Soldier: John Conger
Regiment: 174th. OVI Company: K
181st. OVI G
43rd. OVI B
Age: 27
Date Entering Service: 10/6/1864
Period of Service: 174th and 181st OVI: 1 year 3 months 8 days
43rd OVI: 3 months 8n days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
43rd OVI: entered service on 9/14/1861 and mustered out on 12/22/1861.
Transferred to the 181st OVI Company G on 6/13/1865, mustered out with Company on 7/14/1865
Battles in which he fought:
During his time in the 43rd OVI he most likely assisted in the evacuation of Decatur, Alabama, assisted in the attack at Murfreesboro and the advance at Raleigh in April 1865
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
John Conger was born in Knox County, Ohio on 11/21/1836. He married Rebecca J Mead on 10/18/1866, two sons were born of this union. John was a farmer and Mason in the Harmony Township area of Morrow County until his death in 1893. He collected an invalid’s pension on 3/30/1871. His wife Rebecca collected a widow’s pension on 5/10/1893.
Date of Death: 3/26/1893 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Village of Cardington Researcher: Velda L Montgomery