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Re: Ohio Infantry 67th, 131st and 163rd

Joanne,

Here's some additional information on these men from Ancestry.Com:

Jim Martin

Name: Benjamin Crabbs
Enlistment Date: 2 May 1864
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Private on 2 May 1864 at the age of 26.
Enlisted in Company E, 163rd Infantry Regiment Ohio on 12 May 1864.
Mustered Out Company E, 163rd Infantry Regiment Ohio on 10 Sep 1864 at Camp Chase, OH.

ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-THIRD OHIO INFANTRY
(One Hundred Days)

One Hundred and Sixty-third Infantry. - Col., Hiram Miller; Lieut-Col., John Dempsey; Maj., Aaron S. Campbell. This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, May 12, 1864, to serve for 100 days. It was composed of the 48th regiment, Ohio National Guard, from Richland county; 72nd battalion, from Henry county; 96th battalion, from Ashland county; and the 99th battalion, from Stark county. On May 13 it proceeded to Washington, D. C., under orders from Gen. Heintzelman, commanding the Department of Ohio. It was assigned to duty with headquarters at Fort Reno, D. C., where it remained until June 8, when it was ordered to the front and proceeded in transports to White House, Va., thence to Bermuda Hundred. It reported to Gen. Butler, at Point of Rocks on June 12 and on the 14th took part in a reconnaissance on the Petersburg & Richmond railroad. On the 15th, 250 men of the regiment were engaged in a severe skirmish and on the 16th it proceeded to Wilson's landing. From that point made several reconnaissance's on the west side of the James. On Aug. 29 it was relieved from duty and proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, where it was mustered out on Sept. 10, 1864, on expiration of term of service.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2

Name: John Crabbs
Enlistment Date: 25 Nov 1861
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Private on 25 November 1861 at the age of 38.
Enlisted in Company I, 67th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 25 Nov 1861.
Promoted to Full Chaplain on 15 Jan 1862.
Mustered Out Company I, 67th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 7 Dec 1865 at City Point, VA.

SIXTY-SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY
(Three Years)

Sixty-seventh Infantry. - Cols., Otto Burstenbinder, Alvin C. Voris; Lieut.-Cols., John R. Bond, Henry S. Commager, Lewis Cass Hunt, Henry R. West; Majs., Edwin S. Platt, Lewis Butler, Thomas J. Platt. This regiment was organized in the state at large, from Oct., 1861, to Jan., 1862, to serve for three years, and left Columbus for the field, Jan. 19, 1862, going into western Virginia. It was the first to engage the enemy at Winchester on March 23, and lost in that action 15 killed and 32 wounded. At Harrison's landing it campaigned with the Army of the Potomac till the evacuation of the Peninsula, when it went to Suffolk, Va., with only 300 men for duty out of the 850 which composed the regiment at the organization. Being then transferred to the Carolinas, for seven months it heroically endured all the hardships, privations, and dangers of the siege of Charleston, taking part in the attack on Fort Wagner and sustaining a heavy loss. The regiment re-enlisted and returned to Ohio on furlough, then took the field again in Virginia, and
May 10, 1864, will always be remembered as a sad but glorious day for it, when it lost 76 officers and men killed and wounded in the battle of Chester Station. Ten days later at Bermuda Hundred it participated in a charge and lost 69 officers and men killed and wounded. On Aug. 16, four companies charged the rifle-pits of the enemy at Deep Bottom and at the first volley lost a third of their men; but before the Confederates could reload the rifle-pits were in possession of the Buckeye boys. During the spring, summer and fall of 1864 the regiment confronted the enemy at all times within range of their guns; and it is said, by officers competent to judge, that in that time it was under fire 200 times. Out of over 600 muskets taken to the front in the spring three-fifths were laid aside during the year on account of casualties. It was in the siege of Petersburg, witnessed the close at Appomattox, and was mustered out Dec. 7, 1865.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2

Name: John Crabbs ,
Enlistment Date: 2 May 1864
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Private on 2 May 1864 at the age of 18.
Enlisted in Company K, 131st Infantry Regiment Ohio on 14 May 1864.
Mustered Out Company K, 131st Infantry Regiment Ohio on 25 Aug 1864 at Camp Chase, OH.

ONE HUNDRED and THIRTY-FIRST OHIO INFANTRY
(One Hundred Days)

One Hundred and Thirty-first Infantry. - Col., John G. Lowe; Lieut.-Col., Levi Waltz; Maj., Elijah Culbert. This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, May 14, 1864, to serve for 100 days. It was composed of the 2nd and 12th regiments Ohio National Guard, both from Montgomery county, except Capt. Beard's company of the 12th, which went to the 132nd Ohio Infantry. The regiment was ordered to report at Camp Chase for consolidation and muster-in, and on May 14 orders were received placing it immediately en-route to Baltimore. Upon its arrival at Baltimore the regiment was assigned to garrison duty at Forts McHenry and Marshall and on Federal hill. It remained in charge of the forts until Aug. 19, when it left for home, arriving at Columbus on the 21st and was mustered out four days
later, on expiration of term of service.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2

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