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CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO

CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO
CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO

CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO
We are listing several very nice Civil War CDV Photographs today (We listed some yesterday as well). They all relate to Ohio and Tennessee. Most All of the soldiers were members of Ohio units. You will see how they all interact with each other if you do a little research.

They are all from one group that just came out of an estate. This CDV photograph is identified as, Lt Benjamin F Lefever. It reads that he is a member of the 99th Ohio Vol. Our research shows that Benjamin was a POW at some point, but we do not know when.

We did see that he was sick for a good portion of 1864. This falls in line with history of the 99th. The backmark shows the photographer as Ball and Thomas, an African American Photographer. This photo came with many members of the 45th Ohio soldiers, we think they were all together at the time.. Here is some information on the 99th and the 50th. OHIO NINETY-NINTH INFANTRY (Three Years) Ninety-ninth Infantry. This regiment was organized at Lima, Aug. 22, 1862, to serve for three years. Seventeen hundred men were recruited for the regiment, but 700 were transferred to the 118th Ohio.

The regiment left Camp Lima with an aggregate of 1,021 men, under orders to report at Lexington, Ky. But was later ordered to Cynthiana. Hard marches and exposure in the warmest season of the year occasioned sickness from which the regiment suffered severely, and when it moved forward to take part in the battle of Stone's river it could only muster for duty 369 men, 2 field, 7 line, and 3 staff officers. In this battle the regiment lost 20 killed, 43 wounded and 30 captured.

It was engaged during both days of the battle of Chickamauga and lost 5 killed, 28 wounded and 24 missing. 22, it moved up to Lookout valley, and two days later participated in the battle above the clouds. On the next day it was engaged at Missionary ridge and in these two battles the regiment lost 4 killed and 12 wounded. The regiment then remained in camp at Shellmound until February, when it moved to Cleveland, Tenn. And in May started on the Atlanta campaign.

Its courage and discipline were tested and not found wanting at Rocky Face ridge, Kennesaw mountain, Pine mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station, indeed during the whole campaign it was un- der fire almost daily, but its most severe engagement was on the night of June 20, near Kennesaw mountain, where each man of the regiment fired upon an average 150 rounds of ammunition, a growth of small timber in front of the line being mown down as if by a scythe. The regiment here lost 8 men killed and 17 wounded, and in the campaign 30 killed and 56 wounded. It followed Hood into Tennessee and at the battle of Nashville lost 9 men killed and wounded. It pursued the retreating enemy as far as Columbia, where it was consolidated with the 50th Ohio, and the 99th ceased to be an organization. OHIO FIFTIETH INFANTRY (Three Years) Source: The Union Army, vol.

This regiment was organized at Camp Dennison, in Aug. 1862, to serve for three years, with an aggregate of 964 men. 1, it moved into Kentucky for the defense of Cincinnati against Kirby Smith's raid, and about the 2Oth of the same month it went to Louis- ville. In the engagement at Perryville it lost 2 officers killed, 1 mortally wounded and 162 men killed and wounded. 1863, it was engaged in building for- tifications and constructing trestles in Tennessee. In the spring of 1864 it received orders to join Gen. Sherman's army at Kingston, Ga. And the next day after its arrival it par- ticipated in the engagement at that place. From this time until after the siege of Atlanta the regiment was in line of battle almost constantly.

It shared in all the movements of the campaign participated in the actions at Dallas, Lost mountain, Pine mountain and Atlanta, its ranks being fearfully thinned during the movement. The regiment then moved into Ten- nessee and skirmished three days at Columbia. It went into the battle of Franklin with an aggregate of 225 men and came out with 112.

It fell back with the army to Nashville and partici- pated in the battle at that place, losing several men. The regiment followed the retreating Confederates as far as Colum- bia, where it was consolidated with the 99th Ohio infantry, re- taining its own name. At the time of the consolidation the regiment numbered only about 100 men.

It then was sent over into the Carolinas and finally was mustered out at Salisbury, N. Source: The Union Army, vol. Please see our large scans for an accurate representation of the image. PLEASE SEE OUR OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER INTERESTING ANTIQUES! The item "CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO" is in sale since Thursday, February 25, 2016.

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CDV PHOTOGRAPH CIVIL WAR SOLDIER IDENTIFIED LT BENJAMIN LEFEVER 99TH & 50TH OHIO