The Military History of the 123d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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The Military History of the 123d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 123rd (1862-1865)
John Grant, Corporal, wounded in the head at Berryville, September 3,
1864.
Anton Rock, wounded at Hatcher’s Run March 31, 1865.
Bruno Schmidt, wounded in the thigh at Berryville September 3, 1864.
Hiram Utley, wounded in the hand at Winchester June 15, 1863.
Isaac Nutter, arm amputated from wound received at Winchester, June 13,
1863.
Albert W. Rhone, leg amputated from wound received at Winchester June
13, 1863.
Joseph Goodsell, Sergeant, died from wounds received at Berryville
September 3, 1864.
John Robinson, leg amputated from wound received at Berryville September
3, 1864, and afterwards died.
Jacob Wolf, Sergeant, wounded in the leg at Fisher’s Hill, September 22,
1864.
Martin J. Gase, Corporal, wounded in the arm at Fisher’s Hill September
22, 1864.
FIELD AND STAFF.
Horace Kellogg, Lieutenant-Colonel, wounded in foot at Winchester June
15, 1863.
W. B. Hyatt, Surgeon, wounded in action at Winchester June 15, 1863.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ESCAPE OF OFFICERS FROM PRISONS AND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO
DIED THERE.
CONCLUSION.
In the Spring of 1864 the most of our officers who were then in prison
where changed to various prisons throughout the South, some of them
making the entire circuit of Libby, Raleigh, Macon, Savannah, Charleston
and Columbia.
Two officers escaped by means of the “streight tunnel,” and Col. Wilson,
Lieut. Col. Hunter, Capt. Chamberlin, and two or three others were
exchanged and sent North, and, soon after, joined the regiment; while
the greater portion of the remainder made their escape from some of the
above named prisons and at different times. All of them, in fact, save
Lieut. M. H. Smith, who was released by Gen. Sherman, on his celebrated
march to the Sea, and Captains Riggs and Bender, who died there from
cruel treatment. And, in-as-much as the escapes were all very similar,
it will be necessary only to recount a few of them.
Captain Randolph escaped from Columbia, South Carolina, during the
Summer of ’64; by floating down the Santee river on a flat-boat, with
several others, and, after a voyage of nearly one month, reached our
fleet—blockading its mouth. On the trip they passed under several
railroad bridges guarded by soldiers, the sentinels being in plain
sight. Their plan was to float down the river at night, using long
“sweeps” to force the boat through the water. As soon as daylight came,
they would lay by for the day, secreting their boat, as best they could,
among willows, or brush of some description. As a matter of course, they
_foraged_ for their rations, or had colored men to do it for them. Sweet
potatoes were in abundance; and, with young chickens, or a pig from a
neighboring farmyard, a very fair meal could be gotten up.
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