Andersonville Prison, Ga. 
 Died April 13, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 Mustered out Oct 3 1864 at Columbia, 
 
 Roberts , Simon 
 Robinson, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
250 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Robinson, William 
 Rounds , George R 
 Scott, Henry H 
 
 Sexton Edwin 
 
 Private 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 18 
 19 
 
 ?0 
 
 Feb. 22, 1864 
 July 16, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Oct 20 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged Sept. 11, 1862, at Nashville, Term., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Shell enburger, Conrad. 
 Shunkle, John 
 Smith, Albert C . .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . do 
 
 25 
 21 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out May 29, 1865, at Louisville, Ky.. 
 by order of War Department. 
 Died April 17, 1862 
 
 Smith, John H 
 Smith, John Y 
 Snyder, Frederick M. . 
 Spurier, Willard 
 
 Stark, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . do 
 
 18 
 38 
 20 
 18 
 
 ^8 
 
 Oct. 16, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 April 6, 1865 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Feb 25 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Died July 28, 1865, at JefTersonville, Ind. 
 Died May 23, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out April 20, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Starr, Orlando 
 
 Staunton , Byron 
 
 Stewart, John W 
 Squire, George B 
 
 Tripp, Edmon 
 Tracy Pariner 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 19 
 21 
 
 21 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Dec. 1,1861 
 
 Feb. 24, 1865 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4,1861 
 Sept 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 !3 yrs 
 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, at Camp near Cor 
 inth, Miss., on Surgeon s certificate of disa 
 bility. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Stanton;" killed Dec. 
 30, 1862, in battle of Stone River, Tenn. 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Discharged Sept. 11, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Tucker, William 
 Tyler, Edwin D 
 
 Vorman, Benjamin ... 
 Walker, Henry S 
 
 Webb Styles 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 44 
 
 18 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 July 16, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Feb. 14, 1864 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 Aug 11 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Promoted to Hospital Steward Jan. 1, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, from hospital at 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Mustered out May 30, 1865, at Cleveland, O., 
 
 Welch, Robert 
 Welch, William 
 Wetz , Peter 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 18 
 ?0 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Aug. 23, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 Died April 19, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 20, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 Adams, Samuel 
 Clark, Charles 
 
 Jones , Stephen 
 McFarlin, Kit 
 Washington, Jerry ... 
 
 Cook 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 35 
 
 45 
 
 45 
 
 April 26, 1865 
 June 17, 1863 
 
 June 21, 1865 
 April 26, 1865 
 Mch. 4, 1863 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Colored under-cook; no further record found. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with corn- 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Colored under-cook; died May 6, 1865, at Ma- 
 con, Ga. 
 Colored under-eook; mustered out with corn- 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 Mustered in October 8, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Horace N. Howland... 
 
 James B. Luckey 
 Oliver M Brown 
 
 Captain 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 18 
 Wt 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Aug. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Aug. 15, 1861; captured Oct. 17, 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky. ; paroled 
 ; promoted to Major Jan. 5, 1863. 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. L Jan. 5, 
 1863: transferred to Co. L April 5, 1864. 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Aug. 16, 1861; pro 
 
 Jonathan B. Blivin 
 Elihu Isbell 
 Samuel J. Hansey 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant Co. B July 20, 1862; 
 to Captain from 1st Lieutenant Co. K Aug. 
 19, 1863; to Major April 8, 1865, but not 
 mustered; mustered out with company Aug. 
 4, 1865. 
 Appointed Aug. 24, 1861; honorably discharged 
 Jan. 21, 1863. 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. F Jan. 5, 
 1863; transferred to Co. F April 24, 1863. 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. H Sept. 11, 
 1862; resigned June 19, 1863. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Date of ! Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Norman Brewster 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 41 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. B July 7, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862; mustered out Dec. 5, 1864, at Louis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 John Moore 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. I Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain Feb. 23, 1865, but not mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered; resigned June 11, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Maylam J. Bassett 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. A June 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Orange H. Howland... 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Sergeant Sept. 10, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant July 20, 1862; cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; transferred to Co. E 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 24, 1863. 
 
 Christopher C. Clay.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Aug. 31, 1861; 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 14, 1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co. F July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13, 1864. 
 
 John M. Keller 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. G July 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. E Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 George H. Frent 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Dec. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Regt. Q. M. Sergeant Nov. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Feb. 23, 1865, but 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 not mustered; resigned June 21, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Theodore W. Harlow. 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 29 
 
 Aug. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Aug. 31, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky. , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; appointed 1st Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Francis C. Dodge 
 
 ... do ... 26 
 
 Sept. 15, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; 1st Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. I Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 
 Archibald J. Eyster... 
 
 ... do ... 20 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; 1st Sergeant Dec. 7, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nash 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Barnard W. Dolan 
 
 ... do ... 33 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant Jan. 4, 1863; Q. M. Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 7, 1864; 1st Sergeant June 17, 1865; mus-- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 John C. Donahue 
 
 Q. M. S.j 22 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed Corporal 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; Com. Sergeant Dec. 7, 1864; Q. M. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Austin B . Oonant 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed. Sergeant Aug. 31, 1861; discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 8, 1863, at Columbus, O., on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability; re-enlisted Dec. 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, for 3 years; appointed Corporal April 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6, 1864: Sergeant Oct. 3, 1864; Com. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant June 17, 1865; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Frank F . Moyer 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed : died Oct. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19, 1863, of wounds received Oct. 7, 1863, in 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 battle of Shelby ville Pike, Tenn. 
 
 William Van Wormer. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Aug. 31, 1861: Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Francis Allen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Aug. 31, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; appointed Sergeant : mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas Crofts 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Aug. 31, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; appointed Sergeant : mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 George Wertemberger. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; captured Oct. 17, 1862, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled ,1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of service. 
 
 Isaac Wertemberger . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed : died 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 26, 1864, in hospital at Chattanooga, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn.; veteran. 
 
 George J. Miller 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed June 17, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Lewis Fisher 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 21, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: captured Oct. 17, 1862, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled ; ap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pointed June 17, 1865: mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 ol 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Harlow Burr 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Nov 21 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered as private; captured Oct. 17, 1862, at 
 
 Willinm H. Dustin 
 Orrin Burr 
 
 ... do ... 
 ...do 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Jan 19 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled ; ap 
 pointed June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Mustered as private; appointed June 17, 1865; 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant June 17, 
 
 Calvin Spangler 
 
 Corporal 
 
 99 
 
 Aug 24 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865. 
 Appointed Aug. 31, 1861; discharged June 28, 
 
 William F. Bradley 
 Levi Genson 
 William Smith 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do . . 
 
 18 
 23 
 1Q 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Aug. 17, 1861 
 Aug 26 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 1862, at St. Louis, Mo., on Surgeon s certifi-* 
 cate of disability. 
 Appointed Jan. 13, 1863; mustered out to date 
 Aug. 3, 1865, at Columbus, O., by order of 
 War Department; veteran. 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 Joseph Ott 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug 20 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed ; mus 
 tered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Appointed Bugler Aug. 31, 1861: Corporal ; 
 
 John Kerman 
 Orrin Buzzell 
 
 Adam J. Carter 
 John A. Rice . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 19 
 35 
 
 33 
 18 
 
 Aug. 16, 1862 
 Dec. 22, 1863 
 
 Dec. 17, 1863 
 Dec 16 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 promoted to Chief Bugler of regiment Jan. 
 4, 1864: veteran. 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 17, 1865, at 
 Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 ment. 
 Wounded Aug. 20, 1864, in battle of Lovejoy 
 Station, Ga.: appointed Oct. 3, 1864: mus 
 tered out July 17, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 by order of War Department. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Isaac T Whitson 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Feb 13 1864 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Charles O. Brown 
 Hoyt B. Pike 
 Joseph Meirhoffer 
 Levi B. Whitlock 
 
 Levi Cook 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 Bugler 
 
 Farrier 
 
 16 
 18 
 
 21 
 42 
 
 9 
 
 Feb. 18, 1864 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 Dec. 21,1863 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 Aug 24 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed .June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed Aug. 31, 1861; discharged July 1, 
 1802, at St. Louis, Mo., on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Appointed Aug 31 1861: promoted to Batt. 
 
 Edward McDonald 
 James K. Thompson.. 
 John Antibus 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 Saddler 
 
 36 
 19 
 29 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 \ug 27 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Veterinary Surgeon Dec. 1, 1861. 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Also borne on rolls as Joseph: appointed ; 
 mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Appointed Sept 7 1861 discharged June 17 
 
 John Redding 
 John Griner 
 
 ... do ... 
 Wagoner 
 
 35 
 29 
 
 July 16, 1862 
 Aug 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1862, at St. Louis, Mo., on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 17, 1865, at 
 Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 ment. 
 Appointed Sept 10 1861 captured Oct 17 
 
 Samuel C. Fry 
 
 Abbott, John F... 
 Alden, Albert 
 Allen, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 Private 
 . . . do . . . 
 ... do 
 
 34 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 9q 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 Dec. 1,1863 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 Sept 14 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.: paroled 
 : transferred to 87th Co., 2d Battalion, 
 Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 5, 1864; mus 
 tered out from same as private Oct. 7. 1864, 
 at Cincinnati, O. , by order of War Depart 
 ment. 
 Appointed : died March , 1865, on march 
 to Selma, Ala.: veteran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ankney, Samuel 
 Austin, Daniel 
 
 Baldwin, John A 
 Barlow, Thomas 
 Barnes, Frederick 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 do 
 
 25 
 23 
 
 29 
 28 
 19 
 
 Oct. 4, 1862 
 Aug. 22, 1863 
 
 Aug. 13, 1861 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 Dec 24 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out May 31, 1865, from Mound City 
 Hospital at Cairo, 111., by order of War 
 Department. 
 Transferred to Co. L Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Barton, Hiram 
 Battenfield, Daniel S.. 
 Beggs, Thomas C 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 23 
 18 
 
 Aug. 19, 1861 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 18, 1863. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 253 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Rtemarks 
 
 Benedict, Horace 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Berry, Alexander 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 
 Oct. , 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died at Savannah, Tenn., April , 1862. 
 
 Bessell , August E 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bllvan, Robert H 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Battalion Q. M. Sergeant Nov 
 1, 1861. 
 
 Bolce, Henry 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 37 
 
 Aug. 16, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 23, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Bolce, Reed V 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Dec. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Battalion Hospital Steward Dec. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11, 1861; veteran. 
 
 Bradley, Edward W... 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bradley, Henry A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 20, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Broadbeck, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 June 27, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Brodbeck;" mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Brown, Daniel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Brown, Loren A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 28, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Burk Fdward 
 
 do 
 
 44 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Campbell, James 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 30 
 
 Oct. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Cannon , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 31, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Carr, Edward 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 17 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Oct. 17, 1862, in battle of Lexington 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky. 
 
 Charter, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 24, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Chilson, Peter 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K Dec. 11, 1861. 
 
 Clukey, Peter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Cleukey;" mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Coffee, John 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cole, Emanuel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled : mustered out Oct. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of term of service. 
 
 Coltrin, Charles H. ... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 17 
 
 Aug. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Oct. 18, 1862, in battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky. 
 
 Conn, Samuel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 1,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 7, 1862. 
 
 Conrad, John 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. M Jan. 4, 1865; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cook, Henry 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Cooney, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1865, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Cosgrove, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K April 1, 1864; veteran. 
 
 Cowles, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 6, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 31, 1862, at Murfreesboro, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn.: no further record found. 
 
 Crandall, Bradley M... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 1,1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Drafted; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Cressy, Osgood D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 7, 1864, in U. S. General Hospital 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Crompton, William ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.: paroled ; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Dalby David 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 20, 1862, on Surgeon s certifl-i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Davis, Robert M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 23, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability; re- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 enlisted Feb. 23, 1864, for 3 years; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Dawes Lewis 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 35 
 
 Oct. 27, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Donahue, William K... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. I, 7th Regiment, Veteran, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Jan. 25, 1864; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Nov. 14, 1865, at Washington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 D. C. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Drumond, Alexander. . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 28 
 
 Nov. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Drurior, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Drowier;" died Aug. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16, 1864, at Cartersville, Ga. 
 
 Dumersy, Alfred P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Dumaresy;" died May 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Ind. 
 
 Dustin, Benjamin F 
 
 do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service: re-enlisted Jan. 2, 1865, for 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 year; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1 865 
 
 Dustin, Francis B 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 31 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing J 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service; re-enlisted Jan. 2, 1865, for 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 year; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Dustin, Walter 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
254 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Eddy Peter 
 
 . do ... 
 
 9"i 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 Eichholt Jacob 
 
 Private 
 
 51 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 8, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn. , on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 
 Emch, Benedict 
 Farner Wilson 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 9*> 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 23, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mastered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 Fitzpatrick, William... 
 
 Foley, James 
 Foster, William H 
 
 Fountain Oliver 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 .do ... 
 
 28 
 
 29 
 34 
 
 ">0 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 Sept. 8, 1863 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Aug. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out June 12, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Killed Sept. 20. 1863, in battle of Chlcka- 
 
 Gordanier, Jacob 
 Gorsuch , Russell B 
 Green, John R 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 22 
 44 
 
 Nov. 2, 1861 
 Dec. 18, 1863 
 Sept. 3, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 mauga, Ga. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged Feb. 9, 1865, from hospital at 
 Cleveland, O., on Surgeon s certificate ol 
 disability. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 Greenwood, John 
 Gyor, Eli 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 18 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hallett, Daniel H 
 
 Hancock, Albert 
 Harris Henry H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 29 
 18 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 Mch. 1, 1864 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexlng-. 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. S, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Harris Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 >o 
 
 Dec. 15, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hatfield, Charles 
 Hess, Samuel H 
 
 Hilton, Martin G 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 25 
 
 96 
 
 Jan. 9, 1864 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 13, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Wounded April 2, 1865, in battle of Selma, 
 Ala.: mustered out Aug. 3, 1865, by order 
 of War Department; veteran. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 Holmes Jesse 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 98 
 
 Oct. 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Died Oct 22 1862 In hospital at Louisville, 
 
 Holt William 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 ?9 
 
 Nov 6, 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Ky. 
 
 Howard, James 
 Johnson, James L 
 
 Jones , Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 26 
 26 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 2, 1865 
 Oct. 1, 1864 
 
 Oct. 1, 1861 
 
 1 yr. 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Drafted; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865. 
 
 Karr, Joseph S 
 Kimball Calvin S 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 96 
 
 Oct. 5, 1864 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Promoted to Sergt. Major Jan. 4, 1864; vet 
 
 Kreiter Philip 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 41 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 Lawrence, William A.. 
 Lee David . ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 SI 
 
 Aug. 25, 1861 
 Sept 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 eran. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out June 
 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of 
 War Department. 
 Discharged July 3 1862 on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Lenhart Hiram 
 
 do 
 
 SO 
 
 Aug 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 vet 
 
 Lennon, Lawrence 
 Longendoroff, Joseph. 
 
 Love Almond . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 31 
 44 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 Aug. 23, 1861 
 
 Feb. 9, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 eran. 
 
 Discharged April 7, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lyons , Samuel 
 
 McCarty, John 
 McDougal, James F... 
 
 Marker, Alexander 
 
 Meeker, Benjamin F... 
 Meeker, William B 
 
 Mix, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 35 
 
 23 
 18 
 
 45 
 
 18 
 25 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 16, 1862 
 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 Dec. 1,1861 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 Dec. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out June 
 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by order ol 
 War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred from Co. K Jan. 1, 1862; cap 
 tured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Dec. 21, 
 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration ol 
 term of service. 
 Died Oct. 6, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Miller, Brainerd 
 Mills, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 90 
 
 Aug. 13, 1863 
 Aug. 24, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; transferred to Oo. 
 K April 1, 1864. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 255 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 ^.ge 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 ervice 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Mott, Charles 
 Navarre , Oliver 
 Navarre, Peter 
 
 Neiles, Nicholas 
 Nishwltz John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 Private 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do ... 
 
 24 
 32 
 30 
 
 38 
 19 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 Aug. 23, 1861 
 Aug. 23, 1861 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 July 2, 1863 
 
 3yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 Syra. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 5, 1864, at Chattanooga, Term., of 
 wounds received in action. 
 Discharged July 23, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi-t 
 cate of disability. 
 Discharged March 25, 1863, on Surgeon s cer 
 tificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred to Co. K April 1, 1864. 
 
 Norton, Henry G 
 
 Orton, James C 
 Pike, Henry D 
 
 Pinkerton, James 
 Priame, Bradley L 
 
 Price , Charles 
 Ray, John H 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 ...do ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 28 
 19 
 
 21 
 87 
 
 27 
 32 
 
 43 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 Dec. 21, 1863 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 Aug. 18, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Oct. 12, 1863 
 
 Oct 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died Oct. 24, 1862, at Louisville, Ky. 
 Died June 25, 1864, at Bartow Iron Works, 
 Ga. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled . 
 Discharged Nov. 19, 1862, at Cincinnati, O., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Transferred to Co. K . 
 Discharged Sept. 19, 1864, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died Oct 29, 1861 
 
 Richmond Thomas 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 91 
 
 Nov. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Rottler, Mathias 
 
 ... do ... 
 do ... 
 
 27 
 34 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 Syrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Died April 18, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Searles Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ?f> 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K April 1, 1864. 
 
 Shepherd, Thomas 
 
 Siren , Thomas 
 Smith George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do . 
 
 22 
 
 27 
 91 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 Nov. 6, 1863 
 Dec. 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled . 
 
 Transferred from Co. K Jan. 1, 1862; died 
 
 Smith Thomas H 
 
 do . 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Nov. 19, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 Snider, Jacob 
 Spangler, Harrison ... 
 
 Sp angler, Henry D 
 Spathe John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do ... 
 
 45 
 22 
 
 18 
 
 38 
 
 Nov. 6, 1861 
 Sept. 17, 1864 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 Dec. 15, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Transferred from Co. L Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Discharged Nov. 11, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Straight, Milton H.... 
 Summerh alter, Fred k . 
 
 Taft, Frank S 
 Trembly, Joseph E 
 Underwood Geo R 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . do ... 
 
 22 
 37 
 
 24 
 19 
 
 19 
 
 July 17,1863 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 Sept. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. A April 1, 1864. 
 Discharged Feb. 4, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Died June 26, 1862. 
 Discharged Dec. 6, 1862, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 Van Fleet, Otis 
 Van Slacke, Richard... 
 
