Soldier: Edward L Rose
Regiment: 85th. OVI Company: C
10th. Cavalry B
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 85th OVI: 5/30/1862
10th Cavalry. 10/10/1862
Period of Service: 85th OVI: 3 months 23 days; 10th Cavalry: 2 years 9 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
85th OVI: Mustered out with Company on 9//23/1862
10th Cavalry: Mustered out with Company 7/24/1865
Battles in which he fought:
85th OVI: The 85th OVI organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio between May and June 1862 to guard a large number of Rebel prisoners. Soldiers mustered out between September 23 and September 27 1862, at expiration of service.
10th Cavalry:
Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia 9/19 to 20/1863
Battle of Cosby Creel\k, Tennessee 1/14/1864
Battle of Tunnel Hill, Georgia 5/2/1864
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia 7/28 to 9/2/1864
Battle of Sweetwater, Georgia 10/1 to 3/1864
Battle of Bear Creek Station, Georgia 11/16/1864
Battle of Waynesboro, Georgia 12/4/1864
Battle of Aiken, South Carolina 2/11/1865
Battle of Monroe Cross Roads, North Carolina 3/10/1865
Battle of Averysboro, North Carolina 3/16 to 20/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Edward L Rose was born in Ohio in the year 1847. His older brother, David C Rose, Captain in the 31st OVI Company E died of typhoid fever at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky in 1861. His younger brother, Alonzo J Rose served in the 5th Independent Battalion and the 13th Cavalry.
Little is known about Edward’s personal life. On 7/8/1889 Mary P Rose received a widows pension and on 2/12/1898 a minor, Leonard E Rose received a minor’s pension.
Date of Death: 1880 Place of burial: unknown
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery