There is little I can say in the from of a introduction to this page as the statements will speak for themselves. About all I can say is these statements are very, very sad, but you will learn what it was like to be a prisoner of war.
Note. Watch for added information at the end of each statement, as I will add any information that I can find.
Note. This information comes from the Librsry of Congress, House Report No. 45, of the 40th, Congress, entitled, Treatment of Prisoners of War by the Rebel Authorities
Statement of Patrick McShay, Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
Was a sergeant in Company A, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers. I was taken prisoner on the 4th of December, 1864, near Millen, Georgia. Marched on foot to Augusta, Georgia, about fifty miles, in nearly two days. Had one meal of boiled sweet potatoes on the march. No other food. Next day, at 8 a. m., we had a quart of corn meal, unbolted, and a piece of fresh beef, a pound. This lasted me sixty hours. Went by rail, in box cat, to Florence, and was put in stockade prison pen. About twenty acres contained, I think, in it. This was occupied by about seven thousand prisoners. I had no shelter for seven days. Then they let us build shelter of pine tree tops covered with dirt. The prisoners burrowed caves in the ground, and we lived in them like rabbits. They gave us neither blanket nor clothing. On my way to prison, when near Milieu, an Alabama or Mississippi rebel robbed me of my blanket, watch, and $185 in money. Our food in the prison pen was one pint of unbolted corn meal a day, no meat while I was there, and two table spoons full of Carolina stock peas, raw, were given us about three times a week. We cooked the meal and beans in half a canteen, over a fire. They gave us no cooking utensils. We broke the canteen so as to make a kind of cup of it. We had no other rations in that prison. I was there about eleven weeks. I forget the names of the rebel officers in charge of us. Part of the ground in Florence Prison was wet and part dry. Some had to lie in the wet. I was taken from Florence to Wilmington, North Carolina, and thence to Goldsboro, North Carolina, where our squad of prisoners was turned loose in the woods and swamp, and a guard was placed around us. We had no shelter. Our food was about two pounds of salt meet cooked, and about three days’ allowance of hard tack. (1 mean about three days’ United States army allowance.) On this we lived for seven days. I do not think I could have lived one week longer if I had been left at Florence. I was so weak that I couldn’t go to the water, about twenty yards. My parents did not know me ‘when I got home, I was so thin.
Added info. Mustered in June 28, 1861, for 3, years, Promoted to Corporal, January 1, 1864; to Sergeant, February 1, 1865; mustered out with Company, July 18, 1865; Vet. Also note his last name was also spelled: MC Shay, M’Shay, Mc Shea, M’Shea.
H. B. Agnes.
I now reside at Keokuk, Iowa; belonged to Berdan’s sharpshooters; was a private. I enlisted in Jefferson City, Missouri. I was in the service four years and four months. I was captured at Resaca, Georgia, on the 14th of May, 1864. I was wounded by a spherical case shell. I was picked up toward evening, in the woods, by the rebels, mid they carried me in an ambulance, first to Dalton, then by rail to West Point, and then by ambulance to Andersonville. My wounds were not dressed till I got to Andersonville, and then very poorly, with dirty rags. I was put into the stockade, and sectioned off in a battalion, under General Winder. There were some twenty odd thousand men in there then. The rations consisted of corn bread, rice, beans, and stinking meat, twice a week. I have seen boys hung up there by the toes and by the fore-fingers, as a mode of punishment. I also saw men shot for attempting to pick up a crust of bread just over the dead-line. They used to call us “Yankee sons of bitches” and “Lincoln hirelings,” till we got used to it. I saw one man bayoneted while doing some work on the outside for Wirz. He didn’t do it just as lie wanted it, and the guard drove a bayonet into him, so that he died. I was in the hospital then, and could see it from where I lay. Our hospital diet consisted of cold water, rice, soup, and corn bread three times a week. This man who was bayoneted was brought in the hospital where I was, and (lied there. He was a carpenter, and didn’t do his work to suit Wirz. He was from New Hampshire, Hillsboro County. I escaped from Andersonville after I had been there about six months, by tunneling out. Three of us got out at the same time. We started for the woods. The second day I was out I discovered bloodhounds were chasing me. I climbed a tree and they ran by. Then I got down and went to a darkey’s cabin, and got some meat and potatoes, corn bread, and milk, and they also gave me all I could put in my pockets. I started out again, but the next day I was overtaken by two men on horseback, and was taken to Salisbury, North Carolina, and put in the Salisbury jail. There I was treated worse than at Andersonville. The rations were very scanty, not enough to satisfy hunger—a small piece of bacon, half as big as your finger, and a piece of corn bread, about half an inch thick and five inches square. I understood there was plenty of bacon outside, several hundred pounds. The place where I was confined was small, dark, and filthy. I was a prisoner there six weeks, and then I was sent to our lines and exchanged. The corn bread we had was just like a rock. You could throw it at a stone wall and it wouldn’t break.
H. B. AGNES.
William J. Patton, of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Also: James Eckels & Joshua Day.
I was captain of Company K, First Arkansas loyal cavalry. Two men of my company, James Eckels and Joshua Day, were captured by the rebel forces at Prairie Grove, in December, 1862. They were reported to General Hindman, who ordered them shot, on the charge that they were traitors to the State. The order was executed.
WM. J. PATTON.
Little, Rock Arkansas, February 10, 1868.
Added Info: Enl 1 Apr 1865 at Devalls Bluff, AR. Age 24. Assumed command of the company 11 Mar 1865. (Died 7, July, 1907. Buried in National Cemetery, Fayetteville, AR.
H. C. Mc Quiddy.
I was captured May 3, 1863, with Colonel A. P. Streight, near Rome, Georgia; was sent to Libby, Richmond, Virginia; reached Libby on the 16th of May, 1863; left on May 9, 1864. Of my treatment while in Libby, the most that I have to say is that if the pangs of hunger ever ceased to gnaw at my vitals, I had to thank others than the rebels. I can truthfully say that for months my hunger was never satisfied. At Columbia I received the worst treatment that fell to my lot; a small ration of meal, sorghum, and salt was issued, no meat for nearly six months, yet from two to three beeves were hung up daily in their sutler’s shop for sale, and had not our friends furnished us with means from home, I verily believe that we would have starved. I will give you just what they issued to us for three days’ rations: Five pints meal, one of rice, two of sorghum, two table spoonful of salt; this was our full rations for several mouths at Columbia. I made my second escape from Columbia; was recaptured near Augusta, Georgia, and taken to the barracks at Augusta. I had received from home, not long before, a new suit of clothes; I was stripped of everything except shoes and drawers by Lieutenant A. Moore, commanding the barracks, he took from me overcoat, dress-coat, pants, vest, suspenders, shirt, and gloves, knife, and pocket-book, and from others of the party he took articles of clothing, &e.; this occurred in November, 1864. I have said nothing mistreatment of others; several prisoners were fired on in Libby by the guard, withit provocation; one man was killed in Macon, Georgia, without cause, and one or two men killed in Columbia, South Carolina. I have forgotten names and dates, but add my testimony to the facts. I will also state that no shelter was furnished us at Columbia.
H. C. McQUIDDY,
Late Captain Company D, Fifth Tennessee Cavalry.
GALLATIN, TENNESSEE, November 9, 1867.
Charles W. Parker, of Bolton, Massachusetts, late first sergeant Company I, Sixteenth, Connecticut volunteers.
I was captured at Plymouth, North Carolina, and kept a prisoner ten months. Au account of the sufferings experienced and witnessed by me would fill a book. I was in the prisons at Andersouville, Charleston, and Florence. I was occasionally outside of the stockade and at Wirz’s headquarters, and assert that the current accounts of the punishments inflicted and the cruelties practiced are reliable. During the winter of 1864 and 1865 I was in the prison at Florence. It was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Iverson, and his worse than brute subordinate, Lieutenant Barrett, of the Fifth Georgia regiment. The treatment was in many respects far worse than at Andersonville. In the matter of rations, wantonly shooting prisoners, infliction of kicks and blows upon the sick by the officers when inside of the stockade, having been in both prisons, I may safely risk my word in saying they were fir worse than at Andersonville. I was beaten on the head with a club, by order of Lieutenant Barrett, which came near ending my life. We were at one time one hundred days without meat of any kind. I have seen prisoners shot for skiug the guard for a chew of tobacco. A comrade of mine, a mere boy, the son of a widowed mother, was shot because he wan too weak to get to the sink. When emaciated by disease and starvation to such an extent that it seemed impossible for me to recover, I was sent through the lines, to be exchanged.
C. W. PARKER.
BOLTON, MASSACHUSETTS, August 26, 1867.
Myron W Tilson, of South Hanson, Massachusetts, late ensign in the United
States volunteer navy.
I was captured at Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, with fourteen sailors. I was robbed of all the personal property in my possession; was placed in charge of General White, who consoled me with the thought that it was lucky for us that we were not nil murdered. The men were forced to march, with their hands tied behind I heir backs, to Georgetown, South Carolina, where we received the first food during forty-eight hours. We were sent to Charleston, South Carolina, delivered over to Captain Geyer, and lodged in jail. We were confined thus for three weeks. We were given about three quarts of cracked corn, boiled, and four small bottles of water, per day, for fifteen men. I was sent to Columbia, South Carolina. This post was commanded by Major C. D. Melton, afterward by Colonel Green. Captain Harris, of Fourth Tennessee cavalry, was here confined in irons, as he was for two years, under sentence of death, which, however, was never carried into effect. After remaining in Columbia about three weeks, all the noncommissioned officers and privates were sent first to Belle Isle and afterward to the slaughter pen at Andersonville. under command of the monster Wirz, where, in four months, under the starvation policy, eleven of my fourteen men, captured with me, died. While at Columbia all the privates that were then there, some forty or fifty, ‘were placed in irons for refusing to clean up the filth and dirt made by the confederate conscripts. They were finally compelled to obey the degrading order to escape starvation.
Late Ensign United State. Volunteer Navy.
South Hanson, Massachusetts, September 30, 1867.
George J. Hull, Fairfield, Vermont.
I was a private of First Vermont vo1unteers Was captured at Brandy Station, Virginia. Was a prisoner for fourteen months Was confined in Richmond, Belle Isle, Andersonville, and Florence. It would be impossible for me to give a detailed account of our treatment. I can only give a few items as specimens. At the tobacco warehouse in Richmond I have seen men shot for looking out of the windows. When I was moved to Belle Isle it was cold, wet, and muddy in the winter. Shelter was provided for only a portion of the men. Many perished from the exposure. The dead were taken outside and allowed to remain for several days. I have seen the bodies torn and eaten by the hogs. A dog belonging to a lieutenant in charge of us got into the camp and was speedily killed and part of it cooked and eaten. The man who did it was discovered and forced to eat the remainder of it raw. We were sent to Audersonville in box cars so closely crowded that we could not even lie down. It was a common thing to see from one hundred to two hundred men at a time awaiting burial. It was also common for Wirz to withhold the rations for forty-eight hours, and then try to get the men to take the oath of allegiance to the confederacy.
GEORGE HULL.
Fairfield, Vermont, December 27, 1867.
Charles. E Currie, of Millville, New Jersey.
While a prisoner in the hands of the rebels at Savage’s Station, the rebel officers went through the camp inducing us to trade greenbacks for confederate money to the amount of $3,000. We were sent from Savage’s Station to Libby Prison. Two officers stood at the door and forced us to give up the confederate money. We complained to General Winder, who told us we were not sharp and he could do nothing for us. Thin was in July, 1862.
CHARlES. F. CURRIE,
Late Corporal Fourth New Jersey Volunteers.
MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY, July 29, 1867.
James W. Humphrey, of Ottawa, Kansas.
I was corporal of Company A, Fourteenth Illinois cavalry; was taken prisoner near Macon, Georgia, July 31, 1864. Alter capture we were robbed of our valuables, and even our good boots takn from us. We were taken to Andersonville after a long, tedious route, suffering much from hunger on the way. When we arrived we were stripped naked and our clothes searched, even to ripping open the seams. While the search was going on I asked a guard for a drink of water. Wirz asked for the damned Yankee who asked for water, and told the guard to bayonet any one of us who spoke i word. I saw a mere boy, who through weakness had fallen across the dead-line, shot through the head. Also saw a crazy man shot for making too much noise. I have often heard men praying for death while lying on the ground rotting with the scurvy. I have seen the officers kick and stamp on men who happened to be lying in their way, unable to get up. Men were placed in the stocks, lying on their backs with their faces to the sun, and kept so for twenty-four hours. We had no shelter over us, and were compelled to lie in the dust or mud, as the weather vas wet or dry. Stars ing, covered with vermin, rotting with scurvy, wasting with diarrhea, almost naked, no change of clothing, no soap to wash the few rags they had. I must leave our condition to imagLnation. It cannot be described. JAMES W. HUMPHREY,
Late Corporal Company I, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry.
Ottawa Kansas, August 5, 1867.
Added info. ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT.
HUMPHREY, JAMES, Rank Private Company I Unit 14 IL US CAV., Residence CHERRY GROVE, CARROLL CO, IL., Age 43, Height 6' 2, Hair BROWN, Eyes GRAY, Complexion DARK, Marital Status N/A, Occupation LABORER, Nativity WYOMING CO, PA., Joined When DEC 31, 1863, Joined Where DIXON, IL., Period 3 YRS., Muster In JAN 11, 1864, Muster In Where DIXON, IL., Muster Out JUL 31, 1865, Muster Out Where PULASKI, TN., AS CORPORAL.
Horace C. Scoville, of Rockford, Illinois.
I was captain of Company K, Ninety-second Illinois. At time of capture was first lieutenant. Was captured at Nickajack Gap, Georgia, April23, 1864. We were taken by a part of Wheeler’s force. Five or six of the captured were shot down after we had been marched about two miles, without any cause whatever. I got a severe blow on the head at the same time. Most of those shot were shot by one Lieutenant Pointer, an aide-do-camp on Wheeler’s staff. The party by which we were captured were commanded by a Colonel King. These facts can be substantiated by everyone of the party then captured, who escaped murder at Andersonville. We were taken to Tunnel Hill, Wheeler’s headquarters, where I was questioned an hour, regarding the movements of our army, &c. I took occasion to tell him how the men with me had been shot, all of which he feigned could not be true.
HORACE C. SCOVILLE,
Late Captain Ninety-second Illinois Volunteers.
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, October 7, 1867.
Added info: ILLINOIS CIVIL WAR DETAIL REPORT.
SCOVILLE, HORACE C., Rank Captain, Company K., Unit 92 IL US INF., Residence MT MORRIS, OGLE CO, IL., Age 31, Height 5' 6 ¾, Hair LIGHT, Eyes BLUE, Complexion LIGHT, Marital Status SINGLE, Occupation MERCHANT, Nativity HASTINGS, OSWEGO CO, NY., Joined When MAY 12, 1865, Joined Where CONCORD, NC., Period 3 YRS., Muster Out JUN 21, 1865, Muster Out Where CONCORD, NC. Also note when he became a 1st & 2nd. Lieutenant he was 29 years.
Note. He was a Second Lieutenant September 4, 1862, Promoted to First Lieutenant April 18, 1863, became Captain May 12, 1865.
James B. Herriman, of Lawn Ridge, Illinois.
I was a private in the Twenty-second New York cavalry; was captured in Virginia November 12, 1864, and was a prisoner until March 22,1865. I was at Libby and alisbury. The rations were not near large enough to Sustain life at Libby; and men were shot who attempted to look out of the windows. At Salisbury we were ii. an open field, with no shelter for two-thirds of the prisoners. I saw men shot down by the guards on mere pretense of violation of orders. I have seen many of the man with their feet frozen and swelled until they burst open, and a complete mass of matter; these poor fellows walking around in mud four inches deep. The dead were taken out in wagons, on which they would he loaded until anus, legs, and heads would hang over the sides and be scraped by tie wheels. I have seen women standing over the entrance, pointing to the loads of naked dead, and laughing at the big load of dead
Yankees.
JAMES B. HERRIMAN.
LAWN RIDGE, ILL., August 12, 1867.
HERMAN WESTERFELD.
I reside at St. Louis, Missouri; was a private in Company H, Fourth Missouri cavalry, and was captured on the 5th of May, 1864, on Red River, at a place called Snaggy Point, by General Major’s confederate command. They captured us about 12 o’clock, awl took us some ten or twelve miles in the country, and we camped there for the night. We did not get anything to eat there, at least, I did not. They marched us next morning again, and gave us some corn-bread about 12 o’clock. Then they marched us again all the next day, and we did not get anything in the morning or evening to eat. Next day they stopped and gave us some bacon to eat. They kept us traveling on that way until we got to Natchitoches.
There they kept us inside of the court-house. One of our men tried to get out of the door to go to the sink and lie was shot by the guard. He did not try to run out. He died about two hours after he was shot. I don’t know his name. From there they marched us to Grand de Coer, and kept us a couple of days. They put us on the beat and sent us up to Shreveport. They hardly gave us anything to eat; if we did get anything, it was a little corn-meal and bread. Sometimes they would give it to us once a day, and sometimes we would wait a day and a half before we got anything.
After we got into Shreveport they kept us there a (lay and a half, to the best of nay knowledge, and they put us in au old store, a feed-store, it used to be. They had their own prisoners above, and it was such a lousy place you could see them fall down on you from above. From there they marched us to Marshall, Texas. We camped there all night, and then they marched us to Camp Ford, in Texas. That was in the evening. They didn’t give us anything to eat until next day, somewhere in the afternoon. We had no shelter whatever; and next day they gave us some corn meal, a pint or probably a little over, to a man. They gave us no wood though, nor nothing to cook it in. They kept us there about fourteen days without giving us any shelter. After that, they allowed some of us to go out and get some brash to build sheds of. The fourteen days that we staid in there it was raining pretty near every day, and a good many of our boys at that time got sick, from not having our victuals cooked as they ought to be. It was coarse corn-meal, and they got the diarrhea from eating it and lying in the wet; and I have seen men, while I was in there, die for the want of sufficient food. One man, who slept next to me, had the diarrhea so bad from eating this corn meal that he just fell down” and died.
During the time I staid in there I saw one of our anon shot by the guard outside; I don’t know for what cause; and I saw another one who was shot by the guard; I can’t name the regiment he belonged to. He had the diarrhea and was coming toward the sinks we had in one corner of the stockade; the guard outside hallooed at the man as he came along, that he would kill the next Yankee that he saw going by. They treated us so, that if a man didn’t die with the diarrhea, he would have the scurvy. I had it myself, and they wouldn’t give us any vegetables or anything that was sour, to prevent it. There was what they called a hospital outside of the stockade—a log-house built by some of our men—and I have helped to carry men out there myself, but they didn’t give them anything except corn bread, and once in a while, a little wheat bread. I was in there thirteen months. I have seen men taken out and punished for hallooing’ Keno.” They would take them out of the camp and put them on a stump all day in the hot sun without a cap or hat. When the boys went in there they had a little money, and they used to pass away the time by playing keno, until the adjutant would come in and take all their money, and on that account they would call him Keno, and he would punish them by putting them on a stump. I have seen our men taken out and made to mark time a couple of hours for hallooing “Keno.” They took away from our prisoners all the money that they could find while we were in there, that is, the adjutant of the post did.
I was captured on a gunboat, and for that reason they treated us better than the others. A good many of the prisoners there who belonged to the laud forces, they took all their clothes away before they came in. General Majors, after he captured us, told us that he respected the gunboat men; he said he had been in the United States Army himself, and that the troops were nothing but a set of rascals and thieves, but that he would treat the gunboat men better. A good many of the men had nothing but old pants on, the rebels having taken away their pants when they were captured, then given them their old ones. This was at Camp Tyler, in Texas. This camp is about five or six miles from Tyler City. While here, some days we didn’t get our food at all.
Whenever it rained, as there was a creek between the camp and the city, the rain would swell the creek, and the rebels would give as an excuse for not giving us food, that they couldn’t get it across the creek. I recollect on several occasions we didn’t get anything at all during the whole day. Another thing we didn’t get, and that was sufficient wood to cook our victuals. During the winter time we hadn’t enough to keep warm. Once in a while they would let twenty of our men out at a time to chop trees down and carry them in, and they would send a guard along. Then they would allow some of us to go out and cut some brush, after we had staid there a while, to make a shelter.
The treatment we received was very bad. I have seen men brought in there who had marks all around their necks, where they had put ropes around them, and tied them to the horses and dragged them along the ground, on account of their being too sick to walk any more. I have seen men brought in there who had managed to escape from the stockade, but had been recaptured by bloodhounds. I have seen them with their pants all torn to pieces, and some of them had their legs torn pretty badly by the hounds.
I don’t recollect who was in command at Camp Tyler; they called him colonel. They had a good many there, and they didn’t stay but a short time generally. One time I remember a Colonel Brown was in command. I heard some of the guard say that they could give us more food if they wanted to, but they wouldn’t do it; that they were supplying the whole confederacy with beef, and had plenty of provisions, all that they could give us more if they wanted to. I have seen them bringing in things and selling them to our men, such as flour, coffee, and sweet potatoes. We could get most anything we wanted if we had the money, but the adjutant of the post took all the money he could find away from us, and we didn’t dare to show our money when he was around. I know some men came in there and traded confederate money for greenbacks. They said they wouldn’t take greenbacks for things that we could buy, and they would give us five dollars in confederate money for one in greenbacks, and when it came to near the close of the war they would give us ten.
The graveyard was right in sight of the camp, and they would generally bring body’s there, and bury them. Soon after we got there, on account of their giving us corn meal, a good many died. I have seen as many as five or six die in one day. There were about forty-five hundred prisoners when I first went there. Some of them were exchanged after a while, and about the last of the war there were about eighteen hundred, I believe. To the best of my knowledge, some seven or eight hundred must have died. The surgeon never came into the in closure, to my knowledge, and I never heard of any sick-call. If a man got sick, he generally staid there till he got so low he couldn’t walk, and then we would carry him Up to the hospital in our blankets. I hardly ever saw anybody go in the hospital before they were so low that I thought they couldn’t recover. Most of them had scurvy or diarrhea, and they let them stay in the camp so long without giving them any medicine, that they couldn’t recover.
While I was in there I heard one of the guard say, “Whenever we kill one of you Yankees we can get a furlough of so many days,’ but he didn’t state whether he had orders from the officers to shoot us or not. Our officers were camped a little to one side of the men, but we were all in the same in closure, and treated in the same manner. I heard officers who had come in out of the rebel army saying that they would starve us out. I don’t know whether they were connected with the camp, or whether they were officers who were passing, and stopped in to see us. There never was any inspection of the prison by the officers in command of it, to my knowledge, and I should have known of it if there had been.
They would come in several times—the guards—and look around, to see whether we had dug any holes to get out. Once I saw them punish a man by bucking and gagging him. Sometimes they would punish them for loud talking after night; but most of the time they punished them for hallooing “ Keno.” Whenever the boys would see the adjutant of the post outside they would halloo “Keno,” and then he would come in, and if the boys would not tell who had done it, be would take several of them out and make them mark time. Several times I was threatened by the guard that he would shoot me, I don’t know what for; I would be going up and down, and I would see them with their guns across the stockade, and they would say, “Get away, you damned Yankees, or we will kill you sure.”
Fifteen feet from the stockade, they had what they called “dead-hue,” but there was nothing to mark it so you could see it, but they would tell us not to come within fifteen feet of the stockade. One man who slept next to me said he felt so bad on account of not getting anything to eat that he wanted to go across the deadline and be shot, but I persuaded him not to do it. Afterward he was sent to the hospital, and I heard he died there. There was clothing sent to us twice by our men. The last time some of the clothing was missing, and I heard the man in command of the camp say that his boys didn’t take it, but that they took it while it was on the way there, and he said they would send cotton for that to our government, to make up for it.
HERRMANN WESTERFELD.
Francis E. Weed.
I was first sergeant Company B, Thirteenth Connecticut volunteers; was captured at Winchester, Virginia, September 19th, 1864. Our treatment on the roundabout march to Richmond was almost incredible. Some of the men were without shoes; their feet became so swollen or cut up on the rough roads that they had to be forced along at the point of the bayonet. We were put into Libby Prison and every man searched thoroughly for money, &c. If any was found the criminal was shockingly abused for not giving it up when ordered; blankets, hats, shoes, and such things having been taken before. We were sent from Libby to Belle Isle. While there several were killed by the guards. We were sent to Salisbury, North Carolina. Our rations were miserable iii quality and not sufficient in quantity to allay the cravings of hunger. Meat was seldom issued and generally covered with maggots. When we had fresh meat it was cooked with everything that could be eaten, head, eyes, ears, lights, &c. The tripe and other entrails were brought into the stockade without being cleaned, and left for the men to light over like a pack of wolves. For two months we were without sufficient water to drink. There were quite a number killed here by the guards at Belle Isle. One colored prisoner was shot by a guard who said he wanted to kill a “black Yankee;“ this is but one of many instances that might be given. Sometimes they would shoot into the stockade all night, at intervals. On the 25th of November, starved to desperation, we made an unsuccessful attempt to break out of the stockade, which cost us the loss of seventy killed and wounded. They would keep all rations from us for two or three days, then they would try to recruit for the rebel army, offering, as an inducement, full rations, warm clothing, and $100 confederate money. They obtained but few recruits, comparatively most pf the men preferring to leave the stockade in the dead-cart to liberty on such terms.
FRANCIS E. WEED,
Late First Sergeant Company B, Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers.
Wilson G. H. Moore.
I was a corporal of Company C, Seventh New York artillery. Was taken prisoner May 19. 1864, near Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. I had four men with me when captured; they all (bed in the rebel prisons. I was a prisoner for six months and ten days. We were marched three (lays without rations, when a quart of meal was issued, but no salt or cooking utensils. At Gordonsville there were some four hundred, captured from different parts of our lines. We were marched to the provost marshal’s, where we were robbed of everything, and then started for Andersonville, where I saw men shot without cause, and have seen escaped prisoners returned terribly torn by bloodhounds used in their recapture. The rations issued to us were not sufficient to stay the cravings of hunger, and of a quality perfectly disgusting. From Andersonville I was sent to Charleston, and from thence to Florence, South Caro1ina where I suffered more than at any other prison, for it had grown quite cold. Many of us were barefooted and bareheaded. Our rations were very irregularly issued, and were often withheld a number of days at a time. I have seen numbers of the men chilled to death at this prison; cruelty and personal abuse the same as at the other prisons I was in.
WILSON G. H. MOORE.
Late Corporal Battery C, Seventh Yew York Artillery.
TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK, November 8, 1867.
Newton W. .Elemendorf.
I was a corporal of Company C, Sixth Pennsylvania reserves. Was taken prisoner August 19, 1864, on the Weldon railroad; was sent to Libby, where they robbed us of our money, &e. One of our men found a cartridge, which he threw out of the window. We were ordered into line, and thirty rebel guards brought in, who were ordered to shoot the first man who moved out of his tracks. We were told that we would be kept there until we died, or the man who threw the cartridge be given up. After about six horn’s the man who threw it told them it was he. The keeper (whose name I have forgotten) had him bucked and gagged until he was nearly dead. We were taken from Libby to Belle Isle, confined in an open space with little or no shelter. While going to the river, on one occasion, for water, the guard fired on us, killed one and wounded three. Were removed from Belle Isle to Salisbury, North Carolina. Saw a Lieutenant Wilson shot by the guard ten feet from the dead-line. I have seen our men fired on by the guard while sitting or standing in little squads. As for provisions, I am unable to give any description of them which would give any idea of our suffering on that score alone.
NEWTON W. ELEMENDORF.
NEW YORK CITY, September 15,1867.
Added info. Newton W. Elrnendorf Corporal, mustered in May 13, 1861, for 3, years, transferred to 191st Regiment P. V., May 31, 1864; Vet.
