Soldier: George D. Zent
Regiment: 31st.. OVI
Company: E
Age: 39
Date Entering Service: August 27, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred to Company I on April 24, 1864. Sick July 20, 1864 at Camp Dennison, Ohio. Mustered out July 20, 1865 by order of the War Dept. at Louisville, Ky.
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, 1864
Other interesting information discovered:
George Zent married Emily Earl on March 12, 1847 at Delaware, Ohio. In 1860 he is shown to be living in Cardington Township, Morrow County. The same for 1870. He died there in 1876.
Date of Death: June 17, 1876 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Oh.
Adopted By: Morrow County Veteran Services Researcher: Patrick Drouhard