Showing posts with label 168th OH INF. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

168th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, and mustered in May 19, 1864. Moved to Covington, Ky., May 19. Detachments stationed at Falmouth and Cynthiana guarding railroad and bridges. Operations against Morgan May 31-June 20. Action at Cynthiana June 9 (Detachment captured). Keller's Bridge, near Cynthiana, June 11. Duty in Kentucky till July 10. Moved to Camp Dennison July 11. Guard duty there and at Cincinnati, Ohio, till September 8. Mustered out September 8, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 11 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 8 Enlisted men by disease. Total 19.

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