Benjamin Henry Grierson.

Benjamin Henry Grierson.

Birth: Jul. 8, 1826, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Death: Aug. 31, 1911, Omena, Leelanau County, Michigan.

Parents: Robert Crittenden Grierson (1789 - 1867), Mary Sheppard Grierson (1788 - 1862).

Wife: Alice Kirk Grierson (1828 - 1888).

Children: Edith Clare Grierson (1865 - 1878), Benjamin Henry Grierson (1867 - 1934), Theodore MacGregor Grierson (1869 - 1950).

Sibling: Mary Grierson (1824 - 1860), Benjamin Henry Grierson (1826 - 1911).

Burial: Jacksonville East Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.

BENJAMIN H. GRIERSON.

 [Born in Pennsylvania.-Appointed from Illinois.]

 MILITARY HISTORY.-Aide-de-Camp to General Prentiss, May to November, 1861. Engaged in an expedition in South-East Missouri, from Irontqn to Cape Girardeau. Major 6th Illinois Cavalry, August, 1861.  Commanding battalion, December, 1861, to March, 1862. Colonel 6th  Illinois Cavalry, March, 1862. Commanding regiment to December,  1862. Engaged at actions of Hernando, Cold Water Station, Olive  B3ranch. Cockram's Cross Roads, Germantown, Collierville, Covington,Wolf River, and Loosahatchie. Engaged in General Grant's Mississippi  campaign. Commanded expeditions from Oxford, Mississippi, to Helena,  Arkansas, and in pursuit of the rebel General Dorn. Commanding Cavalry Brigade, December, 1862, to June, 1863. Brigadier-General U. S. Volunteers, June, 1863, for gallant and distinguished services in raid from  La Grange, Tennessee, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Commanding Cavalry Forces, Department of the Gulf, May to July, 1863. Engaged at action of  Clinton and siege and investment of Port Hudson. Commanding Cavalry  Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Engaged in expeditions into  Northern Mississippi, actions of West Point, Okolona, Ivy Farm, Pontotoc, Old Town Creek, Tupelo, and Guntown. Commanding Cavalry Corps,  District of West Tennessee, to January, 1865. Brevet Major-General  U. S. Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in raid through  Mississippi, from Memphis, Tennessee, against the Mobile, and Ohio, and Mississippi Central Railroads, and capture of Verona and Egypt Stations,  Mississippi.

Assigned to duty according to Brevet rank of Major-General U. S. Volunteers. Commanding Cavalry Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, March to August, 1865, and during General Canby's campaign against Mobile, Alabama. Major-General U. S. Volunteers, May, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and raid from Mobile Bay to Eufala, Alabama; Georgetown, Georgia; Montgomery, Alabama, and Columbus, Mississippi. Commanding District of Huntsville, Alabama, September, 1865, to January, 1866. Mustered out of the Volunteer service, April, 1866.

Colonel 10th U. S. Cavalry, July, 1866. Organizing regiment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, September, 1866, to  August, 1867. Commanding regiment and Post of Fort Riley, Kansas,  September, 1867, to April, 1868. District of the Indian Territory, May, 1868, to May, 1869. Brevet Brigadier-General U. S. Army, for gallant and meritorious services in raid through Mississippi and Louisiana, 1863. Brevet Major-General U. S. Army, for gallant and meritorious services in raid through Mississippi in 1864. Commanding Camp Wichita and Fort Sill, Indian Territory, from March, 1869, to -.
 

William Cameron Green.

William Cameron Green.

Birth: 1845, Union County, Pennsylvania.
Death: Sep. 18, 1867, Union County, Pennsylvania,

aged 22y; Capt. 1st Inf. US Army; buried at Cape San Lucas.

Burial: Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM C. GREEN.
[Born in Penn. Sylvania.Appointed from Pennsylvania.] MILITARY History.

Second Lieutenant 1st U. S. Infantry, September, 1861. First Lieutenant 1st U. S. Infantry. Captain 1st U. S. Infantry, January, 1867. Brevet Captain U. S. Army, for gallant and meritorious services' during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Died on board steamship "Moses Taylor," en route from San Francisco, Cal., to New York City, September 18, 1867.

John Jennings Dunlap.

John Jennings Dunlap.

Birth: Nov. 26, 1839.
Death: Jan. 31, 1902,

Parents: Benjamin I. Dunlap (1810 - 1880), Elizabeth A. Crump Dunlap (1814 - 1912).

Wife; Charlotte Virginia Little Dunlap (1850 - 1909).,

Children: Louise Dunlap (1885 - 1895).

Siblings: Hannah P. Dunlap (____ - 1854), John Jennings Dunlap (1839 - 1902), George Thomas Dunlap (1841 - 1920), Agnes Craighead Dunlap Bennett (1844 - 1903), David Richard Dunlap (1847 - 1917), James Alexander Dunlap (1849 - 1909).

Burial: Eastview Cemetery, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina..

North Carolina Fourteenth, Infantry, Co C., C. S. A., (Anson Guards ).

JOHN J. DUNLAP

came a teamster, driving a wagon. Has no war record as he was not with the bullet department on the firing line. Was faithful to his job to the last and numbered wlth those who surrendered at Appomattox. He married Mlss Virginia Little, daughter of Geo. W Little, Esq.

Capt. Charles Robert Skinker.

Capt. Charles Robert Skinker.

Birth: Jul. 11, 1838.
Death: Dec. 17, 1903.

Wife: Rose Lesslie Allen Skinker (1845 - 1924).

Children: Mary Lyle Skinker Valentine (1868 - 1940), Charles Robert Skinker (1871 - 1920).

Burial: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia.

Roster of 21st., Virginia Co. F.

Skinker, Charles R., enlisted April 21, 1861 ; wounded at Kernstown March 23, 1862; transferred to second company of Howitzers in 1862; wounded at Fredericksburg, 1862; promoted first lieutenant
Company K, 48th Va. Regt. of infantry 1863; captain 1863; wounded at Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863; captured at Spottsylvania C. H. May 12, 1864; sent to Fort Delaware and rejoined his command in about seven months ; wounded at Hatcher's Run Feb. 12, 1865 and permanently disabled.

Joseph N Dunton.

Joseph N Dunton.

Birth: Dec. 28, 1837, Vermont.
Death: Oct. 27, 1915.

Wife: Ann M. Fisher Dunton (1837 - 1920 or 1924.

Burial: Oakside Cemetery, Zephyrhills, Pasco County, Florida.

Vermont Eighth Infantry, Regimental History .

Joseph N. Dunton. Private Company H, Nov. 23, 1861 ; corporal, Feb. 18, 1862 ; sergeant ; 1st sergeant, Nov. 26, 1863 ; re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864; 2d lieutenant Company H, Feb. 20, 1864; 1st lieutenant Company H, Nov. 24, 1864 ; captain Company C, March 3, 1865 ; mustered out June 28, 1865.

Winfield Scott Leach..

Winfield Scott Leach.

Birth: unknown, New York.
Death: Sep. 8, 1898, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Winfield Scott Leach was the son of James & Minerva (Benton) Leach. He was born abt 1816 & died 8 Sep 1898. He married to a woman I have seen in family trees as Mathilda Merchant b. abt 1821 CT but shows up on the 1850, 1860 & 1870 censuses as Marietta b. abt 1821 NY. They had (at least) two children, Martin b. 1835 & Ann Augusta b. abt 1847. They moved from PA to NY to IA to WI to MN back to PA.

Parents: James Leach (1795 - 1877).

Wife: Nancy Herrick Leach (1828 - 1912).

Children: Martin Leach (1835 - 1923).

Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Spartansburg, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Wisconsin Thirty - Sixth Infantry Co. G. Regimental History.

 

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Isaac Higgins.

Isaac Higgins.

Birth: Feb. 10, 1846, Switzerland County, Indiana.
Death: Apr. 24, 1918.

Parents:Elijah Higgins (1813 - 1880),

Wife: Susan Brindley Park (1856 - 1934).

Children: James Higgins (1883 - 1950).

Burial: Ebenezer Cemetery, Moorefield, Switzerland County. Indiana.

Indiana Third Cavalry ( Forty-Fifth ) Regiment, Co, F & B., Reorganized, Regimental History.

Page 69,  Isaac Higgins, of Company F, was captured by having his bridle rein seized by a rebel cavalryman near the river bank some distance below the ford. While being led away captive, his pistol, cocked, was held by him under his coat cape, and in an unguarded moment he shot his captor, whirled his horse  and leaped into the river and escaped.  

William P Hiserodt

William P Hiserodt.

Birth: Mar. 20, 1840.
Death: Sep. 25, 1894.

Wife: Charity Smith Hiserodt (1841 - 1903).

Children: Samuel Smith Hiserodt (1867 - 1938), William Albert Hiserodt (1869 - 1958).

Burial: Jackson Township Cemetery, Owasa, Hardin County, Iowa.

Iowa Thirty-Second Infantry, Co. A., Regimental History.

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William. P. Hiserodt, promoted Sergeant, thrice wounded and captured at Pleasant Hill, escaped and ached our army at Vicksburg; furloughed himself, and came to Iowa with Captain Ackerman; returned and served through the entire Missouri. Nashville and Gulf campaigns; was discharged for disability at Montgomery. July 17. 1865.


