Journal History of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865: Its Victories and its Reverses. And the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, in which it bore an honorable partSeCheverell, J. Hamp (John Hamilton)
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Journal History of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865: Its Victories and its Reverses. And the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, in which it bore an honorable part
SeCheverell, J. Hamp (John Hamilton)
Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 29th (1861-1865)
“Sir, you have spoken in high commendation of my command. I can assure
you I feel myself honored in having command of such a regiment. It
will be my pride and ambition, with my fellow-officers to make it in
all things pertaining to a well drilled and well disciplined regiment,
one of the best in Ohio. And now, fellow-soldiers, in the presence of
this assembly, and before high heaven, we swear upon the altar of our
country to defend this flag so long as there shall be one true heart
and strong arm to hold it to the breeze.”
At last the “boys’” impatience to go anywhere but here, was gratified
by an order to move to Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, the date
December 25th; and right here it may not be amiss to give an extract
from an editorial in the Ashtabula Sentinel, as showing what the people
of Jefferson thought of the regiment:
“They leave Jefferson with the respect and esteem of our citizens as an
orderly and well behaved body of men. They have been over three months
within our quiet village, during which time no disturbance has occurred
and no depredations have been committed. They have proved themselves
honorable men, the best evidence that they will be brave soldiers. When
they are heard from in the fight we have no fears of a bad account.”
ORIGINAL REGIMENTAL ROSTER.
Following is the roster of the regiment as given in the issue of the
Ashtabula Sentinel, dated December 25, 1861, inserted by request of the
committee on revision:
FIELD OFFICERS.
Colonel Lewis P. Buckley, Akron.
Lieutenant-colonel Thomas Clark, Cleveland.
Major J. S. Clemmer, Mogadore.
Adjutant C. T. Chaffee, Jefferson.
Sergeant-major W. P. Williamson, Akron.
Quartermaster O. F. Gibbs, Harpersfield.
Quartermaster-sergeant M. D. Norris, Mesopotamia.
Commissary H. Wright, Trumbull.
Chaplain R. H. Hurlburt, Hartsgrove.
Surgeon A. K. Fifield, Conneaut.
Assistant Surgeon S. S. Burrows, Geneva.
Hospital Steward E. P. Haynes, Atwater.
Fife-major Richard Noonan, Hudson.
Drum-major G. G. Crane, Chagrin Falls.
REGIMENTAL BAND.
Leader Chauncy Brainard.
Fifers--Moses C. Rist, George B. Mason, Henry Beach, Henry H. Ray,
Rufus Daniels, Walter St. John, Edward B. Fitts, Charles N. Bancroft,
E. P. Hall, William R. Meeker.
Drummers--Albert E. Brainard, Erastus Brainard, John Price, Calvin
Crane, Albert Walker, William H. Rawdon, Lucius K. Woodbury, Corwin
Spencer, Johnson W. Matterson, Luthur Canfield, Silas H. Kent; Louis
Price, bass; Edward B. Woodbury, bass.
Cymbal Buel W. Brainard.
Bugler Edwin N. Devan.
COMPANY A.
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