Soldier:  Edmond Kirk

Regiment:  31^st. OVI                  

Company:  E

Age:  25                                   

Date Entering Service: Aug. 27,1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Mustered out on November 24, 1862 at Columbus, Ohio.  On July 24, 1864 enlisted in the 174^th. OVI, Company A.  Mustered out on June 28, 1865 at Charlotte, N.C.

Battles in which he fought:

Trinity, Al.                                             July 24, 1862

Other interesting information discovered:

Edmond Kirk lived in Mt. Gilead and Cardington prior to his enlistment.  Eventually he moved west, settling in Kansas.  In 1900 he was living in a Kansas State Soldiers Home.  It is estimated that he died on September 22, 1903 at Ft. Dodge, Kansas (according to GAR records there)

Date of Death:  Est. Sept. 22, 1903                  Place of burial:  Unknown

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard