Infantry Units: 74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Infantry units were recruited from all over the state. Those represented in detail here are the ones recruited primarily from northwest Ohio counties and those whose members wrote to local newspapers. More information will be added as it becomes available.
This Regiment was organized at Columbus, Enon, Xenia, Hamilton and Cincinnati, Ohio from October 5, 1861 to March 27, 1862 to serve three years. On the expiration of its term of service, the original members (except veterans) were mustered out and the organization composed of veterans and recruits was retained in service until July 10, 1865 when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department.
Some of the battles in which this unit participated include:
- Stone River, TN, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
- Hoover's Gap, TN, June 24, 1863
- Dug Gap, GA, September 11, 1863
- Chickamauga, GA, September 19-20, 1863
- Lookout Mountain, TN, November 24, 1863
- Missionary Ridge, TN, November 25, 1863
- Buzzard Roost Gap, GA, May 9, 1864
- Resaca, GA, May 13-16, 1864
- Dallas, GA, May 25-June 4, 1864
- Kenesaw Mountain, GA, June 9-30, 1864
- Chattahoochee River, GA, July 6-10, 1864
- Peach Tree Creek, GA, July 20, 1864
- Atlanta, GA (Hood's 1st Sortie; Siege), July 22, 1864; July 28-September 2, 1864
- Jonesboro, GA, August 31-September 1, 1864
- Averysboro, NC, March 16, 1865
- Bentonville, NC, March 19-21, 1865
