In the spring of 1864 the Army of the East, under General Grant in Virginia, and the Army of the Middle West, under General Sherman in Georgia, were organizing for a general forward movement all along the line.  This was a most critical period in the progress of the war and it was determined to move all of the veteran organizations to the front and utilize the National Guard, organized in many of the North-

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erii States, to garrison the forts and guard supplies, thus relieving the veterans from this service.  Thirty thousand of the Ohio National Guard went into camp in one day in answer to the call of the President for "One hundred days' men."
     The 133rd Regiment was organized under this call at Camp Chase, Ohio, by consolidation of two companies of the National Guard from Hancock County with the National Guard of Franklin County, numbering about 1,000 men in both organizations.
     The regiment was mustered into the U. S. service May 6th, under Colonel Gustavus S. Innis, and was immediately ordered to Parkersburg, W. Va.  Six soldiers of Jerome Township served in this regiment.  In a few days it was ordered to New Creek and was there employed in guard duty and drill until about the 1st of June, when it was ordered to Washington and on to Bermuda Hundred, arriving June 12th, and was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Tenth Army Corps.   The Division was ordered out on an expedition June 16th to tear up and destroy the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond and cut off the enemy's communication between those two points.
     The 133rd was engaged in a sharp fight as the regiment was ordered to support a battery that was shelling the rebel lines, and held the position for several hours while a detachment of the Division tore up several miles of railroad track.  The troops then fell back slowly, keeping up a brisk fight all along the line and a few members of the regiment were wounded. This was their first experience on the firing line, and the men stood to their guns like veterans.
     On the 17th of July the regiment was ordered to take steamer at Point of Rocks and move to Fort Powhatan, on the James River.  Here the regiment was employed working on the fortifications for some time, and had frequent skirmishes with the enemy, in one of which two men were killed.  The men were kept continuously at work on the fortifications when not employed on guard and picket duty.  Many mem-

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bers of the regiment were stricken with malarial fever of a very malignant type, and about one-third of the command was on the sick list or in hospital during the month of July.  Notwithstanding that fact, the men were kept on duty, although weakened by these continual fevers.
     The losses by death during the Hundred Days' Service were forty-seven.  The regiment was mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, August 20th, 1864.