Company E, 26th Ohio Infantry-Civil War
Samuel Watson, whose age at enlistment was given as 19, Birth Date: abt 1842, enlisted in Company E, Ohio 26th Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on January 1 1865. Mustered out on October 21, 1865 at Victoria, Texas. Sources: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1838 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Age at Death: 74 Death Place: Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1905-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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Samuel Watson Birth Date: 8 Sep 1837 Birth Place: Ohio Age at Death: 74 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Death Place: Butte, Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1835 Place of Birth: Ohio Age on 1 July 1863: 28 Race: White Residence: Springfield, Ross, Ohio Congressional District: 12th Class: 1. Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 4.
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Samuel Watson, Side: Union, Regiment State/Origin: Ohio, Regiment: 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E, Rank In: Private, Rank Out: First Sergeant, Film Number M552 roll 114, History of 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry.
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Samuel Watson applied for veterans benefits on August 9, 1890.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 4, 1912, pg 4 col 3: Kills Self Near Life's Last Milestone. Civil War Veteran, Penniless and Despondent, is Suicide. J. Nelson, a veteran of the civil war, seventy-four years old, committed suicide at Durham early yesterday morning by shooting himself in the head with a .32 calibre revolver. The cause of the act was lack of money and despondency.
Nelson had come from Modoc county and was on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, near Napa. Wednesday evening, he applied to John Nichols, a farmer of the almond town and a member of the G.A.R., for assistance. Nichols replied that if Nelson could show credentials that he would help him. The old man replied that his papers were in his grip and he told what regiment he had served with.
Nothing more was seen of Nelson until he was found lying near the lower warehouse, close to the railroad track, at 7:15 yesterday morning. No one had heard the shot he had fired. The body was still warm and blood was running from his left ear.
A cheap revolver was clenched in his right hand with the thumb on the trigger. The cartridge entered the skull over the right ear and did not come out the other side.
The old man was penniless. He had been in Durham only a short time, having passed through Chico only a few days before. He had told persons in Durham that he had worked near Beaver, Lassen county, and was looking for a comrade. He also said that his discharge papers were at Yountville.
Coroner John Wallace was called and held an inquest at the town hall in Durham at 10:45 o'clock. Owen Adkins, J.P. Jones and George E. Strong were called as witnesses. The jury was composed of George W. Weaver, George A. Vice, W.J. McElroy, W.P. Cusick, W.E. Smith, William McAnarlin and Geo. E. Strong. It rendered a verdict of suicide by a gunshot wound, and gave the cause as despondency brought on by lack of funds.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams awaiting orders from Yountville.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 5, 1912, pg 5 col 3: Old Soldier Who Killed Self Is Identified. Local Men Knew Him as Samuel Watson, Well Known Lassen Resident. R. Woodmansee, a local barber, and Thomas Frost, both identified the body of the old soldier yesterday, who committed suicide at Durham Thursday morning. Both men have lived in Beaver, Lassen county, and they say that the old man was not J. Nelson, as he had told several persons at Durham, but he was Samuel Watson, a veteran of the civil war, who has lived at Beaver for a great many years.
Woodmansee says that there is not the slightest doubt that the deceased is Watson, whom he has known for thirty years. Watson was a popular old man in Lassen county and often related some of his war-time experiences. He took part in the battle of Bull Run on the Union side and several other famous engagements.
Watson had once been prosperous and so had some of his relatives, but most of them died poor. A brother of the deceased died in the poor-house. Woodmansee says that the old man often said that before he would go to the poorhouse, he "would go out back of the barn," meaning that he would commit suicide.
That is exactly what he did. While on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, he stopped at Durham to ask assistance and when refused he went on past the warehouse and shot himself in the head.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams and as soon as the papers are received from Beaver or Yountville establishing the fact that the deceased was a member of the G.A.R., the body will be buried, probably in Chico, with the local post of the veterans in charge.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 11, 1912, pg 5 col 4: Watson Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services over the remains of Samuel Watson, the old soldier who committed suicide at Durham, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Fetters and Williams chapel. Members of the G.A.R. will have charge of the funeral. Burial will be made in the G.A.R. plot in the local cemetery.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 12, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Second Inquest Over Aged Suicide. Coroner John Wallace yesterday held a second inquest over the body of the aged man who committed suicide at Durham October 3d. As the result of the examination it was established that the deceased was Samuel Watson of Bieber, Lassen county, a veteran of the civil war, who had served in Company E of the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
The principal witnesses examined were Robert Woodmansee, a local barber, H.H. Cutter and H.H. Perkiss. All of them identified the body as that of Watson instead of J. Nelson, as was believed after the first inquest, which was held eight days ago at Durham.
The jurors were William Collin, William Cecil, J.W. Campbell, William Bundy, E. Witcher and F.M. Nau.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the parlors of Fetters and Williams under the auspices of the G.A.R. Burial will be in the local veteran's plot.
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Chico Record, Sunday Morning, October 13, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Veteran Suicide Is Buried. Members of the G.A.R. and Women's Relief Corps conducted the funeral yesterday of Samuel Watson, the aged veteran who committed suicide at Durham. The services were held from the Fetters & Williams chapel. The following were pall bearers: A. Honodel, William Cussick, Luther Douglas, F.A. Wood, D.M. Birdseye and J.A. Glenn.
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The 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 26th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was often referred to by its members as "The Groundhog Regiment", organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio beginning June 8, 1861. The regiment was recruited in Butler, Champaign, Crawford, Delaware, Guernsey, Logan, Madison, Mahoning, Morgan, Morrow, Richland, Ross, Scioto, and Trumbull counties.
The regiment was attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to October 1861. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to January 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Texas to October 1865. The 26th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Victoria, Texas on October 21, 1865.
Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 25. and duty there August 1861 to January 1862. Action at Boone Court House, Va., September 1, 1861. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky January 1, 1862. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 18. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Lawrenceburg April 4. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Little Pond, near McMinnville, August 20. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Lavergne December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22–24 (detachment). Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga November 7. Lookout Valley November 7–8. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17–18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Orchard Knob November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26–27. March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8. Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19. Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6–17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3. 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. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at Nashville until June. Moved to New Orleans June 16, thence to Texas. Duty at San Antonio and Victoria until October.
Engagements: Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, Tullahoma Campaign, Battle of Chickamauga, Siege of Chattanooga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Resaca, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesboro, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville.
Samuel Watson, whose age at enlistment was given as 19, Birth Date: abt 1842, enlisted in Company E, Ohio 26th Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on January 1 1865. Mustered out on October 21, 1865 at Victoria, Texas. Sources: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1838 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Age at Death: 74 Death Place: Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1905-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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Samuel Watson Birth Date: 8 Sep 1837 Birth Place: Ohio Age at Death: 74 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Death Place: Butte, Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1835 Place of Birth: Ohio Age on 1 July 1863: 28 Race: White Residence: Springfield, Ross, Ohio Congressional District: 12th Class: 1. Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 4.
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Samuel Watson, Side: Union, Regiment State/Origin: Ohio, Regiment: 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E, Rank In: Private, Rank Out: First Sergeant, Film Number M552 roll 114, History of 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry.
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Samuel Watson applied for veterans benefits on August 9, 1890.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 4, 1912, pg 4 col 3: Kills Self Near Life's Last Milestone. Civil War Veteran, Penniless and Despondent, is Suicide. J. Nelson, a veteran of the civil war, seventy-four years old, committed suicide at Durham early yesterday morning by shooting himself in the head with a .32 calibre revolver. The cause of the act was lack of money and despondency.
Nelson had come from Modoc county and was on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, near Napa. Wednesday evening, he applied to John Nichols, a farmer of the almond town and a member of the G.A.R., for assistance. Nichols replied that if Nelson could show credentials that he would help him. The old man replied that his papers were in his grip and he told what regiment he had served with.
Nothing more was seen of Nelson until he was found lying near the lower warehouse, close to the railroad track, at 7:15 yesterday morning. No one had heard the shot he had fired. The body was still warm and blood was running from his left ear.
A cheap revolver was clenched in his right hand with the thumb on the trigger. The cartridge entered the skull over the right ear and did not come out the other side.
The old man was penniless. He had been in Durham only a short time, having passed through Chico only a few days before. He had told persons in Durham that he had worked near Beaver, Lassen county, and was looking for a comrade. He also said that his discharge papers were at Yountville.
Coroner John Wallace was called and held an inquest at the town hall in Durham at 10:45 o'clock. Owen Adkins, J.P. Jones and George E. Strong were called as witnesses. The jury was composed of George W. Weaver, George A. Vice, W.J. McElroy, W.P. Cusick, W.E. Smith, William McAnarlin and Geo. E. Strong. It rendered a verdict of suicide by a gunshot wound, and gave the cause as despondency brought on by lack of funds.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams awaiting orders from Yountville.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 5, 1912, pg 5 col 3: Old Soldier Who Killed Self Is Identified. Local Men Knew Him as Samuel Watson, Well Known Lassen Resident. R. Woodmansee, a local barber, and Thomas Frost, both identified the body of the old soldier yesterday, who committed suicide at Durham Thursday morning. Both men have lived in Beaver, Lassen county, and they say that the old man was not J. Nelson, as he had told several persons at Durham, but he was Samuel Watson, a veteran of the civil war, who has lived at Beaver for a great many years.
Woodmansee says that there is not the slightest doubt that the deceased is Watson, whom he has known for thirty years. Watson was a popular old man in Lassen county and often related some of his war-time experiences. He took part in the battle of Bull Run on the Union side and several other famous engagements.
Watson had once been prosperous and so had some of his relatives, but most of them died poor. A brother of the deceased died in the poor-house. Woodmansee says that the old man often said that before he would go to the poorhouse, he "would go out back of the barn," meaning that he would commit suicide.
That is exactly what he did. While on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, he stopped at Durham to ask assistance and when refused he went on past the warehouse and shot himself in the head.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams and as soon as the papers are received from Beaver or Yountville establishing the fact that the deceased was a member of the G.A.R., the body will be buried, probably in Chico, with the local post of the veterans in charge.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 11, 1912, pg 5 col 4: Watson Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services over the remains of Samuel Watson, the old soldier who committed suicide at Durham, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Fetters and Williams chapel. Members of the G.A.R. will have charge of the funeral. Burial will be made in the G.A.R. plot in the local cemetery.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 12, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Second Inquest Over Aged Suicide. Coroner John Wallace yesterday held a second inquest over the body of the aged man who committed suicide at Durham October 3d. As the result of the examination it was established that the deceased was Samuel Watson of Bieber, Lassen county, a veteran of the civil war, who had served in Company E of the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
The principal witnesses examined were Robert Woodmansee, a local barber, H.H. Cutter and H.H. Perkiss. All of them identified the body as that of Watson instead of J. Nelson, as was believed after the first inquest, which was held eight days ago at Durham.
The jurors were William Collin, William Cecil, J.W. Campbell, William Bundy, E. Witcher and F.M. Nau.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the parlors of Fetters and Williams under the auspices of the G.A.R. Burial will be in the local veteran's plot.
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Chico Record, Sunday Morning, October 13, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Veteran Suicide Is Buried. Members of the G.A.R. and Women's Relief Corps conducted the funeral yesterday of Samuel Watson, the aged veteran who committed suicide at Durham. The services were held from the Fetters & Williams chapel. The following were pall bearers: A. Honodel, William Cussick, Luther Douglas, F.A. Wood, D.M. Birdseye and J.A. Glenn.
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The 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 26th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was often referred to by its members as "The Groundhog Regiment", organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio beginning June 8, 1861. The regiment was recruited in Butler, Champaign, Crawford, Delaware, Guernsey, Logan, Madison, Mahoning, Morgan, Morrow, Richland, Ross, Scioto, and Trumbull counties.
The regiment was attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to October 1861. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to January 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Texas to October 1865. The 26th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Victoria, Texas on October 21, 1865.
Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 25. and duty there August 1861 to January 1862. Action at Boone Court House, Va., September 1, 1861. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky January 1, 1862. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 18. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Lawrenceburg April 4. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Little Pond, near McMinnville, August 20. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Lavergne December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22–24 (detachment). Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga November 7. Lookout Valley November 7–8. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17–18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Orchard Knob November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26–27. March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8. Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19. Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6–17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3. 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. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at Nashville until June. Moved to New Orleans June 16, thence to Texas. Duty at San Antonio and Victoria until October.
Engagements: Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, Tullahoma Campaign, Battle of Chickamauga, Siege of Chattanooga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Resaca, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesboro, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville.
Company E, 26th Ohio Infantry-Civil War
Samuel Watson, whose age at enlistment was given as 19, Birth Date: abt 1842, enlisted in Company E, Ohio 26th Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on January 1 1865. Mustered out on October 21, 1865 at Victoria, Texas. Sources: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1838 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Age at Death: 74 Death Place: Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1905-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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Samuel Watson Birth Date: 8 Sep 1837 Birth Place: Ohio Age at Death: 74 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Death Place: Butte, Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1835 Place of Birth: Ohio Age on 1 July 1863: 28 Race: White Residence: Springfield, Ross, Ohio Congressional District: 12th Class: 1. Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 4.
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Samuel Watson, Side: Union, Regiment State/Origin: Ohio, Regiment: 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E, Rank In: Private, Rank Out: First Sergeant, Film Number M552 roll 114, History of 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry.
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Samuel Watson applied for veterans benefits on August 9, 1890.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 4, 1912, pg 4 col 3: Kills Self Near Life's Last Milestone. Civil War Veteran, Penniless and Despondent, is Suicide. J. Nelson, a veteran of the civil war, seventy-four years old, committed suicide at Durham early yesterday morning by shooting himself in the head with a .32 calibre revolver. The cause of the act was lack of money and despondency.
Nelson had come from Modoc county and was on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, near Napa. Wednesday evening, he applied to John Nichols, a farmer of the almond town and a member of the G.A.R., for assistance. Nichols replied that if Nelson could show credentials that he would help him. The old man replied that his papers were in his grip and he told what regiment he had served with.
Nothing more was seen of Nelson until he was found lying near the lower warehouse, close to the railroad track, at 7:15 yesterday morning. No one had heard the shot he had fired. The body was still warm and blood was running from his left ear.
A cheap revolver was clenched in his right hand with the thumb on the trigger. The cartridge entered the skull over the right ear and did not come out the other side.
The old man was penniless. He had been in Durham only a short time, having passed through Chico only a few days before. He had told persons in Durham that he had worked near Beaver, Lassen county, and was looking for a comrade. He also said that his discharge papers were at Yountville.
Coroner John Wallace was called and held an inquest at the town hall in Durham at 10:45 o'clock. Owen Adkins, J.P. Jones and George E. Strong were called as witnesses. The jury was composed of George W. Weaver, George A. Vice, W.J. McElroy, W.P. Cusick, W.E. Smith, William McAnarlin and Geo. E. Strong. It rendered a verdict of suicide by a gunshot wound, and gave the cause as despondency brought on by lack of funds.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams awaiting orders from Yountville.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 5, 1912, pg 5 col 3: Old Soldier Who Killed Self Is Identified. Local Men Knew Him as Samuel Watson, Well Known Lassen Resident. R. Woodmansee, a local barber, and Thomas Frost, both identified the body of the old soldier yesterday, who committed suicide at Durham Thursday morning. Both men have lived in Beaver, Lassen county, and they say that the old man was not J. Nelson, as he had told several persons at Durham, but he was Samuel Watson, a veteran of the civil war, who has lived at Beaver for a great many years.
Woodmansee says that there is not the slightest doubt that the deceased is Watson, whom he has known for thirty years. Watson was a popular old man in Lassen county and often related some of his war-time experiences. He took part in the battle of Bull Run on the Union side and several other famous engagements.
Watson had once been prosperous and so had some of his relatives, but most of them died poor. A brother of the deceased died in the poor-house. Woodmansee says that the old man often said that before he would go to the poorhouse, he "would go out back of the barn," meaning that he would commit suicide.
That is exactly what he did. While on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, he stopped at Durham to ask assistance and when refused he went on past the warehouse and shot himself in the head.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams and as soon as the papers are received from Beaver or Yountville establishing the fact that the deceased was a member of the G.A.R., the body will be buried, probably in Chico, with the local post of the veterans in charge.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 11, 1912, pg 5 col 4: Watson Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services over the remains of Samuel Watson, the old soldier who committed suicide at Durham, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Fetters and Williams chapel. Members of the G.A.R. will have charge of the funeral. Burial will be made in the G.A.R. plot in the local cemetery.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 12, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Second Inquest Over Aged Suicide. Coroner John Wallace yesterday held a second inquest over the body of the aged man who committed suicide at Durham October 3d. As the result of the examination it was established that the deceased was Samuel Watson of Bieber, Lassen county, a veteran of the civil war, who had served in Company E of the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
The principal witnesses examined were Robert Woodmansee, a local barber, H.H. Cutter and H.H. Perkiss. All of them identified the body as that of Watson instead of J. Nelson, as was believed after the first inquest, which was held eight days ago at Durham.
The jurors were William Collin, William Cecil, J.W. Campbell, William Bundy, E. Witcher and F.M. Nau.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the parlors of Fetters and Williams under the auspices of the G.A.R. Burial will be in the local veteran's plot.
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Chico Record, Sunday Morning, October 13, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Veteran Suicide Is Buried. Members of the G.A.R. and Women's Relief Corps conducted the funeral yesterday of Samuel Watson, the aged veteran who committed suicide at Durham. The services were held from the Fetters & Williams chapel. The following were pall bearers: A. Honodel, William Cussick, Luther Douglas, F.A. Wood, D.M. Birdseye and J.A. Glenn.
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The 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 26th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was often referred to by its members as "The Groundhog Regiment", organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio beginning June 8, 1861. The regiment was recruited in Butler, Champaign, Crawford, Delaware, Guernsey, Logan, Madison, Mahoning, Morgan, Morrow, Richland, Ross, Scioto, and Trumbull counties.
The regiment was attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to October 1861. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to January 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Texas to October 1865. The 26th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Victoria, Texas on October 21, 1865.
Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 25. and duty there August 1861 to January 1862. Action at Boone Court House, Va., September 1, 1861. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky January 1, 1862. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 18. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Lawrenceburg April 4. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Little Pond, near McMinnville, August 20. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Lavergne December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22–24 (detachment). Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga November 7. Lookout Valley November 7–8. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17–18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Orchard Knob November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26–27. March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8. Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19. Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6–17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3. 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. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at Nashville until June. Moved to New Orleans June 16, thence to Texas. Duty at San Antonio and Victoria until October.
Engagements: Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, Tullahoma Campaign, Battle of Chickamauga, Siege of Chattanooga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Resaca, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesboro, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville.
Samuel Watson, whose age at enlistment was given as 19, Birth Date: abt 1842, enlisted in Company E, Ohio 26th Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant on January 1 1865. Mustered out on October 21, 1865 at Victoria, Texas. Sources: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1838 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Age at Death: 74 Death Place: Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1905-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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Samuel Watson Birth Date: 8 Sep 1837 Birth Place: Ohio Age at Death: 74 Death Date: 3 Oct 1912 Death Place: Butte, Butte, California, USA Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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Samuel Watson Birth Year: abt 1835 Place of Birth: Ohio Age on 1 July 1863: 28 Race: White Residence: Springfield, Ross, Ohio Congressional District: 12th Class: 1. Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 4.
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Samuel Watson, Side: Union, Regiment State/Origin: Ohio, Regiment: 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E, Rank In: Private, Rank Out: First Sergeant, Film Number M552 roll 114, History of 26th Regiment, Ohio Infantry.
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Samuel Watson applied for veterans benefits on August 9, 1890.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 4, 1912, pg 4 col 3: Kills Self Near Life's Last Milestone. Civil War Veteran, Penniless and Despondent, is Suicide. J. Nelson, a veteran of the civil war, seventy-four years old, committed suicide at Durham early yesterday morning by shooting himself in the head with a .32 calibre revolver. The cause of the act was lack of money and despondency.
Nelson had come from Modoc county and was on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, near Napa. Wednesday evening, he applied to John Nichols, a farmer of the almond town and a member of the G.A.R., for assistance. Nichols replied that if Nelson could show credentials that he would help him. The old man replied that his papers were in his grip and he told what regiment he had served with.
Nothing more was seen of Nelson until he was found lying near the lower warehouse, close to the railroad track, at 7:15 yesterday morning. No one had heard the shot he had fired. The body was still warm and blood was running from his left ear.
A cheap revolver was clenched in his right hand with the thumb on the trigger. The cartridge entered the skull over the right ear and did not come out the other side.
The old man was penniless. He had been in Durham only a short time, having passed through Chico only a few days before. He had told persons in Durham that he had worked near Beaver, Lassen county, and was looking for a comrade. He also said that his discharge papers were at Yountville.
Coroner John Wallace was called and held an inquest at the town hall in Durham at 10:45 o'clock. Owen Adkins, J.P. Jones and George E. Strong were called as witnesses. The jury was composed of George W. Weaver, George A. Vice, W.J. McElroy, W.P. Cusick, W.E. Smith, William McAnarlin and Geo. E. Strong. It rendered a verdict of suicide by a gunshot wound, and gave the cause as despondency brought on by lack of funds.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams awaiting orders from Yountville.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 5, 1912, pg 5 col 3: Old Soldier Who Killed Self Is Identified. Local Men Knew Him as Samuel Watson, Well Known Lassen Resident. R. Woodmansee, a local barber, and Thomas Frost, both identified the body of the old soldier yesterday, who committed suicide at Durham Thursday morning. Both men have lived in Beaver, Lassen county, and they say that the old man was not J. Nelson, as he had told several persons at Durham, but he was Samuel Watson, a veteran of the civil war, who has lived at Beaver for a great many years.
Woodmansee says that there is not the slightest doubt that the deceased is Watson, whom he has known for thirty years. Watson was a popular old man in Lassen county and often related some of his war-time experiences. He took part in the battle of Bull Run on the Union side and several other famous engagements.
Watson had once been prosperous and so had some of his relatives, but most of them died poor. A brother of the deceased died in the poor-house. Woodmansee says that the old man often said that before he would go to the poorhouse, he "would go out back of the barn," meaning that he would commit suicide.
That is exactly what he did. While on his way to the Old Soldiers' Home at Yountville, he stopped at Durham to ask assistance and when refused he went on past the warehouse and shot himself in the head.
The body is now at Fetters and Williams and as soon as the papers are received from Beaver or Yountville establishing the fact that the deceased was a member of the G.A.R., the body will be buried, probably in Chico, with the local post of the veterans in charge.
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Chico Daily Record, Friday, October 11, 1912, pg 5 col 4: Watson Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services over the remains of Samuel Watson, the old soldier who committed suicide at Durham, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Fetters and Williams chapel. Members of the G.A.R. will have charge of the funeral. Burial will be made in the G.A.R. plot in the local cemetery.
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Chico Daily Record, Saturday, October 12, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Second Inquest Over Aged Suicide. Coroner John Wallace yesterday held a second inquest over the body of the aged man who committed suicide at Durham October 3d. As the result of the examination it was established that the deceased was Samuel Watson of Bieber, Lassen county, a veteran of the civil war, who had served in Company E of the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
The principal witnesses examined were Robert Woodmansee, a local barber, H.H. Cutter and H.H. Perkiss. All of them identified the body as that of Watson instead of J. Nelson, as was believed after the first inquest, which was held eight days ago at Durham.
The jurors were William Collin, William Cecil, J.W. Campbell, William Bundy, E. Witcher and F.M. Nau.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the parlors of Fetters and Williams under the auspices of the G.A.R. Burial will be in the local veteran's plot.
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Chico Record, Sunday Morning, October 13, 1912, pg 4 col 4: Veteran Suicide Is Buried. Members of the G.A.R. and Women's Relief Corps conducted the funeral yesterday of Samuel Watson, the aged veteran who committed suicide at Durham. The services were held from the Fetters & Williams chapel. The following were pall bearers: A. Honodel, William Cussick, Luther Douglas, F.A. Wood, D.M. Birdseye and J.A. Glenn.
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The 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 26th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was often referred to by its members as "The Groundhog Regiment", organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio beginning June 8, 1861. The regiment was recruited in Butler, Champaign, Crawford, Delaware, Guernsey, Logan, Madison, Mahoning, Morgan, Morrow, Richland, Ross, Scioto, and Trumbull counties.
The regiment was attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to October 1861. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to January 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Texas to October 1865. The 26th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Victoria, Texas on October 21, 1865.
Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 25. and duty there August 1861 to January 1862. Action at Boone Court House, Va., September 1, 1861. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky January 1, 1862. Advance on Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25. Occupation of Nashville February 25-March 18. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 18-April 6. Lawrenceburg April 4. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Little Pond, near McMinnville, August 20. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 30-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Lavergne December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22–24 (detachment). Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga November 7. Lookout Valley November 7–8. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17–18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Orchard Knob November 23–24. Missionary Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26–27. March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8. Regiment reenlisted January 1, 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8, 1864.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13. Buzzard's Roost Gap or Mill Creek May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19. Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6–17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29-November 3. 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. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 15-April 22. Duty at Nashville until June. Moved to New Orleans June 16, thence to Texas. Duty at San Antonio and Victoria until October.
Engagements: Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, Tullahoma Campaign, Battle of Chickamauga, Siege of Chattanooga, Battle of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Resaca, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Siege of Atlanta, Battle of Jonesboro, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville.
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