Soldier:  Lewis S. Barge

Regiment:         174th OVI                    

Company:        A

Age:      21                  

Date Entering Service:  7/27/1864

Period of Service:   one year

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

Appointed Corporal 6/15/1865.  Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overalls Creek, Tennessee                                     12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                              12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, Kinston, North Carolina                   3/7 to 10/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Lewis S. Barge was born on 6/2/1843.  He and his wife Minnie lived in the Cardington, Ohio area where Lewis was employed in the farm and stock business. Sometime after 1880 he and his family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana where he was employed as a foreman at a carriage factory.

Lewis collected an invalid’s pension on 12/16/1889. His wife Minnie received the widow’s pension on 7/2/1823.

Date of Death:  6/24/1923                     Place of burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana

Adopted By:  Charlie and Christine Long                         Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery