68th Ohio Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Latta, Napoleon, October to December, 1861. Moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January 21, 1862, thence ordered to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 7, Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Military District of Cairo, February, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1863. Unattached, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-16, 1862. Expedition toward Purdy and operations about Crump's Landing March 9-14.

• April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (Not engaged)

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Purdy, thence to Bolivar, and duty there until September. March to Iuka, Miss., September 1-19. Battle of the Hatchie or Metamora October 5. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad, November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnaissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 20, 1863, thence to Lake Providence, La., February 22. Moved to Milliken's Bend April 10. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.

• May 1, 1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
• Forty Hills and Hankinson's Ferry May 3-4.
• Battle of Raymond May 12.
• Jackson May 14.
• Battle of Champion's Hill May 16.
• May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • July 4, 1863 - Surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Duty there until February, 1864.
  • August 20-September 2, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Monroe, Louisiana
• Expedition to Canton October 14-20.
• Bogue Chitto Creek October 17.
• February 3-March 2, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi
• Morton February 10.
• Veterans absent on furlough February 20-May 8.
• Moved to Cairo, Ill., May 7-8, thence to Clifton, Tenn., and march via Pulaski, Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., to Rome and Ackworth, Ga., May 12-June 9.
• May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Nickajack Creak July 2-5.
  • Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
  • Howell's Ferry July 5.
  • Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21.
  • July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
  • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Jonesboro September 5.
• Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood 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
  • Pocotaligo, S.C., January 14.
  • Salkehatchie Swamps February 2-5.
  • Barker's Mills, Whippy Swamp, February 2.
  • Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, February 9.
  • Orangeburg, North Edisto River, February 12-13.
  • Columbia February 16-17.
  • Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21.
  • 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. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 1, and duty there until July.
• Mustered out July 10, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 48 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 249 Enlisted men by disease. Total 300.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 715, 721, 723, 777, 779, 782, 785, 834, 846, 1528-1529)