LIST OF QUARTERMASTER STORES, &C. TRANSFERRED BY CHARLES GENTSCH, 1ST LIEUT. , 51ST U.S. ARMY, TO LEANDER A. POOR, CAPT. & ASST. QUARTERMASTER 1ST DIV. C.D.J. AT IN THE FIELD, TEXAS, ON THE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1865. . . SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED & TWENTY PDS CORN. . . EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED & TWENTY PDS OATS. . . TWELVE THOUSAND PDS HAY. . . ONE HUNDRED AND ONE PDS GRAIN SACKS. . . &C.
Texas: September 15, 1865. Folio, 11" x 16". Printed broadside, completed in ink manuscript. Signed by Charles Gentsch as quartermaster. Docketed on verso. Contains columns listing number, quantity, name of articles and condition when delivered. Old folds, very clean. Near Fine.
The 51st Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Meigs in Ohio beginning September 17, 1861, and mustered into service on October 26, 1861. The regiment was attached to several different units of the Army of Ohio, the Army of the Cumberland, and the Department of Texas. The Regiment participated in an expedition down the Ohio River in February, 1862, to reinforce General Grant, and then took part in the Occupation of Nashville. They marched to Louisville and pursued Bragg from late August to late October, 1862, participating in the Battle of Perryville. They later fought at Stone's River, Middle Tennessee [or Tullahoma] Campaign, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Nashville, and others.
Charles Gentsch [1842-1914] of New Philadelphia, Ohio, was mustered in as 1st Sergeant of Company K, 51st Ohio Infantry in October, 1861. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in January, 1863; 1st Lieutenant in April, 1863; and to Quartermaster in February, 1865, at which time he was also transferred to Company S of the same regiment. After the war, he attended Georgetown University. By 1872, he was practicing as a physician in Cleveland, as well as a director in the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, the United Banking & Savings Company, the Lorain Street Savings Bank Company, and in several manufacturing companies. He lived out his life in Cleveland and was a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Army and Navy Post of the G.A.R., and other local clubs. His two brothers Daniel C. and Frank H. Gentsch were also physicians. In 1907 he wrote and read a paper before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion called "Instantaneous Rigor-Mortis Occasionally occurring and observed upon the Battlefield", based on his war experiences.
Leander Alonso Poor [1833-1910] of Vienna, Maine, graduated from Bowdoin College and was a principal at a high school in Massachusetts when the war began. He joined Company C, U.S. Engineers Battalion at Worcester, Massachusetts, but was discharged for medical reasons. In 1864, he was commissioned Captain in the United States Volunteers and assigned to the Union Army's First Division, Fourth Army Corps. His unit was ordered to Texas to reestablish federal authority, spending from September 1865 to June 1866 at Indianola and later Port Lavaca to oversee the rebuilding of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railway. He returned to Maine in 1866 and was given the rank of Brevet Major. After the war, he was a school teacher and administrator. ["Capt. Leander A. Poor, U.S.V., in Port Lavaca, 1865-1866" by Charles D. Spurlin, 2003, THE JOURNAL OF SOUTH TEXAS, 16, 169-194; military records at website Fold3.]. Item #37141
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