Showing posts with label 16th OH INF. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

16th Ohio Infantry – 3 Months

Organized at Columbus, Ohio, May 3, 1861. Left State for West Virginia May 25. Attached to Gen. Kelly's Command May 28. Occupation of Grafton, W. Va., May 30. West Virginia Campaign June 1-July 17. Action at Phillippi June 3. Bowman's Place June 29. Pursuit of Garnett July 7-12. Ordered to Columbus, Ohio, and mustered out August 18, 1861.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1503

16th Ohio Infantry – 3 Years

Organized at Camp Tiffin, Wooster· Camp Chase and Zanesville, Ohio, September 23-December 2, 1861. Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, November 28, thence to Lexington, Ky., December 19. Moved to Somerset, Ky., January 12, 1862. Attached to 12th Brigade, Army Ohio, to March, 1862. 26th Brigade, 7th Division, Army Ohio, to October, 1862. 4th Brigade, Cumberland Gap Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 9th Division, Right Wing, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to February, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. Tennessee, to August, 1863, and Dept. of the Gulf to September, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps, to October. 1864.

SERVICE. – March to support of Gen. Thomas at battle of Mill Springs, Ky., January 18-20, 1862. Duty at Somerset till January 31. March to London, thence to Cumberland Ford January 31-February 12, repairing and rebuilding roads. Reconnoissance toward Cumberland Gap March 21-23. Skirmish at Elrod's Ridge March 22. Cumberland Gap Campaign March 28-June 18. Cumberland Mountain April 28. Cumberland Gap April 29. Occupation of Cumberland Gap June 18-September 15. Action at Wilson's Gap June 18. Tazewell July 26 and August 6. Operations about Cumberland Gap September 2-6. Evacuation of Cumberland Gap and retreat to the Ohio River September 17-October 3. Action at West Liberty September 26. Expedition to Charleston, W. Va., October 21-November 10. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.. November 10. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862. Chickasaw Bluffs December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 15, thence to Milliken's Bend March 8. Operations from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage March 31-April 17. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Thompson's Hill, Grand Gulf, May 1. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black River May 17. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Near Clinton July 8. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Ordered to New Orleans, La., August 13, and duty there till September 6. At Brashear City till October 3. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 18. Moved to DeCrow Point, Matagorda Bay, Texas, November 18-28, and duty there till January, 1864, and at Matagorda Island till April. Moved to New Orleans, La., April 18, thence to Alexandria, La., April 23. Red River Campaign April 26-May 22. Construction of dam at Alexandria April 30-May 10. Graham's Plantation April 5. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Mansura May 16. Expedition to the Atchafalaya May 30-June 6. Duty at Morganza till October. Ordered to Columbus, Ohio, October 6. Recruits transferred to 114th Ohio Infantry. Regiment mustered out October 31, 1864, expiration of term.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 217 Enlisted men by disease. Total 286.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1503-4

Monday, February 25, 2013

From Kentucky

Col. Decouroy, of the Sixteenth Ohio, is encamped four miles above Somerset, on the Stanford road, and as near London as he would be at the former place.  Col. Ray, 49th Indiana, in at Hall’s Gap.  It is probable he will march on the Mount Vernon road.  Col. Garrard, 7th Kentucky is at Crab Orchard.  Col.  Mundy’s battalion of Cavalry is to form part of Gen. Carter’s force.  Wetmore’s Battery is to encamp at Somerset.  Gen. Schoepff’s Brigade is encamped on the road from Somerset to Waitsburg, on the Cumberland.  He will move into Tennessee, on the Monticello road, as soon as he receives supplies of provisions and means of crossing the river.  Gen. Thomas’ headquarters are at Somerset.  He, too, is waiting for rations and will, in a short time, go down the Cumberland on Nashville, and turn Bowling Green.

The roads are drying very fast.  Mr. Garber rode to the Ferry at Waitsburg on the 26th ult., and found the road in good order, dry and hard, excepting a large sized mud hole in every mile.  The regiments have been working on the road between Somerset and Hall’s Gap since the battle and judging from the long trains of wagons that came on the 25th and next night, he thinks the clear weather and the labors of the soldiers have improved the road wonderfully.  The captured animals and property have been sent to Lebanon.

Mr. Garber was told by a Secession officer, now a prisoner, that in sixty days Gen. Thomas and all the force he would take into Tennessee, would be captured – that Beauregard was quietly withdrawing his army from Manassas, and would soon be in Tennessee.  This may be true but Garber feels willing to trust Gen. McClellan to keep the French rebel in check.  It seems to him, however, that some move similar to that one mentioned must be made by the rebels to save their railroad communication.  If Gen. Thomas is permitted to reach Nashville, Buckner’s force will be cut off, and will be sandwiched between the divisions of Gen. Thomas and Gen. Buell.  Carter and Schoepff, at Knoxville would break up the communication by the Tennessee and Virginia railroad, and be equally disastrous to the rebels.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2