Shelby County OHGenWeb

Previous to October, 1862, a company of fifty men had been enlisted by Captain W. D. HAMILTON, of the Thirty-second Ohio infantry; and early in that month the same officer received orders to complete his regiment, the fifty before secured becoming the nucleus. They rendezvoused at Zanesville. The command remained in the region near Manchester, Kentucky, having frequent skirmishes with the enemy, until June 15th, when an expedition was planned into east Tennessee. At Pine Mountain Gap the rebels were surprised, and nearly all captured without firing a gun. On the first of August it proceeded to Glasgow, where a cavalry brigade was organizing, which was destined to move with General BURNSIDE into east Tennessee. During this march both men and horses were sometimes for two days without food. Knoxville was taken with little opposition. Major HAMILTON was appointed provost marshal of the city, and the battalion did patrol and guard duty around the suburbs. On the sixteenth of December the regiment was completed by the organization of the Third battalion. It was finally ordered to report at Decatur, Alabama, on the fifth of May. Previous to this time, portions had been in different localities and had met with a great variety of experiences, some of the men having died in the horrible Andersonville prison. Between this date and June 1st, cavalry skirmishes were of daily occurrence. After several movements, involving long and fatiguing marches, they joined General SHERMAN's army in front of Atlanta. About the middle of November the different portions of the Ninth that had been doing duty apart were again joined, and from this time were a part of General SHERMAN's army on the march to the coast. The command was finally ordered to Concord, North Carolina, where it remained on duty until the first of July, when it was ordered home. On the second of August, 1865, the regimental colors and other property were turned over to the Government at Columbus, and the veterans once more became citizens and finally separated.

Company G "Hestler's Unterrified Crampers" consisted of men from Mercer and Shelby Counties.
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Camp Dennison - Hamilton County, Ohio	December 1, 1862 - April 1863
Moved to Lexington, KY	April 23, 1863
Moved to Manchester, KY	to June 15
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army Ohio	to July, 1863 (1st Battalion)
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps	to October, 1863 (1st Battalion)
4th Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps	to November, 1863 (1st Battalion)
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Ohio	to March, 1864 (1st Battalion)
Athens, Florence and Decatur, Ala., District of North Alabama, Dept. of the Cumberland,	to August, 1864 (Regiment)
Mounted Brigade, Garrard's Cavalry Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army Ohio	to October, 1864
2nd Brigade, Kilpatrick's 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi	to June, 1865
Dept. of North Carolina	to August, 1865

Expedition into East Tennessee	June 15-28, 1863
Pine Mountain Gap	June 16, 1863
Big Creek Gap	June 17, 1863
Wartzburg	June 18, 1863
Knoxville	June 19-20
Moved to Loudon, Ky., thence to Stanford	July 5
Danville	July 7
Pursuit of Morgan and Scott	July 10-26
Moved to Glasgow, Ky	August 1
Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee	August 16-October 17
Occupation of Knoxville	Sept 2
Kingsport	Sept 18
Bristol	Sept 19
Zollicoffer	Sept 20-21
Hall's Ford, Watauga River	Sept 22
Carter's Depot and Blountsville	Sept 22
Blue Springs	Oct 10
Rheatown	Oct 11
Blountsville	Oct 14
Bristol	October 15
Knoxville Campaign	November 4-December 23
Siege of Knoxville	November 17-December 6
Kimbrough's Cross Roads	January 16
Operations about Dandridge	January 16-17
Dandridge	January 17
Operations about Dandridge	January 26-28
Fair Garden	January 27
Duty at Knoxville, Tenn	until March
2nd Battalion of Regiment organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio	November 6, 1863
3rd Battalion organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio	December 16, 1863
Left State under orders for Nashville, Tenn. thence moved to Athens, Ala., where 1st Battalion joined.	February 6, 1864
Patrol duty along the Tennessee River at Athens and Florence, Ala.	Until May
Moved to Decatur, Ala.	May 1-5
Repulse of attack on Decatur	May 8
Centre Star	May 15
Duty at Decatur	until July 10
Expedition to Pulaski	June 1-12
Operations in District of North Alabama	July 24-August 20
Curtis Wells	June 24
Pond Springs	June 29
Rousseau's Raid to Atlanta & West Point Railroad	July 10-22
Ten Island Ford, Coosa River	July 13
Courtland, Ala	July 25
Near Auburn and Chehaw Station	July 18
Siege of Atlanta	July 25-August 25
McCook's Raid on Atlanta and West Point and Macon & Western Railroad	July 27-31 (Detachment)
Lovejoy Station	July 29
Near Newnan's	July 3
Near East Point	August 30
Big Shanty	September 2
Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky., to refit.	*
March to the sea	November 15-December 10
Bear Creek Station	November 16
Walnut Creek and East Macon	November 20
Waynesboro	November 27-28
Buckhead Creek or Reynolds' Plantation	November 28
Rocky Creek Church	December 2
Waynesboro	December 4
Buck Creek	December 7
Cypress Swamp near Sister's Ferry	December 7
Ebenezer Creek	December 8
Siege of Savannah	December 10-21
Campaign of the Carolinas	January to April, 1865
Barnwell, S. C.	February 6
Aiken and Blackville	February 11
Phillips' Cross Roads	March 4
Taylor's Hole Creek, Averysboro	March 1
Battle of Bentonville, N. C	March 19-21
Occupation of Goldsboro	March 23
Raleigh	April 13
Morristown	April 13
Bennett's House	April 26
Surrender of Johnston and his army	*
Duty at Concord, N. C.	until July 20
Mustered Out	August 2, 1865.