Soldier:  Cyrus Devore

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                 

Company:  C

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  July 26, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Killed at the battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas, on January 11, 1863.

Battles in which he fought:

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

Arkansas Post, Ark.                                            Jan. 11, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Cyrus Devore was from the town of Waldo, Marion County, Ohio.  Prior to the war he had attended college at Ohio Wesleyan and Oberlin.  His mother, Edith Phillips, collected applied for his pension on Nov. 8, 1883.  While it was stated that he was buried at Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas, his body might also have been brought home to Waldo for burial. 

Date of Death:  Jan. 11, 1863               Place of burial:  Wyatt Cemetery, Waldo, Ohio

Adopted By:  Rob and Sharon Hickson                           Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard