Organization
Special Order Number 882 of October 1861 authorized Col. Charles R. Woods to organize a regiment of infantry at Camp Sherman, near Newark, Ohio. Recruitment had begun for a Licking County regiment as early as September 1861. Enrollment was for three years' duty. Since the majority of the troops were from Licking County, the regiment had the field nickname of "The Licking Volunteers." The regiment held 962 officers and men when it was mustered in on February 9, 1862.
The initial officers were as follows:
- Colonel Charles R. Woods
- Lt. Colonel William Burnham Woods
- Major Willard Warner
- Adjutant Jerome N. Rappleyea
- Quartermaster Henry D. Wright
- Surgeon Charles R. Pierce
- Asst. Surgeon Thomas B. Hood
- Chaplain Reverend John W. McCarty
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