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Where was the regiment on
Thursday, May 14, 1863
After arriving at Raymond, Mississippi, at 3:00AM this morning, the 16th Ohio, with Gen. Osterhaus' division, remained camped in town all day. It rained heavily. From Cpl. Wolbach:
Having got strict orders not to scatter out we settled down wherever there was anything to sit on or lean against. So in our drenched garments we passed the hours until daylight. The town was full of wounded and rebel prisoners; many of the latter were Irish. On a hotel porch up in the center of the little town was a lot of muskets picked up on the battle-field. Some of the barrels were bent, evidently by being struck during the action. Across the street from our bivouac lived an elderly white man that had been a private soldier in Jeff. Davis' Mississippi Regiment during the Mexican war. The old gentleman--for such he seemed to be--detailed to us briefly his soldier experience of twenty years ago. On the morning of Logan's fight he had listened with keen anxiety to the fierce musketry hoping, as he candidly expressed it, that the Confederates would be victorious. When their retreating regiments passed back through town he wrote the number and State of each4on his shirt cuff. There were five regiments of Infantry. ... we done the best we could to keep dry, and take a hasty look around the immediate neighborhood.
* 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.
Period map showing the route of the 16th Ohio, with Gen. Osterhaus' 9th Division, from Fourteenmile Creek to Raymond, Mississippi, on May 13, 1863, and where they camped on May 14:
Modern day map of the 16th Ohio's march from Fourteenmile Creek to Raymond, Mississippi, on May 13 and where they camped on May 14, 1863:
Lavender pin - Village of Rocky Springs, the approximate position of where the 16th Ohio camped on the night of May 3 and May 4, 1863.
Purple pin - approximate campsite of 16th Ohio on The Jackson Road at Big Sandy Creek May 5 through 9, 1863.
Yellow pin - approximate campsite of 16th Ohio on the Jackson Road (now called Old Port Gibson Road) on the night of May 10 and all day May 11, 1863.
Green pin - approximate campsite of 16th Ohio on the Jackson Road near Fourteenmile Creek on the night of May 12, 1863.
Red pin - Raymond, Mississippi, where the 16th Ohio with Gen. Osterhaus' division camped during the rainy day of May 14, 1863.
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