Ohio in the Civil War
14th Ohio Infantry

128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Josiah Farrington, born in 1827, moved from Vermont to Whitehouse, Ohio, in the early 1850's accompanied by his wife Araadna Goodwin Farrington. He farmed and became a Justice of the Peace. According to his nephew and namesake, Albert Josiah (A.J.) Bradley, he also "ran the one and only store in town and in partnership with Alex Walp ran the first stone quarry there." Araadna died in September, 1860, leaving him with their two children, daughter Addie and son Ambrose ("Bose").

The next July he enlisted for a three-year period in Captain James McCabe's Company, 14th Regiment of the Ohio Infantry for Civil War duty. He left his two children and his mother, Almira Hall Farrington, with his younger sister Cyntha Pike Farrington Bradley, and her husband Eber. It is to Cyntha, Eber, his mother, and his two children that his letters are addressed.

From  Josiah Farrington's Civil War Diary and Letters