Lewis Burnham
Lewis Burnham was born on April 16, 1842, in Ohio to Reuben Burnham and Elizabeth Ross. His father was a farmer who owned $1,500 of real estate and $300 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Madison, Ohio, and Burnham attended school there becoming a sailor. He enlisted in the Union army on December 26, 1861, and mustered in as a corporal in Company E of the 54th Ohio Infantry. He was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh and discharged for disability at Camp Chase, Ohio, on June 18, 1862. He returned home to Ohio, and by 1870, he was working as a railroad employee. He died of consumption in Washington, D.C., on November 11, 1889.
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(280)Burnham, Lewis1842-04-161889-11-11
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Corporal
  • Rank out: Corporal
  • Rank highest: Corporal
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 2

  • (1016) [associated with] ~ George W. Browning Statement, 1862
  • (1017) [writer] ~ Lewis Burnham to George W. Browning, 26 June 1862

Places - Records: 2

  • (274) [birth] ~ Ohio
  • (75) [death] ~ Washington, DC

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (59) [enlisted] [E] ~ 54th Ohio Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; The Painesville Telegraph, 14 November 1889.