Soldier:  Samuel C. Burke

Regiment:  15^th. OVI       

Company:  C  

Age:  32           

Date Entering Service:  August 30, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Samuel Burke was wounded at the battle of Pickett’s Mills, Ga. On May 27, 1864.  He was mustered out on November 21, 1865.

Battles in which he fought:

Shiloh, Tenn.                             April 6-7, 1862

Corinth, Miss.                            May 30, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                     Dec. 30, 1862 and Jan. 1-2, 1863

Liberty Gap, Tenn.                     June 25, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                     Sept. 19-20, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                 Nov. 25, 1863

Rocky Face Ridge, Ga.                May 5-9, 1864

Picketts Mills, Ga.                      May 27, 1864

Peachtree Creek, Ga.                 July 20, 1864

Atlanta, Ga.                               July 22, 1864

Lovejoy Station, Ga.                   Sept. 2-6, 1864

Franklin, Tenn.                          Nov. 30, 1864

Nashville, Tenn.             Dec. 15-16, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:

When Samuel Burke entered the service he had three children aged 7, 4 and 1.  He must have made it home on leave, as he also had a son born in 1863.  His first wife, Ellen, died on March 11, 1865, while he was still in the service.  He married a second time, to Sarah Gibbs, on April 29, 1866.

Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 172 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 135 Enlisted men by disease. Total 315.

Date of Death:  Feb. 8, 1873            Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio.

Adopted by:  The Village of Cardington                                                             

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard