Regimental colors of the 1st Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. Text on flag reads: Text of E 1a: Faugh A Ballah Carnifex South Mountain McMullin's 1st Indp't. Ohio Battery Text of E 1b: Faugh A Ballah Antietam McMullin's 1st Indp't. Ohio Battery.

During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio provided the United States government with three types of military units: artillery units, cavalry units, and infantry units. Ohio supplied the federal government with more than 260 regiments of men, not counting several companies that formed the basis of regiments in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. A total of 310,654 Ohioans served in the Northern army for varying lengths of time. The federal government required each state to supply a set number of soldiers determined by the state's population. Ohio exceeded the government's call for men by 4,332 soldiers. This number does not reflect the 6,479 men who paid a monetary fine to the government to escape military duty. It also does not include the 5,092 African-American soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops or in units from other states, including the famous Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Infantry Regiments. Ohio exceeded the federal government's requirements by more than fifteen thousand men.

Ohio men fought in every major battle of the war. Within forty-eight hours of President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers in April 1861, two Ohio infantry regiments already had departed for Washington DC. An Ohio brigade protected the Union army's retreat at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Ohio regiments also helped secure Kentucky and West Virginia for the North. They participated in the Battles of Fort Donelson, Gettysburg, Antietam, Fort Wagner, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and many others. Approximately 11,237 Ohio soldiers died from wounds received on the various battlefields, while another 13,354 men perished from diseases. Eighty-four of every one thousand Ohio men who served died in the war. Another forty-four for every one thousand deserted. This was one of the lowest desertion rates in the Northern states.

Light Artillery

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Battery	Term of Enlistment	Original Strength	Mustered Out Strength
1st Regiment	three years	1,800
Battery A	three years	134
Battery B	three years	114
Battery C	three years	133
Battery D	three years	99
Battery E	three years	unknown
Battery F	three years	143
Battery G	three years	104
Battery H	three years	123
Battery I	three years	92
Battery K	three years	unknown
Battery L	three years	96
Battery M	three years	unknown

Heavy Artillery

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Regiment	Term of Enlistment	Original Strength	Mustered Out Strength
1st Regiment	three years	1,764	1,279
2nd Regiment	three years	1,786	1,492

Independent Batteries

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Battery	Term of Enlistment	Original Strength	Mustered Out Strength
1st Battery	three years	unknown	142
2nd Battery	three years	unknown	145
3rd Battery	three years	unknown	123
4th Battery	three years	unknown	Consolidated 10th Battery
5th Battery	three years	unknown	108
6th Battery	three years	unknown	97
7th Battery	three years	unknown	129
8th Battery	three years	unknown	103
9th Battery	three years	unknown	138
10th Battery	three years	unknown	169
11th Battery	three years	unknown	unknown
12th Battery	three years	unknown	142
13th Battery	three years	unknown	Actually 2nd Kentucky Inf.
14th Battery	three years	unknown	140
15th Battery	three years	unknown	unknown
16th Battery	three years	unknown	97
17th Battery	three years	unknown	148
18th Battery	three years	unknown	unknown
19th Battery	three years	unknown	115
20th Battery	three years	unknown	139
21st Battery	three years	unknown	83
22nd Battery	three years	unknown	142
23rd Battery	three years	unknown	111
24th Battery	three years	unknown	unknown
25th Battery	three years	unknown	unknown
26th Battery	three years	unknown	111

See Also

• Abraham Lincoln
• Battle of Shiloh
• American Civil War
• State of Ohio
• Civil War Cavalry Units
• Civil War Infantry Units
• African Americans
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Chickamauga
• United States Colored Troops

References

1. Dee, Christine, ed. Ohio's War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.  
2. Leeke, Richard. A Hundred Days to

<city> <place>Richmond</place></city>: <state> <place>Ohio</place></state>'s "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War. <city> <place>Bloomington</place></city>: <place> <placename>Indiana</placename> <placetype>University</placetype></place> Press, 1999.

1. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1866. Akron, OH: The Werner Company, 1893.  
2. Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals and Soldiers. Cincinnati, OH: Clarke, 1895.
3. Roseboom, Eugene H. The Civil War Era: 1850-1873. Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1944.