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Source 261 – Marriage Record – Elam E. Branch, Jennie M. Gorham

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Title: Web file regarding Elam E. Branch and Jennie Gorham marriage
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International Genealogical Index (IGI) Individual Record. Family Search International Genealogical Index v5.0

ELAM E. BRANCH
Male

EVENTS
Birth:  Van Buren, Michigan
Christening:
Death:
Burial:

PARENTS
Father:  ELAM BRANCH
Mother:  Helen Nelson

MARRIAGES
Spouse:  JENNIE M. GORHAM
Marriage:  21 JAN 1891, Van Buren, Michigan
Husband Age at Marriage:  20
Wife Age at Marriage:  22

SOURCE INFORMATION
Batch No:  M518832; Dates:  1866-1885; Source Call No:  1019198 V. B1-C; Type:  Film

Source 160 – Website File of Civil War Enlistees, Lansing MI

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Record – First Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (1861-1865)
URL: http://www.migenweb.org/michiganinthewar/engineers/1engi.htm
Thomas, George S. (p. 201)
Enlisted – Company I, Engineers & Mechanics, 15 August 1864, at Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI., for 1 year, age 36.
Mustered – 15 August 1864. Joined regiment at Atlanta, GA, 02 Sept 1864.
Position – Artificer
Discharged – Washington D.C., 07 June 1865.
Buried – North Star

Note: Sidney S. Thomas and William W. Thomas enlisted on same day at Grand Rapids.

URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015346847;view=1up;seq=223
Book: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Page 201 – Engineers & Mechanics
Thomas, George S., North Star. Enlisted in Company I, Engineers and Mechanics, August 15, 1864, at Grand Rapids, for 1 year, age 36. Mustered August 15, 1864. Joined regiment at Atlanta, GA, September 2, 1864. Artificer. Discharged at Washington, D.C., June 7, 1863.

Record – First and Second U.S. Sharpshooters, Company D, Western Sharpshooters (1861-1865)
Nelson, Marcus S. (p. 175)
Enlisted – Company D, Western Sharpshooters, 10 March 1862, at Dowagiac, MI
Mustered – 12 March 1862
Killed in Action – 04 October 1862, Corinth, MS
Buried – Arlington

Draper, Willard E. (p. 171) (see Source 10)
Enlisted – Company D, Western Sharpshooters, 11 March 1862, at Dowagiac, MI
Mustered – 26 March 1862
Discharged – at expiration of term of service at Goldsboro, NC, 04 April 1865
Died – 14 February 1903, at Detroit, MI
Buried –

Branch, Elam (Vol. 45, p. 116)
Enlisted – Company C, 70th New York Infantry, 30 April 1861, at Paw Paw for 3 years
Mustered – 21 June 1861
Promoted Corporal
Discharged – 24 July 1862, at Detroit, MI, on account of wounds received in action
Buried – Lawrence

Branch, Elijah C. (Vol 42, p. 132)
Enlisted – Battlion G, 1st Lt. Artillery
Mustered –
Discharged –
Died –
Buried –

Source 101 – Military Discharge Paper for Elam Branch Sr

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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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