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The 23rd Ohio Infantry, commanded by Major James M. Comly in Hugh Ewing's 1st Brigade of the Kanawha Division, Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, crossed the Ford of Antietam Creek in the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1862, and held this position until the close of the battle. Its loss was 8 men killed, 1 officer and 58 men wounded, and 2 men missing, for a total of 69. Two of its members afterwards became President of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.
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