155th Ohio Infantry

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
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• Joseph R. Aid Papers 1863-1921. Joseph R. Aid 155th OVI. Papers include correspondence with his wife and sons, draft papers, records of his appointment as sergeant, and military discharge papers. Microfilm. Call# MS 60-3289. University of Missouri at Columbia, Joint Collection - Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Columbia Missouri.
• 155th OVI Page. M.T. Mitchell. 2001. A dead site. Archived by web.archive.org

History

Organized May 8, 1864, under Colonel Harley H. Sage, as a Ohio National Guard unit, for one hundred days service, the next day it started for West Virginia. The Regiment did garrison duty at Martinsburg until June 3d, when it moved to Washington, then to White House, Bermuda Hundred and City Point. On the 29th of June it went into an entrenched camp at Norfolk, where it remained until August 19th. The Regiment returned to Ohio and was mustered out August 27, 1864.

From Dyer's Compendium

155th Regiment Infantry. Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, and mustered in May 8, 1864. Left State for New Creek, W. Va., May 9; thence moved to Martinsburg. Attached to Reserve Division, West Virginia, to June. Moved to Washington, D.C., June 3; thence to Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Va. Ordered to Norfolk, Va., June 29, and duty there till August 19. Expedition to Elizabeth City, N. C., July 27-August 4. Ordered home for muster out August 19. Mustered out August 27. Regiment lost during service 20 Enlisted men by disease.

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Copyright © 1995 Larry Stevens

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