Ohio in the War: The history of her regiments, and other military organizationsMoore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1868 |
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1st Lieutenant 2d Lieutenant 66 Promoted advance April 14 April 20 arrived artillery Ass't Surgeon Atlanta battery battle Benj brigade Camp Chase Camp Dennison captured cavalry Charles Chas Chattanooga command Creek crossed DATE OF RANK Declined promotion division enemy enemy's engaged George George W Henry Honorably discharged hundred James John Joseph July July 13 June 16 June 21 Kentucky killed and wounded Louisville March 18 March 20 miles Mountain Murfreesboro Mustered out June Nashville National forces OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ordered Promoted to 1st Promoted to Captain Promoted to Colonel Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Promoted to Major Railroad Rebels regiment regiment lost regiment marched regiment moved REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER Resigned April Resigned August Resigned December Resigned February Resigned January Resigned June Resigned March Resigned November Resigned October Resigned September retreat Samuel Sept Sherman skirmishing Tennessee Thomas troops Virginia
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Сторінка 324 - Excuse so long a letter, which is very unusual from me ; but of course my life is liable to cease at any moment, and I happen to be a witness to certain truths which are now beginning to pass out of memory, and form what is called history. I also take great pleasure in adding, that nearly all the new troops that at Shiloh drew from me official censure, have more than redeemed their good name ; among them, that very regiment which first broke, the 53d Ohio, Colonel Appen.
Сторінка 166 - Twenty-Third was immediately ordered by the right flank and over the slough at the same place. In floundering through this morass men were suffocated and drowned, still the regiment plunged through, and, after a pause long enough to partially re-form the line, charged forward again, yelling and driving the enemy. Sheridan's old cavalry kept close up on the right, having passed around the slough, and every time the enemy was driven from cover charged and captured a large number of prisoners. This...
Сторінка 168 - Crook speaks half a dozen sentences that sound a good deal like the crack of the whip; and by that time some of the staff are up. They are sent flying in different directions. Sheridan and Crook lie down and seem to be talking, and all is quiet again, except the vicious shells of the different batteries, and the roar of artillery along the line. After a while Colonel Forsyth comes down in front, and shouts to the general: "The nineteenth corps is closed up, sir!
Сторінка 164 - AM next morning (22d) left in the advance, the first time since the retreat commenced. By a mistake a march of eight miles was made for nothing. Thus we toiled on, suffering intensely with exhaustion, want of food, clothing, etc.
Сторінка 328 - Vicksburg, except for six days, which were consumed in a march of observation toward Jackson, Mississippi. After the fall of Vicksburg the Fifty-fourth moved with the army upon Jackson, Mississippi, and was constantly engaged in skirmishing from the 9th to the 14th of July. After the capture •of Jackson the regiment returned to Vicksburg, and remained 'until October, 1863, when, forming a part of the Fifteenth Army Corps, it ascended the Mississippi River to Memphis, and from •there proceeded...
Сторінка 166 - ... mud at the bottom, overgrown with a thick bed of moss, nearly strong enough to bear the weight of a man. It seemed impossible to get through it, and the whole line was staggered for a moment. Just then Colonel Hayes plunged in with his horse, and under a shower of bullets and shells, with his horse sometimes down, he rode, waded, and dragged his way through — the first man over. The Twenty-Third was immediately ordered by the right flank and over the slough at the same place.
Сторінка 5 - Of these troops 11,237 were killed or mortally wounded in action, apd of these 6,563 were left d^ad on the field of battle. They fought on well-nigh every battle-field of the war. Within forty-eight hours after the first call was made for troops, two regiments were on the way to Washington. An Ohio brigade covered the retreat from the first battle of Bull Run. Ohio troops formed the bulk of army that saved to the Union the territory afterward erected into West Virginia; the bulk of the army that...
Сторінка 161 - The colors of the regiment were riddled and the blue field almost completely carried away by shells and bullets. "At Antietam the regiment fought with the Kanawha division. Near the close of the day a disastrous charge was made by the division (the Twenty-third occupying the right of the first brigade), by which the left of the division was exposed to a large force of the enemy, who suddenly emerged from a corn-field in rear of the left. The colors of the regiment were instantly shot down, at the...
Сторінка 433 - Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Сторінка 270 - September moved to the mouth of White River again. Companies A, B, C, and D were ordered to Camp Chase, Ohio, September 15th, and were mustered out September 30th. The remaining six companies were ordered to Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas. Companies E and F were mustered out November 25th, and the other four companies were mustered out December 2, 1864. One hundred and one men remained, whose term of service had not expired, and they were organized into a company and assigned to the Ninety-sixth Ohio....