Ogilva E. Hamblin
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Ogilva E. Hamblin (some records incorrectly list him as Ogilvie and others confuse him with his brother Orville) was born in 1842 and enlisted at Pulaski, Michigan, on December 12, 1863. Ogilva served in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry with his older brothers Ward P and Orville.He was shot in the left arm on the evening of October 30, 1864, at Raccoon Ford, Alabama, and taken prisoner. His arm was amputated at a local Confederate hospital the next morning. Gangrene developed and after Christmas he was sent to the main Confederate hospital in Columbus, Mississippi. He recovered in time due to "cornbread and black coffee" in his words. Later he was transferred to the Cahaba Confederate prison near Selma, Alabama.
Good luck appeared to come his way in April 1865 when he was involved in a prisoner exchange, but unfortunately he was placed on the steamer SULTANA along with 2300 other prisoners. Two days later in the early morning hours of April 27th the ship's boilers exploded with a loss of life of 1800 of those on board. Somehow the one armed Hamblin survived and soon found his way home to Michigan. He was discharged on August 27, 1865, at Macon, Georgia. Ogilva died on May 26, 1906, two weeks after the death of his brother Orville, with burial in the Pulaski Cemetery, Jackson County, Michigan.
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15 October 2015