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D.A. Ward

D.A. Ward

Federal (USV)

Private

David Austin Ward

(1839 - 1911)

Home State: Ohio

Education: Oberlin College

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

From Florence in Erie County, OH, he was a student at Oberlin when he enlisted on 25 April 1861 in the 7th Infantry (3 months), Company C. He reenlisted in the same Company for 3 years on 19 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was detailed as a teamster for much of 1863 and was slightly wounded by a piece of shell at Winchester, VA. He mustered out at the end of his term of service in July 1864 in Cleveland.

He enlisted again, a substitute, as a Private in the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry on 5 April 1865 and mustered out soon after, on 29 June 1865 in Washington, DC.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer at Camargo in Douglas County, IL and by 1880 he worked in the post office and a harness shop there. In 1900 he was living in Evanston and in 1910 in Tuscola.

References & notes

Service information from Wilson,1 source also of his picture, the Roster,2 and Bates.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sophia Bond Watson (1840-1910) in March 1867 and they had 3 children. He may also have married Isabel Middlesworth (1840-1882), date not known.

Birth

09/30/1839; Birmingham, OH

Death

12/15/1911; Tuscola, IL; burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Camargo, IL

Notes

1   Wilson, Lawrence, and the Historical Committee of the Regimental Association, Itinerary of the Seventh Ohio Infantry 1861-1864, New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1907, pg. 443  [AotW citation 26580]

2   State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 1, pg. 140; Vol. 2, pg. 212  [AotW citation 26581]

3   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 26582]