Corpl. Co I 81st Ohio Infantry
Entered service 15 Aug 1862, age 23.
Appointed Corporal.
Killed in the battle of Atlanta, 22 Jul 1864.
In the 1863 draft registration he is listed as a resident of Perry, Fayette County, age 24, single, and already in the 81st Ohio Infantry.
No. 545. Report of Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, of operations July 22.
...At 9 a.m. on the 22d the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to the extreme left of the position occupied by the Seventeenth Army Corps. Arriving within a few hundred yards of that position, it was halted, with the brigade, and there rested an hour and a half, when it was ordered forward 100 yards into an open field, and, with the brigade, formed into line of battle, facing in a southeasterly direction, in the following order: Twelfth Illinois on the right, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the left, and the Eighty-first Ohio in the center and in rear of the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, the line forming almost a right angle with works occupied by the troops on the extreme left of the Seventeenth Army Corps. These dispositions were accomplished just in the nick of time, for the enemy immediately advanced upon us in heavy force, and a severe engagement ensued. The enemy steadily advanced, under a withering fire, until within a few yards of our lines, when he began to waver, whereupon, by direction of General Dodge, the regiment, with the brigade, moved forward, charged the enemy, and drove him from the field, with heavy loss. The Eighty-first Ohio in this charge captured 2 stand of colors and 226 prisoners. At 2 p.m. the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to a position on the right of the Augusta and Atlanta Railroad. Moving in double-quick time a distance of one mile and a quarter, the brigade was then formed in line of battle, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the right, Eighty-first Ohio in the center, and the Twelfth Illinois on the left, resting on the railroad. A charge was then ordered and made by the entire brigade, resulting in the retaking of a line of works from which the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, had been previously driven, and the recapture of four 20-pounder Parrott guns, of Captain DeGress battery, and a large number of small-arms. In this charge the Eighty-first Ohio captured 29 prisoners, making the total number of prisoners captured by the regiment during the day 255. The loss of the regiment on both fields was 11 killed. 52 wounded, and 3 missing, including 2 commissioned officers killed and 1 wounded.
BUCHANAN, G A
CPL US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 07/22/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 5956
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His father, John Buchanan, applied for a pension based on his son's service July 21, 1880.
Entered service 15 Aug 1862, age 23.
Appointed Corporal.
Killed in the battle of Atlanta, 22 Jul 1864.
In the 1863 draft registration he is listed as a resident of Perry, Fayette County, age 24, single, and already in the 81st Ohio Infantry.
No. 545. Report of Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, of operations July 22.
...At 9 a.m. on the 22d the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to the extreme left of the position occupied by the Seventeenth Army Corps. Arriving within a few hundred yards of that position, it was halted, with the brigade, and there rested an hour and a half, when it was ordered forward 100 yards into an open field, and, with the brigade, formed into line of battle, facing in a southeasterly direction, in the following order: Twelfth Illinois on the right, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the left, and the Eighty-first Ohio in the center and in rear of the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, the line forming almost a right angle with works occupied by the troops on the extreme left of the Seventeenth Army Corps. These dispositions were accomplished just in the nick of time, for the enemy immediately advanced upon us in heavy force, and a severe engagement ensued. The enemy steadily advanced, under a withering fire, until within a few yards of our lines, when he began to waver, whereupon, by direction of General Dodge, the regiment, with the brigade, moved forward, charged the enemy, and drove him from the field, with heavy loss. The Eighty-first Ohio in this charge captured 2 stand of colors and 226 prisoners. At 2 p.m. the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to a position on the right of the Augusta and Atlanta Railroad. Moving in double-quick time a distance of one mile and a quarter, the brigade was then formed in line of battle, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the right, Eighty-first Ohio in the center, and the Twelfth Illinois on the left, resting on the railroad. A charge was then ordered and made by the entire brigade, resulting in the retaking of a line of works from which the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, had been previously driven, and the recapture of four 20-pounder Parrott guns, of Captain DeGress battery, and a large number of small-arms. In this charge the Eighty-first Ohio captured 29 prisoners, making the total number of prisoners captured by the regiment during the day 255. The loss of the regiment on both fields was 11 killed. 52 wounded, and 3 missing, including 2 commissioned officers killed and 1 wounded.
BUCHANAN, G A
CPL US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 07/22/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 5956
-VA gravesite locator
His father, John Buchanan, applied for a pension based on his son's service July 21, 1880.
Corpl. Co I 81st Ohio Infantry
Entered service 15 Aug 1862, age 23.
