Burlington Cunningham

Son of a carpenter, in 1850 he was a 9 year old living with his parents and younger brother in Warren County, VA. They moved to Indiana about 1855 and he enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company K, 19th Indiana Infantry.

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

He was promoted to Corporal on 12 November (to date from 5 September) 1862 and was wounded again, twice, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863: first by a gunshot to his side while carrying the colors. He returned to his flag after being treated and was hit in the leg. He was briefly captured on the field and afterward spent 5 months in a hospital in Harrisburg, PA. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 November 1863, and mustered out with the regiment on 28 July 1864 in Indianapolis.

He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in October 1879 and in 1880 was a farmer in Marion County, IA. He moved to Wayne County, NE to farm in about 1882, was farming in Dixon County, NE by 1900, and went to Knox County, NE in about 1902. He farmed there to at least 1910 and had finally retired, in Bloomfield, NE, by 1920. In 1930 he and his wife were still in Bloomfield, living independently in their own home and caring for 10 year old granddaughter Luella Clark; he was then 88 years old.

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 with Gettysburg details from Scott Hartwig's 2011 post to From the Fields of Gettysburg. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, 1880-1930, and his obituary in the Wayne, NE Herald of 4 December 1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph owned by great-grandson Jim Cunningham, shared online by [name?] the 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry memorial website.

He married Elizabeth Starr Matts (1848-1879) in August 1865 and they had 7 children. He married again, Exvira E "Vira" White (1844-1902) in June 1879 and they had 4 more. He married, lastly, Ella Taylor Weber (1867-1948) in May 1904.

08/04/1841; Front Royal, VA

11/30/1930; Bloomfield, Knox County, NE; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Wayne, NE