Civil War Soldiers from Dayton Ky.
 

Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 April 1918, page 2

Will C Martin, city clerk of Dayton, while looking through old papers in his desk Tuesday, found a document printed during the Civil War in 1865. It gives a list of men with the colors from Brooklyn, a small town situated where Dayton now lies. Brooklyn extended from McKinney st. to Berry av. in Dayton. The document reads as follows: "Brooklyn, Campbell co. Ky. In the town of Brooklyn there are 58 families. Out of the 58 the following 40 men have gone into the United States service:

George Lowden, Second Kentucky Infantry

Henry Vansant, Elisha Vansant, Goshen Norris, Perry Wright, Henry Moore, John Moore, James Martin, Mr. Sipher, David Bricker, Michael Kennedy and Andrew Wood, all in the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry.

John Barnes, Thomas Lukens, James C Symonds, James Newburg and Lafayette Hazon, all in the Twenty-third Kentucky Infantry.

John Havlin and B Southard in the Fifth Ohio Battery.

John Sipher and John Cam, both in the First Ohio Cavalry

William Jones, Samuel Pearson, Thomas Collins, Fred Nunemaker and Philip Moyer, all in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry.

Joseph Sipher-First Kentucky Infantry

George Treol-101st Ohio Infantry

Charles Williams-Fifth Ohio Infantry

Peter Bricker-Eleventh Ohio Infantry

John Jones-Heavy Artillery

Wiley Bates, George Nepper (not located) John Elliott, US Regulars

George W Lindsey, A Bagley, Benjamin G Farmer, Martin Dunn, Samuel Poole and Ira Navil, all in the US gunboat service.

Of the 40 men then in the service only one man, John Havlin still is living it is believed. He lives on Fifth av. Dayton, near Berry st.

 

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