Soldier: Byron Monroe
Regiment: 85th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 16
Date Entering Service: July 4, 1862
Period of Service: 3 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with company Sept. 23, 1862. Stationed at Camp Chase, Columbus to guard confederate prisoners. On June 30, 1863 enlisted in the 2nd. Reg. Ohio Heavy Cavalry for 3 years. Mustered out on Aug. 4, 1865 at Knoxville, Tenn.
Battles in which he fought:
Mainly stationed at forts in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Other interesting information discovered:
Byron Monroe was just 16 when he entered the service. He lived in Morrow County for most of his life. In 1869 he married Sarah Sedler. He died in 1871 at the young age of 24. He filed for an invalid’s pension in July, 1866. Evidently when he left the service, he was not in good health. His wife filed for a widow’s pension in January 1892, followed by a child filing a minor’s pension four years later.
Date of Death: January 7, 1871 Place of burial: South Woodbury Methodist Episcopal Cem.
South Woodbury, Morrow Co., Ohio
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
