page_title: 103rd Ohio Infantry
hierarchical_section_title: 103rd Ohio Infantry
caption_attribution_description: English: Cottages at the 103rd OVI complex, located at 5501 Lake Road (U.S. Route 6) in Avon Lake, Ohio, United States. In the distance (highlighted) is the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association Barracks, a museum concentrating on the history of the 103rd Ohio Infantry; built in 1910, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78002106
context_page_description: The 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a three-years' infantry regiment from northeastern Ohio that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It participated in many of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Ohio in the Western Theater.
  "this Regiment was organized in the State of Ohio at large, in August and September, 1862, to serve for three years. It was mustered out of service June 12, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department. The official list of battles in which this Regiment bore an honorable part is not yet published by the War Department, but the following list has been compiled after careful research during the preparation of this work"
  Blue Spring Tennessee, October 5, 1863
  Knoxville Tennessee, November 17 to December 4, 1863
  Dandridge Tennessee, January 16–18, 1864
  Resaca Georgia, May 13–16, 1864
  Atlanta Georgia, July 28 – September 2, 1864
  Spring Hill Tennessee, November 29, 1864
  The battle and the enlistment records of every soldier from the 103rd Ohio Infantry is available online.
  Needing additional soldiers, President Lincoln put out the call for volunteers to serve in the Union army.
context_section_description: The 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry was a three-years' infantry regiment from northeastern Ohio that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It participated in many of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Ohio in the Western Theater.
  "this Regiment was organized in the State of Ohio at large, in August and September, 1862, to serve for three years. It was mustered out of service June 12, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department. The official list of battles in which this Regiment bore an honorable part is not yet published by the War Department, but the following list has been compiled after careful research during the preparation of this work"
  Blue Spring Tennessee, October 5, 1863
  Knoxville Tennessee,(Siege) November 17 to December 4, 1863
  Dandridge Tennessee, January 16–18, 1864
  Resaca Georgia, May 13–16, 1864
  Atlanta Georgia,(Siege) July 28 – September 2, 1864
  Spring Hill Tennessee, November 29, 1864
  The battle and the enlistment records of every soldier from the 103rd Ohio Infantry is available online.
  Needing additional soldiers, President Lincoln put out the call for volunteers to serve in the Union army. Several hundred men - mostly farmers - from the northern Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Medina, and Lorain answered the call. This unit was organized in Cleveland in August 1862 and became known as the 103rd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry"
  On July 21, 1862, William B. Castle, as chairman of the District Military Committee in Cleveland, sent a letter to Governor David Tod, enclosing a copy of a resolution recommending that the appointment of company officers for the 103rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The new regiment was to draw members from  Cuyahoga County, Lorain County and Medina County.
  The 103rd OVI was organized at Cleveland in August 1862 under command of Colonel John S. Casement. It was ordered to Kentucky on September 3, 1862, and attached to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio. The regiment saw action in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. After mustering up near Cleveland Ohio, then travelling by train to Cincinnati, where the 103 OVI ferried across the Ohio River to Covington. September 10–11, 1862 members of the 103rd OVI skirmish with Henry Heth, before the rebels retreated to Lexington, Kentucky. From Fort Mitchell the 103rd OVI marched approximately ninety miles to Lexington, Kentucky, where the infantry men boarded a train to Frankfort, Kentucky, arriving around 1:00 pm on October 30, 1862
  March 26, 1863, The 103 Ohio Volunteer Infantry Commanded by Colonel  John S. Casement begins construction of Fort on a Hill in Frankfort Kentucky. Originally named Fort Crittenden by the 103 OVI in honour of Kentucky's famed United States Senator John J. Crittenden, who gave the 103rd OVI a rousing speech and warm welcome when they arrived. Sometime during the war this Frankfort post received the name Fort Boone, not to be confused with Fort Boone. Lyman Beecher Hannaford describes "We have now moved our encampment up on the hill in the rear of the fort", the planned Fort would over look the city providing defense of the now Union controlled Kentucky Capital, the only Union capital to fall to the Rebels"
  "Towards the city, there is first a stone wall and an embankment about 5 feet high and 8 feet thick. This is right on the brow of the hill. The embankment on the other side is about ten feet thick and eight feet high. On the inside is a platform or shelf about three or four feet wide for infantry to stand on to repel an attack. On the outside of the embankment there is a ditch 8 feet wide and five feet deep".
  1–inside of fort
  2–shelf for infantry
  3–embankment of dirt
  4–cedar brush 2 feet thick and projecting over the side of the ditch about 18 inches. The other end buried in the embankment,
  5–ditch.
  I understand that it is going to be mounted with 12 guns. Six 32-pounders & six 64-pounders.
  "I shall now tell you  how large the fort is. It is about ten rods [55 yards] wide at the widest place and thirty rods [165
caption: 103rd OVI complex in Avon Lake
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