Notes:
Data source is Linda Morris. E-mail LMorris@alumni.vanderbilt.edu?
Jerome enlisted in Company H of the 33rd Ohio Infantry as a musician on 23 Feb 1864. He was 18 years old. He was listed as a POW on 23 Mar 1865 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and discharged from Company H in Camp Chase, Ohio, on 12 June 1865, after being exchanged and sent North.
The 33rd Ohio Infantry participated in Sherman's March to the Sea which took place in late 1864. After reaching Savannah, Georgia, Sherman and his men turned north and marched through South Carolina and North Carolina. This is how Jerome ended up a prisoner of war in North Carolina. Jerome's Application for Invalid Pension completed on June 25, 1889 stated as follows:
"That while a member of the organization aforesaid, [Co. H, 33rd Infantry], in the service and in the line of duty near Graysville in the State of Georgia on or about the first days of May 1864, he contracted diarrhoea which affected him and became chronic and has continued and disabled him from that time to the present, in performance of manual labor. That he was much weaked [sic] and broken down thereby during the 'Atlanta Campaign,' where he was occasionally excused from duty on account thereof up to date of about the 20th of March 1865, where he was captured and taken to Richmond, Virginia by the Rebels and there held as a prisoner of war where he was held until about April 4, 1865 at which time he was sent with others North and exchanged and afterward discharged as above set forth. The said disability resulted in weakness, general debility and nervousness, so much as to totally unfit him at times for manual labor."
Affidavit of the War Department concerning his application reports that Jerome "is reported on roll dated April 30, 1864, present, musc., Same to Feb 28, 1865. March and April '65, absent, prisoner of war since March 23, 1865. May and June '65 absent, prisoner of war and paroled since April 1, '65. Mustered out with detachment June 12, 1865 at Camp Chase, Ohio. Return for May '64 does not report him absent. Co. was in action Mar. 23, 1865 at Goldsboro, NC. Prisoner of War Records show him captured at Bentonville, NC, March '65; Paroled at Bulware's & Coxe's Wharf, Virginia, March 31, 1865. Sent to Camp Chase, Ohio April 2, 1865 where he reported April 5, 1865 and was mustered out as above. No evidence of disability." --dated 10 Oct 1889.
Jerome and his wife Mary applied for his army pension in August 1889, and Mary applied to continue his pension as his widow in October 1912.