The 67th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 67th OVI) was an infantry

Infantry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 67th Ohio Infantry was organized by consolidation of recruits for the 67th Ohio Infantry and 45th Ohio Infantry

45th Ohio Infantry

The 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Service:The 45th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio August 19, 1862 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Benjamin Piatt Runkle.The...

 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel

Colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...

 Otto Burstenbinder.

The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, Landers' Division, Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.-History:The Army of the Potomac was created in 1861, but was then only the size of a corps . Its nucleus was called the Army of Northeastern Virginia, under Brig. Gen...

, to March 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' V Corps, and Department of the Shenandoah, to May 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' Division, Department of the Rappahannock, May 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Department of the Rappahannock, to July 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1862. Ferry's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Virginia, VII Corps, Department of Virginia, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XVIII Corps, Department of North Carolina, to February 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps, Department of the South, to April 1863. U.S. Forces, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, Department of the South, to June 1863. 1st Brigade, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to July 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, South Carolina, X Corps, July 1863. 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to October 1863. Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to December 1863. District Hilton Head, South Carolina, 10th Army Corps, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps, Army of the James

Army of the James

The Army of the James was a Union Army that was composed of units from the Department of Virginia and North Carolina and served along the James River during the final operations of the American Civil War in Virginia.-History:...

, Departmeht of Virginia and North Carolina, to December 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXIV Corps, to August 1865. Department of Virginia to December 1865.

The 67th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at City Point, Virginia

City Point, Virginia

City Point was a town in Prince George County, Virginia that was annexed by the independent city of Hopewell in 1923. It served as headquarters of the Union Army during the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War.- History :...

 on December 12, 1865.

Detailed service

Left Ohio for western Virginia January 19, 1862. Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel and Great Cacapon Creek until March 10, 1862. Advance on Winchester, Va., March 10-15. Reconnaissance to Strasburg March 18-21. Battle of Winchester March 22-23. Strasburg March 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 2. March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 12-21, then to Front Royal May 25-30. Battle of Port Republic June 9 (cover retreat). Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula June 29. Harrison's Landing July 3-4. Westover July 3. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe August 16-23, then moved to Suffolk, Va., and duty there until December 31. Moved to Norfolk, Va., December 31, then to Beaufort and New Berne, N.C., January 4, 1863. Moved to Port Royal, S.C., January 25. At Hilton Head February 9, and at St. Helena Island, S.C., until April. Occupation of Folly Island, S.C., April 3-July 10. Attack on Morris Island July 10. Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C., July 11 and 18. Siege of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston July 18-September 7. Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, September 7. Operations against Charleston until October 31. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., and duty there until April 1864. Regiment reenlisted January 1864. Whitmarsh Island, Ga., February 22. Moved to Yorktown, Va., April. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Occupation of Bermuda Hundred and City Point, Va., May 5. Ware Bottom Church May 9. Swift Creek May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred front May 17-30. Ware Bottom Church May 20. Petersburg June 9. Port Walthal and on the Bermuda Hundred front June 16-17. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864 to April 2, 1865. Wier Bottom Church June 20, 1864. Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20. Strawberry Plains August 14-18. New Market Heights, Chaffin's Farm, September 29-October 2. Darbytown Road October 7 and 13. Fair Oaks October 27-28. Duty in trenches north of James before Richmond until March 1865. Moved to Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Rice's Station April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Garrison and guard duty in District of South Anna, Department of Virginia, until December.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 293 men during service; 11 officers and 131 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 150 enlisted men died of disease.

See also

• List of Ohio Civil War units
• Ohio in the Civil War
  Ohio in the Civil War
  During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort...
  
  

External links

• Ohio in the Civil War: 67th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens
• National flag of the 67th Ohio Infantry