Soldier: Peleg Purvis
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 20
Date Entering Service: August 4, 1862
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Discharged March 7, 1863 on surgeon’s certificate of disability. St. Louis, Missouri
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Peleg Purvis lived in the Cardington area for his entire life. He married in 1867; his wife’s name was Hannah. At one time he was a brickmaker, later on he was a dairy farmer. In 1879 he applied for an invalid’s pension.
Date of Death: January 30, 1930 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH
Adopted By: In memory of Cecil and Phyllis Haycook; Don and Nancy Burdsall
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard