Not an ancestor.

I am Docent in old cemetery at Santa Rosa, CA. Organized a large dedication ceremony for his new grave marker in Oct. 2005. 15 man Honor/Color Guard from the 69th N.Y. Inf. participated.
He was a noted individual in this county and had many laurels to wear here.

pcc/SUV, Charles Christian

Searching for family roots I came upon a little church in Treemont City, Ohio on a hill with Mt. Calvary cemetary founded 1863. I found the graves of the Ezra Bleu(blue,blew also found in other records), his stone reads EZRA BLEU CO. C. 134 OHIO INFANTRY, could not read birth or death dates on stone.

His name appears in a document dated 1890 as a witness to an application of my great greate grandfather John Ferguson for a civil war pension.

John Ferguson is my great great grandfather. I found out that he was a memeber of this regiment from his pension records. He was given a pension due to injuries he received at Bermuda Hundred. From the application it appears that he fell in a ditch/trench while taking rations to the front. The pension record is consistent with the infomation on the regiment. This regiment was a hundred day regiment. It was only active 100 days. It was to be used mainly as a labor unit for digging ditches and freeing up longer serving units for fighting the army of Nothern Virginia.
His obit is below. John Ferguson and his wife purchased a farm just outside of the town of Mechanicsburg located in Champaign County Ohio. The farm is still in our family today.

From ‘The Morning Telegram’ of Mechanicsburg Friday February 17, 1905

Funeral of J. W. Ferguson

Mr. J. W. Ferguson, one of Mechanicsburg’s oldest and best known residents, died Wednesday evening about nine o’clock, at his home on High Street, at the age of 73 years. Deceased had been in poor health for several months, but a short time ago he contracted a severe cold which resulted in pneumonia. The funeral will he held from the home this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, Rev. Haines officiating. Interment Maple grove cemetery.

Note: at the bottom of the same newspaper on February 17, 1905
All soldiers of the war of ‘61-’65 are requested to meet at G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) hall at one p. m. today to attend the funeral of J. W. Ferguson - J. C. Culbertson, Com.
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Information on the regiment
Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered in May 5, 1864. Left State for Cumberland, Md., May 7, and duty there until June 6. Moved to Washington, D. C., June 6; thence to White House and City Point, Va. Duty at City Point pontooning the James River and building roads until June 17. Picket duty at Bermuda Hundred until June 22. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James. Marched to Deep Bottom June 22, and engaged in building works. Picket duty and operations against Richmond on north side of the James River until August. Mustered out August 31, 1864.


Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 30 Enlisted men by disease. Total 31.
source http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unohinf8.htm#134

Enlisted in Company F, Ohio 134th Infantry Regiment on 06 May 1864.
Mustered out on 31 Aug 1864 at Camp Chase, OH.

Henry was 18 years old and had immigrated from the Alsace-Lorraine province between France and Germany. The 134th was a 100-day unit from around Shelby County Ohio. Mustered in at Camp Chase, May 6th, 1864, as an Ohio National Guard unit, 867 men, James B. Armstrong colonel; moved for Cumberland, Virginia, via Parkersburg; then to City Point, Virginia, via Washington; engaged in pontooning the river and building roads, June 17th engaged the enemy at Port Walthall, during the assault on Petersburg; loss, two killed, three wounded, June 22d moved to north side James, assigned to Second Brigade, Third Division, Tenth Army Corps; for seventy days entrenching and on picket duty on advanced line toward Richmond; mustered out at Camp Chase, August 31st, 862 men, Colonel Armstrong commanding. (From: The Military History of Ohio. by H.H. Hardesty)

However, I have not been able to substantiate the assignment of the 134th to the 2d Bde, 3d Div, 10th Corps, Army of the James. Rosters of units assigned that I've found do not reflect the 134th.

This link lists all the members of the 134th. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm Henry's name is spelled Crusy on the muster
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Taken from 'William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas', Montgomery County.

Simon Wones was my great great grandfather. Simon enlisted 2 May 1864. After his term of service ended he returned to his farm in Champaign County, Ohio.

Enlisted as a Corporal on 2 May 1864 at the age of 22.
Mustered in Company K, 134th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 6 May 1864.
Mustered out on 31 August 1864 at Camp Chase, OH.