Service Record
The regiment moved to Covington, Kentucky, on September 1, 1862, in preparation for the Defense of Cincinnati against a threatened Confederate invasion by troops under Edmund Kirby Smith. It was involved in the subsequent skirmish at Fort Mitchel in northern Kentucky.
The regiment spent 1863 in Kentucky and then moved to East Tennessee until April 1864. It then was reassigned to duty as part of the XXIII Corps in Georgia, Washington D.C., and finally North Carolina for the Carolinas Campaign.
The 104th OVI mustered out of the army on June 17, 1865.
During its term of service, the regiment had 3 officers and 46 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in combat. It also lost 4 officers and 130 enlisted men by disease, for a total of 183 fatalities out of the 1,740 men who served at various times in the regiment.
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