Soldier: Job Garberson
Regiment: 3rd. OVI Company: I
174th. OVI Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 6/15/1861 in 3rd. OVI
7/27/1864 in 174th. OVI
Period of Service: 3 years; one year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Wounded at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky on 10/8/1862. Mustered out with Company on 6/21/1864 in 3rd OVI. 174th: promoted to Sergeant 8/18/1864, reduced in ranks on 11/17/1864, Mustered out 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia 7/6/1861
Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia 7/11/1861
Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama 4/29/1862
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stones River, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama 4/30/1863
Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama 5/1/1863
Battle of Blounts farm, Alabama 5/2/1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Job Garberson was born in Marion, Ohio on 6/11/1842. Job married Alcinda Devon on 8/26/1865. It is unknown how this marriage ended. On 11/18/1882 Job married Arminta Briles in the State of Kansas. Records reveal that Job was a lawyer in 1860 while he lived in Morrow County. By 1880 Job was living in Peoria, Franklin County, Kansas. Job was also a farmer. Job received an invalid’s pension on 3/5/1890. Arminta received a widow’s pension on 2/1/1913
Date of Death: December 25, 1912
Place of burial: Kansas Veterans Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Kansas
Adopted By: Morrow County Veterans Services
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery