United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 161st Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 1 enlisted man killed and 1 officer and 12 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| Organized at Camp Chase, 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 Oliver P. Taylor and left State for Cumberland, Md. Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia. |
| May 28 | Moved to Martinsburg, W. Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia. |
| June 4 | Five companies detached and assigned to duty in charge of supply trains for Hunter’s Army. |
| June 6-25 | Hunter’s Raid on Lynchburg |
| June 19-25 | Retreat to Martinsburg |
| June 28 | Moved to Beverly guarding train of 150 wagon, wounded, and 150 prisoners. |
| June 30 | Continued o Webster |
| July 2 | To Martinsburg bt rail. |
| July 4-7 | Operations about Harper’s Ferry |
| July 6-7 | Defense of Maryland Heights |
| July-August | Duty in the Defenses of Maryland Heights |
| September 2 | Ordered home and mustered out at Camp Chase under Colonel Taylor |