FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO [Page 124] *************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by LeaAnn Rich leaann1@bellsouth.net January 27, 2000 *************************************************************************** History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Page 124 It opened the battle of Gettysburg, on July 1st, and suffered severly, losing heavily in killed, wounded and prisoners. Captain Bending and Lieutenant Mill were captured and kept in rebel prisons until the close of the war. October 27th, the regiment started for Chattanooga, to aid in opening communication, by way of the Tennessee river, with that beleaguered city. On the night of the 28th it was engaged in a fierce fight at Wauhalchie valley, defeating and driving the rebels across Lookout Creek. In this fight three were killed and a number wounded. On the twenty third, twenty fourth and twenty fifth of November the regiment was engaged in Mission Ridge fight, and on the twenty ninth it marched with the national forces to the relief of Knoxville, after which it returned to Bridgeport, Tennessee, to winter quarters. In March 1864, the Sixty-first re- enlisted and was ordered to Ohio on its veteran furlough of thirty days. On April 28, 1864, the regiment re-assembled at camp Dennison, Ohio, and on the same day started for the front, reaching Chattanooga on the fifth of May. On Sunday, May 15th, the regiment participated in the bloody action at Resaca, losing several men. From this time until November 15th the regiment was engaged in numerous actions and skirmishes, and lost many men in killed and wounded. November 15th it started with General Sherman's army in it's "march to the sea." In this great march the regiment had but one skirmish with the enemy, at Sandersville, Georgia. Aside from hard marches through the swamps of South Carolina, nothing of interest occurred until Bentonville was reached. At this point the last real battle of the march was fought. The Sixty-first Ohio performed its part in this battle, and lost some men wounded and captured. Marching with the army, the regiment reached Coldsboro, North Carolina, where it was consolidated with the Eight-second Ohio, the combined regiment taking the name of the latter named organization. This act blotted from the rolls of the army the name of the Sixty-first Ohio, but it does remain on record. It was always a reliable regiment, and was always found where duty called it. Its losses by it's casualties of the field were so numerous that at the close of its service a little band of only sixty men and officers remained to answer to its last roll-call. The consolidated regiment joined in the march through the rebel capital to Washington City, where it participated in the grand review, and after a slight detention, was sent home to Columbus and mustered out of the service about the first of September, 1865. SIXTY-FIRST REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY COMPANY C Mustered into service in January, February and March, 1862 COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Captain D. W. Crouse First Lieutenant Henry R. Bending Second Lieutenant Joseph Hess NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS First Sergeant Thomas Wolfley Sergeant Cyrus E. Irwin Sergeant William J. Kinnear Sergeant Henry Clemons Sergeant Jacob F. Marder Jr. Corporal William H. Kirkwood Corporal Charles Miller Corporal James Machin Jr. Corporal Samuel Dunn Corporal Robert McMaines Corporal John Whalaver Musician John McAllister Wagoner George W. Hoak PRIVATES Barnett Abbott John Brown Henry Davis Benjamin Groom John N. Hammel William Justus Valentine Lust Lemuel Morris Joseph Martin David McMananny Franklin Nicols Jonas Oyer John Pritchard Jonathon B. Rife Daniel Strawser Mangus W. Stretling Vincent Seals John Thomas Samuel Van Gundy Patrick Whalen James Burkley Alexander Calahan John Fox Benjamin F. Hall Abram Huntsberry George Knadelen William Moore Lawrence McKee James McMananny Daniel Murphy William Oyer David Oyer William D. Reed David Rife John Shisler James Smith William Smith Joseph Van Lear John Whitesel Philip Winer COMPANY I Mustered into service May 21, 1862 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Corporal John Guilloume Corporal L.J. Cassady PRIVATES Hugh Cray Patrick Conelly Patrick Fahey John Jackson Patt Mathews Michael Riddle B.F. Sherman John F. Taser Martin Coleman Patrick Dalany Peter Harrison Miles Kenney Cornelius Nolan Daniel Sullivan Thomas Sweeney Benjamin White SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY COMPANY H Mustered into service March 5, 1862 COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Captain Leonard C. Counsellar, mustered in as Second Lieutenant; appointed captain March 3, 1862 First Lieutenant Edward R. Black, mustered in as a private; promoted Second Lieutenant January 20, 1862; appointed First Lieutenant March 3, 1862 Second Lieutenant Frederick Pickeering, mustered in as a private; promoted Second Lieutenant March 3, 1862 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS First Sergeant A.J. Collier Sergeant A.J. Penbroke Sergeant John Butler Sergeant George W. Elkridge Corporal E.F. Steele Corporal J.W. England Corporal Jacob Brobeck Corporal T. J. Jones Corporal John Henig Corporal G.W. Weaver Corporal R. B. Case Corporal Emanuel Buriner Musician C.F. Collier Wagoner Daniel Weider