Soldier:  Henry Silas Bunker

Regiment:  96^th. 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 16^th. 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