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Recruited out of Delaware, Morrow, Marion and Knox Counties in north central Ohio
122 soldiers; 33 died during the war

                 

Company  C (the Color Company)

Sources: History of Morrow County, Sgt. Elias Coles' Journal of 3 Years' Service with the Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Great Rebellion,1861-1864, and Sergeant JF Doty's diary.

From the History of Morrow County:

Early in June, 1861, Captain Jesse Meredith, a veteran of the war with Mexico, as captain of Company B, Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at the age of forty-four years, and in June, 1861, at the age of fifty-nine years, began to raise a company in Westfield township, Morrow county, of which he was a resident, and in the adjoining territory in Delaware County; which became Company C, of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Regiment. His commission was dated June 5, 1861. About one-half of this company was from Morrow county and one-half from Delaware county. On account of age and infirmity Captain Meredith resigned August 11, 1862. The first lieutenant was E. A. Hicks of Delaware county, who was promoted to captain of Company I. William Clark was second lieutenant, promoted to first lieutenant December 12, 1861; to captain Company E, December 5, 1862; to lieutenant colonel December 9, 1864, and mustered out with the regiment October 21, 1865, at Victoria, Texas.

Other soldiers of this company, whose merits require particular notice are Benjamin W. Shotwell, appointed sergeant and promoted first sergeant July 15, 1861; second lieutenant December 5,1862, and first lieutenant April 6,1863; severely wounded September 20, 1863, at Chickamauga, Georgia and resigned September 13,1864; veteran. Also Justin A. Goodhue, appointed sergeant and promoted to first sergeant December 5, 1861; second lieutenant April 6, 1863, and mustered out February 11,1865; veteran. Also Jerry  E. Coomer, promoted from private to hospital steward, August 1,1864; to first lieutenant Company D, December 9, 1864; to captain February 10,1865, and resigned June 8, 1865; veteran. Also Josephus F. Doty and John B. Richardson, sergeants, each served three years. Jesse Mason, musician, was captured September 2O, 1863, at Chickamauga, Georgia, and confined in Rebel prisons at Libby, (Richmond, Virginia), Pemberton, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston and Florence, and paroled in December 1864; discharged January 25, 1865.

The members from Morrow county of Company C, who were killed or died of wounds or disease in the service were: Corporals Thomas J. Simpson, and William Creamer; George H. Burrell, James Bartholomew, George Bensley, Newman Barber, Benjamin Corkins, John Goodhue, Daniel Hopkins, Adam Moyer, Newton Oliver, Levi Potter, Jonathan Sherwood, Albert Taylor, David H. Taylor, William H. West, Frank M. Wilcox, and Dennison Frye. Wounded: John Shoemaker. Discharged after three years' service: W. H. Miller, Vincent E. Dunnen, Elijah Hibbard, Benton Mason, and Sidney Winsor. Discharged October 21,1865, as veterans: Theron M. Messenger, corporal; Samuel E. Hull, musician; William Bensley, William McClary and William Worline.