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The 24th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.In the Battle of Cheat Mountain, the 24th Ohio and 14th Indiana, with around 300 engaged, defended Cheat Summit Fort—also called Fort Milroy—from around 4,500 Confederates of Anderson, Rust, and Gen. H. R. Jackson's brigades, leading to a shameful defeat for Confederate General Robert E ...
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 ...
The 24th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Lexington, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 31, 1861.. The regiment was attached to 21st Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January 1862. 21st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 21st Brigade, 6th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing ...
First Lieutenant Robert S. King, Second Lieutenant James W. Slater, and Captain Milton W. Halsey of 18th Ohio Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 18th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American ...
Ohio troops fought in nearly every major campaign during the war. Nearly 7,000 Buckeye soldiers were killed in action. Its most significant Civil War site is Johnson's Island, located in Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie. Barracks and outbuildings were constructed for a prisoner of war depot, intended chiefly for officers.
The 12th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Dennison, Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 3, 1861, for three-months service, and reorganized on June 28 for three years, under Colonel John W. Lowe, who was killed early in the war and was succeeded by Col. Carr B. White. The 12th Ohio served in western Virginia until August 1862, when it was ...
December 31, 2023 at 6:02 AM. Levi Coman fought in the Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War. The next letter from Levi Coman is dated April 29, 1862. Coman, along with the 76th Ohio Volunteer ...
The 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Toledo, Ohio, on April 25, 1861, under Colonel James Blair Steedman in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. [1] The regiment moved to Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, then to Columbus, Ohio, May 22. Left Ohio for western Virginia May 27.