92nd 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
- Captain William Beale Whittlesey. Graduate, Class of 1861. by Douglas Putnam, Jr. In: Marietta College in the War of Secession, 1861-1865. pgs. 35-39. Peter G. Thomson, Publisher. Cincinnati. Ohio. 1878
- Adjutant George B. Turner. Graduate, Class of 1862. by Douglas Putnam, Jr. In: Marietta College in the War of Secession, 1861-1865. pgs. 43-46. Peter G. Thomson, Publisher. Cincinnati. Ohio. 1878
- In Memoriam Benjamin Dana Fearing, Died December 9, 1881, Read Before the Literary Club of Cincinnati. Charles B. Wilby. 9 pgs. NP. Cincinnati. Ohio. 1881. CSmH
- Memoriam of Benjamin Dana Fearing. E.C. Dawes, I.W. Andrews, T.J. Cochran and D. Putnam. 29 pgs. NP. 1881
- National Tribune. Turchin's Charge at Chickamauga. M. Patton 92nd O.V.I. August 30th, 1888
- National Tribune. Who Was First in Fayetteville, N.C.. Theodore Wheaton. 92nd O.V.I. April 25th, 1889
- Reminiscences of the Battle of Shiloh. By Douglas Putnam, Jr., Late Lieutenant-Colonel Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. pgs. 197-211. Ohio MOLLUS. Volume III. Robert Clarke & Co. 1890
- National Tribune. Chickamauga. That Memorable Night March. C.A. Brown 92nd O.V.I. November 20th, 1890
- National Tribune. Sherman's Bummers. A trip to Kingston (sic), N.C., for Rations and the Capture of Horses and Hams. G.L. Camp. 92nd O.V.I. July 20th, 1893
- National Tribune. In Turchin's Brigade. G.L. Camp 92nd O.V.I. June 16th, 1898. Chickamauga
- National Tribune. An Exploit of Turchin's Brigade. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. July 14th, 1898. Chickamauga
- National Tribune. Bragg's Army. His Overwhelming Force at the Battle od Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. September 21st, 1899
- General George A. (sic) Thomas, by Major F.H. Loring. Francis F. Loring. pgs. 279-295. MOLLUS Iowa. Volume I.
- National Tribune. Battle Above the Clouds. G.L. Camp. 92nd O.V.I. July 19th, 1900. Lookout Mountain
- National Tribune. With Sherman to the Sea. G.L. Camp. 92nd O.V.I. December 21st, 1905
- National Tribune. The Way Soldiers Voted. H.H. Wickham. 92nd O.V.I. October 8th, 1908
- National Tribune. At Milledgeville, Ga. G.L. Camp. 92nd O.V.I. April 13th, 1911
- National Tribune. Captured Two Guns. Peter Miller. 92nd O.V.I. November 2nd, 1911. Missionary Ridge
- National Tribune. The First to Enter Fayetteville. G.L. Camp. 92nd O.V.I. April 25th, 1912. Fayetteville, N.C.
- National Tribune. At Brown's Ferry. J.W. Smith. 92nd O.V.I. August 8th, 1912
- National Tribune. Opening the Cracker Line. Gen. Rosecrans Entitled to the Credit. A.C. Shafer 92nd O.V.I. September 25th, 1913
- National Tribune. Longstreet at Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. July 8th, 1915
- National Tribune. Losses at Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. November 4th, 1915
- National Tribune. The Snodgrass Ridge. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. March 9th, 1916. Chickamauga
- National Tribune. Chickamauga. Croxton's Brigade Opened the Great Battle. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. October 12th, 1916
- National Tribune. Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. Turchin and His Splendid Brigade in Bitter Battles. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. July 4th, 1918
- National Tribune. Second Day at Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. October 17th, 1918
- National Tribune. Mission Ridge Cannon. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. October 5th, 1922
- National Tribune. The Gen. Thomas Myth. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. September 10th, 1925. Chickamauga
- National Tribune. Chickamauga Not Disaster. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. October 8th, 1925
- National Tribune. Stands up for Rosecrans. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. November 5th, 1925
- National Tribune. Incident at Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. October 16th, 1930
- National Tribune. Veteran Writes of Second Day of Bitter Struggle at Chickamauga. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. January 28th, 1932
- National Tribune. Bullet That Killed His Commander Passed Over Head of Veteran. A.C. Shafer. 92nd O.V.I. June 15th, 1934. Chickamauga
- Josiah Dexter Cotton Correspondence 1846-1868. Josiah Dexter Cotton. Surgeon 92nd OVI. 300 items. Chiefly Civil War letters between Cotton and his wife, Ann (Steece) Cotton, during his war service. Call# MS 64-770. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. Washington DC
- George B. Turner Papers. George B. Turner. 1st Lt., Adjt. 92nd OVI. 1/2 ft. Typewritten transcripts of correspondence to his family and memoranda books of the regiment. Call# MS 75-1210. Ohio Historical Society. Archives-Library Division. Columbus. Ohio
- Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
- Colors of the 92nd O.V.I. Painting and Original Photo. Fight for the Colors. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio. 2000
- Fractured Paths of Duty: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon J. Dexter Cotton & Adjutant George B. Turner, 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edited with an Introduction by Richard A. Baumgartner. 512 pgs. Hardcover. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography and index. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. WV. 2013
- The Bull Brothers' Civil War: From Ohio's Little Muskingum Valley through Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. by Robert Edward Swisher. 73 pgs. Robert Swisher. Richmond. Va. 2013. The story of brothers Reason, Will and Perry Bull who served in the 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Based primarily on National Archives military & pension records and Whitelaw Reid's Ohio in the Civil War.
- Letters Home. George Butler Turner and the 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Marietta, Ohio, to Missionary Ridge, Tennessee July 1862 to November 1863. George Butler Turner. Compiled by Dianne Wehrs Vezza. 239 pgs. Little Miami Publishing Co. Milford. Ohio. 2013
Colonel Benjamin D. Fearing 92nd OVI
Courtesy of and Copyright © L.M. Strayer Collection
History
Ninety-Second Ohio Volunteer infantry, 949 men, N. H. Van Vorhes colonel, organized at Marietta, Washington county, August-September, 1862; made two expeditions into Western Virginia before mustered in or uniformed; mustered October 1, 1862, ordered to the Kanawha valley October 7, serving the year out in Lightburn's Kanawha Division; January 7, 1863, ordered to Nashville, Tennessee; served in Tennessee and Georgia in 1863; February 22, 1864, entered upon the Georgia campaigns, assigned to First Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps; crossed into South Carolina in February, 1865, and marched through that State and North Carolina; through Richmond to Washington in May, 1865, and there reviewed; mustered out at Washington, June 10, 1865, 488 men, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Morrow commanding.From: The Military History of Ohio. by H.H. Hardesty
From Dyer's Compendium
92nd Regiment Infantry. Organized at Camp Marietta and at Gallipolis, Ohio, August-September, 1862. (Cos. "A," "B" and "C" garrison duty at Gallipolis, Ohio, September.) Ordered to Point Pleasant, Va., October 7, 1862. Attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va., Dept. Ohio, to February, 1863. Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--March to Charleston, W. Va., October 14-November 16, 1862. Duty at Camp Vinton till January 1, 1863. Moved to Tompkin's Farm and Colesworth January 1-3. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 7-22, and duty there till February 17. Moved to Carthage, Tenn., February 17, and duty there till June 5. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn.. June 5. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Tullahoma June 29-30. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Near Graysville September 10. Catlett's Gap September 15-18. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Brown's Ferry October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. At Chattanooga till February 22, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Face Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Face Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Greek 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. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond,Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Mustered out June 19, 1865. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 47 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 192 Enlisted men by disease. Total 244.
Thanks to Dr. Richard A. Sauers for the initial research and indexing of the National Tribune articles.
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