Soldier:  Benjamin J. Meeker

Regiment:  3rd OVI                               

Company:        I

Age:      19                  

Date Entering Service:  4/25/1861

                 re-enlisted 6/15/1861

Period of Service:  3 years 3 months

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

Records found in Find a Grave indicated that Benjamin enlisted with his four brothers on 4/25/1861. He was wounded at the Battle of Stone River on 12/31/1862.  He mustered out with his company on 6/21/1864. Pension records reveal Benjamin also served in the 18th Regiment, Company G, from 4/3/1865 to 10/9/1865.

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 Perrysburg, Kentucky                                       10/8/1862

Batter of Stones 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:

Benjamin Meeker was born in Morrow County, Ohio in the year 1842.  Benjamin married Hannah Smith in Marion Ohio on 1/3/1870, one child was born of this union.  Benjamin was a farmer in the Marion County, Ohio area.  Benjamin filed for an invalid’s pension on 10/8/1880. Hannah received a widow’s pension on 2/14/1883.

Date of Death:  8/19/1882                                

Place of burial:  Shawtown Cemetery, Westfield Twp., Morrow County

Adopted By:  Gleaner Insurance                         Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery