The Civil War in the East

11th Ohio Infantry Regiment

 

The Regiment lost 4 officers and 50 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 98 enlisted men to disease, a total of 152. It is honored by a monument at Antietam.

 

Timeline of the 11th Ohio Infantry Regiment

June 20, 1861

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio

July 7

Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, Va. and attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, West Virginia

August 20

Action at Hawk's Nest, Va.

August 25

Near Piggott's Mills, Big Run

September

Attached to Benham's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, West Virginia

October 19-November 16

Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Reglon attached to 1st Brigade, District of the Kanawha

November 10

Gauley Bridge

November 10-11

Blake's Farm, Cotton Mountain

December 11

Moved to Point Pleasant

March, 1862

Attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division West Virginia, Dept. of the Mountains

April to August

Operations in the Kanawha Valley

August 18-24

Moved to Washington, D.C.

August 25-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 27

Bull Run Bridge

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign. Attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 12

Frederick City, Md.

September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

Commanded by

Lieut. Col. Augustus H. Coleman until he was killled, then by Maj. Lyman Jackson

 

From the monument: "This Regiment advanced in skirmish line toward the bridge over the Antietam Creek, participated in the charge which drove the enemy from the creek and advanced to this point which it held until the close of the day. Its loss was 1 officer and 3 men killed; 1 officer and 11 men wounded; 5 men missing, total 21."

October 8

Moved to Hagerstown, Md. then to Clarksburg and Summerville, W. Va., and duty at Summerville, attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio

November 24-30

Expedition to Cold Knob Mountain

November 26

Lewis Mill on Sinking Creek

January 24, 1863

Ordered to Nashville, Tenn.

February 22

To Carthage attached to Crook's Brigade, Baird's Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland

March 8

Near Carthage (2 Cos.)

March 24-25

Scout to Rome

April 13

Reconnaissance to McMinnville

June 23-July 7

Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign, attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

June 24-26

Hoover's Gap

July-August

Occupation of Middle Tennessee

August 16-September 22

Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign

September 15-18

Catlett's Gap, Pigeon Mountain

September 19-21

Battle of Chickamauga

September 21

Rossville Gap

September 24-November 23

Siege of Chattanooga

October 26-29

Reopening Tennessee River attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps

October 27

Brown's Ferry

November 23-27

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

November 23-24

Orchard Knob

November 25

Mission Ridge

February 22-27, 1864

Demonstration on Dalton, Ga.

February 23-25

Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge

March and April

Veterans absent on furlough

May to September

Atlanta Campaign

May 8-11

Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge

May 14-15

Battle of Resaca

May 16 to June 10

Detached for duty as garrison at Resaca

June 10

Non-Veterans relieved for muster out and ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio

June 21, 1865

Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits organized as a Battalion and attached to 92nd Ohio Infantry