Name: Elam Branch, Sr.
Date: 24 July 1862
Rank: Private, Captain Hugo’s Company C, first Regiment of Excelsior Brigade
[See: Elam Branch Discharge.jpg]
“To all whom it may concern:
Know ye, that Elam Branch, private of Captain Hugo’s Company C, first Regiment of Excelsior Brigade, N.Y. volunteers who was enrolled on the 23rd day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one to serve three years, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States, this 24th day of July, 1862, at Detroit, Mich. by reason of a wound in the leg. Said Elam Branch was born in Lawrence in the State of Michigan, is twenty years of age, five feet seven inches high, light complexion, gray eyes, light hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a farmer. Given at Detroit this 24th day of July, 1862. JR(?) Smith, Lt. Col. USA, Military Commander.
$100 Bounty Paid – March 23, 1866(?), by Maj. W.H. Jameson, Paymaster, USA.
$100 Bounty Paid Washington – May 21, 1868, A.d. Robinson, Paymaster USA, Act July 28, 1866.
Military photo of Elam Branch
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