Soldier:  John Mishey

Regiment:  26^th. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  30                       

Date Entering Service:  June 11, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Mustered out on March 30, 1863 for wounds received in battle.  The official record listed him as being wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia on Sept. 19, 1863, but then discharged prior to that date.  He filed for an invalid’s pension on June 1, 1863, which supports his discharge prior to Chickamauga.  An 1890 Veteran’s schedule for the state of Missouri states that his “thigh was shattered by a shell at Stone River, Tenn.  He was wounded at Stone River, not Chickamauga.

Battles in which he fought:

Shiloh, Tenn.                                                     April 6-7, 1862

Corinth, Miss.                                                    May 30, 1862

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 31 and Jan. 1-2, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

John Mishey was born in Pennsylvania in 1830.  By 1850 he is shown to be living in Pike Township, Knox County, Ohio.  In 1870, he was living in Cardington, 1880 in Rich, Kansas and 1900, Eldorado Springs, Missouri.  At one time he was a blacksmith and a gunsmith.  His wife’s name was Susan.

Date of Death:  1909     Place of burial:  Eldorado Springs, Missouri

Adopted By:  Veteran of Foreign Wars of Ohio                                                               

Researcher:   Patrick Drouhard