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Identifier: ohioinwarherstat00reid (find matches)
Title: Ohio in the war; her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
Subjects: Ohio. Militia Ohio -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Ohio
Publisher: Cincinnati, Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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elief of Knoxvllle, Ten-nessee, arriving on the 8th of December; on the 20th the command moved to Strawberry Plainsby way of Flat Creek. On the 14th of January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment having re-enlisted as veter-ans it started for Columbus, Ohio, via Chattanooga, preparatory to being furloughed. The regi-ment arrived in Columbus, with three hundred and fifty veterans, on the 10th of February, andthe men were furloughed on the 12th. On the 14th of March the regiment assembled at CampChase to return to-the field, having recruited to upward of nine hundred men. Upon arrivingat Nashville, on the 22d, the regiment was ordered to march to Chattanooga, arriving on the5th of April. On the 8th the regiment moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, meeting with aserious accident near Charleston, Tennessee, by a railroad train being thrown from the track, bywhich twenty men were more or less injured. The regiment moved to McDonalds Station on the 20th, and remained there (111 the opening
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Fifteenth Ohio Infantry. 113 of the spring campai;;!!. At noon, on the Sd of May, the regiment broke camp and marched toTunnel Hill, where (Jeneral Shermans army took position, and was constantly skirmishing withthe enemy, this regiment being frequently engaged until the 13th, when the enemy evacuatedRocky Face Ridge and our army took possession of Dalton. The Fifteenth participated in the subsequent pursuit of the Rebels, in the buttle at Rcsacaand again in the pursuit and engagement near Dallas, Avhere the regiment suflered severely;losing nineteen men killed, three officers and sixty-one men wounded, and nineteen menmissing, who were supposed to be either killed or severely wounded. The color-guard, withthe exception of one coiporal, were all either killed or wounded, but the colors were safely broughtofl by the surviving member of the guard, Corporal David Hart, of company I, The Rebelshaving evacuated their works on the 5th of June, the army moved to the vicinity oi Acworth,and o

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