Soldier: Peter D. Wilson
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 29
Date Entering Service: August 18, 1861, at Cardington, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Wounded on April 8, 1864 at Sabin Cross Roads (right shoulder); confined to a field hospital and then taken prisoner. Confined at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas. Discharged on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
In 1850 Peter Wilson is shown to be living in Cardington. He listed his occupation as carpenter. After the war, in 1870 he shows up living in Salt Creek Iowa. Eventually he came back to the Cardington area, where he remained for the rest of his life. His wife’s name was Emma. Beginning in January 1865, Wilson kept a diary, which is now in possession of the Morrow County Historical society, a gift of Mr. George Olson of Woodhull, Illinois. Mr. Olson was an art professor at Wooster College. He obtained the diary from a thrift shop near Granville, Ohio in the mid-1980’s.
Date of Death: Sept. 21, 1890 Place of burial: Baptist Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
