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THE
MILITARY HISTORY
OF THE
123d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
EDITED BY
C. M. KEYES,
1st Lieutenant 123d Reg. O. V. I.
SANDUSKY:
REGISTER STEAM PRESS, SANDUSKY OHIO.
1874.
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 [XIII.]
CHAPTER [XIV.]
PREFACE.
In consenting to write the history of the organization, and the marches, skirmishes, battles and deeds of our brave old regiment, at this late date, is, I know, accepting an undertaking from which anyone might well shrink; and yet to preserve on record the dear old story, the task has been cheerfully attempted.
It is not expected that this book will be of interest to the general reader; to those only who participated in, or followed with loving eyes, its fortunes, will the dry details, which must necessarily often enter into its composition, be interesting, and without apology to the officers and men, of the 123d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, this book is offered as a true record of their soldier life.
C. M. KEYES.
Sandusky, Ohio, July, 1874.
DEDICATION.
To the noble dead of our old battle-worn regiment, whether sleeping in unknown graves, on southern battlefields, or by the dark prison pens, where only the sighing pines may chaunt their requiem, or it may be in the quiet churchyards of our own bright northland, to their widows and orphans who mourn in sorrow for their bright noble ones who will never more return; to the maimed and crippled ones, limping throughout the land, their heroism saved, these pages are sacredly dedicated.
Author.
MILITARY HISTORY
OF THE
123d Regt. O. V. I.
ORGANIZATION OF REGIMENT.—CALL UNDER WHICH IT WAS RECRUITED.—ORGANIZATION OF EACH COMPANY AND BY WHOM RECRUITED.—MUSTER IN ROLL OF EACH COMPANY, ALSO OF FIELD AND STAFF.
CHAPTER I.
The 123d Regiment was organized under the second call for six hundred thousand troops, and was recruited during the months of August and September, 1862, in the counties of Erie, Huron, Seneca, Crawford and Wyandotte, and was rendezvoused at Monroeville, Huron county, Ohio; some companies arriving late in August, while all were in camp early in September. Gen. J. A. Jones was post commander, and assigned companies to their quarters as they arrived, saw that they were properly subsisted, &c. All the companies, except K, were mustered into the United States Service by Capt. E. W. H. Read of the 8th U. S. Infantry, on the 24th and 29th days of September; company K was mustered in by Capt. Chas. C. Goddard of the 17th Infantry, on the 16th of October, the day we left for the seat of war.
Company A was recruited in Wyandotte county by Capt. J. W. Chamberlin, and was mustered into the service at Monroeville, Ohio, September 24, as follows:
CAPTAIN.
JOHN W. CHAMBERLIN.
1ST LIEUTENANT.
VILL R. DAVIS.
2D LIEUTENANT.
ANDREW R. INGERSON.
SERGEANTS.
1st. James B. Pumphrey,
2d. William F. Bason,
3d. Henry S. Kaley,
4th. Joseph Roll,
5th. James H. Boroff.
CORPORALS.
1st. Stephan A. McKinzie,
2d. Daniel W. Nichols,
3d. Edward P. Cozier,
4th. Nathaniel L. Robinson,
5th. William S. Rifenberry,
6th. Reuben W. Smith,
7th. William H. Eyestone,
8th. Benjamin R. Reynolds.
MUSICIANS.
Rufus W. Lundy,
John Emerson.
TEAMSTER.
Able S. Thompson.
PRIVATES.
ANDERSON, JOHN S.
ANDERSON, FRANCIS M.
BATES, EDWARD G.
BAKER, DAVID
BEAR, JACOB C.
BOWER, JARVIS W.
BURNET, THOMAS C.
CAROTHERS, ALEXANDER
CLINGER, JACOB
COLE, STEPHEN C.
CORWIN, ABIJAH
CRITES, WILLIAM H.
CROSS, JOHN R.
DAVIS, JOHN
DAVIS, ALEXANDER
DAVIS, GEORGE W.
DEBAUGH, ADAM
DEMAREST, DAVID P.
DRUM, CHARLES B.
EMPTAGE, ELIJAH G.
ELLIS, WILLIAM M.
ELLIS, JOHN
EWART, ROBERT L.
EYESTONE, FERNANDO
FROST, ALBERT
FROST, ELI
GIPSON, DAVID
GREGG, JAMES
HARRIS, FRANCIS M.
HECKERTHORN, SIMON C.
HECKERTHORN, JOHN O.
HILDRETH, WILLIAM J.
HOYSINGTON, GEORGE P.
HUMBERT, WILLIAM K.
HUNTER, HENRY I.
INMAN, WALCOM
INMAN, DANIEL H.
INGERSON, AMBROSE
KARR, HENRY W.
KEMP, ISAAC W.
KENNEDY, AARON
KING, HENRY P.
KING, CHARLES M.
LEEPER, FRANCIS
LONG, HIRAM
MICHAELS, ISAAC
MILLER, THOMAS A.
MCMILLER, HENRY M.
MINCER, DAVID
NEAL, BARTON O.
NIEBEL, JOHN H.
PALMER, HENRY
PARLET, JOHN
PARSONS, SIDNEY M.
PRICE, ISAAC
RICKENBACH, LEVI
ROBINSON, FRANKLIN
RUMMELL, RINEER V.
RUMMELL, EZEKIEL
SEARS, JEDEDIAH
SHANNON, JAMES
SMITH, GEORGE B.
SMITH, GEORGE
SMITH, MCKENDREE
STANSBERRY, HARVEY
SUBER, JOHN
SWITZER, JACOB
TEAL, JACOB
TERRY, DAVID D.
THOMPSON, THOMAS C.
THOMPSON, JOHN
THOMPSON, DAVID
TRACY, BYAL
VAN BUREN, EZRA H.
WALTERS, WILLIAM
WENTZ, JOHN
WILCOX, LUTHER L.
WILKINS, JACOB
WILSON, LEVI L.
WOOD, SILAS
WOODRAUGH, THOMAS
ZEIGLER, LAFAYETTE M.
Total, 101.
Company B was recruited in Huron county by Capt. Horace Kellogg, with headquarters at Norwalk. The company was full by the 25th of August, and after remaining in Norwalk for a time, went into camp at Monroeville early in September, and was mustered into the service on the 24th, as follows:
CAPTAIN.
HORACE KELLOGG.
1ST LIEUTENANT.
JOHN F. RANDOLPH.
2D LIEUTENANT.
CALEB D. WILLIAMS.
SERGEANTS.
1st. George J. Frith,
2d. Eugene Smith,
3d. Benjamin F. Blair,
4th. Harrie E. Smith,
5th. George A. Dark.
CORPORALS.
1st. Ira D. Wells,
2d. George Buskirk,
3d. William H. Thomas,
4th. Samuel B. Caldwell,
5th. Edward L. Husted,
6th. Ezra R. Wait,
7th. William G. Ailing,
8th. Josiah R. Fisher.
MUSICIANS.
George Williams,
Joseph Sallabank.
PRIVATES.
ARMSTRONG, NELSON
BARNHART, MALVERN
BLISH, ALBERT
BIRDSEYE, ENOCH L.
BIRCH, ALBERT
BENFER, JOHN T.
BOWEN, ANSON T.
BEVERSTOCK, EDWIN J.
BARHITE, WILLIAM
BOND, STANLEY F.
BOND, ORRIN G.
CASTLE, JEHIEL
CONGER, ELIJAH S.
CLAPP, HENRY S.
COLE, IRVING
CASTLE, JUDSON
CUMMINGS, WILLIAM G.
EVANS, RICHARD
FREUND, MICHAEL
FOX, REUBEN
FOX, AMOS
FOX, JORDAN
GRIGGS, JOHN L.
GOODELL, EMANUEL F.
GODFREY, ZERAH
GILBERT, ANDROS J.
HUSTED, ELMER E.
HOLCOMB, RUFUS T.
HATCH, PALMER D.
HOLCOMB, BENJAMIN
HOFFMAN, PHILIP H.
HOFFMAN, EZRA H.
HILL, WILLIAM W.
HARRISON, EBENEZER B.
HICKS, HENRY C.
KUTCHER, LOUIS
KUTCHER, GEORGE
KELLER, LEONARD
LITTLE, FRANCIS
LANE, SOLON
LEE, NOYES S.
LETTS, WILLIAM
MILLER. ALFRED W.
MOGG, URIAH
MANN, WILLIAM
MESSELDINE, SYLVANUS A.
NYE, ALBERT
PROUTY, WILLIAM R.
PROUTY, EMERY
PROUTY, CLINTON
REYNOLDS, CHARLES H.
RUSHTON, HENRY C.
ROE, CHARLES
RUTHERFORD, LOUIS
SCHNEBLY, BOWER W.
SPARKS, RILEY
STULTZ, HENRY C.
SMITH, JOHN L.
SPANGLER, HENRY J.
SMITH, THOMPSON
STRICKFATHER, EDWARD
STOCKMASTER, MARTIN
SMITH, WARREN R.
SLATER, JOHN
SLATER, GEORGE W.
SLATER, WILLIAM
SKINNER, BENJAMIN F.
TUMAN, JOSEPH
TAYLOR, ANSON H.
TWISS, LORAN
WOODRUFF, ARED
WICKHAM, FREDERICK C.
WALDRON, SEYMOUR
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN H.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD H.
WEISS, VICTOR
WALTER, ABISHAI W.
BURNS, ROBERT W.
Total, 96.
Company C was recruited by Capt. Charles Parmenter, in the county of Huron, commencing about the 9th of August. The company was full about the 24th, and went into camp at Monroeville early in September, and was mustered into the service on the 29th day of September, as follows:
CAPTAIN.
CHARLES PARMENTER;
1ST LIEUTENANT.
EDGAR MARTIN;
2D LIEUTENANT.
ABNER SNYDER;
SERGEANTS.
1st. Frank H. Breckenridge,
2d. John Canady,
3d. Augustine L. Smith,
4th. James Amadell,
5th. Lewis White.
CORPORALS.
1st. Marion Lester,
2d. Philander Miles,
3d, George A. Webster,
4th. William Odell,
5th. William H. Ramly,
6th. Norman H. Tilitson,
7th. Adison Barker,
8th. Simon P. Blake.
MUSICIANS.
Dennis Canfield,
Clarke Canfield.
TEAMSTER.
Daniel G. West.
PRIVATES.
BAKER, HIRAM
BAKER, NELSON
BLANCHARD, ALBERT
BURNHAM, W. F.
BEERS, THOMAS
CARNS, ROMANE
CARSON, WILLIAM
CARPENTER, SIDNEY
CARSON, JACOB
CARR, WILLIAM
CLARK, PATRICK
COLE, ORRIN
CONKLIN, WILLIS H.
COIT, EUREKA