Soldier: Isaac Melville Bennett
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 6/28/1864
Period of Service: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out on 6/15/1865 by order of the War Department at Beaufort, North Carolina
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, North Carolina 3/5/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Isaac Melville Bennett was born in Cardington, Ohio on 10/24/1847. After the War, Isaac moved to Illinois where he became a farmer. Isaac marred Emily Ann Austin in 1877, two children were born of this union. Isaac collected an invalid’s pension in March of 1880. Emily collected a widow’s pension on 11/2/1911.
Date of Death: 10/27/1911 Place of burial: Tower Hill Cemetery, Tower Hill, Illinois
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery