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was assigned to command the reconstituted department. In September, western Virginia was added to the department, along with all Federal troops in the region. On March 25, 1863, after the Senate refused to confirm Wright's promotion to major general, Maj. Gen.
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The Military History of Ohio. Its Border Annals, Its Part in the Indian Wars, in the War of 1812, in the Mexican War, and in the War of the Rebellion, with a Prefix, Giving a Compendium of the History of the United
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assumed command of the Department of the Ohio. Wright, after briefly occupying a subordinate command in Louisville, Kentucky, transferred in May 1863 to the Army of the Potomac to command the 1st Division of
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assumed command of the Department of the Ohio. For much of the remainder of the war, the department was synonymous with the Army of the Ohio.
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was designated as its first commander. McClellan led efforts in the spring and early summer of 1861 to occupy the area of western
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commanded the Department of the Ohio from September to November 1861. Under his directive, troops pushed southward towards
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with Buell in command. The Department of the Ohio was dissolved on March 11, 1862, when it was merged into the
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to assume command of the department. All the forces of the department were then organized into the
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The Department of the Ohio was recreated on August 19, 1862, and consisted of the states of Ohio,
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in a new military department called the Department of the Ohio, with headquarters in
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Administrative military district created by the United States War Department
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Due to illness, Burnside asked to be relieved of command after the
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Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi
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was an administrative military district created by the
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United States War Department
American Civil War
Northern states
Ohio River
Adjutant General
Washington, D.C.
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Cincinnati, Ohio
Maj. Gen.
George B. McClellan
Virginia
Union
West Virginia
Army of the Potomac
Brig. Gen.
Ormsby M. Mitchel
Huntsville, Alabama
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Don Carlos Buell
Army of the Ohio
Department of the Mississippi

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