Showing posts with label 45th OH INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 45th OH INF. Show all posts

Monday, August 28, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: September 2, 1863

Aroused at 2 A. M., in readiness for a fight. Got breakfast, fed and moved at 6 o'clock. General order from Burnside saying that any man guilty of stealing, robbing or pillaging should be stripped of clothes, flogged, head shaved, branded with letter T. and drummed out of service. Marched to Lenoir. Then artillery opened up at London and we took the trot for 5 miles. 2nd Tenn. attacked rebels. They burned the bridge and retreated. We too late. An order to scout. Alarm that rebels were crossing. Went swimming in Tenn. River. Half a mile wide. Current swift and water clear. Went to London bridge. Found 45th Ohio there. Took the company up there and showed the breastworks, good fortifications. Rifle pits and acres of trees cut down. Discovered nothing unusual.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 86

Friday, June 2, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: May 1, 1863

Commenced moving across at 4 and all the regiments over by 9 A. M. Some fortifications on both sides of the river; Zollicoffer's old huts still there. Moved on and overtook the 1st Battalion at Monticello. H, E, M in advance of column continually. Skirmishing. Four miles beyond M. found the rebels in force on two roads leading to Albany and Traversville. Howitzers, 1st. Ky., 45th O. V. I. on the Albany roads, 2nd O. V. C. on Traversville. In line near the woods. Co. D dismounted to fight on foot. Rebels broke. Pike fired 5 rounds at them, 500 or 600 yards, wounding some. Gave my canteen to one wounded man. Pursued two or three miles, ordered back. Several prisoners. Ate supper where one wounded 1st Tennessee man was, Andrew Johnson. Marched back to Monticello.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 67-8

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: April 19, 1863

Train stopped back twelve miles. No grain or feed for our poor horses. Ordered to march at 11. Train arrived at noon. Got rations and started. Took a good bath. All the forces, 1st Ky., 2nd Ohio and 45th Ohio moved to the Cumberland. Pickets could be distinctly seen across the river. Rode with Lt. Abbey, and Drake. Got some forage. Moved camp. Went to church in the evening. A chaplain preached. Rather tired tonight.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 66

Friday, October 7, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 3, 1862

Camp 5, Princeton. — The Forty-fifth Regiment had marched twenty miles through the rain to reach here, were very tired and straggled badly. They were regularly stampeded, panic-stricken, and routed. They report three killed in one party of stragglers. They had a cannon drawn by six horses, but our men “yelled so” and “fired so fast” that it was no place for cannon; so they wheeled it about and fled with it All queer! Company C killed eleven, Colonel Jenifer burned Rocky Gap (four houses) and continued his flight towards Wytheville. The Rebels report us two thousand cavalry and eight thousand infantry!! Got our tents today; got into a good camp overlooking the town.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 247-8

Monday, May 12, 2014

45th Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, August 19, 1862. Ordered to Cynthiana, Ky., August 19; thence moved to Covington. Ky., and Defence of Cincinnati, Ohio, against threatened attack by Kirby Smith. Attached to 3rd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio. September and October, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, to January, 1863. District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to October, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to December, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division Cavalry Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, June, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE. – Duty at Lexington, Ky., October, 1862, to January, 1863. Moved to Danville, Ky., January 25, and duty there till March. Operations in Central Kentucky against Cluke's forces February 18-March 5. Regiment mounted at Danville and Brigaded with 7th Ohio and 10th Kentucky Cavalry. Operations against Pegram March 22-April 1. Action at Dutton's Hill, near Somerset, March 30. Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeastern Kentucky April 26-May 12. Monticello May 1. Skirmishes about Monticello April 28-May 2. Waitsborough June 6. Monticello and Rocky Gap June 9. West Farm June 9. Operations against Morgan July 2-26. Columbia July 3. Buffington Island, Ohio. July 19. Cheshire and Coal Hill July 20. Operations in Eastern Kentucky against Scott's forces July 25-August 6. Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee August 16-October 17. Winter's Gap August 31. Near Sweetwater September 6. Athens, Calhoun and Charleston September 25. Near Philadelphia October 15. Philadelphia October 20. Jones' Hill October 26-27. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Marysville November 14. Rockford November 14. Stock Creek November 15. Holston River November 15. Near Knoxville November 16. Skirmishes about Kingston November 16-23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Skirmishes at and near Bean's Station December 9-15. Russellsville December 10. Bean's Station December 10-14-15. Rutledge December 16. Blain's Cross Roads December 16-19. Operations about Dandridge January 26-28, 1864. Near Fair Garden January 27. At Cumberland Gap till February 8. At Mt. Sterling, Ky., till April 6, when dismounted. March to Knoxville, thence moved to Cleveland, Tenn., April 6-May 5. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Dalton May 9-13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountains June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes' Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 23. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. Moved to Pulaski, Tenn., Nashville Campaign, November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. At Nashville, Tenn., till June. Mustered out June 12, 1865. Recruits transferred to 51st Ohio Infantry.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 58 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 275 Enlisted men by disease. Total 339.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1517-8

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Not Dead Yet

Major Ben. Runkle, in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, was hit seven times.  Though minus seven teeth, a portion of his jaw and tongue, his great toe, a shaving from his heel, a hole through each cheek, and a brush on the shoulder, he is said to be doing well.  There were strong grounds for the report that he was dead.  He saw the 71st on the battle-field on Monday fighting manfully. – Springfield News.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p. 2