Soldier:  Lewis W. Bendle

Regiment:         174^th.    OVI      Company:       A

                           129^th. OVI                                 H

Age:      18                  

Date Entering Service:  129th OVI: 7/20/1863

                                                                          174th OVI: 7/25/1864

Period of Service:  129^th. OVI:  6 months.    174^th. OVI: 1 year

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

129^th. OVI: mustered out with company 3/10/1864

174^th. OVI: mustered out with company 6/25/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                               12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                         12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, Not Carolina                                   3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Lewis W Bendle was born on December 12, 1846. As a young boy he lived in Morrow and Knox County area. He married Mary Ann Coykendall in Marion, Ohio on 10/12/1874, five children were born of this union. After the War Lewis was a farmer in the Cardington and Mt Gilead area. He collected an invalid’s pension on 9/30/1925.

Date of Death:  12/11/1926                   Place of burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  In memory of the late Don Bowers, and Judy Bowers                                                          

Researcher: Velda L Montgomery