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Seventy-Third Ohio Infantry.
Smith's Brigade —
Von Steinwehr's Division--Eleventh Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | 1 | | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 8 | 8 | 124 |
| | B | | 15 | 15 | | 14 | 14 | 142 |
| | C | | 23 | 23 | | 16 | 16 | 126 |
| | D | | 12 | 12 | | 14 | 14 | 115 |
| | E | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 20 | 20 | 109 |
| | F | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 18 | 18 | 137 |
| | G | | 20 | 20 | | 15 | 15 | 121 |
| | H | | 14 | 14 | | 12 | 12 | 144 |
| | I | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 12 | 12 | 107 |
| | K | | 18 | 18 | | 18 | 18 | 127 |
| Unassigned | | | | | 2 | 2 | |
| Totals | 4 | 167 | 171 | 1 | 149 | 150 | 1,267 |
171 killed== 13.4 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded 681.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Forage Party, W. Va. | 1 | Pine Mountain, Ga. | 2 |
| Cross Keys, Va. | 5 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 4 |
| Manassas, Va. | 40 | Culp's Farm, Ga. | 5 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 39 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 3 |
| Wauhatchie, Tenn. | 16 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 19 | Averasboro, N. C. | 1 |
| New Hope Church, Ga. | 21 | Bentonville, N. C. | 11 |
Present, also, at
Moorefield;
McDowell;
Cedar Mountain;
Chancellorsville;
Lookout Mountain;
Missionary Ridge;
Rocky Face Ridge;
Cassville;
Savannah.
notes.--The Seventy-third was recruited largely in
Ross county, and was organized at
Chillicothe, December 31, 1861.
It left
Ohio on the 24th of January, 1862, for
West Virginia, where it served under
Lander,
Milroy, and
Fremont, and was engaged in several expeditions and minor engagements.
It fought at
Manassas — then in
McLean's (2d) Brigade,
Schenck's (1st) Division,
Sigel's Corps — losing 25 killed, 87 wounded, and 36 missing, with only 312 muskets taken into action.
Soon after this battle the regiment was placed in
Barlow's (1st) Brigade,
Steinwehr's (2d) Division, Eleventh Corps, with which command it remained encamped in
Virginia during the ensuing
Maryland and
Fredericksburg campaigns, and during the winter of 1862-‘63.
Barlow's Brigade was only slightly engaged at
Chancellorsville, but at
Gettysburg the brigade (
Smith's) did some hard fighting, the regiment losing 21 killed, 120 wounded, and 4 missing, out of about 300 present in action.
In September the Seventy-third accompanied its corps to
Tennessee, where it was engaged, a few weeks after, in the midnight
battle of Wauhatchie.
In that affair the Seventy-third Ohio and Thirty-third Massachusetts carried a strong position by storm — a gallant action, which
General Grant alluded to in his official report as “one of the most daring feats of arms of the war.”
While on the
Atlanta Campaign the Seventy-third was in
Woods's (3d) Brigade,
Ward's (3d) Division, Twentieth Corps.
At
Resaca it lost 10 killed, and 42 wounded; at New Hope Church, 15 killed, and 59 wounded; and at
Bentonville (
Cogswell's Brigade), 5 killed, and 25 wounded.
