The 57th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Vance[1] in Findlay, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on December 12, 1861,[2] under the command of ColonelWilliam Mungen.[3]
The regiment was attached to District of Paducah, Kentucky, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee,[2] to May 1862. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July 1862. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tennessee, to November 1862. 4th Brigade, 5th Division, Right Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Memphis, XIII Corps, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to September 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps, to July 1865. Department of Arkansas to August 1865.
The 57th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service on August 14, 1865, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
1862
Moved to Camp Chase, Ohio, January 22, 1862.
Ordered to Paducah, Ky., February 18.
Duty at Paducah, Ky., until March 6, 1862.
Moved to Savannah, Tenn., March 6–10.
Expedition to Yellow Creek and occupation of Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14–17.
Expedition to Eastport, Miss., and Chickasaw, Ala., April 1–2.
Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 2; then to Little Rock, Ark., and duty there until August.
The regiment lost a total of 319 men during service; 4 officers and 77 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 234 enlisted men died of disease.
Ohio Roster Commission (1887). 54th–69th Regiments—Infantry. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865. Vol.V. Akron, OH: The Werner Ptg. and Mfg. Co. p.828. OCLC181357575.