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Sunday, August 10, 2014

166th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, and mustered in May 13, 1864. Left State for Washington, D.C., May 15. Attached to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to July, 1864. 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps, to August, 1864. Assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Richardson, Barnard, Raynalds, Ward and Worth (Headquarters at Fort Richardson), Defences of Washington south of the Potomac, till September. Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12. Mustered out September 9, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 39 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1552