My Ohio Ancestors Who Went to War

Civil War

Several of my Hemings ancestors participated in the Civil War.  At least eight descendants of Elizabeth Hemings and two men who married her great-granddaughters served; four in black regiments, four in white regiments, all for the Union.

The grandsons of Sally Hemings who participated in the Civil War were:

• William Beverly Hemings, private, 73 Ohio Volunteer Infantry
• Thomas Eston Hemings, private, 175th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in a Confederate prison camp
• John Wayles Jefferson, colonel, 9th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
• Beverly Jefferson, private, 1st Wisconsin Infantry

Angus Young was a private in Company I, commanded by Captain Barnes, in the 73rd Regiment of the Ohio Infantry Volunteers in the War of 1861 (the Civil War).  He was enrolled on February 15, 1864 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.  He died in the service of the United States on November 9, 1864 in Chattanooga, Tennessee on  of injuries from the explosion of an ammunition wagon on October 25, 1864.  He was buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.

His wife, Nancy Runningwater Chapman, filed claim for widow's pension, with minor children on August 9, 1865; then after several iterations and multiple affidavits were supplied, finally filed on November 16, 1868. She was to receive $8 per month plus $2 each child until the reached the age of sixteen.

John Valentine was a free man who enlisted June 22, 1863 at the age of 26 to fight in the Civil War. He was in Company C, 5th Regiment of the US Colored Infantry.  He was born in Fayette, Tennessee, but enlisted in Ohio.

The 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was an African American unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. A part of the United States Colored Troops, the regiment saw action in Virginia as part of the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign and in North Carolina, where it participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher and Wilmington and the Carolinas Campaign.

World War I

Arthur Lee Cooper served in World War I and was disabled.

William Dalton - Ohio Military Men, 1917-18 

Name: William Dalton

Serial Number: 2336242

Race: C

Residence: 333 Corwin St., Circleville, O.

Enlistment Division: National Guard

Enlistment Location: Columbus, O.

Enlistment Date: 24 Jul 1917

Birth Place: Columbus, O.

Birth Date / Age: 18 1/12 Years

Assigns Comment: Co F 372 Infantry to Discharge Private Meuse-Argonne; 
Defensive Sector. American Expeditionary Forces 30 March 1918 to 11 Feb 1919. Honorable discharge 5 March 1919.

Volume #: 4

World War II

All of William Filmore Dalton's and Emma Lee Cooper's sons serviced during World War II.

William Dalton Jr -U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946
Name: William Dalton
Birth Year: 1920
Race: Negro
Nativity State: Ohio
State of Residence: Ohio
County or City: Ross
Enlistment Date: 20 February 1941
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment City: Fort Hayes Columbus
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA

Edward Dalton - U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946
Name:  Edward Dalton
Birth Year: 1921
Race: Negro
Nativity State: Ohio
State of Residence: Ohio
County or City: Ross
Enlistment Date:
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment City:
Branch:

Dennis Dalton - U. S. World War II Navy
Name: Dennis Dalton
Birth Year:
Race: Negro
State of Residence: Ohio
County or City: Ross