previous next

161st Ohio Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered in May 9, 1864.

Left State for Cumberland, Md., May 9, and duty there till May 28.

Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia.

Moved to Martinsburg, W. Va., May 28, and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia. Detached June 4 and assigned to duty in charge of supply trains for Hunter's Army. Hunter's Raid on Lynchburg June 6-25.

Retreat to Martinsburg June 19-25.

Moved to Beverly June 28, thence to Webster June 30, and to Martinsburg July 2.

Operations about Harper's Ferry July 4-7.

Defence of Maryland Heights July 6-7.

Duty in the Defenses of Maryland Heights till August 25.

Ordered home and mustered out September 2, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 1 Officer and 12 Enlisted men by disease. Total 14.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Hunter (2)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
July 7th (2)
June 25th (2)
May 28th (2)
September 2nd, 1864 AD (1)
May 20th, 1864 AD (1)
August 25th (1)
July 6th (1)
July 4th (1)
July 2nd (1)
June 30th (1)
June 28th (1)
June 19th (1)
June 6th (1)
June 4th (1)
May 9th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: