Soldier: Samuel L. Milligan
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1864
Period of Service: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Samuel was a Corporal in Company A of the 174th. OVI. He died of disease on 5/7/1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Samuel L Milligan was born in Columbiana, Ohio on 6/1/1845. He lived in Cardington, Ohio prior to the War. His mother, Ruth Milligan received his pension on 12/31/1887.
Date of Death: 5/7/1865
Place of burial: Raleigh National Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Adopted By: Veteran of Foreign Wars of Ohio Researcher: Velda L Montgomery