Soldier: Oscar May
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: April 25, 1861, Camp Jackson, Ohio
Period of Service: 3 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out on August 22, 1861 upon completion of term of service. May was part of the first call for volunteers, when the war was expected to be short lived. He did not re-enlist at the end of his three months.
Battles in which he fought:
He was not involved in any battle.
Other interesting information discovered:
May’s last years were spent at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in 1929
Date of Death: March 29, 1929 Place of burial: Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, Sandusky, OH