Oliver T. Mosier

(1843 - 1921)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 59th New York Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted at age 18 in Kingston, and mustered in as Private, Company E, 59th New York Infantry on 8 October 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He was discharged on 11 November 1862 to enlist in Company A, Fifth US Cavalry.

After the War:
In the 1889 directory of the Association of Survivors of the Regiment he is listed as Oliver Mozier in Saginaw, Michigan. He was a police officer, Deputy Sheriff and Police Captain in Saginaw, retiring after 33 years service. He was a member of GAR Post #90.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of New York1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the Report and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. Further data from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth Date: 04/01/1843 Birth State: NY
Death Date: 05/13/1921 Death Place: Saginaw, MI Burial Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, MI

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8768]

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