They Were the 114th O.V.I.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=117 BGCOLOR="#000033" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I><B>They were the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry</B></I></div> <div> <B>They Were the 114th O.V.I.</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="diary_of_a_union_soldier__elias_d__moore_114th_ohio_volunteer_infantrydiary_of_a.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="114th OVI History"><U>114th OVI History</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id236.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dyers"><U>Dyers</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id208.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Roster"><U>Roster</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="diary_of_a_union_soldier__elias_d__moore_114th_ohio_volunteer_infantry.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A> I </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=173 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000" background="055622d3.png"> <div>    <IMG SRC="74571d00.jpg" border=0 width="113" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Sgt. Elias D. Moore  1862</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="65320160.png" border=0 width="32" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">See what's new</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=363 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000" background="055622d3.png"> <div> <I><B>Last Update: Feb. 23, 2004  </B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>A third an fourth diary from the 114th have been added to the site  </B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="65320160.png" border=0 width="32" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>A  fifth and sixth diary will be added soon!!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="746a29b0.jpg" border=0 width="162" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I><B><IMG SRC="7479c9b0.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></FONT><I><B>   <IMG SRC="7489c9b0.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>The 114th Ohio Voluntee</U></B></I><I><B><U>rs</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Proud Ohio  Soldiers  and  Statesme</U></B></I><I><B><U>n</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div>        Born in 1843, Elias Moore enlisted into the Union Army at the age of 19.  He served with the 114th Regiment Company A. Ohio Volunteer Infantry from August 13th 1862 - July 31st 1865. During their service, the 114th Ohio Volunteers traveled over 10,000 miles through 10 states. They first saw active fighting in December of 1862, and fought in eight major battles, including "the last major battle of the Civil War".  During his enlistment, Elias faithfully kept a daily record of his activities and those of the Regiment.  These entries range from dull weather reports and ration descriptions, vivid personal accounts of battles, skirmishes, and the deaths of many friends and comrades.  His original hand written diaries have been preserved and handed down through five generations of our family.  Written in pencil, these diaries have been carefully transcribed, exactly as written without spelling corrections and with occasional  lost or unreadable words. After his enlistment, Elias  attended college at Oberlin University located in Oberlin, Ohio.  Following a successful campaign for public office, he was elected State Representative from Ross County in 1890-1891.  During his life, he was quite a writer and has been acknowledged  for his letter describing the 114th OVI in battle April 9th 1865 "Battle of Ft. Blakely". Contributions of letters, photographs, and information, from  descendants of the 114th and other historians, have added greatly to the depth of this Regiments recorded history.  It starts off slow, but stick with it, it gets good.  These are first hand accounts, written in the field, by boys, that grew to be soldiers in the proud and victorious, Union Army.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Dedicated to the gallant souls of the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.</div> <div> <I>Raymond K. Moor</I><I>e</I></div> <div>                                                                                                             </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0781e240.png" border=0 width="30" height="36" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Editors note:     </div> <div> The following poem was found in Elias's papers after the transcription of  his diaries had begun.  It is being typed here as a prelude to this work. Little did he know what the next 4 years would have in store for him.  I can not help but think,  that for this 18 year old boy,  this was the beginning<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#660000" FACE="Times New Roman" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Times New Roman" >.</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#660000" FACE="Times New Roman" >..</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Thousands of men live, breath and suffer pain</I></div> <div> <I>Pass off of the stage of action and are never heard of again</I></div> <div> <I>Why? Because they did not partake of good in this sphere</I></div> <div> <I>And none were blessed by them and they done no good here</I></div> <div> <I>Not a line they wrote, nor a word they spoke</I></div> <div> <I>Could be recalled for to do good, or for a joke</I></div> <div> <I>Their light went out in the darkness and they were not</I></div> <div> <I>Remembered more than men of yesterday in the dim thots (thoughts)</I></div> <div> <I>Will you thus live and die oh man that will never die</I></div> <div> <I>Leave behind you a memory or a word, not a lie</I></div> <div> <I>Something that can be recalled and remembered</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Elias D. Moore  </I></div> <div> <I>1861</I></div> <div>    And they have left behind their words;   </div> <div> "something that can be   recalled and remembered",  </div> <div> so that they and their comrades of the </div> <div> 114th Ohio Volunteers will live forever in our memories. <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Diary </B></I><I><B>of Sgt. Elias Moore</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1862</B></I><I><B>  </B></I><I><B>18</B></I><I><B>63</B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>1864</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Diary of Corpl. Michael Sweetman</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1862, 63, 64, 65</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Diary of George Jackson</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1865</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Diary of Corpl. Martin Roof</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1863</B></I><I><B>, </B></I><I><B>1864</B></I><I><B>, </B></I><I><B>1865</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Letters of Pvt. Robert Bowlin</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1862-1865</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Letters of Sgt. Martin Mericle</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1862-1863</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Letters of Dr. Asa Bean</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>186</B></I><I><B>3</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Letters of Lt. 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