Photo of Hiram S. Hawley

Hiram S. Hawley

Private Army Civil War

Army
Army
Private
Private
Branch of Service
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
121st OVI, Co. I
Conflict / Era
Civil War
Years of Service
01/08/1863
Date of Death
01/08/1863
Hometown
Union, OH
Burial Location
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY; may have been disinterred and buried in Milford Center Cemetery (see NOTES)
Monument Paver
No
Township (entering service)
Union
Township (current / at death)
UNKNOWN
School
UNKNOWN
Status
Killed in Action, Prisoner of War
When
POW 12/31/1862; KIA 01/08/1863
Where
POW Campbellsville, KY; KIA Louisville, KY
Record Authenticated
Yes

Biography

School: UNKNOWN. in regimental hospital when captured; paroled and died of disease on 1/8/1863, Louisville, KY; Beers lists DOD as 1/9/1863; Marysville Tribune lists DOD as 01/10/1863; Union Co. Cem. Rec. lists DOD as 1863, and as 01/09/1863; 01/1863 JT article mentions that body was returned home for burial, but no details were available and no further information was ever reported; Union Co. Cem. Rec. lists stones in Row 11, Row 17, and in Section 2, Row 3, of Milford Center Cemetery; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 7, p. 19, lists DOB as 1839, p. 30 lists DOB as 1835

Source: Beers, Record 504, 508, (533); American Civil War Research Database; Roll of Honor of Ohio Soldiers; Marysville Tribune Abstracts, 1850-1876, p. 7; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 7, p. 16, 19, & 30; Scott Hawley (descendent)