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The
23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 23rd OVI) was an
infantry regiment that participated in the
American Civil War. The regiment became noted for its many
postbellum politicians. Future
Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and
William McKinley served in this unit, as did future
U.S. Senator and
Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court Thomas Stanley Matthews and
Robert P. Kennedy, a future U.S. Congressman. Other notable officers included
James M. Comly and
Eliakim P. Scammon, both of whom became influential nationally after the war.
Organization and service
The regiment was organized at
Camp Chase (
Columbus, Ohio) and mustered into duty on
June 11,
1861, as a three-year regiment. Its 950 enlistees were originally led by Col.
William Rosecrans. In July, after training and drilling, the regiment departed for
western Virginia, where it served for several months, helping to restore that portion of
Virginia to the
Union. It was attached to
Jacob D. Cox's Kanawha Brigade and served throughout much of the war in what became the
IX Corps. The unit saw heavy action during the
Battle of South Mountain, where Colonel Hayes was wounded in an attack on the slopes near Fox's Gap. Within a week, the 23rd fought at
Antietam in the fields southeast of
Sharpsburg, Maryland, before returning to duty in
West Virginia. It was again heavily engaged in
Philip Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign. The regiment mustered out in July 1865.
The 23rd OVI lost 5 officers and 154 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 130 enlisted men by disease (total 290 out of 2230 who were members of the regiment at various times).
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