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HISTORY OF THE 90TH OHIO
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

The 90th OVI colors as brought from the war. This photograph was taken at Camp Dennison, Ohio, in June 1865. At center is D. C. Goodwin; on his left is Jacob S. Cockerill; on his right is Andrew Irvin.

History of the 90th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry

in the War of the Great Rebellion
in the United States, 1861 to 1865

BY H. O. HARDEN
EDITED BY SCOTT CAMERON

Black Squirrel Books

Kent, Ohio

2006 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242

All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2006018751

ISBN-10: 0-87338-884-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-884-9

Manufactured in the United States of America

History of the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1902 by the Press of the Fairfield-Pickaway News, Stoutsville, Ohio.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Harden, H. O. (Henry O.), b. 1844?

History of the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Great Rebellion in the United States, 1861 to 1865 / by H.O. Harden; edited by Scott Cameron.

p. cm.

First published in 1902 by the Press of the Fairfield-Pickaway News, Stoutsville, OhioT.p. verso.

ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-884-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-87338-884-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 90th (18621865)

2. OhioHistoryCivil War, 18611865Regimental histories.

3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Regimental histories.

4. SoldiersOhioBiography. I. Cameron, Scott. II. Title.

E525.590th .H37 2006

973.7'471dc22

2006018751

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.

Only an Old Tattered Flag

Only an old tattered flag,

But still heaven never smiled upon banner so brightly before.

Tis the emblem of freedom, the hope of our nation,

The flag of our country and it we adore.

Only a weather-stained piece of bunting,

Only a rag I hold to view,

But by its power I conquered the lion,

And bound him with threads of the red, white and blue.

Only a remnant of that once mighty army,

Only a few now remaineth with you,

Only a few more years at most and that army

Will camp no more neath the red, white and blue.

This 1900 photo by H. O. Harden marks the position of the 90th OVI at the Battle of Chickamauga.The farthest monument is the 90ths. The battery is the 1st Ohio. The scars in the pine tree were made by Confederate shot.

CONTENTS

ON AUGUST 14, 1862, eighteen-year-old Henry Ornduff Harden enlisted to serve the Union as a private in a company of men that formed in Ilesboro, Ohio. The company mustered into the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) regiment as Company G on August 27 at Camp Circleville and was made up of men from Fairfield, Fayette, Hocking, Perry, Pickaway, and Vinton counties. The 90th Ohio is one of a number of regiments that joined the Army of the Ohio to counter the threat of Confederate movements into Kentucky. The regiment fought at Stones River, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville and in many skirmishes. Harden and the rest of the regiment mustered out of the service at Camp Harker near Nashville in 1865.

Harden grew up on a farm in New Plymouth, a small community in Vinton County. He no doubt expected to take up farming again after the war, but in May 1864, while building corduroy roads in Tennessee, he suffered a hernia that prevented him from doing heavy manual labor. When he returned home, he worked as a shopkeeper.

In 1866 Harden married Catherine Stone of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and together they had six children: Florence, Harley, Alminta, twins Lillie May and Lulu May, and Iva. The growing family moved to Stoutsville in Fairfield County, where Harden worked as a schoolteacher and legal clerk, helping Civil War veterans complete the paperwork required for pension applications. In 1888 he started a newspaper, the Fairfield-Pickaway News. He published the eight-page paper every Saturday for roughly thirty years.

Well after the war, Harden was elected president of the 90th OVI Association veterans group, a position he held until his death in 1917. That post, together with his role as newspaper publisher, allowed him to solicit stories from his fellow 90th Ohio veterans. In 1902 Harden published the gathered recollections in History of the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Great Rebellion in the United States, 1861 to 1865, which he sold by subscription.

History of the 90th Ohio provides an interesting look at the role this regiment played in the Civil War and at the memories of aging veterans reminiscing about their service and reassessing their lives. It presents the voices of many soldierstheir diary entries, jokes, war stories, and tributes to lost comrades. One entry describes at length the Battle of Stones River. Another recounts a 1900 trip to the newly established national park at Chickamauga. The book closes with a listing of the fate of each member of the regiment.

In 1906 Harden presented a copy of the book to his infant granddaughter, Elsie Luella Barr (Morris)my grandmother. When I began researching my family history, wanting to learn more about what family members did during their military service, I read that volume and visited the battlefields it describes. Since History of the 90th Ohio has long been out of print, and copies are rare and difficult to find, I wanted to make it available to other descendents of the veterans as well as to those interested in the battles the regiment fought. This facsimile edition of the original 1902 book captures the look and feel of Hardens work and offers readers a primary-source document of a Civil War regiments experience and of its survivors memories.

Id like to thank the Kent State University Press for their interest in this project. Im grateful to the Fairfield County District Library for the loan of their copy of Hardens book to use in creating this facsimile edition.

Im indebted to my grandmother, Luella, and to my mother, Kay, who preserved our familys copy of the book for me to read a hundred years after it was first published. And finally, thank you to my nieces and nephews, who gave me an immediate reason for bringing Henry Hardens work back into print: so that they could learn about the life of their Civil War-era ancestors.

SCOTT CAMERON

DE DICAT ION.

T HIS volume is dedicated to my comrades who died on the field of battle; in hospital and prison pens; to those who have died since the war; to those who are yet living; to our brave and loyal fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts who so nobly stood by us and our flag during the great Civil War.

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