Last Resting Places

The above two soldiers were comrades in Company B of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. They fought together at the Battle of Tazewell, Tennessee, on August 6, 1862. At that battle they and their entire Company were nearly killed and half of them captured. Wilder and McCluggage narrowly avoided being taken prisoner and ended up capturing a Confederate officer, finding their way back to the regiment's headquarters and delivering him to Col. DeCourcy. Read their story here.

Unfortunately, both soldiers became sick with disease after the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 29, 1862, and died just a few months apart in military hospitals. It is interesting that both soldiers' gravestones are nearly identical in design in cemeteries 35 miles apart.


Sgt. Richard Willis Taneyhill (Tanneyhill/Tannyhill) Company G (90-day) Captain, Company E (three-year) Private, Company I, 76th OVI Born May, 1838, Millersburg, Ohio - Died July 15, 1913, Holmes County, Ohio Buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Ohio * brother of William (right) courtesy of and with permission from Debe Clark, FindAGrave.com	Pvt. William Byron Taneyhill (Tanneyhill/Tannyhill) Company G (90-day) Sergeant, Company E (three-year) Born December 8, 1840, Holmes County, Ohio Died May 24, 1924, Akron, Ohio * brother of Richard (left) Buried at Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Ohio courtesy of and with permission from "Mr. Ed", FindAGrave.com

Pvt. Samuel Jefferson Gray, Company B Born September 25, 1842, Holmes County, Ohio - Died December 23, 1914, Holmes County, Ohio Buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Ohio courtesy of and with permission from "Names in Stone", FindAGrave.com

Cpl. Paul Wilder, Company B Sergeant, Company B Born December 19, 1832, St. Albans, Vermont Died February 6, 1863, in General Hospital, Paducah, Kentucky from wounds received at Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 29, 1862 Buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Ohio courtesy of and with permission from "Names in Stone", FindAGrave.com	Pvt. John McCluggage, Company B Born March 15, 1842, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Died June 13, 1863, on board Hospital Steamer D. A. January on Mississippi River * research shows actual date of death may have been January 13, 1863 Buried at Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Wakatomika, Ohio courtesy of and with permission from Janice Lapp, FindAGrave.com
The above two soldiers were comrades in Company B of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. They fought together at the Battle of Tazewell, Tennessee, on August 6, 1862. At that battle they and their entire Company were nearly killed and half of them captured. Wilder and McCluggage narrowly avoided being taken prisoner and ended up capturing a Confederate officer, finding their way back to the regiment's headquarters and delivering him to Col. DeCourcy. Read their story here. Unfortunately, both soldiers became sick with disease after the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 29, 1862, and died just a few months apart in military hospitals. It is interesting that both soldiers' gravestones are nearly identical in design in cemeteries 35 miles apart.