Three-months Regiment
With the outbreak of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help put down the rebellion. Ohioans responded well, and several new regiments were enrolled for a term of three months, thought to be long enough to end the war. The 4th Ohio was organized at Camp Jackson in Columbus on April 25, 1861, under Isaac Morrow, Colonel, John Beatty, Lieut. Colonel, and J. Warren Keifer, Major. The regiment moved to newly constructed Camp Dennison near Cincinnati on April 28, and served on garrison duty there until June 12, at which time many of the men joined the newly reorganized a three-years' regiment with the same numerical designation. Those three months' men who elected not to join the three-years' regiment were mustered out on July 24.
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