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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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16, 1864 Lynchburg, West Virginia June 17-18, 1864 Bufords Gap, Virginia June 21, 1864 Winchester, Virginia July, 1864 Berrysville, Virginia September 3-4, 1864 Opequan, Virginia September 19, 1864 Fishers Hill, Virginia September 22, 1864 Cedar Creek, Virginia October 19, 1864 Its entire history was one of great distinction and it addedno little sum to the renown which the sons of Ohio won for them-selves and their State upon the battlefields of the great Rebellion. 70 OHIO AT ANTIETAM. Inscription on monument: OHIO 23d Infantry-Commanded byMajor James M. ComlyHugh Ewings (ist) Brigade, Kanawha Division Ninth Army CorpsArmy of the Potomac This regiment with its brigade crossed the ford of AntietamCreek in the afternoon of September 17, 1862, and held this posi-tion until the close of the battle. Its loss was 8 men killed; i officer and 58 men wounded; 2men missing; total, 69. Two of its members afterward became President of theUnited States, Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.
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TWENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. 71 ^ Twenty-eighth Infantry ^ THE 28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or Second German OhioRegiment) was organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, during themonths of April and May, 1861, and mustered into the serviceof the United States at Turner Hall, in that city, on June 13, 1861,for three years or during the War, with Colonel August Moor,a Mexican War veteran, in command. Early in July, 1861, the regiment was ordered from CampDennison, Ohio, to West Virginia, and on September 10, 1861,participated in its first battle at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, underGeneral Rosecrans, losing several men in the engagement. Dur-ing the following spring of 1862 the regiment participated inthe engagements at Fayetteville, Gauley Bridge and Princeton,Virginia, suffering, however, but small loss in these engage-ments. In August, 1862, the regiment proceeded with the KanawhaDivision, under General Jacob D. Cox, to reinforce the Armyof the Potomac, and, on September 12, 1862, entered FrederickCit

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