Notes for Roland Charles BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Roland Charles BREYFOGLE

The 1850 and 1860 census files refer to this child as Charles R, yet he enlisted under the name Roland. In his father's letters home during the civil war, Joshua D. refers to him as Roland or Roll and does not refer to the middle name or initial. The 1860 census shows Roland employed as a clerk, in letters written in 1861 Joshua refers to his other sons working for merchants in Delaware and one wonders if this was the same merchant, possibly a general store.

SOURCE: 1850 & 1860 Federal Census, Delaware, Delaware, OH

Service Record:

Enlisted as a Private on 21 April 1861 at the age of 19
Enlisted in Company C, 4th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 21 April 1861
Mustered out on 03 June 1861
Enlisted in Company C, 4th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 03 June 1861
Promoted to Full Corporal on 01 January 1863
Mustered out on 21 June 1864
Promoted to Full Captain on 26 February 1865 (As of Co. C 186th OH Inf)
Commission in Company C, 186th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 26 February 1865
Mustered out on 18 September 1865 in Nashville, TN
Promoted to Brevet Lieutenant 1st Class on 02 March 1867 for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Spotsylvania Va;
Died 28 July 1870.

SOURCE: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio. (OHRoster) Published in 1886
Heitman: Register of United States Army 1789-1903. (Heitman) Published in 1994

Joshua D. Breyfogle, Jr. reported to his sons that his brother Roland, "was made an officer in the Regular Army by General Grant, for bravery at the terrible Battle of the Wilderness, in rescuing our Flag from the Rebels." This is not mentioned by the source above, but is part of Joshua's recollections of the war written in letter format on March 27, 1903.
SOURCE: Civil War Experiences of J. D. Breyfogle, March 27, 1903

R. C. Breyfogle of Delaware, Ohio is mentioned in a book titled, "HISTORY OF DELAWARE AND OHIO" published in 1880. We offer this short excerpt with the assumption that the R. C. Breyfogle mentioned is Roland Charles Breyfogle, son of Joshua D. Breyfogle:

"The One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Infantry drew one company from Delaware County. Company B was recruited almost wholly in the county, and was mustered in, under the following commissioned officers: R. C. Breyfogle, Captain; O. H. Barker, First Lieutenant, and Shadrack Hubbell, Second Lieutenant. Lieut. Hubbell was a son of Hon. J. R. Hubbell, of Delaware, and was but eighteen years of age when he enlisted in the army. He raised most of this company, many of its members being his schoolmates, and, in acknowledgment of his services, he was made Second Lieutenant of the company. After the close of the war, he was commissioned in the regular army, and died at New Orleans, in 1867, of yellow fever. He was on Gen. Hancock's staff at the time of his death."

SOURCE: History of Delaware and Ohio, O. L.. BASKIN S CO., Historical Publishers, 1880

Mary B. (Reynolds) Breyfogle, Roland's mother, applied for her son's civil War survivors Pension on August 19, 1870, which leads us to assume that his death was related to his service during the civil war. Lewis W. Breyfogle noted his death was the result of wounds from a civil war battle.

SOURCE: Civil War Pension Register

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