GALLERY: Knox County Farmer as a 100 Days Man in Civil War

From left, Remnants of Union trenches preserved in a residential area of Bermuda Hundred. At right, John LeVoy Higbie’s wartime photo placed near the Howlett Line where the 142nd OVI dismantled a series of Confederate earthworks.
The Point of Rocks field hospital for the Union Army is shown here at the Bermuda Hundred.
Union earthworks are shown here at the Bermuda Hundred in 1864.
Confederate (red) and Union (blue) positions are shown on this map of the Bermuda Hundred.
National Colors of the 142nd Ohio Volunteers Infantry.
Knox County farmer John LeVoy Higbie is shown here in the 1860s. He was one of the state’s Hundred Days Men in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.