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The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater in a number of campaigns and battles, but perhaps is most noted for its actions in helping repulse Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg .
During the American Civil War, nearly 320,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army, more than any other Northern state except New York and Pennsylvania. [1] 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 ...
Harper, Robert S., Ohio Handbook of the Civil War. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio Historical Society, 1961. Harper, Robert S. "The Ohio Press in the Civil War." Civil War History 3.3 (1957): 221–252. excerpt; Jackson, W. Sherman. "Emancipation, negrophobia and Civil War politics in Ohio, 1863-1865." Journal of Negro History 65.3 (1980): 250–260 ...
Two decades after the Civil War, the state of Ohio erected a stone monument to the 29th Ohio Infantry Monument on Culp's Hill at the Gettysburg Battlefield. (Photo of the monument to the 29th Ohio Infantry) The 29th's silk regimental flag is on display at the Henderson Memorial Public Library in Jefferson, Ohio. (Photo of the regimental flag)
The 75th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment from southwestern Ohio in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Eastern Theater , most notably in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and then in the siege operations against Charleston, South Carolina .
The main and namesake battle of the campaign was the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought from July 1 to July 3 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as a turning point of the civil war. The Medal of Honor was awarded to 71 Union ...
On June 9, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, responding to Robert E. Lee's impending invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, called for 100,000 volunteers from those two states, as well as West Virginia and Ohio, to help repel the invasion, with only about 33,000 recruits answering his call.
The 36th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Recruited from several counties in southeastern Ohio , the regiment participated in several battles in the Eastern Theater before being transferred for a period to the Western Theater .