4th Ohio Independent Company Sharpshooters
Flegle's Sharpshooters

compiled by Larry Stevens

References for this Unit

• see also Bibliography of State-Wide References
• Ohio In The War-Volume II. Whitelaw Reid. Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. Cincinnati. 1868
• Dear Child: The Civil War Letters of Eleazer Gorham and Selected Stories of the Fourth Independent Company Ohio Volunteer Sharpshooters (Company K, Seventy-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment). Eleazer Gorham. Edited by Darryl Smith. 35 pgs. Paperback. Footnotes. Various newspaper articles. Published by Darryl Smith. Cincinnati. Ohio. 2021

History

Ten Independent Companies of Sharpshooters were recruited and partly organized at different periods during the war; all became parts of regiments in the field, and no distinct organization was affected from them. Three full companies were assigned to other states, Company G, organized at Dayton, to the Fourteenth Missouri; Company H, organized at Findlay, and Company K, at Lima, to the Sixty-Sixth Illinois; later, by special request, Company G was transferred to the same Regiment. The three Companies re-enlisted in December, 1863, and later took part in the Atlanta campaign, Sixteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee.

From: The Military History of Ohio. By H.H. Hardesty

From Dyer's Compendium

4th Independent Company Sharpshooters. Organized at Goshen and Camp Dennison, Ohio, and mustered in September 29, 1862. Attached to 79th Ohio Infantry as Company "K."

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Copyright © 1995 Larry Stevens

Last updated January 14 2022