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Streight, Abdel D. 1829-
Military officer; born in Wheeler, N. Y., June 17, 1829; recruited the 51st Indiana Volunteers in 1861; was commissioned colonel, and wa ndent provisional brigade, created for a temporary purpose.
Landing at Dover, Streight marched across to the Tennessee, at Fort Henry, where he remained until the bo a, destroying a large amount of Confedrate property, and returned to Corinth.
Streight and his raiders were pursued by Forrest and Roddy, and there was continual skirmishing and racing until they approached Rome, when Streight's ammunition and horses failed him, many of the poor beasts dying from sheer exhaustion.
On May 3, when .
The captives were sent to Richmond and confined in Libby Prison, from which Streight and 100 officers escaped (February, 1864), by burrowing under the foundation walls of that building.
Streight surrendered 1,365 men— Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois troops.
After a short retirement he resumed command of his regiment; was promoted