Soldier:  Hiram J. Norris

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC

Company:  M

Age:  19

Date Entering Service:  January 4, 1864

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Mustered out on August 4, 1865

Battles in which he fought:

Decatur, Courtland Rd.,  Ala.                   May 26-27, 1864

Moulton, Ala.                                            May 28-29, 1864

Noonday Creek, Ga.                                June 20, 1864

Kennesaw Mt., Ga.                                    June 27, 1864

Vining Station, Ga.                                  July 2, 1864

Peach Tree Creek, Ga.                           July 20, 1864

Jonesboro, Ga.                                       Aug. 19-20, 1864

Lovejoy Station, Ga.                               Aug. 20, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:  Hiram Norris lived in in Lincoln Township, Morrow County from 1860 through sometime in the mid-1870’s.  By 1880 he was living in San Francisco, California, where he remained until his death in 1910.  His wife’s name was Catherine.  On January 8, 1888 he applied for a soldier’s pension, in California.

Date of Death:  December 30, 1910

Place of burial:  San Francisco, California

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard