Soldier:  Edwin Pernette Reid

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                                

Company:         I

Age:      18                    

Date Entering Service:  4/25/1861

                             Re-enlisted 6/15/1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Appointed Sergeant from Corporal on 3/1/1862, Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 10/8/1862. Wounded at Dug Gap 4/30/1863. Taken prisoner at Rome, Georgia 5/3/1863. 

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia                             7/6/1861

Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia                                      7/11/1861

Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama                                                     4/29/1862

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky                                                       10/8/1862

Battle of Stones River, Tennessee                                                12/31/1862

Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama                                              4/30/1863

Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama                            5/1/1863

Battle of Blount’s Farm, Alabama                                    5/2/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Edwin Pernette Reid was born in the year of 1842.  He married Martha Gregg, three children were born of this union.   He lived and farmed in the Morrow County area most of his life.

Date of Death:  5/12/1922                      Place of burial:  Maple Grove Cemetery, Chesterville, Ohio

Adopted By:                                                      Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery