Soldier:  Elwood Bunker

Regiment:  174^th. 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