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Re: 4th Ohio Cavalry, Charles Lester ?

Kent,

Thanks much for your reply. We ourselves wondered whether Camp Dennison would even be relevant to the matter any longer as the 4th Ohio Cavalry originally "mustered in" there in November 1861 but as you say was long gone in the field and had been reorganized as a Veteran Volunteer regiment by the time the soldier I suspect may have been my g.g. grandfather, Charles A. Lester, enlisted in this same regiment in August 1864.

If I understand your response correctly, you are saying that Chillicothe's proximity to Camp Dennison would no longer be a factor one way or the other as by mid 1864 draftees or bounty enlistees who were assigned to the 4th Ohio Cavalry would no longer receive their "training" at Camp Dennison but instead at some later war "training camp" located in a vanquished Confederate city like Nashville, Chattanooga or Atlanta.

Is this what you are saying? ... And if so, would it be the case that these later war draftees or bounty enlistees from the state of Ohio would always be placed with a regiment from their home state?

Thanks in advance,

Mike Bailey

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