125th Ohio Infantry
Opdycke Tigers

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
• Notes on the Chickamauga Campaign. by Emerson Opdycke. 125th OVI. In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. pgs. 326-331. 1887. Call# 973.7 B322, v.3. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• National Tribune. The Battle of Franklin as Seen by One of the 125th Ohio. by Ralsa C Rice. 125th OVI. October 11, 1888
• National Tribune. Franklin. Opdycke's Brigade in that Action . by Ralsa C Rice. 125th OVI. July 4, 1889
• National Tribune. Kenesaw Mountain. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. October 9, 1890
• National Tribune. Kenesaw Mountain. by Lyman Root. 125th OVI. February 26, 1891
• National Tribune. The Charge at Franklin. An Ohio Comrade Says it was Ordered by an Enlisted Man. B.F. Young. April 7, 1892
• National Tribune. Battle of Franklin. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. June 9, 1892
• National Tribune. Premonitions. An Ohio Lad Who Knew he was to be Killed at Kenesaw Mountain. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. November 24, 1892
• National Tribune. With Sherman. Another Chapter of the Peach Tree Creek Battle. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. November 24, 1892
• National Tribune. The Battle of Franklin. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. February 11, 1904
• National Tribune. Where Harker Fell. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. June 8, 1905
• National Tribune. Opdycke's Brigade at Franklin. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. August 10, 1905
• In Memoriam : Henry Glenville Shaw, First Lieutenant, 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Pamphlet. MOLLUS California. 1907. Call# PA Box 247 15 1907. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• National Tribune. Opdycke's Charge. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. May 30, 1907
• National Tribune. Opdycke at Franklin. by Ralsa C. Rice. 125th OVI. March 30, 1911
• Opdycke Tigers, 125th O.V.I., a History of the Regiment and Campaigns and Battles of the Army of the Cumberland. Charles T. Clark, Captain Co. F, 125th O.V.I. Spahr and Glen. Columbus. Ohio. 1895
• Minutes of the Twenty-second Annual Reunion of the 125th O.V.I. Association at Akron, Ohio, September 19th and 20th, 1905. by 125th O.V.I. Association. Annual Reunion. 16 pgs. 1905. Call# PA Box 729 3. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Three Years Service with the 125th Ohio, Opdycke's Tigers. by Ralsa C. Rice. From: The National Tribune Scrapbook, No. 2, Stories of the Camp, March, Battle, Hospital and Prison told by Comrades. National Tribune. Washington D.C. ca 1905
• Yankee Tigers; Through the Civil War with the 125th Ohio. Ralsa C. Rice, Captain 125th O.V.I. Reprint of the above title with added maps, photos and index. Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner and Larry M. Strayer. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington W.Va. 1992
• Opdycke's Brigade at the Battle of Franklin. Henry Anson Castle. Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle. MOLLUS. Minnesota. Volume VI. p. 385-404. Aug. Davis. Minneapolis. Minnesota. 1909
• An Escape that Did Not Set Me Free, a By-product of Morgan's Raid. Lieut. Colonel David Hastings Moore. 16 pgs. A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, April 7, 1915. MOLLUS. Ohio. 1915
• Emerson Opdycke Papers. Emerson Opdycke. 1830-1884. 41st and 125th OVI. Papers from 1861-1913. 2 cubic ft. Call# MSS554. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• 125th OVI Page. By Nelson C. Haldane. Dripping Springs. Texas. 1997
• Life and Times of the Opdycke Tigers. By Nelson C. Haldane. Dripping Springs. Texas. 1997
• Charles T. Clark and the 125th O.V.I. in the Civil War. by Jonathan Smith. 1999
• Opdycke Tigers, 125th O.V.I., a History of the Regiment and Campaigns and Battles of the Army of the Cumberland. by Charles T. Clark, Captain Co. F, 125th O.V.I. Online Edition. 2001
• To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke. Emerson Opdycke Lt. 41st OVI and Colonel 125th OVI. Edited by Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas. Foreword by Peter Cozzens. 352 pages. Hardbound. University of Illinois Press. Champaign. IL. 2002
• Yankee Tigers II: Civil War Field Correspondence from the Tiger Regiment of Ohio. Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner. An illustrated collection of letters covering the 1863-1865 service of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Featuring excerpts from the previously unpublished diary of Colonel Emerson Opdycke. 295 pgs. Softcover. 57 wartime photographs. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography & Index. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. West Virginia. 2004
• Opdycke's Tigers in the Civil War: A History of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. by Thomas Crowl. Paperback. 306 pgs. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Jefferson. NC. 2019

Sgt. Richard K. Hulse Co. B
Promoted to 1st Lt. Co C
Courtesy of and Copyright © L.M. Strayer Collection

History

Organized in October, 1862, under Colonel Emerson Opdycke, in January, 1863, it moved to Louisville, Ky., and then to Nashville. The Regiment was actively engaged in skirmishing and long marches in Tennessee, until the battle of Chickamauga, where it took a conspicuous and honorable part, fighting desperately against overwhelming numbers. It again participated in the battle of Mission Ridge, and joined in the pursuit of Bragg. In December it went to the relief of Knoxville. Returning in the spring of 1864, to Northern Georgia, it joined Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, fighting its way to Jonesboro. It followed Hood north to Nashville, taking part in the battle of Franklin and the pursuit south. The Regiment remained in Northern Alabama and Tennessee until June 1865, when it moved to New Orleans and then to Texas, where it mustered out September 25, 1865. This Regiment gained a high reputation for its fighting qualities under the lead of the brave Colonel Opdycke.

From Dyer's Compendium

125th Regiment Infantry. Organized at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio, October 6, 1862. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, January 3, 1863; thence moved to Louisville, Ky., and duty there till January 28. Attached to District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to February, 1863. Franklin, Tenn., Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps and Dept. of Texas, to September, 1865.
SERVICE.--Moved from Louisville, Ky., to Nashville, Tenn., January 28, 1863; thence to Franklin, Tenn., March 5, and duty there till June. Repulse of attack on Franklin March 9. Moved to Triune June 2, thence to Murfreesboro, Tenn. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7. At Hillsboro July 3-August 5. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Occupation of Chattanooga September 9. Lee and Gordon's Mills September 11-13. Near Lafayette September 14. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Colwell's Ford November 19. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Operations in East Tennessee till April, 1864. Charlestown December 28, 1863. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Face Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Adairsville May 17. 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 Mills July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, June 18. 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-November 3. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Spring Hill November 29. 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. At Knoxville, Blue Springs and Nashville till June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 16; thence to Texas and duty there till September. Mustered out September 25, 1865. Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 104 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 114 Enlisted men by disease. Total 225.

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