SERVICE in the CONFEDERATE  STATES of AMERICA 

OTIS P. WINGROVE, 
Or PATRICK WINGROVE,
                b. 28 SEP 1841 in Upshur VA
                    d. 9 DEC 1907 in Hemet CA 
                M: 28 OCT 1865 in Randolph WV
                        Margrett SCOTT [Margaret]

Private -36th Battalion Virginia Cavalry
            31st Regiment of Virginia Infantry

Appears as Otis P. Wingrove on company roll of 31st Regiment of Virginia Infantry dated August 31 1861 for service in July -August 1861. 
States that he is absent and has not returned to his company. 
States that he enlisted May 21 1861 at Clarksburg by Captain U. M. Turner for 1 years service.

Present as O. P. Wingrove on company roll of 36th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Company "A", dated September 3 1863 for service in May - June 1863.
States that he enlisted May 12 18??(63) at Augusta County by Captain Smith for a period of 3 years service. 
States that pay and $50 bounty are due from enlistment
(Historical note about regiment on this document: 
This company was formed in October 1862 by the division of 16th regiment Virginia cavalry into 2 companies)

Present on company roll dated September 10, 1863 
     for service in July -August 1863.

Present on company roll dated January 1864 
     for service in September - October 1863.

Appears as absent on undated company roll covering
service between October 31 1863 through October 31 1864. 
States that he is absent due to be captured near Moorefield
 
Appears as Patrick Windgrove on a roll of prisoners of war forwarded from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia to Camp Chase, Ohio on August 11 1864.

Roll from Headquarters Department West Virginia Office Provost Marshall General, August 24 1864.

States that he was captured at Moorefield Virginia on August 7 1864.
Appears on a list of prisoners, dated August 7 1864,
confined in Military Prison at Wheeling West Virginia.

Prison also known as Atheneum Prison. 
Document describes prisoner as Age 25,Height 5 foot 9 inches,
  Complexion dark, Eyes brown, Hair dark and his occupation was as a laborer.

It states further that he was captured at New Creek West Virginia on August 5 1864 and arrested by a Colonel Stephens and was shipped to Camp Chase Ohio.

Appears on roll of prisoners of war at Camp Chase Ohio States that Patrick Windgrove was captured at New Creek Virginia on August 5 1864 and was received at Camp Chase on August 10 1864 and that they had come from Wheeling Virginia. 

States that he was transferred to City Point.
Appears as Patrick Wingrove on an undated roll of prisoners of war stating that he has been paroled at Camp Chase Ohio and has been transferred to City Point Virginia as of March 4 1865 to be exchanged.

Appears on a register of persons admitted to Receiving & Wayside Hospital or General Hospital Number 9 in Richmond Virginia. Admitted March ? 1865.
Disposition is illegible but does state it was made on March 12 1865.











View of Camp Chase 
        courtesy of Library of Congress

Camp Chase (OH) Military Prison, 1861-1865.

Training camp west of Columbus, converted to a prison camp. About 8,000 prisoners in mid-1863. One captive officer described the place as being so filthy that no self-respecting Tennessee farmer would house his pigs there.


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Compiled by Michael J Higgins 
                 06 April 2002


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