Soldier: Thomas Wesley Long
Regiment: 116th. NYVI
Company: I
Age: 22
Date Entering Service: August 5, 1862, Buffalo, NY
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Discharged on July 5, 1865. He was never wounded, nor taken prisoner.
Battles in which he fought:
Siege of Port Hudson, La. May 23-July 8, 1863
Bayou La Fourche, La. June 14, 1863
Sabine Pass, Tex. Sept. 8, 1863
Carrion Crow Bayou, La. Oct. 15, 1863
Red River Campaign, La. March 10-May 22, 1864
New Market, Va. Sept. 24, 1864
Newtown, Va. Nov. 12, 1864
Other interesting information discovered: During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 3 officers, 58 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 2 officers, 36 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 2 officers, 124 enlisted men; total 7 officers, 218 enlisted men; aggregate, 223; of whom 4 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.
While Long served in a regiment in the state of New York, he moved to Cardington after the war. He is shown living there in the 1870 and 1880 census records. He was a harness and saddle maker. Long was a charter member of the James St. John GAR post in Cardington.
Date of Death: January 9, 1893
Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
