Soldier:  Marcellus Edgell

Regiment:  174^th. OVI               

Company:  A

Age:  18                       

Date Entering Service:  9/8/1864

Period of Service:  9 months

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

Appointed Corporal on 5/7/1865, mustered out with Company on 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:

Marcellus Edgell was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 12/5/1846.  He married Vashti Wiseman in Morrow County on 10/5/1870, four children were born of this union.  Marcellus worked as a carpenter while living in Cardington, Ohio.  He collected an invalid’s pension on 12/8/1885. He died in St Cloud, Florida. His wife, Vashti collected a widow’s pension n 10/2/1913.

Date of Death:  12/12/1913                   Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Jack, Jane Edgell and Maxine Packer                                                          

Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery