Soldier:  Francis M. Tyler

Regiment:  31^st.^. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  24                       

Date Entering Service:  August 28, 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.  Mustered out with his company on September 19, 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky.

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, 1860

Peachtree Creek, Ga.                             July 20, 1864

Siege of Atlanta, Ga.                              July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:

Frances Tyler was an older brother to Benjamin Tyler, who served in the same company and regiment.  In 1860 he lived in Cardington Township, Ohio.  In 1865 he married Ruth Conklin.  They had moved to Washington, Wisconsin by 1870 and remained in that state for the remainder of their lives.  He died in Madison.

Date of Death:  March 6, 1899    Place of burial:  Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Wis.

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard