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History Of The 163rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.

  The Ninety-Sixth Battalion, O. N. G., of Ashland county, the Ninety-Ninth
Battalion, Stark county, the Seventy-Second, Henry county, and the Forty-Eighth
Regiment, O. N. G., of Richland county, were mustered into the National service at
Camp Chase, May 12, 1864, for the four-month service, as the One Hundred and
Sixty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Under orders from General Heinzelman,
commanding Department of the Ohio, it reported at Washington, were it was assigned
to the First Brigade, First Division, Twenty-Second Army Corps, with headquarters at
Fort Reno. District of Columbia. Early in June the regiment was ordered to the
front, and moving via White House and Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, it reported to
General B. F. Butler at Point of Rocks, June 12th. Two days later it took part in an
advance on the Petersburg & Richmond Railroad, and the next day a part of the
regiment was under fire, the men bearing themselves gallantly. June 16th the
regiment moved to Wilson's Landing, and thence made several reconnoisances to the
west bank of the James river. Many of the men of the regiment were detailed to help
build Fort Pocahontas. August 29th the regiment was ordered home, and the men were
discharged at Camp Chase, September 30, 1864.


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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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