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 HISTORY OF EICHLAND COUNTY.

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��After the brigade was organized. Quarter- master Brinkerhoff went in advance of it to Cincinnati and Louisville, to arrange for trans- portation and supplies. He had recently re- ceived from President Lincoln a commission as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Linited States Volunteers, and after his arrival at Louis- ville reported to Gen. Swords, Chief Quarter- master of the Department, and was assigned to duty as Post Quartermaster at Bardstown, Ky., and was never again associated with the Sher- man Brigade, except during the Corinth cam- paign he was in charge of the field transporta- tion of the Army of the Ohio, of which the Sherman Brigade was a part. •

The brigade, fully complete, well drilled and ready for service, left Camp Buckingham De- cember 17 and 18. The Sixty-fourth left at 12 o'clock on the morning of the ITtli, en route for Louisville, Ky. Two trains of twenty cars each were required. McLaughlin's squadron of cavalry accompanied the regiment. The next morning the Sixty-fifth and the battery

��left the camp, and that place, which had known so much bustle and life, was quiet. " The city is empty of soldiers," says the Herald., '^ and Camp Buckingham, which has, for three months past, been so animated and busy, is deserted, save b}' the few shanties occupied hy the regi- mental oflficers. We presume that the brigade is now united, and that, as far as practicable, it will be kept so during its term of service." This, however, as its subsequent history shows, was not the case. After getting to the field the brigade was separated, and was never in the service as a brigade, its regiments belonging to other divisions, as their history in the field shows.

The history of each of the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, the cavalry and the artillery, are given separately, as each has a separate historj'. That of the Sixty-fourth was written by Col. R. C. Brown, who kept a diary all through the war. The others were gathered from various sources, chiefly from Whitelaw Reid's book, " Ohio in the War. "

��ROSTER OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, SHOWING ONLY THOSE OFFICERS WHO WENT FROM

RICHLAND COUNTY.

��Kank.

�Name.

�Date of Rank.

�Commission Issued.

�Remarks.

�Colonel

�Alex. IMcIlvain

�March 11, 1863.

�March 31, 1863.

�Killed May 9, 1864, at Rocky Face Ridge.

�Colonel

�Robert C. Brown

�June 24, 1804...

�June 24, 1864...

�Mustered out as Lieutenant Colonel.

�Colonel

�Samuel M. Wolff

�Dec. 16, 1865...

�Dec. 15, 1865 ...

�Mustered out as Lieutenant Colonel.

�Lieut. Col...

�Isaac Gass

�Nov. 30, 1861...

�Dec.—, 1861....

�Resigned June 30, 1862.

�Lieut. Col...

�Alex Mcllvain

�Aug. 10, 1862... March 11, 1863.

�Nov. 19, 1862... March 31, 1863.

�Promoted to Colonel.

�Lieut. Col...

�Robert C. Brown

�Promoted to Colonel.

�Lieut. Col...

�Samuel L. Coulter...

�.June 27, 1864...

�June 27,1864...

�Mustered out Feb. 16, 1865.

�Lieut. Col...

�Samuel M. Wolff

�March 18, 1865.

�M.arch 18, 1865.

�Promoted to Colonel.

�Major

�Alex. Mcllvain

�.June 30, 1862...

�.July 29, 1862...

�Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

�Major

�William W. Smith ...

�Aug. 10, 1862...

�Nov. 19, 1862...

�Resigned July 15, 1865.

�Major.*

�Samuel L. Coulter...

�March U. 1863.

�March 31,1863.

�Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

�Major,

�Samuel M- Wolff

�Feb. 23, 1865...

�Feb. 23, 1865..

�Promoted to Lieuten.ant Colonel.

�Major

�George Hall

�Dec. 15, 1865...

�Dec. 15, 1865...

�Mustered out with regiment as Captain.

�Surge'on. . ..

�Hugh P. Anderson...

�Julv 24, 1864...

�.July 24, 1864...

�Mustered out with regiment.

�Chaplain ...

�A. R Brown

�Nov. 26, 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1863...

�designed July 13, 1863.

�Captain'.....

�Alex. Mcllvain

�Oct. 15, 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Major.

�Captaiff

�Hugh P. Anderson..

�Oct 21, 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Surgeon.

�Captain

�William W. Smith...

�Oct. 21. 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Majfcr.

�Captain

�Isaac Gass

�|Nov. 1, 1861

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

�Captaih

�Robert C. Brown

�Nov. 27, 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

�Captain

�Charles H Lord

�Nov. 30, 1861...

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Resigned Jan. 31, 1863.

�Captain

�Samuel L. Coulter..

�Dec. 1, 1861

�Dec. 18, 1861...

�Promoted to Major.

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