Comrade Dr. O. A. Rea  

Oliver A. Rea, surgeon C.M.A. and C.N.S., of Henry Speyer Post, no. 489, enlisted from Columbus, O., August 6, 1862, in the Eighty-second regiment, Ohio Volunterr infantry, as a private, afterwards a corporal and finally as acting sergreant. This was one of the 300 fighting regiments of the war. (Fox.) comrade Rea, with his regiment, was a port of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862; Army of the Potomac, 1863; Eleventh Army Coprs, 1863; Twentieth Army Corps, 1863; and of the Army of the Cumberland and of the Army of Georgia, 1863-5. out comrade was under the commands of the following generals during his period of service: Gens. Milroy, Siegele, Howard, hooker, Slocum, Thomas, Grant, Sherman, pope, mcDowell, Mcclellan, Mead, and James S. Robinson.

he was in these historic engagements: Cedar Mountain, white Sulpher Springs, Freeman's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Second Bull Run, Gainesville, Va.; Gettysburg, Pa.; Wauhactchie, missionary Ridge, Cleveland and relief of Knoxville, tenn.; Resaca, Dalton, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Buffalo Creek, New Hope church, Monteith, Sandersville and Savannah, Ga.; Averysboro and nentonville, N.C.

Comrade Rea was taken prisoner the first day at Gettysburg and escaped at staunton, va., across the mountains too beverly, August 21. He was in company with H.M. Blatchely, of company D, Eighty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He received a slight wound in the hip at peach Tree Crek and was sick at time with pneumonia (Decemebr 1862) and camp dysentery (September, 1863.

Comrade Rea was in the service three years, some of which time he was on detached service as division orderly (September, 1863), ward master (February 1863), scout duty (September 1863). After his return from the war he joined Miles H. Tibbets Post, Plymouth, but is now a member of Henry Speyer Post, No. 489, and has served in that post as surgeon an dpost commander.