Biography of D.D. Diehl, pages 981 / 982.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

D.D. Diehl, of Butler, Ind., was born in Summit County, Ohio, Jan. 25, 
1843, son of Isaac Diehl, who moved to De Kalb County, Ind., in April,1843, 
and settled in Stafford Township.  He remained on the farm with his parents 
until 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, 
and in March, 1862, was sent home on account of ill health.  After his 
recovery in August, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company H, Eighty-eighth Indiana 
Infantry, under Captain, and afterward General Blair, and participated in 
the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, 
Mission Ridge, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee 
River, in all the battles in front and around Atlanta, in the decisive 
charge of Jonesboro, which caused the fall of Atlanta, and marched with 
Sherman to the sea and through the Carolinas, and was in the last and bloody 
battle of Bentonville, N.C., where the first division of the Fourteenth Army 
Corp, under command of Jeff. C. Davis, Major-General commanding, did such 
gallant and noble fighting, his regiment being the first to open the fight, 
being put on the skrimish line very early in the morning.  He was taken 
prisoner at Stone River, Jan. 2, 1862, and exchanged soon after.  He had 
his full share of suffering, and contracted disease that will always 
remain in his system.  He was married May, 26, 1867, to Salina S. Walters, 
daughter of Peter Walters.  They have had four children; but three are 
living---George C., Minnie M. and Lena A., the youngest now being twelve 
years old.  He came to Butler in 1866, and the fall of 1867 moved to 
Tiskilwa, Ill., and remained two years; returning to Butler he has made 
this his home ever since.  He was in the agricultural implement business 
three years, and the book and stationery business with Jones Brother, 
Chicago, Ill., two years.  He is a tin and copper smith by trade and is 
foreman of the shop of Beadle & McCurdy, of Butler, Ind.  He is member of 
Meade Post, No. 44, Department of Indiana, G.A.R.  and is Commander of the 
post.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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