Soldier: Philander Powers
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: June 15, 1861, at Cardington, OH
Period of Service: 3 months and then 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Wounded at the Battle of Perryville, Ky. on Sept. 8, 1862. Taken prisoner at the battle of Stone River Tenn., on December 31, 1863. Held in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. From January 12, 1863 to February 10, 1863 and then paroled. First mustered out on June 21, 1863, and finally on June 21, 1864.
Battles in which he fought:
Elkwater, W.Va. Sept. 11, 1861
Bridgeport, Al. April 29, 1862
Perryville, Ky. Oct. 8, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862
Other interesting information discovered:
Philander Powers was born at Westfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio and lived in and around Cardington, Ohio for his entire life. On March 14, 1863 he married Martha Herdman at Morrow County. He must have been home on leave at that time. He was a farmer and then a traveling salesman, his product being a patented medicine. He deemed most important during the war, the first march back from Huntsville, Al. to Louisville, Ky. in pursuit of Bragg’s Army, and the capture of Ft. Fizzle in Holmes County, Ohio in 1863.
Date of Death: March 26, 1926 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH.
Adopted By: In memory of Cecil and Phyllis Haycook
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
