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Forty-Ninth Ohio Infantry.
Willich's Brigade —
Wood's Division--Fourth 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 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | 4 | 25 | 29 | | 16 | 16 | 136 |
| | B | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 14 | 14 | 146 |
| | C | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 20 | 20 | 136 |
| | D | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 20 | 20 | 138 |
| | E | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 12 | 12 | 145 |
| | F | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 22 | 22 | 162 |
| | G | 2 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 140 |
| | H | | 22 | 22 | | 15 | 15 | 149 |
| | I | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 136 |
| | K | | 18 | 18 | | 20 | 20 | 167 |
| Totals | 14 | 188 | 202 | 1 | 160 | 161 | 1,468 |
202 killed == 13.7 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 754; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 17.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 10 | Pickett's Mills, Ga. | 83 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 35 | Kenesaw, Ga. | 4 |
| Liberty Gap, Tenn. | 7 | Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 20 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 4 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 13 | Nashville, Tenn. | 15 |
| Morristown, Tenn. | 1 | Columbia, Tenn. | 1 |
| Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 3 | Skirmish, Feb. 6, 1865 | 2 |
Present, also, at
Munfordville, Ky.; Siege of
Corinth, Miss.;
Dog Walk, Ky.;
Resaca, Ga.;
Cassville, Ga.; Lovejoy's Station, Ga.;
Franklin, Tenn.
notes — The Forty-ninth sustained the greatest loss in battle of any
Ohio regiment.
It was organized at
Tiffin, in September, 1861, and proceeded immediately to
Louisville, the first completely organized regiment to arrive in
Kentucky.
It was assigned to
Johnson's Brigade, of
McCook's Division.
It went into winter-quarters at
Munfordville, and in March, 1862, moved with its division to reenforce
Grant, at
Pittsburg Landing, where it arrived in time to take part in the
battle of Shiloh.
The regiment lost in that action 6 killed, and 34 wounded;
Colonel Gibson was in command of the brigade.
After accompanying
Buell's Army to
Corinth, to
Alabama, then back through
Tennessee, and on the Perryville campaign, the regiment fought next at
Stone's River, it being then in
Willich's (1st) Brigade,
Johnson's (2d) Division,
McCook's Corps; its loss in that battle was 20 killed, 94 wounded, and 108 captured or missing.
General Willich having been captured in the early part of this engagement,
Colonel Gibson again led the brigade;
Lieutenant-Colonel Levi H. Drake was killed while leading the regiment and gallantly cheering on his men. At
Chickamauga, the regiment lost 10 killed, 59 wounded, and 30 missing. Having reenlisted, the Forty-ninth served in the
Atlanta campaign,--in
Gibson's (1st) Brigade,
Wood's (3d) Division, Fourth Corps, in which command it fought at the bloody battle of Pickett's Mills, May 27, 1864, sustaining the heaviest loss in that action, its casualties amounting to 52 killed, 147 wounded, and 4 missing; total, 203.
After fighting under
Thomas at
Nashville, the Fourth Corps was ordered to
Texas, where the regiment remained until December, 1865, when it was mustered out.
