Soldier: James A. Cunningham
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: July 29, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Died of disease on April 10, 1863 at Memphis, Tennessee.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
While James Cunningham would have enlisted at Cardington, there are no records of his residency there. His mother file for his pension on February 11, 1887.
Date of Death: April 10, 1863
Place of burial: Mississippi River National Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn
Adopted By: JH and CP Hill Researcher: Patrick Drouhard