*In Your Memory*

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865

about Aaron W. Ebright

Name: Aaron W. Ebright

Side: Union

Regiment State/Origin: Ohio

Regiment Name: 126 Ohio Infantry

Regiment Name Expanded: 126th Regiment, Ohio Infantry

Company: F&S

Rank In: Major

Rank In Expanded: Major

Rank Out: Lieutenant Colonel

Rank Out Expanded: Lieutenant Colonel

Alternate Name: A. W./Ebright

Film Number: M552 roll 30

1850 United States Federal Census

about Aaron Ebright

Name: Aaron Ebright

Age: 27

Estimated birth year: abt 1823

Birth Place: Ohio

Gender: Male

Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio

Family Number: 590

Household Members:

Name Age

Aaron Ebright 27

Minerva Ebright 26

Jane A Ebright 2

1860 United States Federal Census

about Aaron W Ebright

Name: Aaron W Ebright

Age in 1860: 38

Birth Year: abt 1822

Birthplace: Ohio

Home in 1860: Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio

Gender: Male

Post Office: Lancaster

Household Members:

Name Age

Aaron W Ebright 38

Minerva Ebright 38

Jennie A Ebright 12

Mary E Ebright 8

Frank R Ebright 6

From General John B. Gordon's 'Reminisces of the Civil War'

'General John B. Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio, a prominent Union officer in the war between the State and Major-General of Volunteers in the recent war with Spain, gave me in a letter of January 18, 898, an account of the accurate predictions made by two of his officers as to approaching death. The first case was that of Colonel Aaron W. Ebright, of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Regiment, who was killed at Opequan, Virginia, September 19, 1864. General Keifer encloses me this memorandum, written at some previous date:

'Colonel Ebright had a premonition of his death. A few moments before 12 M. he sought me, and coolly told me he would be killed before the battle ended. He insisted upon telling me that he waned his remains and effects sent to his home in Lancaster, Ohio, and I was asked to write his wife as to some property in the West which he feared she did not know about. He was impatient when I tried to remove the thought of imminent death from his mind. A few moments later the time for another advance came and the interview with Colonel Ebright closed.

In less than ten minutes, while he was riding near me, he fell dead from his horse, pierced in the breast by a rifle-ball. His apprehension of death was not prompted by fear. He had been through the slaughters of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, had fought his regiment in the dead-angle of Spotsylvania, and led it at Monocacy. It is needless to say I complied with his request.'