The Civil War in the East

197th Ohio Infantry Regiment

The 197th Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 18 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1865

March 28

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered in under Colonel Benton Halstead

April 25

Left State for Washington, D.C. Assigned to a Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps. Duty at Washington and Alexandria.

May 11

Moved to Dover, Del., and duty at Camp Harrington. Attached to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department.

May 31

Moved to Havre de Grace and assigned to duty as guard on line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad by Detachments

July 3

Moved to Baltimore, Md. and duty as guards at camps and hospitals around that city

July 31

Mustered out