Photographs of Men and Officers

of the 78th O.V.V.I.

 

 

Company A Company B Company C Company D Company E Company F
Company G Company H Company I Company K Field & Staff Unknown
 


Photos of Regimental Officers (l to r):  Mortimer D. Leggett, superintendent of the public schools in Zanesville, Ohio, was authorized in 1861 by Gov. Todd to raise a regiment to fight the "Slave holders Rebellion."  He was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel. for this work and later commanded the 2nd Brigade, Third Division of the 17th Army Corps, of which the 78th was a part.  He was brevetted a Major-General.  Likewise, Greenbury F. Wiles commanded the regiment while a Colonel, was promoted to 2nd Brigade command, and brevetted a Brigadier-General.   (Photo credits: Leggett, U. S. Army; Wiles, Mike D. Wiles)


The MIDI file of "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" is used by permission of

Benjamin Robert Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music.