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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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egiment was engaged in the skirmishat Princeton, May 7th; in the battles of Cloyd Mountain, May9th; New River Bridge, May loth; Lexington, June 13th, andLynchburg, June 17th and i8th. Its loss in killed in its several battles and engagements wasas follows: Scary Creek, 8; Carnifex, 2; Hughes Ferry, i; Gau-ley Bridge, i; Cotton Mountain, i; Bull Run Bridge, 10; SouthMountain, 22; Antietam, 8; Fayetteville, 2; Meadow Bluff, 4;Bowyers Ferry, i; Cloyd Mountain, 21, and Lynchburg, 7;total, 88. The severely wounded in these engagements were as fol-lows: Scary Creek, 2; Carnifex, i; Bull Run Bridge, 13; SouthMountain, 13 ; Antietam, 5 ; Fayetteville, i; Cloyd Mountain, 23;Lynchburg, 3; total, 61. Many received slight wounds not re-ported on the rolls. During its three years service 46 died of disease and wounds,and 166 were discharged for disability resulting from woundsand disease. The absolute loss of the regiment, including killedin battle, died from wounds and disease, and discharged for
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TWELFTH INFANTRY. 65 disability arising from wounds and disease received or con-tracted in the service, was 300. Two hundred and ninety of its enlisted men and officers re-enhsted as veterans and were on the ist day of July, 1864, trans-ferred to the 23d Ohio, as Companies C, H and K of that regi-rnent The remainder of the regiment, except prisoners of war(mostly comprising the wounded at Cloyd Mountain, who hadto be eft behmd for want of transportation), were mustered outat Columbus, Ohio, July u, 1864. The veteran companies of the regiment, after their consoli-dation with the 2sd Ohio, participated in all the engagementsof that regiment subsequently occurring in the Shenandoah cam-paign under Sheridan, and their losses in killed and wounded ar,included in the reports of that regiment full 2 > ^^^ ^^^^ ^^«^ -^^-e theful three years service of the regiment as a separate organi-zation in active and continuous duty in the field, in which itwas rarely out of touch with the enemy.Insc

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