Caleb L. Bryant

He enlisted at age 19 in Company I, 7th Ohio Infantry on 24 April 1861 for 3 months then for three years, same company, on 19 June 1861.

He was wounded in the shoulder in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

No further military record found.

"... resided in Bellville for 16 years. He has been well known by everyone here, as a good citizen, honest and industrious, a man of fine feelings, broad information, of sterling character and ever true to his friends. He married Mrs. Mary E. Berry, Nov. 12th., 1872." He apparently killed himself while in Birmingham, AL with an overdose of morphine.

Basic information from Wilson1. Additional information and quote above from an announcement in the Bellville Star of 13 January 1877, which says he died "from the effects of and abscess caused by a gun shot wound received during the late war." Further details in a clipping from the Calhoun Times of 13 January 1877, from the Calhoun-Gordon County Library Obituary File, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.

02/10/1842; New Castle, PA

01/06/1877; Birmingham, AL