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Mr. Rickey was farming in Henry county, Ohio, when at the age of 28, he enlisted at Napoleon, O., Oct, 16, 1861, as a private in Co. A, 68th O. Vet. Vol. Inf., 3rd Brig., 4th Div., 17th A.C. He was once promoted, at the battle of Vicksburg, to corporal; he was injured in the wreck at Jackson, just after the battle of Corinth. This injury confined him to the field hospital at Jackson for two months. In Sept. 1863, he was furloughed for thirty days, and again in 1864 for the same length of time. He was discharged from his first enlistment at Vicksburg in Dec., 1863, but re-enlisted to guard Gen. Blairs Head Quarter. Battles; Ft. Donaldson, Reserve Guard, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Hatcher Run, Jackson, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Bakers Creek, Port Hudson, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Macon, Savannah, Columbia and Raleigh; his honorable discharge was granted him at Louisville, Ky., July 10, 1865.
From the Biography of Joseph Rickey. Vol. II, pages 671 & 672. Presidents, Soldiers,Statesmen; H.H. Hardesty, Publisher, New York, Toledo, and Chicago, 1894.
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