Lewis Blachly is listed on the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Civil War monument, but he is not buried in Mt. Pleasant. According to his widow's pension record, Lewis was a contract assistant surgeon with the 108th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was assigned to the regiment about 1 April 1863 at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. While his regiment was on the march to the rear of Vicksburg, he was left behind, being too sick to travel due to dysentery. He died at Dillon's Plantation in Mississippi on 23 May 1863. His burial location is unknown. Dillon's Plantation borders the Natchez Trace Parkway and currently is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway of the National Park Service. Blachly married Rebecca McComb on 9 May 1850 in Trumbull County, Ohio.
Lewis Blachly is listed on the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Civil War monument, but he is not buried in Mt. Pleasant. According to his widow's pension record, Lewis was a contract assistant surgeon with the 108th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was assigned to the regiment about 1 April 1863 at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. While his regiment was on the march to the rear of Vicksburg, he was left behind, being too sick to travel due to dysentery. He died at Dillon's Plantation in Mississippi on 23 May 1863. His burial location is unknown. Dillon's Plantation borders the Natchez Trace Parkway and currently is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway of the National Park Service. Blachly married Rebecca McComb on 9 May 1850 in Trumbull County, Ohio.
Inscription
37y old, Vol Surgeon of the late Rebellion, 103 Reg. Ind Vols, d. Millikens Bend, LA
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Civil War veteran
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