Soldier: William F Wallace
Regiment: 174th OVI Company: A
5th OVI I
Age: 27
Date Entering Service: 174th OVI: 7/25/1864
5th OVI: 6/24/1861
Period of Service: 174th OVI: one year
5th OVI: one year 8 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
174th OVI: Mustered in as a Private, appointed First Sergeant on 8/18/1864, promoted to Second Lieutenant on 12/30/1864, mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865.
5th OVI: Discharged with disability on 2/18/1863
Battles in which he fought:
174th OVI:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12//4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, Kinston, North Carolina 3/7/1865
5th OVI:
Battle of Winchester, Virginia 3/23/1862
Battle of Port Republic, Virginia 6/9/1862
Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia 8/9/1862
Battle of Antietam, Maryland 9/17/1862
Battle of Dumfries, Virginia 12/27/1862
Other interesting information discovered:
The 1850 Morrow County, Ohio census shows William F Wallace was living with his parents, William and Elizabeth Wallace in North Bloomfield, Morrow County. He collected an invalids pension on 12/4/1885.
Date of Death: Sept., 1907 Place of burial: Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, WVa.
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery