Soldier:  David Leroy Blue

Regiment:  174^th. OVI               

Company:  A

Age:  18                                               

Date Entering Service:  7/26/1864

Period of Service:  1 year

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

Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865

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, North Carolina                                3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

David Leroy Blue was born in Ohio on 4/6/1846.   After the War David moved to Iowa. He married Caroline E Newton on 10/30/1870, four children were born of this union.  David was a farmer and also worked as a Yardmaster and Conductor for the Rail Road. He collected an invalid’s pension on 9/18/1890. Caroline collected a widow’s pension on 1/5/1926.

Date of Death:  9/16/1926                     Place of burial:  Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa

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