Marion F. Ardrey, 24th., Iowa Infantry.

Marion F. Ardrey, Medical History & Autopsy.

From the Surgeon General Files.

Private Marion Ardrey, company D, 24th Iowa volunteers; age 18; admitted January 2, 1865. Chronic diarrhoea. [This man appears on the register of the depot field hospital, Winchester, Virginia, as admitted from his regiment January 1st diarrhoea sent to general hospital January 2d.] Was first seen by the reporter January 18th; he was then much emaciated, but his appetite was fair, and he appeared to digest his food pretty well. He complains of slight diarrhoea, and has two or three evacuations daily ; these are frequently large and thin, but not attended with pain. The abdomen is fiat, and there is no tenderness on pressure.

Ordered three grains of sulphate of quinia and a wineglassful of infusion of calumbo three times a day ; opium and astringents for the diarrhoea. January 22d : Condition about the same, the diarrhoea perhaps somewhat better ; the patient is walking around the barrack, but complains of slight difficulty in using his lower extremities. January 24th : The diarrhoea is still improving, but the patient has still less control of his lower limbs, and is scarcely able to stand. He was advised to go to bed. At half-past nine in the evening he complained of intense pain in the abdomen, for which a dose of morphia was administered.

He died next morning, January 25th, at 7.30. Autopsy four hours after death : Body much emaciated. The brain was not examined. The mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes was inflamed and thickened, but both lungs were crcpitant throughout. The pericardium contained an ounce of limpid serum. The heart was quite small. The liver was normal ; the gall-bladder much distended with thin light-colored bile. The spleen was congested. The kidneys were large but healthy. In the ileum Peyer s patches were extensively diseased, and many of them were in an advanced state of ulceration ; the solitary glands were also ulcerated. The mucous membrane of the transverse and descending colon was much inflamed, and ulcerated at numerous points. Acting Assistant Surgeon Wm. S. Adams.

Eri M. Brooks & Family, Louisiana.

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Eri M. Brooks.

Birth: 1824.
Death: Apr. 2, 1874.

Wife: Eleanor Cran Brooks, March, 1822-March, 1857.

Children: Francis M. and Oran Dewey Brooks.

Burial: Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

Mr. Brooks and his two son were veterans of the Civil War.  To read about his sons take the links below their names.

Brooks, Eri M.,Sergt. 2nd Lt., Co. B. 1st La. Cav. En. Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 5th, 1861. Present on all Rolls to June, 1862. Roll for July and Aug., 1862, Present. Promoted to 3rd Lt. Aug. 12th, 1862. Rolls from Sept., 1862, to Dec., 1862, Present. Roll for Jan. and Feb., 1863, Absent with leave. Rolls from March, 1863, to Oct., 1863. Present. Roll for Nov. and Dec., 1863, Present. Promoted 2nd Lt. Nov. ----, 1863. On Official Rolls of Paroled Officers as Brooks, E. M., 1st Lt. 1st La. Cav. Co. B., Paroled at Gainesville, Ala., May 12th, 1865. Age 36. Died April 2, 1874.

Francis M. Brooks.
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Oran Dewey Brooks. 
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Henry C. M. Sherwin,, Vermont.

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Henry C. M. Sherwin.

Birth: October 20, 1841, Richmond, Vermont.
Death: January 27, 1911.

Wife: Maria M. Hobert Sherwin.
Married December 18, 1865, Stowe, Vermont.

Children: Reuben L. Sherwin.

Burial: Rviverbank Cemetery, Stowe, Vermont.

Civil War

Enlisted August 27, 1862, mustered in October 18, 1862, private, company E., 13th., Vermont infantry, discharged January 10, 1863.

Obituary.

Morrisville Messenger: Feb. 9,1911

Last Friday afternoon occurred the death of Henry C. M. Sherwin at his home in the south part of town. He had been in failing health for a long time, but the immediate cause of death was Brights Disease.

Mr. Sherwin was born on West Hill in Stowe 69 years ago last October. He enlisted in Co. E., 13th Vt. in 1862, as a nine month man, but was discharged after four months of service because of ill health. He was united in marriage in Dec. 1865, to Miss Marie M. Hobart, of Burlington, who died April 21, 1910, and to this union one son, Reuben L. Sherwin, was born. Besides his son Mr. Sherwin is survived by five nieces, Miss May Shaw of Waterbury, Mrs. Mattie Harwood of Melrose, Mass., Mrs. Mary Moore of Summerville, Mass., Mrs. C .A. Baldwin, of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mrs W. E. Lester of Santa Barbara, California, and three nephews, Walter & George Jones of Manchester, N.H., and W.S. Hobart of San Francisco.

The funeral was held at 2 0'clock Monday afternoon at his late home, Rev. W.T. Best of the Methodist officiating, and Robert Gordon sang two selections.
The burial was in the family lot at Stowe, beside the remains of his wife.

Robert C."Bob" Hume, 4th, Illinois Cavalry.

Robert C. Hume.

Birth: 1829,, England.
Death: February 6, 1862, Tennessee.

Wife: Delia Harper Hume.

Married August 4, 1851, Kane, Illinois.

Children: Frank Hume.

Civil War.

Robert C. Hume, enlisted in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, Co. I., as a Private, on February 2, 1862.  His residence Earl, Illinois.  Killed in action February 6, 1862, at Fort Henry, Tennessee.

Illinois Fourth Cavalry, Regimental History.

By Phineas O. Avery, published 1903.

 

PAGE 55., The advance vedettes, Bob Hume, Hiram Moulton and Myron Hare advanced in the road and overtook a lone rebel and they supposed he would surrender as the others had done, but instead, he whirled and shot Hume near the heart who fell from his horse dead. I did not go with the dismounted men but held the horses. While thus engaged I saw a rebel not very far off in the woods so I gave my halters to another man and went out and took him in. As soon as I came up he begged me not to shoot, saying that we had killed his father and "for God sake don't kill me. " I assured him that I would not shoot if he surrendered.

The other two boys, Moulton, and Hare had killed the rebel that shot Hume, both fired the same instant and both balls took effect. This rebel was the father of the one I took. Boyd Simison and I then went down the road about one-fourth of a mile where Hume's body lay and put it on his horse and brought it back.

Bob Hume had only been enlisted just a week when he was killed. He was station agent at Earlville and had gone down to Cairo to visit the boys and when the regiment left his enthusiasm got the better of him and he enlisted and was the first to fall . He had not been mustered into the United States service consequently, I am told, his widow has been unable to procure a pension.

Otis A. Baker

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Otis A. Baker.

Birth: 1838, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
Death: Jun. 14, 1910, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Parents: Ira Stillman Baker (1812 - 1889), Sarah Ann Allen Baker (____ - 1841).

Wife's: Harriet L Martin Baker (1843 - 1923), Mary E Bliss Baker (1846 - 1868).

Children: Nellie Baker (1868 - 1868).

Burial: Village Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Regimental History of the Third Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

Captain Baker  father, Ira S. Baker, was one of the foremost men of Kehoboth, having held the first offices of the  town for 3^eai-s. He was also a member of the House of Representatives in Boston. After graduating from the public schools of Rehoboth Captain Baker learned the trade of a mason, in which business he was very successful ; notwithstanding, when the war broke out he left his remunerative business in Providence, R. I., and enlisted in Company A, First Rhode Island Detached Militia, for three months.

He served his full term, being engaged with his regiment at the battle of Bull Run, where he received a wound in his arm. Having been discharged and having recovered from his wound, he re-enlisted as first sergeant in Company A, Fourth Rhode Island Infantry, September, 1861, and was promoted to second lieutenant, Nov. 20, 1861. He was with his regiment in the well remembered Burnside Expedition, taking part in the capture of Roanoke Island and the battle of Newbern, and remaining with his regiment until Aug. 11, 1862, when he resigned his commission. The cause of his resignation, together with over half of the commissioned officers of the regiment, was the action of Governor Sprague in taking an officer from another regiment and giving him a place over them as one of the field officers. 

Soon after his arrival home I met Lieutenant Baker in Providence and invited him to go with Company H as first lieutenant, it being understood then that the captaincy was settled ; his answer was that he intended to see the war through and was ready for anything that might offer. Lieutenant Baker at that time was twenty-four years old; he was indeed a giant, standing six feet four in his stockings, straight as an arrow, well versed in military tactics.; and, although the youngest of the captains in the Third Regiment, his ability as officer was never questioned, nor had the company any reason to regret its choice of him as their captain.

Resolute by nature, kind in heart, he was a man who did things; always doing his duty regardless of consequences to himself. He exacted from every man of his company a strict and impartial obedience to himself and to all officers with whom they were to render duty. At the battle of Kinston, N. C, as we were formed into line of battle, expecting momentarily to be ordered to the front to take a more active part. Captain Baker made this little speech, "In a few moments we shall be where we shall see more active and more dangerous work, but no matter what we may meet let not a man of you run until I run, but when you see me run then let every man run like he devil." Sufficient to say, no man was seen running.

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A. G. Osborne, 5th., West Virginia Infantry.

A. G. Osborne was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., in the year 1833, removing to Pittsburgh to learn the tinsmith trade. On the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the company known as the "Jackson Independent Blues," and with them entered the three months service, the company being assigned to the 12th Pennsylvania Regiment, in which he served during his term of enlistment. After his discharge he went to Western Virginia and enlisted in Company G, in which his brother was serving, and when the company was transferred to the artillery service, was appointed corporal and gunner of first piece, in which position he served until the end of the company's service. He was married to Miss Kate Hurst, of Buckhannon, West Va., in 1863, to which place he removed after his discharge, and carried on the tin business, afterwards removing to Emporia, Kansas, where he was engaged in business for several years, from which place he removed to Texas, and is at present living in Dallas, in that state

William E. Colston.

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William E. Colston was born in Washington, March 24th, 1839, but his early years were spent in Virginia, the home of his ancestors. He came to Baltimore about 1857, an d was among the first to go to Virginia when the war broke out. On June ist, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Maryland Guard, attached to the 2ist Virginia Infantry, but when the First Maryland Regiment was formed was transferred to Company H, Capt. Wm. H. Murray, June i8th, 1861. In this company he served in all the campaigns and battles of the year, and at the battle of Cross Keys, June 8th, 1862, in Jackson s Valley Campaign he was desperately wounded, being shot through the body. He was permanently injured by this wound and disabled for a long time, but as soon as able to ride he was appointed Volunteer Aid to Major-General Trimble. General Trimble being wounded and left at Gettysburg, Colston then volunteered into Mosby s command, and was killed in the night at tack on Harper s Ferry, January loth, 1864. He is buried in the Confederate lot at Loudoun Park with his old comrades of Company H, First Maryland Infantry.

A Memorial Room to him has been furnished in the Confederate Home at Pikesville, Md., by his brother, Capt. Frederick M. Colston.

John R. Rankin, 27th., Indiana Infantry.

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The funeral of the late John R. Rankin will be held today at Washington D. C., where he died Saturday morning.  The body will be interred in Arlington Cemetery, near Washington.  He was a veteran of the Civil War and for many years engaged in Newspaper work in Green Castle and Indianapolis.  He leaves a widow and three children.  Since 1889, Mr. Rankin had been employed in the Government Printing Department.



First Lieutenant.
John R. Rankin.

Enlisted  in the 27th., Indiana Infantry, Co. A., September 1, 1861, at Indianapolis, Indiana, age 18.  Promoted from private to Orderly Sergeant; to First Lieutenant April 19, 1864; wounded at Gettysburg; Mustered out November 1, 1864.

Joseph M. Clough, 4th., New Hampshire.

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Joseph M. Clough.

Birth: June 15, 1828.
Death: May 7, 1919.

Wife's: Abiah B. Clough ( ?--1873, Cornelia Clough ( 1842==1927 ).

Children: Ella Clough ( ?--1853 ).

Burial: Montcalm Cemetery, Enfield Center, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Fourth New Hampshire Infantry.

 

Joseph M. Clough served as first lieutenant in the First New Hampshire Regiment and three years in the Fourth, and was honorably discharged. He assisted in raising the Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, and at the end of the war was brevet brigadier-general.

Matthias Lavillette, Twelfth Wisconsin infantry.

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Matthias Lavillette was born April 15, 1843, at Carleton, Bonaventure county, Province of Quebec. He was the youngest of a family of eight boys and two girls, and is of  French descent. He was brought up on a farm till he was seventeen years old, when he went to sea, sailing on the Atlantic two years. In 1862 he came Wisconsin, and worked two winters in the lumber woods on the Menominee river.

When the boys of the 12th came home on veteran furlough, in the spring of '64, he concluded to enlist and join the regiment. Accordingly, he entered the United States service on the 10th day of May, being mustered in at Green Bay. He went to Madison from there, and was sent at once to the regiment, which he found at Huntsville, Ala. From there he served with the rest of us through the Atlantic campaign, on the march to the sea, up through the Carolinas, through the Grand Review at Washington, and then on to Louisville, where he was mustered out with the rest of us, July 16, '64, after which he returned with the regiment to Madison. He says, being six feet three inches in height, he had no chance to forage after chickens and things, the Captain desiring always to keep him close by to hide behind in case of serious danger.

Mr. Lavillette went, the winter after the war, to work again in the woods on the Menominee. In the spring of 1867, he went back to his old home to visit his parents. During the following summer he became a sailor on an English vessel bound from Boston to the Islands of Hayti. After sailing two years on the Atlantic, he came again to the Western States, and became a sailor on the Great Lakes till 1873, when he joined the fire department in Chicago. During his sailing on the lakes he had some rough experience in storm}' weather, more than once coming near losing his life.

Once while in the fire service in Chicago he brought two women down a fire escape, thus barely saving their lives and at great danger to himself.

Mr. Lavillette is the champion checker player of Lower Canada, or Quebec, also of both North and South Dakota. His present home is at Hecla, Brown county, South Dakota, where he went to take up a soldiers' claim on the prairies after resigning his position in the Chicago fire department

John E. Healy, Ninth Connecticut Infantry.

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John E. Healy, a native of New Haven, Ct., born August 16, 1847; son of Patrick and Julia Healy who were from Dendalk county, Louth, Ireland.  John E., enlist in the ninth, September 20, 1861, as Drummer Boy of company B., became drum major in 1862, and was promoted to be principal musician of the regiment, January 1, 1863.  His entire period of service, with the regiment and battalion, covered three years and eleven months.  He mustered out August 3, 1865.

After the war, he entered a commercial college from which, in due time, he graduated and engaged in business pursuits.  He interested himself in medicines, traveling and lecturing in that connection for a number of years.  He also organized "Healy Mirror of Ireland" and toured the country, with the same four years.  He subsequently organized the "Hibernian Minstrels" and for six tears visited the principal cities with his troupe.

He married Bella Tracy of Rockland, Me.  Mr. Mrs. Healy have had five children, four sons and one daughter  he is now engaged in the real estate business in New Haven.  John E., died on October 15, 1921, at the age of 77, he was laid to rest at Saint Bernarde Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven county, Connecticut.

Solomon F. Linsley, 15th., Connecticut Infantry.

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Solomon F. Linsley was born in Wallingford Conn., May 26. 1830. He was the eldest of three brothers, one of whom', Marcus M., was a Sergeant in Co. A, 15th Conn., and the other, Joseph F., was Captain of Co. F, 33d Wis., who was killed in action, April. 1863. Further, he had twenty--one cousins in the Union army, six of whom laid down their lives for their country.

Lieut. Linsley family, as well as other lines, all equally renowned, find in him a worthy descendant. His early years were spent on his father's farm, and such education was given him as could be afforded by the schools of that day. On attaining his majority, he learned the carpenter's trade, a pursuit he was following with success at the breaking out of the Rebellion.

His first enlistment was as a private in Co. C, 6th Conn.. August 26, 1S61, but was discharged for disability. March 14, 1862. At the forming of the 15th Conn., he was instrumental, with William R. Mackay, of Wallingford. in organizing Co. K, of that regiment, and was commissioned 2d Lieutenant. August 9, 1862, promoted to ist Lieutenant, November 16, 1863, and mustered out June 27, 1S65. During a part of his service he was in command of the Brigade Pioneer Corps and for some time in command of Co. C, of his own regiment.

Lieut. Linsley married Lucy A. Tracy, of Windsor, Conn..February 28, 1S55. She is also of Scottish blood, and a descendant of the ancient De Traceys of " Ivanhoe." After the war, Lieut. Linsley settled in North Haven, and has followed his trade of a master builder ever since. He still retains much of that athletic spirit for which he was so noted in the service, and it would take a pretty lively comrade to outdo him in any feat fiathletics at the present day.

 Linsley names among his ancestors some of the " bluest blood " of history. The great Scottish family of Douglass (1610). the Foote family (settlers in Wethersfield in' 1635), the Mansfield

Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah B. Cook, Fourth Illinois Cavalry.

Jeremiah B. Cook.

Birth: 1834.
Death: 1921.

Wife: Hannah F. Cook ( 1836-1892 ).

Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Chetopa, Labette county, Kansas.

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J. B. Cook was born at Pleasant Grove, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1834.  He spent some years before the Civil war in California and on the frontier. On September 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. On September 1, 1862, he was promoted from Sergeant to Second Lieutenant in Company F, First Illinois Cavalry. On October 1, 1863, he was made a Major in the Third United States Colored Cavalry, and on November 27th, 1864, Lieutenant Colonel. He commanded the Third Brigade of the Memphis Cavalry Division at the close of the war, being- senior officer of the brigade in active service, and was mustered out with his regiment, January 26, 1865.  He went to Labette county, Kansas, in 1874, where he farmed a short time, since which he has been engaged in the real estate and loan business at Chetopa, Kansas. He has served one term in the Kansas legislature and is serving- his fifth term as mayor of Chetopa.

Authors note.  He was 27, years when he enlisted at Camp Butler, Illinois, September 21, 1861, mustered in the same day at Ottawa, Illinois.  Residence Delavan, Tazewell county, Illinois.  His height 6' 2, hair dark, eyes blue, occupation farmer.

Nine Men of North Carolina 55th., Infantry, Co. K.

North Carolina Fifty-Fifth, Infantry, Co. K.

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1. George W. Currin
Private, Wounded and taken prisoner July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg.  Roster has him enlisting on July 6, 1863, at Grannville, one date is in error.

2.  James K. Wilkerson.
Private, Enlisted March 1, 1862, Grannville.
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3. Charles Stovall.
Private, enlisted May 6, 1862, Granville.  Killed at Gettysburg, died July  31, 1863, at Mt. Jackson, 3rd., Corporal.  Burial Our Soldiers Cemetery, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

4.  Marion H. Hester.
Private, enlisted May 6, 1862, Grannville.  Wounded and Prisoner, Gettysburg.

5.  Thomas B. Daniel.
Private, enlisted May 6, 1862, at Grannville.

6.  Alexander Adcock.
Private, enlisted March 1, 1862, Grannville.  Died August, 1862, at Goldsboro.
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7.  Robert B. Ellixon.
Private, Wounded seven times at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, taken prisoner July 3, 1863.

8.  John P. Ellixon.
Private, enlisted May 6, 1862, at Grannville.

9.  Benjamin P. Throp.
Private, enlisted January 1, 1863, at Grannville, taken prisoner.

Israel Minnie.

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Israel Minnie, Born April 3, 1839, in Montreal, Canada, and came with his parents to Miami county, Indiana, where in 1862 he enlisted in Company D. After the war he returned to that county and October 5, 1867, married Amanda Hall, and lived on a farm near Peru, a man known and respected by all. Spent five years, from 1870 to 1875, in Kansas. He was a great friend of his old comrades and attended nearly every reunion of the regiment, where his good nature and genial ways made him a great favorite. In the summer of 1899, he was passing along the street in Peru when a runaway team came dashing along, threatening to run over a large number of school children just crossing the street; he rushed in, grasped the frightened horses and averted the danger, but was himself so injured that he only survived a few days, dying as a hero dies who gives his life to save others. He leaves a wife, but no children. Her address is Peru, Indiana. .

Indiana State Records. 

Enlisted in the 99th., Indiana infantry, Co. D., August 13, 1862, at Peru. Indiana, age 23.  Rank Private  Discharged June 5, 1865.

Authors note.  On the rosters he is listed under Israel Miney.

Elisha Cooley.

ELISHA COOLEY, dealer in sewing machine, pianos, organs and musical merchandise, Cottonwood Falls, was born in Hunterdon County, N. J., April 15, 1838. He received an academic education, but before entering upon a contemplated college course entered the volunteer service fore the war of the Rebellion. He enlisted in October, 1861, as a private in Company H, Ninth Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry; was assigned to the army under Gen. Burnside, and participated in the expedition into North Carolina, which resulted in the capture of Roanoke Island, Newberne and Fort Macon, N. C. in all of which battles Mr. Cooley took an active part. He was also in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro.

He then remained on garrison duty, with occasional expeditions into the enemy's country, until the spring of 1864. He then joined the army of the James, and took part in the battles of Bermuda Hundred, Drury's Bluff, Arrowfield Church, Cold Harbor and the siege of Petersburg. His regiment then returned to Newberne, N. C., to recruit, and was not engaged in any heavy fighting until the army of Gen. Schofield entered North Carolina, March, 1865; the regiment was then ordered to Raleigh, and had some hot engagements on the old battlegrounds at Kingston and Goldsboro. The regiment traveled by land and water, over 7,600 miles, during its term of service.

Mr. Cooley was mustered out of service July 12, 1865. He then returned home, and in the following winter attended a course of four months at Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In the spring of 1866 he removed to Bushnell, Ill. and started in business, but was soon after elected Constable and City Marshal. After holding these offices a few months he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of McDonough County. The duties of these three offices occupied his time until he came to Kansas in July, 1871.

He located in Cottonwood Falls, where he has since resided with the exception of two years of this time, when he was engaged in farming. He has the only store in his line in the city, carries a stock of sewing machines and machine supplies, pianos, organs and musical merchandise. He has also in the same store a millinery department containing a good stock, which is operated by Mrs. Cooley. Mr. Cooley is a member of J. W. Geary Post, No. 15, G. A. R. He married Miss Cynthia A. Drake, of Bushnell, Ill., December 24, 1868.

Allen Gentry.

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Allen Gentry.

Birth: March 3, 1842.
Death: July 4, 1926.

Wife: Cordelia Gentry, 1849-1889.

burial: Sunset Cemetery, Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana.

Indiana State Records. 

 

Enlisted in the 42nd, Indiana infantry, company H., October 21, 1861, at Dubois County, Indiana, age 23, Discharged December 26, 1864.  Corpl. Promoted to 1st Sgt, May 1, 1862. Promoted 2nd Lt, March 14, 1863; Capt, November 1, 1864.

 

42nd., Regimental History.

 

Allen Gentry, Was born in Spencer county, Ind., March 3, 1842, and entered the United States service with the organization of the 42d Regt. Indiana Vol. infantry at the age of nineteen years as corporal of Company H of the regiment, and color bearer for the regiment. From corporal he was promoted in the regular line till he reached the rank of lieutenant, in which he was mustered out with the regiment. He held a commission as an officer before he was twenty years old, being the youngest officer in the regiment. He is a prosperous farmer now, with a residence near Rockport, Ind., enjoying the confidence and respect of all.

 

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Corporal Allen Gentry, Company H, was passing a wounded rebel who asked for water. Though at danger, or risk of capture. Corporal Gentry divided his own scanty supply with his enemy of half an hour before. They were no longer enemies.

William George, War of 1812.

William George.

Birth: 1778, Cabell County, West Virginia.
Death: Aug. 5, 1872, Christian County, Illinois.

He was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was mustered in as a substitute for Francis Burrell, Jr. He was married three times, Janes Millisons, Nancy Hazelett, and Sarah Proctor. Buried at Oakhill and on the back of his tombstone there is a small child listed also. Name is Nancy, died at the age of 1 yr., 3 mos. and 7 days. Birth date was lsted as Feb. 2, 1853 Death Nov. 7, 1854.

Children: Margaret George Leigh (1824 - ____).

Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Buckhart, Sangamon County, Illinois.

He was a Sergeant in Captain Isaac Butler's company, Ohio Militia  Enlisted August 9, 1812, discharged February 9, 1813.  He alleges service as a substitute for Francis Burrill.

Sold his first wife Nancy Hazlett.

Married  Sarah Hays, July 27, 1854, at Lick Creek, Sangamon County, Illinois.
Died about 1882.

His residence.

1850, Christian County, Illinois.
1855, Sangamon County, Illinois.
1871, Rochester, Sangamon County, Illinois. 

His wife residence.

1878, Edinburg, Christian County, Illinois.. 

Robert Coleman, Virginia, War of 1812.

Robert Coleman, was a private in the War of 1812, was in Captain Thomas Davenport's company of the Virginia Militia.  Enlisted July 5, 1813, discharged July 31, 1813, enlisted again on October 15,1813, discharged January 9, 1814.

First wife Mary King, who he sold.
Second wife Sally Mills, who he sold.
Third wife Sarah Cruise, who he sold.
Fourth wife Mary Headen, married December 3, 1863, at Patrick county, Virginia.

His residence in 1852, 1855, 1871, Patrick county Virginia, P. O. Patrick Court House, Patrick county, Virginia.  His wife residence in 1879, 1888, 1890-1899, Bateman, Patrick County, Virginia..

Robert Coleman died March 9, 1879, Patrick County, Virginia.

James Burns, War of 1812, Indiana..

James Burns, was in the War of 1812, was a Second Sergeant in Captain Hinkle's Company of the Ohio Militia.

Born in Louden Co. Va. Sept. 28,1786. to Ky. 1793. to Hamilton Co. Ohio 1806. to Madison, Ind. 1814. a resident Madison township until his death.

HIs first wife was Delilah Moncrief, who he sold.
His second wife was Catharine Gray, who he also sold.

He married his third wife Roxy Ann Orrill, on December7, 1871, at Madison, Jefferson county Indiana.

James Burns residence in 1850, 1855 and 1871, was Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana. His wife Roxy is recorded living in Madison, in 1887.

James Burns, died September 29, 1875, Madison, Indiana.
Roxy Ann Burns, died May 11, 1887, Madison, Indiana.
Burial: Wirt Baptist Cemetery, Wirt, Jefferson County, Indiana.

Joseph Easter, Arkansas, War of 1812.

Joseph Easter, was in the war of 1812, Captain William Walker's company of the United States 39th., Infantry.  Enlisted November 20, 1814, discharged April 30, 1815.

First wife, was Mary Smith who he sold, his second wife was Lucretia ( Evans ) Easter, married May 10, 1836, Roan County, Tennessee.  Mr.  Easter died April 5, 1876, Boone County, Arkansas. His wife died January 4, 1909, Carrdllton county, Arkansas.

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The Death Of Sergeant Abner F. Bassett.

Sgt Abner F. Bassett.

Birth: unknown
Death: Sep. 16, 1864

Original Burial Place: Taylor's Farm. Gravestone Number: 0714. Comments: Killed.

Burial: Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

11th., Maine Infantry Regimental History.

 

First Sergeant Abner F. Bassett entered service as Sergeant ; taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862 ; a prisoner with First Sergeant Brady and others in Libby Prison, Salisbury, N. C. and at Belle Isle in the James River opposite Richmond until Nov., 1862, when he returned to the regiment ; promoted to First Sergeant, Nov. 1, 1862. On recruiting service at Portland, Me., from Aug. 15, 1863, to July 10, 1864 ; returned to the regiment. Killed on the picket line in front of Petersburg, Va., Sept. 15, 1864, and was buried on the 16th near our camp, " amid the booming of cannon and whistling of bullets", so reads the entry in the diary of Sergeant-Major Morton.  

 

The death of Sergeant Bassett.

 

First Sergeant Bassett, of D Company, was killed the night of the 15th of September. It was a bright moonlight night.  We relieved the First Maryland. Our men crept forward, each squad well informed of its assigned position, and all suddenly hurried for their positions, getting under cover as speedily as possible, the relieved pickets stealing away for the main line. But some of the relieved pickets moved up the hill somewhat carelessly, their plates and cups clanking noisily and themselves visible in the bright moonlight, so drawing a sharp fire from the enemy's pickets, by which several of the careless fellows were wounded. Sergeant Bassett was to enter the extreme left picket hole to be occupied by our regiment. Lieutenant Maxfield, commanding D, was assisting in placing the line, and was in the picket hole, with Sergeant Bassett running towards it, when the enemy opened fire on the careless Maryland men. Reaching the pit. Sergeant Bassett thoughtlessly stood erect on its edge while saying, "Well, boys, I'm here," then fell forward into the Lieutenant's arms, a bullet having pierced his throat.

 

He should Have not been there.

 

A sad feature of Bassett's death was the fact that from the date of his enlistment, September 7th, he had served his full term of three years, and he firmly believed that he ought not to be asked to serve beyond three years from the date he signed the roll. lie presented the case to headquarters, but the ruling was that the service was for three years from the date of his muster into the United States service, which was October 19th. In view of the fact that he had spent months in Confederate prisons, and was a brave, active, and intelligent soldier, who perhaps ought to have been considered when commissions were being recommended, he was told that he need not serve at the front for the remainder of his term of service. But he was too proud a man to take advantage of this offer, and insisted on sharing the labors and risks of his comrades.

John M. Eddy, 13th., Illinois Infantry.

Taken from the 13th., Illinois Regimental History.


John M. Eddy. 

St. Charles. Kane county, Illinois ; born April 29, 1842 ; mustered May 21, 1861 ; mustered out June 18, 1864; served with company until detailed January 1863, on medical stall; was in battles of Wet Glaze and marched to Pea Ridge and Helena ; participated in every battle with regiment, including Chickasaw, Bayou and Arkansas Post. John was one of the boys. From date of muster out of service until March 1866, attended college ; entered railway service in March 1S66 ; from March 1866 to July 1872 was chairman, rodman, cashier and auditor engineering department, general town lot agent and assistant chief engineer Union Pacific Railway ; July 1872 to November 1873, superintendent construction Texas and Pacific Railway ; December 15, I873 to December 14 1883. president Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company ; September 1877 to January 1878, superintendent and chief engineer Omaha and Republican Valley Road ; January 1878 to November 1879, general agent, freight, passenger and land departments, Kansas, Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roads ; was in Chicago Illinois ; November 1879 to November 1880 ; general superintendent construction Missouri Pacific, and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways in Texas; November 1880 to July 1883, superintendent Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways in Texas ; July 1883 to November 18S3, superintendent, Texas and Pacific railway ; December 1, 1883 to May 15, 1888, general manager Omaha Belt railway : May 15, 1888, to February n, 1889, general manager International and Great Northern road ; appointed receiver of International road, February 11, 1889. Died at Pasadena, California, January 1891 of hemorrhage of the lungs.

ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES.
Illinois Civil War Detail Report.

Name: M. EDDY, JOHN. Rank: PVT. Company: H. Unit: 13 IL US INF. Personal Characteristics. Residence: ST CHARLES, KANE CO, IL. Age: 19. Height: 6'. Hair: AUBURN. Eyes: BLUE. Complexion: LIGHT. Marital Status: SINGLE. Occupation: FARMER. Nativity: ST CHARLES, KANE CO, IL. Service Record. Joined When: MAY 24, 1861. Joined Where: DIXON, IL. Period: 3 YRS. Muster In: MAY 24, 1861. Muster In Where: DIXON, IL. Muster Out: JUN 18, 1864. Muster Out Where: SPRINGFIELD, IL.

Thomas Pearson August .

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Thomas Pearson August.

Birth: Oct., 1821, Fredericksburg City.
Death: Jul. 31, 1869, Richmond City.

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. After his family moved to Richmond in 1827. he worked as mechantile clerk for his father while being educated. He undertook the study of law and qualified for the bar in 1842, and served as a volunteer for the Richmond Grays in the Mexican War. In 1849 he resumed the practice of law, partnering with George Wythe Randolph and Isaac Watkins. Specializing in commercial law, he built an extensive and successful practice, and was active in the Virginia militia.

He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1850, and returned to the General Assembly in 1857 as a member of the Senate of Virginia. During the early days of the Civil War he commanded his militia force. In May of 1861 he was commissioned Colonel of his unit when it entered service with the 15th Virginia Infantry. He served under General John B. Magruder at the Battle of Big Bethel, saw action in the Seven Days' Battles and was severely wounded at Malvern Hill. He was assigned to the War Department to assist General Samuel Cooper. He retired from disability in December 1864. Following the war he resumed his practice of law and was elected to the Richmond City Council in 1866. He was removed from the council in 1869 for failure to subscribe to the test oath. He died after contracting typhoid fever and was buried with full Masonic honors.

Cause of death: Typhoid Fever.

Burial: Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia.

From The Official Records of The Confederate Army.

Col. T. P. August, Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. Before he had reported for duty after that wound he became the subject of a preexisting disease, which was exacerbated by active service, and which incapacitated him for service in the field. He was assigned in January, 1863, as commandant of conscripts for the State of North Carolina. He has been in the conscription service since that date, never having been at any time capable of field duty. His present condition is indicated by the accompanying surgeon's certificate. It has been his condition within my personal knowledge since November, 1863, the date of his assignment to duty in the Bureau at Richmond.

I have regarded him as extremely liable to die at any moment from the effects of the disease which caused his assignment. He is not physically competent to one hour's service at the head of his regiment, and never will be. Colonel August is a lawyer of eminent ability and of high repute in the State of Virginia. He is an officer of distinguished gallantry, shot down at the head of his regiment, leading them in an assault on the breastworks at Malvern Hill The comment on the letter of Colonel August is not deemed a proner subject for remarks by a subordinate officer.

In the duties with which he has been charged in this Bureau he has exhibited a zeal, earnestness, and intelligence which have been of eminent advantage to its operations. With his skill, acquired by two years experience, his great industry, and intelligence, I am confident at this period of our struggle his place could not be fully supplied in the department to which he is allotted that of acting upon applications for agricultural exemptions and details and investigating and reporting on the law and evidence of the thousands of cases submitted to the Bureau.

John Porter McCown

John Porter McCown.

Birth: Aug. 19, 1815.
Death: Jan. 22, 1879.

Civil War Confederate Major General. Born in Tennessee, he graduated from West Point in 1840, was commissioned an officer in the US Army Artillery and served in the Seminole War on the frontier, during the Mexican War. With the start of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and was appointed a Colonel in the Tennessee Corps of Artillery on May 17, 1861. Promoted Brigadier General in October 1861, he commanded the 3rd Division, 1st Geographical Division, Department and was promoted Major General of the Army Corps of Tennessee in March, 1862. He led a division in the Corinth Siege, the invasion of Kentucky and fought at Murfreesboro. He then ran into trouble with Confederate Army commander General Bragg, who brought charges against him for disobedience of orders and was court-martialed in March, 1863. For the remainder of the war, he held only minor posts. After the war, he was a teacher and a farmer

Burial: Magnolia City Cemetery , Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas.

JOHN PORTER McCOWN.

Cadet United States Military Academy, September I, 1835; 2d Lieutenant 4th artillery, July 1, 1840; 1st Lieutenant, September 30, 1843; Captain March 9, 1851; Brevet Captain, April 18, 1847, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Cerrogordo.  Resigned, May 17, 1861.

Brigadier-General, Army Confederate States, October 12, 1 861.

Major-General, March 10, 1862.

Died, January 22, 1879.

COMMANDS

Lieutenant-Colonel corps of artillery, Confederate States Army, March 16, 1861.

Colonel commanding corps of artillery. Provisional Army of Tennessee, May, 1861.

3d division of Western Department, 1861.

Commands of Colonels Neely and Mark.

Division composed of brigades of Cabell and Churchill, Army of the West.

Division composed of brigades of Ector, Rains and McNair.

Army of the West, divisions of McCown, Little and Maury, June, 1862.

Department of East Tennessee, 1862.

Division in Army of Kentucky under General E. Kirby Smith.

Cassander Kingman, Rhode Island.

Cassander Kingman.

Birth: Jul. 29, 1810.
Death: Feb. 4, 1895.

Wife: Caroline M. Kingman, B. June 1, 1815, New Hampshire, d., July 13, 1897.

Children: Lydia Kingman B., 1862, R. I., Carrie M. Kingman, b., 1848, R. I., Cassander Kingman, B., 1846, R. I.

Burial: North Burial Ground, Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island.
 

Rhode Island 12th., Regimental History.

Kingman, Cassander, Priv. Co. E; Res., Bristol, R. I.; Sept. 19, 1862, enrolled; Oct. 13. 1862, mustered in; July 29, 1863, mustered out.

Texas Ranger James B. Gillett.

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James B. Gillett.

Birth: Nov. 4, 1856, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
Death: Jun. 11, 1937, Temple, Bell County, Texas.

James B. Gillett was born in Austin to James Shackelford Gillett and Elizabeth Harper Gillett. He was reared in Lampasas. After a stint working as a cowboy, Gillett joined Company D, Frontier Batallion, of the Texas Rangers in 1875. As a Ranger, Gillett gained fame as an Indian fighter and as a man who could round up cattle thieves and outlaws.

In December of 1881, Gillett resigned from the Texas Rangers and was appointed assistant city marshal of El Paso; in June 1882, he was appointed marshal. El Paso was a tough border town and Gillett was known as a man without fear, despite his age. Arrow straight, he neither cursed nor drank and he claimed that "no man will ever kill me drunk". On April 1, 1885, he left law enforcement and became a cattle manager for the Estado Land and Cattle Company. Six years later, he successfully branched out on his own as a cattleman.

He chronicled his years with the Texas Rangers in his book Six Years with the Texas Rangers*--. He died of heart failure in Temple, Texas.

Wife: Mary Lou Chastain Gillett (1864 - ____).

Children: Beulah Gillett Gillett Evans (1890 - 1988).

Burial: Marfa Cemetery, Marfa, Presidio County, Texas.

Henry B. Bullard

Connecticut Light Artillery Regimental History.

 

 

Comrade Henry B. Bullard, of Guilford, who had been sick with typhoid fever for a week, succumbed, and his comrades found him a resting place under some giant yellow pines just outside
the city.

It was with heavy hearts that the comrades set about the task of burying their dead brother. Not one but wondered how soon new graves might have to be made, and those who were then engaged in the solemn duty might be the next to be laid under the sod. It was not Comrade Bullard's fortune to fight under the flag of his country, he died of disease, not from an enemy's bullet, but his heroism was the same. He had died for his country ; he had given his life for his flag :

 

" His hands were folded on his breast ,
There is no other thing expressed.
But long disquiet merged in rest."

 

HENRY B. BULLARD,

of New Haven, Conn.

Enlisted Oct. i6, 1861 ; mustered in Nov. 2, 1S61 ; died of disease contracted on Ellwood Walter, Feb. 6, 1862; buried Beaufort, S. C.

 

Authors note.  He was later buried at Nut Plains Cemetery, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut..

 

Had he lived he would have brought no discredit on old Connecticut's flag; in the thickest of the fight, in the miseries of camp life, in all the hard  ships to be endured, he would have been at his post a worthy comrade, a brave man, a good citizen. And in his far-off grave beneath the pines he was not forgotten by his comrades, who prayed oft:

 

" Let angels spread their wings above ;

Let flowers forever bloom ;

Let bays, green bays, spring forth to mark

Our Comrade's sacred tomb."

Samuel Alexander Colby.

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Capt Samuel Alexander Colby.

Birth: Sep. 26, 1818, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine.
Death: Sep. 18, 1898, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado.

Wife: Mercy Hutchins Colby (1818 - 1895).

Children: Alexander Colby (1843 - 1851), Napoleon B. Colby (1845 - 1937).

Burial: Hillside Cemetery, Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine.

First Maine Heavy Artillery Regimental History.

 

Captain Samuel A. Colby, 44, Bucksport, m; discharged Feb. 18, 1863.

 

Captain SAMUEL A. COLBY. Capt. Samuel A. Colby, joined as original Captain and organizer. Was a worthy citizen of Bucksport, prominent in local affairs. The climate and exposures of military life, speedily undermined and impaired his health, and he resigned Feb. 18, 1863. He lived, how- ever, for many years, retaining the respect and confidence of the people of his native town. 

Isaac Newton Moreland Turner.

Eldest son of Captain J. A. S. Turner and Rebecca Hubert Turner, born in Putnam County, Ga., April 3, 1839;  when less than year old, parents moved to Sumpter County ;  attended the common schools of Americus, and the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta, lacking one term of graduating. At 19 years of age he moved to Texas, took charge of his father's farming interests in Liberty and Polk counties and successfully managed same, his father following a year later. In the early part of 1861 he and his uncle, R. W. Hubert, enlisted and organized a company for light artillery , service, the men to be mounted, procured two six pounder cannon and drilled a number of times for that service.

Failing to get service as artillerist, and an opportunity offering to go to Virginia as infantry, the proposition to accept was unanimous and the company assembled in Livingston September 3, 1861, when a handsome flag was presented in an appropriate address by Hon. Jno. L. Henry in behalf of the lady friends of the company, to which Captain Turner made brief response, assuring them that he would bring back heroes for husbands and sweethearts. The company left immediately en route to Liberty; arriving at Wood's Springs, three miles from Liberty, a halt of some days was made. On the morning of September 9th, the company was reorganized, making some changes in officers for second and third lieutenants, when the march was resumed to Liberty and on arriving there the company was formally mustered into service and designated as Company K, Fifth Texas Regiment of Volunteer Infantry.

Captain Turner was the youngest officer of his rank in Hood's Brigade, being only 22 years of age when mustered into service. Was in every march and battle of the brigade until fatally wounded at Fort Nansemond, near Norfolk. Va., April 15, 1863, having been shot by a "sharpshooter," while in command of four companies and planning the defense of said point against the enemy with a fleet of gunboats. Was standing exposed above the breastworks when shot, was carried out that night and died the next afternoon ; was carried to Americus, Ga., and buried in the family cemetery. Was but a little more than 24 years old when killed.

Alonzo B. Thorn, 99th., Indiana Infantry.

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Alonzo B. Thorn.

Birth: Apr. 9, 1844, Ohio.
Death: Jun. 19, 1921.

Wife: Hannah Salts Thorn (1847 - 1890).

Children: Alice M.Thorne Kelley (1873 - 1960), Aden E Thorn (1880 - 1880), Charles E., John F., Lawrence E., and Thorn..

Burial: Santa Fe Cemetery, Santa Fe (Miami County), Miami County, Indiana.

Mr. Thorn in 1880 was 35 years and working in a Grist Mill.

Indiana State Archives.

Alonzo B. Thorn, Musician, 99th., Indiana Infantry, Co. D., Enlisted August 11, 1862, at Peru, Indiana, Age 18, Mustered out at Washington D. C.

Indians 99th., Regimental History.

ALONZO B. THORN, MUSICIAN, COMPANY D.

Born February 9, 1844, in Coshocton county, Ohio; came with his parents to Miami county, Indiana, in 1856. Enlisted as a musician and went the entire round with the regiment, saying: "The regiment never marched five miles from the beginning to the end that I was not with it." This tells the story of his faithful service in a few words as well as a volume could tell it. He was married July 12, 1867, but was so unfortunate as to lose his wife by death July 13, 1890, and has remained unmarried since. He has three sons and two daughters living. The above picture was taken at Moscow, Tennessee, in 863. Comrade Thorn is a great friend to all his old comrades and says: "I hope to meet them all at the next
reunion." Address, Amboy, Indiana.

Edward W. Phillips, 5th, Massachusetts Infantry.

Edward W. Phillips.

Birth: 1842.
Death: October 13, 1867, Salem.
Age at death 25.

Father Stephen C. Phillips.
Mother Margaret M. Peele Phillips.

EDWARD W. PHILLIPS. 1st Lieut. Age 20. Single. Salem. Com. Sept. 3, 1862. Resigned on account of ill health July 13, 1863, and died at Salem, Oct. 13, 1867. Previous service in 4th Battalion, which garrisoned Fort Independence for several weeks in 1861. He was assigned to special service as Commissary of Subsistence on the voyage to New Orleans on the transport J. S. Green, which sailed from New York, Dec. 3, 1862. On arriving at New Orleans he became superintendent of the U.S. bakery there, but subsequently rejoined his regiment. He was the son of Stephen C. Phillips of Salem.

Julius A. Cushman, 10th., Massachusetts INfantry..

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Julius A. Cushman.

Birth: 1821, Stafford, Conn.
Death: September 12, 1898, Ware, Hampshire, Mass.

Father: David Cushman.
Mother: Sophia Bennett Cushman.

Wife: Ellen A. Cushman.

Children: Frank L., Marion W., and Charles A. Cushman.

Tenth Massachusetts Infantry, Company A.

Cushman, Julius A., b. Stafford, Conn. ; 36, M. ; laborer, Ware June 14, '61; on provost guard about one year from spring of '63; came back to regiment in time for Grant's campaign of '64; severely wd. June 3, '64, Cold Harbor, M. O. July 1, '64; never able to do hard work afterwards, serving for the most part as a watchman in the Otis Mills, Ware; d. Sept. 12, '98.

George W. Sumter, 1115th., Illinois Infantry.

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GEORGE W. SUMTER, First Sergeant ; born in Athens, 111., February 25, 1829. His uncle, Thomas Sumter, fought in the Revolutionary War and was at the siege of Yorktown, and saw the surrender of Cornwallis. His father, Jeptha Sumter, was in the Black Hawk war. He was partly educated in the same school that Abraham Lincoln attended. He learned the brick-making trade in Springfield, Ill., and afterwards worked in Terre Haute, Ind. He later learned the wagon maker's trade and worked for a while in New Orleans, then removed to St. Louis, and then to Leavenworth, Kan., where he enlisted in a regiment of mounted riflemen, and crossed the plains to California in 1849 > there he worked at mining and the carpenter trade until 1854, when he came to Athens, Ill. He enlisted with Company K at its organization, and was with the regiment in the battle of Chickamauga, and its other ngagements. Since the war Sergeant Sumter has had a varied career in business of different sorts, in which he has made considerable success. He has now retired from business, and resides at Hawley, Minn.

EZEKIEL K. SCHWARTZ, 115th., Illinois Infantry.

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EZEKIEL K. SCHWARTZ, First Lieutenant, was born in Lewistown, Pa., December 9, 1838. He was educated in the public schools at that place, and in the Lewistown Academy. He removed to Illinois in April, 1859, and taught school in Macon and Shelby Counties. He enlisted in Shelby county as a private in Company B in August, 1862. He was soon made a corporal, and on March 26, 1863, was promoted to be second lieutenant, and on May u, 1865, was promoted to first lieutenant. Lieutenant Schwartz was in the regiment in all its campaigns and battles, excepting a short time in the spring of 1865, when he served as aide-de-camp on the staff of the brigade commander.

He is deserving of the highest commendation for his patriotism and courage displayed on the battle-field, and for his faithfulness in all his duties of the several positions occupied by him. He was mustered out with the regiment in June, 1865, and at once, like a good soldier, returned to the duties of civil life, and engaged in farming, a short distance north of Shelbyville, Ill. He was married December 27, 1866, to Joanna C. Scott, and resided on the same farm until October 20, 1892, when he removed to Findlay, Ill., where he engaged in general mercantile business, in which he is still employed
His death was in July 8, 1909.
Burial:Glenwood Cemetery , Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois.

John G. Burchfield, 13th., tennessee CAvalry.

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Corp John G. Burchfield.

Birth: May 5, 1846, Tennessee.

Death: Mar. 8, 1935, Milligan, Carter County, Tennessee.

Wife: Laura Stella Hyder Burchfield (1876 - 1942).

Burial: Williams Cemetery, Valley Forge, Carter County, Tennessee.

13th., Tennessee Cavalry Regimental History.

 
John G. Burchfield was born near Clark's Spring, Carter county, Tenn., May 5, 1846, hence he was but 15 years old when he assisted in burning the Union brilge in November, 1861, and 17 when he joined the army in 1863.

Though a boy in years he was a man in all thru it takes to make a brave soldier, and whether we find him riding through the darkness side by side with the brave men who burned the bridge, standing his ground with the bravest at Taylor's Ford or marching and fighting with his company at Greeneville at the death of Gen. Morgan, in the charges at Morristown and Fort Brecenridge and Saulsbury, and in all the marches and battles in which his Regiment was engaged he is the same brave and fearless boy.

Corporal Burchfield has had a varied experience since the Civil War. He first went west and located at Athens, Ill.., in January, 1866, and later removed to Iniopolis, thence to Niantic, and then to Springfield, Ill.. At the latter place he was married to Miss Margaret Baumgardner, December 10, 1868, and settled at Niantic, Ill. He removed to Kansas in 1886 and thence to Washington, D. C, in December, 1890, where he resided until recently, 1902.

While in Washington he was appointed on the Capitol Police force until relieved by change of administration, but was re-instated in 1899.

We are pleased to note that our friend has received an honorable and lucrative position in the Mountain Branch  of the National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Veterans at Johnson City, Tenn.

Joseph O. H. Spinney, 9th., Illinois Cavalry.

Joseph O. H. Spinney.

Birth: 1837.
Death: Aug. 20, 1916.

Wife, Julia Bevier Spinney 1847-1924.

Burial: Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames, Story County, Iowa.

Illinois Ninth Cavalry Regimental History.

 

Joseph O. H. Spinney enlisted from Bradford, October 14, 1861, in company K., of the ninth Illinois cavalry. 

 

January 1, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran and was appointed Sergeant, and late was promoted First Sergeant of his company, in which position he served well and faithfully until he was again promoted to First Lieutenant, September 23, 1864.

 

On the promotion of Captain Clark to a majorship Lieutenant Spinney received his commission as Captain, remaining with the company until the final muster out at Selma, Ala., October 31, 1865. 

 

Captain Spinney was one of the true and tried, who by his bravery and fine soldierly qualities won his way upward, and also gained the respect and esteem of both officers and men.  His genial, hearty speech and manner made him a general favorite.

 

His address, May, 1888, is Massena, Iowa.

Aaron Dunbar, 93rd., Illinois Infantry.

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Illinois Civil War Detail Report.

Name: DUNBAR, AARON. Rank: PVT. Company: B. Unit: 93 IL US INF.

Personal Characteristics. Residence: SELBYTOWN, BUREAU CO, IL. Age: 19. Height: 5' 6 1/2. Hair: DARK. Eyes: BLUE. Complexion: LIGHT. Marital Status: SINGLE. Occupation: FARMER. Nativity: FRANKFORT, CUMBERLAND CO, PA.

Service Record. Joined When: AUG 12, 1862. Joined Where: DOVER, IL. Joined By Whom: J W HOPKINS. Period: 3 YRS. Muster In: OCT 13, 1862. Muster In Where: CHICAGO, IL. Muster Out: JUN 23, 1865. Muster Out Where: LOUISVILLE, KY. Muster Out By Whom: CPT ALEXANDER. Remarks: PROMOTED CORPORAL & SERGEANT. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED IN BATTLE MAY 22, 1863, AT VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

Charles A. Cuffel, Pennsylvania Artillery.

History of Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D. Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.

Charles A. Cuffel.

Birth: 1840.
Death: December 8, 1907.
Married Anna Pauline Cuffel about 1877.
Burial: Pennsylvania Graveyard, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Charles A. Cuffel 2d Lt, mustered in September 24, 1861.  Private,Promoted to Corporal, May 1, 1864; to Sergeant, September 24, 1864; to 2d Lieut., November 24, 1864; mustered out with Battery, June 13, 1865; Vet

From the Regimental History.

p. 65, A lull in the battle followed the repulse of the enemy. Although the battery was exposed to a hot fire of shot and shell, but one of its number was struck Private Charles A. Cuffel, who was serving the third gun at the lanyard. A Belgium musket ball, that had first struck the ground in front of him, glanced and hit him on the breast. He was, however, able to resume his post at the gun an hour later when the battle broke out afresh.

George F. Gale, 8th., Vermont Infantry.

Dr  George F. Gale.

Birth: 1827.
Death: 1907.

Children: George Frederick Gale (1857 - 1874).

Burial: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont.

From the 8th., Regimental History.

 

p. 51., Dr. Gale was well known in the state of Vermont as one of the fore- most men in his profession, was an accomplished scholar, and a gentleman of character and dignity. Governor Holbrook had appointed him surgeon of the regiment on account of his eminent abilities, but the short time which he remained with them afforded very little opportunity for the display of professional skill. After his resignation was accepted, and before his return for home, the line officers signed resolutions which were handsomely engrossed, assuring him of their confidence, and regret at his departure.  

Torrey W. Sibley, 13th., Vermont Infantry.

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Torrey W. Sibley.

Birth: August 17, 1841.

Death: March 11, 1907.

Wife: Diantha Servey Sibley 1844-1920.

Burial: Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden County Vermont.,

Torrey W. Sibley, Enlisted in the 13th., Vermont Infantry, Co. A., August 23, 1862, Age 21, Residence Westford, Mustered in October 10, 1862, Corp.  Wounded at Gettysburg, JUly 1, 1863.  Mustered out October 1, 1863.

William Nash. 187th., Pennsylvania Infantry.

William Nash.

Birth: Aug. 30, 1845, England.
Death: Feb. 8, 1911.
Married about 1872.
Wife: Harriett A. Nash.
Children: Mary E., Sarah I., and Emma Nash


Burial:Graceland Cemetery, Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota.

187th., Pennsylvania Infantry Company C.

William Nash, Private, Mustered in June 20, 1863; wounded with loss of leg, at Petersburg, Virginia, June 18, 1864, discharged October 31, 1865; residing Mitchell,  South Dakota.