Soldier: William Jasper Lottridge
Regiment: 57th. OVI
Company: I
Age: 24
Date Entering Service: October 21, 1861, Findlay, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out on April 13, 1862. William Lottridge was wounded on April 6, 1862 at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. He died of his wounds seven days later.
Battles in which he fought:
Shiloh, Tenn. April 6, 1862
Other interesting information discovered: At one time, William Lottridge lived in McArthur, Ohio. When he enlisted in 1861, he was married (Melissa) and had two children, who survived. William Lottridge was a brother to McDonald Lottridge, also of Cardington.
Date of Death: April 13, 1862
Place of burial: Unknown, but probably in Tennessee
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard