Soldier:  James Mortimer Stiles

Regiment:         174^th. OVI                    

Company:        A

Age:      18                  

Date Entering Service:  7/25/1864

Period of Service:  11 months

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

Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                               12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                         12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Creek, North Carolina                              3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

John Mortimer Stiles was born on 10/15/1847 in Galena, Illinois. His father, George P Stiles served as a Lieutenant with the 31st OVI Company E during the War.  John married Luella Goodman in Morrow County, Ohio on 10/12/1869, two children were born of this union. John and his family lived in Cardington where he was a clerk in a dry goods store. Sometime after 1870 he and his family moved to Illinois. It appears that Luella died before 1890. On 5/19/1890 John married Augusta A Holmes in Cook County, Illinois. John was employed as a paints and oils dealer while living in Illinois. It appears that John and Augusta divorced. On 11/14/1901 he married Emily V Hubbard, also known as Virginia. John collected an invalid’s pension on 12/27/1904, his wife Emily collected a widow’s pension on 11/25/1917.  Stiles died at Frederick, Virginia.

Date of Death:  9/30/1917                                 Place of burial:  unknown

Adopted By:                                                      Researcher: Velda L Montgomery