Soldier:  Daniel P. Howard

Regiment:  88^th. OVI                             

Company:  C

Age:      32                  

Date Entering Service:  July 18, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Mustered out with Company on July 3, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio

Battles in which he fought:

This Regiment was originally organized of a Battalion of four Companies organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio from September 24 to October 27, 1862 to serve three years ad designated as “First Battalion Governors Guards”.

Six new Companies were organized at Camp Chase from July 24 to August 3, 1863 to serve three years and consolidated with this Battalion and designated the 88^th. Ohio Volunteers. It mustered out of service July 3, 1865.

This Regiment was principally engaged in guarding Rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. It was also engaged in the pursuit of Morgan’s Raiders and the suppression of the Holmes County Rebellion July 3, 1863.

Other interesting information discovered:

Daniel Howard was born in New York.  By 1860 he was married to Mary Howard, and was living in Chester Township, Morrow County.

Date of Death:  1894                 Place of Burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Keith Richey                                             Researcher:  Velda L. Montgomery