161st Ohio Infantry Regiment

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio

May 9, 1864

Mustered in under Colonel Oliver P. Taylor and left State for Cumberland, Md. Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia.

May 28

Moved to Martinsburg, W. Va. and assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia.

June 4

Five companies detached and assigned to duty in charge of supply trains for Hunter's Army.

June 6-25

Hunter's Raid on Lynchburg

June 19-25

Retreat to Martinsburg

June 28

Moved to Beverly guarding train of 150 wagon, wounded, and 150 prisoners.

June 30

Continued o Webster

July 2

To Martinsburg bt rail.

July 4-7

Operations about Harper's Ferry

July 6-7

Defense of Maryland Heights

July-August

Duty in the Defenses of Maryland Heights

September 2, 1864

Ordered home and mustered out at Camp Chase under Colonel Taylor