Soldier:  Spencer Booher

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                 

Company:  C

Age:  24                       

Date Entering Service:  August 11, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Transferred to Company B on November 18, 1864, mustered out with company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama. 

Battles in which he fought:

Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss.                           Dec. 28-29, 1862

Arkansas Post, Ark.                                            Jan. 11, 1863

Vicksburg, Miss.                                    May 18-July 4, 1863

Jackson, Miss.                                                    July 9-16, 1863

Grand Coteau, La.                                             Nov. 3, 1863

Sabine Cross Roads, La.                         April 8, 1864

Moneti’s Bluff, La.                                              April 23, 1864

Forts Gains and Morgan, La.                               Aug. 5-23, 1864

Spanish Fort, Ala.                                               March 26-April 12, 1865

Fort Blakely, Ala.                                                April 9, 1865

Mobile, Ala.                                                      March 26-April 12, 1865

Whistler’s Station, Ala.                           April 13, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Spencer Booher was born in Virginia in 1838.  In 1860 he married Ruth Bartlow, and resided in Cardington.  After the war he moved west to Missouri, where he died in 1873.

Date of Death:  August 24, 1873          Place of burial:  Presumed in the state of Missouri.

Adopted By:  Charlie and Christine Long                         Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard