Company A
1st Lieutenant
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54th Ohio Infantry
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Company A
1st Sergeant
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Company B
1st Lieutenant
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: David A. Rees
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Ohio
Regiment Name: 54 Ohio Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 54th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Company: F&S
Rank In: First Sergeant
Rank In Expanded: First Sergeant
Rank Out: First Lieutenant and Adjutant
Rank Out Expanded: First Lieutenant/Adjutant
Film Number: M552 roll 88
David A Rees
Enlist Date Enlist Place Enlist Rank Enlist Age
11 September 1861 1st Lieut 19
Promoted to Full Adjutant on 24 January 1864 (As of Co. S)
Served Ohio
Enlisted B Co. 54th Inf Reg. OH
Killed at Kenesaw Mountain, GA on 27 June 1864
Transferred on 24 January 1864 from Company B to Company S
Source: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
Abbreviation: OHRoster
Published by on 1886
Born 31 Jan 1842 OH Son of Thomas Rees & Elizabeth Stout Griffin Rees
Company B
Private
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Company C
Private
Enlisted as a Private on 10 September 1861 at the age of 18.
Died of disease on 24 August 1862.
Company D
Private
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Company D
1st Sergeant
John Wesley English is my great great grandfather. At some point he was wounded. From April 1864 to October 1864 he was in US Army Hospital No. 1 in Evansville Indianna as part of the 92nd Company, 2nd Battalion of the Veteran Reserve Corp under Commander H. S. Dixon.
Company D
Corporal
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Company D
Private
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Company F
Corporal
John enlisted on Dec. 31, 1861 for a 3 year period. Discharged Jan. 12, 1863, on Surgeon's certificate of disability.
Company G
Corporal
Killed at Nashville
Company G
Private
George E Ernsberger enlisted into the 54th Ohio at age 18 on February 13 1864 in Lima, Perry County, Ohio. He took sick in May of 1864 and spent most of the summer of 1864 in hospitals from Louisville to Chattanoga. He rejoined his regiment for the 'March to the Sea' and was promoted to Corporal near the end of the war. Furloughed and mustered out June 1865.
Company G
Rank unknown
Daniel died at Young''s Point, LA February 18, 1863
Company G
Private
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Company K
Private
Served throughout the early war and re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer. He was wounded by shrapnel in the back at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. His re-enlistment papers indicate that he was illiterate at the time of the war.