The 106th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 106th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 106th OVI) was an

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. It was also known as the 4th German Regiment.

Service

The 106th Ohio Infantry was organized at

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near

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, and mustered in (eight companies) for three years service on August 26, 1862, under the command of

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George B. Wright. Companies I and K were mustered in for one year service at Camp Dennison in October 1864. The regiment was attached to 39th Brigade, 12th Division,

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, to November 1862. District of Western Kentucky,

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, to December 1862. Prisoners of war to March 1863. District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. Post of Gallatin, Tennessee,

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, to May 1864. Unassigned, 4th Division, XX Corps, Department of the Cumberland, Garrison of Bridgeport, Alabama, to July 1864. 3rd Brigade, Defenses of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Department of the Cumberland, to February 1865. Stevenson, Alabama, District of North Alabama, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1865. The 106th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at

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, on June 29, 1865.

Detailed service

Ordered to Covington. Ky., September 4. Defense of Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, against Edmund Kirby Smith's threatened attack September 4–12. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., September 18. March to Frankfort, Ky., October 3–9, 1862, and duty there until October 24. March to Bowling Green, Ky., October 24-November 4, then to Glasgow, Ky., November 10. Action near Tompkinsville November 19, Moved to Hartsville, Tenn., November 28. Battle of Hartsville December 7. Regiment captured and paroled. Exchanged January 12, 1863. At Camp Parole, Columbus, Ohio, until March. Ordered to Lexington, Ky., March 24, then to Frankfort, and duty there until May, operating against guerrillas. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., May 1–4, then to Gallatin, Tenn., June, and guard duty along Louisville & Nashville Railroad from Nashville to borders of Kentucky until May 1864. Butler's Mill, near Buck Lodge, June 30 (detachment). Moved to Bridgeport, Ala., May 4, and garrison duty there until January 1865. Skirmish at Cane Creek, Ala., June 10, 1864. At Stevenson, Ala., January to June 1865.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 52 men during service; 3 officers and 27 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 21 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

* Colonel George B. Wright *

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Gustav Tafel Gustav Tafel (October 13, 1830 – November 12, 1908) was a German-born colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1897 to 1900. Biography Tafel was born in Munich, Germany (München). He ...

Notable members

* Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Tafel -

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, 1897–1900

References

* Dyer, Frederick Henry. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. * Ohio Roster Commission. ''Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission'' 12 vol. (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895. * Reid, Whitelaw. ''Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers'' (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. * Tafel, Gustav. ''The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War'' (Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Co.), 2010. [Original title: ''Geschichte der Deutschen Cincinnati's im Bürgerkriege''. Translated and edited with supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.] ;Attribution *

External links

Ohio in the Civil War: 106th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens

Regimental flag of the 106th Ohio Infantry
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