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Stephen’s Enlistment Ends
During June, July, and August 1862, the 86th OVI guarded commissary stores and railroads in western Virginia. On September 17, 1862, the regiment was ordered to Camp Delaware, Ohio to be mustered out. Stephen Patterson was mustered out on September 25, … Continue reading
1st OVI Marches to Louisville, Kentucky
On September 7, 1862, William Patterson, and the 1st OVI, were in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee. On September 10, in response to Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s move through Kentucky towards Louisville, Union General Don Carlos Buell’s Army of Ohio, which … Continue reading
Second Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as Second Manassas, began on Thursday, August 28, 1862, when Confederate forces under “Stonewall” Jackson attacked Union forces moving along Warrenton Turnpike just outside Gainesville, Virginia, near the farm of John Brawner. … Continue reading