Soldier: W.N. Rose (actual name is Henry N. Rose)
Regiment: 31st.. OVI
Company: E
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: August 28, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Henry Rose first enlisted on April 25, 1861, enrolling in the Company I of the 3rd. OVI. He was mustered out on August 22, 1861. He then enlisted in the 31st. OVI on the date provided. He was reduced in rank from corporal, mustered out with the company on July 20, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Battles in which he fought:
Corinth, Miss. April 30, 1862
Trinity, Al. July 24, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863
Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn. June 23-30, 1863
Hoover’s Gap, Tenn. June 24, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Brown’s Ferry, Oct. 27, 1863
Mission Ridge, Tenn. Nov. 25, 1863
Resaca, Ga. May 13-16, 1864
Kenesaw Mt., Ga. June 27, 1860
Peachtree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Siege of Atlanta, Ga. July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864
Thomas’ Station, Ga. Nov. 27-29, 1864
Goldsboro, NC March 21, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Henry Rose was married to Ella Utley. In 1860 he was living in Lincoln Township, Morrow County. By 1880 he was residing in Syracuse, Nebraska. His listed occupation was “well digger.”
Date of Death: 1906 Place of burial: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard