United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 62nd Ohio Infantry Regiment lost 11 officers and 102 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 129 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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September 17 to December 24 | Organized at Zanesville, McConnellsville and Somerton, Ohio |
1862
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January 17 | Left State for Cumberland, Md. |
February 3 | Moved to Paw Paw Tunnel. |
February | Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel and Great Cacapon Creek. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Landers’ Division, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15 | Advance on Winchester, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Shields’ Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps |
March 18-21 | Reconnaissance to Strasburg |
March 22-23 | Battle of Winchester |
March 25 | Mt. Jackson |
March 27 | Strasburg |
April 1 | Woodstock |
April 2 | Edenburg |
April 4 | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Department of the Shenandoah |
May | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Shields’ Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
May 2-4 | Expedition to Harrisonburg |
May 12-22 | March to Fredericksburg, Va. |
May 11 | Great Cross Roads |
May 25-30 | March to Front Royal |
June 5 | Port Republic |
June 9 | Battle of Port Republic (cover retreat) |
June 29 | Ordered to the Peninsula, Va. |
July 3-4 | At Harrison’s Landing. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
August 16-23 | Movement to Fortress Monroe then moved to Suffolk, Va., and duty there |
September | Assigned to Ferry’s Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
October 25 | Action on the Blackwater |
December 1-3 | Expedition from Suffolk |
December 2 | Action near Franklin on Blackwater |
December 12 | Zuni |
December 31 | Moved to Norfolk, Va. |
1863
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January 4 | To Beaufort and New Berne, N. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
January 25 | Moved to Port Royal, S.C. |
February | At St. Helena Island, S. C., attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
April 3 to July 10 | Occupation of Folly Island, S.C. Attached to United States forces, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
April 7 | Skirmish at Folly Island |
July 10 | Attack on Morris Island, S. C. Attached to 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
July 11 and 18 | Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th Army Corps, Morris Island, S.C. |
July 10-September 7 | Siege operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island, and against Fort Sumter and Charleston attached to 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
September 7 | Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island |
October | Operations against Charleston attached to Howell’s Brigade, Gordon’s Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
November 7 | Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. |
December | Assigned to District Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Army Corps |
1864
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January 3 | Regiment reenlisted |
April | Moved to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of the James River against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 5 | Capture of Bermuda Hundred and City Point |
May 9-10 | Swift Creek |
May 12-16 | Operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 | Battle of Drury’s Bluff |
May 16-30 | Bermuda Hundred front |
May 20 | Ware Bottom Church |
June 16-17 | Port Walthal and on the Bermuda Hundred front |
June 16 | Siege operations begin against Petersburg and Richmond |
August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
September 29-October 1 | New Market Heights, Chaffin’s Farm |
October 7 and 13 | Darbytown Road |
October 27-28 | Battle of Fair Oaks |
November | Duty in trenches north of the James before Richmond Hill |
December | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps |
1865
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March 27-28 | Moved to Hatcher’s Run |
March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 | Rice’s Station |
April 9 | Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April-September | Garrison and guard duty in District of South Anna, Dept. of Virginia |
September 1 | Consolidated with 67th Ohio Infantry |
December 7 | Mustered out |