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List of Ohio Civil War units. 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 ...
Three-months regiment. The 20th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Columbus, Ohio April through May 1861 in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers and mustered into service on May 23, 1861, under the command of Colonel Charles Whittlesey. [1][2][3][4] The regiment was ordered to western Virginia and attached to Kelley's ...
The 88th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio, in July 1862 and mustered in on October 27, 1862, for three years service under Colonel George Washington Neff. When Edmund Kirby Smith threatened Cincinnati, Ohio, in September 1862, the 88th moved to Covington, Kentucky, but soon returned to Camp Chase.
The 27th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio July 15 through August 18, 1861, and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel John Wallace Fuller . The regiment was attached to Army of the West and Department of the Missouri, to February 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the ...
A Union Soldier Returns South: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Alfred C. Willett, 113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press), 1994. ISBN 1-57072-005-3; Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA ...
The 19th Ohio Infantry Regiment organized at Cleveland, Ohio, in April and May 1861 in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. The regiment moved to Columbus, Ohio, on May 27 and mustered in on May 29, to date from April 27, 1861, under the command of Colonel Samuel Beatty. Companies A and B moved to Bellaire, Ohio, on May ...
During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort. Despite the state's boasting a number of very ...
73001434 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973. Camp Chase was a military staging and training camp established in Columbus, Ohio in May 1861 after the start of the American Civil War. It also included a large Union-operated prison camp for Confederate prisoners during the American Civil War.