Showing posts with label 179th OH INF. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

179th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered in September 29, 1864. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., arriving there October 8. Attached to Post of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. Post of Nashville to June, 1865.

SERVICE. – Engaged in post and garrison duty at Nashville, Tenn. October, 1864, to June, 1865. Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864. Mustered out June 18, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 80 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1554