The 13th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an

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Service

Three-months regiment

The 13th Ohio Infantry Regiment organized at

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, on April 20 – May 7, 1861, under

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Abram S. Piatt in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers. The regiment moved to

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near

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, on May 9 and remained on duty there until June 22 when it was reorganized as a three-years regiment. Men who enlisted in the three-month regiment were mustered out August 14–25, 1861.

Three-years regiment

The 13th Ohio Infantry was reorganized at Camp Dennison and mustered in for three years service on June 22, 1861, under the command of Colonel

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. The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, Army of Occupation, Western Virginia, to September 1861. Bonham's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, Western Virginia, to October 1861. 1st Brigade,

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, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing,

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of four companies. The 13th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at

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, on December 5, 1865.

Detailed service

Left Ohio for Parkersburg, W. Va., June 30, 1861. West Virginia Campaign July 6–17, 1861. Moved to Oakland, W. Va., July 14. Expedition to Greenland Gap July 15–16. Duty at Sutton until September. Battle of Carnifex Ferry September 10. At Gauley Bridge until November. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19 – November 16. Gauley Bridge November 3. Pursuit of Floyd November 12–16. Cotton Hill and Laurel Creek November 12. McCoy's Mills November 15. Ordered to Louisville, Ky., and camp at Jeffersonville, Ind., until December 11. Near Elizabethtown, Ky., until December 26, and at Bacon Creek until February 10, 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., February 10–25. Occupation of Nashville until March 17. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17 – April 6. Battle of Shiloh April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29 – May 30. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21 – September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–16. Battle of Perryville October 8 (reserve). March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16 – November 7. Duty there until December 26. Action at Rural Hill November 18. Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26–30. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Stones River Ford, McMinnville, June 4. Tullahoma Campaign June 22 – July 7. Liberty Gap June 22–24. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16 – September 22. Battle of Chickamauga, September 19–20. Missionary Ridge September 22. Siege of Chattanooga September 24 – November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Orchard Knob November 23. Missionary Ridge November 24–25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26–27. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28 – December 3. Operations in eastern Tennessee until April 1864. Atlanta Campaign May 1 – September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton, Ga., May 8–13. Battle of Resaca May 14–15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18–19. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22–25. Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25 – June 5. Pickett's Mills May 27. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 – July 2. Pine Hill June 10–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17. Non-veterans mustered out June 21, 1864. Veterans and recruits consolidated to a battalion. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5–17. Peachtree Creek July 19–20. Siege of Atlanta July 22 – August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31 – September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2–6. Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29 – November 3. Nashville Campaign November–December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24–27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. Moved to Huntsville and duty there until March 1865. Operations in eastern Tennessee March 16 – April 22. Duty at Nashville until June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 16, thence to Texas. Duty at Green Lake until September 4, and at San Antonio, Texas, until December.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 221 men during service; 8 officers and 109 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 102 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

* Colonel Abram S. Piatt * Colonel William Sooy Smith * Colonel Joseph C. Hawkins *

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Elhannon M. Mast – commanded at the battle of Chickamauga; killed in action *

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Dwight Jarvis Jr. – commanded at the battle of Stones River * Major Joseph T. Snider – commanded the battalion at the battle of Nashville *

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Horatio G. Cosgrove – commanded at the battle of Chickamauga following Ltc Mast's death

References

* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. * Morgan, John. ''Army Life of John Morgan of Fredericksburg, Wayne County, Ohio'' (Akron, OH: The Bookseller), 2001. * 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'' (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895. * Reid, Whitelaw. ''Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers'' (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. ;Attribution *

External links

Ohio in the Civil War: 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens

National flag of the 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Regimental flag of the 13th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry

Letters from Robert Allen, Company A, 13th Ohio
– According to the description at the

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Digital Gallery: "Eleven letters written during the Civil War by Union soldier Robert Allen to his family in Massillon, Ohio, and an additional letter (April 4, 1862) by his brother A. Allen. The letters give details of various battles such as Murfreesboro, Battle of Shiloh, Nashville, Mount Pleasant and Sutton, Virginia. Robert Allen served with company A of the 13th Ohio Infantry Regiment." {{Ohio in the Civil War Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Units and formations of the Union Army from Ohio 1861 establishments in Ohio