Soldier: Henry Silas Bunker
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: August 11, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed Commissary Sergeant March 4, 1863. Received two slight wounds. Mustered out on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
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
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Moneti’s Bluff, La. April 23, 1864
Forts Gains and Morgan, La. Aug. 5-23, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Henry Bunker was born at Cardington. His wife’s name was Mary Caroline. The family moved to Toledo, Ohio in 1867, where he was an attorney at law. He remained there for the remainer of his life. In 1878 he joined the 16th. Ohio Nation Guard, where he rose to the rank of Colonel. His regiment was called up on several occasions of civil unrest in Ohio.
Date of Death: March 21, 1900 Place of burial: Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio
Adopted By: Bunker’s Mill Winery Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
