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.