Person:Otis Hertsel (1)

Otis Hartsel, Dies (name misspelled in paper)

Otis S Hartsel, 80 died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Juillerat, in Columbia Township, Monday night. Last August he fell and fractured his hip and on Jan. 13 the member was again fractured. Pneumonia developed and caused his death. He was born in Union township in 1846 and a civil war veteran.

Funeral services will be held at Columbia City U. B. Church this afternoon.

Otis Hertsel was in the Civil War. he fought with Co. "E", 17th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. he was enrolled on the 26th day of February 1864 and honorably discharged at Macon, Georgia on the 8th day of August 1865.

17th REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRY.

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in June 12, 1861. Left State for Parkersburg, W. Va., July 1. Attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to September, 1861. Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to November, 1861. 15th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division (Center), 14th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. Wilder's Mounted Brigade, Army of the Cumberland, to November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved to Oakland, W. Va., July 23, 1861; thence to Camp Pendleton and duty there till August 7. Moved to Cheat Mountain Pass and Elkwater August 7-13. Operations on Cheat Mountain September 11-17. Elkwater September 11. Point Mountain Turnpike September 11-12. Cheat Mountain Pass September 12. Elkwater September 14. Action at Greenbrier River October 3-4. Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 19 and duty there till December 10. At Camp Wickliffe, Ky., till February 10, 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., February 10-March 12. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 29-April 7. Lawrenceburg April 4. Arrive at Pittsburg Landing April 7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. Little Pond, near McMinnville, Tenn., August 30. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg September 3-26. (Siege of Munfordsville, Ky., September 16-21. A detachment of recruits en route to join Regiment captured September 21.) Moved to Bardstown, Ky., October 1 and duty there till October 18. March to Nashville, Tenn., via Lebanon, Columbia, Glasgow, Ky., and Gallatin, Tenn., October 18-November 26. Duty at Nashville till February 1, 1863. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., February 1 and duty there till June. Expedition to Auburn, Liberty and Alexandria February 3-8. Regiment mounted February 12, and assigned to duty as Mounted Infantry. Expedition to Woodbury-March 3-8. Action at Woodbury March 6. Expedition to Liberty, Carthage and Lebanon April 1-8. Expedition to McMinnville April 20-30. Armed with Spencer Carbines May 18. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7. Big Spring Gap June 24. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Occupation of Manchester June 27. Raid on Bragg's communications July 1-August 16. Captured depot of supplies at Dechard. Passage on the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Capture of Chattanooga September 9. Ringgold, Ga., September 11. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 12. Leet's Tan Yard September 12-13. Alexander's Bridge and Hall's House September 18. Vinyard's House September 19. Battle of Chickamauga <dy_1126> September 19-21. Widow Glen's House September 20. Operations against Wheeler and Roddy September 29-October 17. Thompson's Cove, near Beersheba October 3. Glass Cocks October 4. Murfreesboro Road, near McMinnville, October 4. Farmington October 7. Sim's Farm, near Shelbyville, October 7. Shelbyville October 10. Expedition from Maysville to Whitesburg and Decatur November 14-17. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Raid on East Tennessee & Georgia R. R. November 24-27. Charleston and Cleveland November 26. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8.

(This is the start of Otis Hertsel's time frame in the Civil War. He was part of Company E with a start date of Feb. 26, 1864 and muster out date of August 8, 1865. I am not certain that he fought in each of these battles):

