188th Ohio Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	188th Ohio Infantry Regiment
Dates:	March 4, 1865, to September 21, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry

The 188th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 188th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 188th 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 Jacob E. Taylor.

The regiment left Ohio for Nashville, Tennessee, March 4. It was attached to 1st Brigade, Defenses Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Department of the Cumberland, to April 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to September 1865. Performed provost duty at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, until May 1865. At Tullahoma, Tennessee, until July, and at Nashville, Tennessee, until September 1865.

The 188th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service September 21, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 45 enlisted men during service, all due to disease.

Commanders

Colonel Jacob E. Taylor

Notable members

Private Martin Welker, Company I – Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1858–1860; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1865–1871; judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 1873–1889
Physician John Maynard Wheaton – pioneer ornithologist, among the founders of the American Ornithologists Union, namesake of The Wheaton Club, a group for naturalists founded in 1921

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.

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