Infantry Units: 100th 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 Camp Toledo, Ohio, from July through September 1862, to serve three years. It was mustered out of service June 20, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department.
Some of the battles in which this unit participated include:
- Limestone Station, TN, September 8, 1863
- Rocky Face Ridge, GA, May 5-9, 1864
- Resaca, GA, May 13-16, 1864
- Dallas, GA, May 27-June 4, 1864
- Kenesaw Mountain, GA, June 9-30, 1864
- Utoy Creek, GA, August 5-6, 1864
- Atlanta, GA (Siege), July 28-September 2, 1864
- Columbia, TN, November 24-28, 1864
- Franklin, TN, November 30, 1864
- Nashville, TN, December 15-16, 1864
- Town Creek, NC, February 20, 1865
- Wilmington, NC, February 22, 1865
Roster - Field and Staff
George A. Collamore
John C. Groom
Edwin L. Hayes
Patrick Summerville Slevin
John A. Shannon
Robert Johnson
Norman Waite
Roster - Company A
Leonard B. Blinn
John L. McColley
Andrew J. Munn
Byron C. Baldwin
Roster - Company B
Henry D. Taylor
George Duncan Forsyth
Roster - Company C
John K. Halm (Kalm)
John W. Kinneman
William E. Stough
Daniel W. Will
Roster - Company D
Roster - Company E
Orlin S. Hayes
William W. Hunt
William James
Daniel Luke
Robert C. Navarre
Patrick O'Neal
Albert B. Smith
Charles H. Sprague
Roster - Company G
Addison S. Clark
Henry L. Hammond
George H. Shoemaker
Roster - Company I
Articles about the Unit/Anonymous Letters
Articles:
Bryan Union Press- 4/23/1863, 7/14/1864, 8/25/1864, 9/8/1864
Defiance Democrat- 9/20/1862, 5/28/1864
Fremont Journal- May 27, 1864
Napoleon Northwest- 7/16/1862, 9/10/1862, 9/30/1863
Toledo Blade- 9/8/1862, 12/6/1862, 6/24/1863, 12/7/1864, 3/29/1865
Toledo Daily Commercial- 11/9/1863, 5/24/1864, 6/24/1864, 8/16/1864, 10/7/1864, 12/8/1864, 3/30/1865
Letters
"Unconditional Union". Bucyrus Journal: February 13, 1863
"Cato," Company K. Fremont Journal- September 2, 1864, September 23, 1864, November 18, 1864, April 14, 1865
"Paroled prisoner," Company K. Fremont Journal- April 22, 1864
"Simms," Company K. Fremont Journal- July 17, 1863
"B." Fremont Sentinel- June 1, 1864
"H.M." Fremont Journal- November 7, 1862
"Hero", Company A. Perrysburg Journal- 10/15/1862, 11/19/1862, 12/17/1862, 2/11/1863, 4/8/1863, 10/7/1863
"S.T.F." Perrysburg Journal- 7/20/1864
"Oho" Company B. Napoleon Northwest- 1/3/1863
"C." Company G. Ottawa Democrat- 8/28/1863
"D." Company G. Ottawa Democrat- 8/28/1863
"B********," Company I. Paulding Independent- 1/10/1863
"Occasional," Company I. Paulding Indpendent- 11/6/1862, 12/25/1862, 1/29/1863, 3/19/1863
"The Drummer" Company I. Paulding Independent- 3/12/1863
"Member" 100th Ohio Infantry. Toledo Blade- 11/20/1862, 12/22/1862, 5/7/1863, 3/29/1864
Officer, 100th Ohio Infantry. Toledo Blade- 8/21/1863
"Q.," 100th Ohio Infantry. Toledo Blade- 2/6/1863
"S.," 100th Ohio Infantry. Toledo Blade- 6/27/1865
Member, Company A. Toledo Daily Commercial- 1/28/1863
"C.H.S." Toledo Daily Commercial- 2/6/1863, 3/28/1863, 5/16/1863, 9/10/1863, 11/6/1863, 6/16/1864
"Liberty". Toledo Daily Commercial- 5/9/1864, 5/16/1864
"Meridth". Toledo Daily Commercial- 10/7/1864
"Ord". Toledo Daily Commercial- 11/13/1863
Member. Toledo Daily Commercial- 2/10/1863
