Biography of Benjamin R. Baughman, Vol. II, pages 568 / 569.  Presidents, 
Soldiers, Statesmen;  H. H. Hardesty, Publisher, New York, Toledo, and 
Chicago, 1894.

Benjamin R. Baughman

Is a resident of DeKalb county, Ind., where he settled in 1867, having been 
born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 27, 1842, and was living in the latter 
county, when at the age of 18, he quit the farm to serve his country as a 
private in Co. E, 16th O.V.I., 4th Brig., 13th A.C., enlisting at 
Millersburg, Holmes Co., O., and was mustered in at Wooster, Wayne county, 
Ohio, in Oct., 1861; he was in three different hospitals at Cumberland one 
week, in 1862, at Black River in 1863, and at St. Louis for six weeks.  At 
one time he was detailed with the Pioneer Corps to erect stockades for 
commissary stores.  Battles: Mill Springs, Cumberland Gap, Tazwell, 
Chickesaw, Vicksburg, Thompson's Hill, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, 
Black River, Red River and numerous skirmishes and engagements in all 16; 
his honorable discharge was granted him in October, 1864, at Columbus, O.  
Our subject is the son of Daniel and Margaret (Reams) Baughman, the father 
having died in 1873, and the mother in 1892; he was married first to 
Margaret De Vore, and their children were Myrtie W., William F., Daniel I. 
and John A.; he was a second time married to Hannah Deetr.  Again in 
Holmes county, Ohio, he married Hannah (Haney) Dietz, who was born March 
14, 1836, in the same county as her husband; her parents were John and 
Elizabeth (Lower) Haney, both dying in 1889. Mrs. Baughman's grandfather, 
Frederick Haney, was in the Revolutionary War.  Our conrade is a pensioner, 
a farmer, and his address is Ashley, DeKalb Co., Ind.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlner.com