Soldier: Selah Van Sickle
Regiment: 3rd. OVC
Company: M
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: January 4, 1864
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out on August 4, 1865 at Edgefield, Tennessee
Battles in which he fought:
Decatur, Courtland Rd., Ala. May 26-27, 1864
Moulton, Ala. May 28-29, 1864
Noonday Creek, Ga. June 20, 1864
Kenesaw Mt., Ga. June 27, 1864
Vining Station, Ga. July 2, 1864
Peach Tree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Jonesboro, Ga. Aug. 19-20, 1864
Lovejoy Station, Ga. Aug. 20, 1864
Other interesting information discovered:
Selah Van Sickle was born in Illinois in 1845. By 1850 he was living with his family in White Pigeon, Michigan, and in 1860, at Bennington Township, Morrow County, Ohio. He enlisted at Cardington. In 1880 he resided in Michigan and in 1900 Logan, Iowa. In 1912 he was a resident of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Hot Springs, South Dakota. He died at Hawarden, Iowa.
Date of Death: Oct. 23, 1913 Place of burial: Grace Hill Cemetery, Hawarden, Iowa
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard