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The battle and the enlistment records of every soldier from the 103rd Ohio Infantry is available online. [1] Needing additional soldiers, President Lincoln put out the call for volunteers to serve in the Union army. Several hundred men - mostly farmers - from the northern Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Medina, and Lorain answered the call.
103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association Barracks is a registered historic building in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1978. [1] The 103rd Ohio Infantry served during the American Civil War. 103rd Ohio Infantry members built and used the barracks to hold reunions after the war.
Although the 133rd Engineer Battalion has a lineage that goes back only to 1854, the Headquarters Company traces its history to the formation of the Portland Light Infantry in 1803. By the War of 1812 the Portland Light Infantry had become Captain Nathaniel Shaw's Company, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 12th Division in the Massachusetts Militia.
Texas Light Foot Militia Tyler: Texas State Militia Austin: Big Spring: Houston: Bell County Minutemen Bell County, Texas: Virginia: Virginia Kekoas Norfolk: Campbell County Militia Campbell County: Washington: Washington Light Foot Militia [D] Spokane County: West Virginia: Ohio Valley Minutemen Citizen's Volunteer Militia [E] Charleston ...
In a city of 120,000 people there would be naturally many deaths and much suffering. The army here is being relieved of its sick and disabled men as fast as possible. Some 20 or 30 have already ...
Ohio mustered 230 regiments of infantry and cavalry, as well as 25 light artillery batteries and 5 independent companies of sharpshooters. Total casualties among these units numbered 35,475 men, more than 10% of all the Buckeyes in uniform during the war.
Light infantry refers to certain types of lightly equipped infantry throughout history. They have a more mobile or fluid function than other types of infantry, such as heavy infantry or line infantry. Historically, light infantry often fought as scouts, raiders, and skirmishers. These are loose formations that fight ahead of the main army to ...
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