DeWitt , John T. ..... Residence at Gann (Brinkhaven), Knox County, OH. in April of 1861 enlisted in the 4th OVI, Co. B. for 3 months, then he enlisted in the 51st OVI, Co. I ,on Sept. 18, 1861 for 3 years. In that regt. he was detailed as
Blacksmith at Camp Wickliff, KY., then assigned as Quarter Master Blacksmith, then as a corporal detailed for Regt. Blacksmith. From Dec. 26 to Feb 10 at hospital in Nashville, TN. Again in hospital (# 7) in Nashville from May 12 to June 30, 1863 . From Aug. 1 through Nov., detached to gun boat service. Discharged for disability at Clarksville on Dec. 12, 1863. After 4 months of recuperation, he enlisted in the 142nd OVI , Co. F. ( one of the 100 day regiments.)

Upon discharge from the 142nd he enlisted on Oct 5, 1864 at the age of 23 as a private in the 66th OVI to serve for one year, [ as a substitute for John Vernon ] serving until the end of the war. In the 66th, he was at Atlanta and with Sherman on the march to the sea. He was in Raleigh, N. Carolina when Johnson surrendered.

John DeWitt served a total of 48 months in the infantry in 4 different regiments. He spent a total of 4 months in hospitals. [ information gleaned from his service and pension records. ] The 1890 Special Union Veteran's Census lists cause of disability...." chronic diarrea, Hart disease, kidney problems, rhumatism, and lung problems" His pension application states that he was no longer able to work at his occupation as a blacksmith and was running a dry goods store with his wife Mary.

[ John T DeWitt was the g.g.grandfather of Grace-Marie Moore Hackwell. He was born on July 11, 1841 in Holmes Co., OH. He married Mary Ann
Hoagland on Dec. 12, 1865 and they were the parents of Charles, Alonzo, Estella and her twin George and Marcus. John died on May 11, 1914 in
Brinkhaven, Knox, OH. He is buried in the Brinkhaven Cemetery and his headstone reads ..." John T. DeWitt, 4th OVI. " There is a bronze GAR
star at his grave site. ]
Submitted by....Shortyhack@aol.com (Grace-Marie Moore Hackwell)


Post, Morton W. ....was born at Chillicothe, Ohio on 13 ,September 1807, the second son of Russell E. Post and Mariah Easterly.His father had a private school at Delaware Ohio in 1817. That is the only knowledge of his father that I have except that he was in the war of 1812 in a unit from Fairfield, Ohio. His parents obviously divorced as his mother remarried to a Quackenbush at Albany,
New York, ca 1816. Which parent raised him I do not know. Morton married Eleanor Russell 25, January 1829 at New Lebonon ,N.Y. According to
his pension papers he had seven children. He was a paper maker by trade as was his older brother Russell E. Post. The two brothers and their families migrated from Berkshire, Mass. area to Orange County, NY to Ithaca, NY to Niagra Falls, NY back to Dalton, Mass and from there to Stuebenville, Ohio and Wheeling ,WV.

They were living at Wheeling in1861 when he made a visit to Delaware, Ohio and enlisted on Oct.24th in the 66th Regiment for 3 years. He must have lied about his age when he enlisted because although the roster shows him to be just 44, he would actually have been about 54-55.

He was captured at the Battle of Port Republic and sent to Belle Isle prison camp. He was so debilitated when released that he was discharged from the unit on Nov. 23, 1862 at Harper's Ferry, VA . on the surgeon's certificate of disability.

Apparently the war and his time after capture at the battle of Port Republic affected him, as in the 1880s he spent time at the soldiers home at Dayton ,Ohio and later at the vets hospital in Washington DC. He died 16 ,April 1892 there and was put to rest at Arlington cemetery.
Submitted by.....artc@discover.net (Art Courtright)

Aden Webb..... of Lawrence Co. Ohio was born on Oct. 22, 1834 the son of Elias and Jane Webb. He enlisted first in the 5th W.V. Infantry for three years and then in the 66th O.V.I. He was with Sherman on the March to the Sea . He received a wound at Rocky Gap, W.V.

(editor's note....I have not been able to locate a battle at Rocky Gap, WV. If anyone has information about this battle, I would like to hear from them.)

It is not known whether Aden's wound was received while serving in the 5th WVI or in the 66th OVI. In his own word recorded in the Hardestry Lake Atlas of Ohio....."Wounded in a severe hand to hand combat that lasted twenty four hours with the dead and dying strewn all over."

Aden married Westena Mays on Feb. 11, 1854. Their children were John and William. Aden was discharged with the regiment in July , 1865 at Louisville, KY. He received a pension . He died in Lawrence Co. Ohio on Aug. 25, 1906.

Aden had four brothers who served in the Union Army. Granville in Co. H. 2nd WVI, Eli in 191st OVI, George in the 5th WVI and Amos in the 27th OVI. All were discharged with honors.
Submitted by..... wardhill@zoomnet.net (Minnie M. Anderson)
Thank you for your time and effort. Minnie

Thomas Ray Patten.....was born in Beaver Co. in 1846. He turned eighteen in September, 1864, and enlisted in the Northern Army on October 7, 1864 in Ironton, OH. He was sent as a replacement in the 66th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During September, the 66th completed the siege
of Atlanta under Sherman, then began a three month long march to Savannah, Georgia. Thomas must have joined them along that march, and
was there during the Siege of Savannah (December 10-21, 1864). He came down with jaundice from January 23 to 27, 1865, and also missed duty because of an abcess from July 1-7, 1865. He mustered out with the rest of his regiment on July 17, 1865, near Louisville, KY.

Thomas married Mary E. Kellogg on March 3, 1871, somewhere near Delevan, IL. He presumably moved there along with his brothers James, Joseph, and Milo. Mary died only three months later and Thomas married Elizabeth Fuller in 1873. She, too, died, and Thomas married a third time. He may have gone back to Ohio to meet his third wife, Millie McElhaney. They had two sons, Walter Sydney and William Thomas. She died in 1892 when Walter was twelve years old and they lived in Indiana. Walter and William were sent to live with relatives in Delevan. Thomas married Julia Dodds Secrist on New Years Day, 1896, a few months after her divorce. They had one child, Millie L., in June, 1897. Julia survived Thomas, living past 1931. Millie married John Harms and stayed in
Delevan.

Thomas spent most of his life as a farmer, although he never owned any land. When he died he had $100 and about $10 worth of clothes and tools. He had been receiving $100 per month from the government as war benefits. He was buried in Delevan, IL. He was a member of the G.A.R. He was 5 1/2 feet tall with light hair and complexion.
Submitted by....tsp1624@earthlink.net

James Birney Hodges..... was born in Delaware County, Ohio, 7 Feb. 1844, the first son of Nathaniel Willard Hodges and Sally Ann Underhill of Fairfield County, Conn. Enlisted 18 Nov. 1861 at age 17 in Co. E, 66th. OVI at Camp McArthur, Urbana, Oh. Wounded 9 June 1862 in the Battle of Port Republic and was taken prisoner. Was held at Lynchburg Prison for two months, then transferred to Belle Isle Prison at Richmond for five weeks. He was still incapacitated from his gunshot wounds when released in a prisoner exchange. He was then hospitalized in an undetermined university hospital in the city of Baltimore until 4 July 1863. He was then transferred to Patterson Park Hospital and remained there an additional month until taken to a convalescent center at Camp Tyler where he spent an additional three months. After he was wounded, he saw no active service in the field and preformed no service of any kind until Aug. 1864 when he was assigned as an orderly at headquarters of the First Brigade, 2nd. Division, 20th. Army Corps.Upon his honorably discharge at Savannah, Ga. on 22 December 1984, he returned to live with his parents on their family farm near Radnor, Delaware County, Oh.

He served a total of 37 months but was a convalescent for much of the time. His pension records show his claim for an invalid pension was granted on 21 April 1865. He was awarded $4.00 per month for half disability. He married Mary Gaines Howison of Muskingum, County, Oh. on 9 Feb. 1871. The were the parents of six children. He engaged in farming until his death 10 March 1924. He is buried in the family plot at Radnor Cemetery in Delaware County. He was my great-grandfather.
Submitted by.....teddyb@bright.net (Theodore B. Byus)