Phillips with a squad captured the guns and drew them back to position. After this battle the regiment veteranized and returned home on a furlough, at the expiration of which they returned to West Virginia, and on the 9th of May fought the battle of Cloyd Mountain, Phillips being in command of his company.

He joined General Hunter at Staunton, Va., and participated in the assault upon the outworks of Lynchburg and endured the sufferings of that disastrous retreat to the Kanawha Valley. The command were compelled to march day and night without sleep or rations for more than one hundred miles, and were harassed by the enemy's cayalry until the mountain passes were reached.

July 24, 1864, the battle of Kernstown was fought, Company F losing twenty-two men of sixty-one who went into the fight. September 3, 1864, the battle of Berryville was fought. In this engagement Cap tain Phillips was severely wounded. December 30, 1864, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and to captain January 20, 1865. His wounds in capacitated him for active service and he was honorably discharged by order of the War Department, Jan.

23, 1865.

During the time Captain Phillips was a member of the regiment he participated in fifty-two battles and skirmishes, never missing a march nor an engagement. After his return from the service the captain engaged in merchandising in Summerfield, where he remained until his

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removal to Caldwell, in 1880. 1870 he married Miss Ella, daughter of Stephen Wilson.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM T. BIEDENHARN, merchant, of Harriettsville, is among the leading business men of the county. He was born in Batesville, Noble County, in 1840. In his boyhood he acted as a clerk in a store at Louisville, Monroe County. August 11, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Captain Arcknoe), and served until discharged by order of the War Department, June 11, 1865. Entering as a private, he was chosen orderly sergeant; promoted second lieutenant June 15, 1863; promoted first lieutenant January 12, 1865; and "for gallant and meritorious service" was brevetted captain to rank from March 13, 1865. He served as aide-decamp and acting adjutant-general on the staffs of Lieutenant-Colonel Wells, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts; Colonel Thomas F. Wildes, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio; Major Potter, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts, and Colonel William S. Lincoln, Thirtyfourth Massachusetts. He was with the regiment in all its engagements except one (Hilltown), and was a gallant soldier and good officer, as the record shows. After the war he came to Harriettsville, where he has been engaged in the mercantile business since August 21, 1865. He has been extensively engaged in tobacco packing ever since he came to the place; first as a member of the firm of Miles & Biedenharn until 1884, and since alone. As many as 225 hogs

heads of tobacco have been packed in a single year by the above firm. Of late years the business has been less extensive. Captain Biedenharn was married in 1882, to Fannie Davenport, of Washington County. They have one child-George Frederick.

LIEUT. CHARLES J. ENGLER. John Engler came from Susquehanna County, Pa., with his family in 1832 to Caldwell, where he remained until 1842, when he removed to a farm near Macksburg. He followed his trade, that of a wagon-maker, in connection with farming, until age compelled him to retire. He is still living in Macksburg, at the good old age of seventy-nine; his wife died in 1875, aged seventy-seven; both were Methodists in their religious belief. To them were born a family of eight children-Elizabeth, William S., Joseph T., Lydia M., John G., Charles J., Nancy J., and. David H. John died in the service. He belonged to Company B, Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Mark's Mills, Ark., April 8, 1864. He died a prisoner of war. Charles J. was born in Noble County in 1839. Nov. 22, 1861, he became a member of the same company. He distinguished himself at the battle of Shiloh, and at the same time suffered a great injustice from one of those accidental matters to which soldiers as well as every one else are liable. The night preceding the battle he was sergeant of the guard, and reported the enemy advancing in force. The report was carried to General Sherman, who, disbelieving it, ordered his arrest, for causing what he

thought to be a false alarm. A few hours later the general learned that Lieutenant Engler's statement was | correct, and had his report been accepted and acted upon, the present debatable question as to whether the Union forces were on that occasion taken by surprise would not exist, and many valuable lives would have been saved. As soon as the facts were known he was released, and in that great battle he wiped out by his conspicuous bravery every vestige of the undeserved stigma. At this time the papers had been forwarded to headquarters recommending his promotion to a first lieutenancy, but on the receipt of the information that he had been arrested, and with no knowledge of the facts, they were destroyed. Some time afterward, however, slight reparation was made by his appointment as second lieutenant of his company. He followed the fortunes of his regiment, and was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Fallen Timber, Mark's Mills, Little Arkansas, Little Missouri River and other minor engagements. In April of 1864, he received a first lieutenant's commission, and in December of that year was mustered out of the service, his term of enlistment having expired. His brother Joseph was in Company D, Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in all the battles in which the Fortysecond. was engaged. In 1865 Charles J. was married to Miss Margaret C. Keller. They have two children-Burt M. and Mary C.

LIEUTENANT HENRY HENRY CLINEDINST, son of Adam and Julia A. Cline

dinst, was born in York County, Pa., January 16, 1840, and came to this county with the family when three years of age. He was raised on a farm and in July of 1861 entered the three months' service. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned to his home, and upon the organization of the Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry he re-enlisted in this regiment and became corporal of Company B. He soon rose to first sergeant, and was finally made first lieutenant of

his company. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Fallen Timber, Little Rock, Ark., Marks Mills, and other lesser engagements. At the battle of Mark's Mills he was severely wounded in the foot, from which he never fully recovered, although he remained with his command until mustered out of the service in the autumn of 1864. A braver heart than that of Lieutenant Clinedinst never beat under a blue coat. He did his whole duty unflinchingly and without a murmur. He possessed all the requirements of an officer and was better qualified to command than many of his superior officers. His bravery and integrity were never questioned, and he was said to have been one of the best soldiers in the service. He was twice married. His first wife, Miss Almira Warren, to whom he was united in 1866, died the following year. His second wife was Miss Jane M., daughter of Samuel and Marrilla Hussey. By this union there were three children-Mary E., Samuel H. and Adam B.

She died

in 1877, aged twenty-nine years. After his first marriage he settled on a farm, where he died in 1874, aged thirty four years.

FREEMAN C. THOMPSON was born in Washington County, Pa., February 25, 1846. In the autumn of 1854 the family removed to Noble County and settled in Stock Township. Shortly after he had passed his sixteenth birthday he enlisted as a private in Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and although but a mere boy he was with the regiment in all its marches, skirmishes and battles, and on many occasions he evidenced a degree of bravery and coolness under fire that would have done credit to a veteran. In the assault on Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865, he distinguished himself for his pluck and daring. In this engage. ment (which General Grant in his Memoirs says" was the most desperate that was seen at any time in the East ") through a perfect tornado of grape and cannister, he and his comrades reached the last ditch. How to scale the parapet was a question requiring only a moment for solution. Using each other as ladders they commenced the ascent. Almost at the top one was shot and fell back into the ditch. Thompson was struck twice with at musket, and fell into the ditch with several ribs broken, but in a short time was again on the top of the parapet fighting with muskets loaded and handed him by his comrades below. Soon the advantage was taken possession of, and the whole