Tuesday, August 5, 2014

142nd Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase. Ohio, and mustered in September 13, 1864. Moved to Martinsburg, W. Va., May 14; thence to Washington, D.C., May 19. Duty at Fort Lyons till June 3. Attached to 2nd Brigade, De-Russy's Division, 22nd Army Corps. Embarked at Alexandria. Va., for White House, Va., June 7. Duty guarding supply trains through the Wilderness near Cold Harbor June 9-14. Moved to Point of Rocks, Va., and duty there till August 19. Ordered home and mustered out September 2, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 42 Enlisted men by disease. Total 43.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1550

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