Soldier: John Reasoner
Regiment: 3rd. OVI Company: I
174th. OVI K
Age: 20
Date Entering Service: 3rd OVI: 4/25/1861
re-enlisted 6/15/1861
174th OVI: 9/13/1864
Period of Service: 3 years 3rd OVI
8 months 28 days 174th OVI
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
3rd OVI: appointed Corporal 10/81862, mustered out with Company 6/21/1864
174th OVI: Achieved rank of Sergeant mustered out with Company 6/28/1865
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:
John S Reasoner was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio on 11/11/1838. He lived in Morrow and Marion Counties as a young boy. On 7/23/1865 he married Netta (Netti) Goldey in Morrow County., four children were born of this union. Sometime after 1880 John moved to the State of Oregon where he was a farmer. He received an invalid’s pension on 3/4/1891. Netti received a widow’s pension on 3/7/1911.
Date of Death: 1/24/1911
Place of burial: Monument Cemetery, Grant County, Oregon
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery