Cleveland and the Civil War by W. Dennis Keating

Author:W. Dennis Keating
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

As a result, the regiment lost its Cleveland band.

One of its recruits was businessman Emerson Opdycke. He would rise from private to command of the 125th OVI, which he recruited. At the Battle of Chickamauga, it would earn the name “Opdycke’s Tigers.” Opdycke’s Tigers became heroes at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864, when their counterattack stopped a desperate Confederate assault on the Army of the Ohio.

As Bissland describes, the first major battle for the 41st OVI was at Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 7, 1862, where nearly half of its total number of soldiers were killed or wounded, including Emerson Opdycke:

Acting Major Emerson Opdycke distinguished himself by seizing the regiment’s colors after the color-bearer had fallen, and shouting, “Forty-First Ohio, follow your colors!” He was wounded twice. “To go over our…ground now, it seems miraculous how one of us escaped,” Opdycke wrote his wife. “On Monday morning, I was within a few inches of thousands of whistling bullets, cannon balls, and bursting shells.” He mentioned that his son’s picture “was in my coat pocket during the battle, a little charm for me.”

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