OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - HISTORY of 77th OVI Regiment (published 1908)
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                 Regiment History      
          OHIO SEVENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY 
                (Three Years) 
Seventy-seventh Infantry. Cols., Jesse Hildebrand, William B. Mason;
Lieut.Cols., Wills De Hass, William E. Stevens; Maj., Benjamin D.
Fearing. This regiment was organized at Marietta, Columbus and other
places in Ohio from Sept. 28, 1861, to Jan. 5, 1862, to serve for three
years.The original members (except veterans) were mustered out by
companies at different dates from Dec. 10, 1864, to Jan. 3, 1865, by
reason of expiration of term of service.The organization, composed of
veterans and recruits, was consolidated into a battalion of six
companies on Jan. 17, 1865, and retained in service until March 8, 1866,
when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the war
department. The following is a list of battles in which this regiment
bore an honorable part, as given in the Official Army Register; Shiloh,
Falling Timber, siege of Corinth, Little Rock, Okolona, Prairie d'Ane,
Marks' mills, Jenkins' ferry, Spanish Fort. So reduced was the regiment
by the losses in its first engagement at Shiloh, and by sickness,
details and straggling, that it numbered but a little over 200 men, with
13 officers, the loss in the battle and the subse- quent affair at
Falling Timber being 50 killed, 114 wounded and 56 missing ,total, 220.
Gen. Sherman commended the conduct of the regi- ment in its determined
and protracted struggle for the position at Shiloh church and in
baffling the enemy in all his attempts to cap-
ture Taylor's battery. The regiment took part in all the active op-
erations of Sherman's division during the siege of Corinth,construct-
ing field-works, roads and bridges, picketing, skirmishing and fighting,
until the division rested beyond Corinth, returning from pursuit of the
enemy. From Aug., 1862, until July, 1863, it was in charge of the
military prisons at Alton, Ill. A portion of the regiment was captured
at Marks' Mills, and those not captured lost at Jenkins' ferry, in
killed and wounded, more than half their number. Its strength at time of
muster out was 365. 
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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