Robert Gray
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2012
Officers of Company B, 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery.
Carte-de-visite photograph by Clement R. Edwards
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Image: Heritage Auctions
The 2nd Ohio was organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. Company B was recruited from Adams County and mustered in August 5, 1863. It mustered out August 23, 1865 at Charleston, Tennessee.
The inscription on the back reads: "Presented to Miss Han Jack by her uncle. Lieut Wick Corwin Co. B 2nd O H Arty."
Unfortunately we do not know which of the men is Lieutenant Corwin. However, the Captain seated in the middle is Philip Rothrock, who raised Company B and commanded it until his death. In an engagement on August 17, 1864 with Confederate forces under General Joseph Wheeler at Fort McPherson near Cleveland, Tennessee, Captain Rothrock was mortally wounded by the premature explosion of a shell. He was commissioned a Major on the 19th, but never mustered. He died in hospital on October 12, 1864. In November, his remains were brought to Mt. Leigh Cemetery in Adams County and reinterred. Prior to his service with the 2nd Ohio he raised and led a company with the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Lieutenant Wick Corwin transferred to Company F on April 11, 1864 and mustered out with the company in 1865.
Captain Philip Rothrock is my great, great uncle.
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Carte-de-visite photograph by Clement R. Edwards
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Image: Heritage Auctions
The 2nd Ohio was organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. Company B was recruited from Adams County and mustered in August 5, 1863. It mustered out August 23, 1865 at Charleston, Tennessee.
The inscription on the back reads: "Presented to Miss Han Jack by her uncle. Lieut Wick Corwin Co. B 2nd O H Arty."
Unfortunately we do not know which of the men is Lieutenant Corwin. However, the Captain seated in the middle is Philip Rothrock, who raised Company B and commanded it until his death. In an engagement on August 17, 1864 with Confederate forces under General Joseph Wheeler at Fort McPherson near Cleveland, Tennessee, Captain Rothrock was mortally wounded by the premature explosion of a shell. He was commissioned a Major on the 19th, but never mustered. He died in hospital on October 12, 1864. In November, his remains were brought to Mt. Leigh Cemetery in Adams County and reinterred. Prior to his service with the 2nd Ohio he raised and led a company with the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Lieutenant Wick Corwin transferred to Company F on April 11, 1864 and mustered out with the company in 1865.
Captain Philip Rothrock is my great, great uncle.
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