Name/Title
Partridge Letter, July 25, 1953Entry/Object ID
2016.3.141Tags
1950sScope and Content
Letter from Ruth Partridge to Mabel Baker Smallwood, July 25, 1953
"Miss Ruth Partridge
1529 East Market Street
Warren, Ohio
July 25, 1952
Dear Mabel,
I have checked the pictures
in the family. We have no
picture any older. We have put
in ours. It does show the cap
and the stripes on the arm.
We have grandfather Ohl's
manual of arms. On the fly
leaf, in his writing, it reads:
"E.J. Ohl, Lieut.
Co K - 196
O.V.I.
(Ohio Volunteer Infantry)
Baltimore, MD 1865"
He served two short terms
from Ohio and one from Indiana
In the Roster of Ohio Soldiers
1861-1865, p. 207 It reads:
"Eli J. Ohl, private age 20, entered
March 1, 1865 - 1 year Co. A, 196th - promoted to
2'd Lieut. Co. K March 25, 1865."
On p. 219 - I find: Eli J Ohl
2'd Lieut, age 20, March 25, 1865, 1 year
mustered out Baltimore, MD. Sept 11, 1865
Co. K. 196 Regiment, Mustered in camp
Chase, Ohio.
p. 53 Ohl genealogy
Fort Wayne, Ind. Co. A 30th Ind. Volunteer
Inf.; discharged 9-29-1864; he helped
form Co. A. 196 Ohio Volunteer Infantry
enlisting March - 1865 - transferred to
Co. K., on March 25, 1865
Brema Col. of 10th O.N.G. in 1880
I have made several trips and
phone calls to Traxells. I think they
have a later picture than
ours, a big framed picture,
but so far I haven't been able
to even see it.
I went down to Aunt Lottie's
and her pictures are no older
than ours and not in uniform.
Since he was 15-18 in Indian Service
and 20-21 in Ohio he wouldn't look
very old anyway.
The old uniform perished from
moths according to Aunt Lottie.
Aunt Nell has the sword, but I
could not get a peek at it. He had
a blue coat, gray trousers with a blue
stripe down the side, gold buttons,
a blue cap. We don't know what the
Indiana uniform looked like. We only know
about the Ohio. The sword was long,
silver colored, and looked like this
(drawing of a sword)
They had odd handles. It
hung from a belt. Mother
thinks his O.N.G. sword was gold.
Not Aunt Lottie, who owned the
uniform, insists the stripe on
the pants was blue, but all pictures
I can find in color of Civil War
uniforms carry a red stripe on the
pants and red stripe on the sleeve so
I don't know for sure of course.
I have made two trips
to Niles, and I think I have no
other information to give you. If
there is anymore, I could not get it.
There is a watch which was presented
by O.N.G. (Ohio National Guard) to
him after he became a colonel
He had a full dress uniform with
a cape for that we think and
carried a gold sword. We think
Aunt Nell once had this uniform.
I put my picture in with
yours and mailed them to you. Send
ours back when you're finished.
Love,
Ruth"Acquisition
Accession
2016.3Source or Donor
Ohl FamilyAcquisition Method
GiftLocation
Location
Container
Ohl Family Collection Box 2Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterNotes
Folder 10Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Partridge, Ruth, Smallwood, Mabel Baker