Soldier: Caleb Kirk Heredien (Heredeen)
Regiment: 31st. OVI
Company: E
Age: 15
Date Entering Service: August 26, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Herendeen’s listed age was 18. He was actually just 15 years old when he enlisted. He mustered out on June 10, 1865 at Washington, DC.
Battles in which he fought:
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
Brown’s Ferry, Oct. 27, 1863
Mission Ridge, Tenn. Nov. 25, 1863
Resaca, Ga. May 13-16, 1864
Kenesaw Mt., Ga. June 27, 1860
Peachtree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Siege of Atlanta, Ga. July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864
Thomas’ Station, Ga. Nov. 27-29, 1864
Goldsboro, NC March 21, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Herendeen lived in Cardington Township as a youth, and when he entered the service. By 1872 he was living in Iowa. He married Locelia Waddell at Keokuk, Iowa in 1872. At some point he moved to California, where he died.
Date of Death: January 9, 1925 Place of burial: Inglewood Cemetery, Inglewood, Ca.
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard