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Camp Chase Prison was a Union Army prison in Columbus. There was a plot among prisoners to revolt and escape in 1863. ... Ohio-born Rutherford B. Hayes (1876), James ...
John G. Foster replaced Burnside as commander of the Army and Department of the Ohio on December 9. Foster's time in command of the Army was short. On February 9, 1864, Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield assumed command of the Department of the Ohio, and then the Army of the Ohio and the XXIII Corps in April. During this time the XXIII Corps and the ...
Clark, J. P. Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815–1917 (Harvard UP, 2017) 336 pp. Coffman, Edward M. The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941 (2007) excerpt and text search; Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998), a standard history; Coumbe, Arthur T.
The U.S. Army was founded on 14 June 1775, ... Born in Ireland in 1738 and educated at Dublin's Trinity College, he had entered the British Army in 1756. After combat ...
The 147th Infantry Regiment was born on 25 October 1917, when the 6th Ohio absorbed elements of the 1st and 5th Ohio Regiments. It was assigned to the 37th Infantry Division, the "Buckeye" Division, and began its training at Camp Sheridan, just outside of Montgomery, Alabama.
Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal (2009) 13#2 pp 73–78, Letters between a Catholic army chaplain and his bishop. Hall, Susan, Appalachian Ohio and the Civil War, 1862–1863. (McFarland & Co., 2000). ISBN 0-7864-0866-9. Harper, Robert S., Ohio Handbook of the Civil War. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio Historical Society, 1961. Harper, Robert S.
Ohio Army National Guard facilities in Alliance and Green will be renamed to honor former members who served in the early 1900s. ... Herbert was born in 1894. At the outbreak of World War I, he ...
Of these, 5,092 were free blacks. Ohio had the highest percentage of population enlisted in the military of any state. Sixty percent of all the men between the ages of 18 and 45 were in the service. Ohio mustered 230 regiments of infantry and cavalry, as well as 25 light artillery batteries and 5 independent companies of sharpshooters. Total ...