7th 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
• The Ohio Seventh. Newspaper published by the 7th OVI. Weston, Va. J. F. Harmon & E. F. Grabill, 1861- . Contributors Ohio Infantry. 7th Regt. Notes "We come to protect; not to invade." "The Ohio Seventh will be published as often as circumstances will admit and of such material as may be found at Secession offices where we may chance to stop long enough to raise our flag and issue a paper." Call# Newspapers 17 L1.2 002. Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland. Ohio
• The Seventh Regiment: A Record. Major George L. Wood. 304 pgs. Publisher James Miller. New York. 1865. See next title. Call# 973.7471 J07wo. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Famous Deeds by American Heroes, a Record of Events from Sumpter to Lookout Mountain, Including Battles of Cedar Mountain, Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge Etc. Etc. . By Geo. L. Wood. 304 pgs. Publisher James Miller. New York. 1865. Published from the same plates as book above. Call# R973.7471 J71.1f. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
• George L. Wood Diary. Captain George L. Wood. Company D. 7th OVI. Feb. 16, 1862 - July 14, 1862. Includes a short history of the 7th OVI and biographical sketches of Lt. Louis G. Deforest, Lt. Halbut B. Case, Capt. Joel F. Asper, Col. William P. Creighton, and Lt. Orrin J. Crane. On title page. "This book was captured from the rebels at Charleston, Kanawha Valley, Va." Call# VOL 398. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• 7th Ohio Records. Summary Return of Captain Mervin Clark's Company B, September, 1863. A morning register, March 1-May, 1864. An autograph album prepared "In Memoriam of Col. W.R. Creighton and Lt. Col. O.J. Crane. From the Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the 7th O.V.I." Includes clippings pertaining to the deaths of Crane and Creighton, who died during battle at Ringgold Georgia. 0.2 linear ft. Call# Manuscripts. MS. 640. Western Reserve Historical Society Archives Library. Cleveland. Ohio
• The History of Co. C, Seventh Regiment O.V.I... Theodore Wilder. 83 pgs. J.B.T. Marsh, Printer. Oberlin. Ohio. 1866
• National Tribune. 7th Ohio at Summerville. Geo. Ketchum. 1st Sgt. Co. E. May 3, 1883
• National Tribune. Port Republic. W.E. Baldwin 29th O.V.I., F.A. Seymour 7th O.V.I. and W.H. Poor 7th O.V.I. September 25th, 1884
• National Tribune. Where Colonel Creighton Fell. Joseph S. Clarke. June 11th, 1885. Ringgold Georgia
• Geary at Gettysburg. Company C Veteran. Philadelphia Weekly Press. February 2nd, 1886
• National Tribune. Above the Clouds. Owen Hicks. March 31st, 1887. Lookout Mountain
• National Tribune. Ohio at Gettysburg. The Regiments that Participated in the Great Battle. S.R. Norris. June 9th, 1887
• Rooster Record. Official Organ of the Seventh Regiment OVI Association. Volume 1 - August 17 1887. Volume 2 - August 21 1888. Volume 5 no 1 - December 1892. Put-in-Bay. Cleveland. Call# 973.7471 JO7ro. Microfilm# FLM 317. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Rooster Record. Official Organ of the Seventh Regiment OVI Association. Volume 3 - August 8 1889. Volume 4 - August 20-27 1890. Put-in-Bay. Cleveland. Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland. Ohio
• Poem: The Right Flank at Lookout. by Levi Bauder. pg. 10. August 20 1887. The Ohio Soldier and National Picket Guard. Chillicothe. Ohio
• National Tribune. Kernstown. Who Charged and Took the Stone Wall at the Battle. Lawrence Wilson. June 6, 1889
• The Campaign of West Virginia of 1861. J.N. Cross. From: MOLLUS. Minnesota. Glimpses of the nation's struggle. Second series. pgs. 146-172. St. Paul. Minnesota. 1890
• Willard W. Wheeler Diary. Pvt. Willard W. Wheeler. Co. C. 7th OVI. Photocopy of diary. August 24, 1861-February 15, 1862. Capture at Cross Lanes. W.Va. and prison accounts. 100 pgs. M-2282. Cat. 4/92 rsc. Diaries & Journals F9.1. Schoff Civil War Collection. William L. Clements Library. The University of Michigan
• Civil War Diary: August 1861-February 1862, Including Time Spent in Parish Prison, New Orleans, LA / W.W. Wheeler. by Willard Watson Wheeler. Co C. 7th OVI. 51 pgs. Charity G. Monroe. NP. Peoria. IL. 1995. Call# Main Library E601 .W44 1995. Oberlin College. Oberlin. Ohio
• Morris Holly Letters 1861-1862. Letters of Morris Holly. Sergeant Co. A. 7th OVI. Letters written by Holly to his family. 0.7 linear ft. Call# Manuscripts. MS. 3462. Western Reserve Historical Society Archives Library. Cleveland. Ohio
• The Private Civil War Journal of Daniel S. Judson, Co C 7th Regt., Ohio. Daniel S. Judson. Co. C. 7th OVI. Editor Clare Ann Hatten. 58 pgs. Index. NP. ND. Call# OCLC# zob2bg b1702113. Main Spec Coll. Oberlin College. Oberlin. Ohio
• The Days of Sixty-three. Marcus Hopkins. From: War Papers. MOLLUS. DC. Paper 18. 18 pgs. 18 photocopied pages. E464M5.1991v42. USAMHI. Carlisle Barracks. PA
• Personal Experiences of the Early Days of 1861. James T. Sterling. From: War Papers. MOLLUS. Michigan. Vol. 1. Detroit. Winn & Hammond. 1893. 12 pgs. 6 photocopied pages. E464M5.1991v50. USAMHI. Carlisle Barracks. PA
• National Tribune. The 12th Corps at Gettysburg. The Part They Took in the Big Battle of Gettysburg. G.D. Bertholf. May 11th, 1893
• A Year with the Rebels. Giles W. Shurtleff. From: Sketches of War History. MOLLUS. Ohio. Vol.4. Cincinnati. Robert Clarke. 1896. pgs. 388-410. 12 photocopied pages. E464M5.1991v4. USAMHI. Carlisle Barracks. PA
• National Tribune. Remarkable Experience. A Man Who Stopped a Cannon-ball and Still Lives. Marcus S. Hopkins. January 30th, 1896
• Letter to the Editor. Lawrence Wilson. pg. 576. Confederate Veteran. Volume V. Number 11. Nashville. Tennessee. 1897
• Giles Waldo Shurtleff Papers. 1846-1930. Giles W. Shurtleff. 1831-1924. 7th OVI and 5th USCT. 2.7 linear ft. Finding Guide. Call# Archives OCA 30/32 c.0. Oberlin College. Oberlin. Ohio
• Elliot F. Grabill Papers. 1859-1910. Elliot F. Grabill. 1837-1912. 7th OVI and 5th USCT. .8 linear ft. Finding Guide. Call# Archives OCA 30/43 c.0. Oberlin College. Oberlin. Ohio
• National Tribune. Modern Shenandoah, A Pleasant Revisit to the old Battlefields. Lawrence Wilson. July 25th, 1901, August 15th, 1901 and August 22nd, 1901
• National Tribune. Battle of Port Republic. J.C. Lindsey June 18th, 1903
• Seventh Ohio Infantry. by Sergeant Lawrence Wilson. pgs. 38-40. Ohio at Antietam. Report of the Ohio Antietam Battlefield Commission. By D. Cunningham and W.W. Miller. Springfield Publishing Company. State Printers. Springfield. Ohio. 1904
• National Tribune. The 7th Ohio. Lawrence Wilson. January 14th, 1904 and January 21st, 1904
• National Tribune. Lieut. Charles F. Waldron. Lawrence Wilson. April 21st, 1904
• National Tribune. Quantrill's Finish. J.C. Lindsey. November 10th, 1904
• Itinerary of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1861-1864. With a Roster, Portraits and Biographies. Lawrence Wilson. 652 pgs. The Neale Publ. Co. New York and Washington. 1907
• Roster of the Survivors of Company C, 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. NP. 1907
• National Tribune. Reminiscences of Andersonville. William Batterson. May 30th, 1907
• National Tribune. He did Sympathize. E.S. Kirkpatrick. March 24th, 1910
• Address of N.L. Marvin at Unveiling of Shurtleff Monument. N.L. Marvin. pgs. 305-325. Oberlin Alumini Magazine VII. June. 1911
• Company C. George F. Wright. pgs. 326-333. Oberlin Alumini Magazine VII. June. 1911
• Report of the Fiftieth Anniversary and 46th Re-Union of 7th O.V.I. Regt. Association Held at Euclid Beach Park, Ohio August 18th 1911. NP. ND. 3 pgs
• General Shurtleff. by Ulysses Marvin. pg. 321. Oberlin Alumni Magazine 7. no.9. 1911
• Condensed Report of the 47th Re-Union of 7th O.V.I. Association Held at Euclid Beach, Ohio, August 6th, 1912. NP. ND. 1 pg
• National Tribune. John Morgan in Columbus. S.T. Gill. July 11th, 1912
• National Tribune. Orders Disobeyed. Had the Bridge been Burned, Stonewall Jackson would have been Annihilated. C.W. Rossiter. September 2nd, 1915. Shenandoah Valley 1862
• National Tribune. Gassed by Nature. Experience of the 7th Ohio at Camp Dennison. S.T. Gill. February 27th, 1919
• National Tribune. Old Pemberton Prison. S.T. Gill. November 9th, 1922
• Chapter XLIX - Company C. by Robert Samuel Fletcher. In: A History Of Oberlin College From Its Foundation Through The Civil War, Volume II. pgs. 843-866. Oberlin College. Oberlin. Ohio. 1943
• The Battle of Blue’s Gap. by Fritz Haselberger. West Virginia History. pgs. 241-248. Vol. 28 no. 3. April. 1967. State Dept. of Achives and History. Charleston. W.Va
• Yanks From The South (The First Land Campaign of the Civil War: Rich Mountain, West Virginia). Fritz Haselberger. 323 pgs. Past Glories. Baltimore. Maryland. 1987
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• Arthur Cranston 7th and 55th Ohio Infantry, 4th U.S. Artillery. Leon Basile. pg. 28. Military Images. Volume XVII. Number 1. July-August 1995
• Ohio's Bully Seventh/ The pride of the Western Reserve. by Robert M. Filipovich. 113 leaves: bibliography. Call# Master's Theses no. 545. History Department Master Theses. Maag Library. Youngstown State University. Youngstown. Ohio. 1996
• Friend Alice. The Civil War Letters of Captain David D. Bard. 7th and 104th Regiments Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 1862-1864. David D. Bard. Edited by James T. Brenner. A Scholar of Fortune Publication. 434 Bowman Drive. Kent. Ohio. 44240. 1997
• A Story of Valor: the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. by Timothy J. Mieyal. Kent State University Masters Thesis. Dept. of History. 310 leaves. Call# MAIN Special Coll E525.5 7th .M54 1998. Kent State University. Kent. Ohio. 1998
• Regimental Colors of the 7th O.V.I. Painting and Original Photo. Fight for the Colors. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio. 2000
• National Colors of the 7th O.V.I. Painting and Original Photo. Fight for the Colors. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio. 2000
• Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg. by Richard A. Baumgartner. 254 pgs. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. West Virginia. 2003
• A Grassroots History of the American Civil War, Vol. I: The Life and Times of Pvt. Ephraim Cooper. One of Mr. Lincoln's First Volunteers. Richard J. Staats. Cooper joined the Tyler Guards, an outfit that became Company G in the three months' service of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Primarily focuses on the years from 1845 to June, 1861. Index. 180 pgs. Paperback. Heritage Books Inc. Bowie. Maryland. 2003
• A Grassroots History of the American Civil War, Vol. II: The Bully Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Richard J. Staats. Footnotes. Bibliography and index. 202 pgs. Paperback. Heritage Books Inc. Bowie. Maryland. 2003
• 3rd, 5th, 7th and 13th Regiments, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1861. Richard A. Warren. pg 150. The Military Collector & Historian. Volume 57. No. 3. Fall. 2005. The Company of Military Historians. Rutland. MA

Edward H. Bohm 1st Lieutenant Co. D
Wounded at Ringgold Ga., November 27, 1863
Courtesy of Marcus McLemore

History

Organized at Cleveland, under Col. E.B. Tyler, April 30th, 1861, for three months service, and July 25th, 1861, for three years. The regiment served in West Virginia until December and was transferred to the Army of the Potomac. The Seventh took part in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and in the fall of 1863 was transferred, with Hooker's 20th Corps, to the west. It participated in the battles about Chattanooga, with severe loss at Ringgold. Upon the start of Sherman's Atlanta campaign it took part in the battle of Resaca. Its term of service expired July 8th, 1864 and the regiment returned to to Cleveland and mustered out. 1800 men had served in the 7th and 240 remained on the regiment's return.

From Dyer's Compendium

7th Regiment Infantry (3 Months). Organized at Cleveland, Ohio, April 22-25, 1861. Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, May 2, and duty there till June 16. Reorganized for three years' service June 16, 1861. Three months men mustered out July 24, 1861.

7th Regiment Infantry (3 Years). Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 16, 1861. Left State for Clarksburg, W. Va., June 26, 1861, arriving there June 29. Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia, to January, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Landers' Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah, to May, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to August, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1864.
SERVICE.--Expedition to Weston, W. Va., June 29-30. Relief of Glenville July 5. Advance to Sutton and Cross Lanes July 7-August 15. Moved to Gauley Bridge August 21-22. Cross Lanes, near Summerville, August 26. At Charleston till November. Operations in the Kanawha Valley October 19-November 16. Expedition to Loop Creek and Fayetteville November 1-15. McCoy's Mills November 15. Expedition to Blue's Gap January 6-7, 1862. Blue's Gap January 7. Duty at Hampton Heights and Paw Paw Tunnel till March 7. Advance on Winchester March 7-15. Reconnoissance to Strasburg March 18-21. Battle of Winchester March 22-23. Monterey April 12. March to Fredericksburg May 12-21, and return to Front Royal May 25-30. Battle of Port Republic June 9. Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Guard trains during battles of Bull Run August 28-30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and duty at Bolivar Heights till December. Reconnoissance to Rippon, W. Va., November 8. Reconnoissance to Charleston December 1-6. Berryville December 1. March to Stafford Court House December 10-14, and duty there till January 20, 1863. Dumfries December 29. "Mud March" January 20-24. At Stafford Court House till April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. Duty at New York during draft disturbances August 29-September 8. Movement to Bridgeport. Ala., September 24-October 3. Garrison's Creek, near Fosterville, October 6 (Detachment). Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. At Bridgeport, Ala., till May. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-June 11. Demonstration on Rocky Face Ridge May 8-11. Dug Gap, or Mill Creek, May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Cassville May 19. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 26-June 5. Left front for muster out June 11. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 5th Ohio Infantry. Mustered out July 6, 1864, expiration of term. Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 174 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 87 Enlisted men by disease. Total 273.

Companies by County

Three Months Service
Company A
Company B Sprague Zouave Cadets
Company C
Company D Painesville Union Guards
Company E Sprague Guards
Company F Franklin Rifles
Company G
Company H Warren Infantry
Company I Mahoning Guards
Company K National Guards

Three Years Service
Company A Cleveland Zouave Light Guards. Cleveland, Cuyahoga County
Company B Sprague Zouave Cadets. Cleveland, Cuyahoga County
Company C Monroe Rifles, a.k.a. Roundheads, a.k.a. The Praying Company. Oberlin, Lorain County
Company D Painesville Union Guards. Lake County
Company E Huron Infantry. Erie County
Company F Franklin Rifles. Franklin Mills, Portage County
Company G Tyler Guards. Ravenna, Portage County
Company H Company A of Warren. a.k.a. Warren Infantry. Warren, Trumbull County
Company I Union Guards. Youngstown, Mahoning County and Mahoning Guards. Mahoning County
Company K National Guards. Cleveland, Cuyahoga County

Three Months Service listing from Synonyms of Organizations in the Volunteer Service of the United States During the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. By John T. Fallon. Adjutant General's Office. Washington. D.C. 1885

Three Years Service County listing from Steve Ward's Buckeyes All Part I Revised.

Thanks to Dr. Richard A. Sauers for the initial research and indexing of the National Tribune articles.

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