The Forty-first Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

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W.R. Smellie, 1897 - Ohio - 292 pages
 

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Page 136 - July 28 to September 2. 1864; Lovejoy Station, Ga., September 2-6, 1864; Statesboro, Ga., December 4.
Page 135 - ... service. The service-pension bill passed at this session of Congress, thirty-nine years after the close of the Mexican War, for the benefit of the soldiers of that war, requires either some degree of disability or dependency or that the claimant under its provisions should be...
Page 136 - ... the following list has been compiled after careful research during the preparation of this work : LEBANON, TENN.
Page 67 - ... fewer still were running through the brush toward Mission Ridge. One or two of the fellows who had been lying on their backs and firing over their heads, did this after the Union troops were on the breastworks and over it, and a man of the Forty-first was killed by a wild shot of this kind. The man who fired that shot was crazed with the fight, not seeing what was going on, for at the moment the men of the Forty-first were over the breastwork and the rest of its defenders had surrendered. It...
Page 66 - As they mounted it, most of the enemy were lying flat; a few were standing, some of these having thrown down their guns, and fewer still were running through the brush toward Mission Ridge. One or two of the fellows who had been lying on their backs and firing over their heads, did this after the Union troops were on the breastworks and over it, and a man of the Forty-first was killed by a wild shot of this kind. The man who fired that shot was crazed with the fight, not seeing what was going on,...
Page 63 - Chickamauga was gone. The troops felt as if they had been in prison, and were now free.
Page 136 - Mav 9, 1866, when they were mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department. The following is a list of battles, in which this Regiment bore an honorable part (Official Army Register -, Part V, Page SHILOH, TENN., .... APRIL £-7, 1862.
Page 30 - The twelve days spent in this camp were a continuing feast for the regiment. A hundred negroes were on the place, and, of course, were friendly. There was fresh pork and a variety of garden vegetables, and the slaves regularly drove a herd of milch cows to the camp at milking time. No hotel ever spread such fare before the Forty-first as Col. Brown's plantation afforded.
Page 70 - It was the intention to gather the men behind the shanties for a better beginning of the ascent, but this could not be done. The oblique fire of the Confederate artillery knocked the shanties about the heads of the men, while the infantry riddled them with bullets. So the start was made as it could be.
Page 155 - The Forty-first Ohio, when I joined it, was recruiting rapidly. It had its inception in Geauga county, under the immediate care and patronage of the Hon. Peter Hitchcock, of Burton, a widely and most honorably known citizen.

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