Michael Dunn

My ancestor from Ireland is Michael Dunn. He was born 1 April 1833 in Kilkenny to Oryan Dunn and Coleen Mcginnes.  He came to America via Canada.  The story told is he came with a tinker as a child. No date, no name of who brought him, no port of arrival or where he enter the US or when.  He is listed on the 1860 census in Potter county Pennsylvania living with a family as a farm hand.  He was a soldier in the Civil War and was wounded in Twennessee  He lost both legs.  He married in Tennessee Sarah Elizabeth Ellison. The military shiped him by train in a barrell of cotton home to Pennsyhlvania where his wife and her mother and siblings joined him.  They had 2 sons and 4 daughters before his death in 1877.