Hiram McKim Civil War Records

MCKIM, KAYS

Posted By: Mary Ellen (email)
Date: 2/11/2007 at 10:32:50

Hiram McKim and two of his brothers, John & Martin, served together in Company B., 15th Ohio Infantry.

Organized for three months service, May 4th, 1861, it served in West Virginia and was discharged August 1st. The regiment was reorganized for three years service near Mansfield in September, by Colonel Moses R. Dickey, and joined General Buell in Kentucky. It partisipated at the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, and was with Rosecrans at Stone River and Chickamauga. The 15th, re-enlisted as veterans, and on the 10th of February 1864, returned to the field and participated in all of Sherman's battles in the Atlanta campaign.It moved with Thomas to Nashville and took part in those brilliant victories and then marched to East Tennessee. At the close of the war the regiment was ordered to Texas and performed arduous duties in that remote quarter until November, when it returned to Columbus Ohio and mustered out December 27th, 1865.

Hiram was born Aug. 15, 1844 at Cambridge, Ohio and died March 4, 1910 at Eddyville, Wapello county Iowa. He is buried at Highland Cemetery of Eddyville Mahaska county Iowa. {Old Eddyville Cemetery} His wife Sarah Jane Kays is also buried in the same cemetery. For more info go to http://www.findagrave.com and search for Hiram McKim of Iowa.