 Walton, William A 
 Webber, Jacob 
 Welsh, John 
 
 Wilcox, William 
 Williams, Albert L.... 
 
 Wintermute James S. . 
 
 .. do .. 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do 
 
 20 
 41 
 
 18 
 28 
 19 
 
 36 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 Sept. 23, 1862 
 
 Aug. 18, 1861 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 Aug. 31, 1861 
 Oct. 3, 1861 
 
 Dec. 7, 1863 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Veteran. 
 Discharged Feb. 6, 1863, on Spurgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died June 20, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 Discharged Nov. 1, 1861, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wintermute, Wm. H.. 
 Wolcott, Henry C 
 Yager, Jonas 
 
 Zedicker, John H 
 
 Coleman, Robert 
 Hurd, Lewis 
 Mathews, Abednego .. 
 Mathews, Thomas ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 Cook 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 
 27 
 31 
 19 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 49 
 25 
 33 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Dec. 19, 1863 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 April 8, 1865 
 April 8, 1865 
 April 8, 1865 
 April 8,1865 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Died Sept 1, 1864, in hospital at Marietta, 
 Ga. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
256 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 Mustered in September 10, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 William B. Amsden ... 
 Richard B. Wood 
 
 EHhu Isbell 
 Paul Deal 
 
 Captain 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 23 
 26 
 
 26 
 W 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 Sept 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; died June 19, 1862, 
 at Fremont, O. 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant Sept. 10, 1861; pro 
 moted to Captain June 20, 1862; killed Feb. 
 23, 1864, in action at Dalton, Ga. 
 Transferred from Co. L April 4, 1864; mus 
 tered out Nov. 21, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept 10 1861* 1st Ser 
 
 George F. Williams 
 Brainard Fish 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 90 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 geant ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. 
 K Nov. 24, 1863: to 1st Lieutenant from 2d 
 Lieutenant Co. K Nov. 30, 1864; to Captain 
 Jan. 6, 1865; mustered out with company 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Sept. 10, 1861; pro 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant June 20, 1862; to 
 Captain Co. F April 17, 1863. 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from Batt Sergt. 
 
 Thomas A. O Rourke.. 
 George Garfield 
 
 ... do ... 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 24 
 81 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Major May 20, 1862; to 1st Lieutenant June 
 19, 1863; to Captain Nov. 30, 1864, but not 
 mustered; mustered out Jan. 10, 1865, at 
 Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. L Jan. 6, 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865; veteran. 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co H June 7 
 
 Joseph Berry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1863: to Captain Nov. 30, 1864, but not mus 
 tered; mustered out Dec. 21, 1864, at Cleve 
 land, O., on expiration of term of service. 
 Promoted from Sergt Major April 8 1865 to 
 
 Charles S. Kelsey 
 William L. Stackhous. 
 
 Henry H Sears. . 
 
 1st Serg. 
 ... do ... 
 
 QMS 
 
 23 
 29 
 
 W 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 1st Lieutenant Aug. 2, 1865, but not mus- 
 tered; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865: veteran. 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 10, 1861; 1st Ser 
 geant April 4, 1864; promoted to 1st Lieu 
 tenant Co. L Nov. 30, 1864; veteran. 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 10, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 Dec. 2, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 April 8, 1865, but not mustered; mustered 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 David H. Lentz 
 Isaac Parrish 
 
 Edward A. Haines 
 
 George W . Butler 
 John Linebaugh 
 
 Robert Benfer 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 . . do . . 
 ...do ... 
 
 . . . do ... 
 
 24 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 37 
 
 1<> 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 Sergt. Major . 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; died May 19, 1862. 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 10, 1861; Sergeant 
 ; mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Column 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 George Wolcott 
 
 Benjamin F. Hill 
 Levi Hair 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 ...do ... 
 do 
 
 32 
 
 18 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 expiration of term of service. 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 10, 1861; Sergeant 
 ; prisoner of war; mustered out April 8, 
 1865, at Columbus, O., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; drowned 
 April 11, 1865, near Benton, Ala.; veteran. 
 
 Joseph P. Linebaugh.. 
 John Clary 
 Isaiah Stout 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do . . . 
 do 
 
 20 
 19 
 31 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 Sept 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 257 
 
 ^ 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Alexander Tittle 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Jacob Stahl 
 
 Corporal 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 1, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 William Meredith 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Michael Farmer 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 30, 1862. 
 
 Dennis D. Glass 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 14, 1864, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 William A. Blanden 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Wheeler Ferguson 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died Aug. 20, 1864, at Lovejoy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station, Ga., of wounds received In action. 
 
 Obed O. Russell 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; wounded Aug. 20, 1864, In 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 battle of Lovejoy Station, Ga.; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Jacob S. Stahl 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John Gould 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 37 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out July 28, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from Tripler Hospital, Columbus, O., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 Philip O. Hoffman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Edward P Lehr 
 
 do 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 William A. Gregg 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 38 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hiram Arlin 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Oct. 7, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John A. Deitz 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4. 1865; veteran. 
 
 Washington Logan . . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henry G. Stahl 
 
 Bugler 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of service. 
 
 George W. Myers 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gabriel Bunough 
 
 Farrier 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 17, 1863. 
 
 James White 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Alonson Grover 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Andrew J. Noggle 
 
 Saddler 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Saddler Sergeant Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Able George 
 
 Private 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Albee, Hezekiah D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Aldridge, Hiram 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Allbee, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 4, 1862, at Fremont, O. 
 
 Allen, Martin P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 6, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 27, 1863. 
 
 Amsden, Edward W... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Baker, Daniel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Basore, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Feb. 6, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Beck, Julius 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 24, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Bennett, Leonard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Oct. 12, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 25, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Brice, Stephen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to 77th Co., 2d Battalion, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, as "Stephen Bice," Oct. 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; mustered out from same Sept. 20, 1864, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Bitzer, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Boor, Silas C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Boyer, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 10, 1865. 
 
 Buck, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Bunscy Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Cavil, Edward 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Cox, Burgess F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 27, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Curry , John C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured May 29, 1864, at battle of Moulton, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ala.; paroled ; mustered out June 28, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Deitrich, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. E, 7th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 14, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sept. 10, 1864, on expiration of term ol 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Deleware, Christopher. 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department; veteran. 
 
258 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of - 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Dickerson, John 
 
 Private 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Term., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Donnel, James L 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 30 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Edwards, Hezekiah . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 16, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Ehman, Philip 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Eno, William 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 26 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Fawsey, William H... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ferguson, Charles ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 8, 1864, in hospital at Columbia, 
 Tenn. 
 
 Forester, Absalom ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Foster, John R. P... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 17 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 24, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Fought , Aaron 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 8, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Frazier, Darius N 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Games , Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Geru, Demas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gr aback, Augustus . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Graback, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Gr aback, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Aug. 20, 1864, at battle of Lovejoy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station, Ga.; mustered out Jan. 30, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gravelly Springs, Ala., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Grigwire, Louis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability; re-enlisted Sept. 30, 1862, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 for 3 years; discharged Feb. 22, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gallatin, Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 disability. 
 
 Grigwire, Peter 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 2, 1862, at Camp Chase, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Haines, Samuel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hare, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 30 
 
 Oct. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as John Hair; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 17, 1864, in action at Jonesboro, Ga.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out June 24, 1865, at Camp Chase, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Harrison, George A... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Axig. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hathaway, Philip 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 22, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hawk, Marion 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 17 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out May 15, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbus, O., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Helmkee , Jacob 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 14, 1863, in action near Fay- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 etteville, Tenn.; mustered out March 21, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Columbus, O., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Hill, Gilbert W 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hill, Joseph A 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hill, Thomas M... 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hill, William A 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 27, 1865, at Gravelly Springs, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ala., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Hill, William C 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Holcomb, Allen 
 
 . . do 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Holland, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Inman Barzillia 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Mustered out with compciny Aufir. 4 1865 
 
 Jackson, Thomas 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10 \ 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 30, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 James Milo 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Died Nov. 17, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Kelsey, James 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept! 10 1 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 24, 1864, at Cleveland, O. , on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability; veteran. 
 
 Kerns, Harvey 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 King, Isaac 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captuied Oct. 14, 1863; paroled Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Kisher, Jacob 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 22, 1864, in hospital at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn . 
 
 Lemon , Richard 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 Lemon, Williard 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lockwood, Sardus B.. 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 3, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Long, William M 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lucas, David O 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 McElhaney, Frank 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 McFeters, William W.. 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mallenee, Oliver 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Merrlman, Frank 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 259 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Michaels George 
 
 Private 
 
 21 
 
 Feb. 15 1863 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 IVfll^fprpri out" wifh pnmT^Qnir Ai-nv 4 IQCIK 
 
 Miller, Able 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ITIUS LCICLI UUL witu company Aug. 4, Iob5. 
 Died June 8, 1862 
 
 Miller, Gabriel D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Sept! I, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 26, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Miller, Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; rat 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 er an. 
 
 Miller, Joseph G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Miller, Reuben 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 14, 1863, of wounds received in 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 action. 
 
 Minckley, Marion 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Morse, Edward D 
 
 . do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Moyer, Abraham 
 
 do .. 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 22, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Muney, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 8, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Neepe , Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Nefl, George 
 
 do 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 26, 1863, on Surge on s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Neff, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 14, 1862. 
 
 Norton, Henry G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Ad 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 jutant 137th Regiment U. S. Colored Troops 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 8, 1865; from which mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 regiment Jan. 15, 1866. 
 
 Oakes, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Odell, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Ora , Francis 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. M Dec. 10, 1861; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Jan. 11, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Palmer, Frederick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Parish , Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 25, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability; re-enlisted Jan. 16, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out to date Aug. 3, 1865, by order 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of War Department. 
 
 Patterson, Franklin .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Peck, Jefferson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Pickett, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 19, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Pope, Henry P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Ream, Franklin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 31, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 17, 1864, in hospital at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 Sanders , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Seaman, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Setzler, John 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Shively, Solomon 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 29 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sloan, Hilliard H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability; re-enlisted Jan. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 wounded Aug. 20, 1864, in battle of Lovejoy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Station, Ga.; mustered out June 21, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Smith, Emanuel D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Francis M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 July 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Spohn, Jonathan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Stackhouse, Jos. G. M. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 20, 1862. 
 
 Sweet , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Timons, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Trescott, Erastus E... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Warren, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 1, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Welker, George D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 26, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 West, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Teasting, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 10, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Beech Charles 
 
 Cook 
 
 28 
 
 April 26, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Fleming, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Mch. 16, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Moore , Alexander 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 April 8, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Reed, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 April 8, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
260 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 Mustered in November 4, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. 8. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Charles B Seidel 
 
 Captain 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; promoted to Major 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 16, 1862. 
 
 Thomas D. McClelland 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 40 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. A Jan. 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862; to Major Dec. 8, 1863. 
 
 Edwin Clark 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from Batt. Sergt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Major May 20, 1862; to 1st Lieutenant Feb. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14, 1863; to Captain Dec. 8, 1863; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Nov. 19, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Seymour B. Coe 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 43 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 missary of Subsistence Nov. 30, 1864; brev- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 etted Major to date from March 13, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to Major Aug. 2, 1865, but not 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered; mustered out with company Aug. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4, 1865. 
 
 Robert Moore 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; resigned June 20, 1862. 
 
 Francis P. Gates 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Sept. 7, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant June 20, 1862; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Captain Co. H March 5, 1863. 
 
 Orange H. Howland... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C as 2d Lieutenant April 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24, 1863; promoted to 1st Lieutenant March 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31, 1864; to Captain Co. K Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 John M. Keller 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 33 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. C Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain Co. F March 29, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 William B. Gates 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Bugler Sept. 7, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Nov. 24, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co. A Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Joseph M. Fox 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 7, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 4, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 30, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. A Jan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John H. Lawrence 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. B April 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 William B. Kerr 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant April 8, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 but not mustered; to Captain 137th Regiment 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 U. S. Colored Troops April 8, 1865, from 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 which mustered out with regiment Jan. 15, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1866; veteran. 
 
 Lycurgus W. Severns.. 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at , on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas L. McEwen... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 7, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; Q. M. Sergeant ; promoted to Regt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant Oct. 3, 1864; veteran. 
 
 James C. Serrels 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Clark Serrels; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 as privat; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John Moore 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 7, 1861; Com. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. I 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 9, 1864; veteran. 
 
 Thomas Allen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Henry M Miller 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; promoted to Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Major . 
 
 John Delong 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; discharged Sept. 23, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Oliver Crouse 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; died Nov. 24, 1861. 
 
 Milton Askue 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 7, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expira 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 William A. Martaln... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Daniel A. Smith 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 William H. Potter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 15, 1862, at Gallatin, Tenn.; paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to Captain 137th Regiment 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 U. S. Colored Troops April 8, 1865; from 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 which mustered out with regiment Jan. 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1866; veteran. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 261 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 John Mail 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 William O. Hissong. . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John T. McClelland . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; died 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 2, 1865, of wounds received In battle 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Selma, Ala. 
 
 Samuel A. Bell 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant April 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 William A. McAtee.... 
 
 Corporal 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; discharged April 22, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 George W . Polick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as Pollock; appointed 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 George Desoe 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; discharged Nov. 21, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Adam J. Endley 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; discharged Dec. 15, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Hugh Thompson 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; died May 20, 1863. 
 
 Milton Cake 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Johnson Taylor 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Isaac White 
 
 ... do 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Lewis Deems 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 16 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Nathan Dewitt 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 6, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Peter Stillwagoner .... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 George Strawhaker . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed -; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John Kohl 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Dec. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Everett Stonestreet 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Leander Glenn 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed April 2, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Ebenezer Lowery 
 
 Bugler 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died Aug. 7, 1864, of wounds 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 received at Cartersville, Ga. 
 
 Thomas H. Sefton 
 
 Farrier 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; discharged Jan. 8, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 John Shafer 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 James Burns 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Isaac Bicktal 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Nov. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John Hay wood 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William Lamley 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 44 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Thomas P. Miller 
 
 Saddler 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 7, 1861; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Allen, Hiram 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Allen, Joseph F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Allen Socrates 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Discharged July 16, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Ash, William . 
 
 . do .. 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Baker, William C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department; veteran. 
 
 Balliard, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 10, 1862. 
 
 Barrett , Myron H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Regt. Q. M. Sergeant . 
 
 Bishop, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Boyer , Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Nov. 19, 1861. 
 
 Brown , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Buckner , Arthur J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Feb. 16, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 23, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Bruro , John 
 
 . . do 
 
 42 
 
 Nov. 25, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Burns, John M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Bushong, William A... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Olay, Francis M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Orowner , Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gulp , Jefferson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured , in action at Columbia, Tenn.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled : died Jan. 31, 1864, at Bowling 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Green, Ky. 
 
 Culver, Martin V. D.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
262 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Cunningham, John ... 
 Curtzwiler, Charles ... 
 
 Diddian, Martin 
 Dufner, Joseph 
 
 Private 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do . . 
 
 24 
 18 
 
 21 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 Dec 29 1863 
 
 3yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, ^864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out July 19, 1865, from hospital at 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Martin Dedon;" mus 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Eggleston, James G... 
 Endly, Charles 
 Englbreth, Henry 
 Etswiler, Thomas 
 
 Fassett, Hamilton 
 Finley , Thomas 
 Fish, Brainard 
 Fisher, Henry 
 Follin, David F 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do . . 
 
 22 
 18 
 26 
 22 
 
 18 
 29 
 20 
 17 
 >! 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Jan. 18, 1864 
 Oct. 5, 1863 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Promoted to Batt. Sergt. Major Dec. 1, 1861. 
 Died Oct. 7, 1863, of wounds received in action. 
 Died May 25 1863 at Nashville Tenn 
 
 Follin, William 
 Fox, Stephen 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do 
 
 26 
 
 99 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 Aug 10 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Discharged Aug. 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Fry, John 
 
 Gfell, Leonard 
 Gibbs, John 
 
 Gibson, William W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ...do .. 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 26 
 
 19 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept 24 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1864; no further record found. 
 Discharged Aug. 25, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service . 
 
 Gibson, Abraham 
 Godfrey, George 
 
 Godfrey , Willi am 
 Goodman, John 
 
 Gorman, John 
 Grant, Thomas 
 
 Green , Sherman 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do ... 
 .. do ... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 21 
 
 26 
 46 
 
 29 
 19 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Oct. 5, 1863 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Discharged Nov. 21, 1862, on Surgeon s certifl 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Discharged July 8, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability: re-enlisted Oct. 7, 1862, 
 for 3 years: died March 7, 1864, in hospital! 
 at Louisville, Ky. 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Nov. 5, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct 3 1864 on expiration of 
 
 Greenwalt, Henry 
 Griffin, John 
 Grower , Henry 
 
 Hafer, Daniel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 .. do ... 
 . . do . . . 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 24 
 24 
 
 Oct. 22, 1863 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Aug 29 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out May 30, 1865, at Camp Dennison, 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 Discharged Aug. 25, 1863, at Stevenson, Ala., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Captured Dec. 31, 1862, at battle of Murfrees- 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 Discharged March 30 1863 on Surgeon s sertifi- 
 
 Harris, Ervin R 
 
 do 
 
 17 
 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrg 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hartshorn , Alfred 
 
 Hepp, William 
 
 Hettinger, George 
 Hissong, Levi 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 . . do . . 
 ..do . 
 
 27 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 23 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Nov 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 1863. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Albert Hartshorn;" 
 mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service . 
 Died May 24, 1862. 
 Discharged Oct 22 1862, on Surgeon s certifi- 
 
 Hooper, Sidney 
 Hoy, Cyrus 
 
 . . do . . . 
 do 
 
 22 
 25 
 
 Oct. 2, 1863 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Died June 17, 1864, at Louisville, Ky. 
 Transferred to 42d Co 2d Battalion Veteran 
 
 Hunt, William 
 Huston, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 .. do 
 
 18 
 19 
 
 Jan. 11, 1864 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 vrs 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 28, 1863. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ingerson , Daniel 
 
 do 
 
 33 
 
 Dec 11 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out May 31 1865 at Columbus O 
 
 Johnson, Richard M... 
 
 Johnston, Thomas ... 
 Jones, George W 
 
 Jones, James 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 .. do ... 
 . . do . . . 
 
 . do 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 23 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7,1861 
 
 Oct. 24, 1864 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 Nov 2 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 Discharged Sept. 18, 1863, at Camp Dennison, 
 O., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out May 30. 1865, at Cleveland, O., 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Kannaly, Thomas 
 Kennedy, William 
 
 . . do . . . 
 . . do . . . 
 
 45 
 43 
 
 Oct. 14, 1863 
 Oct 1 1 863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Thomas Kaneeley:" 
 mastered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out June 24, 1865, 
 
 Kennedy, William 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Died June 15, 1862. 
 
Roster of Regiment, 
 
 263 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Kerr, James L 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Dec 16 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Kuncy, Norman 
 Laird, Jacob 
 
 Lash, Thomas 
 Licbty, Amos 
 
 Lockheart, Henry 
 Machel, George 
 Martin Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 22 
 21 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Jan. 20, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Discharged June 21, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Discharged Aug 6 1862 on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Martin, John 
 Melville, David C 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 38 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 Aug. 9, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged Feb. 8, 1863, at Camp Stanley, 
 
 Miller, Cantwell 
 Moulett, Michael 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 19 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr 
 
 Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mulcahy, Cornelius ... 
 Muttersbaugh, Abraham 
 
 Murphy, John 
 O Connor, Edward 
 Pearson, Samuel S 
 
 Peasley, William T 
 Peckinpaugh, Sebas. S. 
 Perry, Albert 
 Pifer Nathan J 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 27 
 27 
 18 
 
 24 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 99 
 
 Dec. 11, 1863 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 6, 1863 
 Nov. 2, 1863 
 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept 7 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Discharged Feb. 2, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred from Co. I ; mustered out 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged March 23, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out July 27, 1865, at Camp Dennison, 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out Oct 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 Piper, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 9 1 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 Platt, Benjamin F 
 Potter, Ezra 
 Prineehorn , Henry 
 
 Schwabley, Urban 
 Seymour , Peter 
 
 Shann Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 17 
 20 
 
 23 
 21 
 
 ">0 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 Jan 6 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Jan. 24, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Transferred to 106th Co. 2d Battalion, Vet 
 eran Reserve Corps, Dec. 3, 1863; mustered 
 out from same Oct. 13, 1864, on expiration 
 of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out June 2, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 by order of War Department. 
 Died July 21, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 Shortice, Asbury 
 Showers, Jeremiah .... 
 
 Simmons, Abraham ... 
 Simmons, Otho 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do .. 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 23 
 
 30 
 94 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 Feb. 25, 18()4 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Died Sept. 15, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Simmons, Thomas 
 Singleton , William 
 
 Smith, Robert R 
 
 Snavely, Jacob R 
 Spaide, Daniel 
 
 Starrett, William 
 Strayer, Reuben 
 Thornton, A. C 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 40 
 
 19 
 
 23 
 
 24 
 
 19 
 18 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 Dec. 18, 1863 
 
 Sept. 13, 1863 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Oct. 1, 1863 
 Feb. 2, 1864 
 Doc. 21, 1861 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out May 30, 1865. at Camp Dennison, 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 Discharged April 20, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died April 6, 1863. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged July 11, 1862, at Columbus, O., on 
 
 Tiaxler, Charles 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 >o 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Transferred to Co. F . 
 
 Tindle, Francis 
 Venett, Frank G. E... 
 Webb, Chester C 
 
 Wickireo, Washington. 
 Witt, Horatio 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 15 
 
 27 
 18 
 
 19 
 43 
 
 Dec. 9, 1863 
 Oct. 1,1863 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 Mch. 8,1865 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Aug. 24, 1865, from hospital at 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 Worley David 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Feb 15 1864 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wright, William B... 
 Wright, William B 
 
 Yeornan, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 90 
 
 Mch. 2, 1865 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 Young , Martin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 term of service. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Martin You:" trans 
 ferred from Co. A ; mustered out May 
 31, 1865, at Camp Dennison, O., by order 
 of War Department. 
 
264 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Zimmerman, Lafayette 
 Ingham , James 
 
 Private 
 Cook 
 
 22 
 18 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 Mch. 18, 1865 
 
 3yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Nov. 15, 1862, in a skirmish. 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Walker, Miles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Oct. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Warton , Mingo 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ?0 
 
 April 28, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Williams, Jordan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 April 28, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Oliver G Smith 
 
 Captain 
 
 33 
 
 Aug. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Aug. 17, 1861; honorably discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 26, 1862. 
 
 George P. Roberts 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant Sept. 2, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to Captain Sept. 11, 1862; resigned 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 17, 1863. 
 
 George F . Willi ams 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. D April 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Philander B. Lewis.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Dec. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. F from 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant Co. L Nov. 24, 1863; to 1st Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant Co. G Nov. 30, 1864; to Captain Co. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 F Jan. 6, 1865; transferred to Co. M Feb. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10, 1865. 
 
 John M Keller 
 
 do 
 
 33 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Promoted from 1st LioiitGn&iit Co. E Msrch 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29, 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Elihu Isbell 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Sept. 6, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant Co. C Jan. 5, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 transferred from Co. C April 24, 1863; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to Captain Co. L Aug. 12, 1863. 
 
 Thomas Nunan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Sergeant Sept. 10, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant Jan. 5, 1863; to 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lieutenant March 31, 3864; assigned to Regt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adjutant July 22, 1864. 
 
 Christopher C. Clay... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. C July 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain Co. B Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Thomas J. Coslet 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. H Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864: mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Thomas L. McEwen... 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Regt. Com. Sergeant Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Quarter 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 master March 29, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Wordon W. Welcher... 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 6, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Maylam J. Bassett 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed Oct. 3, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. A Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; veteran. 
 
 Llewellyn W. French.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Jan. 15, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to Captain 137th Regiment U. S. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Colored Troops April 8, 1865; from which 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with regiment Jan. 15, 1866; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 James H. Johnson 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant Nov. 1, 1861. 
 
 Joseph S. Lutz 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 David A. Bishop 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Nov. 4, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Theodore L. Prosser . . 
 
 Com.Ser. 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Nov. 4, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 William B. Pollinger.. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 28, 1861. 
 
 Silas Gould 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Oct. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 28, 1861; died May 12, 1863. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 265 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Ag 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 George Q. Holiday 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 6, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 29, 1862, in action at Murfreesboro, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn.; paroled ; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Dudley W . Post 
 
 ... do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 vr^ 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 6, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 o JIB. 
 
 ; mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Samuel S Hoyt 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 10, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 William Latham 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 33 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 Alfred F. Washburn... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 6, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. G Nov. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864; veteran. 
 
 William P. Lee 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant Co. H Nov. 24, 1863. 
 
 Thomas Martin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 31, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant Co. K Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 John B. Young 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 ! Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; drowned 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 18, 1865, at Macon, Ga.; veteran. 
 
 Edwin R. Holliday.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Edward;" mustered as 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 private; appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Benjamin F. Shepard do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Nov. 4, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 James H. Hart 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Nov. 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 15, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Aaron Thompson do... 18 Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Nov. 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 June 17, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John T. King 
 
 ...do ... 25 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Nov. 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 June 17, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Richard H. Reed | Corporal 25 Sept. 9,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; discharged Aug. 26, 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Osher W. Coon 
 
 ... do ... 29 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 John N. Barnes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 Sept. 5,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 6, 1861; died April 19, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn.; veteran. 
 
 Hiram Lynn 
 
 do i 20 Spnt S IRfil 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; killed Aug. 20, 1864, in battle 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Lovejoy Station, Ga.; veteran. 
 
 George Mitchell 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at 
 
 
 - 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 service . 
 
 John N. Roberts 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 17, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Albert L. Williams.... 
 
 ...do ... 18 Oct. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 George W. Lee 
 
 ... do ... 18 
 
 Dec. 28, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Jared Palmer 
 
 ... do ... 25 
 
 Dec. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John W. Maxwell 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Arthur H. West 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Jan. 15, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henry S. Barker 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Oct. 6, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henry Van Sickles 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 11, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sidney G. Mitchell 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 o yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 20, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Joseph A . Locherer 
 
 Bugler 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "J. A. Locher;" ap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pointed Dec. 11, 1861; discharged Sept. 12, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Abraham Sinfield 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Isaac Harbaugh 
 
 Farrier 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; mustered out Nov. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Artimus Richards 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Nov. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 11, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Veterinary Surgeon Dec. 11, 1861. 
 
 John Wall 
 
 do 
 
 27 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Frank Rogers 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; died April 7, 1862. 
 
 Adkins, Jackson J 
 
 Private 
 
 39 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
266 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Adkins, John 
 
 Private 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Amerman, Josiah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Feb. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Arnott, Barkdoll 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 14, 1862. 
 
 Arnott, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 30, 1862. 
 
 Bailey, James H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Bare, Elias 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 29, 1862, at Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 Barnes, Harris 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 22, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Horace Barnes;" dis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 charged Feb. 24, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Beardsley, David A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 30, 1862, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Beckerstalk, Jacob ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 29, 1862, in action at Murfrees- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Blair, William H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 39 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 29, 1862, in action at Murfrees- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered out May 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1865, at Camp Dennison, O., by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department. 
 
 Bliley, Lawrence 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 43 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Brady, Jeremiah D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Feb. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Breen , Patrick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Buckley, Thomas E. .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 2, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Buxley, Elijah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 41 
 
 Oct. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Campbell, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to 1st Co., 2d Battalion, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 17, 1863; died Aug. 31, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863. 
 
 Coates, Josiah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Ooykendall , Wesley . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 15, 1862. 
 
 Crow, Ira W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O., by order of War Department; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Culver, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Cr an well, Thomas S... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Nov. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Thomas Cromwell;" 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 died April 18, 1864, on board boat en route 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from Fortress Monroe, Va., to Baltimore, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Md. 
 
 Dagnon Peter 
 
 do 
 
 34 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 15, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability . 
 
 Duxbury , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Engelbeck, Joseph W.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 28, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, by order 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of War Department. 
 
 Farley, Albion 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Fisher, Louis D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Flaven , Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Absent since Dec. 20, 1864; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Fox Albert S 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Fox, Thomas 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 34 
 
 Nov. 14, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Frier, Francis J 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Freer;" mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Gentle, Thomas W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Gould Peter H 
 
 do 
 
 41 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Granger , John H 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 34 
 
 Jan. 1,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Green , James B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Hospital Steward Nov. 1, 1864. 
 
 Grimes, John 
 
 ... do 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hahn, Austin B 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 12, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hahn, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 1, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Houghn;" mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hanley, James W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hanley , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 29, 1862, in action at Murfrees- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; discharged April 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21, 1863, to date July 2, 1862, on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 
 Hart, Franklin 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Jan. 4, 1864; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Haskins, Isaah P 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 11, 1862, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Hayne, Charles 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Detached as Orderly in 1862 with General Gar- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 field; supposed to be dead; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Heath, Amasa 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 29, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 267 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Heath, John L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 29,1864 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henderson, Frank M.. 
 
 Private 
 
 23 
 
 Dec. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Hess, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Jan. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war since Sept. 5, 1864; paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 26, 1865, at N. E. Ferry, N. C.; no 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 further record found. 
 
 Houghton, Alexander.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Term., by order of War Department. 
 
 Houghton, Ncholas ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Humphries , Parker . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Kedwell, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 24, 1862. 
 
 Keefer, Charles H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Feb. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 3, 1865, at Gravelly Springs, Ala. 
 
 Keefer, Dean 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Ausr. 4 1865. 
 
 King, Hayburn 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 King, Henry C 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 34 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 LaDuke, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 10, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department. 
 
 LeClear, Daniel 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Lee , Charles L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 26, 1863, at Murfreesboro, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., o Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Lee, Frederick S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 22, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Lee, James M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lloyd, Lyman G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Long, Alfred H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Aug. 20, 1864, in battle of Lovejoy Sta 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion, Ga. 
 
 Long, John W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lynn, Melvin S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 McCoy, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 McDannel , Albert . . . 
 
 do .. 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 28, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 23, 1864. 
 
 Mann, James H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 Oct. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 24, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Meddaugh , Randolph . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Mitchell, Adelbert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Morrison, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 19, 1862. 
 
 Myers , John 
 
 ... do 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. , on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Noble, Albert D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Shot Aug. 5, 1862, by guerrillas. 
 
 O Brien, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Jan. 17, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 18, 1865, at Madison, Ind., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on account of wounds received Aug. 20, 1864, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 in battle of Lovejoy Station, Ga. 
 
 Peacock , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 30, 1862. 
 
 Pierce, Andrew J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Porter Ira W 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Prosser, Edwin S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 8, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Ransom, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 2, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Redwood, Robert S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 2, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 11, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Riggs, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 15, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Roberts, James J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Roberts , Hiram M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Roberts, William H.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 12, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Robinson , John 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Rounds, Lewis A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Returned to Co. D, 8th Regiment, O. V. I., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 where he had previously enlisted. 
 
 Rowe, Martin 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Sanford, Victor 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Oct. 31, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Setchel, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 14, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Seymour, Martin E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 28, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. I, 17th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Jan. 16, 1865: mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Aug. 15, 1865, at Indianapolis, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ind., by order of War Department. 
 
 Sheldon, Richard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 29, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Sheldon , William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 7, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Shepard, Joseph B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Sherwood, George F... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Shirley, Job 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
268 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Shreck, Luis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 13, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Smith, Henry 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Spencer, George B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Byron Spencer;" mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Sutton, Andrew J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Sykes , Royal 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 17, 1862. 
 
 Tappin, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. L Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Taylor Charles 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Aug. 28, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 Taylor, George 
 
 :::do::: 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Taylor , John B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 5,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. B, 8th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 31, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Sept. 5, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Thompson, Fredk. W. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 43 
 
 Sept. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 4, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Tiaxler, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. E ; died Sept. 20, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 Towers, Leo P 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 44 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 4, 1865, in hospital at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Town, William O 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Tuli an , Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 5, 1865, at Columbus, O. , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Vanscoy, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 12, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Vanscoy, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Vincent , Almond 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 28, 1861, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Watson, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Missing in action Aug. 20, 1864; no further 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 record found; veteran. 
 
 Weston, George 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 20, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wininger, Solomon ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 60 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. I, 17th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Jan. 15, 1865; discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same June 24, 1865, at Indianapolis, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ind., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Barnes , Robert 
 
 Cook 
 
 24 
 
 June 20, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Caan, Franklin 
 
 do 
 
 26 
 
 June 20, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 i Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Perkins, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Watts, Richard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Walker, Isaac 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 39 
 
 Mch. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Leonard Adams 
 
 Captain 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; captured Oct. 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to Major June 7, 1863. 
 
 Martin Archer 
 
 ... do 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. H June 7, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; to Major Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Adolph M. Heflebower. 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; honorably discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 March 20, 1863. 
 
 Henry M. Miller 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergt. Major March 21, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 resigned Nov. 20, 1864. 
 
 Philander B. Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Dec. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. F Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain Co. F Jan. 6, 1865. 
 
 Thomas C. Baker 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 14, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 11, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. A Nov. 30, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant from 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2d Lieutenant Co. A Jan. 6, 1865; com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 manded company from that date until mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out; mustered out with company Aug. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Edwin R. Toll 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 13, 1861; promoted to 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1863, but not mustered; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 honorably discharged March 21, 1863. 
 
 Prank J . Wilham 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Oct. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Regt. Q. M. Sergeant Jan. 21, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; transferred to Co. A April 24, 1863. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 269 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 David E Golden . . . 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 31 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Oct. 14, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant March 5, 1863; re 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 signed May 16, 1864. 
 
 Alfred F. Washburn... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergt. Co. F Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Calvin 8. Kimball 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 *yn. 
 
 Promoted from Sergt. Major March 31, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 prisoner of war; escaped Feb. 21, 1865, near 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wilmington, N. C.; promoted to 1st Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant Nov. 30, 1864, but not mustered; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Captain Feb. 23, 1865, but not mustered; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 John M. Keller 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 S3 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Oct. 14, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. C July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13, 1864; veteran. 
 
 John J. Anderson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Oct. 14, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 8, 1865, but not mustered; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 William Lightcap 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 51 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Miles H Rice 
 
 do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Jan. 1, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 John J. Miller 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 SO 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 14, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lexington, Ky.; paroled ; appointed 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 John A. Whitrnire 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 wounded March 22, 1865, near Cherokee Sta 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion, Ga.; mustered out July 19, 1865, from 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 hospital at Camp Dennison, O., by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department; veteran. 
 
 William M. Patrick.... 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; killed Aug. 3, 1862, by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 guerrillas. 
 
 Robert R. Wilkinson... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; discharged Jan. 29, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 David W. Fisher 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; discharged Sept. 11, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Nelson Smith 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 14, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; appointed Sergeant ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Alexander M. Oowgill.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 14, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Josiah H. Feagles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 14, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service.. 
 
 Henry F. Stress 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Soloman F. Gambee... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; appointed Corporal ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant Jan. 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John M. Bearse 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 3, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out June 15, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 John C. dayman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant Jan. 15, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 John O. Grafton 
 
 Corporal 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; promoted to Batt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hospital Steward Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Ansel Elemes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; discharged Nov. 10, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, at Columbus, O. , on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 John Gary 
 
 do 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ADDointed " mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Henry E. Mandal 
 
 do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Samuel Aldstadt 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William R. Dunlap 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 11 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 James J. Wolf 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; discharged March 5, 1865, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability; veteran. 
 
270 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Bank 
 
 Agf 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Conrad J. Hoote 
 
 Corpora 
 
 33 
 
 Dec. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out April 13, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 George Sweet 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 16, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Louisville, Ky., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 James G. Watson 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 31 
 
 Aug. 22, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died Aug. 20, 1864, at Buck- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 head, Ga. 
 
 Ephraim York 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed June 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 George Porter 
 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 Dec. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4/1865. 
 
 Alexander Musgrave . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 12, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 James Hyde 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Daniel Mogle 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 George W. Bigler 
 
 Bugler 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Zeigler;" appointed 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 14, 1861; discharged Oct. 21, 1862, on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 William Harvey 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 James T. Leckliter 
 
 Farrier 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 14, 1861; discharged March 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Wesley Oranker 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Uriah Sohn 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 40 
 
 Oct. 21, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Returned to Co. D, 58th Regiment, O. V. I., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 where he had previously enlisted, Feb. 7, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 James M . Burg 
 
 Saddler 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Saddler Sergeant Dec. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861. 
 
 James D. Ooleman 
 
 ... do .. 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, J865; veteran. 
 
 Bearse, William S 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Blue Samuel 
 
 do 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Boehler, Elias 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Britton, Milford 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 17 
 
 Dec. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Briner , Amos 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. H Dec. 1, 1861; dis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 charged Oct. 1, 1862, on Surgeon s certificate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of disability. 
 
