189th Ohio Infantry

189th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Active	March 5, 1865 to September 28, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

The 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 189th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Contents 1 Service 2 Casualties 3 Commanders 4 Notable members 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Service

The 189th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio and mustered in for one year service on March 4, 1865 under the command of Colonel Henry D. Kingsbury.

The regiment left Ohio for Huntsville, Alabama, March 7. It was attached to District of North Alabama, Department of the Tennessee, to September 1865. Arrived at Huntsville, March 17, 1865. Assigned to duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad guarding bridges and building stockades until June. The regiment concentrated June 20 and was assigned to post duty at Huntsville until September 25.

The 189th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service September 28, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 49 enlisted men during service; 1 man killed, 48 due to disease.

Commanders

• Colonel Henry D. Kingsbury

Notable members

• Captain Andrew J. Applegate, Company H - first lieutenant governor of Alabama, 1868-1870

See also

• List of Ohio Civil War units
• Ohio in the Civil War

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
• Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886-1895.
• Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868.

Attribution

• This article contains text from "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" (1908) by Frederick Henry Dyer. a text now in the public domain.

External links

• Ohio in the Civil War: 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens
• National flag of the 189th Ohio Infantry
• Regimental flag of the 189th Ohio Infantry

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