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History Of The 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
THE TWENTY-THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

    The Twenty-Third Ohio Regiment of Infantry, "Hayes' regiment," one of the
earliest raised for three years, was organized at Camp Chase in June, 1861,
mustering into the United States service. June 11th. The first colonel of the
regiment was William S. Rosecrans, but before leaving for the field he received
commission of brigadier-general in the regular army, and Colonel E. P. Scammon
succeeded to the command of the Twenty-Third. Colonel Scammon was appointed
brigadier-general, and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes succeeded him in command of the
regiment. On his appointment in turn as brigadier-general, James M. Comly became
colonel of the Twenty-Third, and he was mustered out as such. July 27, 1861, the
regiment left Camp Chase, and two days later reported at Clarksburg. West Virginia,
moving thence to Weston, county seat of Lewis county. It took an important part in
those movements by which West Virginia was held in the Union, in active operations
against the guerrillas infesting the country about the Rich Mountain range,
including many days and nights of hard inarching and counter-marching in heat and
dust, and in heavy rains. After participation under Rosecrans in the battle of
Carnifex Ferry, the regiment took up quarters at Camp Ewing, on New river. The
location was an unhealthy one, and fever and other camp diseases made fearful
ravages in the ranks of the regiment. The winter of 1861-2 was devoted to drilling.
The year 1862 was one of active campaigning, during which the regiment marched six
hundred miles. One of the fastest marches of the war was made by the Twenty-Third
boys from Green Meadows, near New river, to Camp Piatt, on the Kanawha, August
15-18. one hundred and four miles in little over three days. There transports were
taken for Parkersbnrg, thence the regiment moved by cars to Washington, and then
with McClellan's forces moved forward to meet Lee on the soil of Maryland, taking
part in South Mountain and Antietam battles (see record of 16th Ohio V. I.). In
October the regiment returned with the Kanawha division to West Virginia, and its
winter quarters were at the falls of the Great Kanawha. From March to July, 1863, it
was stationed at Charleston, county seat of Kanawha county. After a dash in pursuit
of Morgan, quarters were again established at Charleston, where the men veteraned,
and where the regiment remained until April, 1864. Its veteran service included the
illustrious battle roll of Cloyd Mountain, those of Hunter's famous Lynchburg raid,
Winchester, Martinsburg, Berryville, Fishers Hill, Cedar Creek, and other lesser
engagements of the Shenandoah valley.

The regiment was detailed train guard in October, 1864, to Martinsburg, and later
escorted a supply train of seven hundred wagons back to Winchester. In November it
went into camp with the Army of the Shenandoah in a dense thicket near Kernstown. In
December it was ordered with the rest of Hayes' brigade, to Stephensons Depot. On
January 1, 1865, it embarked for Cumberland, Maryland, went thence to Grafton, where
the men guarded the railroad, without tents and with insufficient bedding, a number
of days, and then returned to Cumberland, and lay there until mustered out, July 26,
1865. They were paid and discharged at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland. Company G of
this regiment was raised in Ashland county, and volunteers from the county were
found in other of its companies.


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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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