The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-02-18
The 18th XIV.

The regiment was organized at Camp Dick
Robinson and Clio, KY, from Sept 26, 1861,
to Jan. 80, 1862, to serve three years. On
the expiration of its term the original men,
bers, except veterans, we're mustered ont,
and the organization, composed of veterans
and recruits, was retained in service until
July II, 1865. Col. William A. Haskins re-
signed, April %, 1864, and was succeeded in
command of the regiment by Lieut.-CoL
Laurence II. Rousseau. Col. Fox gives the
loss of the command as one officer and 40
men killed and five officers and 1913 men
died of disease. accidents, in prison, etc. 1t
was in Cox's Division, Twenty -third Corps.
The 44th Ohio 18th Ohio Cav.).
This regiment was organized at Spring
field, o., from Sept. IL to Oct. IA, 1861, to
serve three years, and was then known as
the 44th Ohio. Its designation was changed
| to the 9Th Ohio Cav. in January, 1864. On
the expiration of its term the regiment vet
eranized, and was not mustered out until
| July 80, 1865. Col. Fox credits it with
| 453 re-enlistments, which gives it second
place, only one Ohio regiment having more.
Col. Samuel A. Gilbert resigned, April 20,
| 1864. Col. Alpheus s. Moore was discharged,
| Jan. A, 1865. At the time of muster-out
Col. Wesley Ovens, a West Point graduate,
was in command. The total loss of the
regiment was three officers and SO men
killed and one officer and 153 men died OF
disease, accidents, in prison, etc. It's most
| important service was in AverilFs Division,
Cavalry Corps, Army of West Virginia.
| The seth NY.
| The seth N. Y. was organized in Elmlra
N. Y, in December, 1861, to serve three
years, and left the State Dec. 6 under Col
Harrison S. Fairchild, who remained with
the regiment until it was finally mustered
out in August, 1865. He received the brevet
of Brigadier- General March Is, 1865. The
regiment served in the Provisional Guard
Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac, from
December, 1861; with Gen. Burnside's Elk
peditionary Corps, in North Carolina from
January, 1862; in the Fourth Brigade al
Roanoke, N c., from May, 1862; in FRS
Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Corps, from
JAY, 1862; in Suffolk, in Department o
Virginia, from April, 1863: in Affords Bri
gade, Getty's Division, Seventh Corps, De
partment of Virginia, from May, 1863; il
Affords Brigade, Second Division, Eight
eenth Corps, in North Carolina, from July
1868; in Affords Brigade, Vogdes's Division
Tenth Corps, On Folly and Little Folly
Islands, S. G., from October, 1863; in FRS
Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Corps
Army of the James, from April, 1864; il
First Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth
Corps, from May, 1864; in Third Brigade
Second Division, Eighteenth Corps, from
June "a, 1864; in Fourth Brigade, FRS
Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, from Deem
Der, 1854; in Third Brigade, First Division
Twenty-fourth Corps, from May, 1865; il
Second Brigade, First Division, Twenty
fourth Corps, from June, 1865, until mus
tered out. At Petersburg, Va, the regimen
lost 10 men killed, 80 wounded, and tw
missing. At Fair Oaks, Va, four men wer
killed, 81 wounded, and SO missing. 1t
total loss in the service was six officers an
SO men killed in action or died of wounds
and 159 men died of disease, in prison etc.