Soldier:  James Alexander Blair

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                   

Company:  I

Age:  20                       

Date Entering Service:  September 2, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Promoted to corporal on January 2, 1863.  Transferred to 33^rd. OVI on June 18, 1864.  He was confined to the hospital at Elkwate, WVa. And Chattanooga, Tenn.  He as taken prisoner on May 3, 1863 at Cedar Bluff, Al. by NB Forrest.  Confined at Atlanta, Belle Island, Va. From May 3-16, and then paroled.  Discharged on September 9, 1864 at Atlanta, Georgia. 

Battles in which he fought:

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 31, 1862

Cedar Bluffs, Al.                                     May 3, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

James Blair returned to Morrow County and remained there for the rest of his life.

Date of Death:  May 29, 1924              Place of burial:  Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, OH

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard