(II) 11th Ohio Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 20, 1861. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 7, 1861. Attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia, to September, 1861. Benham's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to October, 1861. 1st Brigade, District of the Kanawha, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division West Virginia, Dept. of the Mountains, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to February, 1863. Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Action at Hawk's Nest, W. Va., August 20, 1861. Near Piggott's Mills, Big Run, August 25. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Reglen October 19-November 16. Gauley Bridge November 10. Blake's Farm, Cotton Mountain, November 10-11. Moved to Point Pleasant December 11, and duty there until April 16, 1862. Operations in the Kanawha Valley April to August. Moved to Washington, D.C., August 18-24. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 25-September 2. Bull Run Bridge August 27.

• September 3-20, 1862 - The Maryland Campaign
• September 12, 1862 - Skirmish at Frederick, Maryland
  • September 14, 1862 - Battle of South Mountain, Maryland
  • September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland

Moved to Hagerstown, Md., October 8, thence to Clarksburg and Summerville, W. Va., and duty at Summerville until January 24, 1863. Expedition to Cold Knob Mountain November 24-30, 1862. Lewis Mill on Sinking Creek November 26. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., January 24, 1863, thence to Carthage February 22, and duty there until June. Near Carthage March 8 (2 Cos.). Scout to Rome March 24-25. Reconnaissance to McMinnville April 13. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until August 16.

• August 16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign
  • Catlett's Gap, Pigeon Mountain, September 15-18.
  • September 19-September 20, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
  • Rossville Gap September 21.
• September 24-October 27, 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
• Brown's Ferry October 27.
• November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
  • Orchard Knob November 23-24.
  • Mission Ridge November 25.
• Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864.
• Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25.
• Veterans absent on furlough March and April.
• May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
  • May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
  • Detached for duty as garrison at Resaca May 16 to June 10.
  • May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
  • Non-Veterans relieved for muster out June 10 and ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio.
    • Mustered out June 21, 1864.
  • Veterans and Recruits organized as a Battalion and attached to 92nd Ohio Infantry until January, 1865, participating in operations about Marietta, Ga., and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2, 1864.
  • Pine Hill June 11-14.
  • Lost Mountain June 15-17.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Smyrna Camp Ground July 4.
  • Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
  • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
  • Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
  • Utoy Creek August 5-7.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
• November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
  • December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
• January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
  • Fayetteville, N. C., March 11.
  • Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
  • Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
  • Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
  • Occupation of Raleigh April 14,
  • Bennett's House April 26.
    • Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
• Grand Review May 24.
• Mustered out June 11, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 50 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 98 Enlisted men by disease. Total 152.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 701, 703, 705, 707, 721, 723, 760, 761, 834, 860, 862, 866, 1500-1501)