Soldier: Benjamin J. Meeker
Regiment: 3rd OVI
Company: I
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 4/25/1861
re-enlisted 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 3 years 3 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Records found in Find a Grave indicated that Benjamin enlisted with his four brothers on 4/25/1861. He was wounded at the Battle of Stone River on 12/31/1862. He mustered out with his company on 6/21/1864. Pension records reveal Benjamin also served in the 18th Regiment, Company G, from 4/3/1865 to 10/9/1865.
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 Perrysburg, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Batter of Stones 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:
Benjamin Meeker was born in Morrow County, Ohio in the year 1842. Benjamin married Hannah Smith in Marion Ohio on 1/3/1870, one child was born of this union. Benjamin was a farmer in the Marion County, Ohio area. Benjamin filed for an invalid’s pension on 10/8/1880. Hannah received a widow’s pension on 2/14/1883.
Date of Death: 8/19/1882
Place of burial: Shawtown Cemetery, Westfield Twp., Morrow County
Adopted By: Gleaner Insurance Researcher: Velda L Montgomery