6th Ohio Infantry

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=6th 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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size=~1,000 soldiers at outset of the war
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battles=American Civil War
*Battle of Stone's River
*Atlanta Campaign
notable_commanders=Nicholas Longworth Anderson
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The 6th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 6th OVI) was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War, primarily serving in the Western Theater in a series of campaigns and battles.

Organization and service

The 6th OVI was organized in southwestern Ohio in the spring of 1861 and was mustered into Federal service on May 12. Most of its recruits were from Hamilton County and surrounding areas. colonel and first commander was Nicholas Longworth Anderson of Cincinnati. The 6th was first sent to western Virginia before mustering out when its initial three-months term of enlistment expired. Reorganized as a three-years regiment, the 6th OVI spent the next three years in the Western Theater before being mustered out on June 23, 1864.

On March 13, 1865, Colonel Anderson was brevetted to the rank of major general and brigadier general, for "gallant conduct and meritorious services in the Battle of Stone's River, Dec. 31, 1862" and for "distinguished gallantry and meritorious conduct in the Battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19 and 20, 1863". [*findagrave|5988208 Retrieved on 2008-08-10]

The lineage and history of the 6th O.V.I. was carried on by the 147th Infantry Regiment during World War I as part of the 37th Division, and during World War II as a separate unit. The unit continued as the 1st Battalion, 147th Armor (Ohio Army National Guard) until that unit's reorganization in 2007.

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