OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 115th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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                       Regiment History      
            OHIO ONE HUNDRED and FIFTEENTH INFANTRY 
                         (Three Years) 

One Hundred and Fifteenth Infantry. - Cols., Jackson A. Lucy, Thomas
C.Boone; Lieut.Cols. Asa H. Fitch, Harrington R. Hill. This regiment was
organized in the counties of Portage,Stark and Columbiana in Aug. and
Sept., 1862, to serve for three years. It was ordered to Cincin- nati
and on Oct. 9 was divided, five companies left at Cincinnati, where they
acted as provost guard, and five sent to Columbus to per- form guard
duty. In Oct., 1862, the detachment sent to Columbus was ordered to
Maysville, Ky., and in December to Covington, where it performed provost
duty until Oct., 1863. It was then ordered to report at Chattanooga,
Tenn., and from there was sent to Murfreesboro, where a part of the
regiment was mounted and sent out against Confederate guerrillas. In
June, 1864, that part of the regiment not mounted was stationed in
blockhouses on the line of the Nashville Chattanooga railroad, to
prevent the Confederates from destroying it. While engaged in this
service the regiment had an engagement with Wheeler's forces at La
Vergne. In the early part of Dec., 1864, nearly 200 members of the
regiment stationed in blockhouses were captured and after being paroled
were placed on the ill-fated steamer Sultana, which exploded on the
Mississippi river, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, 1865. The regiment was
engaged in several actions near Murfrees- boro early in Dec. 1864. The
detachment stationed at Cincinnati in 1862-63 was engaged in guarding
prisoners and forwarding convalescent soldiers to their respective
regiments. In July, 1863, it was called out for 5 or 6 days in pursuit
of Gen. Morgan, then on his raid through Ohio. In October it was sent to
the front and was assigned to the 4th division, 20th corps. The regiment
was mustered out on June 22, 1865, in accordance with orders from the
war department. 
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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