159th Ohio Infantry Regiment

The 159th Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 10 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
	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 Monocacy A mounted detachment under Captain Edward H. Leib served with the cavalry at the battle.
July 11	Skirmish at Magnolia A detachment of 70 men guarding the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad railroad bridge over the Gunpowder River was driven off or captured by Confederate raiders under Major Harry Gilmore. The raiders captured two trains and the supplies they were carrying. After evacuating the passengers, they set fire to one of the trains and backed it over the railroad trestle bridge, which was partially destroyied. They also tore down telegraph communications lines along the bridge. One of the passengers on the northbound train was Union Major General William B. Franklin, who was returning north on medical leave. He was taken as a prisoner of war, but escaped the next day.
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