Soldier:  John Fields

Regiment:  174^th. OVI                                      

Company:  A

Age:  23                       

Date Entering Service:  8/18/1864

Period of Service:  10 months

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                                            3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

John Fields (John Felds) was born in Germany on 4/16/1840. He married Catherine Long in Morrow County, Ohio on 3/31/1867, two children were born of this union.  He collected an invalid’s pension on 6/25/1890. John lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio area until his death in 1903.

Date of Death:  7/12/1903                     Place of burial:  Rivercliff Cemetery, Gilead, Ohio

Adopted By:  Morrow County Veterans Services                                                 

Researcher: Velda L Montgomery