101st Ohio Infantry

compiled by Larry Stevens

References for this Unit

• see also Bibliography of State-Wide References
• Ohio In The War-Volume II. Whitelaw Reid. Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. Cincinnati 1868
• National Tribune. Death of Gen. Polk. George S. Myers. April 2nd, 1885
• National Tribune. The 101st Ohio at Perryville. B.F. Strong. Sergeant, Co. A. 101st Ohio. July 31st, 1884. Benjamin T. Strong
• National Tribune. Stone's River. The 101st Ohio Claims All the Glory of Capturing the Guns. J.A. Stewart. August 27th, 1885. Stone River. December 26, 1862
• National Tribune. An Attempted Escape from Florence. John H. Crawford. March 15th, 1888
• National Tribune. Gen. Rosecrans. An Ohio Soldier's Tribute to "Old Rosey." William R. Davis. January 24th, 1889
• National Tribune. Battle of Resaca. James H. Stover. October 10th, 1889
• Twenty-seventh Annual Reunion of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Tiffin, Ohio, Thursday, August 31, 1893. 15pgs. Daily Tribune and Herald Print. Tiffin. Ohio. 1893. Call# PA Box 205 27. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Story of the One Hundred and First Ohio Infantry. A Memorial Volume by L.W. Day. L.W. Day. 464 pgs. The W.M. Bayne Printing Co. Cleveland. Ohio. 1894
• National Tribune. Costly Errors. Gen. Davis' Division and the Army of the Cumberland at Stone River. George S. Myers. January 3rd, 1895
• Roster and Historical Sketch of the 101st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. ?. 41 pages. R.L. Knapp. Tiffin. Ohio. 1897. Call# PA Box 247 7. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio.
• National Tribune. On The Jump. Trials of Some of the Green Troops with False Alarms and Sudden Skirmishes. William DeWalt. September 14th, 1899
• National Tribune. He "Sized Up" the General Badly. George S. Myers. June 1st, 1901
• National Tribune. Guerrilla Chasing. Operations of the 101st Ohio Around Huntsville, Ala. George S. Myers. July 25th, 1901
• Gibson's Oration at the Unveiling of the Leander Stem Monument. William H. Gibson. 49th OVI. From: Ohio's Silver Tongued Orator. pgs. 483-493. Dayton. Ohio. 1901
• National Tribune. Occupying Franklin. George S. Myers. September 4th, 1902. (1862)
• Planted the Colors and Rallied the Regiment. by Sergeant George S. Myers. Co F. 101st OVI. On pgs. 265-266 of Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. Edited by W.F. Beyer and O.F. Keydel. 558 pgs. Perrien-Keydel Co. Detroit. Michigan. 1903: Reprint of above by Longmeadow Press. Stamford. CT. 1992
• National Tribune. One of Morgan's Great Exploits. George S. Myers. February 18th, 1904
• National Tribune. Battle of Franklin. George S. Myers. June 1st, 1905
• National Tribune. Some Potent "Ifs". George S. Myers. March 12th, 1908
• 1861-1911: Fifty Years After We Volunteered to Put Down the Great Rebellion. Charles R. Green. Olathe. KS. Register Pub. Co. 1911. E462.1K35O4. USAMHI. Carlisle Barracks. PA.
• National Tribune. Hood's Lost Opportunity. George S. Myers. January 2nd, 1913
• Three Years or During the War. Sergeant Benj T. Strong's Biography. Late of Oberlin Ohio. Service in Co. A, 101st O.V.I.. Benjamin Thomas Strong. Edited and some additions made by his comrade C.R. Green. An appendix giving C.R. Green's experiences Sept. and Oct. '63 on the Chickamauga Campaign and getting back to Nashville. An edition of 300 copies only. Published by C.R. Green. Olathe. Kansas. Nov. 1913
• A Historical Pamphlet. Wakeman, Ohio. Lives Of The Volunteers In The Civil War. by Charles Ransley Green. 101st OVI. 22 pgs. Olathe. Kansas. 1914
• The Part We Took in the Great Rebellion, or Some History 50 Years After by a Buckeye, 1914. C.R. Green. Appox. 48 pgs. Olathe. Kansas. 1913-1914. Various printings
• National Tribune. "War is Cruelty" is What Gen. Sherman Really Wrote to the Mayor of Atlanta. George S. Myers. October 22nd, 1914
• National Tribune. The Numbers at Franklin. George S. Myers. November 19th, 1914
• National Tribune. Johnson's Island. The Rebel Raid from Canada. Alonzo R. Sharp. June 17th, 1915
• National Tribune. Captured at Stone River. Chester S. Carr. May 10th, 1923
• Letters Home by Jay Caldwell Butler, Captain, 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Arranged by his son, Watson Hubbard Butler. 153 pgs. Private Printer. Binghamton. NY. 1930. MICROCARDE601BJCC Ohio State University
• The Campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta as Seen by a Federal Soldier. Ira B. Read. Co. E. 101st O.V.I. Edited by Richard B. Harwell. The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 16 pgs. Vol XXV. No 3. September. 1941
• Colonel Leander Stem Papers. Family collection, including twenty-seven wartime letters of Colonel Leander Stem 101st O.V.I. Call# LH-180. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Library and Archives. Spiegel Grove. Fremont. Ohio. 43420 Fax: 419-332-4952. Phone: 419-332-2081
• Daniel Fox Letter Collection. Daniel H. Fox. Major 101st O.V.I. Firelands Historical Society. Norwalk. Ohio
• Charles Turner Letters 1862-1863. Charles Albert Turner. 1843-1863. 101st OVI, 1862 and Mississippi Marine Brigade, 1863. 0.2 linear ft. Call# MS. 3268. Western Reserve Historical Society Archives Library. Cleveland. Ohio
• Charles R. Green Papers. Charles Ransley Green, 1845-1915. 101st OVI. 0.2 linear ft. Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. Call# MS. 3732. Western Reserve Historical Society. Archives Library. Cleveland. Ohio
• Isaac P. Rule Papers 1862-1863. Isaac P. Rule 1837-1863. Co. I. 101st OVI. Photocopies of originals. 50 items. Letters written to his brother, Daniel C. Rule. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Library and Archives. Spiegel Grove. Fremont. Ohio. 43420. Phone: 419-332-2081
• Charles Barney Dennis Collection. Charles B. Dennis. Co B. 101st OVI. Memoir reflecting Dennis' Civil War experiences. 64 photocopied pages. Call# MS Ac.5425. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Library and Archives. Spiegel Grove. Fremont. Ohio. 43420. Phone: 419-332-2081
• Stand by the Colors: The Civil War Letters of Leander Stem. Colonel Leander Stem. Edited by John T. Hubbell. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 24 pgs. Volume 73. April. 1975 - 22 pgs. Volume 73. July. 1975 - 18 pgs. Volume 73. October. 1975
• Joseph Van Nest's Civil War Journal. Joseph Van Nest. Co. I. 101st OVI. Marion Till. 84 leaves. biography. private printing. (Marion Till?) Sandusky. Oh. 1979
  Portions appear in Echoes of Battle The Atlanta Campaign. Edited by Larry M. Strayer and Richard A. Baumgartner. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. W.V. 1991
  1. "'The Buzzards were on their roosts' Corporal Joseph Van Nest Company I 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry". pgs. 62-63 and 65-69
  2. Van Nest is quoted in a sidebar titled "Staples of Soldiering: hardtack and coffee" pg. 99
  
• Ohio Volunteer : Diaries and Letters of Joseph Murray Raymond and His Friends in the 1860's / Edited by Elizabeth Raymond Raymond. Joseph Murray Raymond. 101st OVI. Edited by Elizabeth Raymond Raymond. 203 pgs. Includes Civil War diaries, letters and notes of his friends and family. Lawrence. Kansas. 1984. Call# E601 .R3. Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Library and Archives. Spiegel Grove. Fremont. Ohio. 43420. Phone: 419-332-2081
• The Civil War Letters of Enos Barret Lewis, 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Enos B. Lewis. Edited by William D. Dillon. Northwest Ohio Quarterly 57. Spring pg 51-63. Summer pg 83-100. Autumn pg 132-143. 1985
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• Two Days Make a Hero: The Story of George P. Coleman. Thomas Stephen Neel. pgs. 15-21. Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal. Volume III. Number 1. Spring. 1999. Ohio Genealogical Society. Mansfield. Ohio
• Recruitment Rolls for the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Editors. pgs. 29-32. Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal. Volume IV. Number 1. 2000. Ohio Genealogical Society. Mansfield. Ohio
• National Colors of the 101st O.V.I. Painting and Original Photo. Fight for the Colors. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio. 2000

Colonel Leander Stem
Killed at the Battle of Stone River 1862

History

This Regiment was organized August 30, 1862, under Colonel Leander Stem. The Regiment participated in the battle of Perryville and was with Rosecrans at Stone River where it lost 219 men. Colonel Stem was killed in the battle and was succeeded by Colonel Isaac M. Kirby. The unit participated in the battle of Chickamauga where it re-captured a battery, fighting over the guns with clubbed muskets. The 101st followed Sherman on the Atlanta campaign, participating in all the battles, and marched with Thomas to Nashville, afterwards following Hood in his retreat. The Regiment was mustered out June 12, 1865.

From Dyer's Compendium

101st Regiment Infantry. Organized at Monroeville, Ohio, August 30, 1862. Left State for Covington, Ky., September 4, thence moved to Louisville, Ky., September 24. Attached to 31st Brigade, 9th Division, Army of the Ohio, September, 1862. 31st Brigade, 9th Division, 3rd Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-15. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there till December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26-30. Nolensville December 26. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Reconnoissance from Murfreesboro March 6-7. Reconnoissance to Versailles March 9-14. Operations on Edgefield Pike, near Murfreesboro, June 4. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Liberty Gap June 24-27. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-October 26. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-28. Moved to Bridgeport, Ala., October 28, and duty there till January 16, 1864, and at Ooltewah till May. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstrations on Rocky Face Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama October 3-26. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till June. Mustered out June 12, 1865. Regiment lost during service 9 Officers and 86 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 140 Enlisted men by disease. Total 236.

Thanks to Dr. Richard A. Sauers for the initial research and indexing of the National Tribune articles.

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