Soldier:  Ealhem “William” Sower

Regiment:  5th Independent Battery Light Artillery                     

Company: Not Specified

Age:      36                  

Date Entering Service:  October 29, 1861 at Wooster, Ohio

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Confined in hospital at DeValls, Arkansas for six days.

Discharged from service on 9/27/1864

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Shilo, Tennessee                                  4/6/1862

Siege of Corinth, Mississippi                   4/30-5/30/1863

Battle of Iuka, Mississippi                           9/19-20/1863

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi   5/18 to 74/1863

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi                        7/9-16/1863

Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas             9/10/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Ealhem Sower (additions spellings: Sower, Sowers, Souers) was born on 10/29/1825 in Stark County, Ohio. He married Catherine Marsh in Summit County, Ohio on 1/29/1846, together they had at least four children. This married ended in divorce in May 1864. He then married Lydia Sheidler  in Franklin County, Ohio on 9/21/1865. They had four children.  He and his family lived and farmed on Morgan Street in Cardington in the 1880’s.

Date of Death:  8/17/1891                     Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Gompf Funeral Service                                           Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery