103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Roster Field and Staff

Date: 5 May 2023 [unknown]
Location: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Surnames/tags: us_civil_war ohio

Contents 1 Introduction 2 History of the 103rd OVI 2.1 Field and Staff 3 Research Notes 4 Sources

Introduction

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Mustered in Sept. 18, 1862, at Camp Cleveland, O., by A.S. Burt 1st Lieutenant, 18th Infantry, U.S.A. Mustered out June 12, 1865, at Raleigh, N.C., by E.A. Folsom, Captain and A.C.M.

History of the 103rd OVI

Organized at Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1862. Ordered to Kentucky September 3, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, January, 1863. 1st Brigade, District of Central Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to February, 1865, and Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.

SERVICE: Pursuit of Kirby Smith to Lexington, Ky., September 18-22, 1862. Duty at Snow's Pond till October 6, and at Frankfort till May, 1863. Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeastern Kentucky April 26-May 12, 1863. Action at Monticello May 1. Duty in Central Kentucky till August. Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee August 16-October 17. At Greenville till September 19. Carter's Depot September 20-21. Jonesboro September 21. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. Duty at Blain's Cross Roads till April, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton, Ga., May 8-13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cartersville May 20. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Near Marietta June 1-9. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Cheyney's Farm June 22. Olley's Farm June 26-27. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Isham's Ford, Chattahoochie River, July 8 (1st Regiment to cross). Decatur July 18-19. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Near Rough and Ready August 31. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama October. At Decatur till October 20. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. At Clifton, Tenn., till January 16, 1865. Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to North Carolina January 16-February 9. Operations against Hoke, near Fort Fisher, N. C., February 11-14. Near Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson, Cape Fear River, February 18-19. Town Creek February 19-20. Capture of Wilmington February 22. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance on Goldsboro March 6-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh, N. C., and in the Dept. of North Carolina till June. Mustered out June 12, 1865.

Field and Staff

Names and original ranks from muster in rolls.

Colonel John S. Casement

Lieutenant Colonel James T. Sterling

Lieutenant Colonel Philip C. Hayes

Major DeWitt C. Howard

Major Henry S. Pickands

Surgeon Luther D. Griswold

Surgeon David H. Brinkerhoff

Assistant Surgeon David H. Brooks

Assistant Surgeon George Butler

Assistant Surgeon Robert L. Stansbury

Assistant Surgeon Frank M. Andrews

Assistant Surgeon Jacob B. Casebeer

Adjutant John S. White

Adjutant Gilbert S. Judd

Reg. Quarter Master George R. Munson

Reg. Quarter Master Clark W. Quirk

Chaplain George A. Hubbard

Sergeant Major Joseph P. Card

Sergeant Major Robert Fleury

Quarter Master Sergeant William A. Gosline

Commissary Sergeant Benjamin L. Bullard

Commissary Sergeant Cornelius G. Barnes

Commissary Sergeant Barnabas Brown

Hospital Steward Cyrus Y. Durand

Fife Major John Mountain

Research Notes

A total of 25 men are listed on the roster for the Field & Staff

Sources

• National Park Service. U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/>, acquired 2007.

• Personal Reminiscences and Experiences By members of the ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, Campaign Life in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865. News Printing Company, Oberlin Ohio, 1900. Republished by 103 O.V.I. Memorial Foundation, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, 1993.

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