COMPANY K.

Captain Alden P. Steele.
First Lieutenant D. E. Hurlburt.
Second Lieutenant William Neil.
First Sergeant C. C. Johnson.
Second Sergeant A. O. Benjamin.
Third Sergeant G. C. Judd.
Fourth Sergeant H. H. Fenton.
Fifth Sergeant J. B. Partch.
First Corporal D. Phillips.
Second Corporal E. W. Gray.
Third Corporal G. M. Cowgill.
Fourth Corporal A. D. Eddy.
Fifth Corporal Luther Kinney.
Sixth Corporal Joel Ritter.
Seventh Corporal J. Alexander.
Eighth Corporal Lewis Wrisley.
Drummer H. Wilder.
Wagoner Cooley Griffin.

PRIVATES.

R. W. Alderman, J. Blodgett, H. Davenport, D. W. Fisher, A. N. Alderman, Orlando Clark, G. W. Dean, William Fisher, C. A. Baker, T. Cook, E. E. Durfee, T. J. Fails, F. Burt, F. N. Cutler, F. W. Eggleston, L. Fowler, George Bullis, C. Conrad, William Fletcher, W. Fitzgerald, P. M. Griggs, Hiram Griggs, J. Goldsmith, H. Hammond, J. Hammond, W. S. Hoxter, H. Holcomb, F. Hilliard, Judson Hunt, J. L. Hayward, C. O. Hinkle, F. Johnson, E. A. Johnson, John Jinks, William Knox, F. Love, George Light, William Law (transferred to company G, December 14, 1861), D. Marsh, J. McCloud, J. Mathews, A. F. Mills, O. O. Oliver, S. Pierce, G. Perry, William Pond, G. A. Patchen, M. Ramsey, F. Rounds, William Reed, E. Reed, J. Randell, Solon Squires, J. Spain, J. Swinton, J. St. Clair, J. Sanfield, George Strong, D. Turner, J. Taylor, Jr., James Williams, C. W. Wilson, O. E. Wilson, A. J. Wightman.

CHAPTER II.

The Departure from Camp Giddings—At the Front—Death of Lander—Advance up the Valley—Winchester.

Christmas morning, 1861, dawned clear, with the earth bountifully covered with snow, and soon the busy preparations for this the first march were apparent everywhere. Knapsacks were packed, tents were struck, and the camp equipage snugly put into shape for transportation to Ashtabula, and at 10 o’clock the drums beat off. Then the regiment filed out of the enclosure, bidding a fond good-bye, many for the last time, to the old camp, up through the town, where everybody was waiting to wish the “boys” God speed. “Head of column left,” and the Twenty-ninth regiment was en-route for Ashtabula and the front, followed by the prayers of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts, that its every effort might be crowned with success, and that, if heaven so willed, all might return safely to the arms of loved ones, “when the cruel war was over.” How beautiful they looked in their new uniform, and how gaily the bayonets glistened in the bright sunlight as each man kept step to the music.

Arriving at Ashtabula, the regiment took cars, and was soon whirling rapidly towards Columbus, where it arrived the following day.

On disembarking from the cars, a march of four miles on the National pike to the west brought the regiment to Camp Chase, where it was assigned to barracks, and the sweets (?) of soldier life began to be more perceptible. While lying here, the regiment attended the inauguration of David Tod as Governor of Ohio, and perfected itself in the school of the soldier. On the 26th day of January, 1862, the long roll again sounded; the Twenty-ninth regiment fell in, and marched to the depot, a distance of four miles. It took cars, and steamed away for Dixie, passing through Newark and Zanesville, and across the Ohio river at Bellair, thence via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad through the mountains of West Virginia to a point some six miles below Cumberland, Maryland, where it made its first camp in Dixie. There it was assigned to the left flank of the Third brigade (the Seventh Ohio volunteer infantry occupying the right), Colonel E. B. Tyler commanding, and here it may be well to state that from this time until the Seventh regiment was discharged the service (July 8, 1864), the two regiments occupied the same position, engaged in the same battles, and endured an equal amount of the hard service incident to the several campaigns. The Twenty-ninth remained in active service for nearly a year after the discharge of its well-bred friends of the Seventh and until the collapse of the Rebellion. This for the benefit of those who imagine that only one regiment was recruited in Northern Ohio.

On February 5, 1862, a general movement was ordered to entrap the forces of Stonewall Jackson, then occupying Romney. The Twenty-ninth and its brigade took cars to French’s store, and marched some twenty miles to a point between Romney and Winchester to intercept the retreat of the rebels. The attempt was futile, however, as those whom the federals sought had flown ere the designated point was reached. This march was a terrible one, and told heavily on the men, many of whom succumbed to disease incident to exposure to the intense cold, the fording of streams whose icy waters were often waist deep, and the general hardships, were sent to hospital at Cumberland, and never returned to duty. Returning the following day, the regiment bivouacked at a point some eight miles from the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, known as Pine Levels or the Heights of Hampshire. Here it remained some ten days exposed to the intense cold, without tents, few blankets, on short rations, and no cooking utensils. Rude brush enclosures were constructed, which served the same purpose as Artemus Ward’s window sash, sort of “tangle the cold” or “keep out the coarsest.” It was by the greatest effort that the men were kept from freezing. This sort of thing seemed a pretty tough introduction to the “Sunny South,” but hardships of this kind became the normal experience of the Twenty-ninth regiment, and the sunny spots which occasionally intervened were duly appreciated.