OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 180th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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Larry,
   Here's the 180th OVI. Regiment:

                    Regiment History      
         OHIO ONE HUNDRED and EIGHTIETH INFANTRY 
                     (One Year) 

One Hundred and Eightieth Infantry. - Col., Willard Warner; Lieut.
Cols., Hiram McKay, John T. Wood. This regiment was organized at 
Camp Chase in Sept. and Oct.,1864, to serve for one year, and left camp
on Oct. 15 for Nashville, Tenn. From Nashville it was ordered 
to Decherd, Tenn., where it remained for the most part of three months,
being used as guard to the Nashville Chattanooga railroad. 
On Jan. 6, 1865, it was ordered to Nashville and after remaining 
there a few days was ordered to guard a train of wagons bound for
Eastport, Miss. It went as far as Columbia, where it was met by an order
to return to Nashville,and from there was ordered to Washing- ton, D. C.
It reached Washington on Jan. 31 and was placed in Camp Stoneman near
that city. After remaining about three weeks in camp 
it was ordered to Fort Fisher. On reaching the mouth of Cape Fear river
the fall of Fort Fisher was announced, rendering its services
unnecessary, and it was then taken to New Berne, where it joined a
force, under Gen. J. D. Cox to open railway communications with
Goldsboro and Gen. Sherman's army. At Kinston, N. C., the regiment 
had an engagement with the forces under Gens. Bragg and Hoke, in 
which it lost a number killed and wounded.From Kinston the regiment
marched to Goldsboro,which place it reached on March 21.It remained here
until April 9 and then marched with Sherman's army to Raleigh, 
N. C., where it performed garrison duty until the surrender of
Johnston's army.The regiment then moved to Greensboro and from there to
Charlotte, where it remained as the city garrison until July 12,
1865,when it was mustered out 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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