This
regiment was organized at Worthington and Marietta,
Ohio, by the consolidation of two battalions, known
as the Twenty-second and Sixty-third. It was
organized in February, 1862, under Colonel John
W. Sprague, and immediately joined the Army of
the Mississippi under General Pope, and was
engaged in all the movements which resulted in the
capture of Island No. 10, and in the siege of
Corinth.
It took part in the battles of luka and Corinth under
Rosecrans. After operating in Alabama
and Tennessee until October, 1863, the Sixty-third
joined the Army of the Cumberland, and participated
in the battles of the Atlanta campaign, the march to
the sea, and through the Carolinas. It took
part in the review at Washington, then moved to
Louisville, where it was mustered out July 8th,
1865.
In the battle of Corinth, Miss., October 4th, 1862, the
regiment captured in a charge one gun of a battery,
with the Captain commanding, and a number of
prisoners. The loss in this battle was almost
fifty per cent in killed and wounded.
Sergeant Eli Casey, the only Jerome Township
soldier who served in the 63rd, was killed in this
battle.
A large number of the regiment reenlisted as veterans
January 2nd, 1864. at Prospect, Tenn. They
were in the last battle of any importance
participated in by General Sherman's
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army, at Bentonville, N. C, March 19th, and their
last skirmish was March 31st, near Newbern.
The regiment was engaged in fifteen battles, besides
many skirmishes, and the loss by death was three
hundred and sixty-seven, as shown by the official
records. |
