Soldier: John Bennett
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: August 8, 1862 at Delaware, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Discharged January 15, 1863 at Memphis, Tennessee on a surgeon’s certificate of disability.
Battles in which he fought:
While his regiment was engaged in the battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi. Bennett was most likely sick and not with his regiment.
Other interesting information discovered:
The 96th. regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 46 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 286 Enlisted men by disease. Total 339.
Date of Death: May 5, 1893. Place of burial: Bethel Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted by: Charlie and Christine Long
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard