Soldier:  Thomas Wesley Long

Regiment:  116^th. NYVI

Company:  I

Age:  22

Date Entering Service:  August 5, 1862, Buffalo, NY

Period of Service:   3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Discharged on July 5, 1865.  He was never wounded, nor taken prisoner.

Battles in which he fought:

Siege of Port Hudson, La.                       May 23-July 8, 1863

Bayou La Fourche, La.                           June 14, 1863

Sabine Pass, Tex.                                 Sept. 8, 1863

Carrion Crow Bayou, La.                        Oct. 15, 1863

Red River Campaign, La.                        March 10-May 22, 1864

New Market, Va.                                    Sept. 24, 1864

Newtown, Va.                                        Nov. 12, 1864

 

Other interesting information discovered:  During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 3 officers, 58 enlisted men;  of wounds received in action, 2 officers, 36 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 2 officers, 124 enlisted men; total 7 officers, 218 enlisted men;  aggregate, 223; of whom 4 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.

While Long served in a regiment in the state of New York, he moved to Cardington after the war.  He is shown living there in the 1870 and 1880 census records.  He was a harness and saddle maker.  Long was a charter member of the James St. John GAR post in Cardington.

Date of Death:  January 9, 1893

Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard