Gilbert E. Miller

As printed in 1911

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.

As printed in History of Morrow County, Ohio; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.