Source:
HISTORY of JEROME TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY,
OHIO
Curry, W. L. : Columbus, Ohio: Press of the E. T.
Miller Co.
1913
17TH
OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
- THREE MONTHS
pg. 94
The 17th
Ohio Volunteer Infantry three months' service was
organized at Camp Anderson, Lancaster, Ohio, and was
mustered into the U. S. service Apr. 27th, 1861,
under command of Colonel John McConnell.
The regiment was immediately ordered to Virginia and up
to July had some skirmishing with guerillas and was
employed guarding provision trains in the vicinity
of Buckhannon and Sutton. On the 3rd of July
they were ordered to Zanesville, Ohio, and were
mustered out of the U. S. service August 15th 1861,
at Camp Goddard. During their service the loss
was three me - one by drowning and two by disease.
As shown by the official record, twenty-nine Jerome
Township soldiers served to Company G of this
regiment, organized at Plain City and commanded by
Captain Thomas J. Haynes.
It was one of the first regiments to respond to the
call of President Lincoln for 75,000 men,.
Every soldier of Jerome Township who served in this
regiment reenlisted in the three years' service and
a number of them were killed or died in the army.
Jerome Township furnished her full quota under the
first call, and every call thereafter. The
17th Regiment organized for three years had a
distinguished service and served in the Army of the
Cumberland throughout the war, participating in many
decisive battles, but it seems that no Jerome
Township soldiers served in that regiment. The
losses by death were 232 in the three years'
service. |
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