United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 159th Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 10 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864
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Organized at Zanesville, Ohio. It was one of the “Hundred Days Men regiments” intended for short term rear echelon duties in the summer of 1864. | |
May 9 | Mustered in under Colonel Lyman J. Jackson |
May 9 | Left State for Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. At Maryland Height assigned to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. |
May 17 | Guard duty in the Defenses of Baltimore, Md., and guarding bridges along Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad by Detachments. |
July 9 |
Battle of MonocacyA mounted detachment under Captain Edward H. Leib served with the cavalry at the battle. |
July 12 | Expedition to Parkesville |
July 28 | Companies B, E, G and I served as railroad guard at Havre de Grace, Maryland. |
August 13 | Ordered home |
August 24 | Mustered out |