OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 188th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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Regiment History      
OHIO ONE HUNDRED and EIGHTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY 
              (One Year) 

One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Infantry. - Col., Jacob E. Taylor;
Lieut.-Col., John C. Frankeberger; Maj., Jacob A. Leonard. This regiment
was organized at Camp Chase, March 2 to 4, 1865, to serve 
for one year.On March 4 it received orders to report to Gen. Thomas 
at Nashville, where it arrived on the 9th. It was assigned to duty under
Brig.Gen. Van Cleve, and ordered to Murfreesboro, where it remained for
two months and was then ordered to Tullahoma. Here it remained for two
months and was then ordered to Nashville, where it remained until Sept.
2l,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 in Ravenna,Oh.


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