Soldier: Melville Maxwell
Regiment: 3rd. Ohio Infantry
Company: I
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: 4/25/1861
Period of Service: 3 years 3 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Discharged 6/21/1864
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia 6/11/861
Battle of Middle Creek Fork, West Virginia 7/6/1861
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 Over, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama 4/30/1863
Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama 5//1/1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Melville Maxwell was born in 1840. The 1860 Census shows he was living in the Marion County, Ohio area. Melville married Hettie Oliver on 5/7/1863 in Morrow County, Ohio, two children were born of this union. Sometime after the war Melville and his family moved to Jackson, Linn County, Missouri where he was a farmer. The 1890 Census shows that Melville moved to Cardington, Ohio. He collected an invalid’s pension on 2/16/1888. His wife, Hettie collected his pension on 5/27/1899 after his death in 1897.
Date of Death: 1897 Place of burial: Scotts Cemetery, Van Wert, Ohio
Adopted By: Sons of Union Veterans Researcher: Velda L Montgomery