United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 136 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 163 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Antietam and at Chickamauga.
1861
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July 30-August 31 | Organized at Marietta, Ohio under Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Clarke and Major Ebenezer Andrews. Colonel George Crook of the Regular Army was assigned as colonel at Clarke’s request. |
September 10 | Left State for West Virginia. Moved to Summerville, and duty there. |
October | District of the Kanawha, West Virginia |
December 15-21 | Expedition to Meadow Bluff |
1862
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March | Attached to 3rd Brigade, Kanawha Division, West Virginia |
April 17-21 | Cos. E, G, I and K – Expedition from Summerville to Addison |
May 12-23 | Expedition to Lewisburg, W. Va. Attached to Cox’s Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia. |
May 20 | Jackson River Depot |
May 23 | Action at Lewisburg |
May 29 | Moved to Meadow Bluff |
June 22-25 | Expedition to Salt Sulphur Springs |
July – August | Operations in Kanawha Valley |
August 14-22 | Movement to Washington, D.C. |
August 23-September 3 | Joined Gen. Pope, and on duty at his Headquarters during battle of Bull Run |
September 6-22 | Maryland Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 12 | Frederick City. Md. |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamThe Regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Clarke while Colonel Crook took command of the brigade. Lt. Colonel Clarke was killed as the regiment advenced on Sharpsburg after crossing Antietam Creek. Major Andrews took over the regiment, and would be promoted to colonel the day after the battle. From the monument : This Regiment advanced near the Bridge over Antietam Creek on the morning of September 17, 1862, supporting Sturgis’ Division. It participated in the charge by which the Bridge was captured. Lieut. Col. Melvin Clarke was killed near this spot. From the War Department marker for Crook’s Brigade on the Antietam bayylefield: On the evening of September 16th Crook’s Brigade formed line on the ridge east of the Antietam, and north of the Burnside Bridge. On the morning of the 17th, preceded by the 11th Connecticut of Harland’s Brigade as skirmishers, it attempted to carry the bridge but failed. About 2 P.M., five companies of the 28th Ohio crossed the stream at a ford 250 yards north of the bridge and advanced to the rising ground east of the Sharpsburg Road. The remainder of the Brigade crossed the bridge and moved up the road about 350 yards, when the united Brigade advanced over the high ground west of the road and supported the left of Willcox’s Division. It assisted in checking A.P. Hill’s advance but, the left of the line having been turned, it was obliged to withdraw to the cover of the ridge south and east of this line. This tablet marks the center of the advance position of the Brigade. |
October 6-November 16 | March to Hagerstown, thence to Hancock, Md., Clarksburg and the Kanawha Valley attached to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio |
November-December | Duty at Charleston, W. Va. |
1863
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January 25 | Ordered to Nashville, Tenn. |
February 22 | To Carthage and duty there attached to Crook’s Brigade, Baird’s Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland |
April 9 | Colonel Andrew resigned under pressure from a group of officers who filed unsubstantiated charges against him. |
April 18 | William Graham Jones, Acting ADC to Major General Sumner, was appointed as colonel. |
June 23-July 7 | Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
June 24-26 | Hoover’s Gap |
July-August | Occupation of Middle Tennessee |
August 16-September 22 | Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and the Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign |
September 15-18 | Catlett’s Gap |
September 19-21 |
Battle of ChickamaugaColonel William G. Jones was killed. |
September 24-November 23 | Siege of Chattanooga. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps |
October 26-29 | Reopening Tennessee River |
October 27 | Brown’s Ferry |
November 23-27 | Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign |
November 23-24 | Orchard Knob |
November 25 | Mission Ridge |
1864
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January | Regiment reenlisted. Veterans on furlough March and April. |
March 19 | Hiram F. Devol was promoted to colonel. |
April | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
May 2-19 | Ordered to Charleston, W. Va. Crook’s Raid to Dublin Depot, Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 9 | Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain |
May 10 | New River Bridge |
May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Raid on Lynchburg |
June 11-12 | Lexington |
June 17 | Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
June 20 | Buford’s Gap |
June 21 | Salem |
July 12-15 | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley |
July 19 | Cablestown |
July 23-24 |
Second Battle of Kernstown |
July 25 | Martinsburg |
August 6 | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 15 | Cedar Creek, Strasburg |
August 24 | Summit Point |
August 26 | Halltown |
September 3 | Berryville |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan (Third Battle of Winchester) |
September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 18 | Kablestown |
November-December | Duty at Kernstown |
1865
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January | Ordered to Cumberland, Md., and duty there attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
April | Moved to Winchester, and duty there |
June | At Wheeling, W. Va |
July 27 | Mustered out |