Soldier:  Morris Burns

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                 

Company:  C

Age:  23                       

Date Entering Service:  August 8, 1862

Period of Service:  3 years

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

At some point he was promoted to the rank of sergeant.  He was discharged on March 11, 1863 at Milliken’s Bend, La. On a surgeon’s certificate of disability, probably from a wound sustained at the battle of Arkansas Post, Ark.  In an 1890 Veterans’ Schedule it was noted that he was “shot in the right kneecap.”

Battles in which he fought:

Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss.                           Dec. 28-29, 1862

Arkansas Post, Ark.                                            Jan. 11, 1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Morris Burns was born at Mt. Gilead, Ohio.  By 1900 it was noted that he and his wife, Carrie (married in 1866), were living in Troy, Ohio.  He died in Farmington, Michigan, but his body was brought back to Troy, Ohio for burial.

Date of Death:  Sept. 28, 1920             Place of burial:  Riverside Cemetery, Troy, OH

Adopted By:  Randy and Patsy Burns                  Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard