Soldier:  W.N. Rose (actual name is Henry N. Rose)

Regiment:  31^st.^. OVI                 

Company:  E

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  August 28, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Henry Rose first enlisted on April 25, 1861, enrolling in the Company I of the 3^rd. OVI.  He was mustered out on August 22, 1861.  He then enlisted in the 31^st. OVI on the date provided.  He was reduced in rank from corporal, mustered out with the company on July 20, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

Battles in which he fought:

Corinth, Miss.                                        April 30, 1862

Trinity, Al.                                              July 24, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                  Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 1-2, 1863

Rosecrans’ Campaign, Tenn.                   June 23-30, 1863

Hoover’s Gap, Tenn.                               June 24, 1863

Chickamauga, Ga.                                  Sept. 19-20, 1863

Brown’s Ferry,                                        Oct. 27, 1863

Mission Ridge, Tenn.                              Nov. 25, 1863

Resaca, Ga.                                            May 13-16, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                   June 27, 1860

Peachtree Creek, Ga.                              July 20, 1864

Siege of Atlanta, Ga.                              July 28 – Sept. 2, 1864

Thomas’ Station, Ga.                              Nov. 27-29, 1864

Goldsboro, NC                                      March 21, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Henry Rose was married to Ella Utley.  In 1860 he was living in Lincoln Township, Morrow County.  By 1880 he was residing in Syracuse, Nebraska.  His listed occupation was “well digger.”

Date of Death:  1906                 Place of burial:  Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard