41st Ohio Infantry

The 41st Ohio Infantry, commanded by Colonel Aquila A. Wiley in Hazen's Brigade, Palmer's Division, 21st Army Corps, occupied this position on September 19, 11863, from 12:30 till 3:00 P.M., when it was relieved and ordered to the Rossville Road to replenish ammunition. At 4:30 P.M. it was ordered to reinforce Van Cleve in the field south of the Brotherton House, where it was engaged there and west of that position till 5:30 P.M.; when the enemy had retired east of the road, it rejoined its brigade near Poe House at 6:00 P.M. On September 20, it occupied a position in the first line of battle east of Kelly Field, on the right of the monument of Battery F, First Ohio Light Artillery, from daylight till 2:00 P.M., when it was relieved and ordered into position about 200 yards west of Kelly House, facing south. At 3:00 P.M. it was ordered to Snodgrass Hill, where it reinforced the 125th Ohio and assisted in repulsing all subsequent assaults on that position. About 7:00 P.M. it retired to Rossville. Of 360 engaged, its losses were 19 killed and mortally wounded, 87 additional wounded, and 9 captured or missing, of whom six were also wounded, for a total of 115.

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