Duty at Pulaski, Charleston and Nashville, Tenn., till May, 1864. Regiment reenlisted January 4, 1864. Veterans on furlough January 22 to April 2. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Joined Sherman May 10. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Movements on Dallas May 18-25. Near Dallas May 24. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Big Shanty June 9. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Noonday Creek June 19. Powder Springs June 20-27. Rottenwood Creek July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Covington July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Garrard's Raid to South River July 27-31. Flat Rock Bridge July 28. Lovejoy Station July 29-30. Newnan's July 30. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 1. Near Lost Mountain October 4-7. New Hope Church October 5. Dallas October 7. Rome October 10-11. Narrows October 11. Coosaville Road, near Rome, October 13. Near Summerville October 18. Little River October 20. Leesburg and Grove Road Crossing, Ala., October 21. Goshen October 28. Dismounted November 1 and ordered to Louisville, Ky. Duty there till December 28. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Gravelly Springs, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Wilson's Raid to Macon, Ga., March 22-April 24. Plantersville, Ala., April 1. Selma April 2. Montgomery April 12. Columbia April 16. Spring Hill, Mimm's Mills, Tobasofkee Creek, Montpelier Springs and Rocky Creek Bridge, near Macon, April 20. Capture of Macon April 20. Post duty at Macon till August. Mustered out August 8, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 90 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 237.

The 17th Regiment was also in the battle of Atlanta, GE with the (along with many others) http://www.civilwarhome.com/atlantaorderofbattle(union).htm:

The Atlanta Campaign Union Order of Battle

Organization of the Union Field Forces Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Commanding

Third Brigade (mounted infantry). Col. JOHN T. WILDER. Col. ABRAM O. MILLER.

98th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edward Kitchell. 123d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Jonathan Biggs. 17th Indiana:

   Lieut. Col. Henry Jordan.
   Maj. Jacob G. Vail.

72d Indiana:

   Col. Abram O. Miller.
   Maj. Henry M. Carr.
   Capt. Adam Pinkerton.
   Lieut. Col. Samuel C. Kirkpatrick.

The 1920 Census showed Otis S, Missouri, and Velma living in Union Township, Whitley County. Otis was 74, Missouri 70 and Velma 22.

The 1880 U. S. Census shows Otis and Missouri living in Richland Twp. Whitley County, with Geo. W. Taylor. Oldest son was called "Bub", according to census. The name spelling was "Hurtzel" for the census. Four children were listed Esther, age 11, Media, age 6, Delia, age 3, and Bub age 1(who was likely Russell LeRoy Hertsel. No listing for "Jesse".

The 1870 U. S. Census shows Otis and Missouri in Union Township. Otis was 23 and Missouri 18 with baby girl Esta age 1. He was a farm laborer and it showed his father born in Ohio. July 20, 1918 in Columbia City Newspaper: Otis Hertsel a farmer of Union Township, broke his radius bone of his left arm just above the wrist Friday morning. He was leading a horse and the horse rearing up on his hind feet and suddenly plunging to one side threw the man to the ground and he was injured by the fall.

1911 Newspaper Entertained his War Comrades Columbia City, IN Jan. 22 -- Capt. David Carver Saturday at the Clugston Hotel entertained 12 of the surviving members of the Company E, Seventeenth Indiana, better know as Weiler's Brigade, at a dinner in honor of Major J J Weiler of Dallas, Tx. The even was sort of a reunion which was greatly appreciated and enjoyed by the veterans and the afternoon was spent talking over war times. The guests present and their ages were as follows: Capt David Garver, 77; Major Weiler 71; James L Johnston 71; William Brubaker, 68; John Appleton, 78; I. W. Shinneman, 69; Otis Hertsel, 68; John Hess 68; David W Waugh, 70; Homer King, 70; Joseph Waugh, 68; L D Bodley, 64; D R Hemmick, 74; Reuben Humbarger, 72.

Hertsel Otis S 17th E c CO-SPK 1846 1927 (Missouri) "Father" Richland twp pension: 1890, 1894 1, 2, 9, 11, 12, 18

HERTSEL, Otis ~ 2071 ~ 1927-Cemetery from: Index to Estate Packets 1838-2000 Whitley County, Indiana

HERTSEL, Otis S to Missouri TAYLOR on January 16, 1868 - Book 2A:490 From: Whitley County Indiana Marriages 1838-1910

Hertsel Otis S — 17th Co E buried South Park Cem 1846 d 1927 (Missouri) "Father" Member Stough Post — Source(s) 1, 2, 9 from Whitley County Veterans (Partial List) Military People of Whitley County by Jeanette Brown

Hertzel/Hertsel, Otis ~ 1 Feb 1927 (SH:127 ~ 3:17) Hertzell, Missouri ~ 26 Feb 1921 (SH:127 ~ C1:54) Index to Transcribed Death Records 1882-1930 Whitley County, Indiana "H" Surnames

Otis S. Hertsel served with the 17th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Co E 17th Indiana Held Reunion Columbia City Post - Tuesday September 18, 1912

Company E. 17th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, veterans of the Civil War, reunited at the pleasant home of Isaac Shinneman in the northwest part of the city Saturday, and the soldiers who had fought in 210 battles and skirmishes during their term of four years and four months enlistment, recalled many incidents of the battlefield and reviewed events and circumstances which made the occasion one of special interest to the few remaining of the 176 who enlisted April 21, 1861.

Last year, when Major J. J. Weiler, of Los Angeles, Cal., was present, there were 18 veterans in attendance, but during the year seven of that eighteen have passed to the world beyond. They were D. R. Hemmick, John Hess, William Brubaker, Joe Hiler, of North Dakota, E. A. Mossman, of Lafayette, Ind., Hiram Lantz and Fred Smith, of North Manchester. It is thought that there are but about twenty of the original company left now.

Those of the company who were present Saturday were David Garber, aged 79; Isaac Shinneman, aged 70; Reuben Humbarger, aged 74; Otis Hertsel, aged 66; Joseph Waugh, aged 69; Lewis Hartman, aged 70; and James L. Johnson, aged 72. Co. E belonged to the best armed and equipped brigade in the service and was noted for its ability to tear up a country. They had ten pieces of artillery and were in the famous battles of Shilo, Chickamauga and from the latter place marched to Atlanta, which was one of the greatest marches of the war.

One of the principal features of the day was a fine dinner served at the Shinneman home which the soldiers greatly relished. Other guests who enjoyed Mrs. Shinneman’s hospitality were: Mrs. I. B. McDonald, Mrs. Otis Hertsel, Mrs. Joe Waugh, Miss Elsie Humbarger, Mrs. Justice Sherwood, Mrs. William Allen, of Coesse, Mrs. John Hess and daughter, Miss Lulu, and Mrs. John Shinneman, Jr. Mrs. Shinneman was assisted by her daughters, Misses Maude, Kate and May, and the other ladies present assisted in making the event a memorable one.

Company E. will meet again next year, and it is the intention to hold these reunions as long as there are members left to attend them. This company was composed of some of the best men Whitley county ever produced and since the close of the war, many of them resumed peaceful occupations and gave their best efforts to the upbuilding of the communities in which they have resided.

Labels: 1910-1919, Civil War Reunion, newsclip

HARPER'S WEEKLY MAY 20, 1865.

(From October 1864 The 17th Regiment was part of the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps., Military Division Mississippi to August 1865.)

General Wilson's cavalry command arrived at Savannah April 28, after having completed a most sweeping and magnificently successful tour of over six hundred and fifty miles through the heart of Alabama and Georgia, in a region of country before but little touched by the war. General Wilson left Chickasaw, Alabama, on the 22d of March, and moved southward through that State as far as Selma, in the mean time defeating and routing in several engagements the forces of Forrest, Roddy, Adams, and other notorious rebels, capturing towns and seizing and destroying immense amounts of rebel property. Thence he marched eastward and crossed into Georgia, carrying every thing before him. Four important towns, six thousand prisoners, over two hundred cannon, and large supplies of small-, arms were captured, and five hundred million dollars' worth of property belonging to the rebel Government was destroyed. General Wilson's entire casualties were less than five hundred.

Graves of Otis S. Hertsel and Missouri Taylor Hertsel