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| | 16th Ohio Volunteers - Regimental History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | THE COMPANY was organized in Sept. 1861, at Millersburg, Ohio, by the combination of recruits enlisted under William Spangler of Millersburg, who had been a second lieutenant in the 16th, O. I., in the three months service, and Joseph Edgar, of Bloomfield and Robert W. Ligetet of Nashville. |
 | | He afterwards served as Captain in the 166th O. regiment, was promoted to Major, and with a battalion of three companies of infantry and one of artillery, was placed in command of Fort Barnard, on Arlington Heights, a very important one of the defenses of Washington. |
 | | Taken prisoner at Chickasaw Bluffs, December 29, 1862 and returned to the regiment November 10, 1863, at Algiers, La. and was discharged with the regiment November 4, 1864. |
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