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The 2nd Ohio Battery was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on August 7, 1861, under Captain Thomas J. Carlin. The battery was attached to Army of the West and Department of the Missouri to January 1862. 5th Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri, to March 1862.
The First Battle of Springfield was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on October 25, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri.Following the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the Missouri State Guard, a pro-Confederate militia organization, drove north and defeated a Federal (Union) force in the Siege of Lexington.
Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895. Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868.
George, Harold A. Civil War monuments of Ohio (2006), 87pp; Miller, Richard F. States at War, Volume 5: A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (2015). excerpt; Riesenberg, Michael. "Cincinnati's Civil War Resources: Preparing for the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil War." Ohio Valley History 10#4 (2010): 46–65.
Several wars that have directly affected the region including the French and Indian War (1754–1763), American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), Tecumseh's War (1811–1812), War of 1812 (1812–1814), and the American Civil War (1860–1865).
The Second Battle of Springfield took place during the American Civil War on January 8, 1863, in Springfield, Missouri. It is sometimes known as The Battle of Springfield. (The First Battle of Springfield was fought on October 25, 1861, and there was also the better-known Battle of Wilson's Creek, fought nearby on August 10, 1861.) Fighting was ...
The 4th Ohio Battery was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on August 17, 1861, under Captain Louis Hoffman.. The battery was attached to Army of the West and Department of the Missouri to February 1862. 1st Division, Army of Southwest Missouri to May 1862.
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 ...