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Monument honoring the 96th Ohio Infantry is located in front of the visitor Center parking area at the Vicksburg Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Vicksburg National Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg National Cemetery was established by an act of Congress in 1866. It serves as a final resting place for United States Soldiers that gallantly served the country in a time of national and international conflict. Vicksburg National Cemetery has the distinction of having the largest number of Civil War interments of any national cemetery in the United States. Of the approximate 17,000 Union veterans, only 5,000 are known.

The soldiers that succumbed to wounds or disease as a result of the Civil War were typically buried close to where they died. If the name of soldier was known, their grave was marked with whatever materials were on hand. The most common method was etching the name onto a board.

After the establishment of the Vicksburg National Cemetery extensive efforts were made to locate the remains of the Union Soldiers throughout the Southeast and move them to Vicksburg for reinterment. By the time this occurred many of the wooden markers had faded or were lost to the elements making identification impossible.

http://www.nps.gov/vick/natcem/nat_cem.htm

Ninety-Sixth Ohio Infantry

NAME	DATE OF DEATH	SECTION	GRAVE	RANK	UNIT
Ball, J. A.	19 Feb 1863	C	2428	Pvt	Co B
Blow, Geo.	26 Mar 1863	F	704	Pvt	Co D
Burroughs, A.M.	08 Jun 1863	H	61	Pvt	Co F
Clark, Reuben	08 Jun 1863	H	58	Pvt	Co K
Cooper, H.B.	26 Mar 1863	F	703	Pvt	Co D
Cray, Mathias H	15 Jul 1863	H	27	Pvt	Co F
Dickenson, JNO	15 Apr 1863	A	3019	Pvt	Co E
Eddlebleete, E.W.	13 Aug 1863	L	6593	Pvt	Co F
Ely, Amos Q	10 Aug 1863	Q	9545	Cpl	Co H
Ferguson, David Q	17 Jan 1863	Q	9368	Pvt	Co D
Flintstone, Marble *	18 May 1863	A	2968		Co I
Gayer, J.N.H.	16 Jun 1863	G	5265	Pvt	Co D
Green, M.K. **		C	2417		Co I
Hostettler, E	17 Jan 1863	Q	9369	Cpl	Co H
Kautzman, Daniel	18 Jun 1863	G	4331	Pvt	Co H
Kehrwecker, John	10 Jul 1863	G	5268	Sgt	Co C
Kemper, C.W.	19 Feb 1863	C	2474	Pvt	Co E
Kring, Isaac	02 Jul 1863	G	4332	Pvt	Co A
Losee, Lyman	23 Apr 1863	A	2880	Pvt	Co C
Love, Peter	20 Apr 1863	E	1506	Pvt	Co A
Maiden, Thos	10 Feb 1863	A	3079	Pvt	Co D
Milligan, M.G.	20 Mar 1863	F	705	Pvt	Co I
Oxley, Jere	09 Jul 1863	G	5266	Pvt	Co B
Phumphrey, Percival	20 Jul 1863	Q	9539	Cpl	Co A
Reems, Jere	27 Apr 1863	A	2967	Pvt	Co H
Rice, Jno	08 Mar 1863	C	2419	Pvt	Co B
Rodgers, Obesd	17 May 1863	H	136	Pvt	Co C
Siegfried, Levi	29 Jul 1863	B	2655	Sgt	Co F
Thayers, Isaih J.	02 Apr 1864	F	687	Pvt	Co B
Wells, David	26 Apr 1863	A	2865	Pvt	Co K

*Not in roster, appears to be a joke, should be "Marble Stone", according to the roster.

**Not in roster

Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio

Vance, Col. Joseph W., (7-9-1809/4-8-1864)--(Lot 175, Sect. 16, Gr. 1) Col. Vance moved to Mount Vernon in 1840. He was admitted to the bar in 1842 and rose rapidly in his profession and soon attained a high position as an advocate. He was elected Mayor of Mount Vernon in 1852. In August, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry. He was in several battles before he fell, mortally wounded, in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads on April 8, 1864.
http://www.mountvernonohio.org/cityhall/cemetery/tour.htm

Elk City Cemetery, Montgomery County, Kansas

Wortman, Jacob G.-Union (• Co. C or E 96th Ohio Inf.) b. 10-23-1835 d. 10-10-1900

Marion County, Kansas

Clark, Nathan, Co. D. 96th OVI d Dec 15 1884, Aged 36y 6m. LaRue (64) Montgomery

http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/Cemeteries/mac.htm

Ellsworth County, Kansas

Faris, William Henry H. 96th Ohio Infantry, b.19 Feb 1841 Delaware, Delaware, OH; d. 4 Apr 1916 Ellsworth Co., KS; buried 6 Apr 16 Buckeye Cemetery, Ellsworth.

Union Soldiers' Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Vanatta, William, Company B, 96th Ohio Infantry

Men from Marion County, Ohio who died on the field of battle

96th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf.;

M. H. Burt, Co. E, Arkansas Post, July 30, 1862

Cyrus W. Devore, Co. C, Arkansas Post, January 11, 1, 1863

G. W. Blanchard, Co. D, Carrion Crow Bayou, La., Nov. 5, 1863

William M, Coulter, Co. E, Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864

George W. Knowles, Co. E. Marksville, La., May 16, 1864

George Jones, Co. D.

(History of Marion County, Ohio and Representative Citizens Edited and Compiled by J. Wilbur Jacoby, A. M Marion, Ohio. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/History1907/Mhistory2.htm ).

Sugar Grove Cemetery, Mound Prairie Township, Jasper Co., Iowa

Jones, Charles B.

Born: June 15, 1840 in Columbiana Co., Ohio
Died: June 27, 1920 at Stratton, Hitchcock Co., Nebraska
Buried: Lot 139
Married: Mary E. Westbrook on March 9, 1864
Veteran: Civil War, 96th OVI

Oak Hill Memorial Park, San José, CA.

Military Service:

David A. Finley
Residence not listed; 19 years old.
Enlisted on 7 Aug 1862 as a Private.
On 19 Aug 1862 he mustered into Co. G, 96th Ohio Infantry.
Absent sick 27 Dec 1862 (place not stated).
Detached 1 Sep 1862 with Pioneer Corps.
Returned 1 Sep 1864 (estimated date of return; place not stated).
Transferred from Co. G to Co. D on 18 Nov 1864.
Sick, hospitalized at New Orleans, Louisiana on 1 Jun 1865.
He was mustered out on 10 Jun 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana.
Other information: After the war he lived at Kilbourne, Ohio.
Sources:
1. The General Assembly of Ohio; The Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio. 11 vols. Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, 1886.
2. Robert F. Bartlett, Roster of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1862 to 1865. Columbus: Hann & Adair 1895.

[Addl. info: The 96th Ohio Infantry was engagd at Arkansas Post, AR; Vicksburg, MS; Jackson, MS; Grand Coteau, LA; and Sabine Cross Roads, LA. According to George W. Morris of the 81st Indiana, "In the latter part of 1862 while the army lay at Edgefield, TN, there was an order issued by Gen. Rosecrans to form what was called the Pioneer Corps. Their work was to build bridges, railroads, cut roads through the cedars for the ambulances, and everything else that the army had to do. A number of times they were fighting like the balance of the army."]

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U.S. Civil War Pension Index:

Soldier: Finley, David
Widow: (none listed)
Service: Co. D & Co. G, 96th Ohio Infantry
Invalid filed 5 Jul 1876
Invalid Application No222,113.
Invalid Certificate No. 343,193
State from which filed: (not stated)

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Burial Record:

Finley, D. A., Private, Company G, 96th Ohio Infantry, died 11 Mar 1927, burial Oak Hill, Single Grave G.A.R. Plot, Tier 3, Lot 10a.
Source: Record of Deceased Soldiers, compiled by the Phil Sheridan Post No. 7, G.A.R., of San José, CA; in possession of Oak Hill Memorial Park, San José, CA, page 29.

Chalmette National Cemetery

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/dbases/chalmla.htm

"Chalmette National Cemetery is a 17.5 acre strip of land that sits adjacent to the site of the Battle of New Orleans along the Mississippi River in Chalmette, Louisiana. The cemetery, which is closed to future burials, has more than 15,300 interments from every major U.S. conflict between the American Revolution and Vietnam. While most of the individuals interred are veterans, civilians such as spouses, children, and employees of the War Department are also included.

Photograph courtesy of Jim Hollandsworth

The cemetery was established in May of 1864 as a final resting place for Civil War dead, both Confederate and Union soldiers alike. Approximately 132 Confederate prisoners of war were buried at Chalmette until the Ladies' Benevolent Association of New Orleans requested that these soldiers be moved out of Chalmette, which is comprised entirely of Union soldiers, to the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. In the years following the war, the cemetery took in an additional 7,000 interments of Union soldiers moved from abandoned cemeteries located all over southern Louisiana, Ship Island, and Mississippi. Civil War burials at Chalmette number well over 12,000, but almost 7,000 are unknown."

The 18 members of the 96th Ohio in the Chalmette National Cemetery are apparently in graves marked unknown.

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.htm

"Jefferson Barracks was formally established as a national cemetery in 1866 by passage of a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to take action to preserve graves from desecration and “secure suitable burial-places in which they may be properly interred….”

In 1869 the cemetery experienced enormous growth when more than 10,200 recovered remains of soldiers originally buried at other Missouri locations including Cape Girardeau, Pilot Knob, Warsaw, and Rolla were removed here. "

The 28 members of the 96th Ohio in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery are in graves indicated in the "Roll of Honor" page.

Memphis National Cemetery
http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/memphis.htm

"Once Memphis fell under Union control, it became a convenient location to care for the sick and wounded troops flooding in from surrounding areas. General hospitals capable of caring for thousands of men at a time were set up in and around the city. A board of officers who purchased 32 acres northeast of the city chose the cemetery site. It was originally known as Mississippi River National Cemetery. At the end of the war, burials included reinterments from camps and hospitals throughout the region.

Memphis has the second-largest group of unknowns interred in any national cemetery. The large quantity of unknowns may be attributed to the long interval between battlefield burial and reinterment at Memphis National Cemetery. Often, the crude wood markers that identified original burials had been removed or deteriorated to the point where they were no longer legible. As soldiers were not required to carry personal identification, it was often difficult to determine the identity of the remains."

The 26 members of the 96th Ohio in the Memphis National Cemetery are in graves indicated in the "Roll of Honor" page.