The 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry War Album was
compiled and published by Captain L.W. Howard of Toledo, Ohio. The
6th O.V. I. served with the occupation forces in Cuba following
the Spanish American War. Company B was
organized in Sandusky, Ohio as Co. B, Sixteenth Regiment Infantry, Ohio
National Guard. The soldiers served from April 1898 to May 1899.
Here is a
picture of the Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of Company B in April,
1898:
On Thanksgiving
in 1898, Company B of the 1st West Virginia regiment served
Thanksgiving dinner to Co. B, 6th Ohio in Knoxville, Ohio.
This historic
photograph in the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center shows Company B’s
return to Sandusky in May of 1899.
