inchester; resigned, and
was discharged on account of disability, July 25, 1862; now married, and
engaged in preaching the Gospel, at Marseilles, Ill.
ORLANDO PARK BROCKWAY,
A Junior in Oberlin College; served with the Company as First Sergeant
until about the 20th of Aug., 1861, when he was sent to the hospital
because of sickness, and afterwards to Ohio. In his absence he was
reduced to the ranks by some inexplicable order of Col. Tyler's, October
25, 1861; transferred to Battery I, 1st Ohio Artillery, at Charleston,
Va., Dec. 1, 1861. While on a foraging expedition, near Luray, Va., in
the Summer of 1862, he was captured; taken to Lynchburg, and thence to
Belle Isle, where, after much suffering, he was paroled. In the Autumn,
he was exchanged and discharged. He was commissioned as Captain in the
5th U. S. C. T., in August, 1863; engaged in the series of battles
before Petersburg, from June 15 to 19; and killed in the trenches, July
19, 1864.
EDMUND R. STILES,
An Alumnus of Oberlin College, and member of the Theological Seminary;
Second Sergeant: captured at Cross Lanes, and spent nine months with the
rebels at Richmond, New Orleans, and Salisbury; paroled and exchanged;
discharged, July 8, 1862; now married, and is preaching the Gospel.
WILLIAM WATTS PARMENTER,
A Senior in Oberlin College; served with the company as Third Sergeant,
until the battle of Cross Lanes, when he was captured and taken to
Richmond; afterwards, transferred to Parish Prison, New Orleans, where
he died with Typhoid Fever, Nov. 4, 1861.
HOBART G. ORTON,
A Freshman in Oberlin College; Fourth Sergeant; engaged in the battle of
Cross Lanes, where a severe gun shot broke his thigh bone about an inch
below the socket joint. Standing behind a tree, firing as rapidly as
possible, under his own command, he was discovered by a rebel Captain,
who ordered his whole company to fire upon him. The tree was girdled
with the bullets, and one took effect in the thigh of the Sergeant. He
was left on the field, in the hands of the enemy, and was recaptured by
our troops, Sept. 11, 1861. Thence he was removed to St. John's
Hospital, Cincinnati, where he suffered severely for a year, and was
discharged, Nov. 20, 1862. He is now married and practicing law.
ELIAS W. MOREY,
A Sophomore in Oberlin College; Fifth Sergeant; wounded slightly in the
head, and taken prisoner in the battle of Cross Lanes; spent nine months
in the hands of the
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