W. H. Shrirer or Schriver.
I was a private in the Third West Virginia cavalry; wan captured with twenty-nine others, at Winchester, Virginia, 8th of April, 1864. I wan the only one of that number who returned to duty with the regiment; the others had died or were discharged as disabled; We were immediately searched, amid stripped of everything of any value to us; they took coats, boots, hats, &c. We were marched four days at the rate of thirty miles per day, fording creeks, &c., some of our number having nothing but shirt and pants. At night we were turned into some old barn anti a little corn meal given us which we could not cook, for they had taken all cups and other utensils from us. We arrived in Richmond on the 13th of April, 1864, and were put into Castle Pemberton. Our sufferings in those close quarters no one can understand who was out there. Was removed to the hospital under treatment for three months, when I was appointed nurse. The suffering of our men in the hospital was awful. Was taken to Belle Isle, which was in plain sight of Jefferson Davis’s mansion; he could see his work at any time by looking toward the island, where there were thousands of us almost naked, exposed to the hot sun and the storm alike, without shelter; many made idiots and insane by starvation and exposure, rotting with the scurvy, wasting away with starvation, eaten with vermin; the dead often eaten by rats before burial; always hungry, craving food, gnawing bare bones like dogs, abused, insulted and beaten at the will of the brutes in charge of us. Four of my comrades were shot for alleged violations of the prison rules. It is enough to drive one crazy even now to look back over the terrible scenes of suffering witnessed in those prison hells.
W. H. SHRIVER.
MOORESVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, August 5, 1867.
Added info: Shriver, William H., enrolled at Morgantown, W.Va., age 21, mustered in Sept. 24, 1862, Morgantown, W.Va., mustered out May 21, 1865, Recruit, captured at Winchester, Va., April, 1864; exchanged March. 25, 1865. Mustered out under G.O. #83, A.G.O., 1865, at Washington, D.C., also note he was in Co. A & F.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Ferries At War-Civil War
The ferry played a important part in the Civil War, for without them the war may have lasted a lot longer. I know some will say how’s that they had Steamboats, yes that’s true but they were always being shot at or running onto sand bars, then you say what about the rail road, well here again it’s true however the tracks were always being blown up, and it may have taken two or three days to rebuild the tracks, you can’t move a army very fast that way. Well they had bridges didn’t they, well of course but these too were being blown up, and what army has time to rebuild them. No it was the ferries the one, two or four man operation, that no one paid much or no notice to, no they were part of the many unsung hero’s of the war.
Note. This information will com from many battle reports and when they talked about farms, houses, ferries on so on, they hardly ever give a first name just the last. I will help the best I can by given you the State, County, a town or anything else I can so you will know this is your ancestor.
Important Note. When I first started this page I had in mind the kind of ferries that was a flat bottom boat that was carried a cross the river by men pulling ropes or by horse or mule, but I soon found this wasn’t the case. To them anything that could get a man across a river was a Ferry other then a bridge, this could be a Steamboat, a flat bottom boat, or a floating pontoon bridge. So I guess the key word here is ( Ferry. ) Many of you who are looking for a ancestor who had a ferry but you don’t know what kind should keep this in mind.
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
MASON AND TURNER'S FERRY, East Bank, July 4, 1864
[General J. E. JOHNSTON:]
GENERAL: The following are the ferries and crossings between this point and Gorman's Ferry, twelve miles southwest:
Green's (private) Ferry: A mile and a half southwest of this point. Hills on the west side command the ferry; ferry not fortified or guarded, and ferry-boat still there.
Green and Howell's Ferry: Three miles southwest of this point. Ferry fortified on east side; redan with one piece of artillery, and rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men. Two companies (seventy-five men) guard the ferry. Boat on the east side river.
Howell's (old) Ferry (now disused): One mile southwest of Green and Howell's, fordable in dry weather. Ferry not fortified or guarded. No ferry-boat at this point now.
Wilson and Baker's Ferry: Three miles southwest of Green and Howell's; fortified on east side for 100 men.
Sandtown: Two miles southwest from Wilson and Baker's; fortified on east side by rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men. Ferry-boat on east side of river.
Adaholt's: Two miles southwest from Sandtown Ferry; fortified on east bank of river, with rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men.
Gorman's: Two miles southwest of Sandtown; fortified on east side, and guarded by one company.
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1. Brown's Ferry, places they talk about were : bridges at Chattanooga and Moccasin Point, the State Tennessee.
2. Armstrong Ferry road, a distance of 4 1/2 miles from Knoxville.
3. Boyd's Ferry, about 5 miles from town of Knoxville.
4. Ramsey's Ferry is about 4 miles from Knoxville.
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
1. Powers' Ferry
2. Roswell ferry
3. Phillips Ferry
4. Pace's Ferry
Note. Places they were talking about were, Rottenwood Creek and Soap Creek and the bridge over the Chattahoochee.
ROCKVILLE EXPEDITION.
1.Conrad's Ferry
2. Edwards Ferry
Note. From my understanding these two ferries were up around Seneca Mills and Dawsonville.
THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN.
1. Edwards Ferry.
Note. Here they talked about, the mouth of the Monocacy, Dranesville
Vicksburg.
1. Baldwin's Ferry Road
2. Hall's
Note. From Baldwin's Ferry road to Hall's Ferry is at least 8 miles; to the junction of the Warrenton and Baldwin's Ferry roads to Hall's Ferry road to Warrenton, some 2 miles nearer the ferry. They also talked about the Big Black River, and the town of Bovina.
HEADQUARTERS,
Fort Yuma, November 21, 1861.
1. Mr. Yager, had a ferry at Pilot Knob, ten miles down the river. The boats used at that point have by my orders been brought to the post, and are under my control. Mr. Yager's main ferry is still one mile below the post.
2. The main crossing of the Colorado has been heretofore done at Gonzales' Ferry, about thirty miles below this post.
3. Cooke's Old Ferry, six miles below Aldogdones.
4. Paddock's Old Ferry.
Savannah Ga.
1. Ball's Ferry
2. Jackson's Ferry
Note. These two ferries were around Milledgeville.
The Atlanta Campaign.
1. Calhoun Ferry
2. Lay's Ferry
Note. They were talking about places like, Oostenaula River and Snake Creek.
Red River Campaign.
No. 58.-Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill, C. S. Army, commanding division, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 59.-Brigadier General James C. Tappan, C. S. Army, commanding brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 60.-Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Hardy, Twenty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, commanding Nineteenth (Dawson's) and Twenty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 61.-Lieutenant Colonel Thomas D. Thomson, Thirty-third Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 62.-Colonel R. G. Shaver, Thirty-eight Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 63.-Colonel Lucien C. Gause, Thirty-second Arkansas Infantry, Commanding brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 64.-Lieutenant Colonel H. G. P. Williams, Nineteenth (Dockery's) Arkansas Infantry, Dockery's brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 65.-Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons, C. S. Army, commanding division, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 66.-Brigadier General John B. Clark, jr., commanding First Brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 67.-Lieutenant John O. Lockhart, Ruffner's Missouri Battery, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 68.-Colonel Simon P. Burns, Eleventh Missouri Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 69.-Captain A. A. Lesueur, Missouri Battery, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Note. Looks like there was a lot of fighting around Jenkins ferry If you see a report you would like to have let me and I will see that you get one and that goes for any report on this page. My address can be found in my profile.
West Virginia.
1. Miller's Ferry
2. Montgomery's Ferry
3. Bowyer's Ferry
4. Townsend's Ferry
Note. In this report they were talking about places like, Fayette road, Great Falls Creek, Cotton Hill and Gauley Bridge.
The Atlanta Campaign.
1. Lay's Ferry
2. Gideon's Ferry
Note. They talked about, Snake Creek Gap and Resaca.
Chickamauga.
1. Pinhook Ferry, near the mouth of Piney Creek.
2. Blythe's Ferry
3. Butler's ferry
4. Fletcher's Flat-boat ferry
5. Lamb's Ferry
Note. They talked about, Richland Creek, and being around Washington.
Vicksburg.
1. Birdsong Ferry
2. Bush Ferry
3. Kibby's Ferry or Cox ferry
4. Baldwin's Ferry
Note. They were talking about, Raymond, Bolton, and Brownsville and Oak Ridge.
Chickamauga.
1. Brown's Ferry
2. Ferry ferry
3. Rankin's ferry
Note. Talk was about the Duck and Elk Rivers.
Columbia.
1. Screven's Ferry, on Savannah River
2. Sister's Ferry
Note. They talked a lot about going in and around Robertsville.
Red River Campaign.
1. Pope's Ferry
2. Fulton ferry
3. Dooley's Ferry
4. Jenkins' Ferry
5. Monett's
Note. Talk was of the towns of Fulton and Lewisville, and Red River to Arkansas.
Knoxville and Lookout Mountain.
1. Rankin's Ferry
2. Kelley's Ferry
3. Gardenhire's Ferry
Note. Here there talking about steamers.
Chickamauga.
1. Blythe's Ferry
2. Harrison's Ferry
3. Nelson's Ferry
4. Thatcher's Ferry?
Note. They were talking of places like, Georgetown, Chickamauga River and the Dallas and Chattanooga road.
Morgan’s.
1. Clay's Ferry
Note. There was a lot of Clay’s ferry, and the towns of Franklin and Boonesborough and Frankfort.
Last Note. There are 300 hundred reports where the Ferries are talked about I will not go through them all, as I looked over the reports I saw most of the rest are of the same Campaigns and Expeditions, so there will be a lot of information on the ferries I have already put down. If you see a ferry you would like to know more about, you can E. Mail me and I will help you all I can, my address can be found in my profile.
Note. This information will com from many battle reports and when they talked about farms, houses, ferries on so on, they hardly ever give a first name just the last. I will help the best I can by given you the State, County, a town or anything else I can so you will know this is your ancestor.
Important Note. When I first started this page I had in mind the kind of ferries that was a flat bottom boat that was carried a cross the river by men pulling ropes or by horse or mule, but I soon found this wasn’t the case. To them anything that could get a man across a river was a Ferry other then a bridge, this could be a Steamboat, a flat bottom boat, or a floating pontoon bridge. So I guess the key word here is ( Ferry. ) Many of you who are looking for a ancestor who had a ferry but you don’t know what kind should keep this in mind.
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
MASON AND TURNER'S FERRY, East Bank, July 4, 1864
[General J. E. JOHNSTON:]
GENERAL: The following are the ferries and crossings between this point and Gorman's Ferry, twelve miles southwest:
Green's (private) Ferry: A mile and a half southwest of this point. Hills on the west side command the ferry; ferry not fortified or guarded, and ferry-boat still there.
Green and Howell's Ferry: Three miles southwest of this point. Ferry fortified on east side; redan with one piece of artillery, and rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men. Two companies (seventy-five men) guard the ferry. Boat on the east side river.
Howell's (old) Ferry (now disused): One mile southwest of Green and Howell's, fordable in dry weather. Ferry not fortified or guarded. No ferry-boat at this point now.
Wilson and Baker's Ferry: Three miles southwest of Green and Howell's; fortified on east side for 100 men.
Sandtown: Two miles southwest from Wilson and Baker's; fortified on east side by rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men. Ferry-boat on east side of river.
Adaholt's: Two miles southwest from Sandtown Ferry; fortified on east bank of river, with rifle-pits for 100 or 150 men.
Gorman's: Two miles southwest of Sandtown; fortified on east side, and guarded by one company.
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1. Brown's Ferry, places they talk about were : bridges at Chattanooga and Moccasin Point, the State Tennessee.
2. Armstrong Ferry road, a distance of 4 1/2 miles from Knoxville.
3. Boyd's Ferry, about 5 miles from town of Knoxville.
4. Ramsey's Ferry is about 4 miles from Knoxville.
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
1. Powers' Ferry
2. Roswell ferry
3. Phillips Ferry
4. Pace's Ferry
Note. Places they were talking about were, Rottenwood Creek and Soap Creek and the bridge over the Chattahoochee.
ROCKVILLE EXPEDITION.
1.Conrad's Ferry
2. Edwards Ferry
Note. From my understanding these two ferries were up around Seneca Mills and Dawsonville.
THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN.
1. Edwards Ferry.
Note. Here they talked about, the mouth of the Monocacy, Dranesville
Vicksburg.
1. Baldwin's Ferry Road
2. Hall's
Note. From Baldwin's Ferry road to Hall's Ferry is at least 8 miles; to the junction of the Warrenton and Baldwin's Ferry roads to Hall's Ferry road to Warrenton, some 2 miles nearer the ferry. They also talked about the Big Black River, and the town of Bovina.
HEADQUARTERS,
Fort Yuma, November 21, 1861.
1. Mr. Yager, had a ferry at Pilot Knob, ten miles down the river. The boats used at that point have by my orders been brought to the post, and are under my control. Mr. Yager's main ferry is still one mile below the post.
2. The main crossing of the Colorado has been heretofore done at Gonzales' Ferry, about thirty miles below this post.
3. Cooke's Old Ferry, six miles below Aldogdones.
4. Paddock's Old Ferry.
Savannah Ga.
1. Ball's Ferry
2. Jackson's Ferry
Note. These two ferries were around Milledgeville.
The Atlanta Campaign.
1. Calhoun Ferry
2. Lay's Ferry
Note. They were talking about places like, Oostenaula River and Snake Creek.
Red River Campaign.
No. 58.-Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill, C. S. Army, commanding division, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 59.-Brigadier General James C. Tappan, C. S. Army, commanding brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 60.-Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Hardy, Twenty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, commanding Nineteenth (Dawson's) and Twenty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 61.-Lieutenant Colonel Thomas D. Thomson, Thirty-third Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 62.-Colonel R. G. Shaver, Thirty-eight Arkansas Infantry, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 63.-Colonel Lucien C. Gause, Thirty-second Arkansas Infantry, Commanding brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 64.-Lieutenant Colonel H. G. P. Williams, Nineteenth (Dockery's) Arkansas Infantry, Dockery's brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 65.-Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons, C. S. Army, commanding division, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 66.-Brigadier General John B. Clark, jr., commanding First Brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 67.-Lieutenant John O. Lockhart, Ruffner's Missouri Battery, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 68.-Colonel Simon P. Burns, Eleventh Missouri Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Numbers 69.-Captain A. A. Lesueur, Missouri Battery, of engagement at Jenkins' Ferry.
Note. Looks like there was a lot of fighting around Jenkins ferry If you see a report you would like to have let me and I will see that you get one and that goes for any report on this page. My address can be found in my profile.
West Virginia.
1. Miller's Ferry
2. Montgomery's Ferry
3. Bowyer's Ferry
4. Townsend's Ferry
Note. In this report they were talking about places like, Fayette road, Great Falls Creek, Cotton Hill and Gauley Bridge.
The Atlanta Campaign.
1. Lay's Ferry
2. Gideon's Ferry
Note. They talked about, Snake Creek Gap and Resaca.
Chickamauga.
1. Pinhook Ferry, near the mouth of Piney Creek.
2. Blythe's Ferry
3. Butler's ferry
4. Fletcher's Flat-boat ferry
5. Lamb's Ferry
Note. They talked about, Richland Creek, and being around Washington.
Vicksburg.
1. Birdsong Ferry
2. Bush Ferry
3. Kibby's Ferry or Cox ferry
4. Baldwin's Ferry
Note. They were talking about, Raymond, Bolton, and Brownsville and Oak Ridge.
Chickamauga.
1. Brown's Ferry
2. Ferry ferry
3. Rankin's ferry
Note. Talk was about the Duck and Elk Rivers.
Columbia.
1. Screven's Ferry, on Savannah River
2. Sister's Ferry
Note. They talked a lot about going in and around Robertsville.
Red River Campaign.
1. Pope's Ferry
2. Fulton ferry
3. Dooley's Ferry
4. Jenkins' Ferry
5. Monett's
Note. Talk was of the towns of Fulton and Lewisville, and Red River to Arkansas.
Knoxville and Lookout Mountain.
1. Rankin's Ferry
2. Kelley's Ferry
3. Gardenhire's Ferry
Note. Here there talking about steamers.
Chickamauga.
1. Blythe's Ferry
2. Harrison's Ferry
3. Nelson's Ferry
4. Thatcher's Ferry?
Note. They were talking of places like, Georgetown, Chickamauga River and the Dallas and Chattanooga road.
Morgan’s.
1. Clay's Ferry
Note. There was a lot of Clay’s ferry, and the towns of Franklin and Boonesborough and Frankfort.
Last Note. There are 300 hundred reports where the Ferries are talked about I will not go through them all, as I looked over the reports I saw most of the rest are of the same Campaigns and Expeditions, so there will be a lot of information on the ferries I have already put down. If you see a ferry you would like to know more about, you can E. Mail me and I will help you all I can, my address can be found in my profile.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Musicians of War.
I know there are a lot of you who are looking for your ancestor who were musicians, well then this page is for you. This page will have the names of musicians, buglers and some fifers, sorry there will be no drummers but don’t feel left out. I have a page for only drummers, look for the title ( Drummers of War ) this page is full of information that may be helpful.
The three wars we talk about the most are the Revolutionary, War of 1812 and the Civil War, this page will cover them all, and maybe a few other wars for good measures. I will have no order to this information, and will be jumping from one war to another. I will be putting down the information as I find it, so if you are looking for a ancestor and not just reading for fun, you may want to do a name search. There will be a few photo’s on this page as well, no less then 6, but no more then ten.
Note. This information and photo’s will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress and the official recorders of the Union and Confederate Armies which is housed at the State University of Ohio.
ON CLAIM OF GAETANO CARUSI FOR REMUNERATION ON ACCOUNT OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN HIM, AS A MUSICIAN, AND AN OFFICER OF THE NAVY.
Mr. Grayson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Gaetano Carusi, reported:
That it appears from the statement of the petitioner, and from the documents accompanying it, that he and his three sons were employed, in the year 1805, by the officers of the American squadron then in the Mediterranean, for the term of three years: the petitioner continued in the service during the time in which the squadron remained abroad, and came with it to America. On his arrival in this country he was dismissed from the service, hail the term for which he had been engaged being yet unexpired: lie was thus abandoned in a foreign country, without support, although a promise had been made him to send him back to Europe at the expiration of the three years for which he had been employed. The officers of the squadron appear to have acted under a mistake as to their powers, in procuring his services; but it was not possible for a foreigner to know that the commander of an armed ship had no power to employ a musician, and it appears, therefore, one of those cases in which the liberality of the government should not permit an innocent and ignorant foreigner to stiffer for having enlisted in its service. The committee recommend, therefore, that the petitioner be paid one thousand dollars, and for that purpose they report a bill.
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Note. The photo's can be enlarged by pushing on them.
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A BILL.
DECEMBER 16, 1872.
Granting a pension to Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and that he be paid a pension from the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Added Info. Aaron B. Hughes Musician, mustered in December 7, 1861, for 3, years, Prisoner from April 20, 1864, to March 1, 1865; mustered out with Company, June 25, 1865; Vet.
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Photo: Washington, D.C. Band of 9th Veteran Reserve Corps, in shakoes and frogged jackets, at Washington Circle.
Note. There was a Bill in Congress in 1818, That stated that any musician that was on furlough and absent from his regiment at the close of the war, would received bounty land as if they were in actual service, so long as they had gotten an honorable discharge.
Note. In 1842, a Bill stated that, no negro or mulatto shall be enlisted unless as musician, steward, cook, or servant.
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A BILL
APRIL 4, 1840.
For the relief of Isaac Plumer.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be directed to allow to Isaac Plumer, of Foxcroft, in the State of Maine, an invalid pensioner, at the rate of six dollars a month, instead of the pension heretofore granted; to commence on the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Added note. He was a musician in Col. Cobb’s Volunteer regiment of infantry.
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In 1846, A Mr. Simeon Hubbard, was asking Congress on be half of one Cooper Polyreen, who had now pass away, that he receive bounty land, Mr. Cooper was a Revolutionary soldier and musician, they were rejected.
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Washington, December 2, 1873.
A bill granting a pension to Caleb A. Lamb, late a musician ( Drummer ) in Company E of the Forty-sixth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Added note. He got his pension, but I was unable to find it.
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February 20, 1872.
A petition of John H. Moore, musician First Massachusetts Cavalry, Co. F &S, Rank third class, praying for a pension.
May 21, 1838.
A petition of Sidnah Kibby, of Washington city, widow of Thomas Kibby, of the marine corps, praying that she may be allowed the amount of pension to which her husband would have been entitled had he lived.
Update December 20, 2014.
The following is given by Michael Marshall.
Thomas Kibby married Sinia Johnson in Washington D. C., December 9, 1827. Kibby died some time before September 1, 1828, they had a daughter, Miranad Kibby ( b.c. 1833 ), she maeeied Daniel P. Mealey.
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Photo: Brandy Station, Va. Band of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves.)
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January 20, 1851.
A petition of S. Griffin, praying a pension on account of the services of her former husband, Thomas Kibby, as a musician in the marine corps.
January 11, 1855.
The memorial of Thomas W. Tansill, praying to be allowed extra pay and bounty land as a private in the marine corps, and his pay and allowances as a musician in said corps, withheld on account of his inability to procure the legal certificate of his discharge.
December 13, 1837.
A petition of Samuel Crapin, a musician in the army during the late war with Great Britain, praying a pension.
A BILL
JANUARY 7, 1841.
For the relief of Samuel Crapin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Samuel Crapin on the pension roll, and pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, during his natural life.
Note. This Bill was passed on March 19, 1842.
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Photo: Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.
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December 17, 1838.
A petition of Mary Page, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts, praying to be allowed a pension, in right of her former husband, William Hall, deceased, a musician in the revolutionary army.
April 8, 1850.
A petition of John Hamilton, praying to be allowed bounty land as a musician in the army of the United States.
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January 29, 1830.
The Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension roll, Frederick Wolf, a musician in the army during the Revolutionary war.
THURSDAY March 8, 1860.
Elizabeth Bliss Wolf, widow of Frederick Wolf, praying pension for services rendered by her husband in the revolutionary war.
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MONDAY, January 18, 1875.
petition of Anton Tschudi, late a musician in Company A, Eighteenth Regiment of United States Infantry, praying to be allowed a pension.
February 6, 1860.
A petition of Samuel S. Burton, praying to be allowed the amount due him for pay and rations as a musician in the war of 1812.
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Photo: Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.
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TUESDAY, December 9, 1834.
A petition of Hosea King, late a musician in the army of the United States, praying for a grant of military bounty land.
ON CLAIM TO BOUNTY LAND.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DECE3IBER 18, 1834.
Mr. Chambers, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hosea King, late a musician in the army of the United States, reported:
That they have examined his case, from which it appears, that on the 23d of October, 1810, he enlisted in the army of the United States as a musician, for the term of five years, and that lie remained in said service until the expiration of said term, when, on the 24th of October, 1815, he was honorably discharged. During which period, he had to encounter the fatigues, hardships, and perils of a war service. He has received all the pay and emoluments to which he was entitled under his contract of enlistment, and under the provisions of the act of Congress providing for that enlistment and service; but as soldiers afterwards enlisted, and who served a shorter time than himself, have received from the bounty of government the same and more pay, as well as bounty land, he desires that Congress will extend to him a like bounty. The act of Congress granting bounty lands in addition to pay, was passed the 24th December, 1811; and if’ Congress, on the apprehension of war, and for a war service, chose to extend the inducement to enlistment, so as to encourage an increase of the army, and did not think proper to extend the provisions to those who had been before that enlisted under other circumstances, the soldier who has received, under the laws that regulated his enlistment and services, all that was provided, has no claim on the justice or bounty of his county, unless he has become disabled and infirm by reason of that service, which is not alleged in the present case. The petitioner’s case is not a solitary one, but belongs to a class of cases, embracing all who enlisted before December 24, 1811. And if the land bounty should be thus extended, it should be by a law of Congress, embracing all that class of cases; the propriety and policy of which may well be questioned, and when presented, will deserve attentive consideration for its retrospective operation in one class of cases, which would furnish precedents for like claims by officers, agents, and other claimants, who might appeal to the equity and bounty of their country for a like remuneration, beyond the emoluments and provisions of the law under which they acted or served.
With these views, the committee think the petitioner is not entitled. to relief; and submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That the petitioner is not entitled to relief.
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March 22, 1872.
A petition of Thad. Potter, chief musician of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry .
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Photo: Pvt. Bentley Weston, bugler, Company A, 7th South Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A.
Note. He can not be found on any rosters.
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Monday December 15, 1800.
A petition of Benjamin Law, (alias Williams,) late a fifer in the first Maryland regiment, was presented to the House and read, stating that a warrant for land due the petitioner, for services rendered the United States, during the late war, has been fraudulently obtained from the War Office, and praying that a new warrant may issue, or such other relief be granted as to the wisdom of Congress may seem meet.
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THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Pensions.
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1796.
Ebenezer Fletcher, ... Fifer, ... one-fourth, pension.
Levi Chubbock, ... Fifer,….. one-fourth, pension.
Phinehas Parkhurst, ... Fifer, ... full pension.
THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT.
Pensions.
Robert Jerom, ... Fifer, ... one-fourth, pension.
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THURSDAY, June 13, 1844.
A petition of Jane Hackney, of Russell county, State of Virginia, widow of John Hackney, deceased, praying a pension in consideration of the services of her late husband, as a fifer in the war of the Revolution.
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Civil War.
Note. July 1864, City Point, and the medical officer in charge of the hospitals at that place will at once make requisition upon the corps commanders for musicians to relieve the able-bodied men of their commands now employed on hospital service, and the latter on being relieved will be returned to their regiments. Each corps commander will select an efficient officer to take the general charge of the musicians of his corps assigned to hospital duty, and he will also, on the requisition of the medical officer in charge of the hospitals, furnish his proportion of a detail for a hospital guard. The guard will be no larger than is indispensably necessary. The requisition on corps commanders for hospital attendants and guard details will be in proportion to the number of men of the corps under treatment.
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Note. HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Near Hatcher's Run, Va., March 28, 1865.
In the contemplated movement to-morrow, the musicians will be left in camp to sound reveille as usual, not at the hour of march, but as sounded under ordinary circumstances. Commanders are requested to give this matter their particular attention. After the usual hour of reveille has been sounded the musicians can join their respective commands. When the troops leave camp to-morrow morning they will do so as quietly as possible. Great care will be taken that nothing in the camps is set on fire.
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On the March 14th, 1865, captured, Musician W. S. Ward, Company H.
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Reports of Major Hamilton S. Gillespie, Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, of operations May 27-September 8.
May 28, 1864, Rebels make three assaults during the night, but are each time repulsed with considerable loss to them; wounded. George W. Rickey, musician, Company C, slight.
May 30, take position in front line; wounded, William Dean, Company K, mortally; Samuel B. Large, musician Company A, in leg while attempting to bring him off the field.
Musician Edward B. Smith was to be executed, he was found Guilty, in a G. C. M. I couldn’t find out what he was being charged with, but I believe it was for Mutiny.
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1865, Chief Musician John T. McConahay, wounded in the thigh on the 21st March, near Bentonville.
1865, Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Williams, acting adjutant Fifty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, to be first lieutenant by brevet for conspicuous gallantry and valuable services on the 31st of march, and to be captain by brevet for the display of personal bravery on the 1st of April. Lieutenant Williams entered the service as a musician, and by his good conduct and his bravery and courage during the campaigns of 1863 won the respect and regard of his superior officers, and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant.
1864, Private Hans Shure, Company K, and Musician, Eighty-eighth Illinois, helped to captured two sabers at the battle of Franklin, November 30.
Note. In 1863, the Provisional Army of Confederate States, were paying their musicians $13, per month.
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Numbers 298. Reports of Lieutenant Colonel John C. O. Redington, Sixtieth New York Infantry.
CAMP NEAR AQUIA CREEK LANDING, VA.,
May 8, 1863.
I saw Musician William P. Hulitt, of Company F (who picked up a gun and cartridges, and fought unflinchingly, losing his life thereby.
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No. 75. Report of Lieutenant James G. Derrickson, Sixty-sixth New York Infantry.
FALMOUTH, VA., December 16, 1862.
Among the enlisted men the conduct of Principal Musician Daniel Barrett stand pre-eminent.
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BIVOUAC OPPOSITE SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA., September 22, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report the part taken by the battalion of Second and Tenth Infantry in the engagement on the 17th instant at Sharpsburg, Md.
Musician George Miller, Company G, seized a musket on the field and used it with good effect during the hottest part of the engagement.
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Numbers 3. Report of Brigadier General James E. B. Stuart, C. S. Army, March 31, 1862.
Principal Musician David Drake, of the First Virginia Cavalry, volunteered to perform the most hazardous service, and accomplished it in the most satisfactory and creditable manner. He is worthy of promotion and should be so rewarded.
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No. 79. Report of Major Robert M. West,
Chief of Artillery, of operations June 28-July 2.
HEADQUARTERS OF ARTILLERY, FOURTH CORPS, July 11, 1862.
July 29, Principal Musician Robert Hargreaves, First Pennsylvania Artillery, whose prompt and intelligent conveyance of my orders contributed greatly to the harmonious movement of the large mass of artillery temporarily under my command. He is qualified for a better position.
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No. 24. Report of Colonel Zebulon B. Vance, Twenty-sixth North Carolina Infantry.
HDQRS. TWENTY-SIXTH Regiment NORTH CAROLINA VOLS., Kinston, N. C., March 17, 1862.
Musician B. F. Johnson, Company B, deserves particular mention for his exertions, having ferried over the greater portion of the road for Trenton. We marched night and day stopping at no time for rest or sleep more than four hours.
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HEADQUARTERS ANDERSON CAVALRY, Camp Negley, Nashville, Tenn., January 20, 1863.
MAJOR: In obedience to instructions received from headquarters of the Cumberland, through Brigadier General D. S. Stanley, I have the honor to forward the names of those who did and those who did not obey marching orders December 26, 1862.
List of names of those who obeyed orders to go to the front December 26, 1862.
COMPANY C.
Bugler, Byron O. Camp.
Bugler, N. F. Dager.
COMPANY D.
Bugler, Francis J. Koesterer.
Bugler, Henry Helling.
COMPANY E.
Bugler, Nicholas F. Weigle.
COMPANY I.
Bugler, J. W. Buttorf.
Bugler, A. C. Miller.
COMPANY K.
Bugler, William B. Murdock.
Bugler, J. F. Gwynn.
List of these refusing to go to the front December 26, 1862..
COMPANY C.
Bugler, Byron O. Camp.
Bugler, N. F. Dager.
Note. A Bugler was paid $20, a month, a Chief bugler $28, a month.
Numbers 192. Report of Lieutenant Valentine H. Stone, Batteries C and I, Fifth U. S. Artillery.
CAMP OF BATTERIES C AND I, FIFTH U. S. ARTILLERY,
Near Petersburg, Va., April 4, 1865.
Bugler Andrew R. Muller, Battery C, Fifth U. S. Artillery, deserves great credit for the extraordinary coolness and bravery shown by him while carrying orders for me, passing to and for from the front repeatedly under a heavy fire of artillery and musketry.
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SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 61. October 21, 1864.
The following-named officers and enlisted men will proceed to Washington, D. C., with colors captured from the enemy in the engagement of the 19th instant, and will deliver them over to the Secretary of War. This duty being accomplished they will immediately join their proper command. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation: Private T. M. Wells, chief bugler, Sixth Michigan Cavalry.
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HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY, MISSOURI STATE MILITIA, Warrensburg, Mo., May 2, 1864.
Francis N. Kelly, bugler, Company C, First Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, He and some of his company had been surprised by a band of Quantrill's guerrillas in Johnson Country, Mo., on the 28, May 1864, the guerrillas numbering between 80, and 100 hundred men, Kelly was killed.
Added note. Francis N. Kelly, enlisted on Feb. 8, 1862, at the age of 19, he enlisted at Sullivan Mo., and was mustered in on Feb. 17, 1862, at Milan, Mo.
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HDQRS. THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLS., February 9, 1864.
SIR: I have the honor to report the part this regiment (Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers) took in the reconnaissance of the 6th day of February, 1864.
I take pleasure in making honorable mention of Chief Bugler Anton Rang, for bravery on the skirmish line.
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Photo: Company unknown, place unknown, man unknown.
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Note. I'm finding I may not have room for the next 160 reports, so I will list the names of the Buglers with page number. If you see a ancestor and would like his information, you can E. Mail me, I will be glad to hear from you, You can find my address in my profile.
Buglers of the Union & C. S. A.
Bugler Henry Deering-0692
Bugler John Albert-0865
Bugler [Charles A.] Lockwood-0756
Bugler Hiram H. Swasey-0241
Bugler ?? Lehman-0547
Bugler ?? Lehmann-0547
Bugler [Valentine] Kenner-0270
Chief Bugler ?? Fritson-0134
Bugler William Clemens-0812
Bugler J. B. Harris-028
Chief Bugler ?? Steele-0494
Bugler ?? Denton-0414
Bugler Oliver J. Burns-0140
Bugler Burns, Citizen-0138
Chief Bugler D. J. Taber-0480
Bugler Henry Bieble-0440
Bugler Henry Gieble-0396
Bugler, William A. Worley-0469
Chief bugler Charles Schorn-01261
Chief bugler James P. Landis-01259
John Gottlieb Heydlauff-0272
Bugler Daniel W. Merrill-0332
Chief bugler Thomas Wells-0551
Bugler Daniel Urmey-0792
Chief Bugler N. D. Horton-0595
Bugler Asa D. Broody-0832
Bugler ?? Eisfelder-0387
Bugler William Willi-0207
Bugler William J. Carson-0317
Bugler John F. Leach-0310
Bugler [William H.] Dickerson-0779
Chief Bugler [Jacob K.] Schuck-0949
Bugler R. Mastin Smith-0364
Bugler [William H.] Leeser-01092
Bugler ?? Drilling-062
Bugler [E. Z.] Shannon-0552
Bugler [W. C.] Thatcher-0552
Bugler John McKay-0366
Jake Schlosser-0859
Chief bugler William Morgan-0554
Bugler John J. Brown-0320
Chief bugler Earnest Goolah-0395
Bugler, Christ. Sanders-067
Bugler John Malone-0468
Musician, Bugler Robert Mannle-0321
Musician, Bugler Charles Guyer-0321
Bugler ?? Pfaff-0687
Chief Bugler S. R. Steele-0573
Bugler John Malone-0542
Bugler Nathaniel J. O. Quine-010
Bugler ?? Freed-0184
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Photo: Headquarters of Gen. Thomas West Sherman, Beaufort, S.C., and soldiers with musical instruments standing on and in front of porch.
The three wars we talk about the most are the Revolutionary, War of 1812 and the Civil War, this page will cover them all, and maybe a few other wars for good measures. I will have no order to this information, and will be jumping from one war to another. I will be putting down the information as I find it, so if you are looking for a ancestor and not just reading for fun, you may want to do a name search. There will be a few photo’s on this page as well, no less then 6, but no more then ten.
Note. This information and photo’s will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress and the official recorders of the Union and Confederate Armies which is housed at the State University of Ohio.
ON CLAIM OF GAETANO CARUSI FOR REMUNERATION ON ACCOUNT OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN HIM, AS A MUSICIAN, AND AN OFFICER OF THE NAVY.
Mr. Grayson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Gaetano Carusi, reported:
That it appears from the statement of the petitioner, and from the documents accompanying it, that he and his three sons were employed, in the year 1805, by the officers of the American squadron then in the Mediterranean, for the term of three years: the petitioner continued in the service during the time in which the squadron remained abroad, and came with it to America. On his arrival in this country he was dismissed from the service, hail the term for which he had been engaged being yet unexpired: lie was thus abandoned in a foreign country, without support, although a promise had been made him to send him back to Europe at the expiration of the three years for which he had been employed. The officers of the squadron appear to have acted under a mistake as to their powers, in procuring his services; but it was not possible for a foreigner to know that the commander of an armed ship had no power to employ a musician, and it appears, therefore, one of those cases in which the liberality of the government should not permit an innocent and ignorant foreigner to stiffer for having enlisted in its service. The committee recommend, therefore, that the petitioner be paid one thousand dollars, and for that purpose they report a bill.
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A BILL.
DECEMBER 16, 1872.
Granting a pension to Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Aaron B. Hughes, late a musician in Company E, One hundred and third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and that he be paid a pension from the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Added Info. Aaron B. Hughes Musician, mustered in December 7, 1861, for 3, years, Prisoner from April 20, 1864, to March 1, 1865; mustered out with Company, June 25, 1865; Vet.
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Photo: Washington, D.C. Band of 9th Veteran Reserve Corps, in shakoes and frogged jackets, at Washington Circle.
Note. There was a Bill in Congress in 1818, That stated that any musician that was on furlough and absent from his regiment at the close of the war, would received bounty land as if they were in actual service, so long as they had gotten an honorable discharge.
Note. In 1842, a Bill stated that, no negro or mulatto shall be enlisted unless as musician, steward, cook, or servant.
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A BILL
APRIL 4, 1840.
For the relief of Isaac Plumer.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be directed to allow to Isaac Plumer, of Foxcroft, in the State of Maine, an invalid pensioner, at the rate of six dollars a month, instead of the pension heretofore granted; to commence on the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Added note. He was a musician in Col. Cobb’s Volunteer regiment of infantry.
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In 1846, A Mr. Simeon Hubbard, was asking Congress on be half of one Cooper Polyreen, who had now pass away, that he receive bounty land, Mr. Cooper was a Revolutionary soldier and musician, they were rejected.
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Washington, December 2, 1873.
A bill granting a pension to Caleb A. Lamb, late a musician ( Drummer ) in Company E of the Forty-sixth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Added note. He got his pension, but I was unable to find it.
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February 20, 1872.
A petition of John H. Moore, musician First Massachusetts Cavalry, Co. F &S, Rank third class, praying for a pension.
May 21, 1838.
A petition of Sidnah Kibby, of Washington city, widow of Thomas Kibby, of the marine corps, praying that she may be allowed the amount of pension to which her husband would have been entitled had he lived.
Update December 20, 2014.
The following is given by Michael Marshall.
Thomas Kibby married Sinia Johnson in Washington D. C., December 9, 1827. Kibby died some time before September 1, 1828, they had a daughter, Miranad Kibby ( b.c. 1833 ), she maeeied Daniel P. Mealey.
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Photo: Brandy Station, Va. Band of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves.)
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January 20, 1851.
A petition of S. Griffin, praying a pension on account of the services of her former husband, Thomas Kibby, as a musician in the marine corps.
January 11, 1855.
The memorial of Thomas W. Tansill, praying to be allowed extra pay and bounty land as a private in the marine corps, and his pay and allowances as a musician in said corps, withheld on account of his inability to procure the legal certificate of his discharge.
December 13, 1837.
A petition of Samuel Crapin, a musician in the army during the late war with Great Britain, praying a pension.
A BILL
JANUARY 7, 1841.
For the relief of Samuel Crapin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Samuel Crapin on the pension roll, and pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, during his natural life.
Note. This Bill was passed on March 19, 1842.
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Photo: Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.----------------------------
December 17, 1838.
A petition of Mary Page, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts, praying to be allowed a pension, in right of her former husband, William Hall, deceased, a musician in the revolutionary army.
April 8, 1850.
A petition of John Hamilton, praying to be allowed bounty land as a musician in the army of the United States.
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January 29, 1830.
The Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of placing on the pension roll, Frederick Wolf, a musician in the army during the Revolutionary war.
THURSDAY March 8, 1860.
Elizabeth Bliss Wolf, widow of Frederick Wolf, praying pension for services rendered by her husband in the revolutionary war.
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MONDAY, January 18, 1875.
petition of Anton Tschudi, late a musician in Company A, Eighteenth Regiment of United States Infantry, praying to be allowed a pension.
February 6, 1860.
A petition of Samuel S. Burton, praying to be allowed the amount due him for pay and rations as a musician in the war of 1812.
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Photo: Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran.
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TUESDAY, December 9, 1834.
A petition of Hosea King, late a musician in the army of the United States, praying for a grant of military bounty land.
ON CLAIM TO BOUNTY LAND.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DECE3IBER 18, 1834.
Mr. Chambers, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Hosea King, late a musician in the army of the United States, reported:
That they have examined his case, from which it appears, that on the 23d of October, 1810, he enlisted in the army of the United States as a musician, for the term of five years, and that lie remained in said service until the expiration of said term, when, on the 24th of October, 1815, he was honorably discharged. During which period, he had to encounter the fatigues, hardships, and perils of a war service. He has received all the pay and emoluments to which he was entitled under his contract of enlistment, and under the provisions of the act of Congress providing for that enlistment and service; but as soldiers afterwards enlisted, and who served a shorter time than himself, have received from the bounty of government the same and more pay, as well as bounty land, he desires that Congress will extend to him a like bounty. The act of Congress granting bounty lands in addition to pay, was passed the 24th December, 1811; and if’ Congress, on the apprehension of war, and for a war service, chose to extend the inducement to enlistment, so as to encourage an increase of the army, and did not think proper to extend the provisions to those who had been before that enlisted under other circumstances, the soldier who has received, under the laws that regulated his enlistment and services, all that was provided, has no claim on the justice or bounty of his county, unless he has become disabled and infirm by reason of that service, which is not alleged in the present case. The petitioner’s case is not a solitary one, but belongs to a class of cases, embracing all who enlisted before December 24, 1811. And if the land bounty should be thus extended, it should be by a law of Congress, embracing all that class of cases; the propriety and policy of which may well be questioned, and when presented, will deserve attentive consideration for its retrospective operation in one class of cases, which would furnish precedents for like claims by officers, agents, and other claimants, who might appeal to the equity and bounty of their country for a like remuneration, beyond the emoluments and provisions of the law under which they acted or served.
With these views, the committee think the petitioner is not entitled. to relief; and submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That the petitioner is not entitled to relief.
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March 22, 1872.
A petition of Thad. Potter, chief musician of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry .
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--------------------------Photo: Pvt. Bentley Weston, bugler, Company A, 7th South Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A.
Note. He can not be found on any rosters.
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Monday December 15, 1800.
A petition of Benjamin Law, (alias Williams,) late a fifer in the first Maryland regiment, was presented to the House and read, stating that a warrant for land due the petitioner, for services rendered the United States, during the late war, has been fraudulently obtained from the War Office, and praying that a new warrant may issue, or such other relief be granted as to the wisdom of Congress may seem meet.
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THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Pensions.
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1796.
Ebenezer Fletcher, ... Fifer, ... one-fourth, pension.
Levi Chubbock, ... Fifer,….. one-fourth, pension.
Phinehas Parkhurst, ... Fifer, ... full pension.
THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT.
Pensions.
Robert Jerom, ... Fifer, ... one-fourth, pension.
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THURSDAY, June 13, 1844.
A petition of Jane Hackney, of Russell county, State of Virginia, widow of John Hackney, deceased, praying a pension in consideration of the services of her late husband, as a fifer in the war of the Revolution.
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Civil War.
Note. July 1864, City Point, and the medical officer in charge of the hospitals at that place will at once make requisition upon the corps commanders for musicians to relieve the able-bodied men of their commands now employed on hospital service, and the latter on being relieved will be returned to their regiments. Each corps commander will select an efficient officer to take the general charge of the musicians of his corps assigned to hospital duty, and he will also, on the requisition of the medical officer in charge of the hospitals, furnish his proportion of a detail for a hospital guard. The guard will be no larger than is indispensably necessary. The requisition on corps commanders for hospital attendants and guard details will be in proportion to the number of men of the corps under treatment.
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Note. HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS, Near Hatcher's Run, Va., March 28, 1865.
In the contemplated movement to-morrow, the musicians will be left in camp to sound reveille as usual, not at the hour of march, but as sounded under ordinary circumstances. Commanders are requested to give this matter their particular attention. After the usual hour of reveille has been sounded the musicians can join their respective commands. When the troops leave camp to-morrow morning they will do so as quietly as possible. Great care will be taken that nothing in the camps is set on fire.
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On the March 14th, 1865, captured, Musician W. S. Ward, Company H.
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Reports of Major Hamilton S. Gillespie, Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, of operations May 27-September 8.
May 28, 1864, Rebels make three assaults during the night, but are each time repulsed with considerable loss to them; wounded. George W. Rickey, musician, Company C, slight.
May 30, take position in front line; wounded, William Dean, Company K, mortally; Samuel B. Large, musician Company A, in leg while attempting to bring him off the field.
Musician Edward B. Smith was to be executed, he was found Guilty, in a G. C. M. I couldn’t find out what he was being charged with, but I believe it was for Mutiny.
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1865, Chief Musician John T. McConahay, wounded in the thigh on the 21st March, near Bentonville.
1865, Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Williams, acting adjutant Fifty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, to be first lieutenant by brevet for conspicuous gallantry and valuable services on the 31st of march, and to be captain by brevet for the display of personal bravery on the 1st of April. Lieutenant Williams entered the service as a musician, and by his good conduct and his bravery and courage during the campaigns of 1863 won the respect and regard of his superior officers, and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant.
1864, Private Hans Shure, Company K, and Musician, Eighty-eighth Illinois, helped to captured two sabers at the battle of Franklin, November 30.
Note. In 1863, the Provisional Army of Confederate States, were paying their musicians $13, per month.
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Numbers 298. Reports of Lieutenant Colonel John C. O. Redington, Sixtieth New York Infantry.
CAMP NEAR AQUIA CREEK LANDING, VA.,
May 8, 1863.
I saw Musician William P. Hulitt, of Company F (who picked up a gun and cartridges, and fought unflinchingly, losing his life thereby.
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No. 75. Report of Lieutenant James G. Derrickson, Sixty-sixth New York Infantry.
FALMOUTH, VA., December 16, 1862.
Among the enlisted men the conduct of Principal Musician Daniel Barrett stand pre-eminent.
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BIVOUAC OPPOSITE SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA., September 22, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to report the part taken by the battalion of Second and Tenth Infantry in the engagement on the 17th instant at Sharpsburg, Md.
Musician George Miller, Company G, seized a musket on the field and used it with good effect during the hottest part of the engagement.
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Numbers 3. Report of Brigadier General James E. B. Stuart, C. S. Army, March 31, 1862.
Principal Musician David Drake, of the First Virginia Cavalry, volunteered to perform the most hazardous service, and accomplished it in the most satisfactory and creditable manner. He is worthy of promotion and should be so rewarded.
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No. 79. Report of Major Robert M. West,
Chief of Artillery, of operations June 28-July 2.
HEADQUARTERS OF ARTILLERY, FOURTH CORPS, July 11, 1862.
July 29, Principal Musician Robert Hargreaves, First Pennsylvania Artillery, whose prompt and intelligent conveyance of my orders contributed greatly to the harmonious movement of the large mass of artillery temporarily under my command. He is qualified for a better position.
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No. 24. Report of Colonel Zebulon B. Vance, Twenty-sixth North Carolina Infantry.
HDQRS. TWENTY-SIXTH Regiment NORTH CAROLINA VOLS., Kinston, N. C., March 17, 1862.
Musician B. F. Johnson, Company B, deserves particular mention for his exertions, having ferried over the greater portion of the road for Trenton. We marched night and day stopping at no time for rest or sleep more than four hours.
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HEADQUARTERS ANDERSON CAVALRY, Camp Negley, Nashville, Tenn., January 20, 1863.
MAJOR: In obedience to instructions received from headquarters of the Cumberland, through Brigadier General D. S. Stanley, I have the honor to forward the names of those who did and those who did not obey marching orders December 26, 1862.
List of names of those who obeyed orders to go to the front December 26, 1862.
COMPANY C.
Bugler, Byron O. Camp.
Bugler, N. F. Dager.
COMPANY D.
Bugler, Francis J. Koesterer.
Bugler, Henry Helling.
COMPANY E.
Bugler, Nicholas F. Weigle.
COMPANY I.
Bugler, J. W. Buttorf.
Bugler, A. C. Miller.
COMPANY K.
Bugler, William B. Murdock.
Bugler, J. F. Gwynn.
List of these refusing to go to the front December 26, 1862..
COMPANY C.
Bugler, Byron O. Camp.
Bugler, N. F. Dager.
Note. A Bugler was paid $20, a month, a Chief bugler $28, a month.
Numbers 192. Report of Lieutenant Valentine H. Stone, Batteries C and I, Fifth U. S. Artillery.
CAMP OF BATTERIES C AND I, FIFTH U. S. ARTILLERY,
Near Petersburg, Va., April 4, 1865.
Bugler Andrew R. Muller, Battery C, Fifth U. S. Artillery, deserves great credit for the extraordinary coolness and bravery shown by him while carrying orders for me, passing to and for from the front repeatedly under a heavy fire of artillery and musketry.
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SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, No. 61. October 21, 1864.
The following-named officers and enlisted men will proceed to Washington, D. C., with colors captured from the enemy in the engagement of the 19th instant, and will deliver them over to the Secretary of War. This duty being accomplished they will immediately join their proper command. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation: Private T. M. Wells, chief bugler, Sixth Michigan Cavalry.
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HDQRS. FIRST CAVALRY, MISSOURI STATE MILITIA, Warrensburg, Mo., May 2, 1864.
Francis N. Kelly, bugler, Company C, First Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, He and some of his company had been surprised by a band of Quantrill's guerrillas in Johnson Country, Mo., on the 28, May 1864, the guerrillas numbering between 80, and 100 hundred men, Kelly was killed.
Added note. Francis N. Kelly, enlisted on Feb. 8, 1862, at the age of 19, he enlisted at Sullivan Mo., and was mustered in on Feb. 17, 1862, at Milan, Mo.
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HDQRS. THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLS., February 9, 1864.
SIR: I have the honor to report the part this regiment (Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers) took in the reconnaissance of the 6th day of February, 1864.
I take pleasure in making honorable mention of Chief Bugler Anton Rang, for bravery on the skirmish line.
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Note. I'm finding I may not have room for the next 160 reports, so I will list the names of the Buglers with page number. If you see a ancestor and would like his information, you can E. Mail me, I will be glad to hear from you, You can find my address in my profile.
Buglers of the Union & C. S. A.
Bugler Henry Deering-0692
Bugler John Albert-0865
Bugler [Charles A.] Lockwood-0756
Bugler Hiram H. Swasey-0241
Bugler ?? Lehman-0547
Bugler ?? Lehmann-0547
Bugler [Valentine] Kenner-0270
Chief Bugler ?? Fritson-0134
Bugler William Clemens-0812
Bugler J. B. Harris-028
Chief Bugler ?? Steele-0494
Bugler ?? Denton-0414
Bugler Oliver J. Burns-0140
Bugler Burns, Citizen-0138
Chief Bugler D. J. Taber-0480
Bugler Henry Bieble-0440
Bugler Henry Gieble-0396
Bugler, William A. Worley-0469
Chief bugler Charles Schorn-01261
Chief bugler James P. Landis-01259
John Gottlieb Heydlauff-0272
Bugler Daniel W. Merrill-0332
Chief bugler Thomas Wells-0551
Bugler Daniel Urmey-0792
Chief Bugler N. D. Horton-0595
Bugler Asa D. Broody-0832
Bugler ?? Eisfelder-0387
Bugler William Willi-0207
Bugler William J. Carson-0317
Bugler John F. Leach-0310
Bugler [William H.] Dickerson-0779
Chief Bugler [Jacob K.] Schuck-0949
Bugler R. Mastin Smith-0364
Bugler [William H.] Leeser-01092
Bugler ?? Drilling-062
Bugler [E. Z.] Shannon-0552
Bugler [W. C.] Thatcher-0552
Bugler John McKay-0366
Jake Schlosser-0859
Chief bugler William Morgan-0554
Bugler John J. Brown-0320
Chief bugler Earnest Goolah-0395
Bugler, Christ. Sanders-067
Bugler John Malone-0468
Musician, Bugler Robert Mannle-0321
Musician, Bugler Charles Guyer-0321
Bugler ?? Pfaff-0687
Chief Bugler S. R. Steele-0573
Bugler John Malone-0542
Bugler Nathaniel J. O. Quine-010
Bugler ?? Freed-0184
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Photo: Headquarters of Gen. Thomas West Sherman, Beaufort, S.C., and soldiers with musical instruments standing on and in front of porch.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Charles G. Bratton Officer Of The Law 1871.
When I started researching about ten years ago, I did a lot on the Marshals in the Kansas towns, this is where I ran across a man by the name of Charles G. Bratton, who was a law man, but not a famous one to say the lest. But there was something about him and his short life, that I could not get off my mind. I don’t know if it was the town he came from ( Burlingame ) Kansas which I know quite well as I visited the town many times in my youth, as my family was from the same county. Then it my have been the way he died. But no matter what the reason I couldn’t get him off my mind, so I thought it was time to look more into him and give his story to you.
There is no record on how Charles G. Bratton got from Burlingame, Kansas, to Wichita, Kansas and how he became a policeman in 1871, in Wichita under Marshal Michael Meagher, only that he became one. There is little information on Charles as a policeman in the Wichita papers, he did have at lest one encounter that got his name in the papers.
On November15, 1871, Emil Werner a local saloon keeper filed a letter with the city council protesting the treatment he had received at the hands of the Wichita police force.
The following is his letter:
To his Honor the Mayor & Councilmen of the City of Wichita.
I Emil Werner your petitioner would respectfully beg leave to represent to your Honorable body that on the 25th day of October A. D. 1871, Michael Meagher City Marshal, S. K. Ohmert, Deputy Marshal & Charles Bratton, policemen, Entered my saloon situated on Main Street, No. 17, Wichita, Kansas, and arrested and took from thence a Soldier who was sleeping at one of my tables. In short time they returned and Charles Bratton entered the saloon the other two, Viz: Meagher & Ohment remaining at the door. Bratton spoke to me, telling me, that I would get myself into trouble, selling liquor to men and getting them drunk. I replied that I paid license for selling liquor, and that what I paid to the city helped to pay his salary. He ( Bratton ) without any further provocation struck me with a revolver and knocked me down and before I could get up the others ( Meagher & Ohment ) rushed in, and all three of them struck me with revolvers and sling shots and took me off to the Calaboose, without coat or hat, tearing my shirt off of my back, locking my door and taking possession on my keys.
I was finally released upon the payment of the sum of $5.00 into the City Treasury, together with the costs of suit. Amounting in all to eight dollars. Now therefore I would respectfully request your Honorable Body to examine into these Statements that I have here made, and if you fins them correct & true, to remit & repay the fine & costs imposed upon me, Otherwise to act as in your judgment deem best, and this your Petitioner humbly prays.
Emil Werner.
Charles G. Bratton served four days as a special policeman on the Wichita police force, in February, of 1872. For his work he was paid $8.00 on February 21.
On December 22, 1874, while assisting the city marshal Burlingame to take a drunken butcher to jail, Bratton was stabbed and killed. The following article appeared in the Wichita Eagle, January 7, 1875.
Charley Bratton, a former policeman of Wichita, under Mayor Alien, was brutally murdered at Burlingame last week, by a butcher named Dan Wortz. Wortz was drunk and abusing his wife, Bratton, who was a city officer, interfered, when he was stabbed twice, both wounds being severe enough to produce death. The weapon used was a butcher knife. One stab severed a rib and sank deep into the kidney. Young Bratton was a quiet boy. He came with his parents, when quite a small boy. The murderer is in custody and will go up for life.
Charles G. Bratton was born on September 16, 1848, place unknown, it is belived they came from some where in Pennsylvania, family unknown. Charles died at the age of 25, and is now resting in the Burlingame City Cemetery.
Note. I went through the 1880 census and only found three family’s that were old enough to have been his family. His family may have still been living in Burlingame as it was only six years later and with a little research one may be able to find out. The following family’s were:
John & Cathren Bratton, He was 59, and a farmer.
Geo. & Rebecca Jane Bratton, He was 64, and a Hotel Keeper.
Rev. George Bratton, He was also 64, and could be the same men as above?
There is no record on how Charles G. Bratton got from Burlingame, Kansas, to Wichita, Kansas and how he became a policeman in 1871, in Wichita under Marshal Michael Meagher, only that he became one. There is little information on Charles as a policeman in the Wichita papers, he did have at lest one encounter that got his name in the papers.
On November15, 1871, Emil Werner a local saloon keeper filed a letter with the city council protesting the treatment he had received at the hands of the Wichita police force.
The following is his letter:
To his Honor the Mayor & Councilmen of the City of Wichita.
I Emil Werner your petitioner would respectfully beg leave to represent to your Honorable body that on the 25th day of October A. D. 1871, Michael Meagher City Marshal, S. K. Ohmert, Deputy Marshal & Charles Bratton, policemen, Entered my saloon situated on Main Street, No. 17, Wichita, Kansas, and arrested and took from thence a Soldier who was sleeping at one of my tables. In short time they returned and Charles Bratton entered the saloon the other two, Viz: Meagher & Ohment remaining at the door. Bratton spoke to me, telling me, that I would get myself into trouble, selling liquor to men and getting them drunk. I replied that I paid license for selling liquor, and that what I paid to the city helped to pay his salary. He ( Bratton ) without any further provocation struck me with a revolver and knocked me down and before I could get up the others ( Meagher & Ohment ) rushed in, and all three of them struck me with revolvers and sling shots and took me off to the Calaboose, without coat or hat, tearing my shirt off of my back, locking my door and taking possession on my keys.
I was finally released upon the payment of the sum of $5.00 into the City Treasury, together with the costs of suit. Amounting in all to eight dollars. Now therefore I would respectfully request your Honorable Body to examine into these Statements that I have here made, and if you fins them correct & true, to remit & repay the fine & costs imposed upon me, Otherwise to act as in your judgment deem best, and this your Petitioner humbly prays.
Emil Werner.
Charles G. Bratton served four days as a special policeman on the Wichita police force, in February, of 1872. For his work he was paid $8.00 on February 21.
On December 22, 1874, while assisting the city marshal Burlingame to take a drunken butcher to jail, Bratton was stabbed and killed. The following article appeared in the Wichita Eagle, January 7, 1875.
Charley Bratton, a former policeman of Wichita, under Mayor Alien, was brutally murdered at Burlingame last week, by a butcher named Dan Wortz. Wortz was drunk and abusing his wife, Bratton, who was a city officer, interfered, when he was stabbed twice, both wounds being severe enough to produce death. The weapon used was a butcher knife. One stab severed a rib and sank deep into the kidney. Young Bratton was a quiet boy. He came with his parents, when quite a small boy. The murderer is in custody and will go up for life.
Charles G. Bratton was born on September 16, 1848, place unknown, it is belived they came from some where in Pennsylvania, family unknown. Charles died at the age of 25, and is now resting in the Burlingame City Cemetery.
Note. I went through the 1880 census and only found three family’s that were old enough to have been his family. His family may have still been living in Burlingame as it was only six years later and with a little research one may be able to find out. The following family’s were:
John & Cathren Bratton, He was 59, and a farmer.
Geo. & Rebecca Jane Bratton, He was 64, and a Hotel Keeper.
Rev. George Bratton, He was also 64, and could be the same men as above?
Friday, December 12, 2008
It Was Time For Drinking!
When I was a young man I could bend my elbow with the best of them, lets just say I liked to drink. I always like the older bars for some reason, I think it was the smells and the unexpected thing’s that happen in a small bar, that you didn’t have in your upper class bar. When sitting there with my drink I would some times think what it must have been like in the olden days. Oh the times have changed, but the smells and the unexpected will always stay the same.I know there are a lot of families who are looking into their family’s history and found a family member who was a Saloon ( Bar ) keeper or was a owner of one. But don’t know where it was or if you do you can’t find it’s name, will that’s what the page is all about.
I have listed 43, Saloons, some you will know right off, but there are other not to well known. I have named the keepers and owners when I could, but most will say keepers unknown. That’s not to say there not known I just couldn’t find them at the time. But then why should I have all the fun. The whole idea behind looking into ones family is to have fun and learning something new about your ancestor.
Note. All these Saloon had stories written about them in the Newspapers, or books, be cause of some famous person was in them or some kind happening in or around them.
So with a little research one should be able to find out a lot more about them.
St. Louis Missouri, 1864.
1. Exchange saloon and billiard room, Illinois street, keeper Daniel Bacon.
2. Great Westren saloon, keeper Andrew Kirkpatrick, and a partner by the name of S. R. Squier, corner of Vine and third street.
3. Esterbrook's saloon, in the City Hotel, Keeper Esterbrook .
DAYTON, OHIO, June 26, 1864.
4. Cooper House a saloon, restaurant, and gambling house on Main street south of the Keeper a German by the name of J. V. Nauerth.
HAMILTON, BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, June 20, 1864.
5. Saloon and and billiard room name unknown keeper was Doctor Garver .
Detroit, Mich., 1864.
6. Whipple's saloon and billiard room, keepers unknown.
Louisville Mo., 1864?
7. R. P. League, keeper of a saloon near the Louisville theater, name unkown.
Annapolis, Md., 1863.
8. sutler's saloon, keepers name unkown.
Washington, November 30, 1861?
9. Burch's saloon on Fourteenth street, keepers name unknown.
San Juan, in Washington Territory, 1863.
10. Warbass' saloon, keepers name E. D. Warbass.
Dallas, Texas , 1875.
11. saloon owned by a man named Austin, one evening Doc. Holliday, was gambling in the saloon when Austin, and Holliday got in a argument over a card hand which caused them to fire single bullets at each other. Neither was injured and both parties decided to settle their differences without further gunplay.
Florence, Washington Territory, 1863.
12. Saloon owened by Henry Talbotte, AKA Cherokee Bob, died in the back room of his saloon after instigating and losing a gun fight on New Year's Day.
Wichita, Kansas, 1875.
13. Customs House Saloon keeper unknown, One evening the saloon was cleared when Wyatt Earp's pistol slips out of its holster and discharges when hitting the floor. The bullet passes through the fabric of his coat before going through the ceiling.
Lampasas Texas, 1877.
14. Matador Saloon, keeper unknown, One evening in 1877, a Mr. Merritt Horrell, was shot to death by John Higgins after being accused of tampering with a herd as part of the Horrell-Higgins Feud. Earlier the six Horrell brothers, Ben, John, Mart, Merritt, Sam, and Tom, returned from the Civil War to rustle cattle and cause mayhem in Texas and New Mexico Territory in the 1870s.
Hell Gate, Montana Territory 1864.
15. Cyrus Skinner a saloon keeper, is credited with devising the scheme to murder and rob he Magruder party.
Note. In 1887, Leavenworth, Kansas- had 200 saloons, one for every 30 families.
Tombstone, Arizona Territory 1884.
16. Clifton saloon, keeper unknown.
Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 1882.
17. Bob Hatch's billiards saloon, keeper unkown this is the saloon that Lawman Morgan Earp was shot in the back, He died a few minutes after midnight the next day.
Lampasas, Texas, 1873.
18. Jerry Scott's Matador Saloon, owner Jerry Scott Matador, One evening or day?, Texas Ranger Captain Thomas Williams, accompanied by three officers went to arrest Clinton Barkley, a Texas gunman who was wanted for murder, entered Jerry Scott's Matador Saloon, knowing Barkley and the Horrells (Barkley's brother-in-laws) were inside. The minute Williams and his men stepped through the swinging doors, Barkley, Martin, Tom, and Sam Horrell, along with saloon owner Scott, opened fire with their six-guns. Williams and two of his men dropped to the floor dead while the third deputy returned fire as he backed out of the saloon, his shots wounding Martin and Tom Horrell.
Near Nashville Tenn., 1881.
19. White's Creek Store and Saloon, keeper unknown, A James gang member Bill Ryan stopped in the White's Creek Store and Saloon near Nashville to take shelter from a heavy storm. He became drunk; and disorderly and soon was arrested and taken to the Nashville jail.
Ballinger, Texas, 1878.
20. Senate Saloon, keeper unknown.
Dodge City, Kansas 1879.
21. In the Long Branch Saloon Frank Loving, onetime cowhand and faro dealer, shoots it out with a hide-hunter and gunman named Levi Richardson. Levi fired off 5 rounds, before Frank got one off, and missed all 5 times. When the smoke cleared Frank began squeezing the trigger of his gun with cool deliberation hitting Levi 3 times. A coroner's jury ruled a self defense verdict. Frank was shot dead about a year later in Trinidad, Colorado.
Dodge City, Kansas 1887.
22. In the Peacock Saloon, Marshal Edward Masterson was killed by a drunken cowhand named Jack Wagner as he went to investigate a disturbance at the Lady Gay Dance Hall. His brother Bat was only a little distance away and shot both Jack Wagner and his partner Alf Walker. Wagner and Walker staggered into the Peacock Saloon. Wagoner died the next day while Alf took a month to die.
El Paso, Texas, 1881.
23. Keating's Saloon, keeper unknown.
Flagstaff, Arizona Territory 1881.
23. Black's Saloon, keeper unknown, two mailbags had been taken in a holdup from the Canyon Diablo to Flagstaff Wells Fargo stage. There was $125,000 in gold, silver, and coins in the bags. A U.S. Cavalry detachment killed five suspected bandits near Veit Spring but the loot is not found. In 1913 Short Jimmy McGuire produces some of the stolen coins, but after downing four drinks he dies of a heart attack. The treasure was never found.
Ashland, Kansas, 1885.
24. Junction Saloon, keeper unknown, A gunfight erupts in the during a card game, pitting “Mysterious Dave” Mather, and his brother and bartender Josiah, against David Barnes. David Barnes is killed and two bystanders are wounded. The Mather brothers are arrested and leave town after posting a $3,000 bond.
Caldwell, Kansas, 1880.
25. Red Light saloon and dance hall, keeper unknown, . Frank Hunt was the deputy marshal of this frontier boomtown. On this date, George Flatt, a drunken former lawman was shot to death as he neared a Caldwell restaurant. A man identified as Hunt was seen fleeing the murder scene. Flatt's death was avenged on Oct. 11, 1880, when an unidentified gunman fatally wounded Hunt as he sat near a window at the Red Light saloon and dance hall.
Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 1881.
26. Arcade Saloon, keeper unknown, much of the towns business district, including sixty-six buildings, was destroyed when someone got too close of a barrel of bad whiskey, with a match or cigar, that the proprietor of the Arcade Saloon had set outside to return it to the supplier. The barrel exploded in flames. It was already 100 degrees.
Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 1881.
27. Alhambra saloon, keeper unknown, Judge Spicer issues a warrant for the arrest of Doc Holliday for complicity in the murder of Bud Philpot, and the attempted stage robbery near Contention several months before. Cochise County sheriff John Behan arrests Holliday, who is immediately released on $5,000 bail put up by Wyatt Earp and the proprietors of the Alhambra saloon.
Denver, Colorado, 1886.
28. Kinneavy's Saloon, keeper unknown, burned down.
Caldwell, Kansas 1879.
29. Occidental Saloon, keeper unknown. George Flatt was a lawman in Caldwell and also operated an elegant saloon with William Horseman. On this date Flatt was involved in a shootout after two men, George Wood and Jake Adams, who began firing pistols while drinking at the Occidental Saloon. Constable W.C. Kelly and Deputy John Wilson, accompanied by Flatt and W.H. Kiser, entered the saloon. During the ensuing shootout Flatt killed the two outlaws, while Kiser was grazed in the temple and Wilson was wounded in the wrist.
San Antonio Texas, 1882.
30. Green Front Saloon, owners Jack Harris and Ernest Hart.
Texas 1884.
31. Garner's Saloon, keeper unknown.
San Antonio, Texas 1895.
32. Colombo Saloon, keeper unknown.
Newton, Kansas 1871.
33. Red Front Saloon, keeper unknown.
Ellsworth, Kansas 1873.
34. Brennan's Saloon, keeper unknown.
Newton, Kansas, 1871.
35. Tuttle's Saloon, keeper unknown.
El Paso, Texas 1895.
36. Acme Saloon, keeper unknown.
Hays City, Kansas 1873.
37. Cy Goddard's saloon, keeper unknown.
Hayes City, Kansas 1869.
38. John Bitters' Beer Saloon, keeper unknown, This was a wild town freight and cattle center, and it attracted some of the worst gunmen of the day. One of these was a brutish teamster named Samuel Strawhim who arrived with a half dozen teamsters on this date. He and his friends stormed into John Bitters' Beer Saloon that night and began to wreck the place. A few minutes later Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok, accompanied by Deputy Peter Lanihan, arrived at the saloon and ordered Strawhim to surrender his guns. Strawhim laughed and drew his guns. Wild Bill drew both his 1851 Navy Colts, blasting Strawhim to death. A coroner's jury later stated that the Strawhim shooting was justifiable homicide.
New Mexico Territory, near Fort Stanton.
39. Will Hudgen's saloon, keeper unknown.
Tombstone, Arizona 1880.
40. Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce.
New Mexico Territory 1879.
41. Bob Hargrove's saloon, keeper unknown.
Montana 1894.
42. Jew Jake's Saloon, keeper unknown.
California 1881.
43. Jake Harris' saloon, keeper unknown.
They Asked For Relief And Got It.
In today’s world when we hear the word ( Relief ), we automatically think of ( Welfare ), but that wasn’t the case in the old day’s. The Government passed the relief act to help those in need. In the 1700’s & 1800’s money was hard to come by, and work was hard to find and as many families lived far a part and if something was happen they had little or no one to turn to. The relief act was to help those in need, but that didn’t mean all those that asked for relief got it.
The government tried to be fair to all but many would not receive any. Many who asked for help were those that lost something like a husband, father or son in the time of war. In the time of war many would loss something a family member a farm or house or even a horse. Then there were those who lost money or had it taken away from them, even the loss of land for one reason or another. The Government was glad to help as long as what the people was asking was fair and had proof of their loss, the following people asked for relief and got it.
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Eliza B. Anderson and Duncan L. Clinch.
Ulysses S. Grant.
APPROVED, March 3, 1863.
The government tried to be fair to all but many would not receive any. Many who asked for help were those that lost something like a husband, father or son in the time of war. In the time of war many would loss something a family member a farm or house or even a horse. Then there were those who lost money or had it taken away from them, even the loss of land for one reason or another. The Government was glad to help as long as what the people was asking was fair and had proof of their loss, the following people asked for relief and got it.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Mary A. Baker and Edward D. Baker.
Chap. CXXXIII. — An Act for the Relief of Mary A. Baker, Widow of Brigadier General Edward D. Baker.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Mary A. Baker, widow of Brigadier-General Edward D. Baker, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars a month, from the twenty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to continue during her widowhood.
APPROVED, March 3, 1865.
APPROVED, March 3, 1865.
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-------------------------------------------Eliza Berry and Hiram G. Berry.
Chap. CXXXV. — An Act granting a Pension to the Widow of the late Major-General Hiram G. Berry.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Eliza Berry, widow of Major-General Hiram G. Berry, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars a month, from the third day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to continue during her widowhood.
APPROVED, March 3, 1865.
APPROVED, March 3, 1865.
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Almira M. Berry and Hiram G. Berry.
CHAP. CXLV. — An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting a Pension to the Widow of the late Major-General Hiram G. Berry.”
Whereas in the act granting a pension to the widow of the late Major General Hiram G. Berry, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, said widow is erroneously called Eliza Berry: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and directed to place the name of Almira M. Berry, widow of Major-General Hiram G. Berry, on the pension rolls instead of Eliza Berry, as provided for by the act aforesaid.
APPROVED, June 27, 1866.
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Eliza B. Anderson and Duncan L. Clinch.CHAP. XXXIII. — An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of the late General Duncan L. Clinch, deceased.
WHEREAS Eliza B. Anderson, wife of Major-General Robert Anderson, and daughter and heir-at-law of the late General Duncan L. Clinch, deceased, has an equitable claim, in her own right and to the exclusion of all other heirs of said Clinch, against the Government of the United States, they having released all demands in the premises; and whereas the family of the said Robert Anderson need for their support the amount which she may be entitled to: Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, and in consideration of the distinguished services of the said Major-General Robert Anderson and his permanent disability: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars to Lars Anderson in trust for the exclusive use of the said Eliza B. Anderson during her life time; and any part thereof remaining at her death to be held in trust for her children full satisfaction of the claim against the United States of the said Eliza B. Anderson, for and on account of any demand of the late Duncan L. Clinch, deceased.
APPROVED, March 19, 1868.
APPROVED, March 19, 1868.
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Christina Elder and Alexander B. Elder.
Christina Elder and Alexander B. Elder. CHAP. CVIII. —An Act for the Relief of Christina Elder.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby directed to pay to Christina Elder, of the city of New York, the arrears of pension to which Jessie Elder, mother of the said Christina Elder and of Alexander B. Elder, late lieutenant-colonel of the tenth regiment of New York volunteers, would have been entitled, had the certificate of W. T. Otto, acting Secretary of the Interior, countersigned by Joseph H. Barrett, Commissioner of Pensions, and bearing date on the twenty-fifth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in favor of the said Jessie Elder, been granted in his lifetime.
APPROVED, June 6, 1866.
APPROVED, June 6, 1866.
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Ulysses S. Grant.Chap. CVI. —An Act for the Relief of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the settlement of the accounts with the treasury of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, as commissary and regimental quartermaster, fourth infantry, there shall be allowed the said Grant the sum of one thousand dollars, on account of the loss of that amount of public funds in his hands by theft on the night of the sixteenth f June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the loss being without neglect or fault on the part of said Grant. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the accounts of the said Grant have been fully settled at the proper accounting office of the treasury, and the said amount of one thousand dollars accounted for, then and in that case there shall be paid to said Grant the sum of one thousand dollars out of any money not otherwise appropriated.
APPROVED, June 17, 1862.
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Marian Mulligan and James A. Mulligan.
Marian Mulligan and James A. Mulligan.CHAP. CXIX. — An Act for the Relief of the Widow and Children of Colonel James A. Mulligan, deceased.
Whereas James A. Mulligan on the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, was mustered into the service of the United States as colonel of the twenty-third Illinois infantry, known as the “ Irish brigade,” marched to the front in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and from that time, (excepting two months when a prisoner of war,) was actively engaged in the military service of the republic against armed rebels until he fell on the battle-field of Winchester, the twenty-sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and whereas during two years of that military service he was assigned to the command of brigades and divisions, and performed the duties of brigadier and major general, but received only the pay of a colonel; and whereas the widow and children of the said Colonel James A. Mulligan are justly entitled to, and need for their support, the amount of pay which he would have received if he had been commissioned according to his respective commands in the field: Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Marian Mulligan, widow of said Colonel James A. Mulligan, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the money appropriated for the pay of the army.
APPROVED, July 3, 1868.
APPROVED, July 3, 1868.
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Mrs. Frances S. Richardson and I. B. Richardson.
Mrs. Frances S. Richardson and I. B. Richardson. CHAP. XVIII. — An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of the late Major- General I. B. Richardson, deceased.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to Mrs. Frances S. Richardson, widow of the late Major-General I. B. Richardson, deceased, in trust for Israel P. Richardson, minor child and heir of said Richardson, deceased; the same being in full compensation for one mule and four horses stolen from deceased in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two by the Apache Indians, while he was on duty in New Mexico as an officer of the United States army.
APPROVED, March 2, 1868.
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CHAP. CCXXXI. — An Act granting an Increase of Pension to Frances T. Richardson, Widow of the lute Major-General Israel B. Richardson.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, teal Ito is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Frances T. Richardson, widow of the late Major-General Israel B. Richardson, for pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month from the third day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on which day General Richardson died from wounds received in the battle of Antietam on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said pension to be continued during her widowhood, and if that should terminate, then to be continued to Israel Philip Richardson, sole surviving child of said General Richardson, until he shall become sixteen years old. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pension heretofore allowed to said Frances T. Richardson, under general law, be discontinued, but the sum received by her under the same shall be deducted from the pension hereby granted, and this pension shall be subject to the provisions of the general pension law.
APPROVED, July 23, 1868.
APPROVED, March 2, 1868.
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CHAP. CCXXXI. — An Act granting an Increase of Pension to Frances T. Richardson, Widow of the lute Major-General Israel B. Richardson.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, teal Ito is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Frances T. Richardson, widow of the late Major-General Israel B. Richardson, for pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month from the third day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on which day General Richardson died from wounds received in the battle of Antietam on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said pension to be continued during her widowhood, and if that should terminate, then to be continued to Israel Philip Richardson, sole surviving child of said General Richardson, until he shall become sixteen years old. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the pension heretofore allowed to said Frances T. Richardson, under general law, be discontinued, but the sum received by her under the same shall be deducted from the pension hereby granted, and this pension shall be subject to the provisions of the general pension law.
APPROVED, July 23, 1868.
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Fanny Mactier Smith and Charles Ferguson Smith.
Gen. Charles F. Smith, Died: April 25, 1862 of a foot infection he got in jumping from one boat to another in opening stages of Shiloh Campaign.
CHAP. CLXII. — An Act for the Relief of Fanny Mactier Smith.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Fanny Mactier Smith, widow of the late Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, of the United States army, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for and during her widowhood.
APPROVED, July 12, 1862.
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Fanny Mactier Smith, widow of the late Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, of the United States army, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for and during her widowhood.
APPROVED, July 12, 1862.
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Margaret L. Stevens and Isaac I. Stevens.
CRAP. CXXVIII. — An Act for the Relief of Margaret L. Stevens, Widow of Brigadier General Isaac L. Stevens.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Margaret L. Stevens, widow of Brigadier-General Isaac I. Stevens, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars a month from the first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to Continue during her widowhood.APPROVED, March 3, 1863.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Their Meritorious Services.
I have done a lot of pages on the Civil War, and have written lot about the men that has serviced in it, and that’s all and good but what did they look like? I know I some times wonder what they look like. So I decided to do a page on some men that got promotions for their meritorious services and with the information there will be a photo of him. Keep in mind some of these photo’s may have been taken years after his services.
Note. This information and photo’s will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress and the official recorders of the Union and Confederate Armies which is housed at the State University of Ohio.
Samuel H. Starr, New Jersey 5th. Infantry.
PROMOTIONS.
Second Regiment of Cavalry.
Brevet Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Starr to be second lieutenant, July 13, 1848.
PROMOTIONS.
Second Regiment of Dragoons.
Second Lieutenant Samuel H. Starr to be first lieutenant, November 10, 1851.
PROMOTIONS.
Second Regiment of Dragoons.
First Lieutenant Samuel H. Starr to be captain, June 14, 1858.
War Department,Washington, March 7, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to propose for your approbation the following-named officers for promotion by brevet in the Army of the United States:
Second Regiment of Cavalry.
Captain Samuel H. Starr, Second Regiment, of Cavalry, to be major by brevet, July 1, 1862, for meritorious services during the Peninsula campaign.
Second Regiment of Cavalry.
Major Samuel H. Starr, of the Sixth Regiment United States Cavalry, to be major by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, to date from May 4, 1862; and robe lieutenant-colonel by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services in action at Upperville, Virginia, to date from June 21, 1863; and to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services in the Gettysburg campaign, to date from July 2, 1863.
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-------------------------------------------Colonel William W. Averill.
3rd. Pennsylvania Cavalry, and staff.
Photo. Westover landing Virginia.
War Department,Washington, March 7, 1863.
Captain W. W. Averill, Third Regiment of Cavalry, to be captain by brevet, May 4, 1862, and major by brevet, May 5, 1862, for gallant and distinguished conduct at the liege of Yorktown and in the battles of Williamsburg and Malvern Hill.
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----------------------------------------Photo. 1862, Vicinity of Fair Oaks Virginia.
Left to Right, Lt. Robert Clarke, Capt. Jofn C. Tisall.
Lt. William N. Dennsion and Capt. Alexander C. M. Pennington.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
Second Lieutenant William N. Dennison to be first lieutenant, November 12, 1861.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
First Lieutenant William N. Dennison, 2d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, June 27, 1862, and to be major by brevet, July 1, 1862, for meritorious and distinguished Services at the battles of New Bridge, Gaines' Mill, and Malvern Hill.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
First Lieutenant William N. Dennison to be captain, January 3, 1867.
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-------------------------------------Winfield S. Hancock.
Between 1860-65.
Brevet second lieutenants attached to the infantry arm.
THURSDAY, January 16, 1845.
Cadet Winfield S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania.
Sixth Regiment of Infantry.
August 7, 1846.
Brevet Second Lieutenant Winfield S. Hancock to be second lieutenant, June 18, 1846.
Sixth Regiment of Infantry.
February 1, 1853.
Sixth Regiment of Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Winfield S. Hancock to be first lieutenant, January 27, 1853.
APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE VOLUNTEER FORCE CALLED INTO SERVICE UNDER THE ACTS APPROVED JULY 22 AND 24, 1861.
Captain Winfield S. Hancock, assistant quartermaster, to be brigadier-general, September 23, 1861.
Quartermaster's Department.
March 7, 1863.
Captain Winfield S. Hancock, assistant quartermaster, to be major by brevet, May 4, 1862, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, May 5, 1862, and to be colonel by brevet, June 27, 1862, for meritorious services at the siege of Yorktown, and distinguished conduct at the battles of Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, and White Oak Swamp.
Quartermaster's Department.
February 12, 1864.
Captain Winfield S. Hancock, assistant quartermaster, to be quartermaster with the rank of major, November 30, 1863.
War Department,Washington, April 10, 1866.
Brigadier-General Winfield S. Hancock, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Spottsylvania, Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
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----------------------------------Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Standing, left to right: Lt. Edmund Pendleton, Lt. Alex C. M. Pennington, Capt. Henry Benson, Capt, H. M. Gibson, Lt. James E. Wilson, Capt. John C. Tidball, Lt. William N. Dennison. Seated, left to right: Capt. Horatio Gibson, Lt. Peter C. Hains, Lt. Col. William Hays, Capt. James M. Robertson, Lt. J. W. Barlow. Seated on the ground, left to right: Lt. Robert H. Chapin, Lt. Robert Clarke, A.C. Vincent.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
Second Lieutenant William Hays to be first lieutenant, March 3, 1847.
List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, August 20, 1847, to rank from that day.
April 12, 1848.
First Lieutenant Willam Hays, 2d Artillery, to be captain by brevet.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
January 11, 1854.
First Lieutenant William Hays to be captain, October 8, 1853.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
February 25, 1863.
Captain William Hays, 2d Regiment of Artillery, to be major by brevet, May 4, 1862; to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, May 5, 1862, for meritorious and distinguished services at the siege of Yorktown and at the battles of Williamsburg and Malvern Hill.
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--------------------------------------Photo, Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Seated: Left to right, Generals, Andrew A. Humphreys, Henry Slocum, Wm B. Franklin, Wm F. Barry and John Newton. Officers standing unknown.
Appointments.
December 7, 1831.
Cadet Andrew A. Humphreys to be br. 2nd lt. 2d Reg't of Art'y 1 July, 1831.
PROMOTIONS IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES.
14th July, 1832.
Second Regiment of Artillery.
Br. 2d Lieut. Andrew A. Humphreys to be 2d lieut, to take rank 1st July, 1831.
PROMOTIONS.
June 14, 1848.
Corps of Topographical Engineers.
First Lieutenant Andrew A. Humphreys to be captain, May 31, 1848.
Corps of Topographical Engineers.
August 6, 1861.
Captain Andrew A. Humphreys to be major, August 6, 1861.
Brevet Colonel Andrew A. Humphreys, of the United States Army, and lieutenant-colonel of the Corps of Engineers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., to date from March 13, 1865.
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Note. I know I have just given general information here, but there are many battle and field reports on most of these men. If you would like a report, you can find my address in my profile, I will be happy to hear from one and all.
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