Soldier: Gilbert B McWhirk
Regiment: 3rd OVI
Company: G
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: 6/20/1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed Sergeant from Corporal on 10/8/1862. Mustered out with Company on 6/21/1864
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 4/29/1862
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama 4/30/1863
Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama 5/1/1863
Battle of Blount’s Farm, Alabama 5/2/1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Gilbert B McWhirk was born in Ohio in the year 1842. He married Mary Elizabeth “Molly” Knott in January of 1865. He was a Bookkeeper for Oil Mill in Lincoln Township of Morrow County in 1870. He later moved to Indiana. Gilbert applied for an invalid’s pension on 3/29/1889. Mary remarried after Gilberts death in 1876, she then applied for a widow’s pension on 3/19/1879.
Date of Death: 4/28/1876 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Gleaners Insurance Researcher: Velda L Montgomery