Showing posts with label 197th OH INF. Show all posts
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Friday, August 15, 2014

197th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered in March 28, 1865. Left State for Washington, D.C., April 25. Assigned to a Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps. Duty at Washington and Alexandria till May 11. Moved to Dover, Del., and duty at Camp Harrington till May 31. Attached to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to May, 1865. Moved to Havre de Grace May 31, and assigned to duty as guard on line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad by Detachments till July. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 3, and duty as guards at camps and hospitals around that city till July 31. Mustered out July 31, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 18 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1555-6