This item was originally part of a grouping of items ID’d to Houghton. Large fold-out map of the battlefields of the war. Folded the map meas. approx. 4.25 x 8.25. It has a very colorful cover with GAR badge at center with silver and red lettering that reads “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, 33rd Annual Encampment GAR Sept. 3rd, 1899, Philadelphia , Pa. via Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.” As the map unfolds each of the panels explains a different battle. Once opened the map shows where the different battles took place. Due to old fold creases the map should be opened and framed. The creases are stiff but not torn. The back cover has color art work of soldiers at a cannon and a bugler. Printing reads “C&O Route, Historical Sketch of the Virginia Campaign by Gen. H. V. Boynton with Complete Map of the Battlefields Prepared from Official Records in the War Department. To Philadelphia Through Virginia Battlefields and Via Washington.”

Rhesa C. Houghton enlisted August 5, 1862 as a Musician in Company F, 103rd Ohio Infantry. He served with them through the war in the Western Theater. The regiment served in Kentucky and east Tennessee until it joined Sherman for the Atlanta Campaign. When Sherman went to the sea the 103rd went north chasing General Hood’s Rebels into Tennessee and fought at Franklin and Nashville. They then linked up with Sherman in the Carolinas and finished the war. Houghton was mustered out of the service on June 12, 1865 at Raleigh, N.C.  [AD]

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