Soldier:  William Fletcher Armstrong

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI

Company:  I

Age:  19

Date Entering Service:  June 15, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Mustered out with company on June 21, 1864.  At some point he is shown to have been enlisted in the 2^nd Missouri Cavalry.

Battles in which he fought:

Elkwater, W.Va.                                                 Sept. 11, 1861

Bridgeport, Al.                                                   April 29, 1862

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                              Dec. 31, 1862

Sand Mountain, Ala.                                           April 30, 1863

Black Warrior Creek, Ala.                                    May 1, 1863

Blounts Farm, Ala.                                              May 2,  1863

Other interesting information discovered:  Armstrong was shown to be living in Morrow County in 1860.  After the war he married Jennie Sutton.  They are shown to be living in Iowa in the 1890’s.  He died there in 1891.

Date of Death:  Feb. 14, 1891

Place of burial:  Logan, Iowa (cemetery unknown)

Adopted By:  Jeff and Shelly Benson

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard