Sounds good to me. If I can ever get someone out in Kansas to take a photo of his headstone, maybe that can be uploaded to the post at a later point?

This is the stuff I’m talking about!!!

If it’s OK with you, I want to give this a separate post (and you’ll be listed as the author), and I’ll link to it on the Bio page and the OOB. I may rearrange the text into something more Heitman-esque, if that’s OK with you.

My distant “connection” to the 2nd Ohio Infantry… a 1st cousin, 5 times removed…

George Arthur Ege – Master’s Mate, U.S.S. Ozark, formerly 1st Lt., 17th Independent (Ohio) Battery, and formerly Pvt., Co. F, 2nd Ohio Infantry,

Born 15 March 1841. In 1854 he went from Pennsylvania to Springfield, Ohio,; later enlisted as a private in Company F, Second Regiment, Ohio Infantry, on April 17, 1861, and served until July 31, 1861, participating in the first Battle of Bull Run or Manassas July 21, 1861. On July 12 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant, 17th Independent Battery Ohio Light Artillery. He served under General Grant during the Vicksburg campaign, the taking of Arkansas Post, the first attempt at Vicksburg, and in all the battles following and final surrender of the city, forming part of the 17th Army Corps, under General A. S. Smith, Division Commander. He resigned Aug. 11, 1863, with honorable distinction. He entered the U. S. Navy, Mississippi Squadron, as Master’s Mate on the Monitor Ozark, patrolling the Mississippi River, July 13, 1864, and resigned June 15, 1865, after which he participated in the Red River expedition under Admiral Porter and General Banks. In the army and navy he received meritorious mention. In the spring of 1865 he returned to his home at Springfield, Ohio, and following his Red River experience, he was engaged with the construction and building of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, as Commissary, Terminal, and Station Agent at Junction City, Kan. In 1876 he entered the General Accounting Department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, at Topeka, Kan. He died on May 30, 1913 and was buried in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Kansas.