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The 101st Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 101st OVI) was an
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in the
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.


Service

The 101st Ohio Infantry was organized at
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, and mustered in for three years service on August 30, 1862, under the command of
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Leander Stem. The regiment was attached to: *31st Brigade, 9th Division,
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, September 1862. *31st Brigade, 9th Division,
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, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. *2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing,
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,
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, to January 1863. *2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. *1st Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. The 101st Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at
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, on June 12, 1865.


Detailed service

*Left Ohio for
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, September 4, *Moved to
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, September 24. *Pursuit of
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into Kentucky October 1–15. *
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, Kentucky, October 8. *March to
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, October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. *Advance on
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, December 26–30. *
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, December 26. *
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, December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. *Duty at Murfreesboro until June. *Reconnaissance from Murfreesboro, March 6–7. *Reconnaissance to
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March 9–14. *Operations on Edgefield Pike, near Murfreesboro, June 4. * Tullahoma Campaign, June 23-July 7. *Liberty Gap, June 24–27. *Occupation of middle Tennessee until, August 16. *Passage of the
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and
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, and Chickamauga Campaign, August 16-September 22. *
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, September 19–20. * Siege of Chattanooga, September 24-October 26. *Reopening Tennessee River, October 26–28. *Moved to
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, October 28, and duty there until January 16, 1864, and at
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, until May. * Atlanta Campaign, May to September. *
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, May 6–7. *
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on Rocky Faced Ridge and
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, May 8–13. *Buzzard's Roost Gap, May 8–9. *
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, May 18–19. *Near
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, May 19. *Advance on
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, May 22–25. *Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles of
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, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills, May 25-June 5. *Operations about
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, and against
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, June 10 – July 2. *Pine Hill, June 11–14. *Lost Mountain, June 15–17. *
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, June 27. *Ruff's Station, Battle of Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. * Chattahoochie River, July 5–17. *
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, July 19–20. * Siege of Atlanta, July 22-August 25. *Flank movement on Jonesboro, August 25–30. *
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, August 31-September 1. *
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, September 2–6. *Operations against
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in northern Georgia and northern Alabama, October 3–26. *
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, November–December. *
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, Duck River, November 24–27. * Battle of Franklin, November 30. *
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, December 15–16. *Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. *Moved to
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, and duty there until March 1865. *Operations in eastern Tennessee, March 15-April 22. *Moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and duty there until June.


Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 236 men during service; 9 officers and 86 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 140 enlisted men died of disease.


Commanders

* Colonel Leander Stem - killed in action at the battle of Stones River * Colonel Isaac Minor Kirby - commanded at the battle of Stones River as
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Moses F. Wooster - commanded at the battle of Stones River * Lieutenant Colonel John Messer - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga * Lieutenant Colonel Bedan B. McDonald - commanded at the battle of Stones River as
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, at the battle of Chickamauga as major, and at the battle of Nashville as lieutenant colonel * Captain Leonard D. Smith - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga


Notable members

* Chaplain Erastus Milo Cravath - a founder of
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and its president for 25 years * Private George S. Myers, Company F -
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recipient for action at the battle of Chickamauga * 1st Lieutenant
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from Ohio, 1883–1891 * Private Jacob F. Yeager, Company H - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Rocky Face Ridge


See also

*
List of Ohio Civil War units During the American Civil War, nearly 320,000 Ohioans served in the Union Army, more than any other Northern state except New York and Pennsylvania. Of these, 5,092 were free blacks. Ohio had the highest percentage of population enlisted in the ...
*
Ohio in the Civil War During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both political ...


References

* Butler, Jay Caldwell. ''Letters Home'' (Birmingham, NY: s.n.), 1930. * Day, L. W. ''Story of the One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry: A Memorial Volume'' (Cleveland, OH: W. M. Bayne Print. Co.), 1894. * Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. * Green, Charles R. ''Volunteer Service in Army of Cumberland'' (Olathe, KS: s.n.), 1914. * 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. * ''Roster and Historical Sketch of the 101st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry'' (S.l.: s.n.), 1897. ;Attribution *


External links


Ohio in the Civil War: 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens

National flag of the 101st Ohio Infantry
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