Soldier: Alfred McDonald
Regiment: 9th. OVC
Company: K
Age: 20
Date Entering Service: October 27, 1863, Camp Dennison, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred from the 12th. OVC.
Captured on July 18, 1864 at Dadeville, Alabama during Rousseu’s Raid through Alabama and Georgia. He was imprisoned at Andersonville Prison and other prisons for the duration of the war.
Mustered out on June 12, 1865 at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio
Battles in which he fought:
Florence, Al. April 13, 1864
Center Star, Al. May 16, 1864
Rousseu’s Raid, Alabama and Georgia July 11-22, 1864
Other interesting information discovered:
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 186 Enlisted men by disease. Total 205.
There were several soldiers from Cardington imprisoned at Andersonville. Undoubtedly, they were in contact with one another during their confinement.
He died at the age of 36 at Mt. Gilead, Ohio in 1879
Date of Death: November 13, 1879 Place of burial: Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, OH
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard