Soldier:  Peleg Purvis

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                  

Company:  C

Age:  20                                   

Date Entering Service:  August 4, 1862

Period of Service:  3 Years

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

Discharged March 7, 1863 on surgeon’s certificate of disability.  St. Louis, Missouri

Battles in which he fought:

Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss.                           Dec. 28-29, 1862

Arkansas Post, Ark.                                            Jan. 11, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Peleg Purvis lived in the Cardington area for his entire life.  He married in 1867;  his wife’s name was Hannah.  At one time he was a brickmaker, later on he was a dairy farmer.  In 1879 he applied for an invalid’s pension.

Date of Death:  January 30, 1930                         Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, OH

Adopted By:  In memory of Cecil and Phyllis Haycook;  Don and Nancy Burdsall                                                   

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard