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O.O. Gardner
(1841 - 1931)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 107th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, he enlisted in Havana, NY and mustered as a Private in Company H, 107th New York Infantry on 25 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Washington, DC to April 1863 and, except for a detail with the Division Provost Guard April to August 1864, was afterward with his company to their mustering-out in Washington, DC on 5 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Hector in Schuyler County, NY. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was farming at Catherine, at the other end of Schuyler County. In 1930, then 89 years old, he'd finally retired and lived in Odessa, his son Samuel having taken over the farm.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and his Muster Roll Abstract, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
He married Lovina Howell (1843-1913) and they had 3 children between 1867 and 1873.
Birth
03/24/1841 in NY
Death
02/10/1931; Odessa, NY; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Odessa, NY
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, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 34, p. 61 [AotW citation 30550]