Levi Lightfoot ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   Cause of his death was Measles.

  General Notes:

Levi and his younger brother, Jacob, both joined the 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Levi Lightfoot
Regiment Name 68 Ohio Infantry
Side: Union
Company K
Soldier's Rank_In: Pvt
Soldier's Rank_Out: Pvt
Film Number M552 roll 64

68th Regiment, Ohio Infantry:
Organized at Camp Latta, Napoleon, Ohio from October to December, 1861. Moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January 21, 1862, thence ordered to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 7. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Military District of Cairo, February, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1863. Unattached, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1865.

SERVICE:
Investment and capture of Fort Doneison, Tenn., February 12-16, 1862.
Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing March 9-14. Battle of Shiloh April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.
March to Purdy, thence to Bolivar, and duty there till September. March to Iuka, Miss., September 1-19.
Battle of the Hatchie or Metamora October 5.
Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad, November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863.
Reconnaissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862.
Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 20, 1863, thence to Lake Providence, La., February 22.
Moved to Milliken's Bend April 10.
Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.
Battle of Port Gibson May 1.
Forty Hills and Hankinson's Ferry May 3-4.
Battle of Raymond May 12.
Jackson May 14.
Battle of Champion's Hill May 16.
Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.
Surrender of Vicksburg July 4, and duty there till February, 1864.
Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863.
Expedition to Canton October 14-20.
Bogue Chitto Creek October 17.
Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864.
Morton February 10.
Veterans absent on Furlough February 20-May 8.
Moved to Cairo, Ill., May 7-8, thence to Clifton, Tenn., and march via Pulaski, Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., to Rome and Ackworth, Ga., May 12-June 9. Atlanta (Ga.)
Campaign June 9-September 8.
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
Howell's Ferry July 5.
Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21.
Battle of Atlanta July 22.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
Jonesboro September 5.
Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood September 29-November 3.
March to the sea November 15-December 10.
Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
Pocotaligo, S. C., January 14.
Salkehatchie Swamps February 2-5.
Barker's Mills, Whippy Swamp, February 2.
Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9.
Orangeburg, North Edisto River, February 12-13.
Columbia February 16-17.
Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21.
Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
Bennett's House April 26.
Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
Grand Review May 24.
Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 1, and duty there till July.
Mustered out July 10, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 48 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 249 Enlisted men by disease. Total 300.
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Source: Anna Weborg-Fraser, 25 Aug 2008, E-mail

Here is the story told to me by Florus Lightfoot, my grandfather and son of Jacob and Nancy. They were both born in Ohio. Nancy was engaged to Jacob's brother, Levi. Both boys entered the army to serve in the Civil War. (I think the first Ohio volunteers). Levi died of measles during the war. I have a picture of the two boys in uniforms. Jacob brought home Levi's personal effects which included a tintype of Nancy. I have it.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1850 US Census in Brady Township, Williams, OH on 29 August 1850. ⁴

1850 US Census
Page 5A, Family 78, Roll 741
Brady Township, Williams County, Ohio
Leois Lightfoot..5..PA

(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1850 US Census in Brady Township, Williams, OH on 3 September 1850. ⁵

1850 US Census
Page 13A, Family 186, Roll 74
Brady Township, Williams County, Ohio
Lewis Lightfoot..6..PA

(Living with parents.)
.

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in Brady Township, Williams, OH on 27 June 1860. ⁶

1860 US Census
Page 158A, Family 499, Roll 1052
Brady Township, Williams County, Ohio
Levi Lightfoot..15..PA..None

(Living with parents.)
.