Soldier:  J.W. Lykins, alias name for James W. Likens, Lieutenant

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC

Company:  M

Age:  36

Date Entering Service:  Sept. 8, 1861, at Monroeville, Ohio

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Appointed 2^nd. Lieutenant on Sept. 8, 1861, promoted to 1^st. lieutenant on Jan. 21, 1863; resigned on May 16, 1864.

Battles in which he fought:

Stone River, Tenn.                                              Dec. 31, 1862

Stewart’s Creek, Tenn.                                       Jan. 1, 1863

Middleton, Tenn.                                                Jan. 31, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                             Sept. 19-20, 1863

McMinnville, Tenn.                                             Sept. 28, 1863

Shelbyville, Tenn.                                               Oct. 7, 1863

 

Other interesting information discovered:  James Likens was born in  Frederick County Virginia in 1825.  In 1863 he married Amy Blackwell, in Morrow County, Ohio.  By 1870 he moved to California, where is listed as being a railroad agent.  In 1879 his wife, Amy died at Sonoma County, Ca.  In 1883 he filed for a soldier’s pension in California.  In 1884 he married Lena Sinclair.  Likens died at Plymouth, Maine.  His wife, Lena, filed for a widow’s pension shortly after his death.

Date of Death:  May 20, 1907

Place of burial:  Sawyer Cemetery, Plymouth, Me.

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard