At age 24, he joined for duty and enrolled at Moundsville on Aug. 13, 1862; mustered in at Wheeling on Aug. 20, 1862. “Died of Typhoid Fever in hospital at Buckhannon, Sept. 29, 1862.” He is buried at Bowman Ridge Cemetery, Marshall County. He is named on the Civil War Draft record, dated 1863, as a man in the 12th Infantry. The name is spelled consistently as “Blinquo” in the Service Record. He is found in the 1860 census of Marshall County, the son of Mark Blinquo, a hotel keeper, and his wife, Mary. This family had lived in Berkeley County, (W)Va. in 1850, at which time the surname was recorded as “Blincoe.” The father, Mark, died in 1875 and is buried at Bowman Ridge Cemetery; the spelling on his gravestone is “Blincoe.” The mother, Mary Blincoe, a resident of Glen Easton, filed a claim for a pension and she is named on the 1883 Pensioners’ Roll of Marshall County, Pension Certificate #182,352.