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Civil War in Newport
148th Ohio Infantry, compiled by Larry Stevens
In May of 1861 a company of Volunteer Militia was organized under the leadership of Captain Christopher Greene. According to William’s History of Washington County, this was the first volunteer Company ever raised in Newport. Dr. Joseph McElHinney was Lieutenant.
In September, 1862 Dr. Joseph McEHinney was elected Captain of the Newport home guard with one hundred volunteers. This was organized for the protection of Newport.
In August of 1863, Company H of the 46th Battalion of Ohio Volunteer militia was organized and raised in Newport for service in the state. Dr. Joseph McElHinney was elected Captain.
In May 2, 1864, company H was called into United States service. They became Company G of the Ohio 148th Infantry Volunteers. Although called out for one hundred days, they were mustered out in four and one half months in September of the same year.
Those who served in company G:
Dr. Joseph McElHinney served as a Captain and an assistant surgeon.
Person Farley, age 45, private
John Farley, age 18, private
Andrew Friedel, private
Christopher Greene, age 55, sergeant
James Brown Greene, age 31, private, sergeant
Frank Greenwood, age 16,
Thomas Guillinger, age 44, private
Jacob H Guillinger, age 37, private, corporal
Eli Worthington Hall, age 17, substitute, private, died at Bermuda Hundred on July 6, 1864
Preston G Hays, age 19, private
Thomas Neely Higgins, age 33, private
John Jobes, Private, died
Ebenezer Lang, age 17, private
Augustus Leonard, age 34, First Lieutenant
Thomas A McCoy, age 26, private
History of the 148th
This Regiment, organized as a Ohio National Guard unit, formed for one hundred days service, May 18, 1864, under Colonel Thomas W. Moore, and left for the field May 23d, by rail, when an accident occurred to the train resulting in the death of three and the serious injury of three others. The Regiment moved to Washington via Harper's Ferry, then to White House and Bermuda Hundred, where it served in the trenches until the last of August. It returned to Ohio and was mustered out September 14, 1864.
(From Dyer's Compendium)
148th Regiment Infantry. Organized at Marietta, Ohio, and mustered in May 17, 1864. Left State for Harper's Ferry, W. Va., May 23; thence moved to Washington, D.C., June 1, and to White House Landing, Va., June 9. Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 11, and to City Point June 15. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James. Duty at City Point till August 29. Moved to Marietta September 5, and mustered out September 14, 1864. Lost during service 2 Officers and 37 Enlisted men by disease. Total 39.
Officers from Newport
Captains: T. E. Greenwood, J. M. McElHinney; H. Middleswart
Lieutenants: W. Wood, A. Leonard. W. H. Edgerton
Chaplain, Rev. Gordon Battelle; 1st West Virginia
Civil War Roll
Abicht, Charles; 1st Ohio Light Artillery; Private
Abicht, William James; 36th Ohio Inf.; drummer
Abicht, William Frederick; 58th Ohio Inf.; Private
Adams, Alcynus; 148th Ohio; Private
Adams, Moses; 148th Ohio; Private
Adkins, Amos B.; 7th Ohio Calvary; Private
Amlin, G.
Babb, Reese Smith; 148th; Private
Ballentine, William Henry; 148th; Private, Corporal
Ballentine, George Kimberly; 6th West Virginia; Private, Corporal, Sargent
Ballentine, John T.; 6th West Virginia Inf.; Private
Ballentine, William Edward; 6th West Virginia Inf.; Private
Baldwin, Sinclair
Baldwin, Barker
Barker, Joseph II; 148th Ohio Inf.; Corporal
Barstow, Henry Whitney; 148th; Private
Battelle, Charles Durant; 148th; fifer (age 16)
Battelle, Gordon, Rev.; 1st West Virginia; Chaplain
Bell, Austin
Bell, William Henry
Bevan, John
Blakely, Andrew S.
Blakely, Lewis; 2nd AR. Light Art.
Blakely, William Henry
Britton, Charles Russel
Bosworth, Summer
Burge, Charles; 1st VA. Co. I
Bush, John L.
Bush, Josephus
Bush William Casner
Carpenter, David
Carpenter, Jasper
Carver, Isaac
Conner, Joseph Long
Cooke, Milton Gilbert; Ohio Volunteer Guard
Cooke, James Monroe
Crandall, W.
Cree, John R.
Crocker, Joseph
Crumbley, E. A.
Cunningham, Michael
Cutshaw, Shannon; 175th, Co. K, Private; d. Nashville, TN
Cutshaw, Sheppard
Cutshaw, William; 175th, Co. K; Private
Dana, Charles Luther; Company A, 148th O.V. I.
Dana, Frederick F.; Enlisted Aug. 31, 1862, in the 7th Ohio Cav.; and served through the war; was in Sherman's march to the sea; was sent to search for Jefferson Davis, and was one of the guards appointed to conduct Jefferson Davis to Atlanta; never off duty nor in hospital during his three years' service.
Dale, Edward R.
Davis, Hamilton; 77th, Co. B; Private; d. July 1, 1864 in Tyler, Texas in prison
Davis, Henry Edward
Davis, Isaac; Company "G" 4th Regiment W.Va. Cavalry Volunteers. Enrolled at Newport, Ohio; age 19; mustered in 29 Aug 1863 at Parkersburg, W.Va.; born in Washington Co., Ohio. He mustered out on 8 Mar 1864. On 23 Mar 1864 Isaiah enlisted as a private in Company "H" 1st Ohio Light Artillery Regiment. He mustered out on 14 Jun 1865 at Cleveland, Ohio.
Davis, K. B.
Davis, James W.
Davis, John Wilson
Davis, Sanford
Dick, J.
Dotson, Emanuel; 7th Cal. Co. H; Private; Also 25th Reg.; A prisoner, captured at Rogersville, Nov. 6, 1863.
Dotson, George
Dowens, George
Edgell, Benjamin Ellis
Edgerton, Luther
Edgerton, William H.
Edwards, Benjamin
Edwards, Dennis
Elson, Lewis
Farley, Pearson
Farley, John
Francis, A. J.; 92nd, Co. F; Private; d. Nov. 1, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN of Chronic Diarrhea
Francis, Stephen
Friedel, Andrew
Gano, Jacob
Garrison, Rodney S.
Gates, Jewett; 92nd. Co. G; Private; d. 1864
Gill, Gus
Goddard, George
Greene, Christopher
Greene, James Brown
Greenwood, Frank
Greg, Levi
Gullinger, Jacob
Gullinger, Michael
Gullinger, Thomas
Haight, Charles C.
Haight, George W.
Hall, Eli W.; 148th, Co. G, d. July 6, 1864 at Bermuda Hundred. Middle name: Worthington. Served 6 wks.
Hall, Oscar; 97th, Co. A; Private; d. Jan. 1863 in Tennessee in hospital
Haynes, Alfred
Hays, Preston
Hazel, Frederick
Higgins, Thomas N.
Hill, Addison
Hill, Cornelius Bell; 148th, Co. B; Private; d. Oct. 7, 1865 at Bermuda Hundred of Chronic Diarrhea
Hill, Henry McKibben
Hill, William W.; 77th, Co. B; Private; d. May 3, 1863 at Alton, Illinois of Measles. Middle name: Wallace
Hutchinson, Charles
Hughes, David
Jobes, Carby
Jobes, John; 148th; Private
Johnson, A. F.
Johnson, E. A.
Kraft, Albert Wilbert Delancy; 1st Va. Regt.; second man to enlist in W.Va. later served as an assistant surgeon.
Lang, Ebenezer
Lang, William
Larkins, Elias
Leonard, Augusta
Little, Arthur
Little, Thomas O.
Matheny, John
Manley, Bryan
Mathers, Alexander
Mathers, John
Mathers, Joseph
Mathers, Matthew
Matthews, David
Matthews, Edward
McCoy, Thomas A.
McCallister, Charles
McDaniels, J
McElfresh
McElHinney, Joseph M.
McIntire, Fidellius
McLain
McPeak, Jasper; 92nd, Co. F; d. Apr. 19, 1863 at Carthage, TN of Fever
McVey, Thomas Jett; 77th, Co. B; Private; He was taken prisoner at Shiloh and not heard from since.
Middleswart, George
Middleswart, H. F.
Middleswart, N.
Miller, Greenbury
Moore, Abijah
Newlan, David
Newlan, Henry
Newlan, Ira
Newlan, Martin
Nine, George
Nine, Jacob
Nine, Lewis; 39th, Co. B; Private; d. at New Madrid, Killed
Noland, Augustus
Noland, Johnson
Noland, Justus; 7th Cal. Co. H; Private; d. Mar 1864 at Camp Nelson of small-pox
Noland, Philip
Osborn, Henry
Osborn, Joseph
O’Blenes, Abram Guyton
O’Blenes, Henry
O’Neal, Gilbert
O’Sheen, Ezra J. [O’shorn?]
Paxton, John
Paxton, Martin
Peckins, Austin
Peckins, George Connor
Peckins, H. Sheppard
Pegg, Henry
Petty, Henry Wesley
Pryor, Nathan
Rea, P. G.
Rea, S. K.
Rea, W. H.
Reese, William
Reynolds, Charles Wesley
Reynolds, Daniel
Reynolds, Theodore
Ritchie, Isaac
Ritchie, St. Clair
Ritchie, William
Ross, Welland
Rowland, Rufus H.
Rowland, Robert S.
Scott, Maxwell
Seacord, D.
Seevers, Abram
Seevers, Daniel D.
Seevers, James
Seevers, Richard D.; 36th, Co. K; Private; d. Nov. 15, 1864 from wound received at Winchester, July 24, 1864.
Seevers, William
Sexton, Linsey [possibly Saxon?]
Shepherd, James
Shreves, James W.
Shreves, Thomas
Smith, George
Smith, George W.
Smith, Henry
Smith, J. Higgins
Smith, James Keith
Smith, Jonathan
Smith, S. R.
Smith, Samuel Thomas
Stewart, Ira; 1st Cal. Co. L; Private; d. Jan. 1862 of Typhoid Fever
Stewart, J. H.
Stewart, John
Thomas, George W.
Thompson, Edgar; 92nd, Co. K; Private
Thompson, S.
Tidd, Charles Wesley; 4th VA. Cal. Co. G; d. Dec. 17, 1863 at Clarksburg, VA of Typhoid Fever
Tidd, George W.
Turner, Benjamin Starkey
Turner, William Parker
Tuttle, I. C.
Unger, Jacob
VanWay, Isaac; 92nd, Co. F; Private; d. Apr. 1863
VanWey, James
VanWey, Moses; 77th, Co. G; Private
VanWey, Thomas
VanWey, William
Ward, Martin; 77th, Co. E; d. July 8, 1864 at Tyler, Texas in prison
West, Stephen
Wetzel, James; 125th
Whitsel, James: 125th
Whitsel, Joseph
Wheeler, Lewis
Wheeler, Jesse
Wheeler, John
Whiston, Silas Adkins
White, Walter Cole
Williams, Sylvester; 7th VA. Co. G
Williamson, James
Wilson, William
Wood, John C.
Wood, Joseph E.
Wood, Soranus
Wood, William Ware; 1st Cal. Co. L; Private; d. 1864 of Chronic Diarrhea
Woodward, John
Wright, Luther
Zanilley, B. F.; 39th, Co. B
Zanilley, John
Recapitulation:
Buell’s Battery – 5; Huntington’s Battery – 4; 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery – 1; Battery K 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery – 1; 1st Ohio Calvary – 18; 4th Virginia Calvary – 2; 1st VA Light Artillery -2; DeBeck’s Battery – 3; 7th Ohio – 10; 2nd VA Calvary – 1; 3rd VA Calvary – 1; 9th Ohio Calvary – 1; 148th Ohio National Guard – 58; 77th Ohio – 16;39th Ohio – 19; 92nd Ohio – 15; 6th VA Infantry – 5; 18th Ohio (3 years) – 10; 175th Ohio -2; 129th Ohio -6;36th Ohio -4; 63rd Ohio – 4; 75th Ohio – 3; 85th Ohio – 4; 125th Ohio – 2; 25th Ohio – 1; 116th Ohio -1; 185th Ohio – 1; 179th Ohio – 1; 196th Ohio – 1; 43rd Ohio -1; 97th Ohio -1; 33rd Ohio -1; 1st VA – 1; 7th VA – 1; 11th VA – 1; 14th VA -1.
Nine not designated at all
Total Number of soldiers -221
Total deaths – 32
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