Otis Samuel Tarver

He enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 12 August 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded in the chest in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, then at the post hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October. He was elected brevet 2nd Lieutenant on 8 December 1862 and promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 27 April 1863. He was promoted again, to First Lieutenant on 16 August 1864 and was captured again, at Strasburg, VA on 19 October 1864. He was back at Fort Delaware on 27 October and took an oath of allegiance there to the United States on 17 June 1865 and was released.

By 1880 he was a carpenter in Effingham County, GA. In 1900 he was a carpenter in Sanford, FL, but in 1905 applied for a pension there due to being housebound by disability.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as S. Otis Tarver. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Virginia Hayles (1849-) in November 1874 and again, C. M. Guggenheim (1822-before 1900) in August 1880.

10/15/1835; Richmond County, GA

06/04/1915; Sanford, FL; burial in Lakeview Cemetery, Sanford, FL