Soldier: John Murray Hiskett
Regiment: 3rd OVI
Company: I
Age: 20
Date Entering Service: 4/25/1861 re-enlist 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 3 years 2 months 3 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Rank change to Corporal 7/15/1862, Rank change tom Sergeant 10/8/1862
Mustered out with Company 10/8/1862
John’s older brother, Charles S 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, Wit Virginia 7/11/1861
Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama 4/29/1862
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stones River, Tennessee 12/1/1862
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:
John Murray Hiskett was born on 11/8/1839 in Mt Gilead, Ohio. John married Lousia Juliette Norvell on 9/30/1875 in Sullivan, Missouri, three children were born of this union. John and his family lived and farmed in Grundy County, Missouri. John was also a carpenter. The 1910 Missouri census indicates at age 70, John was an Optician. John collected an invalid’s pension on 11/20/1890, his wife, Louisa collected a widow’s pension on 4/25/1914.
Date of Death: 4/20/1914
Place of burial: Richardson Cemetery, Laredo, Grundy County, Missouri
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery