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Where was the regiment on
Saturday, November 22, 1862
Pressing on, DeCourcey's flotilla travelled an estimated 125 miles west on the Ohio River this day. Cpl Theodore Wolbach writes:
Some distance below the mouth of the Wabash, we saw a deer swimming across the river. Our boat passed within a hundred yards of it. A number of shots were fired at it, but all missed. When about a mile away, we saw the poor frightened animal reach the Illinois shore in safety and bound away into the forest.
* Information and italicized quotations from a series of articles entitled Camp and Field - The Old 16th Ohio, written in the 1880s by Theodore Wolbach, late Corporal in Company E, 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Modern day map of the 16th Ohio's journey on the Ohio River from Louisville toward Cairo, Illinois (positions approximated):
Blue pin - New Albany, Indiana (near Louisville, Kentucky)
Green pin - notional point where the flotilla anchored for the night on November 19, 1862
Red pin - Cannelton, Indiana, where flotilla docked to take on coal on what may have been the night of November 20, 1862
Lavender pin - notional point where the flotilla reached on the night of November 21, 1862
Yellow pin - notional point where the flotilla reached on the night of November 22, 1862
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