Millitary
Bonsall joined the Union Army in August 1862 as a private in the 117th Ohio Infantry, which reorganized as the 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery. In 1863 he was promoted to regimental commissary sergeant and then to regimental quartermaster. At the close of the Civil War in 1865, he was offered the rank of major, but declined due to the death of his father, which made him responsible for the rest of the family.
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