Soldier:  Jasper “Newton” Oliver

Regiment:  26^th OVI

Company:  C

Age:  20

Date Entering Service:  July 27, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Jasper Oliver was killed on September 19, 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia.

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

Chickamauga, Ga.                                             Sept. 19, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:  Newton Oliver was the oldest of three brothers from Cardington that fought in the war.  His youngest brother Henry died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Winchester, Va.  Another brother, Smith Oliver survived the war.  He left behind his wife, Sarah (Dunkleburger) and a three year-old daughter.  Sarah was able to collect a widow’s pension starting in 1864.  She never remarried, and died at Van Wert, Ohio in 1927.

Date of Death:  September 19, 1863

Place of burial:  Chattanooga National Cemetery

Adopted By:  Tom and Sherry Graham

Researcher:   Patrick Drouhard