Historical sketch of the 56th Ohio volunteer infantry during the great Civil War from 1861 to 1866

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AN HISTORICAL SKETCH

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56th Omio Volunteer Infantry

During the Great Civil War
Froa\ 1861 to 1866

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CONTENTS

Chapter I. —
Chapter II. —
Chapter III. —
Chapter IV. —
Chapter V. —
Chapter VI. —
Chapter VII. —
Chapter VIII.-
Chapter IX. —
Chapter X.—
Chapter XI. —
Chapter XII. —
Chapter XIIL-
Chapter XIV.-
Chapter XV.—
Roster of the

. Organization, Etc. . . ' . 9

Fort Donelson, Etc. ...... 13

. Corinth, Siege of. ...... . 18

. Helena and Thereabout 23

. Milliken's Bend and Port Gibson. . 33

Champion's Hill 41

Siege of Vicksburg, Etc. ... 54

The Teche Expedition 58

The Red River Campaign. ... 65

. Snaggy Point on the John Warner. 73

Our Veteran Furlough. .... 85

. Patrol Duty in New Orleans, Etc. 39

Our Services in New Orleans, Etc. 101

. Our Muster Out, Etc Ill

. Biographical Sketches 134

Regiment . . 145

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; We want the brave old flag to wave,
, From Texas up to Maine,
From Delaware to Golden Gate,

Around and back again ;
Over each blade of grass that grows,

And every grain of sand,
The Stars and Stripes and Union,

Thank God, for these we stand/'

INTRODUCTION.

(Extract from Official Report of Gen. Alvin P. Hovey,
Commander 12th Div., 13tb. A. C.)

It is useless to speak in praise of the 56th Ohio. They
have won laurels on many fields, and not only their
country will praise, but posterity will be proud to claim

kinship They have a history that Col. Raynor,

and their children, will be proud to read."

Events, with respect to men engaged in ordinary vocations,
are not without interest. When, however, momentous conditions
intervene, or arise, to engage men in activities that alarm a con-
tinent and astound the civilized world, men stand aghast and
propound: "What is to be the end?"

Genial and customary occupations give place to imperious
demands, with which most men are unacquainted; then from the
field, forge, trade and professions, all avenues of thrift, hope and
peace, the cry is heard: "To arms! our civil liberties are assailed!"
Men respond with alacrity. They are massed in powerful com-
bination, whose business, henceforth, is war. The deal is blood
and iron. Hideous spectacle! with which the soldier gradually
becomes familiar; grows intrepid and cheerful as he goes marching
on. Men of peace, the bulwark of a nation, all transformed.

Comrades and friends, what a scene! Are you reminded of

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regiment. He was behind the gun, having his eye on the sight,
sure! You know how that was done.

The scanning of the pages will doubtless revive sorrows and
heartaches, pangs and sighs; yet there will be dear memories,
reveries and delights. The tenderness linked to the place clothed
in green, where lies the dear one, "Killed in action," or "Died in
hospital.'' Let's see! What would life and history be, stripped
•of their twinnings and suggestions of immortality? Our comrade
wrote to commemorate deeds of valor — and of sacrifices rarely
paralelled. Comrades and friends will rejoice with me that the
work is well done. To the posterity of the one it will be of ines-
timable value, to the descendants of the others it will be instruc-
tive. The young will learn of the intense zeal and loyalty neces-
sary to maintain freedom's flag unfurled at the masthead, and the
student of our national characteristics will be encouraged. In
fine, all lovers of good government, and lovers of those who fought
to make ours such, will chorus- "Praise God from whom all bless-
ings flow."

Apart from all other sterling qualities of the soldier, that of
cheerfulness was a distinguished trait of the men of the Fifty-sixth.
Most of the comrades have completed the journey of life. To those
who are still wending their way over the Bridge of Mirza, let me
commend the same cheerfulness, for to him that endures is the
victory. To have fought for our country is somewhat. To have
fought for it in the Fifty-sixth Ohio, and in the Army of the Ten-
nessee, should be counted a badge of distinction, not to be sur-
passed by any mark worn, or to be worn, by any soldier in any
age and country.

Under the guidance of God, let us continue our efforts in the

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cause of humanity, the cause of purity, in private and official life,
and in the exercise of those duties which promise the only assur-
ance of the final rollcall of: "Well done, thou good and faithful
servant," the eternal welcome. Being always mindful that:
"Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to an^r

people."

George Grindley.

Washington , D. C,

December, i8gg.

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

CHAPTER I.

Organization at Camp Morrow, Portsmouth, Ohio.

In the endeavor to write a short history of the regiment, of
the dangers and hardships endured and surmounted, in that great-
est of all wars, that was waged for the preservation of the Union,
I beg your indulgence. I greatly regret its incompleteness in so
many particulars. From my position in the ranks of Company C,
until the fall of Vicksburg, my view was limited, and the things
I saw may have appeared different to others, and the many things
that I failed to see may have been far more important than
those which came under my observation. The limited diary I kept
during our entire service is correct as to time and place and other
matters, so far as it extends. I would much prefer that some
other member of the regiment of larger opportunities and greater
ability had undertaken this work. That there is so much of it of
a personal nature is probably a great fault, but there being no
record obtainable of orders to the regiment, or to its officers, is
the only excuse offered, and firmly believing that every regiment
or separate company that had any service of note should have a
history in some permanent form of its services, and in hopes that
these few facts, unembelished, may find favor with the comrades
who still remain, and their families, as a memorial of our active
and long service, and the privations encountered by day and night,
and as a slight testimonial to our brave and noble comrades who
gave, up their lives on the deadly battlefield, in prison pens, and
from hospital cots of affliction, for this great land, is the history
written. We uncover and bow low our heads as being unable to
sufficiently honor them.

The Fifty-sixth Ohio was simply one of the numerous organ-
izations which responded to the call ofPresident Lincoln, when
the gloomy clouds of treason hung dark and threatening over the ;

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country. It was composed of men from every calling and vocation
in life. The regiment did no more than its duty, going where
ordered and performing whatever was required of it. The raising
of recruits was slow work, as the region of country had been send-
ing a large number of men into the service from the beginning of
the war. From this section one full company went into the
Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, one in the Thirtieth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, two into the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, one into the Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry,,
and four companies into the Second Virginia Cavalry. The Thirty-
third Ohio Volunteer Infantry left Camp Morrow for the field a
few days before the Fifty-sixth entered it; and the Fifty-third Ohio
Volunteer Infantry was being recruited at Jackson at the same
time the Fifty-sixth was at Portsmouth. After much solicitation
the order was g?ven to organize the regiment, and on the 8th day of
October, 1S61, the camp was organized. Peter Kinney was ap-
pointed Colonel, YVm. H. Kaynor, Lieutenant Colonel, and Samp-
son E. Varner, Major; W. N. King, Surgeon; Henry E. Jones,
Adjutant; W. S. Huston, Quartermaster, and Rev. Jonathan E.
Thomas, later on, was appointed Chaplain.

THE FIFTY-SIXTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

The regiment at first contained nearly a thousand men, and
was recruited at different times to about 1,200 men, of whom fully
one-fourth were killed or died of wounds and disease, and at the
final muster out, there were only about 170, the remainder having
been mustered out at the expiration of three years.

The original companies of the regiment: Company A, was
recruited from the counties of Gallia and Jackson. It was the first
company in number, and was composed of an extra good lot of men,
both in size and quality.

Company B was recruited in Portsmouth, O., and every mem-
ber was of German birth or parentage. The officers and some of
the men had seen service in the German army in their Fatherland,

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and. in our early service they entertained us very pleasantly with
their fine singing of "Litori, Litori," etc.

Company C was recruited about half and half from Scioto and
Jackson counties. All but two were young men from 1G to 25
years of age. They were under strict discipline and well cared for
by their Captain.

Company D was recruited at Portsmouth, Ohio. Most of the
men were from Scioto county, but they had a fine squad of men
from Gallia county, led by Lieutenant Schaefer. The great ma-
jority were young, active men and made number one soldiers.

Company E was composed largely of Gallia county men, but
it also had a number from Jackson county, and was composed of
firstclass men in every particular. Their Captain was of fine
education, and capable for any position.

Company F was recruited in Scioto county mostly. Like the
foregoing, the men were mostly young and equal to any in the
land. Captain Wilhelm of this company received a medal for
gallantry at Champion's Hill.

Company G. This company was raised in Scioto county, and
like other companies this one had some of the best men in the
regiment. Captain Stimmell, of this company, made a hazardous
escape from the enemy, after being captur?d.

Company H. This company was recruited mostly in Scioto
county from the farmers and the furnaces, and a body of firstclass
soldiers they were.

Company I was recruited in Pike county, and, like the others,
the men were of the best class, and were not behind the foremost
in any thing that made good soldiers.

Company K was composed of Jackson and Scioto county men,
and most of them were the equal of the best, and were never
backward in the performance of duty.

Men came in steadily, and were mustered in as they volun-
teered from time to time. The arms furnished the regiment were
the clumsy old Belgium muskets, which, when fired, would almost
kick a man over. The time was diligently improved in perfecting
the men in the essential duties of a soldier's life. By December

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12, 1861, the regiment was filled to the minimum number, and
was anxiously awaiting orders to report to the front. On January
23, 1862, the Ohio river was very high, up into the city consid-
erably. Camp Morrow having become a sea of mud, on the 21st
the regiment moved up on high ground, near Colonel Kinney's
residence. On January 30 there was a heavy fall of snow, and it
was very cold. The weather was worse than usual that season,
and the change from home comforts to camp life was hard on a
large number of the men. An epidemic of measles broke out, and
fully one-fourth of the command were afflicted with them, and,
with the exposure in camp, many of them were unfit for service
thereafter. February 6, 1862, the regiment received orders to be
ready to move at an hour's notice, and for the next few days our
camp was thronged with our relatives and friends, taking a final
.farewell with many of our comrades.

On the 10th of February, 1862, the regiment was ordered to
report at Paducah, Kentucky. On the 11th we were very busy in
packing up and getting all ready to move. The regiment was
greatly pleased that, at last, it was to start for the front. And
on February 12, 1862, late in the afternoon, the Fifty-sixth Ohio
went on board the steamboats Champion No. 3 and Poland, and
left Portsmouth at Dusk. The wharf was crowded with relatives
and friends to bid us a last goodby.

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CHAPTER II.
Fort Donelson, Crump's Landing and Shiloh.

There was a very boisterous titm the first night out. As a
number were trying to drown their grief in the flowing bowl, their
conduct was foolish in the extreme, and they kept all awake with
their drunken revelry. The regiment was greatly cheered from
the north side of the Ohio river, but on the south side it was
mostly dark and silent. On the night of the 13th our boat was
laid up for some time, having bursted one of her steam pipes.

We reached Paducah, Kentucky, on the 15th, early in the
morning, and that afternoon left for Fort Donaldson, Tennessee,
a short distance up the Cumberland river, and on the 16th, before
day, we tied up just out of range of the guns at the fort. At day-
light they saw our boats and opened fire on us, and a number of
cannon balls struck quite close to our boats. Here, for the first
time, we set foot on the "sacred soil." Soon after day the regi-
ment landed and started for our line of battle, around the fortifica-
tions; but before we had become established we were recalled, as
the enemy had hoisted the white flag in token of surrender. The
regiment again went aboard the boats that had brought us there,
and they ran up the river and landed us in the Fort grounds.

There were thirteen thousand prisoners, who surrendered to
our forces. They made a large army, and seemed surprised to find
we were not all savages, their officers having told them that they
would be butchered by our troops, if captured. The regiment went
into camp just outside of the rebel works. The dead lay as they
fell, most of them shot through the head, as they fought behind
breastworks. These were ghastly sights for green troops to see,
and the awful spectacle can never be forgotten. Here our time
was improved by drill, target practice and guard duty. On the
20th, we had our first dress parade after leaving Ohio. Our rations
at this time were very poor, and we thought we were half starved.

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If there was anything that Captain Williams was particular about,
it was cleanliness. While here one Sunday on inspection one of
our men of mature age, and noted for being generally dirty, on
this day was more so than usual. The Captain detailed myself
as Corporal, and two men, to take him to a pond near camp and
strip and scrub him with brooms. After that he was much cleaner.
On March 6 a heavy snow fell, and we received orders to move to
the Iron Landing, on the Tennessee river. On the 7th we left
early. It had turned warmer and the snow was going fast, and
the mud was ankle deep. We were loaded pretty heavily, and, as
this was our first march for any distance, it was very hard upon
us, and the road was lined with overcoats, blankets and other
things that we thought we could not ■ live without, but wTe soon
changed our minds on that subject. About noon we passed Pey-
tona Furnace. Some of the troops in advance had set it on fire,
and it was burning as we passed by. We camped that night in a
wild looking place within about two miles of the river. This was
our first night to lay out without shelter of any kind, but we
enjoyed our night's rest first rate.

On the 8th we moved up to within half a mile of the Land-
ing. At this point we camped, drilling and performing guard
duty until March 13, when we moved to the Landing, and after
remaining there for about three hours we wenc aboard the steam-
boat Tigress, which steamed across the Tennessee river to Paris
Landing, and went into camp in a cornfield near the river. We
were called out after midnight by the long roll. The night was
pitch dark, and no bottom to the mud.

March 15, 1862, we had a hard and cold rain, and at dark we
embarked on the steamship Iowa, bound up the Tennesse river.
On the 16th the guerrillas fired into us, but fortunately hit no one.
and on the 16th we reached Savannah, Tennessee, about noon.
Here we lay on the boat, at the wharf, until late in the afternoon
of the 17th, when we steamed up the river. After a run of ten
miles we landed at Crump's Landing. On the morning of the 18th
we moved out about half a mile and went into camp. This was
a very fine place to camp.

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March 20th, 18G2, the regiment received their first pay, which
rejoiced us "greatly, as we had been bankrupt for a long time. On
the 21st, while on picket, we captured two of the enemy, and I
took them to headquarters and turned them over to the proper
authorities. March 25th, our brigade was reviewed by General
Lew Wallace, to whose division of the Army of the Tennessee
we were attached. On this night, at 9:30, E. D. Evans, a comrade
of our mess, who had been poorly for some little time, died in
our tent, and the next day, at 5 :30 p. m., he was buried with the
honors of war, Colonel Kinney kindly reading the beautiful burial
service of the Episcopal church at the grave.

On March 27th, an order was issued that the men be vac-
cinated, as the smallpox had appeared in some of the commands.
We had little idle time, as we were busy in drill and guard duties
every day. On March 31, 1862, our division moved up about five
miles to Adamsville, a small place, and went into camp a short
distance beyond. This was called Camp Wallace.

Our brigade at this time was composed of the Twentieth, Fifty-
sixth, Seventy-sixth and Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry, and com-
manded by Colonel Chas. Whittlesy of the Twentieth Ohio, and
a part of the Third Division, commanded by General Lew Wallace.
The enemy had been very active in our front for several days, and
it was rather expected that they would attack our position. From
their actions in our front we were put on our guard, and on the
mornings of April 5 and G Wallace's whole division was in line of
battle long before day, looking for the enemy to attack; but the
thunder of artillery and the crash of musketry at the break of day,
on April 6, 1S62, indicated that the battle, bloody and terrible,
was on at Pittsburg Landing, and not where we were. Late that
afternoon we fell back to Camp No. 2, about halfway back to
Crump's Landing. From here the most of our division went on
to the battle line. Oui regiment and other troops were left to
guard Crump's Landing, where we had a large and valuable
amount of stores. Our being left to guard this point caused dis-
satisfaction among many of the officers and men, and some at-
tempted to go to the battlefield on their own motion.

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Comrade Henry Kugleman, of Company C, and the writer,
avoiding the guards, struck out for the battle ground.' We must
have gone about two miles in that direction. The woods were full
of men falling back. Several officers ordered us to return, but we
did not stop until we found our route would take us out in the
rear of the enemy, and as our force was rather light to tackle the
rebel army, we fell back in good order to our camp, never being
missed; but we got drenched by a heavy rain that overtook us.
A large number of stragglers from the battlefield drifted to our
position, and our officers gathered up and sent back in an organized
body eight hundred men to assist their brave comrades. There
was a good deal of sickness in the regiment at this place, some
sixty of them being sent to the general hospital at PaduCah, Ken-
tucky.

On April 16, we were called out at 2 a. m., the enemy making
an attack on our outposts. We lay in line under arms until
daylight, and early in the morning we moved back to Crump's
Landing. On the next day we were ordered to Pittsburg Landing,
guarding a large train en route, and reached our division at dark.

The next day we pitched our tents in an oats field. Here we
were kept busy, drilling by brigades, regiments and companies for
as much as six hours a day. At this time they issued whisky to
the men, but did not keep it up long. On April 24, our division
was ordered on an expedition to Purdy, Tennessee, about twenty
miles distant. We went to within five miles of Purdy. We
had hard rain mostof the day, and lay out in the woods. We
were roused up by heavT firing on our pickets, and formed line and
lay on our arms until daybreak. The next morning the division
moved early, the Fifty-sixth on the extreme right. We drove the
enemy's force to within a mile of Purdy, when we were ordered back
on quick time. We had fallen back some little distance, our regi-
ment bringing up the rear, when we heard the tramp of horses
coming at a charge. The brush and trees shut off the view of
the road completely. The Fifty-sixth halted, formed into line,
and prepared to meet whatever was coming. When they came
into view, we saw they were all our own men except one that was
in the enemy's uniform. Two of our officers were on either side

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Tiolding him, as he was making a desperate effort to shoot a major
in our uniform. Our sympathies were with the man in blue, and
we would have been glad to shoot the man in gray, if allowed
to do so. We soon heard that the man in gray was Carpenter, a
member of the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, and a native of that part of
Tennessee. He was a large, strong man, with a long black beard,
and appeared to us like vengeance personified. The man he
wanted to kill was a so-called Major Bell, who pretended to be
on the Union side, but really was in the service of the enemy, and
one of them. It was on his report that this expedition was under-
taken. He reported but a small force at Purdy, and that it would
be to our interests to take the place. The report was that Car-
penter came out of their lines, met our skirmishers, asked them
to stop, and send him at once to the officer in command. Carpenter
reported that there were from twenty to thirty thousand men in
Purdy behind strong fortifications. We heard afterward that
Major Bell was executed as a spy by our forces. The regiment
was highly praised for their conduct on this hard and dangerous
expedition, it being said that tried veterans could not have done
better. On this expedition it rained nearly all the time, and the
mud was awful. We reached our camp at 5 p. m. of April 25. All
of the whisky in camp was issued to those who drank the stuff.

April 28, 18G2, our division left camp at noon in the direction
of Purdy again, and we bivouaced at 10 p. m., within seven miles
of the place. Rain fell all that day and night very hard. We lay
around in the woods all day of the 29th, and on the 30th we
returned to our camp. Our expeditions to Purdy became a byword
in the regiment during our entire service. The hard rains, the
mud, and the cold could not be forgotten.

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CHAPTER III.

Siege of Corinth and on to Memphis.

May 4, 1862, our division was ordered up toward Corinth,
Mississippi, and on this day we had a regular deluge of rain. The
regiment was marching through a large body of deadwood timber,
and the rain came so hard we had to halt. The thunder and light-
ning were fearful. We were completely soaked; there was nothing
to be had with which to turn such a flood; even our shoes were
filled with water. This rain storm was memorable as being the
hardest we encountered in our service. That evening we encamped
at Pea Ridge, where we remained for a few days. On Sunday,
May 11, a beautiful day, the writer then a Corporal in Company
C, and two other comrades, were ordered to report to the Captain
for special duty. Captain W llliams informed us that orders had
been received from General Wallace that a detail of a Corporal
and two privates be sent to his headquarters for special duty.
The Captain stated for our encouragement that he wanted the
company and regiment well represented at division headquarters,
and that he felt sure we would do so.

In good time we reached General Wallace's tent and reported
to him. As we neared headquarters we "caught on*' to the special
duty we were to perform, as we saw three comrades of our regi-
ment under guard there. General Wallace received us pleasantly,
statin'g that the comrades under arrest were guilty (in violation
of orders) of killing a yearling, the property of a family near there.
The General ordered us to have them cut a pole, string the beef
carcass on it, and to see that the comrades kept up a steady tramp
around some large trees near his tent. It was about 10 a. m.
when they began their march. The General told the guards to
be as comfortable as possible. About 11 o'clock p. m. he came
out and ordered that the men dig a hole and bury the beef. That
done, we were to turn them over to the commanding officer of the

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regiment. . No doubt, this was the hardest tramp these comrades
had ever taken. I am credibly informed that this episode was
published and illustrated in Harpers Weekly a short time after.

May 18, 1SG2, we were ordered in towards Corinth. We moved
up a few miles to a poor little place called Monterey. Here we
remained until May 22. There was heavy firing in the direction
of Corinth, and on the 22d we moved up and joined McClernand's
division, on the extreme right of our line. We were busy building
fortifications, and on outpost and in picket duties. The water
here was the worst we experienced in all our service. Our forces
gradually closed np on the north and east side of Corinth. General
Halleck, in his grand startegy, seemed content with a long distance
contest. This continued until May 30, 1862, when the enemy, at
his leisure, evacuated Corinth. On May 31 the regiment was paid
up to April 1.

June 2, 1S62, our division was ordered to go to Memphis,
Tennessee, which was distant one hundred and ten miles through
the enemy's country. June 3 we passed through Purdy, and found
the fortifications there as Carpenter, our scout, had reported. On
the 4th our route was through a beautiful region. At night we
•camped in the woods. We marched over pine ridges on the 5th
.and encamped within six miles of Bolivar. We passed through
that place on the 6th, and encamped just beyond in sight of the
town. We were delayed on account of wagon trains crossing the
Hatchie river. On the Tth a number of the boys obtained passes
and visited the town.

June 8 was Sunday, and the ringing church bells took our
minds back to our northern homes. On the 9th a train of cars
came down from Jackson, Tennessee. We started early on the
10th. Our route was through a fine section of country, and, after
a march of 27 miles, we camped within seven miles of Somerville.
On the 11th our brigade led the advance. Water was very scarce,
and the roads clouds of dust. We passed through Somerville and
camped within 25 miles of Memphis. Tennessee. On the 12th we
started early. Our knapsacks were hauled, which helped us
greatly. That night we camped at Union Depot, not far from Mem-
phis. June 15 one of our men was captured near the picket line.

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On the morning of June 17 we were roused up at midnight, and
started for Memphis at 3 a. m. We reached there at 10 a. m.,
and encamped in the Fair Ground. This camp for the next few
days was fairly thronged with peddlars of eatables and notions
of all kinds. On June 22 the regiment was sent out on the Mem-
phis and Charleston railroad about 25 miles to rebuild a railroad
bridge. On going out by the train, at a place near a large planta-
tion, the train stopped awhile. An elderly woman and two young
ladies came down to the gate near our car to see the "Yankee"
boys. We had several good singers, and they entertained them
with some patriotic songs. This made them angry, and they fairly
screamed themselves hoarse for Jeff* Davis, Beuaregard, etc. A
happy thought came to one of the boys, and he jumped off the car
shouting: "Come on, boys; let us kiss these girls." The women
went at once, and we saw some fast running, to the great amuse-
ment of all.

We encamped near the bridge on the plantation of Mr. Davis.
He was of Wesh birth, but had located there some years prior to
the war. Work on the bridge began at once. On the next day
the boys of our mess brought in two of the old planter's bee-hives
and a lot of new potatoes, so wTe fared sumptuously for the next
few days. June 25, as Colonel Kinney and a part of Company B
were coming out to the regiment they were captured by the enemy
under General Forrest, and the train destroyed. Colonel Kinney
escaped from them in a few days thereafter. The enemy had
moved quite a force of cavalry in the region between us and Mem-
phis. Our communications were cut off, and the Fifty-sixth Ohio
was ordered to return to Memphis at once. June 20, at 9 a. m., we
started. The enemy's mounted troops followed us closely and
appeared on every side, which made our progress slow. At 10
p. m. we halted in some timber for a little rest, but soon moved
on again. Shortly after day the enemy seemed to swarm from
every side, and it looked very serious for the regiment. At one
point they appeared about to charge us. The officers cautioned
the men to be cool and wait for orders. In Company C, at this
time, we were forced to witness a pitiable or contemptible sight.
When Captain Williams was talking to the company, the enemy

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hovering on every side in plain sight, a young fellow named Wm.
S. Hill brought his musket to an order arms, and broke down and
cried like a baby. The Captain took him by the collar, and put
him out of the ranks at once. Tommy Morris, our drummer boy,
spoke up, saying, "Captain, give me his musket, and let him take
my drum." This the Captain did at once. We never saw Hill
after this. Yv^e supposed he staid with the regiment until we
reached Memphis- and then deserted. The rebels were afraid of
our long range muskets, and the bold front we presented to every
side under the skillful handling of Lieutenant Colonel W. H.
Raynor.

This short expedition was very hard on the regiment, it being
so hot and dusty, with the loss of sleep, many were entirely
exhausted when we reached our camp in the city, at 10 a. m., June
27, 1862. On June 30 the regiment was ordered to Fort Pickering,
just below the city, and the streets of the city were thronged with
people to see us as we marched through. Our new camp at the
Fort was covered with weeds and brush as high as our heads,
and we were mustered for pay. July 1, 1862, the regiment was
ordered into the city to perform guard duty at General Grant's
headquarters. Here we had a fine camping ground. We con-
tinued at this duty until July 22. On the 20th the regiment
marched through the city for display mostly. On July 23 we were
ordered to Helena, Ark., by boat. Tents were struck early, and
there we lay around all day waiting for a boat. A laughable affair
took place in Company C. Comrades will all know that nothing
was so tiresome as that kind of waiting. A middle-aged comrade,
worn out in waiting, went to a saloon near camp and got stupidly
drunk, returning to the company, he lay down where his tent
stood, totally oblivious of time and place. Seeing his condition,
one of the boys remarked that he was dead, and that he ought to
have some kind of a funeral service, so one of our comrades with
a talent in that kind of work, and in possession of a good strong
voice, took charge. They sang appropriate hymns, and then he
proceeded to deliver a eulogy on the departed. The effort could
not have been excelled by the ministers whom he imitated. The
audience was large and deeply impressed, and th whole matter was

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ludicrous in the extreme, and our drunken comrade was rather
sore over the episode when he came to himself again.

We remained in our camp all night, and on July 24 we got off
early. • As the regiment marched down the levee to the boat a
funny incident took place. Two members of the regiment who
had deserted some time previous, ran right into the regiment and
were taken in charge. They were on their way to take passage
on a boat up north. One was disguised as a chaplain and the
other as a suttler, but our meeting caused a material change in
their route.

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CHAPTER IV.
Helena and Expedition Therefrom.

We embarked on the steamboat Golden Era and reached
Helena July 24, 1862, at 5 p. in., landing below the town on Gen-
eral Hindman's plantation. Our camp was on the river bank,
and we had a regular bedlam nearly all night. A lot of the officers
and men had secured some liquor, and they made the night hideous
with their drunken revelry. Where we camped was just inside
the levee, and we had plenty of water, as the Mississippi river
flowed by our front door. There was not a tree near, and that
* sandy plain was about as hot a place as could be found in the
land on those July and August days. The regiment suffered very
much from fevers, congestive chills and bowel trouble, about fifty
of our men dying from said diseases contracted at this place, sit-
uated in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. July 31 a large
fleet passed for points down the river. On August 5 the Fifty-
sixth Ohio was transferred to the Second Brigade of the Second
Division, commanded by General Carr.

August 25, 1862, Comrade Daniel Phillips of Company C was
buried with the honors of war by the company, on a pretty knoll,
near the residence of the Confederate General Hindman, who
owned a beautiful place here. Comrade Phillips was a firstclass
soldier and a fine young man, and we deplored his death greatly.
His brother, Lewis Phillips, was discharged here December 6, 1862,
from disease contracted in this miasmatic region, as this place in
the swamps of the lower Mississippi valley was a radical change
from the hills of Ohio.

Our regiment, while here, were for a short time in a brigade
with the Fourth Iowa Infantry, and *he Thirteenth Illinois Infan-
try. These regiments were constantly on the lookout to get ahead
of each other. One day a member of the Thirteenth Illinois died,

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and his comrades went upon a hill nearby and dug a grave to bury
their man. The Fourth Iowa also had a man to die, and a lot of
them started to dig his grave, but when they saw the Thirteenth
Illinois at work digging the grave for their man they returned
and waited for them, to leave the grave, and then took their man
and buried him in the grave the Thirteenth Illinois had prepared.

" While here the regiment, or portions of it, were on various
expeditions by land and water. On August 28 a detachment, of
which Company C was a part, started on a scout down the river.
We embarked on the steamboat White Cloud, and started at 6
a. m. That night we anchored near Carson's Landing, Mississippi,.
there being a rebel camp a half mile back from the landing. The
gunboat with us shelled their camp as we went out, and on our
arrival we charged them, and they fled at their best speed. Cor-
poral Henry Kugleman, of Company C, took the only prisoner.
He was hidden upstairs in a house. We secured quite a lot of
stores, etc., here. On the same day, the 29th of August, we had
another skirmish at Gladdis Landing. We passed Napoleon,
Ark., and anchored a few miles below. On the 30th we reached
Eunice, Ark., where we secured a fine wharfboat, and took it in
tow and started back for Helena. On the 31st we were fired on
by the rebels, of which there were a large number. We opened
out on t:iem and they skedaddled; and we reached Helena on
September 2 at midnight. This was a hard and dangerous expe-
dition.

On September 5, 1862, a detachment of the regiment, which
again included Company C, was ordered on another expedition
down the river. We went on the boat Key West, No. 2. The first
night out we anchored below Oldtown. On the 6th we reached
Napolien, and found that the wharfboat there that we came for
was of no account. We then started back. Our boat ran all night,
and we reached Helena early on the 7th, after a very tiresome trip.

From September 11th to the 13th a large number of rebel pris-
oners passed down to be exchanged; also on the 17th more of them
passed. On October 6 the Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry, of our
brigade, left up the river. On the 7th the regiment was paid for

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two months, and was sent about four miles on outside picket duty,
and the writer, with a proper guard, was stationed at the house
of Dr. Turner nearby as safeguards, and on that night our fare
was far superior to the rest of our comrades. We returned to
Helena on the eve of the 8th, and found that our camp had been
moved to a newT place back of town on the hills. On October 17
a small detachment of the Fifty-sixth was over in Mississippi on
picket duty, and two men of Company F were slightly wounded.

On the 18th Colonel Raynor returned from sick leave, and on
the Twentieth the writer had to report at the sick call for the
first time in a service of one year. One of the worst things about
this place and Memphis was the ease with which liquor could
be procured by those who desired it, and as a consequence we
witnessed some shameful scenes. Some of the officers, and more
the shame to them, were worse than the men, but at this late day
it will answer no good purpose to report the shameful things
witnessed; for then, as now, liquor makes a fool of him who uses
it to excess. On the 29th a squad of us on picket duty over in
Mississippi secured a lot of fresh meat, and our mess fared finely
for a few days. For the next few days the regiment was busy
in getting out timber to build cabins in which to winter. Novem-
ber 15, 18G2, the regiment was ordered on a scout down the river.
We went aboard the steamboat Tecumseh and lay at the wharf
all night. On the 16th we started early. Our boat ran on a sand-
bar in the evening and lay there all night. On the morning of
the 17th the Decatur pulled our boat off the sandbar, and we ran
down to the mouth of White river and tied up for the night. On
the ISth we ran to Montgomery's Landing, and the cavalry we had
aboard disembarked, and we proceeded up White river a short
distance and tied up. The river was so low our boat could not
turn around, and she had to back out, and proceeded to Mont-
gomery's Landing, took on our cavalry and tied up over night.
November 20 our boat ran up stream a short distance and an-
chored on the Mississippi side. On the 21st we started again,
ran all day and after night, which was bright with moonlight.
After we had all retired to the soft side of the deck we heard

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a shout, "Stop the boat; a snag ahead!" It aroused all of us at
once, and we could plainly see a great snag, the body of a large
tree, sticking up twenty feet or more in the air; but. the- pilot paid
no attention to the warning, but ran the boat right into it. The
end of the snag came np through the cabin deck within a foot of
my bunk on the floor of the cabin deck. A lot of the boys made
a hunt for that pilot, and had they caught him he would have
had a short shift, as all felt he tried to sink the boat and drown us.
Our boat anchored near here, and we reached Helena at noon.
The dangers we encountered on these expeditions were not given
a thought at that time.

On November 27, 1862, our division went on an expedition
down the Cold water river in Mississippi. The Fifty-sixth Ohio
left camp at break of day, and went aboard the steamboat Ne-
braska, which ran down the river a short distance and landed us
at Delta, Mississippi. This little town had been destroyed by our
gunboats. We camped here over night, and on the 28th we started
early. The mud was almost impassible. After a march of 22
miles we encamped. On the 29th we were off early, and reached
the mouth of the Coldwater river at 4 p. m. The enemy had retired
from this position on the approach of our cavalry. The 30th was
Sunday, and we lay in camp all day, and the rain fell in torrents,
which did not help the traveling in that low, swampy country. On
Dec. 1, 1862, at 4:30 p. m., we were ordered to March at once, as
our cavalry was hotly engaged some six or eight miles to the front.
We crossed the Coldwater on a pontoon bridge, and in quick time
moved to the scene of conflict. It was dark when we started, and
in pitch darkness we groped our way through mud and water for
over six miles. It was so dark that you could not hear well; one
of those nights when you have to walk by faith, and not by sight.
The enemy again retreated out of reach, and we returned, spending
the whole night on that desperate trip.

On December 3 our regiment was sent up the Coldwater about
five miles to guard a ferry. Here a small party of us went out for
forage. We found a place unvisited by our troops, and we soon

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had a good supply. We loaded a cart and drove a little flock of
sheep along, and were making an effort to catch all of their
chickens. A young lady came out and kindly asked that we leave
them a few of the chickens at least. She was so pleasant about
it that the boys were called off, and we returned to camp with a
good supply. A few days after, Company C was out after forage.
At one place some of the boys took about all a poor woman had,
in spite of her entreaties. I tried to stop them, but they would
not listen, and, feeling it was so outrageous,, I reported it to Cap-
tain Williams, and he promptly made them restore the goods to
the poor woman, and she, in her joy, could not thank us enough
for the favor extended. These men were not bad or heartless,
but had a sort of feeling or indifference for people in the enemy's
land.

On December 5 we all started for Helena again by slow
marches. We reached the river on the 7th, and boarded the steam-
boat Empress, which took us to Helena, and we had a good reason
to rejoice at the end of this expedition. On December 10, 1802,
a riot broke out in our camp. A lot of men being crazed by liquor
at about 11 p. m. overpowered the camp guards, and treated Cap-
tain Chenowith shamefully. The Captain was one of the finest
men in the regiment, and he would have been fully justified in
shooting some of those rioters. These men for a short time ran
things with a high hand. Colonel Kinney, about midnight, sent
a written order to Captain Williams to take Company C, also to
Captain Cook of Company K, and put a stop to these lawless acts,
and to arrest the participants. Company C ran right into the
main crowd of them. Captain Williams was armed with a heavy
wooden poker. There was no argument. "Fall in!" was the com-
mand, and if any hesitation was shown or resistance offered, the
Captain's poker and the butt ends of our muskets settled matters
at once, and inside of twenty minutes all that had not secreted
themselves were safely in the guard house; and once more quiet
reigned in camp. The next morning, December 17, 1802, as I went
out of my cabin I saw Coloney Kinney pass at a rapid walk in the
direction of Company D quarters. I stood and watched to see

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where he was going, and what was up. He halted before a cabin
door and knocked. .Some one opened the door, and after talking
a moment, the Colonel drew his revolver and fired into the cabin.
That shot killed Sergeant Frank Wallace of Company D. Some
one had reported that Sergeant Wallace was a leader in the riot
of the previous night. For a little while it seemed there might
be serious trouble in the regiment over this sad matter; but
through the kindly influence of Colonel. Raynor, Dr. King and the
company officers, as well as the cooler headed men, any serious
outbreak was prevented, as they felt that it was more of an acci-
dent than anything else. But there was a general feeling of sad-
ness over this unfortunate affair, and it was a sorrowful funeral
up on the hills back of Helena that evening at dusk, as we laid in
the bivouac of the dead the remains of a gallant comrade, who
gave up his life, but not on the battle field. There was a trial of
this affair by a military court, the Colonel was exonerated, and
some time thereafter he resigned and left the service. Then W.
H. Raynor was promoted to Colonel, S. E. Varner to Lieutenant
Colonel and Captain C. F. Reiniger to Major. On December 18
the regiment was disgraced on dress parade by a Second Lieu-
tenant and Acting Adjutant being so drunk that he could not per-
form his duties, and was placed under arrest by Colonel Raynor.
He was a sample of some of the men who were promoted in the
early part of our service, because they were from a certain locality
or had "a pull" with those in authority over such matters. These
men were totally incompetent for any position of honor or trust.
But this was materially changed later on in our service, and men
stood on their merits, regardless of locality.

January 6, 1863, the regiment was ordered outside of our
picket line on the north side of town. We started after midnight
to try and capture a force of rebels who had, on the morning pre-
vious captured a picket post on our line. They belonged to a reg-
iment of new troops and had been in service only a short time,
and had not been properly instructed as to the enemy's tricks.
The night was cold, and lying in the woods quietly for about five
hours was very unpleasant. But the enemy did not show up, as

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they were on the lookout for a trap of some kind. January 10,
with our division, we were ordered on an expedition up White
river in Arkansas. The Fifty-sixth Ohio went on the steamboat
Rose Hambleton at noon, and the boat crossed to the Mississippi
side and lay there until dark of the 11th, when we left with the
fleet down the river. We ran all night and tied up about daylight
near White river. On the 12th we ran up White river as far as
Parade's Landing, where we remained over night. On the 13th
we ran up the river all day. There was not a house to be seen, it
being all swamps.

On the 14th the weather turned real cold, and our state rooms
on the Rose Hambleton were the soft side of the deck and very
uncomfortable. We passed St. Charles, but found no enemy. Our
regiment had two men as sutlers, and while good men in general,
they would not expose themselves or their goods where there was
the remotest prospect of danger. But they had just reached the
regiment with a big stock as we started on this expedition, and
they were in a manner compelled to go along. On this night the
boys of the regiment made a raid on their stock and cleaned out
their whole outfit. After this bad treatment they never staid with
us any more.

On January 15 we started late and ran as far as Clarendon,
and laid up over night, and on the lGth we reached Duvall's Bluff,
but the enemy continued to fall back and kept out of reach. Here,
as we tied up our boat on the bank, was a drove of hogs. Colonel
RaynoD jumped ashore and called to us that we ought to save that
pork. Comrade William Crabtree and I singled out a good sized
shoat and soon had secured the porker. We only fired one shot,
but many others from the various boats had landed, and there
was a good deal of shooting around there. General Hovey, our
division commander, sent out his body guard to arrest all who
were out shooting pigs, etc. They gobbled us up, and took us hog
and all before General Hovey. He was busy talking to some
people. There we stood with a gun in one hand, and holding the
pig's hind leg with the other, when a kindhearted staff officer,
seeing our funny condition, came over to us and told us to light

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out for our regiment. We fairly flew, and the pig went with us;
and we had some nice, fresh meat for a day or two. This was the
onlv time that I was under arrest, and Comrade Grabtree was
mortally wounded just four months to a day later. ,

On this trip we explored the country in every direction, ,but
tie enemy failed to make a stand. We started on our return on
the 19th. On the 21st we tied up at an island, having broken our
wheel. We arrived at Helena on the 22d, and found our cabins
had been torn down in our absence, but we soon built a new cabin,
as timber was plenty.

February 11, 1863, we were ordered to march with two days'
rations. We went aboard the steamboat Moderator, and lay at the
wrharf all night. On the next day we ran down into the Yazoo
Pass and on into Moon Lake. We landed where the Coldwater
river ran out of this lake, and encamped in some old plantation
buildings, on the Monroe plantation. In this region there was a
good deal of cotton, and considerable effort was made to secure it.
On February 15 a select number of Company C went on a scout to
locate some of it. We went out some distance to a large plan-
tation. Captain Williams was in command, and while he was
talking to a white man in charge we investigated and found they
had lots of good things to eat, and we were anticipating quite a
feast. .But one of the boys saw at a distance through the trees
a body of cavalry approaching. From their clothes and the dis-
tance we could not tell whether they were of the enemy or our
own forces. When they saw us they halted and got ready for
action. We fell back in the direction of our camp through a large
cotton field. In the center of this field was a large cotton gin,
which we aimed to reach; but they came down upon us fast and
furious. We halted and formed into a hollow square twice as
they were about to charge us. One of their scouts got up close
enough to see us plainly, and he shouted that they were Union
troops of the Sixth Missouri cavalry. They greatly admired our
action in forming into square and waiting to be charged, with the
odds so largely against us. Moon Lake, where we were, was a

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email body of water near the Mississippi river, the levee was cut
and the river at high flood ran into the lake, and it was deep
enough for our largest boats. Where we were camped was where
the Yazoo Pass left the lake. The water from this pass ran into
the Coldwater river, and it emptied into the Tallehatchie river,
and it into the Yazoo river, which entered the Mississippi above
Vicksburg a few miles. A large expedition of our forces, with
many gunboats, went down by wav of this pass in an endeavor to
find a route to the rear of Vicksburg. But on the Tallehatchie the
enemy had constructed a strong fort in a dense swamp that could
not be reached from our side. On March 21, 18G3, Company C was
sent to guard the steamboat Curlew, loaded with ammunition,
down this waterway. We found the pass very crooked, and we
bumped against trees every few yards. On the 22d we passed
the steamboat Luella, sunk. On the 23d we met the Hamilton
Belle going up stream; nothing but woods to be seen, hardly any
houses in sight. On the 25th we passed where the regiment
camped last fall, and on the 2Gth we passed several boats and
arrived at our headquarters at noon on the 27th. And after dark
the boat we were on took on a lot of cotton and ran down to within
a mile of Fort Pemberton, and landed the cotton for our forces to
build fortifications with. The night was as dark as pitch and
the ra4n fell in torrents, and dreadful thunder and lightning added
to the tumult. The only thing out of the ordinary while here was
seeing Colonel Pyle of a Missouri regiment separate two of his
men, who were engaged in a fight. The Colonel was 6 feet four
or 5, a large and very strong man. He walked up to the fighters,
took each of them by the back of the neck, pulled them apart, and
then bumped their heads together several times, and then flung
them to either side. The Colonel was a minister, and did not
believe in that sort of fighting. He was afterwards promoted
to Brigadier General, and some of us had the pleasure of hearing
him preach in New Orleans, at Christ Church, on Sunday, Octo-
ber 2, 1S64.

On April 1, 1863, we started back up the pass, and reached
the regiment on the 3d. Our gunboats and steamboats that went

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down this pass were badly dismantled in this crooked and narrow
stream, and after every effort our forces were compelled to aban-
don the enterprise.

- April 7, 1SG3,. the regiment was ordered back to Helena,
where we remained until April 12. While we were stationed in
and about Helena our Chaplain, Rev. J. E. Thomas, was detached
and placed in charge of a large number of freedmen, who had
congregated about Helena, and he continued in this work until
his final discharge, on November 5, 1804. In his supervision of
these contrabands he was enabled to do a great amount of good
for these poor freedmen, who were cast out helpless from slavery
to depend upon their own resources. He put them at the work of
raising cotton, corn and vegetables for their own use, and for
the benefit of the government, and he was highly commended
by General Buford, the department commander, for the excellency
of his work, as the cotton they raised and sold brought the govern-
ment a large amount of money.

On July 4, 1863, the rebel Generals, Holmes, Price and Mear-
maduke, with a force of 7,646 men, made an attack on Helena.
General Prentiss was in command of our forces of 4,000 men, and
had as a strong ally the Gunboat Tyler. The enemy, as usual,
lacked nothing in bravery. Holmes reported his loss in this
battle at 173 killed, 687 wounded and 776 missing. Our loss was
less than 250 all told.

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CHAPTER V.

Miluken's Bend, Grand ' Gulf, Port Gibson and
Fourteen Mile Creek.

On April 12, 1863, we were ordered to join General Grant's
army at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, which was a few miles above
Vieksburg. We embarked on the steamboat Alone, and left on
the 13th to join the forces then gathering to make the last success-
ful effort to capture Vieksburg, which had become the Gibraltar
of the Western Continent. By this time the Fifty-sixth Ohio had
been assigned to the Second Brigade of the Twelfth Division,
Thirteenth Army Corps.

And, as we have since learned, at St. Louis and other points
on the Western rivers, there were rich and influential men engaged
in running steamboats on the Mississippi and other rivers, which
while doing business for the government, were giving substantial
aid and assisting the rebel cause by carrying recruits, contraband
mail, and drugs and goods of all kind, and in every way aiding and
encouraging the rebellion.

We had not been on this boat long before we found that the
officers and crew of the Alone had little, if any, respect, for a
Union soldier; and, on April 14, the blackguard barkeeper of this
boat grossly insulted Willis Walker, a member of Company C.
This comrade was a noted forager, and had the nack of getting
what he went for. He promised the barkeeper that he would even
up with him before we left the boat. Out on the cabin deck of
the boat they had two large boxes, securely locked. One of them
contained the table supplies for the boat, and the other the bar-
keeper's extra stock. After midnight we were roused up and told
to come below at once. On going down to the lower deck, we
found that Comrade Walker and his partners had the entire con-
tents of the two boxes laid out for a banquet, which we disposed

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of quietly and hurriedly. What we failed to consume was con-
signed to the river, as it was not safe to leave a crumb in sight,
though some of the boys could not part with the liquor they had,
but kept it well hidden. The loss was discovered at daylight,
complaint was made, but our officers failed to find who was guilty.

On the loth of April we landed at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana.
Here the raid was reported to our headquarters, and our Brigade
Commander, General Slack, was ordered to investigate the matter.
The regiment was formed in line near the levee. In the rear of
our line was a body of backwater from the river. As General
Slack passed down the line the men who had any liquor left in
their canteens would throw them into the backwater behind them,
the straps of the canteens floating. Captain of Company — waded
in and fished them out about as fast as they fell, and, stringing
them on his shoulder, he reached the left of the regiment at the
same time as the General did, and while they blessed the rebels
and all their friends, they took a bumper to the success of the
Union cause, to the great applause of a multitude of comrades of
other regiments, who were giving this free show their close atten-
tion. This episode gave us a reputation, which later on came
near depriving us of our colors. Some foragers of other regiments,
■when caught in unlawful acts, such as burning houses, etc., gave
the Fifty-sixth Ohio credit with their membership; but upon inves-
tigation, and being confronted with our officers, we were cleared
of the charge. Our stay at Milliken's Bend was short, leaving
there April 16. We went into camp at Richmond, Louisiana, the
same evening. We moved forward* early on the 17th, and passed
through some beautiful country. On the 18th and 19th we con-
tinued our marching, and on the 20th reached Bayou Pirre and
encamped. Our pioneers were building a pontoon bridge, and we
lay in camp here drilling considerably and holding dress parades.
April 28 we moved on amid torrents of rain, the roads being nearly
impassible, and camped two miles from the Mississippi river.
This was a regular swamp, not a dry place in sight. The pioneers
of our division built here about 2,000 feet of bridging, so we could
cross the bottomless places. On April 29 we marched to the river

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at Perkins' plantation. At this place there were several steam,
boats and barges at the landing. Here we left our kanpsacka.
Each comrade was loaded down with one hundred rounds of cart-
ridges, and then marched aboard a coal barge. Our whole brigade
was on one small steamboat and coal barge. We barely had
standing room. The boat ran down to Hard Time's Landing, in
sight of Grand Gulf, two miles down the river. Grand Gulf was
naturally and artificially very strong. Soon after our arrival seven
of our gunboats moved down, and a daring and continuous bom-
bardment of the fortifications was kept up for five and a half
hours, the flagship Benton leading the fleet. They circled slowly
in front, each sending a broadside into the rebel works. General
Grant and some of his staff were on a steam tug near our boat,
closeiy watching the work of the gunboats. The enemy sent a few-
shells in their direction, to keep them at a proper distance. Then
the tug retired out of range. This contest gave a fine display of
the never failing courage of our brave sailor comrades. It seemed
at times as though their boats would steam up to the wharf.. It
was apparent to those who witnessed this contest that gunboats,
though manned by the bravest men, were not equal to land bat-
teries served by men of valor and skill. Several of the gunboats
were damaged, and all of them withdrawn. The failure to silence
the rebel batteries relieved us from the dreadful task of landing
to storm their rifle pits. This was one of our lucky escapes.

Late in the afternoon we disembarked and marched across a
point on a high levee, which brought us out on the river below
Grand Gulf. Here we saw a live alligator basking on a log in the
swamp. Our regiment led this advance, and as soon as we struck
solid ground we filed off and went into camp. Who can ever
forget that grand sight, as regiment after regiment passed to camp
below7. All of the Thirteenth and a part of the Seventeenth Corps
passed. The snakes had pre-empted our camp ground, ami our
rest was not good, as they were disposed to dispute our right 10 be
there. The gunboats, transports and barges ran past the Grand
Gulf batteries about midnight under a heavy fire.

On April 30 we boarded a gunboat, which ran down and landed

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us at Bruinsburg, Mississippi, six miles below. Here we were
served with two days' rations that were to last five days, or until
we could get more. At 5 o'clock p. m. we started on the road to
Port Gibson, Mississippi, some 12 miles inland. One of the never-
to-be-forgotten sights as we climbed the hills, a mile or more back
from the river, was the display of pickled pork that had been issued
to us and was carried on our bayonets. At 8 p. m. we halted
to make coffee and rest a little, but started on soon, there being
a constant skirmish in advance. We were on the road all night,
and this was the third night for us without much, if any sleep.
The most of us took short naps as we marched along. At day-
break we halted in the valley of a small stream for breakfast.
Some of the more active or hungry ones had finished their meal,
but many had not made a start, when the enemy's artillery boomed
on the hill just ahead. "Fall in!" wras the order, and up the hill
wre moved at a double-quick, halting in a deep cut in the road near
the top of the hill.

In a few moments we were ordered to a position on the right
of the road in an open field. In our front some GOO years was a
piece of timber, in which there was a heavy contest going on,
and a number of the wounded who could do so were falling back
to our position. At the left of the road in the yard of a house
was one of our batteries pouring shot and sliell into the rebel
battery in their front. In a few moments we were ordered for-
ward. We moved right obliquely, which brought us to the road.
As we came to the fence the rebel battery knocked it over our
heads. Some of our men were hurt by the flying rails.

We crossed the road and moved down into a cane-brake at
the left of the road, between our battery and that of the enemy.
We made our way through the cane-brake, and formed at a fence
on a slight ridge. In a few moments General Hovey and his staff
rode down in the road to our right. He asked for the command-
ing officer of the regiment, Colonel Eaynor responding. He was
ordered to support the Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry in a charge
on the rebel batteiw in front. The Thirty-fourth Indiana was in
the timber on the right of the road, and the Fifty-sixth Ohio to

S6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 37

the left of the road in a corn field. The Thirty-fourth advanced,
but their progress was slow. The Fifty-sixth made a rush to
-secure a good position on the hillside, and were in advance of the
Thirty-fourth. We were in close range and the enemy poured
their shot and shell into our midst. I was hit by a grapeshot on
the foot, bruising it considerably. As soon as our men fell into
line we charged forward. The enemy stood their ground until we
were in a few feet of them, when they broke to the rear, and we
followed fast after them over the brow of the hill. A rebel officer
was about to mount his horse when Captain Williams took Com-
rade Will Morris' musket and gave him the contents. The enemy
wras doing their best to escape, but we wanted them dead or alive.
In a short time we captured 222 men of the Twenty-third Alabama
Infantry and the Virginia Artillery Company, also the flag of one
or the other of these organizations. The flag was captured by Cor-
poral David Evans of Company C.

The regiment soon after formed line on a hillside in front,
when General Grant and some of his staff rode up. The General
shook hands with Colonel Raynor, and thanked the regiment for
their gallant conduct, saying that he was proud of the men from
his native state. After a short rest, we advanced to the right
across a valley and up a high hill, where we lay in line for some
time. The enemy now made an effort to cut us off from our forces.
As they had a largely superior force, we fell back into the valley,
where wre found good shelter in the bed of a small stream that
crossed the valley. But the rebels moved down as we did, and
we had it hot and furious for some time. As we entered the run
Sergeant Henry C. Dare of Company C was shot in the knee, by
which he lost his leg; Corporal Thomas L. Evans lost an eye by
a buckshot, and I was shot through my trousers at the knee, and
also on my hip. A rebel officer on a white horse was shot, and his
horse trotted into our line, and our Quartermaster kept him for a
long time.

Our ammunition being exhausted, we were relieved by the
Twenty-second Kentucky Infantry. They came in on the double-
quick, their young color bearer 15 or 20 feet in advance. They

38 • Historical Sketch of the

presented a fine sight. On retiring we were still under fire. The
firing kept up until nearly dark, when the enemy retired to a hill,
where they had a large cannon that annoyed us greatly, but our
gunners were unable to dislodge it. About sunset an officer rode
up to one of our batteries, had a gun loaded, sighted it, and with
his glass watched the shot, remarking, "That gun will not trouble
us any longer." This ended the battle of Port Gibson, the enemy
falling back out of reach.

In this action the Fifty-sixth Ohio had six men killed and
thirty wounded and missing. Port Gibson was no great battle,
but of sufficient magnitude to test the quality of the men, and
we all had good reason to rejoice over the gallant action of the
regiment.

On May 2, early, we entered Port Gibson, a real pretty town.
The enemy the night before had retired across Bayou Pierre, burn-
ing the bridge across that stream.

There has been considerable dispute in the National Tribune
by members of Benton's Brigade, of Carrs Division, about the
capture of this battery, they claiming that none of our division
was near the battery until they had captured it and gone on to
further conquests. All of the Fifty-sixth Ohio, who were there,
know that there is no truth in their claim; and ve may well inquire
if they took the battery, "Why did they leave the enemy in pos-
session of their guns with their infantry supports?" The business
was to capture guns and prisoners when we could. That was what
we were there for. The prisoners and colors taken by the Fifty-
sixth Ohio, are all the evidence we need to dispose of their claim.
A regiment came up in our rear and fired a volley into us and
the rebels we had captured, and it was a common report in the
regiment that in that volley they killed Corporal James H. Evans
of Company E, one of the best soldiers in the regiment. The total
loss of our army in this battle was 130 killed and 718 wounded
and missing.

The Thirteenth Corps remained at Port Gibson during May 2,
and assisted in the construction of a bridge across the south

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. . 39

branch, of Bayou Pierre. May 4, 1863, our division advanced some
ten miles north and near the Big Black river, and camped on a
bleak hill. Our rations were out, and there was nothing in reach
to forage, except the native black beans, which were quite a luxury.
But in our extremity two of our mess secured a bee-hive full of
honey and bees, and then we had beans, honey and stings; more
of the last than we wanted.

On May 6 we moved up to Rocky Springs. This was a much
finer camp; and on the 7th we had a grand review of the corps by
General Grant. May 12 our division moved early, in the advance,
being the only troops near the Big Black river. We came up on
the south side of Fourteen Mile creek. The Fifty-sixth Ohio was
on the right of our line, and near a road where there was a bridge
across the creek. The rebels held the opposite side of the stream,
with their sharpshooters so posted as to control the bridge. Com-
pany A was ordered to cross the creek above the bridge and drive
the rebels away. They soon forced them back to the top of the
ridge in our front. Company F was also sent to support Company
A, and, soon after, the rest of the Fifty-sixth crossed by the bridge,
and the entire division followed. We drove them steadily to
within two miles of Edward's Depot, confronting Pembertons
main army. The Fifty-sixth Ohio was given the post of honor, and
all of that night we lay on our arms in battle line in a cornfield. The
roll of rebel drums in front gave notice of the enemy's presence.

At daylight of the 13th we drove the rebels about half a mile,
and then, on quick time, we moved to the southeast until we
struck the Raymond road, which we followed all day. The rain
fell in pitiless fury. We had streams to wade, and, thoroughly
soaked, lay out in the woods all night. On the 14th we passed
through Raymond. Here we saw a large number who were
wounded in the battle of the 12th, when the Seventeenth Corps
routed the enemy.

May 15th we were off early, and reached Clinton, within ten
miles of Jackson, Mississippi, at noon. From here our division
made a square turn to the west, on the road to Vicksburg. This

40 Historical Sketch of the

road ran near the railroad, and at night we camped near Bolten
Station. This ground was the enemy's outpost. They were driven
off, and we took possession of their camp fires. The detail for
picket duty was heavy, and as night came on there settled down
upon the camp that indefinable feeling that can not be described,
but can never be forgotten, and many of our comrades stood their
last watch on the picket line that night; and the sharp report of
musketry here and there caused our rcct in camp to be rather
broken.

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CHAPTER VI.
Champion's Hill.

At the commencement of the year 1863 the burden of the
war was most sensibly felt throughout the loyal states. It was hard
to convince all that the acts of the administration at Washington
had always been dictated by the wisest policy. The generals in
command, so far, had not proved to be sure leaders to an easy or
any other kind of victory, but some had shown themselves alto-
gether incompetent. Others had secured victories by the lavish
shedding of blood, and on at least one field a mean and petty
jealousy had robbed the country of the precious lives of our brave
soldiers.

Swinton, in his excellent book, "The Decisive Battles of the
War," in referring to our comrades of the Army of the Tennessee
in this battle, uses the following language, on page 480, which goes
to show the importance of this battle in the mind of this elegant
writer: "And when the doomed Confederate armies, compassed
in fatal toils, looked southerly for an outlet of escape, there came
rolling across the plains of the Carolina*, beating nearer and
nearer, the drums of Champion Hill and Shiloh."

This battle to which we were now approaching sealed the
doom of Vicksburg, and it was not only the most complete, but
the clearest-cut victory since the war began, and was the culmin-
ation of a series of splendid victories that held fully 100,000 men
from reinforcing General Lee's army, and thereby making sure the
defeat of Gettysburg. And, as has been well said, the high tide
of the rebellion was met at Champion's Hill, down in the Missis-
sippi valley, and not up in Maryland or Pennsylvania, and in that
stupendous conflict was turned in favor of the preservation of
the Union. That it was preserved, and we are today a united

42 . Historical Sketch of the

country, that we have so much prosperity, peace and freedom,
is due alone to the endurance, gallantry, patriotism and valor of
the rank and file of the invincible Union soldiers of the North.

• At this time the Twelfth Division of the Thirteenth Army
Corps, commanded by General Alvin P. Hovey, was composed of
the following troops: The Eleventh, Twenty-fourth, Thirty-fourth,
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, the Twenty-ninth
Wisconsin Infantry, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth Iowa Infan-
try, and the Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry; also the Second and Six-
teenth Ohio Light Artillery, and the First Missouri Light Artil-
lery, Battery A.

The Seventeenth Corps, Logan's division leading, on the even-
ing of the 15th, were in our immediate rear; Osterhau's and Carr's
divisions were some three or four miles south, while A. J. Smith's
and Blair's divisions were still further to the southwest. These
four divisions were north of Raymond, and on two roads that led
to Edward's Depot. One of these roads entered the Vicksburg
and Jackson road, on the west side of Champion's Hill; the other,
further west, entered the same road at Edward's Depot. These
four divisions were ordered by General Grant to advance on to
the enemy's position, but for some unaccountable reason they
failed to do so, or to take any part in the battle.

General Pemberton, having failed to cross Baker's creek to
the south, countermarched his army and crossed it near Edward's
Depot by a bridge on the main road. His intention was to turn
south again, attack our rear and cut us off from our supposed base
of supplies at Grand Gulf. But, on the evening of the 15th of
May, he received the repeated order of General Johnston to join
his army at Clinton, Mississippi, so that with united forces they
could give us battle. But at that time, and unknown to both,
we had occupied Clinton and passed on beyond; and General Pem-
berton was ignorant of the fact that General Johnston had been
defeated and was retreating north to Canton, Mississippi. Then,
when too late, and totally ignorant of the true situation, Pem-
berton concluded to obey General Johnston's order, and with this

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object in. view he started, early on the morning of May 16, 18G3,
east ou the road to Jackson, Mississippi. But General Grant, just
as early, moved our army west on the same road, which soon
resulted in the meeting of the hostile forces. General Pemberton,
whether purposely or not, had selected an extra strong position
for a defensive battle, on the rugged hill known as. Champion's
Hill. On its eastern slopes were ravines and gullies, over which
grew large trees and underbrush that were almost impenetrable;
thus rendering it very difficult to move troops in anything like
complete formation, but made it an ideal place for defense. The
lull proper is one of the highest in that region, and commanded a
ijne Aiew of the country to the east, over which our division was
ad v ancing.

Champion's house was to the left of the road and quite a
distance east of the hill. On the morning of May 16, 1863,
Hovey's division moved forward at 6 a. m. Our men were in good
spirits, the bloody reception so near being mercifully veiled from
sight. We were not long in passing over the short distance from
our camp to where the enemy was awaiting our approach. The
morning was bright and warm. At one plantation we had a hot
time in passing some bee-hives that had been disturbed by our
advance. On the slope of Champion's Hill, Hovey's division
formed into battle line, and moving forward crossed the field and
halted rear the timber. There was skirmishing at the edge of
the woods all along the line.

Tin- Fifty-sixth Ohio was formed with the right on the road.
On our left was the Twenty-eighth Iowa, on our right the Twenty-
fourth Iowa, and to their right the Forty-seventh Indiana. The
little while we lay in that open field, facing the dark woods, with
the whistling bullets coming thick and fast from an unseen foe,
was a trying time to all of us. Captain John Cook of Company K
now came up to the line. He had been too ill to inarch with his
company, and, as he appeared rather weak to take part in the
expected conflict, Captain Williams urged him to retire to the
rear, but, with determination, he replied: "I am going in with
my boys if it is the last thing I ever do." He went in with his

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company, and soon received a mortal wound, of which he died six
days later. He was a brave and gallant man, and his death was
a great loss to the regiment.

Our skirmishers were soon deployed and moved forward.
How intently we watched them as they entered the timber and dis-
appeared from our view, many of them forever. It was but an
instant until there came the crash of thousands of muskets. The
bullets fell thick and fast all about us. In a few moments, "For-
ward!" was the order; and the regiment entered the dark woods
in the footsteps of our skirmishers. We found they had not
advanced far, as the enemy was there in force, and their fire was
heavy and hot from the start. Under this fire two brothers,
William Bass, Company A, and Byron Bass of Company H, were
killed within a moment of each other. The crash of musketry and
the boom of artillery were deafening and continual. The memory
of those four dreadful hours in that terrible orchestra of death
is indelibly fixed in the memory of every comrade who was pres-
ent, and often in these later years we go back in memory to the
din and horrid uproar that seemed to rend and split the air, and
neither time nor distance can efface from memory that thrilling
battle scene.

We met a stubborn resistance from the very start, and I give
the gray clad veterans of the Confederacy due credit for the
dauntless spirit that inspired them on this field of death. Every
foot of ground forward we had to fight for. WTe drove them, step
by step, in our front to a long cornfield on top of the hill, which
was surrounded with timber on all sides.

From here they fell back rapidly to the west side of the field,
to where the road from Raymond entered the road we were on.
Here from behind a strong rail fence they poured into us a deadly
fire. After entering the field a short distance the first of Com-
pany C, Henry Richards, fell in death, shot through the brain, and
all along the line men were being shot; some killed outright, others
wounded more or less seriously. But there was no halt.

"Forward!" was the command. When we were about two-
thirds of the way across the field, as we halted to give them a

CORPORAL DAVID EVANS
See page 138

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 45

volley, my brother, John H. Williams, was shot through the heart.
He was raising his musket to take aim, and as he fell in death he
pitched his musket toward the enemy. It fell with the bayonet
stuck in the ground, the stock standing up. Captain Williams
sprang forward, grasped the musket, and gave the enemy its con-
tents. I saw my brother fall, there being but one man between
us in the front rank of the company. I stopped for a moment at
his side, hoping he was not seriously hurt, but he never moved.
The fatal bullet, like a flash of lightning, had blotted out his life.

There was. no stop. One comrade had his arm shot off, and
others in the company and many more in the regiment were being
hit. But there was no halt; and, closing up our ranks, we pressed
on, giving careful attention to every shot fired. We drove them
in our front to and beyond the road from Raymond, and it was
a sight to see the rebels falling back and casting away their
blankets and other impediments as far as we could see on our left.

Our brigade captured the Virginia Battery at the junction of
the roads. The enemy fought their guns until most of them were
killed or disabled. For a short time there was a lull in the firing
in our immediate front, and, by permission of Captain Williams,
I returned to my brother's body, as I thought it would be my only
chance. T secured his watch and the other trinkets he had,
straightened him out and spread his rubber blanket over him. The
blanket was folded across his shoulder, and was perforated
through the several folds by the ball that took his life.

The enemy's fire began to increase on our left front, and, on
my return to the company, Colonel Raynor asked me to go to the
commanding officer of the Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry, and re-
quest him to bring his regiment up in line with the Fifty-sixth
Ohio. The Twenty-eighth halted in a ravine near the cen-
ter of the field, but they did not comply with the request. The
bullets came thick and fast, and I moved at a double-quick gait in
the performance of this duty. On returning to the line, from our
position we could see the enemy forming to attack us. The woods
in our front were open with a gradual slope toward them, and
with their skirmishers well in advance and their forces in two

46 Historical Sketch of the

lines of battle, they charged our force at the fence. As soon as
they were in range, those of the regiment who were on their feet
opened fire on them. Most of the regiment at this time were
lying down behind the fence, and they called from along the line
to stop firing, that we were shooting at our own men. But we
paid no attention to them, as we knew better. Captain Williams,
who was near, said: "Boys, you would better stop, they may be our
men." Corporal David Evans said: "Captain, take a look at them."
One glance was enough. "Up, boys, and give them hades!" was
the command. In a moment the whole regiment was giving them
a close and hot fire. Their line overlapped ours as far as could be
seen on our left. The open timber in our front gave us a good
view of them as they came on. From tree to tree, or any other
shelter, sprang their skirmishers until some of them were just
across the road from us, and one had dropped behind a rail cut
that I could reach with my musket. Their first line under the
withering fire we were giving them from our strong position at
the fence bore off to our right and left.

On our right the Twenty-fourth Iowa, being in open timber,
was driven back after the most desperate fighting. Our right
being unprotected, and having no support on our left, our regi-
ment was forced to leave the fence, for which the enemy made a
rush. In a moment we were under a most scorching fire from two
or three sides, from which our men fell thick and fast.

I witnessed the instant death of two of our gallant young
officers, Lieutenant Geo. W. Mauring of Company A and Lieuten-
ant Augustus S. Chute of Company D. In their death the regi-
ment lost two of its most promising officers. Loading and firing,
we fell back unwillingly, but at no time did we turn our backs to
the foe. At every favorable place we would halt and give them
a few rounds. At one point, while we were shooting from the
same stump, Richard Davis of Company C fell dead across my feet,
shot through the heart. He had just urged me to be more careful,
or they would shoot me. One glance satisfied me that he was
beyond any earthly help. Before I left this point, a general officer
of the enemy and his staff rode up in the road in our front, urging

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 47

his men on. I took deliberate aim at him with my Enfield, which
never snapped twice on the same load. This, in all probability,
was the rebel General Tilghman and staff. The General was killed
at this spot.

As we neared the fence on our retreat, the fire was terrific.
As I turned to fire, my musket being about at prime, a bullet from
the enemy struck the barrel of my musket, the ball exploding.
Four small pieces were buried in the back of my hand, and several
more in the stock of my Enfield. My musket proved to be in the
right place to save me from the fate of my fallen comrades. At
this time the screeching shells and the sound of crashing musketry,
and the shouts of the contestants, was a sound to hear once in a
lifetime, and remember to eternity. One of our boys had his can-
teen and haversack straps cut off by bullets. Comrade Wm. D.
Davis had the top of his cap shot off of his head, and another had
the side of his trousers cut off below the knee by pieces of shells
that were bursting in our midst. They made a charge for our flag,
but Captain Yochem saw the danger and led a counter charge, and
they were repulsed. The troops on our right were being forced
slowly back, and the enemy was getting in our rear at the fence
on the east side.

Near this fence I stopped to help Co 'poral Thomas S. Jones,
who was shot through the leg, to the shelter of some brush. While
doing this their advance made a rush for me, halted me, called
me hard names, and were nearly close enough to lay hold of me,
but. I hoped to see them later on, and under better conditions for
myself. The comrades who were there can never forget the des-
perate and deadly work from that on. How we contested for
those little ridges; how we clung to every tree, stump and
log. If there were any stragglers they were gone to the
rear, and it could be seen in the determined face of every com-
rade the resolve, that if mortal man could hold that battle line,
they were the ones to do so. Shells were bursting in our midst,
with falling branches from the trees, and flying brush that was
being cut down. It was strange that any of us escaped. A piece
of shell knocked Captain Williams down. I assisted to take him

48 Historical Sketch of the

to the road nearby. There I saw Generals Grant and McPherson,
also Fred Grant, up near the battle line.

Our ammunition was getting low, and we were supplied by
staff officers and others bringing it up to the line. A shell struck
Corporal David Evans of Company C, and tore a terrible gash in
his breast. He was a man of line physical frame, but from the
effects of this wound he died July 14, 1803. He was the comrade
that captured the flag at Port Gibson on May 1, 1803.

From this point the enemy failed to drive us, and soon a bri-
gade of General Crocker's division came to our support. As this
reinforcement came up to the decimated remnant of our brigade
holding that line, the commanding officer requested an officer near
me to have those stragglers fall in on the left of his brigade. The
officer addressed, with uplifted voice replied: "These are the men
who have fought this battle. There are no stragglers here." The
gallant officer, as he looked at our powder blackened faces, took
off his hat and said: kkI beg your pardon. True enough, there are
no stragglers on this line."

In a short time we began to drive them back over the same
ground, the third time for us to go over it. The enemy toward the
last fell back rapidly, fresher troops following them.

General Grant, in his Memoirs, Vol. 1, page 520, says: "Hovey
remained on the field where his troops had fought so bravely and
bled so freely." He also says: "Hovey captured 300 prisoners
under fire, and about 700 in all, exclusive of 500 sick and wounded,
whom he paroled." Also, on page 510, he says: "Hovey alone lost
more than one-third of his division,'' and, on the same page, he
says: "Hovey was bearing the brunt of the battle." And on page
518 he says: "The battle of Champion's Hill lasted about four
hours of hard fighting, preceded by two or three hours of skirm-
ishing, some of which almost rose to the dignity of battle. Every
man of Hovey's division and of McPherson's two divisions were
engaged during the battle. No other part of my command was
engaged at all."

The regiment lost a total of 138 killed, wounded and missing.

JOHN H. WILLIAMS, CO. C
See page 138

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 49

It is proper here to give the names of our comrades who, as a
part of the young manhood of the United States, fought and died
as soldiers never did before, and vindicated the right of liberty
to continue to the end of time. That they were the choice spirits
of the regiment, all will admit. The killed were: Lieutenant Geo.
W. Manring, William Bass, W. R. Allen, John Hoffman, Edward
Hollenback, Michael Eifflemacher, Henry Richards, John H. Wil-
liams, Richard Davis. Lieutenant Augustus S. Chute, Luke Clifford,
Thomas B. Dodds, Turner Eaton, George Rife, Clement D. Hub-
bartiV, Martin Downey, M. Freeland, Henry H. McGowan, Win. F.
Porter, Samuel B. Quartz, Byron Bass, Wm. J. Marshall.

The mortally wounded were: A. M. Martindale, David Evans,
Wm. Crabtree, Henry H. Lewis, David A. Loveland, John E. Veach,
Henry Martiu, Archibald George, Wm. Jones, John D. Markell,
Geo. W. Rockwell, James Fields, Charles W. Hill, Duncan Mc-
Kenzie, James D. Boren, Merit Campbell, George Irvine, James
Martin and Captain John Cook.

Also the following were wTounded more or less severely: Col-
onel W. H. Raynor, Captain Geor. Wilhelm, wTounded and cap-
tured, turned on his guard and brought him into our line; Captain
W. B. Williams, Lieutenant Martin Owens, Lieutenant J. A. Ale-
shire, T. Harkison, Martin G. Allen, Chas. Blosser, L. C. Chappell,
Jarvis Coply, Elias Johnson, Wm. D. Jones, Wm. T. Saxton, Fred
Held, Geo. Emling, Geo. Meisner, Henry Meyer, L. D. Davis, Thos.
D. Davis, Thos. S. Jones, Wm. Edwards, S. Dalrymple, E. E. Ed-
wards, Henry Nolte, David Edwards, Joshua Lewis, Thos. J. Wil-
liams, Edward Goudy, Daniel Thomas, James Anderson, John
Barr, James Odle, Reason Furgeson, Rees Griffith, Daniel Wil-
liams, James M. Pease, George W. Cox, Jasper Font, Joel Burnett.
F. M. Seth, Wesley Murphy, John Shaw, Jos. Davidson, Lawrence
Hahn, James W. Pauley, Martin Powers, Adam Siemon and Joseph
Vanfleet, and a number more were captured and missing out of a
few over three hundred in ranks.

We went into camp at the right of the Vicksburg road on the
enemy's side of the battlefield, powder stained, tired and hungry.
That was one day at least that the important matter of dinner was

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forgotten, and our supper was a light one. Shortly after dark
Lieutenant Roberts, Evan Edwards, A. S. Drennan and Wm. D.
Davis of Company C went back with me to give the boys of our
company some sort of a burial. We made a torch, and by its
light saw some of. the awful sights of that desperate battlefield.
One, always remembered, was a very large and tall rebel, stiff in
death, sitting with his back against a tree; with deadly pallor he
seemed to gaze at the horrors before him, and so many lying dead
as they fell, friend and foe alike. We soon found our dead com-
rades. We were without tools of any kind, but a kind hearted
comrade, one of the pioneer corps, who was passing, learned our
needs and gave us his shovel. With this we soon prepared a grave,
and side by side laid our comrades of Company C, their shrouds
being their old rubber blankets. The same work was being done
by comrades cf the other companies; and the remains of comrades
who fell there now moulder in the unknown graves of the largest
National cemetery in the United States, at Vicksburg.

The dreadful sights on that bloody ground can never be for-
gotten. Where our brigade charged the enemy's battery at the
junction of the roads the dead men and horses were in piles, as
they were before our first brigade.

In 1895, in Jackson, Ohio, a stranger, in appearance a grizzled
veteran, inquired of me if I had written a sketch of this battle,.
which he had read in the Standard- Journal, our county paper. I
informed him that I had. "Well," said he, "you gave a fair
description of the conflict, as I was there, but not on your side, but
a member of the battery at the junction of the road that your men
charged." For our work in this battle history gives us high honor,
so we need not be silent. Hovey's Twelfth Division, Thirteenth
Army Corps, out of 4,180 men, lost: Killed 211, wounded 872 and
missing 119; total 1,202.

General Grant says he had about 15,000 men engaged. Gen-
eral Peinberton, commanding the enemy, admits he had 18,000
men. Abrams, a Confederate authority, gave him from 23,000 to
26,000 men. "Ohio in the War," says: "The battle of Champion's
Hill sealed the doom of Vicksburg." The Count of Paris, in his-

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History of the Civil War in America, styles Champion's Hill "the
hill of death," adding that it (the battle) was the most complete
defeat the Confederates had sustained since the conmiencemen c
of the war.

Harper's History of the Great Rebellion has this to say of
Champion's Hill: k,WLen the order came, ordering forward, the
left and center, the right under Hovey, had been contending for
nearly two hours against superior numbers. Hovey 's division of
two brigades, nine small regiments, bore the brunt of the whole
conflict. Directly in his front was the Confederate General Stev-
enson's division, composed of four brigades, posted in a strong
position on Champion's Hill. He (Hovey) had been repulsed,
leaving behind 11 guns captured from the enemy; but his men, un-
daunted and under cover of a heavy artillery fire, again advanced
and carried the closely contested field."

General Hovey in his report speaks in these words: "I can
not think of this bloody hill without sadness and pride. Sadness
for the great loss of my true and gallant men; pride for the heroic
bravery they displayed. It was, after the conflict, literally the
hill of death; men, horses, cannon and the debris of an army lay
scattered in wild confusion; hundreds of the gallant Twelfth Divi-
sion were cold in death or writhing in pain, and, with a large
number of Crocker's gallant boys, lay dead, dying or wounded,
intermingled with our fallen foe. I never saw fighting like this.
The loss of my division on this field was nearly one-third of my
forces engaged."

General Hovey mentions the troops in these words: "Of the
Twenty-ninth Wisconsin, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth Iowa,
in what words of praise shall I speak? Not more than six months
in the service, their record will compare with the oldest and best
tried regiments in the field. All honor is due to their gallant
officers and men, and Colonels Gill, Bryan and Connell have my
thanks for the skill with which they handled their respective com-
mands and for the fortitude, endurance and bravery displayed by
their gallent men. It is useless to speak in praise of the Eleventh,
Twenty-fourth, Thirty-fourth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Indi-

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ana and Fifty-sixth Ohio. They have won laurels on many fields,
and not only their country will praise, but posterity will be proud
to claim kinship with the privates in the ranks. They have a his-
tory that Colonel Macauley, Colonel Spicely, Colonel Cameron,
Colonel Bringhurst, Lieutenant. Colonel McLaughlin and Colonel
Kaynor and their children will be proud to read.", Xo battle of
the Civil War can show a finer display of the valor and staying
qualities of the Union volunteer than did Champion's Hill. An
hour on that awful field was equal to years of ordinary time. But
eight other Ohio regiments lost a larger number of men in any one
engagement than did the Fifty-sixth Ohio at Champion's Hill.
No battle fought for the preservation of the Union was more im-
portant and successful than Champion's Hill. At that time the
country, discouraged under the disasters of the previous fall and
winter, felt that the very existence of the great republic was in
peril. The previous year had been one of mistakes and disasters
in the department of war and in the field. The winter had been
hard, and extremely so, to the troops in the southwest. At Helena
and Milliken's Bend hundreds had died of fevers and other diseases
so common in that swampy region. The drums beating the dead
march, and the volleys of musketry over the graves of our comrades
were too often heard, and in the homes of the North fell with crush-
ing effect upon the hearts of the people. But from this memorable
day there seemed no more doubt as to the final success of the
Union cause, though the time was long thereafter and the conflicts
many and terrible before the end was reached.

The Twelfth Division of the Thirteenth Corps leading, on that
eventful May 1G, with Logan's and Crocker's divisions of the Sev-
enteenth Corps, met and crushed the Confederate army, one of the
most complete and disastrous defeats of the war for the Unio'i;
and from this time, until the enemy lay down their arms at Appo-
mattox, the safety of the Union seemed assured.

To understand the importance of this battle, it is necessary
to remember that it is a matter of record that the rebel General
Pendleton had under his command and ready to support him about
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Bruinsburg; 60,000 of them were at Grand Gulf, Vicksburg and
Jackson, and the rest of his forces at nearby points, all within easy
supporting distance; and it is also a fact that General Grant had
up to and including Champion's Hill only about 40,000 men.

The records show that General Pemberton had with him in
the battle of Champion 's Hill eighty regiments of infantry and ten
batteries, in all fully 25;000 men. The enemy on their own chosen
field were most disastrously defeated by an inferior force. And
as a result of that defeat they left behind thirty pieces of artillery,
10,000 stands of small arms, and other war material, over 3,100
<iead and wounded and over 3,000 prisoners.

General Grant himself asserts that, leaving out the divisions
on the left, that virtually took no part in the battle, we had less
than 15,000 actually engaged.

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CHAPTER VII.

The Siege of Vicksburg and Jackson — on to
Natchez and New Orleans.

On May 17 our division moved up to Edward's Depot. The
only stand made by General Pemberton's demoralized army was
at the crossing of the Big Black river. Here it was found by
Osterhaus' and Carr's divisions of the Thirteenth Corps on the
17th strongly posted on both sides of the river. At this point, on
the west bank — the main position of the enemy — bluffs extended
to the water's edge. On the east bank there is an open bottom
a mile wide, surrounded by a stagnant bayou two or three feet in
depth and from ten to twenty in width. Behind this bayou the
enemy had thrown up rifle-pits. A charge was made by our troops.
Not a shot was fired by the gallant assailants until they had crossed
the bayou. They then poured in a volley, and, without reloading,
swept on with fixed bayonets, and the position was hastily aban-
doned by the Confederates, leaving in their works eighteen guns,.
1,751 prisoners, and large quantities of small arms and stores.

We moved up and reached Black river on the 19th. On the
20th we were sent to Bridgeport, and returned the next day. May
22 we marched up to the line of investment around Vicksburg.
We were quartered a short distance in the rear of our trenches,
and in close range of musket balls. Shells and round shot were
too frequent callers. On May 23 the regiment was in the trenches
and had an exceedingly hot time of it. The regiment was on duty
every day, on guard in the rifle-pits or digging in the trenches.
There was hardly a man who did not have many narrow and won-
derful escapes. It was a common thing to have a ball shot through
one's hat or clothing. In the rifle-pits we fired from fifty to sev-
enty rounds a day, and death lurked on every hand, whether on or

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off duty* Comrade Noah Starcher of Company E was mortally
wounded by a musket ball while lying sick on a hospital cot in
the regimental hospital, which was quite a distance in the rear
of where the regiment was quartered for forty-two days and nights.

This same duty in kind continued until July 3, 18G3. On that
•day Company C was at the head of the trench about thirty feet
from one of their forts. A rebel sharpshooter grazed my ear, and
about the last cannon they fired, on that part of the line at least,
was at our company. We could see they were up to something
more than usual, and we watched their port-holes so closely that
it was unsafe for them to fire a gun. But they did take the risk
and fired a load of grape and canister into the head of our trench,
knocking over the gabions we had at the head of the trench and
covering several of us with dirt and rubbish. Some of the boys
thought we were killed, but none of us was seriously injured.
July 4, 1863, dawned bright and gloriously, a day of sacred mem-
ories to all who love liberty and freedom, and increasingly so to
the Union army before Vicksburg, for, after a most heroic defense,
the Confederate General Pemberton surrendered to General Grant
his army of 31,600 men, together with 172 cannons, about 60,000
muskets and a large amount of ammunition, it being the largest
army eTer captured or surrendered on the western hemisphere, or
in any part of the world in modern times.

Our line of investment was over fifteen miles, extending from
Haines' Bluff to Vicksburg, and on to Warrenton. The enemy's
line was about seven miles long. Vicksburg was finely situ-
ated for defense. On the north the hills at the highest point rise
to about two hundred feet above the Mississippi river, and are
cut up by ravines and small streams. The ravines were grown up
with cane and brush. The only hope of relief the imprisoned Con-
federates had in Vicksburg was in the Confederate General Jos.
E. Johnston's being able to drive off a portion of our force, so they
could withdraw their troops.

By the 25th of June our position was so strong that a less
number was required for the investment. Thereupon General
Grant detached General W. T. Sherman, with a division from each

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of the Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps and General
Lauman's division to see that General Johnston did not interfere
with the siege of Vicksburg. General Johnston had gathered an
army of about 24,000 men. General Grant wrote General Sher-
man that he must defeat General Johnston at least fifteen miles
from our works. Most of the troops were not allowed to enter
the stronghold they had assisted to capture; but on July 5 the
remainder of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Corps was sent to rein-
force the troops already under General Sherman.

General Johnston retreated to Jackson, Mississippi, our forces
following him closely, going over nearly the same roads we had
marched over in our advance on to Vicksburg. The weather was
intensely hot, the roads very dusty and water exceedingly scarce.
July 9 our forces reached Jackson, and on the 10th Hovey's divi-
sion closed up on the line of investment late, in the day. On the
11th we had some heavy skirmishing at Lynch's creek, and on the
12th more hard skirmishing along the Raymond road. Our regi-
ment was on the right of Hovey's division, and on our right was
Lauman's division, which suffered a heavy loss in an assault upon
the enemy's fortifications in their front. This assault was made
by a misunderstanding of orders. The siege was prosecuted vig-
orously until the morning of July 17th, when it was found the
enemy had evacuated during the night, after destroying his stores
and supplies. Our forces followed them for several miles, but
failed to overtake them. The railroads entering Jackson were
broken up, and then General Sherman, leaving a garrison in the
Capital City, drew back his line to the Big Black. And on the
24th of July, as the regiment was on its way back to Vicksburg,
at the crossing of the Big Black river, a violent storm of rain,
with thunder and lightning overtook us, and Color Sergeant Win.
Roberts took shelter under a tree, which was struck by lightning,
hurling him to the ground and paralyzing his left side, and the
flag was stripped from its staff as though cut with a sharp knife.
Sergeant Roberts never fully recovered from the shock.

On July 25 our division reached Vicksburg and went into
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damage ami destruction that were caused by the dreadful siege.
July 31, 1863, we left with our division on a steamboat for Natchez,
Mississippi, and we arrived there the same day and went into camp
on the bluffs high above the river. Our camp ground here was
fine, and the view grand over that low, flat region of country. We
rested at this place until August 31, 1863, when our army corps left
for Carrollton, Louisiana, which was about six miles above New
Orleans. This was also a fine place and our camping ground was
all that could be desired. On September 4 General Grant reviewed
our army corps, and after the review the vicious horse he was
riding fell on him, hurting him very seriously. On September 11
Colonel Kaynor returned from home and brought the regiment a
beautiful stand of colors, that was presented to the Fifty-sixth
Ohio by the kind hearted and loyal citizens of Portsmouth, Ohio.

While in this camp a funny scene was witnessed one day.
One of Company K boys, full of fun and a little reckless, was, for
some misconduct, put on extra duty to clean up the camp, etc.
But he soon tired of this and refused to work. The Lieutenant of
the guard then undertook to make him do so, but he still refused,
and ran out on the plain, with the Lieutenant after him, and they
made very good time. After he had run a reasonable distance he
halted, picked up a stick, and, calling the officer by his given name,
said: "Now, you run ahead of me," and it was great fun to the
spectators to see the extra good time the Lieutenant made on the
home stretch.

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CHAPTER VIII.
The Teche Campaign of 1863.

September 13, 1863, our army corps crossed the Mississippi
river to Algiers, Louisiana, directly opposite New Orleans, going
on the cars to Brashier City, Louisiana, about ninety miles in a
westerly direction, and on Berwick bay. This was a city in name
only. On September 14 we unloaded and went into camp. Here,
on September 24, our division formed in line to witness the drum-
ming out of the service of a member of the First Missouri Light
Artillery, with his head shaved, the band playing the ''Rogue's
March," as he passed in review before the division. He presented
in truth a pitiable sight. On September 25 we turned over about
all of our transportation, and on the Twenty-seventh the Thir-
teenth Army Corps was reviewed by our corps commander, Gen-
eral E. O. C. Ord.

On September 28 we crossed Berwick bay and lay out all night
in a hard rain. We had a miserable time on that low ground,
where the mosquitos fairly swarmed, and the misery we endured
from them from Helena on down to Louisiana can not be described.
They were not the small kind of the North, but were regular galli-
nippers. Some of them were as large as butterflies, so the boys
declared.

October 2, 1863, the United States paymaster called and paid
the regiment for two months, and on the 3d we marched up the
Teche Bayou about ten miles. The next day we started early and
passed through Franklin, a beautiful little town, and went into
camp just beyond. Again, on the 6th, we were off early, and
camped at noon on a prairie. While marching along this day
we saw a never-to-be-forgotten sight. On a fence that ran nearly
parallel with our road, and extending as far as we could see, there

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were sitting thousands of buzzards. They seemed to be solemnly
reviewing us as we passed. They wrere protected in that section,
as they were valuable as being the public scavengers, and conse-
quently of great benefit. While here the news reached us of the
battle of Chickamauga, and the cheering by our troops must have
greatly astonished the natives. We remained here until October
10, when we moved forward, passing through New Iberia early.
The roads were very dusty and the days hot, but the nights fairly
cool. We camped after a march of 20 miles. Here we remained
until the 22d. We had quite a time politically. The Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry were in our brigade, and
as their state election came off at the same time as it did in Ohio,
they held political meetings, and it might be thought an old-time
campaign was on. The vote in the Fifty-sixth Ohio stood 167 for
Brough and 57 for Vallandigham. This election was held October
13, 1863.

On October 22 we moved forward, going about 14 miles. The
weather turned real cold for that latitude, and the 23d we reached
Opelusas, having a hard cold rain all day. We remained here
until November 1, when we moved back about 12 miles. Having
failed to bring the enemy to a stand, our forces fell back leisurely
towari our base of supplies. The bushwhackers hung around our
column, and on November 2 killed a Captain in the Twenty-fourth
Iowa of our brigade, and on November 3 the enemy surprised
General Burbridge's brigade. They were in camp some three miles
in our rear in a piece of timber. Our division went to their relief
on fast time. Burbridge's men rallying, and our forces aiding, the
enemy was soon put to flight. While our division was gone the
rebel cavalry made a dash to capture our camp, bur Captain Thos.
W. Kinney, as officer of the day, with the camp guards, drove them
off easily. As we gradually fell back, the enemy followed at a
distance, but wTould not accept our repeated offers of battle.

On November 5 we fell back below Vermillionville and camped
in a real pretty place. We remained here several days, and on the
11th wre had some heavy skirmishing, in fact a small battle, and on
the 13th the regiment went out to guard a forage train. On

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November 16 we marched back to within six miles of New Iberia
and camped, and on the 17th we fell back to New Iberia. The
rebels were in sight, but out of reach all day in that level country.
Thej; would not attack us, nor stand for us to get at them; but any
small body of troops they would attack at once. While here, on
the 26th of November, Thanksgiving services were held, and a
good time we had.

December 2, 1863, the regiment was sent out after lumber.
and on the 3d we received the news of the great victory of our
forces at Chattanooga, and it was received with great cheering in
all of our camps. There was a great deal of horse racing here
among army men, as the country was very suitable for such sport.
Here there was much talk of enlisting in the veteran service, a
great number doing so.

■> December 19 we left this place and camped early a short dis-
tance below Franklin. On the 21st we marched again and reached
Berwick at 4 p. m. Here, on the 22d, the regiment was paid two
months' pay. We crossed the bay to Brashier City on the 23d, and,
on the 25th, the regiment left on a train of cars for Algiers, reach-
ing there at 2 p. m. Our tents were pitched along the railroad
track, and we had rather a dry Christmas. This ended the Teche
expedition of 1863.

During this campaign we had many hardships, also many ex-
periences that were f^nny, ridiculous and outrageous. If .there
was one place more than another where every officer and enlisted
man should have all his powers at command day and night, that
place was in the army, and when officers would befog their minds
with liquor it was a crime of the gravest character. Not only were
the lives of the men under them endangered, but the cause of the
country was often in jeopardy. There was hardly a regiment in
the army which did not have officers of that kind, and the Fifty-
sixth Ohio had its full share. The action of two of our Lieu-
tenants on this expedition shows how unfit they were for such
important positions.

On Oct. 14, 1863, near New Iberia, Louisiana, we moved our
camp some five or six miles. These two Lieutenants were men

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of education and their natural abilities were good, but by the use
of liquor they had completely undermined their manhood, and it
was an outrage on every self-respecting soldier in the regiment
that these two men were ever promoted. On this day Captain

< was officer of the day, and one of these Lieutenants was

officer of the guard and the other Acting Quartermaster. The
Captain was a good officer, strict in the performance of duty, and
though he would take his bitters, he would not unman himself and
lose all self-control, as did the lieutenants. On this day the Cap-
tain had secured some liquor, and knowing the infirmities of the
Lieutenants he would not share with them, but they found out
what the Captain had, and at once set to work to secure a share,
as they knew it was useless to ask the Captain to divide with them.
The Acting Quartermaster was a smooth talker and suggested
that he would draw the Captain into an argument, get him away
from his tent, and then the other Lieutenant was to confiscate the
liquor. The plot worked like a charm, and the lieutenants took
little interest in the war for some hours. The regiment moved
up and went into camp before night. Along about midnight the
lieutenants came up, found the Quartermaster's tent and turned
in, and the next morning they were found with half of their
bodies in and half outside of the tent, in a drunken sleep, and to a
post was tied a fine horse that they had confiscated from some
regiment as they came up. They had some trouble in explaining
how the horse got there.

Again, on November 3, the enemy made an attack on General
Burbridge's division, and ours went to their relief, a camp guard
only being left in charge of the camp. Captain Thos. \V. Kinney
was officer of the day and one of these Lieutenants officer of
guard. The enemy's cavalry made an effort to capture our camps
in the absence of the division. Captain Kinney rallied his camp
guards, but could not find his officer of the guard. Being told
that he was at the Quartermaster's tent, he went in search of him,
and there found that these Lieutenants were foolishly drunk on
Hostetter's Bitters. The Acting Quartermaster had the empty
bottles in a row attempting to show the other Lieutenant some of

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the fine points in company drill. Captain Kinney talked to them
in plain language; but the Acting Quartermaster waved him off,
telling him to go on with the d — war, that they were in no way
interested. This was conduct that could not be overlooked, and
a few days later, Colonel Raynor notified them to hand in their
resignations at once, or charges would be preferred against them.
They promptly complied, and were dismissed for the good of the
service. They went to New Orleans, got their pay, went on a
spree and spent their money, and had to take deck passage up
the river for home.

At one point on this trip we were in camp for a few days,
near Bayou Teche. Supplies were limited, and especially so in
the line of liquor, but some of the officers and men who were
fond of it would use every expedient to secure some of the deadly
stuff that does no good anywhere, but evil everywhere. One of
our Captains, Geo. Wilhelm, well knowing this weakness of his
comrades, and to have a little fun, set up a sort of dry joke on
half a dozen of his fellow officers. Early one morning he called on
them and inquired if they felt like taking a horn before breakfast;
and it is to be regretted that they thought they were in need of a
horn before breakfast. Shortly after they could be seen wending
their way up the levee of the bayou. On its banks, at a short dis-
tance from camp, there was a tannery, and near it there had been
dumped a large pile of long horns. When the Captain got his
squad up to the pile, he in cordial tones, invited each one present
to help himself to a choice horn, a long or a short one. They had
to laugh at the joke, though more or less disappointed, but it is
to be hoped they were benefited by their morning walk.

Christmas day, 1SG3, the regiment was at Algiers, Louisiana,
camped near the town. The last day of 18G3 came on with a cold
sleet, and it was so cold that most of the regiment went into town
for shelter. January 1, 1SG1, the cold New Year's, so memorable
all over the land, was extremely cold as far south as New Orleans.

January 13, the regiment moved into an old mill or foundry,
which was a great improvement over the shelter tents. Here we
turned over all our teams. The weather continued very cold, and

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the mud was everywhere and bottomless. On January 22 we were
ordered to leave for Lakeport, on Lake Pontchartrain, a short dis-
tance east of New Orleans. We crossed the river and went
out to Lakeport on the cars. On the 23d we boarded
the steamer General Banks, which took us across to a
little plaee called Madison ville, Louisiana, in a pine woods, and
here we went into camp. This was a nice dry place, a great im-
provement over Algiers. From this place General Grant planned
to move on to Mobile, Alabama, but was overruled by General-in-
Chief Halleck, and our forces were sent on the disastrous Ked
River campaign, where nothing was gained, but disaster and great
loss in men and material from beginning to end. At this place
those who had re-enlisted in the veteran service were mustered
in, to date February 1, 1864.

While at this point we had a splendid camping ground, and
the weather was extra fine. One of the comrades, noted in his
way, was Willis Walker of Company C, who had been detached
for service in one of our batteries. He was inclined to fun and
jokes, one of which was to try pass the guards on a bogus pass.
But at this time he had secured a pass, but the Sergeant of the
guard thought he was fooling, and refused to let him out. After
some talk, Walker drew his revolver and shot the Sergeant seri-
ously. For this he was courtmartialed and sentenced to the Ohio
penitentiary for three years. The provost guards had him in cus-
tody at our headquarters; but on a bright moonlight night he came
to my tent to say goodby. He had a warm attachment for me,
as I had prevented his shooting one of our comrades about two
years previous. He told me he had escaped from the guards,
and was going out into the Confederacy. After a short talk he
started for our picket line. I stood and watched him until he dis-
appeared in the timber. Some two months later he came to the
regiment up on Red river, and wanted to stay with us. He said
that he secured a rebel suit, made his way to Natchez, Mississippi,
and gave himself up as a deserter from the enemy. He then
enlisted in our navy and was with the fleet up Red river. He was
told by our officers that he could stay to see all the boys, and

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then he must go, or he would be arrested. This was the last we
ever saw of him.

. February 7, 1864, was Sunday, and we had preaching at Col-
onel Kaynor's headquarters, both morning and evening, by a Chap-
lain of the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry. February 27 we were
ordered to Algiers, Louisiana. We crossed Lake Pontchartrain
on the steamer Battles, passed through New Orleans, and went
into camp the same evening at Algiers. February 29 the non-
veterans of the regiment were transferred to the Eighty-third
Ohio Infantry, but they did not remain there, as Lieutenant Col-
onel S. E. Varner was detached and placed in command of the
post of Algiers, and a temporary battalion, composed of the non-
veterans of the division, numbering about six hundred men, were
to perform duty under his command. Major Keiniger was also
detached and placed in command of a camp of paroled prisoners.
On March 2 we had a review of our brigade, and on the 3d the
division was reviewed by General McClernand, who made us a
short speech.

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CHAPTER IX.

The Red River Campaign of 1864.

The regiment was entitled to return to Ohio on the thirty
days furlough which was given to those who had re-enlisted to see
the end of the war, but instead of the veteran furlough, on March
5, with our division, we were ordered on the ill-fated Red River
campaign, which was incompetently managed from beginning to
end. We left for Bra shier City on the 5th, reaching there the
same day, and crossed to Berwick and encamped near our old
camp ground of the fall of 18G3. March 13 we moved forward and
camped above Camp Brisland. We started early on the 14th, and,
after a very hard day's march, we camped three miles beyond
Franklin, Louisiana. We remained here over the 15th, and on
the 16th we marched to within six miles of New Iberia. We
reached a little lake at 1 p. m. of the 17th and encamped, and
after a short march of 15 miles we camped on the ISth at Ver-
million Bayou. On the 19th we reached Carencro Bayou early in
the afternoon and camped. We passed through Opelusas and
Washington on the 20th, going into camp twTo miles beyond Wash-
ington, Louisiana. On the 21st we lay in camp and the Nineteenth
Army Corps passed to the front, and we followed on the 22d, the
Fiftv-sixth Ohio leading our forces.

On the 23d the regiment was ordered to guard the pontoon
train, and we brought it into camp at 8 p. m. The enemy, as
usual, was giving us lots of trouble, and the only safety lay in
keening well together. March 26 we reached Alexandria, Louis-
iana, and camped outside of the town. The 27th was Sunday, and
we lay in camp all day. On the 28th we moved forward about
20 miles through a heavy rain most of the day. Our route took us
through a pine woods region, and the ground was rough. We
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for a bridge to be constructed across the river. While waiting
here a lot of our boys, in foraging around, secured a large and fine
fish net, and as it was made to fish with they concluded to try
its qualities. They waded in with the net and soon had ensnared a
monster fish that was hard to handle, but after a very dangerous
contest with it, as two of them barely escaped being bitten by itr
they landed the fish, which proved to be a garfish, or a sea pike,
or a sea needle. It was over five feet long and weighed 160 pounds.
Its mouth, armed with sharp teeth, was ten inches long at least,.
but we had a real feast eating it, the meat being sweet and nice.

March 31 we moved forward again, forded a river, and after
a march of IT miles we camped. The wind blew a gale on this-
day, which made our marching very unpleasant. We reached
Nachitoches, Louisiana, on April 1. It was hot and dusty, and
more hard wind, which caused the dust to fly in clouds. We went
into camp just below town, which was a pretty little place. April
4 General Banks reviewed the troops, about all our forces being
present. We remained here until April 6, when our army advanced
toward Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. On that night we camped in a
thicket of brush after a march of 15 miles:

On April 7 it was 10 a. m. before we started. General A,
L. Lee, who commanded our cavalry force of about 5,000 men, held
the advance, skirmishing with and developing the enemy, whor
continually retreated, regardless of his force. After these troop&
was the cavalry train of over 200 wagons. After it came the two
small divisions of the Thirteenth Corps; then the Nineteenth Corps.
From front to rear the line extended from 25 to 30 miles, over a
single road, and this difficulty was greatly increased by a rain
storm, which, lasting all day of the 7th, rendered that narrow road
nearly impassable.

General Franklin had ordered General Lee to push the enemy
vigorously, and keep his wagon train well up to the front. General
Lee had found his train a source of trouble, being obliged to detach
a large portion of his force to guard it. It was General Lee's-
business to develop the enemy's force and report it to his superior
officer. This he failed to do. General Franklin was impressed

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with the idea that the enemy would not fight, and that the cavalry
was in the way. April 7 we camped at Pleasant Hill after a march
of 20 miles. April 8 we started late, and the sharp report of car-
bine and musket in front was nearly, continuous. General Banks
arrived at the extreme front at 1 p. m. He found there the whole
force of the enemy. He then saw the disadvantage of having a
wagon train, filling the only road there for a distance of two or
three miles in the rear. If General Banks had withdrawn, declin-
ing a general battle, it would have been at some risk to the train;
but if he' decided upon a battle there, bringing up his scattered
infantry to General Lee's support, which he did, the risk was much
greater, and made certain his defeat.

General Banks took the greater risk. Our small division had
gone into camp some four miles in rear of our advance. We were
ordered forward on quick time, and the sound of the conflict was
becoming more distinct. General Banks hurried up the infantry
in the rear, and brought up fourteen pieces of artillery, in addi-
tion to the twelve already with General Lee. In his dispatch to
General Franklin, half an hour after he reached the front, he
advises that the enemy seems prepared to make a stand, and that
he had better bring up his infantry, and concludes: "You had bet-
ter send back and push up the trains, as manifestly we should be
able to rest here.'' The infantry moved forward quickly, and by
5 p. m. General Cameron's little division, of which the Fifty-sixth
Ohio was a part, was on the field. There was less than 2,000 men
in the division, and after a forced march of four miles was sent
in to action, as General Lauman's troops were driven back. Then,
for nearly two hours of desperate fighting, our troops held their
line and repulsed the repeated charges of the enemy. In one of
these charges the enemy made a desperate effort to capture our
colors, and that brave hero, Jack Williams of Company C, the
color bearer, with his guards, were having a desperate time to beat
them off, when, seeing their danger, Coroporal James M. Halliday
of Company F, with superb gallantry, rallied a lot of the boys, and
rushed to the rescue and drove the enemy back. Comrade Halli-
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in command of his company on the retreat by the commanding
officer of the regiment, and he was as competent to command it
as any man in the company.

General Banks was present when the battle opened, and as
one writer well says, "Fed his army by detachments into this Con-
federate threshing machine.'' The desperate situation of our
troops nerved every man to the best that was in him, and the
veterans, on that battle line, were equal to three times their num-
ber of less seasoned troops. The enemy being unable to drive us
in front, advanced a large lorce on the right flank of General
Lauman's division, and succeeded in capturing the Forty-eighth
Ohio, Nineteenth Kentucky, Seventy-seventh and One Hundred
and Thirteenth Illinois regiments, and Captain White's Chicago
Battery. And all these, by sundown, with many others captured,
were on the way to that vile rebel prison, at Tyler, Texas. This
battle was a plain trap, set by the enemy, and our commander had
no more gumption than to send his troops into it. There was only
one narrow road, with timber and brush on both sides, our wagon
train being well to the front, obstructing the movement of troops,
and later falling an easy prey to the enemy. Our forces were
crowded back slowly and steadily. The men of the Thirteenth
Corps could not be stampeded, no difference how desperate the
conditions might be. They fell back, stubbornly facing the foe,
all feeling that we had not had a fair chance. At this time the
writer was Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment, and, though
well up in front, not on the battle line, but when I saw the
wounded coming back, and saw the desperate plight my comrades
were in, I took my musket and hastened to the firing line, though
my superior officer remonstrated with me for going.

About sunset someone called from behind us to run in. On
looking around we were greatly rejoiced to see General Emory's
division of the Nineteenth Corps, our strong support in our ter-
rible need. They opened ranks for our little force to pass through,
the enemy following closely. As soon as we cleared from their
front, the Nineteenth Corps fired a volley into them that made the
earth shake, as well as the Confederate hosts. Three times they

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^attacked, but the Nineteenth Corps repulsed their utmost efforts.
They tried the flanks, but they were firm, and, night coming on,
kept them from making the best use of their greatly superior force.
The order was to fall back to Pleasant Hill. No comrade who was
there can ever forget the miseries of that night, wagon trains,
artillery and the troops, all crowding that narrow road, and some
of our comrades had experienced, in the words of the poet:

" The first dark night of nothingness.
The last of danger and distress."

At one of our frequent blockades I found Comrade Moses
Roberts of Company C, near the road. He had been severely
wounded, and was unable to retreat further, but a kind hearted
teamster, who had given me a place to ride on his wagon, permitted
me to substitute Comrade Roberts, and he escaped with the rest
of us.

The loss of the Thirteenth Corps in this action was 1,405. Our
regiment had 2 killed, 14 wounded and 19 captured. Admiral
Porter, in his history of this action, says: "Even this small force
went into battle by detachments/' But few in number, the boys
of the Thirteenth Corps, held their front. Our entire force was
between 6,000 and 7,000 men. The battlefield was about four miles
from Mansfield, at a place called Sabine Crossroads. It was about
50 miles south of Shreveport, and 20 miles west of Red river. The
Confederate army was under the command of General Dick Taylor,
and consisted of Mouton's and Walker's divisions, and General
Thos. Green's cavalry, in all amounting to 12,000 men.

General Taylor had been ordered to fall back before our army,
leading it on to Shreveport. But the opportunity offered for
defeating General Banks was too tempting to be rejected. Out of
twenty-six pieces of artillery engaged all but eight were captured by
the enemy. But for the position of the train fewer prisoners would
have been taken by the enemy, and most of the artillery would
liave been saved. The loss of our army in this criminally managed
battle was over 3,000 men, killed, wounded and prisoners. The
Confederates lost about 1,000 men. The enemy captured 220 of
our wagons.

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General Franklin and Admiral Porter both expressed them-
selves that the enemy would not fight, but had occasion to reverse
their opinion before this campaign was over. There can be but
one solution of such a conduct of affairs, and that is, that who-
ever directed that on our part in this battle was incapable.

At daylight on the 9th of April we reached Pleasant Hill, and
that every one of us was about exhausted can well be believed.
But we were greatly encouraged to find General A. J. Smith's
division of the Sixteenth Corps in line of battle to support us.
We all had the greatest confidence in the ability of General Smith
to meet and defeat the rebels, and the spirits of all were greatly
revived, all feeling that if he commanded wTe would have an equal
or better show than the enemy. Our remnant of the Thirteenth
Corps was placed in reserve. Soon after day the enemy advanced
upon our forces with great confidence. For over three hours they
attacked and charged our troops, but they found in General A. J.
Smith a man wrho was master of the situation at hand. With his
gallant division and the troops of the Nineteenth Corps they re-
pulsed every effort of the enemy, who abandoned the attack after
over three hours of desperate conflict.

Between 2 and 3 p. m. we continued to retreat on the road to
Grand Ecore, on Red river. We marched all night. The road
was extremely rough, and it was as dark as it ever gets. April
10 we continued our retreat, and on the 11th of April, at 5 p. m.,
went into camp near Red river. On the 13th our division moved
out a short distance and built fortifications across the road we
came in on, the rebels being near and in force. General Franklin
passed along as we were at work, and remarked to a squad of
Company G boys: "You don't need any protection. We can whip
them easily here." Comrade Gil Crabtree replied: "We have been
defeated once, and we think we will look out for ourselves." Gen-
eral Franklin was second in command to General Banks.

April 20 General Smith's division of the Sixteenth Corps
moved out south on the road to Nachitoches. Our division left
this place at 5 p. m. of April 21, and continued to fall back toward

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Alexandria, Louisiana. As we departed the few buildings in
Orand Ecore were set on fire by some one, and were entirely con-
sumed. We marched all of that night, most of the next day and
all of the following night. This service tested the endurance of
•every comrade there. At daylight on the 23d we found that the
-Confederates held a strong position on high ground on the south
side of Cane river. From this place they had complete command
of the low ground to the north, and all approaches to the bridge
on the wagon road, and the low ground where we were.

Our troops attacked them in front, and our forces in the rear
were heavily engaged. It was a grand sight to see the troops, our
forces and the enemy's, moving to attack and counter-attack from
•every side of that basin where our army was. The rebels seemed
to swarm on all sides. Our situation was critical unless the Con-
federates in our front could be dislodged. While this contest was
going on in front and rear, the survivors of the Thirteenth Corps
made a detour in the shelter of some woods, forded the river, gained
the high ground and swept the rebels from their strong position at
the bridge. Our forces in the rear repulsed the enemy at all points,
and late in the afternoon all of our troops were safe across Can*1
River, and camped on the hills in the timber.

April 24 we continued our retreat through the pine woods
toward Alexandria, reaching there at dark on the 23th. Here we
were in comparative safety.

This campaign was made up of shameful blunders at the hands
of officers, who, in some incredible manner, had attained to such
responsible command. The ranks of every regiment contained
plenty of men who could have handled our army and led them
to victory, instead of defeat.

April 27 we received our veteran furlough, and on the 28th
we went aboard a steamboat, but at 1 p. m. the rebels made a
heavy attack on our works, and it looked as if there would be a
general engagement; so we returned and remained in line all ni^ht,
and we had to remove our things from the boat, as it was ordered

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to proceed to New Orleans. On May 2 the Fifty-sixth Ohio, with
its division, was sent out on a reconnoissance, but the enemy did-
not show up with any force that would stand its ground.

SERGEANT GEORGE GRINDLEY
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CHAPTER X.
The John Warner, Snaggy Point and Our Escape.

May 3, 1864, the regiment was again ordered to depart on its
veteran furlough. We embarked on the steamboat John Warner.
This was a fine side-wheel boat in good order, and with a brave
and loyal Captain. On May 4 the John Warner left Alexandria
at 10 o'clock a. m., and we had not gone far beyond our lines when
we were fired into from the south side or bank of the river. From
behind the levee at the most secure points we were fired into with
musketry, but we were not seriously damaged, as our boat was
protected by rows of cotton bales around the sides and ends, which
secured us with reasonable care against bullets. They began to
fire into us at 1 o'clock p. m., and in one of these attacks they killed
Tom Morris of Company C, our former brave drummer boy, who,
in 18G2, in back of Memphis, took the arms and equipments of the
fellow who was afraid, and carried them to a good purpose to this
eventful day, when, in his daring recklessness, he disdained the
good protection afforded by the cotton bales, and stood up fully
exposed and fired at the enemy, who lay behind the levee. He was
shot through the brain, and in his death a mere boy, that he was,
the Union lost one of its bravest defenders.

Our passage so far had been under great difficulties, as the
enemy was vigilant as usual, and fired into us from every favorable
point, and after running some twenty odd miles we tied up for the
night on the north side of the river. Here we thought we were
comparatively safe, and all was quiet on the John Warner. The
officers and passengers were eating their supper, and the men
were partaking of hard-tack, etc.

The river here was rather narrow, and opposite our boat there
was a thicket of brush, and about dusk the enemy crept up and

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fired a volley into our boat. It was equal to a circus to see those
in the cabin at supper rush down the stairs to the stronger pro-
tection on the lower deck. On the hurricane roof of the boat
Comrade John Henry of Company F was on guard, and how he
escaped instant death a kind Providence only knows. The only
damage they did was the scare that those at the supper table got.

On the morning of the 5th we were off early, and had gone but
a short distance, when we saw a small body of Union troops on the
north bank of the river. They were making their way toward
Alexandria. We learned they were a part of the One Hundred
and Twentieth Ohio Infantry. They reported the rebels in force
strongly posted a few miles below; that they had captured the
City Belle, the boat they were on, and that they had escaped by
the north side of the river.

In a short time after leaving them we were hailed from the
north bank. We landed and took aboard a wounded Lieutenant
and two soldiers of Company H, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio
Infantry. They were First Lieutenant John M. Baer and Privates
Isaac S. Miller and Andrew Manhart.

In a short time we came in sight of their pickets. They fired
at us and rode at their best speed for their main force. We had
as escorts two light gunboats, the Signal and Covington. On
rounding the next bend their battery opened on us. I was
standing at the bow of the John Warner, and saw the first ball
fired at us strike the water just in front of the boat.

At this place, called Snaggy Point, the river makes a short
turn or elbow. The water was low and the channel narrow, and
we were coming into the range of their guns. The enemy had two
32-pound Parrott guns, and a G-gun field battery, with 1,200 cavalry
and over 2,000 infantry, securely posted behind the best of fortifi-
cations, a high and strong levee. From this secure place they
gave us a close and hot fire from the time that we came into range.
And we had now entered that concert of all that was horrible.
Our gunboats opened fire furiously, but the enemy was too well
sheltered to be greatly damaged by it. Nearly every shot they

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fired reached our boat, or one of the gunboats. We drifted with
the current, the gunboats keeping up a constant bombardment,
and the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry a steady fusillade of
musketry. ,

In the National Tribune of Washington, D. C, under date of
February 5, 1885, Lieutenant John M. Baer of the One Hundred
and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry gave the following ac-
count of his and our experience in passing through this maelstrom
of death and destruction. Coming from a man of some other reg-
iment may add to its worth, and it is here given in his own words:

"Now the time had come for the John Warner to run the
blockade. Every preparation had been made, and with the tim-
bers quivering under her immense power of steam, the gallant
steamer shot by the first gunboat. Then the Fifty-sixth opened
fire. There they stood, the brave Colonel Raynor and his war
scarred veterans, looking as if they would conquer fate itself; and
that they fought desperately need not be told, for who ever knew
them to flinch in the hour of danger? The Colonel rushed back
and forth waving his sword. The officers, with sword in one band
and shooting with revolvers with the other, cheered and urged on
their men, which was useless, as every man was doing his level
best to down a 'Johnny.' Then came a yell from the 'Rebs,' as they
mounted the levee. We looked back and saw the boat we bad
passed all ablaze. Then came the explosion of her magazine. We
passed another boat, which was firing very slowly, the 'Rebs' filling
its port-holes, when open, so full of shot that they could not use
their guns. Then came another yell from the rebels, and, looking
ahead, we saw another boat floating disabled down stream. It
had swung crosswise in the river, and they were shooting through
her lengthwise. Then came a crash and a solid shot went through
the wheel-house of the John Warner, disabling her engines and
causing her to drift with the current. The noble Captain was then
heard calling, 'Help!' "Tow me out.' We had not reached the
point of the bend, consequently our boat almost ran ashore on the
rebel side. Cheer after cheer went up from them, thinking they
had us in their clutches, but we soon drifted past the bend, and,

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fortunately, to the north side of the river. On the refusal of the
John Warner's crew to make the boat fast Sergeant Nick Main,
Samuel Nickell and J. C. Harper took the rope up the bank and
tied the boat up under a shower of bullets. We were in a bad
position. The rebels had an enfilading fire on our boat, and they
poured their shots into us from three sides. They splintered the
light woodwork of the John Warner into slivers. Our cotton bales
saved many a life on that boat, as they were a good protection,
both on the boat and when we went up the bank. Some of the
escapes were marvelous. A citizen passenger sitting in an arm-
chair on the cabin deck in a drunken stupor was not aroused until
we had passed the first artillery, when one of our boys dragged
him to a safer place. I had left my knapsack where I bunked,
outside in the front of the cabin deck, and when I found we had
to leave the boat I was very anxious to secure it. I crawled toward
it, but they made the splinters fly too close for safety. Securing
a long slat, I attempted to draw it within reach, but they had such
close range on that point that they knocked the stick out of my
hands, and having a desire to enjoy my veteran furlough, I reluct-
antly left my knapsack for the enemy. The passengers in the
cabin lay flat on the floor, the splinters from the light upper wood-
work of the cabin and other debris covering them in many places."

At this time I was Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment,
and, being near Colonel Raynor, he directed me to notify the com-
pany officers to get their men on shore at once. After performing
this duty I returned to Colonel Raynor, and we jumped off the
boat behind the wheel-house and scaled the bank under a heavy
fire of musketry.

Before our men could get off, a shell from the enemy burst
behind the cotton bales in Company D, killing Wm. Bradfield and
mortally wounding Sergeant Samuel Wood. They were two ex-
ceptionally fine young men, and their loss was greatly deplored.
Also James Odle, Thomas Cox and Azariah Arthur were all more
or less wounded by the same shell. One extraordinary shot was
a shell fired by the enemy that passed through the boat from the

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rear end, through every state room on one side, and lodged in
a drawer in the Clerk's desk, but did not explode.

As soon as the companies came off the boat a council was
held, and it was decided to make an effort to reach the Mississippi
river. As this would be quite a long march, we thought it best
to secure some rations before starting. A lot of us returned to
the John Warner for that purpose. I brought off about a half-
bushel of hard-tack and three blankets, and though there was a
constant and close fire of musketry I escaped without a scratch.
At this same time Comrade Wm. W. Hughes of Company E
started up the bank with a box of crackers on his shoulder. When
about half way up they knocked it to pieces about him, but he ran
back, took up another box and brought it up the bank. Also Com-
rade Thomas J. Williams of Company E went up on the hurricane
roof of the John Warner, and threw off the knapsacks of his com-
pany. Surely, the enemy lacked the ball to kill him. These two
acts came under my own observation at the time.

Our escorts did their best to dislodge the enemy, but after a
most desperate contest failed entirely. A number of the com-
rades,4who were not very well, were under the shelter of the boat,
hesitating about taking the risk of going up the bank. I went
down to the edge of the bank and urged them to take the risk and
come up into the woods, but most of them would not venture,
and fell into the enemy's hands and endured a long imprisonment.

The Captain of the Warner sent for Colonel Raynor for con-
sultation. In making the trip the Colonel was shot through the
leg. We got him up into the woods as soon as we could, and
shortly after the commander of the gunboat Covington sent word
to bring the Colonel up stream a short distance, and that he
would take him on board, and he thought that he could run by
the enemy's batteries. I took my blanket, and, Comrades Samuel
Clinger, William Leniger, Samuel Nickel and David Storer assist-
ing, we carried the Colonel up stream, where the Covington landed
for him, and we all went aboard. With my musket ready, I
stepped to a port hole and fired one shot, when a shell entered over
my head, cutting the sieampipe and exploded in the ashpit, deal-

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ing death and destruction on every side. The escaping steam filled
our boat, creating quite a panic.

The gunboat Signal at this time lay by the side of the Cov-
ington, and nearly every one on the Covington escaped to the
Signal. Colonel Raynor was having his wound examined at the
time^ and was taken with the crowd. When the steam cleared,
we discovered only one officer of the Covington and a few of his
men. together with us boys of the Fifty-sixth Ohio. The Cov-
ington was now a helpless wreck, drifting toward the enemy.

The young officer asked us boys to assist his men with a big
gun they were getting ready to fire. We took hold of the rope
with the gunboat men. We were now, to all appearances, drifting
right into the enemy's hands, and a crowd of them came down to
the waters edge to take us in. But to their disappointment our big
gun belched its contents in their midst, the recoil sending the Cov-
ington back across the river. The young officer told us to make
every effort to escape. We did not need any urging on that line.
One by one we gathered on the side next the shore, and when the
Covington struck the north shore we made our best speed up
that bank under a regular shower of bullets. Well, we were not
to be killed. They literally mowed the brush over our heads as
we crawled away.

As soon as they slacked firing, we started to hunt up the
regiment, but found that it had gone down stream a short time
before. Near by we found Sergeant J. C. Bingham and the
wounded boys of Company D. As we could be of no assistance
to them, they urged us to save ourselves if possible, and we took
the trail of the regiment and followed in quick time.

Moving on, we soon had a crowd of thirty or forty together,
mostly from the gunboats. In the crowd was a Major, a strong,
hearty man, and at different times he urged me to stop and sur-
render. At times we missed the trail of the regiment in the dry
woods, and all the crowd sat down and waited until we Fifty-sixth
boys and a young colored man from one of the gunboats found it.
Our advance guard held a caucus and decided to leave that crowd

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as soon as night came, if something better or worse did not
intervene.

Some distance out we crossed a road and found that the rebel
cavalry had just passed out of sight. They thought we were head-
ing for Alexandria, as many others did, and they were endeavoring
to intercept us. Some time after passing this point we heard a
boat blow off steam. Then we struck out at our best gait in the
direction of the sound, and in a short time reached the river several
miles below where we left it. We could see a gunboat quite a dis-
tance down stream. We fired our guns and shouted, thus attract-
ing their attention, and the boat landed and waited for. us. We
thought we had traveled eight or ten miles, and that we were about
exhausted can well be believed. This gunboat had taken the regi-
ment on board some distance above, and on learning the condition
of affairs at Snaggy Point turned back and took us to the mouth
of Red River, and from there the Shreveport, a very heavily loaded
steamboat, took us to New Orleans, reaching there May 7, 1864.
We were in the worst condition we had ever been.

Here we were quartered in the Virginia warehouse. We drew
some much needed clothing and were paid, and received a part
of our veteran bounty. Here I will give a short account of what
some of our comrades and others endured on this shameful and
blundering campaign.

Before we left the Covington the rebels had crossed the river
and made a line fast to the John Warner, put the coil into a yawl,
and rowed to the south shore, where the line was seized, and, with
shouts and cheers, the John Warner was hauled to the opposite
shore. The plucky Captain was one of the first to be taken off.
Then the rebels swarmed over the boat, drank all the whisky, ran-
sacked the boat and plundered the wounded and dead. They
shamefully abused Lieutenant J. M. Baer of the One Hundred and
Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, took his money, stripped off
his clothes, leaving him only his undershirt and drawers, and he
being badly wounded. The John Warner soon after took fire and
was soon consumed.

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Colonel Raynor and the other wounded from the City Belle,
that the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio was on, and those from
the John Warner and the gunboats, were first taken to a cotton
shed nearby, and from there in wagons to Cheneyville, Louisiana.

Captain J. C. Stimmel of the Fifty-sixth Ohio failed to get
off the first boat we went on at Alexandria with the regiment, and
was captured two days before the mishap to the John Warner,
and with a lot of other prisoners war*, marched toward Tyler, Texas.
When the prisoners were near Shreveport Captain Stimmell
and another officer broke from the column as they were going
through some timber. They ran a short distance and hid in the
leaves. The column was halted and a careful search was made.
The guards even walked on the log by the side of which they lay.
Fortunately they failed to find them. After a long tramp they
found a colored man, who kindly fed them and put them on the
right course, and also secured them a canoe to travel in, and in
that frail craft, after almost incredible hardships and suffering,
they reached the mouth of Red river and our fleet. This was
some time after our forces had evacuated Alexandria, and the
rebels were in full control of Red river.

Captain Ben Roberts of the Fifty-sixth Ohio was captured on
the Johu Warner, and with a later crowd of prisoners was safely
imprisoned at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas. After they had been there
for some time they found among their guards a Union man, who
agreed to let a squad of them out at the first opportunity, which
soon came; and, by twos, ten of them passed out. Captain Roberts
and his comrade were the last two out. Shortly after day they
heard the bloodhounds on their tracks. Captain Roberts and his
chum had followed a water course for a long distance, thereby
escaping, but all the others were captured. These two who escaped
disguised as rebel soldiers, and with a story of returning to their
regiments up in Arkansas got along fairly well, except their long
tramp. But as they came near our forces in the region of Little
Rock they barely escaped being killed by our soldiers, as some of
them had been bushwhacked by the rebels about the time of their
arrival, and their gray clothes made things look suspicious. For a

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time they were determined to hang them whether or not, but
fortunately Captain Roberts' comrade was recognized by some old
friends whom he had served with in the past. All in all they had a
most desperate experience.

After leaving the Covington we saw no more of the young
officer or his men. But in May, 1896, 32 years after this terrible
escape, there appeared a notice in The Times-Star of Cincinnati, 0.,
that Dr. Thomas G. Herron would deliver a patriotic address in
one of the churches of the city on Memorial day, and among other
thing would tell how, during the war, he blew up the United
States gunboat Covington to prevent her falling into the enemy's
hands. These few lines brought vividly to mind our awful experi-
ence on that boat. A short note to Dr. Herron brought in answer
the following thrilling letter:

"Cincinnati, O., June 7, 1896.
"Ex-Lieutenant T. J. Williams:

"My Dear Comrade — Thanks. Your very interesting letter of
May 30 has been received and contents noted, and as this is Sun-
day, my day for religious and patriotic duties, I devote this half
hour to answering your kind letter. Yes, sir, I am the officer that
had command of the Covington the last few hours of its existence.
My Captain deserted the boat (Covington) when lying alongside
of the United States steamer Signal, and I assumed command and
fought until l nad lost most of my men. The steam and hot water
from the perforated boilers were scalding dead, wounded and
fighters, and the gunner's mate had both legs shot off in the maga-
zine door; the master's mate that had charge of the magazine was
cut in two by my side; the captain of the gun's crew, by the big gun
you mention, had his back shot away, and asked me to put a bullet
through him to put him out of his misery. I told the brave sailor
I could not, but to make his peace with God, as his moments were
very few. He commenced the Lord's prayer, but before he got half
way through he gave me a look and his voice ceased and he died.
Several scenes like this were too much for me. aDd so many killed,
and with the concentration of fire of General Dick Taylor's men
(6,000 men), I ordered The men to arm themselves and get ashore,

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first to carry the wounded men off and bide them in the canebraker
and get up the bank. I then spiked all the guns with rat-tail files
and broke them off and started ashore, but as I started I looked
back, and could not bear the idea of the enemy's capturing those
grand guns — 30-pound Parrotts and 50-pound Dahlgrens, besides
howitzers — with all the ammunition, so I went back and into the
fire-room and took seven shovels of hot coals from under the boil-
ers, and carried them back, over my dead boys and bloody deck,
and piled them on the pine deck over the magazine. The sixth
shovelful burned through the pine deck and the zinc began to melt,
and a few hot coals fell into the loose powder and it began to spit.
I threw the seventh shovelful into the hole and rushed forward out
of the open port and along the casemating and was about fifteen
feet from the jumping-off place when the boat blew up, and I was
blown up with it and turned several somersaults, circus like, badly
ourned, and landed in the mud and water. It was awful; my
clothes and hair were on fire. I think I was dead for a few moments,
but rallied and pulled off my burned clothes and plastered myself
with wet, red mud, and got on my feet and went up the bank as
fast as my burnt, tired legs would carry me. I was afterward, with
a few of my men, chased by bloodhounds, and seven of my men
were torn to pieces by them, and I had a terrible experience with
them. Tracked and captured by the dogs (five of them) and a com-
pany of Johnnies, I was taken out to be hanged, and then to be
made a target of afterward. The lasso wras ordered and brought
to hang me, and the noose made. I saw it all, and heard all the
interesting conversation, but I was tired, having run fifteen miles,
and so nearly dead that it had little effect upon me. But, thank
God, the Johnnies could not find a tree with limbs low enough to
hang me on. I, being left alone with the dogs at my feet, saw a
woman— an amazon about six feet four inches high. As she drew
near I felt that one to save me was near at hand. I asked her if
she was a mother. She said 'Yes/ and I said, 'Would you not like
to have a Yankee mother save your boy if he were in as bad a fix
as I am?7 'Yes, I would,' she said, and she picked me up in her
strong hands and carried me about 1,000 yards to her cabin,
where I lay two days and nights, buried among a lot of old clothes,.

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and I was safe." Thus be escaped and still lives to tell of the awful
time he had.

The Fifty-sixth Ohio boys who were captured on the Red river
fiasco were imprisoned at Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, with hun-
dreds of others, among whom was the most of the Forty-eighth
Ohio Infantry, captured at Sabine Cross-Roads. When their color-
bearer, Isaac Scott, saw that all was lost, he tore the regimental
Hag from the staff and gave it to his messmate to conceal in his
haversack, and after a journey of 150 miles they reached Camp
Ford and he delivered the colors to the officers of his regiment. A
htole was dug inside of their shanty, and in it they buried their flag.
In the stockade were soldiers who had been there nearly two years,
and when it was whispered about that there was a Union flag in
the prison they could not withstand the pleading of the old pris-
oners to let them have a glimpse of the old banner of beauty and
glory. Time and again it was dug up, and under strict watch the
old prisoners were allowed to go in and take a look at Old Glory,
and4 rough men though they were, with tear-stained eyes they
pressed the cherished folds of the old flag to their lips. In the
meantime the prison commander got. information that led him to
believe that there was a Union flag concealed in the prison, so one
<lay they marched a regiment of troops into the prison stockade
and made all the Union prisoners fall into line, and after that was
done they searched every shanty in the prison pen, and with their
bayonets dug up the floors, but did not find the flag. It was a hard
matter for them now to find a safe place for the flag, as they were
liable to repeat the search at any time. They that night dug the
flag up and it was sewed inside the lining of Captain Gunsaulus'
blouse, where it remained for about six months. The captain was
around among the rebel guards, but they never found out "what a
precious charge to keep he had." After seven months of imprison-
ment the regiment marched to Shreveport, La., and from there by
steamboat to the mouth of the Red river, to be exchanged. As the
men of the Forty-eighth Ohio stepped on board the Union vessel,
the excited soldiers tore the blouse from Captain Gunsaulus' back
and hastily tied the flag to a pole, and as the band on our vessel
struck up "The Star Spangled Banner," and the dear old flag of the

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Forty-eighth Ohio floated in the air, in the presence of the enemy's
guards, Captain Birchett, the enemy's officer in command of the
guards, spoke of it as being the most exciting scene he had ever
witnessed, and that the Forty-eighth Ohio deserve great credit for
saving their colors during their imprisonment, it being the only
regimental flag that went through a rebel prison during the war^
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CHAPTER XI.

Our Veteran Furlough and Return to
New Orleans, La.

The regiment had reached New Orleans on May 7, 1864, and
we remained there until May 25, 1864, when we embarked on the
steamship Catawba, and at 5 o'clock p. m. we left for home by way
of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean to New York. We
would not be taken for the same crowd that landed from the
Shreveport on May 7, stripped of everything except what we had
upon our persons. Out vessel reached the gulf at 1 p. m. of the
26th, and on the 27th we passed the Dry Tortugas Islands at 4 p. m.
This place was used as a prison or place for punishment for soldiers
of our army, and I believe two or three of our boys were sent there
for a short period. On May 28th we passed several vessels, some
going in and others going our way. The Catawba was a very fast

vessel for that day.

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That night the captain of the ship called the attention of some
of us to the southern cross, plainly visible in the sky. For his kind-
ness personally! have always been thankful. On May 29 and 30
it was stormy, and many of us had a taste of sea-sickness. We
passed stormy Cape Hatteras at 8 p. m. of the 30th. May 31 was
very fine and we had lots of amusement in watching the porpoises
as they sported about the ship. One large one, a yard ahead, led
the ship as though it was hitched to it, for miles upon miles. June
1, 1864, at 5 a. m., we reached New York. We were up early, and
will always remember the grand sights on every side as on that
bright morning we sailed into that great harbor. It was new and
also amusing to us as we marched off the ship to feel that the
ground seemed to rise up before us at every step. In New York we
were quartered in the Park Barracks, which was close to Barnuni's

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Museum. We remained here one day and night. June 2, 1864, we
crossed to Elizabethport, N. J., and took the cars for Harrisburg,
Pa., reaching there at 2 a. m. of the 3d. We left at 5 a. m. and
reached Altoona, Pa., at 2 p. m., where our train circled up and
over the mountains, where we saw grand and never-to-be-forgotten
scenery on every side; passed Johnstown and reached Pittsburg at
10 p. m. Here a delegation met us and wre wTere escorted by them
to a hall near the station, where they had the finest supper for us
that we had partaken of for over two and a half years at least, and
we always feel grateful for the kindness of the good people of that
loyal city. We started at midnight for Columbus, O. At some
town in northern Ohio we stopped for breakfast. Tw^enty-minutes
was the time allowed. In about nineteen minutes they set the grub
before us. Pay had been exacted in advance. Before we had
hardly tasted a thing -'All aboard!" was called at the door. Most
of the boys got out and on the train. Quite a lot of them took their
breakfast, dishes and all, but a few remained and finished their meal
at leisure, and took passage on the first passenger train for Colum-
bus, O. The conductor tried but failed to collect any fare from
them, as they gave him the choice to go on or they would put him
off and take charge of the train.

We reached Columbus at noon of the 4th of June, 1864, and
were assigned quarters at Tod Barracks. Here we were guarded
by some home troops. The boys did not fancy being under guard
in their home capital, so taking matters into their own hands, a
lot of them captured the guards and went out, taking the sentinels
and their arms with them.

June 6 we received our transportation to Portsmouth, Ohio,
going by wray of Cincinnati, Ohio, and reaching there at 4 a. m. of
the 7th. Seventy-six of the boys wTere placed under my command
from Columbus to Portsmouth. On the train to Cincinnati the boys
had a jolly, but rather boisterous time of it, having taken on a little
too much stimulant. But it is a pleasure to be able to say that
they; one and all, instantly obeyed every order from me, and it was
useless for any one else to give them orders or tender advice. At
one place a truck of our car got off the rails as we crossed a bridge,

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but the connections were of good stuff and we were soon on the
track again. On the 7th we left for Portsmouth on the Bostona,
-and arrived there early on the morning of the 8th.

Here we separated for our homes in different directions, and
as a general thing we had a pleasant time, and the thirty days
seemed to pass at unusual speed to all of us. On July G we left
Portsmouth for the field, being ordered back to New Orleans, La.
The only thing of note on our return trip was the arrest of two of
our boys" for murder at Cincinnati, O., by a sheriff of an up-river
county. The regiment was marching down through the streets to
the O. & M. depot when the arrest was made, and the officer had
got some distance away before many of the men learned of the
transaction, but as soon as they learned of it a crowd of them
dropped out of ranks and soon returned with the men arrested, and
these comrades went on with us to the end of our service. The
sheriff had no heart in the arrest, as he no doubt felt that our com-
rades had done right under all the circumstances, which were about
as follows:

These two men were cousins. The elder had been with us from
the beginning, but the younger one volunteered while we were on
our veteran furlough. They had gone to a city in their county one
day, and as they were returning home, among others on the train
was a gang of refugees or deserters from the rebel armies. And
some of them took pains to raise a disturbance with our comrade.
He was a veteran and with a fair show would meet any man; but
being unarmed, except with his pocket knife, and the odds being
so largely against him he was watchful, but paid as little apparent
attention as possible. No outbreak was made until they reached
the station where they were to get off the train. Our comrade was
the first to step off. One of the refugees had a new clock, and the
leader, who had been hunting for trouble, got off immediately after
him. In his hands he had the two clock weights, and with an oath,
as he stepped on the platform, he threw with all his power one of
these weights at the head of our comrade, barely missing him.
There was one of two things for our comrade to do — defend himself
or to run; but he had faced too many better men south of the Ohio

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river to turn his back on this scoundrel so near his own home. So
with his pocket knife he settled the controversy then and there at
the cost of his assailant's life. In so far as heard from, the com-
rades were never after disturbed, the civil authorities feeling, no
doubt, that they were justified. We went on by the O. & M. R. R.
and connections to Cairo, 111., and from Cairo by steamboat to New
Orleans, La.

••••••

LIEUT. COLONEL HENRY E JONES
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S6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 89

CHAPTER XII.

Patrol Duty in New Orleans and Vicinity — Consolidation

of Veterans into Three Companies and a

Roster of the Veterans.

The regiment reached New Orleans on July 20, 1864. On our
passage down the river we saw the various places where we had
experienced so many hardships and surmounted dangers without
number. Soon after our arrival Lieutenant Colonel S. E. Varner
and the men of the regiment who did not enter the veteran service
rejoined us. After a few days we were assigned to perform patrol
duty in the city of New Orleans. Also the First United States In-
fantry, the First New Orleans Infantry (white), and the Eighty-
first United States Infantry (colored) were on duty in and about
the city. Here we had good quarters, but the duty was hard and
there was a great deal of danger connected with it, and we had a
varied and interesting experience, much of it, of course, not worth
relating. Oct. 1 the yellow fever broke out near our quarters. On
the 2nd a lot of the boys attended Christ church to hear General
Pyle preach. Oct. 11 was election day in Ohio, for state officers,
and we voted the same as if at home. On Oct. 17, 1864, the non-
veterans of Company A, also Captain Manring and Lieutenant
William D. Wood were mustered out. These were two very fine
men and excellent officers. They and their men had served three
years.

A rather unusual and funny episode took place on the 30th of
October, and in this department, as well as in others, a great deal
of red tape was displayed when a chance to do so offered. On this
day a Major on the department staff rode into oar quarters and
ordered the regiment into line for inspection. As usual there was
hustling around, and those that were there were soon in line. Most

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of the companies. had several men in ranks and made a fair show-
ing, but somehow Company K had only two men and one Sergeant
in line. The inspector said nothing much at the time, but in a day
or two we received his report, and company by company he passed
judgment upon them until he came to Company K, and of this com-
pany all he said was "Company K had two men and a dirty Ser-
geant on inspection." We all thought the joke was on the Ser-
geant and he was often reminded of it, and it wras noticeable that
he was more careful after this.

At the close of this month a lot of the young men of the regi-
ment had the pleasure and privilege, under the leadership of Dr.
McFarland, of attending the M. E. church on Carondolet street, to
hear Dr. Newman preach. He preached a series of ten sermons to
young men, which were of great profit to all who had the good for-
tune to attend these services. This gifted man, who passed on to
the higher life July 5, 1899, was the loved and greatly honored
Bishop of the M. E. church.

Nov. 4, 1864, we were ordered to Algiers, La., which was di-
rectly across the river from New Orleans. There was also an order
issued directing that the veterans of the regiment be consolidated
into three companies, and all surplus officers mustered out. On
Nov. 7 the regiment was consolidated as ordered, and formed into
a battalion of three companies, and the supernumerary officers
mustered out as ordered.

A ROSTER OF THE VETERANS.

In letters of gold should be written the names of the comrades
who, having taken up arms to save the Union from dissolution, and
in their past service had passed through fire and brimstone, would
not lay them down or halt in the contest until the last enemy had
grounded his arms and bowed in submission to the Union.

THE FIELD AND STAFF.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry E. Jones Commander

Dr. P. M. McFarland Assistant Surgeon

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Lieutenant Benjamin Roberts (Promoted) Adjutant

Lieutenant Moses Rife Quartermaster

Stephen B. Thoburn (Promoted) Sergeant-Major

John H. Morris (Discharged) Sergeant-Major

William K. Sturgill Sergeant-Major

Thomas J. Williams (Promoted) Quartermaster Sergeant

John Bevan Quartermaster Sergeant

John C. Gross Commissary Sergeant

John F. McGrew Hospital Steward

Company A of the battalion was composed of the following
veterans: Of old Company A, 42 men; of old Company D, 21 men;
of old Company F, 16 men; a total of 79 men, as follows:

Benjamin Roberts , Captain

John K. Combs First Lieutenant

Stephen B. Thoburn Second Lieutenant

John C. Burk First Sergeant of Company F

James C. Bingham Sergeant of Company D

Jesse Wood Sergeant of Company D

Michael Shelton Sergeant of Company A

Hiram McCarley Corporal of Company A

Brittain D. Fry Corporal of Company F

William Bacon Corporal of Company D

Thomas Fee Corporal of Company A

Henry Hunsucker Corporal of Company A

Gideon M. Hubbard Corporal of Company F

David W. Jones Corporal of Company A

Thomas Stafford Corporal of Company A

E. A. Bridwell Musician of Company D

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Henry C. Edgington. Wagoner of Company D

Allen, Martin G . Private of Company A

Allison, Henry D Private of Company A

Bettis, William .Private of Company A

Bollman, Joseph Private of Company A

Clafflin, John Private of Company A

Colly, Samuel Private of Company A

Denny, Henry L. Private of Company A

Farrar, James Private of Company A

Gould, Isaac Private of Company A

Hill, Joseph Private of Company A

Hopkins, Matthew Private of Company A

Johnson, Elias Private of Company A

Jones, Lewis .Private of Company A

Jones, William D Private of Company A

Jones, Thomas W .Private of Company A

Jones, John D Private of Company A

Lodge, George W Private of Company A

Lodge, John Private of Company A

Louks, William A Private of Company A

McPhail, Andrew J Private of Company A

Manring, William J Private of Company A

Manring, Lewis A Private of Company A

Morris, James Private of Company A

Norman, John Private of Company A

Owenz, John Private of Company A

Ray, George W Private of Company A

Reesman, William N .Private of Company A

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Slack, Thomas J Private of Company A

Sturgill, James E Private of Company A

Sturgill, Henry H .Private of Company A

Ward, Craton Private of Company A

White, Thomas Private of Company A

Williams, David R Private of Company A

Wintersteen, John Q . Private of Company A

Bacon, William G Private of Company D

Bacon, William Private of Company D

Badger, William Private of Company D

Clifford, Morga'n • Private of Company D

Cross, Thomas L Private of Company D

Cross, Wilson Private of Company D

Golliger, John Private of Company D

Keyser, Abner Private of Company D

Lamb, Benoni Private of Company D

Martin, Charles S Private of Company D

Odle, James .Private of Company D

Page, Lorenzo D Private of Company D

Simpson, William H. H Private of Company D

Snively, John Private of Company D

Veach, Francis Private of Company D

Venatti, Hezekiah Private of Company D

Carrothers, James Private of Company F

Cool, William H Private of Company F

Fout, Jasper . '. .Private of Company F

Henry, John Private of Company F

Hedgmier, Fred Private of Company F

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Jones, Uriah Private of Company F

Joice, Michael Private of Company F

Lair, William Private of Company F

Lingenfelter, Christopher Private of Company F

Lord, Ezra F Private of Company F

Martin, Hiram Private of Company F

Spencer, Charles Private of Company F

Sturgill, William R Private of Company F

Truman, Joseph Private of Company F

Company B of the battalion was composed of the following
veterans: Of old Company B, 3 men; of old Company E, 30 men;
of old Company G, 25 men; of old Company H, 17 men; a total of
75 men, as follows:

James C. Stimmell Captain of Company G

Thomas J. Williams First Lieutenant of Company C

David W. James First Sergeant of Company E

David E. Jones Sergeant of Company E

Lorenzo D. Dalrymple Sergeant of Company E

Nicholas D. Main Sergeant of Company G

Daniel L. Bondurant Sergeant of Company G

Nathan M. Kent Sergeant of Company G

Peter Brown Sergeant of Company H

Robert M. Fulton Corporal of Company E

George Grindley Corporal of Company E

Charles H. Bing Corporal of Company E

William Hughes Corporal of Company E

Thomas J. Williams Corporal of Company E

James Kees . Corporal of Company E

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Francis M. Seth . . . '. Corporal of Company G

Calvin McKnight Corporal of Company H

Henry C. Marshall Corporal of Company G

Samuel Nickel Corporal of Company B

Samuel Clinger Wagoner of Company E

Herder, Jacob Private of Company B

Reininger, George Private of Company B

Bing, Joseph M Private of Company E

Bing, Joseph E Private of Company E

Daniels, David Private of Company E

Davis, Charles H Private of Company E

Evans, Evan E Private of Company E

Evans, John E Private of Company E

Evans, Evan O Private of Company E

Griffith, Bees Private of Company E

Hickson, Benjamin Private of Company E

Hughes, George ! Private of Company E

Hughes, James Private of Company E

James, Alfred, Jr Private of Company E

Jones, Thomas J Private of Company E

Jones, Dennis Private of Company E

Logue, Ellis Private of Company E

Radcliff, William H Private of Company E

Roush, Newton J .Private of Company E

Thomas, Rees Private of Company E

Thomas, Thomas D Private of Company E

Williams, Daniel Private of Company E

Allen, William Private of Company G

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Baker, Charles H Private of Company G

Brown, William C Private of Company G

Carpenter, Aaron Private of Company G

Chaffin, George W. Private of Company G

Comer, Lewis Private of Company G

Crabtree, Gillen Private of Company G

Crabtree, Stephen ._ Private of Company G

Cross, Thomas Private of Company G

Fasterman, William Private of Company G

Giles, Dennis Private of Company G

Giles, Thomas C. . .'■ Private of Company C

McCallister George W Private of Company G

Morgan, Samuel Private of Company G

Oberly, Benjamin B Private of Company G

Pf uhler, John Private of Company G

Potts, Hezekiah J Private of Company G

Rockwell, John Private of Company G

Story, Frank Private of Company G

Titus, John C Private of Company G

Carr, William Private of Company H

Coffman, John Private of Company H

Mclntyre, George W Private of Company H

McKeever,. Daniel Private of Company H

McKnight, James Private of Company H

Newlan, Adam Private of Company H

Perry, James Private of Company H

Perry, Jacob Private of Company H

Phillips, Andrew Private of Company H

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Salliday, George W." Private of Company H

Sanders, Benjamin . . Private of Company H

Sickles, Lafayette Private of Company H

Spetznagle, Henry Private of Company H

Stevenson, Thomas K Private of Company H

Trailor, Benjamin Private of Company H

Company C of the battalion was composed of the following
veterans: Of old Company C, 26 men; of old Company I, 21 men;
of old Company K, 26 men; a total of 73 men.

William G. Snyder Captain

Christian H. Shaefer First Lieutenant

Harvey N. Bridwell Second Lieutenant

Abram Hibbens First Sergeant of Company I

Andrew S. Drennen Sergeant of Company C

Samuel Goheen .Sergeant of Company K

William H. McLaughlin Sergeant of Company I

David F. Radcliff Sergeant of Company K

William H. Wait Sergeant of Company K

Martin J. Adams Corporal of Company C

John J. Bussey Corporal of Company K

Thomas D. Davis Corporal of Company C

James C. Harper .Corporal of Company K

Luther C. High Corporal of Company K

Lafayette Holmes Corporal of Company K

Thomas S. Jones .Corporal of Company C

Adam Siemon Corporal of Company I

George M. Gordy Musician of Company K

George W. Lowery Musician of Company K

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Cochran, John J ... .Private of Company C

Dalrymple, Smith Private of Company C

Davis, Thomas E Private of Company C

Davis, Rees .Private of Company C

Davis, William D Private of Company C

Edwards, Evan Private of Company C

Edwards, David E Private of Company C

Evans, Daniel J Private of Company C

Evans, William T Private of Company C

Goudy, Edward Private of Company C

Hall, James C . . Private of Company C

Hunley, Joseph Private of Company C

Hunter, Grant B Private of Company C

Jones, Evan E Private of Company E

Jones, Daniel Private of Company C

Jones, William J Private of Company C

Lewis, Joshua Private of Company C

Morris, William Private of Company C

Morris, Thomas J Private of Company C

Roberts, Moses Private of Company C

Samuel, William Private of Company C

Schilichter, Christian Private of Company C

Williams, John Private of Company C

Alexander, Zach T Private of Company I

Bland, George H Private of Company I

Black, Oscar C Private of Company I

Carey, Philip Private of Company I

Dolby, James A Private of Company I

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Desmond, John " Private of Company I

Ellis, Stephen R Private of Company 1

Hatfield, William , Private of Company I

Hahn, Lawrence Private of Company I

O'Reilly, Martin Private of Company I

Sherwood, Jacob Private of Company I

Sutherland, David Private of Company I

Springer, Henry N Private of Company I

StewTart, George M Private of Company I

Thacker, Fountain Private of Company I

Tripp, George Private of Company I

Wilson Sylvester Private of Company I

Wilson, William A Private of Company I

Bennett, Hosea B \ Private of Company K

Bowen, William Private of Company K

Brooks, John J .Private of Company K

Burt, Thomas J Private of Company K

Oorrill, Thomas J Private of Company K

Corrill, Elias Private of Company K

Davis, Jonathan Private of Company K

Gates, David Private of Company K

Knowland, Lutitius Private of Company K

Leniger, William Private of Company K

Scott, Peter Private of Company K

Simer, Andrew J. P Private of Company K

Thompson, John Private of Company K

Walker,- James Private of Company K

White, Jacob Private of Company K

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Yeley, Benjamin Private of Company K

Lloyd, Peter Private of Company H

On December 3, 1864, Captain L. M. Willets and Lieutenant
O. H. Wadsworth reported to us with a company of one-year men,
and were assigned to our battalion for duty. They were designated
as Company D of the battalion, and the following men were de-
tached for duty in said company, viz:

James Vandervort First Lieutenant from Company C

Thomas S. Bennett First Sergeant from Company G

Thomas H. Cox Sergeant from Company D

George W. Neff. Sergeant from Company F

James U. Pease Sergeant from Company F

Samuel L. Wood Sergeant from Company D

George W. Cox Sergeant from Company F

Azariah Arthur Corporal from Company D

James Anderson Corporal from Company D

John Barr Corporal from Company D

Robert Bowles Corporal from Company F

James Halliday Corporal from Company F

James Storer Corporal from Company D

William Bradfield . Private from Company D

Henderson Sturgeon Private from Company D

James Sturgeon Private from Company D

By examining the roster of the regiments it can be seen what
became of the veterans, as well also the members of the compa-
nies; whether their service was for a long or short period of time.

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CHAPTER XIII.
Our Services in New Orleans Etc.

On November 10, 1864, the men in Company D who did not
re-enlist as veterans were mustered out, and on the 14th, Captain
W; B. Williams of Company C was discharged by order of the war
department. He was one of the most competent officers of the
regiment, and not excelled by any. He was greatly interested in
his men, watchful for their comfort, and energetic iu securing the
best of everything that could be obtained for them. He was strict
in discipline, painstaking in drill. He had confidence in his com-
pany and they had the greatest confidence in him as their com-
mander. On the 15th Captain Thomas W. Kinney of Company 11,
a fine young officer, was mustered out at the expiration of his term
of service. November IT we received news of the re-election of
President Lincoln, and about November 23 there was some excite-
ment on account of another outbreak of smallpox in the regiment.
Christmas came on at usual time, but our finances were extremely
low, so much so that we could not buy presents or give banquets,
and though it rained and was dismal outside, in our quarters it
was dry and the boys were cheerful in spite of all. December 26
news came of General Thomas' great victory at Nashville; also of
the capture of Fort McAllister by General Sherman's army, and
on the 31st news came of the fall of Savannah, Ga. January 5,
1865, the regiment received four months' pay. During February a
great number of troops arrived from up the river.

February 28 is known as Montegro day. Many went around
in masks and dressed in fancy and foolish costumes. The month
of March passed with nothing but camp and patrol duties. A
great deal of rain fell and the Mississippi was high.

April 8, 1865, news reached us of thej:alj^^^

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and on the 15th two hundred guns were fired in honor of our recent
victories. April 19 the intelligence of the atrocious murder of
President Lincoln came.

In New Orleans, on the 22d of April, a great meeting was held,
General Banks, General Hulbert and others speaking of the great
and sore calamity the country had sustained by the cruel assassi-
nation of President Lincoln.

April 24 the rebel gunboat Webb came out of the Red river in
an attempt to escape to the Gulf of Mexico. Our quarters at this
time were in a large salt warehouse on the river bank. We heard
three cannon shots from up stream, which caused us to flock out
on the wharf. Presently the Webb came around the bend under
a full head of steam. There were several of our war vessels an-
chored in the river, and wTe could see that they wTere making every
effort in getting ready for action. About fifty yards from our
Wharf the powder ship Fearnaught was anchored. The Webb ran
as close as it dared in an attempt to attach a torpedo to the Fear-
naught and blow her up and scatter death and destruction on
every hand, but happily it failed to hit the powder ship. This was
another lucky escape for us. Our men-of-war were soon in hot pur-
suit of the Webb, and forced her crew to run the ram ashore some
twenty-eight miles down the river, wiiere they set the Webb on
fire and took to the swamps. The river continued very high, and
on the 28th a crevasse in the levee three or four miles below
Algiers required our attention, and the citizens also wTere pressed
into work to keep it from spreading too much. About this time a
squad of men from our battalion were placed upon detached duty
to guard the Sparks plantation, up opposite Carrollton, of which
the authorities had taken control. Sergeant Peter Brown, Corpo-
rals James M. Ilalliday and James Reed and Private William
Hahn and some eight or ten other men composed this detachment.
While there they suffered greatly with the terrible break-bone
fever, and if any of them survive they feel its effect still.

On April 30 Company B was ordered to guard an officers' prison
at No. 21 Rnmpart street, in New Orleans. May 13 Captain Stim-
mell_wTas ordered to report to the regiment with the company, but

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leaving seventeen men, two Corporals, one Sergeant and myself as
Lieutenant, in charge of the prison. On May 28, 1805, our boys,
who were captured on the Red river fiasco of 1804, returned from
the rebel prison at Tyler, Texas, after more than a year of prison
life. June 6 Colonel Smith, Inspector General, and Captain South-
wick, inspected the prison. On June 14, 1S05, the officers of our
battalion were ordered before a board for examination as to qual-
ifications, etc., for commissions in the regular army. The exam-
iners, after consulting Colonel Jones, requested me to remain after
the others were dismissed, and upon consultation they informed
me that they would recommend my promotion as First Lieutenant
in the regular army; but owing to the state of my health I felt it
besr to decline the honor. June 15 we were ordered to turn our
prisoners to the police jail and return to the regiment. On June
10 The battalion was inspected by Colonel Smith of department
headquarters. On the 20th Colonel Jones marched the battalion
through the streets of Algiers for exercise, and as usual we showed
up well. June 23 a large number of troops passed down to Camp
Ohalmette. July, 1865, was a real hot month, and we were on duty
of some kind or other every other day. On the 27th Captain
Southwick of headquarters stall* inspected the battalion. He called
Company B out to see how they could drill, and they were able to
and did make a good impression. August 4 a request came that
our battalion be consolidated with the Seventy-seventh O. V. I.,
and on ihe 17th our battalion was again inspected by Captain
South wick.

During September, 18G5, it rained every day, some days a half
a dozen hard showers. On September 11 we received four months'
pay, and fully four-fifths of our battalion were down sick with the
break-bone fever, which left many of them wrecks for life. Dr.
McFarland, Captain Willets and Lieutenant Vandivort were the
only officers able to be up and around in our battalion.

October 10, 1805, we held an election for our state ticket, and
on the 13th Companies A, B and C were ordered to move to the
Anchor Cotton Press in New Orleans, and Company D to remain
on duty in Algiers. October 29 the battalion was inspected by

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Major Loring. At this time the following notice appeared in the
New Orleans Times:

"To the Editor of the New Orleans Times: Learning that the
Fifty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry were about leaving
Algiers to be stationed in New Orleans, there to act in conjunction
with the First United States Infantry, we of this town can not
permit them to take their departure without testifying our ap-
proval of the excellent discipline and conduct of their officers and
men while stationed amongst us. It is now some eleven months
since Colonel Henry E. Jones and his regiment assumed control
of this post, and during that time they have been on the qui vive
to prevent any and all unlawful acts that might be attempted by
the thousands of troops that have passed through here to their
various destinations. Colonel Jones has also placed the civil
authorities under many obligations to him, for his prompt and
energetic co-operation with them in all matters pertaining to the
police and sanitary condition of the right bank of this parish. Dur-
ing the high waters of the last season the gallant Fifty-sixth did
yeoman service in stopping the crevasses at McDonoghville and at
McGhee's Aurora plantation. At the latter place, were it not for
their timely assistance (working day and night), the whole lower
coast to Fort Jackson would have been inundated, and many thou-
sands of dollars worth of property been destroyed thereby. In
parting with us we sincerely hope the noble 'Buckeye' boys may
soon have the pleasure of seeing home again, and bear from us the
best of feeling for their future happiness, including all, from the
handsome Colonel to the humblest private in the regiment.

"Algiers, October 19, 1865. ALGERINES."

!
November 6, 1865, being election day, a detail of twenty men

under my command was sent to Algiers to preserve order. The
day passed without any serious disturbance. On the 19th a num-
ber of us went to hear the celebrated Southern Presbyterian
preacher, Dr. Palmer, and on December 22, 1865, Company D was
mustered out. December 3 we moved our quarters to the Lower
Steam Cotton Press, in the southern part of the city. There we
were associated with the First New Orleans Infantry. This was a

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regiment of Union men, recruited in the city for duty therein. On
December 5, being in charge of the patrol, it became a part of our
duty to visit Dan Rice's celebrated circus. The great showman
gave us a hearty welcome. Being a true and loyal man, he was
glad to see Union soldiers at all times. Christmas day was rather
exciting, and we were kept busy in quelling riots between the
whites and the blacks; in fact the larger part of our work for
months, outside of patrol duty, was in preserving order between
these two elements.

December 28, 1865, in charge of a guard, I was detailed to go
to Galveston, Texas, to take charge of five hundred recruits from
the east for the Fourth and Sixth United States Cavalry, then on
duty in Texas. We went over on the steamship St. Mary. The
weather was fine and our experience pleasant. We reached Gal-
veston at 9 a. m. on December 30, 1865. Here we were relieved of
our recruits by the Forty-eighth O. V. I. January 2, 1866, we left
Galveston for New Orleans on the steamship George Peabody. This
was a noted ship, having endured many storms and hardships since
the war began, but at this time was badly in need of repair. Her
pumps were running to keep the water out of her while lying at the
dock, on account of her leaking so badly. The vessel had a number
of passengers on board for New Orleans. The weather was fine
after leaving Galveston until about 9 p. m. of January 3, when
there swooped down upon us a mighty storm of wind, the dreaded
northwester. The waves seemed to run mountain high. The
stoves, tables and chairs broke from their fastenings in the cabin,
adding to the confusion of the elements. It was hard work to keep
from being dashed about, and many felt that the chances for escape
were extremely doubtful. It was curious to observe the action of
different individuals under this dreadful trial. Some prayed loud
and long; some swore and many cried; in fact some of them did not
know what they wrere doing. I managed to crawl up to the head
of the stairs and got a sight of the tempest. The captain informed
me that things looked serious and the danger was great, but that
he hoped to land us safely but a little behind time. Being anxious
about my comrades, who in days past had shared with me so many

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dangers, I was glad to notice that on this trying occasion they
were doing all they could to encourage the panic-stricken ones,
and were taking this trial of their courage without, any visible
show of fear. On January 4, 1866, we crossed the bar at the mouth
of the Mississippi river at 4 a. m., and reached New Orleans at 7
p. m. January 10, 1866, Company B, under my command, was or-
dered to Greenville, a short distance from the city, to put down a
riot between the whites and blacks, which we had no great trouble
in settling. We camped on the river bank in tents and remained
there on duty until January 21, when we returned to the battalion
and took up regular patrol duty again.

February 6, Lieutenant M. Kife, one of our best officers, was
mustered out, and on the 8th I received a commission as First
Lieutenant, having commanded the company practically from the
time of my promotion as Second Lieutenant.

March 4, 1866, was Sunday, and the day of the month and year
on which the fire department of the city made its annual parade.
With numerous bands added to their great number, they made an
animated and imposing display. There was a standing order in
that department from the time that General Butler commanded,
forbidding the playing of the "Bonny Blue Flag" or any rebel tunes
by bands or other instruments of music, as it w; s done in General
Butler's time to insult and aggravate the Union troops. This day,
as the parade passed up St. Charles street, when opposite our de-
partment headquarters, their fancy band played the "Bonny Blue
Flag." An order was sent at once to the Provost Marshal's office
to send a guard to arrest that band. Being on duty that day, I was
ordered to bring them in. We had only about twenty men there,
and the officer who brought the order remarked for our encourage-
ment, "They say that there are not enough Union troops in the
city to take a man out of that parade." This band had been with
the Army of Northern Virginia and seen lots of hard service. Our
squad, with loaded muskets and bayonets fixed, marched down to
headquarters. The parade was returning and had passed in part
on our arrival. We marched out into the street right up to the
edge of the parade, and waited for the band to come up. The win-

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dows, balconies and streets were packed and crowded with people.
General Sheridan and all of headquarters were closely watching
the end of this matter. Not a word was spoken until the band
came up, when I stepped before them and ordered them to "File
left." In a moment they were surrounded by our squad. Not a
man opened his mouth in or out of the parade, though they looked
savagely at us as the parade passed. We took them to the Provost
Marshal at once and turned them over to him. As far as it ex-
tended this was a fine display of the power of the government be-
hind its authorized agents; for what could twenty veteran soldiers
have done with the hundreds in that parade, and nearly all of them
armed? One thing was sure, not a comrade in that squad hesi-
tated to count the cost for a moment.

On the 17th day of March, 18G6, the following order and re-
quest were received at our headquarters and a copy given to me,
which is as follows:

"State of Louisiana, Executive Department.

"New Orleans, March 17, 1866.
"Brevet Major General T. W. Sherman, Commanding Eastern Dis-
trict of Louisiana:

"General — As some difficulties have arisen in the way of the
inauguration of city officers on Monday next, and as I am anxious
that no occasion shall be given for any possible collision between
the police and the friends of officers-elect in or about the Municipal
Hall, I request you to place iu charge of that building from Mon-
day morning at 6 a. m. until their service can be dispensed with, a
guard of ten men. One to remain at each entrance, six in the in-
terior for relief, to assist the civil power in maintaining the public
peace. I have the honor to be, General, your obedient servant,

"J. MADISON WELLS,
"Governor of Louisiana."

Indorse: Official copy confidentially furnished the officer
in charge of the detail directed to report to His Excellency, J. Mad-
ison Wells, Governor Louisiana.

By order of Brevet Major General Sherman.

Z. K. WOOD, Lieut. A. A. G.

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Headquarters Eastern District of Louisiana,

New Orleans, La., March 18, 18G6.
Commanding Officer Levee Steam Press Stables: Sir — You
will detail from your command a good, faithful and trusty Lieuten-
ant, with ten men, to be selected by you, with directions to report
for duty at 6 a. m. tomorrow, at the City Hall, to His Excellency,
J. Madison Wells, Governor of Louisiana, or any other official he
may have selected, and to carry out the orders given him. The
men will be provided with their dinners.
By order of

BREVET MAJOR GENERAL T. W. SHERMAN.
Z. K. Wood, Lieutenant and A. D. C, A. A. A. G. Indorsed.

Headquarters U. S. Forces, Levee Steam Press Stables,
New Orleans, March 18, 1S6G.
Respectfully referred to First Lieutenant Thomas J. Williams,
Company B, Fifty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, who will report
with the within detail as herein directed.
Bv order of

LIEUTENANT COLONEL TISDALE.
P. DALEY, Second Lieutenant and Acting Post Adjutant.

Our detail reported promptly on time. The entrances were
guarded, and though a great crowd of people surged about the
building, there was no disturbance. We were all very busy these
days; the men on duty 24 out of 48 hours, and some of the officers
were busy on boards of survey and other special duties.

March 23, 1866, on returning from 24 hours' patrol duty, I was
ordered to take my Company to the Parish Prison to attend a mil-
itary execution. In prompt and good time we reached the prison,
which was a large and strong institution of the kind. On the
inside was an open court, and the cells from all sides opened into
it. The Company entered and was found facing the front. Four
men out of our ranks were selected to carry out the execution.
Their muskets were taken by the Provost Marshal. Three were
loaded with balls and one with a blank cartridge, and then returned
to them. There was a large number of spectators present, the
corridors of the second story being crowded, all anxious to witness

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the tragedy. The prisoner was brought out and placed at the foot
of his coffin. He was calm and apparently cool. On his breast
was a large black cross, and with a smile on his face he confronted
instant death with as brave a spirit as any man could. The com-
mand, "Ready! Aim! Fire!'' was given, and the report was like
one musket, the victim falling into his coffin. Two balls went
through his heart and one through his brain, and the cross on his
breast was shattered into fragments.

i»j

Glancing along the line and at the crowd of spectators, at the
pause before the command "Fire!" I feel safe in saying that not
more than one in four looked at the prisoner when the command
"Fire!" was given. The comrades who carried out this execution
had each good reason to think that his musket contained the blank
cartridge. The man executed was paying the penalty for taking
the life of a fellow comrade.

They belonged to the Eighty-first United States Colored
Troops. This regiment was stationed in the city. It was a com-
mon report that the officers of this regiment, who were white men,
were all college graduates. They had an extensive and fine held to
select their men from, and they took only the best of the young,
strong and active men, and by hard work they had brought them
up to a high state of discipline. Many of the highest officers of
the country who visited the city pronounced this regiment to be
the best drilled of any regiment in the service. We had wit-
nessed, as we passed their quarters on various occasions, as many
as twenty of their men bucked and gagged, strung along in a row.

On March 26, 1SGG, the following order was handed to me:

"Headquarters U. S. Forces, Levee Steam Press Stables,
"New Orleans, La., March 26, 1SGG.
"Special Order No. 4.

"First Lieutenant Thos. J. Williams, Company C, Fifty-sixth
Ohio Veteran Volunteers, and Second Lieutenant Frank E. Hag-
gett, Company F, First New Orleans Volunteers, will proceed im-
mediately with their respective companies to Carrrollton, La. The
senior officer will report at once to Lieutenant Zeno K. Wood,

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A. A. A. General, headquarters East District of Louisiana, for
instructions. By order of

"LIEUT. COL. E. TISDALE, Com'g U. S, Forces.
"P. DALEY, Second Lieutenant and Acting Post Adjutant."

On reporting to Lieutenant Wood he directed us to proceed
to Carrollton, La., a small town six miles above New Orleans. Our
orders were to put an end to a riot then going on there between
the white and colored people. We reached there in a short time
and found that the trouble was over and had been greatly exag-
gerated. We remained there over night, and until 3 p. m. of the
27th; when I received the following order:

"Headquarters Eastern District of Louisiana,

"New Orleans, March 27, 1866.

Commanding Officer, Detachment 1, New Orleans Volun-
teers and Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, Carrollton: Sir — You will
at once proceed to this city and report your command to the com-
manding officer at the Levee Steam Press Stables.

"By order of

"BEEVET MAJOR GENERAL SHERMAN.

"Z. K. WOOD, Lieutenant A. A. G."

In obedience to the order we reported at our barracks late that
afternoon.

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56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ill

CHAPTER XIV.

The Regiment Mustered Out and Returned Home, and

a List of the Survivors and Their Postoffice

Address.

Our patrol duty was very heavy in these days of April, and
the rain fell in torrents nearly every day, the streets being flooded
in many places, and there was more or less indication that we
would be mustered out of the service soon.

While the grateful crowds were showering his subordinates
with bouquets, as they rode in the grand parade through the
streets of Washington, General Sheridan himself was hastening
to a remote region, in obedience to the order requiring him to look
after the surrender in the Southwest, and we often saw him while
on patrol duty about the city. About this time, while on patrol
duty at the St. Charles Theater, while looking in a window at the
audience gathering, General Sheridan came up to the window and
entered into conversation with me. He was in un-dress uniform,
but "I was well aware who was talking to me.

On April 17, 1866, we received the following order:

"Headquarters Department of Louisiana,

"New Orleans, La., April 16, 1866.
"Special Order No. 85:

"Extract 2. — Pursuant to instructions from headquarters, Mil-
itary Division of the Gulf, of this date, the Fifty-sixth Ohio Veteran
Volunteers will be immediately mustered out of service in this
city, as an entire organization, its service being no longer required.
All detached officers and enlisted men of this regiment are hereby
relieved, and will rejoin their respective companies without fur-
ther orders. Immediately upon muster out, as above, the regi-
ment will proceed to Columbus, Ohio (reporting to the chief mus-
tering officer of the State), for payment and final discharge. All

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public property (except colors, arms and equipage necessary en
route) will be turned over to the proper staff departments in this
city. Captain A. McAllister, Commissary of Musters, Department
of Louisiana, is charged with the execution of this order, so far as
relates to his Department. The Quartermaster's Department will
furnish the necessary tiansportation.

"By order of

"MAJOR GENERAL E. R. CANBY.
. "WICKHAM HOFFMAN, Assistant Adjutant General.

"Official Nathaniel Burbank, First 'Lieutenant, Acting Assist-
ant General."

The following notice appeared in one of the New Orleans
papers at this time:

"THE FIFTY-SIXTH OHIO REGIMENT.
"This organization, as previously noticed, is about to be mus-
tered out of the service, and the officers and men are in high
spirits at the prospects of soon again visiting home and friends
after their long absence.

"The Fifty-sixth was organized by Colonel Peter Kinney, in
October, 1861, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and left home with 896 men.
During the campaigns in the West, which followed, Colonel W. H.
Raynor took command, and the regiment recruited in numbers
some 200 men. After the fall of Vicksburg the regiment came to
New Orleans. A large proportion of the members then remaining
re-enlisted as veterans, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry E. Jones
was promoted to the command. Ever since that time the regiment
has remained in and around the Crescent City, and we have never
known a more orderly and well behaved body of men.

"The officers have formed many warm, and, we trust, lasting
friendships among our citizens. There are now left of the Fifty-
sixth 180 men and 10 commissioned officers, the latter being: Lieu-
tenant Colonel Henry E. Jones, Assistant Surgeon P. M. McFar-
land, Captains Benj. Roberts, James C. Stimmell, William G. Sny-
der, First Lieutenants John R. Combs, Thomas J. Williams, C. H.
Shaefer, Second Lieutenants Stephen B. Thoburn and H. N. Brid-
well.

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"By order of General Sheridan, the names of the following
battles are to be inscribed upon regimental banners: Pittsburg
Landing, Siege of Corinth, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Siege of
Vicksburg, Jackson, Carrion Crow Bayou, Sabine Cross Roads,
Monnett's Ferry and Snaggy Point.

"The men will start for home in a few days, and we wish them
a very pleasant trip, as well as a welcome home, that will equal
their brightest anticipations."

For the next few days we were very busy preparing muster-
out rolls, and turning over our camp equipage, etc. April 25, 18G6,
at 10 o'clock a. m., we were all mustered out after over four and
a half years of continuous service. On the 26th we went aboard
the steamboat Mary E. Forsyth, bound up the Mississippi, for our
northern homes, leaving the city at 5 p. m. We passed Natchez,
Miss., where we had formerly camped at daylight on the 28th,
and we passed Vicksburg just at dark. All was quiet at this time,
but we could not forget our terrible experience when in the country
back of there in 18G3.

We passed Helena, Ark., at 10 a. m. of the 30th. We had good
reason to remember this place and the hardships endured there.
We passed Memphis at 10 a. m., and could not help thinking of
our heroic comrades, who were so foully murdered on the steam-
boat Sultana, above this city, in 18G5. They were most all pris-
oners, having been long confined at Andersonville and other
prisons. .

There was this difference between this trip and our former
ones. We did not have to keep a constant watch lest we be fired
into at every turn. We had a pleasant trip, and reached Cairo,
Ills., on May 2, 18G6. early in the morning. There was a cold
northwest wind blowing, which penetrated through our light-
weight clothing, and from our long service in the extreme south
we were in poor condition to withstand the cold blasts from the
north.

We left Cairo at 4 p. m. of May 2, reached Mattoon, His., at
11 a. m., and Indianapolis at 11 p. m. of the 3d, and arrived at

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Columbus, O., on the 4th in the afternoon. May 5, 1866, we were
paid off for the last time, and early on the morning of the 6th the
most of us left for home, by way of Cincinnati, Ohio, and left on
the 7th for Portsmouth on the steamboat W. F. Curtis.

We reached Portsmouth on the afternoon of the 8th of Mayr
1866. There the ranks dissolved into the moving tide of civil life,
never more to be re-united, and the Fifty-sixth Ohio Veteran Vol-
unteers were only a memory. It was like sundering family ties..
Having been so long together, a strong attachment had grown up
between the veterans from long associations and mutual depend-
ence and trust, and that feeling of respect and esteem will never
be forgotten in this life. In the busy scenes of active life we lost
sight of each other for a time, but in later years old memories
returned, and our annual reunions brought us together again to
rehearse of the days of trial and danger in the great struggle to
preserve the Union.

The Fifty-sixth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry can look
back with pride as having been a part of that Grand Army that
saved the Union and vindicated the right of liberty to endure
forever.

The following notice appeared in the State Journal of Colum-
bus, Ohio, of our arrival there:

"THE FIFTY-SIXTH OHIO VETERANS.

"The Fifty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Veteran Volunteers, arrived
in the city on Friday afternoon, and reported at Tod Barracks,,
where the men will be finally discharged and paid.

"The regiment is in command of Lieutenant Colonel Jones and
consists now of three companies, numbering present for duty 145-
enlisted men in all, and commanded as follows: Company A, Cap-
tain Benjamin Roberts; Company B, First Lieutenant Thomas J~
Williams; Company C, Captain W. G. Snyder.

"The regiment left New Orleans April 26 on the steamer
Mary E. Forsyth, took the cars at Cairo May 2, and arrived here-
May 4.

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"The Fifty-sixth was organized at Portsmouth, Ohio, in Octo-
ber, 1861, by Colonel Peter Kinney, and left for the field with 896
men. The regiment joined the Army of the Tennessee. before Fort
Donaldson, and remained with that division of the Grand Army
until August, 1863, participating in the battle of Shiloh, siege of
■Corinth, the engagements at Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, and
taking part in the ever memorable siege of Vicksburg. During
this campaign Colonel W. H. Raynor assumed command of the
regiment, and it was increased by two hundred recruits. After
the fall of Vicksburg the Fifty-sixth was transferred to the Depart-
ment of the Gulf, and was commanded by Colonel W. H. Raynor
until October 27, 1864.

"In February, 1864, a large number of the men re-enlisted as
veterans. On the retirement of Colonel Raynor from the service,
Lieutenant Colonel Henry E. Jones, the present commanding
officer, took charge of the regiment. After active operations ceased
the Fifty-sixth wTas stationed in or near New Orleans, and the
papers of that city state that a more orderly or better behaved body
of men wras not known during the war experience of Mf»w Orleans.

"There are now on the rolls 180 enlisted men and 10 commis-
sioned officers, the latter being: Lieutenant Colonel Henry E.
Jones, Assistant Surgeon P. M. McFarland, Captains Benjamin
Roberts, James C. Stimmell, Wm. G. Snyder, First Lieutenants
John R. Combs, Thomas J. Williams, C. H. Shaefer, and Second
Lieutenants Stephen B. Thoburn and Harvey N. Bridwell. In addi-
tion to those wre named above, the names of the following battles
are to be inscribed upon the regimental flags: Jackson, Carrion
Crow Bayou, Sabine Cross Roads, Monnette's Ferry and Snaggy
Point.

"The conductor of the train and the railroad officials declare
the Fifty-sixth the most orderly and quiet body of soldiers that has
passed over the road. Our testimony so far must be in their favor.
These men were on the streets yesterday, orderly and gentlemanly
in their deportment. They will without doubt be paid today and
leave for their homes/'

116 Historical Sketch of the

The following extract is from one of the Portsmouth, O.,
papers, of the first reunion of any part of the regiment, which was
held at Portsmouth, O., Feb. 12, 18GT:

"On Tuesday afternoon, at the call of a committee of officers
of the above named regiment, eighteen of the line and field officers
of the Fifty-sixth O. V. I., together with invited representatives
from the press of the city, met at Varner's Hall to celebrate the
day the regiment left for the field, and also to organize a perma-
nent association to meet each year so long as two or more of the
officers are alive.

"At this reunion there were present: Colonel Peter Kinney,
Colonel Sampson E. Varner, Colonel Henry E. Jones, Major C. F.
Keiniger, Captain George Wilhelni, Captain J. C. Stimmell, Cap-
tain W. G. Snyder, Captain D. B. Lodwick, Captain Thomas Kin-
ney, Lieutenant H. C. Shump, Lieutenant Henry Lantz, Lieutenant
Thomas J. Williams, Lieutenant Charles Seifer and Chaplain J. E.
Thomas, and three others whose names we do not recollect. . The
press of the city was represented by D. C. McFarland of the Trib-
une^ James W.. Newman of the Times and S. P. Drake of the Re-
publican. The following were chosen as officers for the ensuing
year: Colonel Peter Kinney, president; Colonel Henry E. Jones,
Secretary, and Colonel S. E. Varner, Captain George Wilhelm and
Chaplain J. E. Thomas, standing committee."

This association did not continue long, as owing to the death
of some, and the moving away of others, and its exclusive charac-
fer, it could of course but survive a short time; buit it merged in
later years into that noblest association of all, and every member
of the regiment without regard to rank.

The last reunion was held at Portsmouth, O., September 20,
1899, at which there were 70 of the comrades present. Twelve com-
rades were reported as having died the past year. Captain C. Gil-
lilan was re-elected president, Lieutenant T. J. Williams vice presi-
dent, and Comrade John D. Jones secretary, and after a very
pleasant meeting and a free dinner by the good people of Ports-
mouth, adjournment was had to meet at Portsmouth in 1900.

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 117

While the regiment was at home on their veteran furlough,
Colonel Varner and the men who did not enlist as veterans were
assigned to perform duty in Algiers, La., and the high esteem in
which this excellent officer was held by the citizens of that city is
clearly set forth in the following letter to a son of Colonel Varner,
and in the extracts from the newspaper of this unprecedented act
of presenting him a sword, sash, etc., and in so far as is known is
the only instance of the kind during the great civil war, and assur-
edly will be of interest to all :

"Algiers, La., July 11, 1899.

"Mr. J. H. Varner: Dear Sir — Your favor of the 8th received.
I appreciate highly your writing to me. I had the honor of pre-
senting the sword and accoutrements to your honored father on
behalf of my fellow-citizens of Algiers, in July, 18G4. If my mem-
ory is correct you will find engraved on the hilt or scabbard of the
sword, 'Colonel S. E. Varner, from the Citizens of Orleans Parish,
Right Bank/ or some such similar inscription. LTpon my desk lies
now a little Algiers newspaper of 1864, with the following:

"'Military and Civil Directory of the Officials in.Algiers.

" *S. E. Varner, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Post.

" 'A. Powell, Captain and Provost Marshal.
. " *E. A. Morse (Eighth Vermont), Captain and A. Q. M.

" 'Wm. H. Seymour, Justice of the Peace and President of the
Town Council," etc., etc.

"Our official duties brought your father and myself oft to-
gether. He was a genial gentleman, and one I loved to know. The
sword presentation I believe to be without parallel during the
whole civil war; the first case of where the people had been con-
quered, arose en masse and honored their conqueror. Only a few
months before our acquaintance I was a southern soldier, and your
-dear father knew it — it mattered not.

" 'The blue and the gray are the colors of God,

They are seen in the sky at even,
And many a noble, gallant soul,

Has found them passports to heaven/

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"It has been my fortune to meet down here near the gulf, since
then, Grant, Sheridan, Garfield and other noted men from your sec-
tion, but I found none more gentle, kind or truer than your sire. I
have often thought of him, and hoped to have the pleasure of meet-
ing him again, but now, like Stonewall Jackson, his spirit voices,.
'Come, let us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the
trees/

"I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you some time during
the course of my summer vacation, but if I do not, and you visit
our dear old New Orleans, hunt me up. I will send to your address
some printed matter for sister to place with the sword and ac-
coutrements. Yours truly, (Signed.) W.H.SEYMOUR"

Note. — The above mentioned sword is now in the possession
of Clay Varner Sanford, grandson of Colonel Sampson E. Varner.

^ (From the New Orleans True Delta, July 1, 1864.)

"COMPLIMENT TO LIEUT. COL. S. E. VARNER — SWORD
PRESENTATION AT ALGIERS.

"Yesterday afternoon, when in search of quietness and recre-
ation, we had ourselves transported to the opposite side of the
river, and intended to enjoy the breeze across Father Mississippi
and a stroll on the grounds where in time of yore the cricket
matches were played. Eventually we found that a portion of the
ground in the rear of the city was covered with tents. " We awak-
ened to the actual state of the country, and were trying the com*
pass to get out of the range of the guns and any accidental smell
of gunpowder, but we tacked about, as nautical men say, when we-
saw strings of civilians wending their way to that same tented
field. We joined them, and had a highly intellectual feast and en-
joyed ourselves hugely. Judge Seymour presented a sword and
accoutrements to Colonel Varner on behalf of the citizens of
Gretna, who had just learned that the Colonel was on the eve of
departure under orders, as a token of respect. We give the
speeches verbatim:

" 'Colonel, learning that you were on the eve of your departure
to yjour own native home in Ohio, we have assembled here to say^

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-a few words at parting. A large number of the residents of Algiers
have done me the honor to select me as their spokesman on this
•occasion, deeming that their civil magistrate was the proper person
to represent them. It is an honor, Colonel, of which I assure you
I indeed feel proud. When I look around me, and see others older
in years and in wisdom and more versed in the orator's art, the
honor then I feel more deeply.

* " 'It is now, sir, some four months since the citizens of Algiers
formed your acquaintance. Since that time the many obligations
.you have placed us under, by the faithful performance of your
many arduous duties, the valuable assistance you have at all times
rendered the civil officers of the parish, behooves us to make suit-
able acknowledgment of your kindness.

" Tor this purpose, Colonel, we are assembled together — an
occasion which we will often revert to with manifold pleasure, and
one that will indeed be 'a bright spot in our memory's waste,' in
future time, when years have passed away. Your mind may per-
haps revert to our bright, sunny land, and when it does, think of
'Auld Lang Syne,' and give one stray thought to those who are
gathered here to do you honor and to praise. Accept this sword,
sash and accoutrements from us, believing them to be a proper
gift for a r oldier.

"<We place this sword in your possession, Colonel, with the
assurance that it never will be drawn without just cause or
«heathed without honor, and that its bright blade will never be
-dimmed by a wrong act of yours.

"'In conclusion, Colonel, allow us also to return our thanks
to the gentlemanly and ever courteous officers of your battalion;
it is owing to their kind guidance that the men of your command
have made so many friends amongst us; and when the day arrives
that our bright star spangled banner will again float over our once
united, happy land, and our 'wayward sisters' are once more gath-
ered under its beautiful folds,

" 'United in spirit, in heart and in song,'
may we not hope to welcome amongst our best citizens the officers
and men that were of 'Varner's Battalion?' "

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" 'Judge Seymour, I accept this magnificent present from a
portion of the loyal citizens of Algiers with heartfelt thanks, not
that I believe it is a compliment to me alone, but as a token of
esteem to the officers and men of this battalion, who have so ably
assisted me in carrying out my orders while stationed here. We
have simply tried to do our duty, and this occasion is an evidence
that you deem us worthy of your approbation. I am glad it is so.
If I live years hence, I shall look back with pleasure to the time
I spent among you. Your present I shall cherish, and never while
in my possession shall it be drawn against the flag of our beloved
country, and in whose ever hand may the arm be palsied that
draws it in an unjust cause. I soon have to leave you. No matter
how unpleasant, orders must be obeyed. Again I thank you for
your beautiful present.' "

In the History of the Lower Scioto Valley, the author of the
Military History of Jackson county, Ohio, the Hon. H. C. Miller, a
gallant comrade of the Eighty-seventh O. V. I. and the First O. H,
A., has this to say of our regiment and its service :

"No other men from Jackson county were called to serve so-
long at such an extreme southern point of latitude, as the regiment
passed much of its term of service in the yellow fever district, in
the lower Mississippi, and closed by a long garrison duty at New
Orleans, and some of its men were not discharged until April, 1866.
The Fifty-sixth was a fighting regiment, and in becoming hardened
to extreme southern temperature and drinking water from rivera
and bayous along the line of its march, the ranks became deci-
mated so that there was not much left of the organization when
the war was over, and the few who reached home deserve to be
all placed on the pension roll as disabled veterans/'

The comrades of the Fifty-sixth Ohio will all remember the
Eleventh Indiana Infantry, with whom we served so long; and the
following short extracts taken from an address of Colonel Dan
Macauley before the Loyal Legion society at Columbus, Ohio, will,
I trust, be appreciated by all who may read them. "The Private
Soldier as a Forager" was his subject:

CAPT. C. H. SCHAEFER
See page 144

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 121

"Camp life, like poverty, made strange companionships, and
when we reflect that every hour had its little history, a thousand
items spring up to remind us of the peculiar characters who made
us laugh in spite of ourselves throughout the entire war. I have
in my mind just such an one. I call him 'Sain,' because it really
was his name. Tall, very slim, freckled and homely; a born
poacher, and his fame as a 'pirooter' — which meant in his vernac-
ular, a 'feller that could forage in twelve languages and nary one
of them dead' — and his mania for stealing, were only checked by
articles too big or hot or wet to carry. It follows naturally that in
pure self-defense I detailed him as 'pirooter in chief of regimental
headquarters mess. Some old copies of a comic paper, the Budget
of Fun, were much read in camp, and I quietly enjoyed Sam's
quaint use of its name as we marched along one afternoon. As we
passed a wagon train he sang out to one of the teamsters: 'Say,
don't you want a Budget of Fun?' 'Yes,' was promptly answered.
'Take this one,' said Sam, as he shied his heavy knapsack into the
wagon for the teamster to carry. One winter we were on a Mis-
sissipi river expedition below Helena, Ark., with a fleet of steamers
under General Willis A. Gorman. The men suffered from cold and
exposure. Sam had taken a violent dislike to General Gorman, be-
cause that gallant gentleman had been forced to join in the famous
retreat from the first Bull Run battlefield, and several times during
this expedition I learned, when our steamers were sufficiently near,
Sam would electrify the General by howling at him most deri-
sively: 'Hello, old Bull Run.' Once he made a mistake. Headquar-
ters steamer was alongside of ours, and on the hurricane deck
stood the General himself. Sam was on the lower forward deck of
our vessel, and bracing himself he yelled up into Gorman's very
teeth: 'Hello, old Bull Run!' The General was too quick for him;
he shouted down to the guard: 'Throw that man on my boat here,
quick!' And sure enough they did. Sam, sprawling through the
air like a frog, was pitched on to Gorman's boat, and during the
remainder of the day we could see him, long and lank and lean, tied
up like a scarecrow to the jack staff of the steamer. It was a cold
and gusty day — for Sam. Along towards night he was chucked
back to us, stiff as a wooden Indian. It might be supposed the

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great irrepressible was squelched. No, not the least in the world.
He gathered himself together and chilled, blue as he was, came
up stairs to me in the cabin. 'Colonel/ he groaned, 'I wish you'd
have my discharge made out right away/ 'Your discharge! your
funeral, you mean/ 'No, my discharge, Colonel. I've been put on
Gorman's staff.' While wTe were stationed at Helena, Ark., on the
bank of the Mississippi, the Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth
Iowa came to us direct from home. They were a gallant set of men,
bright and fresh, and possessed of camp outfits of elegance. They
had not experienced the miseries of that destroyer of luxury, lack
of transportation, and so were fine sport for plucking by old vet-
erans of very little worldly fear and less conscience. My tent, at
that time, was up on top of the levee, and one moonlight night
about midnight I was aroused by a mysterious shuffling and whis-
' pering near the back of the tent, where the new regiments were
'encamped. 'Easy, boys!' I could hear in stage whispers. 'Easy,
thunder! Do you want to wake the Colonel? Steady, now! All to-
gether! Easy! Step light — sh-h-h!' and knowing something contra-
band would pass the door of my tent in a moment I stepped from
bed and waited. Some six or eight of our old soldiers came care-
fully tip-toeing past, lugging a gigantic messbox, just stolen from
one of the Iowa camps, the whole enterprise under the manage-
ment of its natural guide and friend, the redoubtable Sam. 'Good
evening, gentlemen!' I said, affectionately; 'much obliged! set it
right down here and go to bed. You look tired! Good-night!' Next
morning after guard mounting I sent for Sam and had him call up
his fellow villains in front of headquarters. Sam eyed me with
eager interest as I sent for a guard and the martial band. His eyes
opened wider until at last he burst in an agony of supplication:
'Say, Colonel, wot in thunder you goiir to do to me.' The whole
camp, out to see the fun, roared with delight as it was announced
that they were to march to the Iowa camp with the messbox, under
guard,' and with the band at the head. 'You'll probably have a
warm reception,' I added, encouragingly. 'Oh, Lord!' he groaned,
as he turned white at the prospect. 'Oh! say. Colonel, Lord! You
wouldn't do that to me, would you, old paid?' was wrung from

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the bottom of his heart. It was a fortunate thing for Sam that the
guard was along, for the elastic rogue pretended to be in command
of the party, issued orders for not marching to suit him, and when
in the Iowa camp made a mock presentation speech, which gave
both amusement and offense to the recipients. He claimed he had
raised the money by subscription to buy the mess-chest presented,
and wound up with the remark that whenever, during our marches
yet to come, he should see sitting by the roadside tender-hearted
stragglers of this regiment, with the 24. on their caps, it would
cheer him, for he would know that there wasn't an enemy or a par-
ticle of danger within 24 miles. It is more akin to a sorrowful duty
than in any spirit of mere fun, that I have evoked from the eventful
pastj with its distant sounds of drums and marching, this remem-
brance of Sam. It was thrust upon me the other day by the follow-
ing item in the Ohio State Journal. It is headed, 'Instantly killed.
Nelsonville, O. Today Samuel Irick of Harrisonburg, Va., while
painting the newly erected schoolhouse, fell from a ladder 50 feet,
killing him instantly.' And so he met his fate at last. In the
great hereafter we know not who shall be advanced nor who shall
outrank the other. The Colonel may be the last and the 'pirooter'
lead the van. And it is around the humblest and weakest of our
fellow soldiers who helped us to save a great republic that we need
to stand firmest."

"How fast they fall! the men who saved

The nation in its hour of strife;
Where battle in its fury raved,

With death and bloody carnage rife!"

On November 27 a sad message was received by the writer,
saying your comrade, Henry D. Allison, died suddenly on Sunday
morning, November 26, 1899, and will be buried on Tuesday, No-
vember 28, and on that beautiful fall day all that was mortal of
our noble and brave comrade was laid to final rest at the old
Emery church in Jackson county, O., and the high esteem in which
he was held was clearly shown by the large number who attended
his funeral. Six of the Fifty-sixth Ohio comrades bore his remains
to the grave. The largest number of the Fifty-sixth boys that prob-

124 Historical Sketch of the

abl£ ever attended a comrade's funeral since the war attended this
burial. There were present C. Gillilan, David W. Jones, Thomas
Stafford, G. A. Ewing and Wm. A. Louks of Company A; R. W.
Thomas, James Rees, John C. Gross, Dennis Jones, Thomas J. Wil-
liams, Thomas Jenkins, Evan E. Evans, Robert M. Fulton and W.
W. Hughes of Company E, and Evan Edwards and T. J. Williams
of Company C. And it was well said by one of the four ministers
who participated in the service that he was a loyal man — loyal to
his God, loyal to his country, his family and his friends, and it can
be truthfully said of him he was indeed and in truth one of God's
noblemen.

And we can from our hearts exclaim in the language of Com-
rade F. C. Searl's noble poem: ,

"O comrades, who have gone before,

We watched you glide o'er death's dark tide

And camp upon that brighter shore.
We soon shall hear our last tattoo,

And, one by one, at minute gun,

Fold up our tents and camp with you."

All here tonight. Our Grand Commander call thou the roll.
And may all survivors of the Fifty-sixth Ohio at least answer one
by one, with hand on heart, in the grand salute of salvation,
"Here! Here!"

AH old soldiers of the Union army who are spared should be
thankful that they have been permitted to see a thoroughly re
united country, as proved by our late war with Spain. We have
seen with what alacrity the men of the south, who during the great
civil war fought our forces on hundreds of battlefields, in this late
contest vied with those of the north in rushing to the defense of
the stars and stripes. General Lee and General Wheeler, two dis-
tinguished officers of the old Confederate armies, have in this late
war gained additional honors and are still continuing to do so. The
nation's standing has been highly exalted among the nations and
rulers of the earth. Never before has it seemed so proud a thing
to be an American citizen, and for all this we should be duly
thankful to the Giver of all good.

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And in conclusion, if my comrades find some pleasure in this
brief account of the long and dangerous service performed by the
regiment, in which I have endeavored not to dwell too much upon
the dangers encountered and hardships endured, I shall consider
myself well repaid. But I have failed to get far from the dark side
of the picture, as there are so many sad scenes painted on our mem-
ories that time can not erase. And it is a matter of pride that the
regiment never faltered or failed when called on, but promptly as-
sumed the duty assigned, and whether in camp, on the march, on
the picket line or the deadly battlefield, the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry looks back with satisfaction to duty well done.

Though now there is snow in the hair of all of us, and rust in
our joints, and wrinkles in our faces, may it never be truthfully
said of this dear land:

^ "When danger's rife and war is nigh,

God and the soldier is all the cry;
When danger's o'er and wrong is righted,
God is forgot, the soldier slighted!"

POSTOFFICE ADDRESS AND NAMES OF SURVIVORS OF
THE FIFTY-SIXTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

Colonel William H. Raynor Toledo, Ohio

Chaplain J. E. Thomas Orpheus, Ohio

Captain M. Manring McFall, Mo.

Captain W. B. Williams Portsmouth, Ohio

Captain J. H. Evans Topeka, Kan.

Captain George Wilhelm Greenville, Miss.

Captain Edwin Kinney Chillicothe, Ohio

Captain William G. Snyder Bement, 111.

Captain Thomas W. Kinney Portsmouth, Ohio

Captain Benjamin Roberts Covington, Ky.

Lieutenant C. Gillilan Portsmouth, Ohio

126 Historical Sketch of the

Lieutenant J. J. Markham Partridge, Kan.

Lieutenant E. W. Veach. Kingston, Ohio

Lieutenant Henry Lantz Scioto P. O., Ohio

Lieutenant O. J. DeWolf Fostoria, Ohio

Lieutenant H. C. Shump Ashland, Ky.

Lieutenant Thomas J. Williams .Jackson, Ohio

George Grindley Washington, D. C.

Abraham Hibbens Kinderhook, Ohio

John E. Bevan Mendon, Ohio

David Boring Erin, Tenn.

Fred Held. . Lilly P. O., Ohio

William H. Wait \ Iowa City, Iowa

John C. Gross.. Rio Grande, Ohio

John L. Jones Rio Grande, Ohio

Daniel L. Bondurant Wellmansville, Kan.

Lewis Phillips Springfield, Ohio

George M. Salliday Sciotoville, Ohio

George L. Steele Wellston, Ohio

James C. Hall * Portsmouth, Ohio

James Benner Portsmouth, Ohio

William H. Lair Lilly, Ohio

Fred Gram Ironton, Ohio

Engelbert Nagle Sciotoville, Ohio

Morgan Clifford Dennis, Ohio

David W. Jones Thurman, Ohio

George J. Reiniger Camba, Ohio

Gillem Crabtree Lois, Ohio

Jacob Scheely Wheelersburg, Ohio

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John G. Brown . . Beaver, Ohio

Henry Kuglemen '. Portsmouth, Ohio

John C. Titus Indian Kun, Ohio

Hiram Martin Portsmouth, Ohio

Charles Eagan Jasper, Ohio

John Norman Portsmouth, Ohio

Gilbert A. Ewing Jackson, Ohio

John D. Jones Portsmouth, Ohio

Martin G. Allen Rushtown, Ohio

Evan Edwards Gallia, Ohio

Eli Hartley : Wait, Ohio

Joseph Hill Sciotoville, Ohio

Jonathan Davis Wellston, Ohio

Ben Wood Portsmouth, Ohio

George Jones Jackson, Ohio

George Meixner Portsmouth, Ohio

Charles Cooper . . Pond Run, Ohio

Azariah C. Arthur ' Oak Hill, Ohio

Dustan Jones Portsmouth, Ohio

James Odle Friendship, Ohio

John Q. Winterstein Blue Creek, Ohio

B. F. Bennett Grenup, Ky.

John Brooks Jackson, Ohio

Robert Bowles Stuce P. P., Ohio

Nate Brown Scioto P. O. Ohio

Robert B. Crawford .Ashland, Ky.

John Dimler .Portsmouth, Ohio

Edward A. Dibble Celina, Ohio

128 Historical Sketch of the

John Fullerton Ryan P. O.

William W. Hughes Oak Hill

Fred Hedgmyer Abashia.

F. M. Hudson Wellston

John Henry Pedro P. O.

Aaron Hammon Peniel P. O.

Thomas D. Jenkins Holcomb P. O.

Thomas S. Jones Oak Hill

Nathan M. Kent Scioto P. O.

George Myers Wakefield

Nate MeGowan Abashia

John McGarney Muff P. O.

James Rees Wales P. O.

John Rockwell .Galford

Rees W. Thomas Jackson

George Phillipi Portsmouth

Joseph Truman . .Rushtown

R. H. Slavens , Flat, P. O.

Richard Wells Galford

Thomas J. Williams Thurman

Samuel L. Hanes Portsmouth

John Pfuhler Portsmouth

C. C. Schlichter Portsmouth

Oliver Wirtz Portsmouth

Samuel Nickel Portsmouth

Rees Griffith Glen Roy

John Oney Cadmus

James B. Sanders Lucasville

Henry Cline Powellsville

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 129

James J. Jolly Gallipolis, Ohio

Martin Roush Sarahville, Ohio

Evan E. Evans .Thurman, Ohio

Smith Dalrymple New Orleans, La.

Moses Roberts Chase, P. O., Kan.

James B. Dement West Union, Ohio

Dennis Jones Esop P. O., Ohio

Wm. A. Louks Vinton, Ohio

Thomas White Pine Grove, Ohio

Joseph White . . Pine Grove, Ohio

John E. Evans Kitchen, Ohio

Hiram Lodge Wellston, Ohio

Charles Martin Vinton, Ohio

Daniel Jones Venedocia, Ohio

Robert M. Fulton Bulaville, Ohio

Evan O. Evans Thurman, Ohio

George Hughes Jackson, Ohio

James Hughes Oak Hill, Ohio

Hiram McCarley Bidwell, Ohio

Wrm. W. Mauring Byer, P. O., Ohio

Andrew J. McPhail Los Angeles, Cal.

Thomas Sims Mongula, Mont.

John Daniels „ Pine Grove, Ohio

John Stockham Arkansas City, Kan.

Robert H. Jackson Hersey P. O., Wis.

Philip Carey Fairfield, Iowa

Frank Hammon Portsmouth, Ohio

William Fastinau Portsmouth, Ohio

130 Historical Sketch of the

Lafayette Sickles Portsmouth, Ohio

John Cline Powellsville, Ohio

Ben Yeley Wait P. O., Ohio

Oliver Nurse Friendship, Ohio

Aaron Hamilton Friendship, Ohio

H. G. Blakeman Friendship, Ohio

John Biggs ■ . Grayson, Ky*

Henry Dunlap Ashland, Ky.

James Perry . . . Argentum, Ky.

Lewis Myers Ironton, Ohio

Samuel Johnson Bridgeport, Ohio

Thomas Eagan Jasper. Ohio

Lodwick D. Davis Columbus, Ohio

Joshua Lewis Columbus, Ohio

Thomas D. Davis Columbus, Ohio

S. S. Montgomery Wapakoneta, Ohio

R. W. Montgomery Wapakoneta, Ohio

F. M. Lowry Los Angeles, Cal.

George Lowry Los Angeles, CaL

Wm. A. Stephenson Jackson, Ohio

William Lesser Beaver, Ohio

Jacob White Jackson, Ohio

Benjamin Byers ; Vigo P. O., Ohio

Philander Bennett Coalton, Ohio

Thomas Stafford Gallia, P. O., Ohio

Rees Davis Tracy P. O., Minn.

Thomas E. Davis Rio Grande, Ohio

George W. Graves Washington, Ohio

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Peter Petry Portsmouth, Ohio

William Samuel . . .' Columbus, Ohio

Ashley R. Williams Goffs P. O., Kan.

John Lasley Plymouth, Mo.

Arza Gudgeon Otter Vale, Mo.

Henry Kinker Bloom P. O., Ohio

George Claar Jackson, Ohio

Thomas D. Thomas Niles, Ohio

William H. Cool Summitville, Ohio

Joseph Aduddle Beaver, Ohio

Albert Brown Chester, Pa.

Hiram W. Dewitt Aid P. O., Ohio

David W. James National Military Home, Ohio

John Barrett National Military Home, Ohio

Edward Phillips National Military Home, Ohio

Edward Goudy National Military Home, Ohio

George M. Gordy National Military Home, Ohio

Timothy Sullivan National Military Home, Ohio

Mike Joyce National Military Home, Ohio

Resin Furgeson National Military Home, Ohio

Martin Powers National Military Home, Ohio

John Lodge Ironton, Wis.

Martin J. Adams Silverton, Ore.

John G. Siebert Reinbeck, Iowa.

Bartholomy Hauser Chillicothe, Ohio

David Storer Alexandria, Ohio

John Coffman Dundas, Ohio

Peter Scott Glen Roy, Ohio

132 Historical Sketch of the

William H. Nearman Oak Hill, Ohia

John Roush Aid P. O., Ohio

William T. Saxton Dunlap, Kan.

William H. Brady Glen Roy, Ohio

Benjamin Rockwell Kniffin, Iowa

James H. Woolm Richland, Iowa

David H. Wood Rooney, Carter County, Ky.

John W. Davis . .' Elizabeth P. O., Miss.

Kick. Barnhart Cavendish, Mo.

John Shaw Carrollton, Mo.

Emanuel Russell . Coalton, Ohio

Benjamin Sanders Steece P. O., Ohio

Geo. W. Harshbarger Buckland, Ohio

John F. McGrew Johnstown, Ohio

George M. Tripp Shelby ville, 111.

W. H. A. Tripp Shelbyville, 111.

Fred Steinmeyer Wilber, Neb.

David Daniels Santa Monica, Cal.

Joseph M. Bing New Orleans, La.

Daniel J. Evans Pittsburg, Pa.

James Farrar .* Sterling, Kan.

Thomas J. Jones Hiawatha, Kan.

Stephen R, Ellis Industry, Kan.

Charles H. Bing Wilmot, Kan.

Frank M. Seth Parkersville, Kan.

W. C. Bradfield Augusta, Kan.

William Hahn Burlington, Kan.

James M. Halliday Crescent, Oklahoma

&>Tii Ohio Voi.un*kkk Infantxy. ::--3

William MeJiiakia L

T - , _

Ephraim Phillips Salina, Kan.

William H. McLaughlin Wichita, Kan.

William Eoberts Carlisle P. 0., Ark.

See patre 140

134 HlSTOKICAI. Ski.tch of the

CHAPTER XV.
Biographical Sketches.

William H. Baynor, the son of William and Mary Raynorr
was born in Portsmouth, Scioto county, Ohio. In this city he
lived during the early years of his life. At the age of 14 he left
school and engaged in the mercantile business. At the age of 21
he married Khoda O. Kendall, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and
soon thereafter engaged in the banking business with the late
Philander Kinney, and was so engaged when the Civil War bt^gan
in 1S61,

lie was at that time Lieutenant in a Portsmouth company
of the State militia. The company was under command of Captain
Geo. P. Bailey. When the news of the firing on Fort: Sumter came
Captain Bailey was out of the city. Lieutenant Raynor immedi-
ately telegraphed to the Governor of Ohio, offering the services
of the company. This message was approved by the Captain.

The next day brought the President's call for troops, and the
Portsmouth company was ordered to report at Columbus promptly.
Within forty-eight hours the company Avas in Columbus, and with
nine other companies of the State militia was organized into a
regiment known as the First Ohio Three Months Volunteers, the
Portsmouth company designated as Company G.

The First and Second Ohio started at once for Washington,
D. C, and were, with the Second New York Volunteers, assigned
to a brigade commanded by General Robert C. Schenck, and Lieu-
tenant Baynor was detached to act as the General's aide. In this
capacity he was engaged at the Vienna affair, June 17, 1S01, in
which Company G of the First Ohio had six killed and four
wounded.

56th Ohio Vountuek Infantry. 135

Ai his request, Lieutenant Raynot' was returned to his com-
pany, and with theni was engaged on July 21, 1SG1, in the first

Battle oi' Bull Run. Here he was slightly wounded in the right
instep, was left on the held and became a prisoner; was taken to
Richmond and confined in one of the tobacco warehouses on Main

street of that city. When his wound had healed so lie could walk
fairly well he, with two fellow prisoners, Colonel .'John R. Ilurd
of Ohio and Colonel Chas. J. Murphy of New York, escaped from
the prison, and after thirteen days in the woods and swamps of
Virginia they reached the Potomac river, and soon arrived at
Washing-ton. As soon as the escape was known the Governor of
Ohio offered him a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in a regi-
ment about to be organized at Portsmouth by Colonel Peter Kin-
ney, which was the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This
offer wras accepted and Colonel Raynor at once engaged energet-
ically in organizing and drilling the regiment, and with it he served
full three years.

With the Fifty-sixth Ohio he was present in every engage-
ment, and every important battle they fought wasuncter his com-
mand. He was with them in every march they made, with the
single exception of the advance on Corinth, at which time he was
seriously ill with typhoid fever.

Colonel Kinney resigned April 2, 1SG3. Lieutenant Colonel
Raynor was promoted to Colonel from that date. From Novem-
ber, 1803, until May; 1SG4, he was in command of the brigade of
which the Fifty-sixth formed a part, although there was in the
brigade at least one Colonel who, by date of commission, was his
superior officer; but the division and corps commanders ordered
Colonel Raynor to take the command.

o

Colonel Raynor was severely wounded at Snaggy Point, La.:
May 5, 1S64, once by a bullet and twice by fragments of shell. The
rebel bullet shattered the small bone of his left leg, from which
wound he still suffers. At this place he again became a pri^^^r.
and remained in the enemy's hands about six weeks, when he was
r»'h*ased on parole. TCis recovery he ascribes r<> the unremitting

Historical Sketch of thf,

care and attention of Surgeon Williams and his nurse, John
Phuller of the Fifty-sixth, both of whom became voluntary pris-
oners that they might care for our wounded men in the enemy's

hands.

Colonel Eaynor was commissioned Brigadier General by
brevet, to rank as such from March 13, 1S65, by the President of
the United States for distinguished and gallant service.

After the war Colonel Eaynor engaged in commercial and
manufacturing business, and at this writing he is the assistant
manager of the Lozier Manufacturing Company, at Toledo, Ohio.
Xo regiment in the army had a more competent commander than
Colonel Kaynor, and the Fiuy-sixth Ohio, under him, was equal to-
any similar body of men anywhere, and any good work that they
performed was due largely to his ability as commander; and he
still holds the esteem of every member of the regiment.

A few years ago, at one of our reunions, a veteran of the
Fourth West Virginia Infantry, in a talk he gave us, told where
he first saw the Fifty-sixth Ohio. As General Grant's army was
closing in around Vicksburg he stated that a large number of
different commands were near a road watching the troops coming
in, when one regiment attracted the attention of all as they
marched along. From the line looking Colonel to the private in
the ranks, every man seemed to understand his business, and he
felt like shouting when a slight breeze unfolded the flag, displaying
upon its folds Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment
from his native state.

Rev. XJL Thomas, the son of Enoch and Jane (James) TJiomas.

was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales, December 25, 1316. He-
artended college to be educated for the ministry. He began
preaching when 16 years of age. In 1S35 a number of the brethren
came to the United States, and he accompanied them as their
pastor. They located in St. Louis, Mo.

In 184(5 he came to Jackson county, Ohio, where he has since-
resided. In 1SG2 he enlisted in Company C, Fifty-sixth Ohio In-
fantry, and, alter serving nine months as a private, was elected

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 137

Chaplain. Three months later he was detailed by General Prentiss
as Superintendent of the Freedmen at Helena, Ark., and was in
charge of their farm until the summer of 1865. He sent a small
bale of cotton to President Lincoln as the first fruits of the labor
of the race he had emancipated. He still lives at his home in
Jackson County, Ohio., honored and respected by all.

Lieutenant Coleman Gillilan was born in Jackson county,
OMo, November 19, 1837. He received a good common school edu-
cation, and in schools of a higher grade, thus qualifying himself
for the noble work of a teacher; and, notwithstanding his attach-
ment to his profession, he responded to the second call of President
Lincoln, and during August and September, 1861, he and Captain
M. Manring recruited Company A of the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteers
Infantry, and on October 8, 1861, he was mustered in as Second
Lieutenant and served faithfully until about May 1, 1862, when he
was taken very sick at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. He was sent
home with little expectation that he would ever recover, and was
mustered out of the service.

The summer of 1863 he spent with the Army in West Virginia.
In July, 1864, he recruited a company for the One Hundred and
Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was Captain,
and served about one year. He has been engaged as a commercial
traveler in the shoe trade the greater part of the time since the
war. No man is better known or more highly respected in South-
ern Ohio, and he is worthy of it. He was with the Fifty-sixth
but a short time, but no member of the regiment takes a better
interest or does more to keep up interest in our annual reunions.

Parker M. McFarland, M. D., Assistant Surgeon of the Fifty-
sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, passed on to the life beyond in
1890 or 1891, at Centralia, Illinois, and a letter addressed there
failed to reach any of his family. This good man was a gentleman
in every sense of the word. No other man exerted so much influ-
ence for good upon the young men of the regiment. He was a
worthy member of the M. E. Church, and well deserved the name
of the "beloved physician," who went about doing good in the
footsteps of his gracious Master.

138 Historical Sketch of the

Corporal David Evans of Company C, the son of David and
Ann Evans, was born in Wales in 1837. The family emigated to
the United States when he was quite young. This comrade was a
close friend of the writer, and we were attending school at a dis-
tance from each other in 1861, but the war spirit was strong
in the land, and on September 9, 1861, we started for Portsmouth,
Ohio, to enlist; and at a railway station we met, and on Septem-
ber 10 we volunteered, and were never separated until the catas-
trophe at Champion's Hill, where he was mortally wounded on
May 16, 1863, from which he died July 14, 1863. He was a very
strong man physically, and few would have survived as long as he
did with such a terrible wound.

John Henry Williams, the son of John T. and Elizabeth Wil-
liams, was born in Oneida county, New York, in 1843. He vol-
unteered before he was 18 years of age, and was instantly killed at
Champion's Hill, Miss., May 16, 1863, a high private in the front
rank of Company C. Though young in years, he was an entire
stranger to fear. He was an expert forager, and would often
make hazardous trips into the enemy's lines.

George Grindley was born March 20, 1841, at Landilo Fawr,
Carmarthenshire, Wales. His father was o:' Scotch lineage and
his mother of a very old Welsh family. He arrived in this country
with his parents when about 10 years of age. His parents died
in 1851, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

WThen the war commenced he was a farmer boy in Raccoon
township, Gallia county, Ohio. He enlisted in Company E, of
which company he was a Corporal and a Sergeant, and was trans-
ferred to Company B, but never served with it, being on detached
service, headquarters, defenses of New Orleans; headquarters,
Department of the Gulf; headquarters, Military Division of the
Mississippi. He was in all actions and movements of the regi-
ment except from about May 10, 1862, to July 1, 1862, when he
was absent sick in the hospital. He served fifty-two months, being
mustered out February 7, 1866, as a non-commissioned officer, his
services being no longer required.

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 139

Comrade Grindiey developed into one of the most talented
men ever connected with the regiment. He was happily married
to a lady of French descent in New Orleans, and now holds an im-
portant position in the Pension Bureau at Washington, D. C.

James Cranston Bingham, the son of Royal and. Catherine
Bingham, was born in Athens county, Ohio, October 4, 1842. At
the age of 14 he was thrown upon his own resources. On October
8, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer In-
fantrty, for three years. He was promoted Sergeant August 11,
1863; re-enlisted as a veteran early in 1864, and mustered out April
25, 1866.

In this service he contracted a disease that caused his death.
He was with the Fifty-sixth Ohio in all its marches and battles,
and in charge of his wounded comrades of Company D, he marvel-
ously escaped when completely surrounded by the enemy on Red
river. After the war he attended school for a short time. He
moved to Russell, Ky., in 1877, and engaged in the business of
florist, etc. He served as Postmaster here for 14 years; was a
worthy member of the M. E. Church, holding various official posi-
tions, and was Superintendent of the Sunday School for 18 years.

He served as a Lieutenant in the Ohio National Guard while
living at Ironton, Ohio. He was a charter member of Russell
Castel No. 28, K. G. E., and served as an officer in the order. He
was married September 9, 1867, to Rachel Alida Gray, and she,
with their eight children, survive him. He passed on to the higher
life February 16, 1899. With the love and esteem of all who ever
formed his acquaintance, and with "Life's work well done, life's
crown well won," he has but passed a little while before us, and
family, friends and comrades "know where to find him."

Colonel Henry Ewing Jones was born in Nashville, Tenn., Sep-
tember 28, 1836. His father, David D. Jones, moved to Ports-
mouth, Ohio, when Henry was but seven months old. He received
a common school education at home, and then attended DennisoD
College at Granville, Ohio, where he graduated with honor about

140 Historical Sketch of the

1860. Returning to his native city, he began the study of law
with Hon. Wells A. Hutchins.

At the beginning of the war he enlisted in Company G, First
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed Sergeant. Upon the
expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted in the Fifty-sixth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Adjutant, in
which position he served until February 6, 1863, when he was
promoted to Captain, and on August 8, 1863, was detached on
brigade and division staff, and served in that capacity until May 8,
1864, and on January 18, 1865, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel,
which rank he held until April 20, 1866, when he was appointed
Colonel, but not mustered.

Upon his return from the war he resumed the study of law,
and was shortly after admitted to the bar, and by close application
and sheer ability, polished and directed by a broad and practical
education, he soon attained an enviable eminence as an able
advocate.

He was twice elected Prosecuting Attorney of his county, in
1869 and in 1871, and filled the office in a manner highly creditable
to himself and friends. ,

Personally, Colonel Jones was a man of fine appearance and
a mar. el of health. He died September 13, 1876.

Lieutenant Thomas J. Williams was born November 30, 1810,
in Oneida county, New York, a son of John T. and Elizabeth Wil-
liams. The family lived in Oneida and Herkimer counties until
September, 1854, when they emigrated to Jackson county, Ohio.
Here he worked at the iron furnaces, and, as he could, attended the
district schools in the winter season. In the spring of 1S61 he
attended the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, for one term.

On September 10, 1861, he volunteered, was mustered in Octo-
ber 17, 1861, in Company C, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
as a private, but was soon promoted to Corporal, later to Quarter-
master Sergeant of the regiment, then to Second Lieutenant, and
later to First Lieutenant, and commanded the company the greater

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 141

part of the last year in service. Having re-enlisted as a veteran,
he was with the regiment for four years six months and eight days.
He was hit by a grape-shot and musket ball at Port Gibson, slightly
wounded at Champion's Hill, and shot through his blouse at the
siege of Vicksburg.

After the war he was engaged in the iron business Until 1887.
In that year he was elected Clerk of Courts of Jackson county, and
re-elected in 1890, and has held other minor offices. He is a mem-
ber of the G. A. R., also of the Loyal Legion, and of the Masonic
Fraternity, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Lieutenant Colonel Samson Eagon Varner, son of Christian M.
and Elizabeth Eagon Varner, of Scotch-Irish descent, was born
in Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia, August 17, 1824. He came
to Portsmouth, Ohio, with his parents in the spring of 1838. The
journey over the mountains, in company with two other families,
was made in wagons, with two carry-alls for the women and
youngest children. Colonel Varner early learned the trade of
brick-mason, and when he enlisted as Major of the regiment was
largely engaged in the manufacture of brick and had become a
flourishing building contractor.

He was a born leader, as the many prominent positions ac-
corded to him in the municipal affairs of his city, as well as in the
appointment of Post Commandant at Algiers during the closing
months of the war, abundantly testify. With limited school oppor-
tunities, his habit of reading useful books enriched his mind, and
stored it with valuable information. His genial disposition, kindly
nature and rare conversational ability rendered him attractive to
old and young.

Colonel Varner was married to Maria L. Huston, daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth Huston, two of Scioto county's pioneers,
Nov. 26, 1848. Colonel Varner passed away suddenly on the
morning of June 5, 1877, of heart disease. Since his death the
second son, William E., died of heart disease. Five children are
yet living. The oldest, Mrs. Ella Brown, resides at Youngstown;
Mrs. Anna Sanford, at Cincinnati; Frank Floyd, the oldest son,

142 Historical Sketch of the

is a building contractor at Portsmouth; James Huston, the young-
est son, is connected with his brother-in-law with the firm of San-
ford, Varner, Storrs & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. The youngest daugh-
ter, Mrs. Bessie Adams, resides in Portsmouth. These are all
filling prominent and responsible positions.

Colonel Varner was for many years a devout attendant at
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. He was an active member of
the Street Car Company, and in his memory the cars were draped for
thirty days at his death. A whole city mourned the loss of one
who was a public, as well as a private, benefactor.

Captain John Yochem was born in Oppenheim, on the Rhine,
May 3, 1824. He was of good parentage, and received a careful
education. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located in Ports-
mouth, Ohio. In 1852 he was married to Henrietta Eckenberger,
to which union three children were born. In 1867 they moved to
Jackson, Ohio. He died October 30, 1S97, and the following was
read to his memory at the funeral by T. J. Williams:

"As we stand by the remains of our departed comrade, 'the
past rises before us as a vision of the night; we see the great
assemblages, and hear the fervent appeals of orators; we see the
tearful cheeks of women and the determined faces of men.' It
was at sach a time that I first met our departed comrade. On
joining the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the fall of 1861,
the greater part of the men being strangers to me, my attention
was drawn to one who, by his polished and military appearance,.
would attract attention in any regiment or gathering of people. I
soon learned that this man was Lieutenant John Yochem of Com-
pany B, and I feel sure that by his example he inspired many of
the younger men of the regiment with a determination to perfect
themselves in their military duties.

"He was appointed First Lieutenant November 7, 1861; pro-
moted to Captain April 2, 1863, and discharged November 24, 1864.
He participated with the regiment in all of its battles and cam-
paigns", discharging every duty to which he was assigned with
fidelity. He had served six years in his Fatherland, in the great

56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 143

-army of Germany. He had the education and talent to hold a
much higher position in our service, had it not been for his lack of
a command of the English language.

"One of the conspicuous acts of the Captain was at Cham-
pion's Hill. When the enemy were forcing us back foot by foot,
they made a rush to capture our flags, but the Captain quickly saw
the danger, and with a lot of the boys charged and drove them
back, thereby saving us from the greatest calamity that could
befall any regiment, the loss of their colors.

"The Captain had a kindly feeling for all ex-soldiers, and he
loved the Grand Army of the Republic, but his infirmities- pre-
rented his attendance of late years. He was a splendid example
of our foreign-born citizens, who performed such magnificent ser-
vice for the land of their adoption in the great war for the
preservation of this fair land.

"After passing through so many dangers, seen and unseen, he
was spared, and has passed on at a good old age, and we can truly
say with our poet comrade, F. C. Searl:

" One narrow strand is all the land,
That parts us from our comrades dear;
O, comrades, who have gone before
And camp upon the brighter shore,
We soon shall hear our last tatoo,
And one by one, at minute gun,
Fold up our tents and camp with you."

144 . Historical Sketch of the

Capt. Christian Henry Schaefer was born at Pittsburg-, Pa.,
June 18, 1840. When quite young- his parents moved to Gallipolis,
Ohio, where he resided till his death. After coming- to Gallipolis
he began working- in the tin and iron trade, but the war breaking-
out and being- filled with patriotism and love of his country, he
was among- the first to enlist, which he did with the late Capt. C.
C. Aleshire, of Company G, 18th O. V. I., for three months.

After the three months had expired he enlisted for three years
with Col. Turley, of Portsmouth, for three (3) years more. During
that time he was promoted different times until he was First Lieu-
tenant of his company, which was Company D, 56th O. V. I.

The war having- happily ended he was honorably discharged,
veteranized and commissioned as Captain and served until July,
1S66. During the war he was in the following engagements:
Pittsburg Landing, Seige of Corinth, Port Gibson, Champion
Hills, Seige of Vicksburg, Jackson, Carrion Bayou, Sabine Cross
Roads, Monetts Ferry and Snaggy Point.

After the war he became connected with Halliday & Miles
Wholesale Dry Goods house at- Gallipolis, and later became a
partner in the firm. At the time of his death, which occurred
December 28, 1897, he was the Representative of the National
Lead Company.

He married Adeline E. Damron, daughter of Hon. John G.
Damron, of Gallipolis, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1867, and by their union
three children were born, Mrs. H. C. Brown, Edgar G. Schaefer
and Dr. Earle Schaefer, of Gallipolis.

He had been an official member of the M. E. Church ever
since the present structure was built. He was a good man with a
clean heart, void of guile or offense to his fellow man. He was a
good boy, an old Academy student, a man of intelligence, genial,
warm hearted, generous and kind. His family loose a treasure that
will come to them no more. They have our warmest sympathy.
The community has lost a good citizen, one of the kind that offered
his life freely for his country. That it was not taken was no fault
of his. He is gone, but will never be forgotten by those who
knew him well and had learned his worth.

LIEUT. THOS. J. WILLIAMS IN 18<>8
See page 140

56th REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

FIELD AND STAFF.

Mastered in from Oct. 18, 1861, to Jan. 3, 1862, at Portsmouth, O., by R. B. Hull, Captain 18th
Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out April 25, 1866, at New Orleans La., by A. McAllister,
Captain 10th U. S. C. Art.

Names.

Rank.

"-1 .

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

2 >

Remarks.

Peter Kinney

William H. Ray nor

Sampson E. Varner
Harry E. Jones

Charles F. Reiniger —

W. N.King

David Williams

W.C. Payne

N. W. Fisher

Parker M. McFarland

Benjamin Roberts

W. S. Houston.
Moses Rife

Jonathan E. Thomas.
Thomas W. Kinney . .

John K. Combs

Stephen B. Thobnrn
John H. Morris

William K. Sturgill....

(145)

Colonel
. . do . . .

Lt. Col.
...do ...

. Major .

Surgeon
. . . do . . .
As. Surg.
. . . do . . .
. . . do . . .

Adjutant

R. Q. M.
. . . do . . .

Chaplain
Ser.Maj.

do ...
do ...
do ...

. . . do .

25

25

Sept. 11,1861

Sept. 28, 1861

Sept. 28, 1861
Sept. 28, 1861

Aug. 7,1861

Oct. 3, 1861
Dec. 23, 1863
Oct. 3, 1S61
April 1, 1862
Aug. 21, 1862

Oct. 18,1861

Oct. 18, 1861
Nov. 20, 1861

Jan. 10, 1862
Oct. 2^, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

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.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Resigned Ap^il 3, 1863.

Promoted from Lieut. Colonel April
2,1863; wounded and captured May
5, 1864, on steamer John Warner on
Red river; discharged Oct. 27, 1864.

Promoted from Major April 6, 1863;
discharged Nov. 14, 1864.

Promoted Captain Co. A from Adju-
tant Feb. 6, 1863; to Lieut. Colonel
from Captain Co. D Jan. 18, 1865;
Colonel April 20, 1866, but not mus-
tered; mustered out with regiment
April 25, 1866.

Promoted from Captain Co. B April
2, 1863; discharged Oct. 2", 1804.

Resigned Aug. 28. 1863.

Discharged Nov. 25, 1864.

Resigned April 8, 1S62.

Died Feb. 24, 1863, at

Promoted Surgeon April 20, 1866, but
not mustered: mustered out with
regiment April 25, 1866.

Appointed from 1st Lieutenant Co.
B Sept. 12, 1863; captured May 5,

1864, on board steamer John War-
ner; escaped July 3, 1864, at Tyler,
Tex.; promoted Captain of Co. A,
March 29, 1865

Resigned Dec. 17, 1862.

Appointed from 1st Lieutenant Co. E

Sept. 1, 1863: mustered out Feb. 7,

1866.
Promoted from private Co. C Sept. 9,

1862; discharged Nov. 5, 18t>4.
Promoted from private Co. G Oct. 30,

1861; to 2d Lieutenant Co. H June

10, 1862.
Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. H

Sept 22, 1862; to 2d Lieutenant Co.

B Feb. 14, 1863.
Promoted from Sergeant Co. D July

23, 1863: to 2d Lieutenant Co. A

Jan. 18, 1865; veteran.
Promoted from Sergeant Co. C

Feb. 5, 1865; 2d Lieutenant May 31,

1865, but not mustered; discharged
Nov. 22, 1865; veteran.

Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. A
Nov. 23, 18b5; mustered out with
regiment April 25, 1866: veteran.

146

Roster of Fifty-sixth RegimExMT

Date of

0 <u

Names.

Rank.

a

Entering the

o >

Remarks.

bo
<

Service.

0>

Erastus Gates

Q. M. S.

32

Dec. 9, 1861 3 yrs.

Promoted from private Co. H Dec. 9,

1861; to 2d Lieutenant Co. G Sept.
5, 1802.
Promoted from private of Co. E Sept.

Henry M. Goldsmith...

. . . do . . .

38

Nov. 13. 1861

3 yrs.

28, 1862; to 2d Lieutenant of Co. H

Jan. 1, 1863.

Thomas J. Williams . . .

... do ...

20

Oct. 17,1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from Corporal Co. C July
4, 18n3; 2d Lieutenaut Co. B Jan.
18, 1865; veteran.

John Bevan

. . . do . .

21

Oct. 15,1861 3 =

Promoted from Sergeant Co. B Feb.

£, 1865: mustered out with regi-

ment April 25, 1866; veteran.

Joseph S. Patterson

Com.Ser.

30

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from private Co. C Aug-.
15, 1862; to 2d Lieutenant Co. K
Aug. 31, 1862.

Henry Schump

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from Corporal Co. C Nov.
1, 1862; to 2d Lieutenant Co. I
March 17, 1863

John C. Grass

. . . do . . .

27

Nov. 2,1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from Corporal Co. E July 4,
1863;discharged Jan. 23,1866: veteran

Lewis H. Hamilton

Hos.St'd.

33

Oct. 15,1861

3 yrs.

Reduced to ranks and transfered
to Co. D .

Gilbert A. Ewing

. . . do . .

Dec. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from private of Co. A Dec.
20, 1861; discharged Aug. — , 1862,
at Columbus, O., of disability.

John F. McGrew

... do ...

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from private Co. A Oct. 8,
1*62; wounded and captnred May
3, 1864, at battle of Snaggy Point,
La.;discharged Jan. 2,l86o;veteran.

James I*. O. Huston

PrinMus

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted 2d Lieutenant Co. E Sept.
6, 1862.

COMPANY A.

Mustered in Oct. 29, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., by R. B. Hull. 1st Lieutenant 18th Infantry, U. S. A
Mustered out April 25, 1866, at New Orleans, La , by A. McAllister, Captain 10th U. S. C. Art.

Maschil Manring .
Henry E.Jones ..

Benjamin Roberts .
William D.Wood...
William G. Snyder.
John K. Combs

Coleman Gillilen

George W. Manring...

Christian H. Shaefer.

Captain
. . . do . . .

. . . do . . .
1st Lieut
. . . do . . .
... do ...

2d Lieut.
. . . do . . .

do

Aug. 8,1861
Sept. 28, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861

Nov. 8,1861

Oct. 29, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861

Nov. 8,1861
Oct. 17,1861

Oct. 5, 1861

3 yrs
3 yrs

3 yrs,

3 yrs,

3 yrs,

3 yrs

3 yrs
3 yrs,

3 yrs

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Promoted from Adjutant Feb. 6,
1863; transferred to Co. D Aug. 8,
1863.

Promoted from 1st Lieutenant and
Adjutant Marcb 29, 1865: mustered
out with companv April 25. 1866.

Promoted Captain May 9, 1864, but
not mustered; mustered out Oct.
27, 1864, at New Orleans, La.

Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. G
May 16, 1863; Captain Co. K Aug.
10, 1*64.

Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. B
March 29, 1865; to Captain April
20, 1866, but not mustered; muster-
ed out with companv April 25, 1S66.

Discharged July 31,1862. of disability.

Mustered as private; appointed 1st
Sergeant Oct. 29, 1861: promoted 2d
Lieutenant July 31, 1862: killed
May 16, 18t3. in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. D
May 16, 1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co.
C Jan. 18, 1865.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

147

Names.

Rank.

Date of I
Entering the
Service.

£<«

Remarks.

Stephen B. Thoburn

William K Sturgill.
Harvey N. Br id well
John C. Burk

2d Lieut

1st Sergt
. . . do . . .
. . . do . .

George W. Thorp Sergeant

James Phillips

Nicholas Bernhard. .

Samuel J. Blake.
Thomas H.Cox..
Georg-e W. Cox . .
George W. Neff . .

James C.Bingham.

Jesse Wood

Michael Shelton.
Hiram Lodge

Francis M.Wheelbarger
Thomas Harkinson

John Barr.

Robert Bowles

James M. Halliday.

James U. Pease

David Storer ..

Azariah Authors . .

John Fee

Hiram McCarley . .

Brittain D. Fry.
William Bacon .

. do ..
. do ..

. do ..
. do ..
. do . .
. do .

do

do

do ...
Corporal

do ..
do ..

do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do

do

do

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 17,1861
Oct. 20, 1861
Oct. 15,1861

Oct. 17,1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17,1861

Oct 17,1861
Oct. 5, 1861
Oct. 16,1861
Oct. 18,1891

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 8,1861

Oct. 17,1861

Oct. 17,1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 21,1861
Oct. 16, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Nov. 18, 18ol
Oct. 24, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 19,1861

Oct. 25, 1861

3yrs.

3yrs.

3yrs.

3yrs.

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.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Promoted from Sergt. Major Jan. 18,
1865; to 1st Lieutenant fr eb. 24, 1866,
but not mustered; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866.

Appointed July 31, I8b2, promoted
>>ergt. Major Nov. 23, 1865; veteran.

Transferred from Co. D:- transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 1864: veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; appointed
1st Sergeant Nov. 23, 1865; mus-
tered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

Mustered out with company April
25, 186b; veteran.

Mustered as Nicholas Barnhart ;
mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at- New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Transferred from Co. D; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 1*64; veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 1864: veteran.

Transferred from Co. K; captured
April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; transferred to
Co D Dec. 6, 1864: veteran.

Transferred from Co. D; appointed
from private Feb. 1, 1864: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. D; appointed
from private Feb. 1, 1864; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Mustered out with company April
25, 18o6; veteran.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Died April 8, lSt>4, at HaJena, Ark.

Wounded May lb, I8b3. in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Oct. 27, 18(.4.

Transferred from Co. D; wounded and
captured April 8. 18(4, in battle of
Sabine Cross Roads, La.: trans-
ferred to Co. D Dec. b, 1864; veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 18b4; veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 1864; veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 18(,4; veteran.

Transferred from Co. D; transferred
to Co. D Dec. 6, 18b4; veteran.

Transferred from Co D: transferred
to Co. D Dec. b, 1864: veteran.

Discharged .March 24 18on, at New
Orleans, La., of disability : veteran.

Appointed Corporal Feb. 1, 1864; dis-
charged March 24. 18b<>, at New
Orleans, La., of disability.veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; mustered
out with company April 25, 18C-6:
veteran.

Transferred from Co. D; mustered
out with company April. 25, 18o6;
veteran.

148

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

J Date of
a; Entering- the
j¥ Service

£cfl

Remarks.

Thomas Fee

Henry Hnnsucker

Gideon M. Hubbard

David W. Jones

Thomas Stafford . .

Thomas Sims.

William A. Lanks.
Elias A. Branham.

Elias A. Bridwell .

Jesse B. Hart

Henry C. Edgington.
Allen, William R . . . .

Allen, Martin G

Allison, Henry D .
Bacon, William . .
Bacon, WiUiam G
Badger, William .

Banker, Hiram H
Bass, William

Bass, Joseph

Betlis, William.

Blake, Arius L..-
Blosser, Charles.

Bollman, Joseph —
Bowman, George W.
Brown, Albert

Corporal
do ...

. do

. . do . . .
. . do . . .
. . do . . .

.. do ...

Musician

. . do

do

Wagoner
Private

do .

do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do

22

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Sept. 26, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Aug. 2, 1864

Aug. 31,1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

20

41

19

31

18

19

21

18

22

18

Oct.

Nov.

Oct.

Oct.

Oct.

Oct.

Oct.
Oct.

Oct.

Oct.

17, 1861

10, 1861

19, 1861

8, 1861

17, 1861

25, 1861

17. 1861
25, 1861

17, 1861

17, 1861

Oct. 25, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Aug. 4, 1864

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.

3 yrs

3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yrs

3 yrs

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

2 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs,
3 yrs.
3 yrs,

Mustered out. with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 23, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co F; appointed

Corporal Feb. 1, 1864; mustered out

with company April, 25, 1866; vet-
eran.
Appointed Corporal Jan. 30, 1865:

mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Appointed Corporal Nov. 30, 1865;

mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Appointed Corporal March 27, 18o6;

mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Discharged Dec. 15, 1864, at Colum-
bus, O., of disability ; veteran.
Transferred from Co. D ; mus-
tered out with company April 25,

1866; veteran.
Transferred from Co. D: mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Mustered out with company April

25, 1866.
Transferred from Co. D; veteran.
Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss
Wounded May lt>, 18o3, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Wounded July 11, 1863, in action at

Jackson, Miss.; mustered out with

company April 25, I8c6; veteran.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Killed May 16, 1863, in skirmish at

Champion Hills, Miss.

Discharged March 5, 1866, at New
Orleans, La., of disability; vet-
eran.

Died July 11, 1863, at Memphis,
Tenn., of wounds received June 19,
1863, in battle of Vicksburg, Miss.

Wounded May 16, 1S63. in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Oct. 2", 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

Discharged Oct. 21, 18^5, at New
Orleans, La., of disability; veteran.

Killed May 1, 1J<63, in battle of Port
Gibson, Mississippi.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1866.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

149

Names;

Carrothers, James .

Chappell, Lineus C.

Claflin, John

Clefford, Morgan.

Cosley, Jarvis
Colly, Samuel

Cosley, Francis M.
Cool, William H...

Cron, Adam

Cross, Thomas L.

Cross, Wilson

Davis, William...
Denny, Heary L .

Dunn, William ...
Dunn, William B.
Dunn, Aaron

Ewing, Gilbert A.

Farrar. James

Font, Jasper

Golliger, John.

Gould, George

Gould, Isaac

Grady, Francis

Halfhill, Abraham.

Hammon, Francis.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

&u

Remarks.

Private

do

do
do

do
do

do
do

do
do

do

do
do

do
do
do

do

do

do

do

do
do
do
do

do

21

Nov. 20, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 25. 1861
Nov. 20, 1861

Oct. 25, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Oct.
Oct.

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

Dec.

Oct.

Oct.

17, 1861
17, 1861

17, 1861
17, 1861
25, 1861

20, 1861

17. 1861

16, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

3yrs.

3yrs.

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.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

-

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

2 yrs.

Transferred from Co. F; captured
May 5, 1864, on steamer John War-
ner on Red river, La.: discharged
June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.; vet-
eran.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out with company April 25, I860;
veteran.

Mustered out with company April,
25, 1866; veteran.

Transferred from Co. D: mustered
out with company April 25, lSOo;
veteran.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.: mustered
out Oct. 27, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

Wounded April 8, 1864, in battle of
Sabine Cross Roads, La.; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Died May 18, 1862, nearCorinth, Miss.

Transferred from Co. F; mustered
out with company April 25, 18o6;
veteran.

Died Oct. 18, 1862, in hospital at Keo-
kuk, la.

Transferred from Co. D; died July
15, 1865, in hospital at Greenville,
La.; veteran.

Transferred from Co D; transferred
to Veteran Reserve Corps Dec 30,
1864; veteran; mustered out Nov.
. 16, 1865, at Cairo, 111.

Mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Discharged Nov. -, 1862. of disability.

Died Oct. 18, 1862, in hospital at Keo-
kuk, la.

Promoted to Hospital Steward Dec-
20, 1861.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1S66; veteran.

Wounded May 16, 18<)3, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
from Co. F; mustered out with
company April 25, 1866; veteran.

Transferred from Co. D; captured
May 5, 1864. on steamer John War-
ner on Red river, La.; discharged
June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.; vet-
eran.

Discharged June — , 1863, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1866; veteran.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Absent, sick in hospital at Raymond,
Miss., May 14, 18o3; no further
record found.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

ISO

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering the
Service,

Remarks.

Hammon, Aaron

Hedgemier, Frederick.

Henry, John

•Hill, Joseph

Holecome, Erastus N

Holesworth, Smith..
Hopkins, Matthew . .

Irving, Pery L

Johnson, Elias

Johnson, Josiah

Private
. . do . .

Jolly, James I.
Jones, .Lewis...

Jones William D.

Jones, Thomas W,

Jones, John D

Jones, Uriah

Joice, Michael .

Keyser, Abner.
Kiser, Hiram . .
Lair, William .

Lamb, Benoni .

Lesley, John

Lingenfelter, Christ'er.

Lodge, George W .
Lodge, John

do

do

do

do
do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do
do
do

do

do
do
do

do ...

do ..
do ..

do ..
do.

38

28

20

Oct. 24, 1861
Nov. 18, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 17, 1*01

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 18ol
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 20, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 17, 18ol
Nov. 20, 1861

Oct. 8, 1801

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1871

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

3yrs.
3yrs.

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.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Transferred to 1st Missouri Battery
Dec. 6. 1863.

Transferred from Co. F ; captured
May 5, 1864, on board steamer John
Warner, Red River, La. ; dis-
charged June 30, 1865, at Columbus,
O.; veteran.

Transferred from Co F; discharged
Feb. 1, 1866, at New Orleans, La.;
veteran.

Discharged Sept. 13. 1864, at New
Orleans, La., of disability ; veteran.

Discharged Jan. 13, 1864, at Algiers,
La., of disability.

Discharged .

M ustered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Wounded iVay 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.: discharged
Sept. 28. 1?<65, at Camp Dennison,
O., of disability: veteran.

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

Discharged .

Discharged Oct. 4, 1865, at Camp
Dennison, O., of disability; vet-
eran.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Colum-
bus, O.; veteran.

Mustered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

Transferred from Co. F; mustered
out with company April 25, 1806;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. F Jan. 26, 1864;
captured May 5, 1864, on board
steamer John Wagner, Red river,
La ; mustered out June 30, 1865, at
Columbus, O.; veteran.

Transferred from Co. D: mustered
out with company April 25, 1806;
veteran.

Wounded May 1, 186-1. in battle of

Port Gibson, Miss.; discharged ,

of disability.

Transferred from Co. F; captured
April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; mustered out
June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. D: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Discharged June , 1862, on Sur-
geon's certificate of disability.

Transferred from Co. F; discharged
July 14, 1865, at Algiers, La., of
disability; veteran.

Placed on Roll of Honor for meri-
torious conduct July 16, 1863, at
Jackson, Miss.; mustered out with
company April 25, 1866; veteran.

Mustered out .with company April
25, 1866; veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

151

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

Remarks.

Lord, Ezra F.

Lord, William H.
Look, William A

McCarty, Richard.
McCowan, Nathan

McDonnald, Daniel

McGrew, John F

McGrevy, James W

McPhail, Andrew J —
Manring, William W. .

Manring, Lewis A

Martindale, Andrew M .

Martin, Charles S

Martin, Hiram

Morris, James do

Private

Norman, John ,
Nurse, Oliver.
Odie, James. ..

Ownez, John

Page, Lorenzo D.

Perkins, William.

Price, Albert E. ..
Ray, George W . . .

Reeseman, William N . .

Sanders, Gordon M

Sanders, William

Sexton, William T

Sexton, James....
Shively, Simon T.

Sims, Michael D

Simpson, William H.H,

do ...
do ...

do

do

do
do
do
do
do
do
do

do

do

do
do
do

do
do

do

do
do

do

do
do
do

do
do

do
do

39

32

Oct. 16, 1861

July 14, 1864
Oct. 17, 1861

38 Oct 17, 1861
16, 1861

Nov.

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct,

Oct.

Oct.

Oct.
Oct.
Feb.
Oct.

17, 18ol
31, 1861
17, 1861
17, 1861
17, 1861
17, 1891
17, 1861

5, 1861

30, 1861

31, 1861
17, 1861
20, 1865
21, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861 3 yrs.

Oct. 17, 1861 3 vrs.

Oct. 17, 1861 3 vrs.

Oct. 17, 1861 3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 jrs.
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.

Oct 17,1861

Sept.26, 1861

June 7, 1864
Nov. 5, 1861

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. F: discharged

June 30, 1805, at Algiers, La., of

disability; veteran.
Mustered out with company April

25, 1866.
Wounded May I, 1863, in battle of

Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered out

with company April 25, 186f>; vet-
eran.
Killed May 1, 1863, in battle of Port

Gibson, Mississippi. .
Transferred from Co. P; discharged

Nov. 15, 1865, at New Orleans, La.,

of disability.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Promoted to Hospital Steward Oct.

8, 1802.
Died Aug- 25, 1864, at New Orleans,

La
Mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Muste:ed out with company April

25, 1860; veteran.
Mustered out with company April

25, 1*66; veteran.
Died Mav 25, 1863, of wounds re-
ceived May 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. F; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
Mustered out with company as

private April 25. 18o6; veteran.
Mustered out Feb. 20, 1866, at New

Orleans, La.
Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss .transferred

from Co. D; mustered out with

company April 25, 1806; veteran.
Musteredout April 25, I860; veteran.
Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with c >mpany April 25, 1»66;

veteran.
Died May 4, 1862, while on sick

furlousrh.
Musteredout Nov. 27, 1864.
Mustered out with company April 25,

1866: veteran.
Absent, sick in Hospital at Cairo,

111., May 16, 1865; mustered out .

Died March 2. 18t.3, at Helena, Ark.
Discharged Oct. 29, 1*62. of disability.
Wounded Mav 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered

out Oct. 27, 186-J, at New Orleans,

La.
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Discharged Jan. — , 1863, at Jefferson

City, Mo , of disability.

Transferred from Co. D; mastered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;
veteran.

152

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Io aJ
■o.y
.2 >
a «
O.C0

Remarks.

Slack. William J.
Slack, Thomas I.

Snively, John...
Spence, Charles

Stover, Henry

Stratton, Jeremiah
Sturgill, Joseph E.

Sturgill, Henry H..
Sturgill, William R.

Sturgeon, James.

Sturgeon, Henderson
Truman, Joseph

Veach, Francis.

Veach, William T.
Venatti, Hezekiah.

Ward, Craton...
White, Thomas.

White, Joseph

Williams, David R . ..
Wintersteen, John Q.

Wood, John A

Wood, David

Wood, Samuel L

Wood, William P. .
Wood, Alfred T

Private
.. do

ite

29

18

18

21

32

18

20

39

26

33
22

18

17

43

18

19

22

36

18

24
3<J
18

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 25, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861
Oct. 30, 1861

Feb. 20, 1865

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861
Oct. 19, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Feb. 20, 1865
Oct. 8, 1861

Sept. I, 1862
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 3, 1861
Oct. 17, 18t>l
Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Mch. 17, 1862

3 yrs. Died June 19, 1862, at Memphis, Tenn.
3yrs. Mustered out with company April

25, 1866; veteran.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company, April 25, 1866;

veteran.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. F; wounded

and captured April 8, 1864, at battle

of Sabine Cross Roads, La.: mus-
tered out J une 30, 1865, at Columbus,

O.: veteran.
3 yr. Mustered out Feb. 20, 1866, at New

Orleans, La.
3 yrs.
3 yrs. Captured April 8, 1864, at battle of

Sabine Cross Roads, La.; mustered

out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;

veteran
3 yrs. Discharged Dec. 17, 1865, at Gran-
ville, La., of disability; veteran.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. F; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. D; died Nov.

28, 1864, in hospital at New Orleans,

La.
3 yrs.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. F; mustered

oat with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
3 yrs. Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
3 yr. Mustered out Feb. 20, 1866, at New

Orleans, La.
3 yrs Transferred from Co. D; discharged

Dec. 23, 1864, at Algiers, La., of dis-
ability; veteran.
3 yrs. Mustered out with company April 25,

1866; veteran.
3 yrs. Wounded May 3, 1864, in battle of

Snaggy Point, La.; mustered out

with company April 25, 1866; vet-.

eran.
3 yrs. Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
3 yrs. Discharged Sept. 28, 1865, at Camp

Dennison, O., of disability ; veteran.
3 yrs. Mustered out with company April 25,

18b6; veteran.
3 yrs. Died Oct. 8, 1862, on board hospital

boat D. A. January.
3 yrs. Discharged , for wounds received

Mav 16. 1863, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.
3 vrs. Died Mav 5, 1862, at Cincinnati, O.
3 vrs. Discharged Nov. — , 1862: disability.
3 yrs Mustered out March 16, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

153

COMPANY B

Mastered in Oct. 18, 1861, and Nov. 13, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., by R. B. Hull, Captain 18th

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out April 25, 1866, at New Orleans, La.,

by A. McAllister, Captain 10th U. S. C. Art.

Names.

Rank.

be
<

Date of

Entering the

Service.

o >

Remarks.

Charles F. Reiniger —

Captain
. . do ...

55
37

24

33
25
20

Aug. 7, 1861
Nov. 7, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

3yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Promoted to Major April 2, 1863.
Promoted from 1st Lieutenant April

2, 1863; discharged Nov. 12, 1864.
Transferred from Co. G: promoted to

Lieut. Colonel April 20, 1866, but

not mustered; mustered out with

company April 25, 1866.

...do ...

1st Lieut.
... do ...

16, 1863; discharged Nov. 12, 1864, at
New Orleans, La.

Thomas J. Williams...

. . . do . . .

June 18, 1863; appointed Adjutant
Sept. 12, 1863.
Promoted 2d Lieutenant from Q. M.
Sergeant Jan. 18, 1865; to 1st Lieu-
tenant Jan. 30, 1866; mustered out
with company April 25, 18t>6; vet-
eran.

2d Lieut.

1st Sergt.
. . . do . . .

24

27
29
25

42
33
27
27
30

40

29
23

27

22

18
24

Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861

Nov. 13, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 12, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

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.

3 yrs.
3 3TS.

Promoted from Sergt. Major Feb. 14,

Leopold Sheidlen

1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co. A March

29, 1865.
Discharged March 24, 1863, at Moon

Lake, Miss., of disabilitv.
Captured June 25, 1862; mustered out

Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. E; appointed

from private June 1, 1864; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Discharged Nov. 27, 1862, at Helena,

Ark., of disabilitv.
Discharged Nov. 27, 1862, at Helena,

. . . do . . .

Frank Ashenbrenner. .

Sergeant
... de ...

John C. Dahler

. . do . . .
. . . do *. . .

Ark., of disabilit.v.
Discharged , at Memphis, Ten n.,

of disability.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Frederick Held

Christopher Kraemer..

. . do . . .

... do ...
. . . do . . .

Orleans, La.
Discharged Nov. 5, 1863, for wounds

received May 16, 18b3, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

. . . do . .

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. E : pro-

Thomas S. Bennett ....

. . . do . . .
. . . do . . .

moted to Q. M. Sergeant Feb. 5,
1865; veteran.

Transferred from Co. G ; trans-
ferred to Co. D Dec. 5, 1864; veteran.

Transferred from Co. E; captured

Lorenzo D. Dairy mple. .
Nicholas D. Main

. . . do . . .
. . . do . . .

May 5 1864, on board steamer John
Warner on Red river. La.: mus-
tered out June 30, 1865, at Columbus
O.: veteran.

Transferred from Co. E; discharged
Dec. 27, 1865. of disability : veteran.

Transferred from Co. G ; mus-

terred out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

154

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

■d a

Names.

Rank.

6

Entering the

o >

Remarks.

be
<

Service.

<3 «

Peter Brown

Sergeant

21

Nov. 21, 18ol

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Daniel L. Bondurant. . .

. . .. do . . .

20

Oct. 29, 1861

3yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 18t>6;
veteran.

Nathan. M. Kent

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 29,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Gottleib Sites

... do . . .

18

Oct. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Sergeant Dec. 8, 1863;

mustered out Nov. 12, 1864.

August Lange

Corporal

18

Oct. 18,1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 23, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Henry Hollenback

. do . . .

29

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

John Deinzer . . . .'

. . . do . . .

28

Oct. 18,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

George Reichert

.. . do . ..

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Died Sept. 11, 1862, at Helena, Ark.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Augustus Clemens

... do ...

Dec. 6, 1861

Corps Sept. 12, 1863; mustered out

Jan. 5, 186^.

John Dimler

. . . do . . .

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal Jan. 22,

1862; mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at

New Orleans, La.

Jacob Petry

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 18,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

Henry Seick

... do ...

33

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

Henry Dunlap

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H ; trans-

ferred to Co. D Dec. 5, 1864.

Robert M. Fulton

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 9,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E: wounded
and captured April 8, 18t>4, at battle
of Sabine Cross Roads, La.; ex-
changed June 24, 1864; ; dis-
charged June 27, 1865, of disability;
veteran.

George Grindley

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 15,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; appointed

Corporal ; mustered out Feb.

7,1866; veteran.

Charles H. Bing

. . . do . .

21

Nov. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered

out with company April 25, I860;

veteran.

William Hughes

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; appointed

Corporal June 1, 1864; mustered out

with company April 25, 1866; vet-

eran.

Thomas J. Williams . . .

Corporal

21

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; appointed
Corporal June 1, 1S64; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran*

James Rees

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; wounded
May 1, 1864, in battle of Port Gib-
son, Miss.; appointed Corporal
June 1, 1864; mustered out with
company April 25, 1866; veteran.

Francis M. Seth

. . do . . .

21

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 1j<60;
veteran.

Calvin McKnight

. . do ...

18

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, 1S66;
veteran.

Henry C. Marshall —

... do ...

26

Nov. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 18o6;
veteran.

Samuel Nickels

... do ...

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G ; ap-

pointed Corporal Feb. 14. 1866; mus-
teied out with company April 25,

1866; veteran.

James O. L. Hueston . . .

Musician

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 y rs.

Promoted to Principal Musician .

Charles N. Clinger

. . . do . . .

15

Aug. 15, 1864

3 yrs.

Discharged June 27, 1805, of disabil-
ity-

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

155

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering the
Service.

O 43

.2 >

Remarks.

Samuel dinger.

Allen, William ...
Arman, Henr.v . . .

Aner, Louis

Baker, Charles H.

Baust, Frank

Becker, William.

Bender, Jacob . . .

Benner, John

Bennett, Philander..

Biebinger, Frederick

Bing, Joseph M

Bing, John E

Bingham, Levi

Braun, John George..
Braun, John Gottlieb.
Brown, William C . . . .

Burkholter, Nicholas.
Carr, William

Carpenter, Aaron

Chaffin, George W . . .

Chaffin, Thomas..
Coffman, John

Collman, Thomas
Comer, Lewis

Crabtree, Gillen

Crabtree, Stephen

Cross, Thomas.

Daloh, Peter. ..
Daniels, David

Wagoner

Private
. . do . .

do .
do .

do .
do .

do .

do .
do .

do .

do .

do .

do .
do .
do .
do .

do .

do .

do .
do .

do .
do .

do .
do .

do .

. do .
. do .

.. do
.. do

31

24
21

18

40

40

28

24
24

23

19

18

24

27

Nov. 11, 1861

Oct. 22, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861

Dec. 10, 1861

Nov. 23, 1861

Oct. 18, 1x61
Oct. 18, 1861

Feb. 3,1862

Oct. 8, 1861
Jan. 16, 1862

Sept. 15,1861

Nov. 2,1861

Nov. 2,1861

Feb. 5,1862
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861

Nov. 13, 1861

Nov. 21, 1861
Nov. 6,1861

Jan. 27, 1864
Oct. 26, 1861

July 25, 1864
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861

Nov. 25, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

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.

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.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. G; veteran.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864 at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 12 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. G: mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, of disability.
Died July 23, 1864, at New Orleans,

La.
Mustered out Feb. 5, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered as John Bayner.
Transferred from Co. H; mustered

out Jan. 16, 1865.
Discharged Oct. 18, 1861, at Ports-
mouth. O., of disability.
Transferred from Co. £: mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. E; mustered

out with company April 25, I860;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. H: mustered

out with company Feb. 5, 1865.
Dircharged Oct. IS, 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., of disability.
Transferred to 1st Missouri Battery

April 20, 1863.
Transferred from Co. G: mustered
. out with companjr April 25, 1S66;

veteran.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. H: discharged

Oct. 12, 1805. of disability; veteran.
Transferred from Co. G; veteran.
Transferred from Co. G: mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. G: mustered

out with company April 25, 1866.
Transferred from Co. H; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Mustered out with compuny April 25,

1866.
Transferred from Co. G; mustered

out with company April 25, IS06;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. G; wounded

April 8, 1804, in battle of Sabine

Cross Roads, La., discharged Aug.

16, 18o5, of disability; veteran.
Transferred from Co. G; mustered

out with company April 25, ISoo;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. G: discharged

June 27, 1865, of disability; veteran.
Died July 15, 1»(.2, at Portsmouth, O.
Transferred from Co. E; captured

April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine

Cross Roads, La.; mustered out

June 30, 18t>5, at Columbus, O.,

veteran.

156

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Davis, Thomas J.

Davis, Charles H

Deal, William —
Dement, James B .

Deshler, John

Dewitt, Hiram W.

Donohew, Alvin .

Dowler, Francis M..
DuraotifTi Ferdinand

Eitner, Peter

Elberfold, Clemens. .

Emling, George — ,

Evans, Evan E.

Evans, EvanO.

Evans, John E

Farian, John

Fasterman, William
Fluth, William

Fouth, Thomas

Fox, Christian F..

Frendenburg, John.

Gautsche, Rudolph,
Georges, Rudolph.
Giles, Dennis

Giles, Thomas C.

Gramme, Frederick.
Griffith, Rees

Guy, John W

Hanser, Bartholomy .

Henser, Joseph

Henser, Samuel

Herder, Jacob

Rank.

Private

do

do

do

do
do

do
do
do
do
do

do

do
do

do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do

do
do

do

do
do

do
do
do
do
do

42

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

-OX

2 >

Remarks.

Nov. 15, 1861

Jan. 1,1862

July 8,1864

Jan. 29. 1864

Nov. 13, 1861
Nov. 7, 1862

Dec. 10, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Nov. 13, 1861
Nov. 13, 1861

Feb. 3,1862
Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861

Oct.

Nov.

Oct.

Oct.
July

18, 1861

13, 1861

18, 1861

18, 1861
4, 1864

Oct. 18, 1861

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

18, 1861
18, 1861
29, 1861

Jan. 31, 1862

Nov. 13, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 2,1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861

Nov. 13, 1861
Dec. 8,1861

3yrs.

3yrs.

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.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
lyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; wounded
and captured May 5, 1864, on board
steamer Johu Warner on Red
River, La.; mustered out with
Company April 25, 1866; veteran.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866.

Mustered out with company April 25,
1866.

Died Jan. 5, 1862, at Portsmouth, O.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out Nov. 7, 1865.

Transferred from Co. H Jan. 26, 1864.

Transferred from Co. E Jan. 26, 1864.

Died Sept. 9, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Died May — , 1862. at Shiloh, Tenn.

Discharged , at Memphis, Tenn.,

of disabilitv.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in Battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Feb. 5, 1865.

Transferred from Co. E: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. E; captured
April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La., mustered out
June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O., vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. E: mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.,
veteran. •

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Transferred from Co. G Jan, 26, 1864;
veteran.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out July 6, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. G; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

vetern.
Captured June 25,1862; exchanged;

discharged and joined the navy

Transferred from Co. E; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866:

veteran.
Transferred from Co. E; discharged

Nov. 7, 1865, of disability.
Mustered out Nov. .12, 18o4, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps Jan. 16, 1864.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. G ; mus-
tered out with company April 25,

1866; veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

157

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the

Service.

o 6
■e.2

COB

Remarks.

Private

43

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Corps Sept. 13, 1863.

Hickson, Benjamin

... do ..

24

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E: veteran.

Hoffman, John.

...do ...

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss

Hollenback, Edward..

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Hughes, George

...do ...

26

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Hughes, James

. . . do . . .

20

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with compan}- April 25, 1866;
veteran.

James, Alfred Jr

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mnstered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Jones, Thomas J

. . do . . .

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; Captured
May 5, 1864, on board steamer John
Warner on Red river, La.; muster-
ed out June 30, 1865, at Columbus,
O.; veteran

Jones, Dennis

... do ...

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;
veteran.

Kintner, Frank

. . do ...

51

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Died JuneS, 1863, at Vicksburg, Miss.

Kinker, Henry

... do ...

22

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Krauser, John

... do ...

30

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 27, 1862, in Asylum, Cin-
cinnati, O,

Kreinbreider, William.

. . . do . . .

25

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 27, 1863, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Knnz, Casper

... do ...

42

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Prisoner of war; discharged April
6, 1863, at Columbus, O.

Landfersick, Lndwick . .

. . . do . . .

26

Sept. 1, 1862

3 yrs.

Detached in 1st Missouri Battery
April 16, 1863; mustered out July 6,

1865.

Loesh, John G

. . . do . . .

Dec. 2,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Louks. Jacob S

. . . do . . .

27

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
vet' ran.

Logae, Ellis

. . . do . .

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E: mnstered

out with company April 25, 186o;

veteran.

Lundracb, Jacob

. . . do . . .

44

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 20, 1862, at Helena,
Ark , of disability.

McCallister, George W.

... do ...

Jan. Z, 186^

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

McCann, Daniel

. . . do . . .

June 6, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G ; muster-
ed out with company April 25, ISoo.

Mclntire, Georga W —

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, IS06;
veteran.

McKeever, Daniel

... do ...

18

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, I8oo;
veteran.

McKnight, James

... do ...

18

Nov. 4, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. II ; mustered
out with company April 25, i860;
veteran.

Marker, Adam

. . . do . . .

43

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 22, 1862, at hospital
at Memphis, Tenn., of disability.

... do ...
. . . do . . .

39

44

Nov. 13, 1861
Nov. 13. 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Died Aug. 20, I8t>2, at Helena, Ark.

Moritz, Conrad

Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.

Meisner, George

... do ...

35

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Chamaion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

168

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

c v

Names.

Rank.

■V

Entering the

.2 >

Remarks.

he
<

Service

Mendle, William

Private

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, at Helena,
Ark., of disabilitv.

Meyer, Henry

. . . do . . .

41

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16." 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.; transferred
to Veteran Reserve Corps .

Miller, Felix

. . . do . . .

31

Oct. 18,1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 3. 1862, at Henela. Ark.

Morgan, Samuel

... do ...

Dec. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Nannes, Frederick

. . . do . . .

40

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 24. 1863. at Camp
Dennison. O., of disability.

Nearman, William H. . .

. . do '. . .

18

July 8,1864

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866.

Newlan, Adam

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Oberly, Benjamin B

. . do . . .

21

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Pepper, Frank

. . . do . . .

Jan. 11, 1862

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 1,1862, of disabil-
ity.
Transferred from Co. H; wounded

Perry, Jacob

... do ...

18

Nov. 4,1861

April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine

Cross Roads, La.; mustered out

with company April 25, 1866; vet-

eran.

Perry, James

... do ...

22

Dec. 9,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with companv April 25, 1866;
veteran .

Petry, Nicolas

... do ...

43

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Petry, Peter

... do ...

26
22

Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18,1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12. 1864.

Pfau, Adam

. . . do . . .

Discharged Sept. 30, 1862, at Mem-

phis. Tenn., ol disability.

Pfuhler, John

... do ...

35

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G ; veteran.

Phillips, Andrew

. . . do . . .

29

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Potts, Hezekiah J

...do ..

22

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; wounded
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La: mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered

Potts, Abraham W

. . do . . .

22

Nov. 17, 1863

3 yrs.

out with company April 25, 1866.

Radcliff, William H

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Ranch, Xavier .'

. . . do . . .

40

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs. Discharged Nov. 23.1863. at Jefferson

City. Mo., of disability.

Reiniger, George

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G ; muster-
ed out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Reinhard, Henry

... do ...

35

Nov. 13, 1861

2 yrs.

Died July 21, 1863, at St. Louis, Mo.

Reller, Henry

... do ...

24

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged April 6, 1863, at Colum-
bus, O.

Riffelmacher, Michael.

. . . do . . .

37

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Rockwell, John

. . . do . . .

43

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; mustered
out with company April 25, 18o6;
veteran.

Roush, Newton J

... do ...

18

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transfered from Co. E; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Sack, William

. . . do . . .

43

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps Sept. 13, 1863.

Salliday, George W....

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 4,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

159

Date of

O oj

Names.

Rank.

<u

Entering the

O f

Remarks.

be
<

Service.

is

Sanders, Benjamin

Private

18

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; discharged
Jan. 20, 1866, of disability; vet-
eran.

Schaefer, John

. . . do . . .

42

Oct. 18, 1861

3yrs.

Discharged Aug. 18, 1862, of disabil-
ity.
Died July 16, 18o2, in hospital at

Schaefer, Joseph

... do ...

32

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Memphis, Tenn.

Schule, Jacob

... do ...

Oct. 1, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured June 25, 1863 ; joined

the Navy .

Schwarz, Conrad

... do ...

43

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Died June 22, 1863, at Vicksburg,

Miss.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Sen Weinberg-, Henry . . .

. . . do . . .

38

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Orleans, La.

Seiz, Theophilus

. . . do . .

28

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Shety , Jacob .x.

... do ...

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured June 26, 1862; ; paroled

prisoner.

Sickles, Lafayette

... do ...

25

Nov. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; captured
May 3, 1864, at battle of Snaggy
Point, La.; mustered out June 30,
1865, at Columbus, O.

Smith, William

... do ...

Dec. 6, 1861

3 yrs.

Spitznagle, Henry

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, 18o6;
veteran.

Stevenson, Thomas K. .

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Steingle, Joseph

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Steimmeier, Frederick. .

.. do ...

20

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 18, 1861

3yrs.

Transferred to Co. G: transferred

from Co. G ; discharged Aug.

16, 1865. for disability: veteran.

Striber, Frederick

. . . do . . .

27

Oct. 18, 18ol

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Titus, John C

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. G; captured
April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine

Cross Roads, La. : mustered out

June .70, 1865, at Colnmbus, O. ;

veteran.

-Thomas, Rees

. . . do . . .

29

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E; captured
May 1, 1863. at battle of Port Gib-
son. Miss.; mustered out with
companv April 25, 1866; veteran.

Thomas, William

... do ...

21

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Sept. 6, 1865.

Thomas, Thomas D

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. E: mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Trailor, Benjamin

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 17, 1861

2 yrs.

Transferred from Co. H; wounded
May 3, 1864, in battle of Snngiry
Point, La.; mustered out with com-
panv April 25, 1866; veteran.

Vollmer, William

... do ...

36

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Died June 16, 1862, at Portsmouth. O.

Weehle, Augustus

... do ...

Jan. 2,1862

3 yrs.

Discharged Aup. 18, 1862, of disa-
bility.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Wegman, Henrv

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Orleans, La.

Will, Michael

... do ...

35

Oct. 18, 1861

3 3-rs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Welty, John

. . . do . . .

18.

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured June 25, 1862; joined the
Navy.

Wetzel, Henry,

... do ...

37

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 15, 1863, at Camp
Dennison, O., of disability.

160

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment .

Names.

Rank.

«5
<

Date of

Entering1 the

Service.

o <u
c °

Remarks.

Weidebrock, Christian.
Williams, Ashley R —

Private
. . . do . . .
... do ...

25
18
19

Oct. 16, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Feb. 3, 1862

3 yrs.

2 yfs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Absent, sick in hospital at Keokuk,
la.

Transferred from Co. E; discharged
Dec. 6, 1864, of disability.

Transferred from Co. E; discharged
March 7, 186b, of disability; vet-
eran.

Captured June 25, 1862; joined the
Navy.

Zwilcher, Engelbert . . .

. . . do . . .

COMPANY C.

Mustered in from Oct. 17, 1861, to Nov. 22, 1861. at Portsmouth, O., bv R. B. Hull, Captain 18th

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out April 25, 1866, at New Orleans, Da., by

A. McAllister, Captain 10th U. S. C. Art.

William B. Williams. . .

Captain

35

Aug. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 14, 1864, by order
of War Department.

William li. bnj-der

. . . do . . .

29

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

out with company April 25, 1866.

Jeremiah P. Wood.

IstLieut

31

Nov. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 17, 1863, at Portsmouth, O.

Moses Rife

. . . do . . .

?4

Nov. 20, 1861

3 vrs.

Transferred from Co. E ; ap-

pointed Regt. Quartermaster .

Christian H. Schaefer..

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co.
A, Jan. 18,1865; mustered out with
company April 25. 1866.

Benjamin Roberts

2d Lieut.

25

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted to 1st Lieutenant Co. B.
June 18, 1863.

James Vandervort

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Sergeant June 18,
1863; to 1st Lieutenant Co. D May
31, 1865; veteran.

Harvey N. Bridwell ....

. . do ...

25

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Sergeant Co. D
May 31, 1865; mustered out with
companv April 25, 1*66.

Abraham Hibbins

IstSergt.

24

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs

Transferred from Co. 1 as 1st Ser-
geant; mustered out with company
April 35, 1866; veteran.

Sergeant

19

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged July 16, 18b3, for wounds
received Mav 1, 1863, in battle of

Port Gibson, Miss.

Andrew S. Drennen

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal July 25. 1862;
Sergeant Aug. 25, 1865; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Thomas L. Evans

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Wouuded May 1, 1863. in battle o.
Port Gibson, Miss.; appointed from
Corporal Mav 1, 1864; mustered out
Nov. 14, 1804,'at New Orleans, La.

Richard D. Evans

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 4. 1S63, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.

Samuel Gohen

. . . do . . .

?8

Oct. 28,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 186b;

veteran.

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal Jan. 1, 1863;
mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

William H. McLaughlin

. . . do . . .

23

Dec. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. i; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

John H. Morris

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted to Sergt. Major Feb. 4,

1865; veteran.

David F. Radcliff e

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; wounded
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; discharged Aug.
22, 1865, of disability; veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

161

Date of

o «

Names.

Rank.

6

Entering the

£ >

Remarks.

be
<

Service.

William Roberts

Sergeant

23

Oct. 17, 1861

3yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

William H. Wait

. . . do . . .

27

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Martin J. Adams

Corporal

19

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal May 1,1864; mus-
tered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

John J. Bussey

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 18o6;

veteran.

George Caldwell

...do ...

24

Oct. 19,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged July 24, 1862, at Cincin-
nati. O., of disability.

Lod wick D. Davis

. . . do . .

20

Oct. 17,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 18o3, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Veteran Reserve Corps .

Thomas D. Davis

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 17,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

David Evans

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 14, 1863, at Chickasaw

Bayou, Miss., of wounds received
May 16, 1863, in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

Daniel Friend

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 24, 1862. at Helena,
Ark., of disability.

James C. Harper

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Luther C. High

. . . do . . .

25

Dec. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Lafayette Holmes

. . . do . . .

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran,

Thomas S. Jones

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; appointed

Corporal May, 1, 1864; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Henry Schump

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Promoted to Com. Sergeant Nov. 1,

Adam Siemon

. .do ...

18

Oct. 31, 1861

1862.
Transferred from Co. I; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

William S. Wilcox

... do . .

25

Nov. 26, 1864

lyr.

Transferred from Co. D; mustered
out Nov. 26, 18o5, at New Orleans,
La.

Promoted to Q. M. Sergeant July 4,

Thomas J. Williams . . .

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

1863.

George M. Gordy

Musician

28

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1S66;
veteran.

George W. Lowery

. . . do . . .

21

Dec. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K Jan. 26. 1864;
discharged June 19, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.; of disability; veteran.

Thomas J. Morris

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 4, 1So4, while on l>oard
steamer John Warner on Red river,
La.; veteran.

Frank Adams

Wagoner

40

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. 26, 1864. at Madison-

ville. La., of disability.

Adamson, Thomas G..

Private

39

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 31, 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., of disability.

Alexander, Zachariah T

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Company I; mus-
tered out with company April 25,
1866: veteran.

Barwhite, William .

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 24, 1864

i yr.

Transferred from Co. D; mustered
out Dec. 15, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.

162

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

o «

Names.

Rank.

4)

Entering the

o >

Remarks.

bo
<

Service.

Bennett, Hosea B

Private

21

Dec. 12, 1861

3 vrs

Transferred from Co. K; veteran.

Berg-man, Andrew J

... do ...

35

Mch. 19, I864j3yrs

Transferred from Co. K ; felo-de-

see at Gretna. La., May 5. 1865.

Black, Charles B

. . . do . . .

iK

Feb. 20, 1865 1 vr.

Mustered out Sept. 5, 18t>5, at St.
Louis, Mo.

Black, Oscar C

. . . do . . .

IS

Nov. 30, 1861

3 vrs

Transferred from Co. I; mustered

out b eb. 3, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.; veteran.

Bland, George H

... do ...

19

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs

Transferred from Co. I; died Dec. 20,

1864, at New Orleans, La.; veteran.

Bochar, John K

. . . do . . .

Nov. 18, 1863

3yrs.

Captured April 8, 1864, at battle of

Sabine Cross Roads, La.; died June
14, 1864, in Rebel Prison at Tvler,
Tex.

Brooks, John J

. . do . . .

35

Dec. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Bowen, William

. . . do . . .

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; wounded
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Brown, Riley

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 17, 1861

3 jrs.

Discharged Oct. 9, 1863, for wounds
received May 1, 1863, in battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.

Bnrt, Thomas J

. . . do . . .

36

Dec. 14, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered

^

out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Campbell, Alexander. . .

... do ...

27

Oct. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Nov. 7,1862, at Helena, Ark.

Carey, Philip

... do ...

19

Nov. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866:
veteran.

Clair, George

. . . do . .

18

Mch. 29, 1*64

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K ; mus-
tered out Aug. 19. 1865, at Camp
Dennison, O.

Cochran, John J

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

Cole, Charles

... do .

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 2, 1862, at Chilli-
cothe, O.

Collins, James A

...do ...

19

Mch. 27, 1865

lyr.

Muste "ed out March 27, 1866, at New
Orle ns, La.

Coriell, Thomas J

. . . do . . .

19

Dec. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; veteran.

Coriell, Elias

. . . do . .

22

Dec. 19, 18bl

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;
veterau.

Crabtree, Joseph S

...do ..

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve
Corps July 1, 1864.

Crabtree, Daniel

...do ...

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Died April 3, 1862, at St. Louis Mis-
souri.

Crabtree, William

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Aug. 31, 1863, at St. Louis. Mo.,
of wounds received Mav 16, 1863, in
battle of Champion Hills, Miss.

Crabtree, Disbury S . . .

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 17, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged Dec. 8, 1862.

Cnmmings, John R

. . do . . .

21

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K, Jan. 26, 1864;
mustered out Nov. 9, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Dairy mple, Smith

. . . do . . .

20

Jan. 2, 1862

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.

Davis, Richard T

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrsj.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Davis, Thomas E

. .do ...

19

Oct. 17, 1861

J yrs.

Mustered out Oct. 4, 19*5, at Camp
Dennison, O; veteran.

Davis, John W

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Mississippi River
Marine Brigade — .

Davis, Reese

... do ... '

19

Oct. 17, 1861

5 yrs.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1«66; veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

163

Date of

T3.2

Names.

Rank.

0)

Entering the

.2 ►

Remarks.

be
<

Service.

3 v

41

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged March 26, 1864, at Alex-
andria, La., of disability; veteran.

Day is, William D

... do ..

18

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured April 8, 1864, at battle of
Sabine Cross Roads, La.; mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, 0;
veteran.

Davis, Jonathan

... do ...

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Dene, Henry

. . . do . . .

22

Nov. 26, 1864

lyr.

Transferred from Co. D; mustered

out Nov. 26, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.
Mustered out Feb. 25, 1866, at New

Dent, John H

... do ...

19

Feb. 24, 1865

1 vr.

Orleans, La.

Desmond, John

. . . do . . .

41

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Dills, Stephen T

... do ...

25

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Dodson, Isaac

.. do ...

22

Nov. 3, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Dolby, James A

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Duvall, David D

. . do ...

29

Feb. 13, 1865

lyr.

Mustered out to date Feb. 26, 1865, at
Columbus, O.

Edwards, Evan

... do ...

26

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1866; veteran.

Edwards, Evan E

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 18, 1863, for wounds
received May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Edwards, William

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Veteran Reserve Corps April 28,

. 1864.

Edwards, David E

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;

■ veteran.

Ellis, Stephen R

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. I; wounded
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Evans, Daniel J

...do...

Jan. 4,1862

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 22, 1864, at New
Orleans, La., of disability ; veteran.

Evans, William T

. . . do . . .

35

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1S0O; veteran.

Evans, Evan D

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Died March 22, 1862, at Crump's
Landing. Tennessee.

Fitch, Edward

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , by order of War

Department.

Gates, David

... do ...

24

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K.; mustered
out March 15, I806, at Columbus, O. ;
veteran.

Gondy, Edward

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out with company April
25, 18o6; veteran.

Gephart, Daniel

. . . do . . .

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K; discharged
Aug. 23, 18b3, at Carrolton, La., of
disability.

Gratigny, Almond F . . . .

. . . do . . .

25

Feb. 15, 1865

lyr.

Mustered out Feb. IS, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Gny nn, William A

... do ...

35

Feb. 25, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K ; mus-
tered out with company April 25,
1866.

Hahn, Lawrence

...do ...

21

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 18^6; vet-
eran.

164

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

£co

Remarks.

Hall, James C.

Halbert, John

Harwood, Thomas .

Hasse, Michael

Hatfield, William..

Henesy, Patrick.

Hied, George

Hill, William S..
Hoyt, William B .

Hudson, Samuel L .
Hudson Elijah H..

Hunley, Joseph

Hunter, Grant B . . .
Jackson, Robert H .
Jones, Evans E —
Jones, Daniel

Jones, Isaac J

Jones, William J.

Kline, Nicholas. .

Knowland, Lutilius
Lacy, Daniel

Leniger, William.
Lewis, Henry H..
Lewis, Joshua

Lloyd, Peter

Lowery, Francis M.
McCann, Thomas J .

Private

McDonald, Andrew C.
McManaway, Allen . . .

do .
do .
do .
do .

do .

do .

do
do .

do

do

do

do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do
. do

do
, do
, do

. do

. do
.do

. do
.do

18

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 26, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 31, 1861

Nov. 15, 1864

Oct. 26, 1861

Oct.
Oct.

Feb.

Feb.

Oct.

Oct.

Sept.

Oct.

Oct.

17, 1861

19, 1861

20, 1865
18, 1865
17, 1861
17, 1861
16, 1864
17, 1861
17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 25, 1861

Feb. 27, 1864

Nov. 30, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Dec. 7,1861
Oct. 25, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 22, 1861

Sept. 6,1864
Nov. 30, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

3yrs.

3 yrs.
3yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

iyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs
3 yrs,

lyr.

Iyr.

3 yrs

3 yrs

lyr.

3 yrs

3 yrs

3 yrs,
3 yrs

3 yrs

o yrs
3 yrs

3 yrs
3 yrs
3 yrs

3 yrs

lyr.
3 yrs

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Captured May 5, 1864, on board steam-
er John Warner, Red river. La.;
mustered out June 30 1865, at Colum-
bus, O.; veteran.

Discharged Nov. 26, 1862, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. D; mustered
out Jan. 15, 1866, at New Orleans,
La.

Discharged Jan. 16, 1.863, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Ir eb. 20, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Feb. 18, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1866; veteran.

Mustered out with company April
25, 1866: veteran.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Died June 13, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.; veteran.

Wounded June 8, 1863, in siege of
Vicksburg", Miss.; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Died April 10, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.
Mustered out with company April
25, 1866; veteran.

Transferred from Co. K ; mus-
tered out with companv April 25,
1866.

Transferred from Co. K; veteran.

Killed , in an affray at Ports-
mouth, O.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out Jan. 25, 1866, at Columbus, O.;
veteran.

Died Feb. 8, 1864, at Cairo, 111., of
wounds received May 16, 1863, in
battle of Champion Hills, Miss.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out May 30, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.; veteran.

Transferred from Co. H; mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbns, O.;
veteran.

Mustered out Sept. 6, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Transferred from Co. K: captured
April 8, 18t>4, at battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; mustered out
June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.

Discharged Jan. 26, 18b3, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

:■

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

165

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

o 6

■o.a

.2 >
£80

Remarks.

Martin, John .

Matthews, Thomas.
Moore, Samnel H. . .

Morg-an, Evan

Morris, William

Morris, James W

Murray, John P

Newcomb, Benjamin F.

Nolte, Henry.

O'Reilly, Martin

Patterson, Joseph H .
Pearson, William H.
Phillips, Lewis

Phillips, Daniel

Plummer, Henry C.
Richards, Henry

Riggs, Joseph. .
Roberts, Moses

Roberts, Jeremiah.
Russell, Emanuel .

Samuel, William

Schlichter, Christian.
Scott, Peter

Sherwood, Jacob .

Simer, Andrew J. P . . .
Southerland, David

Spekman, Thomas...
Springer, Henry N...

Private

. do
. do

do .
do .
do .
do .

do ...

do .

do .

do .
do .
do .

do
do
do

do

do

do
do

do
do
do

do

. . . do .
. . do .

... do...
.. do ...

29 Oct. 27, 1864 1 yr.

18

Oct. 17, 1861
April 1, 1865

Oct. 17, 1861

Feb. 10, 1862

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Dec. 3,1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 14, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Mch. 7,1865

Nov. 20, 1861

Dec. 27, 1861
Feb. 22, 1864
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 30, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Jan. 21, 1864
Oct. 26, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Nov. 16, 1861
Jan. 2,1862

Oct. 15, 1861

28 Dec. 16, 1861
18 Nov. 6, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 26. 1861

3 yrs.
lyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

lyr.

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.

3 yrs,

3 vrs,

Transferred from Co. D; mustered
out Dec. 17, 1865, at New Orleans,
La.

Died April lc, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.

Mustered out March 31, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Died Dec. 21, 1863, in hospital at
Cincinnati. O.

Mustered out Feb. 9, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.; veteran.

Discharged Nov. 15, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Discharged Sept. 18, 1862, at Helena,
Ark., of disability.

Transferred from Co. K; captured
May 5, 1864, on Red River Ex-
pedition; mustered out June 30,
1865, at Columbus, O.

Discharged Sept. 21, 1863, at St.
Louis, Mo., for wounds received
May 16, 1863, in battle of Champion
Hill, Miss.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Promoted to Com. Sergeant Aug. 15,
1862.

Mustered out March 7, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Discharged Dec. 6, 1862, at Helena,
Ark., of disability.

Died Aug., 25, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Transferred from Co. K .

Killed May lo, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Died Oct. 17, 1862, at St. Louis, Mis-
souri.

Wounded April 8, 1864, in battle of
Sabine Cross Roads, La.; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veterat .

Mustered out June 30, 1865, at Colum-
bus, O.

Transferred from Co. K; captured
May 5, 1804, on Red River E.\]>e-
ditfon; mustered out June 30, 18o5,
at Columbus, O.

Mustered out with company April 25,
1866; veteran.

Mustered out with company April 25,
18t>6; veteran.

Transferred from Co. K; wounded
April 8, 1804, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; veteran.

Transferred from Co. I; wounded
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La.; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. K; veteran.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered ont
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Wounded May 1, 1863, in battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.; transferred to
Veteran Reserve Corps .

Transferred from Co. I; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

166

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering the
Service.

£c«

Remarks.

Stamm, Christian ..
Stewart, George M.

Stewart, Oliver P

Thacker, Fountain . . .

Thomas, Daniel

Thomas, Jonathan P.
Thompson, John

Tripp, George

"Walker, James

Walker, Willis D.
White, Jacob

Williams, John H .
Williams, Evan E.
Williams, John

Williams, Thorns M.
Willmer, Philip

Wilson Sylvester

Wilson, William A.
Yelley, Benjamin . .
Yonng, Berry

Private
. . do . .

do ..
do ..

do ...

do
do

do ..
do ..

do
do

do ..

do .

do ..

do ..
do ..

do ..

do ...
do ...
do ...

Feb. 10, 1864

Nov. 30, 1861

Mch. 27, 1865
Nov. 7,1861

Dec. 13, 1861

Jan. 10, 1862
Dec. 10, 1861

Nov. 6,1861

Oct. 26, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 17,1861

Oct. 17, 1861

Nov. 14, 1861
Jan. 3,1865

Oct. 20, 1861

Oct. 25, 1861
Dec. 7,1861
Mch. 14, 1865

3 yrs.

3yrs.

lyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 vrs.
lyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

lyr.

