Soldier:  Nathan Herendien (Herendeen)

Regiment:  31^st.^. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  August 26, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Transferred to Company H on April 19, 1864.  Discharged on July 8, 1864 at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

Battles in which he fought:

Stone River, Tenn.                                 Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863

Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn.                  June 23-30, 1863

Hoover’s Gap, Tenn.                              June 24, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                 Sept. 19-20, 1863

Brown’s Ferry,                                       Oct. 27, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                             Nov. 25, 1863

Resaca, Ga.                                           May 13-16, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                   June 27, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:

Herendeen was born in Mt. Gilead, Oh.  A younger brother, Caleb enlisted on the same day and in the same company.  By 1870 he was living in Lincoln, Iowa and by 1900 at Rock Creek, Kansas.  His wife’s name was Melissa Painter.  In 1920 he was living at Rock Creek, Kansas, where he died.

Date of Death:  November 4, 1924                      Place of burial: Waverly Cemetery, Waverly, Kansas

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard