Soldier: James Mortimer Stiles
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1864
Period of Service: 11 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Creek, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
John Mortimer Stiles was born on 10/15/1847 in Galena, Illinois. His father, George P Stiles served as a Lieutenant with the 31st OVI Company E during the War. John married Luella Goodman in Morrow County, Ohio on 10/12/1869, two children were born of this union. John and his family lived in Cardington where he was a clerk in a dry goods store. Sometime after 1870 he and his family moved to Illinois. It appears that Luella died before 1890. On 5/19/1890 John married Augusta A Holmes in Cook County, Illinois. John was employed as a paints and oils dealer while living in Illinois. It appears that John and Augusta divorced. On 11/14/1901 he married Emily V Hubbard, also known as Virginia. John collected an invalid’s pension on 12/27/1904, his wife Emily collected a widow’s pension on 11/25/1917. Stiles died at Frederick, Virginia.
Date of Death: 9/30/1917 Place of burial: unknown
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery