Full Unit History
63rd OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY:
Organized: 8/1861 – 2/1862 Columbus, Marietta and Chillicothe, OH
Mustered In: 2/1862
Mustered Out: 7/8/1865 Louisville, KY
9th VETERAN VOLUNTEER RESERVE CORPS
Organized: 10/10/1863 Washington, D. C.
Mustered Out: By 11/16/1865
Regimental History
REGIMENTAL HISTORY: (63rd)
The 63rd Ohio was a three year infantry regiment created by the combining of two state battalions, the 22nd and the 63rd. During the American Civil War (ACW) it served and fought in the western theater of operations.
After Federal muster the unit moved to Missouri via Kentucky. In Missouri it immediately went into combat at New Madrid. It was then involved in all the operations that resulted in the surrender of Island No. 10 (2/28 – 4/8/1862) in the Mississippi River. Then came the siege of Corinth, MS.
In the subsequent battle for Corinth (10/3 – 4/1862) the regiment lost forty eight percent (48 %) of its officers and enlisted men that went into action. It spent the following winter and summer in Corinth before being ordered into Tennessee in 1863.
During early, 1864 the 63rd veteranized. Following furloughs the unit returned to the field in Resaca, GA joining the forces under the command of Union Gen. W.T. Sherman. In subsequent operations around Dallas, GA (5/26 – 6/1/1864) the regiment lost heavily. It was then under fire at Kennesaw Mountain (6/27/1864) and at Jonesborough. Between May and September it lost one hundred fifty eight (158) men. After the capture of Atlanta, 1864 was concluded with the march to Savannah and the sea.
1865 found the 63rd trekking northward through the Carolinas. During this campaign it fought at Bentonville, NC (3/19 – 21) before marching to Goldsboro then Washington City and Louisville, KY from whence it returned home.
REGIMENTAL LOSSES:
Officers Killed Or Mortally Wounded: 2; Officers Died Of Disease, Accidents, Etc.: 2 Enlisted Men Killed Or Mortally Wounded: 91 Enlisted Men Died Of Disease, Accidents, and Etc.259.
REGIMENTAL HISTORY: (9th)
During the American Civil War (ACW) the Veterans Reserve Corps (originally the Invalid Corps) was a military reserve organization created to all partially disabled or otherwise infirmed soldiers (or former soldiers who desired to do so) to perform garrison and other light, rear echelon, duties thereby freeing able-bodied soldiers to serve on the front lines.
No specific history of the 9 has been located.
Soldier History
SOLDIER: (63rd)
Residence: Inf. Not Avail. Age: ca. 18 yrs.
Enlisted/Enrolled: 2/10/1862 Rank: Pvt.
Mustered In: 2/10/1862
Transferred Out: 4/30/1864
Highest Rank: Pvt.
Rank At Transfer: Pvt.
SOLDIER: (9th)
Residence: Inf. Not Avail. Age: ca. 20 yrs.
Transferred In: 4/30/1864 Rank: Pvt.
Mustered Out: Inf. Not Avail.
Highest Rank: Pvt.
Rank At Discharge: Pvt.
Family History
PERSONAL/FAMILY HISTORY:
William Beebe was born during the year 1844. His place of birth was in Ohio.
Fathering William was John Beebe. His mother was Amanda (nee Frost) Beebe.
On 2/10/1862 William and his brother, Austin, enlisted in the 63rd Ohio Infantry Co. “G.” Austin did not survive The War. He died from an accidental wounding and was/is buried in Mississippi. By 1864 William was no longer physically fit for field duty, but transferred into the Veterans Reserve Corps to finish The War.
The 1880 census listed the Beebe family in Troy Township Athens County, OH. In the home were Thomas Richardson, 69 (farmer); son Lewis, 40 (engineer), daughter Martha, 14 – she is listed with surname Richardson rather than Beebe; son-in-law William Beebe, 36 (b. OH); granddaughter Eva. L. Beebe, 11; granddaughter Estelle M. Beebe, 8 and grandson Franklin Beebe, 5.
William filed for a Civil War disability pension on 2/20/1885. A monthly pension stipend was authorized.
Residing in Rome Athens County, OH when the 1900 census was taken, William was listed as a brother to the head of the household. Several other Beebes lived nearby.
William Beebe died 1/26/1910 in Whatcom County, WA. He was/is buried in that county’s Bay View Cemetery located in the City of Bellingham.
Funeral Of William Beebe
Funeral services over the remains of William Beebe, the civil war veteran who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eva B. Hawk, living on the Kelly road, Wednesday morning, will be held at the chapel of Mock & Hill at 1055 Elk street Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Fred Alban Weil, minister of the Unitarian Society, will officiate. The Pilgrim quartet will furnish music. Interment will be made in Bay View cemetery.
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NOTE: The preceding courtesy of the Whatcom Genealogical Society. Please see our Links page for information on how to obtain the download Civil War Veterans in Whatcom County (with^ June 2014 update) from which much of the above information was adopted.
Posted: 5/28/2024
Updated:
Cemetery
Buried at Bay View Cemetery in Bellingham