- Joined
- Mar 31, 2012
- Location
- Central Ohio
One of my relatives recently posted this on a genealogy site... I'd not seen this image before.
This was my great-great-grandfather David Lusher, Co. G, 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (till 28 Sep 1865). I've mentioned elsewhere that the table in my breakfast nook was one he bought after the war; one of the legs broke and he turned a new one on a lathe that almost matches (but if you look closely, you can spot the difference). My grandfather rescued the table from where it was being used as a sort of utility table and carefully refinished it, and it was the main dining room table for my grandparents while I was growing up.
David Lusher did not enlist until close to the end of the war. You'll note that in the photo, he's leaning on a chair; he had injured his leg in some fashion with a scythe while harvesting some years prior and had some trouble walking; he probably wouldn't have been accepted for service earlier in the war, I'd imagine. The principal duty of the 189th seems to have been guarding railroads in Tennessee.
This was my great-great-grandfather David Lusher, Co. G, 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (till 28 Sep 1865). I've mentioned elsewhere that the table in my breakfast nook was one he bought after the war; one of the legs broke and he turned a new one on a lathe that almost matches (but if you look closely, you can spot the difference). My grandfather rescued the table from where it was being used as a sort of utility table and carefully refinished it, and it was the main dining room table for my grandparents while I was growing up.
David Lusher did not enlist until close to the end of the war. You'll note that in the photo, he's leaning on a chair; he had injured his leg in some fashion with a scythe while harvesting some years prior and had some trouble walking; he probably wouldn't have been accepted for service earlier in the war, I'd imagine. The principal duty of the 189th seems to have been guarding railroads in Tennessee.