5th Ohio Independent Cavalry Company
in the American Civil War
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Regimental History
Fifth Independent Cavalry Company. — Capt., James L. Foley; First Lieut., Joseph M. Kennedy ; Second Lieut., Isaac B. McLinn. This company was organized at Cincinnati and was composed principally of residents of that city. It was one of the four companies that formed the organization known as Gen. Fremont's body-guard, commanded by Maj. Charles Zagonyi. Three companies of the guard, numbering 150 men, attacked a force of 1,900 organized men in open daylight at Springfield, Mo., Oct. 25, 1861, and put them to flight. While moving down a lane and before taking down a fence and forming for the charge, the guards received a heavy cross-fire, from which 40 men were thrown down and disabled by being hit themselves or having their horses shot, so that not more than 110 were engaged in the real attack. The loss of the guards in this action, the only one in which they were engaged, was 15 killed, 27 wounded and 10 captured, 4 of the killed and 13 of the wounded being members of this company. The captured men were soon afterward exchanged. The Confederate loss was heavy, being given by Reid, in his "Ohio in the War," as 107 killed and 30 captured. Footnotes: Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 2 |
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