Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers . leveland on the 12th of April, and when the campaignagainst Atlanta opened it was left, with another regiment, to do garrison duty in the town, theyhaving the shortest time to serve of any regiments in the division. Upon the 17th of May it wasordered to join the main army, and accordingly marched to Kingston, Georgia, and reported toGeneral Thomas, who ordered it back to Resaca, to guard the railroad bridge over the Ooslc-naula at that point, where it remained till June 6th, when it was released from duty and orderedhome to be muste
Ohio in the war : her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers . leveland on the 12th of April, and when the campaignagainst Atlanta opened it was left, with another regiment, to do garrison duty in the town, theyhaving the shortest time to serve of any regiments in the division. Upon the 17th of May it wasordered to join the main army, and accordingly marched to Kingston, Georgia, and reported toGeneral Thomas, who ordered it back to Resaca, to guard the railroad bridge over the Ooslc-naula at that point, where it remained till June 6th, when it was released from duty and orderedhome to be mustered out of the service. The regiment arrived at Cincinnati on June 15th, and after the public reception given by thecitizens, went into quarters at Camp Dennison, where it was mustered out of the service June23, 1864, with an aggregate of thirty officers and four hundred and ninety-five enlisted of the non-commissioned officers held commissions, but could not be mustered in, asthe companies in which the vacancies occurred were below the A SCENE ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. Sixth Ohio Infantry. 53 The Sixth carried to the close of its s«rvice a beautiful stand of colors, which had been pre-sented by the ladies of Cincinnati in December, 1862, and a regimental banner received at thesame time from the City Council. The pledges which Colonel Anderson made for the regimenton the occasion of these presentations were, within three weeks, fully redeemed by the part borneby the Sixth in that deadly conflict in the cedars of Stone River, where its percentage of killedand wounded is claimed to have been heavier than that of any other regiment engaged, with theexception of the 21st Illinois. Colonel Anderson was three times wounded—slightly, by a spent ball at Pittsburg Landing •painfully, by a flesh wound through the thigh on the first day of Stone River, which, withoutleaving the field, he had bound up, remaining on active duty till the battle was over; and severelv,in
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