Soldier: George Samuel Singer
Regiment: 96th OVI
Company: C
Age: 24
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1862
Period of Service: 2 years 9 months 4 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Promoted to Fifth Sergeant on 11/181/1864 and transferred to Company B. Hospitalized on 7/27/1863 in Memphis, Tennessee. Discharged at Mobile, Alabama on 4/29/1865
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:
George Samuel Singer was born in Maryland on 9/15/1837. He was married twice. On 3/7/1859 he married Anna Marie Roach in Morrow County, Ohio. Anna died in 1896. George then married Sarah Louise Brady in 1896. George had four children. George lived in Cardington, Ohio all of his life. He was a farmer and was also employed as a Livery and Drayman. He collected an invalid’s pension on 6/4/1883. Louise collected a widow’s pension on 11/13/1911
Date of Death: 10/27/1911 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Gompf Funeral Service Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
