Soldier: Jasper Mann
Regiment: 3rd. Ohio Infantry Company: I
174th. Ohio Infantry A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 4/25/1861
Period of Service: 3 months in 3rd. Ohio
1 year in 174th. Ohio
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Discharged from Ohio 3rd on 6/15/1861. Reduced from sergeant on 6/17/1865. Discharged from Ohio 174th on 6/28/1865. Jasper was wounded during the war suffering a gunshot wound to his back and left side. He also lost the thumb and index finger of his right hand.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia 6/11/1861
Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia 9/11/1861
Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama 4/27/1862
Battle of Perrysburg, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama 4/30/1863
Action at Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Occupation of Kinston, North Carolina 3/8/1864
Occupation of Goldsboro, North Carolina March thru April 1865
Occupation of Raleigh, North Carolina 4/13/1865
Other interesting information discovered: Jasper Mann was born in Cardington, Ohio in May of 1843. He married Julia White on 9/4/1865, nine children were born of this union. Jasper and his wife moved to Marshall County, Indiana sometime near 1880 where they are found living in Center Township. He was employed as a farmer and grain thrasher during his lifetime. Jasper was living at the U S National Home for Volunteers Soldiers in Dayton Ohio in 1910. Jasper received an invalid’s pension on 6/24/1880, his wife, Julia received a widow’s pension on 12/15/1911
Date of Death: 10/4/1911
Place of burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
Adopted By: In memory of Ronald Coleman
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery