Ohio Soldiers/Prisoners of War at Savannah GA - Civil War

Contributed by: Adam Wilgus

 

NEW YORK TRIBUNE - Friday, September 30, 1864

From Correspondent: Hilton Head, South Carolina, Monday, September 26, 1864

Inclosed I send you a list of the officers, recently confined at Savannah but who have been removed to Charleston - about 600 in all. The following were in hospital at Savannah, Sept. 1 and were all comfortable. I visited them at that time, and having been removed the following Saturday to Charleston, I am unable to tell how they are at this date. None, I think, have died since.

 

Capt. J. Kauff, 143rd Penna. Vol.
Capt. Wm A. Sands, 1st Penna. Cavalry
Capt. G. H. Sawls, 1st Vermont Artillery
Capt. John Smylar, 14th N. Y. Artillery
Capt. Z. Vaughan, 45 N. Y. Vol
Lieut. W. H. Bender, 123rd Ohio OVI
Lieut. S. P. Hodges, 112th N. Y. Vol.
Lieut. Jacob Serydecker, 45th N. Y. Vol.

 


THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS DIED AT SAVANNAH:

 

Lieut. Waters, 16th Conn. Vol.; August
Lieut. Greenwood, 3rd Maryland; Sat., Aug. 27
Capt. William McGinnis, 75 Ind. Vol.; Sept. 1

There are no officers in Savannah. All have been removed to Charlotte and are in the jail yards. Some 1,200 officers are in Charleston. The Privates have been mostly removed from Andersonville; 2,500 are at Savannah; some 6,000 at the Charleston race course, and large numbers have been sent to Florence, S. C. The mortality rate continues great. They are better treated than they were at Andersonville.

(Following lists the officers from Ohio who were prisoners)

LIST OF MEMBERS OF SQUAD 4, C. S.. MILITARY PRISON, SAVANNAH, GEO., AUG. 15, 1864

 

Bailey, C. W., 2nd Lt., Co. A, 3rd OVI
King, M. D., 2nd Lt., Co. B, 3rd OVI
Peetrey, J. G., 2nd Lt., Co. B, 95th OVI
Peters, A. F., Capt., Co. D., 95th OVI
Reid, E., 2nd Lt., Co. I, 3rd OVI
Robinson, B. E., 2nd Lt., Co. I, 95th OVI
Stover, A. C., 2nd Lt., Co. G, 95 OVI
Ulm, J., 2nd Lt., Co. C, 3rd OVI
Vance, J. B., 1st Lt., Co. K, 95th OVI
Weakly, T. J., 2nd Lt., Co. G, 110th OV

 


FEDERAL OFFICERS HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR AT SAVANNAH, GA., SEPT. 1, 1864

 

SQUAD  5
Cleghorn, G., Lt., 21st OVI
Cottingham E., Lt., 35th OVI
Hotter, M. J. W., Adjutant, 59th OVI
King, A., Lt., 12th OVI
McBeth, W., Lt., 45th OVI
Patterson, J., Lt., Co. V, 21st OVI
Spafford, A., Lt., Co. C, 21st OVI
Thompson, J. J., Ass't Surgeon, 12th OVI
Tibbals, H. G., Capt., 12th OVI

SQUAD  6
Carothers, Jas. J., 2nd Lt., Co. K, 78th OVI
Cook, A. A., Lt., Co. M, 9th OVI
Knowles, R. A., 2nd Lt., Co. I, 116th OVI
Lewis, P. B., Lt., Co. F, 3rd Ohio Cavalry
Manning, J. S., 2nd Lt.., Co. A, 116th OVI
Oates, J. C., Lt., Co. B, 3rd Ohio Cavalry
Sibley, H. L., 2nd Lt., Co. B, 116th OVI

 


FEDERAL OFFICERS HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR AT SAVANNAH, GA., AUG. 31, 1864

SQUAD  2
Acker, G. D., Lt., 123rd OVI
Bender, W. H., Capt., 123rd OVI
Blair, B. F., Adjutant, 123rd OVI
Boyce, T. W., Lt., 123rd OVI
Breckenridge, F. A., Lt., 123rd OVI
Colver, F. B., Lt., 123rd OVI
Eglin, A. A., Capt., 45th OVI
Ewers, B. F, Capt., 100th OVI
Goodin, A., Lt., 82nd OVI
Hines, J. J., Lt., 100th OVI
Jennings, J. T., Capt., 45th OVI
Maw, S., Lt., 80th OVI
McNeil, Lt., 51st OVI
Purlier, H., Lt., 2nd Ohio Cavalry 
Reteley, W. L., Lt., 51st OVI
Robbins, A., Capt., 123rd OVI
Rosenbaum, O. H., Capt., 123rd OVI    
Schuylor, J. F., Lt., 123 OVI
Singer, G. P., Capt., 33rd OVI
Smith, M. H., Lt., 123rd OVI
Wetherby, J., Lt., 51st OVI

SQUAD  1
Norris, O. P., 1st Lt., 111th OVI
Ray, T. J., 1st Lt., Co A, 49th OVI
Winner, C. N., 1st LT, Adjt., 1st OVI