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The regiment was mustered out on July 4, 1865, and returned home to Ohio. During the war, the regiment lost 2 officers and 26 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and 4 officers and 197 enlisted men by disease, for a total of 229 fatalities.
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dispersed Union cavalry and infantry in the area, seizing numerous prisoners from the 7th Ohio Cavalry and the 2nd East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiments.
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Following the war, veterans frequently met to remember the war and their fallen comrades, and many became active in local posts of the
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where much of Morgan's command was captured. Colonel Garrard accepted the surrender of the
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in the autumn of 1863, the regiment suffered a significant setback in a small skirmish in
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Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals and Soldiers....
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in late July. The regiment then accompanied the army of
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Vol. 2, Dayton: Morningside Press, 1979, p. 1478.
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The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War
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In July 1864, the regiment moved from Tennessee into
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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Index

7th Ohio Cavalry
United States of America
Union
Union Army
Cavalry
Army of the Ohio
Sanders' Knoxville Raid
Morgan's Raid
Battle of Buffington Island
Battle of the Cumberland Gap
Knoxville Campaign
Atlanta Campaign
Battle of Cynthiana
Franklin-Nashville Campaign
Wilson's Raid
regiment
Union
cavalry
Ohio
American Civil War
Ohio River
Western Theater
Army of the Ohio
Ripley, Ohio
Col.
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Morgan's Raiders
Battle of Buffington Island

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