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Title: Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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Publisher: Cincinnati New York : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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relief of Knoxville, Ten-nessee arriving on the 8th of December; on the 20th the command moved to Strawberry Plainsby way of Flat Creek. On the 14th of January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment having re-enlisted as veter-ans it started for Columbus, Ohio, via Chattanooga, preparatory to being furloughed. The regi-ment arrived in Columbus, with three hundred and fifty veterans, on the 10th of February, andthe men were furloughed on the 12th. On the 14th of March the regiment assembled at CampChase to return to the field, having recruited to upward of nine hundred men. Upon arrivingat Nashville, on the 22d, the regiment was ordered to march to Chattanooga, arriving on the5th of April. On the 8th the regiment moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, meeting with aserious accident near Charleston, Tennessee, by a railroad train being thrown from the track, bywhich twenty men were more or less injured. The regiment moved to McDonalds Station on the 20th, and remained there till the opening
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Fifteenth Ohio Infantry. 113 of the spring campaign. At noon, on the 3d of Hay, the regiment broke camp and marched toTunnel Hill, where General Shermans army took position, and was constantly skirmishing withthe enemy, this regiment being frequently engaged until the 13th, when the enemy evacuatedRocky Face Pudge and our army took possession of Dalton. The Fifteenth participated in the subsequent pursuit of the Eebels, in the battle at Eesacaand again in the pursuit and engagement near Dallas, where the regiment suffered severely;losing nineteen men killed, three officers and sixty-one men wounded, and nineteen menmissing, who were supposed to be either killed or severely wounded. The color-guard, withthe exception of one corporal, were all either killed or wounded, but the colors were safely broughtoff by the surviving member of the guard, Corporal David Hart, of company I. The Eebelshaving evacuated their works on the 5th of June, the army moved to the vicinity of Acworth,and on th

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