Soldier:  Lieutenant Charles O. Oldfield

Regiment:  96^th. OVI

Company:  C

Age:  28

Date Entering Service:  July 26, 1862

Period of Service:  3 Years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Promoted from Sergeant Jan 26, 1863; to 1^st. Lieutenant of Co. B on July 13, 1864.  Mustered out with company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.

Battles in which he fought:

Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss.                        Dec. 28-29, 1862

Arkansas Post, Ark.                              Jan. 11, 1863

Vicksburg, Miss.                                   May 18-July 4, 1863

Jackson, Miss.                                     July 9-16, 1863

Grand Coteau, La.                               Nov. 3, 1863

Sabine Cross Roads, La.                    April 8, 1864

Moneti’s Bluff, La.                               April 23, 1864

Forts Gains and Morgan, La.             Aug. 5-23, 1864

Spanish Fort, Ala.                              March 26-April 12, 1865

Fort Blakely, Ala.                                April 9, 1865

Mobile, Ala.                                        March 26-April 12, 1865

Whistler’s Station, Ala.                       April 13, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:  Charles Oldfield was born at Canton, Ohio in 1834.  Immediately prior to the war he lived in the Minster, Ohio.  By 1870 he resided in Galion, Ohio and in 1880, Nevada, Ohio.  His first wife, Sarah Armstrong, died in 1879.  That same year he applied for an Invalid’s Pension, and was listed as being totally disabled.  His second wife, Nellie, died in 1901.  By occupation, he was a harness maker.  He died in Erie County, Ohio;  his grave lies in the Nevada Cemetery in Wyandotte County, Ohio.

Date of Death:  March 16, 1920

Place of burial:  Nevada Cemetery, Nevada, Ohio

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard