Thomas Kilby Smith
(from "The Photographic History of the Civil War")
(Private Collection)
(Private Collection)
John Abner Copeland
Co. D, 54th OVI
Entered service 9/10/61
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 11/3/62
(Image courtesy of The Sherman House Museum, Lancaster, Ohio)
(U.S. Army Military History Institute)
The unit appears to be the same as the one immediately above when comparing the small officer in the back row of both images.
(Private Collection)
54th OVI, Co. K (Late War Image)
Note the "Forty Rounds" corp badge on 2nd row, 2nd from the right.
(Image Courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society Archives)
Image of Joseph Combs, Co. I, 54th OVI,
courtesy of the Combs Family USGEN website.
Combs was only 14 years old when he enlisted in Auglaize County. Click on the image for a link to the site.