Ross-Franklin County OhArchives Military Records.....Steinmetz, Henry September 2, 1864
Civilwar - Enlistment Company A ;  179th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers
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Volunteer Enlistment
                        VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT.
                       STATE OF Ohio.    TOWN OF Columbus.
          
            I, Henry Steinmetz, born in Franklin Co. in the State of Ohio aged 
nineteen years, and by occupation a tanner DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE to have 
volunteered this second day of September 1864, to serve as a Soldier in the 
ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for the period of one YEAR, unless 
sooner discharged by proper authority;  Do also agree to accept such bounty, 
pay, rations, and clothing, as are, or may be, established by law for 
volunteers.  And I, Henry Steinmetz, do solemnly swear, that I will bear true 
faith and allegiance to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and that I will serve 
them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; 
and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United 
States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the 
Rules and Articles of War.

Sworn and subscribed to, at Columbus, Ohio this 2nd day of Sept. 1864, BEFORE 
Allehler 2nd Lt., under Gen Order no 75  >  Signed / Henry Steinmetz.

           I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have carefully examined the above-named 
Volunteer, agreeably to the General Regulations of the Army, and that, in my 
opinion, he is free from all bodily defects and mental infirmity, which would 
in any way disqualify him from performing the duties of a soldier.
Signed / H. E. Warner, A Surg. 88th O.V.I., EXAMINING SURGEON.

         I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have minutely inspected the Volunteer, 
Henry Steinmetz, previously to his enlistment, and that he was entirely sober 
when enlisted; that, to the best of my judgment and belief, he is of lawful 
age; and that, in accepting him as duly qualified to perform the duties of an 
able-bodied soldier, I have strictly observed the Regulations which govern the 
recruiting service.  This soldier has brown eyes, dark hair, dark complexion, 
is five feet seven inches high.
Signed / Allehler 2nd Lt  179th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, Recruiting 
Officer.
(A.G.O. No. 74 & 76)

        Mustered into the service of the United States, for one year or during 
the war, from date of enlistment, in Company - , 179th Regiment of Ohio 
Volunteers, on the 2nd day of Sept. 1864, at Columbus, Ohio.
Signed / S. S. Brand,  Capt. 18th U. S. Inf., Mustering Officer.

Additional Comments:
This record was received from the National Archives in Washington D.C. in 
1978.  The file designation was:  "Steinmetz, Henry.  Wc 926448.  Co. A, 176 
Ohio Infantry."  
Henry was my great-great grandfather, by way of my great-grandmother Henrietta 
Emelia Steinmetz Miller, my grandmother Amelia Irene Miller Cokonougher, and 
my father Howard "Bill" William Cokonougher.  When I was a small child, my 
family and I lived in the house that Henry and his wife Helen built on Lower 
Twin Road in Ross County, Ohio.  The house was high up on a hillside and was 
built on land that had once been part of the farm of Helen's father, George 
Barleon.  The house was built over a spring, which was in the basement, in 
true and typical German immigrant fashion.  The house was two stories high, 
had clapboard wood siding, one or two bedrooms on the second floor, and one 
bedroom, a living room, and a family style kitchen/dining room on the first 
floor.  There was a porch at both the front and rear entrances. The house  
must have been very stylish and middle class when originally built.  
Unfortunately, it had no electricity, and no indoor plumbing, so lighting was 
provided by kerosene lamp, the toilet was provided by an outdoor outhouse, and 
heating was provided by wood stoves in the kitchen and living rooms.  By the 
time my family moved into the house, Henry and Helen Steinmetz were long dead 
and the house was starting to deteriorate badly.  Both the second floor and 
the basement were unsafe to use, and the outside water well, located about 250 
feet west of the house and while still usable, had begun to close up due to 
the sliding substructure of the underlying rock layers in the hillside.  I was 
very young, but remember many memorable times in the house that Henry and 
Helen Steinmetz built.

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