Soldier: Ezra D Shreve
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: 7/30/1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
November 18, 1864 transferred to Company D. Mustered out at Mobile, Alabama on 7/7/1865.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi 12/28 to 29/1862
Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas 1/11/1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi 5/18 to 7/4/1863
Battle of Jackson, Mississippi 7/9 to 16/1863
Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana 11/3/1863
Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana 4/8/1864
Battle of Monetis Bluff, Louisiana 4/23/1864
Battle of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama 8/5 to 23/1864
Battle of Spanish Fort, Alabama 3/26 to 4/8/1865
Battle of Fort Blakely, Alabama 4/9/1865
Siege of Mobile, Alabama 3/26 to 4/12/1865
Battle of Whistlers Station, Alabama 4/13/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Ezra D Shreve was born on 2/1/1841 in Mahoning County, Ohio. He married Cecilia Pettet in Morrow County, Ohio on 8/9/1862, three children were born of this union. Ezra was a carpenter while living in the Morrow County area. He later moved his family to Wichita, Kansas where he was employed as a school janitor. Ezra collected an invalid’s pension on 7/7/1890. Cecilia collected a widow’s pension on June 18, 1910.
Date of Death: 6/10/1910 Place of burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita Kansas
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery