U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery

The U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery, located in Washington, D.C., was established in 1861 as the U.S. Military Asylum Cemetery.  Located on the grounds of the U.S. Military Asylum, a retirement home for soldiers, the cemetery held its first burial August 3, 1861.  The six acre cemetery held its last burial May 13, 1864 when the cemetery ran out of space.  At the time that it closed the cemetery contained 5,211 graves, including members of the 61st Ohio.    Following the war land was added to the cemetery and today continues to be used.

 

Among the members of the 61st Ohio buried there are:

 

Mordecai Babb enlisted on February 25, 1862 at Wilmington (Clinton County).  He was 28 years old.  Serving as a sergeant in Company E, Babb died of disease on July 1, 1863.

 

James Marshall was 20 years old when he enlisted on February 18, 1862 in Clarksville (Clinton County).  He served as a corporal in Company E and died of disease July 30, 1863.

 

Frederick Oswalt enlisted at the age of 44 on January 11, 1862 in Upper Sandusky (Wyandot County).  Serving as a private in Company K, he died of disease on September 28, 1862.

 

Bernard Sheridan was 43 years old when he enlisted on October 22, 1861 at Upper Sandusky (Wyandot County).  He served as a private in Company F and died of disease on December 2, 1862.

 

Andrew Shields enlisted on December 9, 1861 at Dayton (Montgomery County).  He was 28 years old and served as a private in Company B.  Shields died December 10, 1862 of disease.

 

Ransom White enlisted April 1, 1862 at Cleveland (Cuyahoga County).  He was 20 years old and served as a private in Company D.  White died of disease September 1, 1862.

 

The U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery is also the final resting place of Major General John Logan, a corps commander in the Army of the Tennessee and a Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic after the war.

 

Sources:

Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union Interred in the National Cemeteries at Washington, D.C. from August 3, 1861 to June 30, 1865 published by the War Department in 1865.

Circleville’s Forest Cemetery (Part 2)

These are additional members of the 61st buried in Circleville’s Forest Cemetery:

 

Captain Jacob Mader, Jr.

 

Musician John McCollister

Sergeant William Moore

 

 

Lieutenant Magnus Stribling

Private Joseph Van Lear

 

Sergeant John Wholaver

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circleville’s Forest Cemetery (Part 1)

In February 1862 David Crouse and Henry Bending began recruiting for the 61st in Circleville, Ohio. They recruited more than fifty men from Circleville and surrounding Pickaway County into what would become Company C of the 61st. A number of these men are buried in Circleville’s Forest Cemetery.

Forest Cemetery’s Civil War Monument

Captain Henry Bending

Private John Brown

Private Henry Clemons

Captain David Crouse

Private Henry G. Davis