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History Of The 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
THE ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

    Under the President's call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men, Ohio's quota was
40,000. The State was divided into eleven military districts, and in the tenth
district was included the counties of Richland, Huron, Erie, Ashland, Holmes and
Wayne. From this district two regiments were required, the One Hundred and First, to
be recruited at Monroeville, Huron county, and the One Hundred and Second, to be
recruited at Mansfield. The latter was raised in Ashland, Richland, Wayne and Holmes
counties. Went into Camp Buckingham August 21, 1862; left Mansfield, for Covington,
Kentucky, September 4th; served in Kentucky, moving from Camp Wallace, near
Covington, by steamer to Louisville, thence to Shelbyville, thence to Frankfort,
thence 105 miles to Crab Orchard, thence to Bowling Green, which was reached
September 30th. Here the men drew their first tents, November 16th, until that time
having been unsheltered from the weather. December 15th ordered to Russellville,
Kentucky, and there armed with Springfield rifles. Winter quarters at Clarksville,
Tennessee. In 1863 served in Kentucky and Tennessee, with winter quarters at
Nashville, 1863-64. In 1864 went by rail from Nashville to Tullahoma, marched from
the latter place to Stevenson, Alabama, thence to Decatur, Alabama. A detachment was
sent from this place to intercept 300 guerrillas, who were tearing up the railroad
track and burning the government saw mills. From the saw mills the men of the One
Hundred and Second skirmished with the rebels to the very suburbs of Athens,
Alabama, where they were surrounded by some 15,000 of Forrest's cavalry, and many
were made prisoners. The captured were taken to Cahaba prison (see our history of
prison pens), and after from five to seven months they were paroled. Many were on
the "Sultana" at the time it exploded, some of whom met death there. The regiment
engaged with Hood's forces until he was driven from Tennessee, then took up winter
quarters, 1864—5 at Decatur, where they remained till the last of June, 1865.
Reported at Columbus for discharge, July 8, 1865. Companies B and K were Ashland
county volunteers.


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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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