Wallace, W.F.

Soldier:  William F Wallace

Regiment:         174th OVI                     Company:        A

                              5th OVI                                               I

Age:     27                   

Date Entering Service:  174th OVI: 7/25/1864

                                            5th OVI: 6/24/1861

Period of Service:  174th OVI: one year

                                  5th OVI: one year 8 months

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

174th OVI: Mustered in as a Private, appointed First Sergeant on 8/18/1864, promoted to Second Lieutenant on 12/30/1864, mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865.

5th OVI: Discharged with disability on 2/18/1863

 

Battles in which he fought:

174th OVI:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                                           12//4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                                     12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, Kinston, North Carolina                               3/7/1865

5th OVI:

Battle of Winchester, Virginia                                                     3/23/1862

Battle of Port Republic, Virginia                                      6/9/1862

Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia                                              8/9/1862

Battle of Antietam, Maryland                                                     9/17/1862

Battle of Dumfries, Virginia                                                        12/27/1862                                          

Other interesting information discovered:

The 1850 Morrow County, Ohio census shows William F Wallace was living with his parents, William and Elizabeth Wallace in North Bloomfield, Morrow County. He collected an invalids pension on 12/4/1885.  

Date of Death:  Sept., 1907                    Place of burial:  Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, WVa.

Adopted By:                                                      Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery


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