| Winfield Scott Winter | 10th Ohio Voluntary Cavalry |
| by Molly Winter |
Winfield Scott Winter was born in 1846, but the exact date of his birth is not know for records are not kept that far back and I can find no records of him in the Censuses that I have checked. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania to Isaac and Eliza Mealy Winter. Winfield was the youngest of three children with an older sister Mary Katherine and an older brother Jacob. The Winters moved from Pennsylvania to Licking County, Ohio and finally to Westerville around 1852-1854. Mary Katherine became famous as the first student to graduate from Otterbein College and to marry the famous Benjamin R. Hanby. Winfield’s brother Jacob preceded him into the service when war broke out in 1861.
Winfield Scott mustered into Camp Cleveland on February 29, 1864 at the age of 18. He was not a famous soldier and not much is known about him in the service. He was in the same regiment and company as his brother: 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Company C. Winfield was enlisted with a term of three years, but only served a little over a year. He had many engagements and battles in that year and Ohio’s Cavalry played a big part in Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. Winfield survived the war and mustered out with his company on July 24, 1865.
After the war Winfield came back to Westerville and became a student at Otterbein College, then known as Otterbein University. He was a part of the class of 1873, but he did not graduate. The school’s archives show nothing more about him and their last records of him are from around 1908, where he is shown to be living in Oakland, California. His death is also unknown because he was living in California at the time and I can find not record of him ever coming back to Ohio. He did live well into old age for in a biography about his sister Mary Katherine Winter-Hanby her obituary says that she was survived by children, grandchildren, and a brother, Winfield who was then living in San Jose, California.
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