This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dimmitt, Lester, Chisom, Dickens, Taylor Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1728 Message Board Post: Lafayette Journal and Courier Friday, January 23, 1920 Lafayette, Indiana VETERAN OF '61 DEAD; FORMERLY RESIDED IN CITY Oliver H. Dimmitt Participated in 22 Battles - Passes Away in Los Angeles, California Mrs. Jennie Lester, South Twenty-seventh street, this city, has received word of the death of her brother, Oliver H. Dimmitt, a former resident of Lafayette, which occurred this week in Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Dimmitt was born in Rensselaer on February 14, 1845, and at the outbreak of the war of the rebellion he came to Lafayette. At the age of eighteen years he enlisted as a private in Company H, Tenth regiment Indiana Volunteer infantry commanded by Captain Marsh B. Taylor, who later was advanced to colonel. Mr. Dimmitt soon was given the rank of corporal, which he retained during his term of service. IN MANY BATTLES He was constantly with the regiment and participated in all the battles in which the regiment engaged, which were twenty-two in number. At the battle of Chickamauga, on September 19, 1863, his company with Company C was detailed on the skirmish line. In the early morning attack, Company C had the first man wounded and Company H the first man killed in the battle. The latter was little Jim Chisom, a lad who resided on Wabash avenue, this city. Mr. Dimmitt was a faithful soldier and was mustered out September 19, 1864, after having served three years and twenty-seven days. For the past two or three years he had suffered with a complication of diseases and he seemed to realize that his condition was hopeless. He was a member of the First Christian church in Los Angeles and a man held in high esteem. His widow survives. Jesse Dickens, of Otterbein, is the only surviving member of Company H in this section of the country.