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    26th OVI  Movement Map
Track the movement of the 26th OVI throughout the Civil War 1861-1865- Follow the movement using the key;
                               Civil War period map courtesy of the US Library of Congress

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  ( Blue as part of Army of the Ohio; Black as part of the Army of the Cumberland)
  ( Path is intermingled at various points- use black arrows to follow on correct route)

              26th OVI musters in at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, June-July, 1861. Travels by train                to Cincinnati and then by steamboat up the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers to Charleston,                        western Virginia.


              First engagements in Boone and Fayette Counties, Western Virginia, August-December,                  1861

              Transferred to Army of the Ohio, Louisville, KY - January, 1862

              Enters Nashville, Tennessee - February, 1862

              Engagement at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee- April, 1862- moves onto Shiloh Battlefield

              Among the first regiments to enter Cornith, Mississippi- May, 1862

              Traverses across Alabama to Stevenson- just west of Chattanooga- June-July, 1862

               Routs Forrest's Cavalry outside McMinnville, Tennessee, August, 1862

               Army of Ohio moves back to Louisville in pursuit of Army of the Tennessee- Sept, 1862

               Present at the Battle of Perryville, Ky, but minimally engaged, October, 1862.

               London, Ky, pursuit ends- returns to Nashville via Bowling Green, October, 1862

               Returns to Nashville. Army renamed Army of the Cumberland. November, 1862

                Battle of Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. December, 1862- January, 1863

                After taking circuitous route,  Corps enters Chattanooga, Tennessee September, 1863

                Battle of Chickamauga. The bloodiest engagement the 26th OVI September, 1863.

                Retreat back to Chattanooga, 6 week long seige, and Missionary Ridge, Sept-Nov.1863

                Advances towards Knoxville to support Burnside against Longstreet, Dec.1863
                 Reenlists as a Veteran Regiment at Blain's Crossroads, January 1, 1864.

                Northern Georgia Campaign- the bloodiest at Kennesaw Mountain, June, 1864.

                Seige, Battle, and capture of Atlanta, Georgia.  August, 1864.

                Spring Hill, Tennessee, November 29, 1864, and Franklin, November 30, 1864..

                 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864.

                 Pursuit of retreating Confederate army ends at Huntsville. Ala- winter Qtrs 1864-65. In                  early spring, 1865, travels to mountains of eastern Tennessee to block any attempt by                      Lee's Army to escape out of Virginia. In May, moves back to Nashville.

                 In June, 1865, transferred to Texas where mustered out in October, 1865.