Soldier:  McDonald Lottridge

Regiment:  26^th. OVI

Company:  E

Age:  23

Date Entering Service:  July 4, 1861

Period of Service:   3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Mustered out on July 27, 1864 at Nashville, Tenn.  He suffered a gunshot wound to the knee.

Battles in which he fought:

Shiloh, Tenn.                                                      April 6-7, 1862

Corinth, Miss.                                                    May 30, 1862

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone Rive, Tenn.                                               Dec. 31, 1862; Jan 1-2, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                              Sept. 19-20, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                                          Nov. 25, 1863

Rocky Face Ridge, Tenn.                                    May 5-9, 1863

Resaca, Ga.                                                       May 13-16, 1864

Adairsville, Ga.                                                   May 17-18, 1864

Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.                                     June 27, 1864

 

Other interesting information discovered:  McDonald Lottridge spent the latter years of his life in soldiers’ homes in Dayton and Sandusky, Ohio.  He died at Sandusky.  He was the younger brother of William Jasper Lottridge, also living at Cardington at the start of the war and who died of wounds sustained on the first day of fighting at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (April 6, 1862)

Date of Death:  July 9, 1909

Place of burial:  Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard