Soldier: Myron Cady
Regiment: 31st. OVI
Company: E
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: August 27, 1861 at Cardington, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Wounded on September 19, 1863 at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, and confined to Hospital #8 at Nashville, Tennessee. Transferred to Company I on April 24, 1863 and then to the Veteran Reserve Corp on December 28, 1863. Mustered out on September 11, 1864.
Battles in which he fought:
Trinity, Al. July 24, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863
Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn. June 23-30, 1863
Hoover’s Gap, Tenn. June 24, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
While Myron Cady grew up and lived around Cardington, by 1880 he is shown to be living in Willow, Wisconsin. By 1900 he was living in Columbus, with his residence in 1910 being listed as Blendon. He died at Westerville, Ohio.
In a sketch in which he was featured in the late 1880’s he said this: he deemed most important “Company E fight at Trinity Station where 23 brave boys after being surprised by 3 or 4 hundreds of Mosby’s cavalry – repulsed them and drove them off killing 3 and wounding 15. Our loss was one killed and 11 wounded.”
Date of Death: February 14, 1927 Place of burial: Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville, OH
Adopted By: The Village of Cardington
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
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