Bunker, Byron

Soldier:  Byron Bunker

Regiment:  3rd. OVI                   

Company:  I

Age:  28                       

Date Entering Service:  June 15, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Wounded at the battle of Perryville, Ky. on Oct. 8, 1862.  Mustered out on June 21, 1864 by Circular N0. 36, War Department. 

Battles in which he fought:

Rich Mountain

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 30, 1862 - Jan 2, 1863

Straight’s Raid, Ga.                                            April 29-May 2, 1863                                                    

Other interesting information discovered:

Bunker lived in Cardington in 1860.  By 1880 he was living in Bell, Texas, where he worked at a feed mill.  He remained in Bell until at least 1900.  He died at Salado, Texas.

Date of Death:  August 17, 1922          Place of burial:  Salado Cemetery, Salado, Tx.

Adopted By:  Bunker’s Mill Winery                                              Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard