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Volunteer Infantry

Bi-Bu

The Corporal: The appointment of corporal is the first step to promotion in the army, and may lead to the highest distinction in the military service. The corporal is usually selected from the most intelligent privates, who have been longest in the service, and who are noted for their military appearance and attention to duty. The sergeants are appointed from the corporals; and they should therefore look upon their position as one of probation, and should seek to perform well their part, in order that they may be advanced.

The duties of a corporal are simple, and depend for their successful performance mainly upon his capacity to control and direct soldiers in the performance of their duty. They take charge of the smaller details for fatigue and police duty in camp and garrison duty: their most important duty is that of Corporal of the Guard. They frequently succeed to the responsibilities of sergeant in his absence, and should therefore be familiar with his duties.

(From August V Kautz, The 1865 Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers--A Handbook for the Rank and file of the Army)

Column "An" indicates the number of times this person is listed in the Ancestry.com CD "Military Records: Civil War Service Records" and the column "PS" indicates the number of times this person is listed on the US Park Service site http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm . The next columns list company or companies in which the person was assigned and if he is known to have been assigned to other units such as the Veterans Reserve, the 42nd Ohio, 77th Ohio or some other unit.

First Name	Last Name	An	PS	1st Co.	2nd Co.	3rd Co.	Other Units	Rank_In	Rank_Out
John	Bickham	1	1	I	B			Private	Private
George W.	Biggs	1	1	E			42nd & 77th	Private	Private
James P.	Bird	1	1	D				Private	Private
Joseph M.	Black	1	1	I				Sergeant	Private
Lyman W	Black	1	1	B			VR	Private	Private
Peter	Black	1	1	E			42nd & 77th	Private	Private
Thornton F.	Black	1	1	B	C			Corporal	Private
William	Black	1	1	I	B			Sergeant	Sergeant
William H. H.	Black	1	1	I	B			Private	Private
John T	Blake*	1	1	K				Corporal	Corporal
Collins	Blakely	1	1	E	C			Private	Corporal
George	Blanchard	1	1	D				Private	Corporal
Edwin R	Blaney	1	1	G				Private	Private
Marshall	Blaney	1	2	D				Private	Private
D. E.	Blocher	2	2	A			77th	Private	Private
George	Blow	1	1	D				Private	Private
Samuel	Blue	1	1	K				Private	Private
Wilson	Blue	1	1	K				Private	Private
Charles O.	Bockover	1	1	G				Private	Private
Peter	Bollenbaugh	1	0	H				Private	Private
David	Bonar	1	1	B				Corporal	Corporal
Spencer	Booker	3	3	C	B			Private	Private
Nathaniel Benjamin	Borden	1	1	A			VR	Private	Private
Andrew	Boston	1	1	G	D			Private	Private
Henry Clay	Bostwick	1	1	A				Private	Private
Perry	Bottles	1	2	I	B			Private	Private
Isaac	Bounds	1	1	A			77th	Private	Private
Laurin D.	Bowen	1	1	E				Corporal	Corporal
Charles	Bowers	0	1	A				Private	Private
Benson	Bowie	1	2	K				Private	Private
Thomas Rogers	Bowland	1	2	F&S				Musician	Chief Musician
William	Boyles	2	2	K	D			Private	Private
Charles	Boynton	1	2	D			42nd	Private	Private
Frank	Branchfield	0	1	K				Private	Private
James	Bratton	1	1	E	C			Private	Private
Samuel	Braunmiller	1	2	F				Private	Private
John	Brayton	1	1	E			42nd	Private	First Lieutenant
John	Breese	1	1	F			VR	Private	Private
Lemuel	Breese	1	1	D	B			Private	Private
Cicero H.	Brenizer	1	1	C				Private	Private
Adam C.	Bridgman	0	1	E	F			Private	Private
Adoniram Judson	Briggs	1	1	A				Private	Private
William H.	Briggs	1	1	D			VR	Private	Private
John	Brinker	1	1	E			42nd	Private	Private
Harvey	Brinser	1	1	H				Private	Private
Samuel	Brinser	1	1	H	D			Private	Private
William	Brock	1	1	A				Private	Private
Joshua	Brokaw	1	1	C				Private	Private
Rufus C.	Brooks	1	1	G	D	F		Private	Private
Absalom	Brown	1	1	E			42nd	Private	Private
Albert H.	Brown	1	1	F&S				Lieutenant Colonel	Lieutenant Colonel
Edward	Brown	1	1	H	D			Corporal	Corporal
Fletcher L.	Brown	1	1	G				Private	Private
Franklin A.	Brown	1	1	E			42nd	Private	Private
George	Brown	1	1	D	B			Private	Private
George J.	Brown	1	1	K				Private	Sergeant
Hampton	Brown	1	1	C				Private	Private
John W.	Brown	1	1	I				Private	Private
Lilburn	Brown	1	1	I				Private	Private
Mahlon	Brown	1	1	D	E			Private	Private
Samuel G.	Brown	1	1	E			42nd	Private	Private
George Eldon	Browning	1	1	A				Corporal	Corporal
Rolland Putnam	Browning	2	2	A				Private	Private
John G.	Brunner	1	1	I				Private	Private
Robert	Brunson	1	0	I			VR	Private	Private
James P.	Brynds	1	1	F	A			Private	Corporal
Isaac	Buchanan	1	1	E			42nd	Private	Private
Henry S.	Bunker	1	1	C				Private	Commissary Sergeant
Justin H.	Bunker	1	1	E				Private	Private
John	Burchart	1	2	H				Private	Private
John F.	Burdine	1	2	C	B			Private	Private
William E.	Burk	2	2	B				Private	Corporal
Morris	Burns	1	1	C				Ordnance Sergeant	First Sergeant
Jesse T.	Burr	2	3	B				Private	Sergeant Major
Albert M.	Burrough	1	1	F				Private	Private
Daniel	Burroughs	1	1	F				Private	Private
James Newton	Burroughs	1	3	K	C			Private	Private
Jerome W.	Burroughs	1	1	F				Private	Private
Frederick S.	Burrows	1	1	B				Private	Sergeant Major
John F.	Burt	1	1	E	C			Private	Private
Joseph	Burt	1	1	E	C			Musician	Private
Matthew H	Burt	2	2	E				Private	Private
Ryla W.	Busby	1	1	D				Private	Private
David	Butler	2	2	D	E			Private	Private
George	Butler	1	1	K	C			Corporal	Corporal

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HENRY W. BLAKE, deceased, was born at Georgetown, Vt., June 19, 1833, and died in Union County, Ohio, March 7, 1867. His father, John If. Blake, with his family, settled in this county in 1838, and made this his home through life, dying here May 5, 1881. He was the father of' eleven children, of whom George, Moses, Byron and Charles survive, and Henry W., Samuel If., John T., Louisa, Cynthia, Mary and Hamilton are deceased. Henry W. was married July 24, 1855, to Mary J. Courtney, and had two children-Taylor R. and Ollie L. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Greenbrier, Virginia, in 1861. he was a life-long resident of the county, a carpenter by occupation, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Odd Fellows Lodge. His brother, Samuel H., enlisted in the same company and regiment, and was killed before Atlanta, Ga. *John T. enlisted in 1861 in Company K, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was poisoned in 1863 at Milliken Bend. Byron enlisted in Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in October, 1861. Moses enlisted May 9, 1864, in Company M., One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. John W. and Jane (Keff) Courtney, parents of Mrs. Blake, were natives of England, who settled in Bradford County, Penn., where they died. They had seven children, viz.: John, William, McCain, Mary J. and Helen, surviving, and David W. and Edward, deceased. David W. enlisted in 1861, at the age of seventeen years, in the Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and re enlisted in 1864, serving through the whole of the war. He was a color bearer, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River and Chickamauga, receiving four bullet-wounds in one day. He was taken prisoner at Stone River, and for twenty days endured the horrors of Libby Prison. After the close of the war, he enlisted in the regular army, and was killed by the Indians in the Custer massacre. Edward Courtney was a drummer-boy in a Pennsylvania regiment, and was wounded and died, aged seventeen years.

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COL. ALBERT H. BROWN, farmer, P. O. Bloomfield; a native of New Hampshire, and was born in 1825. His parents, John and May (Wood) Brown, had a family of seven children-John H., Mary, Harriet, Abigail, Albert, James and Charles W. The father was born in 1796, and was a soldier in the .war of 1812; he served as a substitute for a Tory during a portion of the war; be came to Worthington, Ohio, in 1840, and died at Fox Lake, Ind., 1853. When Albert was 9 years old, be secured a situation as bobbin boy in Plunkett's cotton factory in Mass.; for six years he worked in different factories in that State and New York; raising to the position of head spinner. In 1840 he came with his father to Ohio, and immediately went to Columbus, where he remained three years, learning the carpenter and joiner's trade. In 1852 he was appointed post master at Marion by Franklin Pierce; in 1848 he married Ann, daughter of John Elder, and by her had four children: Harriet, born in 1849, Jennett, 1851, Edwin, 1855, and Jennie in 1858. His first wife having died during the war, be was married in 1866 to Sally Jane Lyon, and by her has three children; Elva, born in Nov. 1868, Annie, June, 1870, and Alice H., Aug., 1872. Col. Brown served in the Mexican. War in the 3rd Ohio Reg., and commanded by Col. S. R. Curtis. In May, 1847, he was mustered out, - when be came home and worked at his trade until he was married;' when the Civil War broke out he raised a company of 74 men and on the 22d of April, 1861, was ordered to report at Camp Chase and was then assigned to the 4th Ohio Reg., commanded by Col. Andrews. During the early part of the war be served as Provost Marshal for Generals Kelley, Lander, and Shields. He resigned and came home on account of the sickness of his wife, but soon after her death he re-enlisted and was mustered in as Lieut-Colonel of the 96th Ohio Regiment. At the death of Col. Vance, he took command of the Regiment and led it in every engagement. At the close of the war he was mustered out, and has since farmed in South Bloomfield Tp.; he has served two terms in the Lower House of the Ohio State Legislature. Col. Brown is a Republican, and himself and family are members of Methodist Church in Bloomfield.

CHARLES BREESE, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Mt. Gilead; was born in Morris Co., New Jersey, April 19, 1811, attended school and worked on the farm until he was 17, and was then apprenticed to black smithing with Win. Ford, at Dover, New Jersey, and served with him until he was 21; he then opened a shop at Rockaway, New Jersey, and in 1832 came to Ohio and worked in Mt. Gilead for two years; he then returned to New Jersey and lived there three years, during which time, July 22, 1836, he was married to Miss Phebe Bockoven. She was born in the same place, May 30, 1818. In 1838 he again came to Mt. Gilead and built a residence and shop on some land he had formerly bought, and carried on his business there until 1854, when he sold out and bought his present place, located one mile northeast of Mt. Gilead, and containing ninety acres. At first he bought forty-five acres of timber and cleared the same, afterward adding to it. They had six children; three now living: Emeline, now Mrs. Mateer, living in Mt. Gilead; Lemuel H., blacksmith in Aft. Gilead, and Harriet A., now Mrs. Bargar, living in this vicinity. Air. Breese came West in a wagon to Mt. Gilead, using the old Pioneer road, and has since crossed between here and New Jersey some twelve or fifteen times. In the early days he took wheat in payment for his work, and hauled the same to Sandusky. His son Lemuel H., enlisted in the 96th O. V. I., Company D., in 1862, and served during the war, being a prisoner some three months. His brother served in the Mexican war. His father served in the war of 1812, and his grandfather served in the war of the Revolution. His parents were Stephen and Harriet (Ogden) Breese, natives of Morris Co., New Jersey, and lived there until their death. Mrs. Breese's parents were George and Margaret (Smith) Bookoven; they were natives of New Jersey; they died in Morris County.

EBENEZER BURT, retired; Iberia; was born in Washington Co. Penn., May 3d, 1811; Mr. Burt's father was born in Fayette county of the same State about the year 1789; his mother spending her early years in the State of Maryland. In the early part of the 18th century, three brothers came to America, two of whom engaged in the iron business, in the State of Penn. At the breaking out of the Revolution, they sold out their interest in those works, taking their pay in Continental money, which proved almost valueless, One of these brothers was the paternal ancestor of our subject. Mr. Burt came to Ohio in 1830, settling in Guernsey Co., near Cambridge; he married Miss Isabella Rankin, of Janesville, Muskingum Co., who died at Cambridge Dec. 1st, 1840, a little over nine years from date of their marriage. About this time Mr. Burt. commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar, his certificate of admission dating Oct. 29, 1841. In August, of the same year, he was married to Mary Ann Guthrie, of Cambridge, who is still living. After practicing law for upwards of six years, he removed to Marion Co., where he engaged in farming and stock grazing. He has ever since made a specialty of raising fine stock; sheep raising being the department he has specialized. In April 1865, he removed to Iberia. The family Bible tells the following story-Silas, born Aug. 17, 1833; Mathew H., April 9,1835; John F., June 10, 1837; Elizabeth J., Feb. 17, 1839; Joseph G., April 17, 1844; Ebenezer D., Sept. 20, 1846; Win. W. and Thos. W. twins, July 14, 1848; Robert G., Aug. 23, 1850; Margaret A., Jan. 18, 1852; Elnora, April 11, 1855; all of these have been married, and those li ving are settled in the vicinity of the parental home. Margaret married Mr. James P. Hammond, and with him went to build up a home near Edgar, Neb., where she died in 1876; Mathew joined the 96th 0. V. I., and was killed at Arkansas Post on White River; John and Joseph were also in the service and went through the war, being honorably discharged at its close. Mr. Burt is respected and honored in the community, and a member of the U. P. Church; amid pleasing surroundings, with wealth to command the luxuries of life-the "sunset " of his days cannot but he otherwise than peaceful and bright.

H I S T 0 R Y OF MORROW COUNTY AND OHIO. I L L U S T R A T E D

CHICAGO: 0. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS, 186 DEARBORN STREET. 1880.

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JOSEPH M. BLACK; Bellefontaine; was born in Mercer Co., Penn., May 21,1823, and is the son of William and Jane (Bell) Black, both parents of Ireland, having come to America when young. Joseph, when 14 years of age, with his parents came to Logan Co., O., and located on a farm in Harrison Tp., where he was engaged in farming in Harrison and Washington Tps. until 1872. In 1862 Mr, Black enlisted as a private in Co. I, 96th O. V. I. and served ten months; on account of sickness; he was honorably discharged; in 1864 he recruited Co: E. of the 132d O. V. I. for 100 day's service, serving as Captain of Co. E. until the expiration of his time after which he returned to Logan Co.; in 1872 he went to Champaign Co., and was engaged in the milling business some two year, when, in 1874 he came to Bellefontaine, entering the grocery business; he is now engaged as salesman in the agricultural business. Both parents are dead. Capt. Black has chased wild game in Logan Co., killing the deer and wild turkeys.

JOHN BICKHAM, farmer; P. O., Huntsville; is one of the prominent farmers of this township ; he was born May 26, 1841, in McArthur Tp., and has always been a resident of this county. His father, Robert Bickham, was born May 17, 1805, in Bourbon Co., Ky., and served under Gen. Wayne as a spy during the Indian troubles. He came to this county at a very early day, and helped his parents to clear and improve a farm near where Huntsville now stands. He was married to Mary Prater, of West Liberty, who was brought there by her parents when she was 5 years old ;they lived on leased and rented farms for several years, and soon as able bought a farm of new land in this town ship, on which they ever alter lived. She died Nov. 20, 1865, and he was afterwards united to Elizabeth Bennett, of this county; he died June 20, 1879. John commenced for himself when of age, and soon after enlisted in Company I, 96th Reg., O. V. I., and served nearly three years ; he was in nine battles, and on receiving his discharge returned to this county, where he has since been a farmer., He was married Nov. 3, 1865, to Kate H. Bennett, daughter of James and Dolly Bennett; she was born April 17, 1844, in this county. Seven children have blessed their union-Mary E., Dolly E., James R., John R.. Emanuel B., Benjamin L., and Fannie A. Both he and wife are members of the Disciple Church ; he is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and has held every office but Secretary ; has always been a Republican and a member of the County Central Committee for fifteen years.

HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY AND OHIO. ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS, 186 DEARBORN STREET. 1880.

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