1864 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry OVI Home Front News Rumors Burial

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1864 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry OVI Home Front News Rumors Burial:
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1864 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry OVI Letter with original envelope addressed to Captain Samuel Rothgeb at Hurricane Bridge West Virginia. Letter is dated July 21, 1864 at Addison Ohio. Lengthy letter that details life on the home front including rumors, a burial etc. Folded sheet measures 5\" x 8\" . A brief history of the unit is as follows <P>The 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 141st OVI) was infantry unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. On May 11, 1864, the 141st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry mustered into service at Gallipolis, Ohio. The men in the regiment were to serve one hundred days. The regiment consisted of Athens County’s 36th Battalion Ohio National Guard, Gallia County’s 16th Battalion Ohio National Guard, two companies from Adams County’s 84th Battalion Ohio National Guard, and part of one company from Scioto County’s 20th Battalion Ohio National Guard. On May 21, 1864, authorities dispatched the 141st to Charleston, West Virginia, where the regiment guarded a thirty-five mile line from Charleston to Guyandotte, West Virginia. The regiment engaged in several skirmishes with bushwhackers and had two men wounded by the guerrillas. On August 25, 1864, the 141st returned to Gallipolis, where the regiment mustered out of service on September 3, 1864