Soldier:  Caleb Kirk Heredien (Heredeen)

Regiment:  3^1st. OVI                  

Company:  E

Age:  15                       

Date Entering Service:  August 26, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Herendeen’s listed age was 18.  He was actually just 15 years old when he enlisted.  He mustered out on June 10, 1865 at Washington, DC.

Battles in which he fought:

Stone River, Tenn.                                 Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863

Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn.                  June 23-30, 1863

Hoover’s Gap, Tenn.                              June 24, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                 Sept. 19-20, 1863

Brown’s Ferry,                                       Oct. 27, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                             Nov. 25, 1863

Resaca, Ga.                                           May 13-16, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                   June 27, 1860

Peachtree Creek, Ga.                             July 20, 1864

Siege of Atlanta, Ga.                              July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864

Thomas’ Station, Ga.                             Nov. 27-29, 1864

Goldsboro, NC                                      March 21, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Herendeen lived in Cardington Township as a youth, and when he entered the service.  By 1872 he was living in Iowa.  He married Locelia Waddell at Keokuk, Iowa in 1872.  At some point he moved to California, where he died.

Date of Death:  January 9, 1925              Place of burial: Inglewood Cemetery, Inglewood, Ca.

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard