Showing posts with label 180th OH INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 180th OH INF. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

180th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase September-October, 1864. Left State for Nashville, Tenn., October 15. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Defences of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, and Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1865.

SERVICE. – Moved from Nashville to Decherd, Tenn., October, 1864, and guard duty on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Right Wing at Decherd, Left Wing at Elk River Bridge, till January, 1863. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 6; thence moved as Train Guard to Columbia, Tenn., January 10. Return to Nashville and movement to Washington, D.C.; thence to North Carolina January 16-February 25. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro March 6-21. Battle of Wise's Forks March 8-10. Occupation of Kinston March 14. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte, N. C., till July. Mustered out July 12, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 84 Enlisted men by disease. Total 91.

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

Saturday, May 7, 2011

43rd Wisconsin Infantry & 180th Ohio Infantry Monument: Stones River National Battlefield

Erected By The
43rd Reg’t Wis.
Vol. Inf. in memory
of deceased soldiers
in that Reg’t and
of the 180th Ohio.

Tennessee
Union Soldiers.

Railroad
Employees, &c.

1865