OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Know your Ohio: Ohio in the Civil War Pt 12a *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 November 21, 1999 *********************************************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Diaries of S. J. Kelly Plains Dealer Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************************************** Ohio in the Civil War --Part 12.A It would be impossible to make an exact count of the number of all the men who entered the National Army from Ohio during the war for the preservation of the Union. Those embraced in regimental and company organizations of the State, of course,can be counted, and wtth some degree of accuracy, followed to the time of death, discharge, or final mustering out; but these organizations did not any means include all the patriotic citizens of Ohio who left peaceful homes to incur the risks of battle for the maintenance of national authority. Five regiments credited to West Virginia were made up in large part of Ohio men; the same said of two regiments credited to Kentucky; also of the Fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Infantry, and of two regiments of United States colored troops. In addition to those enrolled in regiments credited to other States, thousands entered the gun-boat service, of whom Ohio has no record, while thousands enlisted in the regular Army. From the best prepared statistics of the Provost Marshal General and Adjutant General of the U.S.A. and the Adjutant General of Ohio. excluding re-enlistments, ' squirrel-hunters' and militia, and including a low estimate for regular enlistments in the army and navy not credited to Ohio, it is found that Ohio furnished of her citizens 340.000 men of all arms of the service for war; reduced to a department standard, they represent 240,000 three year soldiers. The State contributed in organized regiments: 26 regiments of Infantry----for 3 months. 43 regiments of Infantry----for 100 days. 2 regiments of Infantry -----for 6 months. 27 regiments of infantry ----for 1 year. 117 regiments of infantry -- for 3 years. 13 regiments of cavalry ---- for 3 years. 3 regiments of artillery ----- for 3 years. To these should be added 26 independant batteries of artillery. 5 Independant companies of Cavalry. 6,536 Ohio soldiers were killed outright in battle. 4,674 were mortally wounded and died in hospitals. 13,354 died of disease contracted in the service. In brief, 84 Ohio soldiers out of every 1,000 enlisted men lost their lives in the civil war. The loss of Ohio Officers is known to have reached 872, nearly 10% of the grand total of Officers. In the 231 regiments, 26 independant batteries of artillery, and 5 independant companies of cavalry which entered the field from Ohio, there were but 8,750 drafted men; all other members of the organizations referred to being volunteers. *********************************************** Officers-- Key-- *** west point graduates. @@ those having brevet rank of Major- General. Generals who were born in Ohio-- Ulysses S. Grant-- Brn at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27,1822.*** William T. Sherman, Brn at Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 8,1820. *** Philip H. Sheridan, Brn at Somerset, Ohio, March 6, 1831. *** Major-Generals who were born in Ohio-- Don Carlos Buell, Brn Lowell, Ohio, March 23, 1818.*** George Crook, Brn Montgomery county,Ohio, Sept.8,1828.*** George A. Custer, Brn Harrison County, Ohio, December 5, 1839. *** Quincy A. Gillmore, Brn Lorin County, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1825.*** James A. Garfield, Brn Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Nov. 19,1831. James B. Mc Pherson, Brn Clyde, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1828. *** Irwin McDowell, Brn Columbus, Ohio Oct 15,1818. *** Alex McD, McCook. Brn Columbina County, Apr. 22, 1831. *** William S. Rosecrans, Brn Delaware county, Sept. 6, 1819. *** David S. Stanley, Brn Wayne county, June 1, 1828.*** Robert C. Schenak, Brn Warren county, Oct 4, 1809. Wager Swayne, Brn Columbus, Ohio, 1835. Godfrey Weitzel, Brn Cincinnati, Ohio Nov. 1, 1835. *** Major- Generals Resident in Ohio but born elsewhere.--- Jacob D. Cox, Brn in New York, Oct 27, 1828. William B. Hazen, Brn Vermont, Sept. 27, 1830. *** Morimer D. Leggett, Brn New York, Apr. 19, 1831. George B. McClellan, Brn Pennsylvania, Dec. 3, 1826. *** O.M. Mitchel, Brn Kentucky, Aug. 28, 1810. *** James B. Steedman, Brn Pennsylvania. July 30, 1818. *********************************************** to be continued in part B--