9th Ohio Infantry Regiment

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The 9th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry

(The 1st German Ohio Regiment)

 

Recruiting Advertisement published in the Cincinnati Volksfreund on February 15, 1862


The Ninth Ohio Infantry was composed principally of native Germans from Cincinnati and had the honor of being the first Ohio regiment mustered into Federal service for three years. German Americans often referred to the regiment as die Neuner (“the Niners”). The regiment was especially noted for its successful bayonet charges at the battles of Mill Springs in Kentucky and Chickamauga in Georgia.


 

Col. Robert L. McCook 

Cincinnati Central Turners

Col. Gustav Kaemmerling 

Die Neuner

Maj August Willich 

Library of Congress

Capt. Gustav Richter 

Cincinnati Central Turners

Average Age
Field Officers
35.0		 Staff

28.2		 Band

25.6		 Company A
24.4		 Company B
26.3		 Company C
26.1		 Company D
25.6		 Company E
24.6		 Company F
27.5		 Company G
26.3		 Company H
26.6		 Company I
27.1		 Company K
26.3

 

Birth Place of Officers and Enlisted Men

Germany, 1,014---- Switzerland, 56

United States, 55---- France, 25

Russia, 3---- Holland, 1---- At Sea----1 



Images

9th Ohio Monument on Snodgrass Hill, Chickamauga National Military Park

Courtesy of Harry Smeltzer 

Battle of Mill Springs, Ky.,  January 19, 1861

 

March, camp and fight with two Germans of the 9th Ohio Infantry. On July 6, 2010  A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and William Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry was released by Kent State University Press. This will the first book of translated and edited letters authored by members of this intepid regiment ever published.  See http://upress.kent.edu/books/Catalog_2010.pdf  for additional information.

A German Hurrah! was named runner-up for the 2010 Museum of the Confederacy's Founder's Award for outstanding editing of primary source documents.
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