Soldier:  John Harrison Fisher

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC       

Company:  M 

Age:  20                       

Date Entering Service:  September 8, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Appointed sergeant on October 8, 1861;  mustered out on October 13, 1864 at Franklin, Tenness on expiration of term of service.  He suffered a gunshot wound.

Battles in which he fought:

Corinth, Miss.                                                    May 30, 1862

Chickamauga, Ga.                                             September 19-20, 1863

Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign                             August 1-September 2, 1864

Kennesaw Mountain, Ga.                                   June 9-30, 1864

Peach Tree Creek                                              July 20, 1864

Stoneman’s Raid                                               July 26-31, 1864

Franklin, Tennessee                                           November 30, 1864                              

Other interesting information discovered:

John Fisher married Diana Brockway on September 26, 1861 in Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio.  This was just 16 days after his enlistment.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 58 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 229 Enlisted men by disease. Total 294.

Date of Death: November 19,1914

Place of burial:  West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio

Adopted by:  Susan  Gallagher-Hornung                          Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard