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Union service · Ohio
68th Ohio Infantry
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Company A
Private
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Company A
Private
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Company A
Private
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Company A
Corporal
Mr. Rickey was farming in Henry county, Ohio, when at the age of 28, he enlisted at Napoleon, O., Oct, 16, 1861, as a private in Co. A, 68th O. Vet. Vol. Inf., 3rd Brig., 4th Div., 17th A.C. He was once promoted, at the battle of Vicksburg, to corporal; he was injured in the wreck at Jackson, just after the battle of Corinth. This injury confined him to the field hospital at Jackson for two months. In Sept. 1863, he was furloughed for thirty days, and again in 1864 for the same length of time. He was discharged from his first enlistment at Vicksburg in Dec., 1863, but re-enlisted to guard Gen. Blair’s Head Quarter. Battles; Ft. Donaldson, Reserve Guard, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Hatcher Run, Jackson, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Baker’s Creek, Port Hudson, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Macon, Savannah, Columbia and Raleigh; his honorable discharge was granted him at Louisville, Ky., July 10, 1865.
From the Biography of Joseph Rickey. Vol. II, pages 671 & 672. Presidents, Soldiers,Statesmen; H.H. Hardesty, Publisher, New York, Toledo, and Chicago, 1894.
Company B
Private
David Shoemaker was my great grandfather. He was born July 26,1841 and died April 6, 1914 in Licking,Missouri.
Company C
Private
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Company D
Private
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Company G
Private
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Company G
Private
My GGG Grandfather Buried in Rogers Cemetary Williams county Ohio.
Company G
Private
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Company K
Private
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Company K
Private
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Company K
Private
Served from October 25, 1861 to July 21, 1862. Usually went by name of Perry. Later settled in Lincoln Township, Isabella County, MI.
Company K
Private
Enlisted as a Private on 15 October 1861 at the age of 19.
Mustered in Company K, 68th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 5 May 1862.
Received a disability discharge on 10 July 1865 at Saint Louis, MO.