Title	8th Ohio Infantry Regiment officers
Subject	Ohio. National Guard. Ohio History--Military Ohio 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) Spanish American War
Time Period	1890s
Place	New York (New York)
Description	Colonel Hard and the staff officers of the 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment on the pier in New York preparing to sail for Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The 8th Ohio assembled in Akron, Ohio, on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk.
Creator	Strohmeyer & Wyman Publishers (Publisher)
Date of Original	1898
Collection	8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U. S. Volunteers
Source	SC 5214
Format	Picture Stereograph Albumen
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL03706.tif
Image Height	2768
Image Width	2768
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Date created	2011-08-02

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