John Motts

Mustered into service as a Private on July 29th, 1861

Died  14 November 1883

Buried Dayton National Cemetery, Montgomery County Ohio

Photo by Eric Lowman

Private Motts served in a three month Ohio regiment from May to July of 1861 before enlisting in the 19th Indiana. He received a gunshot wound to the right ankle at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863. John would muster out of the service in July of 1864.

He filed for a pension in 1868.

John never married and died at the Dayton Ohio Soldiers home of consumption.

Mustered into service as a Private on July 29th, 1861

Died  14 November 1883

Buried Dayton National Cemetery, Montgomery County Ohio