Soldier: Joel G. Blue
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: April 25, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Joel Blue was promoted from sergeant to 2nd. Lieutenant on January 21, 1862, and then to 1st. Lieutenant on October 8, 1862. He was elevated to the rank of Captain following the deaths of Captains James St. John and Henry Cunard, who were both killed on October 8, 1862 at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. He was taken prisoner at Rome, Ga. on May 2, 1863, and was confined at Macon Georgia and Columbia, SC before being paroled. He was finally discharged from the army on Feb. 20, 1865.
Battles in which he fought:
Corinth, Miss.
Perryville, Ky. Oct. 8, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862
Mission Ridge, Tenn.
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Joel Blue was one of three sons of Daniel and Welthy Blue to serve during the Civil Was. Younger brothers David and Abner also served.
Date of Death: Feb. 8, 1883 Place of burial: Bethel Cemetery, Cardington, OH
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
