Department of the Ohio
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The Department of the Ohio was an administrative military district created by the United States War Department early in the American Civil War to administer the troops in the Northern states near the Ohio River.
1st Department 1861–1862
General Orders No. 14, issued by the
After McClellan was reassigned to command the Army of the Potomac, Brig. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel commanded the Department of the Ohio from September to November 1861. Under his directive, troops pushed southward towards Huntsville, Alabama, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, but were turned away. Then, General Orders No. 97 commanded Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell to assume command of the department. All the forces of the department were then organized into the Army of the Ohio with Buell in command. The Department of the Ohio was dissolved on March 11, 1862, when it was merged into the Department of the Mississippi and the Department of the Mountains.
2nd Department 1862–1865
The Department of the Ohio was recreated on August 19, 1862, and consisted of the states of Ohio,
Due to illness, Burnside asked to be relieved of command after the
References
- Eicher, John H., and ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- 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, with a Prefix, Giving a Compendium of the History of the United States. New York: H.H. Hardesty, 1885. OCLC 3285912
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion Archived 2009-09-13 at the Official Recordsof the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.