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History Of The 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
THE SIXTEENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

    This regiment received many volunteers from Ashland county, both for its three
months and three years service. Enlistments for Company B, under the first call for
troops, began at Ashland a few days after the call. Its services as a three months
organization were in West Virginia, and among the most active and valuable of any
regiment in the field, and included the battles of Philippi, Rich Mountain and
Carricks Ford. For three years the regiment was organized at Camp Tiffin, near
Wooster, Wayne county, and many of the Ashland county soldiers of this regiment
enlisted there. It was mustered in at Camp Tiffin, October 2d, reported at Camp
Dennison November 28th, moved thence to Lexington, Kentucky, and to Somerset,
Kentucky, in January, 1862. Engagements around Cumberland Gap occupied the Sixteenth
from April until August. When the enemy abandoned their stronghold there the
Sixteenth was the first to enter and plant the National colors on the intrenchments.
At Tazewell. August 6th, a heavy engagement occurred, in which the Sixteenth lost
many men, who were compelled to fall back after exhausting their ammunition.
Companies B and E, which were the advance pickets, were cut off by the rebel main
line and most of them captured. In September the regiment and its brigade were
obliged to fall back from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio river, which was a march of
suffering almost unparalleled by anything during the war. Food was mainly green corn
snatched from the fields as they passed, and drink was water from stagnant pools by
the wayside. Ragged, shoeless, hungry, and utterly worn out, the men reached
Greenupsburg, Kentucky, on the Ohio bank, after sixteen days hard marching. The next
service of the regiment was an expedition into West Virginia, whence, via the
Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it moved by transports to join Sherman at Memphis,
Tennessee. In 1863 it participated in all the movements which ended with the fall of
Vicksburg, as already recorded, and thence embarked on transports for New Orleans,
Louisiana. It took part in Banks' Teche expedition, the movement into Texas under
General Washburne, and in April, 1864, was joined to Bank's forces at Alexandria,
Louisiana. Falling back to Morganza Bend, it camped there till ordered home for
discharge, which was granted at Columbus, October 31, 1864. The regiment had
traveled by railroad 1,285 miles; by steamboat, 3,619 miles; by steamship. 1,200
miles; on foot, 1,621 miles. Its killed in battle were 62; died of disease, 185;
discharged for disability, 186; transferred to veteran reserve corps, 38; original
enlistments and recruits, 1,191; mustered out at expiration of term of service,
477.


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1669 Two Hundred Years. 1865

THE MILITARY HISTORY OF OHIO.
ITS BORDER ANNALS, ITS PART IN THE INDIAN WARS, IN THE WAR OF 1812, IN THE MEXICAN
WAR, AND IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, WITH A PREFIX, GIVING A COMPENDIUM OF THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, SKETCHES
OF ITS SIGNERS, AND OF THE PRESIDENTS, WITH PORTRAITS AND AUTOGRAPHS.

ILLUSTRATED.

SPECIAL LOCAL DEPARTMENT, IN EDITIONS BY COUNTIES, GIVING A ROSTER OF OHIO'S RANK
AND FILE FROM THE COUNTY LN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, REGIMENTAL HISTORIES, WITH
HISTORIES OF ITS G. A. R. AND LADIES' AUXILIARY POSTS, and CAMPS OF SONS OF
VETERANS.

H. H. HARDESTY, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK, TOLEDO AND CHICAGO.
1886.

[COPYRIGHTED.]
ROLL OF HONOR
OF OHIO'S RANK AND FILE FROM ASHLAND COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION





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