The 75th OVI then participated in the subsequent Northern Virginia Campaign and fought in the Second Battle of Bull Run, where it lost 113 men. It fought again at Cross Keys before being sent eastward to reinforce the Union troops after the Peninsula Campaign. On May 8, 1862, at the Battle of McDowell, the regiment lost 87 men. It soon participated in defending what became known as Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. The 75th was initially sent to augment the Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. The regiment began its service with 984 officers and men. The infantry regiment was organized at Camp John McLean near Cincinnati, Ohio, from November 7, 1861, to January 8, 1862, to serve three years. It served in the Eastern Theater, most notably in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and then in the siege operations against Charleston, South Carolina. The 75th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment from southwestern Ohio in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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