Ohio at Chickamauga

The preliminary movements of both armies for position occurred on September 18, the battle was fought on September 19 and 20, the army was established at Rossville on the night of the 20th, and occupied Chattanooga on the morning of the 22d. Rosecrans, commander of the Union Army, and Garfield, his chief of staff, were from Ohio. Two of the five corps, four of the thirteen divisions, and twelve of the thirty-one brigades engaged were commanded by Ohio officers. Of the thirty-six batteries, Ohio furnished ten. There were one hundred eighty-eight organizations of all arms engaged, and fifty-five of them were from Ohio. The Ohio corps commanders were Alex. McD. McCook of the Twentieth Corps Infantry and Robert B. Mitchell of the Cavalry Corps, Mitchell being of Ohio birth. The division commanders were Crook and E.M. McCook of the cavalry, and Sheridan and Steedman of the infantry. The brigade commanders were John Beatty, Samuel Beatty, Connell, Harker, Hazen, Eli Long, Lytle, Dan. McCook, John G. Mitchell, T.R. Stanley, Van Derveer, and Willich. After Longstreet broke the Union center on Sunday and divided the army, there were twenty-one Ohio regiments on the one mile of Kelly field line and twenty-one on the one mile of the Snodgrass Hill line. Thus forty-two of the forty-four Ohio infantry regiments engaged remained until the close of the battle. Of the total of eleven thousand four hundred thirteen killed and wounded in battle, thirty-one point eight percent were soldiers of Ohio. Fully one hundred fifty Ohio officers were commended in orders for distinguished conduct.

Chattanooga, Tennessee · United States