Soldier:  William Gurley Beatty

Regiment:  174^th. OVI                          

Company:  Field Staff

Age:  25                                               

Date Entering Service:  8/16/1864

Period of Service:  11 months 22 days

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

Promoted from Captain to Major on 12/20/1864.  Mustered out with Regiment on 7/14/1865.

William’s older brother, John W Beatty, became  Brigadier General in the 3^rd. OVI.

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                               12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                         12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina                                3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

William G Beatty was born in Erie County, Ohio on 9/5/1837. William followed his older brother, John to Cardington , Ohio in 1854. The brothers entered into the banking profession and through time became the proprietors of their own banking house, the Beatty Brothers Banking. The bank was located at 120 East Main Street, Cardington, Ohio. William married Viola Rees in 1870, five children were born of this union. Viola collected a widow’s pension on 3/20/1899.  Beatty died at Pueblo County, Colorado.

Date of Death:  1/31/1899                     Place of burial:  Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio

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

Researcher: Velda L Montgomery