Anthony C. Rice's (#23)Civil War Experience

Below is a U. S. Civil War draft registration dated July 1, 1863. Anthony is listed as A. C. Rice, living in Pickaway Township in Pickaway, Ohio. His class is 1 and in the 12th District. His age is 32, and his estimated birth year is "abt 1831". He is listed as white, married, and born in Ohio.

According to History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties Ohio, published by Williams Bros. in 1880, p.150, an A. C. Rice was a private in Company C under the command of Captain Andrew Boyle and Colonel H. H. Sage in the Ninety-second Regiment of the Ohio National Guard during the Civil War. A. C. Rice was recruited and mustered into service for one hundred days.

May 8, 1864 [9 months after Anthony registered for the draft], the 92nd Regiment of the Ohio National Guard and the 44th Battalion (Mahoning County) were consolidated to form the 155th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The new unit was organized Sunday, May 8, at Camp Dennison (Cincinnati, Ohio) with 838 men under the command of Colonel Harley H. Sage for one hundred days' service. Colonel Sage had been in charge of several regiments prior to this time including the 92nd.

The 155th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI) was a Union Army infantry regiment. It was among scores of regiments raised as Hundred Days Men to provide relief for veteran troops to enable a major U.S. War Department push to end the war within 100 days. It was active May - August 1864. The regiment's function was garrison and guard duty.

The 155th Ohio lost 20 enlisted men to disease.

 

History of 155th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry

May 8, 1864 - Mustered in at Camp Dennison May 12 - Departed Camp Dennison [Cincinnati, Ohio] at 5:00 A.M. May 13 - At Parkersburg, West Virginia May 14 - At Cumberland, Maryland May 15 - Arrived at Martinsburg, West Virginia [Did garrison duty at Martinsburg] May 20 - Defenses of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad May 25 - To Cedar Creek, Virginia, for escort duty May 26 - Back to Martinsburg, West Virginia June 3 - Ordered to Washington, D.C. June 9 - At White House, Virginia June 17 - Arrived at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia June 21 - At City Point, Virginia June 29 - Entrenched camp at Norfolk, Virginia [was part of the Army of the James] July 27 - Expedition to Elizabeth City, North Carolina [marched ~40 miles. Once there, captured horses, cotton, tobacco, and contraband] July 28 - Arrived at Elizabeth City, North Carolina August - Returned to Norfolk, Virginia August - Left for Ohio August 24 - Arrived at Camp Dennison, Ohio August 27 - Mustered out

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