Ohio 48th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
01/11/1861
Organized - Ohio 48th Volunteer Infantry - Ohio
06/04/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Peter J. Sullivan
ColonelPeter J. Sullivan
06/04/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General William T. Sherman
Brigadier GeneralWilliam T. Sherman
06/04/1862
Battle - Shiloh - Hardin County, Tennessee
29/04/1862
Battle - Siege of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Union forces had captured the railroad junction and important transportation center at Corinth, Mississippi in the spring of 1862 after their victory at Shiloh. After the Battle of Iuka in September, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of the West marched to Ripley, Mississippi where it joined Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Army of West Tennessee. Van Dorn took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men. The Rebels marched southeast toward Corinth, hoping to recapture it and then sweep int…READ MORE
26/12/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Job R. Parker
Lieutenant ColonelJob R. Parker
26/12/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William J. Landram
ColonelWilliam J. Landram
26/12/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Andrew Jackson Smith, and undefined Escort: Company C 4th Indiana Cavalry: Cpt Joseph P. Lesslie
26/12/1862
Battle - Chickasaw Bayou - Warren County, Mississippi
09/01/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain S. G. W. Peterson, and Lieutenant Colonel Job R. Parker
CaptainS. G. W. Peterson
Lieutenant ColonelJob R. Parker
09/01/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Andrew Jackson Smith
Brigadier GeneralAndrew Jackson Smith
09/01/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Job R. Parker
Lieutenant ColonelJob R. Parker
09/01/1863
Battle - Arkansas Post - Arkansas Post, Arkansas
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as the Battle of Fort Hindman, was a combined land-river assault by Union forces on the Confederate Fort Hindman, which loomed over a bend in the Arkansas River near the town of Arkansas Post. As the Union advance down the Mississippi River passed the mouth of the Arkansas, the presence of Fort Hindman outflanked the Federal forward positions.READ MORE
01/05/1863
Battle - Port Gibson - Claiborne County, Mississippi
On April 30, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army crossed the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, 30 miles south of his objective of Vicksburg. Grant hoped to move east toward the capital at Jackson to block the Confederate army there under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston from reinforcing Vicksburg. Port Gibson, ten miles east of Bruinsburg on the Bayou Pierre River, commanded the best approach routes and was the first Federal objective. A Confederate force there was commanded by Maj. Gen. John S. Bowen. Grant's A…READ MORE
16/05/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Job R. Parker
Lieutenant ColonelJob R. Parker
16/05/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Andrew J. Smith
Brigadier GeneralAndrew J. Smith
16/05/1863
Battle - Champion Hill - Hinds County, Mississippi
The Battle of Champion Hill was the largest and bloodiest action of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.READ MORE
18/05/1863
Battle - Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi
In mid-May, 1863, after six months of unsuccessful attempts, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee finally converged on Vicksburg, defended by a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton. Capture of the Mississippi River town was critical to Union control of the strategic river. Vicksburg was located on a high river bluff defended with artillery, and Pemberton's men had constructed a series of fortifications in an 8-mile arc surrounding the city on the landward side. After crossing the…READ MORE
03/11/1863
Battle - Carrion Crow Bayou, Louisiana
03/11/1863
Battle - Bayou Bourbeux - Carrion Crow Bayou, Louisiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bayou_BourbeuxREAD MORE
08/04/1864
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
09/04/1865
Battle - Fort Blakeley - Baldwin County, Alabama
Although the harbor of Mobile Bay had been closed to blockade running traffic since mid-summer 1864 with Admiral David G. Farragut's victory there, the port city of Mobile still remained in Confederate control. In late March 1865, two Federal infantry columns converged on the defenses of the city at Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort. One force of 13,000 Union soldiers commanded by Gen. Frederick Steele moved west from Pensacola with orders to take Blakely from the rear. Union Gen. Edward R.S. Canby's Sixteent…READ MORE
09/05/1866
Mustered Out - Ohio 48th Volunteer Infantry - Ohio
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