170th Ohio Infantry Regiment

Organized at Bellaire, Ohio

May 13, 1864

Mustered in under Colonel Miles J. Saunders

May 17

Left State for Washington, D.C. and assigned to duty as garrison at Forts Simmons, Bayard, Mansfield, Gaines and Battery Vermont, Defenses of Washington. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Haskins' Division, 22nd Army Corps.

July 4

Moved to Sandy Hook, Md. and duty in the Defenses of Maryland Heights .

July 15

Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia for operations in the Shenandoah Valley.

July 17-18

Expedition to Snicker's Ford

July 18

Rocky Ford

July 24

Battle of Kernstown, Winchester

The regiment lost 4 killed and 19 wounded.

July 25

Martinsburg

July 30

Moved to Frederick, Md., then guard supply trains to Harper's Ferry and duty there.

September 10, 1864

Mustered out