Honoring My Family's Veterans

My family’s U.S. Veterans (that I know of at this point)

On my Dad’s side:

My Dad –  Specialist, 3^rd Class, U.S. Army, Korean Conflict veteran, Japan as a Petroleum Laboratory Supervisor

My grandpa, Owen Carl Henn (1906-1988), U.S. Army (albeit briefly), WWII

My first cousin, twice removed, Benjamin F. Bentley (1893-1926), Sergeant, WWI

My 2^nd great grandfather, John Henn (1842-1919), private, Company G 3^rd Regiment, New York Light Artillery, Union Army, U.S. Civil War

My 3^rd Great Uncle, Andrew Henn (1832-1911), private, New York Light Artillery, Union Army, U.S. Civil War

On my Mom’s side:

My cousin KMR, Master Sergeant, U.S .Air Force, retired

Great-Uncle Don B. Snyder (1918-2012), Technical Sergeant, 151^st Infantry, 38^th Division (“Avengers of Bataan” – he served in the operation that won them that nickname), WWII

My great-grandfather, Vernon Erwin (1872-1947), private, G Company, 4^th Illinois Infantry, Spanish American War

My 2^nd-great-grandfather Edward Carleton Bailey (1849-1926), private, Company D, 192^nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Union Army

My 3^rd great uncle John W. Bailey (1843-1864), 1^st enlistment 1861: private, Company C, 45^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Union Army; 2^nd enlistment 1864: corporal, Company C, 45^th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Union Army – died of wounds incurred in the siege of Petersburg, VA. U.S. Civil War

My 2^nd great grandfather John Erwin (1841-1917), 1^st enlistment 1861: private, Company D, 11^th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Union Army, wounded at the Battle of Corinth and discharged; 2^nd enlistment (1864): private then corporal, Company B, Illinois 48^th Infantry, Union Army. U.S. Civil War 

My 3^rd great uncle William Erwin (1838-1865), enlisted 1861, Sergeant, Company D, 11^th Regiment Missouri Volunteers, Union Army, discharged to accept commission as Captain July 1, 1864, died of wounds received at Spanish Fort, Ala. U.S. Civil War 

My 3^rd great uncle Eli Erwin, private, Company F, 18^th Regiment Missouri Infantry, Union Army, badly wounded at the Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing 6 April 1862, sent to field hospital a Savannah, TN. He was discharged August 31, 1862, near Corinth MS due to wounds incurred at Shiloh. He didn’t make it home alive. U.S. Civil War 

My 3^rd great uncle Lafayette Erwin (1848-1935), private, Company E, 155^th Illinois Regiment, Union Army. U.S. Civil War

  

My 3^rd great grandfather Henry Y Zimmerman (1794-1853), private, “Captain George Sanderson’s Company” Ohio, War of 1812