Showing posts with label 129th OH INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 129th OH INF. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2014

129th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, Ohio, August 10, 1863. Moved to Camp Nelson, Ky., August 10. Attached to DeCourcy's Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to January. 1864. District of the Clinch, Dept. of the Ohio, to March, 1864.

SERVICE. – Expedition under DeCourcy to Cumberland Gap, Tenn., August 20-September 8, 1863. Capture of Cumberland Gap September 9. Duty at Cumberland Gap picketing and foraging till December 1. March toward Clinch River December 1-2. Patrol duty along Clinch River till December 29. Moved to Tazewell, thence to Cumberland Gap, and duty there till January 11, 1864. Ordered to Camp Nelson, Ky. Skirmish at Barboursville. Ky., February 8. Ordered to Cleveland, Ohio, March and mustered out March 10, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 25 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1549