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Born 1840, Dallas Township
From History of Crawford County and Ohio : containing a history of the state of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time ... a history of Crawford County ... biographical sketches, portraits (1881)
JOHN T. HOOVER, farmer and stock-dealer; P. 0. Wyandot, Ohio; was born in Dallas Township, Crawford Co., Sept. 1, 1840; is a son of Tom Hoover, of Bucyrus; was raised in this township, and married to Miss Mary E., daughter of James Hufty, of Logan Co., Oct. IS, 1866. They have four children — Pauline, Parmelia, Leo H. and Ray. He owns 160 acres of good land. When his county called, he enlisted in the 11th Ohio Battery, and for thirty- eight months was at the front doing good service. Was with Gen. Fremont in Missouri in the fall of 1861, stationed at Fort Lamine; at Otterville during the winter of 1861-62; then crossed the country to Booneville and St Charles; then to Cape Girardeau, Mo.; was with Gen. Pope at the memorable taking of Island No. 10, and the Mississippi campaign of the spring of 1862; then went with Gen. Pope's army to Pittsburg Landing, where, for forty days and nights, was on duty with his battery" in the " On to Corinth " struggle; was at the battle of Iuka. Miss., when his company lost sixteen men killed and thirty-two wounded; they then lost their battery, but regained it the next day, and, at the second battle of Corinth, the Confederates had cause to remember the long-range "whistles" of the 11th Ohio; moved with Grant to Grenada, Miss., and with Sherman to Vicksburg; also took part in the capture of Milliken's Bend, Napoleon and Grand Gulf; and was at the front during the march to Jackson, and in the great battle of Champion Hill; siege of Vicksburg; afterward at Helena and Little Rock, Ark., and was sent to assist in Gen. Banks' Red River expedition. During all these long, weary years, Mr. Hoover was never absent, sick or failed to do his duty. Crawford Co. should be proud of such a soldier.
As printed in History of Crawford County and Ohio : containing a history of the state of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time ... a history of Crawford County ... biographical sketches, portraits (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name John T. Hoover: James B. Hufty (b. 1818)
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