Soldier: Lieutenant Thomas Erving Shunk
Regiment: 96th OVI
Company: C
Age: 25
Date Entering Service: 8/19/1862
Period of Service: 8 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Died of disease at Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana on 3/27/1863
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi 12/28 to 29/1862
Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas 1/11/1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi 5/18 to 7/4/1863
Other interesting information discovered:
It was written within the Ancestry files that Thomas Erving Shunk, son of Cardington Pioneer John and Rebecca Shunk was born on 1/19/1838 in Morrow County, Ohio. He married Eunice Kilborne in Morrow County on 8/18/1857, three children were born of this union. Thomas was a railroad agent prior to the Civil War. It has been written that Thomas led his company in the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs and fell ill during the Siege of Vicksburg. Eunice collected a widow’s pension on 5/1/1863, after her death, a minor child, H Sanderson collected the pension.
Date of Death: 3/27/1863 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Gompf Funeral Service Researcher: Velda L Montgomery