Homer B. BARNUM and his wife Eliza were admitted as communicants at the New Fairfield Congregational Church on 13 Nov 1831. Homer was a Private with Company A, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in heavy fighting near Petersburg, Virginia, during the Petersburg Campaign of the US Civil War. Homer's brother Eliakim BARNUM also served in the Civil War, as did five of Homer's six sons. His son Eben Lewis BARNUM was co-author of a well-known genealogy of the Barnum family, published in 1912.
Homer B. BARNUM and his wife Eliza were admitted as communicants at the New Fairfield Congregational Church on 13 Nov 1831. Homer was a Private with Company A, 11th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in heavy fighting near Petersburg, Virginia, during the Petersburg Campaign of the US Civil War. Homer's brother Eliakim BARNUM also served in the Civil War, as did five of Homer's six sons. His son Eben Lewis BARNUM was co-author of a well-known genealogy of the Barnum family, published in 1912.
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Co. A, 11th Reg., C. V. Killed at Petersburg, VA, July 12, 1864, age 55 years
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