Information furnished by the Deis family. John was Jim Deis great grandfather.
John served from Dayton and enlisted at Camp Dennison with Company M, First Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. After the war, John organized an officers’ club called The Old Guard Post #23, Grand Army of the Republic. Buried at Calvary Cemetery, Moraine, they erected a cannon in the soldier’s section that was dedicated with his name on the base .
Deis was commander of the company and attained the rank of 1st sergeant and served until December 13, 1864.
John was born 1837 in Germany and married in 1861 to Elizabeth Belm. They had 13 children with at least six living to adulthood. He died 1923 and is buried in the large family plot at Calvary Cemetery.
Full details in attached article, but his Civil War battles included: Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Corinth, Stone River, Atlanta and Jonesboro. His youngest brother, Philip, also joined the military but was killed 1864 in Resaca, Georgia during General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.
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