As a private, Solomon saw action at the battle of Fredericksburg and Aquia Creek before being afflicted with fever. Bedridden at the Aquia Creek field hospital near Falmouth for almost a month, he would die in route to Wind Hill Hospital in Frederickberg.
Solomon Ogline was one of 33 men assigned to the 133rd that would sucuumb to disease (Typhoid Fever) during the Virginia campaigns. The Regiment was part of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, the Army of the Potomac. This information came from militarey documents obtained from the National Archives.
There's an inscription on the Civil War Soldier's Monument situated on the lawn in the front of the Somerset County Government Building on Union Street, Somerset, PA. which honors Solomon Ogline (died of Typhoid Fever) with all the other soldiers from the County that died during the War.
Solomon's brother George Carlton Ogline and wife Mary Jane (Metzler) Ogline would name their 2nd son Solomon in honor of, and in memory of his deceased brother. Young Solomon would bear his uncle's name proudly. Marrying the former Laura Caroline Saylor, the couple became of parents of 9 childen, one of which is this biographer's grandfather (Charles Jackson Ogline).
By the ealy 1880's Catherline Ogline's husband Phillip wasll in health unable to maintain the farm they owned and lived on. Catherine upon prompting from her other children retained Somerset Attorny Samuel Url to file an application (assigned #246677 - dated Feb 11, 1881) for a Mother's Pension based on her son's death while in the military. With several affidavids, two from Jacob Casebeer & and Michael Goodm these men certified under oath that Phillip Ogline was too weak from rhuematism and diabilities to pereform physical labor. Also, that Solomon Ogline was a healthy strong young man had worked to help his parents and earn extra money working to help both of them prior to his enrollment. Affadavits were also filed from Civil War Veterans George Walker, William H. Berkey & Geoarge F. Baer (all whom served with Solomon during the war seeing him prior to his death attested to how worried young Solomon was about his parents welfare).
On December 2, 1882 (and after her son George Ogline had died) Catherine Ogline was awarded a $12.00 per month pension (Pension Certificate #205325) from the Department of the Interior based on Solomon's Ogline's death while in milirary service from 8 Aug 1862-17 Jan 1863.
Initially buried at Malboro Point, Stafford County, Va (with other deceased soldiers), Solomon's body was exhumed according to military documents for tranfer in 1910 to the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Now buried in the site aesignated as "DIV B, Section Grave 373".
Solomon Ogline's name was also added to the Pennsylvania State Roll of Honor (Volumn 25, Page 59) on 04/26/1880.
As a private, Solomon saw action at the battle of Fredericksburg and Aquia Creek before being afflicted with fever. Bedridden at the Aquia Creek field hospital near Falmouth for almost a month, he would die in route to Wind Hill Hospital in Frederickberg.
Solomon Ogline was one of 33 men assigned to the 133rd that would sucuumb to disease (Typhoid Fever) during the Virginia campaigns. The Regiment was part of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, the Army of the Potomac. This information came from militarey documents obtained from the National Archives.
There's an inscription on the Civil War Soldier's Monument situated on the lawn in the front of the Somerset County Government Building on Union Street, Somerset, PA. which honors Solomon Ogline (died of Typhoid Fever) with all the other soldiers from the County that died during the War.
Solomon's brother George Carlton Ogline and wife Mary Jane (Metzler) Ogline would name their 2nd son Solomon in honor of, and in memory of his deceased brother. Young Solomon would bear his uncle's name proudly. Marrying the former Laura Caroline Saylor, the couple became of parents of 9 childen, one of which is this biographer's grandfather (Charles Jackson Ogline).
By the ealy 1880's Catherline Ogline's husband Phillip wasll in health unable to maintain the farm they owned and lived on. Catherine upon prompting from her other children retained Somerset Attorny Samuel Url to file an application (assigned #246677 - dated Feb 11, 1881) for a Mother's Pension based on her son's death while in the military. With several affidavids, two from Jacob Casebeer & and Michael Goodm these men certified under oath that Phillip Ogline was too weak from rhuematism and diabilities to pereform physical labor. Also, that Solomon Ogline was a healthy strong young man had worked to help his parents and earn extra money working to help both of them prior to his enrollment. Affadavits were also filed from Civil War Veterans George Walker, William H. Berkey & Geoarge F. Baer (all whom served with Solomon during the war seeing him prior to his death attested to how worried young Solomon was about his parents welfare).
On December 2, 1882 (and after her son George Ogline had died) Catherine Ogline was awarded a $12.00 per month pension (Pension Certificate #205325) from the Department of the Interior based on Solomon's Ogline's death while in milirary service from 8 Aug 1862-17 Jan 1863.
Initially buried at Malboro Point, Stafford County, Va (with other deceased soldiers), Solomon's body was exhumed according to military documents for tranfer in 1910 to the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. Now buried in the site aesignated as "DIV B, Section Grave 373".
Solomon Ogline's name was also added to the Pennsylvania State Roll of Honor (Volumn 25, Page 59) on 04/26/1880.
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