Images from the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteers...
The Last Resting Places of Our Gallant Heroes
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Pvt. Lewis A. Helwick, Company E
Born May 8, 1843, Saxony, Germany - Died November 16, 1912
Buried at Fort Laurens Cemetery, Bolivar, Ohio
courtesy of and with permission from Jim Davenport for Curtis Helwick, FindAGrave.com |
Pvt. George S. Hesler, Company
(no record of rank of Sergeant found)
Private, Company E, 1st U.S. Volunteer Infantry
Born February 27, 1843 - Died March 23, 1920, Austin, Minnesota
Buried at Lansing Cemetery, Lansing, Minnesota
courtesy of and with permission from K. Pike, FindAGrave.com |
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Pvt. Edward I. Hickey, Company K (90-day)
Private in Company D
Born November 2, 1818 - Died March 13, 1897, Lima, Ohio
Buried at Barnes Cemetery, Licking County, Ohio
courtesy of and with permission from Nancy Ann Mull Buchanan, FindAGrave.com |
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Pvt. Philip L. Holtom, Company I (16th OVI 90-day)
Sergeant, Company E, 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Born 1840 - Died April 27, 1865, on board steamer Sultana, which exploded and sank killing abt. 1600 soldiers returning home from the war
Buried at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ohio (or marked on family tombstone as such)
courtesy of and with permission from lanterns2 , FindAGrave.com
* TOP RIGHT: Steamer Sultana at Memphis ,Tennesse, overloaded with troops heading home from prison camps and the war, April 26, 1865
* BOTTOM RIGHT: Historic markers from Mansfield, Ohio, located in Central Park. commemorating the 73 soldiers of the 102nd Ohio killed in the Sultana disaster |