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49th Ohio Infantry

he Forty-Ninth Ohio was organized at Tiffin, Seneca County, under special authority from the Secretary of War. Colonel William H. Gibson recruited and drilled the regiment. It started from Camp Noble, near Tiffin, to Camp Dennison on the 10th of September, 1861, received its equipment on the 21st of September, and moved for Louisville, Kentucky, where it arrived the next day, and reported to Brigadier General Robert Anderson, who had just assumed command of that place. It was the first organized regiment to enter Kentucky. The reception of this regiment in Louisville was cordial to the extreme. It was not known outside of military headquarters that the regiment was on its way from Ohio. As the two boats, lashed together, neared the wharf the regimental band performed National airs, and as the regiment landed the people of the city received it with enthusiasm, formed in its rear and marched with it through the principal streets to the headquarters of General Anderson. The General appeared on the balcony of the hotel and welcomed the regiment in a short address, to which Colonel Gibson responded. These ceremonies over the people of Louisville turned out en masse, improvised a magnificent dinner at the Louisville Hotel, and the members of the regiment had a hilarious time. In the evening the regiment took the cars for Lebanon Junction, with orders to report to General W.T. Sherman, who was at that point in command of Rosseau's Louisville Legion and some Home Guards. The next morning it crossed Rolling Fork, wading the river, and marched to Elizabethtown, and went into camp on Muldraugh's Hill. Lying at this place until the 10th of October it then moved to Nolin Creek and went into Camp Nevin.

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