Louis Renninger (August 25, 1841 - November 17, 1908) was a Union soldier who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Civil War. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South
On May 22, 1863, Renninger was one of 150 Union soldiers who volunteered to lead an assault on the Confederate heights at the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Background See also [[Vicksburg Campaign]] After crossing the Mississippi south of Vicksburg at Bruinsburg and driving northeast Grant had won battles at Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States The plan was for the volunteer storming party to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack. The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called a "forlorn hope" in nineteenth century vernacular. Forlorn hope is a military term that comes from the Dutch verloren hoop, literally "lost heap" and adapted as "lost troop" Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment and it was a failure. The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body under the command of General Grant, the men of the forlorn hope were unable to retreat until nightfall. Of the 150 men in the storming party, two-thirds were killed. Corporal Louis Renninger of Company H, 37th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was one of the survivors and for his gallantry, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1894. Heading to Oregon after the war, Renninger and his wife Elizabeth had a family farm in the Mohawk district of Lane County, Oregon. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Lane County is a county in the US state of Oregon. In 2000 its population was 322959 He is buried in the Eugene Pioneer Cemetery. Eugene Pioneer Cemetery is a pioneer Cemetery in Eugene Oregon, United States.
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