United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 170th Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 19 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| Organized at Bellaire, Ohio. It was one of the “Hundred Days Men regiments” intended for short term rear echelon duties in the summer of 1864. | |
| May 13 | Mustered in under Colonel Miles J. Saunders |
| May 17 | Left State for Washington, D.C. and assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Simmons, Bayard, Mansfield, Gaines and Battery Vermont, Defenses of Washington. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Haskins’ Division, 22nd Army Corps. |
| July 4 | Moved to Sandy Hook, Md. and duty in the Defenses of Maryland Heights . |
| July 15 | Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia for operations in the Shenandoah Valley. |
| July 17-18 | Expedition to Snicker’s Ford |
| July 18 | Rocky Ford |
| July 24 |
Second Battle of KernstownThe regiment lost 4 men killed and 19 wounded. |
| July 25 | Martinsburg |
| July 30 | Moved to Frederick, Md., then guard supply trains to Harper’s Ferry and duty there. |
| September 10 | Mustered out |