Soldier:  William Henry Benizer

 Regiment:  174^th. OVI               

Company:  A

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  7/26/1864

Period of Service:  1 year

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

Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865

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                                            3/1/186

Other interesting information discovered:

William Henry Brenizer was born in Morrow County on 3/29/1845.  He married Martha A Wheeler in Morrow County on 1/20/1867, two children were born of this union. William had a farm in Westfield Township in 1870. By 1880 he and his family had moved to the State of Wisconsin where he continued farming. William collected an invalid’s pension on 2/16/1891.

Date of Death:  9/27/1939                     Place of burial:  Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Wisconsin

Adopted By:  Charlie and Christine Long             Researcher: Velda L Montgomery