Union soldier, dying of disease (dysentery & smallpox) in 1864 in a New Orleans, Louisiana hospital.* Served in Companies A & D, 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. First spouse of Nancy Jane Walker, married October 13, 1859. Two sons, legal guardian of whom was one of his Union Township, Pike County, Ohio neighbors, Ezra Rockwell. --- *SOURCE: WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR [Civil War] PENSION: Document # 85.203; Act of July 14, 1862, Nancy Jane Sturgeon, Scioto Co., Ohio, Widow of James Sturgeon; Pvt. Co. D 56OVI; filed November 10, 1865.
Union soldier, dying of disease (dysentery & smallpox) in 1864 in a New Orleans, Louisiana hospital.* Served in Companies A & D, 56th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. First spouse of Nancy Jane Walker, married October 13, 1859. Two sons, legal guardian of whom was one of his Union Township, Pike County, Ohio neighbors, Ezra Rockwell. --- *SOURCE: WIDOW'S CLAIM FOR [Civil War] PENSION: Document # 85.203; Act of July 14, 1862, Nancy Jane Sturgeon, Scioto Co., Ohio, Widow of James Sturgeon; Pvt. Co. D 56OVI; filed November 10, 1865.
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