147th Ohio Infantry Regiment

Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio

May 16, 1864

853 men mustered in under Colonel Benjamin F. Rosson

May 20

Left State for Washington, D.C.

June-July

Assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Ethan Allen, Marcy, Reno and Stevens, Defenses of Washington. Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

July

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, De-Hussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

July 11-12

Repulse of Early's attack on Washington

August 30, 1864

787 men mustered out