Soldier: Timothy O’Shay (correct spelling O’Shea)
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: June 15, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Captured while raiding near Rome, Georgia in 1863; taken to Richmond; exchanged; mustered out with company June 21, 1864 (Strait’s Raid).
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 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:
Timothy O’Shea was born in Ireland. After the war he moved to Cleveland, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was married to Maria O’Shea. He was a baggage master. In 1892 he filed for an invalid’s pension.
Date of Death: Dec. 22, 1910 Place of burial: St. John’s Catholic Cem, Cleveland, OH
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard