Burt, Adin

Soldier:  Adin Burt

Regiment:  3rd. OVI                   

Company:  I

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  April 16, 1861 at Defiance, Oh.

                                        And then Sept. 1,1861 at Cardington, OH.

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Adin Burt first enlisted for three months, at Defiance, Ohio (Co. D, 14th.OVI).  Upon completion of term he enlisted for three years at Cardington in Company I, 3rd. OVI.  He finished out his service in the 33rd. OVI.  He was finally discharged on Sept. 16, 1864 at Atlanta, Ga.  He was taken prison near Rome, Ga. on May 3, 1863, and was briefly imprisoned at Rome, Ga., Atlanta, Ga., Knoxville, Tenn., Belle Isle, Va., and Richmond, La.  He was paroled by late May, 1863.

Battles in which he fought:

Cairick’s Ford                                                    July 13, 1861

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 30, 1862 to Jan 2, 1863

Straight’s Raid, Ga.                                            April 29-May 2, 1863

Atlanta campaign                                                         

Other interesting information discovered:

By 1908 Burt was living in a National Home for Disabled Veterans at Milwaukee.  He died at Waterloo, Iowa.

Date of Death:  May 4, 1917                Place of burial:  Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa

Adopted ByThe Village of Cardington                                                 

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard

 

Burt, Adin


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