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Title: Antietam. Report of the Ohio Antietam battlefield commission
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ohio Antietam Battlefield Commission Cunningham, David, 1837- (from old catalog) Miller, W. W. (Wells W.), b. 1842?
Subjects: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Publisher: (Springfield, Ohio, Springfield publishing company, state printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ounds, 184 men, and in killedand wounded, 682, while 89 died of disease. It is accreditedwith the capture of flags at Cross Lanes, Chancellorsville andGettysburg. The records will show that it was in active servicein the field from start to finish; that it participated in many of themost important campaigns and battles of our great war; that itslosses in killed and wounded were above the average and thatfor genuine soldierly conduct and military bearing, in camp, onthe march, or in the presence of the enemy, it has been rarelyexcelled. Governor Brough in his address of welcome at Cleve-land said:—We welcome you back, not only because you areback, but because you have reflected honor on your State. Stand-ing as I do, in the position of father of all the regiments of theState, it will not do for me to discriminate, but I will saythat no regiment has returned to the bosom of the State, and noneremains to come after it, that will bring a more glorious recordthan the gallant old Seventh.
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SIXTY-SIXTH OHIO INFANTRY. 41 1^ Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry * THE 66tli Ohio Volunteers was organized at Urbana, Ohio.The order for its organization was dated October i, 6i, andon the i/th of December the regiment was mustered into the ser-vice of the United States, numbering 850 enlisted men, and whilein camp at Urbana, and before taking the field, additional enlist-ments increased its number to 980. This regiment left Ohio on the 17th of January, 62, havingbeen assigned to a command that General Frederick Lander wasorganizing at New Creek, Virginia, for the defense of the B. &O. R. R., as at that point these Union forces would threaten theConfederate command under Stonewall Jackson, then in Romney,and also being in easy striking distance of another Confederateforce in the Shenandoah Valley. Landers command, in the earlywinter of 62, had this very important guard duty to attend to, andit was very effectively performed; but Lander, becoming appre-hensive, towards the close of Febru

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