 Broka, Henry C 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Brouse Henry C 
 
 do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Brown John A 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Joseph A. Brown;" 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Buffington, Jacob 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 30 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 20, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Burkhart, William 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged by civil authority. 
 
 Oaldwell, Andrew J 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Sept. 21, 1864, in Andersonville Prison, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Cleveland, Alburtus B. 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Coger, Samuel 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Collins David 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to 68th Co., 2d Battalion, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Jan. 20, 1864; discharged from 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 same by civil authority. 
 
 Cooper, Harmon 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cowgill William 
 
 do . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Cramer, Joseph 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 39 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Died July 2, 1862. 
 
 Creglow, Francis M 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 13, 1862. 
 
 Crowe George F 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Davis Smith 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war: mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Dellet James 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 16 
 
 Dec. 4,1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Dlller, Abram 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.: paroled ; discharged May 19, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Doing, David 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 40 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 20, 1861. 
 
 Drain, Jacob 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Dresander, John O 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 6, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Drumhiller, Aaron 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Duval Perry 
 
 do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 271 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Eichelberry, Miles 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Evans, Walter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Eyerly , Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 j 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865 
 
 Fagar, Nicholas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Aug. 3, 1862, by guerrillas. 
 
 Falkner , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 16, 1861. 
 
 Finley, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 21, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865 
 
 Fisher, Alexander 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 10, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Freeman, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 28, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865 
 
 Freze, Elias 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 16, 1863, on Surgeon s certifl 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Gibson, Lewis S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 10, 1862, on Surgeon s certifl 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Gifford, Homer W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 8, 1865, from hospital 
 
 Gifford , Jerome 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Mch. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Cincinnati, O., by order of War Department 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865 
 
 Gregg, John F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 2, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Grove, Elias 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 25, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 1, 1865, in hospital at Knoxville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 Hamilton, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 1, 1865, at home in Benton town 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ship, Ottawa county, O. 
 
 Horobin, Thomas H. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Dec. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., on expiration 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of term of service. 
 
 House, Augustus 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 16 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hospleham , George . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 22, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability; veteran. 
 
 Howard, George F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Navy ; veteran. 
 
 Hummel, Quintus 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 21, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department; veteran. 
 
 Huston, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 44 
 
 Dec. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; reduced May 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Jones, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Jones John . . 
 
 . . do 
 
 20 
 
 Jan. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Krauss, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 54 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; discharged March 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 La Point, Alexander.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 4, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 3, 1863. 
 
 Lawrence, James L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 4, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Lay , Nicholas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled . 
 
 Logan Isaac . . 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 McCollister, James ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 McDargh, Charles J... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 McDermott , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 reduced Jan. i, 1865; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 McKibben, James F... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 15, 1861. 
 
 McKinley, Michael R. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; discharged Nov. 20, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Marble Martin . ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Martin, Robert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Mch. 3, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mater , Cyrus 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 21, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mauk, George D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Miller Gottlieb 
 
 do .. 
 
 27 
 
 Aug. 30, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Miller, Lewis 
 
 do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 10, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 7, 1864. 
 
 Miller John L 
 
 do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 14, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 2, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Moser , Abram 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Mowery, Jacob B 
 Myers Isaiah M 
 
 ... do ... 
 do ... 
 
 23 
 31 
 
 Feb. 4, 1864 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred to Co. I, 12th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, May 20, 1864; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Dec. 12, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Nitchman, DeMarcus L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Northcutt, Joseph P.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 20, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
272 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Palmer , Lewis 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 10, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Parkhurst , Abner 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 29 
 
 Feb. 1, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Post, William 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; discharged April 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Randal, Felise 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ray Henry T 
 
 do .. 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; transferred to 5th U. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 S. Cavalry Feb. 3, 1863. 
 
 Reed, Reuben 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 St. John, Philo 
 
 ...do.. 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 21, 1862, of wounds received in ac 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion. 
 
 Sanders, George W... 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 18, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Sanders, Jacob 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 19, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sanford, Benjamin F 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 22, 1862, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Schimansky, Otto 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Scott, John 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 3, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
 
 Shephard, John B 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 22 
 
 Nov. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 5, 1862. 
 
 Slaven, Christopher 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; killed Aug. 20, 1864. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 in battle of Jonesboro, Ga.; veteran. 
 
 Smith, Frank J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 26, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Smith, Joseph 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. D, 2d Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 19, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Feb. 21, 1865, at Detroit, Mich., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Solenberger, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Steckel Henry L 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Oct. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 5, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Steckel, Louis P 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 6, 1865, at Annapolis, Md. 
 
 Sullivan , John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Nov. 11, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed July 20, 1864, in action at Loganville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Tanner, James E 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Taylor, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 20, 1861. 
 
 Townsend, James H... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Absent, sick, since Jan. 12, 1865; no further/ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 record found. 
 
 Try an, Henry 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Turner, Philoman 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Vanetton, Aaron 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wagner, William P 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Dec. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 6, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Walker, Joseph ... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 30, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Wardell, Lorenzo 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Warren, Frederick 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 Waterman, John J 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Webb, James K 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Webb, Labin 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 33 
 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Weeks , Myron 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Wounded April 2, 1865, in battle of Selma, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ala.; mustered out Aug. 15, 1865, from hos 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pital at Cincinnati, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Wickham, James W... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Wilkins Nelson 
 
 do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Winnull, Joseph H 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wise, Lafayette 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Oct. 18, 1862, in action. 
 
 Wurts, Hiram 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Nov. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. E, 12th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 6, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Nov. 16, 1863, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Zachariah, William ... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 35 
 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bourns, William 
 
 Cook 
 
 22 
 
 April 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; no further record found. 
 
 Heard Henry 
 
 . do .. 
 
 
 April 23, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lared , Artemus 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 
 April 23, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Malen , Jackson 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 
 April 23, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Motley, John . . .... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 April 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 273 
 
 COMPANY H. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Charles W. Skinner 
 
 Captain 
 
 42 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant Sept. 14, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to Captain Oct. 10, 1861: to Major 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 14, 1863. 
 
 Francis P. Gates 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. E March 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863; to Major Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Jesse N. Squires 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 Syrg. 
 
 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant from Regt. Com. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant June 2, 1863; to Captain Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; on detached duty as Act. Inspector 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 General at 2d Division Cavalry Headquar 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ters since April 3, 1865; mustered out Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 William Maxwell 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 10, 1861; promoted to Captain 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 12, 1862, but not mustered; honorably 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 discharged Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Martin Archer 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 17, 1861; promoted 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to 1st Lieutenant Nov. 12, 1862; to Captain 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Co. G June 17, 1863. 
 
 George A. Clark 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. L Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain June 16, 1865, but not mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Samuel J. Hansey 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 10, 1861; promoted to 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lieutenant Co. C Sept. 11, 1862. 
 
 Edward A. Haines 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Batt. Sergt. Major Sept. 11, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862; to 1st Lieutenant Co. I March 31, 1864. 
 
 William P. Lee 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. F Nov. 24, 1863; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louisville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky. , on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Ambrose D. Hawes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. B Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to 1st Lieutenant Aug. 2, 1865, but not mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 George Garfleld 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 31 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 17, 1861; 1st Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 D June 7, 1863. 
 
 Thomas J Coslet ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Sept. 17, 1861; 1st Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant Jan. 4, 1864; promoted to 1st Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant Co. F Nov. 30, 1864; veteran. 
 
 Daniel W. Weitz 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Got. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Daniel Wright;" mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered as private; appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Clinton W. Ely 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 22 
 
 Jan. 14, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Oct. 13, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Orrin Barker 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 26 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Jan. 4, 1864; Com. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant Oct. 3, 1864; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Elias S Frager 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Joseph Berry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; promoted to Sergt. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Major March 1, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Isaac Bricker 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 17, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Colum-i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Harmon L. Miller 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Sept. 17, 1861; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bia, Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lowell A Page 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out Oct. 8, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas Stutesman ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; died Sept. 16, 1864, in Andersonville 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Prison, Ga. 
 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Jan. A, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 "William Brandon 
 
 do 
 
 34 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Jan. 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. S, 1864; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Henry H. Bunker 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Jan. 4, 1864; Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 1, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Daniel J Pickitt 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Sept. 17, 1861; cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; appointed from private 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 14, 1865; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Marvin R. Sisson 
 
 Corporal 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; killed Jan. 1, 1863, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 in battle of Stone River, Tenn. 
 
 David Hawkins 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861. 
 
 Philip D. Wideman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 43 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; discharged March 5, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Peter B. Wicoff 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; discharged July 21, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 William Cosslett 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 10, 1861; discharged July 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Michael Loehard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Eustace Leggett 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 25. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 John T. Barnes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; captured ; died March 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Camp Chase, O., of disease con 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tracted in Libby Prison, Va. 
 
 Elemuel Alliger 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 3, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Jaiw H Prickitt 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bards- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 town, Ky.; paroled ; appointed Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 David E. Hart 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 3, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 David Poast 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 3, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William H. Letcher.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Appointed Jan. 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John S. Lawrence 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed March 13, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Franklin Elder 
 
 do .. 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 3, 1864; reduced Feb. 24, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 re-appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 John X. Johnson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 William Hinman 
 
 Bugler 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 20, 18C1 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 17, 1861; promoted to Chief 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bugler Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Michael Hibbard 
 
 Farrier 
 
 33 
 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 4, 1861; discharged Aug. 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 William H. Gallup 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Nov. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 11, 1861; discharged May 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 David T. Carpenter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Abanatha , John 
 
 Private 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Allamen, Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Anderson , Robert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Aug. 20, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Arling, Williain H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Arnold Henry 
 
 do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Left sick at Columbia, Ky., Oct. 27 1862* no 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 further record found. 
 
 Ayres, Abner 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Baker, Nathanial 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 39 
 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 16, 1863. 
 
 Bates Irvin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. , 1865. 
 
 Beard, John P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. , 1865. 
 
 Becket, Peter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Mch. 23, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. , 1865. 
 
 Bemis, Charles S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Mch. 8, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. , 1865. 
 
 Bemis, John A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Mch. 21, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. , ]865. 
 
 Best Jesse A 
 
 do .. 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 26, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Beverage James 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 21 
 
 Mch. 21, 3865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Biddle, James M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Bishop, Fletcher 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Blosier, David P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bohner, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Mch. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 3, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn., of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 wounds received Aug. 19, 1864, in battle of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jonesboro, Ga. 
 
 Booth, Marcus D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Bowman, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Briner, Amos 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. G Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Bump, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out July 19, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment; veteran. 
 
 Bunker , Miles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 275 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Barnes 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Burwell, Henry S 
 
 Private 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 29, 1862. 
 
 Campbell, Hosea P... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; died Sept. 11, 1863. 
 
 Carpenter, David T... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 5, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Carr, Charles 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 44 
 
 Mch. 21, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Carter, Joseph 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. B, 7th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Aug. 12, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Nov. 15, 1865, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Castle, William M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 July 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out May 25, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Chambers, Asa D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Mch. 24, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Chambers, Samuel C.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 7, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Coon, George L. M... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 28, 1862. 
 
 Cooper, George I 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Feb. 27, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Coss, Franklin D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. A, 17th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Sept. 27, 1863; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Nov. 26, 1864, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Cotton, David 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davidson, John F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 31, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Dority John 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 July 25, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 20 1865. 
 
 Doughton, O. Gilbert. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Duke , Ben j amin F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. C, 23d Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, Jan. 15, 1864; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same July 28, 1865, at St. Paul, Minn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Dukes, Josiah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Feb. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Durbin James L 
 
 do . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. M Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Edwards , Nathan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Mch. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 23, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Ely, Columbus G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 3, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Ely, Simon B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Esterline, La Fayette. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Faukhauser, Christopher 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 July 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered Out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Fennimore, Jordan J.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Fickle Michael 
 
 ... do 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 25, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Fiddler, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Oct. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled : mustered out Oct. 31, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Flegel, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 7, 1862, at Columbus, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Fox Michael 
 
 do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Discharged July 23, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Frager, Josiah B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Francis , Robert 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 21 
 
 Mch. 21, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gardner, William H... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 3, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Promoted to Regt. Saddler Sergeant May 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Gardner, William W. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 28, 1862, at Savannah, Tenn. 
 
 Gay, Alvertus E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out May 19, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Gear Milo 
 
 do .. . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to 60th Co., 2d Battalion, Vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran Reserve Corps, Sept. 24, 1863: mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out from same Sept. 27, 1864, on expiration 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of term of service. 
 
 Gillian James 
 
 .do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Mch. 24, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out w T ith company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hager, William M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Mch. 30, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hager, William M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Sept. 28, 1864, at Camp Denni 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 son, O., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Haines, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 July 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hambright, William H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 26, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Hamlin, Seth 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Wounded June 15, 1864, in battle of Noon Day 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Creek, Ga.: mustered out Oct. 31, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Hamlin, Woodruff A.. 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 17 
 
 Aug. 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hanna, Ephraim 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 12, 1862. 
 
 Harris, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Aug. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hart, Able C 
 
 .do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hartman, William H.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Henry W.;" captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; mustered out wth company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Hawkins , Albert 
 
 do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Oct. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 17, 1762, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
276 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Hawkins, Joseph, Sr.. 
 Hay, Joshua 
 Hayward, Edgar D... 
 
 Heiser Philip 
 
 Private 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . do .. 
 
 24 
 21 
 19 
 
 99 
 
 Oct. 24, 1861 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 Mch. 22, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Died Aug. 4, 1862. 
 Died May 8, 1862, at Savannah, Tenn. 
 Discharged Nov. 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hine, Joseph N 
 Hinman, William 0... 
 
 Hoke George 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 30 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 Sept. 3, 1864 
 
 Aug. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Charles W;" mustered 
 out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 order of War Department. 
 Dscharged Jan. 23, 1864, from hospital at 
 
 Howard, Veloise J 
 Ickes, John B 
 
 Jenks, George W 
 
 Jewell , John G 
 Johnson, William O... 
 Jones, Geoorge W 
 
 Kelley, Daniel H 
 Kenny, Greenberry 
 Kenny , James 
 Kent, Chester F 
 Kime George W 
 
 ...do... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 do ... 
 
 26 
 27 
 
 18 
 35 
 21 
 
 39 
 18 
 28 
 18 
 SI 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 Oct. 24, 1861 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 Oct. 23, 1861 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 Feb. 27, 1865 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 Mch. 23, 1865 
 Aug. 5, 1863 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Died Feb. 4, 1863. 
 Discharged Sept. 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Captured April 16, 1865, at battle of Colum 
 bus, Ga.; no further record found. 
 Died Feb. 8, 1863, n board hospital boat. 
 Promoted to Regt. Com. Sergeant . 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Kinie;" mustered out 
 
 Kline Christian 
 
 do 
 
 9 1 
 
 Dec. 28, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Also borne on rolls as "Cline;" mustered out 
 
 Lambert , Robert 
 Lamson, Burdett J... 
 Lanoir, Julian 
 MaBee, Alphonso 
 
 Marks David 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 28 
 18 
 19 
 23 
 
 >4 
 
 July 30, 1862 
 Aug. 5, 1863 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 June 9, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. , by order of 
 War Department. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Absent since March 20, 1865; no further record 
 found. 
 Also borne on rolls as "John L.;" died Aug. 
 24, 1864, at Marietta, Ga., of wounds re 
 ceived in action at Flat Rock, Ga. 
 Discharged Dec. 16, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Discharged July 17, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Marsh, Edwin P 
 Misell, William 
 
 Moses, Henry W 
 Moss, Sanford C 
 
 Munson William 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 19 
 
 25 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Died July 21, 1864, at Big Shanty, Ga., of 
 wounds received June 20, 1864, in battle of 
 Noon Day Creek, Ga. 
 Captured April 16, 1865, at battle of Colum 
 
 Nutt, John 
 Peach John 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 21 
 W 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 Mch 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 bus, Ga.; no further record found. 
 Died Aug. 23, 1864, at Lovejoy Station, Ga., 
 of wounds received Aug. 20, 1864, in battle 
 of Lovejoy Station, Ga. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Pennington, Joel 
 Pennington, Marion T. 
 Pew, Thomas S 
 
 Platt, Horace W 
 Powers Henry W 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 do ... 
 
 30 
 21 
 32 
 
 20 
 ?1 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Died April 11, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn. 
 Died July 16, 1862. 
 Discharged Jan. 31, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Died Nov 21, 1862, at Lebanon, Ky. 
 
 Radabaugh, John W.. 
 Radabaugh, Milton .. 
 
 Regan Colon K 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 27 
 26 
 
 9 4 
 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 Aug 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Also borne on rolls as "James M.;" mustered 
 out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 order of War Department. 
 Mustered out April 26, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 Ragan, Henry W 
 RTggs , Charles W 
 
 ... do ... 
 .. do .. 
 
 19 
 35 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 Jan. 12, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Rings, William C 
 Robinson, Melvin W... 
 
 Rogers, William P 
 
 Ruger, George W 
 Russell, Richard 
 Russell, William C 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 35 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 42 
 18 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 Mch. 23, 1865 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 2 yrs. 
 
 Died April 11, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
 Discharged Oct. 25, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Captured July 10, 1864, in action at Marietta, 
 Ga.; mustered out June 15, 1865, at Camp 
 Chase, O., by order of War Department; 
 veteran. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 277 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Scannell, WiMiarn H... 
 
 Private 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.: paroled ; appointed Corporal Jan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4, 1864; Sergeant Jan. 1, 1865: reduced July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14, 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Shell, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sheffield, Frederick B.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Shoeff, John H 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 19 
 
 July 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Josiah 
 Smith, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 28 
 
 Men. 21, 1864 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Mch. 23, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Robert B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Mch. 15, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Snediker, Isaiah F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 3, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Speneer, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Absent since Feb. 25, 1865; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Stinchcomb, Christ. .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 35 
 
 NOT. 12, 1861 
 
 8 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Stout, Alfred 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured July 10, 1864, in action at Marietta, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ga.; mustered out June 15, 1865, at Camp 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, O., by order of War Department; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Super, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Swayne J P K 
 
 do 
 
 
 
 
 Mustered out June 21 1865 at Camp Dennl- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 son, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Thomas, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Tunetin, Robert R.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged June 10, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Venande, William C... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Warrington, Henry ... 
 
 ...do... 1 
 
 24 
 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Whistler, George W... 
 
 ...do..J 
 
 30 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 26, 1862. 
 
