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Alice,
Thanks so much for your fast response!
Capt. William S. Bunn enlisted in Company A, 127th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Oswego in 1862 as a lieutenant. He was eventually promoted captain in command of the company. You can get a bit of his military information at the Illinois Secretary of State Archives website: http://www.ilsos.gov/genealogy/CivilWarController
We have a transcription in our collections of a letter Capt. Bunn wrote back to Illinois to the parents of Alfred X. Murdock, a private in Company A from Oswego who was killed at the Battle of Ezra Church. Acccording to the letter, Company A only had about five effective soldiers standing after the battle.
After the war, he returned to Oswego where he ran the local lumber yard. I came across mention of him in the Oswego column of the Kendall County Record in 1874, noting that his house had burned down and that he was rebuilding it.
After that, the trail runs cold. The newspaper mentioned his wife’s death in 1882, but didn’t say anything about him. I would like to know where he went after he left Oswego and when he died. I suspect there might be a treasure trove of information in his Civil War pension records, which we have not yet applied to receive; I was hoping that perhaps one of his family members had already done so.
Roger Matile
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