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The 9th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that was a part of the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] The members of the regiment were primarily of German descent and the unit was the first almost all-German unit to enter the Union Army.
To Crown Myself With Honor: The War Time Letters of Captain Asbury Gatch, 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (Batavia, OH: Cragburn Press), 1997. Hamilton, William Douglas. Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, 1861-1865 (Columbus, OH: The F. J. Heer Printing Co.), 1915. Ohio Roster Commission.
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 ...
Two soldiers from Ohio regiments who participated in a Civil War locomotive chase were finally awarded the Medal of Honor.
Campaign medals and other military awards and decorations issued exclusively for the American Civil War. Pages in category "Military awards and decorations of the American Civil War" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, McCook organized the 9th Ohio Infantry, a regiment primarily composed of recent German immigrants, in early 1861 and was appointed as its first colonel. After drilling his men at Camp Dennison , they took to the field in mid-June.
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.
The posthumous recognition comes as the legacy of the Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865, continues to shape U.S ...