Soldier:  Sergeant Yelverton P. Barry

Regiment:  66^th. OVI       

Company:  K 

Age:  29           

Date Entering Service:  October 29, 1861 at Camp McArthur, Urbana, OH. 

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Yelverton Barry was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia in May, 1863.  On November 4, 1863 he was discharged by a surgeon’s certificate of disability.

Battles in which he fought:

Port Royal, Va.                                                  June 9, 1862

Cedar Mountain, Va.                                         August 9, 1862

Antietam, Md.                                                   September 17, 1862

Dumfries, Va.                                                    December 27, 1862

Chancellorsville, Va.                                           May 1-4, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Yelverton Barry was one of the few soldiers with ties to Cardington Township that fought with the Army of the Potomac in the eastern theatre of war.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 96 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.

 

Date of Death:  October 22, 1904            Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio.

Adopted By:  Roger Klinefelter                                          Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard