42nd Ohio Infantry Regiment
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The 42nd Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 42nd Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio September through November 1861 and mustered in for three years service on December 7, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Abram Garfield.
The regiment was attached to 18th Brigade,
Companies A, B, C, and D mustered out September 30, 1864; companies E and F mustered out November 25, 1864; companies G, H, I, and K mustered out December 2, 1864 (all at Camp Chase). Veterans and recruits were transferred to the
Detailed service
Moved to Catlettsburg, Ky., December 14, 1861; then to Louisa, Ky. Garfield's Campaign against Humphrey Marshall December 23, 1861, to January 30, 1862. Advance on Paintsville, Ky., December 31, 1861, to January 7, 1862. Jennies Creek January 7. Occupation of Paintsville January 8. Middle Creek, near Prestonburg, January 10. Occupation of Prestonburg January 11. Expedition to
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 240 men during service; 1 officer and 58 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 178 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
- Colonel James Abram Garfield
- Colonel Lionel Allen Sheldon
- Lieutenant Colonel Don Albert Pardee - commanded during the siege of Vicksburg
- Major Frederick A. Williams - commanded at the Battle of Champion Hill
Notable members
- Colonel James A. Garfield - , 1881
- Colonel Lionel Allen Sheldon - Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1881–1885.
Don Pardee - Commanded the 42 OVI in the assault on Vicksburg. Appointed by President Garfield a United States federal judge, United States circuit court for the Fifth Circuit (1881-1917)
Orlando C. Risdon - 1LT in the 42 OVI was promoted to LTC of United States Colored Troops in 1863. Promoted Colonel and Commander of 53d Regiment USCT 1864. Promoted Brigadier General (Brevet) March 13, 1865. <Whitelaw Reid, 'Ohio in the War' p. 982>
See also
- List of Ohio Civil War units
- Ohio in the Civil War
References
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- Hopkins, Owen Johnston. Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society), 1961. ISBN 978-0-8142-0743-7
- Mason, Frank H. The Forty-Second Ohio Infantry: A History of the Organization and Services of That Regiment in the War of the Rebellion (Cleveland, OH: Cobb, Andrews & Co.), 1876. at the ISBN 978-1-154-70974-2
- 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.
- Pardee, George K. My Dear Carrie: The Civil War Letters of George K. Pardee and Family (Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society Press), 1994. ISBN 1-883916-00-3
- Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868. ISBN 978-1-154-80196-5
- Attribution
This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
External links
- Ohio in the Civil War: 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens
- National flag of the 42nd Ohio Infantry
- National flag of the 42nd Ohio Infantry, identified as "Garfield's flag"
- Regimental flag of the 42nd Ohio Infantry
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