Soldier: Robert P. Demuth
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: July 26, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Died of pneumonia on February 7, 1863 at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Robert Demuth is shown living near Cardington in 1860. He died at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri. His body was brought back to Cardington for burial. Robert’s brother, John also died of pneumonia about two years later at Louisville, Kentucky.
Date of Death: February 7, 1863 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH.
Adopted By: James Patterson Researcher: Patrick Drouhard