Soldier:  Gilbert B McWhirk

Regiment:  3rd OVI                               

Company:        G

Age:     21                   

Date Entering Service:  6/20/1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Appointed Sergeant from Corporal on 10/8/1862. Mustered out with Company on 6/21/1864

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia                            7/6/1861

Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia                                     7/11/1861

Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama                                                    4/29/1862

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky                                                      10/8/1862

Battle of Stone River, Tennessee                                     12/31/1862

Battle of Sand Mountain, Alabama                                             4/30/1863

Battle of Black Warrior Creek, Alabama                           5/1/1863

Battle of Blount’s Farm, Alabama                                    5/2/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Gilbert B McWhirk was born in Ohio in the year 1842. He married Mary Elizabeth “Molly” Knott in January of 1865.   He was a Bookkeeper for Oil Mill in Lincoln Township of Morrow County in 1870. He later moved to Indiana.  Gilbert applied for an invalid’s pension on 3/29/1889. Mary remarried after Gilberts death in 1876, she then applied for a widow’s pension on 3/19/1879.

Date of Death:  4/28/1876                                 Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Gleaners Insurance                                    Researcher: Velda L Montgomery