34th Ohio Infantry

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment


caption=Ohio flag
dates= August 26, 1862 to June 24, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=rifled muskets
battles= American Civil War
*Battle of Cloyd's Mountain
*Battle of Cove Mountain
*Battle of Berryville
*Battle of Opequon
*Battle of Fisher's Hill
*Battle of Cedar Creek

The 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (or 34th OVI) was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It primarily served in the Eastern Theater in what is now West Virginia and in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley region.

Organization and service

The 34th Ohio was raised at Camp Lucas near Toledo on September 1, 1861. Most of the recruits came from the northwestern part of the state. After training and drilling, the new regiment moved to Camp Dennison on September 1, and then entrained for the front lines, arriving on September 20 at Camp Enyart on the Kanawha River in western Virginia. It initally served in the forces under George B. McClellan, and then under a variety of generals for the next two years while engaging in several raids and operations in the region.

When the regiment's term of enlistment expired late in 1863, the men voted to re-enlist on December 23. They were part of Crook's Expedition against the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad in early May and fought in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain on May 9 and later in the Battle of Cove Mountain and in other smaller engagements in the region. The 34th OVI was re-mustered as a veteran regiment on January 19, 1864, and partcipated in many of the battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including the Battle of Opequon near Winchester, Virginia. [ [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm National Park Service Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System] ]

The 34th Ohio suffered 10 Officers and 120 enlisted men killed in battle or died from wounds, and 130 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 260 fatalities. [ [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unohinf3.htm#34thinf Civil War Archive] ] The much depleted regiment was amalgamated with the 36th Ohio Infantry on February 22, 1865.

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwv.htm The Civil War Archive]

Notes

ee also

*Ohio in the Civil War