83rd Ohio Infantry

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 83rd OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was nicknamed "The Greyhound Regiment". The 83rd Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio August through September 1862 and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Frederick W. Moore. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 10th Division, XIII Corps), Department of the Tennessee, December 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 10th Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, August 1863, and Department of the Gulf to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Gulf, to March 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XIII Corps, to June 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to December 1864. Post of Natchez, Mississippi, District of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to January 1864. 3rd Brigade, Reserve Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to February 1865.