 Whitehead, William H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 2, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Williams, William .... 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 28, 1862, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Wilson, George P 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 10, 1864, at Savannah, Tenn. 
 
 Wines Robert M 
 
 do 
 
 36 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 18, 1862. 
 
 Woodworth, John H.. 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 33 
 
 Mch. 9, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Yoder , George W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Preston, Washington.. 
 
 Cook 
 
 27 
 
 April 25, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook: mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Henry B. Gaylord 
 
 Captain 
 
 40 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Aug. 24, 1861; captured Oct. 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : resigned May 2, 1864. 
 
 Frederick Bernerd 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Sergeant from Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant May 30, 1862; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1st Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1863; to Captain July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13, 1864; mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Louisville, Ky., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Thomas Xunan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant and Regt. Ad 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 jutant Nov. 30, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Clark Center 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sept. 4, 1861; honorably discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 10, 1862. 
 
 Edward A. Haines 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. H March 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31, 1864; mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Louisville, Ky., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Garner Stimson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. B Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to Captain Aug. 2, 1865, but not mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 William Goodnow 
 
 2dLieu. 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 30, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Aug. 30, 1861; died May 27, 1862. 
 
 George B. Watson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1863; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1st Lieutenant Co. M March 31, 1864. 
 
278 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 John Moore 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Com. Sergeant Co. E May 9, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. C Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran . 
 
 Francis C. Dodge 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 15, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. C Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864: resigned May 29, 1865. 
 
 James Merroe 
 
 ..do .. 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant from Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 captured Dec. 29, 1862, at battle of Murfrees- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; appointed 1st 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant Dec. 2, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant April 8, 1865; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Daniel C. Lewis 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; appointed from Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864; promoted to 1st Lieutenant Co. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 M Nov. 30, 1864: veteran. 
 
 Francis Riley 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant from Corporal Dec. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2, 1864; 1st Sergeant June 15, 1865; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Solomon Shoman 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 32 
 
 Aug. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 20, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Charles B. Benham 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed Corn. Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864; Q. M. Sergeant : mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out to date Aug. 3, 1865, by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department; veteran. 
 
 Robert H. Spaulding.. 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 30 
 
 Sept, 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Sergeant ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Enoch Henney 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Dec. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Com. Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Chauncey B. Wheeler.. 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 41 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 23, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Cyrus K. Livermore... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept, 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal : mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas Saltzgaber ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.: paroled ; appointed from Corporal 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; wounded Oct. 25, 1864, in action near 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gadston, Ala.; mustered out June 21, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department; veteran. 
 
 Thomas E. HofTmire.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal ; died Oct. 6, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Marietta, Ga., of wounds received 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 in action; veteran. 
 
 Charles McMaster 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : captured Oct. 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.: appointed 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sergeant ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 John W. Blackman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Francillo Van Horn... 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 1,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal - ; Sergeant Dec. 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 James E. Mitchell 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept, 30, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 James D. Benham 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 James B. Page 
 
 Corporal 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Veterinary Surgeon Dec. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3, 3801. 
 
 Albert Sweetland 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 26 
 
 Oct. 1,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 8, 1862. 
 
 Amos S Waltmire 
 
 do 
 
 22 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 31, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Jonas W. Childs 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Jan. 15, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled : appointed ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Charles J. Smith 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Christian Sommers ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Richard Waggoner 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Oct. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; appointed ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Charles Mason 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4 1865: veteran. 
 
 Henry Sweetland 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Appointed Dec. 8 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4 1865; veteran. 
 
 Adam Fetter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1 1865: mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4 1865; veteran. 
 
 Jacob Wise 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4 1865: veteran. 
 
 Henry L. Bingham 
 
 Bugler 
 
 26 
 
 Oct. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept, 16, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 279 
 
 
 Date of ! Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank Age Entering the i of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Jacob Hummel 
 
 Bugler 
 
 28 
 
 Nov. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Jacob Hawk 
 
 Farrier 
 
 54 
 
 Sept. 18, 1861 
 
 3 vr 
 
 Dl^pharp Prl \T<1V 1R TSA9 r*r CnYrrrt^\n rtrt*.4-5fl 
 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 x^ift^iiaigru *i<ty 10, ioo.i , on surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Adam M. Rock 
 
 ... do ... 27 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 I 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 John Hawn 
 
 ...do ... 27 
 
 Aug. 16, 1862 j 3 yrs. 
 
 Apponted ; mustered out June 17, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment . 
 
 Henry A. Libe 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled : appointed July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 Anthony Hoover 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 | 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Thomas D. Stevenson. 
 
 Saddler 
 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 4, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Conrad Thoman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed : mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 George W. Skinner .... 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 | 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Allen, Henry H 
 
 Private 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 3vrs. 
 
 
 Allen, William F 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 I 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 31, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Art;?, Jacob F 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 21 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ashley, Augustine 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 12, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Baker, Thomas ... 
 
 do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 29, 1862, at battle of Murfrees- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 boro, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Baker, Soloman 
 
 do ... 
 
 22 Sept. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865* vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Banks, John S 
 
 ...do ... 27 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 24, 1865, from Tripler Hos 
 
 
 
 
 pital at Columbus, O., by order of War 
 
 
 1 
 
 Department. 
 
 Barker, Addison 
 
 . . . do . . . ! 20 Feb. 26, 1864 : 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Beer, John 
 
 ...do ... 18 Jan. 1, 1864 - 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bell, Milton J 
 
 ...do... 22 Feb. 22,1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out May 20, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Benson, John H 
 
 ... do... 25 
 
 Oct. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : reduced Dec. 2, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Berns , Frederick 
 
 ...do ... 19 
 
 Dec. 24,1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bliss, Leander 
 
 ...do ... 21 
 
 Jan. 15, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Bliss, Urial 
 
 ...do... 21 Aug. 12, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Bloom, Frederick 
 
 ...do ... 25 i Sept. 9, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Bolster, William 
 
 ...do ... 21 Sept. 17, 1861 : 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 18, 1864, at Lagrange, Ind.; vet 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Bovd, John 
 
 ...do... 27 Nov. 3,1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bridenstine, Martin L. 
 
 . . . do . . . 18 i Sept. 17, 1861 \ 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Louis M. Brighten- 
 
 
 
 
 j 
 
 stine:" mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Brinneman, Harmon L 
 
 ...do ... 19 i Sept. 24, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed June 15, 1864, in battle of Kenesaw 
 
 
 1 
 
 Mountain, Ga. : veteran. 
 
 Broadman, Henry .... 
 
 . . . do . . . 43 
 
 Nov. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 23, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Byers, William 
 
 ...do ... 30 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Camp, Alonzo 
 
 . .. do ... 25 Oct. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K April 1, 1864. 
 
 Camp , Edward 
 
 . . . do . . . i 18 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K April 1, 1864. 
 
 Cobban, Frank 
 
 ... do ... 18 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 4, 1865, at Gravelly Springs, Ala.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Coe Seymour B 
 
 do 43 Spit. 4. iSfii 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Q. M. Sergeant Sept. 7, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861. 
 
 Crawford, Frank M... 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 18 ! Aug. 20. 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davidson, Allen H 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davidson, William H.. 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davis, Charles 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 29,1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davis, George 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 Dec. 29. 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davis, William 
 
 ...do... 17 Dec. 29,1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Douglass, William 
 
 ...do... 21 Auer. 17. 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out June 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 Department. 
 
 Downing, Napoleon B. 
 
 ...do ... 23 Dec. 5, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 7, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Drake, Frederick 
 
 . . . do . . . 22 Sept. 28, 1861 ; 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. B April 17, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Frazier, Benjamin F.. 
 
 ...do... 118 Feb. 27, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Frost, Robert B 
 
 ...do ... 18 i Dec. 21. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.: paroled ; died April 2, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn.; veteran. 
 
 Gooseman, George ... 
 
 ...do ... 22 Dec. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.: paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
280 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Green , Anson P 
 
 Private 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 7, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hall, Jeremiah D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Oct. 17, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Keeps, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 July 15, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 7, 1863, at Farmington, Tenn.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 supposed to be dead; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Hemminger, Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Henney , Cyrus L 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hobocker, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 July 13, 18(53 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hoffman, Frederick . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hunter, John E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Johnston, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 July 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Johnston, Martin C... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 41 
 
 Sept. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Kappler, Anthony 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Keith, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled . 
 
 Kellogg, Vernon 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 16 
 
 Oct. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Kiser, Edmond 
 
 .do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled . 
 
 Kryder, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Kyle, William A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lauler, Patrick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Leek, William D 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Lewis, John 
 
 do .. 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Link , Andrew 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 McCoy, Thomas W... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 McKeehan, David A... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 11, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 McKelvey, John W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Aug. 12, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 24, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 McMaster, Dexter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 McMaster, Mark 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 12, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out June 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department. 
 
 McMillin, Prosser D... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 4, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Magner, Harlan 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 April 12, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mahony, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 2, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mann, James A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Nov. 16, 1863, of wounds received in ac 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion. 
 
 Meir James 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 vrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Nagran, Christian 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 37 
 
 Sept. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Niven , Edwin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 17 
 
 Oct. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Nov. 15, 1863, in action at Wood- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Ala.: died June 19, 1864, in prison at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Andersonville, Ga. 
 
 Owen, Robert T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Parks, Bron P 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged April 23, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Parks, Francis M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Parksons, Warren W.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 3, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Pearson, Samuel S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. E . 
 
 Plank, Theopholus S.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 17, 1862. 
 
 Playman, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 17 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bobbins, Samuel R 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Rosell Robbins;" 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Rogers , Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Rogers, Otto W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 8, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Saltzgaber, Gaylord M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 16 
 
 Sept. 1, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Saltzgaber, William V. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27, 1865, at Macon, Ga., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department; veteran. 
 
 Sanders, Charles 
 
 do 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Schwab, John M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; wounded June 11, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Noonday Creek, Ga.; discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 9, 1865, at Cleveland, O., on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 281 
 
 Names 
 
 Bank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 ol 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Schwab, Joseph E 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Schwab, Isaiah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 6, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Serier, Jesse 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing-i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled. 
 
 Silence, David T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Oct. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Nov. 12, 1862, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Smith, Oel T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Feb. 25, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Spencer, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out July 27, 1865, at Macon, Ga., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department; veteran. 
 
 Stevens, Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 20, 1863, at Frog Springs, Ga.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 supposed to have been killed; no further rec 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ord found. 
 
 Stuke, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Taylor , Austin E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Jan. 15, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexington, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out Jan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15, 1865, on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Thomas, Cunrad 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Thomas, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 17, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Travis Hyatt 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 JVlust6r6(3 out with cornp&ny Aucr 4 1865* V6t- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Van Horn, Wilson S.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Oct. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Varner Mason 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865 
 
 Wall, Michael 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4^ 1865. 
 
 Wardler, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Sept. 11, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Wilcox, Charles M 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 30 
 
 Feb. 19, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wilcox, Joseph M 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27, 1865, at Macon, Ga., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department; veteran. 
 
 Winkler , Leonard 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 12, 1863 
 
 3 yra. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Winteringham, John W 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Wise Nicholas 
 
 do . 
 
 20 
 
 July 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed Feb. 24, 1864, in action at Ringgold, Ga. 
 
 Dunlavy, William ; 
 
 Cook 
 
 19 
 
 April 27, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Holeton, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 April 27, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Rogers , Nelson 
 
 . . . do 
 
 25 
 
 April 27, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Thurman, Henry 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 April 27, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 Daniel Gotshall 
 
 Captain 
 
 58 
 
 Nov. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 15, 1861; died June 17, 1862. 
 
 Elisha M. Culver 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 4 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. B June 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862; resigned Sept. 26, 1864. 
 
 Orange H. Howland... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. E Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Darius E. Livermore... 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 1, 1861; captured Oct. 17, 1862, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to Captain Co. B Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Oliver M. Brown 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Aug. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. B April 24, 1863: pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to Captain Co. C Aug. 19, 1863. 
 
 Ervin R. Harris 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 17 
 
 Sept. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. M May 9, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out Nov. 7, 1864, on expira 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 Lewis B. Tooker 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. A Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Oscar W. Treman 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 36 
 
 Oct. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 25, 1861; resigned May 10, 1862. 
 
 James Ransom Hall... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Batt. Sergt. Major May 21, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862; resigned March 18, 1863. 
 
2S2 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Chauncey L. Cook 
 
 2d Lieu. 38 : Dec. 23. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Dec. 23, 1861; pro 
 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant March 21, 1863; to 
 
 
 
 
 
 1st Lieutenant July 13, 1864, but not mus 
 
 
 j 
 
 
 tered: discharged March 28, 1864, on Sur 
 
 
 
 
 geon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Paul Deal i... do ... 43 Sent.. 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. D Nov. 24, 
 
 
 
 
 1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co. D Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Thomas Martin 
 
 ...do ... 22 Aug. 31. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Sergeant Co. F Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 detailed to command Co. M May 23, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 promoted to 1st Lieutenant Aug. 2, 1865, but 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 not mustered; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 John Maloney 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 18 Nov. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Sergeant ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Jesse De Well do... 27 i Nov. 15, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Com. Sergeant from Corporal ; 
 
 
 
 1st Sergeant Dec. 11, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Thomas Marlin Q. M. S. 40 Oct. 28,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Sergeant July 20, 1864; pro 
 
 
 
 
 moted to 2d Lieutenant Co. M Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 1864; veteran. 
 
 Francis Shaw do ... 20 i Nov. 27,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : captured Oct. 17, 
 
 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled 
 
 
 
 ; appointed Sergeant ; Q. M. Ser 
 
 
 
 geant Dec. 11, 1864: promoted to Regt. Com. 
 
 
 
 Sergeant May 1, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Philo C. Seager do... 25 Dec. 3,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : Com. Sergeant Dec. 
 
 
 
 
 
 11, 1864: Q. M. Sergeant May 1, 1865; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 William Jones Com Ser. 
 
 39 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : Sergeant Dec. 31, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 1864: Com. Sergeant ; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 George H. Frent : Sergeant 28 Dec. 3,1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Promoted to Regt. Q. M. Sergeant Oct. 3, 
 
 [ j 
 
 
 1864; veteran. 
 
 W T alter T. Burr ...do... 17 Dec. 6,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Madison Hesser ...do... 
 
 26 Nov. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal April 25, 1862; dis 
 
 
 
 
 
 charged Nov. 19, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Daniel Hanley 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal Nov. 1, 1862: cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tured Sept. 19, 1863, at battle of Chicka- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mauga, Ga. : mustered out March 18, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Silas Gen^on 
 
 . dn . 9.5 
 
 Nov. 21, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 
 
 
 ton, Ky.: paroled ; mustered as private; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 appointed ; captured April 2, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 battle of Selma, Ala.; mustered out June 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24, 1865, at Camp Chase, O., by. order of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 War Department: veteran. 
 
 John Reynolds 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 26 
 
 Nov. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : captured Oct. 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.: paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : appointed Sergeant : discharged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 16, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., on Sur 
 
 
 
 
 
 geon s certificate of disability. 
 
 James Fisher do... 30 Dec. 4,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal ; veteran. 
 
 James Drurey do 17 DPP 6 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from private Dec. 31, 1864: mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 James H Gidley . . do . . 24 Ana- 2.1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : Sergeant Jan. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 18(55: mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nash 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 ville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Solon Gunn ... dn ... 
 
 46 Nov. 21, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 31, 1864: Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 1, 1865: mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 David Cosgrove do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C April 1, 1864: ap 
 
 
 
 
 
 pointed Corporal Dec. 31, 1864; Sergeant May 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1, 1865: mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Gottlieb Row . . . do . . . 23 Dec. 16,1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Appointed Corporal Dec. 31, 1864: Sergeant 
 
 
 
 May 1, 1865: mustered out with company 
 
 | 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Jacob Henry Cornoral 32 Nov. 4.1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Killed Dec. 31, 1862, in battle of Stone River, 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 Hiram Barnes 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29< Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Discharged Oct. 1, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Gilbert C. Ostrander.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 Nov. 30, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged to date June 1, 1862, on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 
 Jacob Rex 
 
 . do . 
 
 42 Dec. T2. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed : captured : died June 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, while in prison at Andersonville, Ga. 
 
 Howard Bowman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 7, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 20, 1864: died April 6, 1865, in 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 hospital at Selma, Ala., of wounds received 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 2, 1865, in battle of Selma, Ala.; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 283 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Date of Period 
 Age | Entering the ! of 
 
 Service i Service 
 
 Augustus Heck 
 
 Corporal 
 
 George M. Gotshall. ...!... do ... 
 
 John Toomey . . . do 
 
 James Mills 
 
 Robert O . Kennedy 
 
 James McCormick 
 
 Robert E. Morton . 
 
 do ... 
 do .. 
 
 22 Dec. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 17 I Nov. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 18 ! Dec. 10, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 20 j Aug. 24, 1862 
 
 18 | Dec. 2, 1861 
 
 18 Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 18 i Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 William Entsminger ...... do . 
 
 Daniel Campbell ... do . 
 
 Isaac Blickensdifer ... do . 
 
 James K. P. Newell ...do. 
 
 Charles Brunthaver ...... do ...! 18 
 
 j I 
 
 Henry Trott | Bugler 24 
 
 Joseph Tyler I . . . do ... I 26 
 
 Frederick Sumerhalter. ... do ... 41 
 
 i 19 
 
 I 21 
 
 I 39 
 i 19 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 Nov. 11, 1861 
 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 George Doll 
 
 Walter J. Swartz... 
 
 .. ! Farrier | 45 Nov. 19, 1861 
 J... do ... 41 Dec. 6, 1861 
 
 David W. Forbes . . . do 
 
 .J... do .. 
 
 23 
 
 Conrad Kale 
 
 Robert Dutchman | Saddler 
 
 Timothy Goodrich ! . . . do . . . i 23 
 
 Charles Yance . . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs . 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Remarks 
 
 29 Nov. 22, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1863 
 
 Ackley, Asa .. 
 Allman, Manly 
 
 Arnold, Albert 
 Bein, Francis . 
 
 .Wagoner 28 
 
 Private 20 
 . . do . . . ! 31 
 
 . . do ... | 21 
 
 .. do ...i 18 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 Dec. 17, 18(53 
 Oct. 1, 1862 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 Mch. 23, 1864 
 
 Bell, Joseph .. 
 Benson, Mason 
 
 .. do ...i 30 Feb. 28, 1865 
 . . do ... 19 . Nov. 14, 1861 
 
 Borden, Christopher W ... do ... 31 Nov. 30, 1861 
 
 Branan, Patrick do ... 19 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 | 
 
 Brightenburgh, Joseph ... do ... 19 Dec. 14, 1863 
 Brown, Daniel do .. . j 29 ! Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Buchanan, William 
 Camp, Alonzo 
 
 do ...i 35 I Dec. 10, 1863 
 do ... ! 25 ; Oct. 3, 1863 
 
 Camp, Edward ! . . . do .. . ! 18 i Nov. 3, 
 
 Campbell, John C 
 
 Chilson, Peter M 
 
 do ... ! 26 Feb. 24, 1864 
 do ...: 18 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs . 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed : mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C April 1, 1864: appoint 
 ed Dec. 11, 1864. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 31, 1864; mustered out July 27, 
 1865, at Camp Dennison, O., by order of 
 War Department; veteran. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 31, 1864; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A ; appointed Dec. 
 
 31, 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865: veteran. 
 ; Appointed May 1, 1865; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Appointed May 1, 1865; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Appointed May 1, 1865; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Appointed May 1, 1865; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Appointed May 1, 1865; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 16, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 i Died Aug. , 1862, while at home. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Souholder;" appointed 
 ; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865. 
 j Promoted to Regt. Veterinary Surgeon March 
 
 , 18(53. 
 
 j Also borne on rolls as "William G. Swart:" 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 
 Transferred from Co. L : appointed : 
 
 mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn. , on expiration of term of service. 
 I Appointed Dec. 31, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 ! Discharged March 1, 1863, at Murfreesboro, 
 Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 ton, Ky.: paroled : mustered out Dec. 30, 
 
 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 
 I Discharged Feb. 16, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Been:" discharged 
 Sept. 20, 1864, at Cross Keys, Ga., on Sur 
 geon s certificate of disability. 
 
 I Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Captured Sept. 20, 1863, at battle of Chicka- 
 mauga, Ga. ; paroled May 8, 1864: mustered 
 out Dec. 14, 1864, at Columbus, O., on ex 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Sick in Louisville, Ky. , since Dec. 3, 18(54: no 
 
 further record found. 
 i Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Transferred from Co. D Jan. 1, 1862: captured 
 and paroled Aug. 24, 1862, at Lebanon, 
 Tenn.: captured Oct. 17, 18(52, at battle of 
 Lexington, Ky.; paroled . 
 
 Died June 12, 1865, in hospital at Macon, Ga. 
 
 Transferred from Co. I April 1, 1864: mus 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Transferred from Co. I April 1, 1864: mus 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C Dec. 11, 18(51; cap 
 tured July 16, 1863, at Pulaski, Tenn., by 
 guerrillas; no further record found. 
 
284 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Bank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 ol 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Clark Fdmond 
 
 Private 
 
 <>8 
 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Clark, John 
 Coates, Howard H 
 
 Collins , James 
 Colwell , Frederick 
 Couts, Jeremiah 
 
 Cummings, George 
 Curtis Franklin 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . do ... 
 
 22 
 24 
 
 32 
 23 
 16 
 
 18 
 21 
 
 Mch. 1, 1865 
 Nov. 23, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1862 
 Dec. 1, 1863 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 
 Nov. 14, 1861 
 Oct. 2, 1863 
 
 l yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged to date April 15, 1863, on Sur 
 geon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Discharged Sept. 6, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 by order of War Department. 
 Captured Nov. 15, 1863, in action at Wood- 
 ville, Ala.; mustered out Jan. 24, 1865, at 
 Columbus, O., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Died April 13, 1862, in hospital at Cincinnati, O. 
 
 Entsminger , Stephen . . . 
 Fachinger, George 
 
 Fessler, Emanuel 
 Fitzgerald, John 
 
 Foorman, Aaron 
 Fowler, Carey 
 Frost, Benjamin 
 Fry Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . do ... 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 25 
 
 47 
 
 43 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 99 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 Nov. 17, 1861 
 
 Jan. 7, 1862 
 Dec. 5, 1861 
 
 Feb. 1,1864 
 Nov. 30, 1861 
 Mch. 4, 1865 
 Jan. 7, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged March 11, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 eran. 
 Discharged Feb. 16, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gowitze, William 
 
 Graves , Daniel G 
 
 Greis, Peter J 
 
 Grow, Benjamin 
 Grow Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 19 
 
 25 
 
 37 
 
 37 
 
 Nov. 23, 1861 
 
 Nov. 21, 1861 
 
 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 Nov. 27, 1861 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Dec. 3, 1864, in action near Nash 
 ville, Tenn.; mustered out May 31, 1865, at 
 Columbus, O., on expiration of term of 
 service. 
 Appointed Sergeant from Corporal ; re 
 duced Dec. 31, 1864; mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 Discharged Aug. 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died April 19, 1862. 
 Discharged Sept. 24, 1862, at Cincinnati, O., 
 
 Grow William 
 
 . do .. 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Captured Oct. 17, 1862, at battle of Lexing 
 
 Grube John K 
 
 do ... 
 
 > 
 
 Jan 7, 1862 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 ton, Ky.; paroled ; mustered out March 
 20, 1865, at Columbus, O., on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Jan 11, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 Gustin, William 
 Harris, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 26 
 30 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 Feb. 3, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Captured April 2, 1865, at battle of Selma, 
 Ala.; perished by explosion of steamer 
 "Sultana" on Mississippi River near Mem 
 phis, Tenn., April 27, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Harvey, Thomas 
 Heller, Lewis 
 
 Henderson, Eli 
 
 Henderson, William ... 
 Henley, Philip 
 Heslet , George W 
 
 Heslet William 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 19 
 18 
 17 
 
 <>o 
 
 Nov. 6,1861 
 Nov. 5, 1861 
 
 Dec. 2, 1861 
 
 Dec. 2, 1861 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 Dec. 2, 1861 
 
 Dec. 10 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Transferred to Co. H, 8th Regiment, Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, Oct. 1, 1864; mustered out 
 from same Dec. 12, 1864, on expiration of 
 term of service. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Died Aug 30 1862 
 
 Hess, David 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 4, 18G1 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Sept 19 1863 at battle of Chicka- 
 
 Hewitt , George 
 
 Hewitt, Nathan R 
 Hill, Charles 
 
 Houghton, Ephriam .. 
 Ireling, Levi 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do .. 
 ...do ... 
 
 24 
 
 21 
 18 
 
 18 
 94 
 
 Dec. 1,1861 
 
 June 13, 1863 
 Dec. 17, 1863 
 
 Jan. 12, 1864 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 mauga, Ga.; no further record found. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, from hospital at 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out May 27 1865 from Tripler Hos 
 
 Kailey, Frederick 
 Keen John 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 22 
 "S 
 
 Oct. 4, 1862 
 Nov 2 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 pital, Columbus, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Discharged March 16, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Died Sept 28 1864 in hospital at Atlanta Ga 
 
 Keller, Harrison 
 Kelly John 
 
 ... do ... 
 do 
 
 19 
 26 
 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 Nov 26 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Discharged March 3, 1863, to enlist in Co. A, 
 1st Battalion Cavalry, Mississippi Marine 
 Brigade. 
 Discharged to date July 14 1862 by order of 
 
 Kennedy, Theodore ... 
 King, Franeis 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 9fi 
 
 Aug. 13, 1862 
 Nov. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 War Department. 
 Discharged April 10, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 285 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Kliber , Jacob 
 
 Private 
 
 ?3 
 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Krebs, Frederick 
 Letherer, George 
 
 Lybarger, Porter 
 
 McDougal, James F... 
 McGravy, Patrick 
 McMullen, Francis 
 Melon, Francis 
 Montle, Joseph 
 
 Morris, James 
 Mott Albert 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ..do .. 
 
 44 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 18 
 18 
 32 
 21 
 36 
 
 30 
 
 Dec. 18, 1863 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 Oct. 30,1861 
 
 Dec. 1, 1861 
 Dec. 12, 1863 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 Dec. 16, 1863 
 Dec. 30, 1861 
 
 Dec. 2, 1861 
 Dec 16 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred from Co. A Dec. 11, 1861; dis 
 charged Nov. 21, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service 
 Transferred to Co. C Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Dec. 31, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Died June 15 1862 at Corinth Miss 
 
 Nearing, Isaac 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 96 
 
 Nov 21, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged to date July 30 186 9 on Surgeon s 
 
 Neff, William B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 OR 
 
 Oct 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 Discharged July 2 1862 at Columbus O on 
 
 Nichols Albert E 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 >o 
 
 Feb 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Nishwitz, John 
 Parker, Horace C 
 Peckins Ira 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do 
 
 19 
 22 
 
 99 
 
 July 2, 1863 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 Dec. 11 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Transferred from Co. C April 1, 1864 ; mustered 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged to date Sept. 30, 1864, by order of 
 War Department. 
 Prisoner of war* mustered out June 19 1865 
 
 Poft" John 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War De 
 partment. 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Pouch Asa 
 
 do 
 
 
 Dec 16 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Captured April 2 1865 at battle of Selnia 
 
 Price, Charles 
 
 Reed, Jonathan R 
 Reel David G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 .. do .. 
 
 27 
 
 43 
 
 97 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 Nov. 25, 1861 
 Nov. 17, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Ala.; perished by explosion of steamer "Sul 
 tana" on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
 Tenn., April 27, 1865. 
 Transferred from Co. C ; captured Oct. 18, 
 1862, at battle of Lexington, Ky.; paroled 
 
 Died Jan. 3, 1863. 
 Discharged Feb 24 1864 at Camp Dennison 
 
 Reynolds , Charles 
 
 Richardson, George W. 
 Riddle, John 
 Ritter, Joseph 
 Roberts Charles S 
 
 ...do... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 18 
 20 
 26 
 
 ^9 
 
 May 10, 1862 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 Dec. 3, 1863 
 Dec 3 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged Nov 29 1862 on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Roberts, Ebenezer H. . 
 
 Roloff, Lewis 
 Rose William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do ... 
 
 19 
 
 40 
 51 
 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 Nov 15 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged June 3 1862 on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Rowse James 
 
 . do .. 
 
 * 
 
 Oct 28 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Died Jan. 22, 1863 at New Albany Ind 
 
 Ryan, Rodger 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 90 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug 4 1865 
 
 Searles, Jacob 
 
 Sherwood, Charles 
 Sherwood, John W 
 
 Showers , George 
 
 Simpkins, Milton M. .. 
 Sipfle, Augustus 
 Smith, George W 
 Snow, William 
 Thorp, Thomas J 
 
 Toomey Michael 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 . . do . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 do 
 
 25 
 
 18 
 20 
 
 44 
 
 19 
 20 
 21 
 36 
 37 
 
 94 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 Mch. 17, 1864 
 Mch. 23, 1864 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 Mch. 3, 1864 
 Dec. 1,1861 
 Mch. 10, 1864 
 Oct. 1, 1862 
 
 Nov. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C April 1, 1864; mus 
 tered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 Died April 22, 1864, in hospital at Columbia, 
 Tenn. 
 Mustered out July 25, 1865, from Cumberland 
 Hospital at Nashville, Tenn., by order of 
 War Department. 
 Mustered out Jan. 20, 1863, at Benton Bar 
 racks, Mo., to enlist in Co. B, Mississippi 
 Marine Brigade Cavalry; transferred to Co. 
 I, Mississippi Marine Brigade Infantry -; 
 mustered out from same with company Jan. 
 24, 1865, at Vicksburg, Miss. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Transferred to Co. O Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Discharged May 22, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Tracy, Edward 
 Trott, Jacob 
 Vandenburgh , Corneliens 
 
 Wadkins , James 
 
 Ward, John 
 Wells William H. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 22 
 22 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 ?,1 
 
 Feb. 8, 1864 
 Nov. 11, 1861 
 Dec. 10, 1861 
 
 Sept. 10, 1862 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 Dec. 9, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1866. 
 Transferred to Co. M Jan. 1, 1862. 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 Died Jan. 22, 1865, in hospital at Louisville, 
 Ky. 
 
 Captured April 2, 1865, at battle of Selma, 
 
 Welsh, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ?1 
 
 Oct. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Ala.; no further record found. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
286 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 
 
 Service Service 
 
 W^lclon 
 
 James Private 
 
 26 
 
 Sent. 4. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Dec. 11, 
 
 1861; died 
 
 
 
 
 ---" 
 
 
 Aug. 15, 1862, at Woodville, Ala. 
 
 
 W 6 lever 
 
 Geo D . . do . . 
 
 1 8 i Fpb . 17.1 864 3 vrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Wilson, 
 
 J. W... ..do.. . Dec. 11,1861 : 3 yrs. 
 
 
 
 Withington, William H ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Dec. 18, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut Avith company Aug. 4 
 
 , 1865. 
 
 Wright , 
 
 Lewis .. do ... 23 Den. 6. 1861 3vrs. 
 
 Mustered out, Dec. 30, 1864, at 
 
 Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 service. 
 
 Edwards 
 
 , Archey Cook 
 
 26 April 28. 1865 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out 
 
 with com- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 Martin 
 
 Robert do . . 2fi 
 
 April 28, 1865 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out 
 
 with com- 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 Maxwell, 
 
 Daniel ... do ... 1 19 
 
 June 22, 1865 ; ! 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out 
 
 with com- 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 
 COMPANY L. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 William Flanagan ! Captain! 28 Nov. 9,1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Elihu Isbell j . . . do . . . 26 | Sept. 6, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 James B. Luckey do... 18 Sept. 4,1861 : 3 yrs. 
 
 James S. Clock... .. do ..J 25 Mch. 20, 1863 3 yrs 
 
 Charles S. Kelsey 1st Lieu. 23 Sept. 10, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Ralph Devereaux 2d Lieu. ! 26 | Nov. 2,1861 3 yrs. 
 
 James 
 
 M. 
 
 Hipkins 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 
 
 4, 
 
 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Samuel 
 
 C. 
 
 Currie 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 
 
 4, 
 
 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 George 
 
 
 Clark 
 
 ... do 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 
 
 8, 
 
 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas A. O Rourke do . . . 24 Sept. 8,1861 3 yrs. 
 
 John Busing do ... | 21 \ Sept. 4, 1861 i 3 yrs. 
 
 Philander B. Lewis.... 
 
 1st Serg. | 26 j Dec. 28, 1861 
 
 Robert G. Clark |. . . do . . . j 26 Dec. 29,1863 
 
 Oct. 3, 1861 
 Sept. 12, 1861 
 
 Roswell Perry 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 42 
 
 Charles M. Bennett.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 John F. Russell 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 29 
 
 Sheldon A. Shepherd... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 George W. Boggs 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 23 
 
 Norman Brewster 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 41 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs . 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 9, 1861. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. F Aug. 12, 
 1863; transferred to Co. D April 4, 1864. 
 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant Sept. 4, 1861: pro 
 moted to Captain Co. C Jan. 5, 1863: trans 
 ferred from Co. C April 5, 1864; mustered out 
 Nov. 22, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., on expira 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant from civil life March 
 20, 1863: promoted to Captain Nov. 30, 1884; 
 died July 2, 1865, at Macon, Ga., of w T ounds 
 received while in discharge of his duty. 
 I Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. D Nov. 30, 
 1864: mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 2, 1861; died June 21, 1862, at 
 luka, Miss. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Feb. 1, 1863; 
 transferred to Co. B April 24, 1863. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. A Nov. 24, 
 1863; transferred to Co. A Aug. 1, 1864. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. M July 13, 
 1864: to 1st Lieutenant Co. H Nov. 30, 1864; 
 veteran. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. M Nov. 30, 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. D Jan. 6, 1865; 
 veteran. 
 
 I Mustered as private: appointed 1st Sergeant 
 Sept. 4, 1864: promoted to 2d Lieutenant 
 Nov. 30, 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Feb. 23, 
 1865, but not mustered; mustered out with 
 company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed May 1, 1863; 
 promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. F Nov 24 
 1863. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed April 7, 1865; 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 23, 1864, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed Com. Sergeant 
 ; Q. M. Sergeant Dec. 11, 1864: mustered: 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 Mustered as private: appointed Dec. 2, 1864; 
 mustered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, 
 O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Captured Nov. 13, 1862, in action at Silver 
 
 Springs, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered as 
 
 private: appointed Sergeant : Com. Ser 
 geant June 24, 1865: mustered out with com 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. G, 10th Regi 
 ment, O. V. C., Oct. 7, 1862. 
 
 Promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. B May 20, 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Date of Period 
 ge| Entering the i of 
 Service ; Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Richard F. Blinn 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 1 Sept. 5, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 9, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Benjamin F. Kirtz 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 5 Sept. 22, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Frank Kurtz;" appoint 
 
 
 
 
 ed from Corporal ; mustered out Oct. 3, 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 John Muir 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 35 Sept. 4, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from Corporal ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., on ex 
 
 
 
 
 piration of term of service. 
 
 Levi Refsnider 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 21 Sept. 5, 1861 ! 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; appointed from Corporal 
 
 
 
 
 ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 De Wilton Wood 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 19 Aug. 23, 1862 , 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, O., by order 
 
 
 
 
 of War Department. 
 
 John G. Miller 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 Nov. 26, 1861 , 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed June 24, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 Conrad Guth 
 
 . . do 
 
 24 Nov. 11, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed June 24, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 John A. Baldwin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 Aug. 13, 1861 1 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. C Jan. 1, 1862; appoint 
 
 
 
 
 ed Corporal ; Sergeant June 24, 1865; mus 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865;veteran. 
 
 Henry W . Adams 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 Feb. 24, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant June 24, 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug 4, 
 1865. 
 
 John T. Sivalls 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 Dec. 30, 1863 : 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed from private June 24, 1865; mus 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henry Cross 
 
 Corpora 
 
 27 ; Sept. 4, 1861 \ 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 25, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Charles Benton 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 Sept. 7, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled : discharged to date Oct. 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 5, 1862, by order of War Department. 
 
 David L. Tremain 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 ! Sept. 5, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled : mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term 
 
 
 
 
 of service. 
 
 Michael Hughes 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 25 ; Sept. 6, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Nov. 13, 1861; ap 
 
 
 
 
 pointed ; discharged Aug. 27, 1862, on 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 William Huling 
 
 do ... 
 
 24 Sept. 27, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 Columbia, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Gustavus Helbing 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 Aug. 4, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 26, 1865, 
 
 
 
 1 | 
 
 at Columbus, O., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Frank A. Shaw 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 i Aug. 26, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 26, 1865, 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 at Columbus, 0., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Freeman Bellville 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 : Sept. 17, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died May 13, 1864, at Chatta 
 
 
 
 
 nooga, Tenn. 
 
