Soldier: Francis M. Tyler
Regiment: 31st.. OVI
Company: E
Age: 24
Date Entering Service: August 28, 1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred to Company I on April 24, 1864. Mustered out with his company on September 19, 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Battles in which he fought:
Corinth, Miss. April 30, 1862
Trinity, Al. July 24, 1862
Stone River, Tenn. Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863
Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn. June 23-30, 1863
Hoover’s Gap, Tenn. June 24, 1863
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Brown’s Ferry, Oct. 27, 1863
Mission Ridge, Tenn. Nov. 25, 1863
Resaca, Ga. May 13-16, 1864
Kenesaw Mt., Ga. June 27, 1860
Peachtree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Siege of Atlanta, Ga. July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864
Other interesting information discovered:
Frances Tyler was an older brother to Benjamin Tyler, who served in the same company and regiment. In 1860 he lived in Cardington Township, Ohio. In 1865 he married Ruth Conklin. They had moved to Washington, Wisconsin by 1870 and remained in that state for the remainder of their lives. He died in Madison.
Date of Death: March 6, 1899 Place of burial: Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Wis.
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard