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Charles Showers This fellow from the 96th Ohio is ink signed
on the front and inscribed on the back. Back marked Theo
Lilienthal's, New Orleans. $125.00
Residence was not listed; 27 years old.
Enlisted on 8/6/1862 as a Private.
On 8/19/1862 he mustered into "E" Co. OH 96th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 7/7/1865 at Mobile, AL
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 11/18/1864 from company E to company C
After the War he lived in Marion, OH
OHIO
NINETY-SIXTH INFANTRY
(Three Years)
Ninety-sixth Infantry. - Col., Joseph W. Vance; Lieut -
Col., Albert H. Brown; Majs., Charles H. McElroy, Joseph
Leon-
ard. This regiment was organized at Camp Delaware, Aug. 19
and
22, 1862, to serve for three years. It was consolidated into a
battalion of five companies on Nov. 18, 1864. At the time of
its organization it numbered 1,014 men, rank and file. Its
first service was in Kentucky, occasioned by the Kirby Smith
raid, but in November it was sent to Mississippi, where it took
part in the first attack on Vicksburg at Chickasaw bluffs. On
Jan. 10, it landed near Arkansas Post and took an active part
in the attack upon that fort on the subsequent day, with a loss
of 10 killed and 26 wounded. It returned to Young's point,
La., accompanied the army in its flanking movement to the
rear
of Vicksburg, and took part in the operations and siege of that
city until its surrender. It then marched to Jackson, Miss.,
and took part in the siege of that place up to its evacuation
then marched to Bryan's station and Dry creek, and thence to
Vicksburg. It then moved to Louisiana and in the desperate
fight at Grand Coteau lost 9 killed, 33 wounded and 68 taken
prisoners. It engaged in the battle of Sabine cross-roads,
with a loss of 6 killed, 24 wounded and 26 taken prisoners, and
in that terrible and ever memorable retreat to the Mississippi
river it was fighting and skirmishing most of the way. It
formed part of the forces in the siege and capture of Fort
Gaines, then moved to the rear of Fort Morgan and engaged in
the siege of that fort until it fell. It was engaged in the
operations around Mobile, taking part in the siege of Spanish
Fort until its evacuation and in the capture of the city. The
regiment was mustered out on July 7, 1865, numbering at that
date 427, including one company that had been transferred to
it
from the 42nd regiment.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2
on the front and inscribed on the back. Back marked Theo
Lilienthal's, New Orleans. $125.00
Residence was not listed; 27 years old.
Enlisted on 8/6/1862 as a Private.
On 8/19/1862 he mustered into "E" Co. OH 96th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 7/7/1865 at Mobile, AL
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 11/18/1864 from company E to company C
After the War he lived in Marion, OH
OHIO
NINETY-SIXTH INFANTRY
(Three Years)
Ninety-sixth Infantry. - Col., Joseph W. Vance; Lieut -
Col., Albert H. Brown; Majs., Charles H. McElroy, Joseph
Leon-
ard. This regiment was organized at Camp Delaware, Aug. 19
and
22, 1862, to serve for three years. It was consolidated into a
battalion of five companies on Nov. 18, 1864. At the time of
its organization it numbered 1,014 men, rank and file. Its
first service was in Kentucky, occasioned by the Kirby Smith
raid, but in November it was sent to Mississippi, where it took
part in the first attack on Vicksburg at Chickasaw bluffs. On
Jan. 10, it landed near Arkansas Post and took an active part
in the attack upon that fort on the subsequent day, with a loss
of 10 killed and 26 wounded. It returned to Young's point,
La., accompanied the army in its flanking movement to the
rear
of Vicksburg, and took part in the operations and siege of that
city until its surrender. It then marched to Jackson, Miss.,
and took part in the siege of that place up to its evacuation
then marched to Bryan's station and Dry creek, and thence to
Vicksburg. It then moved to Louisiana and in the desperate
fight at Grand Coteau lost 9 killed, 33 wounded and 68 taken
prisoners. It engaged in the battle of Sabine cross-roads,
with a loss of 6 killed, 24 wounded and 26 taken prisoners, and
in that terrible and ever memorable retreat to the Mississippi
river it was fighting and skirmishing most of the way. It
formed part of the forces in the siege and capture of Fort
Gaines, then moved to the rear of Fort Morgan and engaged in
the siege of that fort until it fell. It was engaged in the
operations around Mobile, taking part in the siege of Spanish
Fort until its evacuation and in the capture of the city. The
regiment was mustered out on July 7, 1865, numbering at that
date 427, including one company that had been transferred to
it
from the 42nd regiment.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2
