Soldier:  Melville Maxwell

Regiment:  3^rd. Ohio Infantry                 

Company: I

Age:      21                  

Date Entering Service:   4/25/1861

Period of Service:  3 years 3 months

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

Discharged 6/21/1864

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia                            6/11/861

Battle of Middle Creek Fork, West Virginia                                  7/6/1861

Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia                                     9/11/1861

Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama                                                    4/27/1862

Battle of Perrysburg, Kentucky                                       10/8/1862

Battle of Stone Over, Tennessee                                     12/31/1862

Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama                                             4/30/1863

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

Other interesting information discovered: 

Melville Maxwell was born in 1840. The 1860 Census shows he was living in the Marion County, Ohio area.  Melville married Hettie Oliver on 5/7/1863 in Morrow County, Ohio, two children were born of this union.  Sometime after the war Melville and his family moved to Jackson, Linn County, Missouri where he was a farmer.  The 1890 Census shows that Melville moved to Cardington, Ohio. He collected an invalid’s pension on 2/16/1888. His wife, Hettie collected his pension on 5/27/1899 after his death in 1897.

Date of Death:   1897                                         Place of burial:  Scotts Cemetery,  Van Wert, Ohio

Adopted By:  Sons of Union Veterans                                         Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery