History of Hamilton County Ohio
XI. Military History of Hamilton County
Seventieth Ohio Infantry
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SEVENTIETH OHIO INFANTRY. 

When President LINCOLN made his second call for great numbers of soldiers, Ohio, as ever, was equal to the occasion. By the twenty-fifth of December, 1861, the Seventieth was nearly full. In February it became a part of the division of General W. T. SHERMAN, then organizing at Paducah, Kentucky. Early in April it did excellent work in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, receiving especial praise from General SHERMAN for courage and persistence. In common with the rest of the army, this regiment took part in the advance on Corinth. After its fall, SHERMAN's division moved westward, and arriving in July at Memphis, remained there till the following autumn. The army left that city in November, 1862, and, concentrating upon the banks of the Tall-hatchie river, prepared to invest Vicksburgh. After the fall of Vicksburgh, movement was made upon Jackson, the capital or the State, and, during the siege, the Seventieth are said to have behaved in a most gallant manner. A few days after the battle of Chickamauga, the Fifteenth army corps, to which it now belonged, moved up the river to Memphis, and thence through northern Mississippi, Alabama, and southern Tennessee, and was in the battle of Chattanooga on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of November. After going to Knoxville to reinforce General BURNSIDE and returning, the Seventieth went into winter quarrels at Scottsborough, Alabama. In January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted as a veteran organization. The following May, the entire army of General SHERMAN began the grand advance upon Atlanta. During this memorable march, this command participated in all the battles on the way and around Atlanta, and maintained in all its high reputation. During the autumn and winter months occurred the march through Georgia to the sea. December 13, 1864, Fort McAllister was taken



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by storm, in which the Seventieth suffered severely. It was the first regiment to enter the work, through the abattis and ditch, without a halt. In the subsequent march through the Carolinas, it met with loss at Bentonville. Passing through Richmond on to Washington, it had a part in the grand review, after which it was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, thence to Little Rock, Arkansas, where it was mustered out August 14, 1865. It is to be noted as a remarkable fact that every officer, who from first to last had a command in the regiment, was a member of it in its original organization before it left its own State.
 
COMPANY. D.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Charles JOHNSON.
First Lieutenant Samuel M. WOODRUFF.
Second Lieutenant Josiah W. DENHAM.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Walter S. COX.
Sergeant Hugh C. WILSON.
Sergeant George W. BUESART.
Sergeant Elbert BOGART.
Sergeant William WILSON.
Sergeam Artemas D. CLARK.
Sergeant George F. STRASSER.
Sergeant James A. BRODGES.
Sergeant Jacob BOGART.
Sergeant William SMITH.
Sergeant John KUDER.
Sergeant Jacob KUHN.
Sergeant Henry BECKER.
Musician Joseph T. NOTTER.
 
PRIVATES.

Abram P. BOGART, John A. BOGART, John J. BATEMAN, William E. BROWN, Joseph BRENTSTETER, James H. BOGART, Henry BLACKMAN, John W. CAMPBELL, John J. COX, jr., Newton CORBLY, James CONKLIN, John J. COX, sr., Samuel CONWAY, George DAVIS, Jesse DAVIS, Albert DAVIS, Otto DEITRIC, William EASTON, Joseph ELFERS, Thomas FOWLER, William HINE, Christopher HAISCH, John HOWARD, Jacob HARBERDEUR, Frederick JOHNSMAN, William H. JOHNSON, Warton JONES, Walter JOHNSON, Frederick KLINE, Thomas KUHN, Samuel D. KILLIN, Jacob LENAUD, Benjamin LOWDEN, Morris LANDIEU, Evonimons LOHR, Andrew M. MUNDELL, Mathias MUHRER, Michael MURRY, Joseph MORELAND, Mathias ORR, Francis PRICKETT, John PAGE, John D. PERRY, John M. PERRY, John C. PATTERSON, Thomas RILEY, Henry RICE, John REED, Hamalin SHINN, Thomas B. STILES, John SMITH, William E. TAYLOR, Frederick W. THOMPSON, Peter WENDER, Charles L. WEBB, Thomas H. WELLS, John ZIER.
 
