Identifier: trialstriumphsre00osbo (find matches)
Title: Trials and triumphs : the record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Hartwell
Subjects: United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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was severely wounded, losingan arm at the batde of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, and he resignedMay 25, 1864. Shortly after the end of the war, he was electedAuditor of Seneca County, and with his family removed to Tiffin,where he lived until the death of his wife. He then removed toGarnett, Kansas, where he lived with his daughter, Mrs. J. B. Thorn-ton, until his death August 25, 1895. His remains are interred inRock Creek Cemetery, Seneca County, Ohio. Colonel Stevens wasa religious man, being a staunch Presbyterian. He and his brotherWilHam contributed the land on which the first Presbyterian churchin Melmore was erected. He possessed the homely and old-fashionedvirtues of honesty, sobriety, and industry. He was large-heartedand intensely patriotic. He had a lively sense of humor, and alwayssaw the bright and funny side of things — a trait which served in nosmall degree to reUeve the tedium of camp life for his comrades. Captain Alfred Wheeler was born in 1836. He was appointed
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Monument Erected to Colonel GambeeAt Bellevue, Ohio, September 21, 1904, by the Regimental AssociationOF THE Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteers SKETCHES OF OFFICERS AND CITIZENS 245 Chaplain of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment September 15, 1862. He re-signed August 16, 1863, and died in 1892. At the time of his deathhe was editor of the Pittsburg Christian Advocate. Chaplain Wheelerwas a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he wasrecognized as a man of piety and excellent ability. While with theFifty-Fifth Regiment, he endeared himself to both officers and menby his uniform kindness and affability, and his evident solicitude forthe welfare, both temporal and spiritual, of all under his charge. Major Rudolphus Robbins was of good old New England ances-try. His mother, Laura Nash, was one of the New England Nashfamily, whose ancestor, Thomas Nash, a gunsmith, came from Eng-land on the good ship Hector (or her companion ship) in 1637, withthe Reverend Davenports party, who located thei

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