110th 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
• Official reports of J. Warren Keifer, Brevet Major General of Volunteers, U.S.A. Detailing movements and operations of his command in the battles of Winchester (1863), Brandy Station, Orange Grove, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg (1864), Monacocy, Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg (1865), and Sailor's Creek, also prior to and at the surrender of General Lee's Army. J. Warren Keifer. Daily Republican Steam Job Office. Springfield, Ohio 1866
• Greene County in the War. Being a History of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment with Sketches of the Twelfth, Ninety-Fourth, One Hundred and Tenth, Forty-Fourth and One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Regiments and the Tenth Ohio Battery, Embracing Anecdotes, Incidents and Narratives of the Camp, March and Battlefield, and the Author's Experience While In the Army. Ira S. Owens. 196 pgs. Torchlight Job Rooms. Xenia. Ohio. 1872. Call# Rare Books E525.5 74th .O93x c.2. State Library of Ohio. Columbus. Ohio
• Greene County Soldiers in the Late War: Being a History of the Seventy-Fourth O.V.I.: With Sketches of the Twelfth, Ninety-Fourth, One Hundred and Tenth, Forty-Fourth, Tenth Ohio Battery, One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth, Fifty-Fourth, Seventeenth, Thirty-Fourth, One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth: Together With a List of Greene County's Soldiers. by Ira S. Owens. 294 pgs. Christian Publishing House. Dayton. Ohio. 1884. Call# Rare Books E525.4 74th .O92 1884x. State Library of Ohio. Columbus. Ohio
• Historical Address by General J. Warren Keifer, Second Brigade, Third Division Sixth Corps at Brigade Reunion at Columbus, Ohio, September 12, 1888. Gen. J. Warren Keifer. George Lilienthal Press. Zanesville 1888
• Slavery and Four Years of War. A Political History of Slavery in the United States. Together with a narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the author took part. 1861-1865...... Joseph Warren Keifer. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London 1900
• Life And Writings of Rev. H.Y. Rush, D.D. Lt. Henry Rush. Co E 110th OVI. Written and Edited by B.F. Vaughan. With Introductions and Tributes from Friends. 297 pgs. Hardbound. The Christian Publishers Association. Dayton. Ohio. 1911
• History of Jerome Township. Union County, Ohio. by W.L. Curry. Press of Edward T. Miller Co. Columbus. Ohio. 1913. Contains a history of the 110th OVI on pgs 129-130.
• The Civil War Letters (1862-1865) of Private Henry Kauffman: the Harmony boys are all well. Henry Kauffman, 110th O.V.I. Editor David McCordick. E. Mellen Press. Lewiston, O. (?) 1991
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• Reminiscences of Lorenzo D. Barnhart. 110th OVI Company B. Transcribed by Roger Barnhart. 1998
• 110th OVI Page. by Roger Barnhart. 1998
• The Weary Boys. Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. by Thomas E. Pope. 266 pgs. Kent State University Press. Kent. Ohio. 2002

Colonel J. Warren Keifer

History

Organized October 3, 1862, under Colonel J. Warren Keifer, it moved into West Virginia. In January, 1863, it marched to Winchester and served in the Army of the Potomac. At Kernstown it engaged Lee's advance, resisting an overwhelming force, defending a fort against 26 pieces of artillery and heavy infantry columns, finally cutting its way out and marched to Harper's Ferry. In 1864 the Regiment operated with Grant in the Wilderness and about Richmond, and with Sheridan at Winchester and Fisher's Hill, and in the spring of 1864, took part in the assaults upon Petersburg and in the pursuit of Lee until the surrender. The 110th had engaged in twenty battles and lost 795 men. It was mustered out June 25th, 1865.

From Dyer's Compendium

110th Regiment Infantry. Organized at Camp Piqua, Ohio, October 3, 1862. Moved to Zanesville, Ohio, October 19; thence to Parkersburg, W. Va. Attached to Railroad Division, Clarksburg, W. Va., Middle Department, to January, 1863. Milroy's Command, Winchester, Va., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, Elliott's Command, 8th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Moved to Clarksburg, W. Va., November 3, 1862; thence moved to New Creek November 25, and to Moorefield December 13. Expedition to Winchester December 28, 1862, to January 1, 1863, and duty there till June. Reconnoissance toward Wardensville and Strasburg April 20. Battle of Winchester June 13-15. Retreat to Harper's Ferry June 15-16, thence to Washington, D.C., July 1-4. Moved to Frederick City, Md., and join Army of the Potomac July 5. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. Wapping Heights July 23. Duty on line of the Rappahannock till August 15, and at New York during draft disturbances August 16-September 6. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly's Ford November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Payne's Farm November 27. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 18-July 6. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 6-8. Battle of Monocacy Junction, Md., July 9. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28. Charlestown August 29. Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Kernstown till December. Moved to Washington, D. C, thence to Petersburg, Va., December 3-6. Siege of Petersburg December 6, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9, 1865. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Danville, Va., April 17-27, and duty there till May. Moved to Richmond, Va., May 16;thence to Washington, D.C., May 24-June 2. Corps Review June 9. Mustered out June 25, 1865. Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 107 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 111 Enlisted men by disease. Total 230.

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