OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 18th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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Hi Deb,
   Not sure what you were asking for, but here's the
history of the 18th. OVI. Reg:

                   Regiment History      
               OHIO EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY 
                    (Three Years) 

Eighteenth Infantry. (Three Years' Service.) Cols., Timothy 
R. Stanley,Charles H.Grosvenor; Lieut.-Cols., Josiah Given, 
John M. Benedict; Majs., Johnson M. Welch, Robert Chappell. 
This regiment was organized at Athens, from Aug. 16 to Sept. 
28, 1861, to serve for three years. It was mustered out Nov. 
9, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service, and the 
veterans and recruits consolidated with the veterans and re-
cruits of the 35th Ohio infantry,the consolidated force being
designated the 18th Veteran Ohio infantry. The 18th veteran 
regiment was organized Oct. 31, 1864, by consolidation of the 
veterans and recruits of the 1st, 2nd, 18th, 24th and 35th
Ohio infantry. The regiment,930 strong, moved into Kentucky
and saw its first service in the occupation of Bowling Green. 
It next participated in a similar proceeding at Huntsville, Ala. At 
Bridgeport the regiment was attacked by Scott's Confederate 
cavalry, 600 strong with 3 pieces of artillery, yet the enemy 
was held in check for 3 hours. At Limestone bridge a spirited 
fight occurred, in which the regiment lost 3 killed and
several wounded. On Aug. 29 1862, Cos. A and I of the 18th
Ohio, and D of the 9th Mich., were attacked at a stockade near 
Manchester, Tenn., by Forrest, but the Confederates were soon 
repulsed,losing about 100 men,without the loss of a man on the 
Federal side.
 
At a critical moment at the battle of Stone's river, the
regiment charged into the woods filled with Confederates and
checked their advance. Upon the second day of the fight Gen.
Rousseau ordered Col. Stanley to take his brigade across the 
stream. It was a fearful thing to do, but the order was executed.
An order to charge was given and the enemy flew panic-stricken, 
leaving 4 pieces of artillery. In June the regiment accompanied the
advance on Tullahoma and on Sept. 11, at Dug gap, it confronted 
Bragg's army.

It went gallantly through the battle of Chickamauga, making
several brilliant charges. After the reorganization the
command was got together in time for the battle of
Nashville,in which it rendered signal service and took part 
in the bloody and finally successful assault upon Overton hill.

It lost 4 officers out of 7 and 75 men killed and wounded out
of less than 200. Attached to Gen.
Steedman's command, the 18th followed Hood's defeated forces
to Huntsville, and two days later assisted in the capture of
Decatur. 

The summer of 1865 found the regiment stationed at Augusta, Ga., 
until Oct. 9, when the order for muster out came and in a few
days the regiment was on its way to Columbus,Ohio, where on
Oct.22,1865, the men scattered to their homes. 

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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