104th Ohio Infantry

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unit_name=104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry


caption=Ohio flag
country=United States of America
allegiance= Union
type=Infantry
branch=Volunteer Army, American Civil War
dates=1862–1865
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command_structure=regiment
size=1000 soldiers at enlistment
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battles=American Civil War *East Tennessee Campaign *Atlanta Campaign *Franklin-Nashville Campaign *Carolinas Campaign
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anniversaries=The 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War. It played a conspicuous role at the Battle of Franklin during the 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign, where six members later received the Medal of Honor, most for capturing enemy flags.

Organization

The 104the OVI was organized at Camp Massillon on August 30, 1862, under Col. James W. Reilly in response to a need for additional three-years regiments.

* Company A
* Company B
* Company C
* Company D: Captain Marcus C. Horton
* Company E
* Company F: Captain Joseph F. Riddle
* Company G
* Company H
* Company I
* Company K

Among the nearly one thousand recruits in the 104th OVI was future United States Congressman Laurin D. Woodworth.

ervice record

The regiment moved to Covington, Kentucky, on September 1, 1862, in preparation for the Defense of Cincinnati against a threatened Confederate invasion by troops under Edmund Kirby Smith. It was involved in the subsequent Skirmish at Fort Mitchell in northern Kentucky.

The regiment spent 1863 in Kentucky and then moved to East Tennessee until April 1864. It then was reassigned to duty as part of the XXIII Corps in Georgia, Washington D.C., and finally North Carolina for the Carolinas Campaign.

The 104th OVI mustered out of the army on June 17, 1865.

During its term of service, the regiment had 3 officers and 46 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in combat. It also lost 4 officers and 130 enlisted men by disease, for a total of 183 fatalities out of the 1,740 men who served at various times in the regiment. [ [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm CWSS] ]

List of Medal of Honor winners from the 104th OVI

Six men from the regiment were recipients of the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Franklin: [ [http://www.medalofhonor.com/OhioCivilWarRecipients.htm Ohio Civil War Recipients] ]
*Joseph Davis: Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: ---. Birth: Wales. Date of issue: 4 February 1865. Citation: Capture of flag. [ [http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html United States Army: Civil war Medal of Honor winners.]
*John C. Gaunt: Rank and organization: Private, Company G. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: Damascoville, Ohio. Birth: Columbiana County, Ohio. Date of issue: 13 February 1865. Citation: Capture of flag.
*Abraham Greenwalt: Rank and organization: Private, Company G. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: Salem, Ohio. Birth: Montgomery County, Pa. Date of issue: 13 February 1865. Citation: Capture of corps headquarters flag (C.S.A.).
*Newton H. Hall: Rank and organization: Corporal, Company I. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: ---. Birth: Portage County, Ohio. Date of issue: 13 February 1865. Citation: Capture of flag, believed to have belonged to Stewart's Corps (C.S.A.).
*George V. Kelley: Rank and organization: Captain, Company A. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: Massillon, Ohio. Born: 23 March 1843, Massillon, Ohio. Date of issue: 13 February 1865. Citation: Capture of flag supposed to be of Cheatham's Corps (C.S.A.).
*John H. Ricksecker: Rank and organization: Private, Company D. Place and date: At Franklin, Tenn., 30 November 1864. Entered service at: ---. Birth: Springfield, Ohio. Date of issue: 3 February 1865. Citation: Capture of flag of 16th Alabama Artillery (C.S.A.).

References

* Pinney, N. A., "History of the 104th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry from 1862 to 1865". Akron, Ohio: Printed by Werner & Lohmann, 1886.
* [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm Civil War Soldiers and Sailors; National Park Service]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw104.html 104th Ohio Infantry by Larry Stevens]
* [http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/cwar/104ovi.html Northwest Ohio in the Civil War]

Further reading

* Smith, Barbara Bentley and Nina Bentley Baker, editors, "Burning Rails As We Pleased: The Civil War Letters of William Garrigues Bentley, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-1659-2.