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