Soldier: Eli B. Minor
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 30
Date Entering Service: July 26, 1862
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Listed as a casualty on Jan. 8, 1863 at Young’s Point, Mississippi. Hospitalized, sick (Siege of Vicksburg). Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Eli Minor was born in Perry County, Ohio, but spend most of his live in Cardington. In 1899 he was admitted to the Soldiers Home in Dayton, Oh., and then at Minneapolis, Minn., where he died in 1912. His wife’s name was Margaret. At one time he was a harness maker.
Date of Death: April 29, 1912 Place of burial: Lakewood Cemetery. Minneapolis, Minn.
Adopted By: Researcher: Patrick Drouhard