The 59th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Ripley, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 12–23, 1861,[1] under the command of Colonel James P. Fyffe.
The regiment was attached to 11th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to December 1861.
11th Brigade, 5th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863.
3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to September 1864.
Unattached, 4th Division, XX Corps, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864.
Tullahoma, Tennessee, Defenses of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864.
The majority of 59th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service on October 31, 1864.
Recruits and non-veterans were kept in the service as Companies I and K, 59th Ohio Infantry and mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on June 28 and July 16, 1865.
March to Stevenson, Ala., via Iuka, Miss., Tuscumbia, Florence, Huntsville and Athens, Ala., June 12-July 24; thence to Battle Creek and duty there until August 20.
Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign[1] August 16-September 22.
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Transferred to XXIII Corps and ordered to Tullahoma, Tenn., thence to Nashville, Tenn., October 24.