GREAT GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR CAPTAIN JOHN GEORGE OVERMIRE
CIVIL WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. K, 9TH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
Francis enlisted in Sandusky Co., Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1863 and was discharged July 20, 1865.
LETTER TO COL. WILLIAM DOUGLAS HAMILTON FROM FRANCIS MARION OVERMYER, CO. K (under Capt. Albin Coe), from William Douglas Hamilton's Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, p. 275-276:
"While we were at Decatur, in May, 1864, a detail from our regiment, with the 10th Iowa Infantry and a part of an Ohio Battery, was sent out on a scout. I was detailed as orderly to the colonel commanding. we reached the rebel pickets in a clump of bushes. I pointed them out to the colonel, and we charged. They fired a volley and fled to give the alarm. I was sent with an order to hurry up the artillery. When I got back the fight was on, and I came so near getting killed by a shot from the enemy's artillery that I gasped for breath. Our captain turned his artillery on them with deadly effect, and we raised a yell as they lit out.
In August, 1864, when in front of Atlanta, Company 'K' was sent out for picket duty under our beloved Captain Albin Coe. The enemy were everywhere, and while on duty on a picket post we had to keep hid. About 12 o'clock I heard a noise, and although it was very dark I detected a man who, when he saw me, prepared to strike, but I downed him with a punch from my gun. He claimed that he was not a soldier and pointed to a house nearby, saying he had just been up there to see his girl."
Notes by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian
Sources:
1) One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com). This book updates and corrects many errors in the 1905 Overmyer History and Genealogy and tells the full story of Capt. Overmire and his children.
2) William Douglas Hamilton, Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years (F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus, OH, 1915) p. 275-276
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The following is by Mr. Overmyer, the original creator of this memorial:
Francis Overmyer was the youngest son of Hugh Overmyer. At age 19 he served in the 9th Ohio Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. K, 9TH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
Francis enlisted in Sandusky Co., Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1863 and was discharged July 20, 1865.
LETTER TO COL. WILLIAM DOUGLAS HAMILTON FROM FRANCIS MARION OVERMYER, CO. K (under Capt. Albin Coe), from William Douglas Hamilton's Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, p. 275-276:
"While we were at Decatur, in May, 1864, a detail from our regiment, with the 10th Iowa Infantry and a part of an Ohio Battery, was sent out on a scout. I was detailed as orderly to the colonel commanding. we reached the rebel pickets in a clump of bushes. I pointed them out to the colonel, and we charged. They fired a volley and fled to give the alarm. I was sent with an order to hurry up the artillery. When I got back the fight was on, and I came so near getting killed by a shot from the enemy's artillery that I gasped for breath. Our captain turned his artillery on them with deadly effect, and we raised a yell as they lit out.
In August, 1864, when in front of Atlanta, Company 'K' was sent out for picket duty under our beloved Captain Albin Coe. The enemy were everywhere, and while on duty on a picket post we had to keep hid. About 12 o'clock I heard a noise, and although it was very dark I detected a man who, when he saw me, prepared to strike, but I downed him with a punch from my gun. He claimed that he was not a soldier and pointed to a house nearby, saying he had just been up there to see his girl."
Notes by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian
Sources:
1) One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com). This book updates and corrects many errors in the 1905 Overmyer History and Genealogy and tells the full story of Capt. Overmire and his children.
2) William Douglas Hamilton, Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years (F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus, OH, 1915) p. 275-276
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The following is by Mr. Overmyer, the original creator of this memorial:
Francis Overmyer was the youngest son of Hugh Overmyer. At age 19 he served in the 9th Ohio Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
GREAT GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR CAPTAIN JOHN GEORGE OVERMIRE
CIVIL WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. K, 9TH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
Francis enlisted in Sandusky Co., Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1863 and was discharged July 20, 1865.
LETTER TO COL. WILLIAM DOUGLAS HAMILTON FROM FRANCIS MARION OVERMYER, CO. K (under Capt. Albin Coe), from William Douglas Hamilton's Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, p. 275-276:
"While we were at Decatur, in May, 1864, a detail from our regiment, with the 10th Iowa Infantry and a part of an Ohio Battery, was sent out on a scout. I was detailed as orderly to the colonel commanding. we reached the rebel pickets in a clump of bushes. I pointed them out to the colonel, and we charged. They fired a volley and fled to give the alarm. I was sent with an order to hurry up the artillery. When I got back the fight was on, and I came so near getting killed by a shot from the enemy's artillery that I gasped for breath. Our captain turned his artillery on them with deadly effect, and we raised a yell as they lit out.
In August, 1864, when in front of Atlanta, Company 'K' was sent out for picket duty under our beloved Captain Albin Coe. The enemy were everywhere, and while on duty on a picket post we had to keep hid. About 12 o'clock I heard a noise, and although it was very dark I detected a man who, when he saw me, prepared to strike, but I downed him with a punch from my gun. He claimed that he was not a soldier and pointed to a house nearby, saying he had just been up there to see his girl."
Notes by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian
Sources:
1) One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com). This book updates and corrects many errors in the 1905 Overmyer History and Genealogy and tells the full story of Capt. Overmire and his children.
2) William Douglas Hamilton, Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years (F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus, OH, 1915) p. 275-276
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The following is by Mr. Overmyer, the original creator of this memorial:
Francis Overmyer was the youngest son of Hugh Overmyer. At age 19 he served in the 9th Ohio Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. K, 9TH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
Francis enlisted in Sandusky Co., Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1863 and was discharged July 20, 1865.
LETTER TO COL. WILLIAM DOUGLAS HAMILTON FROM FRANCIS MARION OVERMYER, CO. K (under Capt. Albin Coe), from William Douglas Hamilton's Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, p. 275-276:
"While we were at Decatur, in May, 1864, a detail from our regiment, with the 10th Iowa Infantry and a part of an Ohio Battery, was sent out on a scout. I was detailed as orderly to the colonel commanding. we reached the rebel pickets in a clump of bushes. I pointed them out to the colonel, and we charged. They fired a volley and fled to give the alarm. I was sent with an order to hurry up the artillery. When I got back the fight was on, and I came so near getting killed by a shot from the enemy's artillery that I gasped for breath. Our captain turned his artillery on them with deadly effect, and we raised a yell as they lit out.
In August, 1864, when in front of Atlanta, Company 'K' was sent out for picket duty under our beloved Captain Albin Coe. The enemy were everywhere, and while on duty on a picket post we had to keep hid. About 12 o'clock I heard a noise, and although it was very dark I detected a man who, when he saw me, prepared to strike, but I downed him with a punch from my gun. He claimed that he was not a soldier and pointed to a house nearby, saying he had just been up there to see his girl."
Notes by Laurence Overmire, genealogist and family historian
Sources:
1) One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com). This book updates and corrects many errors in the 1905 Overmyer History and Genealogy and tells the full story of Capt. Overmire and his children.
2) William Douglas Hamilton, Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years (F. J. Heer Printing Co., Columbus, OH, 1915) p. 275-276
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The following is by Mr. Overmyer, the original creator of this memorial:
Francis Overmyer was the youngest son of Hugh Overmyer. At age 19 he served in the 9th Ohio Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
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