103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Roster Company G

Date: 2 May 2023 [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 G 3 Research Notes 4 Sources

Introduction

A free space page to add everything about Company G 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 G along with any and all resources associated with Company G of the 103rd OVI.

Mustered in Sept. 16, 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 G

Names and original ranks from muster in rolls.

Captain Moses L. M. Piexotto

Captain Henry S. Pickands

Captain Lewis S. Dilley

1st Lieutenant Charles D. Rhodes

1st Lieutenant William Hall

1st Sergeant Sherman B. Taft

Sergeant William Wheelock

Sergeant Adonijah Elliott

Sergeant Frank Bushman

Sergeant Robert L. Fleury

Sergeant Theodore Kirner

Sergeant Thomas R. Babb

Corporal Lewis Watts

Corporal Amasa B. Witham

Corporal Henry Lege

Corporal Thomas Farmer

Corporal Delos W. Turner

Corporal Robert Woodward

Corporal Orson Jordon

Corporal Nathan W. Hawkins

Corporal William H. Leggett

Corporal Peter Hetzell

Corporal George Barker

Corporal Charles W. Ellsaser

Musician Henry Deal

Musician Joseph Shrier

Private Moses Ackley

Private Lucius Alexander

Private Richard Armstrong

Private David Backus

Private Matthew Bash

Private Adam Beckley

Private Jacob Berner

Private Thomas Boyd

Private John Brinnan

Private Benjamin F. Campbell

Private William Canty

Private Lawrence M. Carroll

Private John Chetmer

Private Warren J. Coe

Private Robert Cooda

Private Calvin S. Cramer

Private William S. Cummings

Private Daniel Dailey

Private John G. Defrieze

Private Harry DeGraff

Private Lemuel T. Dennison

Private Albert Dunham

Private Lewis Evertson

Private William D. Field

Private James Gage

Private Jacob Gasner

Private Leon Gronskie

Private John Hall

Private James Hart

Private John Hyde

Private Thomas Jones

Private John Jones

Private Ansel Jordan

Private Peter Joy

Private Joseph King

Private Charles D. Knapp

Private James E. Lamb

Private Peter Learschot

Private William W. Lewis

Private Robert Logan

Private John H. McCormick

Private Charles McGuire

Private James Maloy

Private Peter Melia

Private Adam Miller

Private John Nicely

Private John Nicholson

Private John Pfannstiel

Private Levi Perrin

Private James Pomeroy

Private John R. Reublin

Private Herman D. Rhodes

Private Alvin B. Rhodes

Private Charles Rice

Private Peter Ryder

Private Mathias Zenz

Private Frank Shrier

Private Jacob Smith

Private Reuben Smith

Private Jacob Spain

Private John Spencer

Private John Stanley

Private Jerome N. B. Stockwell

Private Peter Sullivan

Private William Thompson

Private George Thorn

Private JamesTruffler

Private John Urban

Private George Wagner

Private Henry Whitehead

Private James Wilson

Private William Williams

Private Charles Witham

Private George Witham

Private Albert Woolson

Research Notes

A total of 101 men are listed on the roster for Company G.

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/