Person:David Hopkins (16)

1850 Warren Co., OH, census, p.70B, Hamilton Twp., Aug. 27, 1850, D.P. Egbert: 1022/1023, W.H. HOPKINS, 36 M, farmer, $3660 real, OH; Eliza, 34 F, OH; David, 9 M, OH; Mary E., 7 F, OH.

1860 Warren Co., OH, census, p.49A, Hamilton Twp., P.O. Fosters Crossings, June 20, 1860, James Ford: 318/318, W. HOPKINS, 47 M, farmer, $2000 real, $300 personal, OH; Eliza, 40 F, OH; David, 22 M, farmer, OH; Elizabeth, 18 F, OH.

1862-1865. DAVID HOPKINS, age 23, enlisted August 4, 1862, as a Private in Co. A, 79th OH Infantry Regiment; promoted to Full Corporal, May 18, 1863; promoted to Full Sergeant, May 19, 1864; mustered out at Washington, DC, June 9, 1865. Source, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio (OH Roster), published 1886.

DAVID HOPKINS, Co. A, 79th OH Infantry, enlisted as Private, discharged as Sergeant, Union. --Civil War Service Records, Ancestry.com

79th OH Infantry Regiment, organized at Camp Dennison, OH, Aug., 1862. Ordered to Kentucky Sept. 3, 1862. Advance to Crittenden, KY, Sept. 7, thence moved to Louisville, KY. Attached to Ward's Brigade, 12th Div., Army of the Ohio, to Nov. 1862. Ward's Brigade, Post of Gallatin, TN, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Div., Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to Aug. 1863. Ward's Brigade, Nashville, TN, Dept. of the Cumberland, to Jan. 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Div., 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Div., 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. SERVICE.--March to Frankfort, KY, Oct. 3-9, 1862. Occupation of Frankfort Oct. 9, and duty there until Oct. 26. Expedition to Lawrenceburg in pursuit of Morgan Oct. 10-13. March to Bowling Green, KY, Oct. 26-Nov. 4, thence to Scottsville and to Gallatin Nov. 25, and duty there until Dec. 11. Moved to South Tunnel Dec. 11, and duty there until Feb. 1, 1863. Duty at Gallatin until June 1. Moved to Lavergne June 1, thence to Murfreesboro, TN, July 2, and to Lavergne July 29. To Nashville, TN, Aug. 19, and duty there until Feb. 24, 1864. March to Wauhatchie Valley, TN, Feb. 24-March 10, and duty there until May 2. Atlanta (GA) Campaign May 2-Sept. 8. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Golgotha or Gilgal Church June 15. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochoe River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-Aug. 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge Aug. 26-Sept. 2. Occupation of Atlanta Sept. 2-Nov. 15. March to the sea Nov. 15-Dec. 10. Siege of Savannah Dec. 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas Jan. to April, 1865. Occupation of Robertsville, SC, Jan. 30. Lawtonville Feb. 2. Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro, NC, March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, DC, via Richmond, VA, April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Mustered out June 9, 1865. Regiment lost during service 54 enlisted killed or mortally wounded; 1 officer and 91 enlisted by disease; total 146. --Fredrick H. Dyer, Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1908; reprint Broadfoot Publishing, Morningside Press, 1994). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mruddy/dyer.htm

18_2 [1882 or 1892?] Aug. 14. ADA W. HOPKINS, widow's pension, Application No. 295,632, Certificate No. 205,233; DAVID HOPKINS, Sgt., Co. A, 79th OH Infantry

For more on the 79th OH Infantry, see a compilation by Larry Stevens at http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw79.html and "Ohio in the Civil War" by Larry Stevens at http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/