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词条 9th Ohio Cavalry
释义

  1. Service

  2. Detailed service

  3. Casualties

  4. Commanders

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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|dates= October 3, 1862, to August 2, 1865
|country= United States
|allegiance= Union
|branch= Cavalry
|equipment=Smith carbine
|battles=Knoxville Campaign
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Lovejoy's Station
Sherman's March to the Sea
Carolinas Campaign
Battle of Bentonville
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The 9th Ohio Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

Four companies were initially organized as the 9th Ohio Cavalry (1st battalion) at Zanesville, Ohio October 3, 1862, and mustered in for a three years under the command of Colonel William Douglas Hamilton. The regiment completed organization at or near full strength with the 2nd battalion organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio, November 6, 1863, and the 3rd battalion also organized at Camp Dennison, December 16, 1863. The regiment consolidated at Athens, Alabama, in February 1864.

The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to July 1863 (1st battalion). 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to October 1863 (1st battalion). 4th Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to November 1863 (1st battalion). 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Ohio, to March 1864 (1st battalion). Athens, Florence, and Decatur, Alabama, District of North Alabama, Department of the Cumberland, to August 1864 (regiment). Mounted Brigade, Garrard's Cavalry Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to October 1864. 2nd Brigade, Kilpatrick's 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to June 1865. Department of North Carolina to August 1865.

The 9th Ohio Cavalry mustered out of service August 2, 1865, at Lexington, North Carolina.

Detailed service

Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, December 1, 1862, and served duty there until April 1863. Moved to Lexington, Ky., April 23, 1863, then to Manchester, Ky., and duty there until June 15. Expedition into eastern Tennessee June 15–28, 1863. Pine Mountain Gap June 16. Big Creek Gap June 17. Wartzburg June 18. Knoxville June 19–20. Moved to London, Ky., then to Stanford July 5, and to Danville July 7. Pursuit of Morgan and Scott July 10–26. Moved to Glasgow, Ky., August 1. Burnside's Campaign in eastern Tennessee August 16-October 17. Occupation of Knoxville September 2. Kingsport September 18. Bristol September 19. Zollicoffer September 20–21. Hall's Ford, Watauga River September 22. Carter's Depot and Blountsville September 22. Blue Springs October 10. Rheatown October 11. Blountsville October 14. Bristol October 15. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 6. Kimbrough's Cross Roads January 16. Operations about Dandridge January 16–17. Dandridge January 17. Operations about Dandridge January 26–28. Fair Garden January 27. Duty at Knoxville, Tenn., until March. The 2nd and 3rd battalions were organized and left Ohio under orders for Nashville, Tenn., February 6, 1864, then moved to Athens, Ala., where they were joined by the 1st battalion. Patrol duty along the Tennessee River at Athens and Florence, Ala., until May. Moved to Decatur, Ala., May 1–5. Repulse of attack on Decatur May 8. Centre Star May 15. Duty at Decatur until July 10. Expedition to Pulaski June 1–12. Operations in District of North Alabama July 24-August 20. Curtis Wells June 24. Pond Springs June 29. Rousseau's Raid to Atlanta & West Point Railroad July 10–22. Ten Island Ford, Coosa River, July 13. Courtland, Ala., July 25. Near Auburn and Chehaw Station July 18. Siege of Atlanta July 25-August 25. McCook's Raid on Atlanta and West Point and Macon & Western Railroad July 27–31 (detachment). Lovejoy's Station July 29. Near Newnan's July 30. Near East Point August 30. Big Shanty September 2. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., then to Louisville, Ky., to refit. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Bear Creek Station November 16. Walnut Creek and East Macon November 20. Waynesboro November 27–28. Buckhead Creek or Reynolds' Plantation November 28. Rocky Creek Church December 2. Waynesboro December 4. Buck Creek December 7. Cypress Swamp near Sister's Ferry December 7. Ebenezer Creek December 8. Siege of Savannah December 10–21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April 1865. Barnwell, S.C., February 6. Aiken and Blackville February 11. Phillips' Cross Roads March 4. Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro March 16. Battle of Bentonville, N.C., March 19–21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 23. Raleigh April 13. Morristown April 13. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Concord, N.C., until July 20.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 205 men during service; 1 officer and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 186 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

  • Colonel William Douglas Hamilton

See also

{{portal|American Civil War|Ohio}}
  • List of Ohio Civil War units
  • Ohio in the Civil War

References

  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
  • Fanning, Thomas W. The Hairbreadth Escapes and Humerous [sic] Adventures of a Volunteer in the Cavalry Service (Cincinnati, OH: P. C. Browne), 1865.
  • Gatch, Asbury. To Crown Myself With Honor: The War Time Letters of Captain Asbury Gatch, 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (Batavia, OH: Cragburn Press), 1997.
  • Hamilton, William Douglas. Recollections of a Cavalryman of the Civil War After Fifty Years, 1861-1865 (Columbus, OH: The F. J. Heer Printing Co.), 1915.
  • Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886-1895.
  • Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868.
  • Roster of Surviving Members of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry: Service from 1862-1865 (S.l.: Regimental Association of the 9 O.V.C.), 1918.
Attribution
  • {{CWR}}

External links

  • Ohio in the Civil War: 9th Ohio Cavalry by Larry Stevens
  • Guidon of the 9th Ohio Cavalry
  • Guidon of Company B, 9th Ohio Cavalry
{{Ohio in the Civil War}}

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