Soldier: Benjamin Franklin Tyler
Regiment: 31st.. OVI
Company: E
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: August 27, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Reduced from Sergeant (date not given); mustered out on September 24, 1864. On March 30, 1865, enlisted in the 4th. OVC, Unassigned Recruits. No further record available.
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
Other interesting information discovered:
Benjamin Tyler was born in Delaware County, Ohio. In 1860 he was living in Cardington Township, Morrow County. An older brother, Francis was in the same regiment. Tyler is shown to be living in Ironton, Wisconsin by 1880. He was married in Wisconsin; his wife’s name was Hannah Costerisan.
Date of Death: April 11, 1910 Place of burial: Resting Green Cemetery, Ironton, Wis.
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard