Let me introduce my Great-Great Grandfather, Nathan Rine - Who served in the Union as a Private in Company H, with the 126th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry! He is pictured with my Great-Great Grandmother Sarah Nancy Weiker (photo dates to about 1880)
He was taken prisoner at the battle of Monocacy, Maryland on July 9, 1864. He was held in Lynchburg, Virginia where he was incarcerated about forty days, thereafter being held in the prison at Danville, Virginia for several weeks and finally taken to that notorious Libby prison, in the Confederate capital of Richmond. He was released after at the end of the war.
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He is buried at Albright Cemetery (AKA Union Cemetery) in Seneca County, Ohio
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This was taken from some Ohio Volunteer Infantry register - As you see his last name was misspelled (he is the last entry shown).
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If you have followed my first thread here, you know I was adopted. So finding this, from my biological side is extremely exciting!!
Here is a REAL ironic antidote... After a lifetime of wanting to visit the Gettysburg/Antietam area, we are going in May of this year. What is ironic is, about a month ago I decided to base centrally and booked a hotel in Frederick, Maryland - Less than 2 miles from where my G-G-Grandfather was taken prisoner at the Monocacy Battlefild on July 9, 1864..... That blows my mind....
Was it destiny calling that this all happened right before we go?
Congratulations ! Two of my east Tennessee Union ancestors died at the prison in Danvile. Thought this report might help in your research :
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Report of Lieut. Col. Aaron W. Ebright, One
hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry.
HDQRS. 126TH REGT. OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY,
August 27, 1864.
LIEUT.: In obedience to instructions, I have respectfully to
submit the following report of the part taken by this regiment in the
present campaign from
May 4, 1864, to July 9, 1864:
I.
On the 3d day of May, 1864, the regiment, numbering 23
commissioned officers and 555 enlisted men present for duty, then lying
winter quarters at Brandy Station, Va., was ordered to be in readiness
to move at daylight on the following morning. At the appointed time I
moved with the brigade in direction of the Rapidan River, which stream
we reached and crossed without opposition at 4 p.m., and encamped for
the night a short distance from the southern bank. During the afternoon
of the succeeding day we marched into the Wilderness, meeting the
enemy about dark on the extreme right of the line and engaging him
until after night-fall. My regiment being in the second line of battle,
suffered but a loss of 2 enlisted men wounded. We lay on our arms
during the entire night, often disturbed by volleys fired from the
skirmish line. The following morning I was ordered into the front line
of battle. At daylight skirmishing was
commenced and constantly kept up. At 9 a.m. we charged upon the
enemy's breast-works, the brigade in two lines of battle. Although we
failed to drive the enemy we were not repulsed, but stubbornly held all
the ground charged over until late in the evening and until after a line
of breast-works had been prepared for us by the rear line, to which we
fell back as soon as completed. In this charge myself and Actg. Adjt.
Thomas J. Hyatt had our horses killed under us. Although this was the
first engagement of the campaign, any failure to drive the enemy could
not be attributed to lack of courage of either officers or men, all with
a very few exceptions behaving with much gallantry.
The brigade was now no longer the extreme right of the line, Gen.
Shaler's brigade, of the First Division, Sixth Army Corps, having been
ordered to the right to protect the flank. In this position we rested until
just before night-fall, when our skirmish line was suddenly driven in and
our position outflanked on the right, thus subjecting my regiment to a
severe fire from both front and rear. We held our position, however,
until Gen. Shaler's brigade, forming the extreme right, had given
away, allowing the enemy to get in our rear, and thereby subjecting us
to danger of capture, when we fell back by company successively as the
enemy closed in upon us. By this time the enemy, as well as ourselves,
had been thrown into confusion, and darkness having set in, friend could
not be distinguished from foe. The enemy, who had captured a number
of prisoners, was driven back by our partially rallied lines, but was not
pursued. In this day's fighting my regiment lost 1 officer and 22 enlisted
men killed, 7 officers and 129 enlisted men wounded, and 3 officers and
67 enlisted men missing.
II.
Having rested on our arms during the night after the battle of the 6th of
May until after midnight, we moved silently by the left flank along the
line of breast-works to a point near the Wilderness Tavern. Soon after
daylight we were attacked, but the enemy were driven off by a battery
near us. In this position we remained until 8.30 p.m., when we marched
in direction of Spotsylvania Court-House. The march during the night
was extremely tedious and slow, the men often dropping to sleep in the
road. After a march rendered very severe by excessive heat and dust,
we found the enemy in the evening in a strong position, and made
preparations to storm his works. After having been formed, apparently
for that purpose, we lay quietly until after dark, then moved forward,
and approached as near the enemy's works as possible without bringing
on an immediate engagement. In this position we remained during the
night. Early on the following morning skirmishing commended, and was
continued during the day without intermission. Soon after daylight we
constructed a line of breast-works and lay behind them during the day,
nothing occurring in our front but continued and heavy skirmishing. In
the evening four companies of my regiment were detailed to support the
skirmish line in an advance upon the enemy. By straggling shots and this
heavy skirmish my regiment sustained a loss of 1 officer and 2 enlisted
men killed and 6 enlisted men wounded. During the succeeding day, the
10th, we lay behind our works, momentarily expecting an attack.
Desperate fighting occurred a few hundred yards from our right, the
enemy evidently attempting to break our lines at that point. On the 11th
one company
was sent out on the skirmish line. My regiment lay this day near its
former position, having moved but a short distance to the left. This
afternoon it rained very heavily, continuing nearly all night. On the
morning of the 12th of May artillery firing between the enemy's
batteries and our own was very severe. About 9 a.m. we marched to the
left, where heavy fighting was in progress. The division having been
formed in position about noon, my regiment was detached from the
division and sent to support Brig.-Gen. Wheaton's brigade, of the
Second Division, Sixth Army Corps. Here I marched over several lines
of battle to the front line and within about 100 yards of the enemy's
works, where we engaged him until 50 rounds of ammunition were
expended, and until every fourth man had been killed or wounded, then
retiring to the rear in good order. This I consider the most severe
engagement in which my regiment participated during the present
campaign. Early in this engagement I was struck by a musket-ball on the
head, which glancing inflicted no serious injury. I was, however,
knocked down and render unfit for duty during the remainder of the
day. My regiment in this day's battle lost 16 enlisted men killed and 1
officer and 53 enlisted men wounded. The entire regiment was not
engaged at this place, part having been left on the skirmish line in front
of our former position.
May 13, the enemy having been driven from his works by yesterday's
fighting, we were ordered on a reconnaissance, and soon found the
enemy in force. In the evening we moved back to a position near the
battle-ground of the 12th, and rested during the night under orders to
move with the corps at daylight. In the morning of the 14th we moved
in direction of the Richmond and Fredericksburg turnpike, crossing the
River Ny in line of battle in the evening and securing a position on the
heights south of that stream, where we intrenched during the night.
During the 15th and 16th our position was unchanged. About sunset on
the 17th we received an order to put ourselves in readiness to move at
once. At dark we moved out and marched very show, but continually,
during the night, arriving at a point near the battle-ground of the 12th
soon after daylight the following morning. Soon after getting in position
the enemy opened on us with shot and shell, killing and wounding
several in the brigade, but fortunately for my regiment, it suffered no
loss. Having lain under artillery fire some hours, we returned to
yesterday's position without an engagement. On the 19th we moved
forward as far as possible without bringing on an engagement and
intrenched, having advanced about 2 miles. But little skirmishing
occurred during the day.
May 20, skirmishing was very brisk. About noon on the 21st we moved
to the right and a few hundred yards to the rear into a new line of works
parallel to those we left just being completed. A short time before sunset
a sharp skirmish took place, in which the enemy drove our skirmish line
into the line of works we had recently abandoned. At 10 p.m. we left
the works and marched for Guiney's Station.
III.
The march from Spotsylvania Court-House to the North Anna River was
not attended with any fighting, the regiment with the brigade acting as
guard to the trains. In this capacity we moved with the trains until the
evening, of the 25th, when, leaving them, we
crossed the North Anna and took a position behind a line of
breast-works. On the morning of the 26th we crossed the works and
marched forward across the Central railroad, but immediately
countermarched to the works again. During the night it rained very
heavily. At dusk in the evening we recrossed the North Anna, marching
with much difficulty over roads rendered almost impassable with mud
and water, arriving at Chesterfield Station at about 12 midnight. At 6
o'clock on the following morning we took up the line of march in
direction of Pamunkey, halting within a few miles of the river, and
remained in position during the night. At 12 m. on the 28th we crossed
the Pamunkey on pontoons and threw up breast-works on high ground
2 miles from the southern bank. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, the 29th, we
were ordered under arms, to be in readiness to support Gen.
Russell's division in a reconnaissance; lay during the night in the works.
Moved at daylight on the 30th in a northwestern direction, striking the
Hanover Court-House and Richmond road at the 17-mile post, following
this road 1 1/2 miles. The regiment moved with the corps to the
Totopotomoy, and formed in line of battle on the north side of that
stream. Remained in position in sight of the enemy until 12 m. on the
31st, when we moved across the stream to the front. The brigade was
here formed in two lines of battle, my regiment in the front line. Two
of my companies were on the skirmish line. At one time during the
afternoon the enemy drove the skirmish line back upon the line of battle,
but advanced no farther. In this skirmish I had 1 man wounded. In the
evening the remaining eight companies of my regiment were detailed for
picket duty. Soon after dark 100 of my picket detail returned and rested
near the rear line of battle.
IV.
At 1 a.m. June 1, leaving the picket out, we commenced the march for
Cold Harbor. Having reached a point near the enemy, after a march
rendered doubly severe by heat and dust, at 10.30 a.m., we rested a
short time and commenced work on a line of breast-works. Before they
were completed, however (our pickets having arrived in the mean time
much exhausted and hungry), the brigade was moved to the left and
formed in four lines of battle, preparatory to charging the enemy's
works. My regiment in this charge was placed on the right of the rear
line. Gen. Smith's troops having arrived, and all preparations having
been completed, we advanced with a yell upon the enemy, driving him
in confusion form his works, and capturing many prisoners. Although
having been placed in the rear line immediately on crossing the enemy's
works, by some mistake I found myself in the front, which position I
held during the night. In this charge I had but 1 officer and 9 enlisted
men wounded, and 2 enlisted men missing.
June 2, having reconstructed the enemy's works for our own protection,
my regiment remained in them until evening, then moved to the rear. I
had 2 men wounded this day.
From the 3d to the 11th the regiment took its regular turn in going to
the front without any unusual occurrences. On the 6th I had 1 officer
killed, shot through the head by a rebel sharpshooter. About 2 a.m. on
the 11th I moved with the brigade to the rear, halting at daylight and
remaining in the rear during the day. At night fall we moved to that part
of the front line occupied by the Second Army Corps, relieving the
troops there. The brigade was
here formed in two lines of battle, my regiment in front. Our front line
in this place was between 50 and 75 yards from the enemy. In this
position we lay until 10 p. m. of the 12th, when, leaving 150 men of
my regiment in the works, we commenced the movement in direction of
the Charles City Court-House. During the march from Cold Harbor to
the James River no occurrence of an unusual nature took place. The
Sixth Corps was the last to reach the James River, being in rear of the
army.*
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. W. EBRIGHT,
Lieut. Col. 126th Ohio Volunteers.
Lieut. JOHN A. GUMP,
A. A. A. G., Second Brig., Third Div., Sixth Army Corps.
Source: Official Records
PAGE 747-67 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. [CHAP. XLVIII.
[Series I. Vol. 36. Part I, Reports. Serial No. 67.]
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