Appointed Corporal.
Killed in the battle of Atlanta, 22 Jul 1864.
In the 1863 draft registration he is listed as a resident of Perry, Fayette County, age 24, single, and already in the 81st Ohio Infantry.
No. 545. Report of Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, of operations July 22.
...At 9 a.m. on the 22d the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to the extreme left of the position occupied by the Seventeenth Army Corps. Arriving within a few hundred yards of that position, it was halted, with the brigade, and there rested an hour and a half, when it was ordered forward 100 yards into an open field, and, with the brigade, formed into line of battle, facing in a southeasterly direction, in the following order: Twelfth Illinois on the right, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the left, and the Eighty-first Ohio in the center and in rear of the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, the line forming almost a right angle with works occupied by the troops on the extreme left of the Seventeenth Army Corps. These dispositions were accomplished just in the nick of time, for the enemy immediately advanced upon us in heavy force, and a severe engagement ensued. The enemy steadily advanced, under a withering fire, until within a few yards of our lines, when he began to waver, whereupon, by direction of General Dodge, the regiment, with the brigade, moved forward, charged the enemy, and drove him from the field, with heavy loss. The Eighty-first Ohio in this charge captured 2 stand of colors and 226 prisoners. At 2 p.m. the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to a position on the right of the Augusta and Atlanta Railroad. Moving in double-quick time a distance of one mile and a quarter, the brigade was then formed in line of battle, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the right, Eighty-first Ohio in the center, and the Twelfth Illinois on the left, resting on the railroad. A charge was then ordered and made by the entire brigade, resulting in the retaking of a line of works from which the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, had been previously driven, and the recapture of four 20-pounder Parrott guns, of Captain DeGress battery, and a large number of small-arms. In this charge the Eighty-first Ohio captured 29 prisoners, making the total number of prisoners captured by the regiment during the day 255. The loss of the regiment on both fields was 11 killed. 52 wounded, and 3 missing, including 2 commissioned officers killed and 1 wounded.
BUCHANAN, G A
CPL US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 07/22/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 5956
-VA gravesite locator
His father, John Buchanan, applied for a pension based on his son's service July 21, 1880.
Entered service 15 Aug 1862, age 23.
Appointed Corporal.
Killed in the battle of Atlanta, 22 Jul 1864.
In the 1863 draft registration he is listed as a resident of Perry, Fayette County, age 24, single, and already in the 81st Ohio Infantry.
No. 545. Report of Lieut. Col. Robert N. Adams, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, of operations July 22.
...At 9 a.m. on the 22d the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to the extreme left of the position occupied by the Seventeenth Army Corps. Arriving within a few hundred yards of that position, it was halted, with the brigade, and there rested an hour and a half, when it was ordered forward 100 yards into an open field, and, with the brigade, formed into line of battle, facing in a southeasterly direction, in the following order: Twelfth Illinois on the right, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the left, and the Eighty-first Ohio in the center and in rear of the Fourteenth Ohio Battery, the line forming almost a right angle with works occupied by the troops on the extreme left of the Seventeenth Army Corps. These dispositions were accomplished just in the nick of time, for the enemy immediately advanced upon us in heavy force, and a severe engagement ensued. The enemy steadily advanced, under a withering fire, until within a few yards of our lines, when he began to waver, whereupon, by direction of General Dodge, the regiment, with the brigade, moved forward, charged the enemy, and drove him from the field, with heavy loss. The Eighty-first Ohio in this charge captured 2 stand of colors and 226 prisoners. At 2 p.m. the regiment was ordered, with the brigade, to a position on the right of the Augusta and Atlanta Railroad. Moving in double-quick time a distance of one mile and a quarter, the brigade was then formed in line of battle, Sixty-sixth Illinois on the right, Eighty-first Ohio in the center, and the Twelfth Illinois on the left, resting on the railroad. A charge was then ordered and made by the entire brigade, resulting in the retaking of a line of works from which the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, had been previously driven, and the recapture of four 20-pounder Parrott guns, of Captain DeGress battery, and a large number of small-arms. In this charge the Eighty-first Ohio captured 29 prisoners, making the total number of prisoners captured by the regiment during the day 255. The loss of the regiment on both fields was 11 killed. 52 wounded, and 3 missing, including 2 commissioned officers killed and 1 wounded.
BUCHANAN, G A
CPL US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 07/22/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 5956
-VA gravesite locator
His father, John Buchanan, applied for a pension based on his son's service July 21, 1880.
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