Soldier: Ambrose W. Wells
Regiment: 174tth. OVI
Company: C
Age: 25
Date Entering Service: Sept 3, 1864
Period of Service: 9 months 25 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out June 28, 1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek Dec 4, 1864
Batter of the Cedars Dec 7, 1864
The 1890 Veterans Federal Census reveals that Ambrose Wells was a Saddler in the 1st. Illinois Cavalry, Company E. He had enlisted on July 7, 1861 and was taken prisoner on October 11, 1861.
Other interesting information discovered:
Ambrose W Wells was born on January 3, 1839 in Richland County, Ohio. At age 65 he married Jenny H Meyers, age 60 on 9/12/1904. Jenny died in 1919. Ambrose lived to be 91 years old. A newspaper clipping found within the files of Find a Grave stated the following: “Civil War Man Passes Away: Ambrose Wells dies at Home, Age 91 years. O.S. and S Home 5-17 (Special) Ambrose Wells, 91, Civil War Veteran dies at Soldiers Home at Midnight Tuesday. Mr. Wells was one of the few men who crossed the Plains to California in the early days and encountered Indian tribes with which he became friendly.”
Date of Death: 5/6/1930 Place of burial: Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Oho
Adopted By: Morrow County Veteran Services Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
