Person:Jacob Workman (1)

CENSUS: 1880 Salem Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, page 494B Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's BirthplaceMother's Birthplace

Jacob WORKMAN Self   M   Male   W   52   OH   Laborer   IN   IN   

Ellen J. WORKMAN Wife M Female W 34 OH Keeps House OH OH Jacob WORKMAN Son Male W 17 OH Laborer OH OH Elisabeth WORKMAN Dau S Female W 13 OH Attends School OH OH Mary M. WORKMAN Dau S Female W 10 OH Attends School OH OH Rosa E. WORKMAN Dau S Female W 8 OH OH OH Minnie B. WORKMAN Dau S Female W 6 OH OH OH Samuel A. WORKMAN Son S Male W 3 OH OH OH Lucy E. WORKMAN Dau S Female W 3M OH OH OH

DEATH: Jacob's death certificate states that he died of kidney disease.

MILITARY: "Headstones Provided for Union Veterans, 1879-1903" Microfilm #M-1845, Roll 22 Workman, Jacob Co. G, 54th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Cemetery at Spencerville, Ohio Headstone supplied by W. H. Gross of Lee, Mass. contract Feb'y 24, 1896

MILITARY: "Civil War--General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934" Microfilm #T-288, Roll 536 Workman, Jacob 54th Ohio Infantry Date filed: 1881 June 1st Application #423089 Certificate #348,971 State from whom filed: Ohio

MILITARY: Enlisted as a Private at the age of 36 and mustered out on 11 September 1865 in Newark, N.J.

~MILITARY: Fifty-fourth Infantry.--Col., Thomas Kilby Smith; Lieut.-Cols., James A. Farden, Cyrus W. Fisher, Robert Williams, Israel T. Moore; Maj., George F. Kili. This regiment was organized at Camp Dennison in Oct., 1861, to serve for three years. In Feb., 1862, it went in to the field with an aggregate of 850 men at Paducah, Ky., and was assigned to a brigade in the division commanded by Gen. Sherman. In the two days, fighting at Shiloh, it sustained a loss of 198 men, killed, wounded and missing. It then moved upon Corinth, skirmishing severely at the Russell house, and on the morning of the evacuation was among the first organized bodies of troops to enter the town. During the summer it was engaged in several short expeditions and in November moved with the army to Jackson, Miss. It was engaged in the assault on the Confederate works at Chickasaw bluffs with a loss of 20 men killed and wounded. In Jan., 1863, it ascended the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers and engaged in the assault on and capture of Arkansas Post. In May it began its march to the rear of Vicksburg, by way of Grand Gulf, and was engaged in the battles of Champion's hill and Big Black river bridge. It was engaged in the general assaults on the enemy's works in the rear of Vicksburg on May 19 and 22, losing in the two engagements 47 killed and wounded. It was continually employed in skirmishes and fatigue duty during the siege of Vicksburg, except for six days, and which were consumed in a march of obervation towards Jackson. After the fall of 1864, it was mustered into the service as a veteran organization, and after its furlough home entered on the Atlanta campaign. It participated in the engagement at Resaca; was in the general assault upon Kennesaw mountain losing 28 killed and wounded; was engaged in a severe skirmish at Nickajack creek, losing 13 killed and wounded, and ws in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, sustaing a loss of 94 killed, wounded and missing. It lost 8 men killed and wounded at Ezra Church and during the month of August was almost continually engaged in skirmishing before the works of Atlanta. It was in a heavy skirmish at Jonesboro on Aug. 30 and in the general action at the same place the two days immediately following. It was on that wonderful march to the sea, engaged in the assault on and capture of Fort McAllister, and after a rest of several weeks moved with the army on the march through the Carolinas, participating in its last battle at Bentonville, N.C. After the grand review it proceeded to Little Rock, ARk., and there performed garrison duty until Aug. 15, 1865, when it was mustered out. The aggregate strength of the regiment at muster-out wsa 24 officers and 231 men. It marched during its term of service a distance of 3,682 miles, participated in 4 sieges, 9 severe skirmishes, 15 general assignments, and sustained a loss of 506 men in killed wounded and missing.

--source: "The Union Army, volume 2"