Private, Company B, 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Served from September 17, 1861 to April 17, 1863

George W. Gray is my Great-Grandfather.

Burial: Greenlawn Cemetery - Lowell, Adams Twp., Washington Co., OH.

Enlisted as a Private on 23 June 1863 at the age of 19.
Enlisted in Company C, 4th Cavalry Regiment Ohio on 22 August 1863.
Mustered out Company C, 4th Cavalry Regiment Ohio on 22 February 1864.

Enlisted as a Private on 10 February 1865 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company G, 184th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 20 February 1865.
Mustered out Company G, 184th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 20 September 1865 in Nashville, TN

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Current President 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Descendants Association. Dedicated to preserving the memory and history of the 4th OVC

Benjamin F. Moore was born March 27, 1834 in Richland County, OH; September 6, 1861 Enlisted in Company F, 4th OH Cavalry; May 2, 1862 Wounded in left foot at Elk River, AL; September 11, 1862 Discharged at Columbus, OH;
---------Obituary in Monroe, NE 'Looking-Glass' May 16, 1901:
B. F. Moore, father of Mrs. J. J. Williams, of this place. Mr. Moore died Tuesday morning in Omaha, where he was visiting his sons. Mr. Moore visited his daughter here about three weeks ago. The funeral will be at Genoa today conducted by the G. A. R. Mr. Moore had been in poor health for a couple of years. Mrs. Williams went to Omaha on Tuesday to accompany the remains to Genoa, it being the last request of her father that he be burried [sic] there. Mr. Moore was about 65 years old, and served in the war of the Rebellion. There are two girls and four boys left of the family.
---------Death record: Moore, Benjamin F.; age: 68y 1 m 18 d; sex: M; color: W; nativity: Ohio; occupation: farmer; widower; residence: 835 S 17; cause of death: bronchitis; date of death: May 14, 1901; physician: Moore; interment: May 15, 1901 Genoa, NE [Douglas County death register; RG 230; Nebraska State Historical Society; microfilm roll #4; volume 3, p. 268]
---------Death notice: Death--Benjamin F. Morse [sic], 835 South Seventeenth, aged 68. [Omaha Bee May 16, 1901 (Thursday), p. 12]
---------Headstone record: Moore, B. F.; private; Co. F 4 Reg‘t Ohio Cavy; Valley View Cemetery, Genoa, Nebr.; died May 13, 1901; headstone supplied by Lee Marble Works, Lee Mass.; contract date August 25, 1902 [Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, ca. 1879-1903, M1845, roll 14; National Archives, Kansas City]

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Pvt. Andrew Miesch served in the 4th Ohio Cavalry in the western campaigne's battles. starting early in the war he fought in most of the western battles starting in Missouri,going to the Battle of Selma, Alabama. Andrew may have been involved in capturing Jefferson Davis.

Joseph W. Stevenson entered the Service in Co. L. 4th. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry on September 3, 1862 at Cincinnati Ohio.
He served 3 years and was captured and held at the Andersonville Prison for seven (7) months.
Corporal Stevenson was honorably discharged at Cincinnati Ohio on June 15th. 1865