Last Update: May 22, 2004
A third an fourth diary from the 114th have been added to the site 
A fifth and sixth diary will be added soon!!
The 114th Ohio Volunteers
Proud Ohio Soldiers and Statesmen
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.
Dedicated to the gallant souls of the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Raymond K. Moore
Editors note:
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 ...
Thousands of men live, breath and suffer pain
Pass off of the stage of action and are never heard of again
Why? Because they did not partake of good in this sphere
And none were blessed by them and they done no good here
Not a line they wrote, nor a word they spoke
Could be recalled for to do good, or for a joke
Their light went out in the darkness and they were not
Remembered more than men of yesterday in the dim thots (thoughts)
Will you thus live and die oh man that will never die
Leave behind you a memory or a word, not a lie
Something that can be recalled and remembered
Elias D. Moore
1861
And they have left behind their words;
"something that can be recalled and remembered",
so that they and their comrades of the
114th Ohio Volunteers will live forever in our memories.
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