Soldier: Sergeant Yelverton P. Barry
Regiment: 66th. OVI
Company: K
Age: 29
Date Entering Service: October 29, 1861 at Camp McArthur, Urbana, OH.
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Yelverton Barry was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia in May, 1863. On November 4, 1863 he was discharged by a surgeon’s certificate of disability.
Battles in which he fought:
Port Royal, Va. June 9, 1862
Cedar Mountain, Va. August 9, 1862
Antietam, Md. September 17, 1862
Dumfries, Va. December 27, 1862
Chancellorsville, Va. May 1-4, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Yelverton Barry was one of the few soldiers with ties to Cardington Township that fought with the Army of the Potomac in the eastern theatre of war.
Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 96 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.
Date of Death: October 22, 1904 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio.
Adopted By: Roger Klinefelter Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
