Soldier: Cyrus Devore
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: July 26, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Killed at the battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas, on January 11, 1863.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Cyrus Devore was from the town of Waldo, Marion County, Ohio. Prior to the war he had attended college at Ohio Wesleyan and Oberlin. His mother, Edith Phillips, collected applied for his pension on Nov. 8, 1883. While it was stated that he was buried at Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas, his body might also have been brought home to Waldo for burial.
Date of Death: Jan. 11, 1863 Place of burial: Wyatt Cemetery, Waldo, Ohio
Adopted By: Rob and Sharon Hickson Researcher: Patrick Drouhard