104th Ohio Infantry

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104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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Active	1862–1865
Country	United States of America
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Volunteer Army, American Civil War
Type	Infantry
Size	1000 soldiers at enlistment
Battles/wars	American Civil War * East Tennessee Campaign * Atlanta Campaign * Franklin-Nashville Campaign * Carolinas Campaign

The 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union army during the American Civil War.

It was organized at Camp Massillon on August 30, 1862, under Col. James W. Reilly in response to a need for additional three-years regiments. The regiment moved to Covington, Kentucky, on September 1, 1862, in preparation for the Defense of Cincinnati against a threatened Confederate invasion by troops under Kirby Smith. It was involved in the subsequent Skirmish at Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

The regiment spent 1863 in Kentucky, and then moved to East Tennessee until April 1864. It then was reassigned to duty as part of the XXIII Corps in Georgia, Washington D.C., and finally North Carolina.

The 104th OVI mustered out of the army on June 17, 1865.

During its term of service, the regiment had 3 officers and 46 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in combat. It also lost 4 officers and 130 enlisted men by disease, for a total of 183 fatalities out of the 1,740 men who served at various times in the regiment.^[1]