Civil War Veteran
Union Army
Demetrius Swearingen enlisted as a private in Company K, 9th Regiment Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the United States on September 20, 1864.
This regiment took a conspicuous part in the Atlanta Campaign and in the retrograde movement in pursuit of General Hood to Athens, Alabama. Marching into Tennessee, it fell back before Hood's advance to Nashville, where on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864, it took part in the Battle of Nashville, afterwards joining in the pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Alabama, where the regiment remained until March 13, 1865.
Private Swearingen was with his regiment continuously until he was mustered out of the service on June 20, 1865.
Demetrius Swearingen married Mary A. Dickover on June 28, 1860 in Henry County, Indiana. She was born in 1841 and died December 9, 1862 and is buried in Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana. They had one son, Ira M., who was born December 1, 1862.
After his first wife died he married Mary Susan Coats on November 19, 1863 in Delaware Co., Indiana.
Demetrius and Mary S. (Coats) Swearingen adopted Savanna Swearingen. She died at age 13 and is buried in the Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana.
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Union Army
Demetrius Swearingen enlisted as a private in Company K, 9th Regiment Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the United States on September 20, 1864.
This regiment took a conspicuous part in the Atlanta Campaign and in the retrograde movement in pursuit of General Hood to Athens, Alabama. Marching into Tennessee, it fell back before Hood's advance to Nashville, where on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864, it took part in the Battle of Nashville, afterwards joining in the pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Alabama, where the regiment remained until March 13, 1865.
Private Swearingen was with his regiment continuously until he was mustered out of the service on June 20, 1865.
Demetrius Swearingen married Mary A. Dickover on June 28, 1860 in Henry County, Indiana. She was born in 1841 and died December 9, 1862 and is buried in Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana. They had one son, Ira M., who was born December 1, 1862.
After his first wife died he married Mary Susan Coats on November 19, 1863 in Delaware Co., Indiana.
Demetrius and Mary S. (Coats) Swearingen adopted Savanna Swearingen. She died at age 13 and is buried in the Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana.
Find A Grave contributor Polsley
Civil War Veteran
Union Army
Demetrius Swearingen enlisted as a private in Company K, 9th Regiment Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the United States on September 20, 1864.
This regiment took a conspicuous part in the Atlanta Campaign and in the retrograde movement in pursuit of General Hood to Athens, Alabama. Marching into Tennessee, it fell back before Hood's advance to Nashville, where on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864, it took part in the Battle of Nashville, afterwards joining in the pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Alabama, where the regiment remained until March 13, 1865.
Private Swearingen was with his regiment continuously until he was mustered out of the service on June 20, 1865.
Demetrius Swearingen married Mary A. Dickover on June 28, 1860 in Henry County, Indiana. She was born in 1841 and died December 9, 1862 and is buried in Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana. They had one son, Ira M., who was born December 1, 1862.
After his first wife died he married Mary Susan Coats on November 19, 1863 in Delaware Co., Indiana.
Demetrius and Mary S. (Coats) Swearingen adopted Savanna Swearingen. She died at age 13 and is buried in the Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana.
Find A Grave contributor Polsley
Union Army
Demetrius Swearingen enlisted as a private in Company K, 9th Regiment Indiana Infantry and was mustered into the service of the United States on September 20, 1864.
This regiment took a conspicuous part in the Atlanta Campaign and in the retrograde movement in pursuit of General Hood to Athens, Alabama. Marching into Tennessee, it fell back before Hood's advance to Nashville, where on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864, it took part in the Battle of Nashville, afterwards joining in the pursuit of Hood to Huntsville, Alabama, where the regiment remained until March 13, 1865.
Private Swearingen was with his regiment continuously until he was mustered out of the service on June 20, 1865.
Demetrius Swearingen married Mary A. Dickover on June 28, 1860 in Henry County, Indiana. She was born in 1841 and died December 9, 1862 and is buried in Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana. They had one son, Ira M., who was born December 1, 1862.
After his first wife died he married Mary Susan Coats on November 19, 1863 in Delaware Co., Indiana.
Demetrius and Mary S. (Coats) Swearingen adopted Savanna Swearingen. She died at age 13 and is buried in the Rogersville Cemetery, Henry Co., Indiana.
Find A Grave contributor Polsley
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