85th Ohio Infantry

85th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Active	May 1862 to September 27, 1862
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

The 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 85th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although recruited as a regiment, it never achieved full strength and was only able to muster four companies, which served as a battalion (often referred to as "Zinn's Battalion", a reference to Major Peter Zinn).

Service

The 85th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio May through June 1862 and mustered in on June 10, 1862 for three months service under Colonel Charles W. B. Allison.

The regiment moved to Kentucky and participated in operations against John Hunt Morgan July 1862. Performed prison guard duty at Camp Chase until September, then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and participated in the operations for the defense of that city against Edmund Kirby Smith's threatened attack August-September.

The 85th Ohio mustered out of the service September 23 and September 27, 1862.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 10 enlisted men, all due to disease.

Commanders

Colonel Charles W. B. Allison

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. ISBN 9781166503925

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

Ohio in the Civil War: 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens

Ohio in the American Civil War

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1862	Anti-war movement Knights of the Golden Circle First Confederate incursion into Ohio Defense of Cincinnati Black Brigade of Cincinnati

1863	"Fort Fizzle" Morgan's Raid Battle of Buffington Island Battle of Salineville

1864-65	Hundred Days Men Ohio's generals and admirals Ohio's regiments Cincinnati in the War Cleveland in the War Buckeye POWs and the Sultana

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