OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 16th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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                      Regiment History      
                   OHIO SIXTEENTH INFANTRY 
                        (Three Years) 

Sixteenth Infantry. - (Three Years' Service.) Col., John F. 
De Courcy; Lieut.-Cols., George W. Bailey, Philip Kershner; 
Majs. Robert W.P. Muse, Milton Mills, Eli W. Botsford. This 
regiment was organized at Camp Chase,Wooster and Zanesville 
from Sept. 23 to Dec. 2, 1861, to serve for three years. It 
spent the first winter in Kentucky and the following April 
made a reconnaissance to the top of Cumberland mountains in 
the vicinity of Cumberland gap, where a brisk fight ensued 
in which the regiment lost 1 man killed and 2 wounded. On 
Aug. 6 it took part in the unfortunate affair at Tazewell, 
Tenn., but was overwhelmed and compelled to fall back. It 
also participated in the disastrous assault on Chickasaw 
bluffs, Miss.,in which it suffered terribly losing 311 of-
ficers and men, killed, wounded and prisoners. The next 
service performed by the regiment was in the expedition 
against Arkansas Post, in which it participated in the cap-
ture. It was engaged at Thompson's hill, losing 9 men kill-
ed and wounded, at Champion's hill and Black River bridge,
 and took a prominent part in the disastrous assault on the Confederate
works in the rear of Vicksburg.In these several 
affairs the regiment lost severely in killed and wounded. 
It remained in the rear of Vicksburg until the surrender of 
the city, and was then ordered to Jackson, Miss., where it participated
in the siege and capture of that place.It then 
was sent to Louisiana and at Alexandria met and engaged the 
enemy in several skirmishes. It remained in that vicinity, 
doing garrison duty and taking part in the Red River expedi- 
tion, until in Oct., 1864, when it was ordered home and dis- 
charged from the service on Oct. 31. The number of officers 
and men mustered out at the expiration of its term of ser-
vice was 477, all that was left of 1,191, the total of orig-
inal organization and recruits. 
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.


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