101st Ohio Infantry

Service

• 31st Brigade, 9th Division, Army of the Ohio, September 1862.
• 31st Brigade, 9th Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Right Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865.

Detailed service

• Left Ohio for Covington, KY, September 4,
• Moved to Louisville, KY, September 24.
• Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–15.
• Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8.
• March to Nashville, Tennessee, October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26.
• Advance on Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 26–30.
• Nolensville, Tennessee, December 26.
• Battle of Stones River, December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863.
• Duty at Murfreesboro until June.
• Reconnaissance from Murfreesboro, March 6–7.
• Reconnaissance to Versailles, Kentucky March 9–14.
• Operations on Edgefield Pike, near Murfreesboro, June 4.
• Tullahoma Campaign, June 23-July 7.
• Liberty Gap, June 24–27.
• Occupation of middle Tennessee until, August 16.
• Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign, August 16-September 22.
• Battle of Chickamauga, September 19–20.
• Siege of Chattanooga, September 24-October 26.
• Reopening Tennessee River, October 26–28.
• Moved to Bridgeport, Alabama, October 28, and duty there until January 16, 1864, and at Ooltewah, Tennessee, until May.
• Atlanta Campaign, May to September.
• Tunnel Hill, Georgia, May 6–7.
• Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton, Georgia, May 8–13.
• Buzzard's Roost Gap, May 8–9.
• Battle of Resaca, May 14–15.
• Near Kingston, Georgia, May 18–19.
• Near Cassville, Georgia, May 19.
• Advance on Dallas, Georgia, May 22–25.
• Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles of Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills, May 25-June 5.
• Operations about Marietta, Georgia, and against Kennesaw Mountain, June 10 – July 2.
• Pine Hill, June 11–14.
• Lost Mountain, June 15–17.
• Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27.
• Ruff's Station, Battle of Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
• Chattahoochie River, July 5–17.
• Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 19–20.
• Siege of Atlanta, July 22-August 25.
• Flank movement on Jonesboro, August 25–30.
• Battle of Jonesborough, August 31-September 1.
• Battle of Lovejoy's Station, September 2–6.
• Operations against John Bell Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama, October 3–26.
• Franklin–Nashville Campaign, November–December.
• Battle of Columbia, Duck River, November 24–27.
• Battle of Franklin, November 30.
• Battle of Nashville, December 15–16.
• Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28.
• Moved to Huntsville, Alabama, and duty there until March 1865.
• Operations in eastern Tennessee, March 15-April 22.
• Moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and duty there until June.

  Casualties

Commanders

• Colonel Leander Stem - killed in action at the battle of Stones River
• Colonel Isaac Minor Kirby - commanded at the battle of Stones River as major
• Lieutenant Colonel Moses F. Wooster - commanded at the battle of Stones River
• Lieutenant Colonel John Messer - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga
• Lieutenant Colonel Bedan B. McDonald - commanded at the battle of Stones River as captain, at the battle of Chickamauga as major, and at the battle of Nashville as lieutenant colonel
• Captain Leonard D. Smith - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga

  Notable members

• Chaplain Erastus Milo Cravath - a founder of Fisk University and its president for 25 years
• Private George S. Myers, Company F - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Chickamauga
• 1st Lieutenant George Ebbert Seney, quartermaster - U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1883–1891
• Private, Company H - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Rocky Face Ridge