Soldier:  Chester Thompson

Regiment:         96^th. OVI                      

Company:  C   

Age:  18                                  

Date Entering Service:  Aug. 17, 1862 at Camp Delaware

Period of Service:  2 years 11 months 25 days

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

Appointed Corporal on 3/15/1863 transferred to Company B as a Private. Mustered out on July 29, 1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi                 12/28 to 29/1862

Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas                       1/11/1863

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi                           5/18 to 7/4/1863

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi                              7/9 to 16/1863

Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana                      11/3/1863

Battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana              4/8/1864

Battle of Monetis Bluff, Louisiana                       4/23/1864

Battle of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama       8/5 to 23/1864

Battle of Spanish Fort, Alabama                         3/26 to 4/8/1865

Battle of Fort Blakely, Alabama                           4/9/1865

Siege of Mobile, Alabama                                  3/26 to 4/12/1865

Battle of Whistlers Station, Alabama                   4/13/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Chester Thompson was born in Portage County, Ohio on 7/30/1844. He married Almya Henry in Morrow County on 11/4/1875, one child was born of this union.  Sometime after the War Chester moved to Monroe, Ohio where he was a carpenter and a farmer. He collected an invalid’s pension on 10/6/890. Almya collected a widow’s pension on 3/30/1914.

Date of Death:  3/19/1914                                 Place of burial:  Grelton Cemetery, Grelton, Ohio

Adopted By:                                                      Researcher: Velda L Montgomery