George Benson Fox

Fox became a Major in the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on June 11, 1863, and acted as the regiment's commander after Colonel Charles W. Friend resigned.

The 75th Ohio Infantry fought in many of the most notable battles in the Civil War's Eastern Theatre, including McDowell, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the siege operations against Charleston, SC.

In 1865 upon return from four years service in the Civil War, the citizens of Wyoming, Ohio gave a homecoming celebration where they presented Fox a 36-star flag.

In a corner of the room he was imprisoned, he requested his guide pry up the floorboards revealing a hole leading to a passage he and fellow prisoners had been digging as an escape tunnel.

[8] Thomas Fox subsequently began embarking into paper manufacturing, while George continued the starch business later incorporating "The Geo.

He gave distinguished service in war, and has lived worthily in peace.”[14][15] A historically significant collection of approximately 80 letters[16] Fox wrote from many of the most notable battlefields of the Civil War where the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry fought is archived at the Cincinnati History Library and Archives at the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Smith Family Charitable Trust to digitize and copy these letters, of which countless historians and students have used in research and preservation of Civil War history.

[17] The collection was purchased by the Cincinnati History Library on August 29, 1940, and subsequently arranged and catalogued in February 1984, noting: "These letters are extremely interesting because of their fullness and detail.

"[5] "Fox's letters to his parents reveal his views on the enemy, conscription, emancipation, and the battle of Gettysburg, as well as the more mundane concerns of a soldier.