Soldier:  Lieutenant Thomas Erving Shunk

Regiment:  96th OVI                              

Company:         C

Age:       25                   

Date Entering Service:  8/19/1862

Period of Service:  8 months

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

Died of disease at Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana on 3/27/1863

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi                             12/28 to 29/1862

Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas                                                1/11/1863

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi                                       5/18 to 7/4/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

It was written within the Ancestry files that Thomas Erving Shunk, son of Cardington Pioneer John and Rebecca Shunk was born on 1/19/1838 in Morrow County, Ohio.  He married Eunice Kilborne in Morrow County on 8/18/1857, three children were born of this union.  Thomas was a railroad agent prior to the Civil War.   It has been written that Thomas led his company in the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs and fell ill during the Siege of Vicksburg. Eunice collected a widow’s pension on 5/1/1863, after her death, a minor child, H Sanderson collected the pension.

Date of Death:  3/27/1863                      Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Gompf Funeral Service                                           Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery