Soldier: John Fields
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 23
Date Entering Service: 8/18/1864
Period of Service: 10 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
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 Fields (John Felds) was born in Germany on 4/16/1840. He married Catherine Long in Morrow County, Ohio on 3/31/1867, two children were born of this union. He collected an invalid’s pension on 6/25/1890. John lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio area until his death in 1903.
Date of Death: 7/12/1903 Place of burial: Rivercliff Cemetery, Gilead, Ohio
Adopted By: Morrow County Veterans Services
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery