Edward Deforest Lunt

Edward Deforest Lunt, b. July 11, 1844. He was an apprentice in the Iowa State Register Office at Des Moines, Iowa. He enlisted Oct. 14, 1861, as a private in Co. B, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and at the expiration of his term of service reenlisted as a veteran Dec. 1863; participated in the sieges of Corinth, Vicksburgh, and Atlanta, and in all the battles of the 17th Army Corps up to July 22, 1864, when he was captured, being a corporal. He was held prisoner until paroled Dec. 10, 1864, and confined at Andersonville, Charleston, and Florence, S. C. He was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 3, 1865. He has since been engaged in the practical business of printing at Corry, Pa., and Des Moines, Iowa, and since May, 1868, has been proprietor and conductor with a partner (Frank Morgan, Esq.), of the Glenwood Opinion published at Glenwood, Iowa. He m. Nov. 11, 1867, at Des Moines, Augusta Eleonora Longshore, b. Feb. 9, 1849 (dau. of ...... Longshore of Delaware, O., and editor of the Adams Co. Gazette, of Corning, Iowa. He is a master Mason, and is also postmaster now at Corning).

SOURCE: Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, The History Of The Descendants Of Elder John Strong, Of Northampton, Mass.,  p. 139-40