The 148th Infantry Regiment was designated in June 1846 at Camp Washington , OH , as the 2nd Regiment , Ohio Volunteer Infantry . The years of the Civil War brought several antecedents of the 148th Infantry , namely the 2nd and the 6th Ohio Volunteer Regiments . The 16th Infantry Regiment was formed in the area of Ohio now being served by the 148th Infantry . 1898 saw the 16th Regiment back on active duty as the 6th Ohio and moving once again to the deep South and within a year was moving by foot , rail and ship to Cienfuegos , Cuba and Trinidad . In the years following , men from the 2nd and 6th Ohio Regiments served in the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising , and in such peacetime service as at Dayton during the catastrophic flood of 1913
flood of 1913
Great Dayton Flood
148th Infantry Regiment (United States)