Civil War Deaths From 6th Ohio Cavalry Company H

A List of Deaths of Soldiers from Company H, 6th Ohio Cavalry, Organized at Ironton, O., 1861. They were abstracted from the newspaper, The Ironton Journal, published on Wednesday, June 2, 1869. Jean Griesan submitted this article for The Lawrence Register website.

•         George M. Booth was killed at Mount Jackson, Va., in a saber charge on June 16th, 1862.
•         James Adams was taken prisoner 15th of August, 1863, and was supposed to be dead.
•         Augustin S. Reckard was killed in a saber charge at Aldie, Va., 17th of June, 1863.
•         Thomas Lambert died in the Hospital in Washington, D. C., 30th of June, 1863.
•         Henry C. Gillett was discharged 9th of December, 1863, and died at home.  Date unknown.
•         James Sperry died at City Point, Va., on October 7th, 1864.  His body was sent home to his friends and buried with war honors.

Lieut. Commander T. Steece, U. S. N., entered the service at the commencement of the war as a midshipman, rose to the command of the man of war, De Sota, at the age of twenty-five, died of yellow fever off Key West, July 5, 1864, and was buried in the Ocean.  At the time of his death, he was president of the Temperance and Christian Association of the Atlantic Squadron.

•         Rufus C. Stewart was discharged and died at home 29th of March, 1862.
•         Wilson S. Bruce was wounded in a saber charge at Aldie, Va., on 17th of June, 1863, and died 22d same month.
•         Moses A. Freeman, Sr., was wounded at Upperville, Va. – date unknown – died January 1864.
•         George L. Byard died from a wound received while on picket, 11th of Sept., 1864.
•         John Ward died in a Hospital at City Point, Va., 26th of October, 1864.
•         Richard Bagby died at the same place on 18th November 1864.
•         Henry Bradford died 21st of April, 1863.
•         Charles Boggs, discharged on 16th July 1862, died at home.  Date unknown.
•         Francis M. Pritchard, taken prisoner 29th of September, 1864, was supposed to be killed.
•         John Thomas died 17th of April, 1863.
•         James Thomas died 20th of Nov., 1863.
•         Wm. Lambert was killed at Dinwiddie C. H., Va., on 31st March 1865.  He was buried on the field but was removed and buried in the cemetery at Petersburg, Va. He was the last man that was killed in this county.