Soldier:  Layman Dowell Fowler

Regiment:  3rd OVI                              

Company:        I

Age:     30                   

Date Entering Service:  September 4, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Discharged on February 14, 1863 at Gallitin, Tennessee, on a surgeon’s certificate of disability.  According to one source, he fell ill after the battle of Stone River, and never recovered.

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky                                          October 8, 1862

Battle of Stones River, Tennessee                                   December 31, 1862

Other interesting information discovered:

Layman Fowler was born at Mt. Hope, Holmes County, Ohio on January 1, 1832.  In 1850 he resided at Sandyville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.  He eventually moved west, showing up in Fresno, California in 1880, and then San Diego by 1910.  He died at Los Angeles.  He was a carpenter by trade.

Date of Death:  August 16, 1910            

Place of burial:  Los Aneles National Cemetery, Los  Angeles, CA.

Adopted By:  Morrow County Veterans Services                                     

Researcher: Velda L Montgomery