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David S. Whitacre of Company E, 17 th Ohio Inf KIA 5-14-1864 Resaca
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Resaca Confederate Cemetery
Enlisted on 8/31/1861 as a Private.
32 years old. On 8/31/1861 he mustered into "E" Co. OH 17th Infantry
He was Killed on 5/14/1864 at Resaca, GA.
Buried: National Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN
- Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio
OHIO
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY
(Three Years)
Seventeenth Infantry. - (Three Years' Service.) Cols.,
John M. Connell, Durbin Ward; Lieut.-Cols., Marshall F. Moore,
Benjamin Showers; Majs., Benjamin F. Butterfield, James W.
Stinchcomb, Willis G. Clark. This regiment was organized at
Camp Dennison, in Sept., 1861, to serve three years. It first
participated in the Wild Cat fight in Kentucky and lost 7 men
wounded. It participated in the siege of Corinth and was
engaged in several severe skirmishes, in one of which Co. B
with 70 men, penetrated the Confederate lines, drove the pick-
ets back on their reserves, and held the position for 2 hours,
losing 2 men severely and 4 slightly wounded. The regiment
went into the battle line on the Stone's river field and with
its brigade charged the Confederate Gen. Hanson's brigade,
driving it in confusion, killing its general and some 150 of
the rank and file. The loss of the 17th was 20 wounded. It
moved with its brigade in the Tullahoma campaign, and at Hoo-
ver's gap charged the 17th Tenn. Confederate regiment, strongly
posted in a belt of woods, driving it back and occupying the
position. At the battle of Chickamauga the regiment was on the
extreme right of the center and when Gen. Wood's division was
double-quicked out of the line, the gap left exposed the right
flank of the regiment, the Confederates opened fire both on the
right flank and in front, causing it to lose heavily and scat-
tering the men in confusion. Co. B, the only one of the regi-
ment that retreated in a body, gave three cheers, sounded the
rally for the regiment, gathered some 200 men together and
charged on the enemy, but to little purpose, as the Confeder-
ates greatly outnumbered them. Falling back again, they held a
given point and fought throughout that memorable day, leaving
the field with but 52 men. The loss of the 17th in this battle
in killed and wounded was over 200, not counting those with
slight flesh wounds. Lieut.-Col. Ward fell about the middle of
the afternoon, on the front line, badly wounded. At Missionary
ridge, though in the rear line at the start, the regiment was
in the front when the top of the hill was gained. It took only
a subordinate part in the heavy skirmishing at Rocky Face
ridge, but bore its full share in the battle of Resaca. At
Kennesaw mountain the regiment suffered less than it had in
previous actions of less importance, but the heat was so in-
tense that many men were carried off prostrated by sun-stroke.
At the battle of Peachtree creek the regiment was actively en-
gaged, and it advanced under a galling fire of musketry and
artillery to the assault on Jonesboro. The regiment followed
Sherman through the Carolinas, took part in the battle of
Bentonville, passed in review before the president at Wash-
ington, and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., July 16, 1865.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2
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