Soldier: Spencer Booher
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 24
Date Entering Service: August 11, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred to Company B on November 18, 1864, mustered out with company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Moneti’s Bluff, La. April 23, 1864
Forts Gains and Morgan, La. Aug. 5-23, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Spencer Booher was born in Virginia in 1838. In 1860 he married Ruth Bartlow, and resided in Cardington. After the war he moved west to Missouri, where he died in 1873.
Date of Death: August 24, 1873 Place of burial: Presumed in the state of Missouri.
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Patrick Drouhard