Soldier: Charles Smith Hiskett
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 23
Date Entering Service: 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Suffered a gunshot wound to the head which resulting in deafness. Mustered out with Company 6/31/1864. Charles’ younger brother, John M Hiskett, also served in the 3rd OVI Company I.
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 4/29/1861
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stones Over, 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:
Charles Smith Hiskett was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 2/7/1838. On 11/9/1865 he married Sarah A Wood in Mt Gilead, Ohio, six children were born of this union. Charles and his family lived and farmed in Missouri and Kansas. Sarah died in 1899. Charles collected an invalid’s pension on 10/6/1888.
Date of Death: 6/5/1910 Place of burial: Hallsville Cemetery, Hallsville, Missouri
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery