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Private       Co. B      99th Ohio Infantry

Dates of Service:  11 Aug 1862 - 19 Nov 1862

Josiah Snyder was born September 18th, 1840, in Bath, Allen County, Ohio, the oldest child of 8 born to Peter and Clarinda Edgecomb Snyder. His father was a 20-year-old farmer and the new mother was 17. By 1860, the family had moved to Shawnee Township, Allen County, and 19-year-old Josiah helped his father farm. On July 6th, 1862, Josiah married a local girl, Clarissa Reed; he was 21 and she was 25.  Five weeks after their marriage, Josiah enlisted in the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI). 

On August 26, 1862, the 99th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry mustered into service at Camp Lima, Ohio, to serve three years.  Being ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, the 99th departed Camp Lima on August 31, 1862, arriving at Paris, Kentucky, on September 2, where it remained until September 3. 

Confederates had taken possession of Lexington, and the 99th was ordered to withdraw from Paris to Cynthiana, Kentucky, where the regiment spent several weeks garrisoning, before transferring to Covington, Kentucky, where the 99th garrisoned Fort Mitchel. On September 17, the regiment departed via steamboats for Louisville, Kentucky, where it encamped across the Ohio River from Louisville at Jeffersonville, Indiana. The 99th soon returned to Louisville, helping to defend the city against a suspected attack by General Braxton Bragg's Confederates. At Louisville, the regiment became part of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 21st Corps. As Bragg's Confederates withdrew, the 99th followed in pursuit as far as Wild Cat, Kentucky. Near Wild Cat, the regiment intercepted some recruits for Bragg's army, capturing 25 men and 12 horses. From Wild Cat, the 99th marched through the Kentucky communities of Mount Vernon, Somerset, Columbia, Glasgow, Gallatin, and Lebanon. At Lebanon, the regiment attempted to attack General John Hunt Morgan's Confederate cavalry, but the Southerners retreated as the Northerners advanced. The Union soldiers withdrew to Silver Springs, Kentucky, and Morgan's Confederates captured approximately twenty stragglers from the 99th.  After resting a few days at Silver Springs, on October 16th, the regiment began their march to Nashville, Tennessee, arriving November 7th and remaining on duty there until December 26th. 

Josiah, however, died November 20th, 1862, at the Regimental Hospital in Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, from typhoid pneumonia/fever. 

His body was returned to Ohio for burial, and he was laid to rest in Shawnee Cemetery, Lima, Allen County, near his younger brother William, who had preceded him only five months earlier.