Soldier: William Fletcher Armstrong
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: June 15, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out with company on June 21, 1864. At some point he is shown to have been enlisted in the 2nd Missouri Cavalry.
Battles in which he fought:
Elkwater, W.Va. Sept. 11, 1861
Bridgeport, Al. April 29, 1862
Perryville, Ky. Oct. 8, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862
Sand Mountain, Ala. April 30, 1863
Black Warrior Creek, Ala. May 1, 1863
Blounts Farm, Ala. May 2, 1863
Other interesting information discovered: Armstrong was shown to be living in Morrow County in 1860. After the war he married Jennie Sutton. They are shown to be living in Iowa in the 1890’s. He died there in 1891.
Date of Death: Feb. 14, 1891
Place of burial: Logan, Iowa (cemetery unknown)
Adopted By: Jeff and Shelly Benson
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard