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364 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
the 20th of July, at which time it took part in the fight at Peach Tree
Creek. Until the latter part of August the regiment was almost daily
under fire. It next engaged at Jonesboro, September 3d, and then at
Lovejoy Station on the 6th.
After the fall of Atlanta, the Sixty-fourth encamped in the city, but
tAvo Aveeks later, with the Fourth Corps, joined in pursuit of Hood's
forces as far as Chattanooga. Here 400 recruits were added to the
regiment and the veterans Avere paid off. After following Hood about
fifty miles south of Chattanooga the regiment returned to that point,
after which it Avas sent to Athens, Alabama, and thence marched to
Pulaski and Spring Hill, at Avhich latter place it had another sharp
tight. From Spring Hill the regiment marched to Franklin, Tennessee,
and engaged in the battle there with heavy loss. After that it returned
to Nashville and was engaged in sorties and battles before that city.
It then pursued Hood again and finally Avent into camp at Huntsville,
but soon left and moved to Decatur and Athens, remaining about tAvo
months and then returned to Huntsville; thence into East Tennessee and
soon after returned to Nashville. From the latter place it AVIIS sent to
NCAV Orleans, AA'here many died from sickness. About the middle of
September, 1865, the Sixty-fourth Avent to Victoria, Texas, Avhere on the
3d of December following the men Avere paid off, discharged and sent
home.
THE SIXTY-FIFTH INFANTRY
The Sixty-fifth Avas one of the regiments raised at Mansfield, and
knoAvn as the "Sherman brigade," having been recruited mainly through
the efforts of Hon. John Sherman. It AVIIS organized at Camp Buckingham,
and Avas mustered into service on the 1st of December, 1861.
Erie County Avas represented in this regiment by about thirty-five
men, nearly all of whom Avere members of Company G, Avhile a few
and only a feAV, Avere scattered through other companies.
The army life and experiences of this regiment, according to WhitelaAv
Reid, in his "Ohio in the War," Avere as follows: "The regiment
left Mansfield for active duty on the 18th of December, and moved by
way of Cincinnati, to Louisville, Ky., AA'here it remained for a Aveek. and^
then inarched to Camp Morton, arriving there on the 30th. The Sixty^
fifth Avas assigned to a brigade composed of the-S-ixtyJ^urth and Sixtyfifth
Ohio, the Fifty-first Indiana and Ninth Kentucky. Colonel Darker,
of the Sixty-fifth, commanded the brigade, and General Wood the
division." «i
On January 13, 1862, the brigade broke camp and proceeded to Hall's
Gap, arriving there on the 24th. Avhen it Avas at once placed at Avork to
corduroy the roads. O^L account of the SAvampy, miasmatic nature of the
country many of the meta fell sick and died. On February 7 the regiment
left this place and I larched to Lebanon, Avhere by rail it proceeded
to Green River, and remained in camp at Munfordsville until the 23d,
after which it Avent toymishville, arriving there on March 13th, tired and