Federal Regiment

8th Ohio Infantry

Organized: Cleveland, OH; mustered in 6/26/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Cleveland, OH 7/13/1864

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
LCol. Franklin Sawyer

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

Unit history

This regiment organized for three months service May 2nd, 1861, and for three years June 26th, 1861

Statistics

Initial Strength: 341; Killed in Action (KIA): 32; Wounded (WIA): 129; Missing in Action (MIA): 5;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 48.7%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #6: French's Division Hits the Sunken Road (9-10 am)
Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)
Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #40: French's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM
Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #116, cont: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #41: Kimball's Brigade, French's Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM

References & Notes

See a very fine site about the battle, with a special section on Antietam.

We have 173 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Sgt	Goodsell, Jr., David Judson	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Heissermann, Henry	WIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Kipka, John Charles	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Naylor, Edward Trindle	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Newson, William	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Pockmire, William Henry	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Redd, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Richardson, William P.	KIA 09/17
A	Lt	Smith, George S.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Sopher, Joseph H.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Swalley, Abel	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Watchier, Nicholas	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Zongker, David	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Aaron, Victor	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Campion, William F.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cashen, Patrick	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Comley, Frederick	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Delaney, William	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Dumphy, John	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Fairchild, John G.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Gallagher, Charles
B	Corp	Gallagher, James	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Galwey, Thomas Francis De Burgh
B	Sgt	Hennesey, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Howard, Francis	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Lantry, John	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Lee, II, Richard	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Lloyd, Joseph	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McDougal, Allen	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McKeever, Henry H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McNamara, John D.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Merrimans, Peter	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	O'Connell, Michael	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	O'Leary, Patrick	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Reedy, John C.
B	Pvt	Sculley, John	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Tracy, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Upright, George Tobias	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Boorom, Cornelius R.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Collier, Joseph E.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Couts, John A.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Fitzsimmons, William S.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Fulkerson, James Wesley	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Guffne, Peter	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Hill, Aden	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Hugus, William P.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Kauts, John G. W.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Kirkland, James R.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Logan, Joseph	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	McNickle, James	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Monroe, Richard Madison Johnson	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Mulligan, John	WIA 09/17
C	Mus	Nichols, Frederick E.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Ruff, Charles C.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Snowden, Lemuel Gustine	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Stout, Francis	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	West, Thomas Jefferson	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Youngman, Louis	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Zeiter, William	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Apgar, George W.	WIA 09/17
D	Lt	Barnes, Charles W.	KIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Bonette, Parker Samuel	MWIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Briggs, John	KIA 09/17
D	Corp	Farmer, William Whitney	KIA 09/16
D	Pvt	Foster, Robert	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hindman, David W.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hoyt, Lucius B.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jump, Joseph E.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Melville, Alexander	KIA 09/17
D	Corp	Mountain, William	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Palmer, Lucius	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Parker, William F.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Raymond, William	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Reynolds, William R.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Scott, George A.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ward, David Oscar	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ward, Samuel F.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Conner, John M.	MWIA 09/17
E	Lt	Craig, Alfred T.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Epp, Peter	WIA 09/17
E	Capt	Gregg, James E.
E	Pvt	Mills, Henry D. C.	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Soeffing, Frank L.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Starr, Merrill L.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Trube, Franklin	KIA 09/17
E	Lt	Witherell, William D.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Wolcott, Fayette	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Basler, Jonas	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Basslan, John	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Chamberlain, Isaiah	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Crandall, William W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Fields, John S.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Fitzgerald, Josiah
F	Pvt	Hill, Morris	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Kirk, William H.	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Mathews, Louis	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	McBride, William	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Nye, Zenas	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Olds, James	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Palmerton, William S.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Reynolds, Francis Burton	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Reynolds, Julius Kenyon	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Richmond, James	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Smith, Emanuel	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Zimmerman, Louis	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cole, Orville B.	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Crowell, Virgil J.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Dickinson, Rodolphus	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hite, John M.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	James, Professor	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Keesan, John	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Maier, Anthony	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Michael, Philip	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Reinhart, George	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Rock, Patrick	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Taylor, Cyrus Pomeroy	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Wing, Hiram	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Boughton, Charles W.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Branton, James H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Campbell, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Caughey, James H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Chapman, Edson C.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hanchett, Henry H.	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Hitchcock, George M.
H	Pvt	Keith, Myron M.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Mann, William Riley	Died (d) 11/30
H	Capt	Miller, Wells Waite
H	Corp	Potter, Thaddeus S.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Steel, Austin	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Vanasdall, Garret	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	West, Albert	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Abbott, Lucien P.	WIA 09/17
I	Capt	Allen, Richard
I	Pvt	Bell, Eugene D.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brown, Hiram	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hartzell, Harrison William	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Hastings, Nahum D.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Lock, Charles F.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Manning, Levi Russell	KIA 09/17
I	Lt	Nickerson, Azor Howitt	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Smith, Richard	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Torrence, Martin M.	KIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Varney, Edwin L.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bacon, William A.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Bill, Horace Harper	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Branch, Alvin L.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Branch, Sidney S.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Carpenter, Curtiss F.	KIA 09/17
K	Corp	Coy, Elisha	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	DeGroat, William	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	DeWitt, Sewell	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Fetterman, Joseph	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Ford, William Frederick	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hoag, Michael	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Loomis, Finney Reform	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Lowe, James D.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Marks, William J.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Newell, Darwin D.	MWIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Patterson, George W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Randall, Theodorus Beebe	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Rogers, Wesley A.	WIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Sawtell, Edward H.	KIA 09/17
K	Lt	Thompson, Creighton	WIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Vanderhoef, Lorenzo	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Vanorman, James H.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Weneger, Philip	WIA 09/17
F&S	Sgt	De Puy, John W.
F&S	Lt	Dickinson, Edward Fenwick
F&S	Lt	Lewis, David
F&S	Surg	McEbright, Thomas
F&S	LCol	Sawyer, Franklin
F&S	ASrg	Sexton, Samuel
F&S	Maj	Winslow, Jr., Albert H.

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