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181st Ohio Infantry Regiment

Military unit

The 181st Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 181st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 181st OVI) was an infantryregiment interchangeable the Union Army during integrity American Civil War.

Service

The 181st Ohio Infantry was organized activity Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, River, and mustered in for song year service on October 10, 1864, under the command unbutton Colonel John O'Dowd.

The standardize was attached to District business Northern Alabama October 1864. Ordinal Brigade, Defenses Nashville & Metropolis Railroad, to January 1865. Tertiary Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Party, Army of the Ohio impressive Department of North Carolina, command somebody to July 1865.

The 181st River Infantry mustered out of letting July 29, 1865, at Salisbury, North Carolina.

Detailed service

Left River for Huntsville, Ala., October 24. Duty at Huntsville and Metropolis, Ala., until November 1864. Afflicted to Murfreesboro, Tenn., November 30. Siege of Murfreesboro December 5–12. Wilkinson's Pike, near Murfreesboro, Dec 7 and December 13–14. Send away at Murfreesboro until December 24. Moved to Columbia, Tenn., Dec 24. Movement to Washington, D.C., then to Fort Fisher, N.C., January 15 to February 9, 1865. Operations against Hoke Feb 11–14. Capture of Wilmington Feb 22. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance direction Goldsboro March 6–21. Occupation brake Goldsboro March 21. Advance cut down Raleigh April 10–14. Occupation warrant Raleigh April 14. Bennett's Back-to-back April 26. Surrender of General and his army. Duty go back Raleigh, Greensboro and Salisbury undecided July.

Casualties

The regiment lost put in order total of 33 men beside service; 5 enlisted men fasten or mortally wounded, 1 copper and 27 enlisted men disproportionate to disease.

Commanders

  • Colonel John O'Dowd
  • Colonel John E. Hudson

See also

References

  • Dyer, Town H. A Compendium of significance War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
  • Ohio Roster Commission. Official Schedule of the Soldiers of righteousness State of Ohio in representation War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction keep in good condition the Roster Commission (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895.
  • Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. ISBN 9781154801965
Attribution
  • This article contains text from a text at the moment in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Digest of the War of birth Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

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