103D OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

The 103D OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1862-65, included approximately 460 men from Cleveland and Cuyahoga County during its term of service. The regiment was raised at Camp Cleveland (see CIVIL WAR CAMPS IN CLEVELAND) during the summer of 1862, leaving for Cincinnati on 3 Sept. It was assigned to the following units: 2d Brigade, 1st Div., Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio (Sept.-Oct. 1862); 2d Div., 2d Brigade, Army of Kentucky (Oct.-Dec. 1862); 1st Brigade, 4th Div., 4th Army Corps, District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio (Jan.-June 1863); 1st Brigade, 1st Div., 23d Army Corps, Army of the Ohio (June-Aug. 1863); 2d Brigade, 3d Div., 23d Army Corps (Aug. 1863-Feb. 1865); and 2d Brigade, 3d Div., 23d Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina (Feb.-June 1865). The regiment participated in the Knoxville, Atlanta, and Carolinas campaigns and the battles of Resaca, Armstrong's Hill, and Ft. Fisher. The unit was mustered out at Raleigh, NC, on 12 June 1865, and its men discharged and paid off at Camp Cleveland on 22 June. The 103d lost 139 men to hostile action and 109 to disease. Veterans of the 103d Ohio Volunteer Infantry began holding annual reunions in 1867 and their descendants maintained a reunion campground in Sheffield Lake, OH. A Sons & Daughters Assn. was formed in 1889, and in 1907 the veterans created a corporation to maintain the campground. In 1972 a memorial foundation was established for a museum dedicated to the history of the regiment, located in Sheffield.

Hayes, Philip C. Journal-History of the Hundred & Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1872).

Members of the 103d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Personal Reminiscences and Experiences (1900).

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