Home Camp of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
"The Rooster Regiment"
This home page is a repository of information being gathered on the history
of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. It is meant to provide a better
understanding of the participation of the Regiment in the Civil War, particularly
the ten companies which comprised it. It is not an all encompassing history
of the Regiment but more of a chronology of events and the comprehensive
roster of those men who made up the ten companies of the Seventh. I have
included a brief biography of each soldier and his service record and a limited
history on some. It should help genealogists or individuals searching for
information on ancestors who may have served in the Regiment.
I hope that people will see this web site and follow the regiment on its
adventure through the great battles as well as the hardships and misery that
they were exposed. The chronological history will take the reader on a nearly
day by day account of their travel through history. The roster enclosed will
let the reader determine if they had an ancestor that served in the regiment
and will give them a short, but important, summary of their service. It will
be a starting point for possible further investigations. I have tried to
comprise a comprehensive account of all those people who were wounded, killed,
captured, or were lucky enough to have made through the entire enlistment
and return home. These statistics were compiled using many different resources
including existing works, letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and others.
Because there are many incomplete accounts of the companies the statistics
will often not add up but it does give a close rendering of the facts. In
any case it will be interesting to those who are intrigued with numbers.
It is interesting to note that my numbers do not match any others that have
been previously compiled. I only included those which I could verify in the
sources stated above and we know that they are not 100 percent accurate to
begin with.
I have used the works of Lawrence Wilson and George L. Wood for a major part
of the member biographies. Also their accounts of the rebel prisons and the
creation of the Seventh Regiment Association which was the controlling body
of the Regiments reunions during the years following the war. Visit these
areas for more information.
This web site is a living document and will be updated as I gather more pertinent
data or changes to existing data. I have made every attempt to make this
a dedication to those men who served this area so gallantly. It is an extensive
work and I am sure there are omissions and errors within the text. Please
feel free to point those out to me so that I my correct my errors.
I am in the process of writing a detailed history of the Seventh but the
completion of that work is many years away but I am continually gathering
new information towards that goal.
Table of Contents:
Alphabetical Roster: Find any soldier who served
in the Seventh
Associated Regiments: Regiments which served within
the same Brigades as the Seventh
Brief History: Brief summary of their history
Brief Battle History: Listing of all major engagements
in which the Regiment participated
Chronology: A complete tour with the Seventh Regiment
from creation to mustering out
Companies: Rosters and Brief Biographies
Prison Life: Stories relating to life in Confederate
Prisons
Reunions: Activities relating to the organization
to establish periodic reunions of the Regiment
Regimental Statistics: These numbers illustrate
the history of the three year service in terms of killed, wounded, etc.
Transfers to The 5th Ohio: Recruits which transferred
to the 5th Ohio to complete their service obligation
Sources used to create these web pages
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This page was last updated 10/03/99
Created and Maintained by Larry Hardman, © 1999, All Rights Reserved;
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