Elon G. Beers

By 1859 he was a teacher living in Darlington, WI. He enlisted in Company H, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 22 April 1861. He was appointed Corporal, Sergeant, and First Sergeant (dates not given).

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

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, on 20 April 1865 and mustered out with the Company on 18 July 1865.

In 1871 he was appointed Postmaster of Belle Praire, NE, and by 1890 (to at least 1899) Postmaster at Strang, NE. He was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch (Leavenworth, KS) on 15 February 1917 and discharged in June of that year.

Basic information from Bryant1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His Postmaster appointments from various editions of the Official Register of the United States. National Home details from the Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 2nd Session (House Records, Vol. 99, 1918). His 1861-62 wartime diary is among the Jenks-Beers family papers at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.

1835 in OH

1928; burial in Harmony Cemetery, Strang, NE