Soldier:   Winfield Scott Maxwell

Regiment:  174th OVI               

Company:  A

Age: 18            

Date Entering Service:  7/23/1864

Period of Service:  1 year

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

Mustered out on 7/3/1865 from Chester USA Hospital, Pennsylvania

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                                           7/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                                     7/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina                                            3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Winfield Scott Maxwell was born in Cardington, Ohio on 10/8/1847.  He married Susan Medilia Crumb on Christmas Day 1866, five children were born of tis union.  Sometime after the War Winfield and his family moved to Kansas where he was a farmer and fruit agent. At one time he was a foreman with the rail road. Winfield was a member of the G.A.R. Post Siverd #85 Kansas. He received an invalid’s pension on 1/8/1890.  By 1930 Winfield was living in California.

Date of Death:  8/15/1935                     Place of burial:  Greenwood Cemetery, San Diego, California

Adopted By:                                                                              Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery