Soldier: Lewis S. Barge
Regiment: 174th OVI
Company: A
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: 7/27/1864
Period of Service: one year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed Corporal 6/15/1865. Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overalls Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, Kinston, North Carolina 3/7 to 10/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Lewis S. Barge was born on 6/2/1843. He and his wife Minnie lived in the Cardington, Ohio area where Lewis was employed in the farm and stock business. Sometime after 1880 he and his family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana where he was employed as a foreman at a carriage factory.
Lewis collected an invalid’s pension on 12/16/1889. His wife Minnie received the widow’s pension on 7/2/1823.
Date of Death: 6/24/1923 Place of burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
