103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Roster Company I

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Surnames/tags: us_civil_war ohio

Contents 1 Introduction 2 History of the 103rd OVI 2.1 Company I 3 Research Notes 4 Sources

Introduction

A free space page to add everything about Company I of the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment during their service during the U.S. Civil War. We would like to add all the profiles of those who served in Company I along with any and all resources associated with Company I of the 103rd OVI.

Mustered in Sept. 15, 1862, at Camp Cleveland, O., by Louis D. Watkins 1st Lieutenant, 5th U.S. Cavalry. Mustered out June 12, 1865, at Raleigh, N.C., by E.A. Folsom, Captain and A.C.M.

History of the 103rd OVI

Organized at Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1862. Ordered to Kentucky September 3, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, January, 1863. 1st Brigade, District of Central Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to February, 1865, and Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.

SERVICE: Pursuit of Kirby Smith to Lexington, Ky., September 18-22, 1862. Duty at Snow's Pond till October 6, and at Frankfort till May, 1863. Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeastern Kentucky April 26-May 12, 1863. Action at Monticello May 1. Duty in Central Kentucky till August. Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee August 16-October 17. At Greenville till September 19. Carter's Depot September 20-21. Jonesboro September 21. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. Duty at Blain's Cross Roads till April, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton, Ga., May 8-13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cartersville May 20. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Near Marietta June 1-9. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Cheyney's Farm June 22. Olley's Farm June 26-27. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Isham's Ford, Chattahoochie River, July 8 (1st Regiment to cross). Decatur July 18-19. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Near Rough and Ready August 31. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama October. At Decatur till October 20. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. At Clifton, Tenn., till January 16, 1865. Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to North Carolina January 16-February 9. Operations against Hoke, near Fort Fisher, N. C., February 11-14. Near Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson, Cape Fear River, February 18-19. Town Creek February 19-20. Capture of Wilmington February 22. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance on Goldsboro March 6-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh, N. C., and in the Dept. of North Carolina till June. Mustered out June 12, 1865.

Company I

Names and original ranks from muster in rolls.

Captain Lyman B. Wilcox

Captain George Redway

1st Lieutenant Henry A. Mills Jr.

2nd Lieutenant Edward Andrews

2nd Lieutenant James Allen

1st Sergeant Harrison D. Barteau

Sergeant Thomas W. Smith

Sergeant Thomas S. Crawford

Sergeant Henry McCloud

Sergeant Arthur Bradley

Sergeant William H. Frater

Corporal Samuel M. Borland

Corporal William McDermott

Corporal Asa Hinman

Corporal Frederick H. Stannard

Corporal Thomas Branigan

Corporal Kersey J. Seiberling

Corporal Harman Hippenstiel

Corporal Chauncey B. Welton

Corporal Isaac W. Gates

Corporal William H. Hill

Musician Orsemus Howe

Musician Milton J. Freeman

Wagoner Isaac Shireman

Private Chester W. Abbott

Private Henry H. Acker

Private Benjamin Acker

Private John H. Auble

Private Cornelius G. Barnes

Private Romulus B. Barnes

Private George Barber

Private Albert M. Beck

Private Edwin Bishop

Private Jonas Bitner

Private Matthew J. Bogardus

Private Franklin E. Booth

Private Noble Bradley

Private Charles E. Brown

Private Franklin M. Burdoin

Private George R. Cannon

Private Charles H. Carrington

Private Addison J. Case

Private David Clark

Private Orville M. Closs

Private William H. Cushman

Private Squire Z. Cutler

Private Harvey Cutter

Private George D. Daman

Private Sylvester Daman

Private Levi Daman

Private George F. Derhammer

Private Thomas Desher

Private Jonathan Ebner

Private Charles H. Fenton

Private Reuben Fritz

Private Charles E. Gratz

Private Matthew Gunton

Private Stephen J. Harrington

Private Charles A. Harper

Private Henry W. Harris

Private Thomas C. Hard

Private Henry C. Hatch

Private John Hatfield

Private William H. Hayes

Private Alexander Hayes

Private Jonas Heaton

Private James Hath

Private James Hougland

Private Moses Johnson

Private Sherman Johnson

Private Charles H. Kimball

Private James Kunkler

Private John G. Lanterman

Private John Wesley Long

Private Harvey Loomis

Private Samuel McCoy

Private David MuMullen

Private Theodore Merton

Private John B. Montgomery

Private Henry B. Musselman

Private Henry Nash

Private Joseph Nicely

Private Isaac K. Nice

Private Henry Nichols

Private Daniel Nichols

Private Charles Nichols

Private John Nichols

Private Joseph Null

Private Aaron Overholt

Private David S. Pimlot

Private Robert S. Potter

Private Charles C. Porter

Private Henry T. Porter

Private George W. Reed

Private Isaac Reimer

Private Lucius C. Rickerson

Private Amandus P. Rogers

Private Harrison Rorke

Private Samuel C. Rosenberry

Private Charles Seiberling

Private Loyd Seiberling

Private Joseph Schelly

Private Stephen H. Schlaback

Private Jonas Sickman

Private Delos Smith

Private James H. Swartwood

Private Jasper S. Turner

Private Thomas S. Varney

Private Justus T. Waldo

Private Ephraim Watkins

Private Frederick Webster

Private Charles C. Webster

Private William F. Welling

Private Samuel Werntz

Private George W. Wideman

Private Alonzo D. Willits

Private John C. Wiley

Private Edwin Wise

Private George D. Woodruff

Private Jeremiah D. Wuner

Private Henry B. Yoder

Research Notes

A total of 121 men are listed on the roster for Company I.

Sources

• National Park Service. U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/>, acquired 2007.

• Personal Reminiscences and Experiences By members of the ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, Campaign Life in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865. News Printing Company, Oberlin Ohio, 1900. Republished by 103 O.V.I. Memorial Foundation, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, 1993.

• https://www.103ovi.com/