Soldier:  Peter D. Wilson

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                                         

Company:  C

Age:  29                       

Date Entering Service:  August 18, 1861, at Cardington, Ohio

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Wounded on April 8, 1864 at Sabin Cross Roads (right shoulder); confined to a field hospital and then taken prisoner.  Confined at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas.  Discharged on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.

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

Jackson, Miss.                                                    July 9-16, 1863

Grand Coteau, La.                                             Nov. 3, 1863

Sabine Cross Roads, La.                         April 8, 1864

Spanish Fort, Ala.                                               March 26-April 12, 1865

Fort Blakely, Ala.                                                April 9, 1865

Mobile, Ala.                                                      March 26-April 12, 1865

Whistler’s Station, Ala.                           April 13, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

In 1850 Peter Wilson is shown to be living in Cardington.  He listed his occupation as carpenter.  After the war, in 1870 he shows up living in Salt Creek Iowa.  Eventually he came back to the Cardington area, where he remained for the rest of his life.  His wife’s name was Emma.  Beginning in January 1865, Wilson kept a diary, which is now in possession of the Morrow County Historical society, a gift of Mr. George Olson of Woodhull, Illinois.  Mr. Olson was an art professor at Wooster College.  He obtained the diary from a thrift shop near Granville, Ohio in the mid-1980’s.

Date of Death:  Sept. 21, 1890        Place of burial:  Baptist Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard