Expedition to Romney, Va.

Battle of McDowell

Harrisonburg

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of Virginia

Battle of Cross Keys

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

The 73rd Ohio was commanded by Colonel Orland Smith. It lost 25 men killed, 87 wounded, and 36 missing out of the 312 men engaged.

From the marker for the regiment on Chinn Ridge:

The enemy in our front, moving in concert with those on our flank, came out of the woods – their line masking and overlapping our own. The whole left of our brigade poured into them a murderous volley. The combat grew fierce indeed. But the contest was not long. On came the flanking column. We stood until the enemy had nearly gained our rear, and had opened fire upon our flank. Then we retired. -Samuel B. Hurst, Regimental Historian

“Mud March”

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Long, Jr. while Colonel Smith commanded the brigade.

From the monument next to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg: 

Engaged 338, Killed 21, Mortally wounded 19, Additional wounded 104, Missing 1, Total loss 145

Monument to the 73rd Ohio Infantry at Gettysburg

Musician Richard Enderlin of Company B was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions when he “voluntarily took a rifle and served as a soldier in the ranks during the first and second days of the battle. Voluntarily and at his own imminent peril went into the enemy’s lines at night and, under a sharp fire, rescued a wounded comrade.”

That wounded comrade was 41 year old Private George Nixon of Company B. Nixon had been hit twice, in the right hip and right leg. Sadly, Nixon would die on July 14, and is buried in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. He was the great grandfather of President Richard M. Nixon.

Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn.

The Regiment and its brigade carried a strong Confederate position by bayonet charge in an after-dark attack led by Colonel Smith, mentioned by General Grant as “one of the most daring feats of arms of the war.”

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

Tunnel Hill

Mission Ridge

Atlanta Campaign

Buzzard’s Roost Gap

Battle of Resaca

The Regiment lost 10 killed, and 42 wounded

New Hope Church

The Regiment lost 15 killed, and 59 wounded

Lost Mountain

Gilgal or Golgotha Church

Muddy Creek

Noyes Creek

Kolb’s Farm

Assault on Kenesaw

Colonel Long resigned as unfit for duty due to a medical condition of “attacks of congestion on the brain which threaten apoplexy.”

Peach Tree Creek

Siege of Atlanta

March to the sea

Siege of Savannah

Campaign of the Carolinas

Battle of Bentonville

The Regiment lost 5 killed, and 25 wounded

Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army.