Soldier: Chester Thompson
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: Aug. 17, 1862 at Camp Delaware
Period of Service: 2 years 11 months 25 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed Corporal on 3/15/1863 transferred to Company B as a Private. Mustered out on July 29, 1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi 12/28 to 29/1862
Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas 1/11/1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi 5/18 to 7/4/1863
Battle of Jackson, Mississippi 7/9 to 16/1863
Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana 11/3/1863
Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana 4/8/1864
Battle of Monetis Bluff, Louisiana 4/23/1864
Battle of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama 8/5 to 23/1864
Battle of Spanish Fort, Alabama 3/26 to 4/8/1865
Battle of Fort Blakely, Alabama 4/9/1865
Siege of Mobile, Alabama 3/26 to 4/12/1865
Battle of Whistlers Station, Alabama 4/13/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Chester Thompson was born in Portage County, Ohio on 7/30/1844. He married Almya Henry in Morrow County on 11/4/1875, one child was born of this union. Sometime after the War Chester moved to Monroe, Ohio where he was a carpenter and a farmer. He collected an invalid’s pension on 10/6/890. Almya collected a widow’s pension on 3/30/1914.
Date of Death: 3/19/1914 Place of burial: Grelton Cemetery, Grelton, Ohio
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
