The Miller Families of Morrow County, Ohio

NEHEMIAH MILLER, farmer and stock-dealer; P. O. Mt. Gilead; was born in Washington Co., Pa., Apr. 19, 1814; at the age of 12 he began working at the joiner’s trade with his father; when he was 20 years of age, his father retired from business and engaged in farming; taking his father’s tools and apprenticing his brother William, he continued in the business two years, and in the fall of 1835 came West on horseback and entered 100 acres in Putnam Co., Ohio; he then visited Mt. Gdead, and drove back East in the spring of 1830, returning with his brother William the same spring, buying his father’s tools, and William serving as an apprentice for two more years. They engaged in building houses in the neighborhood of Mt. Gilead. Jan. 22, 1837, he married Miss Rachel Kline, whose parents were early settlers in this vicinity. After his marriage he moved to Mt. Gilead, and built a residence and shop, followed his trade, also manufacturing some furniture, until 1847, when he moved to his present place, located one and three-fourths miles northeast of Mt. Gilead, and cleared the place of timber. In 1858 he moved from his log cabin to his present residence, and during the first years of his residence, when he was engaged in clearing the place, he attended his father-in-law’s saw-mill, and a few years later he bought a tract of land and sawmill in company with Mr. Chas. Breese; later he became the sole owner; he sold the lumber here and in Delaware; they have had eight children, seven of whom are living — Martha M., now Mrs. Bartlett, of Cardington, O.; Gilbert E., Superintendent of Morrow Co., in primary; Lucinda C., now Mrs. L. Breese, of this vicinity; John F., West

Union, Iowa; Parker J., Mt. Gilead; William E., Mt. Gilead; and Melville D., at home. Mr. Miller is now living with his second wife, his first wife having died July 23, 1862; his present wife’s maiden name was Hannah Pugh; she was born in Harrison Co., Ohio. They were married Jan. 25, 1866. His parents, Joseph and Permelia (Harris) Miller, were natives of Washington Co., Pa. They were married there March 4, 1813, and have always lived in that locality. Mrs. Miller died there at the age of 74 years, 4 months and 16 days. Mr. Miller lives near the old Miller Homestead. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and is now in his ninetieth year. His wife’s father, Mr. Harris was a soldier in the Revolutionary war under Gen. Washington.

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WILLIAM MILLER, furniture dealer, Mt, Gilead; was born in Washington Co,, Pa., Sept, 11, 1818, being the third child of Joseph and Pamelia (Harris) Miller, they having had seven children, as follows: Neheiniah, Melvina, William, John T,, Benjamin, Tunis and Stephen, The father was by trade a cabinet maker, and afterwards became a contractor and builder, but has been for some forty years engaged in farming, and is still living in Washington Co., Pa., at the advanced age of 89 years, William left home in 1836, coming to Mt, Gilead, where he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner; he then returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained one year, when he again settled in Mt, Gilead and commenced in the contract business for himself. In 1850 he took the contract for the Court House in this place, and in 1853-4 put up J.

S. Trimble's residence; in 1855 he secured the contracts for Mt. Vernon and Bucyrus court houses, the former in connection with David Auld, the latter in connection with J. Jennings and David Auld. He had contracts for the prison at Columbus, also for the first Presbyterian Church, and Third Street School House, in 1858-59. In 1861-62 he built the "Neil House," at Columbus, and in 1863 he alone put up the Van horn residence and Granite Block; shortly after, in company with J. E. Smith, he was engaged in bridge building; also put up the Bank Block, at that time the firm of Miller,Smith & Frayer; he put up the Crestline and Cardington school-houses; at about that time, he took the contract for the Richland Co. Court House, under the firm name of Miller, Frayer & Sheets, also the Erie & Licking Co. Court House; we might mention here that the Vanhorn Block at Mt. Gilead, and the Beatty & Chase Block at Cardington, were put up by Miller & Smith. Mr. Miller has been married three times; first in 1839 to Hannah Crawford, by whom he had four children, all deceased; some years later, he united in marriage with Mary Carpenter; they had four children, all deceased but one; irr 1864 he married his present wife, Sarah M. Bruce. Mr. Miller is now engaged in the furniture business; the firm name being Cooper, Miller & Co.; they keep a large assortment of everything usually found in a first-class store of the kind; he has been a member of the Masonic Lodge since 1852; he was at one time an Abolitionist, going through the ordeal of rotten eggs with the Rev. Shedd and others; of late years he has voted the Republican ticket. Mr.. Miller has led a busy Hie, and has ever been considered a man of sterling integrity, and the many public buildings and private residences that he has erected, will long stand as monuments of his skill and energy.

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ABRAM MILLER, farmer; P. O., Shaueks; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Winters) Miller; was born Oct. 25, 1828, in York Co., Pa. He was 10 years old when he came with his family to Ohio. The family settled in the southwestern part of Perry Tp. When a youth Abram learned blacksmithing, serving an apprenticeship of two years under John Walker of Woodbury. After this he worked for wages two years, at Johnsville, when he set up a shop on his father’s place, wherein he worked about one year. He united in marriage with Miss Jane Hanawalt, Dec. 4, 1851. She is a daughter of John and Susan (Klinefelter) Hanawalt, born in York Co., Pa., May 13, 1828. After marriage Mr. Miller divided his attention between the shop and the farm some three years. He then removed to Troy Tp., Richland Co., where he farmer two years; from there to the adjoining township of Perry, in Richland; also farming eighty acres of the present place which he rented of Widow Lamb. In 1858 he purchased this farm of 100 acres of fine arable land. He moved here in March, 185! where he has resided since, erecting a large barn forty by seventy-two feet; he also built a fine frame residence of ten rooms in 1872. Mr. Miller began with but few of this world’s goods, and by his force of will and ceaseless energy attained a handsome property. He has taken much pains to improve the blood and character of his stock, raising some fine heavy horses; and has a fine animal of the Short Horn Durham stock, and pure Chester white hogs. Every enterprise of a moral or religious nature receives the hearty co-operation of Mr. Miller. He holds a membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and has been trustee of his church. He is also a member of Johnsville Lodge, No. 469, I. O. O. F. He is Overseer of Richland Grange No. 250. He has been trustee of his township two terms; he has a family of five daughters and one son — Alice, born Oct. 13, 1852, married Sherman Myers, and lives in Marion Co., Ohio; S. Nevada, born Sept. 20, 1854, married B. F. Thuma of Johnsville; Mary R., born July 1, 1857, married Seymour Lindsayof Lexington; Janette, born Sept. 22, 1859; Emma F., June 27, 1862; Charley L., Jan. 3, 1866.

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JACOB I. MILLER, farmer; P.O., Woodview; is the third son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Winters) Miller; he was born in New York Co., Penn., April 30, 1833. When he was five years old, the family settled in this township, and Jacob was sent to district school when he could be spared at home; often he was required to ride horses while they were tramping out wheat on the barn floor for four weeks in winter. He was married to Sarah Cyphers June 5, 1856; she is a daughter of James and Keziah (Baughart) Cyphers; was born Oct. 7, 1832. Mr. Miller purchased sixty acres of land in Congress Tp., and lived upon it about four years, then sold this, and farmer on rented land for the next six years. He purchased his present home of 110 acres in 1866, and has made considerable improvement. In 1875 he bought the old homestead of 80 acres, in this township; his township has made an almost continuous draft upon him for service. For six years he was Trustee, and nine yearsFe assessed the township, and is Land Appraiser for 1880. To these positions he has been called almost without opposition, and his ability and unswerving integrity have gained the confidence of all. Mr. Miller and wife are both active members of the Evangelical

Lutheran Church, in which he is Treasurer. Seven children have been born to them, five of whom are living: Joanna, Elwood C., William L Charley C. and Ardella, Clement, and an infant. His parents came from York Co., Penn., in 1838, and settled on 80 acres in this township, known as the “ Miller Farm;” when they came, there was only a cabin and a small dealing, and by his energy he cleared it up and erected substantial buildings upon it. They raised a family of seven children — Aquilla, Abram, John, Jacob I., Catherine, Samuel and Sarah; four of whom are living; John was killed in the army; Samuel Miller, the father of Jacob, died in Jan., 1872, and his mother is yet living. He was a prominent worker in the United Brethern Church, in which he held a membership until his death. He was a man of great industry and integrity, and was esteemed and revered by all who knew him.

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JACOB MILLER, Jr., farmer; P. O. Shaucks; born in Cumberland Co., Pa., Sept. 2, 1825, and is a son of Jacob Miller, who was born March 17, 1792, in Lancaster Co., Pa., whose wife was Catharine Cassel, born in Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1792, and died April 30, 1878. The family emigrated to Richland Co. when Jacob, Jr. was 5 years of age, where they remained until 1841, when they moved to Congress Tp., and became permanent residents. At the age of 23 Jacob was married to Mary J. Wright, who was born in Richland Co. Jacob’s father was a wagon-maker by trade, which business he followed for eight years; after this he engaged in farming. Jacob has now a good farm, consisting of 168 acres. Their children’s names are Jason, Asa, Mary A., Yirda and Zenis. His wife and Mary A. are members of the Disciple Church.

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JASON MILLER, teacher; Shaucks; is among the successful teachers of the “young idea” in this township, who was born here, June 4, 1849, and is the eldest child of Jacob Miller, Jr. Jason was reared to farming pursuits, but this not being agreeable to his tastes, he entered the field as an educator, and at the age of 20 began teaching, and has labored in that capacity up to the spring of 1880, seventeen terms; twelve of them were taught in the home district were he was raised. At the age of 24 he was married to Esther J. Burtnett, born in 1857, in North Bloomfield, a daughter of Adam and Caroline Burtnett, whose maiden name was Fringer, and who was from Maryland; her husband, Adam, was from York Co. They have one child — Clay, born in Feb. 1880. He has forty acres of land.

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WILLIAM H. MILLER, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Westfield; son of Philip and Hannah (Mattux) Miller, was born in Waldo Tp., Marion Co., Ohio, Aug. 17, 1838. He received a common school education, and attended Mount Hesper one term. He joined the 26th O. V. I., Company C., May 1, 1861, and was the second man in the township to enlist; he served three years, taking part in the battles of Cross Lanes, Cotton Mountain, Raleigh, Kanawha Falls, Scurry and Sewell Mountain, in Virginia. In Feb., 1862, his regiment was transferred to the Army of the Ohio, and was in at the last of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, taking part in the pursuit of Hood. At Kenesaw Mountain, of the ninety-four who had reported for duty in his company, the morning they went into battle, only eight answered to roll call after the two days’ fight. While in the service he was detailed for several foraging expeditions; in one of these, while near Nashville he, with a detachment, went out on the Nolanville Pike to secure some corn, and while removing it, was surprised and captured by Morgan, of guerrilla fame, but one of their number escaping, carried the news to camp, and they were recaptured the same day by the 3d Ohio Cavalry and the 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry, Mr. Miller suffering only the loss of his boots, which a “reb”had appropriated; secured his watch and revolver, which he had taken the precaution to hide when he found himself surrounded; he had five brothers in the army, of whom one died at Newbern, N. C. On his return from the army, he read law a short time, which he abandoned to resume farming, purchasing the ’Bijah Wilson farm of 100 acres of good land, valued at about $6,000. In 1868 he married Ellen, daughter of Hartman and Mary (Stinger) Gickhout, born March 29, 1846. Her father came to America from Hesse Cassel when a young man. They have two children — Ollie Varrence and Hartman Gickhout. Mr. Miller "gives his attention in the way of stock to fine wool sheep; as a citizen he is generous hearted and public spirited, and has the confidence of those who know him. He is a Republican, and a member of the Ashley Lodge No. 407, of Free Masons.

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CHARLES M. MILLER, teacher; Andrews; is the only son of Elijah and Frances (Cook) Miller. Elijah was born Nov. 16, 1833, in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to this State with his parents about the year 1848, and several years afterward was married to Frances Cook, who was born in Branch Co., Mich., in Sept. 1836. The Cook family are of Yankee extraction, and the Millers of German descent. Since the arrival of Elijah, the father of Charles M., he has been a constant resident of this township and county. Charles received the advantages afforded by the common school, and also attended school at Gilead and the Normal, at Ada, and began teaching at the age of 18, and since that time has been engaged in his chosen vocation, and is classed among the successful ones; he is now teaching his third term at Williamsport. He was born Dec. 25, 1856, in Congress Tp., and lias since been a resident of the same. June 'hi, 1879, he was married to Mamie Parson, who was born in Knox Co., Nov. 12, 1858, a daughter of S. V. R. and Elizabeth (Mc- Cutchen) Parson, who resided in Paulding, where Mamie was born; Mr. Miller and wife are members of the M. E. Church.

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cCRACKEN, widow; P. O. Chestcrville; is the daughter of David and Mary (.Johnston) Miller. Her father was born in Scotland, and came to America with Cornwallis' army, and was a drummer; her mother was born in Ireland, and came to this country in 1775. They were married and came to Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., in 1806; David here worked at his trade, that of a tailor; settled on fifty acres of land in this township, about 1810; the father died here in 1814, mother, 1848. Their union blessed them with thirteen children — Andrew, Jane, Isabel, Mary, Sarah, Nancy,.James and Elizabeth; five died unnamed. Elizabeth was born Feb. 14, 1802, in Virginia; attended school in Mt. Vernon, to a teacher by the name of Norcross, the first pedagogue in that portion of the country; while in Chester Tp., she went to school to a Mr. Miles. She was married March 7, 1821, to William, son of James and Catharine (O'Neal) McCracken, both natives of Ireland. William was born Nov. 18, 1801, in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1812, with his parents. The following are the names of their children —.Jnes, born April 1, 1823; Catharine, Feb. 4, 1825; R. Johnson, May 2G, 1827; Mary J., Nov. 12, 1828; Nancy, Dec. 1, 1830; George W.,.Jasper, April 23, 1834, Isabel, Sept. 26, 1836, Elizabeth, April 14, 1839; Lucretia A., May 24, 1841; John A., March 29, 1844; James, Jasper and John A. were in the civil war. Mary J. was married Oct, 20, 1853, to D. B., a son of Enoch and Hannah E. (Dillman) Kinsell; his grandparents were from Prussia, and emigrated to Baltimore, at which place D. B.'s father was born. Her husband was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, March 4, 1819; by him she had Henry C, born Nov. 13, 1858; George M., born May 19, 1862; Hannah E., April 20, 1864. Mr. Kinsell died Sept. 8, 1869; he was a member of the Methodist church; he served as justice of the peace for twelve years; he was a strong temperance man. His wife, who survives him, is an active member of the Methodist church, to which her mother has belonged for forty years.

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GILBERT E. MILLER.

John S. Talmage, who had been promoted to first lieutenant, resigned in July, 1864, and Sergeant Snider became, during the same year, a captain in the United States colored troops. On December 14, 1864, while the Union army was lying on the outskirts of Nashville, the non-veterans in the field were mustered out, they having served a little more than three years, the full term of enlistment, and were given an honorable discharge. They were Sergeant Ira Herrick, Sergeant Washington Gardner, and Private Barak M. Butler, Frederick Cutler, Zeno Hakes, Calvin W. Hudson

Google and Gilbert E. Miller. Three of these were from Mount Gilead and three from Westfield. John C. Barber was mustered out December 16, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio; Harrison Clark, October 20tb, at Camp Dennison, Ohio; William L. Thompson, January 10, 1865; Joseph M. Parley, March 20, 1865, and Sergeant Robert W. Long, May 20, 1865. These were all members of the original company and each had served three years or more.

Those who had veteranized continued in the service. Among those was Jonathan Lewis. He was a great favorite in Westfield, where he was born and reared. While home on veteran furlough, he married a Westfield young woman of good family. Most of his first period of service Lewis had been a musician; consequently he did not go into battle. Near the close of his first enlistment he asked to enter the ranks and carry a gun. He was appointed a corporal November 1, 1864, and on the lath day of December, the day his non-veteran comrades were discharged, he was made a sergeant and on the 16th, two days later, was shot dead on the field of battle near Nashville. He was the last soldier of Company D to give his life for his country in battle. In the village cemetery at Westfield his body rests beside that of his brother, Orson, of the same company.

Robert T. McKibben, a younger brother of John, came as a recruit to the company during the winter of 1862-3, and served the three years' term of enlistment.

Of the original members of the company, when mustered out of service at Victoria, Texas, November 30, 1865, were Pirst Lieutenant William H. Smith, Pirst Lieutenant William H. Mozier, who had done excellent service as hospital steward; Second Lieutenant Joseph Meredith, who had served as regimental commissary sergeant; Second Lieutenant Joel Wright, Sergeant Daniel Griffith and Sergeant Zeno Wood.

According to the official record, the oldest man in Company D was Edward Terry, forty-nine, and the youngest Washington Gardner, sixteen. Both were from the village of Westfield. Nineteen per cent of the company was killed in battle, mortally wounded, or died of disease or in prison. Eighteen per cent were wounded once and several of these twice. Seven were captured on the field of battle, three of whom died in prison. Ten became commissioned officers.

So far as is known at this date, fifty years after enlistment, every surviving member has lived a respectable life. Several have been more than ordinarily successful in business, and some have

Google been honored by their fellow citizens with positions of trust and responsibility. Among the latter may be mentioned Captain Asa A. Gardner, who served the people of Morrow county as probate judge for a period of six years, and Lieutenant William H. Mozier, who held the same honorable office in the county of Van Wert for three years. Captain Samuel P. Snider served two years in congress, and Sergeant Washington Gardner, a younger brother of Asa, served five years as secretary of state in Michigan and twelve years in congress. Snider and Gardner, each of whom was sixteen years old at the time of enlistment in 1861, were the **kids" of Company D. They were for a time bunk-mates and, so far as is known, are the only two rank-and-file soldiers who slept under the same army blanket in the war who afterward both served in the congress of the United States..

Company K, 66th Regiment, O. V. I.

Sixteen soldiers from southwestern Morrow county served in Company K, Sixty-sixth Regiment, among whom were First Lieutenant Wilson Martin and Watson N. Clark; Sergeants Yelverton P. Barry and Alva M. Rhoads (both wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia) and Philip Phillippi, and Privates William Powell (who lost a leg at Antietam, Maryland) and Francis C. Shaw. Those who served three years were Daniel W. Gibbs and Mark Sweet; and, as veterans, Philip Phillippi, Benjamin Peak, John Van Brimer, James D. Bishop and Benjamin F. Stokes.

Companies F, G and K, 81st Regiment, 0. V. I.

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On the initial organization of the regiment Samuel E. Adams, of Chesterville, was made quartermaster and served as such from August 19, 1861, to August 18, 1864.

Andrew R. Boggs, private in Company G, was promoted to quartermaster sergeant and served until July 22, 1862, and was discharged for disability; later adjutant One Hundred and Thirtysixth Regiment.

Pascal B. Ayers, aged fifty-one years, private Company Q, of Chesterville, was made commissary sergeant and discharged August 22, 1862, for disabiUty.

Richard S. Laycox, Company P, was promoted to principal musician.

The officers in Company P were: William Pitman, successively promoted from private to sergeant, first sergeant, sergeant major, second and first lieutenant and assistant adjutant general, second brigade, fourth division, Pifteeivth Army Corps; mustered out March 27, 1865; veterans.

Wesley K. James, promoted from private to sergeant and first sergeant for good conduct at battle of Corinth, Mississippi; mustered out December 13, 1864.

The officers of Company G, from Morrow county were Russell B. Kinsell, captain; Eli A. James, first lieutenant, and Caleb B. Ayres, second lieutenant, each of whom was commissioned October 2, 1861, and resigned: Captain Kinsell, August 15, 1862; discharged: Lieutenant Ayres, September 30, 1862. Lieutenant James was discharged June 30, 1862.

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In Company H, Thomas H. Imes, was appointed sergeant August 21, 1862; promoted to first sergeant and to second and first lieutenant, and mustered out July 13, 1865.

The first service of a detachment of the regiment, from September 24, 1861, to March 1, 1862, was in northern Missouri, where about one-half of the population were rebels and bushwhackers, which made the service especially dangerous, and where several expeditions against bands of guerrillas were undertaken, one of two weeks duration in December, 1861, on which the men at night slept on the ground in rain, sleet and snow with no covering but blankets.

Early in March, 1862, the regiment left St. Louis, Missouri, on the transport and steamboat, Meteor," and arriving at Pittsburg Landing March 17th, was assigned to McArthur's brigade of General C. P. Smith's division, and while in camp here the regiment was vigorously drilled by Major Evans. Following the battle of Shiloh the rebel army retreated to Corinth, Mississippi, and intrenched, the Union army beseiged it, but during the whole spring and until the evacuation of Corinth by the Rebel army May 15, 1862, only a few skirmishes occurred. The armies menaced each other

Google all summer at Corinth and on October 3 and 4, 1862, a great battle was fought in which the Eighty-first lost 14 killed and 44 wounded. In 1863, but two battles occurred in which the Eighty-first was engaged, Tuscumbia and Town Creek, Alabama, with small loss.

In April, 1864, preparations were made for the Atlanta campaign, in which the Eighty-first was engaged in the following battles: Leys Ferry, May lath and 15th; Rome Cross Roads, May 16th; Dallas, May 26th to June 4; Atlanta, June 22nd, and a second battle, July 28th; the seine of Atlanta, July 28th to September 2nd; Jonesboro, August 31st to September ist, and Lovejoy Station, September 2nd to 6th, 1864, all in the state of Georgia; in which the Eighty-first, had 62 killed, 80 wounded and 160 died of disease.

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The men of Company F who served three years were, besides those already noted above: Ira Hartwell, Marion Hartwell, Daniel W. Potts, Marcus L. Newland, William Bates, Napoleon B. Bowker, Benjamin P. Hartwell, James W. Galleher, Daniel Cooper, Silas Richey, Duncan Bowker, Moses Clark, Orion Clark, George W. Cunningham, John Gleason, Robert H. Inscho, Davis E. James, Caleb S. Jeffries, John E. Jones, Augustus Jones, Alexander Mann, Wiley Peterson, James D. Pitts, Clark Richards, Samuel J. Rogers, Sylvester Shipman and William Wagoner; and veterans George AUington, George A. Crowell, James Kennedy and Albert Einnaman.

In Company K, which was enlisted in August, 1862, the men who served nearly three years were as follows: Lieutenant Thomas H. Imes; Peter Snyder, Joseph J. Smart, Stephen Hosford, John R. Stoller, Andrew W. Kerr, Samuel Mobley, Levi Arman, Delevan Brewer, John Burkhart, Thomas J. Burwell, William B. Dickey, Justus Dye, David L. Elder, George Fry, Charles S. Garberich, Harrison Harding, Jacob Hill, Samuel James, Samuel Pitman, Samuel Shaffer, Jacob B. Snyder, Thomas W. Snyder, Samuel Spigle, James Stall and Marcus L. Teeple.

Company C, 82nd Regiment, O. V. I.

In November, 1861, Francis M. Baker and Morris Baker, of Harmony township (the latter wounded May 2, 1863, in the battle of Chaneellorsville, Virginia), enlisted in Company C, Eitysecond Regiment, and both were finally mustered out July 24, 1865, as veterans.

George A. Breckenridge, of Westfield township, enlisted in the same company November 25, 1861, and was discharged May 13, 1864, for wounds received July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

On February 29, 1864, Orlando D. Phillips enlisted in same company, and was wounded at Dallas, Georgia, May 25, 1864, and transferred to Veteran Relief Corps March 3, 1865.

Companies B and C, 85th Regiment, O. V. I.

James G. Shedd, of Mt. Gilead, May 27, 1862, enlisted for three months in Company B, Eighty-fifth Regiment, and in the last days of May and June, 1862, fifty-six men were from Morrow county enlisted for three months in Company C. Some of these men were transferred to Company I, Eighty-seventh Infantry. (See state roster).

Of Company C, Thomas S. Bunker was made captain; Silas Holt, first lieutenant (died August 4, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio), and Ludwell W. Nickols, second lieutenant, and all who were not transferred to Company I, Eighty-seventh Regiment, were mustered out September 23, 1862.

Company I, 87th Regiment, O. V. I.

The twenty men of Company C, Eighty-fifth Regiment, from Morrow county transferred to Company I, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, were with the remainder of the command taken prisoner at Harper's Perry, Virginia, September 15, 1862, by General Stonewall* Jackson's Rebel army. After their term of enlistment had expired (the Eighty-seventh being a three months regiment), they were released on their paroles, and mustered out October 3, 1862.

88th Resoiment, O. V. I.

In the early summer of 1862, four companies, called the First Battalion Governors' Ouards, were organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and in July and August of that year six more companies were mustered into the United States service for three years, as the Eighty-eighth Ohio. Infantry. About one hundred men were from Morrow county, many of whom were drawn from the religious denomination of Friends, conscientiously opposed to war but desirous to serve their country. The regiment was engaged principally in guarding rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. It also took part in the pursuit of General John Morgan's raiders, and in the insurrection in Holmes county, Ohio. It was mustered out July 3, 1865.

Companies C and D, 96th Regiment, 0. V. I.

Of the field and staff officers of the Ninety-sixth Regiment, Morrow county furnished the following: Adjutant George N.

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