United States Regiments & Batteries > Ohio
The 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 9 officers and 148 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 142 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument on the Spotsylvania battlefield.
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1862
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| Organized at Camp Steubenville, Ohio | |
| September 4 | Mustered in under Colonel Benjamin F. Smith |
| September 16 | Moved to Parkersburg, W. Va. and attached to Railroad Division, West Virginia |
| October 17 | Moved to Cumberland, Md. |
| December 12 | To North Mountain |
| December 12-20 | Guard duty on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from North Mountain to Martinsburg |
| December 20 | Duty at Martinsburg |
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1863
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| January | Assigned to Martinsburg, W. Va., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| March | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps |
| April 15-22 | Expedition to Greenland Gap |
| June 14 | Action at Martinsburg (Company B) |
| June 15-17 | Retreat to Harper’s Ferry. Assigned to 3rd Brigade, French’s Command, 8th Army Corps |
| July 1-5 | Guard stores to Washington, D.C.; thence to Frederick, Md. |
| July 5-24 | Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| July 23 | Action at Wapping Heights, Va. |
| August 18-September 5 | Duty in New York City during draft disturbances |
| October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
| November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
| November 7 | Kelly’s Ford |
| November 8 | Brandy Station |
| November 26- December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
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1864
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| February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
| March | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James RiverThe 126th Ohio crossed the Rapidan river at the start of the campaign on May 4 with 23 officers and 555 men. By the end of the Battle of the Wilderness half of those had become casualties, and after May 12 at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania they were less than 100 men – “not enought for a company of minimum size.” |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
| May 12 |
Assault on the Salient “Bloody Angle”On May 12 the regiment was advanced to the very exposed position where the marker is today to support the Union attack on the Bloody Angle. Lying prone the men loaded their rifles, then briefly rose to a kneeling position to fire at the heads of the Confederates in the earthworks. The few who stood up were instantly killed. The men fired fifty rounds each in a period of about two hours, then searched the bodies of the dead for more cartridges. After exhausting their ammunition the men fixed bayonets and continued to hold their position. By this time half their number were casualties, including Lt. Colonel Aaron Ebright, who had been wounded early in the fighting. But the Confederates quickly noticed the lack of fire and began advancing, and the Ohioans were forced to pull back. In the woods they rearmed, then returned to take up a position a short distance to the rear of where they had been during the day’s fighting. In the morning they advanced to occupy the Confederate works, which had been abandoned during the night. |
| May 23-26 | North Anna River |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
| June 18-July 6 |
Before Petersburg |
| June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
| July 6 | Ordered to Baltimore |
| July 9 |
Battle of Monocacy Junction, Md. |
| August 7 November 28 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
| September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October-November | Duty at Kernstown |
| December 3 | Moved to Washington, D.C. then to Petersburg, Va. |
| December 9 |
Siege of Petersburg |
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1865
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| March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
| April 6-15 | Guard prisoners at Burkesville |
| April 15-27 | March to Danville and duty there |
| May 16 | Moved to Richmond |
| May 24-June 2 | To Washington, D.C. |
| June 9 | Corps Review |
| June 25 | Mustered out |