. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . Hf. BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL CYRUS BUSSEY, Brevet Major-General Cyrus Bussey was born atHubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio, October 5, 1833 ; theson of Rev. A. Bussey, a Methodist Episcopal fourteen years of age he entered a dry-goods store atDupont, Indiana, but at sixteen began business upon hisown account. At twenty-two, having married EllenKiser, of Rockford, Indiana, lie removed to Bloomfield,Iowa, where he engaged in business as a years later he was elected as a Democrat to theIowa State


. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . Hf. BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL CYRUS BUSSEY, Brevet Major-General Cyrus Bussey was born atHubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio, October 5, 1833 ; theson of Rev. A. Bussey, a Methodist Episcopal fourteen years of age he entered a dry-goods store atDupont, Indiana, but at sixteen began business upon hisown account. At twenty-two, having married EllenKiser, of Rockford, Indiana, lie removed to Bloomfield,Iowa, where he engaged in business as a years later he was elected as a Democrat to theIowa State Senate, of which body he became a promi-nent figure. He was a delegate to the National Baltimore in [860. At the outbreak of the CivilWar, being still in the Iowa Senate, he was a zealous,emphatic, and effective supporter of the cause of theUnion. He was appointed, June 10, 1861, aide-de-camp uponthe staff of Governor Kirkwood, who committed thecare of affairs along the southern border of Iowa tohis charge. On August 1 he seized one thousand gunson a train a


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