Soldier:  Selah Van Sickle

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC                 

Company:  M

Age:  18                       

Date Entering Service:  January 4, 1864

Period of Service:  3 years

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

Mustered out on August 4, 1865 at Edgefield, Tennessee

Battles in which he fought:

Decatur, Courtland Rd.,  Ala.                              May 26-27, 1864

Moulton, Ala.                                                    May 28-29, 1864

Noonday Creek, Ga.                                          June 20, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                               June 27, 1864

Vining Station, Ga.                                            July 2, 1864

Peach Tree Creek, Ga.                                        July 20, 1864

Jonesboro, Ga.                                                  Aug. 19-20, 1864

Lovejoy Station, Ga.                                           Aug. 20, 1864

Other interesting information discovered:

Selah Van Sickle was born in Illinois in 1845.  By 1850 he was living with his family in White Pigeon, Michigan, and in 1860, at Bennington Township, Morrow County, Ohio.  He enlisted at Cardington.  In 1880 he resided in Michigan and in 1900 Logan, Iowa.  In 1912 he was a resident of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Hot Springs, South Dakota.  He died  at Hawarden, Iowa.

Date of Death:  Oct. 23, 1913     Place of burial:  Grace Hill Cemetery, Hawarden, Iowa

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard