Reichelderfer, Levi

Soldier:  Captain Levi Reichelderfer

Regiment:  96th. OVI                    

Company:  C

Age:  34                                   

Date Entering Service:  July 23, 1862

Period of Service:  3 Years

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

Resigned July 23, 1862

Battles in which he fought:

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

Arkansas Post, Ark.                                            Jan. 11, 1863

Vicksburg, Miss.                                     May 18-July 4, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Levi Reichelderfer was a veteran of the Mexican war, having served in Company E of the 4th. OVI.  He is shown living in Cardington with his wife, Savilla, and their five children in 1860.  In 1870 he is listed as a lumber dealer.  By 1880 the family had moved to Lima, Ohio, where he remained for the rest of his life.  He died at Sandusky, Ohio in1898.

Date of Death:  December 25, 1898         Place of burial:  Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima, OH

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard

 

 

 

 


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