Soldier:  Wesley Ayers

 

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                

Company:  I

 

Age:  19                

Date Entering Service:  April 25, 1861

 

Period of Service:  3 years

 

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

 

Transferred to the Mississippi Marine Brigade, January, 1863.  No other information available.

 

Battles in which he fought:

 

The Mississippi Marine Brigade was a special unit created to work the Mississippi River, most likely near Vicksburg.

 

Other interesting information discovered:

 

Charles Wesley Ayers was born in Morrow County.  His family moved to Michigan by 1850, but was back in Morrow County by 1860.  Eventually he settled in Michigan, where he died in 1927.  His wife’s name was May McNeil.

 

Date of Death:  1927                 Place of burial:  Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing Michigan

 

Adopted By:  Charlie and Christine Long                         Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard