Subject: A.J. Eminger [by George Pressler]
Date: 08/02/1917
Source: Miamisburg News [Miamisburg Ohio]
Researcher: Lester Wead

Title: Old Ninety Third
Subtitle: Interesting Reminiscences. George Pressler Writes of the
	Battles of '63 and '64. Shot in the Breast.

Editor News: -

 I was sorry to hear of the death of Captain Eminger, although it was not 
entirely unexpected. The 93rd Ohio had a good many soldiers in but none better 
than Captain Eminger. I want to give you a correct line of the battles in which 
the regiment participated. I believe the Captain was in all of them: Stone 
River, Liberty Gap, Chicamauga [sic], Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, Dandridge, 
Rockyface Ridge, (or Buzzard Roost), Dalton, Resaca, Pickett Mills, Kenesaw 
Mountain, Chattahoochie [sic] River, Marietta, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy 
Station. Nashville.
 At Franklin November 30th 1864, just as the battle opened our regiment was 
taken out of the line of battle to guard a wagon train [?] to Nashville. On 
December 16, 1864, our regiment went into the battle of Nashville with ninety 
men and came out of it with sixty-five. So it was about time that the war 
closed, or there would have been no 93rd.
 I will give you a little of my experience: I suppose I was about an average. At 
Stone River a ball passed through my gunstrap; Chickamauga was struck in the 
forehead with a canister and knocked down by the explosion of a caisson; at 
Chattahoochie River was struck on the finger with a Minnie ball, and at the 
battle of Nashville one ball passed through my hat and one in my breast just 
above the heart. I have the ball yet. This wound sent me to the hospital for two 
months. With the exception of those months I was with the regiment every day.
 I had a cartridge box strap on a canteen and the cartridge box strap crossed 
right where the ball struck and threw it sideways against the breast bone, and 
saved my life.

Very respectfully,
George Pressler
Co. K, 93rd Ohio
Wabash, Ind.