Soldier: Lieutenant Charles O. Oldfield
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 28
Date Entering Service: July 26, 1862
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Promoted from Sergeant Jan 26, 1863; to 1st. Lieutenant of Co. B on July 13, 1864. Mustered out with company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Moneti’s Bluff, La. April 23, 1864
Forts Gains and Morgan, La. Aug. 5-23, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered: Charles Oldfield was born at Canton, Ohio in 1834. Immediately prior to the war he lived in the Minster, Ohio. By 1870 he resided in Galion, Ohio and in 1880, Nevada, Ohio. His first wife, Sarah Armstrong, died in 1879. That same year he applied for an Invalid’s Pension, and was listed as being totally disabled. His second wife, Nellie, died in 1901. By occupation, he was a harness maker. He died in Erie County, Ohio; his grave lies in the Nevada Cemetery in Wyandotte County, Ohio.
Date of Death: March 16, 1920
Place of burial: Nevada Cemetery, Nevada, Ohio
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard