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Welcome to the 8th Ohio's website. We are a group of good friends dedicated to potraying the men and women of the 8'th Ohio's Volunteer regiment of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865)
The 8th fought in many places from Gettysburg to Petersburg.
This regiment organized for three months service from May 2nd, 1861, and for upto three years untill June 26th, 1861. It served in West Virginia until March of 1862 when it moved to the Shenandoah Valley, and engaged in the battles of Cedar Creek, Winchester and Front Royal. In July it was ordered to the Peninsula, where it took part in the operations on the Chickahominy. In August the regiment moved north and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. It was at Fredericksburg and at Chancellorsville sustained heavy losses. Again, at Gettysburg, it lost over 100 in killed and wounded. The 8th took part in Grant's battles through the Wilderness, and when its term of service expired was withdrawn from the trenches at Petersburg, and mustered out July 13th, 1864.
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