148th 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
• Unit Bibliography. U.S. Army Military History Institute. Carlisle Barracks. PA. 1995
• Dear Isa, Dear Johna: the Civil War Correspondence of one of Ohio's Hundred Days' Men, First Sergeant John A. Brown, 148th Ohio National Guard: with an Addendum on the Civil War Experience of Private Zachry James Lee, 64th Georgia, C.S.A. John A. Brown. 148th OVI. 1835-1902. Compiled and annotated by Natalie H. Lee. Dallas. Texas. Printed by Thomson-Shorn. Dexter. Michigan. 1998. 305 pgs. Call# 973.781 B813d, 1998. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio

History

This Regiment, organized as a Ohio National Guard unit, formed for one hundred days service, May 18, 1864, under Colonel Thomas W. Moore, and left for the field May 23d, by rail, when an accident occurred to the train resulting in the death of three and the serious injury of three others. The Regiment moved to Washington via Harper's Ferry, then to White House and Bermuda Hundred, where it served in the trenches until the last of August. It returned to Ohio and was mustered out September 14, 1864.

From Dyer's Compendium

148th Regiment Infantry. Organized at Marietta, Ohio, and mustered in May 17, 1864. Left State for Harper's Ferry, W. Va., May 23; thence moved to Washington, D.C., June 1, and to White House Landing, Va., June 9. Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 11, and to City Point June 15. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James. Duty at City Point till August 29. Moved to Marietta September 5, and mustered out September 14, 1864. Lost during service 2 Officers and 37 Enlisted men by disease. Total 39.

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