Soldier: David Leroy Blue
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 7/26/1864
Period of Service: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865
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, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
David Leroy Blue was born in Ohio on 4/6/1846. After the War David moved to Iowa. He married Caroline E Newton on 10/30/1870, four children were born of this union. David was a farmer and also worked as a Yardmaster and Conductor for the Rail Road. He collected an invalid’s pension on 9/18/1890. Caroline collected a widow’s pension on 1/5/1926.
Date of Death: 9/16/1926 Place of burial: Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery