Soldier:  Slocum B. Barge

Regiment:  31^st.^. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  23                       

Date Entering Service:  September 24, 1861, Camp Chase, Columbus

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Mustered out on July 20, 1865 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, 1864

Peachtree Creek, Ga.                             July 20, 1864

Siege of Atlanta, Ga.                              July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864

Thomas’ Station, Ga.                             Nov. 27-29, 1864

Goldsboro, NC                                      March 21, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Slocum Barge lived near Cardington for his entire life.

Date of Death:  March 23, 1923              Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH

Adopted By:  In memory of the late Don Bowers, and Judy Bowers   

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard