Soldier:  Oscar May

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                     

Company:  I

Age:  19                                  

Date Entering Service:  April 25, 1861, Camp Jackson, Ohio

Period of Service:   3 months

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

Mustered out on August 22, 1861 upon completion of term of service.  May was part of the first call for volunteers, when the war was expected to be short lived.  He did not re-enlist at the end of his three months.

Battles in which he fought:

He was not involved in any battle.

Other interesting information discovered:

May’s last years were spent at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in 1929

Date of Death:  March 29, 1929    Place of burial:  Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, Sandusky, OH