previous next

72nd Ohio Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Fremont, Ohio, October, 1861, to February.

1862.

Moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January 24, thence to Paducah, Ky.

Attached to District of Paducah, Ky., to March, 1862.

4th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to May, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862.

5th Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 8th Division, 16th Army Corps, to April, 1863.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to December, 1863.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division Dept. West Mississippi, to July, 1865.

Dept. of Mississippi to September, 1865.


Service.

Moved from Paducah, Ky., to Savannah, Tenn., March 6-10, 1862.

Expedition from Savannah to Yellow Creek, Miss., and occupation of Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-17.

Crump's Landing April 4.

Battle of Shiloh April 6-7.

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.

Russell House, near Corinth, May 17.

March to Memphis, Tenn., via LaGrange, Grand Junction and Holly Springs June 1-July 21.

Duty at Memphis, Tenn., till November.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad, November 2, 1862, to January 12, 1863.

Duty at White's Station till March 13.

Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Young's Point, La.

Operations against Vicksburg, Miss., April 2-July 4.

Moved to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., May 2-14.

Mississippi Springs May 13.

Jackson, Miss., May 14.

Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.

Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.

Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

Brandon Station July 19.

Camp at Big Black till November.

Expedition to Canton October 13-20.

Bogue Chitto Creek October 17.

Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., and guard Memphis & Charleston Railroad at Germantown till January, 1864.

Expedition to Wyatt's, Miss., February 6-18.

Coldwater Ferry February 8.

Near Senatobia February 8-9.

Wyatt's February.

Operations against Forest in West Tennessee and Kentucky March 16-April 14.

Defence of Paducah, Ky., April 14 (Veterans).

Sturgis' Expedition to Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 2.

Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown, Miss., June 1-13.

Brice's Cross Roads, near Guntown, June 10.

Salem June 11.

Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21.

Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13.

Harrisburg, near Tupelo, July 14-15.

Old Town or Tishamingo Creek July 15.

Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.

Abbeville August 23.

Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 1.

March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price September 17-November 16.

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 21-December 1.

Reconnoissance from Nashville December 6.

Battles of Nashville December 15-16.

Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.

At Eastport, Miss., till February, 1865.

Moved to New Orleans, La., February 9-22.

Campaign against Mobile, Ala., and its defenses March 17-April 12.

Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.

Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.

Occupation of Mobile April 12.

March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there till May 10.

Moved to Meridian, Miss., and duty there till September.

Mustered out at Vicksburg, Miss., September 11, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 56 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 236 Enlisted men by disease. Total 298.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Memphis (Tennessee, United States) (4)
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (3)
Paducah (Kentucky, United States) (3)
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (3)
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (3)
Savannah, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (2)
Guntown (Mississippi, United States) (2)
Abbeville (Mississippi, United States) (2)
White's Station (Tennessee, United States) (1)
Tupelo (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (1)
Spanish Fort (Alabama, United States) (1)
Salem (New Jersey, United States) (1)
Ripley (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee, United States) (1)
Oxford (Mississippi, United States) (1)
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (1)
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (1)
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (1)
Milford (New Jersey, United States) (1)
Meridian (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Mechanicsburg (Mississippi, United States) (1)
La Grange (Indiana, United States) (1)
Holly Springs (Mississippi, United States) (1)
High Point (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Grand Junction (Tennessee, United States) (1)
Germantown (Tennessee, United States) (1)
Eastport (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Corinth (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Chillicothe (Ohio, United States) (1)
Chickasawhay Creek (Mississippi, United States) (1)
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Samuel D. Sturgis (2)
Kirby Smith (2)
Wyatt (1)
Price (1)
Montgomery (1)
Hood (1)
Grant (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
February, 1865 AD (2)
November, 1862 AD (2)
November (2)
July 21st (2)
July 15th (2)
July 10th (2)
July 5th (2)
July 4th (2)
June 1st (2)
May 14th (2)
May 2nd (2)
April 14th (2)
April 12th (2)
March 17th (2)
February 9th (2)
February 8th (2)
February (2)
September 11th, 1865 AD (1)
September, 1865 AD (1)
July, 1865 AD (1)
December, 1864 AD (1)
January, 1864 AD (1)
December, 1863 AD (1)
April, 1863 AD (1)
January 12th, 1863 AD (1)
December, 1862 AD (1)
November 2nd, 1862 AD (1)
July, 1862 AD (1)
May, 1862 AD (1)
March 10th, 1862 AD (1)
March 6th, 1862 AD (1)
March, 1862 AD (1)
1862 AD (1)
October, 1861 AD (1)
December 28th (1)
December 17th (1)
December 16th (1)
December 15th (1)
December 6th (1)
December 1st (1)
November 21st (1)
November 16th (1)
October 20th (1)
October 17th (1)
October 13th (1)
September 17th (1)
September 1st (1)
September (1)
August 30th (1)
August 23rd (1)
August 1st (1)
July 19th (1)
July 17th (1)
July 14th (1)
July 13th (1)
June 13th (1)
June 11th (1)
June 10th (1)
June 4th (1)
May 30th (1)
May 26th (1)
May 22nd (1)
May 19th (1)
May 18th (1)
May 17th (1)
May 13th (1)
May 10th (1)
April 30th (1)
April 29th (1)
April 25th (1)
April 13th (1)
April 9th (1)
April 8th (1)
April 7th (1)
April 6th (1)
April 4th (1)
April 2nd (1)
March 26th (1)
March 16th (1)
March 14th (1)
March 13th (1)
February 22nd (1)
February 18th (1)
February 6th (1)
January 24th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: