Soldier:  George D. Zent

Regiment:  31^st.^. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  39                       

Date Entering Service:  August 27, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Transferred to Company I on April 24, 1864.  Sick July 20, 1864 at Camp Dennison, Ohio.  Mustered out July 20, 1865 by order of the War Dept. at Louisville, Ky.

Battles in which he fought:

Corinth, Miss.                                        April 30, 1862

Trinity, Al.                                             July 24, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                 Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863

Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn.                  June 23-30, 1863

Hoover’s Gap, Tenn.                              June 24, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                 Sept. 19-20, 1863

Brown’s Ferry,                                       Oct. 27, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                             Nov. 25, 1863

Resaca, Ga.                                           May 13-16, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                   June 27, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:

George Zent married Emily Earl on March 12, 1847 at Delaware, Ohio.  In 1860 he is shown to be living in Cardington Township, Morrow County.  The same for 1870.  He died there in 1876.

Date of Death:  June 17, 1876     Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Oh.

Adopted By: Morrow County Veteran Services                Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard