8th 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
• Samuel Sexton Papers. Samuel Sexton. Assistant Surgeon. 8th Regt. OVI. .75 cubic foot. Includes Civil War diary. Call# MSS 185. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio
• Report of the Eighth Ohio Regiment. Franklin Sawyer. Firelands Pioneer. XII. pgs.77-83. Norwalk. OH. 1876
• A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Its Battles, Marches and Army Movements. Franklin Sawyer. 260 pgs. Fairbanks & Co. Printers. Cleveland. Ohio. 1881
  Reprint: 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Gibraltar Brigade. Army of the Potomac. Franklin Sawyer. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. West Virginia. 1994 and 2005
• National Tribune. Reminiscences of Spottsylvania. P.S. Potter. Sgt. Co H, 8th OVI.. April 15 1882
• The Battle of Winchester, The Part Taken by the 8th O.V.I. Frank C. Culley. pg 100. The Firelands Pioneer. New Series. Volume 1. June. 1882
• National Tribune. The Battle of Gettysburg. T.S. Potter. Co H, 8th OVI.. August 5 1882
• The Eighth Ohio At Gettysburg. Address by General Franklin Sawyer . Franklin Sawyer. Roster Of Survivors. Published by the Regimental Association. E.J. Gray Printer. Washington D.C. 1889
• Personal Recollections of Two Visits to Gettysburg. Azor Howett Nickerson. pgs. 19-28. Scribner's Magazine. Volume XIV. Number 1. July. 1893
• Antietam, a Reminiscence. Azor H. Nickerson. Blue and Gray. II. pgs. 343-347. Philadelphia. PA. 1893
• Antietam-Sharpsburg, 1862. Azor H. Nickerson. Blue and Gray. IV. pgs. 125-134. Philadelphia. PA. 1894
• Those Whom You Left Behind You. George H. Degett. From Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle. MOLLUS. Minnesota. Vol. 5. Review Pub. Co. St. Paul. MN. 1903. pp. 332-66. 17 photocopied pages. E464M5.1991v30. USAMHI. Carlisle Barracks. PA
• Eighth Ohio Infantry. by E.T. Naylor. pgs. 50-52. Ohio at Antietam. Report of the Ohio Antietam Battlefield Commission. By D. Cunningham and W.W. Miller. Springfield Publishing Company. State Printers. Springfield. Ohio. 1904
• At the Battle of Antietam With the 8th Ohio Infantry. by Thomas F. De Burgh Galway. Read December 1, 1881. From: MOLLUS. New York. N.Y. vol.3 p.70-85. 1907
• The Valiant Hours ; A Narrative of "Captain Brevet," an Irish American in the Army of the Potomac. Thomas Francis Galwey. Edited By W.S. Nye. 262 pgs. Stackpole. Harrisburg. PA. 1961
• The Battle of Hanging Rocks Pass near Romney, West Virginia, September 24, 1861. by Fritz Haselberger. West Virginia History. pgs. 1-20. Vol. 25 no. 1. October. 1963. State Dept. of Archives and History. Charleston. W. Va. 1963. Located at Ohio Historical Society. Call# 975.405 W52, v.25,no.1. The 8th O.V.I. had a part in this battle.
• Kelley's Occupation of Romney. by Fritz and Mark Haselberger. West Virginia History. pgs. 121-136. Vol. 28 no. 2. January. 1967. State Dept. of Archives and History. Charleston. W.Va.
• The Battle of Blue's Gap. by Fritz Haselberger. West Virginia History. pgs. 241-248. Vol. 28 no. 3. April. 1967. State Dept. of Achives and History. Charleston. W.Va.
• Civil War Reminiscences. Charles Pliney Searle and Martha Searle. Edited by Helen H. Cresap. pgs. 74-78. Annals of Iowa. Volume 42. Summer. 1973
• A Gallant Defense: The Trial of the 8th Ohio at Gettysburg. Martin Graham. CWTI. pg.12. May. 1986
• Yanks From The South (The First Land Campaign of the Civil War : Rich Mountain, West Virginia). Fritz Haselberger. 323 pgs. Past Glories. Baltimore. Maryland. 1987
• "I am now a Soldier" The Civil War Diaries of Lorenzo Vanderhoef . Lorenzo Vanderhoef 8th OVI. Edited by Kenneth R. Martin and Ralph Linwood Snow. Patten Free Library. Bath ME. 1990
• The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg, July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. Elwood Christ. Butternut & Blue. Baltimore. MD. 1994
• The Gibraltar Brigade On East Cemetery Hill - Twenty-Five Minutes of Fighting - Fifty Years of Controversy - Gettysburg, July 2nd, 1863. by Gary Lash. 214 pgs. Butternut and Blue. Baltimore. MD. 1995.
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• The 8th OVI Page. Bob Szabo. 1996
• A Brief History of the 8th OVI. by Thomas M.F. Downes. Published on the web by Bob Szabo. 1996
• Dispelling the Legend of Lt. Elijah Hayden's Death. by Keith Snipe. In The Gettysburg Magazine. Issue 22. January. 2000. Morningside Bookshop. Dayton. Ohio
• National Colors of the 8th O.V.I. Painting and Original Photo. Fight for the Colors. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio. 2000
• The Tarnished Saber: Major Azor Howett Nickerson, USA, His Life and Times. by Angelo D. Juarez. 184 pgs. Nickerson Family Association, Inc. Chatham. Mass. 2001
• Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg. by Richard A. Baumgartner. 254 pgs. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. West Virginia. 2003
• The Improper Placement of the 8th Ohio Monument: A Study of Words and Maps. by Keith Snipe. pgs 68-93. In The Gettysburg Magazine. Issue 35. July. 2006. Morningside Bookshop. Dayton. Ohio

Commissary Sergt. Lemuel Snover
8th Ohio Vol. Inf. Carroll's Brigade 2 A.C.
Courtesy of and Copyright © L.M. Strayer Collection

History

This regiment organized for three months service May 2nd, 1861, and for three years June 26th, 1861. It served in West Virginia until March of 1862 when it moved to the Shenandoah Valley, and engaged in the battles of Cedar Creek, Winchester and Front Royal. In July it was ordered to the Peninsula, where it took part in the operations on the Chickahominy. In August the regiment moved north and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. It was at Fredericksburg and at Chancellorsville sustained heavy losses. Again, at Gettysburg, it lost over 100 in killed and wounded. The 8th took part in Grant's battles through the Wilderness, and when its term of service expired was withdrawn from the trenches at Petersburg, and mustered out July 13th, 1864.

From Dyer's Compendium

8th Regiment Infantry (3 Months). Organized at Cleveland, Ohio, April 18-May 4, 1861. Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, and duty there till June 22. Reorganized for three years June 22, 1861. Three months men mustered out July 24, 1861.

8th Regiment Infantry (3 Years). Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, June 22, 1861, and duty there till July 8. Moved to Grafton, W. Va., July 8. At West Union, Preston County, till July 13. Pursuit of Garnett's forces July 13-18. Guard duty on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to September. Attached to Hill's Brigade, Army of Occupation, West Virginia, to August, 1861. 3rd Brigade, Army of Occupation, to January, 1862. Landers' Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah, to May, 1862. Kimball's Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to July, 1862. Kimball's Independent Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1864.
SERVICE.--Action at Worthington, W. Va., September 2, 1861. Hanging Rock, Romney, September 23. Romney September 23-25. Mill Creek Mills, Romney, October 26. Duty at Romney till January, 1862. Expedition to Blue's Gap January 6-7. Blue's Gap January 7. Evacuation of Romney January 10. Bloomery Gap February 9 and 13. Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel till March 7. Advance on Winchester, Va., March 7-15. Strasburg March 19. Battle of Kernstown March 22. Winchester March 23. Cedar Creek March 25. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 2. Mt. Jackson April 16. March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 12-21, and return to Front Royal May 25-30. Front Royal May 30. Expedition to Luray June 3-7. Port Republic Bridge June 8. Port Republic June 9. Moved to Alexandria, thence to Harrison's Landing June 29-30. Haxall's, Herring Creek, Harrison's Landing, July 3-4. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Cover Pope's retreat from Bull Run to Fairfax Court House September 1. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Moved to Harper's Ferry September 22, and duty there till October 30. Reconnaissance to Leesburg October 1-2. March to Falmouth October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. At Falmouth, Va., till April 27, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5-24. On detached duty at New York during draft disturbances August 15-September 16. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 14. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Robertson's Tavern, or Locust Grove, November 27. Mine Run November 28-30. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 5-7, 1864. Morton's Ford February 6-7. Rapidan Campaign May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Laurel Hill May 8; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Pa River May 10; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21; "Bloody Angle" May 12; North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 8-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16-25. Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23. Left trenches June 24. Veterans and Recruits formed into two Companies and transferred to 4th Ohio Infantry Battalion June 25, 1864. Regiment mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 1865. Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 124 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 72 Enlisted men by disease. Total 205.

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