OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 113th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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Hi Larry,
   Here's the 113th. OVI Regiment:


               Regiment History      
    OHIO ONE HUNDRED and THIRTEENTH INFANTRY 
                (Three Years) 

One Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry.Cols., James A. Wilcox, John G.
Mitchell; Lieut.-Cols., Darius B. Warner, To- land Jones; Majs., L.
Starling Sullivant, Otway Watson. This regiment, with the exception 
of Cos., I and K, was organized at Camps Chase and Zanesville, from Oct.
10 to Dec. 12, 1862. Co.I, formerly a company of the 109th Ohio
infantry, was organized at Camp Dennison, Dec. 1, 1862, and Co. K at
Urbana and Columbus, from Dec. 8, 1863, to March 31, 1864, all to serve
for three years. In Dec., 1862, the regiment was ordered to Louisville
where danger was expected from the Morgan raid, and, al- though the
organization was incomplete, in 2 hours it was on its way, finely
equipped. After a few months spent in Kentucky it was ordered to
Tennessee and in Sept., 1863, after a wearisome and trying march over
the mountains, the regiment bore a distinguished part in the sanguinary
battle of Chickamauga, being brought into action in the afternoon of the
second day at the most critical point and moment. 
It was a bloody baptism for the regiment, as its loss was 138 offi- cers
and men out of 382. It moved to the relief of Knoxville and endured all
the sufferings and trials of the campaign. Then the monotony of the
winter was broken only by an occasional reconnaissance, until the
regiment moved on the Atlanta campaign. 
It was in action at Resaca, Dallas and Kennesaw mountain. In the 
last named engagement the regiment formed the first line of assault and
consequently lost heavily, the casualties being 10 officers and 153
men.In the numerous engagements around Atlanta the regiment was not
actively concerned except at Peachtree creek, though it was al- ways
present and almost always exposed to the fire of the sharp- shooters. It
joined Sherman in his "march to the sea;" participated 
in the siege of Savannah;shared in all the labors and glories of the
campaign in the Carolinas; was severely engaged at Bentonville fight-
ing hand-to-hand and during the heaviest of the battle leaping the
breastworks to repel assaults from either direction.This was its last
battle and it was mustered out on July 6, 1865. 
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2 

The Union Army A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65
-- Records of the Regiments in the Union Army -- Cyclopedia of Battles -- 
Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. 8 vols. 
Madison: Federal Publishing, 1908.

Bob in Ravenna,OH.


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