 Walter W. Brim 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 Aug. 24, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 James Bogg-s 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 Dec. 24, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William C. Church.... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 Oct. 6, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 George W. Russell 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 36 Dec. 30, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 | | 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Doctor Van Howtan... 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 ! Aug. 17, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sardis M. Harnes 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 20 , Dec. 30, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Andrew Seifielt 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 21 Dec. 13, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Henry L. Clifford.... 
 
 ... do .. 
 
 26 : Dec. 30, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed June 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Andrew Nigh 
 
 Bugler 
 
 43 Oct. 13,1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 1, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 William Basown 
 
 j Farrier 
 
 26 ; Sept. 5, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 16, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Samuel Saltzgaber . . 
 
 ! do . . 
 
 37 Aug. 28, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Frank A. Reidy 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 Aug. 12, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 24, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbus, O., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Sylvester Stump 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 24 Sept. 29, 1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; died March 24, 1865, at Rus- 
 sellville, Ala., from injuries received by a 
 
 
 
 
 falling tree. 
 
 George Greinor 
 
 ... do 
 
 37 i Feb. 23, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed March 24, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Michael Amend 
 
 Saddler 
 
 35 ! Nov. 19, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged to date May 16, 1862, on Surgeon s 
 
 
 
 
 certificate of disability. 
 
 Corydon P. Bartram. 
 
 . Wagone 
 
 34 Sept. 23, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; discharged July 8, 1865, on 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability; veteran. 
 
288 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Aldrich , Benj amin 
 
 Private 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 7, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Nov. 13, 1862, in action at Silver 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Spring, Tenn.; paroled ; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 7, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., on expira 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tion of term of service. 
 
 Alexander, Theodore .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Arquette , Gilbert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 6, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Dec. 25, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Bard, William H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 16, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Nov. 19, 1862. 
 
 Benedict, George W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Biddle, Sidney 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Bixby Ashley 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Jan. 19, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Bradshaw, James W.. 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 24,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Bradshall;" mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Brown, Jacob W 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 46 
 
 Nov. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged, date not known; no further rec 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ord found. 
 
 Burkhaller, William . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 45 
 
 Oct. 13,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July IS, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 C amfield , Willi am 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 25, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Carpenter John 
 
 do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Clock, George H 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 31 
 
 Feb. 24, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cole, William 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 18, 1863, at Gallatin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Collins, David 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Collins, Oscar 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 27, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Cook, Henry L 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out w 7 ith company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cooper, Henry 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Mch. 19, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cone , Lester S 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dee. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out to date Aug. 4, 1865, at Colum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bus, O. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Cox, Thomas J 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 25, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cutler, Joseph B 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 28 
 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Cotton;" transferred 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to Co. B, 7th Regiment, Veteran Reserve 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Corps, Sept. 1, 1863; mustered out from same 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 29, 1865, at Washington, D. C., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 Darcy Henry 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 28 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Day Amos 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Deverna, Edward 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Dewit, Richard 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 41 
 
 Nov. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Dixey, Theodore 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Easterly, Ezra 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Eddleman, Jacob 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ely , Sebastian 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged, date not known; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Eoff James 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 19, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Aug. 24, 1864, of wounds received about 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 5, 1864, in battle of Vining Station, Ga. 
 
 Erne, Gottfried 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 11, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. H, 10th Regiment, O. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 V. C., ; returned to same . 
 
 Evans, John D 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 35 
 
 Aug. 20, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Fa^ran, Alphens 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 41 
 
 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 19, 1864, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Finkbeiner, Christopher 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 July 18, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 16, 1865, at St. Louis, Mo., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on account of wounds received in action. 
 
 Folk, John 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 17 
 
 Oct. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Forbes David W 
 
 ffr) 
 
 29 
 
 Nov. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K . 
 
 Freeman John E .... 
 
 do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Oct. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 27, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Frymire, Henry 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 14, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865. 
 
 Fuller, Jacob E 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Fuller, James W 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 29 
 
 Mch. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865. 
 
 Gathergood, William S 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4 1865. 
 
 Goodman, George W.. 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Green , Charles 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 23, 1864, in action at Lookout 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mountain, Tenn.; reported at Camp Chase 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 3, 1865; mustered out July 11, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Chase, O., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Griffith, John 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Oct. 14, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 4, 1862, in Fourth Street Hospital, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 Groundwater Lane 
 
 do 
 
 25 
 
 Mch. 28, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Guth, Jacob 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Nov. 11, 1861 
 
 3 yrg. 
 
 Mustered out May 2, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Gwinn, Ezra 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Nov. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Gwinn, W T illiam T 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 48 
 
 Nov. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 5, 1862, at Cincinnati, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Haini, Joseph 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 10, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 4, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hamlin, Joseph 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 July 4, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out July 13, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hans, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 45 
 
 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Invalid Corps Sept. 10, 1863. 
 
 Harnes, Ira 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Ira S. Harris;" mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 289 
 
 Names 
 
 Eank 
 
 Agt 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Eemarks 
 
 Hatcher, David .. 
 
 Private 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 19 
 18 
 24 
 
 Sept. 25, 1863 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 Sept. 22, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 j 3 yrs. 
 1 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Eemarks 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 Mustered out Dec. 27, 1864, at Nashville, Term., 
 
 Hayes, Thomas 
 Heath, Alonzo 
 Hendricks, Henry 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hexterdine, John 
 Hinman, Samuel 
 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 
 19 
 36 
 
 Nov. 22, 1861 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Invalid Corps Sept. 10, 1863. 
 Discharged Jan. 5, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hopkins, Christian E. 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Com. Sergeant Nov. 1. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861. 
 
 Hull, Bridwell E 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 27, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hurlburt, Edward I... 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 
 Jan. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Button, John H 
 
 . . . do . . 
 
 45 
 
 Oct. 15, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 2, 1865, from hospital at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Camp Dennison, O., by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Jacobs, William 
 
 ...do.. 
 
 29 
 
 Nov. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 30, 1862, at Savannah, Tenn. 
 
 Johnson Ezra 
 
 do 
 
 36 
 
 Aug. 24 1862 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Mustered out June 24 1865 at Columbus O 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Kahl Casper 
 
 do 
 
 25 TCTr>TT 97 Tfiftl 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out Dec 27 1864 at Nashville T^pnn 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Kenoc Adam 
 
 do 
 
 38 
 
 Aug . 25 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 19, 1863 
 
 Kimball Benjamin 
 
 do 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 5, 1864 
 
 1 vr 
 
 Also borne on rods as "Perrv Kimball*" rnim- 
 
 
 
 
 
 -L y i . 
 
 tered out June 26, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Knull, Ira 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 17 
 
 July 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Lafayette, Louis do... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Little. Aaron W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Wounded Dec. 31, 1862, in battle of Stone 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 River, Tenn.; transferred to 105th Co., 2d 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Battalion, Veteran Eeserve Corps, ; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out Jan. 4, 1865, by order of War De 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 partment. 
 
 Long, Harvey 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, O?., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Long, William M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Manoah Long;" mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Luckey, William 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, O*., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 McDowell, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 27, 1861 
 
 8 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Term., 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 McGowen, Charles 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 25 
 
 Dec. 23,1863 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 McGinnis, James j...do... 
 
 22 Aug. 31, 1862 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Feb. 7, 1863, at Lebanon, Tenn. 
 
 McNuen , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 38 j Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; died May 9, 1863. 
 
 Martin, David F 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Oct. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Aug. 5, 1864, in Andersonville Prison, Ga. 
 
 Merrill , James H 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Miller, John 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 32 
 
 Nov. 15. 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died" April 20, 1862, at Savannah, Twin. 
 
 Moore Charles W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 41 
 
 Nov. 12, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 16, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Morse , Lewis 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 27 
 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 15, 1863. 
 
 Myers, Charles A 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 24, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Myers, Simeon 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 35 
 
 Nov. 20, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Returned to Co. D. 67th Regiment, O. V. I., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 18, 1861, where he had previously en 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 listed. 
 
 Nachtrieb , John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Nemyer, Frederick 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 28 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Netcher, Peter 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 5, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 26, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Nigh, Edwin A 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 13, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 31, 1864, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Olds Chancey 
 
 do .. 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrg. 
 
 Died Nov. 9, 1862. 
 
 Olds, Henry 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 42 
 
 Sept. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, on Surgeon s eertifl- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Partlon, Israel 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Dee. 18, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 27, 1864. 
 
 Peirce, Guy D 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Peterson, Claus 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 
 2 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 30, 1862, at Columbia, Ky. 
 
 Plum, Linnaeus T 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 30, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 7, 1864, in hospital at Columbia, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 Price , Charles 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 24 
 
 July 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Price John B 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Sept. 19, 1862, on Surgeon v s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Eearick, William F.... 
 
 .. do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Nov. 25, 1863, near Cleveland, Tenn.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled Feb. 24, 1865; no further recerd 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 Rice Ephraiiu .... 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, Oi. , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Robinson, Charles H.. 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of seryiee. 
 
290 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Rush Jjjcob 
 
 Private 
 
 17 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Prisoner of war; mustered out May 18, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Columbus, O., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Scott, George B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 21, 1863 
 
 3yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Scott, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 31, 1863, in Confederate Prison hos 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pital at Macon, Ga. 
 
 Sconton, Charles J 
 
 ...do... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sipley, Jacob 
 
 ... do... 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died May 15, 1862, at Camp Dennison, O. 
 
 Smith David 
 
 do . . 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Smith, Henry S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Oct. 23, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Smith, Joshua V 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 43 
 
 July 22,1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 24, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 24, 1865, at Columbus, O> , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Snider, Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 45 
 
 Nov. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. C Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Stewart Henry 
 
 do . 
 
 
 Jan. 1, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 17, 1864, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Sweet, James M 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 3, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Tappin, William 
 
 ... do... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. F Jan. 1, 1862. 
 
 Taylor James 
 
 do . 
 
 26 
 
 Jan. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Thatcher, Wilbur F... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 July 11, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered cut with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Thatcher, William E.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 6, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured Nov. 13, 1862, in action at Silver 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Spring, Tenn.; paroled ; appointed Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; reduced May 11, 1865; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out with company Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Trask, Mitchell G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed May 10, 1864, near Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 Wallace, James W T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Westcott, Charles A... 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wheeler, George C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 Feb. 28, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Feb. 28, 1865, on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Willoughby, John W.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Aug. 29, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Nov. 14, 1861; cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tured Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ky.; paroled ; discharged Dec. 19, 1862, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to enlist in Co. C, 3d Battalion, 18th Regi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment, U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Wilson Moses . . 
 
 do .. 
 
 35 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wilson, Welles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Sept. 19, 1861 
 
 o y .1.0 . 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 4, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 W T isner, George M 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 27, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 2, 1863. 
 
 Wolf, Henry J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Oct. 27, 1861. 
 
 Woodford, John T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 4, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. A Nov. 13, 1861; ap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pointed Sergeant Nov. 13, 1861; captured 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 4, 1862, at battle of Bardstown, Ky.; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 paroled ; reduced from Sergeant Sept. 17, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; returned to Co. A Sept. 18, 1864. 
 
 Zorn, Louis G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 James, Henry 
 
 Cook 
 
 .... 
 
 April 25, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Milton, Richard 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 .... 
 
 April 25, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Eussell, Monroe 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 April 25, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook: mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Webb, Terrill 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 
 April 25, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook: sent to hospital at Ma- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 con, Ga., July 18, 1865; no further record 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 found. 
 
 COMPANY M. 
 
 Mustered in December 11, 1861, at Camp Worcester, O., by James P. W. Neill, 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, 
 
 U. S. A., Mustering Officer. Mustered out August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by James 
 
 P. W. Neill, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A., Acting Commissary 
 
 of Musters, Cavalry Corps, M. D. T. 
 
 John W Marvin 
 
 Captain 
 
 
 Sept . 8 1861 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Appointed Sept 8 1861 
 
 Henry C. Miner 
 
 Philander B. Lwis.... 
 James W. Likens 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 25 
 
 28 
 36 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 Dec. 28, 1861 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed 1st Lieutenant Sept. 8, 1861; pro 
 moted to Captain Jan. 21, 1863; mustered 
 out Nov. 22, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., on 
 expiration of term of service. 
 Transferred from Co. F Feb. 10, 1865; resigned 
 July 1, 1865. 
 Appointed 2d Lieutenant Sept. 8, 1861; pro 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant Jan. 21, 1863; re 
 signed May 16, 1864. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 291 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 George B. Watson 
 
 1st Lieu. 
 
 27 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. I March 31, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out Nov. 24, 1864, at Louis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Ky., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Daniel C. Lewis 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 26, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. I Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; captured April 2, 1865, at battle of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Selma, Ala.; paroled ; promoted to Cap 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tain, but died before receiving commission; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 perished by explosion of steamer Sultana 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April 27, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Ervin R. Harris 
 
 2d Lieu. 
 
 17 
 
 Sept . 7 1861 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Promoted from privets Co E J&n 21 1863* to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1st Lieutenant Co. K May 9, 1864. 
 
 Thomas Marlin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Oct. 28, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted from Q. M. Sergeant Co. K Nov. 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; to 1st Lieutenant Co. B Jan. 6, 1865; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 William S. Burbay 
 
 1st Serg. 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 8, 1861; promoted to 2d Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant Jan. 2, 1863, but not mustered; dis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 charged Jan. 23, 1863, at Camp Stanley, 
 
 George A. Clark 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Tenn., on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Appointed Sergeant Oct. 8, 1861; 1st Sergeant 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. L July 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13, 1864; veteran. 
 
 Thomas A. O Eourke. . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Q. M. Sergeant Oct. 8, 1861; 1st Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant Aug. 11, 1864; promoted to 2d Lieu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tenant Co. L Nov. 30, 1864; veteran. 
 
 John S. Chapin 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Sergeant Oct. 8, 1861; Q. M. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; 1st Sergeant Dec. 2, 1864; mus-i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 William H. Smith 
 
 Q. M. S. 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 8, 1861; Com. Ser 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 geant ; Q. M. Sergeant Dec. 2, 1864; mus 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Owen Gray 
 
 Com Ser. 
 
 36 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Wagoner Oct. 8, 1861; Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Com. Sergeant Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865: veteran. 
 
 John H. Fisher 
 
 Sergeant 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8 1861 
 
 3 vrs 
 
 Appointed Oct. 8, 1861; mustered out Oct. 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Henry D. Smith 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Oct. 8, 1861; discharged Aug. 12, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Arthur Black 
 
 ...do 
 
 Q-i 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 Yrs 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; killed 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 20, 1864, In battle of Jonesboro, Ga. 
 
 Marion Eldred 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 32 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 8, 1861; Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Oct. 13, 1864, at Franklin, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Robert Mears 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 8, 1861; Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mustered out Oct. 13, 1864, at Franklin, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 John A. Brown 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 26 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed : mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 John M. Ropp 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered as private; appointed ; mustered 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn., by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department. 
 
 Lewis R. Mjller 
 
 ..do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal Oct. 8, 1861; Sergeant ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on detached duty at Columbus, O., since 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 23, 1863; mustered out Aug. 10, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O., by order of War Department; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 veteran. 
 
 William Young 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant Dec. 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865: veteran. 
 
 John B. Velie 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 41 
 
 Oct. 2, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant Dec. 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; veteran. 
 
 William Kneule 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal ; Sergeant July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 James Dodge 
 
 .. do 
 
 18 
 
 July 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Corporal : Sergeant July 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865; mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Findley M. Smith 
 
 Corporal 
 
 24 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 28, 1861; discharged July 2, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Melville R. Benson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 28, 1861; missing Dec. 31, 1862, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 in battle of Stone River, Tenn.; no further 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 record found. 
 
 David Taylor 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 28, 1861; died May 21, 1862, on : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hamburg and Corinth road. 
 
 Julius Straw 
 
 . . . do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Nov. 28, 1861; captured Sept. 20, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863, at battle of Chickamauga, Ga.; paroled 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 8, 1864; mustered out Nov. 21, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
292 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 i Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 James K. P. Harris... 
 
 Corporal 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Appointed Feb. , 1863; mustered out Oct. 13, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., on expiration of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 term of service. 
 
 Daniel Clinger 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Nov. 30, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 John E. Mahaffey 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out Oct. 13, 1864, at 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Franklin, Tenn., on expiration of term of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 service. 
 
 Solomon Barcus do ... 28 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out June 17, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Jacob Halderman ...do... 27 
 
 Jan. 25, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Edward A. Chapin do ... 19 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Milton P Martin do 19 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mtptered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Rufus Aurand do ... 26 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Charles Riley do ... 19 
 
 Oct. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed Dec. 2, 1864; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Frederick Reidle ... do . . . 18 
 
 Nov. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William B. Marshall. ..... do ... 38 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 William Hoy do ... 30 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed July 1, 1865; mustered out with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hiram Martin Bugler 30 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; discharged July 18, 1865, at 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O., on Surgeon s certificate of 
 
 
 
 
 disability; veteran. 
 
 Jacob Trott ... do ... 22 
 
 Nov. 11, 1861 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. K Jan. 1, 1862; appoint 
 
 
 
 
 
 ed : mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nash 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ville, Tenn., on expiration of term of serv 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ice. 
 
 Mathew Harrah Farrier 33 
 
 Nov. 9, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky. f 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Andrew Maxwell do ... 41 
 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Joseph Adams ... do . . . 39 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed -; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865; veteran. 
 
 David Dale do ... 36 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed ; mustered out with company 
 
 
 
 Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Benjamin Kerstetter .. ; Saddler | 42 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 i Syrs. 
 
 Captured April 2, 1865, at battle of Selma, 
 
 
 
 
 Ala.; paroled ; perished by explosion of 
 
 
 
 
 
 steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Memphis, Tenn., April 27, 1865; veteran. 
 
 Edward O. Morgan... Wagoner 22 
 
 Sept. 8,1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Appointed : mustered out July 14, 1865, 
 
 
 
 
 
 from hospital at Camp Dennison, O., by 
 
 
 
 
 order of War Department; veteran. 
 
 Adams, John Private 18 
 
 Nov. 8, 1861 i 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. K, llth Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, ; died June 18, 1864. 
 
 Adams , Martin do . . . 18 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 ! 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Anderson, Charles do ... 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Barnard, Selah |...do... 37 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 ! 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Beagle, Henry ! . . . do ... 18 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 ! Syrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Benedict, Napoleon B. ... do ...j 19 
 
 Nov. 8, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Sept. 3, 1864, in hospital at Viriing Sta 
 
 
 
 
 tion, Ga. , of wounds received in action. 
 
 Berdine, Abram do ... 27 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 23, 1863, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Brown, Samuel S do ... 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Feb. 20, 1865, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Bulger, Benjamin do ... 44 
 
 Jan. 2, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Bundiger, Jacob do ... 31 
 
 Feb. 11, 1864 3 yrs. 
 
 Died June 2, 1865, in General Hospital at Lou 
 
 
 
 
 isville, Ky. 
 
 Catlin, Murray B !...do... 19 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Chandler, Smith do... 20 
 
 Sept. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 31, 1864, in General Hospital No. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11 at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Chapin, Luther C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Dec. 31, 1862. 
 
 Cherry , Peter 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Left sick at Nashville, Tenn., May 12, 1864; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 no further record found. 
 
 Childers, Valentine ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Clagett, James W do ... 
 
 33 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Dec. 11, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Conrad , John do . . . | 34 
 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. C Jan. 4, 1865. 
 
 Cooper, Orlando G ...do... 
 
 26 
 
 Feb. 25, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Culler , Abram | . . . do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 8, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Culler, Hiram . . do 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Discharged July 30, 1862, at Columbus, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Dean, William !...do... 
 
 39 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Dec. 4, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Defenbaugher, Henry.. 
 
 ...do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Oct. 19, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out June 12, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bv order of War Department. 
 
 Deipert, Abram 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 28, 1863, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Downard, William J... 
 
 ... do ... 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 293 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Durbin, James L 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 25, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred from Co. H Dec. 1, 1861; died 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. , 1862, while at home. 
 
 Dutchman, Robert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 31 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Randolph R. Derchst- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 man;" mustered out with company Aug. 4, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865. 
 
 Engle, Peter 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 34 
 
 Nov. 18, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Engleman, David J 
 
 ... do... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Essex, Samuel A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 25, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Everett, Alexander W. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 85 
 
 Aug. 19, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashvilkj, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn. , by order of War Department. 
 
 Everett, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 29 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 8, 1864, at Columbus, O., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Fickes , Maybery 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 16, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Geary, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 61 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 14, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Goe, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 6, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Gray, John W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 7, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Harness , George B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 30 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Jan. 14, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Harris, Jefferson 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Aug. 24, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out May 5, 1865, at Tod Barracks, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus, O., by order of War Depart 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 Hart, James J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 36 
 
 Jan. 25, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. D, 4th Regiment, Veteran 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reserve Corps, April 21, 1865; mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 from same Aug. 19, 1865, at Springfield, 111., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Hartrung, Frederick .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 2, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Harvey, Albert 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hebberly, John F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Mch. 1, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 12, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Held, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 40 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hennie, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Herod , James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 45 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Nov. 21, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Hodge, Norman 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Holingshead, William . 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Hollingsworth, Lafayet 
 
 te. do ... 
 
 19 
 
 July 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Hunter, William R 
 
 do 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 18, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Irwin, Sims W 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Jacobs, Silas 
 
 do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 24, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 30, 1864, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Jamison, John T 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Jones , Cornelius 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died July 3, 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala. 
 
 Kennedy, Daniel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865; vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran. 
 
 Kile, David 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 23 
 
 Nov. 8, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Krise, Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Lindsey, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Killed May 29, 1864, in battle of Moultoa, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ala.; veteran. 
 
 Luckey, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 McCleade, Daniel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 48 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 30, 1862, at Columbus, O., on 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 McWethy, Charles H.. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "McWelty" and "Mc- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Weathey;" captured July 23, 1864, in action 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 near Decatur, Ga.; mustered out June 19, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1865, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Department; veteran. 
 
 Madden, James H 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 20, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Maxwell, James 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 18, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Merchant, Lemual B... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Nov. 5, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged Aug. 21, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Miers John 
 
 do 
 
 45 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged July 22, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Miller Andrew J 
 
 do 
 
 24 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 17, 1865, at Nashville, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 
 Miller Ira C 
 
 do 
 
 18 
 
 July 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Miller, Levi F 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 18, 1862, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Monlet, Michael 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 3, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Morgan, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 1,1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Mouser , Robert J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured July 23, 1864, in action near Decatuit 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ga.; mustered out June 19, 1865, at Camp 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, O., by order of War Department. 
 
 Norris, Hiram J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 O Grady, Michael 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
294 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 Period 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Entering the 
 
 of 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 
 
 Service 
 
 Service 
 
 
 Ora , Francis 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to Co. D Dec. 10, 1861. 
 
 Parks, Rose J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 25, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Payne, Jacob 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Payne, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Preston, George W 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 25, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Pugh, William R 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged March 19, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cate of disability. 
 
 Pycroft, William 
 
 .. do .. 
 
 49 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Rigby, Thomas H 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Rogers , Joseph 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Rucle, Stephen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 1, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Also borne on rolls as "Runkle;" mustered out 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Savard, Nelson 
 
 . . do 
 
 30 
 
 Feb. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Scott, Andrew J 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Shaw , Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 April 7, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sheets, Theodore 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Shreck , August 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died April 1, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Sidel, Arthur 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Simons, John A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Simons, Samuel 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 19, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Oct. 17, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Stanton, Louis 
 
 ... do 
 
 18 
 
 July 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Died Feb. 3, 1864. 
 
 Stormont, William . 
 
 . . . do ... 
 
 97 
 
 Oct. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Van Siokle, Selah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Wagner, Jeremiah 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Men. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out June 30, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 by order of War Department. 
 
 Walkup, Josiah G 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. 24, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Ward, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Nov. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died March 31, 1864, in General Hospital No. 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Warner , John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Webster, La Fever 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Oct. 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Captured July 23, 1864, in action near Decatur, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ga.; mustered out June 19, 1865, at Camp 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, O. , by order of War Department. 
 
 White , Adelbert B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 White, Horace B. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 50 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Promoted to Batt. Hospital Stewart Dec. 1, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861. 
 
 White, William A 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Williams, Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 Nov. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Wilson, Isaac C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Dec. 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Winn , Barney 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Winslow, Holden 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Died Dec. 31, 1862. 
 
 Yahn, Frederick 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Sept. 8, 1861 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out Oct. 12, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on expiration of term of service. 
 
 Yeager , Joseph 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Mustered out with company Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Davis, George 
 
 Cook 
 
 
 April 26, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Johnson, Alexander ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 .... 
 
 April 26, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 Sneede, William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 3, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Colored under-cook; mustered out with com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 pany Aug. 4, 1865. 
 
 UNASSIGNED RECRUITS. 
 
 Adams , John 
 
 Private 
 
 21 
 
 Nov. 8, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Anderson, Amos B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Antana, Stephen 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Arnold, John C 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 17, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 
 Atwood, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 24 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 
 3 yrs . 
 
 Killed by the kick of a horse, date not given. 
 
 Bacon, Worlin B 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Oct. 6, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Transferred to 67th Co., 2d Battalion, Vet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 eran Reserve Corps ; discharged Sept. 16, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 
 Barks, Henry S 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 42 
 
 Dec. 10, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Beercraf t , Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 27, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Blackman, Almanzo .. 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 25, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Blaine, Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 
 Dec. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Boyle, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 Dec. 22, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Brister, John H 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Aug. 29, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Burt , George 
 
 ... do 
 
 26 
 
 Dec. 10, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Butke, W T illiam 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 Dec. 15, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
 Butler, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 21 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 
Roster of Regiment. 
 
 295 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 of 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 Carleton, James 
 Clapp, Augustus M 
 Cliber, Jacob 
 Collins William 
 
 Private 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 18 
 23 
 19 
 
 Nov. 17, 1863 
 Sept. 30, 1862 
 Jan. 8, 1864 
 April 6, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 No further record found. 
 Died March 9, 1863. 
 No further record found. 
 Mustered out May 9 1865 at Tod Barracks 
 
 Connell, Charles 
 Cooper William 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do ... 
 
 27 
 
 T> 
 
 Sept. 23, 1863 
 Mch. 22, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 Columbus, O., by order of War Department! 
 Discharged Nov. 11, 1863, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 No further record found 
 
 Cooper William 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ?6 
 
 Men. 30, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 No further record found 
 
 Corey, Stephen C 
 
 Cutler, Joseph B 
 Crider Miles 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 32 
 
 28 
 18 
 
 Dec. 19, 1862 
 
 Aug. 26, 1862 
 Nov. 30, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Transferred to 187th Co., 1st Battalion, Vet 
 eran Reserve Corps, ; discharged May 
 31, 1865, on Surgeon s certificate of disa 
 bility. 
 Transferred to Co. B, 7th Regiment, Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, ; mustered out June 29, 
 1865, by order of War Department. 
 No further record found 
 
 Cyrus, Henry 
 Davidson, Greenbury J 
 Dickson , Edward 
 Dunn , William 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 19 
 23 
 33 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 Feb. 28, 1864 
 Mch. 26, 1864 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Eiehor, Henry 
 Ewing, Charles 
 Farinash, George 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 22 
 
 27 
 ?6 
 
 Feb. 27, 1864 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 Aug. 22, 1862 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Nov. 15, 1862; no fur 
 
 Farnsworth, Curtis F. 
 
 Ferdinand, Gabriel ... 
 Fielding, Joshua 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 26 
 
 32 
 
 9,0 
 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 April 1, 1864 
 Dec. 9, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 16, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Finck, John 
 Finierty, William 
 Fix Jackson 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 28 
 18 
 44 
 
 Nov. 20, 1862 
 Mch. 11, 1864 
 Mch. 8, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Mustered out Dec. 10, 1862, by order of War 
 Department. 
 Forwarded to general rendezvous March 16, 
 1864; no further record found. 
 Discharged June 12, 1865, on Surgeon s certifi 
 
 Foutz, Sebastian 
 Freeman, John 
 Fry Henry 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . do ... 
 
 42 
 21 
 97 
 
 Aug. 31, 1863 
 Mch. 25, 1864 
 Mch. 22, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 cate of disability. 
 Forwarded to regiment Sept. 21, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment April 15, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 29, 1865 no fur j 
 
 Gabriel, Ferdinand ... 
 Garvy John .... 
 
 .. do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 
 30 
 
 April 1,1864 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Xo further record found. 
 
 Gilhart, Charles 
 Graham, William 
 Greek William H 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . do ... 
 
 28 
 
 99 
 
 July , 1862 
 Aug. 19, 1863 
 Mch. 18, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Xo further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Hartz, Jacob 
 Handley Michael . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 .. do ... 
 
 21 
 
 43 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863 
 Dec. 30, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 19, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Xo further record found. 
 
 Hayden, William 
 
 Henderson, Thomas .. 
 Hessner, John 
 Hiberling, George W... 
 
 Hickey, Thomas 
 Hoff Jacob 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 .. do .. 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 28 
 21 
 
 27 
 ?,1 
 
 Dec. 21, 1863 
 
 Oct. 19, 1864 
 Nov. 5, 1863 
 Sept. 12, 1862 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 Feb. 9, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded to Columbus, O., Dec. 23, 1863; no- 
 further record found. 
 Xo further record found. 
 Xo further record found. 
 Assigned to Co. I March 8, 1864, but not taken 
 up on rolls of company; no further record 
 found. 
 Xo further record found. 
 Died Feb. 26, 1864, in General Hospital at 
 
 Hoffman John G .... 
 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 
 Nov. 16, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 X T ashviIle, Tenn. 
 Forwarded to regiment Nov. 18, 1863; no fur 
 
 Hogan John 
 
 do ... 
 
 18 
 
 July 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 X T o further record found. 
 
 Holman, Thomas C... 
 Howard, William 
 Hutchins, Clinton R... 
 Hutton, Horace K 
 Taper Charles 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 23 
 26 
 18 
 19 
 18 
 
 Mch. 22, 1865 
 Nov. 17, 1863 
 Dec. 9, 1863 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 29, 1865; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 18, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 16, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 James, Charles 
 Johnson, William 
 
 Kellogg, Henry H 
 Kenneally, Edward H. 
 
 Kennedy, John 
 Kennedy , Joseph 
 
 Kinney, David 
 Leach, Pleasant 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 25 
 23 
 
 23 
 19 
 
 25 
 19 
 
 18 
 42 
 
 Mch. 20, 1865 
 Dec. 17, 1863 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 Mch. 28, 1865 
 
 Nov. 5,1863 
 Dec. 8, 1863 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 Sept. 20, 1862 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 Syrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 29, 1865; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 25, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, at Nashville, 
 Tenn., by order of War Department. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 16, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 21, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Sept. 25, 1862; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 
296 
 
 History of Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. 
 
 Names 
 
 Rank 
 
 Age 
 
 Date of 
 Entering the 
 Service 
 
 Period 
 ol 
 Service 
 
 Remarks 
 
 
 Private 
 
 18 
 
 Mch. 21, 1864 
 
 3 yrs 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 26 1864* no fur 
 
 Lemon, William H 
 
 . . . do . . 
 do 
 
 21 
 
 99 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 July 16 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Sept 21 1863* no fur 
 
 Lindall, Marquis E 
 Long, James L 
 Long James E 
 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 ... do ... 
 
 18 
 21 
 18 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 Aug. 27, 1862 
 Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs 
 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Jan. 4, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Sept. 12, 1862; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found 
 
 Lorn Lewis G 
 
 ... do 
 
 ?,? 
 
 Feb. 28, 1865 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 No further record found 
 
 Louis, Albert 
 
 McKehiser, Washington 
 Mack , John 
 
 Madill, Benjamin 
 
 Marshall, James 
 Martin, Albert 
 Martin, Frederick 
 
 Merton, John 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . do . . 
 1 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . do .. 
 
 29 
 
 19 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 88 
 19 
 
 ; 18 
 
 25 
 25 
 
 Mch. 29, 1864 
 
 Mch. 8, 1865 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 
 Dec. 17, 1863 
 
 Jan. 13, 1864 
 Nov. 21, 1863 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 Dec. 15, 1863 
 Sept. 26, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 31, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to Columbus, O., Dec. 23, 1863; no 
 further record found. 
 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Jan. 14, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to Columbus, O., Dec. 15, 1863; no 
 further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Oct. 17 1863* no fur 
 
 Miller, John 
 Morrison, William 
 
 . . . do . . 
 . . do . . 
 
 20 
 18 
 
 Mch. 22, 1864 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 8 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 24, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Monson, James 
 Montgomery, Eli 
 
 Pennell, William 
 Perry , John 
 
 . . . do . . 
 . . . do . . 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 27 
 19 
 
 22 
 ?S 
 
 Feb. 26, 1864 
 Mch. 23, 1864 
 
 Aug. 16, 1864 
 Mch. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 29, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 
 Pew, Joseph A 
 
 . . do ... 
 
 18 
 
 Jan. 4, 1864 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 Died Feb. 13, 1864. 
 
 Phelps, George O 
 Porter, William L 
 
 Quirk William 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . do . . 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 18 
 43 
 
 37 
 
 Mch. 8, 1864 
 Dec. 14, 1863 
 
 Dec. 7, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Discharged May 10, 1864, on Surgeon s certifi 
 cate of disability. 
 Transferred to 187th Co., 1st Battalion, Vet 
 eran Reserve Corps, ; discharged May 12, 
 1865, on Surgeon s certificate of disability. 
 Died Dec. 14, 1863. 
 
 Randoll, Fritz 
 Raneefr, Thomas 
 
 ... do ... 
 ...do ... 
 
 18 
 44 
 
 Dec. 29, 1863 
 Dec. 23, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Forwarded from Columbua, O., Jan. 12, 1864; 
 no further record found. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Rice, George 
 Riley, John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 19 
 9,5 
 
 Aug. 23, 1862 
 Mch. 15, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 1 yr. 
 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O., Sept. 12, 1862; 
 no further record found. 
 Mustered out May 9, 1865, from Tod Barraeka, 
 
 Rilev, Patrick 
 
 . . do . . 
 
 99, 
 
 July 24, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 
 No further record found. 
 
 Ryan, Rodger 
 Sampson Burdett .... 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 32 
 18 
 
 Dec. 22, 1863 
 Aug. 5, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O., Aug. 24, 1863; 
 
 Sayers, James A 
 Smith, Charles 
 
 Smith, Daniel A 
 Smith, Hugh 
 
 Smith John 
 
 ... do ... 
 ... do ... 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do ... 
 
 24 
 21 
 
 18 
 
 28 
 
 18 
 
 Feb. 29, 1864 
 Dec. 16,1863 
 
 Nov. 25, 1863 
 Dec. 18, 1863 
 
 April 5, 1865 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 1 yr. 
 
 no further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 17, 1863; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O. , Dee. 28, 1863; 
 no further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus O April 24 1865; 
 
 Thomas, John B 
 Tyler George 
 
 ... do ... 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 25 
 ?F> 
 
 Mch. 21, 1865 
 Dec. 2, 1863 
 
 1 yr. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 no further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O., March 29, 
 1865; no further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Dec. 14, 1863; no fur 
 
 Valentine, Aaron 
 Wallace, Hiram W 
 
 Wappert, Charles 
 Wells, Charles 
 Wells, Lemuel H 
 
 Willfs, John F 
 Woodruff, Baker 
 
 Wooley, Gilbert H 
 Wycoff, Merritt 
 
 Young, Gilbert 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 
 . . . do . . . 
 . . . do . . . 
 ...do ... 
 
 . . do . . 
 . . do . . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 . . do . . . 
 
 . . do . . . 
 
 20 
 32 
 
 26 
 19 
 21 
 
 18 
 20 
 
 21 
 22 
 
 26 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864 
 Dec. 18,1863 
 
 Sept. 8, 1862 
 Feb. 20, 1884 
 Mch. 27, 1865 
 
 Sept. 11, 1863 
 Aug. 28, 1862 
 
 Dec. 21,1863 
 Feb. 23, 1864 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 lyr. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 3 yrs. 
 
 3 yrs. 
 
 ther record found. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O. , Dec. 28, 1863; 
 no further record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Sept. 25, 1862; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded to regiment Feb. 20, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Mustered out Aug. 1, 1865, at Nashville^ 
 Tenn. 
 No further record found. 
 Forwarded from Columbus, O., Sept. 12, 1862; 
 no further record found. 
 
 Forwarded to regiment March 10, 1864; no fur 
 ther record found. 
 Forwarded from Cohambus, O., Dec. 28, 1863; 
 no further record found. 
 
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