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History Of The 64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
THE SIXTY-FOURTH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

Was the first regiment of the brigade, officered as follows; Colonel, James W.
Forsyth; lieutenant-colonel, Isaac Gass; major. John Williams; quartermaster,
Lorenzo D. Myers; surgeon, H. O. Mack; chaplain, Alex. R. Brown. Company E was
recruited in Mansfield, and received many volunteers from Ashland county. The
Sixty-Fourth left Camp Buckingham at midnight, December 16-17, 1861, armed with
Springfield rifles, moved by rail to Cincinnati, thence by steamer to Louisville,
Kentucky, and partook of hardtack for the first time on Christmas Day. We have
followed its services on the field in preceding pages. From March 11, 1863, until
killed at Rocky Face Ridge May 9, 1864. its colonel was Alexander McIlvaine. It
mustered out under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Wolff. Of the 900 men who
originally belonged to the regiment. 444 were returned killed, wounded or missing
before the close of the war. Its battles included Stone River, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, Dallas, Ivenesaw Mountain.
Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station. Spring Hill, Franklin and
Nashville.


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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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