62nd Ohio Infantry The 62nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry ( or 62nd OVI ) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 62nd Ohio Infantry was organized in Zanesville , McConnellsville , and Somerton , Ohio beginning September 17 , 1861 and mustered in for three years service on December 24 , 1861 under the command of Colonel Francis Bates Pond . The regiment was attached to 2nd Brigade , Landers ' Division , Army of the Potomac , to March 1862 . 2nd Brigade , Shields ' Division , Banks ' V Corps , and Department of the Shenandoah , to May 1862 . 2nd Brigade , Shields ' Division , Department of the Rappahannock , to July 1862 . 3rd Brigade , 2nd Division , IV Corps , Army of the Potomac , to September 1862 . Ferry ' s Brigade , Division at Suffolk , Virginia , VII Corps , Department of Virginia , to January 1863 . 1st Brigade , 3rd Division , XVIII Corps , Department of North Carolina , to February 1863 . 3rd Brigade , 2nd Division , XVIII Corps , Department of the South , to April 1863 . United States forces , Folly Island , South Carolina , X Corps , Department of the South , to June 1863 . 1st Brigade , Folly Island , South Carolina , X Corps , to July 1863 . 1st Brigade , 2nd Division , X Corps , Morris Island , South Carolina , July 1863 . 2nd Brigade , Morris Island , South Carolina , X Corps , to October 1863 . Howell ' s Brigade , Gordon ' s Division , Folly Island , South Carolina , X Corps , to December 1863 . District Hilton Head , South Carolina , X Corps , to April 1864 . 1st Brigade , 1st Division , X Corps , Army of the James , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , to December 1864 . 1st Brigade , 1st Division , XXIV Corps , to September 1865 . The 62nd Ohio Infantry ceased to exist on September 1 , 1865 when it was consolidated with the 67th Ohio Infantry . Detailed service . Left Ohio for Cumberland , Md . , January 17 , 1862 , then moved to Paw Paw Tunnel February 3 . Duty at Paw Paw Tunnel and Great Cacapon Creek until March 10 , 1862 . Advance on Winchester , Va . , March 10 – 15 . Reconnaissance to Strasburg March 18 – 21 . Battle of Winchester March 22 – 23 . Mt . Jackson March 25 . Strasburg March 27 . Woodstock April 1 . Edenburg April 2 . Expedition to Harrisonburg May 2 – 4 . March to Fredericksburg , Va . , May 12 – 22 . Great Cross Roads May 11 . March to Front Royal May 25 – 30 . Port Republic June 5 . Battle of Port Republic June 9 ( covered retreat ) . Ordered to the Peninsula , Va . , June 29 . Harrison ' s Landing July 3 – 4 . At Harrison ' s Landing until August 16 . Movement to Fortress Monroe August 16 – 23 , then moved to Suffolk , Va . , and duty there until December 31 . Action on the Blackwater October 25 . Expedition from Suffolk December 1 – 3 . Action near Franklin on Blackwater December 2 . Zuni December 12 . Moved to Norfolk , Va . , December 31 , then to Beaufort and New Berne , N . C . , January 4 , 1863 . Moved to Port Royal , S . C . , January 25 . At St . Helena Island , S . C . , until April . Occupation of Folly Island , S . C . , April 3 to July 10 . Skirmish at Folly Island April 7 . Attack on Morris Island , S . C . , July 10 . Assaults on Fort Wagner , Morris Island , July 11 and 18 . Siege operations against Fort Wagner , Morris Island , and against Fort Sumter and Charleston , July 10 - September 7 . Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg , Morris Island , September 7 . Operations against Charleston until October 31 . Moved to Hilton Head , S . C . , November 7 , and duty there until April 1864 . Regiment reenlisted January 3 , 1864 . Moved to Yorktown , Va . , April . Butler ' s operations on south side of the James River against Petersburg and Richmond May 4 – 28 . Capture of Bermuda Hundred and City Point May 5 . Swift Creek May 9 – 10 . Operations against Fort Darling May 12 – 16 . Battle of Drury ' s Bluff May 14 – 16 . Bermuda Hundred front May 16 – 30 . Ware Bottom Church May 20 . Port Walthal and on the Bermuda Hundred front June 16 – 17 . Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 , 1864 to April 2 , 1865 . Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom , August 13 – 20 , 1864 . Strawberry Plains August 14 – 18 . New Market Heights , Chaffin ' s Farm , September 29 - October 1 . Darbytown Road October 7 and 13 . Battle of Fair Oaks October 27 – 28 . Duty in trenches north of the James before Richmond Hill March 1865 . Moved to Hatcher ' s Run March 27 – 28 . Appomattox Campaign March 28 - April 9 . Fall of Petersburg April 2 . Pursuit of Lee April 3 – 9 . Rice ' s Station April 6 . Appomattox Court House April 9 . Surrender of Lee and his army . Garrison and guard duty in District of South Anna , Department of Virginia , until September . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 244 men during service ; 11 officers and 102 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 2 officers and 129 enlisted men died of disease .