Transferred from Co. K ; mus-
tered out with company April 25,

1866.
Transferred from Co. I ; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Mustered out March 27, 1866, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. I; mustered

out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;

veteran.
Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Promoted to Chaplain Sept. 9, 1862.
Transferred from Co. K; mustered

out with company April 25, 1866;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. I; mustered

out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;

veteran.
Transferred from Co. K; captured

April 8, 1864, at battle of Sabine

Cross Roads, La.; mustered out

June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.;

veteran.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Discharged Dec. — , 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., on writ of habeas corpus.

Mustered out Feb. 27, 1866, at Colum-
bus, O.; veteran.

Mustered out with company April 25,
1866. "

Transferred from Co. I; died April
9, 1864 at Camp Ford, Tex., of
wound' received April 8, 1864, in
battle of Sabine Cross Roads, La.;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. I; mustered out
with company April 25, 1866; vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. K; mustered
out with company April 25, 1866;
veteran.

Mustered out March 17, 1866, at New
Orleans, La.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

167

COMPANY D

Original Company.— Mastered in from Oct. 8, 1861, to Nov. 7, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., Columbu9,

O., and Gallipolis, O., by J. R. Edie, Major 15th Infantry, U. S. A. ; R. B. Hull, 1st

Lieutenant 18th Infantry, U. S. A., and A. B. Dodd, Captain 15th Infantry,

U. S. A. Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans, La., by .

New Company.— Mustered in Nov. 22, 1864, for one year, at Camp Chase, O., -by W. P. Richard-
son, Colonel 25th O. V. I. Mustered out Nov. 22. 1865. at New Orleans, La.,
by A.. McAllister, Captain 10th U. S. C. Art.

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the

Service

£o5

Remarks.

David B. Lodwick.
Henry E. Jones . .

Captain
. . do . . .

Levi M. Willits do

Charles W. Veach ! 1st Lieut,

William L. Porter ... do

Orry H. "Wadsworth j . . . do

James Vandervort i ... do

MurtyW. Lodwick.
Augustus S. Chute . .

Christian H. Schaefer.
Harvey N. Bridwell...

Thomas S. Bennett.

James C. Bingham.

Joseph C. Burriss.
Thomas H. Cox...

George W. Cox...

Henry Dunlap.

Aaron Hamilton

George W. Neff

James U. Pease

Stephen B. Toburn.

Amos Fudor

Nathan T. Veach.
Frank Wallace...

Samuel L. Wood .

d Lieut.
.. do ...

1st Sergt.
... do ...

do

Sergeant

...do
...do

do

do

do
do
do

do

do
do
do

do

36

Aug. 11, 1861
Sept. 28, 1861

Nov. 23, 1864

Oct. 18, 1861
Sept. 5, 1862

Nov. 23, 1864
Oct. 17, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861
Oct. 8,1861

Oct. 5,1861
Oct. 21,1861

Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 5, 1801

Oct. 16, 1861

Nov. 30, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Sept. 24, 1864
Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 8, 1801

Oct. 5, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

lyr.

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.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

lyr.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Resigned July 27, 1863.

Transferred from Co. A Aug. 8, 1863;
detached on Brigade and Division
Staff until Mav 8, 1864: promoted to
Lieut. Colonel Jan. 18, 1865.

Mustered out with company Nov. 22,
1865.

Discharged June 2. 1862.

Detached on Major General Thomas'
staff; resigned Nov. 10, 1864.

Resigned May 10, 1865.

Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Co. C,
May 31, 1865; mustered out with
company Nov. 22, 1S05; veteran.

Mustered out Sept. 3, 1862.

Promoted from 1st Serjeant Oct. 3,
1862; killed May 16, 1863, in battle
of Champion Hills, Miss.

Appointea from Serereant Oct. 3, 1862;
promoted to 2d Lieutenant Co. A
May 16, 1863.

Captured May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; 1st Ser*
geant Aug. 11, 1863; transferred to
Co. A Jan. 26, 1864: promoted to 2d
Lieutenant Co. C, May 31. 1865; vet-
eran.

Transferred from Co. B, Dec. 5, 1864;
mustered out with company Nov.
22, 1865; veteran.

Appointed from Corporal Aug. 11,
1863; transferred to Co. A Jan. 26,
1864: veteran.

Died Oct. 8, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo..

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Transferred from Co. A ; mus-
tered out with company Nov. 22,
1865; veteran.

Transferred from Co. B; mustered
out with company Nov. 22, 1865;
veteran.

Discharged Oct. — , 1863, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Transferred from Co. A; mustered
out June 30, 1865, at Columbus, O.

Transferred from Co. A; mustered
out with company Nov. 22, 18o5; vet-
eran.

Promoted to Sergeant Major July 23,
1863.

Mustered out July 3, 1865.

Discharged Oct. — ,1802, of disability.

Killed Dec. 11, 1862, in camp at Helena,
Ark.

Died May 19, l864,of wounds re-
ceived May 5, 1864, in action at
Cheney ville, La.; veteran.

168

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

be
<

Date of

Entering- the
Service

O <u

n.'d

o >

v &
#00

Remarks.

Corporal
... do ...

21
22

41
44

20

22

36
35
18
19

21

19

30
20
23

34

25
19

1<J

18
18

45

18

18

21

34
21
26
30

27

Oct. 24, 1861
Oct. 8,1861

Nov. 10, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Nov. 7,1861
Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 11, 1864
Oct. 16, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Nov. 11, 1864
Oct. 27, 1864
Nov. 4,1864
Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 13, 1864

Nov. 26, 1864
Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 21, 1861

Oct. 11, 1861

Nov. 17, 1864

Nov. 22, 1864

Oct. 21,1861

Oct. 8. 1861
Oct. 14, 1864
Oct. 24, 1861
Oct. 8, 1861

Oct. 10, 1864

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
lyr.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

iyr.

lyr.
lyr.
3 yrs.

lyr.

lyr.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

1 yr.

1 yr.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
1 vr.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

lyr.

Dec. 1864 . ; mustered out with

company Nov. 22, 1865; veteran.

Wounded "May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; killed
April 8, 1864, in battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, La. ; veteran.

Appointed Corporal Nov. — , 1862;
transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Wounded and captured May 16, 1863,
at battle of Champion Hills, Miss.;
transferred from Co. A, Battalion,
Dec. 6, 1864; mustered out Jan. 30,
1865, at Columbus, O.; veteran.

... do ...

. . . do . . .

. do ...

. . . do . . .

tered out June 30, 1865, at Colum-
bus, O.; veteran.

Appointed Corporal , 1863; mus-
tered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New Or-
leans, La.

Discharged April, 4, 1863, of disabil-
ity.

Died March 31, 1862, at Crump's
Landing-, Tenn.

Lewis Comer

Joseph R. Cross

... do ...
... do ...
... do ...

James M. Holliday

David A. Loveland

. . . do . . .
. . . do . . .
. . do . .

Orleans, La.
Transferred from Co. A Dec 6, 1864

; mustered out with company

Nov. 22, 1865: veteran.
Died June 3, 1863, of wounds received

May 16, 1863, in battle of Champion

Hills Miss.
Mustered out Nov. 11, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.

Silas R. Moon

. do ..

John C. Seamon

. . . do . . .
. . . do . . .

Orleans, La.

Mustered out Oct. 12, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Captured June 5, 1863, at Champion
Hills, Miss.; transferred from Co.
A Dec. 6 1864; mustered out with
company Nov. 22, 1865; veteran.

Mustered "out Oct. 12, 1865, at New

. do .

William S. Wilcox

. . . do . . .
. . do . .

Orleans. La.
Transferred to Co. C Nov. 21. 1865.
Discharged Nov. 8, 1862, at Keokuk,

la., of disability.
Appointed Corporal Nov. — , 1863;

transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864:

veteran.

Transferred to Co. A .

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

. . do . .

Elias A. Branham

Elias A. Bridwell

Musician
. . . do . . .

Jeremiah M. Howell

Charles H. Nelson .....

. . . do . .
... do ...
. . do . . .

veteran.
Died March 27, 1862, at Crump's

Landing-, Tenn.
Mustered out Nov. 17. 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out with company Nov. 22,

1865.
Captured Mav 16, 1863, at battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Henry C. Edgington —
Adams, Jacob L

Wagoner

Private
... do ...

Allen, Robert

. . do . . .

... do

Died July 1, 1863, at Memphis, Tenn.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Atkinson, John

. . . do . . .

1

Corps .

Mustered out Oct. 9, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

169

Date of

•H .

O 0)

Names.

Rank.

«J

Entering the

.2 ►*

Remarks.

tx

<

Service.

1J «

Avery, Joseph J

Private

19

Sept. 22, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Avery, John M

. ... do . . .

18

Oct. 1, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Bacon, John A

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 21,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged May 8, 1862, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Bacon, William'G .......

... do . . .

25

Oct. 21,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Badger, William

. do ...

31

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Barhite, William

... do ...

19

Oct. 24, 1864

lyr.

Transferred to Co. C, Nov. 21, 1865.

Bates, John

... do ...

21

Nov. 4, 1864

lyr.

Beavers, Andrew

. . . do . . .

42

Oct. 21,1861

3 yrs.

Died May 30, 1862, in Scioto county,
Ohio.

Berger, Martin I,

... do ...

36

Oct. 12,1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 11, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Bradfield, Washington.

. . . do . . .

20

Oct 5, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Bradfield, William

... do ...

22

Oct. 5, 1861

3 yrs

Killed May 5, 18(4, on board steamer
John Warner on Red river, La.;
veteran.

Brawham, Edward

. . . do . . .

42

Oct. 21,1861

3yrs.

Discharged Nov. — , 1862, of disabil-
ity.
Discharged May 19, 1865, at New Or-

Brenner, Frederick

. . . do . . .

28

Nov. 7,1864

lyr.

leans, La., of disability.

Cadwell, Garrett

... do ...

25

Oct. 14, 1864

1 vr.

Cadwell, Jesse F

. . . do . .

24

Oct. 9, 1864

1 vr.

Carr, Anthony

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 13, 1864

lyr.

Casey, James

. . . do . . .

2*

Nov. 11, 1864

1 vr.

.

Choquett, Henry

. . do ...

22

Nov. 22, 1864

1 yr.

Mustered out Nov. 22, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Clarke, William J

. . do ...

21

Oct. 14, 1864

lyr.

Clefford, John M

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 21, 1S61

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

Clefford, Morgan

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

ClefEord, Luke

. . . do . . .

35

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.

Cochran, Hiram C

. . . do . . .

38

Oct. 15, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 15, 1865, at New
Orleans, rwa.

Colvin, John

. . . do . .

33

Oct. 21, 1861

3 vrs.

Died April 17, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.

Cook, Joseph

Cook, Benjamin F

... do ...

34

Nov. 17, 1864

l'vr.

. . . do . . .

43

Sept. 28, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out June 10, 186% at New

Orleans, La.

Conwell, Thomas D ..

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. :0, 1864

1 yr.

Mustered out June 21, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Crab, Hale

... do ...

29

Oct. 24, 1864

t vr.

Crogman, Antone

. . . do . . .

30

Oct. 11, 1*64

iyr.

Discharged Aug. 16, 1865, at New
Orleans, La., of disability.

Cross, Thomas L

... do ...

23

Oct. 21,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Cross, Wilson

... do ...

29

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Cross, Allen R

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 19, 1864, at Algiers,
La., of disability.

Daniels, John

... do . .

18

Oct. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.

Deno, Henry

... do ...

22

Nov. 26, 1864

1 vr.

Transferred to Co. C.Nov. 21, 1865,

Devine, James A

. . do . . .

25

Nov. 11, 1864

1 yr.

Mustered out Nov. 11, 1865, at New
Orleans. La.

Dodds, Thomas B

... do .

44

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16. 1863, in battle of Cham-
pion Hills, Miss.
Killed Mav 16, 1863, in battle of Cham-

Eaton, Turner

... do ...

31

Oct. 8. 1861

3yr*.

pion Hills, Miss.

Ellison, William G. L..

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 1, 1863, in battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered out
Nov. 12, 1H(.4, at New Orleans. La.

Eno, Cleophius

... do ...

23

Oct. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. — , 1863, of disability.

Estill, William

... do ...

45

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 13, 1862, at Helena,
Ark., of disabilitv.

170

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering' the
Service.

o <u

o >

Remarks.

Evans, Perminius .

Farrell, George W.
Ferguson, Reason .

Ferris, James

Flanagan, Michael.
Fricks, John

Private

Gil more, Andrew
Galliger, John ...

Goldsby, John . . ,
Graves, George W .

Gregor, Thomas..
Grenle, Aaron

Hahn, William

Hamilton, Lewis H...

Hammond, John G...

Harrington, George . .

Hays, Henry

Henesy, Patrick

Henderson, William. .

Henry, William

Hemenis, Matthew . . .

Herr, Peter F

Hildebrand, James

Hoffman; Albert.
Hoffman, Ogden.

Hunsucker, Henry

Hntton, Milton
Hutton, John . .
Irwin, Albert . .

Jeckel, Bernard.
Jones, Charles . .
Jones, John

Kantz, Lewis P. ..
Keyser, Abner

King, Robert H

Lamb, Benoni

Leonard, George..
Leaning, Britton .

Lenning, Melancthon

Long, Charles .
Long, Isaac N.

do .
do .

do
do
do

do

do

do
do

do
do

do

do

do
do
do

do

do
do
do

do
do

do
do

do

do
do
do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do

do

do

do

do
do

Oct. 22, 1864

Nov. 4, 1864
Oct. 5, 1861

Oct.

Nov.
Oct.

Oct.

Oct.

Oct.
Oct.

Nov.
Oct.

Oct.

Oct.

Nov.

No 7.

Oct.

Nov.
Oct.
Oct.

Nov.

Oct.

Sept.

Nov.
Nov.

20, 1864

3, 1864
10, 1864

8, 1861

8, 1861

14, 1864
5, 1861

5,1864

12, 1S64

10, 1864

15, 1861

17, 1864

4, 1864

13, 1864

15, 1*64
1, 1864
8, 1861
1, 18b4

15, 1864
30, 1864

5,1864
22, 1864

Oct. 21, 1861

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

Oct.

Sept.

Nov.

Sept.
Oct.

Nov.

Oct.

Nov.
Sept.

21, 1861
21, 1861
5, 1861

11, 1864

20, 1864
10, 1864

24,1864

21, 1861

14, 1864

8, 1861

3, 1864
26, 1864

Oct. 1,1864

Oct.

Sept.

25. 1864
24, 1864

lyr.

lyr.
3 yrs

lyr.

lyr.
lyr,

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

lyr.

3 yrs.

lyr.
lyr.

lyr.

3 yrs.

lyr.
lyr.
lyr.

lyr.

lyr.

3 yrs.

lyr.

lyr.
lyr.

lyr.
lyr.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

1 yr.

lyr.

lyr.

lyr.
3 yrs.

1 yr.
3 yrs.

lyr.

lyr.

lyr.

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 25, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.-

Discharged August 3, 1864, at New
Of leans, La., for wounds received
May 16, 1S(>3, in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

Mustered out Oct. 10, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Died May 3, 1862, at Vinton Furnace,

O.
Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Discharged May 3, 1862, at Louisville,
Ky., of disability.

Mustered out Oct. 11, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Oct. 9, 1865. at New

Orleans. La.
Reduced from Hospital Steward :

discharged June — . 1863, at Galli-

polis, O., of disability. '
Mustered out Nov. 17, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 4, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Oct. 13, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Transferred to Co. C, Nov. 21, 1865.

Mustered out Nov. 1, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 22. 1865.
Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New

Orlear s, La.

Mustered out Nov. 22, 1865, at New

Orleans. La.
Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Died Sept. 15. 1862, at Helena, Ark.
Discharged Sept. 30. 1862, at Helena,

Ark., of disabilitv.
Mustered out Oct.' 11, 1865, at New

Orleans. La.
Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 10, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.
Died April 21, 1805. at St. Louis. Mo.
Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Mustered out Mav 30, 1865, at Mobile,

Ala.
Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Mustered out July 3, 18t>5, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New

Orleans, La.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

171

Date of

O a;

Names.

Rank.

<u

Entering the

o >

Remarks.

<

Service.

1

Lukemire, John

Private

44

Oct. 1, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 6, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

McCormick, John

...do ...

18

Oct. 1, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at St. Louis,

Mo.
Mustered out Oct. 18, 1865, at New

McDonald, George

. . . do . .

43

Oct. 18, 1864

lvr.

Orleans, La.

McFadden, PhilomenB.

...do ...

30

Nov. 17, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Nov. 17, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

McMahon, Thomas —

...do ...

27

Oct. 30, 1864

1 vr.

McMnrrj-, Samuel W . . .

. . . do . . .

45

Oct. 8, 1X61

3 yrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disabilitv.

Madden, William

. . . do . .

20

Nov. 30, 1864

1 vr.'

Maloney , John

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 20, 18o4

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 20, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Marshall, Alpheus

. . do .

18

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Martin, John

... do ..

29

Oct. 27, 1864

1 vr.

Transferred to Co. C Nov. 21, 1865.

Martin, Charles S

. . . do . .

18

Oct. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded , 1863. in siege of Vicks-

burg, Miss.; transferred to Co. A
Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Millirons, Thomas J...

... do . .

23

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Mills, Zachariah

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 1, 1863, in battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered out
Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans, La.

Mover, Wilber C

..do ...

18

Oct. 19, 1864

1 vr.

Mustered out Nov. 22. 1865.

Mulford, Jasper

...do ...

18

Oct. 8, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 8, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Murphy, Samuel

. . . do . .

22

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Neff, Eli

...do ...

37

Nov. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

iyr.

Discharged , 1802, of disability.

Ocans, William

... do . .

21

Oct. 20, 1864

Odle, James

. . do . .

18

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.; transferred
to Co A Jan. 26, 18o4; veteran.

Owens, John

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 18, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 18, 1805, at New
Orleans. La.

Page, "William

... do ...

23

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Died April 10, 1862, at West Union, O.

Page, Lorenzo D

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Park, Ruf us H

... do ...

34

Oct. 9,1864

lyr.

Discharged Nov. 18. 1864, at Camp
Chas. , O.. of disabilitv.

Parr, William

. . . do . . .

30

Nov. 2,1864

lyr.

Mustered out Nov. 2, 1865, at New
Orleans. La.

Pickle, Russell

. . . do . . .

20

Nov. 5,1864

lyr.

Discharged Jan. 26, 1865, at New
Orleans, La., of disability.

Pickle, Rosemond

... do ...

28

Nov. 5,1864

1 vr.

Phalwine, Jacob

... do ..

18

Oct. 17, 1864

lyr.

Died Aug. 26, 1865, in Granville, La.

Pieman, John C

...do ...

34

Oct. 13, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Nov. 22, 1805, at New
Orleans. La.

Price, James C

...do ...

25

Sept. 30, 1864

lyr.

Died April 21, 1865, at New Orleans,

La.
Mustered out Aug. 16, 1865, at New

Rankin, Enoch P

. . . do . . .

26

Nov. 14, 1864

lyr.

Orleans, La.

Reinkie, John

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 11, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 11, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Russell, James N

. . do . .

30

Oct. 5, 1861

3 yrs.

Discliar -d Dec. 4, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., ot sability.

Sands, James

... do ...

20

Nov. 5,1864

lvr.

Sayers, John

. . . do . .

19

Nov. 1,1864

1 vr.

Schiniansk}-, Lewis

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 3, 1804

1 yr.

Mustered out Oct. 12, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Shaw, Jonathan

. . . do . . .

34

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Sheahan, John

. . . do . . .

26

Nov. 4, 1864

lvr.

Sheppard, Leonard

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 20, 1863, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disabilitv.

Sheppard, Alexander...
Shidler, John L

... do ...

38

Oct. 8, 1801

2 yrs.

Discharged — . 18o2. of disability.

. . . do . . .

27

Oct. 21, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 21, 1805, at New Or-

leans, La.

172

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

If

Names.

Rank.

U

Entering the

Remarks.

be

<

Service

Shrader, Frederick

Private

18

Oct. 3, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 11, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Simpkins, Albert

... do ...

25

Oct. 7, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Oct. 7, 1865, at New Or-
leans, L,a.

Simpson, Win. H. H . . . .

... do ...

21

Nov. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills. Miss.; transferred
to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864; Veteran.

Slamaker, George

... do ...

23

Oct. 27, 1864

1 vr.

Slaymaker, Georg-e

Smith Allen G

... do ...

23

Oct. 27, 1864

1 vr.

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Died March 11. 1862, at Cincinnati, O.

SuiHL, J iidson

. . do ...

37

Oct. 27, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out May 25, 1865, at New
Orleans, La.

Smith, Henry

... do ...

22

Nov. 4, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Aug. 3, 1865, at St.
Louis, Mo.

Smith, William

... do ...

22

Oct. 15, 1864

lvr.

Smith, William

... do ...

21

Oct. 18, 1*64

lyr.

Snively, John

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26,. 1864;
veteran.

Somers, Charles

... do ...

18

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , 1861, by civil author-
ity.

Sorlev, James

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 14, 1864 |1 yr.

Spence, Thomas

... do ..

28

Nov. 3, 186411 yr.

Stephens, Wm. H

... do ...

18

Oct. 10, 1864

i yr-

Mustered out Oct. 10, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Stephens, James E

... do ...

20

Oct. 28, 1864

I vr.

Stockham, John

. . do . . .

18

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1863. at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

Storer, Charles V

... do ..

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 13, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disabilitv.

Sturg-eon, Henderson . . .

... do ...

33

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Sturgeon, James

. . . do . . .

26

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
. veteran.

Sutton, Oswell

. . . do . . .

44

Sept. 27, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Thompson, Charles

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 3, 1864

1 vr.

Tucker, William

... do ..

18

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged . 1862. of disabilitv.

Veach, George W

... do ...

23

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged May 3, 1S62, at Louisville,
Kv., of disabilitv.

Veach, John E

. . . do . . .

18

Oct 21,1861

3 yrs.

Died May 20, 1863, of wounds received
May 16, 1863, in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

Veach, Francis

. . do . . .

18

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Vennatti, Hezekiah

... do ...

43

Oct. 8, 1861

2 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Walker, Charles

... do ...

27

Nov. 5, 1864 1 yr.

Walker, James

. . . do . . .

n

Nov. 4, 18(.4

1 vr.

Wallace, Elisha S

... do ...

27

Oct. 8, 1861

3 y rs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

... do

19

Oct. 25, 1864

lyr.
1 vr.

Ward, Barnev

... do ...

23

Oct. 13, 1864

Watson, Albert

... do ...

21

Nov. 3, 1*64

lyr.

Wesley, William

.. . do . ..

17

Oct. 12, 1864

1 yr.

Mustered out Oct. 12, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

West, Robert

...do...

25

Oct. 15, 1864

1 vr.

Mustered out Oct. 15, 1865, at New Or-

leans, La.

Whittaker, Henry

... do ...

35

Sept. 28, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, at St.
Louis, Mo.

Williams, Henry

... do ...

19

Oct. 8, 1861

3 vrs.

Died Jan. 25, 1862, at Portsmouth, O.

Wilson, Robert

... do ...

18

Oct. 19, 1864

1 vr.

Williams. John

... do ...

23

Nov. 17, 18(>4

1 yr.

Wilson, James

. . . do . . .

2>

Nov. 4, 1864

lvr.

... do ...

27

Oct. 10, 1864

1 vr.

Winchell, Israel

. . . do . . .

Oct. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , 1861, by civil author-
ity.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

173

Date of

O 0)

Names.

Rank.

V

Entering- the

o*>

Remarks.

<

Service.

2 a)

Winterstein, John

Private

19

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disability.

Wood, Alfred T

. do ...

Mch. 17, 1862

3 vrs.

Discharged Nov. 12. 1864, at New Or-

•

leans, La., of disa ilitv; veteran.

Woods, William

... do ...

23

Oct. 7, 1864

1 yr.

Mustered out Oct. 7, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

Wjatt, Benjamin F . . . .

... do ...

18

Sept. 22, 1864

lyr.

Mustered out July 3, 1865, at New Or-
leans, La.

COMPANY E.

Mustered in Nov. 28, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., by R. B. Hull, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New Orleans, La., by Thomas R. Rodman, A. C. M.

John Herbert Evans —

Captain

25

Aug. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 19, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Moses Rife

1st Lieut.

24

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 18o3, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; appointed
Regt. Quartermaster Sept. 1, 1863.

John J. Markham

. . . do . . .

25

Oct. 15, 1861

3 3*rs.

Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from 1st
Sergeant March 18, 1S63; to 1st
Lieutenant May 9, 1864; mustered
out Nov. 19, 18o4, at New Orleans,
La.

Resigned Aug. 5. 1862.

James K. Campbell

d Lieut.

25

Oct. 15, 1861

3 vrs.

James L. O. Huston

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 13, 1»61

3 yrs.

Promoted from Principal Musician
Sept. 6, 1862; resigned April 17, 1863.

David W. James

1st Sergt

25

Oct. 15,1861

3 yrs

Appointed from Serjeant June 1,
1SG4; transferred to Co. B ; vet-
eran.

Sergeant

V,

Nov. 2, 1861

3 vrs.

Killed Mav 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills. Miss.

... do ...

21

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

.do ..

23

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Trausfe -red to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Corporal

23

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed Mav 1. 1863, in battle of Port

Gibson, Mississippi.

Robert M. Fulton

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 9,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

George Grindley

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

. do .

27

21
20
24

Nov. 2, 1861

Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Promoted to Com. Sergeant Julv 4,

do ...

1803.
Discharged . of disability.

. do ..

Died Sept. 24, 1862, at Helena. Ark.

Henry Martin

. . . do . . .

Died Julv 2'). 1863, at Evansville, Ind..

of wounds received Mav lo. 181*3, in

battle of Champion Hills. Miss.

David Mulholland

.. do ...

27

Nov. 2. 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 3, L8o2, of disability.

J. Melvin Bing

Musician

19

Nov. 2, ISol

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 2(», 18o4;
veteran.

J. Ernest Bing-

... do ...

IS

Nov. 2,1861

3 vrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1804;

veteran.

Charles N. Clinger

. . . do . . .

15

Aug 15, 1864

3 vrs.

Transferred to Co. B .

Allen, Isaac

Private

40

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. 8. 1803, at Helena,
Ark., of disabi itv.

Allen, William

do .

"\9

Jan. 2, 1862
Oct. 15, 1*61

3 yrs.
3 vrs.

Died Oct. 22. 1862, at Helena. Ark.

Barneatt, John

... do ...

Discharged , 1802. of disability.

Bevan, Benjamin

... do ...

19

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Oct. 17, 18o2, at St. Louis, Mo.

Bing, Charles H

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 2, 18ol

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 2o, 18o4;

veteran.

174

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

o J

.2 >

Remarks.

Brown^ John

Brown, George

Chafings, Richard

Clinger, Samuel

Cook, Leonard

Dairy mple, Lorenzo D.
Daniels, David

Davis, Jenkin

Davis, Thomas J.

Davis, Charles H.

Deal, William

Dickason, John W . .

Dickey, William

Dowler, Francis M.

Edwards, Abram . . .

Erwio, Francis.
Evans, John E..

Evans, Evan E —
Evans, Wm. E

Evans, John H.
Evans, Evan O

Evans, Daniel J ...
Ferris, Joshua A . .

Fulton, Oliver

George, Archibald .

Goldsmith, Henry M.

Gordon, John

Griffiths, Rees

Gross, Abner . ,

Guy, John W

Guy, Alvah

Harris, William

Hickson, Benjamin.

Hix, Eli

Hughes, George

Hughes, William

Hughes, James

James, Alfred, Jr

Jenkins, Thomas

Private

.... do ...
... do ...
. . do ...
. . do . .
.. do ...
. . do . . .

do ..
do ..

do

do
do

do
do

do

do
do

do

do

do
do

do
do
do
do

.. do

do
do

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..
. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

. do ..

Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 11, 1861

Oct. IS 1861

Nov. 12, 1861

Oct. 15,1861

Nov. 15, 1861
Nov. 15, 1861

Jan. 1, 1862

July 8,1864
Oct. 15,1801
Nov. 2, 1S61
Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861

Dec. 5, 1861
Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 15, 1861

Oct. 15, 1361
Oct. 15, 1S61

Oct. 15, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861
Nov. 2, 1861
Nov. 2,1861

Nov. 13, 1861

Nov. 18, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861

Nov. 9,

Nov. 2,

Dec. 5,

Nov. 15,

Oct. 25,

Nov. 28.
Oct. 25,

1861
1861
1861
1861
1861

3yrs.

3yrs,

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.
3 yrs.

3 yrs,

3 vrs
3 yrs,

3 yrs,
3 yrs,
3 yrs,
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs,

j> yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

1861 3 vrs
1861 1 3 yrs

Nov. 15,1861 |3yrs

Nov. 15,

Nov. 11,

Oct. 15, 1861 [3 yrs.

1861 3 vrs,

|
1861 3 yrs,

I Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.
Mustered out Nov. 12, 1804, at New

Orleans. La.
Discharged Jan. 13. 1864, at Algiers,

La., of disability.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged , 1861, by writ of

habeas corbus.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Died Feb. 25. 1863, at Helena, Ark.
Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; ; trans-
ferred to Co. B Jan. 2o, 1864; veteran.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co B Nov. 19 1864.
| Died Oct 14, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged May 18, 1863, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.

Discharged , 1862. of disability.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged Aug. 24. 1863, at Camp

Dennison, O., of disability.
Died. March 15, 1863, at St. Louis, Mo.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Died Oct. 4, 1862. at Helena, Ark.
Died Mav 31, 1862, at Cincinnati, O.
Died Nov. 4, 1862. at Helena, Ark.
Died June 5, 18o3, of wounds received

May 16. 1863, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.
Promoted to Q. M. Sergeant Sept.

28, 1862.
Died Feb. 9, 1862. at Portsmouth, O.
Wounded Mas- 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. B, Jan. 2o. 1864; veteran.
Discharged Jan. 17, 1863, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 18o4;

veteran.
Discharged Nov. 14, 1862, at Keokuk,

la., of disability.
Discharged Feb. 9, 1S64, at Madison-

ville, La., of disability.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Died Sept. 29, 1S63, at Helena, Ark.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B. Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged Jan. 21, 1S63, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

175

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the

Service.

cu«

Remarks.

Johnson, Thomas

Private

18

Oct. IS, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 27, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Jones, John G

... do ...

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Jones, Thomas J

... do ...

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Jones, John L

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Detached with 1st Missouri Lierht

Artillery ; mustered out Nov.

12, 1864, at New Orleans, La.

Jones, Dennis

... do ...

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Jones, William

. . . do . . .

24

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 8, 1863, at Van Bnren Hos-
pital, La., of wounds received May
16, 1863, in battle of Champion Hills,
Miss.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,1864;

Logue, Ellis

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 vrs.

veteran.

Louks, Jacob

... do ...

27

Nov. 18, 1861

3 vrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

McGhee, A. J

. . . do . . .

43

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disabilitv.

Nearman, William H. . .

... do ...

18

Julv 8, 1864

3 vrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Nov. 19, 1864.

Radcliff, Wm. H

... do ...

21

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1803, at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; ; trans-
ferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,1864; vet-

*

eran.

Radcliff, Julius A

... do ...

18

Oct. 25, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disability.

Ralston, David D

... do ...

44

Nov. 11, 18ol

3 vrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disability.

Ratekin, John

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 15, 1861

3 vrs.

Died Nov. 9, 18o2, at Keokuk, la.

Ratekin, John B

... do ..

20

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 28, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Reese, James

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Reynolds, Charles B ...

. . . do . . .

Jan. 1,1862

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 27, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disabilitv.

Roush, Newton J

. . do ...

18

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,1864;
veteran.

Russell, Aaron

. . . do . . .

27

Nov. 2, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disabilitv.

Russell, George

... do ...

44

Nov. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve
Corps

Scott, John M

. . do . . .

26

Nov. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Siebert, John G

. . . do . . .

Nov. 20, 1862

3 yrs.

Discharged March 20, 1863, of dis-
abilitv.

Starcher, Noah

. . . do . . .

27

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 2, 18u3, of wounds received
in sieire of Vicksburg, Miss.

Thaxton, Levi A

. . . do . . .

25

Nov. 2, 1861

3 vrs.

Died June 1, 1862, at Covington, Ky.

Thomas, William J....

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 15, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged , 1862, of disability.

Thomas, Rees

... do ...

19

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Thomas, Thomas D —

... do...

20

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Williams, Thomas J . . .

...do ..

21

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Williams, Ashley R....

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Williams, Daniel

. . . do . .

19

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded Mav 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1«04; veteran.

Woodruff, Enoch E

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 12, 18o4, at New-
Orleans, La.

176

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment
COMPANY F.

Mastered in from Oct. 15, 1861, to Nov. 7, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., and McArthur, O., by John R.

Edie, Major 15th Infantry, U. S. A., and A. B. Dodd, Captain 15th Infantry, U. S. Ajr

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1S64, at New Orleans, La , by Thomas R. Rodman, A. C. M.

Date of

■c.2

. Names.

Rank.

6

Entering- the

Remarks.

to

<

Service.

a3 *

£7)

George Wilhelm

Captain

30

Aug. 21, 1861

3yr?.

Wounded and captured May 16. 1863,
at battle of Champion Hills, Miss.;

captured his guard, escaped and re-

turned to Union lines; mustered

out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.
Mustered out Nov. 21, 1864, at New

Henry Lau tz

1st Lieut.

28

Nov. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Orleans, La.

John F Morton.

2d Lieut.

25

Nov. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Auer- 19. 1862.

Oration J. DeWolf

. . . do . .

20

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Sereeant June 2,
1862; to 1-t Lieutenant May 9, 1S64,
but not mustered; mustered out
Nov. 13, 1864, at New Orleans, La.

JohnD. Markell

IstSergt.

24

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Jul}- 9, 1863, of wounds received
Mav 16, 1863, in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

John C.Burke

. . . do . . .

32

Oct. 19, 1861

3 3*rs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Joel Burnett

Sergeant

33

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , for wounds received

Mav lo. 1863, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.

George W. Cox

. . . do . . .

36

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Co. A, Jan. 26. 18o4; veteran.

Irvin Drake

.. do ...

25

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

James P. Lowery

. . . do . . .

28

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Oct. 14, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

George W. Neff

. . . do . . .

22

Oct 18,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

William H. Patton

... do ...

30

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec 1, 1862, of disability.

Robert Bowles

Corporal

41

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

C. F. Ford.

. . . do . .

29

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged. March — , 1864, of dis-

ability.

Jasper Foot

... do ...

18

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded Mav 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. A, Jan. 26. 1864; veteran.

Brttton D. Fry

... do ...

19

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

James M. Halliday

... do ...

19

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Irvin Jenn ings

... do ...

35

Nov. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Aug. 3n 1863, at Helena, Ark.

James U. Pease

... do ...

27

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded Mav 16, 1.-63, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Timothy Sullivan

... do ...

21

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

William E. Williams...

... do ..

44

Nov. 20, 1861 3 vrs.

Discharged Dec. 1, 1862, of disability.

James W. Truman

... do ...

23

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps , 1*64.

Died Jan. 5, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.

Allen, John C

Private
. . do . . .

27
44

Oct. 19, 1861
Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Bennett, Ephraim

Discharged Feb. 6, 1863, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.

Bowles, J acob

. . . do . . .

40

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 18, 1861, at Ports-

mouth, O., of disabilitv.

Bradshaw, Levi

... do ...

35

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 1. 1S62, of disability.

Branon, L. D

. . . do . . .

41

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. 6, 1863, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.

Brown, Sand ford

... do ...

18
40

Oct. 20, 1861

3 vrs.

Carry, Timothy F

... do ...

Oct. 31, 1861 i3 yrs.

Drowned July 28, 1S62, in Ohio river

at Cincinnati, O.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

177

Date of

O 6

Names.

Rank.

o

Entering the

c >

Remarks.

. bo
<

Service.

Private

23

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Orleans, La.

Collier, Erastus S

. . do . . .

37

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to 1st Missouri Light
Artillery Jan. 1, 1864; veteran.

Cool, William H

. . . do . . .

Nov. 20, 1801

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Cooper, Charles

. . . do . . .

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Carrothers, James

. do . . .

21

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Devoir, Edward

... do ...

19

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 21, 1862, at Memphis. Ten-
nessee.

Dibble, Edward A

... do ...

33

Oct. 8,1862

9 mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8,1863, at
Vicksburg. Miss.

Dodge, John C

. . . do . . .

35

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Oct. 20, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Fry, Freeman W

... do ...

3'

Oct. 1 , 1861

3 yrs.

Di-chargedOct. 15, 1862, of disability.

Fuller James M

... do ...

27

Oct. 19, 1361

3 yrs.

Died June 10, 1>62, at Shiioh, Te>m,

Gla-cow, J«-hu P.

... do ...

39

Oct 19, l.xol

3 vrs.

Discharged May 0, lS6',of disability.

Graham, James

. . . do . .

3'

Oct. 18, 1861

3 vr».

Discharged Feb. 6, >86i, of disability.

Hawkins, Charles D —

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 8, ls62

9 mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863, at
Vicksburg, Miss.

Henry, John . . .

. . do ...

21

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transfer. ed to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Hedgmier, Frederick...

. . . do . . .

38

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Hindman, David

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Dird March 5, 1862, at Fort Donelson,

Tenn.
Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863, at

Hooser, Joh u

... do ...

25

Oct. 8,1862

9 mos

Vicksburg, Mi«s.

Hubbard, Gideon

. . . do . .

28

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Hubbard, Clement D...

... do . .

26

Oct. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Johnson, George N

. . . do . . .

36

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Drafted: mustered out July 8, 1863,
at Vicksburg-, Miss.

Joice, Michael

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Jones, David

... do ...

28

Nov. 4,1861

3 yrs.

Died July 4, 1864, at New Orleans,
Louisiana.

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Aug. 2, 1863, of wounds received

Julv 9, 1863, in battle of Jackson,

Miss.

Jones, Robert

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 20, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Jones, Dustan

. . do . . .

22

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Mus'ered out Nov. 14. 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Jones, George

. . . do . . .

31

Oct. 16,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Jones, Uriah . .'

. . . do . . .

27

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Justice, George

... do ..

29

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 30, 1864, at Cario, III.;

veteran.
Transferred to 1st Missouri Battery

Knapp, Edwin

... do ...

37

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Jan. 1, 1864; veteran.

Lair, William

... do .

25

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Lindsey, Levi

. . do ...

40

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. 6, )8f>3, of disability.

Lingenfelier, Christian

. . do ...

38

Oct. 17, 18bl

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, ls64;

veteran.

Lord, Ezra F

. . . do . . .

39

Oct. 16,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

McCowen, Nathan

. . . do . . .

39

Nov. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 20, 1864;
veteran.

McElvany, Robert

... do ...

44

Nov. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , by order of War

Department.

McGarvey, John

. . . do . .

26

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs. Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Martin, Hiram

... do ..

18

Oct. 30, 1861

3yrs.i Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Morton, Joslah H

... do ...

18

Nov. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

X78

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

o v

Names.

Rank.

u

Entering the

0 >

Remarks.

be
<

Service.

3 a

0.CQ

Nail, William

Private

29

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged — , 1863, at St. Louis, Mo.,

< f disability.

Nail, Wesley

... do ...

23

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Jan. 26, 1862, at Portsmouth, O.

Nelson, William ,.

... do ...

37

Nov. 10, l*ol

3 yrs.

O'Brien, Patrick

... do ..

32

Oct. 21, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps, , 1863.

Ogan, John

. . . do . . .

25

Nov. 8,1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

. do .

Nov. 25 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged April 1, 1862, at Helena,
Ark.. < f disability.

Petty, William M

. . . do . . .

April 1, 1%2!3 J

Discharged Aug-. — , 1864, at New

Orleans. La., of disabilitv: veteran.

Pierson, Da\ id B

... do ...

25

Oct IS, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged July l, 1862, of disabilitv.

Pounds, William

... do ...

Nov. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Nov. 17, 1862, at Cincinnati,

Ohio.
Died Nov. 14, 1862, at Helena. Ark.

Price, George

. . do ...

19

Nov. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Pugh, Jesse B

... do ...

38

Oct. 18, 1801

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 5, 1863, at New Orleans,

La.
Discharged Dec. 1, 1862. of disabilitv.

Radford, William

... do ..

44

Nov. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Santy, Wilbert

... do ...

25

Oct. 17, 1861

3 }-rs.

Discharged April 1, 1863, of disabilitv.

Scott, William

.. do ...

35

Oct. 19, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged Mav9, 1*62, of disabilitv.

Scott, John R

... do . .

33
25

Nov. 19, 1861
Nov. 7, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Discharged Aug 3, 18o2, of disability.
Died , of wounds received April

Sisler, William S

. . . do . . .

8, 1864, in battle of Sabine Cross

Roads, La : veteran.

Slaughter, Stephen —

.. do ...

44

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs

Discharged Dec. 1, 1862, of disability.

Smith, Reuben

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 19, 1861

3 j-rs.

Discharged May « 1862, of disability.

Spence, Thomas J

. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Died 18t>2, at Columbus, Ky.

Spence, Charles

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Spriggs, Benjamin F..

... do ..

20

Oct. 20, 1861

3yrs.

Wounded June 18, 1863, in sie^e of
Vicksburg, Miss.; transferred to
Veteran Reserve Corps Nov. 18,
1863; mustered out Oct. 22, 1864, at
St. Louis, Mo.

Sturgill, William R....

. . . do . . .

23

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Sturgill, John M

. . . do . . .

Nov. 20, 1861

3 vrs.

Taylor, George S

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 15, 1863, at St. Louis,
Mo. of disability.

Trevary, Francis P

. . . do . . .

26

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863, at
Vicksburg, Miss.

Truman. Joseph

... do ...

22

Oct. 19,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. A, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Welch, Michael G

... do ...

32

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs

Died Dec. 2, 1862. at Helena, Ark.

Wishon, David

... do ...

29

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Died May 5, 1863, at Grand Gulf,
M iss.

Woods, Benjamin

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 1,1862, of disability.

COMPANY G.

Mustered in Oct. 29, 1861, and Dec. 3, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., by R. B. Hull, Captain 18th

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans, La., by

Thomas R. Rodman, A. C. M.

Isaac Fullerton

Captain

52

Aug. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Resigned Feb. 14, 1863.

James C. Stimmel

...do ...

24

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Lieutenant May
16, 1863; captured .May 1, 1864, on
Red River Expedition. La.; escaped

May 16, 1864, at Marshall, Tex.:

reached Union lines on Mississippi

river June 7, 1864, having traveled

600 miles; transferred to Co. B Dec.

— , 1864.

Ohio Volunteer Infantr*.

179

Date of

Names.

Rank.

6

Entering the

- >

Remarks.

bo
<

Service.

Erastus Gates

1st Lieut.

32

Dec. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted to 1st Lieutenant April 2,

18f>3; resigned Julv 26, 1863.

Benjamin B. Allen

:d Lieut.

28

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Resigned Sept. 21, 1862.

William G. Snyder

... do ...

29

Oct. 29,186.

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Serjeant Sept. 7,
1862; to 1st Lieutenant Co. A May
16. 1863.

Duncan McKinsie

1st Sergt

24

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Died July 15, 1863, of wounds received
Mav 16, 18t>3, in battle of Champion
Hills, Miss.

William B. Matson

. . . do . . .

26

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

William Adams

Sergeant

25

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Nov. 28, 18o2, in Scioto county,
Ohio.

Thomas S. Bennett

. . . do . . .

27

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Benjamin F.Bennett..

. . . do . . .

32

Sept. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged July— ,1862, at Cincin-
nati, O , of disability.

Henry F.Cline

. . . do . . .

24

Nov. 5, 1861

3 yrp.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Robert B. Crawford....

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

John S. Eakins

. . . do . . .

22

Nov. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New

Orleans. La.

Charles F. Hudson

. . . do . . .

30

Nov. 5, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; ; mus-
tered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Or-
leans, La.

Nicholas D. Maine

... do ...

24

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal Julv 16,
1861; transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,
1864; veteran.

Thomas Cross

Corporal

25

Nov. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal Nov. 25, 1863;
transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Martin Downey

. . do . . .

39

Nov. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal April 17, 1862;
killed May 16. 1863, in battle Cham-
pion Hills. Miss.

James C. Galford

. . . do . . .

42

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Ft-b 8, 1863, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.

Andrew Greaser

. . . do . . .

26

Oct. 29, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged Oct. 3'., 1863. of disability.

George Hadaway

. . . do . . .

33

Oct. 29, 18bl

3 yrs.

Discharged April — , 1863. at Mem-
phis, Tenn, of disability.

Francis M. Hudson

... do ...

26

No 7. 5,1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal N->v. 25, 1863;
mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Nathan M. Kent

... do ...

22

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B. Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

John Rockwell

. . . do . . .

43

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1S64;

veieran.

George W. Rockwell...

. . . do . . .

30 ( - !

3 yrs.

Died July 7, 1863. of wounds received

_

Mav 16, 1863, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.

Reuben H. Slavens

. . . do . . .

25

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16. 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills. Miss ; mustered
out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

Allen, William

Private

24

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. b, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

Anderson, Henry F

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Feb. 1, 1862, at Ports-
mouth. O., by civil authority.

Anderson, Thomas L ..

... do ...

41 iNov. 10, l8ol

3 vrs.

Discharged Feb. N 1863, of disability.

Anderson, George

. . . do . . .

18 Nov. 27, 1861

3 yrs. Mustered out Nov. 14, 18 4, at New

Orleans. La

Baker, Charles H

... do ...

29

Nov. 23, 1861 3 ■-.- ; , . . ;

i veteran.

Bennett, James F

. . do ...

27

Oct. 29, 1S61

3 yrs. j Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
1 Orleans, La.

Bennett, Joseph

.. do ...

23

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs. Discharged Dec.-, 1863, at Cincin-

nati, 0., of disability.

180

ROSTKR OF tflFTY-SIXTH &EGIMENT

Date of

O oj

Names.

Rank.

«5

Entering the

0 >

Remarks.

<

Service

Bendnrant, Daniel L. .

Private

20

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.j Transferred to Co. B, Jan 26,1864;

veteran.

Blakeman, Andrew J..

... do ...

27

Oct. 29, 1861

3yrs.

Discharged Feb. 8, 18---3, at Cincin-

.

nati, O., of disability.

Blont, Henry

... do ...

25

Nov. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Bonser, Isaac

... do .

43

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs

Discharged Feb. 6, 1863, at Helena,
Ark., of disability.

Brown, Nathaniel

... do ...

38

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16," 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mu-tered
out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,1864;

Brown, William C

. . . do . . .

25

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

veteran.

Carpenter, Aaron

. . . do . . .

28

Nov. 21,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
vetei an.

Chaffin, G eorge W

. . . do . . .

22

Nov. 6, 1861

3 yrs

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Chaffiu, Thomas

.. do ...

26

Jan. 27, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B. .

Comer, Lewis —

... do ...

18

Oct. 29, 1861

3yrs.j Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran

Crabtree, Stephen

. . . do . . .

25

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Crabtree, Gilleu

.. do ...

:8

Oct 29,1861

* yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran

Cram, Isaac

. . . do . .

Dec. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 4, 1862, at Helena. Ark.

Dement, James B

... do ...

19

Jan. 29, 18f.4

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, .

Eakins, Fletcher R

... do ...

20

Nov. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 18, 1862 at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Fasterman, Win. G

... do ...

25

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Field James

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Died , of wounds received May 16,

1863, in battle of Champion Hills,

Miss.

Freeland, Middleton...

...do...

43

Nov. 27, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred from Co. K, Dec.—. 1861 ;
killed May 16, 1863. in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.

Fullerton, John

... do ...

18

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. — , 1862, at Helena,

1 Ark., <>f dis ibilitv.

Gal ford, James

... do ...

19

Oct. 2% 1*61

3 yrs.| Died Sept. 7. 1862, at Memphis. Tenn.

Giles, Thomas C

. do . . .

23

Jan. 31, 18o2

3 yrs Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26,1864;
veteran.

Giles, Dennis

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs. | Transferred to Co, B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Gaw, Barnett

... do .'.

18

Nov. 1,1861

3 yrs. 1 Discharged Dec. 3,1861, by civil au-

thority.

Graham, Wellington...

. . . do . .

22

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Killed June 23, 1863, in siegeof Vicks-
burg, Miss.

Hartley, Elt

. . . do . . .

Feb. 10, 1862

3 yrs.

Discharged MaV>, 1862, of disability

Hays Robert

. . . do . . .

'42'

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs. Died May 30, 186.', at Cincinnati, O.

Herder, Jacob

... do ...

Dec. 8, 1861

3 yrs. Transferred to Co. B, ; veteran.

Hill, Charles W

. . . do . . .

18'

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs. j Died , of wounds received .May 16,

1863, in battle ot Champion Hills,
Mississippi.

Hill, Levi J

... do ...

33

Oct. 29, 1861

3yrsJDied Oct. 5, 1863, at New Orleans,
Louisiana.

Kent, Emanuel

. . . do . . .

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Died May 22, 1S63, at Milliken's Bend,
Louisiana.

Kent, Oliver

. . . do . . .

Dec. 17, 1861

3 yrs. Discharged Dec. 10, 1862, of disabil-

Kent, Alfred

... do ..

21

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Died' July 18, 1863, at Haine's Bluff,

Mississippi.

Kinney, Thomas W —

... do ...

19

Oct. 30, 1861

3 yrs

Promoted to Sergeant Major Oct. 30,

1861.
Discharged Feb. 6, 1863, at Helena,

Lambert, James

. . . do . . .

43

Nov. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Ark., of disability.

Lindsey, William

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 27, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 3," 1861, by civil an-
thoritv.

McCallister, George W.

... do ...

Jan. 2, 1862

3 yrs.

Trans 1 erred to Co. B. Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

181

Names.

McCann, Daniel

McCowen, Henry H .

. McJunkic, William. .

McNally, Thomas D.
Marshall, Henry C...

Meed, Ebenezer. ..
Morgan, Samuel J.
Myers. James M...

Myers, John M

Nickels, Samuel...
Nagle, Englebert.,

Oberly, Benjamin

Pfuhler, John

Piggott, Wm. H...

Porter, William F.

Potts. Abraham W.
Potts, Hezekiah J. . .

Quartz, Samuel B .
Reeves, Ephraim.

Rickey, Isaac M

Rieneger, George W .
Roberts, Jeremiah . . .
Rockwell, John

Rockwell, Benjamin ...

Sample, Joseph H

Seth, Francis M

Sikes, Isaac W.
Sites, Peter ... .

Slavens, John W.

Snyder, Judah M

Southworth, Leonard

Storz, Frank...
Titus, William

Titus, John C

Vangerder, Green B.
Wells, Richard

Rank.

Private
.. do .

do ..

do
do

do

do

do

do

do
do

do

do
do

do

do
do

do
do

do
do

do

do

do
do
do

do
do

do

do
do

do
do

do
do
do

Date of -a u

Entering the .2 >

Service. *£ £

24

21

24

19

13

June 6, 1864 (3 yrs.
3 yrs,

Nov. 22, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct.
Nov.

Oct.

Dec.

Nov.

Dec.
Nov

Nov.

29, 1861
5, 1861

29, 1861

25, 1861

25, 1861

9, 1861
15,1861
5, 1861

3 yrs,

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Oct. 29, 1861

Oct.
Oct.

18, 1861
29, 1861

Oct. 5,1861

Nov.
Oct.

17, 1863
29, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861
Nov. 30, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861

Jan. 22, 1864

Oct. 29, 18ol

Oct. 29, 1861
Oct. 30, '861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861
Nov. 19, ISol

Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 29, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs
3 yrs.

3 yrs,

3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yrs

3 yrs
2 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.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 vrs.

Remarks.

Transferred to Co. B, .

Killed May 16, 1863. in battle of

Champion Hills. Miss.
Wounded May 1, 1863, in battle of

Pori Gibson, Miss.; mustered out

Nov. 14, 1864.
Died Feb. 12, 1863, at St. Louis, Mo.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veieran.
Died May 15, 1862, in hospital at Shi-

loh, Tenn.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Died May 16, 1864, at New Orleans,

La.; veteran.
Died April 7. 1862, at Cincinnati, O.
Transferred to Co. B — ; veteran.
Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps April 22, 1 64.
Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B.
Discharged Oct. -, 1862, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.
Killed May J6, i863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.
Transferred to Co. B Jan 26. 1864.
Captuied May 16, 1*63, at battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. B Jan 26, 18o4; veteran.
Killed May 16, 18t»3, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.
Captured .May i6. 1863, at battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered

out Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans,

La.
Discharged April 2<>, 18o3, at Brum's

Landing. Miss., of disability.
Transferred from Co. B Feb. 28, 1864;

to Co. B ; veteran.

Missing April 8, 1864, at battle of

Sabine Cross Roads, La.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1S64:

veteran.
Discharged Feb. l2.1S63,of disabilitv.
Discharged Feb. 3, 1863, of disability.
Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.: transferred

to Co. B Jan 26, 13c4; veteran.
Died Feb. l'», 1863, at Helena, Ark.
Discharged Aug. 14, 18o2, at Helena,

Ark.
Discharged Feb 12, 1863, at St Louis,

Mo , of disability.
Died Jan 24. 1863. at Helena, Ark.
Discharged March 29, 1863, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.

Transferred t > Co. B ; veteran.

Wounded May 1, 1:<63, in batt'e of

Port Gibson, Miss.: mustered out

Nov. 14, 1864, at New Orleans, La.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 2o, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged Sept. — , 1863, at Carroll-

t..n, La., of disabilitv.
Discharged Feb. 12,1863, at St. Louis,

Mo., of disability.

182

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

COMPANY H.

Mustered in from Oct. 16, 1861, to Dec. 9, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., and Columbus, O., by John R.

Edie, Major 15th Infantry, U. S. A., and R. B. Hull, Captain 18th Infantry, U. S. A.

Mustered out Nov. IS, 1864, at New Orleans, La , by Thomas R. Rodman, A. C. M.

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

&"

Remarks.

Lansing- V. Applegate .
Thomas W. Kinney —

Charles Soule, Jr.
Charles W. Veach

Thomas Brown

Henry M. Goldsmith.

John K. Combs

W/illiam H. Brady

Clarence P. Bliss

John Brady

Philip Cahill

Samuel Johnston..
Ephraim Phillips..
John Shaw

Peter Brown .

Alonzo B. Cole.
Henry Dunlap.

George Myers

Newell L. Nicholas.

Martin Phillips.
Bass, Byron

Basseit, Gilbert B..
Bennett, Philander.

Biggs, John H

Black, Adam

Boren, Abram H
Boren, James D..

Bowens, John

Boyd, William P.
Brown, Alfred

Captain
. . . do

1st Lieut
. . . do . .

2d Lieut

. . . do . .
lstSergt
. . . do . . .

Sergeant

. . do . .

. . . do . .

do
do
do

Corporal

do

do

do
do

. . do . .
Private

do .

do ..
do .
do .

do .
do .

do
do
do

40 I Oct. 16, 1861
20 Oct. 29, 1861

Oct. 16, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861

Oct. 18, 1861

Nov. 13 1x61
Nov. 18, 1861
Nov. 12, 1861

Oct. 21, 1861

Nov. 13, 1861

Oct. 22, 1861

Oct. 22, 18M
Oct. 25, 1801
Oct. 22, 1861

Nov. 21, 1861

Oct. 25, 1861
Nov. 30, 1861

Oct. 22,
Nov. 15,
Oct. 10,
Nov. 27,

Oct. 8,

Jan 16.
Nov. 18.

Oct. a,

Nov. 4.
Oct. 23,

1861

1861

1861

1861

1862
1862
1861
1862

1861
186 1

3 yrs
3 yrs

3 yrs
3 yrs

3 yrs

yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

2 \rs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

9 mos
3 yrs.
3 yrs
9 mos

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

24 Nov. 15, 186l 3 yrs.
45 ! Oct. 22, 1861 3 yrs.
22 Nov. 21, 1861 13 yrs.

Resigned Feb. 6, 1863.

Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from

Sergt. Major June 10, 1862; 1st

Lieutenant Dec. 27, 1X6.': Capt. Feb.

14, 1 863 ; mustered out Nov. 1 5, 1864,

at New Orleans, La.
Resigned June 10, 1862.
Transferred from Co. D July 15, 1863;

resigned Sept. 22, 1864.
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant June 20,

1862. but not mustered; resigned
June 20, 1863.

Promoted from Q. M. Sergeant Jan.

1, 1X63: resigned Nov. 27, 1863.
Promoted to Sergt. Major Sept. 22.

1X62.

Appointed from Sergeant Sept. 12,
1861; captured May It., 1x63, at
battle of Champion Hills, Miss.,
mustered out Nov. 15, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

Discharged Nov. 9, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disability.

Discharged Nov. 9, 1862, at Keokuk,
la., of disabilitv.

Discharge d Nov,"—, 1862, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Mustered out Nov. 15. 1864.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.

Wounded May 16. 1863, in battle of
Char pion Hills, Miss.; mustered
Pttt Nov. 15, 1864.

Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Mustered out Nov. 23, 1864, at Colum-
bus, O.

Appointed Corporal Sept. 3. 1863;
transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Musteied out Nov. 15, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1£64, at New
Orleans, La.

Mustered out Oct. 10, 1864, at Colum-
bus, O.

Killed May 16, 1863. in battle of Cham-
pion Hills, Miss.

Drafted; mustered out Jul v 8, 1863.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864.

Mustered out Nov 15. 1864.

Drafted; died March 31, 1863, in hos-
pital :<t Helena, Ark.

Died Sept. 13, 186 \ at Columbus, O.

Died , of wounds received May 16,

1863, in batt.e of Champion Hills,
Miss.

Died Jan. 25, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.
Mustered out Nov. 27, 1X6*.
Returned to 5th Virginia Cavalry .

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

183

Name*.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the
Service.

£<»

Remarks.

Brown, Isaac

Bingham, Levi

Brag-don, Solomon..
Burch, Robinson G.

Byers, Benjamin
Camp, John —
Campbell, Merit.

Carr, William.

Carr, Robert

Christie, James E.

Coffman, John.

Cross, Wilson..

Dean, Eli..

Dewit, Hiram..

Donohew, Alvin . .

Eagle, William...
Friley, William .,

Gates, Erastus . .

Gray, James

Gudgeon, Dixon

Gudeou, ArZvi

Haines, Archibald
Haines, James W

Hanes, Samuel L
Hanes, Wesley . .
Harvey, John

Johnston, John W
Johnson, Thomas .
Jones, William J. ,

Jones, William
Lloyd, Peter...

Lodwick, Warren .
Lndgate, Charles .

Mclntire, George W

Mclntire, Joseph .
McKeever, Daniel

McKnight, James .
McKnight, Calvin.

Private
... do ...
... do ...
... do ...

do
do
do

do

do
do

do

do
do
do

do

do
do

do

do

do

do ..

do .
do .
do .

do .
do .

. do
. do

do

. do ..
.do ..

. do ..

.do..

.do..

. . do . .
. . do . .

do.,
do ..

21

18

Nov. 21, 1861
Feb. 5,1862
Nov. 22, 1861
Oct. 8, 1x62

Oct. 21, 1861
Oct. 18, 1861
Oct. 19, 1861

Nov. 13, 1861

Oct.
Dec.

21, ltt.l

3, 1861

Oct. 26, 1861

Oct.
Oct.
Nov.

21, 1861
14, lxt.l
7, 1862

Dec. 10, 1861

Oct.
Feb.

Dec.

Nov.

Oct.

29, 1861
4, 1862

9, 1861

2, 1861

19, 1861

Oct. 19, 1861

Oct. 23, 1861
Nov. 18, 1861

Oct. 23, 1861

Feb. 12, 1862

24

Oct.

Nov.
Nov.

Dec.
Oct.

Nov.
Dec.

22, 1861
16,1861
18, 1861

9, 1861
22, 1861

22, 18(»1
I, 1861

Oct. 31, 1861

Nov.
Nov,

Nov
Oct.

23. 1861
15, 1861

4,1861
31, 1861

3yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
9 mos

3 yr=
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

3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yr*.
3 yrs

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.
3 y rs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs,

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

Died April 3, 1862, at Crump's Land-
ing-, Tenn.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Killed May 1, 1863, in battle of Port
Gibson, Mississippi.

Drafted; wounded May 18, 1863, in
action near Vicksbnrg, Miss.; mus-
tered out Julv W, 1*63.

Mustered out Dec. 23, 1864, at Colum-
bus, O.

Discharged Sept. 1, 1863, at Carroll-
ton, La. of disability.

Died , of wounds received May 16,

1863, in battle of Champion Hills,
Miss.

Reduced from Corporal ; trans-
ferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Returned to 23d Keutueky Regiment
Infantry Jan. 7, 1862.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Transferred to Co. A .

Mustered nut Nov. 15. 1864.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Died Seot. —,1862, at Memphis, Tenn.

Killed May 1, 1863, in battle of Port
Gibson, Mississippi.

Promoted to Q. M. Sergeant Dec. 9,
18t.l.

Discharged July 25, 1862, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

Wounded and captured April 8, 1864,
at battle of Sabine Cross Roads,
La.; died , in Rebel Prison;

veteran.

Discharged Nov. 20, 1862, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.

Died April 28, 1862, at Pittsburg
Landing, Tennessee.

Transferred to 5th U. S. Cavalry
Julv -, 186.'.

Died "May 10, 1862, at Pittsburg Land-
ing, Tennessee.

Discharged Dec. 11, 1862, at Colum-
bus, O., of disability.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.
Transferred to 1st Missouri Light

Artillery .

Mustered out Nov 15, 1864.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.
Discharged Feb. 11, 1862, at Ports-
mouth, O., by civil authority.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Died Oct. 2, 1862, at St. Louis, Mo.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 2864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

184

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Date of

O V

Names.

Rank.

4)

E uterine the

2 ►

Remarks.

bo
<

Service.

Martin, Jefferson

Private

18

Dec. 4, 1862

3yrs.

Discharged Dec. 15, 1861, by civil
authoritv.

Matheny, James

. . . do . . .

45

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Nov. 1?, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Mault, John

... do ...

20

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. 20, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Mouahan, Hugh

... do ...

39

Oct. 1". 1*61

3vrs.

Mustered out Nov. 15. 1864.

Mullen, John

... do ...

45

Nov. 13, 1861

3 vrs.

Died July — . 1862, at home in Ohio.

Mullen, Thomas

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Nor. Q, 1863, at Keokuk, la.

Murphy, Wesley

... do ...

22

Nov. 4,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; mustered
out Nov. 15, 1864.

Myers, Lewis

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 1. 1863, at battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered out
Nov. 15, 1864.

Nicholas, Charles C —

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Augr. 3, 1864, at New Orleans,
La.; veteran.

Nicholas, Newman

... do ...

45

Nov. 15, 18M

3 yrs.

Discharged , of disabilitv.

... do ..

33

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 2.6, 1864;

veteran.

Perry, Jacob

... do ...

18

Nov. 4, 1801

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Perry, Abram

. . do ...

44

Nov. IS 1861

3 yrs.

Died Sept. — , 1862, nt Memphis, Tenn.

Perry, James

. . . do . . .

22

Dec. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Pershee, Daniel

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Phi lips, Amos

... do ...

23

Nov. 13, 1861

3vr«.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.

PJaillips, Andrew

... do ...

29

Oct. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Phillips, Edmond

. . do ...

18

Nov. 13, 1861

3 vrs.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.

Phillips, Levi

Roush, John

. . . do . . .

23

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Draferi; mustered out Julv 8, 1863.

. . . do . . .

18

Oct 19,1361

3 yrs.

Transferred to Mississippi Marine

Brigade, Nov. ,1862.

Roush, Martin

. . . do . . .

21

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 15, 1864.

Salliday, George W . . . .

. . do . . .

19

Nov. 4,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Sanders, Benjamin

... do ...

18

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan, 26, 1864;
veteran.

Scott, Hamilton

...do ..

45

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Oct. 27, 1862, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disabilitv.

Scott, John

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 30, 1861

lyrs.

Discharged , 1862. at Camp Denni-

son, C ., of disabilitv.

Scott, Adam

. . do . .

3 yrs.

Dischai ged , 1862, at Camp Denni-

son, O., of disabilitv.

Selix, Alfred

... do ...

38

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged April 2% .862, of disabil-
ity.

Discharged April 1, 1862, of disabil-
ity.

Mustered out Julv 8, 1863.

Shiels, William

. . do . .

45

Oct. 21, 18bl

3 yrs.

Shipman, John

... do ...

35

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Sickles, George

... do ..

19

Nov. 6,1861

3 vrs.

Died Sept. 10, 1862, at Helena, Ark.

Sickles, Lafayette

. . . do . . .

25

Nov. 29, 1861

3 yr».

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Spitznagle, Henry

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 9,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Stevenson, Thomas K..

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B. Jan. 26, 1*64;
veteran.

Storrer, William

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Died Feb. 29, 1862, at Dover, Tenn.

Trailer, Benjamin

. . . do . . .

19

Nov. 17, i86l

3 yrs.) Discharged Dec. — , 1862, of disability.

Turner, Ephraim

. . . do . . .

44

Nov. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. B, Jan. 26, 18o4;
veteran.

Van Meter, Lewis W...

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Drowned Aug. 18, 1863, by explosion
of steamer.

Wiles, William

... do ...

24

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 30, 1863, of disabil-
ity.
Died June 20, 1862, at Corinth, Miss.

Wilson, Jacob, Jr

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 4, 1861

3 yrs.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

185

COMPANY I.

Mustered in from Oct. 10, 1861, to Dec. 12, 1861, at Portsmouth, O., and Columbus, O., by John R.

Edie, Major l^th Infantry, U. S. A., and A. B. Dodd, Captain 15th Infantry, U. S. A.

Mustered out Dec. 11, 1864, at New Orleans, La., by A. H. McDonald, A. C. M.

Date of

e 4>

Names.

Rank.

«J

Entering the

c >

Remarks.

<

Service.

Edwin Kinney

Captain
. . . do . . .

24

Oct. 10, 1861

3 vrs.

Resigned Oct. 3, 1862.

Absalom L. Chenoweth.

26

Oct. 20, 1861 a yr«.

Promoted from 2d Lieutenant Oct. 3,

1862; mustered out Nov. 16, 1864, at

New Orleans, La.

Thomas Lowery

1st Lieut

42

Oct. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Resigned Oct. 3, 1862.

John D. Niswouger

... do ...

19

Nov. 23, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted to 1st Lieutenant Oct. 27,
1862; mustered out Nov. 21, 1864, at
New Orleans, La.

Henry Schump

2d Lieut.

21

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from Com. Serjeant,
March 17, 1863; mustered out Nov.

11, 1864, at New Orleans, La.

John R. Overman

1st Sergt

33

Oct. 28,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Auy. 26, 1863, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

Abram Hibbins

. . . do . . .

24

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Serjeant Ausr. 29,

1863; transferred as 1st Sergeant

to Co. C, Jan. 26. 1864; veteran.

Wilson L. Buchannan..

Sergeant

18

Dec. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Mi as.; mustered
out Nov. 16, 1864.

William Hatfield

... do ...

27

Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Jan. 1. 1863; transferred to

Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

George Irvine

... do .

20

Nov. 23, 1861

3 yrs.

Died May 17, 1863, of wounds received

May 16, 18b3, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.

John Kinney

. . . do . . .

23

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Died May 3, 1862, at Pittsburg Land-

ing, Tenn.

Wiiliam H. McLaughlin

... do ...

23

Dec. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Jan. 1, 1863; transferred to
Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Orville G. Pinney

. . . do . . .

26

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Oct. 14, 1862, at St. Louis,

Mo, of disability.

James L. Reed

... do ...

18

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Serjreant Jan. 1, 1863;

mustered out Nov. 16, 1864.

Joseph Aducdle

...do...

33

Nov. 6, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal Jan. 1, 1863;

transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps .

Thomas W. Bryant. . . .

. . . do . . .

28

Oct. 25, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged June 23, 18t>3, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

James A. Dolby

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C. Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.

William McCarty

...do ...

26

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 1, 1863, in battle of
Port Gibson, M iss. ; discharged Oct.
9, 1863, of disability.

John N. Marshall

... do ...

42

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Detached as Superintendent of Con-
trabands Jan. 27, 1S63; wounded
July 4, 1863, in action at Helena,
Ark.; mustered out Nov. 16, 1864.

Evan R. Maxwell

. . . do . .

28

Nov. 6,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , at Cincinnati, O., of

disability.

Thomas P. Nelson

... do ...

35

Oct. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 21, 1862, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

John Weter

. . . do . . .

38

Oct. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Veteran Reserve

Corps, April 28, 1863; mustered oat

Oct. 26, 1864.

George Wilson

. . . do . . .

44

Oct. 22, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 1, 1862, at Helena,

Ark., of disability.

Thomas Eagon

Musician

25

Dec. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 5, 1862, at Camp

Dennison, O., of disability.

Stephen Baird

Wagoner

24

Nov. 30, 1861 3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 5, 1862, at Colum-

bus, O , of disability.

Alexander, Zachariah T

Private

18

Dec. 11, 1861 3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

186

Roster or Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

i Date of
u Entering- the
*f Service.

o 6

£W

Remarkt.

Atkinson, Abel W . .

Atwell, William W.

Bennett, Jacob L. .
Black, Oscar C

Bland, George W.

Brandon, Joseph .
Brown, William.

Bollenbaugher, Chris'n
Carey, Philip

Clapper, Martin .. .

Clutter, James W

Cole, John —

Conkle, George W . .
Cowan, Win. G

Crawmer, Andrew J.
Cutler, Jacob

Davidson, Joseph.

Desmond, John.

Dolby, Nathaniel.
Ellis, Stephen R..

Fligor, Andrew J.
Fligor, John E...

Frasier, William T.

Freeman, John

Galbraith, John H.

Gatton, Josephus.,

Gibbons, Burden .

Gollum, Ernst

Gross, Godfrey

Hahn, Lawrence.

Harris, Chas. H....
Hinton, Thomas E.
Johnson, David

Ktnnison, George

Kubn, Henry

Loney, John

McCartney, James . . .

McCormick, Wm. H.

McDowell, William.

Maury, William.
Martin, James...

Private
. . do . . .

.. do
.. do

do

do
do

do
do

. do
. do
. dc
. do
. do

. do
. do

do .

do

do
do

do
do

do

do
do

do

do

do

. do

. do

do
do
do

. do
. do
. do
. do

. do

.do

do
do

19

23

20

29

Nov. 30, 1861
Nov. 7, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Oct.

8, 1862 19 mos
3 yrs.

Nov. 30, 1861
Oct. 16, 1861

Oct. 8, 1862
Oct. 8, 1862

Oct. 8, 1862
Nov. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

9 mos
9 mos

9 mos
3 yrs.

Dec. 11,1861 3 yrs.
Oct. 20, 1861 3 yrs.
Oct. 19, 1X61 !3yrs.
Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos
Dec. 7, 1861 13 yrs.

Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos
Oct. 19,1861 3 yrs.

Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos

Oct. 18, 1861

Oct.
Dec.

Nov.
Nov.

Oct.

Nov.
Oct.

Nov.

Nov.

Nov.

Oct.

Oct

25, 186>
11, 1861

5, 1861

3 yrs,

3 vrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.
10, 1861 13 yrs.

14, 1861 13 yrs,

7, 1861 13 yrs.
17, 1861 3 yrs,

20, 1861
30, 1861
17, 1861
27, 1861
26, 1861

3 yrs
3 yrs
3 yrs
3 yrs
3 yrs

Oct. 28,1861 3 yrs
Oct. 8, 18b2 9 mos
Oct. 8, 1?62 1 9 mos

Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos
Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos
Oct. 25, 1861 J3yrs.
Dec. 18, 1861 3 yrs.

Nov. 30, 1861 1 3 yrs.

Oct. 8, 1862 9 mos

Oct. 8, 1862 ,9 mos
Dec. 7, 1861 j3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 14, 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., by civil authority

Transferred to 1st Missouri Light
Artillerv April 1^, 1X63.

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Transferred to Co. C.Jan. 26,1864;
veteran.

Wounded July 10, 1863. in battle of
Jack:>on, Miss.; transferred to Co.
C, Jan. 26, 1*^4; veteran.

Drafted; mustered out J ulv 3, 1863.

Drafted; died April 9, 1863, at St.
Louis, Mo.

Drafted; mustered out July 8. 1863.

Transferred to Co. C. Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Died Sept. 5, 1862, at Waverlv, O.

Died Nov. 9, 1862, in Keokuk, la.

Drafted; mustered out JulvS, 1863.

Discharged Jan. 18, 1862, at Ports-
mouth, 0.,by civil authority.

Drafted; mustered out Julv 8, 1863.

Discharged May 25, 1862, at Cincin-
nati. O , of disability.

Drafted wounded May 16, 1863, in bat-
tle of Champion Hills. Miss.; mus-
tered out Julv 8, 1863.

Transferred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1364;
veteran.

Mustered out Nov. 16, 1864.

Transferred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Died June 1, 1862, at Cincinnati, O.

Died Oct. 10, 1863, at Omega, Pike
countv, O.

Killed April 8, 1864, in battle of Sa-
bine Cross Roads, La.; veteran.

Died A\ ril 8, 1862, at Pittsburg Land-
ing, Tann.

Discharged Dec. 16, 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., bv civil authority.

Discharged June 16. 1863, at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Discharged July 22, 1862, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

Discharged Jan. 25, 1862, at Ports-
mouth, O., bv civil authoritv.

Wounded Mav 16,1863, in battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Discharged , 1362, of disability.

Drafted; mustered out Jul r 3, 1363.

Dratted; died June 2, 1863, at St.
L<>uis, Mo.

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Drafted: mustered out Jul\- 3.1863.

Died April 12, 1862, at Portsmouth, O.

Discharged Aug. 13, 1362, at Cincin-
nati, O., of disability.

Discharged Feb. I", 1863. at St. Louis,
Mo., of disability.

Drafted; died May 14, 1363, at St.
Louis, Mo.

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Died Aug. 8, 1863, at Memphis, Tenn.,
of wounds received May 16, I8t>3, in
battle of Champion Hills, Miss.

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

187

Names.

Rank.

Date of

Entering- the

Service.

&*

Remarks.

Martin, Daniel ...
Marshall, Wm. J.

Private
., do ...

Matthews, Oscar W
Norris, Henry D

Nottingham, George M

O'Reilly, Martin..
Pauley, James W.

Palm, David

Powers, Martin

Ray, James

Rine, Jeremiah L
Roberts, Edward.
Roll, Samuel V.. .

do
do

do

do
do

do
do

do

do
do
do

Ross, George W do

Shaner, Hiram do

Sherwood, Jacob do

Sherwood, Levi.

Sherwood, Dennis
Siemon, Adam

Southerland, David
Smith, William

Smith, John W .
Springer, Henry N

Steele, Amos

Stetler, Thompson.
Stewart, George M.

Stockman, Jesse.. .

Thacker, Jo=eph

Thacker, Fountain..

Tripp, George.
Tripp, Henry.

Vancoy, Nelson
Vanfleet, Joseph

Vanhuff, John.

Walker, John. ..
Weekley, John..

Whaley, Wm. S.

do

do
do

do .

do .

do .
do .

do
do
do

do

do
do

do

. do

. do
. do

. do

.do
. do

. do

Nov. 22, 1861

Nov. 30, 1861

Dec. 3, 1861
Nov. 7,1861

Oct. 8, 18o2

Oct. 14, 1861
Nov. 10, 1861

Oct. 8, 1862
Oct. 14, 1801

Oct. 26, 1861

Oct. 8, 1862
Oct. 8. 1862
Oct. 8, 1862

Oct. 30, 1861
Oct 19, 1861
Oct. 15, 1361

Oct. 22, 1861

21 Oct. 25, 1861
18 Oct. 31, 1861

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yr*.
3 yrs.

9 mos

3 yrs
3 yrs

9 mos
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

9 mos
'- mos
9 mos

3 vrs.
3yr*.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

3 yrs
9 mos

|3yrs.

18 I Oct. 24, 1861 |3 yrs.

Nov.
Oct.

Oct.
Oct.

6, 1861
18, 1861

20, 1861
26, 1861

Nov.
Oct.
Nov.

30, 1861
H, 1802
30, 1861

18

Oct.
Nov.

Nov.
Nov.

Oct.
Oct,

31, 1861
7, 1S61

6, 18ol

7, 1861

19, 1861

8, 1862

'3 .vrs.
3 yrs.

|3 yrs.

J3yrs.

;3 yrs.
9 mos

Oct. 31, 1861 3 yrs

Oct. 17, 1861 3 yrs
3 yrs

Nov. 28, 1861
Oct. 20, 18M

3 yrs,

Discharged Nov. 27, 1862, at Keoknk,
la., of disabilitv.

Killed May 16, 1863, in battle of Cham-
pion Hills, Miss.

Died Mav 29, 1862, at Crump's Land-
ing, Tenn.

Drafted; died , at Vick^burg,

Miss., nf wounds received Mav I,
18'..3, in battle of Port Gibson, Miss.

Tiansf erred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1j64;
veteran.

Discharged Nov. 3, 1863. a» St. Louis,
Mo., for wounds received Mav lt>,
18b3, in battle of Champion Hills,
Miss.

Drafted : mustered out July 8, 1863.

Wounded Mav 16, 1863, in bat'le of
Ch impion Hills, MUs.; transferred
to Veteran Reserve Corps — .

Died April 8, 1862, at Pittsburg
Landing, Tenn.

Drafted : mustered out July 8, IS- 3.

Drafted; mustered out July S, 1863.

Drafted; wounded May 1, 1863, in bat-
tle of Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered
out JulyS, 1863.

Transferred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Discharged Aug. 9, 1862, at Columbus,

O., of disabilitv.
Died March 17. 18t>3, at Helena. Ark.
Wounded >'ay 16, 18o3, in battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1S6»; veteran.
Transferred to Co. C, Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Di«<d March 25, 1862, at Crump's

Landing, Tenn.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Drafted: mustered out July 8, 1863.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Captured Mav 16, 1861, at battle of

Champion Hills. Miss.; veteran.
Mu-tered out Nov. 10, 1864.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1804;

veteran.
Discharged , on expiration of

term

Drafted; wounded May 16. 1863, in
battle of Champion Hill*, Miss.;
mustered out Julv 8, 1863.

Discharged , by order of War De-
partment. .

Died viav 1,1862. at Cincinnati. O.

Discharged Dec 1. 1*63, at I'orts-
niouth. O., bv civil authority.

Discharged Jan. 16, 18o2, at Waverly,
O., by civil authority.

188

kosTEa of Fifty-sixth Regiment

Names.

Rank.

be

-<

Date of

Entering the

Service

o <o
o >

Remarks.

Wilson, Sylvester

Wilson, Wm. A

Private
... do ...

18
23
25
19

25

Oct. 20, 1861
Oct. 25, 1861
Nov. 30, 1861
Oct. 20, 1861
Oct. 8,1861

3 yrs

3 yrs.
3 yrs.-
3 yrs.
9 mos

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

veteran. • •
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

Wisener, George W

Woolm, James H

. . . do . .
. . . do . . .
. . do ...

veteran.

Accidentia killed March 17, 1863, on
Moon Lake, Miss.

Discharged , by order of War De-
partment.

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

COMPANY K.

Mustered in Jan. 8, 1862, at Columbus, O., by John R. Edie, Major 15th Infantry, U. S. A.
Mustered out Dec. 23, 1864, at New Orleans, La., by A. H. McDonald, A. C. M.

Captain

44

Nov. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Died May 22. 1863, of wounds received
May 16, lso3, in battle of Champion

Hills, Miss.

William G. Snyder

. . . do . . .

29

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Co. A
Aug. 10, 1864; transferred to Co. C
Nov. — , 18o4.

1st Lieut.

44

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 16, 1863. in battle of

Champion Hills, Mis?..; resigned

July 22, 1863.

Joseph S. Patterson —

... do ...

30

Oct. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Promoted to 2d Lieutenant from Com.
Sergeant Aug. 31, 1862; to 1st Lieu-
tenant Feb. 14, 1803; resigned Nov.
26 1863.

William H. Palmer

2d Lieut.

40

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Resigned Julv 24, 1862.

Robert M. Steele

IstSergt.

44

Dec. 10, 1861

3 vrs.

Discharged Julv 21, 1862, of disability.

James A. Aleshire

...do?.

25

Oct. 24, 18tol

3 yrs.

Appointi d from Sergeant Aug. 26,
1862; wounded May 16, 1863, in bat-
tle of Champion Hi.ls, Miss.; pro-
moted to 2d Lieut. May 16. 18j3, but

not mustered: mustered out Nov.

14, 1804, at New Orleans, La.

Daniel Irwin

Sergeant

7?

Oct. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal Au?. 26,

1862: discharged Nov.b, 18b3, of dis-
ability.
Wounded May 16, 1863, in battle of

. . . do . . .

28

Oct. 28, 1861

3 yrs.

Champion Hills, Miss.; appointed

from Corporal Aug. 11, 1863; trans-

ferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Lutilius Knowland

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1S64;
veteran.

Joseph L umbeck

... do ...

35

Dec. 2, 1861

3 yrs.

John Morgan

. . . do . . .

20

Nov. 13, 1861

1 yrs.

Mustered out. Nov. 14, 1864.

. . . do . .

26

Dec. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal July 21,

1802; mustered out Nov. 14, l*t>4.

David F. Radcliff

...do ...

23

Oct. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from private Aug 26, I8i.2;

transferred to Co. C Jan. 2o, lSo4;

veteran.

William H. Wait

... do ...

27

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Appointed from Corporal Autr. 29,

1862; wounded May 16. 1863, in bat-

tleof Champion Hills, Miss.; trans-

ferred to Co C Jan.2(>, 18 4; veteran.

Hosea B. Bennett

Corporal

21

Dec. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 18, 1m,3, at battle of
Big Sand Run. Miss., ; trans-
ferred to Co. C Jan. 20, 1864; veteran.

...do ...

23

Oct. 24, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14. 1864.

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Oh

[O 3

/OLUNTBER

Inf

\NTRY 18*

Date of -c .§

Names.

Rank.

4>

be
•<

Entering the .2 >

Service. h «

1 £«

Remarks.

James C. Harper

Corporal

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal Aug. 26, 1862;
transferred to Co. C Jan. 2o, 1864;
veteran.

Thomas R. Hatton

. . : do . . .

18

Nov. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Died June 15, 1862, at Crump's Laud-
ing, Tenn

Lafayette Holmes

... do ...

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Leonidas Johnson ,

... do ...

18

Dec. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal Aug. 26, 1862.

George L. Steele

. do ...

21

Dec. 11, 1861

3 Yrs.

Transferred to Mississippi Marine
Brigade — — .

William Stephenson —

. . . do . . .

22

Dec. 11, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged , of disability.

Jacob White

. . . do . . .

18

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Appointed Corporal Aug. 26, 1862;
transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Aleshire, Hiram

Private

18

Oct. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded and captured Mav 16, 1863,
at battle of Champion Hiils, Miss.;
mustered out Nov. 14, 1«64.

Bailey, Girard

. . . do . . .

20

Oct. 8,1862

9 mos

Drafted; wounded May 16, 1863, in
battle of Champion Hills, Miss.;
must-red out July 8, 1X63.

Bates, David R

... do ...

44

Oct. 24,1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 1L l862,of disability.

Bervman, Andrew

... do ...

35

Mch. 19, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C .

Boring, David R . .

. . . do . . .

30

Dec. 10, 1*61

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1x64.

Bowen, William

. . . do . .

35

Dec. 9, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded and captured May 16. 1863.
at baitle of Champion Hills, Miss.;
transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Brooks, John J

... do ...

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Brown, John J

. . . do . . .

41

Dec. 23, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 18, 1862, of disa-
bility.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

Burt, Thomas J

. . . do . . .

36

Dec. 14, 1861

lyrs.

veteran.

Bussey, John

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 12, 1861

3 yrs.

Captured May 16, 1863, at battle of
Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred
to Co. C Jan. 26, ls64; veteran.

Byrnes, Patrick

. . . do . . .

Dec. 23, 1861

3 yrs.

Wounded May 1, 1*63, in battle of
Port Gibson, Miss.; mustered out
Nov. 14, 1x64.

Clair, George

. . . do . . .

18

18

Mch. 27, 1864
Dec. 24, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C .

Clark, Joh's

... do ...

Discharged , by civil authority.

Clausing-, Theodore

. . . do . . .

22

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos Drafted; mustered out July x, lsoj.

Claypool, James

. . do . . .

Dec. 21, 1861

3yr>.

Transferred to Mississippi Marine
brigade .

Cornell, Elias. ..

. . . do . . .

22

Dec. 19, 1861

3 yrs.

Transierred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Corriell, Thomas J

... do .

19

Dec. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Tran>fe,red to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Cummings, John R

. . . do . . .

21

Nov. 15, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 13o4;
veteran.

Daub, John

. . do . . .

18

Dec. 18, 1861
Jan. 14, 18o2

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864.

Davis, Jonathan

. . do . . .

Captured Mav 16, 1X63. at battle of

Champion Hills, Miss.; transferred

to Co. C Jan. 2»>, 1864; veteran

Davis, Azariah

. . . do . . .

Jan. 14, 1862

3 yrs.

Died June 15, 1862, at Crump'- Laud-
ing, Tenn.

Davis, Andrew

. . . do . . .

Jan. 14,1862

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept. 2, 1863, of disability.

Dean, Adam

. . . do . . .

Sept. 7, 1862

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 10, le>o3, of disa-
bility.

Deshler, John

. . . do . .

42

Dec 18. 1861

3 vrs.

Downing', William.

... do . .

28

Dec. 11, 1X61

3 Vrs Discharged Jan. 4. 1864. of disability.

Erwin, Abf am

... do ...

2t

Oct. 24, 1861

3yrs.i Discharged Mav ", 1863, ot disability.

Ewing, Henry E

... do ...

Jan. 2, 1862

3yrs.| Discharged Sept. 20, 18o2, of disa-
bility.

Fells, Adam

. . . do . . .

25

Dec. 11. 1861

3 yrs.j Died Julv 6, 1862, at St Louis, Mo.

Freleand, Middleton ...

. . do ...

43

Nov 27, 1 Sol

3 vrs.| Tran>ferred to Co. G. Dec. -, ISo .

Gates, David

. . . do . . .

24

Oct 29,1861

3 yrs. Transferred to Co. C Jan. 2o, iso4;

veteran.

Gephart, Daniel

... do....

42

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Dec. — , 1861.

190

Roster of Fifty-sixth Regimemt

Date of

0 8)

Names.

Rank.

V

Entering the

.£ >

Remarks.

bD

<

Service.

Gilmon*, James

Private

44

Nov. 14, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Died July 13, 1863, at Vicksburg, Miss.
Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;

Gordy, George M

... do ...

28

Dec. 7, 1861

veieran.

Guynn, William A

..'. do ...

25

Feb. 25, 1864

3 yrs. transferred to Co. C .

Harshberger, George W

. . . do . . .

27

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos; Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Hicks.Jnhii \V

. . do . . .

Feb. 23. 1864

3 yrs 'No further lecord found.

High, Luther C.

. . . do . . .

is"

Dec. 5, 1861

3 yrs [Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1S64;
veteran.

Huey, Isaac J

. . . do . . .

20

Dec. 4, 1861

3 yrs. Transferred to 1st Missouri Light
1 Artillery Dec. 17, 1863.

Johnson, James

.. do ...

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Johnson, James J

. . . do . . .

35*

Dec. 5, 1861

3 yrs. Died Dec. 23, 1861, at Portsmouth, 0.

Jones, John

. . do ..

30

Dec. 7, 1861

3yrs.|

Jones, Elihu

. . . do . . .

26

Dec. 26, ls61

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans, La.

Klein, Nicholas

. . . do . .

18

Feb. 27, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C .

Lake, Isaac M

... do ...

21

Oct 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Keb. 23, 1863, of disability

Leniger, William

. . do .

22

Dec. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Lenox, Henry C

... do ..

24

Oct. 8, 1862

() mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8. 1863.

Lesser, William •. . .

. . . do . . .

18

Dec. 7, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 2, 1862,of disability.

Liff, Charles

... do ..

18

Dec. 11, 1861 3 vrs.

Died Sept. 1, 1862, at Memphis, Te'nn.

Lawery, George

. . . do . . .

21

Dec. 12, 1861 3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1^64;

veteran.

Lucas, Will iam

... do ...

18

Dec. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Returned to 9th Virginia Volunteers

McCann, Thomas J

. . do . . .

18

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

McCann, William

... do ...

Jan. 1,1862

? yrs.

Drowned A pril 11, 1863, in Mississippi
river at Helena, Ark.

McCartney, Joseph

... do ..

44

Oct. 29, 1*61

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 18, 1862, of disa-

bilitv.
Died March 11, 1862, at Cincinnati, O.

McCartney, Thomas . . .

... do ..

22

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

McCullough, James H . .

. . . do . . .

19

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos Drafted; wounded May 16, 1863, at

battle of Champion Hills, Miss.;

mustered out July 8, 1863, at Vicks-

burg, Miss.

McManama, William .

. . . do . .

40

Nov. 8, 1861

3 yrs.

May, John

..do

25
40

Dec. 10, 1861
Nov. 17, 1861

3 yrs.
3 yrs.

Mayfield, Vatkins —

... do ...

Absent, sick in hospital at Paducau

Ky.
W. unded and captured May 16. 1863,

Martin, James

... do . .

31

Nov. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

at baitle of Champion Hills. Miss.;

musteied out Nov. 14, 1864, at New

Orleans, La.

Martin, William

.. do ...

23

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Dratted; mustered out July 8. 1863.

Meeks, Richard A

. . . do . . .

23

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Sept 12, 1863, at New Or-
leans, La. of disability.

Milner, Isaac

. . . do . . .

31

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs

Wounded and captured' May 16, 1863.
at battle of Champion Hills, Miss.;
mustered out Nov. 14, 1864, at New
Orleans. La.

Monahon, Michael . ...

. . . do . . .

43

Nov. 30, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Nov. 27, 18b2, of disa-
bility.

Monahon, James

... do ...

20

Dec. 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Montgomery, Robert . . .

... do ...

18

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Drafted: mustered out July 8, 1863, at
Vicksburg, MUs.

Montgomery, Shadrick

... do ...

21

Oct. 8,1862

9 mos

Dralted; wounded Mav 16, 1863, at

battle of Chamuion Hills, Miss.;

mustered out July 8, 1863, at Vicks-

burg, Miss.

Newcomb, Benjamin F.

. . . do . .

25

Dec. 3,1861

3 yrs.

Wounded June — , 1863, in siege of
Vicksburg, Miss.; transferred to
Co. C Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

Noel, Henry

... do ...

32

Oct. 21, 18ol 3

Discharged Aug. 21, 18o2, of disa-

Oliver, Thomas

... do .

44

Oct. 26, 1861

3 vrs.

bility.

Plummer, Henry C

. . do . .

18

Feb. 22, 18o4

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C .

Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

191

Date of

0 n

If

Names.

Rank.

«*

Entering the

Remarks.

<

Service.

Rayburn, W. McNeal..

Private

18

Nov. 30, 1861

3yrs.

Returned to Co. — , 26th O. V. I.,
April 26, 1862.

Richards, John

... do ...

44

Nov. 17, 1861

3 yrs.

Rife, John

... do ...

40

Nov. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Mustered out Nov. 14. 1864.

Rodg-ers, Lucius R

. . . do . . .

18

Nov. 30. 1861

3 yrs.

Died Autr. 26, 1862, at New Orleans.La.

Rnssell, Emanuel.

... do ...

22

Oct. 26, 18bl

3 yrs.

Transterred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Russell, Terry

... do ...

44

Oct. 26. 1861

3 yrs.

Died Aug-. 29, 1862, at Jackson, O.

Salter, Azariah

... do ...

31

Nov. 18, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 28, 1861, at Ports-
mouth, O., of disability.

Scott, Peter

. . . do . . .

Jan. 2, 1862

3 jt».

Captured Nov. 18, 1863, at battle of

New Iberia, La.*, transferred to Co.

C Jan. 26, 1864: veteran.

Seibert, John S

.. . do . . .

20
24

Oct. 8, 1862
Oct. 8, 1X62

9 mos
9 mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Stbert, John

... do ...

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Simer, Andrew J. P —

... do ...

28

Dec. 16, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Slusser, John B

... do ...

21

Oct. 8, 1862

9 mos

Drafted; mustered out July 8, 1863.

Staunn, Christian

... do ...

29

Feb. 10, 1864

3 yrs.

Transferred n* Co. C

Thompson, John

. . . do . . .

24

Dec. 10, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Walker, James

... do ...

44

Oct. 26, 1861

3 yrs.

Transferred to Co. C Jan. 26, 1864;
veteran.

Walker, George

... do ...

18

Dec 20, 1861

3 yrs.

Walker, Thomas

. . . do . . .

Feb. 10, 1862

3 yrs.

Discharged June 10, 1862, of disa-
bility.

White, Isaac N

. . . do . .

31

Oct. 29, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged April 6, 1862, of disability.

Williams, Richard

. . . do . . .

33

Dec. 4.1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Dec. 9, 1^62, of disability.

Wiseman, Joseph W

... do ...

40

Nov. 5, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Jan. 10, lSti2. of disability.

Yeley, Dennis

. . do . . .

43

Dec. 14, 1861

3 yrs.

Discharged Aug. 11, 1862, of disa-
bility.

Captured Nov. 18, 1863, at battle of
New Iberia. La.; transferred to Co.

Yeley, Benjamin

.. do ...

18

Dec. 7,1861

3 yrs

C Jan. 26, 1864; veteran.

4100

m