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to Brown's Crossing, West Virginia and established a network of pickets and patrols along the segment of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad running between Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg. Under its guard, the railroad line resumed operations for the first time since July 3, 1864. The regiment additionally played an instrumental role in the completion of the strategic breastworks along Bolivar Heights in Harper's Ferry. On August 25, 1864, having exceeded its term of enlistment, the regiment received orders to return home. The 160th OVI mustered out of service on September 7, 1864, at Camp Goddard in
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20, 1864, Frederick, Maryland); Corporal Lyman C. Lamb (August 16, 1864, Annapolis, Maryland); Commissary Sergeant Nathan S. Kelley (August 17, 1864, Baltimore, Maryland); Sergeant Andrew J. Wright (August 18, 1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland); Private Andrew Garrett (August 19, 1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland); Private Samuel Anderson (August 28, 1864, Crestline, Ohio); Private John Prall (August 30, 1864, Columbus, Ohio); and 2nd Lieutenant Isaac T. Cramer (September 5, 1864, Zanesville, Ohio).
324: 445: 116:, the 160th OVI was composed of elements from four battalions of the Ohio National Guard - the 40th Battalion of Brown County, the 53rd Battalion of Perry County, the 73rd Battalion of Fairfield County, and the 91st Battalion of Muskingum County. The regiment formally mustered into service on May 13, 1864, under the command of 251:
Died of Disease: Private John T. Dutro (June 21, 1864, Martinsburg, West Virginia); Private Thomas Fry (June 30, 1864, Martinsburg, West Virginia); Corporal Isaiah M. White (July 7, 1864, Frederick, Maryland); Private Charles W. Smith (July 16, 1864, Frederick, Maryland); Private Josiah McLees (July
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Killed in Action: Private John J. Stewart (July 4, 1864, Sandy Hook, Maryland); Private Isaac N. Steers (July 31, 1864, Frederick, Maryland from wounds received on July 9, 1864, at Monocacy, Maryland); Private Peter Beth (August 13, 1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland); Private Isaac Kelly (August 13,
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invasion of Washington, D.C., with the Confederate Army of the Valley. On July 14, the regiment conducted a 27-mile single day's march to Hagerstown, Maryland where it took charge of a wagon train full of necessary supplies for renewed operations across the theatre. On July 21, the regiment marched
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The regiment suffered 20 casualties during its term of service; five men killed in action, two men wounded in action, one man captured who later died as a prisoner of war, and 12 men who died due to disease.
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in May 1864. Shipped to the Eastern Theater, they were designed to be placed in "safe" rear areas to protect railroads and supply points, thereby freeing regular troops for Lt. Gen.
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Wounded in Action: Principal Musician Thomas Jackson (May 28, 1864, Newtown, Virginia); Corporal Josiah Petty (July 7, 1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland).
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Captured: Sergeant James M. Marlow (August 5, 1864, Brown's Crossing, West Virginia; Died as Prisoner-of-War on February 1, 1865 in Richmond, Virginia).
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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
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The Military History of Ohio: Its Border Annals, Its Part in the Indian Wars, In the War of 1812, in the Mexican War, and in the War of the Rebellion
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Cyrus Reasoner Civil War Correspondence, Eva G. Farris Special Collections, W. Frank Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University.
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History of the 160th Regt. O.V.I.: Read at the Thirteenth Annual Reunion, Held at Rehoboth, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1903
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1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland); and Private George States (August 13, 1864, Maryland Heights, Maryland).
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Granville Fiscus Diary, 1864, Smith Library Manuscripts, Smith Library of Regional History.
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Over 35,000 Ohio National Guardsmen were federalized and organized into regiments for
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History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio: Their Past and Present. Vol. II
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A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War
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Ohio in the Civil War: 160th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio
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General Phil Sheridan As I Knew Him, Playmate-Comrade-Friend
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Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers
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160th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (National Guard)
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1864
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Index

160th Ohio Infantry
United States
Union
Infantry
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Zanesville, Ohio
Colonel
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
(Colonel Augustus Moor)
(Brigadier General Jeremiah Sullivan)
(Major General Franz Sigel)
Cedar Creek, Virginia
(Major General Franz Sigel)
(Major General David Hunter)
Colonel Harry W. Gillmor
Colonel John S. Mosby
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Lieutenant General Jubal Early's
Zanesville, Ohio
100 days service
Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate
Richmond, Virginia
Jubal Early
Army of the Valley
Valley Campaigns of 1864

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