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Subject: [OHLORAIN] preface to diary
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:03:12 EDT

Thank you, for your wonderful responses. I decided to do it this way because
I thought it would be the most fun for everyone. I will send the diary up
until, May 2
and then post daily as they are in the diary, like a serial.

Melville Hamilton Porter, enlisted in the Union Army, August 25, 1861, at
Cleveland, showing his age as 20 (he was actually 16y 8m), for a three year
hitch. There is little record of the first of his service; he was sick in a
hospital at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Feb. 28, 1862, and was a private Company
M and Company D, 2nd Regiment Ohio Cavalry. He reenlisted February 1864 at
Knoxville, Tenn., receiving a bounty of $400, and gave his address as
Brooklyn, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.(?) He was made Corporal in May 1864,
retroactive to Feb. 1, he also corrected his age, showing it as 19.

He was among those captured at Reams Station, VA, June 29, 1864. He was taken
to Richmond as a prisoner, and sent, on July 16, to the Confederate prison
camp at Andersonville, GA. He was transferred to another camp in North
Carolina in early 1865, where he was paroled at N. E. Ferry, NC on Feb. 26,
1865. He was discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, June 7, 1865.

This seemed necessary to set up the first part of the diary, which I will
send after this.

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