Soldier:  Charles Smith Hiskett

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                               

Company:  I

Age:  23                                               

Date Entering Service:  6/15/1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Suffered a gunshot wound to the head which resulting in deafness. Mustered out with Company 6/31/1864. Charles’ younger brother, John M Hiskett, also served in the 3rd OVI Company I.

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia                            7/6/1861

Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia                                     7/11/1861

Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama                                                    4/29/1861

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky                                                      10/8/1862

Battle of Stones Over, Tennessee                                               12/31/1862

Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama                                             4/30/1863

Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama                           5/1/1863

Battle of Blounts Farm, Alabama                                    5/2/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Charles Smith Hiskett was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 2/7/1838.  On 11/9/1865 he married Sarah A Wood in Mt Gilead, Ohio, six children were born of this union.  Charles and his family lived and farmed in Missouri and Kansas. Sarah died in 1899. Charles collected an invalid’s pension on 10/6/1888.

Date of Death:  6/5/1910                       Place of burial:  Hallsville Cemetery, Hallsville, Missouri

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