Soldier: Elwood Bunker
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1864
Period of Service: 11 months 6 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865. Suffered a gunshot wound to the right thigh.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Elwood Bunker was born in Cardington, Ohio on 6/15/1846. He married Alice M Sage on 6/13/1872 in Morrow County, three children were born of this union. Elwood farmed in the Peru Township area of Morrow County. He collected an invalid’s pension on 4/17/1876. His wife, Alice collected a widow’s pension on 12/10/1915.
Date of Death: 11/25/1915 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Bunker’s Mill Winery Researcher: Velda L Montgomery