Soldier: Lewis W. Bendle
Regiment: 174th. OVI Company: A
129th. OVI H
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 129th OVI: 7/20/1863
174th OVI: 7/25/1864
Period of Service: 129th. OVI: 6 months. 174th. OVI: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
129th. OVI: mustered out with company 3/10/1864
174th. OVI: mustered out with company 6/25/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, Not Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Lewis W Bendle was born on December 12, 1846. As a young boy he lived in Morrow and Knox County area. He married Mary Ann Coykendall in Marion, Ohio on 10/12/1874, five children were born of this union. After the War Lewis was a farmer in the Cardington and Mt Gilead area. He collected an invalid’s pension on 9/30/1925.
Date of Death: 12/11/1926 Place of burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: In memory of the late Don Bowers, and Judy Bowers
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
