Otho F. Strahl

Commissioned brigadier to rank from July 28, 1863, Ohio-born "States Righter" Otho F. Strahl commanded one of the hardest hitting brigades in the Army of Tennessee. After serving first in Cheatham’s Tennessee Division and then with AP Stewart at Chattanooga, he was again with the hard-driving Cheatham during the ill-fated Middle Tennessee Campaign of late 1864. By the time the brigade formed on Winstead Hill on November 30, 1864, it consisted of the 24th, 5th, 19th, 4th, 31st, 33rd, 38th, and 41st Tennessee Regiments. Though reduced in numbers when it slammed into the final line of Federal works, the brigade managed to hold the outer portion of the works despite vicious enfilading fire from the area of the Gin House. Strahl was severely wounded in the neck while passing a loaded Enfield to S.A. Cunningham, and while being carried to the rear he was struck by two more bullets, the second killing him. He was first buried at St. Johns with Cleburne and was later reinterred at Dyersburg, Tennessee.

Franklin, Tennessee · United States