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Coic?n-i 104th O. I'. I., lS()2-64; Brigadier-General of I'^olunteers, 1864-6^.

HISTORY

The 104th Regiment

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

1862 to 1865

By N. a. PINNEY
AiTHOR OF " Reminiscences of the Rebellion '
WINDHAM, OHIO

AKRON", OHIO
Printed bv Werner & Lohmann
i886

introductory.
I have long been impressed with the fact that time is fast
obliterating the memories of the events which transpired among
the rank and file of those great armies, which, in the war of "The
Great Slaveholders' Rebellion," finally triumphed over treason
and disunion, and placed our beloved country in the front rank of
Christian nations, struck the shackles from four million slaves, and
established the supreme authority of the Federal republic in
these United States. So in the spring of 1885, I began writing
an account of the travels, services, and doings generally of the
104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in that war, from August, 1862,
to June 2S, 186^, when the "boys" were finall)' discharged from
the ser\-ice. '-Reminiscences of the Rebellion," as that series of
papers -^vas called, soon came to the notice of considerable numbers
of ex-members of the regiment, and on August 6, 188:;, at the
i6th annual reunion of the regiment, a resolution was carried by
^vhich I was authorized to revise them for use as a history of the
regiment. This revision is, in substance, the same material as the
"Reminiscences of the Rebellion," with all the incidents per
sonal to myself, and not of an historical character, carefully
expunged from the work. Besides this I have tried to get as full
and complete a roster of officers of the regiment and of officers
and soldiers of each and every company as is now possible.
Well knowing that this fails to give all there was of interest in
the services of the .104th, my only apology will be that I have
tried to give a full and fair account of every incident of the
regiment's history, and that wherein I may have failed has been
due to a lack of knowledge.
Yours, N. A. PINNEY.

the 104TH O. V. I.

CHAPTER 1.
beginning of the war.
Probabl}' no e\ent recorded in modern history brought about
so sudden and radical a change in the thoughts and pursuits of
any people as the firing on Fort Sumpter, by the rebels of the
South, in April, 1861. Before this the union-loving Northern
people could not believe that the Southrons would take the
chances of a desolating civil war to destroy a government undei'
which they had grown rich and powerful, only because they
could no longer dictate the policy, and control the destiny of the
nation. Raised in peaceful times, the Northern people loved
peace, for the security and prosperity it brought them, and they
could scarce belie\e the South in earnest till the boom of Southern
cannon undeceived them. Then a sudden and inighty "change
came o'er the spirit of their dream." From that hour the business
of our people for four long, weary years was making war, and
war on the most gigantic scale recorded in history. At the sum
mons of President Lincoln, all the farms and workshops in the
land were set to work, raising supplies, and making munitions of
war; while the }oung and middle aged men flew to arms, and
formed into companies and regiments to do and, if need be, to
die for their country. Nearly the whole male population became
enrolled in companies called home guards, who met generally for
drill on Saturday afternoons at the township centers. Through
out the Western Reserve of Ohio the war spirit was intense, and
early in the spring of i86i regiinent after regiment of her stal
wart sons had been sent to the front. Of these the 7th, t^th,
19th, 20th, 23d, 41st, 42d, and 45th Infantry; the 2d and 6th
Cavalry; the ist Light Artillery; and the 6th, 14th, and 19th
Independent Batteries ga\e proof on a score of bloodv fields
that in soldierly qualities the citizens of Northeastern Ohio were

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second to none. More than a \ear had passed. The Western
troops had gained victory after victory in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Missouri, and West Virginia; yet the war for the
Union seemed as far from an end as ever. The incompetency,
not to say treachery, of our commanders had more than counter
balanced the successes wc had gained, and midsummer of 1S63
found the magnificent arm}' of the Potomac frittered away in the
advance from Y'orktown to Richmond, and Lee had used up one
after another of McClellan's divisions in detail, while he could
have been easily crushed at once had the Union forces been
handled h\' a vigorous commander. And the same cowardly
spirit seems to have seized some of the Western commanders.
who allowed Kirbv Smith and Bragg, ^yith inferior forces, to
drive them almost out of Kentucky. The situation was indeed a
grave one when, on July i, 1S63, the President issued a call for
three hundred thousand additional troops, and on the 4th of
August another call for three hundred thousand more.
Measures were immediately taken to organize fifty thousand
men from Ohio. Recruiting camps ^yel¦e established at con
venient points, the work of recruiting, organizing, and equip
ping went steadily on, and \)\ the first of October more
than fifty new regiments were in the field thirsting for a chance
at the enemy. Much of this ardor had cooled off bv the end of
three years of active campaigning.
Among the new regiments called into the service b^• the
President's proclamation of July i, 1862, was one of ten com
panies aggregating one thousand and seventeen men, rank and
file, who were mustered into the service at their rendezvous at
Massillon, August 30, 1862; yyith James W. Reilly, of Wellsville,
as colonel; Asa S. Mariner, of Akron, as lieutenant-colonel; and
Lauren D. Woodworth, of Ravenna, as major. Four of the ten
companies came from Columbiana county, three from Stark, two
from Portage, and one from Summit. The men were mostly
large and lusty felknvs, in the prime of life, and the regiment was
always acknowledged to be one of the finest appearing, best
drilled, and disciplined, and soberest and most trustworth\- bodies
of soldiers to be found in the arm\-. One of those men was the
writer, who served with the regiment through to the end of the
war, and was generally present for duty. August 30, 1862, we
were mustered into the service as the 104th Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, to serve three \ears unless sooner discharged.

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As soon as wc were mtistered in, wc drew our arms and
accoutrements, and in the afternoon marched in review before
Governor Tod, who made a speech in v\'hich he predicted that
the war would soon close and y\e would be at home in time for
the Christmas holidays. Subsequent e\ents proved how much
he knew about it. September first we took the train for Cin
cinnati, where we arrived the next morning, and crossed over to
Covington, where we dined on mustard, seasoned with a little
bread and meat, and then marched out to Camp King, where I
Was immediately put on picket duty, and then and there entered
on the active life of a soldier.
September third, two days after crossing the river, we were
moved to the south of Covington, at a new earthwork called Fort
Mitchell, and immediately started out on the Lexington pike,
where some of our new troops had been having a brush with the
enemy. Here we met the loist Ohio coming in on double quick.
They had met the whole rebel army out beyond the woods, and
had been all cut to pieces; which appeared likely, as many of
them had thrown away hats, knapsacks, and guns, and they
presented about as much the appearance of soldiers as a mob of
school boys out for a holida}-. It was no use to tiy to stop them;
go into town they would, and did. Ordered to the double quick,
we were making good time forward when a volley from the
woods ahead brought us to a sudden halt. Company A, in
the advance, lost one man killed and two wounded. Companies
A, F, D, and I, in the advance, were immediately filed out to the
left and right to be deployed as skirmishers. A ball whizzed over
the heads of Company D, and every man dodged as if he ex
pected to be hit, but never a man broke step out of the ninety
greenhorns in line. The lieutenant called a halt, and stepping out
in front of the column, swinging his sword aloft, shouted in
thunder tones: "Men, jou are in the presence of the enemy; the
first man I see flinch, I'll cut off" his head with my sword." The
speech was characteristic of the man. Overpowered by his
responsibility, he was determined that no man in his command
should show the white feather. We were deployed, and ad
vanced to the cover of a ravine, from which a desultory fire was
kept up through the rest of the day, when we were inarched
back to Fort Mitchell, having covered ourselves all over with
glory without the loss of a man except as before mentioned.
Among those most conspicuous on this occasion I must not forget

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to mention the "squirrel hunters," ^vho came to their country's
rescue in the time of its dire necessity, and with a squirrel rifle m
one hand and a pumpkin pie in the other, climbed the heights of
Cincinnati to get just one chance at the rebel invaders assembled
three miles on the other side of the Ohio. Next day an advance
was made in force, but the terrible horde, which had come all the
w.iy from Tennessee to carry fire and sword through the trem
bling North, had vanished, the siege of Cincinnati was at an end,
and the country breathed once more; and the invincible "squirrel
hunters" retired to their firesides, followed by the plaudits of an
admiring and grateful people.
The next Wednesday we started out on the road south toward
Lexington, making short stops at Florence, Walton, and Critten
den. At the latter place, for the first time in Kentucky, we found
all the people loyal to the core. They had been harrassed and
robbed by the rebels, and their joy was unbounded at their de
liverance. But it was not for long. A complete change took
place among the generals of the "Army of Central Kentucky," as
we were called. General Boyle was placed in command of the
department, and Generals Lew Wallace and Granger superceded
by Generals Q; A. Gillmore and Judah. Gillmore, one of the
best artillerists and engineers in the army, proved to be a regular
nincompoop as a general in the field. Almost every day, and
sometimes twice a day, we were called into line to listen to
general orders, issued on almost e^¦ery imaginable subject, from
the wisdom at headquarters. No greater martinet ever lived
than General Judah, the commander of the second brigade, to
which the 104th now became connected. From the regular armyi
and a miserable, drunken debauchee, he cared no more for the
rights or comfort of volunteers than if they were so many hogs.
The day following our arrival at Crittenden, he assumed com
mand, and immediately broke camp and marched back to a place
between Florence and Walton, and established his headquarters
at Florence. He rode into camp, the next day, just in time to see
two men of Company A, who had been on picket, come in, each
carrying two chickens in his hands. Following them to their
company, he immediately ordered them to be bucked and gagged,
and to remain in that condition over night. Captain Steryl had
no more than carried this order into effect when Colonel Reilly
appeared on the scene. The Colonel was a big, burly son of the
Emerald Isle, with an immense head crowned by a mammoth

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shock of grizzly hair and bearded like the pard. His temper, at
no time sweet, was now aroused to the fighting pitch, and striding
up to Captain Steryl he thundered out: "Release those men;
and if ever I see another man of my command bucked and
gagged in this regiment, while I command it, I'll put handcuffs
on the officer who dares to do it." Then turning to General
Judah, the enraged Colonel fairly shrieked: If ever you come
into this command with any more such orders, I'll let da^dight
through your d— — d hide." He could swear a blue streak at the
slightest provocation, and now the air was fairly loaded with the
brimstone smoke as he stormed and fumed till his temper cooled
down. The experiment was never repeated. The boys had all
along regarded the Colonel as a very tyrant, but as time wore on
we found him a friend indeed. We were now in a poorly
watered country, with few springs, and these mostly dried up,
and the wells in the same condition from a five months' drought
of unusual severity, even in that drought-cursed neighborhood.
Close by our camp was one of those sink-holes peculiar to
limestone regions; quite a large one, with plenty of water; stag
nant, though, and covered three inches thick with the peculiar
thin -scum called frog spittle. Here we camped for three long,
hot, dusty, weeks — men and horses and mules alike drinking of
the filthy stuff', till the w^ater became so low as to show what lay
hid in the bottom. Imagine our surprise and disgust at discover
ing that all this time we had been drinking the decaying carcasses
of thirteen dead mules, thrown in there by the rebels on their
retreat. This was the famous camp at Snow's Pond. We now
marched back south again to the other side of Walton, and
camped at a similar, though smaller pond. In the vicinity were
two or three nearly dried up springs, where, at all hours of the
day and night, men, loaded with canteens, might be seen waiting
for their turn to dip up the intolerable stuff". This time the
General made his headquarters in a large brick house, owned b} a
rebel major who had left his family at home. The house was
almost screened from view by a high and thick hedge of Osage
orange. One day an i8th Michigan man thoughtlessly took oft"
his clothes and proceeded to wash them at the pond. The lady of
the house rejaorted the fact to General Judah, though it was
utterly impossible to see through the hedge, except by parting the
branches to look through. The man was put under arrest, and
the next day he was ordered to have one side of his head shaved.

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and also one side of his magnificent beard, and be drummed out
of camp, without even waiting for the tender mercies of a court
martial. This infernal order was that very day carried into eff^ect
before the whole brigade, drawn up in line to witness it. That
night more than forty men, some of them members of the 104th,
lay in ambush at diff"erent points on the pike leading to Cincin
nati, whither the General had gone, and he certainly would have
been killed had he not been so drunk that he fell off" his horse on
the roadside, where he was found next morning. He had shame
enough left to ask to be relieved from command, which was done.
General Burbridge taking his place in command of the second
brigade. Now we began a forward movement, first to Eagle
Creek, thence to Georgetown. From Eagle Creek on we had
good water in plenty, and at Georgetown camped by an immense
spring from which a fine mill stream issued forth, furnishing
power in half a mile for two large flouring mills, savy mills, and
other machinery, with plenty of water going to waste. We were
now in the edge of the famous Blue Grass region, as famous for
its fertility as the country we had just left was for its poverty.
The night after our arrival, we were aroused at two o'clock a. m.
and marched to Lexington, the last five miles on the double quick,
arriving just in time to save the town from a general conflagration
at the hands of John Morgan's men, who, being mounted, escaped
across the Kentucky river, without loss, carrying ofli" considerable
plunder. In the afternoon we pitched our tents in the Ceritral
Kentucky fair grounds, where we remained for several w^eeks,
engaged in the disagreeable but important and necessary work of
drill and discipline.
Shortly after our arrival at Lexington a number of changes
were made among the general officers of our command. Gen.
Gillmore was transferred to the southern coast, where he so sig
nally proved his fitness and efficiency as an engineer and artillerist.
Gen. Burbridge was promoted to the command of the division,
and the young and talented Gen. Wager Svs^ayne to the
brigade. Gen. Swayne immediately inaugurated a series of
brigade drills, in which he excelled any other officer I have
ever seen. Seated on his horse, in the center of a great
field, over every part of which his clear, ringing voice could
be heard, he gave orders to each in turn of the half dozen infantry
regiments and two batteries of which the brigade consisted with
out the assistance of an orderly or bugler, and every movement

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in each column, or the whole brigade at once, Avas carried into
eff'ect without confusion or mistake. The efficiency and precision
which ever after characterized the movements of the 104th and
other troops in this brigade were largely due to the excellent drill
and discipline of Gen. Swayne. About November first a detail
of tyvo men from each company was sent with Sergeant Frank
Da}', to guard the commissarv' department and to load and unload
provisions. About this time Capt. Horton, having been exchanged, got his
commission, and joined the company, with which he remained ever
present until the fatal day in Ma}% 1864, when he fell before a rebel
sharpshooter. About December first quite a change was made in
the organization of the Army of Kentucky. The two Michigan
regiments and 22d Wisconsin were transferred to other commands,
while their places were filled by the newly formed ii3th Illinois,
I2th Kentucky, and 44th and looth Ohio, Col. Sam Gilbert, of the
44th, taking the place of Gen. Swaj'ne in command of the brigade.
In the early part of December the brigade removed to Richmond,
where they set about fortifying the place, and by the end of 1862
had a strong line of earthworks thrown up around the town.
We made quite a jolly Christinas of it all together. Nearly
all of the boys had received various good things from home,
and the several messes were able to fill up with something
better than hardtack and bacon. Nearly all had received warm,
woolen underclothing, mittens, socks, etc., from loved ones
at home, so that at the end of our first three months in service we
were quite comfortable for soldiers, and, although there had been
considerable sickness in the regiment, there had been no deaths-
About December thirtieth we marched to Danville, and the first
of January started for Frankfort, where we arrived about the
fourth. Col, Gilbert was put in command of the post, and Col-
Reilly made provost marshal. On the twelfth. Companies D and
K, in charge of Capt. Jordon, went to Benson Station, Avest of
toyvn, where, for the next three weeks, we were engaged in guard
ing four bridges over a branch of the Kentucky river. Here we had
considerable fun hunting the small game which abounded, and
pheasants, quail, rabbits, and fresh fish from the creek, helped to
relieve the monotony of army fare. Qiiite an amusing incident
occurred at this place. One poor, miserable creature, whose habits
had nearly deprived him of life itself, lay in his tent, too lazy and
listless to wash his clothes or himself, until he was literally alive

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with vermin. The other members of the mess slept out of doors
rather than take their chances in the same tent. The weather was
very severe, and when at last their patience was worn out, the
mess dispatched Sergeant Reynolds to lodge complaint with Lieut,
Booth, commanding. The lieutenant looked into the tent and be
held the pretense of humanity within. One look was enough.
His bile arose within him. Seizing the hapless youth by the col
lar, he dragged him, trembling, to the brink of the ice-cold stream
and proceeded to pitch him in; when "splash," and the six-foot
lieutenant went heels over head into the water. Thoroughly cooled
off' he retired to his quarters, followed by the gibes of the men.
Four men were immediately detailed to heat some water. They
stripped the boy of his clothes, scalded them thoroughly, and then
proceeded to scrub his dirty body and police his quarters. He left
in a few days for the hospital, and we never saw him again. Dur
ing this time a convention of rebel sympathizers assembled at the
State House to vote Kentucky out of the Union, Secretly thev
made their way into the capitol and proceeded to organize, but the
wide-awake Gilbert was on the alert. Hastily gathering up a de
tail from those of the 104th on duty in town, he quickly surrounded
the building; then, with about twenty more, filed into the room.
Completely taken by surprise, the rebels tried to escape by the
windows, and were gobbled up by the guard outside. In the first
week of February Companies D and K returned to the regiment,
February twenty-first, about four o'clock, p. m., we broke camp
and inarched six miles south, to the State Military Institute, where
we stopped for the night, drenched to the skin with rain and sleet-
Wet and cold we moved on in the morning, with mud and slush
slopping into the tops of our shoes. The wind was from the north
west and blew bitter cold. That day we marched thirty-three
miles, and at nine o'clock, p. m., reached Harrodsburgh, where we
occupied a place which had been a summer resort for the South
ern bloods. The roads were now almost as hard as a rock from
freezing, and as rough as can be imagined. Next day we inarched
to Danville, where we went into camp again for a few days. On
the twenty-seventh Companies F, D, I and H marched to Hick
man's bridge, over the Kentucky river, arriving just before day.
The road on the north side leads by an easy grade around and up
a limestone cliff" six hundred feet high. At daylight the rest of
the regiment arrived, and, breakfast over, we marched back
twenty-one miles to Lexington and went into camp. The hard-

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ships and exposure to which we had been subjected had begun to
tell on the men's health; one after another had been sent to the
hospital, till probably not more than six hundred remained in the
regiment, and many of these were unfit for duty.
Ma\' twenty-second Ave again started southward. Taking the
train at tvs'o o'clock, a. m., we arrived at Nicholasville two hours
later, and, after breakfast, inarched twenty-four miles to Danville.
Just before noon on the twenty-fourth we went out on the Stan
ford pike in battle array. The cavalry were being driven back by
the rebel. Gen. Pegram, who was on his famous raid through Ken
tucky. At three o'clock, p. m., the 104th received orders to conduct
the trains back to Hickman's bridge, and we were soon in full re
treat, with about four men to each wagon as guards. Col. Gilbert,
with the 44th, lOOth and 103d Ohio, and Gen. Carter with his
brigade of cavalry and mounted infantry and a battery of moun
tain howitzers, covered the retreat, and had several spirited skirm
ishes with the enemy on the line of inarch. We had started off"
so hastily that our pickets were left behind and most of them
captured. Our hospital was also captured and the occupants made
prisoners. Sergeant L. T. Reynolds, of Compan}- D, was taken.
The hardships which he endured while in their hands, resulted in
his death soon after. The weather was hot, the road six inches
deep in blinding dust, and we were forlorn looking objects as we
marched on beside the heavily freighted wagons, pushing on at
breakneck speed for the shelter of the inaccessible cliff's of Ken
tucky river. We could plainly hear the exultant yells of Pegram's
men as they dashed into and through town, while the pop, pop,
pop of the little howitzers, and the incessant fire of the infantry
and cavalry behind us, gave evidence that they were having sharp
work. Thus we made our toilsome way back over the fifteen
miles to the bridge, where, weary and footsore, and half-dead from
the all-pervading limestone dust, which filled eyes, ears, nostrils and
mouths, and feverish from intense thirst, we crossed and wound
around the beetling cliff"s of "Old Kentucky's Shore." By mid
night all the trains were safe across the river, and by Gen. Carter's
orders a section of a battery was placed to command the bridge
and prepared for firing if need be. One poor, sleepy, weary
teamster, while climbing the long slope up the cliff", was crowded
off by a skittish mule, and fell headlong into the dark abyss. He
was found in the morning, with his back broken, in the forks of a
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which he fell. After midnight we stretched our weary limbs on
the naked rocks to rest, and were soon in dreamland, only to be
awakened to the cold comforts of a drenching rain. Even this,
with its accompaniment of lightning and thunder, was insufficient
to arouse some of the boys, who slept on and on until the heat of
a blazing southern sun drove them from the fast heating rocks at
ten o'clock in the morning. Before noon we were most agreeably
surprised by the appearance of Tommy Chapman and Baxter
Fenn, who had been out on picket, and were the only ones on the
line who escaped. As the rebel cavalry rode up they had dis
charged their guns and run for dear life, while a perfect storm of
shot from the rebel carbines falling around them made them think
of " Home, Sweet Home." They soon found shelter in a deep
ravine filled with tangled undergrowth and vines, then followed it
down to Dick's river, and down that to the Kentucky, where they
halted till morning; they then followed the river down to a shoal
where they waded over to the north bank, and finally came to a
ravine Avhere, by hard climbing over wet and slimy rocks, they at
last emerged to the light of day within a mile of camp, with
bruised bodies and torn and tattered clothing, they arrived just
after dinner to the great joy of their comrades. That day troops
arrived from Lexington, Versailles and other points, and early the
next morning we moved onward again to find the rebels, but they
retreated too fast for the infantry to get within sight or hearing of
them. Gen. Carter, with the mounted men, caught up with them
in the evening, at Crab Orchard, where he had quite a brush with
them. He afterwards defeated them in a sharp fight at Somerset
after which they drew off" their forces to Cumberland Gap, and
thus ended "Pegram's Raid." The 104th stopped a short time at
Lancaster. While here, soon after the first of April, Wm. B.
Phillips, who was on duty, had all the fingers shot off" his right
hand, while the pickets were being advanced to a more con\-en-
ient and better sheltered line.
During the spring and early summer the 104th was almost con
stantly on the move from town to town, till some time in Ma\', at
Mount Vernon, the 2d brigade went into camp, and here, for several
weeks, the regiment was subjected to a most thorough system of
drill and discipline, by Capt. Cummings, of the 44th Ohio, who
was detailed for that purpose. Officers and men alike entered into
the work with zeal, and soon were so far along in " Scott's Tactics''
that the commanding General issued a congratulatory order to the

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men, which was read at the evening dress parade. Toward the
end of June the rebel, Scott, led his cavalry on a raid through
eastern Kentucky, plundering the farms which came in his way of
such horses as could be led off", and threatening our communica
tions with Cincinnati and Louisville, Col, Gilbert started with the
brigade and marched to Paris, where, learning that the rebels had
retreated, we inarched back through Lexington to Camp Nelson.
This place had been selected by Gen, Burnside, who had assumed
command in Kentucky, as the supply depot of the army which he
was organizing for an early invasion of East Tennessee. To this
end the Army of Central Kentucky was reorganized, and hence
forth was known as the 23d Army Corps, which was placed in
command of Gen. Hartsuffi The new corps comprised four divi
sions, of which the ist, consisting of cavalry and mounted in
fantry, and the 2d and 3d of infantry, were to march over the
mountains; while Gen. Burbridge, with the 4th, was to remain in
Kentucky and keep our communications open. The 104th was
associated with the 44th and looth and 103d Ohio, i6th Kentucky^
1 1 2th Illinois and the new 8th Tennessee, as the ist Brigade, 3d
Division, 23d Army Corps,
Great changes had taken place in the regiment, among their
officers, and also in the modes of life and habits of the men. Of
the field officers, only the hot-tempered, grizzly old colonel re
mained. The scholarly and silver-tongued Major had resigned.
His tastes and talents better fitted him for the delivery of learned
discourses, than to endure the hardships and privations of a sol
dier's life. It would be hard to find a finer looking officer, or one
who delighted in the pomp and display, the tinsel and magnifi
cence of grand parade, more than our Lieutenant Colonel Mariner,
the very ne plus ultra of the Fourth of, July soldier. He did not
like to get dust on his clothes or in his mouth. He had no relish
for bean soup and hardtack, and he preferred something pleasanter
than mud, in the water he drank. So he had sought and found a
soft snap in the quartermaster's department, and we never saw
him more. It is but simple justice to both these officers, however,
to state that they were kind-hearted gentlemen, against whom no
one harbored any but kindly feelings.
When the regiment marched, it was no longer encumbered
with a wagon train a mile long, to carry the tents and knapsacks
of the men, and when they arrived in camp they were no longer
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their tents or their blankets. The great Bell and A tents, large
enough to shelter a dozen or more, had been exchanged for little
pieces of canvas, about six feet square. Of these each man had
.1 piece. They were so fitted with buttons and loops, that two
buttoned together and thro\vn over a short pole set on posts
served as a shelter for two, or one or two more might close up
the spaces at the ends, and three or four could crawl in like so
many dogs in a kennel, and be as happy as "pigs in clover." If
wc wanted our blanket or overcoat, there was no waiting for the
train. They were safely strapped to our knapsacks, and those
were on our backs.
The rules and regulations of the camp were less rigorous, and
the duties less onerous than four months before. Instead of one-
fourth of the men being kept on guard, to keep the men from
stealing the camp and running off with it, there -was one man sta
tioned at the Colonel's tent, and another to guard the commissary
Again, if a man did not like the meat and coff'ee as prepared by
the company cook, he could cook them himself. This was done
by most of the men, and added much to the general health. When
we first went out, it was a crime punishable with the guard-house,
for a private to fry his salt pork, or crackers, or cook his own
beans, and it is safe to say, that one-half of the sickness vyhich
overtook the men had been caused by the greasy boiled pork and
bean slop, which our medical authorities directed shovild be fixed
up to tempt our appetites. The boys soon learned to fix up their
plain, but substantial, fare in various vs'ays to suit their own tastes,
and we were from this time reasonably free from that worst of
army scourges, the chronic diarrhea.

lOIfTH REGIMENT.

17

CHAPTER II.

ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS.

The 104th had a good cornet band eight months before
the. 44th brought one into the brigade. Then came the 112th
Illinois with another good one. Now we had been glorying
in the best martial music in the division, and for another, and
still another, to come in and snatch away any of our honors, was
(we thought) "too thin;" so the officers put their heads together,
and the outcome was, that they raised thirteen hundred dollars,
which they sent to Cincinnati, and procured a full set of band in
struments. Then there apiDeared in camp a little, yellow-haired
man, in citizens' clothes. It was Professor Dustin Marble, who
had come all the way from Akron to teach the boys how to make
those silver horns talk. He had soon selected a sufficient number,
and trained them so that in a short time they could render
several pieces well. Before six months had jjassed ours was ac
knowledged to be by far the best band in the corps,
ReA-, Buel Whitney, a private in Company I, Avas surprised
beyond measure when one day he was presented, by the Colonel,
with a commission, from Governor Tod, making him chaplain of
the regiment. He was a plain, good man, and endeared himself
to all the boys hy his careful nursing, when they were sick, b}- his
good and timely counsel, and by his excellent Christian example,
August thirteenth Gen, Burnside arrived in camp from ^^icks-
burg, where he had been with the gtli Corps, helping Gen, Grant
in the great siege. We were favorably impressed with the appear
ance and conduct of the general, who combined in his person the
very highest type of manly beauty, and the bland and gracious
manners of the perfect gentleman.
The next clay we marched to Danville, and on the sixteenth to
Stanford. Here had come all the troops belonging to our corps,
except Burbridge, with the 4th DiA-ision, and here we Avere fur
nished with a full outfit of clothing, except overcoats. Each man
Avas also furnished with an extra pair of shoes. We were issued
eight days' rations and one hundred rounds of ammunition per
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1 8 HISTORT OF THE
man, the usual forty rounds in our cartridge boxes, the remainder
in our knapsacks. Quite a number of the boys weighed their
load, including their arms. Mine, I remember, weighed seventy-
four pounds, which was about the average, the weights ranging
from seventy to eighty pounds. These we Avere to carry on a
forced inarch of over two hundred miles.
August nineteenth we started forward, passing through Crab
Orchard, over the wild, desolate region of the Wild Cat Moun
tains, to Somerset and to the Cumberland riA-er, where we arrived
at noon of the twenty-fourth. The water in the river was in no
place more than waist deep, and was very warm. The boys had
a jolly time of it bathing, the water being clear as crystal. About
four o clock we forded the river and came out dry on the other
side. We marched on sixteen miles the next daA% and twenty- '
two on the twenty-sixth, and camped three miles south of the
Tennessee line, at the little hamlet of Chitwood, consisting of a
log store, a blacksmith shop, and three dwellings, also built of
logs. Here we halted two days to give Shackleford time to dis
tract the attention of the rebels from our advance, by threatening
the passes of the Cumberland mountains by Cumberland, Pound,
and Big Creek gaps.
We were now in a mountain wilderness, sparsely inhabited by
wild and very ignorant hunters, of whom all the able-bodied
men were gone; most of them being members of the nine east
Tennessee regiments of our command. One of the prominent
figures on this march was the long, gaunt, slab-sided Colonel Jim
Brownlow, the boy colonel of the first Tennessee cavalry, who,
with his regiment, and accompanied by his peaked-faced old
father, marched with the third division, and scoured the country
in front and on the flanks to keep clear of rebels the country
ahead. They were impatient to go, for in the great valley just
ahead, and along the slopes of the Clinch and Smoky mountains,
lay the homes from which they had fled months before, to escape
the service imposed upon all east Tennesseeans by conscription
into the rebel armies. After months of toil and privation, these
hardy, loyal fellows were going home to their wives and
children, their mothers and sweethearts, and all they held most
dear on earth.
August twenty-ninth we starte'd on again, marching in two
days the forty miles of mountain forest, between Chitwood and
Montgomery, in Avhich we saw no more than half a dozen clear-

lOJiTH REGIMENT. 19
ings on the route. We took dinner one of these days at a little
clearing of perhaps twenty acres, enclosed by a brush fence, and
containing a fine spring of the purest, SAVcetest water I eAer
drank, and a little, old log-cabin, inhabited by an old man and a
numerous family of children of three generations. He had heard
the noise of our coming, and had come out to meet us, to find out
Avhat was the matter. Though over eighty years old, he told us
he had ncA^er before seen a flag, nor heard a drum, nor had he
ever been so far from home as Jacksboro, nine miles to the east.
Our little army was a world of Avonders to him and his family,
none of VA'hom supposed there AA'ere so many people in the world^
On either side of the spring stood tAvo AA'eeping willoAvs, of A'ener-
able age and gigantic proportions, but Avithout a sign of decay.
One of these giants was measured, and found to exceed tAvehe
feet in circumference, one foot above the ground. The other was
nearly as large. On this march we felt the inspiration of song, to
stir the flagging energies, as Ave never did before or after. When
fairly on the road, some one would strike up the ''Red, White and
Blue," "Ellsworth," "Hail Columbia," or any of the popular
ballads of the day. In an instant it Avould be caught up bv
others, and long before the first stanza AA'as ended, the gloomy,
old forest would ring again with music, from the united voices of
ten thousand throats. By far the most popular and inspiring of
all, was the simple ballad, sung in slow and mournful cadence,
beginning with: "John Brown's body lies a moldering in the
grave." The last day of August, we marched from Montgomery
down the valley of Emory's river to the fertile bottom of Clinch
river, where we savA' fine farms and orchards loaded with
luscious fruits, and immense fields of excellent corn, on which
the boys had a glorious feast. About tjie middle of the after
noon we came to the Island ford, four miles above Kingston^
The water was about three feet deep, and only less cold than ice-
water from the innumerable springs that feed the river throughout
its length. All hands put their traps upon their shoulders,
plunged in, and waded across. From here we wound along by a
mere bridle path up to the summit of Clinch mountain, which \\&
reached just at dark. The road down the mountain was rocky
and dangerous, and led through a deep, narrow gorge Avhere the
darkness could be felt, it was so intense. Four miles from the
summit we emerged into the open plain and camped, having suc
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20 HISTORT OF THE
bridle paths; and while the rebels were still looking for us at the
various gaps of the Cumberland, Ave reached and entered the
great limestone valley described by rebel authorities as the
"Rotten heart of the Confederacy" — loyal East Tennessee. The
rebels made no attempt to further defend the country, but fled
precipitately before us, and at the end of two more toilsome daAs'
marching in OA-erpoAA^ering heat and blinding dust, Ave entered the
city of KnoxA'ille at four o'clock, p. m., September second, amid
the wildest demonstrations of joy from an oppressed and long-
suff"ering people, to whom these able-bodied men, the husbands of
these suffering AviAes, the fathers of these children, had noAv
returned to deliver their native land from the hand of the de-
spoiler. An address of Avelcome was delivered to General Burn
side, who in turn promised protection to the people, and advised
all good citizens to go home to their regular business.
It was now one year to a day since the 104th had crossed the
Ohio at Cincinnati. We had marched many hundred miles.
Many had gone to "that bourne from whence no traveler e'er
returns," still more were languishing in hospitals, or had been
discharged and sent home, physical wrecks. We had endured
and suff'ered much in common with other soldiers, but as yet we
Avere entirely unacquainted with the horrors of the battle-field.
Burnside's loss Avas comparatiA-ely nothing so far, and all fulh-
believed that we Avere to escape most of the horrors of war in
the future, as in the past. Though numbering only about six
hundred men, those who yet remained were toughened and
hardened by exposure and hardship, until the regiment Avas
probably as strong for dutAas it had ever been. About sundown.
Colonel Gilbert led the first brigade to the fair ground, east of
town, Avhere Ave Avent into camp.
Though the rebels had abandoned the heart of East Tennes
see, without a struggle, they yet held in our rear the almost im
pregnable natural fortress of Cumberland Gap. Through this
led the only passable road between our army and its base of
operations in Kentucky. The rebels had left very little forage or
breadstuff's in the country, so it Avas evident that we must have
that road open or leave the country. General Shackleford was
sent to cut oft' the rebel communication with western Virginia and
on September seventh, Burnside himself, with the 44th, 103d, and
104th Ohio, 8th Tennessee, and 11 3th Illinois, with Konkle's Bat
tery D, and Shields' 19th Ohio Batter}', under Colonel Gilbert

lOATH REGIMENT. 21
started for the scene of action. After a march of sixty miles,
through Maynardville, and the remains of what had been Taze
well, we arrived within four' miles of the gap, on the night of the'
eighth. Meantime Shackleford's men had closely invested the
place, and early the next morning captured and burned a large
flour mill, containing most of the rebel supplies, which they
burned to the ground, being unable to hold it so close to the rebel
fortifications. Immediately our brigade was marched up at
double quick, formed in line of battle, skirmishers deployed, and
had just received the order to charge, when out on the breeze in
the rebel fort, we plainly saAv the rebel flag lowered, and in its
place was hoisted the Avhite flag in token of surrender. This Avas
unlooked for, as the rebel commander. General Frazier, had re
fused to surrender when asked to do so not an hour before.
But General DeCoiircy AA'as in his front with a brigade fresh
from the north, Burnside had cut oft" all chance for retreat into
Virginia, and his supplies Avere destroyed. Besides, a mutiny
broke out in the rebel camp; the half-hearted North Carolinians,
most of Avhoin were in the rebel service against their will, refused
to fight; so this important stronghold fell into our hands without a
battle. We captured, one major general, four regiments of in
fantry, twelve heaA-y siege guns, four field pieces, seven battle-ftags,
and a large wagon train; in all twenty-three hundred men. It
opened up our communications, and left us masters of the situ
ation. The 104th Avas ordered up to take possession of the Avorks,
and were just entering the fortifications when we met DeCourc\'s
men coming in from the other side. By General Burnside's orders,
the I04tli took charge of the prisoners, and marched back with
them to an immense spring, about a mile east of the Gap, where
we guarded them till the morning of the eleA-enth, Avhen Ave
turned them over to Wolford's cavalry, who guarded them
through to Camp Nelson, This important victory was won AA'ith
the loss of one killed, and three wounded in our whole command.
Our brigade came oft" without a scratch. We marched back to
Tazewell, Avhere we camped for the night. This had been a strong
Union town, and for this cause Kirby Smith's men burned it to
the ground on their retreat from Kentucky,
We marched back as we came, arriA'ing at Knoxville on the
thirteenth. We lived mostly on green corn on this expedition,
as also on the one we soon afterwards made into the country of
upper East Tennessee. We had left one of the best of our regi-

23 HISTORT OF THE
ments behind, the braAe but unfortunate lOoth Ohio, When AAe
got back they had gone up to Greenville, from which place they
marched to Blue Springs, where, on the twenty-first, they had a
fight with a greatly superior force under the rebel general, Sam
Jones, After a sharp and bloodA' fight, the most of the regiinent,
including Colonel Groome, Avere taken prisoners. Our stay at
Knoxville this time was short.
Next moTning we took a train for the northeastern part of the
State, Avhere the rebels, under General Sam Jones, Avere haAiiig it
pretty much their own Avay, capturing detachments of our men at
dift'erent points, and escaping AA'ith his prisoners to Virginia,
About midnight the next night we arrived at Henderson, Avhere
we unloaded and Iua' OAer until morning. Next day Ave marched
twenty-one miles to Johnson's Station, In passing through Jones-
boro, just after leaving tOAA'n, a shot from a thicket of young pines
laid one poor felloAV cold in death, A large detail Avas immedi
ately sent to scour the hills, and soon the bushwhacker AA'as in our
hands. Instead of hanging him to the first tree, he was put under
guard and taken along AA'ith us till our return to KnoxA'ille,
Taa'o miles cast of Johnson's Station was a large railroad
bridge OA'er the ^^'autaga river. Here Shackleford's men had
been skirmishing Avith Sam Jones' rebels for three da\'s AA'ithout
much execution on either side. Earl}- in the morning Ave started
to the front. The skirmishing had become quite lively, and Ave
AA'ent on to AA'ithin one-fourth mile of the riAcr, Avhere Ave formed
into line of battle, and had just started forward when the flames
and smoke of the burning bridge told us plainly enough that the
"Johnnies" had taken the alarm and were making a hasty retreat.
Most of their skirmishers, three hundred and tAventv-four in
number, were taken prisoners.
That afternoon Ave Avent back to Jonesboro, and next da\' to
Henderson, AA'here, Avith our jDrisoners, Ave took the train and AA'ent
back to Knoxville, having been on this trip less than a week. A
pleasant incident of this trip was a charge bA' the 104th on the
door-yard and grounds of the rebel general, Bushrod Johnson,
where we captured thirty hiA'es of liees, Avhosc AAealth AA'e confis.
cated to Uncle Sam's use, and disposed of ver}' soon.
Upon our arrival in Knoxville, Ave went into camp on the high
bluft' on the ri\'erside Avest of town. Col. Gilbert Avas immediately
put in comma.nd f>f the post, and the 44th did dut}' for a short time
as proA'ost guards. At the same time Col. Reilly was set to work

lOJfTH REGIMENT. 23
organizing a brigade of Tennesseeans and North Carolinians, four
regiments of each, from the refugees AA'ith which the city Avas at
this time crowded. At this time the 104th, in command of Major
Steryl, had but little to do except that her officers Avere kept busv'
drilling the mountain-boomers into the semblance of soldiers.
SeA'eral of our men received coini'nissions in the new regiments.
Of these Capt. Bahney became colonel of the 4th North Caro
lina. These halcyon days did not last long, however. One day
the news came that Rosecrans had been beaten in a terrible battle
on the Chickamauga, and driven into Chattanooga. Immediately
all was bustle and confusion. The new troops were set to work
fortifying the hills around town, and our officers and men on de
tached serA'ice came back to camp, Avliere for tAA'o days every
energy was turned to actiA'e preparations for the march to Chatta
nooga. Just as eA'erything Avas ready, and orders had been given
for marching the next day, word came from Chattanooga that we
VA'ere not needed. The Knoxville people now petitioned that the
104th be placed on provost duty in town. So Col. Reilly became
provost marshal, and for a month we enjoyed the pleasantest sea
son we CA'er had in the army. We now set about building per
manent quarters for the regiinent. There Avas in the hands of our
officers quite an amount of money known as the company funds,
Avhich came as a commutation for rations Avhich Ave had failed to
draw. This fund now came in play at the officers' discretion, and
with it they bought a fine lot of standing young pines, Avhich Ave
cut and hauled to camp and from them built our shanties. They
were built double, three to each company, and formed three sides
of a square, the west side being taken up by the officers' tents.
The interior was kept as clean as a floor, and here, almost ever}'
afternoon, the regiinent Avent through the splendid evolutions of the
dress-parade, before a large company of generals, stafl'-officers.
and hundreds of ladies and gentlemen, the elite of the cit}'. We
liked this kind of soldiering, and fondly hoped we might be
allowed to remain on duty here as provost guards to the end of
the war. Our cornet-band had become a never failing source of
delight to the citizens, and the good conduct and soldierly bearing
of officers and men had gained their fullest confidence and esteem.
Toward the end of September, portions of the 9th Corps began
to arrive from Vicksburg. By the middle of October the two di
visions, commanded by Gens. Foster and Ferrero, had arrived in
Knoxville. Wilcox, with his division, was sent up towards Vir-

24 HISTORT OF THE
ginia to relieve Gen. Shackleford, who inarched down in the region
known as South America, between the Little Tennessee and Hia-
wassee rivers. With the 9th Corps came a drove of nearly tAvo
thousand hogs, and one of about six hundred fat cattle, to be used
by Burnside's army. A large force of butchers were immediately
set at work slaughtering and packing the hogs. The cattle Avere
sent out to furnish beef to the various detachmonts Avhich were at
this time scattered all over East Tennessee. Of the two corps,
only our brigade and the new Tennessee and North Carolina
regiments were held at Knoxville,

CHAPTER III,

SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE.

During this season of quiet, a good many officers and men
were allowed to go home on a sixty days' furlough. Among these
from the 104th, were Capt. Win. J. Jordan, one or two lieutenants,
and perhaps a score of the men. Col. Gilbert, our brigade com
mander, accompanied them home, his place being filled in his
absence, by Col. Reilly, of the 104th.
Just before the end of October word came to KnoxA'ille that
a heaA'y force of rebels had attacked Wolford's brigade, at Phil
adelphia, and were pushing on up the A'alley. driA'ing our men
before them. It was soon ascertained that Gen. Longstreet, with
his corps of thirty-fiAe thousand of the best soldiers in the rebel
army, were marching for KnoxA'ille, intending to overwhelm
Burnside's scattered divisions before they could be brought to
gether. In this he partially succeeded. A part of the 9th Corps
was sent out to Campbell's Station, twelve miles west of Knox
ville, where they were attacked by Longstreet's advance, on the
sixth of November, and though the rebels were severely punished
in the battle which ensued, our men retreated, facing about to fight
again at each successive ridge passed for six miles or more. Mean
time our scattered forces were hastening, by forced marches, to
concentrate in Knoxville, before Longstreet's army should be able
to cut off their approach, and by the seventeenth there were in
the city between eleven and twelve thousand men. Of these over

104TH REGIME J\It. 35
three thousand were in the hospital. Early on the morning of the
seventeenth the rebels massed a heavy force and charged on the
right- of our line, held by the 12th Kentucky, 112th Illinois and
45th Ohio, and drove them back to the new line of works at the
railroad depot, where, with the aid of a U. S. regular battery, they
stopped the rebel ad\ ance. The losses were quite heavy on both
sides. Of ours, the most important loss was Gen. W. P. Sanders,
who was killed while leading the brigade in a charge on a rebel
battery, Avhich they took, but were unable to hold. Reilly, with
our brigade, Avas set to AAork building fortifications on College
Flill, and a breastwork from there to the river. Our camp was
abandoned, and we lay on our arms, along the line of works, ready
for any emergency. Within a day or two Longstreet's army e.x-
tended around the west, north and east sides of the city, from the
river below to the river above, and battery after battery opened
vvith shot and shell upon our lightly manned works, and on the
town. Just north of the depot stood a large brick flouring mill,
which had been captured by the rebels at the assault when Gen.
Sanders was killed. About the tAventieth, a sortie was made
by a small force of our men, who succeeded in burning the mill
and depot, Avith considerable stores of corn and meal, and retired
to the works Avith scarcely any loss.
When the siege began, the army was put on half rations of
every thing except meat. Of fresh pork, we had an abundance.
In less than a week the rations were cut down to one-fourth, and
then the flour was mixed half and half with shorts and bran. In
a few days more the flour ran out and the bread was made of
shorts and bran, and finalh' of bran alone. Then the coffee ran
out, and the whiskey, which took its place, lasted only a day or
two. Tobacco became the next make-shift to stay the gnaAvings
of hunger. There Avere large quantities of the Aveed in store at
the factories in town. These the commissary department seized,
and through the remaining days of the siege we received our reg
ular rations of tobacco, fresh pork and a httle piece of bran bread,
which was sour before it got cold. Of course our stomachs be
came sour, and soon the hospitals were filled to overflowing a\ ith
men sick with chronic diarrhea in its most virulent form. This
was increased by the ,cold rains and sleet which now began to pre
vail. OviV clothing and blankets were kept soaking wet. We
lived in the trenches in the daytime, and they were often half knee
deep \vith water and mud. At night we slept just behind the

36 ¦ HISTORT OF THE
works, with our cartridge boxes strapped to our side, knapsacks
under our he£tds, and knapsacks and blankets in mud that stuck
closer than any brother. On the night of the twenty-first our
brigade Avas relieved by a portion of the 9th Corps, and we
marched to the foot of Gay street, the principal street in town, and
the 104th began to unload the boats, timbers and planks, with
Avhich we proceeded to build a pontoon bridge across the riAer.
The work continued till after two o'clock, Avhen we lay down,
Avhile the rest of the brigade crossed over and formed a line west
ward along a range of hills about half a mile from the river, and
high enough to overlook the cit\' and all the Avorks on the other
side. The second brigade formed on still higher hills on our left,
Avhile part of the caAalry and mounted infantrA' moved out on the
Maryville road, to watch for the enemy.
The 103d Ohio was detached and sent out to the cavalry, where
the next day they had quite a severe brush with the rebel advance,
in AA'hich there Avas a considerable loss on both sides, but leaving
the field in possession of our men. The morning was fogg}', so
we Avere unable to get the direction of the rebel batteries across
the river, and our new line of rifle pits Avere laid out by guess. They
Avere finished long before noon, and we had got fairly doAvn into
them, Avhen boom, whizz, crash, chug, came a rebel shell close to
the left of the regiinent, followed by others in quick succession.
The third shot fairly telescoped the ditch, leaA'ing tAA'o of our men
killed and several wounded. The men were immediately ordered
forAA'ard down to near the bottom of the ridge in the woods,
where we were soon hard at work, and before night Ave
were safe in the shelter of a ubaa' line, out of range of
such dangerous visitors. The next attempt of the rebel ar
tillery AA'as to reach our pontoon bridge with their shells,
but they could not get the range. Night and day skirmishing was
kept uj) between the pickets of the contending armies, and AA'hile,
through the labors of the men, assisted by the able bodied citizens
of Knoxville, our lines of defense Avere continually groAA'ino-
stronger, still this Avas more than balanced by our losses through
the casualties of war, and an CA'er increasing sick-list. With
nothing more to eat, it seemed likely that our time must come to
be inarched off to rebel prison pens. Fortunately for us, tAvo
large barges made their Avay down the French Broad, heaA'ily
freighted Avith corn, and during the gloom of a dark, rainy night,
ran the blockade of rebel batteries aboA'e toAvn, and were landed

lOJfTH REGIMENT. 27
safe and sound at the Avharf just above the bridge. All the mills
in the cit}- A\'ere set at Avork, and, early in the morning, soldiers and
citizens alike, received each a pint of meal to keep us from the
starving point. Two companies at a. time were kept on the picket
line. On the twenty-ninth, at da}'light, the rebels assaulted our
line in force, but were repulsed, Avith considerable loss. The loss
in the 104th amounted to four killed and about a dozen vsounded.
About two o'clock, on the morning of December fifth, an
unusual commotion was noticed among the pickets across the
river. Next rose on the air, loud, shrill, and long, the well-knoAA'n
rebel Aell, Avhich they always raised when making a charge. An
instant more, and heaA'en and earth fairly trembled Avith the thun
ders of artillery and the roar of musketry, Avhile the northern
heaA'ens were in a perfect glare of lurid flame. The rebels had
made their attack on a large but unfinished earthwork, at the
north-Avest angle of our line of defense, called Fort Saunders.
The fight lasted nearly half an hour, when the rebels AvithdrcAV,
leaA'ing the field from the top of 'the parapet back to their own
lines, streAvn with the dead and dying. Our brigade Avas almost
immediately ordered across the rlA'er, and just at the gray dawn
¦we marched up and laA' doAvn in the rear of the fort. We Avere
soon drawn up in the line of battle, marched out to the left, be
tween the fort and the battery on College Hill, AA'here, for the next
hour, we stood, Avaiting for the order to advance to the charge.
But the order did not come and we were spared. In our front the
battle field of the night before presented a ghastly sight, coAered
with the mangled bodies of the dead and dying southern braves.
Our loss in this engagement amounted to probably one hundred,
all of them from Ferrero's division of the 9th Corps. The troops
who distinguished themseh'es were the U. S. batter}', the 79th
New York Highlanders, the 50th Pennsyh'ania, and 29th Massa
chusetts. This ended the hard fighting, but still, for two daA's the
pickets kept up a continuous firing, and now and then a stray
shell told us that the rebels Avere still present and alive. Our meal
had become exhausted, and our only resource AA'as our fat pork
and bread made of clear bran, and that Avas almost gone. Our
spirits were naturally sinking, Avhen there arrived tAVo of our
scouts, who told us the glad news that Bragg's army had been
utterh' routed before Chattanooga, and that Sherman AA'as then
within two days' march of the cit}', advancing Avith all haste.
The next da\' the rebel arniA' began to A\'ithdraw, and bv the morn-

28 HISTORT OF THE
ing of December eighth they were all gone. About eleven
o'clock that morning grim visaged old Gen. Sherman entered our
lines at the head of the 4th Corps from Chattanooga, and Burn
side's army and East Tennessee were saved to the Union.
We could hardly, in Avords, express our joy at our most timely
deliverance, and strong men, to whom tears were strangers, wept
like babies when the mud-spattered veterans of Sheridan, Wood,
and Sturgis marched in through the line of works, and up through
the streets of the torn and battered town, bringing life and liberty
to the soldier and citizen alike. Our provisions were all gone, and
the men were so weakened and disheartened by want and disease
that they could not possibly have endured for three days more.
Now we were dependent on the charity of our deliA'erers for sub
sistence. Sherman's trains, unable to keep pace with the soldiers
in their rapid march, were scattered all along the road from SAveet-
water to Campbell's Station. The brigade and regimental stores
which Sherman's men brought with them, Avere immediatel}'
issued to the famished garrison and the starving people, tAvo daAs'
rations to each man, which we were ordered to make last fiAe
days. Within a couple of days Ave began to receive three-fourths
rations of crackers, cofl'ee and beans, and full rations of beef; and
now we started out in quest of Longstreet's retreating armA'.
About the ninth, Reilly moved our brigade up the river tAvelve
miles, to Armstrong's Ford, where aa'C formed a skirmish line, and
advanced to the bank, Avhere some spirited skirmishing was done,
in which Battery D did excellent service in shelling the rebels, Avho
soon withdrew up the country.
The river at this place, about four hundred yards wide, and
three feet deep, was frozen out a foot or more from the bank, Avith
thin bodies of mush ice floating on the tide. Putting our traps
upon our shoulders, we plunged into the icy flood. In midstream
John R. Roberts, of Company D, was taken with severe cramp,
and must have perished had not the boys taken him up and carried
him across. We slept as best we could that night, and next morn
ing went on four miles, to StraAvberry Plains, where we halted
two or three days, to rebuild the railroad bridge, which had been
partially burned. Then we crossed back over the bridge and
inarched out six miles to Blane's Cross-roads, at the foot of Clinch
mountain, thence the next day through Rutledge to Bean's Station,
arriving long after dark. Before daylight next morning we were
called up and formed in line of battle, all the regiinent (except

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companies C and D) standing in line of battle all day. These two
companies advanced to the right and forward, deployed as skirm
ishers, and engaged the enemy s pickets, whom we drove from
their line, along a sheltering bank across the creek, back through
a corn field to the shelter of heavy timber half a mile away.
Here Ave remained, and during the day, by accurate firing, we fiAe
times beat back their line, which, after each repulse, would be
heavily reinforced, and again advance, only to be shot down as
they came down the slope through the thin and trampled corn.
All this time our companions were being treated to an assorted
varietv' of missiles from a battery in the woods beyond. Shackel
ford Avas sustaining an unequal fight with a superior and ever
increasing, force of rebels on our left. The losses in the first brig
ade could have been counted on the fingers of the two hands,
Avhile half a hundred dead and dying rebels strewed the ground
that night, as under coA'er of darkness we drew off and retreated
to Blane's Cross-roads, and began to entrench. Shackelford came
on next daA', but the rebels, instead of following, turned about and
made all haste up the country.
In a day or two Col. Gilbert arriA'ed from the north and re
sumed command of the brigade. Capt. Jordan also came back,
and with him some thirty odd recruits for the regiment. The
Captain had, howeA'er, grown to be a Major, and Major Sterl had
become Lieutenant Colonel, so that on Col. Reilly's return to the
command of the regiment we had a full corps of field officers for
the first time in over a year.
Our brigade had received no clothing since leaA'ing Kentucky.
On account of having been on post duty, we had been obliged to
wait so that the troops on the front might be served first. Then
Longstreet's army had shut off all supply of clothing as well as
of food, and as yet no clothing had been brought through. Ours
had served very well in the heat of summer, but AA'ere now, in the
beginning of winter, worn almost to shreds, and afforded but
slight protection against the piercing, frosty wind; so just about
the winter solstice we were marched back to Strawberry Plains
and placed on reserve, and then entered on the most terrible
experiences of our army life. For want of forage several of
Shackelford's regiment were dismounted, their horses sent under
escort to Kentucky, and they came into camp with us. As pro
visions were getting scarce, the troops in reserve were now put
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name. Our herd of beeves had been driven twoi hundred miles
or more, then shut up with the army in Knoxville for Aveeks
during the siege, with only faith and water to live on, and since
then getting such scanty subsistence as they could from the
worthless stock fields which had long been stripped of corn and
fodder. These were to become the stay and staff of our existence.
As the Aveather began to grow more scA'ere, the AA'eakest
began to die off, and soon it came to pass, that each morning the
dead carcasses would be hauled and clumped in the river, while
the weakest of those that remained were killed, and the almost
meatless bones were issued for the men to cook and eat. The
boys christened this ration, "jerk," and a six gallon camp kettle of
jerk, boiled for half a day, would not furnish enough fat to make a
grease spot. It so happened that the rebels had captured a large
train on its way from Chattanooga with supplies for our army,
and had also torn up a long stretch of the East Tennessee railroad
below London, cutting off o\ir communications and supplies. The
country had been stripped of everything eatable by the rebels
before they left. Finally, on- the twenty-sixth of December, the
last cracker and the last pound of coffee and salt were issued,
half rations for two days. On the twenty-eighth and twenty-
ninth each man received a pint of meal each day. On the
thirtieth half a pint, then on the last day of 1863 we came down
to hard pan. About three o'clock in the afternoon we drew each
man his one and one-fourth pounds of jerk. This Ave -cooked as
soon as possible, without salt, swallowed it, and crawled into
blankets. A warm, summer-like rain was falling, accompanied
Avith thunder and lightning. About ten o'clock, p. M., a strong
Avind began to blow, and by two the next morning the rain had
changed to snow. At reveille we only took time to answer at roll
call when all plunged into our tents and under our blankets,
nearly frozen by the piercing wind. At three, we again cooked
and gulped down our portion of jerk and went back to bed. -
Thus we celebrated what was known all over the continent as
the cold New Year, and thus we lived for eight days, from
December thirty-first, 1863, to January seventh, 1864. About
noon the eighth, a train of cars, laden with supplies, stopped for
half an hour opposite our camp, and soon the boys were marching
to camp, laden witji boxes of crackers, or rolling before them
barrels of coffee, beans, salt, rice, or sugar.
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ing, shabbily dressed man, with hat slouched over his eyes, and in
his mouth a short stub of cigar which he was lazily smoking.
He said nothing, and if he thought anything he kept it to himself.
Yet this man's genius and obstinacy had already made him the
most famous general of the age, and he was to grow to be one of
the most renowned captains in the world's history. Gen. Grant
was on his way to visit what had now become the left wing of
his great consolidated army of the Mississippi. Our boys ncAer
saAV him again till May, 1865.
The troops AA'hich had shared with us the trials and priv ations
of the past month were the 19th Ohio Independent Batter}-, and
and Battery D, ist O. L. A. of our third division, the infantr}- of
our brigade, the i6th Kentucky, 8th Tennessee, ii3th Illinois,
44th, 103d, 104th Ohio and lOOth Ohio battalion, made of the
remnant of the looth which had escaped capture. Besides these
there were of Shackleford's division, the 2d Ohio cavalry, 45th
Ohio dismounted infantry i3th Kentucky and 2d East Tennessee
infantry, also dismounted. These regiments all endured what I
liaA'e herein described, except that none of the rest were near so
badly off for clothing as the 104th. Now all the energies of the
government began to be put forth to prepare for the tremendous
conflicts of the "year of battles"— 1864. The troops of 1861 Avere
being re-enlisted for three years more, unless sooner discharged.
Of the troops in our camp battery D, 3d Ohio cavalry, 44th and
45th Ohio infantry, and 2d Tennessee, re-enlisted with the ex
ception of a very few who were mostly new recruits. These
chose from among the remaining regiments, and joined whereA'er
they chose to serve out the rest of their time. Several of the 44th
joined the 104th. Col. Gilbert, with the regiment, went home,
where they were reorganized as the 8th Ohio caAalry, and sent to
the army of the Potomac. The 2d Ohio cavah'A' also left us for
good, while the battery and the 45th rejoined us in the spring.
The brigade, haA'ing been broken up by the re-enlistment of
the veterans, the 104th inarched back to Knoxville, and were
again put on duty in town as provost guards. We occupied our
old camp, and after getting rigged out in new clothes, were quite
comfortable. But the exposures and hardships of the past two
months, had begun to tell on the health of the men. Most of
them had become more or less afflicted with .scurvy, while pneu
monia and chronic diarrhea prevailed to an alarming extent.
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32 HISTORT OF THE
one or more deaths in the regiinent. Now Ave began to draAv a
new ration made from a A'ariety of vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes,
string beans, peas, peppers, etc., hashed up and pressed in cakes
about a foot square, an inch and a half thick and dried. This
swelled in cold water, and cooked Avith meat, made a verA' palat
able soup, which the boys soon learned to like. The boys used to
call it "kinnikannick," though in commissary reports it was known
as desiccated vegetables. This Acgetable diet did wonders in the
Avay of bringing the boys back to a state of comparatiA'e health.
In a feAv Aveeks we were mosth' free from the scurA'v and diar
rhea. February second, four men from each company, in command
of Captain Horton, marched to the old jail, where we took
charge of about six hundred rebel prisoners, marched Avith them
to the depot, loaded them on the cars and started for Loudon,
where they were next morning transferred to a boat and started
for Chattanooga. 1 happened to be one of this guard. We tied
up each night, and some of the men would be sent out a short
distance on shore as pickets, and half a dozen more were
stationed on the boat as guards. The night of the third was
dismal enough. A driving sleet fell all night, wetting prisoners
and guards alike, and freezing as it fell. The decks were soon
coA'ered Avith a sheet of ice. At tAvo o'clock, a. m., of the fourth,
it came in}- turn to go on guard, and as CA'erA' foot of aA'ailable
space was occupied by the sleeping rebels, I had to reach mv post
b}' walking the guard of the boat, Avhich, besides being covered
Avith ice, slanted dowiiAvard into the boat. The night was pitch
dark, and when I came to walk the guard, my feet shot out from
under me into the boat, and over I Avent, head first into the riA'er.
The water Avas just about up to my ears, so that I was obliged to
stand on tiptoe Avhile handing up haversack and cartridge box,
after which I went fishing for my gun, which I brought out in
safety in a few minutes. A rebel. Captain Bennet, of the nth
Alabama, assisted me out with my traps, Avhen I took refuge
under the boiler. In the morning, as the shore pickets were
boarding the boat. Meek, of Company C, slipped on the gano--
plank, and in he went. So I soon had company in my nook
under the boiler, and had we not been obliged to depend on the
charity of our comrades, we would have enjoyed ourselves hugely.
The prisoners seemed to be well satisfied at being sent North
many of them expressing the hope that they would never be ex-

10/fTH REGIMENT. y^
changed, as they Avere tired and sick of the rebel service. We
stayed in Chattanooga four days, and spent the time visiting the
various battle-fields in the vicinit}-, and among the Northern Ohio
regiments quartered near the city, returning to the regiment
about the fourteenth. On the eighth of March we were relieved
of provost duty by the ist Ohio Heavy Artillery, and the next day
inarched through StraAvberry Plains and Ncav Market, thirty-one
miles to Mossy Creek, yvhere we went into camp. We stayed
there till the thirteenth, when we went to Morristown.
April first we again started forward. It had been raining
heavily for some days, and for most of the twenty-eight miles
which we traversed during that day and the next, the semi-fluid
mud splashed in and out of our shoes at nearly every step. We
arrived at Bulls Gap after dark of the second. Next morning we
occupied the Gap through Avhich ran the E. T. R. R., and the
main wagon road from Knoxville to Virginia. It was almost the
only practicable route through Bays Mountain, one of the many
long, steep spurs of the Smoky range, reaching across the valley
to Holston river. Here the rebels had spent most of the winter,
and had greatly strengthened their line by strong earthworks along
the crest of the ridge for miles on either side of the gap, and by a
strong fort right in the entrance. This strong line the rebels had
abandoned, and had retreated up the country. Here Ave remained
till about the twenty-fifth of April, and here the army was re
organized. Our brigade was placed in command of Colonel
Reilly, and embraced the 8th Tennessee, 12th and i6th Kentucky,
ii3th Illinois, lOOth and 104th Ohio and Battery D, istO. L. A.
The 2d Brigade, General Hascall commanding, contained the 65th
Illinois, 63d and 65th Indiana, 103d Ohio, nth Kentucky, 4th
Tennessee, and 19th Ohio Battery; the 3d Brigade consisted of a
couple of Michigan, and the ist, 3d, nth, and 13th Tennessee and
1st Alabama, in command of Colonel Robert Byrd, of the ist
East Tennessee. These formed the 3d Division. From our
friendship with the yth Ohio we had become somewhat preju
diced against the handsome, scholarly man Avho now assumed
command of the division; but during the year of danger upon which
we Avere about to enter, we learned first to respect, then to love
General J. Dolson Cox. During all that time he was never known
to be under any circumstances, however trying, other than a perfect
g-entleman and careful and able commander. About the twenty-
sixth, the division marched up the country to Lick Creek, from
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34 HISTORT OF THE
whence it scattered regiments along for the next thirty-fiA'e miles
one in a place, and proceeded to tear up and destroy the railroads
throughout that distance. Details vyere set to work with spike
bars to loosen the rails. After them gangs of men to pile up the
ties, on top of which the rails were laid crosswise and fire ap
plied. Following these came men with bars which were pro
vided with clamps to fit the rails. With these they twisted the
rails half way round so that they could not be used until re-rolled.
This work last two days, when we inarched back to KnoxA'ille,
and staying only a couple of days to draw rations and ammuni
tion, Ave set our faces southward. The good people of Knoxville
again petitioned that the 104th might be left with them, but Avith
out avail. Bidding our friends good-bye, we marched out, and
the 33d Corps moved toward Chattanooga, traversing the same
route by Avhich Longstreet had led his unwelcome followers up
to scrape acquaintance with us the fall before. The corps was
placed in the command of General John M. Schofield, who be
came also commander of the Army and Department of the Ohio,
consisting of the 33d Corps and a cavalry division under Gen
eral George Stoneman. Our corps consisted of the ist dlAdsion
of entirely new and raw Indiana regiments, under General Ah'an
P. Hovey, and were long known to the army as "Hovey's babies,"
from the fact that most of them were mere boys not yet out of
their teens. They afterward proved to be of clear grit, and no
babies, on many a hotly contested field. This division was already
at Chattanooga. The 3d division was placed in command of
the drunken General Judah, Avhom I have mentioned in connec
tion with our entrance into army life. This with the 3d division.
General Cox commanding, now inarched to join the first at Blue
Springs, between Chattanooga and ClcA'eland, leaA'ing Bur
bridge, with the 4th, to take care of Kentucky, and General
Tillson, with the ist division of Tennesseeans and Carolinians to
look after East Tennessee. We arrived at Blue Springs about
the first of May, whence in two or three days we inarched down
into Georgia to form the tireless flanking column of Sherman's
invading army.

104TH REGIMENT.

jiK|.;i'H F. kiiiEn.i:.
Ciptain Co'upiiny F. 1S02 04: Mujoy loft/i, lS()4-b3.

MARCUS C. H(JR-rON,
Captain Company D. Killed near Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.

36 HISTORT OF THE

CHAPTER n'.

ON TO ATLANTA.

The rebel army, in command of Joseph E. Johnston (one of
the ablest generals of the war), occupied a line of great strength
along a series of hills and ridges, with Tunnel Hill in the center.
This line was carried by Thomas on the seventh of May, with
slight resistance. Then a general move was ordered, and on the
morning of the ninth, the 33d Corps was swung around south to
the extreme right, and the 3d diA'ision had quite a skirmish with
the enemy, driving him back to a strong line along Maple Ridge,
the south-west end of which was crowned with a rebel battery of
four guns. On this Battery D opened with shell, and for some
hours quite an artillery duel was carried on, probably with little
loss on either side. About four o'clock, p. m., Reilly's brigade
charged this work, and earned it with but slight loss. Of the
104th, Alexander Davidson, John B. Brooks, and Daniel Henry,
all from Company F, were wounded. To our right the 3nd
division took the outer line of breastworks, but were unable to
carry the second line, which extended along up, and over the
almost inaccessible clifl's of Rocky Face Ridge. Here the corps
halted, and we proceeded to fortify our position, under orders to
remain on the defensive till further orders. General Judah con-
ceiA'ed the idea of adding another star to his shoulder straps, so he
ordered his diA'ision to charge just at dusk, and his ijien were
repulsed Avith great slaughter. General Schofield had him
arrested next morning for disobedience of orders, and he was
afterwards dismissed from the serA'ice in disgrace. His 3d diA'ision
Avas placed in command of General Hascall, and the vacancy in
our 2d brigade was filled by Colonel John S. Casement, of the
103d Ohio. Now General McPherson, with the 15th and 17th
corps, came up, and swinging further on to the right, and around
southward, came in on the rear of Rocky Face Ridge, Avhich
obliged the rebels to relinquish their almost impregnable position,
and fall back to another Avell fortified line around Resaca. At one
o'clock, A. M., of the thirteenth, we were roused from our slumbers.

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and marched eleven miles to Snake Creek Gap, arriving just
before day. After breakfast we marched through the gap, which
is simply a narrow, tortuous gorge, with perpendicular walls,
through which ran the road from LaFa}'ette and VillanoAV to
Resaca. Before night all of Thomas' army had foUoAved us
through, and noAV for the first time Sherman's army Avas all
together. About noon as we Avere getting formed in line on the
extreme right, an ambulance came back from the front, bearing
General Kilpatrick seriously wounded in the thigh. His caA'alry
coinpijand had advanced against the left flank of the enemy, and
had been somewhat worsted in the encounter.
Early on the morning of the 14th Ave were again on the move.
After inarching about three miles, we formed in line of battle, our
ist division, "HoAey's babies," on our right, and the 4th Corps on
the left. The 104th, and 8th Tennessee were placed in reserve as
a supporting column for the brigade, which charged the enemy's
line just after noon, driA'ing him out of his advanced line into the
woods. Just then General Cox and staff rode up to the 104th,
which was receiving the attentions of a rebel battery, when a
shell burst not more than two yards to the left of the General, kill
ing one of his aids and severely wounding several more. We were
ordered up through the woods to the right, Avhere in crossing a
heaA'y brush fence Colonel Reilly's horse became unmanageable.
He dismounted, sent his intractable charger to the rear, and ad
vanced to the charge on foot, with the remainder of the brigade,
panting like a steamboat with such unusual exertions. We stood for
a couple of hours in line of battle, with stray bullets and shells occa
sionally dropping in among us. When the 4th Corps and Geary's
division of the 20th got into very heavy work on our left, the
whole army advanced to the charge right up a long slope covered
with oak timber. The scattered dry foliage was on fire, and the
dense smoke almost blinded and smothered the men. The second
line was carried handsomely, when the rebels withdrew into their
third line of defense. Our losses had been considerable in the
23d Corps, and also in the 4th and 20th. In the ist brigade the
1 1 2th Illinois lost over eighty killed and wounded. Among the lat
ter was Colonel Henderson. The losses in the other regiments
were light. In the 104th were eleven wounded. Of these from
Company D were I. G. Wilson, who was wounded by a piece of
shell in the heel, and J. R. Roberts, whose arm was nearly broken
by the falling of a piece of shell from a tree qbove. Charles

38 HISTORT OF THE
Shriver and George Monroe of Company I Avere Avounded by
minie balls. In the sd brigade the 103d Ohio lost over one
hundred in killed and wounded, including Captains Hutchinson
and Philpott, killed. The 34th Kentucky charged a battery of
three guns and captured it, losing one hundred and forty-two men,
and the 63d Indiana eighty-fiA'e. Towards midnight, a short
distance to our left, across a rocky ravine, hea\'}' cannonading and
musketry firing for a fevA' minutes informed us that somebody was
having sharp work. It was the old 7th Ohio making a night
attack on a section of two guns of a rebel batter}', Avhich they
took and hauled back to their own line.
They had hardly settled doAvn, Avhen the thunders of another
more general conflict gave notice that the battle Avas still raging.
The rebels undertook to retake their lost guns, but Geary's men
were too much for them and they fell back in total rout. On the
fifteenth. Hooker and the 30th Corps had a heavy battle with the
rebel right wing, which were massed with the intention of crushing
him, but his men held their ground till the 4th Corps, coming to
his assistance, took the enemy in flank, compelling him to fall
back within his line. The next night Joe Johnston AA'ithdrew his
army across the Oostenaula, and earh' on the sixteenth our arniA'
achanced through Resaca to the river's brink, where our batteries
began to skirmish with the rebels on the other side. Thus ended
the battle of Resaca.
At eleven o'clock, a. m., avc marched off eastAA'ard eight miles to
the Connassauga, which we crossed on a pontoon bridge at dark.
At nine o'clock we started on again. Marching east about eight
miles we crossed a Ioav range of mountains, came out on the
bank of the Coosawattee, twenty miles from our starting place.
We had come most of the way by a mere bridle path, through a
wild, hilly region, covered with cedars and scrub oaks, and almost
uninhabited. The riA'er bottoms to both streams Avere splendid
land. We slept from 3 a. m. till daylight, Avhen the pontoons be
ing ready we went OA'er the river, deployed skirmishers, and ad
vanced slowly on to the southward. We had completely out
flanked the rebels, and the two armies now marched slowl}- south
ward on parallel lines. Every two or three miles Ave passed lines
of rebel works Avhich had been built with great labor the winter
before. We marched in line of battle, sometimes across cornfields,
sometimes a handsome meadoAV, but more often through an almost
impenetrable jungle of scrub pines, oaks and cedars. On the twen-

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tieth we passed the splendid mansion and plantation of General
A. P. Hill, AA'hose family had fled with the retreating army, taking
along their darkies and household goods. Near here Stoneinan's
cavalry charged on a rebel battery and captured two of its guns; and
also a large quantity of commissary stores. Just after daylight on the
twentieth, we passed the fortifications of CassA'ille, Avhich the rebels
abandoned without a fight, although they were of extraordinary
strength. We passed on as before, our skirmishers fighting for
everA' foot of ground, but without any general engagement. This
day Company I was on the skirmish line, and as they Avere pass
ing Muddy Creek, Lewis Weldon and Wilbur Champney were
wounded, but not dangerously. Towards evening Ave arrived in
front of Cartersville. Here the rebels were drawn up in line, ap
parently to hold and protect the large foundry just south of town,
from which the rebel armies had been supplied Avith a great amount
of ordnance stores. Our skirmish line was heavih' reinforced
and we pushed on, but the "Johnnies'' had something besides
fighting on their minds. Abandoning their lines, after setting fire
to an immense supply of cotton in town, they escaped across the
EtyAvah, leaA'ing the foundry and a large number of their skirm
ishers in our hands. Our 15th Indiana battery and Battery D
galloped doAvn to the riA'er bank, and soon made it too hot for the
force Avhich had been left to burn their pontoon bridge, so that
also fell in our hands. Soon a bright flame arose from the foun
dry which had been fired, and for an hour a magnificent confla
gration was presented to our vieAV. After a little the light and
noise from the bursting shells and kegs of powder, added grandeur
to the scene, and turned the serenity of a still and beautiful night
into a perfect Pandemonium.
The rebel cavalry, under Wheeler, had been sent on a raid
around north, to cut our communication and to capture and des
troy such of our supply trains as they might fall in with. Though
they accomplished little, they captured the' 3d division train with
ten days' rations, so that on this march Ave were obliged to shift
for ourselves to a large extent, though each of the other divisions
gave us a small portion of their plenty. The boys were deter
mined not to starve, so one night, while the 4th Corps train was
lying near by, some of the enterprising ones slipped up, while the
teamsters were asleep, atid almost under the noses of the guards,
stole quite a number of cracker boxes, which they brought into
camp and issued the contents to their companions. Still for sev-

40 HISTORT OF THE
eral days our main reliance was corn, which the boys would luteal
from the cavalry horses and train mules. A great deal was got
by scraping up from the ground where the horses had scattered
it, and much of it had sprouted. This washed and parched made
quite a grateful meal to many a half-starved soldier.
Across the river in our front, the rebels had built strong lines of
earthworks around AUatoona, where they evidently intended to
fight us in earnest, but General Sherman did not gratify them.
Early on the twenty-fourth we left our position and marched down
the fertile bottoms of the Etowah westward about nine miles,
where we crossed the river on a pontoon bridge, adA'anced a couple
of miles further, and halted in line of battle. Next day the 104th
took charge of the corps wagon train which started on at da}'-
break, going south-west towards Pumpkin Vine Creek. A steady
rain was falling, and with the wheels deep in the black, half-
liquid mire we moved at a snail's pace all day and the next night.
After a late breakfast on the twenty-sixth we advanced to the front,
between Dallas and Acworth, where, after seAere skirmishing, Ave
drove the enemy out of a strong line of rifle pits. Then avc lay
down to rest our weary bones. The rain continued all night, and
nearly every night and more than half the days for the next two
weeks. All the forenoon of the twenty-seventh heaA-y cannonading
to our right, gave evidence of the severe work Thomas was having
on the Pumpkin Vine. We advanced through the thick under
brush one-third of a mile towards Dallas. The rebels tried to shell us
out of our new line, but without success. In this day's skirmish,
John W. Roberts, of Company D, was wounded in the side. All
that night we worked in a pelting rain, building breastworks.
By daybreak we were well protected, as we thought, from the
rebel skirmish line, barely sixty yards in the front. Early in the
day, as Captain M. C. Horton Avas passing along in the rea' of the
line, a shot from a rebel sharpshooter hit him in the forehead, and
he dropped dead without a struggle or a groan. Captain Horton
Avas one of nature's noblemen, kind and generous to a fault.
He was loved by all who knew him, while his uncomplaining
endurance of fatigue, hardships and want, and his coolness in
scenes of danger and strife marked him as one of the braA'est of
the brave. A half dozen of Company D carried him to his resting
place, where in less than forty-eight hours he was joined bv the
brave, sociable and generous Corporal James Fitzpatrick. He
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after lingering for thirty-six hours died, and was buried by his
captain's side. Caleb Russel, of Company I, had his shoulder
broken by a piece of a rebel shell.
Day and night, for the next two days, constant firing was kept
up on our skirmish line at short range, but owing to the thick under
brush, little execution was done by either army. At daybreak of
the twenty-ninth the rebel army advanced to the charge and di;ove
in our skirmishers, but when they were within twenty paces we
delivered one withering volley, which sent them pell mell back to
their own lines, leaving over fifty dead and wounded in front of
our brigade. Our loss was three wounded in the 104th. About
half way between the tAvo armies, in an open space, stood a large
two-story log tobacco barn, in which quite a number of the rebels
now took shelter and began firing at any of our boys Avho came
within range of their rifles. Company F, of the 104th, was
detailed to drive them out, which they did in .a gallant charge, in
which they were led by their natty little captain, Joseph F. Riddle.
They captured about a score of the rebels, and set fire to the
building, then retired to their bveastwork. They lost two of
their best men, Joseph Smith and Samuel F. Totten, while John
Love was wounded. About sundown our division was relieved
by part of the 14th Corps, and for the first time in over a Aveek
we lay down and slept all night. Bright and early on June second
we were drawn up in line of battle, faced square about and
slowly advanced to the eastward through a rough hilly country,
densely timbered with scrubby pines and black jack. Towards
noon we halted in front of a strong line of earthworks, where the
"rebs", were as thick and as saucy as bumble bees in August. Here
we began to fortify, but after an unsuccessful attempt to break our
line, the rebels abandoned their works and withdrew into the
strongly fortified line around Kenesaw, Little Kenesaw, Pine and
Lost mountains, and left us in possession of the 'almost equally
strong position at AUatoona pass and Acworth. Here we re
mained, occupying the rebel line till the tenth of June, Avith no
incidents worthy of note. But we were wet from the rain which
fell almost constantly night and day, and much of the time we were
on short rations.
On the morning of the tenth we again faced to the south,
marched three miles and found the rebels strongly entrenched in
a line extending between and enveloping Kenesaw and Lost
mountains. The 104th was sent on the skirmish line. They

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pushed forward, captured some rebel skirmishers, without loss on
our side, and drove them into their entrenchments. Next morning-
General Sherman came along the line, and by his orders, Battery D
went to work shelling the woods around a covered bridge over a
creek in our front, so as to develop the rebel position there. While
watching the effect on the rebel pickets who were hunting their
holes in quick time, G. P. Reed, orjierly sergeant of Company I,
was struck in the knee by a minie ball. He was borne to the hos
pital, where his leg was amputated immediately. On the thirteenth
a corporal in Company A had his left arm taken oft", the bone
being broken by rebel shell. After dark we moved to the left and
formed upon the ftank of Butterfield's division of the 30th Corps,
which had taken a strong position close to the foot of Pine moun
tain. A rebel battery on the mountain, Avhich raked our line,
tried to shell us out in the morning but without aA-ail, for all night
long we had dug and delved till we had a new shot-proof line
right on their flank. Here we spent the time dodging the rebel
shell which CA-er and anon they sent over our heads to let us knoAv
they Avere still alive, till the mor-ning of the seventeenth when Ave
discovered that they had left the strong line in our front, and had
fallen back to another line equally strong, across a creek, along a
low ridge at either extremity of which rose high mountain-like
knobs. These were crowned with heavy earthworks defended bA'
strong batteries. Our brigade, with a brigade from the 20th
Corps, formed in line and adA'anced up through the woods,
skirmishing for every inch of ground till we came to the edge of
a large open field which the rebs were crossing to reach the cover
of their line, and of the timber on top of the southern of those
fortified mounds. Battery D came to the front and shelled the
rebs out of their skirmish pits, while the 65th Illinois and 103d
and 104th Ohio charged across the half mile of open space to the
mound and into their works, from which the rebels fled to the
cover of a much stronger line around the other mound, one-fourth
of a mile to the north-east. Being reinforced by the retreating-
column, they now massed fourteen pieces of artillery, protected
by strong works and hid out of sight by the surrounding forest.
At full gallop Battery D followed us in and took their position in
the pine thicket on top of the^ mound. The rest of our division
came on double quick and formed on our right, while the 30th
Corps formed on the left. The 104th Avas retired to the rear of
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most terrific artillery duel we ever witnessed. Fourteen rebel
cannons poured a perfect hailstorm of shot and shells into the
thicket, where true as steel Battery D opened with terrible pre
cision, Avith their four true and trusty Rodman guns. But the
odds were too great and soon one of their guns was dismounted,
Avhile almost ever}' minute one after another of the brave fellows
was struck down. Gallant young Stanford, of Ravenna, was
literally torn to pieces by a bursting shell, and the gun he was serv
ing silenced by the terrible rebel fire. General Hooker, taking in
the situation sent the 13th New York battery of six Napoleon guns,
galloping down to the edge of the woods to a deep ravine, across
which a dozen rods away the rebel battery was dealing out death
and destruction. The Yorkers wheeled in line in splendid style
and opened out on the astonished enemy with grape and canister,
working their guns Avith such terrible effect that with the help of
our battery, in less than a quarter of an hour every rebel gun was
silenced. Our infantry lines now advanced to the ravine, where
for the next two days Ave kept them so closely invested that theA'
scarcely dared to shoAV their heads aboA'e their works. Meantime
the rains descended and the floods came, and beat upon the "John
nies" and ourseh'es alike; and turned the roads, naturally poor
enough, into a perfect quagmire. Early on the nineteenth our
diA'ision moA'ed on through the slush and mud, our skirmishers
driving the rebel pickets back through an almost impenetrable
jungle, till we came to their line of AVorks around the mound.
Here VA'e formed and adA'anced in line of battle, but the rebels left
their works and retreated to their line around Kenesaw mountain.
Our fire had ever since the fight of the seventeenth, kept them
entirely shut up in their entrenchments, so that their scores of
dead from that encounter lay unburied where they fell, creating a
most intolerable stench as they lay in the midsummer rain. Of
the 104th, Nelson Chafl'ee was severely wounded through the
lungs, and Zeph Crubaugh in one leg, both from Company D,
and Wilson S. Burnett, of Company F, was shot through the
thigh. While Schofield's and Hooker's men were thus taking
line after line, ending with the fortress of Little Kenesaw, other
portions of Sherman's army were at work in the same manner,
skirmishing and fighting night and day, digging and building-
works of mud at night, and slopping shoe deep in mud during
the clay till now, on the twentieth of June, the rebel army AA'as
withdrawn into the impregnable fortress of cliff-bound Kenesaw,

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HISTORT OF THE

and extended soutliAvard on either side of Marietta. Our 23d
Corps was swung way around south to the extreme right; Hook
er, Howard, and Palmer to the left around the mountain, Avhile
McPherson, with his two corps, extended southward on the left,
forming a great horseshoe, Avith the rebel army inside.

CHAPTER V.

kenesaw to utoy creek.

General Cox was much given to building breastworks.
Throughout this whole campaign there were very few exceptions
to his regular practice of setting all hands to work fortifying each
new position. Sometimes Ave were allowed to occupy them for a day
or two after they were built, but often Ave moA'ed on again before
they were half finished. Ilascall's 3d division, where this prac
tice did not prevail to any great extent, often laughed at us,
calling us "the breastworks division," and our commander, "Gen
eral Breastworks." However, it so happened that Hascall was
all the time losing more in killed, wounded, and prisoners than
Cox, so the laughing was not at all one-sided. But our boys could
see no good reason why we should be kept constanth' at work on
works we never intended to hold, and grumbling was profuse
among us till June twenty-second, when an event transpired which
served as an eye-opener, and gave our general a mighty lift in the
minds of the men. That morning we started forward, skirmish
ing, as usual, all the way for about tAvo miles. We took a new-
position, further south-east, and threatening the rebel communi
cations. The 3d division was on our right, and Williams' di
vision of the 3oth Corps on our left. As soon as we Avere fairly in
position we were set to work, and in perhaps three hours had a
good line of works built in our front. All this time the two di-
A'isions of Hascall and Williams had been taking a rest, which
they, as well as ourselves, much needed. The line AA'as on open
ground, in full view of the rebels, as well as of each other. Gen
eral Johnston took in the situation at once, and massing a A'astly
superior force, hurled it on Hascall's exposed line, with intent to

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crush him before help could arrive. It was only by the most des
perate fighting that his men held their grbun'd, and beat the rebels
back till assistance arrived in the reserves of the ist and 3d di
visions, Avhen the rebels fell back to try it again elsew-here. The
loss of life, both to the rebels and our men, was Aery heav}-. Just
as the evening shades were beginning to gather, AA'ith their long,
peculiar }-ell, the rebel host again swept on, this time to the un
protected division of General Williams, Again they were re
pulsed Avith great slaughter, leaA'ing a large number of their
bravest and best dead on the field. Our men had done heroic
work, but paid dearly for their victory in the lives of many a
soldier. The rebels neA'er tried our well protected front. Though
Avitnesses to both these bloody fights, our diA'ision escaped un
scathed. From this time on Ave grumbled less and worked more
cheerfully to giAe ourselves protection which ensured such pro
found respect.
Our army was now getting to work in dead earnest in the at
tempt to reduce the stronghold of KenesaAV mountain. Along
our central line, battery after battery was placed in position, and
commenced the work of bombardment. Now the roar of artillery
could be heard like a continual long roll, off to our left, day and
night, for nearly a week. At night the mountain presented a mag
nificent spectacle. As the guns on the mountain poured forth their
sheets of white flame, and the shells, like so many sky rockets,
would rise from the semi-circle of guns on our line, toward the
rebel stronghold, and over all' was the weird, unearthly reflections
on the clouds, we beheld an ever changing pyrotechnical display
surpassing anything we had ever before seen. On the twenty-
seventh we again moved forward about three miles, driving the
rebels back to within easy cannon shot of the road from Marietta
to Atlanta. Here the ist brigade was set at work building a
heavy earthwork with embrasures for ten guns, where the 15th
Indiana Battery and Battery D were in a day or two placed in
position to sweejs the road for a long distance. On the 37th also
occurred the tremendous assault by the troops under Thomas and
McPherson, on the rebel entrenchments on the mountain, in
which they were repulsed with great loss. We could hear the
noise of the cohftict, but could see nothing but the dense column
of smoke which arose from the field of. carnage. On the night
of the first of July it became evident that something unusal was
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brightly as ever around the mountain, but 'we noticed the utter
silence of the rebel artillery. The north wind Avafted to our ears
the rumble of heavy wheels coming down the rocky sides of the
mountain, and all along in our front toward the south. Our bat
teries opened out to sweep the road, but it was soon found that
there were no rebels there, TheA' had Avith great labor con
structed a road through the wooded hills further east, and on this
they made their escape with their trains that night, at the same
time evacuating the mountain and following on to the Chattahoo
chee, where, under cover of heaA'y works which had been erected
the Avinter before, they turned again to show us fight. July second
our armies began the pursuit, and for the next two days regiments,
brigades, divisions and corps were marching along the road
toward Atlanta, leaving our corps as the last to move. On the
fifth we started out eastward toAvarcl the Chattahoochee, where
Ave arrived the morning of the eighth, having taken three days to
march eighteen miles. Our route lay down the Aalley of Soap
Creek, at the mouth of which we proceeded to la}- a pontoon
bridge across the river, which, at that place Avas aboiit three hun
dred yards wide and waist deep. The rebels had a brigade in
line on the high bluft" opposite sujaporting two tweh'e-pounders,
which opened out on our pioneers at Avork on the bridge. The
104th was deployed as skirmishers, and moved down to the river
bank where we began such a galling fire that they tried to remove
their cannon further back out of rifle range, but were obliged to
abandon them, as we had killed and disabled most of their horses.
while Battery D, from the bluff in our rear had made the locality
extremely unhealthy for either the gunners or their supports.
Meantime the 103d had forded the riA'er a short distance above,
and all unseen came on down the riA'er, formed in line of battle,
and charged up the bluff'. When they were fairh' under aa'bv,
our boys opened on the rebel line Avith such a fire that the
"Johnnies" took to their heels, and AA'ere just disappearing in the
woods beyond, as the 103d arrived at the top of the bluft' and,
turning the abandoned guns, sent a fcAV shots after the flying foe.
We soon had the bridge ready and crossed over, followed by the
remainder of the division, one day ahead of McPherson's crossing
at Roswell, six miles above, and the advance of Thomas' army at
Vining's bridge, two n-^iles beloAV. Here we had a hard-earned
Aveek's rest, which the boys appreciated as only tired soldiers can.
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come of the summer's work. We had in less than two months
driA'en them aAvay out of nineteen strong, well fortified lines of
defense, over four mountain ranges and four considerable rivers, a
distance of one hundred miles, and to within five. miles of the
defenses of Atlanta. So Jeff Davis gave his best general his
walking papers, and put his army in command of the lion-hearted
John B. Hood, whose only qualification as a general was that he
'was always spoiling for a fight. Around our camp along the
river, blackberries were very plenty at this time, AA'hich the
boys enjoyed to the fullest extent. They became somewhat care
less, so on the tenth some of them were surprised outside of the
lines, and driA'en in by bushAA'hackers, by whom three of our
brigade were killed, and several captured. Just at dark on the
fourteenth, a fearful thunder storm came up, which soon became
a perfect hurricane, sweeping away fences and tents like so much
chaft", while the ground in our camp was soon strewn with the
limbs and bodies of the falling timber, by which several men of the
regiment were wounded. The major, sergeant major, and sev
eral men in the i6tli Kentucky were killed, and many Avere
injured. On the seventeenth we moved out south-east to the
vicinity of Cross Keys, where we had a slight skirmish with rebel
cavalry, who retired back to Peachtree Creek. Our loss was
small. Of our regiment, George Rice, of Company F, was
severely wounded, while Orderly Sergeant Jackson, of Company
H, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, while cross
ing a ravine, on a log, where he stumbled and fell. Long before
day on the twentieth, Ave were in motion again. Company D on
the skirmish line. After the most obstinate skirmishing, we
drove the rebel cavalry back from their line along Peachtree
Creek scA'en miles to, and across the Georgia Central railroad,
between Atlanta and Decatur. Although this was the most tire
some and exhausting day's work Ave were ever engaged in, Avith
constant and obstinate skirmishing from before daylight till long-
after night, our loss was slight, but Company D was, for the
second time, deprived of a commander, in the loss of Origen
Adams, orderly sergeant of the company, and since our passage
of the Chattahoochee, our commander, instead of Captain Ever-
hard, who had been transferred to Company E. Oft' to the right,
miles away, fearful scenes of carnage were transpiring in front of
the 4th, 14th, and 20th corps, which were receiving the tremen
dous assaults of Hood's army at Peachtree Creek. In the morn-

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ing the spires of Atlanta were plainly visible two miles to the
north-west, while less than half a mile in front, the parapets of a
tremendous, well-manned line of earthworks could be seen
through the openings. Here we Avent to work in earnest, and
soon had the protection of a strong line of works in our front.
As soon as it was fairly day. Battery D opened on the town, and
soon compelled the Johnnies to haul clown the flag which marked
the rebel headquarters. About sunrise on the twenty-second, our
skirmish line was doubled, and advanced on the rebel works in
front, our main line of battle following SAA'iftly on, and in ten min
utes we were in possession of their outer line, where aa'c waited
for McPherson, with his three corps, to get into line on our left.
Towards noon, heavy skirmishing, far off to the left and rear,
showed that our boys out there were getting into business. For
an hour we could hear their steady adA'ance, when in an instant,
oft' to the south a couple of miles, the shrill, wild, rebel yell rose on
the summer air, as Hardee and StCAvart rushed their solid columns
in a wedge-shaped line betAveen the i6th and 17th corps, and
began to jsush them back, and double upon each other. The
fearful crash of arms, and incessant roar of artillery gave proof
that though surprised, our men were b}' no means routed. Soon
aids de camp came Avith the news that Blair's and Dodge's men
were being cut to pieces, followed by orders for us to hasten to
the rescue, which Ave did as fast as the nature of the ground
would permit. Back up the Decatur road we fairly flew for a
couple of miles to get in McPherson's rear, thence south through
tangled brushwood struggling on as best we could toward the
break in the Union line which we reached between two and three
p. M. But the battle was over, and the rebels repulsed with ter
rible loss. We halted till night but a few rods from McPherson's
general hospital, where all the evening the torn and mangled bodies
of hundreds of his brave and gallant men were being brought in.
Long tables were covered with men Avith shattered limbs, while
scores of surgeons were at their bloody work of cutting and saAv-
ing, probing and bandaging, and piles of still warm and quivering
arms and legs lay under the tables; and under the shady forest
trees, were ranged hundreds of men, filling the air with their
piteous cries for water, and heart-rending, dying groans. Such is
war. Under the protecting shade of a great oak, near by, lay the
lifeless form of the pride of the army of the Tennessee, brave,
handsome, gallant McPherson. The entire western army mourned

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49

his loss, for he was admired and loved by all. At the little hamlet
of Clyde, in Sandusky county, Ohio, among his friends, and near
the home of his aged mother, he lies at peace; where the loving
hands of his true and trusty boys have erected a colossal statue of
bronze to mark the spot.
Howard took McPherson's place, and in a few days more
moved his three corps around the rear of Schofield to the extreme
right, Avhere, on the twenty-eighth, he again defeated a large part
of Hood's army, so that at the end of July Sherman's forces had
invested Atlanta on the east, north and west, vyith the 33d Corps
on the extreme left of his line, east of the city.
After dark, on the evening of August first, we withdrew from
in front of the rebel lines, to the rear of the 4th Corps, where we
lay till morning, when we resumed our march, and during the
day passed along the rear of all the other six corps of our army,
from the extreme left to the extreme right. We encountered but
slight resistence from the rebels, and took a position along a ridge
reaching to the Chattahoochee, on which we that night built a
strong line of breastworks. Here we lay till the afternoon of the
fourth, when we again advanced to the front. Our brigade was
pushed through the thick underbrush about half a mile to a deep
ravine, where we were massed in column of divisions for a charge,
and were kept waiti-ng all the evening for the 14th Corps to form
on our right. Here -we lav on our arms all night. Our skirmish
ers were kept busy, and a few of those in the 3d division were
killed and wounded, but they had the satisfaction of capturing
some two hundred or more of the "Johnnies." At daylight, on
the fifth, we again moved forward, but had not gone far when we
were halted to await the co-operation of the 14th Corps, which had
been sent to help us turn the enemy's left flank, but failed to come
to time through the pig-headedness of their corps commander.
General Palmer, who refused to take orders from General Scho
field on the plea that it was beneath his dignity to receive orders
from an officer of inferior rank. General Sherman put him
promptly under arrest, and General Jeff C. Davis took his place
in command of the 14th Corps. Thus the day was consumed and
the precious time was occupied by the rebel commander massing
troops in our front, and building and manning line after line of
works, and getting battery after battery in position. The lines
were near each other so that every now and then stray balls
dropped in among us or whizzed harmlessly oA'er our heads. On
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the fifth, one of these visited Company I, by which Sergeant A.
H. Furry and Al. Campbell were ^lightly wounded and Walter
Chittenden had his arm broken. In the afternoon we moved for
ward again and took the rebel front line with scarcely any loss in
our division. Here we remained till morning and were pretty
thoroughly drenched by a drizzling rain which lasted all night.
Though the fog lay thick around us and completely shut out our
vision, Ave were adA'anced early on the sixth through the woods
to the right, and soon came to the SandtOAvn road where we halted
to reform our line for business. Rebel batteries oft' to the left had
full sweep along the road, and cA'ery little while a shell aa'ouM
come screaming along. One of these burst close to ordnance
Sergeant Andrew Jackson's ammunition wagon, killing a soldier
of the 1st Tennessee. At 9 o'clock the ist brigade Avas ordered
to the charge, the 104th Ohio and the ii3th Illinois on the reserve
line. The brigade advanced obliquely across the road and charged
up and over a low ridge swarming with rebels, Avho retired into a
deep ravine, and up another heavily wooded ridge to the cover of
heavy fortifications. Our boys pushed on close at their heels to f
the foot of the second ridge, when, like the bursting forth of an
immense volcano, the rebel artillery opened from the crest of the
ridge, and at the same instant heaA'y masked batteries on the right
and left began pouring in a raking cross fire, on the boys, as they
struggled on up the ridge to meet only ghastly death at its crest.
Under this terrible artillery fire, accompanied bv the Avell aimed
missiles from ten thousand rifles, it Avas impossible to take the
rebel line, so the torn and battered fragments of the charging- col
umn fell back to the shelter of a rocky ledge at the foot of the
ridge, leaving nearly four hundred dead and dying comrades to
fall into the enemy's hands. Adetailof eight men from each com
pany of the 104th and ii3th were noAA' sent forward as skirmishers
and advanced up through the woods till they came in sight of the
rebel line, where, taking shelter behind trees, for nearly two hours
they maintained the unequal contest with the rebel riflemen who
swarmed in cover of the rebel breastworks. One after another of
the boys fell before the rebel fire, and soon the skirmish line began
to grow thin, and a second detail of four men from each company
was sent forward to help them. Then one after another the regi
ments began to defile through a narrow gorge to the ridge in our
rear, where they formed a new line, after which the skirmishers
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of the boys were taken prisoners, while eleven of their comrades
of the 104th were left on the field dead and fell into the hands of
the rebels, who promptly stripped them of their clothing and left
their unburied remains to the mercy of the midsummer sun.
Sixteen of the boys were carried to the rear wounded, of whom
Albion Parham, of Company D, and David Force, of Company I,
died before another morning. The losses of the 104th were compar
atively light compared with some other regiments in the brigade;
yet we lost in all of killed, wounded and captured, something
over thirty men. The losses in the ist brigade amounted to
four hundred knd fifty men, of whom one hundred and forty were
lost from the lOOth Ohio from a total of less than three hundred.
This was the only occasion in which the 104th or the ist brigade
ever made an attack and failed to "get there,"
The terrible experiences of the morning of the sixth of August,
showed plainly that the strong and well-manned works westward
of Atlanta were impregnable to any direct assault. In the afternoon
our other two divisions were brought around and formed on the
right of our line, which was further extended by part of the 14th
Corps. Under a flag of truce a detail of our boys were, on the
seventh, permitted to go over the battle ground and bury their
dead comrades. They found that the rebels had stripped them
of shoes, hats, pants and coats, and even shirts had been taken.
Each was given as decent burial as the circumstances would per
mit. Thfe men then strengthened their line of works. Here they
remained until the eighth, when all being in readiness they again
moved forward, and just far enough to the right to avoid being en
trapped in a ciil de sac, such as had proved so fatal two days
before. Our brigade operated as a pivot on which the remainder
of the corps and the fourteenth swung in a great left wheel,
first south-east and then east back from their first and second
lines of works, away from Utoy creek to the strong defense of
their inner lines. The loss in the ist brigade in this move was
light. The 104th had about a dozen wounded, of whom Stephen
Loomis of Company I, and one from Company G died within a
few days. By far the heaviest loss fell on the 3d, or Tennessee bri
gade, the ist Tennessee being especially unfortunate. These pa
triotic men had served out their term of service and were at the
time making out the rolls preparatory to their muster out. ° Gen
eral Cox told Colonel Byrd, who also commanded the brigade,
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sorely needed their help, and that he would call for volunteers
from the regiment for this fight. Colonel Byrd stated the case to
the men and offered to lead such as would go in. The brave fel
lows stepped forward to a man, and in the charge which ensued,
that brigade captured a battery and three battle flags; but the
regiment lost over one hundred men out of less than four
hundred. The men were promptly set to work fortifying the new posi
tion, and they soon had a strong line of works, hugging close to
the rebel fortifications, well to the south-west of the city. On the
twelfth the brigade again marched to the right and gained a new
position, which Was soon made strong enough to resist any attack
which the rebels were likely to make in that quarter,
August fourteenth Colonel J, W, Reilly was commissioned a
Brigadier General of volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel Oscar W.
Sterl was at the same time promoted to be Colonel of the 104th,
while Major Win, J. Jordon was promoted to be Lieutenant Colo
nel and Captain Joseph F, Riddle to be Major, All of these
officers so remained to the end of the war,
August sixteenth Captain A, J. Southworth was killed by the
falling of a tree, which some of his boys were chopping, and
which fell across the stump the wrong -way.
The rebel commander had meantime dispatched most of his
cavalry under Wheeler, oft' north, on that long and destructive
raid through north-east Georgia, east Tennessee, and North Caro
lina, which, though intended to force Sherman to abandon Georgia
and fall back to Chattanooga, only served to give the great flanker
the opportunity to move unobserved to the destruction of the
railroad communications of Atlanta, So now, on August eigh
teenth, he began one of the most remarkable moves of the war.
Slocum, with the 30th Corps, strengthened our position at the
north of Atlanta. Schofield, vyith his corps, stretched along close
to the strong works west and south-yvcst, while the remaining
corps and divisions withdrew from their positions, moAcd on, and
formed further and further to the right. In the advance of
August eighteenth, near East Point, several of the 104th were
wounded while on the skirmish line. Of these, John W. Roberts,
of Company D, was the second time wounded in a little over two
months, this time through the lungs, and so severely that but for
his iron constitution, it must have proved fatal. Here the division
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sances till August twenty -ninth. By this time the army had
gained all the ground south of the city to near the West Point
railroad, and now, leaving the 20th Corps to look out for them
selves, the 23d abandoned its line and inarched to the remainder
of the army, on the left of which 'it formed in line to the south of
East Point, and across the West Point road, which they destroyed
for a long distance. On the thirty-first the army again advanced
to the eastward, and after some severe skirmishing, drove the
enemy to and across the Macon railroad, which our boys pro
ceeded to destroy up to within three miles of East Point. Here
they took a strong position which they fortified, while Howard
and Thomas also captured Jonesboro and Lovejoy, when they
tore up and destroyed the Macon railroad for nearly thirty miles.
Hood had been completely outgeneraled by Sherman, and now
finding Atlanta untenable, on the night of the first of September
he withdrew all his war material by the Georgia Central toward
Augusta, then following with his army, was well on his way to
Decatur before day. General Slocum, at the head of the 30tli
Corps, rode into the city early in the morning; and the goal of
our summer's work, that for which so much blood and treasure
had been expended, was ours.
As soon as General Sherman discovered that the enemy was
gone, he disposed his forces so as to protect the city in all direc
tions and still give his army a season of rest. So the 33d Corps
marched to Decatur, fifteen miles east of Atlanta, where, on Sep
tember eighth, the boys went into camp, and here for a month
were engaged in the inoffensive pastime of dress parades and
guard mountings.
The rebel authorities now determined to make a bold stroke to
retake Atlanta, and with this end in vicAv, General Hood started
about October first on his desperate endeaA'or to destroy Sher
man's communications with Chattanooga, and if possible to re
gain that stronghold. So, following General Sherman's tactics,
he struck off from his lines of communication, and on by-roads,
through a wilderness country, struck the north Georgia railroad
near Marietta and began the work of destruction.
But Sherman was by no means asleep, and soon all the army
(except the 30th Corps in Atlanta) was marching northward in
quest of Hood's army. The 33d Corps marched to Vining's
Bridge on the fourth, thence on the road north by Marietta and
Acworth to the relief of General Corse, who was "holding the

54 HISTORT OF THE
fort" at Altoona against ten times his own force, in obedience to
the famous order from Sherman, which has been immortalized in
the song: "Hold the fort; for I am coming." Our boys got
there just in time to be too late to take an active part in the fight,
but next day marched on through CartersA'jlle and Kingston to
Rome, where they arrived on the twelfth. On the thirteenth our
division made a reconnoisance and had quite a brush with the
"Johnnies," capturing two pieces of artillery, over one hundred
wagons, and several hundred prisoners. The loss of the 104th
was four wounded, and not over twenty in the diA'ision. They
marched through Calhoun to Resaca on the fifteenth, thence
through Snake Creek Gap, Avhere they lay till the eighteenth,
when, learning that Hood had left for Alabama, our forces were
again put in motion in pursuit. On the nineteenth our boys came
up with them and had some light skirmishing with their rear
guard, passed through Summersville, entered Alabama on the
twentieth, and inarched on westward down the beautiful Coosa
bottoms, twelve miles to Gaylesville, and went into camp at Blue
Pond, two miles from town. Here for five days the boys enjoyed
to the fullest extent their hard-earned rest in "a land of corn and
swine," a land bea*itiful to behold; with the finest fruit, the best
timber, best soil and best weather they had seen since leaving
home. On the twent}'-fiftli the 3d division moved to Cedar Bluff, from
which the 104th next day made a reconnoisance to Center, the
county seat of Cherokee county. They found the country clear of
rebels, and on the 38th the 33d Corps started on its return to
Georgia by vA'ay of CaA'e Spring, and arrived at Rome about noon
of the thirtieth of October, tAA'enty-six days after leaving Decatur,
during which time they had marched nearly four hundred and
fifty miles.
EA'er since our entrance into the service a mutual dislike had
existed between Colonel Reilly and Colonel Jack Casement of
the 103d, prompted by jealousy of the latter on account of Colonel
Reilly's preferment. Casement laid Reilly's popularity among
the higher officers to the 104th band, forgetting that his own dis
sipated habits counteracted the soldierly regard to which his abil
ities and bravery fairly entitled him. To make up for his supposed
deficiency, he enlisted all the principal officers of his second bri
gade in a scheme to outdo the 104th in the music line. The out
come of this Avas that the famous Jack Leland's German band, of

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Cleveland, came about November first to the 3d brigade in our
camp at Rome, and that very night proceeded to squelch the bands
in the ist brigade. While the 112th Illinois band was playing as
usual, the newcomers, with all the pomp of men about to show
their superiority, glittering with tinsel and feathers, marched out
to the front, in plain view and hearing of both brigades, prepared
to teach the boys what music really was. As soon as the other
band was through, the hogshead like form of Leland arose, and
when he swung aloft his befeathered and bespangled baton, the
band struck up one of its most formidable pieces. Meantime our
band, in common soldier's blue, got in position for a counter blast.
As soon as the cheers of the 2d brigade, in honor of their victory
had subsided, our boys began one of their best pieces. Both bri
gades were out on the ground in full force, and also many of the
officers from Generals Schofield and Sherman's headquarters, all of
whom were encamped near by. The boys' efforts were followed
by prolonged and hearty cheers from our brigade and from many
of the spectators from other commands. Leland's band again
took the work in hand, followed by our boys through 110 less than
half a dozen pieces, in which each did its best, but by far the
heaviest applause came in response to the e.fforts of our band.
After an hour's heroic effort, the Clevelanders gave up and re
tired filled with disgust, which increased when our band recelA'ed
an invitation at Calhoun to go over and play for General Sherman
on the last evening he would spend with us before going to At
lanta, from which place he was soon to start out on his memorable
march to the sea. From this time our band was acknowledged
the best in the 23d Corps.

56

HISTORY OF THE

OSCAR W. STERL,
Captain Company .-/, 1862-64. Colonel 1041/1 O l'. /., l8b4-bS-
[Taken after the close of the war In 1865]

ANDREW J. SOUTHWORTH.
Captain Company B, Killed near Atlanta, Ga., August 16, 1S64.

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CHAPTER VI.

COLUMBIA AND FRANKLIN.

Now every effort of General Schofield and his generals of bri
gade and division, was put forth to get their men into middle
Tennessee, before Hood and his army should inarch on and take
Nashville. On the evening of November third, we reached Dal-
ton, and found the town deserted by nearly the entire population.
The next morning found not a single unoccupied house, barn,
shed or well-curb standing. All had been torn down and con
signed to the flames. On the morning of November fifth, we
took transportation in freight cars for Nashville, where we arrived
November seventh, after dark. Here we lay by to take part in
the Presidential election next day. When the polls were closed
and the votes counted, it was found that in the 104th Abraham
Lincoln had received three hundred and thirty votes, and General
George B. McClellan, thirteen. Probably more than half were
cast by men who had never voted before. That night we were
taken to Springhill, where we went into camp in a fine open forest
of gigantic beech, elm and ash, the first of any of these trees that
we had seen south of the Ohio. On the thirteenth we marched to
Columbia, on the Duck river, thence by Linnville to Pulaski, near
the south line of the State, where we went into camp to be ready
to inarch in any direction in case Hood should cross the Tennessee
for Nashville or Chattanooga. On the twenty-fourth we began to
fall back, going as far as Linnville, where we remained until
morning, when we were called up before day and started of in
quick time which we kept up to within two miles of Columbia,
when we were ordered to the double quick. The sound of heavy
cannonading to the north-west saluted our ears, and on emerging
from the woods, about a mile south of town, we were amazed to
see Hood's army off to the left not more than a mile, filing away
from the Mt. Pleasant road by which they had come and advan
cing on the town, and on a strong earthwork, on which were
mounted about a dozen cannons with a light infantry support.

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The earthwork overlooked the town from its situation on the
highest hill in the neighborhood. The "Johnnies" Avere charging
on this work when we came in sight. It was a desperate assault,
but the brave " Yanks " inside gave them such a warm reception
that they relinquished the attempt to take the fort and retired to
the cover of a lovy ridge.
Now they began to move on the town, and it became a race
for life AVith us to get there and into position before them. We
succeeded, and soon had our line stretched from the river to the
woods, covering the road on which our trains were following us
in. Here we stood in line of battle, Avith the lOOth Ohio to the
front as skirmishers, till night, when our trains having come in,
we drew the left line back so as to enclose the city, and here
spent the night fortifying. Next morning the rebels extended
their line around us to the river, above Avhere Lee's rebel corps
subsequently crossed, and marched north, one division going in
the direction of Springhill, on our line of retreat, the remainder
towards Murfreesboro. Early in the morning of the twenty-fifth,
the rebels made an attack on our skirmish line, but were repulsed.
Several similar attempts were made during the day, Avith like re
sults. Their artillery plied us with shot and shell all day, but did
little damage. On the twenty-eighth at daylight, the 3d division
was withdrawn across the river, where we formed a new and
shorter line which we fortified with breastworks. Our brigade
was placed in the center of the line Avithin range of the fort on
the hill, AA'hich had now fallen into the hands of the enemy.
This was on the tAventy-eighth. Next morning- the rebels began
to lay pontoons across the riA'er in our front, and though several
times driven from their work by our skirmishers, finally laid it,
and a brigade crossed over. About the middle of the afternoon,
having been heavily reinforced, they adA'anced in line of battle on
the west side of the road, made an assault on the line of our bri
gade, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Our loss was compara
tively light, the 104th losing five killed and seven wounded.
Just at dusk the i6tli Kentucky was sent out to make a feint on
the enemy, which Ava^ effectual in driA'ing in the enemy's pickets
and inducing the belief that we were getting ready to fight them
there. This gallant charge of the i6th resulted in considerable
loss to the regiment, including their intrepid Colonel, S. D.
W^hite, who was wounded in the face. Leaving our campfires
brightly burning, we filed off through the woods and were soon

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following the remainder of the army in full retreat towards Nash
ville. After a rapid march of fourteen miles, we were halted in
the woods, when aides-de-camp came along with orders that Ave
should transfer our canteens to the other side from our bayonets,
that not a word should be spoken above a whisper, and that in
marching we should move as carefully and noiselessly as if our
lives depended on the utmost silence. We soon found that such
was the case. On emerging into the clearings, south of Spring
hill, we were astonished to find ourselves marching right past an
immense camp, Avhile the road we were traveling was in utter
darkness, crowded with our trains, and held by a handful of
skirmishers and a fcAV pieces of artillery against the forces camped
on the ridge, less than a quarter of a mile to the east, whom we
had taken to be our own men, till undeceived by our fellows hold
ing the road. These proved to be battery A ist O. V. L. A.,sup:
ported by a small detachment including our 103d. They had
been attacked by Lee's men about noon of the day before, and
had held their ground so stubbornly that the rebels had left them
in possession of the road, on which the very troops the rebels
were sent there to intercept, were now stealing by in their mid
night retreat from Columbia. The wind was in our faA'or, so that
they never heard us as we passed by, or never suspected that we
were escaping out of the lion's mouth by crossing in front of his
very nose. Eighteen miles more' brought us to Franklin, where
we filed offcast of the road to a large, old fashioned cotton gin.
Each man loaded himself with raw potton on which he slept until
the autumn sun aroused us to scenes of labor and carnage such as
we had never seen.
Bright and beautiful rose the sun on that last day of November,
1864, and found the boys sleeping heavily, from the exhausting
vigils of a sleepless week, and the hard marching of the night be
fore. We were aroused from our slumbers soon after sunrise, and
after snatching a hasty breakfast, we took a position a little to the
rear and began to fortify. Our main line formed one end and one
side of an irregular triangle, enclosing the town of Franklin on the
west and south, and reaching the Harpeth river above and below.
West of town, the right of the line was held by the ist division of
the 4th Corps, while the 33d occupied the center and left on the
southwest and south. The extreme left from the river, west
across the Lewisburg pike, was held by Casement's 2d brigade.
Next came our brigade extending west to the Columbia pike and

6o HISTORT OF THE
centering around the old cotton gin. West of the Columbia pike
the center was held by our 2d division. South of this line the
ground sloped away gradually southward for, perhaps, half a
mile, then, with slight undulations, rose to a low ridge, covered
with timber, some two miles off. A quarter of a mile in our front
lay the 2d and 3d brigades of Waggoner's division of the 4th
Corps, most of whom were new recruits, ncA'er before under firei
while Colonel Opdyke, with his famous Ohio brigade, was placed
in reserve behind the center. As the rifled guns of battery D and the
15th independent battery unfitted them for work at close quarters,
they were retired to the heights north of the river, and their places
in the 3d division were filled by Bradley's 6th Ohio and the ist
Kentucky batteries, the latter on the Columbia pike, the Buckeyes
at intervals along the line, east of the cotton gin, occupied by the
104th. We took all the rails we could find and with them built a low-
post and rail fence, outside of which we threw up an embank
ment deep and strong enough to protect us from the rebel shot
and shell, with salient angles for cross firing and embrasures for
the artillery. This was finished by two o'clock in the afternoon,
when the boys, too tired to get dinner, lay down behind their
new made works and lunched on crackers and raw bacon. For
half an hour we rested, when brisk firing in front admonished us
that we were not alone; and soon pell mell back the caAalry came,
past the outer line, past the main line, through toAvn, across the
river. Through the woods came the rebel column, and filing off
to the right and left in plain view they presented one of the
grandest pageants we had ever beheld as regiments, brigades
and divisions marched out and formed in line, with colors flying,
to the blare of trumpet and the rattle of drum, Avith all the pomp
and circumstance of glorious war. Meanwhile a continual rattle
of musketry was kept up from our skirmish line, while ever and
anon a shell from battery D, on the hill north of us, whizzed over
our heads past our skirmishers into the forming rebel lines, wherein
great gaps were opened by the death dealing fragments of burst
ing shell,, but which were promptly closed. For an hour the ever
increasing rebel host filed off from the road east and west till by-
three o'clock their line, in three solid columns, backed by numer
ous strong batteries, reached from the Lewisburg pike, for a mile or
more, to the woods west of the Columbia pike. Now their artil
lery opened all along the line, and for a few minutes a perfect hail

104TH REGIMENT. 6 1
of shells stormed around us in our breastworks and shrieked over
our heads into the town, resulting, however, in but little loss of
life. At half past three the entire rebel infantry advanced down
the slope to the charge. Our skirmishers held on till obliged to
fall back, when they formed in line with Waggoner's outlying di
vision, who stood bravely at bay till overwhelmed by superior
numbers, when they beat a hasty retreat, with the rebel column
howling at their heels. How grandly, how swiftly, they swept
up that beautiful slope, after the flying fugitives in their break
neck race, and so close upon their heels, that by the time our boys
were climbing the breastworks of our main line, many of the
"Johnnies" were there with them. All this time not a gun had
been fired from our line, but now, as soon as our boys had gained
the cover of the works, we opened all along the line of attack
with the shock of an earthquake. As our outlying division came
over the works our officers ordered them to fall back and form
in the rear.
Some of our men of the lOOth and 104th who were between
the cotton gin and the Columbia pike, mistaking this order,
fell back, a few rods, but turned again and drove the rebels back,
capturing over eleven hundred- of the rebel front line prisoners.
Farther to the right, on the pike, the Kentucky battery abandoned
its guns, which fell into the hands of the enemy, who pushed on
through the gap thus formed and began rolling back the brigade
in confusion, when the opportune arrlA'al of Colonel Opdyke's
brigade, in their famous counter charge, saved the day on that
part of the line. Of the 104th only foUr companies had left the
line under the mistaken order, and on these fell most of our loss,
except on the skirmish line. The old cotton gin formed the
salient point, which the rebels put forth every effort to capture.
To the right of this lay the lOOth, supported by the 8th Tennessee,
to the left' the 104th, with the two Kentucky regiments supporting.
The center and the left of the 104th opened fire on the rebels
while they were still several rods in front, and here the rebel line
was already badly cut up before they reached the works. The
rebel front line, led by General, Adams, charged up to and began
to climb the breastwork, only to be literally mowed down by the
terrific fire from our infantry and the gallant 6th Ohio battery.
Brigade after brigade followed, till in less time than it takes to
tell it, the six divisions of Stewart's and Lee's rebel corps had
become enmassed in our front, only to be torn and mangled by

62 HISTORT OF THE
the incessant and merciless storm of balls and canister that we
poured into their entangled and helpless ranks. General Adams,
at the head of his brave Tennesseeans and Alabamans, rode up on
the works in front of Company C, Avhen he Avas shot off from his
horse, which fell on him in the ditch in front. A few rods in
front of our line General Pat Cleburne fell, pierced by seventeen
rifle balls. Finding that they could not take our line, they laA'
down in the ditch in front, where some of them crawled to the
embrasures and began to shoot down the gunners. Noticing this,
John Hunt, of Company D, crawled under one of the guns, from
whence he picked them off as soon as they showed their heads in
the embrasure. Lieutenant Wm. F. Kemble, of Company C, was
conspicuous for his bravery, throwing axes, hatchets and anything
that came to hand into the seething mass of rebels in front, till a
rebel bullet laid him cold in death. "Remember Utoy Creek" AA'as
our battle cry on that eventful day, and well did the men of the ist
brigade avenge themselves on their enemies. For half an hour
we kept up this terrible fire, much of the time amid smoke so
dense that we could distinguish nothing at the distance of a rod.
Finally came the order to cease firing, and down the line
came Colonel Sterl, in an ecstacy of delight, in his hands
a rebel division flag with Avhich he mopped the muddy
ground in his excitement, crying out, "We'A'e whipped 'em,
hurrah, we've whipped 'em." The smoke had lifted but
little when Ave could see rags stuck upon bayonets from
the ditch in front, and could hear them calling out, "For God's
sake, don't shoot, and we'll give up and come in." Of these OA'er
a thousand were captured by our brigade, of Avhom two hun
dred survivors of the i6th Alabama, and as many more of other
commands, fell into the hands of the 104th, as well as eleven rebel
battle flags. But it was not by any means a bloodless victory for
us. The 104th had sixty killed and wounded, besides, perhaps,
a dozen of our skirmishers taken prisoners. Captain D. D.
Bard, of Company I, in charge of the skirmish line, was mortally
wounded, and fell into the rebels' hands, where he died four days
later. Orderly Sergeant I. Zeigler, and Sergeants John Evans and
Wallace were killed while defending the works, and also Lieu
tenant Coughlin, of General Cox's staff, while Captain Tracy,
Lieutenant S. S. Cope, and Sergeant Major Ellison were wound
ed. The total loss to the union forces amounted to about six
hundred, while more than six thousand of the flower of the rebel

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army lay dead and dying in our front. Just at dusk the 104th was
ordered to make a reconnoisance in front of the lines. Clamber
ing over the works we formed in line outside and moved on our
slow and tedious way along the ground over which the rebels
came in their headlong charge. The sights and sounds which
greeted us as we grouped along were enough to shock a heart of,
stone. Along the front of our line the dead and dying lay piled
up promiscuously in the ditch, sometimes eight feet deep, while as
we passed over the ground we were often obliged to pick our
way most carefully along, to avoid tramping on the bodies with
which the ground was strewn. On every hand the wounded
men would cry for mercy: "O, for God's sake, give me water."
"Don't kill me for God's sake," as though they thought we might
be brutal enough to harm a dying man. We found no enemy in
front except these fallen ones, so we returned to our place on the
line. Shortly after this the roar of artillery and the rattle of
musketry off to the right shoAv-ed that the rebels still meant fight,
and between dark and ten o'clock that night they made three
separate assaults on General Nathan Kimball's division of the 4th
Corps, but were repulsed each time with considerable loss. Each
charge became weaker than the one before, till after their third
attempt, they gave up their efforts to take our line. By this time
our trains were all safely across the river, so now we began to
withdraw across the bridge, which Reilly's brigade accomplished
about eleven o'clock. Here we found a battery posted ready to
sweep the bridge with canister while our ,own Battery D was
posted so as to shell the bridge and the street beyond. Here we
lay till past midnight. The last of our forces crossed over, then
the skirmishers, who were followed closely by the rebel skirmish
line till a few shells admonished them to halt. Setting fire to the
bridge, we waited till it burned so as to be useless, then withdraw
ing, in the midnight gloom, we left the lion-hearted rebel chieftain
with his dead. Few battles have been fought, in either ancient or
modern times, between forces of such unequal numbers; and none
in which the weaker party have held their ground with more de- ¦
termined bravery or more complete success. Nearly the whole of
Hood's more than fifty thousand veterans, were brought into action,
and here in the midst of their homes and firesides, hoping to rid
the country of their foes, those Kentuckians, Tennesseeans, Mis-
sourians, and Alabamans fought with a desperation that bordered
on despair. No less desperate was the defense by Schofield's

64 HISTORT OF THE
little handful of less than seven thousand, who, with the excep
tion of the Kentucky Battery, fought as though their lives de
pended upon it. Yet, in all this tremendous and heroic vyork by all
engaged, the laurel crown of success can never be taken from
Reilly's Brigade of Cox's Division, who, in that terrible half
hour, laid out over three thousand of the enemy, dead and wound
ed, and captured over eleven hundred prisoners, with twenty-two
of the enemy's flags. Of these one vyas captured by the 112th
Illinois; the 8th Tennessee also took one; the i3th and i6th Ken
tucky each two; the looth Ohio five; the 104th Ohio eleven, a
number which has never been exceeded in one day by any single
regiment in the history of wars.

104TH REGIMENT.

65

WILLIAM F. KF.MBLE.
First Lieutenant f Company C. Killed at Franklin, Tenn.,, Nov. 30, 1864

66 HISTORT OF THE

CHAPTER VII.

NASHVILLE.

At the dawn of day on December first, we arrived at the little
hamlet of Brentwood, where we took breakfast, then sought such
rest as could be found by sitting down on the wet ground and
leaning back on our knapsacks. Thus we rested for an hour or
tvyo for the Avagon trains to get on out of our Avay, then went on
our sloAA' and tedious way to Nashville, where we arriAed about
noon. First came the 104th, preceded by the eleven rebel flags
captured by them the day before. Then the io6th, with her prize
of five rebel flags. Then the eleven hundred prisoners Avhichthe
1st brigade had taken, in charge of the ii3th Illinois as guards.
the Kentucky and Tennessee regiments bringing up the rear, each
headed by their captured flags. We made the wintry air ring
again with our cheers and shouts of triumph. Having disposed
of our captives at the prisons in the city, we again marched out
and occupied a line of breastworks extending eastward from Fort
Negley to Fort Eustis and beyond. Fort Eustis being occupied
by Battery D Avith the 104th in support. ToAvards CA-ening the
rebels adA'anced to within about two miles of our front and drcAA'
up in line of battle, but made no attack, thus losing their oppor
tunity to crush our little army before the arrival of reinforcements.
That CAening the fleet arrived from St. Louis, bearing General
Andrew J. Smith and the thirteen thousand veterans of his
i6th army corps, Avho were all disembarked and placed in our rear
to be used whenever needed. During the next tAvo davs the boys
were kept busy strengthening the Avorks and erecting an abattis
along our front, (poles sharpened to points and planted to point
outward at an angle of forty-fiAe degrees, to resist an assault bv
either infantry or cavalry.) On the 3d, Hood advanced his line
half a mile and began to fortify. Our batteries, however, annoyed
him greatly b}- an incessant cannonading- Avhich continued almost
constantly day and night. The rebels extended their line to the
river below the city and cut oft" and captured a part of our 33d

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Corps, which were coming up from West Tennessee. All this
time General Thomas was calling in his scattered detachments
from the roads leading to Chattanooga and to the north of the river,
till by the eighth, he had in the city a force nearly equal to that
with which Hood was laying siege to the city on the south. All
this time the weather had been chilly and disagreeable, until the
sixth, when it began to rain. The next day the rain changed to sleet,
and for two days and nights a perfect hurricane from the north
west swept over the country, and grew colder and colder with its
ever present complement of rain, sleet and snow, until by the
tenth, the ground was covered a foot deep with a solid covering
of ice. Getting about was impossible for anything but cavalry,
and hard enongh for them. However, General Forrest, at the
head of the rebel cavalry, crossed the riAer to make a de
structive raid into Kentucky, and now was our opportunity as
soon as the weather should moderate. By the thirteenth the
weather began to get warmer, and by the afternoon of the four
teenth the snow had softened sufficiently to make moving about
possible. Along toward sundown an unusual commotion among
the colored troops to the left of our line showed that something
was to be done. From our elevated position at Fort Eustis, we
could see all that transpired to our left for miles. Forming in line
of battle. General Steedman advanced slowly and cautiously for
ward till he became quite hotly engaged, then withdrew slowly
back to his own line, closely pursued by the rebels, who took the
bait and charged up to the works now manned by the retreating
darkies, and Cruft's division of the 30th Corps with a strong force
of artillery. The "Johnnies" dashed up in gallent style, but re
ceiving a terrific storm of bullets and canister, broke and fled pre
cipitately back to their own lines. In their attack, such of the
wounded colored men as fell into their hands were murdered in
cold blood, the rebels plunging their bayonets through all who
came in their way. This little pi eliminary side show had its
desired eft"ect. That night Hood strengthened his right in
Steedman's front, thus weakening his left and center, Avhere
Wood and Smith, with their 4th and i6th corps, were
to open the ball in the morning. By this time Thomas' army
had been increased to not far from forty-five thousand men,
including Wilson's cavalry division, five thousand strong, while
Hood had lost about ten thousand in battle, and Forrest with five
thousand was north of the river, reducing his efl'ective force to

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thirty-five thousand, who were stretched in a line seven miles
long from the river above the city to the river below. That night
the i6th Corps marched to the front, forming upon the right of
the 4th, which moved to the left enough to fill up the gap in our
front, leaving the 23d Corps in the rear of the main line.
In the morning an almost impenetrable fog hung like a pall
over the contending hosts, covering all our movements as com
pletely as though it were midnight, while the soft south wind was
fast converting the ice and snow into slush and the earth into
mud, which, with the help of the rain in the evening, became
almost a quagmire before night. Soon after day heavy cannon
ading could be heard down the river below town, where the gun
boats were shelling the rebel left out of position. Then came the
advance of the 4th Corps on the center, closely followed by the
i6th Corps and the cavalry on the right pushing the rebel left
wing out of their works and back to the line of hills south of the
Hardin pike. About half-past six in the morning we left Fort
Eustis, and, with the rest of the corps, went back through the city
and took the road down the river for a couple of miles, then off
through the "deep tangled Avildwood" by a circuitous route to the
left of and across the Hardin to the Hillsboro pike, where, about
four o'clock in the afternoon, aa'c got into position to the right and
south of the i6th. Corps and well towards the rear of the rebel
left. We no sooner got into position than we charged the lightly
held position, capturing it with scarcely a show of resistance, and
pushed on across a broad valley to the foot of the Granny White
Hills, the crest of which was covered by the rebel main line, and
here we lay all night under a heavy, pelting rain, until the dawn
of the sixteenth ushered in another day of carnage and crushing
defeat to the now disheartened but still desperate rebels. Before
day we we're up and hard at work building a line of works about
one-third way up the hill, and not over a hundred yards from the
line, where two batteries of brass field pieces, eight guns in all,
kept up all day a perfect hailstorm of shell and canister, which,
however, did us little if any harm. Meantime, our Battery D,
nearly a mile in our rear, firing right over our heads, did terrible
execution, planting shell after shell right where it was most
needed, until by eleven o'clock, the rebel batteries in our front
were eft'ectually silenced. All day long off to the north and
north-east we could see the clouds of smoke and hear the roar of
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in their desperate endeavor to capture the Overton Hill, until
half-past three, when simultaneously came the sound of Wilson's
men away off to the rear of the rebel line, charging- and yelling
like demons, and the signal guns at Thomas' headquarters which
started all our artillery to work throwing shot and shell, and the
infantry to their feet and in line. The rebels had all day been
strengthening the force in our front, who at that very instant
were formed in line outside of their works for a charge on us.
Imagine their surprise, then, just as the order to advance was being.
given, to discover the 3d division sweeping up the hill like a
whirlwind, with a long, wild shout of A'ictory, as we dashed after
and over the works with them, capturing works, guns, and part
of the defenders; then turning the captured guns on the fugitives,
gave them a dose of canister of their own loading. Then the
chase began, and soon the rebels were overtaken, floundering
through the mud which lay knee deep OA'er a two hundred acre
cornfield, where, before darkness set in, the ist brigade captured
over three hundred prisoners. In this last, crushing charge the
whole army vyas engaged from the 104th, on the extreme right of
the infantry line, on through our brigade, division, corps, through
the i6th Corps, the 4th, and Steedman to Cruft, on the extreme left,
while the cavalry were hammering away at the rear of the rebel
line. Of the fifty-three pieces of artillery taken in this charge,
seventeen were captured by the 23d Corps. Of these thirteen
were taken by Cox, with the 3d division, eight by the ist brigade,
commanded in General Reilly's absence by Colonel Doolittle, of
the 1 8th Michigan. Besides the eight cannons, our brigade cap
tured seven rebel flags and about six hundred prisoners. The
prizes of the 104th were two flags, a battery of four guns
and nearly two hundred prisoners. Such was the crowning vic
tory of our military life obtained at a loss of scarcely a dozen
men in the brigade, of whom the 104th lost barely three wounded.
Pursuit was made as vigorously as the miry roads would permit,
and by the night of the eighteenth of December we had almost
completely annihilated Hood's army, Avhich found cover behind
the Tennessee river in scattered detachments, aggregating not
more than eighteen thousand men and four guns out of the fifty-
five thousand brave soldiers and eighty-five guns with which
they had entered the State barely six weeks before.
Early on the day after the great battle we were on the Granny
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was still raining hard, the mud was half-knee deep, and the pike
worn into ruts and holes, in which the boys would unconsciously
step and it often happened that some luckless wight had to be
helped up from one of these mortar pits by his companions, to be
joked and jeered at until another pitched headlong into the semi
fluid mass.
The 3d division was detailed to guard and assist the wagons
on their way after the remainder of the pursuing troops, who by
night w-ere scattered all along the roads south of Brentwood to
Columbia. There our cavalry overtook the retreating rebels and
captured some thousands of prisoners and nearly all of their re
maining artillery. That night we camped on the north bank of
the Haipeth at Franklin, having come seven miles in one of the
most tiresome marches we ever made. A large number of our
boys crossed over and visited the battle field in search of the
graves of our dead comrades. They were found at last, and such
graves! Here had been dug trenches six feet wide, from a foot to
twenty inches deep, and long enough to hold all of our dead found
near by. The bodies had been stripped of hats, coats, shoes, and
sometimes even of their pants and shirts, and had been dumped
into the pit like so man}- logs in a corduroy road. The little
earth which had been thrown from the pit Avas placed back
on the bodies so carelessly that in most cases the heads and feet
had been uncovered by the rain, while only too many lay entirely
uncovered in all their ghastly nakedness. They Avere now re
moved and given a decent. Christian burial, and,sofaras the bodies
could be identified, provided with headboards bearing the name,
company and regiinent. A few of our wounded, too far gone for
removal, had thus escaped incarceration in the prison pen at
Andersonville swamp. Among these the case of Colonel Jim
Brownlow, of the ist Tennessee cavalry, savored of romance.
He had received two terrible wounds from fragments of a rebel
shell as his troopers came clattering on their retreat into town.
He had lain till the fight was over, when, with several others, all
rebels, he was taken by a kind hearted rebel mother and daughter
to their home, where they gave him as tender care as if he had
been their rebel son and brother. The gallant Colonel recovered,
and, after the "cruel war was over," he became captive to the
"little dark-eyed rebel," and spent the remainder of his days in
that Christian home where he had been nursed back to life.
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Here Colonel Doolittle left us and our Colonel Sterl took com
mand of the ist brigade. General Schofield was now transferred
to the command of the new department of North Carolina, and
General Reilly, hav-ing returned from his northern visit, took
command of the 3d division. General Cox having been promoted
to Schofield's place as corps commander. Thus we Avere situated
on the new year, 1865, which fell on Sunday. We had dress pa
rade, our chaplain, Mr. Whitney, preached on the issues of the war,
and most of the boys indulged in chicken "fixins." Early next
morning we broke camp and started on a march to the Tennessee,
which Ave reached on the eA-ening of the sixth at Clifton, after a
four days' march of sixty miles, via Mt. Pleasant and Waynesboro.
Most of this journey Avas oA-er a wild, rough region of gravelly
hills, timbered with scrub oak and mountain pine. We forded
Beaver Creek thirteen times and Buffalo River once. The route
was infested by guerrillas, by Avhom some of the worn out strag
glers were murdered in cold blood, some of them having their
throats cut from ear to ear after having surrendered as priso
ners. On the tenth a detail of twenty-five men of the 104th, under
Captain Hobart Ford Avere sent out about sfeven miles to a log
back-woods chapel, where DeWeese, and another of Company K,
were hidden from the guerrillas by the A'enerable pastor. Father
Taylor. On the way out, close by the home of the guerrilla chief,
Rhinehart, at a short turn in the road, we suddenly came upon a
solitary horseman, who wheeled and fired, the ball passing through
Dennis Long's hat, making a slight scalp wound and throwing
him prostrate to the ground. The cavalier was soon out of sight,
and within ten minutes we could hear the long drawn blasts of a
tin horn resounding along a road leading off' among the hills to
the left. We passed on and secured our comrades at the chapel,
then started on our return. When we arrived at the Rhinehart
mansion, a half dozen of the boys charged upon a flock of geese,
with intent to have a feast, when bang, whizz came a volley from
the bushes on the crest of a high bluff near by. "Charge 'em,
boys," shouted Captain Ford, and we went pell mell over logs,
through brush, across the creek, and up the bluff's to find them
thirty strong, thundering down the road to the ford of Beech
Creek, where we were obliged to cross. At the ford we had a
sharp skirmish with them, then crossed in safety, Avith two of the
boys slightly wounded. In an hour more we were in Earlville.

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the home of scAeral of the men Avhose acquaiptance we had just
made. Proceeding according to the good old Democratic maxim, "To
the A-ictors belong the spoils," Ave loaded ourselves with chickens,
dead hog, etc., and fixing bayonets adorned them with our plunder
and reported to General Cox at Clifton. Just at night a half dozen
butternut clad fellovA's came in and complained to the General that
some of his men had been stealing their property. A sergeant
from his body guard Avas sent vyith them, Avho inquired at each
tent in turn for the stolen proiDcrty all through the camp and re
ceiving only negatlAc replies, reported to the General that he
could find nothing. General Cox then dismissed them with the
consoling remark, "My boys don't steal."
On the sixteenth of January the 23d Corps embarked on trans
ports, then steamed down the river, under the escort of the gun
boat fleet, passed by Fort Henry, into the Ohio. The 104th and
i6th Kentucky were on the Swallow, one of the largest boats on
the river. A great thaAv had resulted in a general breakup, and
the ice in huge cakes, twenty inches thick, crashed and ground
along the sides of the boat, threatening to sink it at any moment.
However, we got tio Cincinnati in safety and disembarked at tAvo
in the afternoon of the twenty-third, then marched to the freight
depot of the C. C. &'C. R. R., and passed via Columbus, Bellaire,
Cumberland and Harper's Ferry, over the snow clad hills of West
Virginia, and doAvn the banks of the beautiful Potomac to Wash
ington, AA'here Ave AA'ent into camp on the capitol grounds on the
twenty-eighth at one o'clock in the afternoon. Here some of the
boys took the opportunity to look OAer the Capitol building, even
in its unfinished state, one of the grandest monuments of archi
tectural skill in the Avorld. That evening we were quartered in
Stoneinan's barracks, Avhere Ave lay until the thirty-first. The
garrison at Washington at that time consisted of General Han
cock's new- A'eteran corps of new regiments, recruited from old
soldiers, Avhose terms of serA'ice had expired. Clad in brand new
uniforms, and glittering Avith brass ornaments, these "brave men,"
with their noses elevated in disgust, aff"ected to despise the soiled
and ragged "Georgia Avoodticks" as the}' deigned to call us. This
only lasted until the Hoosiers and mountain boomers, taking in
the situation, gaA e some of them a few lessons. On February
second, the captors of the rebel flags taken during the Nashville
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removed about this time to Alexandria, Avhere we lay in govern
ment stables in lieu of barracks. Here we remained until the
evening of the third, when we embarked on transports, and that
night slept on the bosom of the historic Potomac.
A dense fog lay over the river and its borders until late in the
morning, so that this city and shore and also the numerous craft
on the stream were entirely hidden from view. The looth and
104th Ohio and the i6th Kentucky occupied the "Star of the
South," one, of the staunchest steam frigates that had eA'er ploughed
the briny ocean. An occasional shot could be heard through the
fog as some careless fellow discharged his gun into the water be
low. Some of the looth boys were still sleeping on the forecastle,
when one of those stray balls glanced up and passed through the
head of one of them, killing him instantly. Thus it was all through
the history of that brave, but unfortunate regiment. In all our
camping, whenever overtaken by ill-luck and disaster, the looth
had been almost invariably the principal sufferer.
The fog lifted sufficiently for us to see the shore, so we set sail
and were soon moving down the river, slowly though, on account
of the immense cakes of ice which impeded our progress. The
attention of the boys was called to the points of historic interest
passed on the way, Mt. Vernon, St. Marys, first settlement of
Maryland, Washington's birth place, and Point Lookout, famous
in the annals of Captain John Smith's adventures, now the site of
heaA'y fortifications. At the last named place we lay until morn
ing, when we resumed the journey down the Chesapeake to
Hampton Roads at the mouth of the James, where we anchored
for the night within a stone's throw of the Rip Raps, and alinost-
¦on the very waters where, in '61, the giant iron clad Virginia had
sunk the Cumberland and destroyed the Union fleet, and where;
a fcAA' days later, the rebel monster had herself been brought to
¦grief by Ericson's. little moniter. Before day-break next day we
again set sail, and at six o'clock in the morning we passed the
•capes of Virginia, from the green waters of the Chesapeake to the
deep and dark blue of the ocean. This proved a novel trip for the
boys, few of whom had ever seen the sea. We watched Avith in
tense interest the distant banks of pure white sand which stretched
along the North Carolina shore, a desert waste, devoid of tree,
¦shrub, flower, grass or any living thing, save the myriads of gulls,
which flew screaming overhead, and the lizards which made their
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esting were the various forms of marine life, the variety of gaudy
fishes, fat yellow crabs, star fish, great sea, tortoise, and the antics
of a large school of fat, sleek porpoises, which came tumbhng and
sporting in our wake.

CHAPTER VIII.

IN THE LAND OF TAR.

Just before night we passed Cape Hatteras. For two hours
the sky had been overcast, the wind came moaning through the
rigging, from which, before night, all sail had been furled, and
now we were to be treated with a first-class ocean storm. The
timbers groaned and creaked under the pressure of the Avind
above, and the pounding of the waves beneath which dashed
against, and sometimes broke over the boAvs and sAvept the deck.
It was a night of intense siiffering among the boys who, all unac
customed to "a life on the ocean Avave," were experiencing sea
sickness to a great degree. Judson Smith came near dying, and
had not entirely recovered from its effects when Ave mustered out
five months afterwards. Next morning the wind continued as
severe as ever, but had A'eered to the west, so the fleet made all
haste to the shore, under the lee of which we sailed along south-
westward until at three o'clock in the afternoon we dropped an
chor opposite Battery Buchanan at the entrance to Cape Fear
river. Here we lay until the morning of the ninth of February,
when we landed near Battery Buchanan and inarched half a mile
north and camped in the rear of Fort Fisher. This powerful fort
had been captured by General Terry with about seA-en thousand
troops, assisted by Admiral Porter's fleet,on the fifteenth of January,
1865. With it were captured one hundred and sixtA--eight pieces
of artillery, OA'er two thousand stand of arms, and an abundance
of ammunition and military stores. Among the trophies were two
immense Armstrong guns, each finished in the highest style, and
adorned with a silver plate bearing the inscription, "This piece
was built at Armstrong's Armory at Woolwich, and presented to
his excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate
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the names of many of the most prominent men in Great Britain.
About four miles up the peninsula. General Terry, with his 24th
Corps, held a line reaching across from the river to Myrtle sound.
The rebel army, under General Hoke, held a parallel line perhaps
a mile farther north. On the night of the twelfth of February,
we were marched up the coast twelve miles along this narroAv
strip with the ocean on our right and Myrtle sound on our left,
often not more than a dozen rods apart. About eleven o'clock at
night we arriA'ed at the narrow strait connecting Myrtle and
Masonboro sounds. We halted to allow the engineers to finish
a pontoon bridge across the strait. Just then a high north-east
wind sprung up and increased to a gale, which threatened to
swamp the boats. So, loosing them from their mooring, they
were swung around to the beach, loaded on the wagons, and we
marched back to camp, AA'here we arrived just before day. The
night of the fourteenth we tried it again, but this time we were
discovered by the rebels, who hastilly put up a battery and
opened fire as soon as our pontoons were placed. The project
was again abandoned and we returned to camp. Early on the
sixteenth we were in motion, this time towards Battery Buchanan,
where VA'e embarked on the light steamer Wilderness, and Avere
transported south eight miles to Smithville, where we landed.
During the day we were followed by the remainder of our diA'i
sion and the 2d division also, commanded by General Couch, from
the Potomac army. Next day we marched about twelve miles,
skirmishing most of the Avay with rebel cavalry, who impeded
our way by throwing trees across the road and in various other
ways. On the eighteenth the 2d division moved north up the riAer
towards Fort Anderson, where they became engaged in the after
noon. The 3d division filed off on a by-road towards the road
from Onslow Court House to Wilmington. About two in the after
noon, a shot from a battery across a cypress swamp, through
yyhich we had to pass, brought us to a sudden halt. The 104th
being in advance, companies A, D, I and E were detailed for
skirmishers. The swamp was in many places impassable, so we
made slow and tedious progress in crossing, but we did it in the
face of two pieces of artillery and a battalion of cavalry who kept
up a galling fire until we came to the open ground when they
took to their heels and retreated towards Wilmington. In this
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of Company E; wounded, Lieutenant Horace Reed, Orderly Ser
geant C. p. Whitney, and Adam Weaver, of Company I, and Ser
geant F. M. Martin, of Company A. Mobile waiting for the re
mainder of the boys to cross the corduroy causeway across the
swamp, we noticed quite a force coining up the road to the south,
which we took to be rebels, and formed a skirmish line to receive
them. They also formed in line of battle, and sending their skir
mishers forward, advanced to the attack, and we would probably
have been hotly engaged in a few minutes had not some of our
men discovered that they bore the Union flag and wore the blue.
A small detail carried to them tidings of who we were. It was an
escape from what might have proved a fearfully fatal mistake.
They proved to be a part of Terry's force who had been sent here
sjDecially to flank the "Johnnies" out of their position, so that we
might get across without a fight, but they arrived too late. That
evening we got into position in the rear of Fort Anderson, and
spent most of the night fortifying our position. Next morning
we were in line early, and soon the cheers of the 3d division were
wafted to our ears as they charged up to and over the fort, only
to find it deserted by its garrison, who, taking fright, had skipped
wp the riA'er during the night, leaving the fort with ten heavy-
guns and considerable ordnance stores. Ames, vyith his diA'ision,
noAv crossed back to their comrades east of the riA'er,while Cox with
Couch's and Reilly's divisions moved north up the west side of the
river. On the twentieth, about noon, we came to Town Creek,
one of the many deep, sluggish streams common to the country,
and bordered on either bank for considerable distance by exten
sive rice swamps, with immense stacks of snowy vgrain still un-
threshed. Several scows were moored in the stream, of which
we secured a couple, and Avere soon ferried across, in the face of
a strong skirmish line. Our skirmishers were soon in line and in
motion, and after adAancing in line of battle down toward the
river, some three miles, we found the enemy strongly posted be
hind breastworks at the crest of a long slope in open pine woods.
Our brigade, in command of Colonel Sterl, advanced to the charge,
and in five minutes Haygood's brigade of seven hundred South
Carolinains, with a battery of four guns, was in our hands. The
104th captured on this occasion two brass howitzers, three battle
flags and over tAvo hundred prisoners, including a brigadier gen
eral and two colonels. We lost in this engagement Albert
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wounded from Company C, and C. C. Cross, of Company K, and
three from Company G. Next day we were detained several
hours to build a bridge; still we reached a point two miles west
of Wilmington where we went into camp on a great rice planta
tion. Here we had ample opportunity to behold the eft"ects of
the "barbarism of slaA'ery" in its most loathsome form. Some
two hundred colored brothers and sisters were stowed away in a
half dozen little log cabins, many of the half-grov»n children as
naked as when they were born, and all dressed in the filthiest of
cotton rags. Great scars, many inches long, across the backs of
these poor, despitefully-used people showed where the plantation
whip had cut deep into the quivering flesh. Y'oung giants of men
hobbled about, suft"ering intensely from Avounds where they had
been mangled and torn by the fierce blood-hounds, and hacked,
cut and beaten, by fiends of hell in the form of men. Legree, the
monster of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," could never have used any
more fiendish methods of torture than had evidently been in con
stant use on that plantation. According to all the testimony that
Ave could get, this place and its master Avere a Avorthy type of
most of the plantations and masters throughout the rice fields of
the Carolinas and Georgia.
On the twenty-first, -Fort French, just below Wilmington, east
of the river, was captured by the combined efforts of the fleet and
Terry's men, and at daylight the next morning, as the fleet AA'as
delivering the national salute, slowly steaming up to the city, Ave
inarched across the long causeway through the great swamp west
of town, and across the bridge into Wilmington, where we found
an immense amount of public property on fire. Terry's soldiers,
who came in at the same time from the east, helped us extinguish
it, after which soldiers and citizens, white and colored, all turned
in and celebrated Washington's birthday, and the capture of the
last seaport of the Confederacy.
We had been in town only an hour or two when the I04tli, in
company with the i6th Kentucky, were detailed as proA'ost
guards, with our Lieutenant Colonel Jordan as provost marshal.
Colonel Sterl became post commander, with the remainder of the
brigade as garrison. Next morning, the remainder of the army
passed up the country in pursuit of Bragg's army, which was re
treating to Fayetteville. Sherman's victorious legions were at the
time spreading dismay and consternation throughout the Caro
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their triumphant march from Savannah, and the rebels were nearly
vyild with despair, the Union prisoners in their hands had been
shipped from Florence, S. C, and other rebel prisons, and had
reached Wilmington, when our successes obliged Bragg's army to
retreat, and either leave these prisoners, to be rescued by us, or
take them a-long with them on their retreat. These poor prisoners
had already suffered from starvation and exposure to the cold, till
most of them were emaciated into living skeletons, and there Avere
many with toes, and CA'en whole feet and hands sloughed off. Of
these some four hundred were tumbled into Avagons, without
blankets or CA'en straw to lie on. Thus they were driven out of
town, on the worst of corduroy roads, and galloped off' to get them
Out of the reach of rescue. The citizens Avho had remained in
town, both black and white, averred that more than eighty of the
most hopelessly desperate cases, who were unable to be moved,
had been carried into a large wooden building, which, by General
Bragg's order, was deliberately fired, and with its liA'ing inmates,
burned to the ground. This fiendish act of cruelty was consum
mated for no other purpose than to cover up and hide from view
such incontestible evidence of the inhumanity of their hellish
prison system. Many of our boys were shown the ashes, and
smouldering embers, filled with charred and blackened bones, and
two of these bodies, only partially consumed, gave only too posi
tive evidence of the character of theiemains. Our men pressed
the rebels so closely on their retreat, that, within the next two
days, more than six hundred of our poor felloAvs had to be aband
oned, and thus fell into our hands. They had not received a
mouthful of food since leaving Wilmington, and many of them
had found relief in death. Of the more than four hundred who
had been carried off in wagons, over one hundred had died before
our forces had reached them. As many more died before the end
of the month, notwithstanding they recelA'ed the Aerv best care
Avhich it was possible to bestoAv. Here Ave realized, as we looked
upon these poor emaciated men, that there Avere things connected
with war far more revolting than the horrors of the most desper
ate battle field. General Cox was now sent to Beaufort, to take
command of the troops who had disembarked there, consisting of
our 1st diA'ision, General Ruger and part of the loth Corps.
They were to march up the country by Newburn and Kinston
to Goldsboro. Soon after the first of March we heard that they
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and Reilly with the 3d, started on a march of one hundred miles
to Kinston, to form a junction there Avith Cox. For many months
it had been the common practice for one diA'ision to take the ad
vance one day, then fall in the rear of all the others, and so on,
till each in its turn had passed from front to rear. On this oc
casion, the 3d division had the advance. During the first day's
march a few of our boys had captured supplies, such as chickens,
bacon, and sweet potatoes. About midnight we were roused
from our slumbers to listen to General Couch's special order, to
govern the command thrcjugh the remainder of the march. Couch,
as senior officer, had command of the force. The order read to
the effect that throughout the march, the 3CI division should march
in advance, and that the adA'ance guard of the 3d diA'ision
(Couch's) should "shoot down like a dog'' any soldier of the 3d
division found straggling. Reilly had us up and on the road be
fore day, and riding along the line, told us that he expected us to
march like h — 1, and he would see that no stragglers fell into
General Couch's hands. We were miles on the road before
Couch got started, and by eleven o'clock had inarched fifteen
miles, when we halted and filed into a large field, with a house
and well-filled barn and smoke-house. A detail of three men
from each company went to assist the commissaries divide and
distribute over three hundred bushels of sweet potatoes, and eight
or nine thousand pounds of fine hams and bacon, besides all the
chickens, geese, and hogs, which were soon either in our kettles
or frying pans, or snugly stowed away in our haversacks. We
rested a couple of hours, then started on, the 104th bringing up
the rear. Just as we were fairly on the road, the 3d division ad
vance came in sight, but as we moved briskly on, they were soon
lost to view, and we saw no more of them till we had been in
Cox's camp more than half a day. On the tenth we reached
Trent river, which was full from the rain which had kept us wet
most of the way. We could distinctly hear heavy cannonading
to the north. The river had been bridged, but the water ran
waist deep above the bridge, and the men were crossing, in single
file, on the plank walk, Avhich lay above the Avater, along the east
side of the bridge. The Kentuckians had passed, and when the
104th came up Colonel Sterl halted the column and had the
planks throAvn into the river, then ordered us to advance. Com
pany E, his own neighbors from Massillon, were in the lead and
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to no purpose. The sturdy Massillonians stood still, and so did
each of the other companies, in turn, when ordered to advance.
We never knew how it would have turned out, for just in the
nick of time Captain Copeland, of General Cox's staff, came
down from the north and crossed over to us. Then he made a
stirring little speech: "Men of the 104th Ohio, General Cox is
fighting, at Kinston, against overwhelming odds, and is in great
danger of being captured. Follow me." Dismounting, he plunged
into the turbid waters. Not a word was spoken, but without
further orders, the boys waded in and across, and pressed eagerly
on towards the increasing roar of the conflict.
We soon found ourselves face to face with a great forest fire,
wbich went roaring and surging across our line of inarch, in the
great pine woods, with a heat so intense that a man could not face
it and live a moment. We made a long detour to the west till
we came to where the ground-fire had passed on before, when Ave
plunged into the burning woods over ground still smoking, among
trees on fire from the ground up to the top, from the burning
turpentine Avith Avhich their trunks were loaded, onward through
blinding smoke and stifling heat for nine weary miles. That night
we reached the battle field, but the fighting Avas OA-er, and the
rebels in full retreat toward Goldsboro. Next morning Ave
marched into Kinston, where we remained and vA'orked at getting
out ties and re-laying the old railroad, destroyed by General Burn
side's men in 1863. This lasted till March twentieth Avhen we
broke camp and started west, reaching Goldsboro on the evening
of the twenty-first. Here we formed a junction with Kilpat-
rick's cavalry, in advance pf Sherman's army, Avho were on their
way to Fayetteville, and who had only recently whipped the
rebels under General Johnston at A^erysboro and BentonA-ille.
We inarched out south of town and worked nearly all night
building a strong line of fortifications. On the twenty-third
General Sherman came in at the head of the 14th Corps, which
passed in review before him and the generals of the 23d and loth
corps, then took a jDOsition on the line and the 23d and loth Averc
reviewed. March twenty-fourth was spent by Sherman review
ing the 15th, 17th, and 20th corps, as the foot-sore tatterdemalions
came in from their five hundred mile march through the swamps
and pine woods of Carolina. We were Avell pleased to again see
the grim, old face of General Sherman. For a fevy days Ave en
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most wonderful march of the nineteenth centur}-. Hampton's
rebel cavalry were encamped about a mile out across a cypress
swamp. Company D AV-as detailed to guard a bridge across this,
Avhere we were for a few days permitted to enjoy the companion
ship of the musical alligator, and the painstaking and industrious
mosquito. Here one day. Comrades Fenn and Sweet, while out
gathering- turnips, were dashed upon by a squad of Hampton's
cavali'}-, and onl}- escaped by a wonderful display of leg power.
They left their plunder in the hands of the enemy. General
Reilly, having become tired of soldiering, resigned about the first
of April, and General Samuel P. Carter, of Tennessee, took his
place in command of the 3d division.
April tenth the arm}' started out on the roads up the Neuse
toward Smithfield. The 104th did not get on to the road till
afternoon of the next day, when we started, in charge of the
Avagon trains of the 23d and roth corps. Our progress was slow
and tedious in the extreme on account of bad roads. On the
fourteenth a squad of guerrillas captured an officer of the i6th
Kentuck}'. in charge of part of the train. They made him put on
the grav , and then a man of much the same appearance donned
his clothes and passed back along our part of the line. By his
orders a dozen or fifteen of the teams were switched oft" the road
and parked, as he said, for dinner. As soon as the teams Avere
unhitched, a company of rebels surrounded the little camp and
took guards, teamsters, and mules, then cutting the spokes of the,
wagons, set them on fire, arjd Avith their prisoners and booty, es
caped before they Avere discoA'ered. The 104th lost about a dozen
men by this little piece of strategy, one of whom Avas killed, and
three wounded. Three of the guerillas were afterward captured
by us in an attack Avhich they made one night, and the house
where they made their headquarters was burned. At another
place the}- had, through some of their Avomen, induced our
officers to leaA-e a safe-guard of tAvo men, Avhom the guerrillas
took, as soon as the army was fairly out of sight, tied them with
arms behind them to a tree, cut their tongues from their mouths,
and nailed them to a tree beside their owners. The 16th got some
of these fellows of vyhoin theA' made short shrift, hanging them
to the first tree they came to.
On the thirteenth we receiAed the glad tidings that Lee's
rebel army had been captured entire, and that ' Richmond
and Petersburg -Avere both in our hands. As the courier
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came along the hne with the glorious news, the men
cheered, and danced, and shouted, and laughed, and sang as
they had never done before. At noon on the fifteenth, we ar
rived fit the rebel works, just abandoned, a short mile east of
Raleigh. Our ist division was doing duty in town as provost
guards. While taking dinner, we Avere startled and shocked by
the arival of a courier with the terrible neAvs that our beloved
President Lincoln had been assassinated in Washington, just on
the eve of a most glorious peace. Then, from every regiment
along the line, went up a cry for vengeance. "Burn the city, burn,
burn, and spare nothing," went up, and was carried along the line
with lightning speed. It was a time for prompt action on the
part of General Sherman, and soon out came a courier Avith orders
from General Cox for the 104th to march into town immediately.
When -we arriAed there a special order Avas read to us, stating that
a large majoritv of the citizens of Raleigh had all along been
loyal, and Avere noAV, and that the 104th was expected to do its
duty in suppressing riots, and assist the provost guard in guarding
and protecting- the lives and property of citizens. We Avere
scattered in detachments through the city, and kept a vigilant
watch all night. Though Ave had no fighting, Ave had the jail
pretty well filled by morning with men Avho had been taken up
for attempts to set fire to buildings. In the morning the bovs were
cooled doAvn, and most of the prisoners were released after a good,
fatherly reprimand from General Sherman, aa'Iio took occasion to
compliment the 104th for faithful discharge of duty during the
night. Within a day or two more, Wm. W Holden, a wouthy
citizen of Raleigh, a Union man Avho had come Avith us back to
his natiA'e heath, Avas appointed governor of North Carolina, and
in a A'erA' fevA' davs the wheels of government were again in
motion among the denizens of the land of tar.

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CHAPTER IX.

END OF THE WAR.

Raleigh we found to be a Aery pretty and pleasant city, situated on
high, rolling ground, with wide, clean streets, completely shaded by
rows of beautiful dark-green oaks. The principal street ran south
from the grounds of the State deaf and dumb asylum to those of
the lunatic asylum, Avith the State capitol half way between on
the west side of the street. This street was completely arched
over with the branches of splendid trees, so closely interwoven
that hardly a single ray of sunlight found its way through to the
driveway or sidewalks below. The public grounds at the capitol
and other State institutions were also completely shaded by these
sturdy giants of the forest, so that, though lacking in architectural
wealth and display, "The City of Oaks" was perhaps the pleas
antest town we ever saw. We enjoyed our stay in camp on the
grounds of the asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind.
April nineteenth, an armistice was agreed to between Generals
Sherman and Johnstoji. On the twenty-ninth Generals Grant
and Meade, with their respective staffs, arrived from Newbern,
and the next day the loth Corps, under General Terry, and the
23d, under General Cox, passed in review before the assembled
dignitaries present in the capitol. The State-house grounds were
filled to OA-erflovying with military men and the chief citizens of
North Carolina and Raleigh. Centrally, in the front rank of
spectators, stood the short, sturdy commander of our armies, with
his tall and stalwart Lieutenants, Sherman and Meade, to the
right and left, while around them were grouped Generals Howard,
Slocum, Logan, Schofield, Davis, Williams, Hazen, Kilpatrick,
and a host of other bright stars in the galaxy of victorious generals,
Avith staft" officers and aides-de-camp, "like the sands on the sea
shore for multitude." The scA'eral divisions and brigades were
formed on the various east and west streets in the north of town,
Avith their heads of column ready to file into the main thoroughfare.
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HISTORT OF THE

Our 1st division, mostly of iieAA' regiments, as they passed by out
of time and in uneven and waAcring lines, put the name and fame
of the 23d Corps in jeopardy by their miserable marching and
lack of discipline. General Cox rode at the head of the column
till the capitol grounds were reached, when he turned in and said
to General Grant, "This division consists of rayy levies ; we will
show you some soldiers bye and bye."
When General Couch appeared at the head of the 3d division,
the steady tramp and soldierly carriage of the iiith and iiSth
and 4^th Ohio, the 107th Illinois, and other troops in that splen-
didjdivision, brought many favorable comments from the assem
bled generals, to which General Cox replied that it was A-ery
good but he expected to show them that which Avas still better.
As soon as the road was clear. General Carter filed the brigades
of the 3d out on to the main street, then started forward in the fol
lowing order: First, General Carter, commanding the 3d diA'is
ion and staft"; second, Colonel Sterl, commanding the ist brigade,
followed by the i3th and i6th Kentucky and 8th Tennessee; then
the 104th cornet band to play for the whole brigade; the 104th,
lOOth and 177th Ohio bringing up the rear. After us came the 3d,
Casement's old brigade, in command of Colonel Stiles, of the 63d
Indiana, marching to the music of their famous brigade band.
This brigade consisted of the 103d Ohio, 24th Kentucky, 63d and
65th Indiana, and 65th Illinois, all veterans of three years' honora
ble service. Third and last came Colonel Henderson with the 3d
brigade, consisting of several Tennessee and a couple of Michigan
regiments and his own, 112th Illinois. They marched to the
music of the ii3th Illinois band. We marched by column of bat
talion, viz.: each regiment was divided into battalions of two
companies each. These in the 104th consisted of about eighty
men to the battalion, which, in two ranks, reached nearly across
the street, giving us plenty of inarching room. When the order
to go forward was given, the band struck up on a quick step and
every man started off in perfect time. As we swept past the re
viewing officers, with arms at the shoulder, with not a man of the
four hundred out of step or out of line, every gun and every hand
in place, we could notice the complacent smile on General Cox's
face as he turned to his chief with a look which said as plainly as
language could express it, "Beat that if you can." It was plainly
evident from the pleased looks of all present, that they were satis
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many thousand veteran soldiers, all of Avhom praised the perform
ance of the 104th in particular, of a diA'ision which all acknowl
edged to haA'c done exceedingly well. At that evening's dress
parade General Cox presented Lieutenant Colonel Jordan with
the congratulations of Generals Grant, Sherman and Schofield, for
the display of excellence in drill, inarching and soldierl}- bearing
Avhich none of them in all their A'aried experience- had ever seen
excelled even by regulars.
It is doubtful if any member of the regiment in line that daA'
ever felt a prouder moment than when marching past the capitol
of North Carolina on that beautiful afternoon of April 31, 186c;.
Next day the "Army of Georgia," General H. W. Slocum, was
reviewed, and on the twenty-fourth the "Army of the Tennessee,"
General O. Hovyard. and also Kilpatrick's Cavalry. On the
tAventy-fifth the armistice was terminated by General Sherman,
and the 20th Corps and cavalry started for Hillsboro in search of
rebels, while all the other troops, e.xcept the loth Corps, received
orders to be prepared to inarch at a moment's notice.
Next day, April 36, 1865, the rebel commander. General Joe
E. Johnston, signed articles of capitulation in which he agreed to
surrender his army on the same terms accorded by General
Grant to General Lee. However the armies remained where
they were except that all the forces of rebels under Johnston
were to concentrate at Greensboro, to turn over all their arms and
military stores and to sign paroles agreeing to not take up arms
against the United States until properly exchanged. By May
first they were ready and General Schofield, commander of the
department of North Carolina, took a train to Greensboro, accom
panied by General Cox and the 104th Ohio, which General Cox had
selected as the soberest apd best disciplined regiment in his corps.
These were to take charge of, and guard the rebel war material
which was to be turned over. We started on the second and at
three p. m. we landed right in the midst of twenty thousand rebel
soldiers. They immediately marched to a large field east of the city
where they stacked arms and parked their Avagons and artillery,
and the switches and sidings of the railroads were packed with
locomotives and cars. The 104th was then diA'ided into three re
liefs and put on guard, some over the railroad property and the
remainder over the war material. They turned over one hundred
and forty-six pieces of artillery, OA'er three hundred wagons, forty-
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colors, two hundred and forty-five locomotives, and more than
one thousand cars, with an immense amount of commissary and
ordnance stores. It was a time for the exercise of both firmness
and judgment on our part. The rebel commander could turn OA-er
his Avar material, but as to the soldiers, it was another matter.
Feeling themselv-es no longer under the restraint of military dis
cipline, thousands of them had hid their Aveapons and Avere noAv
"raising Cain" in town and in their camps, some of them less than
half a mile away.
All night they made the region about us resound with their
drunken brawls, and the A-icinity extremely dangerous AA'ith their
wild and reckless firing, as they sauntered through tOAvn and
countr}', committing crimes and raA'ages of the most horrible na
ture. Probably tAvent}- per cent, of those thirt}- thousand or more
men marched or rode off' into the country in bands of from fiA-e to
fifty, committing robberies, murders, arson, and every crime
known. For several Aveeks the helpless inhabitants of central
and western Carolina lived under a perfect reign of terror. The
guard lines were made as strong as possible vyith so fcAV men,
yet scattered as aa'b were obliged to be, we Avould haAc been un
able to stand before an attack b}' these forces, such as might have
been precipitated by any false or unwise step on our part. Hap
pily, all such trouble Avas averted by our patience and forebear-
ance under the most trying insults, threats, taunts and insinuations
from the drunken and desperate characters by Avhich avc AA'ere
surrounded. In the morning most of our officers Avce put to
AVork at the duties of preparing the rolls and administering the
oath to the rebels, and furnishing transportation and subsistence
for their journey to their homes in Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and
• other parts of the South. The afternoon train brought the 9th
Ncav Jersey regiment, Avho relieved us of part of our burden, and
we spent a more comfortable night than the one before. On the
fifth the remainder of the brigade arrived, and the 2d also, and bv
the seventh the ist divisi'on had passed through toward Charlotte
and the 3d division to DanA'ille, \"irginia. Meantime Kilpatrick,
with his cavalry, was scouring the country, picking up the rovino-
bands of freebooters scattered abroad in the countrv-, who Avere
placed in jail to aAA'ait trial by the ciAil authorities.
Such was the end of the rebellion in the Carolinas. Our
com ades brought us the news that peace had been declared and
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20th corps for a march to Washington to lie mustered out of the
serA'ice. By Ma}' tenth, the rebels had all been sent to their homes and
now our duties were light and pleasant tor a few short weeks
more. A little incident occurred, however, on the tenth of June,
which broke in on the monotony of camp life and also shoAved a
little of the spirit that preA-ailed in our brigade. The 104th were
acting as provost guauls in tOAvn, and were encamped just north
of the city limits, while Colonel Sterl, Avith the remainder of the
brigade, Avas encamped half a mile west.
The diy-ision headquarters Uia' just across the road adjoining
our camp on the east. General Carter had gone to another county
on some business, and left his chief of staff'. Major Gratz, in charge
at headquarters. A teamster in the division train came ov er to
our camp considerably under the influence of liquor. Next came
Lieutenant Denny, one of Carter's aids, under orders from Major
Gratz, to arrest the teamster. The teamster was playing euchre
AA'ith some of our boys Avhen he Avas put under arrest, and seemed
more inclined to talk to his chums in the game than to march to the
headquarters. Lieutenant Denny grew impatient, seized a gun
from one of the guards and plunged the bayonet through the leg
of the unluck}- wight. In his tent, close bv, ' lay a big, broad-
shouldered giant of a boy, the first letters of Avhose name Avere
Williard Bancroft, of Compau}- D. He got up, Avalked lazily out
to the scene of conflict, and without any apparent effort planted
his bony fist square between the eyes of the doughty lieutenant.
The lieutenant fell as though Jie had been struck by lightning.
The boys naturall}' had a hearty laugh at his expense, but the
lieutenant was not through yet. Going to Lieutenant Colonel
Jordan, he complained that he had been struck like a dog by one
of his men, and demanded that the oft'ender should be punished as
prescribed in the regulations for such an oft'ense. The ever care
ful Jordan went to Compan}- D, and, upon inquiry, soon came to
the conclusion that Lieutenant Denny had received only what he
deserAcd, told him so, and refused to do anything about it. Next
came an order from Major Gratz, in General Carter's name, that
Colonel Jordan and the 104th regiinent should consider them
selves under arrest for breach of discipline, and to stack their
a-vms, and the 9th New Jersey and 17th Massachusetts would re-
lieA'e them from duty in toAvn, and mount a guard around the
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gallant Jersevmen Avcre preparing to place a guard around us, the
boys skipped out of camp and formed a skirmish line, ready for
business. By this time hundreds of our old comrades of the ist
brigade 'had joined the impromptu skirmish line. Happily for all
concerned. General Carter arrived just as things were getting in
teresting, and Avanted to know what in creation was going on!
After listening to the story of his staff' officers, he exclaimed,
"Fools, do you want to see those men butchered! All the eastern
troops in North Carolina couldn't put a guard of strangers over
any- of these regiments. TheA''ve been together too long', to alloAA'
that. Send them to their quarters immediately."
This Avas the first and last time the 104th was eA'er 'under ar
rest. Shortly before this occurrence we held a convention in the
104th to select delegates to the Ohio State Union convention, to
be held a few days after. We selected Q. M. Schaff'er and J. L.
Clark, of Company F, as delegates, with Captain R. C. Taggart,
and one other, as alternates, Avith instruction to support General J.
D. Cox for GoA'ernor. About this time Captain H. FI. Eberhard
returned from a furlough home, bringing Avith him a beautiful
new silk flag, bearing the names of our principal battles and cam
paigns, Cumberland Gap, KnoxA'ille, East Tennessee, Resaca,
Dallas, KenesaAV Mountain, LTtoy Creek. Atlanta, Columbia,
Franklin, NashA'ille, Old ToAvn Creek, and Wilmington, em
blazoned thereon in gold letters. It was presented bA' the ladies
of Massillon as a token of their esteem.
June sixteenth, the 104th was relieA'ed from proA'ost duty by the
17th Massachusetts, and the next day weAvere reviewed, with the
whole diA-ision, by Generals Schofield, Cox, and Carter. That
night saw- us read}- for our journey home. On the eighteenth,
after listening to Chaplain Whitney's farewell address, we
marched to the Piedmont railroad depot and took passage in
freight cars for a journey to "God's countrv-."' We arrived at
City Point at eight o'clock on Monday ey-ening, and embarked on
the steamer Columbia We stopped over Tuesday night in the
mouth of York riAer on account of a storm, and WednesdaA'
night at nine o'clock aac reached Baltimore, where Ave lay until
Thursday noon. Thence by freight cars on the Pennsyh'ania
railroad via York, Harrisburg, and Altoona to Pittsburg, where
we arrived at fiAC o'clock on the evening of the twenty-third. In
coming up the Allegheny mountains, the night before, a man was
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killed. The train ahead of us Avas wrecked near the same place,
resulting in the death of perhaps a dozen men of the 103d Ohio,
and twice as many more Avere severel}' hurt. At Pittsburg a
committee of citizens met us and conducted us to a great banquet
hall, where daj- and night the}' furnished the homeward bound
soldiers with a good, substantial meal. We had a most excellent
supper, to which avc did ample justice, then spent an hour most
pleasantly listening- to patriotic songs by a glee club of more than
u hundred ladies and gentlemen. We stopped oA-er at Wellsville
until morning, Avhen General Reilly joined us and on we came
past our "own dear natlAC home." in the beautiful land, Ohio. At
every station Ave av ere met b}' parents, sisters, brothers, wives, and
sweethearts, who Avere "Avaitlng and watching" for some one on
the train. From houses and fields the waving hats and handker
chiefs cheered us on our Avay. We reached Cleveland on June
tAyent}'-fourth, at eiev en o'clock in the morning, and there ended
our journeying as a regiment. In the two years and ten months
of our service, we had soldiered in five of the rebel States, had
participated in the annihilation of one great rebel army, and had
received the surrender of another; had fought in thirteen battles
in Avhich we had captured more than one thousand rebel prisoners,
eight pieces of artillery, and fifteen stand of colors. We had
inarched more than three thousand and four hundred miles, had
rode nearly three thousand by rail and one thousand and three
hundred by Avater, had uncomplainingly endured many hardships
of hunger and thirst, cold and heat, disease and Avounds, and had
laid hundreds of our comrades in the silent tomb.
We took dinner under an immense bower surrounding Perry's
monument, then marched to Camp Taylor where we remained
over Sunday. On Monday we receiv ed our discharge papers and
held our last dress parade. That evening we were joined by our
old faithful looth Ohio, On Wednesda}-, after dinner, June 38,
1865, ^^ Avere paid in full. Then, with handshakings and hearty
o-ood-byes, the boys abandoned their last camp, and during the
night and next day Avent home. Having laid aside the imple
ments of war, we spent the jolly Fourth of July as citizens of the
Republic Ave had helped to save.

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HIS TOR)' OF THE

iu\-n) I). i;,-\Ri),
Ciipi<iin. CoDipaiiy I. Killed at Franklin,^ Tcnn., Xoz'. ^o 1864-

WILLIAM J. JORDAN,
Captain, Compaiiy K, iSds: Lteutenant-Coloncl. 104th Regiment, 1864
Lisbon, Ohio, Febrtiary, 1886.

Died at Neiv

iii'iTH REGI.MENT.

APPENDIX.

When the ''cruel Avar was over," there were but very few of the
survivors Avho thought they Avould ever again want to see or hear
of anything military. Not one in a thousand had any just con
ception of the importance of the part he had taken in making the
historA' of his time, or of the magnitude of the conflict, "the great
est, among men, in the tide of time." But as the years passed on,
and the "boys" became scattered abroad, they began to feel a
yearning for the old associations, and for sight of the old familiar
faces. This feeling grew and expanded till it "brought forth
fruit" in the formation of an endless variety of associations or so
cieties, of which the most popular and profltable were the numer
ous regimental associations whose annual reunions have been the
most enjoyable occasions in the Ha'cs of those fortunate enough to
be able to participate in them. So, to be in the fashion, a number
of the members of the 104th O. V. I. met in the hall of Post No.
27, G. A. R., in Alliance, Ohio, at one o'clock, p. ai., November 12,
1868. General J. W. Reilly Avas called to the chair, and Adjutant
Walter McClymonds' Avas elected secretary.
It Avas resolved to hold the first reunion at Alliance, Ohio, on
the thirtieth of November, 1868, the anniversary of the battle of
Franklin. It was decided that the next reunion be held at Mas
sillon, Ohio, August 29, i860, but, for some reason, this was
changed, and the second annual reunion was held at Akron, Ohio.
Consequently the record of annual reunions of the association runs
as follows: .ANNUAL REUNIONS.
First. Alliance, O., November 30, 1868.
Second. Akron, O., September 10, i86g. Deaths of mem
bers reported for the past year: K. G. Thomas, M. D.
Theodore, A. Ricks, Hiram Reinols, H. H. Slanker.

c,3 HISTORT OF THE
Third. Salem, O., September 8, 1870. No deaths reported.
Fourth. Massillon, O., Septembers, 187 1. No deaths reported.
Fifth. Wellsville, O., October i, 1S73. Deaths for the year:
Manuel Barth, Company G; Jerome Graville, Company A;
George F. Graham, Company K; B. L. Dewees, Company
E; James H.McKinnel, Company F.
Sixth. Alliance, O., October 3, 1873. Deaths for the year:
Joseph Anderson, Company A; Phillip Triem, Compan}'
B;John Shanefelt, Company B; George Painton, Com
pany H; James L. Smith, Company K.
Seventh. Alliance, O., October i, 1874. Deaths for the year:
Charles W. Bernower, Company A; John Barr, Company F.
Eigjith. Ravenna, O., September i, 1875. No deaths reported-
Ninth. Ncav Lisbon, O., September 12, 1877. Deaths for the
year: Amos Hower, Company E; Rev. Buel Whitney,
Regimental Chaplain; John Kelher, Compan}- F; A. M.
Garside, Company K.
Tenth. Salem, O., September 19, 1878. Deaths for the year:
John Porter, Company A; Wm. B, Taylor, Company B;
Latham Crawford, Company C; Paul S, Wiley, Company
H; M. M. Ladu, Company I; W C. Hamilton, Company K.
Eleventh. Canton, O., September i, 1880. Deaths for the year:
David E. Spencer, Company D; John Pemberthy, Com
pany E; John Howard, Company E; J. C. Baker, Com
pany G; Abram Paulus, Company H.
T'T.velfth. Akron O., September 21, 1881. Deaths reported:
Wm. Taylor, Company B; Frank A. Day, Company F;
John Blythe, Company G; James D. Crozier, Company H.
Thirteenth. Salem, O., NoA'ember i, 1882.
Fourteenth. Canton, O., October 3, 1S83. Death: DennisJ. Long,
Company H.
Fifteenth. Alliance, O., October 3, 1S84. Deaths reported:
Joseph Urban, Company A; James A. Crawford, Com
pany C; James Sidebotham, Company I; Richard Davis,
Company I; Thomas W. Whitacre, Company F.
.Sixteenth. Congress Lake, Stark CountA', O., August c, 6 and 7,
1885. This Avas a genuine old fashioned camp in the woods,
in which the "boys," with their families and friends,
gathered around the camp fires, as of old; slept on the
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old acquaintances and forming new ones. At the business
meeting on the sixth it was decided to hold the next reun
ion at Myers' Lake, near Canton, O,, by going into camp
on the second Wednesday and Thursday of August, 1886,
There were reported deaths of members of the regiment as
follows: Wm, Fram, Company D; George Beittle, Com
pany E; Captain John W, Fawcett, Company G; Captain
Hobart Ford, Company H; J, C. Russell, Company I; and
the regimental quartermaster, Jacob Schaffer,
Time AA'hich "Avaits for no man," has been busy among the
"boys" who wore the blue, and the 104th has suffered its full share
of those who have answered to the final roll call above. Among
those whose names have been reported to the writer, are Colonel
Wm. J. Jordan, of New Lisbon, Columbiana County, O., who, in
the prime of life and in the midst of an honorable and prosperous
career, quietly passed away, at his home, on February 26, 1886.
Colonel Jordan was a man who carried his conscience into eA'ery
step throughout a busy and eventful life, and whether gaining
laurels on the battle field, or before the bar of justice, or in his re
ligious duties, he was ever the same quiet, dignified, firm and con
sistent Christian gentleman.
Near the first of July, 1886, Fred Allen, of Kent, O,, formerly
of Company F, died of consumption, after an illness of several
months. Undoubtedly there have been many of the 104th who haA'e
"climbed the golden stairs," whose names haA'e never been re
ported at the reunions of the regiment. Among them. Captain
Edward E. Tracy, who, many years ago, died of wounds recelA-ed
at Cedar Mountain, vyhile a member of the 7th O, V. I., and others
received at Utoy Creek and Franklin,
The "boys" are growing old; the erect and stalwart forms are
becoming decrepit and rheumatic, and all too soon the places
which knew us will know us no more forever. We must giAe
Avay to a younger, more vigorous generation, whose duty it will
be to perpetuate those free institutions which ,have been gained
and preserved at an expense of countless millions of treasure, and
what is infinitely greater, a sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of
precious lives. Hoping that what he has Avritten may serA'e to
help establish in the hearts of those who will come after us, a just
appi'eciation of the priceless value of our country's institutions.

C)4 HIS TOR r OF THE
the Avriter Avill uoav take his leave and bid the patient reader a
heartfelt adieu. CONTINUATION OF APPENDIX.
It will be noticed by the reader that the rosters of companies
E and G contain no record of men Avounded yyhile in service.
and are, therefore, so far incomplete; a fact which no one regrets
¦more than myself, and the reason whereof I will try to explain to
the satisfaction of all concerned. In compiling the various rosters
of companies I have depended on members of each company to
furnish a record of each company's serA'ice, and was thus enabled
to compile rosters more or less complete of seA'en companies, as
published in this work. Much time and labor had been spent in
the attempt to get rosters of the other three, but without avail.
.'^o, as the time approached when it became necessary- to put the
work into the hands of the printer, I went to the office of the
Adjutant General at Columbus, where I had full access to the
records, and enjoyed the courtesy and assistance of the Adjutant
General and his assistants, so I got the three remaining rosters,
but found the records of several of the companies, including E
and G, had made no mention of wounds received. After my ar
rlA'al home I wrote again to members of those companies for lists
of the wounded in each, but have as yet received no ansAver.
Now, with the type nearly all set up, and the work ready to go to
press, I am unable to supply the deficiency, which I deeply regret,
but with no means at hand of rectifying. Deeming this explana
tion due to members of those tAVO companies, and still more so a§.
an excuse for myself, I subscribe myself yours in F. C. and L.,
Nkl. a. Pinnev.
Wind ham. O., Jnh 31, 1886.

ROSTER OF OFFICERS.

Rank.

Name,

Date of Rank,

Commissioned,

Remarks.

Colonel.
Colonel.Lieut. Colonel.
Lieut. Colonel.
Lieut. Colonel.
Major.Major.
Major.Major. Surgeon.
Surgeon. .
Surgeon.
Surgeon.
Ass't Surgeon
Ass't Surgeon
Ass't Surgeon
Ass't Surgeon
Ass't Surgeon
Ass't Surgeon
Chaplain. . ,
Chaplain. , ,
Captain. . .

James W Reilly.
Oscar W. Sterl.
Asa S. Mariner .»
Oscar W. Sterl. .
Wm. J. Jordan.
Lauren D. WoodAvorth.
Oscar W Sterl.
Wm. J. Jordan.
Joseph F. Riddle.
K. G. Thomas. . .
John H. Rodgers.
Daniel T. Boynton.
S. E. Sheldon.
Wm. K. McKcnzic.
C. C. Stouff'er.
R. P. Johnson.
Daniel T. Boynton.
Israel Redell.
D. H. Cowan.
M. W. Dallas.
Buel Whitney.
Oscar W. Steri. . . .

Aug. 1 1, '62.
Aug. 1 1, '64.
Aug. 7, '62.
Jan. 3, '63.
Aug. 1 1, '64.
Aug. 9, '63.
Dec. 9, "62.
Jan. 2, '63.
Aug. II, '64,
Aug. 19, '62.
Dec. 28, '62.
Jan. 4, '65.
June 13, '65.
Aug. 19, '62.
Aug. 22, '63.
Sept. 4, '63.
March 30, '63.
Feb. 25, '65.
March 14, '65.
Sept. I, '62.
Sept. 10, '63.
Jan. II, '63.

Sept. 16, '63
Aug. 1 1, '64,
Sept. 16, '62
Aug. 10, '63
Aug. 1 1, '64,
Sept. 16, '62
Jan. 20, '63.
Aug. 10, '63
Aug. II, "64
Sept. 16, '62
Feb. 10, '63.
Jan. 4, '6s.
June 13, '61^.
Sept. 16, '63.
Sept. 23, '62.
Sept. 4, '62.
March 30, '63
p-eb. 25, '65.'
March 14, '61;.
Sept. 16, "62,
Sept. 10, '63.
Sept. 16, '62.

(Promoted to brigadier general (
( volunteers, Aug. 14, 1864.
Mustered out Avith regiment. . .
Resigned, July 2, 1863.
Promoted to colonel, Aug. 14, 1864.
Mustered out Avith regiment. . .
Resigned, Dec. 9, 1862.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Resigned, Dec. 27, 1862. . . ' .
Discharged, Dec. 13, 1864. . .
Mustered out May 15, 1865.
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Resigned, Jan. 20, 1863.
Commission returned.
Resigned, P'cb. 15, 1863.
Promoted to suraeon.

Resigned, Jan. 31, 1S63.
Mustered out with regiment.
Promoted to major.

hi

ROSTER OF OFFICERS.— Continued.

R A K K .

Name.

Date of Rank,

Com MISSIONED.

Remarks,

Captain,

Jesse K. Coates.

Jan, II, '63.

Resigned, Nov, 17, 1862,

Captain,

Hugh Sturgeon.

Jan, 15, '63.

Resigned, Feb, 10, 1864.

Captain.

Andrew J. Bahnev.

Jan. 23, '62.

Colonel 4th N, C, Nov. 33, 1863.
Died, March 3cj, 1863.
Captain.
Walter B! Scott.
Jan. 24, '62.
Captain.
John A. Wells.
Jan. 26, '62.
Resigned, March 37, 1863. .
Captain.
Wm. J. Jordan.
Aug. 8, '62.
Promoted to major.
Captain.
Joseph F. Riddle.
.Vug. 16, '62.
Promoted to major.
Captain.
Ezra Coppick
Aug. 16, '62.
Resigned. May 20, 1863.
Captain.
Marcus C. Horton.
Nov. 3 1, "63.
Nov. 21, '62.
Killed at Dallas, Ga., May 38, 1864.
Mustered out June 38, 186=;. .
Captain.
Franklin A. Perdue.
Nov. 17, '62.
Nov. 28, '62.
Captain.
George V. Kelley.
Dec. 9, '62.
Jan. 20, '63.
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Captain.
Hobart Ford.
March 27, "63.
June 10, '63.
Mustered out with regiment.
Captain.
David D. Bard. .
Ma}- 39, '63.
June 10, "63.
(Mortally Ayounded" at Franklin,
1 Tenn., Nov. 30, 1S63.
JNlustered out Avith regiment.
Captain.
John W, FaAvcett.
March 3:5, '63.
.Vug. 10, '63.
Captain.
Josiah B. Morgan*
Jan. 2, '63.
Aug. lo, '63.
Resigned, Jan. 13, 1864.
Captain.
Robert C, Taggart.
Jan. 13, '63.
Feb. I, '64.
Alustered out AA'ith regiment.
Captain.
AiulreAV J. Southworth.
Jan. 9, '64.
Feb. 9, '64.
(Killed near Chattalioochee river,
'1 Ga.,July 16, 1S64.
Captain.
Wm. Grinnel.
Jan. 9, '64,
Feb. 9, '64.
Honorably discharged, Ala}' zS, 1S64.
Declined and commission returned.
Captain.
John W. McCl}-monds.
June 37, '64.
June 37, "64.
Captain.
Orrin G. Vanderhoft'.
Aug. 19, '64.
.Vug. 19, '64.
(Detached as A. A.G., ist Brig., 3d
/ Div., 33d A. C.
Captain.
Henry H. Everhard.
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug. 19, '64.-
Mustered out with regiment.
Captain.
Wm. F. Kimball.
Sept. 8, "64.
Sept. 8, '64.
Killed at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, '64.
o
o
ROSTER OF OFFICERS.— Continued,

Rank.

Captain. Captain.Captain.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.

Name.

Shepherd M. Knapp.
Edward E. Tracy.
Daniel M. Stearns.
Benj. L. Robertson.
Franklin A. Perdue.
Robert C. Taggart.
Louis D. Booth.
John W. McClymonds.
Jacob Schaeffer.
George V. Kellev.
David D. Bard. "
John W. Fawcett.
Hobart Ford.
Josiah B. Morgan.
Thomas W. Whittaker.
Augustus J. Ricks.
AndreAvJ. Southworth.
James E. Wiliiamsoii
Wm. M.Johnson.
Stanton Weaver.
Wm. Grinnel.

Jan. 6, '65.
Jan. 6, '65.

Jan.
May Aug.
Aug. Aug.Aug. Aug.Aug. Aug.
Aug.Aug. Aug.
Aug.
July Nov. Nov.
Dec.
June

6, '64.
9, '64.
II, '63.
15, '63.
17, '63.
18, '62.
18, '62.
23, '62.
23, '63.
33, '62.
24, '62.
8, '62.
16, '62.
19, '62.
17, '62.
27, '62.
9, '62.
I, '63-

March 27, '63,

Commissioned.

Jan.

6,

¦65.

Jan.

6,

'65.

Jan.

6,

'64.

May

9,

'64.

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

16,

'62.

Sept

t6.

'62.

-Sept

16,

'62,

Sept

16,

'62,

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

16,

'62,

Sept

16,

'63.

Sept

1 6.

'63,

Nov

28,

'63,

Jan.

30,

'63-

Jan.

20,

'63-

June

23'

'^3-

June

10,

'63-

Remarks.

Mustered out Avith regiinent,
I Wounded at Utoy Creek, Ga., Aug.
-' 6, 1864, and at Franklin. Noa-. 30,
f 1864. Resigned April, 1865.
Mustered out with regiment.
Mustered out with regiinent.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Honorably discharged, Feb. 22, 1863.
Mustered out, April 6, 186^. . .
Detached as A.Q;M.,3dDiA"., 23d A, C,
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain. .
Resigned, Noa'. 37, 1862. . . ,
Honorably discharged, Nov. 16, 1864.
Promoted to captain.
Deceased. . ... . .
Revoked. ... . .
Appointed captain in colored reg'm't.
Wounded at Koxville, Tenn., Nov.
29, 1863; honorably discharged.
May 28, 1864. .

ROSTER OF ()FF1C1':RS.— C

ON'riNUED.

R.AXK.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.

First Lieut.
First Lieut,
First Lieut.
First Lieut. -.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
First Lieut.
Second Lieut.
Second Lieut.
Second Lieut.

Name.

Samuel F. Shaw.
Orrin (j. A'andcri-iotl".
Henry II. Everhaid.
James L. Smith.
"Wm. F. Kimball.
Shepherd M. Knapp.
Edward E. Tracy.
Daniel M. Stearns.
Stacy Pettit.
Josiah B.D. Siess,
Horace L. J^ced.
Stanley D. llumason.
Samuel S C()]3c.
James C. Taggart.
Hem-}- \'ick.
Gustavus P Reed.
Charles Pcrkev.
Al'iram. Paullus.
\A'm. M. johnscni.
j:Vndrevv' J. Southvv <irth.
Wm. F. Kimball.

Date of Rank. Commissioned

May 29, 63.
March 35, '63.
Oct. 17, "63.
Jan. 3, '63.
Jan. 13, ^64.
Jan. 13, '64.
Feb. 37, '64,
.M ay 9, '64.
June 27, '64.
June 37, '64.
.Vug. 19, "64.
Aug. 19, '64.
Jan. 6, "65.
Jan. 6, '65.
May 6, '65.
May 6, '65.
Ma}- II, '65.
May II, '65.
Aug. 12, '62.
Aug. T I, "63.
Aug. 13, '62.

June 10, '63.
June 10, '63.
April 6, '64.
Aug. 10, 63.
Feb. I, '64.
Feb. I, '64.
Feb. 27, '64.
May 9, '64.
June 27, ' 64.
June 27, '64.

Aut

19, 64.

Aug. 19, ' 64.
Jan. 6, "6:;.
Jan. 6, '65.
Jan. 6, "65.,
Jan. 6, "65.
May 1 1, "65.
Ma}' II, '65.
Sept. 16, '62.
Sept. 16, "63.
Sept. 16, '62.

Remarks.

Detached at his own request.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Resigned.Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Promoted to captain.
Mustered out with regiment.
Mustered out with regiment.
1 Wounded at F(n-t Anderson, N. C,
- Feb. 17, 186^; mustered out May
f 15, 1S63. '. , . "
Mustered out Avith regiment.
l^^'ounded at Franklin, Tenn., Nov.
30, 1864; mustered out vvith regi-
( ment.
Mustered out with regiment.
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Mustered out with regiment.
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Promoted to first lieutenant. ^
Promoted to first lieutenant.

O

ROSTER OF OFFICERS.— CoxTixuEi).

Rank.

Name.

i:)ATE OF Rank

Commissioned.

Remarks.

Second Lieut.

Shepherd M. Knapp.

Aug. 20, "62.

Sept. 16, "62.

Promoted to first lieutenant.

Second Lieut.

.Samuel F Shaw.

July 24, '62.

v^-lept. 16. '62,

Promoted to first lieutenant.

Second Lieut.

Luther R. .Sanford.

Aug. 5, '62.

Sept. 16, '62.

Died, Feb. 26, 1863.

Second Lieut.

James L. Smith.

Aug. !('., V'2.

.Sept. 16, '62.

Promoted to first lieutenant.

Second Lieut.
James E. Williamson.
Aug. 8, '62.
Sept. 16, '62.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Lyman Sowers,
July 18, '62.
.Sept. 16, "62.
Resigned, Jan. 31, 1863.
Sect)iid Lieut.
EdAvard E. Tracy.
July 17, '62.
Sept. 16, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Wm. J. Nelson.
Nov. 17, '62.
Nov. 28, '63.
Detached at his oavii request.
Second Lieut.
Daniel M. .Stearns.
Nov. 17, '62.
Jan. 20, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Orrin J. \'andcihoft".
Jan. 24, '63.
June 10, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant. .
Second Lieut.
iStantvn Weaver.
Jan. 31, '63.
Feb. 2, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Benjamin II. Robertson.
Feb. 26, '63.
June 10, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Horace L. Reed.
jSIay 29, '63.
June 10, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
.Stanley D. Humason.
June I, '6^.
June 23, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Josiah'B. D. Siess.
"May 25, '63.
Aug. 10, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
'Stacy Pettit.
Jan. 2, '63.
Aug. 10, '63.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
.Samuel .S. Cope.
Feb. 27, '64.
Feb. 27, '64.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
James C Taggart.
Feb. 27, '64.
Feb. 27, "64.
Promoted to first lieutenant. .
(Wounded near Lost Mountain,
Ga.,
Second Lieut.
Gustavus P Reed.
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug. 19, '64.
\ June II, 1S64; promoted to
( lieutenant.
first
Second Lieut.
Henry ^'ick.
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug. 19, '64.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
.Second Lieut.
Charles Perkev.
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug. 19, '64.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Abram Paullus.
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug. 19, '64.
Promoted to first lieutenant.
Second Lieut.
Wm. Walter. .
Aug. 19, '64.
Aug, 19, '64,
Mustered out Avith regiment.
Second Lieut.
Wickhft'eB. Elston. .
May II, '65,
May II, '6t;.
hi
NO •O
HISTORT OF THE

ROSTER OF CO. A.

Captain. Sterl, Oscar W., promoted to major, Februar}-, 1863; lieuten
ant colonel, August, 1863; colonel, August 14, 1864. Mus
tered out with regiment.
First Lieutenant.
Kelley, George V., promoted to captain, February, 1863; cap
tured rebel battle ffag at Franklin, Tenn., November 30,
1864,
Second Lieiitenant.
Johnson, William, M,, resigned, February, 1S63,
First Sergeant.
Vanderhoof, Orson G,, promoted to second lieutenant, April,
1863; first lieutenant, August, 1863; captain, company B,
August, 1864,
Second Sergeant.
Siess, Josiah B, D,, promoted to first sergeant. May, 1863;
second lieutenant, August, 1863; first lieutenant, August,
1864,
Third Sergeant.
Perkey, Charles, promoted to first sergeant, August, 1863;
second lieutenant, August, 1864,
Fourth Sergeant.
Bleaks, William, killed near Fort Mitchell, Ky,, September 6,
1862,
Fifth Sergeant.
Sager, Benjamin F,, promoted through each grade to sec
ond sergeant.
Corporals. I, Hanks, George W., promoted to third sergeant; died in
Cleveland, Tenn,, May 10, 1864.
3. Porter, John N,, promoted through each grade to second
sergeant, <

mTH REGIMENT. loi
Corporals. — C on ti n ued .
3. Tritehart, Jacob, promoted through each grade to first
sergeant.
4. Snodgrass, William, promoted to corporal, August, 1863;
discharged, August, 1864.
5. Dice, William B., detailed in engineer battalion, 33d army
corps, August, 1863.
6. Urban, Jacob M., promoted through each grade to third
sergeant.
7. Sheaffer, Israel J., detailed in cornet band.
8. Zehring, Augustus, transferred to veteran reserve corps,
June 3, 1863.
j\Iusicians. Koonse, Benjamin F., detailed headquarters cook. Company A.
Musser, Jerome J., detailed cook for Lieutenant Colonel Jordan.
Wagoner. Beard, Otho H.
Privates. Adams, David.
Allen, James, discharged August, 1863.
Anderson, Joseph F.
Ax, Isaac.
Bash, Jacob F.
Becker, Lewis F., stunned by explosion of a shell at
Columbia, Tenn., November 29, 1864.
Bender, Wm. H., captured at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864;
released May, 186^.
Bender, John L.
Bernower, Charles W.
Beard, Adam A., company headquarters cook.
Bliler, Charles W., left sick at Knoxville, Tenn., March, 1S64.
Bowers, Isaac, detailed as teamster, September, 1863.
Bulger, Samuel, captured near Danville, Ky., 1863; paroled;
promoted to corporal, 1865.
* Brumbaugh, Samuel, discharged August, 1863.
Brown, William, deserted in May, 1863, while home on
furlough.
Clapper, Theodore P., stunned by exploding shell at Columbia,
Tenn., November 39, 1864; captured near Smithville, N. C,
May, 1865.
*¦ Cole, Howard L., detailed as regimental teamster.

I02 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Collar, James.
Corl, Benjamin F.
Cook, Oscar, discharged August, 1863.
Deater, Samuel, promoted to corporal March, 1863; wounded at
Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.
Dcnious, George, died in Frankfort, Ky., March 4, 1863.
' Dod, John, detailed as teamster December, 1863.
Edgington, Isaac.
Edward, John, discljarged June, 1863.
Evans, Henry D., killed at Columbia, Tenn., November 29,
1864.
Fogel, George, detailed engineer battalion, 33d army corps.
Foster, William W., promoted to corporal, August, 1863; re
duced November, 1863.
Gannanne, John A., detailed orderl}- to Colonel Reilh'.
Garman, William, detailed in engineer battalion, 23d armv-
corps.
Gramer, Charles, detailed proA'isional orderh', Washington, D.C.
Grable, Jerome, detailed mall carrier, MaA', 1865;
Harry, Silas C.
Hays, James, detailed in engineer battalion, 23d arniA- corps;
died at Decatur, Ga., September, 1864.
Hausberger, Isaiah, promoted to corporal, January, 1864; ser
geant. May, 1865.
Hipshur, Massam.
Houser, DaA'id, died at Mt. Vernon, Ky., June 4, 1863.
Houser, George, killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30,
1864.
Hughes, John J., detailed brigade provost guard, March,
1865.
Kahler, Jonas, detailed cook for Colonel Sterl; captured and re
leased September, 1864.
Kanagy, Joseph, promoted to corporal, September, 1864;
wounded at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.
Klenfelter, William, discharged June, 1863.
Krug, Daniel, promoted to corporal, September, 1864.
'Lamberson, Daniel, killed November 29, 1864, at Columbia,
Tenn.
Linn, David, promoted to corporal, October, 1863; wounded
near Kingston, Ga., June, 1864. '

104 TH RE drIMEN T. 1 03
Privates. — Continued.
LaAvrence, Jacob, bugler, detailed in coi'i'iet band.
Malone, John H., Avounded at Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864;
died February 4, 1865.
Martin, Francis M., promoted to corporal, .Vugust, 1863.;
wounded near Ft. Anderson, N. C, February iS, 1S65.
Manderburgh, Henry.
McClure, James, discharged December, 1863.
Mendenhall, Henderson.
Orwig, Jesse, deserted December, 1863, at Georgetown, Ky.
Perhamus, Stephen H.
' Pontias, Isaac, transferred to A-eteran reserve corps, July, 1863.
Porter, Josiah, discharged, February, 1865, died soon after-
Avard.
Rhodes, George W., discharged. May 1863.
Rush, Jacob, captured and paroled, March, 1864, and again.
Ma}', 1865.
Rutter, Hugh, died April 12, 1863.
Seller Cvrus, detailed quarter-master clerk, ist brigade, 3d di
vision, 23d armA' corps.
Seller, William, promoted to corporal, August, 1863; wounded
June 14, 1864; died August, 1864, near Kingston, Ga.
Shank, Win. C, Avounded at Franklin, Tenn., November, 30,
1864.
Shantz, George, killed at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864.
Shull, Hiram H., promoted to corporal, September, 1864; stunned
by exploding shell at Columbia, Tenn., November 29, 1S64.
Smith, Christian.
Smith, Eli.
Solan, John L., killed at Columbia, Tenn., November 29, 1864.
Starer, .Simon S., detailed company cook, 1862, teamster,
June, 1863.
Steese, Samuel, detailed hospital nurse, February 1863.
Stonebrook, Alexander.
Swan, Lilburn D., detailed on special service, November, 1862.
Urban, Jonas, detailed in ambulance corps.
Urban, Joseph, detailed teamster, November, 1862.
Weil, Adam, died at Frankfort, Ky.. March 38, 1863.
Weinshimer, Henry, AVOunded at Columbia, Tenn., No-vem-
ber 29, 1864.
Weston, Adam A.

I04

HIS TOR 2- OF THE

Privates. — Continued.
Whetstone, Allen S., commissioned captain of Kentucky bat
tery.
Wise, Emanuel, promoted to corporal, June, 1864.
Wolfsberger, George H.
Yant, Leander B.
Yerick, Jeffersbn, died at Danville, Ky., February 28, 1863.
Yerick, Lewis. RECRUITS.
Behimer, Freeman, transferred from i6th Kentucky to 104th O.
V. I., January, 1864.
Tousley, Joseph C, transferred from 3d O. V. C. to 104th O.
V. I., January, 1864.
Sprinkle, Conrad, died on the way to join the regiinent.
Dagy, Calvin, deserted.
Raff, Edwin^ wounded at Columbia, Tenn, November 38, 1864.
Bender, Hiram.
Fording, Miller.
Fraise, Jacob.
Baker, Philip.
Henry, John.
Raff, Benton.
Shadley, John.
Yant, Lewis.
Company A Avas raised in the vicinity of Massillon, Ohio, Avith
Oscar W. Sterl as captain, who rose to be colonel of the regiment.
Company A was Avith the regiment and took an honorable and
important part in all the marches, battles, sufferings and triumphs
of the regiment throughout the war, and was mustered out at
Greensboro, North Carolina, June 17, 1865.

104TH REGIMENT.

105

ROSTER OF CO. B.

Captain. Coates, Jesse K., resigned on account of disability, November
17, 1863.
First Lieutenant.
Perdue, Franklin A., detailed in ordnance department, Sep
tember 2^, 1863; promoted to captain, November 17, 1863;
reported to regiment for duty, September 13, 1864; trans
ferred to ordnance department army of the Ohio, at Camp
Nelson, Ky., September 13, 1864.
Second Lieutenant.
Southworth, Andrew J., promoted to captain, January 9, 1864;
accidently killed by falling- tree, near East Point, Ga., August
16, 1864.
Sergeants. I. Nelson, William J., promoted to second lieutenant, Novem
ber 17, 1863; detailed in division ammunition train,
April, 1864.
2. Chesholm, Robert J., reduced to ranks for cowardice, June
6, 1864.
3. Triem, Philip, promoted to first sergeant, September 8,
1864.
4. Coates, Oliver R., died of erysipelas, at Lexington, Ky.,
April 5, 1863.
5. Baber, Thomas J.
Corporals. I. Stackhouse, OyA-en, promoted to sergeant, April ^^ 1863;
slightly wounded at Franklin, Tenn., November 30,
1864.
3. Spangler, John L., detailed company clerk, December, 1863;
promoted to sergeant, June 6, 1864.
3. Gaskill, Thomas B., reduced to ranks, January i, 1864.
4. HaAvley, Cicero, promoted to sergeant, September 8, 1864.

lo6 HISTORT OF THE
Corporals. — Continued.
5. Correll, Thomas H. B., commissioned first lieutenant, first
U. S. C. H. A., March 33, 1864.
6. Bixler, Benjamin W., detailed in engineer battalion, July
17, 1863.
7. Vick, Henry, promoted to first sergeant, November 17, 1863 ;
promoted to second lieutenant, September 7, 1S64, and
assigned to Company D; promoted to first lieutenant,
February, 1865; and returned to Company B.
8. Beight, Isaac N.
Privates. Acker, Franklin.
Adams, Thomas R., captured and paroled near Lancaster,
Ky., March 35, 1863; dtetailed clerk at regimental head
quarters. May, 1864; detailed clerk department head
quarters, army of North Carolina, March 5, 1865.
Acker, Jacob, captured and paroled near Lancaster, Ky.,
March, 1863.
Barker, William H., captured and paroled near Lancaster,
Ky., March 35, 1863.
Barnett, John.
Bates, DaA'id.
Barnes, Thomas .V., promoted to corjjoral, NoA'ember, 17,
1863.
Beltz, DaA'id, detailed teamster, 33d Corps headquarters, March,
1864.
Betzenhouser, Westly, recruit, joined the company March,
1864.
Bender, Thomas F., recruit, joined the company April, 1864.
Clemens, Alfred, detailed as guard at 3d division ammunition
train, April 33, 186^.
Clark, Ellas J., died at Knoxville, Tenn., of chronic diarrhea,
January 16, 1864.
Conrad, Simon P., detailed guard, 3d division ammunition
train, March 13, 1864.
Coy, George W., recruit, joined the company February 37,
1864, at Knoxville, Tenn.
Davis, Albert W., recruit, joined the company April 31, 1864,
at Bull's Gap, Tenn.
Denious, Oliver R., detailed company bugler, April, 1863; bri
gade bugler. May 9, 1864.

104 TH REGIMENT.

107

Privates. — Continued.
Dennis, Uriah, Avounded near Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June
18, 1864; died from his wound, June 18, 1864.
Dougherty, William T., recruit, joined the coin23any April 21,
1S64, at Bull's Gap, Tenn.
France, Daniel, detailed as blacksmith in engineer battalion,
23d army corps, April 4, 1864.
FoAvler, Thomas C, promoted to corporal, September 8, 1864;
detailed at brigade headquarters, March 7, 1864.
Gaskill, Joseph G., promoted to corporal, January i, 1864.
Gorgas, Nathaniel J., promoted to corporal, July 13, 1864.
Gushard, Tobias.
Haag, Haag.
Haag, Jones.
Haag, Samuel, died Avhile at home on sick furlough, December
13, 1864.
Haines, Ellas, accidentally shot oft' a finger at Fort Mitchell,
Ky., September 11, 1863; deserted from Lexington, Ky.,
December 29, 1862.
Halebaugh, Joseph, died at Lexington, Ky., of apoplexy, No
vember 28, 1863.
Hayman, George, killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30,
1864.
Hayman, Thomas, promoted to corporal at Chattahoochee
River, July 13, 1864.
Hayman, William.
Heacock, John F., slightly wounded at Fort Mitchell, Ky.,
September II, 1863.
Hoover, Abraham, died of chronic diarrhea at Knoxville,
Tenn., April 3, 1864.
Hoover, Philija.
Hoover, Samuel, deserted from Richmond, Ky., December 29,
1862.
Hostetter, Ephraim, slightly wounded at Franklin, Tenn., No
vember 30, 1864.
Hurford, Nicholas.
Jackson, John H.
Jannett, Stephen.
Johnson, Johnson, died of typhoid fever at Mt. Vernon, Ka'.,
June 8, 1863.
Kohler, William H.

Io8 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Kuntz, Wibur F., promoted to corporal at Mt. Vernon, Ky.,
June 6, 1883.
Kensla, Patrick, recruit for one year; joined the company at
Alexandria, Va., February 3, 1865.
Lantz, George W.
Leapard, George W.
Little, William.
Markel, John, discharged for disability at Lancaster, Ky.,
April 9, 1863.
Martin, David, deserted from Richmond, Ky., December 29,
1862.
Mason, Richard, discharged at Lexington, Ky., April 13, 1863.
Minnier, Joseph, died of erysipelas, at Frankfort, Ky., March
9, 1863.
Munk, Henry, recruit for one year; joined the company at
Raleigh, N. C, April 35, 1865.
Myers, John O., recruit for one year; joined the company at
Goldsboro, N. C, April 4, 1865.
Myers, William O., recruit for one year; joined the company
at Goldsboro, N. C, April 4, 1865.
Nelson, George B., recruit for three years; joined the company
at Bull's Gap, Tenn., April, 1864.
Newhouse, David B., promoted to corporal December 34,
1862; wounded in head at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1865.
Sandals, Asher, detailed teamster, 23d army corps head
quarters, March i, 1864.
Schooley, George W.
Seely, Levi.
Slack, Lewis B.
Snider, John, deserted from Richmond, Ky., December 39,
1863.
Snider, William, discharged at Richmond, Ky., January 16,1863.
Seacrist, Peter, died at Lexington, Ky., December 19, 1863, of
hernia.
Shanefelt, John.
Smith, William, transferred to invalid corps, January i:;, 1864,
at Camp Nelson, Ky.
Smith, William W., wounded in arm at Dallas, Ga., May 31,
1864; captured at Franklin, Tenn.. November 30, 1864.
Southworth, Mortimer M.

104TH REGIMENT.

109

Privates. — Continued.
Spangler, Joseph, discharged for disability at Lexington, Ky.,
December 19, 1862.
Stambaugh, Albert W.
Stewart, Joseph G.
Stahl, John L., captured on skirmish line at Frankhn, Tenn.,
November 30, 1864.
Stephenson, John W
Stratton, George W.
Spellman, William O., transferred to invalid corps at Camp
Nelson, Ky., January 23, 1864.
Taggart, John, discharged for disability at Lexington, Ky.,
January 15, 1863.
Taylor, William, severely wounded through the bowels at
Fort Mitchell, Ky., September 11, 1862; discharged at Cin
cinnati, O., March 16, 1863. 1
Waker, Hiram.
Walker, Walter R., wound in right hand at Franklin, Tenn.,
November 30, 1864.
Walker, William, wounded in thigh at Utoy Creek, Ga.,
August 6, 1864.
Warner, Frederick.
Warner, George.
Wearstler, Jonas.
Whitaker, Robert B.
Whitmire, Monroe, wounded in hand at Franklin, Tenn., No
A'ember 30, 1864.
Zentz, Adam, transferred to invalid corps at Cincinnati, O.,
1863.
Zentz, George W.
- Company B was raised principally in the portions of Stark
and Columbiana counties in the vicinity of Alliance. Notwithstand
ing its having furnished more deserters than any other company
in the regiment. Company B was ever one of the foremost for
duty, and served with distinction throughout all the battles and
campaigns in which the regiment was engaged, and was always
conspicuous for the fine appearance, good discipline, and soldierly
bearing of officers and men.

HISTORT OF THE

ROSTEI^ OF COMI^ANY C.

Captain. Sturgeon, Hugh, resigned, Februar}- lo, 1S64, at KnoxA'ille,
Tenn.
First LieiLtenant.
Taggart, Robert C, promoted to captain, Februar}- 12, 1864,
Second Lieutena>it.
Kemble, William F,, promoted to First Lieutenant, January 13,
1864; promoted to captain, September S, 1864; killed at
battle of Franklin, Tenn., NoA'ember 30, 1864.
First Sergeant.
Taggart, James C, promoted to second lieutenant, March 9,
1864; promoted to first lieutenant, November 30, 1864;
slightly Avounded at Franklin, Tenn., NoA'ember 30, 1864.
Second Sergeant.
Gilbert, James M., Avounded in right arm, September 23, 1862;
discharged December 11, 1862, at Cincinnati, O.
Zeigler, Isaac, promoted to first sergeant, March 9, 1864;
killed at battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.
Lewis, Stephen, taken prisoner near Marietta, Ga.. June,,
1864, but escaped; severelv- wounded at Franklin, Tenn.,
November 30, 1864.
Orr, Matthew T., wounded near Atlanta, Ga., August 7,
1864; wounded at battle of Old ToAvn Creek, N. C, Febru-
arv 20, 1864.
Corporals. I. Barton, Benjamin M., taken prisoner at Danville, Ky.,
. March 24, 1862, and paroled and exchanged; wounded
at battle of Old Town Creek, N. C., February 20, 1865.
2. Morris, Henry C.
3. NeA'ille, Levi, transferred to A'eteran reserA e corps. January
15, 1865.
4, Early, John M,, discharged, Jan, 14, 1863, at Richmond, Ky,

104 TH RE GIMENT. r 1 1
Corporals. — Continued.
5. Flart, Warren, died at Frankfort, Ky., March 6, 1863.
6. Gaston, William H., seAerely Avounded at battle of Old
ToAvn Creek, N. C. February 20, 1865.
7. McCoy, Alexander, promoted to sergeant, Februarv 28,
1863; promoted to first sergeant, NoA-ember 30, 1864.
8. McCammon, John A., severely wounded at Franklin,
Tenn., Xovember 30, 1864.
Musicians. Earh', Samuel, transferred to A'eteran reserA'e corps.
Martin, Alexander R,, discharged at LouisA-ille, Ka.. !^eptem-
ber 19, 1864.
Privates. Albright, Firman S., promoted to corporal, August 31, 1864.
Azdell, AndreAA' H., died at Camp Dennison, O., August 9,
1863.
Azdell, James, AA'ounded near Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864, and
leg amputated. Discharged August 20, at Camp Denni
son, O.
Azdell, John M., promoted to corporal. May 18, 1865.
Allen, Cyrus, discharged May 19, 186;^, at Camp Dennison, O.
Alcorn, William G.
Armstrong, C. B., detailed as teamster.
Baker,' Fred G., captured at Danville, K}., March 24, 1863;
paroled and exchanged.
Barnes, George, died September 12, 1864.
Bennett, Bronson.
Boozle, John A., promoted to corporal June 6, 1863;, severely
Avounded at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1S64; discharg
ed May 17, 1865.
Burlingame, Henry.
Cole, Samuel, severely wounded in siege of KnoxA'ille, Tenn.,
November 29, 1863; died in Ohio, March, 1865.
Council, William A., died at Crab Orchard, Ky., August 27, 1863,
Court, Frederick.
Crawford, Charles B.
Crawford, James A., captured near Atlanta, Ga., August, 1864;
sent to Andersonville, Ga., prison.
Crawford, John M., promoted to corporal, September 30, 1863;
wounded at battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864;
wounded at Old Town Creek, N. C, February 20, 1865.

112 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued,
Crawford, Latham, discharged at Kno.wille, Tenn,
Creighton, James FI,
Crum, Jacob, promoted to corporal, January 28, 1863, ser
geant, February 28, 1863,
Davidson, James H,, transferred to veteran reserve corps,
Davis, Henderson.
Davis, Joseph, promoted to corporal, March 9, 1864; wounded
at Old Town Creek, N, C, February 20, 1865,
Dickey, C, B., wounded near Marietta, Ga., June, 1864; left
arm amputated; discharged April, 4, 1865.
Eakin, Samuel, transferred to veteran reserve corps.
Faulk, Peter R., died at Knoxville, Tenn., January i, 1864.
Fowler, M, V, B,, promoted to corporal. May i, 1865.
Gaston, James, died at Mt, Vernon, Ky,, July 4, 1863,
Geary, Thomas M,, died at Lexington, Ky,, March 27, 1863,
Greenamyer, Eli,
Halleck, Henry W., transferred to veteran reserve corps,
Hawkins, John, died at Frankfort, Ky,, February 3, 1863.
Hindman, J, L, T,, died at Lexington, Ky,, December 34, 1863.
Hollinger, Henry J,, died at Knoxville,Tenn., November 26,1863.
Huston, Harvey, discharged at Richmond, Ky., January 14,
1863.
Jamison, Cornelius, transferred to veteran reserve corps.
Keener, William C., died at Frankfort, Ky., January 27, 1863,
Kinney, James M,, wounded at Lexington, Ky,, 1863; dis
charged at Knoxville, Tenn,, February 29, 1864,
King, Albert,
Little, George.
Lyon, Jacob J,, discharged at Richmond, Ky,, January 14, 1863,
March, Henry,
Martin, Emery,
Martin, WiUiam FI. H., killed at battle of Frankhn, Tenn., No
vember 30, 1S64.
Mead, Heman D., transferred to veteran reserve corps.
Meek, James, wounded at battle of Old Town Creek, N, C,
February 20, 1865; died of his wounds at Baltimore, Md,,
March 16, 1865,
Meek, Seth, severely wounded at battle of Franklin, Tenn,,
November 30, 1S64; discharged at Camp Dennison, O,,
May 19, 1865,

104 TH RE GIMEN T. 113
Privates. — Continued.
Mitchell, William W., wounded at battle of Franklin, Tenn.,
November 30, 1S64.
Moon, George R.
Moon, Harvey.
Morris, Samuel, promoted to corporal, March 15, 1863.
Moon, Andrew J., wounded at battle of Old Town Creek, N.
C, February 20, 1865; discharged at Baltimore, Md,, May
8, 1865,
Musser, Wilson S.
McCalla, John R,, transferred to veteran reserve corps,
McCormick, James C, wounded at battle of Old Town Creek,
N, C, February 20, 1865,'
McCoy, Alexander C, promoted to corporal, April 9, 1864,
McCoy, Aaron, severely Avounded at Old Town Creek, N. C,
February 30, 1865,
McCoy, Hugh, Avounded near Lost Mountain, Ga,, June 17,
1864; seA'erely Avounded at Old Town Creek, N. C, Feb
ruary 20, 1863; discharged at Alexander,. Va., June 3, 1865.
McDevitt, Austin, severely wounded at Old Town Creek, N.
C February 20, 1865,
McKnight, Joseph,
McLaughlin, Joseph, wounded in right hand at Snow Pond,
Ky,, 1862; discharged at Cincinnati, O., January 23, 1863,
Owens, William H.
Paxon, Luther A,
Piper, Thomas.
Routson, John S., transferred to veteran reserve corps,
Scroggs, Joseph J,, mustered out to accept commission in col
ored regiment.
Sebring, John.
Sebring, Thomas.
Spahr, W^illiam H.
Stooksbury, William C, promoted to corporal, January 24,
1863; sergeant, November 30, 1864; wounded at Old Town
Creek, N, C, February 20, 1865,
Stough, Charles, promoted to corporal, November 30, 1864,
'Taggart, John, promoted to corporal; January 7, 1863; sergeant,
March 9, 1864,
Thorn, John, captured at Danville, Ky,, March 24, 1863; pa
roled; died at Columbus, O,, April 9, 1863,

114 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Trippey, .Samuel.
Vanfossan. Austin.
Wallace. Thomas, promoted to corporal, Januar}' 29, 1863;
sergeant, August 31, 1864; killed at battle of Franklin, Tenn.,
NoA'ember 30, 1864.
Walters, David F., died at Knoxville, Tenn., NoA'ember26, 1863.
WhitAvorth, John, AVounded' at battle of Old Town Creek, N,
C, February 20, 186^; discharged at Baltimore, ]\Id., !Mav'
9, 1S65.
\V'illiams. Uriah, captured at DanA'ille, Ky., March 24, 1S63;
paroled and exchanged.
W'ymer, Henry, captured near Marietta, Ga., June. 1S64; died
in Andersonville prison.
Wymer, John, died at Lexington, Ka ., March 20. 1863.
Yagala, Adam. RECRUITS.
Thomas, Uriah, transferred to 183d regiment, O. A' I., June 17,
1S65.
Cooly, Finlev, transferred to iS3d regiment, O. A" I., June 17,
1865.
Latham, James M., transferred to 183d regiment, O. A'. I.. June
17, 1S65.
Henry, John, transferred to iS3d regiment, O. V I.. June 17,
1S65.
Flowers, David, transferred to 183d regiment, O. ^'. I., June
17, iS6v
Frazier, Jamc- G., transferred to 183d regiinent, O. \". I., June
17, iS6v
Morris, Siilon ,S., transferred to iS3d regiment. O. "\'. I.. June
17, 1S65.
I'nderAVdod. Jesse, Avounded at battle of Franklin. Tenn., No
vember 30, 1864.
Underwood, Nathan, died at Kingston, Ga., June 4, 1864,
\V'alters, Daniel, died at Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 1SJ4,
Jefl'revs. John, discharged at Camp Dennison, O., !May 19.
1S65, • - ^
Note. — January 7, 1864, members of the 44th O. X. I., who did
not re-enlist as veterans, were assig;iod to Company C and
KcrA'ed as folloAvs:

104 TH RE GIMEN T. 115
First Sergeant.
Tate, William H., returned to 8th O. A' \ Cavalry, August
12, 1864.
Privates. Benson E. M.. returned to 8th O. A". A^. Cavalry, August 12,
1864.
Olwine, John, returned to 8th O. \' A' Cnvalr}-, August 12.
1864.
Parker, AA^illiam A., returned to 8th O. A" A'. CaA'alry, August
12, 1864.
Craig, Francis M., died at Knoxville, Tenn., March 27, 1864.
Company C Avas raised in the extreme eastern portion of
ColumbianEt county, adjoining the hamlet of East Palestine. The
company contained a large proportion of Scottish descent. Was
the first company in the regiment both in the aA'erage size of the
men and in numerical strength, and was also conspicuous for the
good discipline and soldierly bearing of officers and men.

Il6 HISTORT OF THE

ROSTER OF CO. D.

Captains. Horton, Marcus C, killed at Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.
EA'erhard, Henry H., transferred from Company E, May 28,
1864; returned to Company E, August i, 1864.
Vanderhoff', Orson G., promoted from Company A, August i,
1864; transferred to Company — , September i, 1864.
Kimball William F., promoted from Company C, September 8,
1864; killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.
Knapp, Shepherd M., promoted from Company E, January 6,
1865; mustered out with regiment.
First Lieutenant.
Booth, Louis D., honorably discharged, February 22, 1S63.
Second Lieutenant.
Tracy, Edward E., promoted to first lieutenant, February 27,
1864; wounded in chest at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864;
promoted captain Company I, January 6, 1865; detailed aid-
de-camp to General Cox.
Vick, Henry, promoted from Company B, August 19, 1864;
promoted to first lieutenant, and returned to Company B,
May 6, 1865.
First Sergeant.
Getter, Aurea F., discharged. May 30, 1863.
Second Sergeant.
Adams, Origin, promoted to first sergeant. May 30, 1863; killed
at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 30, 1864.
Third Sergeant.
Messenger, John D., promoted to second sergeant. May 30,
1863; first sergeant July 20, 1864; reduced to second ser
geant, and detailed clerk at headquarters, 3d division, 23d
army corps, January, 1865.
Fourth Sergeant.
Reynolds, Linus T., died at Lexington, Ky., April 19, 1863.

104TH REGIMENT. 117
Fifth Sergeant.
Whitmore, William F., reduced to the ranks for straggling,
August 13, 1863.
Corporals. I. Lazarus, Caleb, died, 1864.
2. Wilson, Isaac G., promoted to sergeant, 1863; detailed in
color guard, January, 1864; Avounded in heel. May 14,
1S64, at Resaca, Ga.
3. Mills, Albert AV., transferred to cornet band, February,
1864.
4. Elliot, L}'man L., discharged, July 27, 1863.
5. Thompson, William M., jDromoted to sergeant, January,.
1864.
6. Spencer, Edgar D., promoted to sergeant, April, 1864.
7. Harrington, Edgar O., transferred to color guard, NoA'em
ber, 1863.
8. Paine, Otis B.
Musicians. Shepard, Elihu N., fifer, discharged, June 22, 1863,
Phillips, William L., drummer.
Severance, AVilliam, drummer, transferred to cornet band,
August I, 1863,
Foster, Artemas B,, bugler, transferred to cornet band, August
I, 1863.
Privates. Arbuckle, William, died, December 20. 1863, at Knoxville,
Tenn,
Ball, Charles H„ detailed teamster, 3d division, 23d army corps,
Bancroft, Willard,
Barton, Warren D,, detailed in engineer battalion, 23d army
corps,
Beardsley, Edmund T,
Brock, John A.
Button, Alfred H., detailed teamster, 3d divisio,n, 23d army
corps.
Byers, Joseph, died in Atwater, O., spring of 1863,
Camp, Charles C, discharged, spring of 1863,
Carrol, Richard, detailed headquarters clerk, 3d division, 331!
army corps.
Chandler, Adolphus N,
Chapman, Henry, died at Lexington, Ky,, April 5, 1863,

Il8 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued,
Chapman, Thomas C,
Clark, EdAvard P,, promoted to sergeant, 1863; first sergeant,
1865,
Clark, John F., died at Lexington, Ky., April 5, 1863,
Cline, William.
Cox, Luman C, died at Knoxville, Tenn., January 15, 1864.
Craig, William, died at Lexington, Ky., January 21, 1863.
Crubaugh, Zephaniah, slightly wounded near ^Marietta, Ga.,
June 19, 1864.
Earl, Albert J., discharged, March 25, 1864.
Entrikin, Brintin, discharged, November 8, 1S62.
Evans, John, died at Knoxville, Tenn,, January 4, 1864,
Fenn, Richard B.
Fitzpatrick, James, killed near Dallas, Ga., May 28, 1864.
Fitzpatrick, William, promoted to corporal, June, 1863; ser
geant, August, 1S63; reduced to ranks for insubordination,
December, 1863.
Fram, William.
Gano, Miles O., discharged, October 5, 1863.
Green, Henry J.
Griffith, John, promoted to corporal, December, 1863; sergeant.
May, 1S64.
Hiltabidel, George A., died, 1863.
Hindman, Jerome B., detailed wagon-master, 33d army corps,
1S64.
Holcomb, LaFa}'ette, discharged, March, 1864.
Hoskin, George A., died, October 13, 1864.
Hudson, Henry C, discharged, April i, 1864,
Hunt, John.
Johnson, Alfred A., discharged, January 10, 1863.
Johnson, Levi O., discharged, February, 1864.
Jones, Benjamin, killed at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1S64.
Kelly, John A., discharged, September 19, 1864,
Kirkbride, Ferdinand, promoted to corporal, April, 1864,
Lewis, AVilliam H,
Lyon, Thomas, J,, discharged, January 10, 1S63.
Miller, John.
mulligan, Aaron J., died, April 15, 1863.
Mills, Augustus R., promoted to captain in colored regiinent,
1864.

104TH REGIMENT.

119

Privates. — Continued.
Mills, Franklin R., promoted to corporal, April, 1S64; sergeant,
Februar}', 1865.
Mitchell, Joseph, deserted from Richmond, Ky., December 39,
1S63; returned under President's proclamation, 1S64; cap
tured at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1S64.
Movvcn, Hiram B., died at Knoxville, Tenn., August 6, 1864.
Movven, Oliver P., discharged, November 8, 1862.
Porham, Albion, mortally wounded at Ut(jv Creek, Ga.,
August 6, 1864; died, August 7, 1S64.
Pettit, William M., detailed in engineer battalion, 23d army
corps.
Phillips, William B., Avounded in hand at Lancaster, Ky., April
3d, 1863.
Pinney, Nelson A., wounded in shoulder at Utoy Creek, Ga.,
August, 6, 186.4.
Pinney, Smith, Avounded in Avrist at Franklin, Tenn., Novem
ber 30, 1S64.
Reagan, Allen, captured at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1S64;
died of starvation in Andersonville prison.
Rees, Thomas, died at Kingston, Tenn., February 20, 1864.
Rees, William, died at Covington, Ky., April 26, 1S63.
Reeves, Charles G,
Rice, Lane, transferred to iiiA'alid corps, 1S64,
Ricksecker, John H,, captured flag of i6th Alabama at Frank
lin, Tenn,, November 30, 1864,
Roberts, John R,, struck by piece of shell at Resaca, Ga,, May
14, 1864,
Roberts, John W,, slightly Avounded near Dallas, Ga., May 27,
1864; shot through bowels, near Eastpoint, Ga., August 18,
1S64.
Rogers, Clement L.
Ryan, Michael.
Sapp, John F., discharged about November i, 1S64.
Seamans, Oscar B,
Selby, Hiram B,, died at Windham, O., November, 7, 1864,
Shaw, Jonathan T., discharged, February 20, 1864.
Smith, Judson, promoted to corporal, April, 1864.
Sperry, William L., promoted to corporal, January, 1864; ser
geant, 1865. '
Spencer, Samuel, died at Knoxville, Tenn., January 9, 1SG4.

I20 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Stocum, Benjamin F.
Sullivan, James M., deserted from Richmond, Kv., December
29, 1864.
Sweet, Milton C,
Tupper, James A,, discharged, June 22, 1863,
Walton, Jonathan, discharged, July 31, 1863.
White, David, Jr.
Williams, Shadrach, died at Covington, Ky., April 30, 1863.
Withers, George, died at Nelson, O., about November, 1863.
Wolcott, Frederic.
Yeagley, Henry, died at Knoxville, Tenn., Februarv 21, 1864.
RECRUIT.S.
Chaffee, Nelson, wounded inlungs at Little KenesaAA', Ga., June
19, 1864.
Payne, James.
Daniels, Henry M., attached to cornet band.
Tompkins, Matthias.
Company D was raised in the northern and eastern portions
of Portage county, served with great credit throughout all the
campaigns and battles in which the regiment Avas engaged. Com
pany D was particularly remarkable in the large fatality among
the officers. Captain M. C. Horton was the first officer in the
regiinent killed in battle. A commission as second lieutenant had
arrived for the excellent orderly sergeant. Origin Adams, but he
never lived to see it. Heroic William F. Kimball, who fell so braA'ely
at the head of Company C, had just been commissioned captain
of Company D, and Lieutenant E. E. Trac}-, tAvice Avounded, Avas
also of Company D.

104 TH RE GIMEN T.

ROSTER OF CO. E.

Captain. Bahney, Andrew J., discharged, November 3, 1863, to accept
promotion as Colonel of the 2d N. C. Infantry.
Everhard, Henry H., promoted first heutenant, April 7, 1864;
captain, September 14, 1864.
First Lieutenaitt.
Ricks, Augustus J,, promoted to captain and assigned to Com
pany F, April 18, 1864,
Knapp, Shepherd M,, promoted to captain and assigned to
Company D, February 10, 1865,
Cope, Samuel S., promoted from Company F to first lieutenant'
Compan}' E, February 23, 1865.
Second T-ieutenant.
Perkey, Charles A., promoted from Company A to 2d lieuten
ant Company E, September 8, 1864.
First Sergeant.
Martin, V. Deming, mustered out with company.
Second Sergeant,
Bahney, Isaac S,, mustered out with company.
Third Sergeant.
Hicks, Joseph, mustered out with company.
Fourth Sergeant.
Bomberger, Adam, mustered out with company.
Fifth Sergeant.
Peters, Samuel R., mustered out with company.
Corporals. I. Lind, James W,, mustered out with company.
3, Higginbotham, Charles, mustered out with compan}-,
3, Reinohl, Hiram, mustered out with company.
4., McLain, Charles L., mustered out with company.
5. Borner John, mustered out with company.

123 HISTORT OF THE
Corporals. — Continued.
6. Lerch, Thomas, mustered out at McDougall general hos
pital, June I, 1865.
7. Coons, AA^illiam, mustered in as sergeant, reduced to cor
poral.
8. Devies, Beniwell, mustered out vvith compan}'.
^lusicians. Ricks, Theodore, mustered out Avith compan}-.
Flyberger, Anthony, mustered out with company.
Wagoner. Downer, Jonathan, mustered out Avitli compan}-.
Privates. Bear, John, mustered out with company.
Beittle, George, mustered out at Knoxville, Tenn., June 30, 1S65.
Bowen, Jeremiah, mustered out vvith company.
Boneberger, Cyrus, mustered out Avith company.
Burnett, Giles, mustered out Avith compauA'.
Crass, Freeman, mustered out with company.
Eisenzimer, John, mustered out Avith company.
Garver, Charles, mustered out vvith company.
Gephart, George, mustered out with company.
Gottshall, David, mustered out with company.
Herring, Jacob, mustered out as corporal.
Hackman, Horace, mustered out Avith company.
Hackman, George, mustered out with compauA'.
HeAApexlv, David, mustered out with company.
Hershey, Joseph, mustered out with company.
Hitz, Jacob, mustered out at Philadelphia, Pa., June 22. 1S65.
Higerd, Jacob, mustered out with company.
Hissner, Adam J., mustered out with company.
Hoover, Amos, mustered out Avith company.
Kessal, Andrew, mustered out with company.
Kaoutz, Jacob, mustered out Avith company.
Levers, Isaac, mustered out with company.
Lind, John H., mustered out vvith company.
McKee, William, mustered out at Columbus O., June 19, 1S65.
Mell, (ieorge M., mustered out vvith company.
Pemberthy, John, mustered out at Beaufort, N. C, June 5, 1865.
Phillips, Henry E., mustered out with regiment.
Race, George C, mustered out Avith compan}'.
Ralston, AVilliam R., mustered out with company.

104TH REGIMENT. 123
Privates. — Continued.
Reel, John, mustered out Avith compan}'.
Reinohl, John W., mustered out at Columbus, O., June 19, 1865.
Reynolds, Ransom, mustered out with company.
Rickart, Philip, mustered out Avith company.
Roher, Frederick, mustered out with company.
Rufl'ner, Samuel, mustered out Avith company.
Shaler, Peter, mustered out with company.
Schlotte, Samuel, mustered out at Louisville.'Ky., June 28, 1865.
Schantz, Urias, mustered out with company.
Shick, Adam, mustered out Avith company.
Slanker, Henry H., mustered out with company.
Sn}'der, Jacob, mustered out with company.
Sweeter, Nicholas, mustered out with company.
Turner, James, mustered out at Knoxville, Tenn., June 10, 1865.
Wagoner, Christian, mustered out with company.
Walker, Marshall, mustered out with company.
Waltner, John B., mustered out at David's Island, N. Y., June
13, 1865.
Walter, John L., mustered out with company
Wearstler, Aaron, mustered out with company.
Wearstler, Christian, mustered out vvith company.
AVertzell, Joseph, mustered out Avith company.
Witmer, Phares, mustered out with company.
Yost, William, mustered out at Cleveland, O., June i, 1865.
Young, George, mustered out with company.
DESERTED.
Bonner, John, from Camp Snow Pond, Ky., September 2:;,
1862.'
Weynser, William S., from Georgetown, Ky., October 20, 1862.
¦ DIED.
Bowman, Adam, in Andersonville, Ga., prison, August 17, 1864.
Blacher, Henry D., supposed to have died September, 1864,
while prisoner of war.
Euches, Jesse L., of chronic diarrhea at Atlanta, Ga., October
22, 1864.
Grossman, Frank, at Lexington, Ky., of pneumonia, April 3,
1863.
Hammond, John, dangerously wounded near Ft, Anderson, N.
C, February 19, 1S65.

124 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued,
Hollander, Matthias, of typhoid fey-er, at New Berne, N. C,
March 21, 1865.
Hudson, William, supposed to have died at AndersoiiA'ille, Ga.,
August, 1864.
Kile, Hiram, of disease, at Kinston, N. C, April 3i, 1865.
LaClair, Daniel, mortally wounded at Franklin, Tenn., Novem
ber 30, 1864, and left on the field.
Lesh, David, of pneumonia, at Lexington, Kv., November 21,
1862.
Locher, Gottlieb, of disease, at Kinston, N. C.
Riggle, James, of pneumonia, at Lexington, Ky., December i,
1862.
Roger, Leon, at Knoxville, Tenn., July 9 1S64, of wounds re
celA'ed in action.
Ryder, Henry L., of pneumonia, at Richmond, Kv., January
4, 1863. "
Turner, William, of chronic diarrhea, at NasliA'ille, Tenn.,
September 9, 1864.
TAveedy, John, killed at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864.
Walker, James A., of pneumonia, at Lexington, Ky.. Novem
ber 19, 1862.
Weygandt, Joseph, of typhoid pneumonia, at Williamstown,
Ky., October 16, 1862. TRANSFERRED.
Banz, Peter, to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 186.
Bausher, William, to 183d O. A^ I., June 15, 1865.
Brown, Cassius M., to 183d O. V. I., June 13, 1865.'
Boirgegrain, Peter J., to 183d O. A'. I., June 15, 1865.
Davenport, Eugene, to 183d O. A' I., June 15, 1863.
Fritzer, Peter, to 183d O. Y. I., June 15, 1865.
Gill, George W., to 183d O. A'. I., June 15, 1865.
Morgan, Jameson, to 183d O. A'. I., June 15, 1865.
Tweedy, William, to 183d O. A" I., June 15, 186:;.
Race, Joseph, to 183d O. V. I., June 13, 1865.
DETAILED.
^lorganthaler, Peter, promoted to sergeant and detailed N. C.
S., August 30, 1863.
Wikadol, William A., promoted to sergeant and detailed Q_.
M. S., August 30, 1863.

104TH REGIMENT. ^2<

ROSTER OF CO. F.

Captain. Riddle Joseph F., pr.omoted to major of regiment, August 33,
1864.
First Lietitenant.
Whitacre, Thomas W., resigned, November 37, 1863.
Second Lieutenant.
Williamson, James E., died near Camp Nelson, Ky., August 8
_ ¦ 1863.
First Sergeant.
Stearns, Daniel M., promoted to second lieutenant, December 3,
1863; first lieutenant. May 9, 1864; captain, February 24,
1S65.
Second Sergeant.
Cope, Samuel S., promoted to second lieutenant, February 27,
1864; first lieutenant, January 6, 1865; wounded at battle of
Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.
Third Sergeant.
Dannals, Jared F., killed at battle of Franklin, Tenn., Novem
ber 30, 1864.
Fourth Sergeant.
Day, Francis A., promoted to first sergeant, April 6, 1864.
Fifth Sergeant.
Keith, James.
Corporals. Ball, Henry R.. promoted to sergeant, November 27, 1862.
McKinnell, James H., promoted to sergeant; wounded at Utoy
Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864.
Boyce, Samuel F., promoted to sergeant; wounded at Frank
lin, Tenn., November 30, 1864; discharged, March 20, 1865.
Evans, John, promoted to sergeant; killed at Franklin, Tenn.,
November 30, 1864.
Peden, Hezekiah.

136 HISTORT OF 'THE
Cor/ora/.s-.-^Continued. Ridinger, Nathaniel, detailed in engineer battalion, 23d army-
corps, April 6, 1864.
Batchelor, William H., promoted to sergeant. May 20. 1S65.
Dyal, Harrison, killed at battle of Franklin, Tenn., November
30, 1864.
^lusicians. Barr, James FI.
Springer, Matthias R., detailed in cornet band.
Teamsters. Burbick, Thomas C, detailed in 23d'arm}' corps Avagon train.
6unn, Stephen, ambulance driver, regimental and 3d division
hospitals.
Privates. Adams, Thomas.
Allen, Frederic B.
Anderson AndreAV, transferred to iiiA-alid corps.
Arkwright, Joseph.
Arnold, AVilbert B., discharged, December 8, 1S62.
Atchison, John.
Bailey, Laughlin, died at Knoxville, Tenn., Februarv 1,3,
1864.
Bails, Robert S., died at Frankfort Ky.. January 30, 1863.
Barr, John W., discharged, December 31, 1862.
Barto, Samuel H., discharged, December 31, 1862.
Belles, William, died at Liverpool, O., March 11, 1864.
Boyce, Harrison, transferred to iiiA'alid corps. May 12, 1863.
Bottenberg, Jacob H., detailed in cornet band.
Brannan, James Y., detailed in engineer battalion, 33d armv
corps, August 10, 1863.
Brezettc, Shuman, discharged, August, 14. 1862.
Bright, Emmit ,S.
Brooks, John R., transferred to invalid corps, July, 1S63.
Curnett, Wilson S., promoted to corporal; Avounded at Little
Kenesaw, Ga., June 19, 1S64.
Burbick, Arthur, transferred to gunboat service. May 12, 1863.
Butler, Thomas W.
Carty, Robert, deserted near DanA'ille, Kv., January t, 1863.
Campbell, William S., taken prisoner near Atlanta, Ga., Auo-ust
19, 1864; exchanged.
Chiesman, Alfred.

104TH REGIMENT. 1 27
Privates. — Continued.
Clark, John L., captured near Camp Dick Robinson, Kv.,
iMarch 25, 1863; paroled.
Connell, AVilliam B., cajDtured near Camp Dick Robinson,
K}'., March 25, 1863; paroled.
Crawford, Daniel, died at Knoxville, Tenn., November 24,
1S63.
Daniels, Henry C, promoted to corporal, March 20, 186c;,
Davidson, Alexander, Avounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga,,
^lay 9, 1864,
DaAvson, Samuel, discharged, September, 14. 1863,
Dennis, William H., killed at Uto}- Creek, Ga., August 6, 1S64.
Elliot, Charles B,
Farmer, Clement V
Finley, Richard, promoted to corporal, May i, 1S64.
Forbes, Alexander.
Ford, AV^illiam.
Eraser, AA'illiam, Avounded at Knoxville, Tenn., NoA'ember 30,
1863; killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1S64.
Fuller,' Frank C.
Gould, George R., discharged, December 8, 1S62.
Hamilton, Daniel, promoted to hospital steAvard, March i, 1S64.
Henry, Daniel, wounded near Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., !May9,
1864.
James, AVilliam M., captured at Little Kenesaw, Ga., June 19,
1864; exchanged.
Keleher, John.
LoA'e, Absalom, died at Knoxville, Tenn., October 7, 1864.
LoA'e, John, wounded near Dallas, Ga., May 31, 1864.
Alarsh, Sidney, promoted to corporal.
McBane, Daniel, died at Knoxville, Tenn., March 9, 1864.
McBean, Hugh M.
McKenzie, Philip J., died at Mt. A'^einon, Ky., June 3. 1863.
Miner, Harrison, killed at battle of Franklin, Tenn.. XoA-ember
30, 1864.
Monagan, William, promoted to corporal; Avoundcd at Frank
lin, Tenn., November 36, 1864.
Myers, George H.
Noble, John, discharged, December 31, 1862.
Ogilvie, William J., discharged. Januarv 9, 1863.
Oliver, William, discharged, December, 31, 1862.

128 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Patterson, David H.
Patterson, Joshua S., captured at Franklin, Tenn.', NoA-ember
30, 1864; exchanged.
Patterson, Samuel C, died at Lexington, Ky,. May 13, 1863.
Pearson, William,
Peden, James,
Peden, William.
Peeples, Matthew, died at Knoxville, Tenn., January i, 1864.
Qviinlan, Michael, promoted to corporal, February 15, 1863,
Randolph, John G,, wounded near Fort Mitchell, Ky,, Sejatem-
ber II, 1862; transferred to invalid corps.
Rice, George, wounded near Atlanta, Ga., July 16, 1864.
Ridinger, Samuel, detailed as teamster in 23d army corps
vvagon train.
Robinson, Albert, died at Knoxville, Tenn,, March 26, 1S64,
Rose, Daniel,
Shepherd, Asa B., promoted to corporal, AjDril 12, 1S63,
Shirk, Richard,
Sinram, William
Shoemaker, David, transferred to invalid corps, December 7,
1863.
Smith, Daniel, transferred to invalid corps; discharged.
Smith, Daniel J,
Smith, Philip J,, died at Lexington, K},, April 3, 1863,
Stillwell, Samuel,
Taylor, Thomas, died at Frankfort, Ky,, February 23, 1863,
Totten, Samuel F,, promoted to Corporal; killed at Dallas, Ga,,
May 31, 1864,
Van Tyne, George, detailed in cornet band,
Weare, William J,
Weldon, William, promoted to corporal,
Welsh, John G,, died at Danville, Ky,, January 9, 1863,
RECRUITS, ,
Bone, Robert W,, transferred to 183d O, V, I,, June it;, 1865,
BoAvles, Daniel, transferred to 183d O, V I,, June 15, 186^.
Brooks, John B,, wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga,, May 9,
"1864,
Campbell, James, discharged, January 10, 1865,
Durbin, John P,, wounded at Utoy Creek, Ga,, August 6, 1864,

104TH REGIMENT. 129
Hooper, Elisha C, died December 28, 1864, of wounds re
ceived at battle of Franklin, Tenn,, November 30, 1864.
Jones, Benjamin G,
Johnson, Samuel, deserted, January 24, 1895,
Leonard, Charles, transferred to 183d O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
McGee, James H,, transferred to 183d O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
McMasters, Albert F,, transferred to 183d O, V, I,, June 15,
1865,
Rosenbeaum, George W,, transferred to 183d O, A^. I., June 15,
1865.
Smith, Joseph, killed near Dallas, Ga., May 31, 1S64.
Stitt, Ellas, transferred to 183d O, V. I., June 15 1895.
Warden, John, transferred to 183d O. V, I,, June 15, 1865,
Company F, or the "R, R, Company," was recruited from
Wellsville, and the towns adjacent, up and down the Ohio river, and
along the line of the C, & P, railroad. With the disadvantage of
having within its ranks an undue proportion of "toughs" and
"dead beats," still Company F always held its own with any other
company in the regiment for efficiency and readiness for duty.
Company F also rejoiced in the ownership of "the twa dogs,"
which became the pets of the regiment, "Old Harvey" had been
in service before; was wounded in Virginia and again at Resaca.
He was an aristocrat' and wore a brass collar with the legend, "I
am Lieutenant D. M. Steam's dog; whose dog are you?" After
Lieutenant Williamson's death, "the blue pup" became a "child of
the regiment." By his antics, especially his tricks with fire, the
boys were often thrown into convulsions of laughter. Unluckily,
he tumbled off the train on which the regiment were going from
Cincinnati to Washington.

130 HISTORT OF THE

ROSTER OF CO. G.

Captains. Coppock, Ezra, discharged at Lexington, Ky., May 29, 1863.
Fawcett, John AV., promoted from first lieutenant, August 10,
1S63. '
F'irst Lieutenants.
Weaver, Stanton, promoted from first sergeant to first lieuten
ant, August 17, 1863; transferred to colored troops, Feb
ruary, 1S64,
Humason, Stanley D,, mustered as sergeant of Company B,
August 6, 1862; promoted to second sergeant major,
August 30, 1862; promoted and transferred to Company G,
JuIa' I, 1863; promoted to first lieutenant, September 14,
1864,
Second Lieutenant.
Somers, Lyman, discharged Januar}' 31, 1863, at Lexington,
Ky,
First Sergeant.
Mell, Abraham C, mustered out with regiment.
Second Sergeant.
Hall, Eli J,, mustered out with regiment.
Third Sergeant.
Cook, Thomas J., mustered out with regiment.
Eoiirth Sergeant.
Thomas, Allen A., mustered out with regiment.
Fifth Sergeant.
Stratton, John R., mustered out Avith regiment.
Corporals. I, Niblo, Alexander, mustered out with regiment,
2, Picket, David H,, mustered out at Beaufort, N. C, June 2,
1865.
3. Kirkbride, Lewis H., mustered out with regiment.
4. Windle, Henry J., mustered out Avlth regiment.

mTH RE GIMEN T. 131
^lusicians. Roller, Samuel J., prisoner at Andersonville, Ga., mustered out
at Camp Chase, June 13, 1865.
McGaffick, Thomas J., mustered out with regiinent.
Privates. Beck, Harmon, mustered out Avith regiment.
Bently, William G., mustered out Avith regiment.
Blythe, John AV., mustered out Avith regiinent.
Baker, John C, Avounded in battle of Franklin, Tenn., No
vember 30, 1864; mustered out at Washington, D, C„ June
19, 186:;.
Bencher, Napoleon, mustered out with regiinent.
Barth, Manuel, mustered out with regiment.
Barnaby, Leander, mustered out with regiinent.
Bury, Christian, mustered out at SmithA'ille, N. C, June 16,
1865.
Dunn, Emanuel, mustered out with regiment.
Dubbs, AA'illiam W,, mustered out with regiinent,
Dixon, William, mustered out with regiment.
Dickinson, Josiah A^,, transferred from hospital at New Berne,
N, C, to New York,
Deer, James AV., mustered out with regiment.
Eldridge, Joseph, mustered out with regiment.
Estill, William G. C, mustered out with regiment.
Farran, Peter, mustered out with regiment.
Greenawalt, Abraham, mustered out Avith regiment.
Griffith, John A\'., mustered out Avith regiment.
Gaunt. John C, mustered out with regiment.
Hemsworth, John W., mustered out AA'ith regiment.
Harper, John, mustered out with regiinent.
Heaton, Charles L., mustered out with regiinent.
Ingledoe, Franklin, mustered out Avith regiment.
Kirk, Newton G., mustered out with regiinent.
Kentner, Eli S., mustered out with regiinent.
Moore, Ira, mustered out with regiment.
Moore, Joshua, mustered out with regiment.
Moore, Aaron, mustered out with regiment.
Moore, John, mustered out with regiment.
Munsell, Ephraim, wounded at Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864;
mustered out at Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 4, 186c;.
Matthews, John D., mustered out with regiment.

133 • HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued.
Matthews, Monroe B., mustered. out with regiment.
Marshall, Johnson, mustered out with regiment.
Marshall, Ellis L., mustered out with regiment.
McCann, Thomas E., mustered out with regiment.
Mather, Joseph W., mustered out with regiment.
Pippett, Henry R., mustered out with regiment.
Post, Joseph F., mustered out with regiment.
Post, James C, mustered out with regiment.
Redman, Francis M., mustered out with regiment.
Russel, Wilmer W., on detached duty; mustered out at Lexing
ton, Ky., May 39, 1865.
Sharpnock, Francis A., mustered out with regiinent.
Siple, David G., mustered out with regiinent.
Somers, Andrew, Jr., taken prisoner.
Turner, William D., mustered out with regiment.
Whinnery, Joshua, mustered out with regiment.
Widdoes, William, mustered out with regiment.
W^hitacre, David, mustered out with regiinent.
Yengling, David F., mustered out with regiment.
Young, Joseph E., mustered out with regiment.
DISCHARGED.
Sergeant. French, Obediah C, to accept promotion, October 15, 1863.
Corporal. Garwood, Joseph, at Knoxville, Tenn., May 12, 1865.
Privates. Evans, James S., at Cincinnati, O., September 33, 1863.
Berkheimer, Frederick, at Knoxville, Tenn., May 15, 1865.
Figley, William F., at Covington, Ky., December 10, 1862.
Gaily, Andrew, at Alexandria, Va., May 17, 1865,
Haifley, Aaron, at Cincinnati, O., December 19, 1863.
Lowry, Alexander, at Cincinnati, O., September 9, 1862, on
account of wounds received near Covington, September
6, 1862.
Mansill, Martin H., at Cincinnati, O., January 21, 1863.
Martin, Joshua R., at Cincinnati, O., January 23, 1863.
Sidinger, Jacob S., at Knoxville, Tenn., May 22, 1865.
Weaver, Darwin, at Columbus, O., December 15, 1S63.

104TH REGIMENT. I-^-^
TRANSFERRED.
Privates. — Continued.
Gaunt, John, to veteran reserve corps, Ma}- 15, 1864.
Gangwer, Joseph C, to veteran reserve corps. May it;,
1864.
Harris, Franklin, to veteran reserve corps, May 15, 1864.
DIED.
Sergeant. Wisner, Henry C, at Washington, N. C, March 33, 1864.
Corporals. Donaldson, John, at Knoxville, Tenn., July 21, 1864.
Boutwell, David C, at Gieensboro, N. C, May 30, 1865.
Privates. Anglemyer, Joseph H., at Mt. A'ernon, Ky., May 8, 1863.
Baldwin, Merrick L., at Mt. Vernon, Ky., May 30, 1863.
Crazen, Lemaii H., at Cincinnati, O., July 11, 1863.
Christie, Robert A., at Knoxville, Tenn., December 26,
1863.
Cook, Theophilus, at Frankfort, Ky., March 13, 1863.
Davis, William R., at Beaufort, Ky., April 4, 1863.
Patterson John, at Danville, Ky., March 19, 1863.
Siple, William D., August io, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga., of
wounds received at Utoy Creek, Ga., August 6, 1864.
Shous, William H., at Lexington, Ky., April 5, 1863.
Woodworth, Jeremiah L., at DanA'ille, Ky., January 14,
1863.
Ward, Walter H., at Lexington, Ky., April 4, 1863.
Zimmerman, Martin, July 24, 1864, of wounds received near
Atlanta, Ga. DESERTED.
Corporals. Kemp, John W., from near Frankfort, Ky., January 37, 1863.
Kennedy, William L., from Cincinnati, O., January 22,
1865:
Privates. Wilson, Daniel, from Bull's Gap, Tenn., April 20, 1864.
Dillian, James, at Raleigh, N. C, May 2, 1865; mustered out
at David's Island, N. Y., July 6, 1865.
Elijah, Calis, from Knoxville, Tenn., February, 20, 1864.
Fisher, William, reported absent without leave.

134 HISTORT OF THE
RECRUITS.  TRANSFERRED.
Privates. Charleston, Frank, to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1865.
Christian, John, to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1865.
Fawcett, Harace L., to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1865.
Griswold, Alton J., to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1S65.
Hall, Ira, to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1865.
Ray, Joseph, to 183d O. V. I., June 15, 1865.
Sergeant. Elston, Wickliffe B., to N. C. S., May, 1865; promoted to
second lieutenant.

104TH REGIMENT.

135

ROSTER OF CO. H.

Captain. Scott, Walter B., died of disease at Cincinnati, O., April 24,
1863.
Ford, Hobart, mustered as first lieutenant, July 24, 1S62; pro
moted to captain, March 37, 1863; wounded at Utoy Creek,
August 6, 1864; detailed on General Cox's stafl', February
1, 1865; died 1S84.
First Lieutenant.
Shaw, Samuel F,, mustered in as second lieutenant, July 34,
1862; promoted to first lieutenant. May 29, 1S63; mustered
out on detached roll, June 30, 1865,
Second Lieutenants . .
Robertson, Benjamin L,, mustered in as first sergeant; pro
moted to second lieutenant, June 10, 1863; first lieutenant
and assigned to company F, November 17, 1864; died at
Elkhart, Ind.
Paulus, .Vbraham, mustered in as sergeant; promoted to second
lieutenant, November 17, 1864.
First Sergeant.^
Adair, Lyman J,, mustered out with regiment.
Second Sergeant.
French, Adolphus B,, mustered out with regiment.
Third Sergeant.
Stair, Louis, mustered out with regiment.
Fourth Sergeant.
Betts, George W,, severely wounded at Columbia, Tenn,, No
vember, 1865; mustered out on detached roll.
Fifth Sergeant.
Wylie, Paul E,, detailed color sergeant; defended the colors
through Georgia and battle at Nashville; mustered out
with regiment; died at Copley, August 3, 1878,

136 HISTORT OF THE
Corporals. Wellman, Jerome, mustered out with regiment,
Paine, Albertus L,, mustered out with regiment,
Jewett, Noble M,, mustered out with regiinent,
Walsh, Christopher C, mustered out with regiment,
Denaple, Jacob, mustered out with regiinent,
Wilkinson, Henry L,, mustered out with regiment.
Coon, Albert, mustered out with regiinent,
Spiglemire, John H,, severely wounded at Utoy Creek, Ga.,
August 6, 1864; mustered out with regiment.
A'lusician .
Robertson, Thomas E., mustered out with regiment.
Privates. Adair, Andrew A,, wounded at Cartersville, Ga,, May 21, 1864;
mustered on detached roll at Cincinnati, O,, June 8, 1865,
Adams, John A,, mustered out with regiment.
Allen, Byron G., mustered out with regiment,
Allen Daniel, mustered out with regiment,
Arnold, Charles F,, mustered out with regiment.
Baily, Samuel, mustered out with regiinent.
Babcock, Dennison, mustered out on detached roll at AA'ash-
ington, D. C, June 21, 1865.
Bliler, John H., mustered out with regiinent.
Billows, John, mustered out with regiment.
Bosworth, AVillard, mustered out with regiment.
Bucher, Solomon, J,, wounded at Columbia, Tenn,, November
38, 1864; mustered out with regiment,
Brockway, Rice W,, mustered out on detached roll at Wash
ington, D. C, June, 1865,
Buchtel, Franklin, mustered out Avith regiment,
Buchtel, Urias, mustered out with regiment,
Cahill, Henry, wounded at Old Town Creek, N, C, February
30, 1865; mustered out with regiinent.
Campbell, Alexander, mustered out with regiment.
Charlton, Thomas J,, mustered out with regiment,
Cassidy, James H., wounded at Old Town Creek, N, C, Feb-
- ruary 3o, 1865,
Clough, Edwin, mustered out on detached roll at Knoxville,
Tenn,, August 9, 1865,
Crosier, James D,, mustered out with regiinent; died at Akron,
O., April 34, 1881,

104TH REGIMENT. 137
i
Privates. — Continued.
DeLong, Elbridge S., mustered out with regiment.
Farmer, Edwin A., mustered out with regiment.
Field, Paul, mustered out with regiinent.
Foster, Frank, mustered out on detached roll at Knoxville,
Tenn,, August 9, 186^,
Gingery, Curtis, wounded at Old Town Creek, N, C, Febru
ary 30, 1865,
Hollinger, Jacob D., mustered out on detached roll at Lexing
ton, Ky., May 30, 1865.
Kleckner, John, wounded at Old Town Creek, N, C, Febru
ary 30, 1865,
Limber, Jesse, sick in hospital at Knoxville, Tenn,
Lepper, Albert F,, on detached duty at Louisville, Ky,
Lile, Joseph, .mustered out with regiment.
Long, DennisJ., on detached duty at department headquarters,
Dept. N. C; died, 1883,
Mann, John, mustered out with regiment,
Marshall, Perry G,, mustered out with company.
Marsh, David, mustered out with company.
Marsh, Ephraim, mustered out with regiinent,
McCoy, Burwell T,, mustered out with company,
Painton, George W,, mustered out with company; died Decem
ber 3i, 1872, atStreetsborougli, Ohio,
Piper, Samuel J,, mustered out with regiment,
Pratt, Gardner G,, mustered out on detached roll at Beaufort,
N, C, June 2, 1865,
Price, JoseplvD,, mustered out with regiment,
Roades, Joseph, mustered out with regiment; died at
Akron, O,
Ruckle, Clinton, mustered out with regiment,
Schroeder, AVilliam, wounded at Utoy Creek, Ga,, August 6,'
1864; lay three months in hospital; rejoined regiinent at
Rome, Ga,
Scudder, Thurlow, mustered out with regiment,
Stearns, John C, Jr,, mustered out with regiment,
Taylor, William, sick in hospital at New York harbor,
Viers, George W,, mustered out with regiinent,
Washburn, Stephen U,, mustered out with regiment.
Weeks, Peter, sick in hospital at Louisville, Ky,
AVhittlesey, Joseph F,, mustered out with regiment.

138 HISTORT OF THE
DISCHARGED,
Gillingham, James, December 3^, 1864,
Brown, Charles M,, from general hospital, D, C, May 28, 1865.
Corporals. Francisco, Alanson C,', from Camp Dennison, O., June 28,
1863,
Gambee, Theodore W., at Knoxville, Tenn., October 24, 1S63.
Folsom, George W., at St. Louis, Mo., January 19, 1863.
Privates. Wilcox, Milton C, appointed hospital steward, August 20,
1862; discharged at Knoxville, Tenn., February 20, 1864.
Boardman, James E., at Lexington, Ky., December 9, 1862.
Burns, George W,, at Cleveland, O,, October 2^, 1864,
Chapman, Frank C, April 13, 1863 by order of Colonel
Mundy.
Heath, Lewis,, wounded at Dallas, Ga,, May 31, 1864; dis
charged at Camp Dennison, O., May 19, 1S65,
Mills, IthielJ,, discharged at Lexington, Ky,, January 13, 1863,
Payne, George H„ discharged December 2, 1864, at Cleveland,
O,, from wounds received at Cartersville, Ga,, May 31,
1864,
Stearns, Theodore H,, discharged at Cincinnati, O,, October
16, 1863,
Shouler, Matthew, discharged from general hospital, Ncav
York harbor. May 16, 186=;,
Winkleman, John, taken prisoner at Franklin, Tenn., No-v-em-
ber 30, 1864; paroled; discharged at Camp Dennison, O.,
May 30, 1865. TRANSFERRED.
Averill, Nathaniel, to V. R. C, January 33, 1864.
Arnold, Ransom J., to V, R, C, January 33, 1864,
Marshall, Franklin, to V, R, C, January 33, 1864,
Root, Erastus, N,, to V, R, C, January 33, 1864.
Wayne, George O,, to V, R, C, January 33, 1864.

Sergeant. Jackson, Oscar C, killed by accidental discharge of his gun
while advancing on the enemy at Peach Tree Creek, Ga.,
July 30, 1864,

104TH REGIMENT. 1^9
Corporals.
Rhinehart, Wilhara, of disease at Williamtown, Ky,, October
22, 1862,
Schultz, Albert, killed at battle of Old Town Creek, N, C,
February 20, 1865,
Privates. Blocker, Eli, at Frankfort, Ky,, of disease, March 4, 1863,
Bass, Willard H,, killed at battle of Utoy Creek, Ga., August
6, 1864.
Conrad, Daniel, killed at battle Utoy Creek, Ga., August6, 1864,
Hope, Eli, killed at battle of Frankfort, Ky,, March 9, 1863,
Maranville, Jay, killed at battle of Strawberry Plains, Tenn,,
January 12, 1864.
Smith, Burtis W,, killed at battle of Utoy Creek, Ga,, August
6, 1864, DESERTED,
Koppleberger, Henry, from camp at Mt, Vernon, Ky,, June 7,
1863,
Osborn, Cyrus A,, taken prisoner at Danville, Ky,, March 24,
1863,; paroled; deserted from Columbus, O., July, 1863,
while being exchanged,
Stroker, John, taken prisoner at Danville, Ky,, March 24, 1863;
paroled; deserted from Columbus, O,, July, 1863, while
being exchanged, RECRUITS,
Boyer, Daniel, enlisted February 5, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V, I., June 15, 1865.
Carnary, John, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V,I,, June 15, 1865,
Dunn, William, enlisted August 5, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
Haller, John H,, enlisted January 5, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
Howald, James, enlisted February 29, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
Rhinehard, Adam, enlisted February 5, 1864; transferred to
183d O, V, I,, June 15, 1865,
Sellers, Joshua, enlisted February i, 1864; transferred to 183d
O, V, I,, June IS, 1865,
Viers, Daniel M,, enlisted November 10, 1863; transferred to
183d O, V, I,,June 15, 1865,

140

HISTORT OF THE

ROSTER OF CO. I.

Captain. Wells, John A,, resigned, April, 1863,
First Lieutenant.
Bard, David D,, promoted to captain, May 29, 1863; wounded
at Franklin, Tenn,, November 30, 1864; died of his wounds
December 3, 1864,
Sergeants. Jackson, Andrew, detailed ordnance sergeant, March 10, 1863-
France, Isaiah, discharged at Lexington, Ky,, December, 1862,
Grinnel, William, piomoted to first sergeant, November, 1863;
second lieutenant  ; first lieutenant, March 37, 1863;
wounded in elbow at Knoxville, Tenn,, November 39, 1863;
resigned. May 38, 1864,
Hinman, Lloyd, mustered out with regiinent.
Reed, Horace L,, promoted to first sergeant, 1863; second lieu
tenant. May 29, 1863; first lieutenant, August 19, 1864:
wounded near Fort Anderson, N, C, February 18, i86i^;
discharged. May 15, 1865,
Corporals. Reed, Gustavus P., promoted to sergeant, December, 1862;
first sergeant, June i, 1863; second lieutenant, August 19,
1863; wounded near Lost Mountain, Ga., June 11, 1864, and
leg amputated.
Taylor, William R,, transferred to veteran reserves, 1863,
Furry, John H,, promoted to sergeant. May 39, 1863; mustered
out with regiment.
Hall, Newton H,, wounded shghtly near Atlanta, Ga,, August
5, 1864.
Bard, Rodolphus, discharged at Lexington, Ky., December,
1863.-
Spelman, Asa M,, promoted to sergeant, October 36, 1S64;
wounded slightly, August 5, 1864,

104TH REGIMENT. 141
Corporals. — Continued.
Whitney, Charles M., promoted to sergeant, March 27, 1863;
first sergeant, October 26, 1864; wounded near Fort Ander
son, N. C, Februarv iS, 1865.
Deming. William J., transferred to veteran reserves, 1864.
^Lusicians. Barber, Grove E.
Richardson, William W.
Privates. Anderson, John S., died at Lexington, Ky., April, 1863.
Austin, Duane S.,
Benton, John W., slightly wounded, November 29, 1864;
transferred to V. R. C, 1864,
Brown, John, deserted at Richmond, Ky,, December 29, 1862,
Barclay, George D,, promoted to corporal. May 29, 1863;
wounded in hand at Resaca, Ga,, May 14, 1864; discharged,
1865,
Campbell, Albert O., wounded near Atlanta, Ga., August g,
1864.
Campbell, John H., captured near Danvillle, Ky., March 25,
1863; exchanged, July 12, 1863.
Carrier, Darius, died at Knoxville, Tenn., 1864.
Champney, Wilber.
Chapman, Robert R. 1
Chittenden, Walter, wounded in arm near Atlanta, Ga., August
5, 1864.
Churchill, William S.
Coe, Elvin H.
Coe, Henry [¦!., detached as department clerk, 1863.
Colter, Robert.
Crowl, Michael S., captured March 25, 1863; exchanged, July,
1863; killed by falling from an omnibus, 1863.
Crocket, Joseph T., transferred to veteran reserve corjjs.
Davis, King S., wounded through lungs at Utoy Creek, Ga.,
August 6, 1864.
Davis, Richard.
Daives, Lester.
Deming, Henry A,, transferred to veteran reserves, 1865,
Dole, Martin V,, wounded at Utoy Creek, Ga,, August 6, 1864.
Ellison Everett,
Elmerick, John,

142 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued,
Enders, William,
Essig, James, wounded in face at KnoxA'ille, Tenn,, November
29, 1863,
Ensign, Lysander H,
Fitch, Philip,
Frank, George, discharged at Richmond, Ky,, December,
1862,
Frank, John,
Force, David, killed at Utoy Creek, Ga,, August 6, 1864,
Gillett, William J,, died at Frankfort, Ky., February 3,' 1863.
Grate, Curtis, promoted to corporal, 1S64.
Hammond, Oscar E., discharged at Lexington, April, 1863.
Harter, George, promoted to corporal. May 29, 1863.
Hawley, Frank J., discharged at Richmond, Ky., December,
1862.
Hennessy, Washington, arrested, November, 1862, at Lexing
ton, Ky., as a deserter from 44th Ohio, and not heard from
since.
HoneA'well, Gilielmus.
Hulett, Albert R., shot in hip at Franklin, Tenn., NoA'ember,
30, 1864; died December 8.
Hulett, George W., captured at Franklin, Tenn,, NoA'ember
30, 1864; exchanged and discharged. May 8, 1865; bloAA'n
up on steamer Sultana, but escaped,
Hull, Calvin E.
James, William H,, captured, July, 1864, while foraging; took
his captor prisoner and brought him into camp; next day
taken prisoner again; escaped from Andersonville and
recaptured twice; the second time at St, Marks, Fla,; es
caped from a prison train near Savannah, in December,
1864, and joined the FT, S, fleet, oft' mouth of Savannah
river,
LaDu, Marcellus M,, murdered in Mantua, Ohio, about 1869,
Loomis, Stephen J,, killed at Utoy Creek, Ga,, Aiigust 8,
1864,
Logue, Joseph H,
Merriman, Verus,
Monroe, George, wounded at Resaca, Ga,, May 14, 1864,
Moulton, Dallas, captured at Franklin, Tenn,, November 30,
1864; blown up on steamer Sultana, but escaped.

104TH REGIMENT. j..
Privates. — Continued.
McCuUough, James.
Norton, Theodore D.
Ott, LcAvis.
Pegg, Simeon, discharged in fall of 1862.
Rhodenbaugh, Lucius, Avounded in foot at Resaca Ga May
28, 1864.
Rhodenbaugh, Charles, captured near Smithfield, N C Mav
1865.
Reinoehl, John S.
Russel, J. Caleb, Avounded in shoulder near Dallas, Ga., May
38, 1864,
Rogers, A'olney.
Schultz, Adam, discharged at Camp Dennison, May, 1863,
Sears, Andrew J,
Shriver, Charles L,, shghtly wounded at Resaca, Ga., May 38,
1864.
Sidebotham, James.
Snyder, Ellas.
Spires, Emanuel.
Stilson, Emmer M., died at Lexington, Kv., April, 1863.
SyvartAVOut, Adolph, died in hospital.
Thomas, Stephen S.
Ulm, Philip.
Udall, Samuel A.
Viers, William J.
Woolf, Martin.
Woolf, Philip.
Wise, Daniel,
Williston, John, promoted to corporal. May 29, 1863; wounded
in leg at Franklin, Tenn,, November 30, 1864,
Whitney, Buel, commissioned chaplain, October 10, 1863; cap
tured near Burnt Hickory, Ga,, May 36, 1864.
Wait, Demond AA^.
Waldeon, Charles.
Weldon, Lewis, wounded near Pumpkin A'ine Creek, Ga.,
May 20, 1864.
Weaver, Adam, wounded near Fort Anderson, N. C, Feb
ruary iS, 1865.
Weaver, Jonathan.
AA'ilcox, James G.

144

HISTORT OF THE

RECRUITS.

Thompson, Andrew J,, enlisted, October, 1863,
Haines, John C, enlisted, 1864; attached to cornet band.
Michael, George, transferred from 44th O. V. I,, January, 1864,
Ream, Samuel, transferred from 44th O, V, I,, January, 1864,
Boosinger, Augustus, transferred from 44th O, V, I,, January,
1864,
Company I was raised in the southern part of Portage county,
Ohio; was mustered in with the regiment, August 39, 1863, and
served with the regiment in all its campaigns, with high honor, to
the end of the war; was mustered out at Greensboro, North Car
olina, June 17, 1865; discharged, June 38, 1865,

104TH REGIMENT.

HS

ROSTER OF CO K.

Captain. Jordan, William J., promoted to majoi", August, 1863; lieuten
ant colonel, August 14, 1864.
First Lieutenant.
Morgan, Josiah B., promoted to captain, August, 1863; re
signed, October, 1863.
Second Lieutenant .
Smith, James L., promoted to first lieutenant, August, 1863;
resigned, NoA'ember, 1863.
First .Sergeant.
Pettit, Stacy, promoted to second lieutenant, August, 1863;
first lieutenant, July, 1864.
Second Sergeant. s.
Adams, Samuel R., promoted to first sergea'nt, 1864.
Third Sergeant.
Harbaugh, Jonathan, transferred to veteran reserve corps,
March, 1864.
Fourth Sergeant.
Lodge, William, transferred to veteran reserve corps, January,
1864.
Fifth Sergeant.
Walter, W. H., promoted to first sergeant, August, 1863; sec
ond lieutenant, September, 1864.
Corporals. I, Kerns, Richard, detached in engineer battalion, 23d army
corps, July, 1863,
2, Hillman, John G,, promoted to sergeant, March, 1863,
3, Atterholt, George W., died at Lexington, Ky., April 12,
1863.
4, Garside, A, M., promoted to sergeant, January ig, 1864,
5, Kenty, J, B,, promoted to sergeant, August, 1863,
10

146 HISTORT OF THE
Corporals. — Continued,
6. Wood, Daniel B., died at Lexington, Ky., November 2,
1863.
7. Johnson, John .M., promoted to sergeant, September, 1864.
8. Peppel, Daniel W.
JMusicians. McLain, Daniel B., mustered out of service. May, 1863,
Evans, Owen H,
Privates. Anderson, William E. M.
Barker, Frederic F.
Babington, James A.
Beck, Charles W.
Bowers, John.
Bowman, Alexander, discharged, February, 1S64.
/ Binns, James, wounded at Knoxville, November 23, 1863; pro
moted to corporal, May 186^.
Burson, William P., promoted to corporal, January, 1864.
Bricker, Nicholas S., promoted to corporal, November, 1862.
Brinker, Israel, died at Nashville, Tenn., November 23, 1864,
Clunk, Nicholas M., discharged, June 4, 1863.
Clunk, Peter.
Corbett, Henry C, discharged by order of secretary of war,
May, 1865.
Cressinger, Samuel J., died at Newbern, N. C, March 22, 1865.
Cross, Clement M., wounded at Old Town Creek, N. C, Feb
ruary 20, 1865.
Crosson, James M.
Davis, Jonathan K.
Entrikin, Byron C, captured at Little Kenesaw, Ga,, June 20,
1864, and died at Andersonville,
Ehrhart, Jacob,
Farmer, George E,, disabled by falling tree near Chattahoochee
river, July 16, 1S64,
Fisher, AVilliam H., discharged, December, 1S62.
Fhck, AVilliam C.
Flugan, James G., promoted to corporal, September, 1864-.
Fox, Charles F
Frost, Leonard C
Gaskill, Milenus B., died at Lexington, Ky., April, 1863.
Graham, George F.

104TH REGIMENT.

147

Privates. — Continued.
Groaner, Isaac, promoted to corporal, April, 186^.
Grooms, Francis M.
Grooms, George W.
Halverstadt, Samuel S.
Hamilton, Wilham C.
Jessup, James F. H.
Jessup, Thomas, died at Lexington, Ky„ April 16, 1863,
Johnson, John W,
Johnson, Robert B,
Johnson, David W,, killed at Knoxvile, Tenn., November 29,
1S63.
King, Isaac T., discharged, February 2, 1S63.
Kepner, Jesse, promoted to corporal, April, 1863,
Kepner, Joseph, died at Mt. A'ernon, Ky., June 25, 1S63,
Kenty, William D,
Keister, Henry.
Kelly, John L., transferred to vetqran reserve corps, June, 1864,
Lee, Ah'in,
Mann, Samuel, detached in engineer battalion 23d army corps.
Marine, Jared P.
McDivett, Hugh.
McKee, John W., deserted, January 5, 1863,
McDonald, John B,, promoted to corporal, April, 1863; died
at Lexington, Ky,, April 9, 1-863.
Miller. Andrew.
More, Delorme B.
More, Gideon R., detailed as head butcher, first brigade, 3d di
vision army corps,
Morris, Albert,
Phillips, Samuel, died at Le.xington, Ky,, March 21, 1863,
Parsons, William D,, died at Lexington, Ky,, December 31,
1862,
Peppel, Henry .S.
Pike, Robert T.
Reed, George W,
Robinson, Nathan D,
Rosinberry, Henry,
Rudisil, WiUiam H, H,
Rhinehart, John J., discharged, June 4, 1863.
Schoville, Lemuel,

148 HISTORT OF THE
Privates. — Continued,
Sherbine, William C, transferred to veteran reserves, August,
1864,
Smith, David,
Stallcup, Benjamin F.
Stockwell, William J., promoted t<j corporal.
Tanner, James P.
Thomas, Nathan J.
Tood, John A.
Trit, William M.
Trunick, Henry H.
VanFassan, John J,
Vogan, Wilson,
Walker, Joseph FI.
Wellington, Jason, deserted, January 5, 1863.
Willets, Benjamin F.
Woods, James D. L.
Woods, William A.
Zeppernick, Alpheus, wounded near Lost ^Mountain, Ga.,,
June 10, 1864; died of his AVOunds at NashA'ille, Tenn., Alay
6, 1865. RECRUITS.
Burson, James.
Greer, James S.
More, James.
Whiteleather, Joseph,
Company K was raised in the vicinity of New Lisbon, Colum
biana county, Ohio, and was mustered into the service at Massillon,
Ohio, September 29, 1862, with William J, Jordan as captain, who
rose through the various grades to lieutenant colonel of the reg
iment. Company K entered the service one hundred strong, a large
part of whom were '-Quaker boys;" still they were as readA- for duty
as those who had never been taught to "turn the left cheek," also.
Their moral and sober "bringing up" counted in their favor, in
showing the lightest mortality list of any company in the regi
ment, although they had their full share of the hardships passed
through by the regiment.

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