OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 178th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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                     Regiment History      
                OHIO SEVENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY 
                      (Three Years) 

Seventy-eighth Infantry. - Cols., Mortimer D. Leggett,
Zachariah M. Chandler, Greenbury F. Wiles;Lieut.Cols.,
Benjamin F. Hawkes, Gilbert D. Munson; Majs., David F.
Carnahan, John T. Rainey, Israel C. Robin- son. This regiment
was organized in the state at large from Oct. 24, 1861, to
Jan. 16, 1862, to serve for three years. It left by rail for
Cincinnati on Feb. 11, and at that city steamers were found on
which it embarked for Fort Donelson on the Tennessee river. At
daylight on the morning of the second day at Shiloh it went
into the battle on the right and was under fire throughout the
day, but with slight loss - 1 man killed and 9 wounded. In
August it was in the brisk engagement near Bolivar, but in
this affair the loss was slight. For several months it was
engaged in movements preliminary to the Vicksburg
campaign;participated in the battle of Raymond, losing in
killed and wounded, about 80 men; was also engaged in the
battle of Champion's hill, where it lost 116 men killed and
wounded; at Vicksburg it par- ticipated in the general charge
on May 22,with slight loss, and later was sent to Bovina,
where it remained until after the surrender. In Jan., 1864, it
re-enlisted as a veteran regiment and after its fur- lough
home joined Gen. Sherman's army at Acworth, Ga. It
participated in the battle of Kennesaw mountain and at Atlanta
on July 22 it lost 203 in killed and wounded. Of 13 flag and
color bearers of the regiment in the latter engagement, all
were either killed or wounded. The regiment participated in
the subsequent movements of the Army of the Tennessee till the
fall of Atlanta and later was with Sherman's forces on the
march to the sea. It marched up through the Carolinas, then to
Washington, and was mustered out on July 11, 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


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