COMPANY I. 
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Daniel B. CARTER.
First Lieutenant Juinville REIF.
Second Lieutenant George A. FOSTER.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Andrew URBAN.
Sergeant John W. KREPP.
Sergeant Charles H. EBERT.
Sergeant John H. HALLAM.
Sergeant Frederick ANTERMETH.
Corporal William EYTHOFF.
Corporal George POSTEL.
Corporal John H. BEHRENS.
Corporal George SHAFFNER.
Corporal Francis PRILHOFF.
Corporal William PHILLIPS.
Corporal Stephen A. ZIND.
Corporal Thomas B. BYRON.
Musician William WOLF.
Musician Jacob PASTIL.
Wagoner John W. WISE.
 
PRIVATES.

David ABBIHL, George BAUER, Memrod BENZIGER, John BOLINGER, Michael BARRY, John BRYANT, Dominick BRANNER, James CONNER, Samuel CUNTZMAN, David CUNTZMAN, Isaac W. DUNN, Otto DIETRICH, Thomas DAVIS, Joseph EBERHARDT, James FLICKINGER, Frank FOOT, Henry GEBHARDT, Frederick GARLAND, Thomas GAFFNEY, Henry HATBRECHT, George L. HOFFMAN, V. HASSELBERGER, James M. HALLEY, Joseph HAAS, John HAGERTY, John W. JAGER, William JOHNSON, Henry KEMPER, John KAFADA, James L. KEYS, Isaac DEESON, George HINNINGER, Frank LAKER, Andrew MILLER, Charles METZ, William MENTCHE, Henry MILLER, George MESSER, John Joseph MARATH, John McCABE, George MARKLEM, John M. MELLEN. Thomas MALOY, Peter McDONALD, James McINTOSH, Barney McKEIRNIN, Henry PETERS, John PAPP, Adam REIF, John RETT, A. SCHLUTER, Carlton STEWART, Louis SCHLICK, H. SCHNITTGER, J. W. SPOONER, Isaac STOKES, Peter SKATLEY, J. HELDMAN, Henry WESTMYER, J. N. WILLIAMS, Frank WOODROUGH, Thomas WRIGHT, William F. WOLFF, jr., John B. WILIKNS, Louis WRITH, Jacob ZIMMER.
 
SEVENTY-FIRST OHIO INFANTRY.

This completed its organization about the first of February, 1862. It received marching orders the tenth of the same month, and reported at once to General SHERMAN at Paducah, with his command. It was among the first troops at Pittsburgh Landing. In this battle it lost one hundred and thirty men, killed and wounded. On the sixteenth of April the regiment was ordered to the Cumberland river, to hold the posts of Fort Donelson and Clarksville. On the eighteenth of August Clarksville was attacked by the combined forces of Colonels WOODWARD and A. R. JOHNSON. Colonel MASON, having less than two hundred effective men, a surrender was demanded, and, after obtaining the advice of his counsel, he acceded to the proposition. A few days after the colonel and all the line officers were dismissed in disgrace, but, the facts becoming better known, they received an honorable discharge. After the regiment was exchanged it did valuable service the remainder of the year. In 1864 it took an effective part in the battle of Nashville, losing fully one-third of its men in killed and wounded. Through the summer of 1865 it was in Texas. It was finally mustered out in January, 1865.
 
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Thomas W. BROWN.
First Lieutenant William H McDAVITT.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Henry A. BROWN.
Sergeant AlexanderW HUFFORD.
Sergeant Alfred BROWN.
Sergeant James HAYS.
Sergeant James WOODS.
Corporal William M. LANGDON.
Corporal Alexander W. ROOSA.
Corporal Stephen SANDS.
Corporal Charles DRAKE.
Corporal John SHAW.
Corporal William ANTON.
Corporal Thomas H. WELTS.
Musician James EDGAR.
 
PRIVATES.

Hiram ASTOR, Peter ADAMS, Nicholas BECKER, Solan A. BEVANS, Charles W. BAETER, Stephen BARDS, Philip CASNER, Philip CLICKENBARD, John DRAKE, Alexander EDGAR, George F. FULLER, Peter GORMAN, Richard GREEN, Matthew HENDERSON, James JOHNSON, Andrew LYTLE, Thomas LAMB, John V. McDEVITT, John McDONALD, Henry MARTIN, Elijah ORR, Philip I. OWENS, David PUTNAM, Martin ROOSA, John ROBINSON, Frederick ROSS, Charles ROSS. David ROSE, John SNOOK, George K. STOUT, Benjamin M. SPAHR, John SIDENBERG, John J. TROXELL, Frederick S. WALLACE, Elijah WILSON, Thomas WEBSTER, John YOUNG.



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SEVENTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY.

This regiment was organized at Fremont late in the year 1861. In February, 1862, it was ordered to report to General SHERMAN at Paducah, and was assigned to Colonel BUCKLAND's brigade. On the third of April it exchanged its first shots with the rebel pickets at Pittsburgh Landing. The regiment was to the front all through the battle that followed and participated in the final charge and pursuit as far as Monterey. Its loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was one hundred and thirty-three. In the siege of Corinth the Seventy-second bore a conspicuous part. Its losses were triffling in action, but terrible by disease. On the twenty-first of July Memphis was entered. After being at Fort Pickering and Moscow, marching by way of Bolivar and Purdy to Corinth, at White's Station, and again in Memphis, the regiment commenced the march for the rear of Vicksburgh the second of May, 1863. On the way it was in the battle of Jackson, on the fourteenth of that month. On the twenty-second of June it aided in intercepting General JOHNSTON, who was attempting the relief of Vicksburgh. In September the Seventy-second was in a four days' scout to Mechanicsville, in which it experienced some severe marching and lively skirmishing. On the second of January, 1864, the regiment re-enlisted, and in February was in General SHERMAN's Meridian expedition. After the veteran furlough it was ordered to Paducah, to assist in the defence of that place against FORREST. June 1st the regiment formed part of an expedition, consisting of twelve regiments of infantry and a division of cavalry, against FORREST. The tenth of June, at Brice's Cross Roads, an encounter with the rebels resulted most disastrously, eleven officers and two hundred and thirty-seven men being killed, wounded, or captured. Then followed an expedition in the direction of Tupelo, Mississippi, during which the regiment suffered not a little. Between the twenty-seventh of July and the sixteenth of November, by long marches, half rations, great heat and extreme cold, the men suffered intensely. On the thirtieth of November it joined forces under General THOMAS, at Nashville. In February, 1865, it moved to New Orleans and camped on the old battle-ground. Afterward it was in the attacks at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely; then Montgomery, Alabama, was reached; and in June it was placed along the railroad line west of Meridian. The last man was mustered out at Vicksburgh on the eleventh of September, 1865. The regiment at once embarked for Ohio, and at Camp Chase was paid and discharged.
 
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

First Lieutenant Milton T. WILLIAMS.
 
PRIVATES.

Augustus AFFEL, William BALL, John DEVINE, Dennis DELANEY, Charles A. DAVIS, Michael F. FREDERICK, Lawrence HIGGINS, Jerry V. HIGGINS, Robert KELINGTON, Washington LEWIS, Peter SMITH, Thomas SMITH, William H. SHARP, Charles W. TEARNE, Reuben WOOD, George WARLEY, John WHITCOMB.
 
COMPANY E.
PRIVATES.

Lawrence CREMMERING, Henry COOK, John GULLENBECK, Edward HANDROHEM, Isaac KUFFMAN, William KIRNIN, Barnhardt KRENPELPE, Martin S. LOCHNER, Henry MASS, Robert W. NEWKIRK, James STEVENS, Francis YEAGER.
 
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

First Lieutenant William SKENETT.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant James H. STEWART.
Sergeant Horatio B. FURRILL.
Sergeant Aleck MOORE.
Sergeant Francis WHITTEN.
Corporal William RONTEN.
Corporal Michael BARDEN.
Corporal John B. EMREKING.
Corporal John W. JEFFER.
Corporal William EMMING.
Corporal John TOZ.
Musician William A. PAYNE.
Wagoner Richard WEBSTER.
 
PRIVATES.

Louis ALBERSHADZT, John A. ANDERSON, Thomas ALCOKE, Henry BOCHERDING, James F. BARNWELL, Michael BYRNES, William BAUMGARTNER, Henry BROOKSHAW, Thomas CAVANAUGH, Andrew H. CRAWFORD, Henry COOK, Edward CORTELL, George W. COX, Jackson COX, William DUTTON, John J. DUGANS, Patrick DONAHUE, Thomas EADES, Peter EAGAN, Patrick FARNAN, Henry F. FRANKE, Jesse FLINN, James FARRELL, James FOLEY, John GRAHAM, Peter F. GLARDIN, Samuel GREEN, John HARLEY, John HENRY, Patrick HANLEY, Henry HOKKMAN. Thomas D. HAMER, George W. HOWELL, Edward IRELAND, Alexander INLOES, William ISDELL, Charles JOHNSTON, Phillip KING, William H. KELLEY, Edward McMAHAN, Jacob MUSSER, Theodore MURRY, John MILLER, Peter MICHELS, Alexander MATHEWS, William G. McMILLEN, James McNEAL, Henry McCABE, Thomas NAVIL, John P. McCONNELL, Dennis O'CONNER, David O'CONNER, John OLLENDICK, James PATTON, Orlando P. REICE, Henry PULSE, William F. SMITH, Edward St. HELLENS, George M. SCHLUNDT, John SULLIVAN, Henry SEIFERD, John STAPLETON, Michael TERRY, Granville TOY, Peter URICH, William C. WRIGHT, John WARNER, Thomas HIGENS, Charles W. BIEBINGER, Samuel F. BEELER, Leaput GOLDSMITH, Ephraim L. GRANT, Joseph McMAKIN, William O'DONNELL, Isaac STERN, Henry SCHEFER, Thomas J. WICKERSHAM.
 
SEVENTY-FOURTH OHIO INFANTRY.

This regiment with an aggregate of nine hundred and seventy-eight men, was ordered to the field the twentieth of April, 1862. Its first real service was on the march over the Cumberland mountains in June. During the blockade of Nashville, it was in several skirmishes in the vicinity of that city. The Seventy-fourth was with General ROSECRANS when he made his movement on BRAGG's army at Murfreesborough. It went into the battle of Stone River December 29th, and remained until nightfall of January 3d, losing in all one hundred and fifty-five men. At Murfreesborough there was a general reorganization of the army, and consequently some changes occurred in this command. After this date, February, 1863, the Seventy-fourth was in the battles of Hoover's Gap, Dog Gap, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Mission Ridge. The last of January, 1864, a majority of the men re-enlisted and started for Ohio on the thirty days' furlough. On the seventh of the following May, it started with the army on the Atlanta campaign. With SHERMAN it passed through Georgia and reached Savannah, and on the twentieth of January was off again for the Carolina campaign. After the destruction of rebel supplies at Fayetteville, the rebel capital was the point to be reached, and then Washington. Bentonville, the last battle of the command, was fought March 22, 1865. On the eighteenth of July, at Camp Dennison, the men were paid and discharged.



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FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel Granville MOODY.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander VON SCHROEDER.
Major Alexander M. BALLARD.
Adjutant Henry M. CIST.
 
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

First Lieutenant William F. ARMSTRONG.
 
PRIVATES.

Joel PERKINS, James N. RODGERS, James A. SHEFFIELD.
 
COMPANY D.
PRIVATES.

George KING, Philip MINHART, James S. TROPP.
 
COMPANY H.

Private Samuel RODGERS.
 
COMPANY I.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Corporal James WALLEY.
Corporal Evan MORGAN.
 
PRIVATES.

Edward AMBROS, Michael BRANNON, James CARRIGAN, Timothy CRONIN, John CREEDON, James FARRELL, Andrew HARRIGAN, Daniel LANE, John MORARITY, Therance McLAUGHLIN, Patrick NAUGHTON, James SMITH.
 
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

First Lieutenant James H. COCHNOWER.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Sergeant Charles RAMBONO.
Corporal William J. HOLMES.
Corporal John W. CARSON.
 
PRIVATES.

Armstrong G. WARWICK, Michael BROWN, John BURKE, James BENG, Joseph DECOTELL, Joseph FABER, John GARTHAFFNER, John HORTEN, George KING, William LAMBERT, Philip J. MUNICH, Alphonso C. PORTER, Andrew PHETERSON, Isaac C. ROBERT, Samuel RODGERS, Charles SANDER, Walter SCULL, Louis SHEIL, Thomas TERRY.
 
SEVENTY-FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.

The Seventy-fifth was organized near Cincinnati December 18, 1861. On the first day of March it joined General MILROY's brigade at Huttonsville, West Virginia, having made a long march over most wretched roads in most unpleasant weather. While halting at Monterey, Court House, the enemy made a spirited attack, which was gallantly met by this regiment leading the advance. May 8, 1862, in an engagement with Stonewall JACKSON, additional laurels were gained under the immediate eye of General MILROY -- "The Old War Eagle" -- but nearly a hundred were killed add wounded. The next affair in which the Seventy-fifth faced the enemy was at Cedar Mountain in August, 1862. The loss here, however, was slight. For a week following engagements were frequent, and this regiment at Freeman's Ford again lost heavily. The last of August, in the second battle of Bull Run, so bloody was the fighting that in killed and wounded the Seventy-fifth alone lost one hundred and fifteen. During this fight not less than ninety shots took effect on the colors of this regiment. From this time to the second of May, 1863, nothing of importance occurred. The history of the battle of Chancellorsville need not here be told. Although receiving the enemy gallantly, the odds were too great, and, with the brigade, the Seventy-fifth fell back, losing in half an hour one hundred and fifty men. After this battle it returned to its old camp near Brook's Station, where it remained until the battle of Gettysburgh. The regiment was under fire every day of the battle, losing in all two hundred and seventeen officers and men. In August the Ohio brigade was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and remained on Morris Island till after the fall of Forts Wagner and Gregg. In February, 1864, the regiment was mounted, and from that time was designated as the Seventy-fifth mounted infantry, performing all the duties of a regular cavalry regiment. From this date to the twenty-sixth of September, 1864, the regiment was in the district of Florida, breaking up blockade-running, destroying rebel stores, conducting detachments of cattle, and performing other duties. It was then sent on a secret expedition to the headwaters of the St. John's river. In October and November six companies were mustered out of service, their term of enlistment having expired. After the fall of Savannah the Seventy-fifth was reorganized into a veteran detachment, and was afterward known as the veteran battalion. This command performed valuable and difficult service till August, 1865, when its members received an honorable discharge.
 
FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel Nathan C. McLEAN.
Major Robert REILLY.
Assistant Surgeon Charles L. WILSON.
Chaplain John W. WEADLY.
Sergeant Major William S. STEWART.
Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas F. DAVENPORT.
Commissary Sergeant Lyman Y. STEWART.
Hospital Steward Martin V. SHADER.
 
COMPANY A.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain Charles W. FRIEND.
First Lieutenant George B. FOX.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Thomas WHEELER.
Sergeant Joseph B. ALTERS.
Sergeant Christian SCHMETZER.
Sergeant Rezin F. HALL.
Sergeant H. H. DUMONT.
Corporal Elmore W. DUNN.
Corporal Jacob GAUS.
Corporal Ezra M. ELLSWORTH.
Corporal Caleb PARRENT.
Corporal Richard FISHWICK.
Corporal Caleb O. DECAMP.
Corporal Josiah C. HALL.
Corporal John P. ALLEN.
Musician Thomas K. SAYER.
Musician Hosea R. FELTER.
Wagoner John SCHMETZER, sr.
 
PRIVATES.

Robert AGNEW, Frederick AHRENS, Wilson BECOUNT, James BECOUNT, William BROOKE, Michael BUTLER, Henry B. BURNETT, Henry BREITHOFF, C. BROWN, Michael BRADY, John CUMMINGS, William CRITCHFIELD, John CRITCHFIELD, George CAIN, Peter COLLINS, James H. COLEMAN, Matthias DWYRE, James H. ERWIN, Frederick ENGLE, James FISHWICK, John H. HEER, Charles FRANCIS, Simon P. FERRY, William H. GINN, Andrew GAMBRIEL, Anthony GRAVES, George GOETZE, Gottlieb HARKELL, Charles HOWELL, John G. HALLAM, Peter HERKLESMILLER, Adam HABINSTRITT, James JACKSON, Peter JACOBS, Patrick KELLY, Michael LIADY, James McCORMICK, Gothold MARKART, John MILLS, Luke McCLUNE, Michael MAHAR, John A. MENTEL, William McGILL, Joseph MEYERS, James F. MILLER, Andrew MARTIN, James MARTIN, Sylvester NESBITT, James NAYLOR, Abram S. PENDRY, William PARRENT, William H. PALMER, George PRAY, Andrew PEPPRUS, Alfred PATMORE, Leopold REAME, James RIDDLE, Clinton W. SEWARD, William W. STEWART, John STEWART, William G. STURGIS, John SCHMETZER, jr., Frederick SCHMETZER, Ernst SCHMETZER, Albert STEVENS,



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James V. STEVENS, Samuel SHUTTLEWORTH, Charles SMITH, Henry SHEEP, Isaac H. SPILLMAN, Sampson SUTTON, Stephen SKILLMAN, James A. SKILLMAN, James F. THURMAN, Hosea TULLIS, Oliver THAYER, Philip WEISS, Robert LONG, Leonard M. KIMMEL, John BATZT.
 
COMPANY F.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER.

Corporal Henry LOUR.
 
PRIVATES.

Richard COOK, Louis ECKERLY, Ernst GALEES, Thomas HERMANSON, John MASON, John ROTH, Conrad WILMER.
 
COMPANY K.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain James A. JOHNSTON.
First Lieutenant Theodore K. KECKLER.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant Phineas B. HASKELL.
Sergeant James A. CROZET.
Sergeant Mark A. KNOWLDEN.
Sergeant Richard FAULKNER.
Sergeant Moses KENNEDY.
Corporal John C. DELVITT.
Corporal Thomas MORAN.
Corporal Oliver H. HIBBEN.
Musician Edward F. BROWN.
Wagoner John DAVIS.
 
PRIVATES.

John S. ALLISON, Felty BRIGHTENBACH, David G. BROOKMAN, John J. BROWN, Thomas W. BROWN, John CARRIGAN, Thomas COLEMAN, Edward E. DENNISS, William DICKINSON, Bennett DIXON, Joseph DONOHUE, Peter EIDEN, Samuel GREEN, Samuel H. GUMP, James E. HIPPLE, James JACKSON, Andres MONSER, Thomas MULLIGAN, John M. KEMZIE, Samuel REEVES, Andrew RODGERS, Patrick H. RILEY, Charles H. SMITH, William W. SMITH, Robert WALLACE, Conrad WAAG, James WILLIAMS, Simon DAVIS, Edmund C. HILL, John STANARD, Martin V. STRADER, Henry NEELY, Thomas RILEY, John BRANNAN, Melchor MYERS.
 
SEVENTY-SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY.

Surgeon James W. WARFIELD.
 
SEVENTY-NINTH OHIO INFANTRY.

Only one company was raised in Hamilton county. The entire command was rapidly recruited in the summer of 1862, though one company of sharpshooters, raised for it in Clermont county, did not join it till the next June. It received marching orders September 3d, and moved into Kentucky through Cincinnati, then menaced by the rebels. After a severe march against them, it went to Louisville and operated against MORGAN and other rebel cavalry forces. December 1 to February 24, 1864, it was mainly on guard duty in Tennessee. In March it reached Lookout valley and was assigned to the Eleventh corps, afterwards part of the Twentieth, in which the Seventy-ninth was in the First brigade, Third division. With its brigade it shared in the furious and bloody attack on the enemy's works near Resaca and a number of the severest actions of the Atlanta campaign. At Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, it was on the first line and was the second Union regiment that became engaged. It here lost one-half its members in action. It began the campaign with six hundred men, and had but one hundred and eighty-two at the close. It was in the march through eastern Georgia, the siege of Savannah, the affairs at Laytonville and Columbia, and of Averysborough and Bentonville, in the grand advance of SHERMAN northward. It was mustered out at Washington June 9, 1865, paid and discharged at Camp Dennison June 17th. It had lost, from all causes, more than its original number, or about one thousand men, all told.
 
COMPANY A.

Private Charles G. HALLAM.
 
COMPANY B.

Musician Algernon S. CROPSEY.
 
COMPANY F.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Captain John W. KILBRETH.
First Lieutenant Benton HALSTEAD.
Second Lieutenant Henry C. CARLIN.
 
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

First Sergeant George F. REED.
Sergeant Henry M. READING.
Sergeant Charles WOODWORTH.
Sergeant Charles P. WILSON.
Sergeant Charles C. SHANNON.
Corporal William CHAPMAN.
Corporal Daniel SWEATMAN.
Corporal John MAKINSON.
Corporal Dwight J. TILLINGHAST.
Corporal Edmunds S. HOPKINS.
Corporal Samuel V. WRIGHT.
Corporal James CAFFREY.
Corporal James W. POWER.
Musician Thomas G. CRAPSEY.
Musician Ebon A. TURPIN.
Wagoner John C. BICKHAM.
 
PRIVATES.

Amos A. ALLEN, James M. AYRES, Daniel ADAMS, John E. BURTON, Charles F. BASSETT, Frederick BREMER, Phillip BEHRMAN, Andrew BROHM, Charles COOK, John CONLEY, Hiram CRAMPTON, Samuel G. CRESWELL, George E. DYER, Edward DAY, William J. DODSON, William DROPE, Robert DUER, William DETZLE, David EVERLY, Louis ETLER, James ENGLISH, James FERRIS, Joshua FRANCIS, Joseph FRIES, Thomas S. FORD, John H. FRANKLIN, William HOBBS, Samuel HUEN, John HUDSON, Frederick HUNKMEIER, Adam HEINTZ, Charles HUBER, George F. HAWEKATTE, Albert JEANS, John W. KING, Thomas KELLY, William KILLOUHGY, Israel KEARNEY, Daniel KELEHAN, John M. GLASHAN, Walter MILLER, George M. NEWY, Oliver OUTCALT, Thomas PRICE, George QUIGLEY, Noah REED, George SMITH, John H. SIMONS, Greenlief SMITH, Benjamin STEINKAMP, Benjamin SMEAD, Xavier STRAUSBERGER, William R. SNELL, Jacob SCHOTZMAN, William SEGRIST, Michael SHERIDAN, William SUNDERMAN, Nathaniel B. THOMPSON, George W. TOTTEN, James WHITNEY, Alfred WHITE, Jediah A. WHINNEY, John E. WHEELER, Samuel WRIGHT.


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