Returning to the Greenfield Cemetery once again to help us remember another Ohio Civil War veteran. He was Corporal William "Frank" Dwyer of the 81st O.V.I., Company "C".
Thanking Scott Andersen who shares this interesting story and gravesite photographs he took during his last visit.
"William "Frank" Dwyer is
buried at the Greenfield Cemetery.
During the Civil War he was a
Corporal in Company C, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served
alongside my 3rd Great Uncle, Henry DePoy.
Henry kept a diary of his service in the 81st, and here is an anecdote
from that diary. In November of 1861, the 81st O.V.I. was encamped near
Hermann, Missouri, defending the area against Confederates and "Bushwackers":
"Nov 30th,
1861, Heavy frost last night, this morning very cold, but we built a
fire in my tent, and we are made quite comfortable, Last evening, Frank
Dwyer
was Corporal of the guards, and one of the guards called for the
Corporal, upon which Frank broke out and ran towards the guard,but ere
he reached the place he tumbled into a pit we had dug in the ground,
which served as a slop barrel, it was at the time nearly full, it is
about three feet deep, and he got greased almost all over, it also
raised quite a laugh among the boys, Frank all made a laughing stock of
took it all in good humor"
Frank Dwyer was born in Ohio in 1834, and died in 1904. He was a farmer."
