"Know ye, that Oliver Babbs a Private of Captain W. C. Harris' Company, (K) 38th Regiment of Illinois VOLUNTEERS who was enrolled on the twelfth day of August one thousand eight hundred and Sixty One to serve three years or during the war, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864, at Ooltawah, Tennessee by reason of Re-Enlistment as a Veteran Volunteer. (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.) Said Oliver Babbs was born in Ohio County in the State of Indiana, is twenty years of age, Five feet Seven Inches high, Fair complexion, Gray eyes, Dark hair, and by occupation when enlisted, a Farmer.
Given at Ooltawah Tenn this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864."
(signed) W. C. Harris and several others that I can't decipher.
At the end of the Civil War, Oliver Babbs was discharged near the Victoria, Victoria County, Texas area. He next migrated to Northwest, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to become a resident of Oil City. Note, residing in Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, he never used again his given surname of "Babbs", and chose to use "Perry" as a substitute surname until his death.
Given at Ooltawah Tenn this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864."
(signed) W. C. Harris and several others that I can't decipher.
At the end of the Civil War, Oliver Babbs was discharged near the Victoria, Victoria County, Texas area. He next migrated to Northwest, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to become a resident of Oil City. Note, residing in Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, he never used again his given surname of "Babbs", and chose to use "Perry" as a substitute surname until his death.
"Know ye, that Oliver Babbs a Private of Captain W. C. Harris' Company, (K) 38th Regiment of Illinois VOLUNTEERS who was enrolled on the twelfth day of August one thousand eight hundred and Sixty One to serve three years or during the war, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864, at Ooltawah, Tennessee by reason of Re-Enlistment as a Veteran Volunteer. (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.) Said Oliver Babbs was born in Ohio County in the State of Indiana, is twenty years of age, Five feet Seven Inches high, Fair complexion, Gray eyes, Dark hair, and by occupation when enlisted, a Farmer.
Given at Ooltawah Tenn this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864."
(signed) W. C. Harris and several others that I can't decipher.
At the end of the Civil War, Oliver Babbs was discharged near the Victoria, Victoria County, Texas area. He next migrated to Northwest, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to become a resident of Oil City. Note, residing in Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, he never used again his given surname of "Babbs", and chose to use "Perry" as a substitute surname until his death.
Given at Ooltawah Tenn this Twenty Eighth day of February, 1864."
(signed) W. C. Harris and several others that I can't decipher.
At the end of the Civil War, Oliver Babbs was discharged near the Victoria, Victoria County, Texas area. He next migrated to Northwest, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to become a resident of Oil City. Note, residing in Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, he never used again his given surname of "Babbs", and chose to use "Perry" as a substitute surname until his death.
Inscription
OLIVER BABBS
CO. K.
38TH ILL. INF.
(A Veteran's tombstone)
Gravesite Details
GPS +32.73687,-93.98466 Special thanks to Nancy Gray Machen for her extensive genealogy research which made this memorial possible to link our great great grandfather Oliver Babbs (Perry) to our great grandmother Mary Rhoda Elizabeth Perry Hart.
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