CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA

John Minner was born in Walhonding, Cochocton county, Ohio, June 4, 1842; removed with his parents to Illinois in 1846, and was farming in Fulton county when he enlisted as a recruit from Summum, February 8, 1864. He was slightly wounded in the fighting near the Sandtown road, in the campaign against Atlanta, Ga., and is marked absent without leave at the muster out of the regiment. He moved to Montana in 1886, is engaged in farming and stock raising near Rockvale, in Carbon county, Montana.
[Source: Henry J. Aten, Compiler, History of the Eighty-fifth Regiment: Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Eighty-Fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Association, 1901), 478-479; digital images, GoogleBooks (http://books.google.com/: Viewed 14 April 2009.)]

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