FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO [Page 115] *************************************************************************** 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. *************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by LeaAnn Rich leaann1@bellsouth.net February 22, 1999 *************************************************************************** History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Page 115 Corporal J.S. Lay Corporal P. McGovern Private Wyatt R. John Private Henry Archer Private S. McCarty COMPANY E Private P. Shay COMPANY F Corporal J. Ruller Private G.A. Wright COMPANY G Private Gorden Foreman Private Javier Kilbell TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF Commisary-Sergeant James Thompson COMPANY A Private Thomas Flinn COMPANY B Private John Curtain COMPANY C Private John Jamison COMPANY D Sergeant Frederick Lynders Corporal M.V.B. Hopwood PRIVATES John Ridgeway Francis Stoker William Wrias James Highs COMPANY E PTIVATES John Benston Jared S. Chamberlain John Lancaster George Riley Adam Baker James Ladley Gibson S. Melvin Eli Wim COMPANY F Corporal Alfred W. Crawford PRIVATES Norman S. Crawford Abram McGlochlin George W. Hites William H. Vannersdalen John D. Woodal COMPANY G Sergeant George M. Towsely PRIVATES Solomon Leinard William Root George Smith Edward Murray Charles Sanders Thomas Morris Timothy Lawler COMPANY H PRIVATES Alfred W. Crawford William T. Chambers Jacob O. Sponogle Norman S. Crawford John L. Sponogle Francis M. Scott COMPANY I PRIVATES George W. Brokaw William Winemiller William C. White Thomas Waterhouse COMPANY K Captain Joseph W. Milkens Private William Wells TWENTY FOURTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY COMPANY A Mustered into service July 20, 1861, at Camp Chase, Oh. Mustered out of service COMMISSIONED OFFICERS First Sergeant Louis E. Peter Sergeant Jackson Hughes Sergeant Van Buren White Sergeant Jacob D. Binkley Sergeant John M. Weaver Corporal Daniel W. Foster Corporal Henry Buck Corporal Benjamin F. Mauk Corporal William O. Connell Corporal Philip M. Engle Corporal William H. Haller Corporal Peter L. Price Corporal William H. McLane Wagoner Ferdinand Wilson Musician Philemon B. Binkley Musician John Seidner PRIVATES Henry Agburn Dumas Bartlett Reuben Barnhart Robert E. Bowsher William I. Binkley Charles D. Clark James Dean Benjamin F. Davis Homer F. Engle Solomon Farmer George Fling James Graham Emmett Harmount Albert C. Hayes John O. Handlen John Jones Jesse M. Jones Thomas Jefferson Anthony McNally Anthony Miller John Morris Nelson F. Noeman Milton Plummer Thomas Roanen John Ring John Strait James Sailor Oscar H. Spencer John Slow Deming Swinehart Henry Vangundy Watson B. Waters Henry Wells William Walston Alexander Wyan John Berry George Botkin Aaron Barnhart Francis I. Brokaw George Brown Henry Cottman Alvey Davis Thomas Dyer Peter Earhart Thomas I. Fling Andrew Friend Samuel N. Gillis Benjamin Harper John Hyatt George I. Hinton Jesse Jones Daniel W. Jones William McDorman Michael Mack Reuben Murray Isaac Nogle Joseph E. Olds Albert W. Riggin James Richardson Elias Sitler Christ Sivinger Nelson Spencer Lyman E. Scovile, Jr John Shisler John A. Thomas Thornton Vanmetre Thomas Wells Hiram Wallace Asbury Welsh William T. Williamson Israel I Zeller THIRTIETH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio. on the twenty-eighth day of August 1861; was armed at once, and, on the thirtieth, ordered to the field. The next day found the regiment at Bentwood, Virginia, and on the second of September it reached Clarksburg. Here an attack was expected, and Company H was sent out to reconnoiter, but the enemy was not discovered. Late the same evening, the regiment marched, and on the afternoon of the next day entered Weston and encamped beside the Forty-seventh Ohio, with the fortunes of which it was afterward closely allied. Here the regiment received its camp and garrison equipage. Two wagons were furnished each company, and these were deemed barely sufficient for transportation. In later years the men considered themselves fortunate if there was one wagon for the regiment. September 6th the regiment joined General Rosecrans at Sutton Heights, where companies D, F and G remained, the remainder of the regiment marching with the army toward Summerville. Companies C and E were left at Big Birch Bottoms, while the remaining five companies moved on to Carnifax Ferry, where a sharp engagement took place, the enemy retreating. A considerable amount of camp equipage, and some huge double-edged knives, with