Member 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A
Tilden Kleckner, at age eighteen, enlisted in Co. A, of the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 8/28/1861, giving Biglick Township, Hancock County, as his home. Tilden was shot in the leg during the defense of Snodgrass Hill, and died of his wound on November 18, 1863.
On May 26, 1862, Tilden, along with the regiment, turned in his Springfield rifled musket and was issued Samuel Colt's 56 caliber Colt Revolving Rifle. These new five shot rifles of which the government only issued 3,725 were to be put to good use by the 21st Regiment, especially at the Battle of Chickamauga, where the regiment broke all records firing an incredible 43,550 rounds, in just five hours fighting.
The Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863, twelve miles south of Chattanooga, proved to be one of the 21st Regiment's fiercest battles, and one in which the Union army narrowly avoided being destroyed.
On September 20, 1863, during the battle, the 21st Regiment and two other regiments were sent to Snodgrass Hill to protect General Rosecrans' retreating army. During the defense of Snodgrass Hill, which lasted most of the day, the 21st repulsed every attack, facing odds of more than three to one, in what turned out to be one of the heaviest attacks at a single point and one of the most valiant stands of the war.
But as dusk was falling, the Confederates advanced again. The 21st Regiment was completely out of ammunition, so the order to "fix bayonets" was passed down the line. "Forward" was sounded, and the Regiment went flying into the charging Rebels. So impetuous was their counter-charge, with empty rifles and empty cartridge-boxes, that they sent the enemy reeling back. But, flanked on both sides, they were captured. As darkness fell, many of them slipped away into the night.
For the day's fighting at Chickamauga the 21st Regiment, starting with five hundred and thirty nine, men and officers, lost a total of two hundred and sixty five men. Forty eight killed, one hundred and one wounded, and one hundred and sixteen captured. Of those captured, fifty nine died in Confederate prisons.
Tilden Kleckner, Company A, 21st OVI, Biglick Township, Hancock County; was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and died soon after, aged 20 years.
--Obituary, Hancock Jeffersonian, Feb 23, 1866
Tilden's brother, Absalom Kleckner is interred in Hancock, Ohio. Absalom was killed in the early fighting, the first day of the Battle of Stones River, Dec 31, 1862.
Tilden Kleckner, at age eighteen, enlisted in Co. A, of the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 8/28/1861, giving Biglick Township, Hancock County, as his home. Tilden was shot in the leg during the defense of Snodgrass Hill, and died of his wound on November 18, 1863.
On May 26, 1862, Tilden, along with the regiment, turned in his Springfield rifled musket and was issued Samuel Colt's 56 caliber Colt Revolving Rifle. These new five shot rifles of which the government only issued 3,725 were to be put to good use by the 21st Regiment, especially at the Battle of Chickamauga, where the regiment broke all records firing an incredible 43,550 rounds, in just five hours fighting.
The Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863, twelve miles south of Chattanooga, proved to be one of the 21st Regiment's fiercest battles, and one in which the Union army narrowly avoided being destroyed.
On September 20, 1863, during the battle, the 21st Regiment and two other regiments were sent to Snodgrass Hill to protect General Rosecrans' retreating army. During the defense of Snodgrass Hill, which lasted most of the day, the 21st repulsed every attack, facing odds of more than three to one, in what turned out to be one of the heaviest attacks at a single point and one of the most valiant stands of the war.
But as dusk was falling, the Confederates advanced again. The 21st Regiment was completely out of ammunition, so the order to "fix bayonets" was passed down the line. "Forward" was sounded, and the Regiment went flying into the charging Rebels. So impetuous was their counter-charge, with empty rifles and empty cartridge-boxes, that they sent the enemy reeling back. But, flanked on both sides, they were captured. As darkness fell, many of them slipped away into the night.
For the day's fighting at Chickamauga the 21st Regiment, starting with five hundred and thirty nine, men and officers, lost a total of two hundred and sixty five men. Forty eight killed, one hundred and one wounded, and one hundred and sixteen captured. Of those captured, fifty nine died in Confederate prisons.
Tilden Kleckner, Company A, 21st OVI, Biglick Township, Hancock County; was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and died soon after, aged 20 years.
--Obituary, Hancock Jeffersonian, Feb 23, 1866
Tilden's brother, Absalom Kleckner is interred in Hancock, Ohio. Absalom was killed in the early fighting, the first day of the Battle of Stones River, Dec 31, 1862.
Member 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A
Tilden Kleckner, at age eighteen, enlisted in Co. A, of the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 8/28/1861, giving Biglick Township, Hancock County, as his home. Tilden was shot in the leg during the defense of Snodgrass Hill, and died of his wound on November 18, 1863.
On May 26, 1862, Tilden, along with the regiment, turned in his Springfield rifled musket and was issued Samuel Colt's 56 caliber Colt Revolving Rifle. These new five shot rifles of which the government only issued 3,725 were to be put to good use by the 21st Regiment, especially at the Battle of Chickamauga, where the regiment broke all records firing an incredible 43,550 rounds, in just five hours fighting.
The Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863, twelve miles south of Chattanooga, proved to be one of the 21st Regiment's fiercest battles, and one in which the Union army narrowly avoided being destroyed.
On September 20, 1863, during the battle, the 21st Regiment and two other regiments were sent to Snodgrass Hill to protect General Rosecrans' retreating army. During the defense of Snodgrass Hill, which lasted most of the day, the 21st repulsed every attack, facing odds of more than three to one, in what turned out to be one of the heaviest attacks at a single point and one of the most valiant stands of the war.
But as dusk was falling, the Confederates advanced again. The 21st Regiment was completely out of ammunition, so the order to "fix bayonets" was passed down the line. "Forward" was sounded, and the Regiment went flying into the charging Rebels. So impetuous was their counter-charge, with empty rifles and empty cartridge-boxes, that they sent the enemy reeling back. But, flanked on both sides, they were captured. As darkness fell, many of them slipped away into the night.
For the day's fighting at Chickamauga the 21st Regiment, starting with five hundred and thirty nine, men and officers, lost a total of two hundred and sixty five men. Forty eight killed, one hundred and one wounded, and one hundred and sixteen captured. Of those captured, fifty nine died in Confederate prisons.
Tilden Kleckner, Company A, 21st OVI, Biglick Township, Hancock County; was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and died soon after, aged 20 years.
--Obituary, Hancock Jeffersonian, Feb 23, 1866
Tilden's brother, Absalom Kleckner is interred in Hancock, Ohio. Absalom was killed in the early fighting, the first day of the Battle of Stones River, Dec 31, 1862.
Tilden Kleckner, at age eighteen, enlisted in Co. A, of the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 8/28/1861, giving Biglick Township, Hancock County, as his home. Tilden was shot in the leg during the defense of Snodgrass Hill, and died of his wound on November 18, 1863.
On May 26, 1862, Tilden, along with the regiment, turned in his Springfield rifled musket and was issued Samuel Colt's 56 caliber Colt Revolving Rifle. These new five shot rifles of which the government only issued 3,725 were to be put to good use by the 21st Regiment, especially at the Battle of Chickamauga, where the regiment broke all records firing an incredible 43,550 rounds, in just five hours fighting.
The Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863, twelve miles south of Chattanooga, proved to be one of the 21st Regiment's fiercest battles, and one in which the Union army narrowly avoided being destroyed.
On September 20, 1863, during the battle, the 21st Regiment and two other regiments were sent to Snodgrass Hill to protect General Rosecrans' retreating army. During the defense of Snodgrass Hill, which lasted most of the day, the 21st repulsed every attack, facing odds of more than three to one, in what turned out to be one of the heaviest attacks at a single point and one of the most valiant stands of the war.
But as dusk was falling, the Confederates advanced again. The 21st Regiment was completely out of ammunition, so the order to "fix bayonets" was passed down the line. "Forward" was sounded, and the Regiment went flying into the charging Rebels. So impetuous was their counter-charge, with empty rifles and empty cartridge-boxes, that they sent the enemy reeling back. But, flanked on both sides, they were captured. As darkness fell, many of them slipped away into the night.
For the day's fighting at Chickamauga the 21st Regiment, starting with five hundred and thirty nine, men and officers, lost a total of two hundred and sixty five men. Forty eight killed, one hundred and one wounded, and one hundred and sixteen captured. Of those captured, fifty nine died in Confederate prisons.
Tilden Kleckner, Company A, 21st OVI, Biglick Township, Hancock County; was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and died soon after, aged 20 years.
--Obituary, Hancock Jeffersonian, Feb 23, 1866
Tilden's brother, Absalom Kleckner is interred in Hancock, Ohio. Absalom was killed in the early fighting, the first day of the Battle of Stones River, Dec 31, 1862.
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