Soldier: Asher Ely Campbell
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 44
Date Entering Service: 9/1/1864
Period of Service: 9 months 27 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company 6/23/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overalls 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:
Asher Ely Campbell was born in Pennsylvania in 1820. On 3/5/1848n he married Adelia Purvis in Marion, Ohio, ten children were born of this union. Asher was a carpenter and house builder. He collected an invalid’s prison on 3/29/1891. He suffered from heart disease and died in 1894. His wife, Adelia, collected a widow’s pension on 2/19/1894.
Date of Death: 2/10/1894 Place of burial: Bethel Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: The Village of Cardington
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery