Soldier: McDonald Lottridge
Regiment: 26th. OVI
Company: E
Age: 23
Date Entering Service: July 4, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out on July 27, 1864 at Nashville, Tenn. He suffered a gunshot wound to the knee.
Battles in which he fought:
Shiloh, Tenn. April 6-7, 1862
Corinth, Miss. May 30, 1862
Perryville, Ky. Oct. 8, 1862
Stone Rive, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862; Jan 1-2, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Mission Ridge, Tenn. Nov. 25, 1863
Rocky Face Ridge, Tenn. May 5-9, 1863
Resaca, Ga. May 13-16, 1864
Adairsville, Ga. May 17-18, 1864
Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. June 27, 1864
Other interesting information discovered: McDonald Lottridge spent the latter years of his life in soldiers’ homes in Dayton and Sandusky, Ohio. He died at Sandusky. He was the younger brother of William Jasper Lottridge, also living at Cardington at the start of the war and who died of wounds sustained on the first day of fighting at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (April 6, 1862)
Date of Death: July 9, 1909
Place of burial: Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard