Soldier:  Eli B. Minor

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                  

Company:  C

Age:  30                                   

Date Entering Service:  July 26, 1862

Period of Service:  3 Years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Listed as a casualty on Jan. 8, 1863 at Young’s Point, Mississippi.  Hospitalized, sick (Siege of Vicksburg).  Discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability.

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

Other interesting information discovered:

Eli Minor was born in Perry County, Ohio, but spend most of his live in Cardington.  In 1899 he was admitted to the Soldiers Home in Dayton, Oh., and then at Minneapolis, Minn., where he died in 1912.  His wife’s name was Margaret.  At one time he was a harness maker.

Date of Death:  April 29, 1912    Place of burial: Lakewood Cemetery. Minneapolis, Minn.

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard