OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 177th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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                      Regiment History      
         OHIO ONE HUNDRED and SEVENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY 
                        (One Year) 

One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Infantry. - Col., Arthur T.
Wilcox; Lieut.-Col., William H. Zimmerman; Maj., Ernst J.
Kreiger. This regiment was organized at Camp Cleveland from
Sept. 23 to Oct. 4, 1864, to serve for one year. Immediately
after its organization it proceeded to Nashville,Tenn., via
Indianapolis and Louisville.The day after its arrival it was 
ordered to Tullahoma and constituted a part of the garrison at
that place under Gen. Milroy. It remained at Tullahoma until 
Hood's invasion, when it was ordered to Murfreesboro, where it 
arrived on Dec.2. On Dec. 7, Milroy's
command, including the regiment,charged the works and drove
the Confederates back, capturing 2 pieces of artillery and
over 200 prisoners. A few days after this, while on a foraging
expedition, the regiment had an engagement with the enemy, in 
which it lost several wounded.

After Hood had been driven from Tennessee the regiment was
ordered to Clifton. About the middle of Jan., 1865, it embarked at
Clifton, proceeded down the Tennessee and up the Ohio to
Cincinnati, where it took the railroad for Washington, D. C. 
From there it moved to Annapolis, Md.,and embarked on a vessel 
for North Carolina, arriving at Fort Fisher on Feb. 7. It was 
engaged in two attacks on the enemy's works from the Cape Fear 
river to the coast, and crossed the river and participated in the
flank movement which compelled the Confederates to evacuate Fort 
Anderson. It next engaged the enemy at Town creek,charging in the
rear and capturing the entire command. The next morning it arrived 
opposite Wilmington, where it remained about a week,then joined Gen.
Cox at Kinston and proceeded to Goldsboro, where it joined Sherman's 
army. After the surrender of Gen. Johnston the regiment was sent to 
Greensboro, N.C., where it was mustered out on June 24, 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


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