Comrade Hiserodt was a man of rare bravery and resources; of great endurance; and would put down the rebellion if it took the last ham. chicken, or horse in the Confederacy. Illustrative of this it is told of him that in Montgomery after Bragg's force was disbanded there, "Bill" was in a saloon, and heard a rebel Major raving about the results of the surrender and his embarrassment at being compelled to go home without ever being whipped, etc., etc.

"Bill" finally told him to square himself and he should have something that he could talk about to his folks at home; and proceeded at once to administer to the boastful and hitherto unwhipped rebel a most thorough and severe beating in the most approved knock down style. After he returned to his home near Robertson he engaged in farming and raising live stock; was elected Justice of the Peace; was a member of the Board of Supervisors; took an active part in the prosecution of outlaws in chat region: and died there in 1894.

David H. Lee

David H. Lee

David H. Lee. Enrolled June 12, 1861. Transferred from Co. A June 10, 1864 ; detailed August 8, 1864, as Aid-de-camp on General Gill's staff ; killed Oct. 27, 1864, by guerrillas on the Coosa river.
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Ohio Thirty-Second Infantry, New Co. F., Regimental History.

On the 27th day of October, Lieut. D. H. Lee, of F. Company, then on staff duty, went in command of a detail, among which was two or more of our regiment. He had with him probably a dozen men. His duty was to find and bring into camp some citizens whose testimony was wanted by a Confederate who was being held as a spy.

When Lee, with his command, had gone some miles outside our lines, and while bearing a flag of truce, was surrounded by a band of guerillas, under command of one Jenkins, and although they displayed the white flag, they were denied its protection and a fight began, in which every man but Lee and one private, a Thirty-second Ohio man, was killed.

Lee was yet unhurt when the guerilla captain called to him to surrender and his life would be spared. On this Lee threw down his arms and the guerilla force gathered around him, and while the captain was talking with him, one of his men came up and shot Lee with a revolver through the back of the head. They took from his finger a diamond ring that had been given Lieut. Lee by his young wife, whom he had married when home on veteran furlough.

His body, with that of others, was thrown into a ravine and covered with brush, where it lay until the summer of 1865 after the surrender when the father of the young lieutenant went south, and with the aid of some of the citizens of a hamlet near by, recovered the remains of his son, which he was able to identify by the clothing. He was also fortunate enough to recover the diamond ring, which was in possession of an old citizen who claimed to have bought it from one of the guerillas.

Note His Burial is unknown.

James T Guppy.

James T. Guppy.

Birth: Mar. 8, 1841, England.
Death: Feb. 18, 1917, Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas.

Wife: Mary U Brinkworth Guppy (1844 - 1898).

Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas.

Illinois Ninety-Sixth Infantry, Co. D., Regimental History

James T. Guppy. Age 21 ; born in England ; farmer ; enlisted from Atioch ; at the battle of Chickamauga two bullets passed through his hat, one giving him a scalp wound ; remained on the battle-field that night, and next morning was aroused by a Rebel surgeon, who gave him the first definite knowledge that the Federal forces had retreated ; he then made his way back to Rossville ; was with the Regiment until near the close of May, 1864, when he was sent to Jeffersonville hospital, sick, re mining about a year ; is charged at Louisville, Ky., May 29, 1865; is farming at Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas.

William H, Darrow.

William H. Darrow.

Birth: 1838.
Death: Jul.15, 1894.

Wife: Emily F. Darrow.

Children: John D. Darrow.

Burial: Indian Creek Cemetery, Columbus Junction, Louisa County. Iowa.

Iowa State Records.

William Darrow. Age 25. Residence Columbus City, nativity Ohio. Appointed Additional Assistant Surgeon April 30, 1862, from Hospital  Steward. Promoted Assitant Surgeon Sept. 16, 1862.

Iowa Fifth Regimental History.

 

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Benjamin F Skinner.

Benjamin F Skinner.

Birth: Dec. 3, 1842.
Death: 1895.

Wife: Luella Skinner.

Children: Joseph D. Skinner, Mary C. Skinner.

Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa.

Iowa First Cavalry, Co. G, Regimental History.

 BENJAMIN F. SKINNER Company G.

Ben. F. Skinner was born in Middleburg, Indiana, December 3d. 1842. and lived there until he was eleven years old. The family then removed to Delaware county. Iowa. His father was a shoemaker by
trade. After arriving in Iowa his father entered a large tract of land and went to farming. This did not suit the taste of the boy Ben. so he was apprenticed to the tinner's trade, at which he was at work when he enlisted as a private in Company G, First Iowa Cavalry, at Burlington, Iowa, August 15th, 1861.

During his term of service was on duty at General Herron's headquarters for nine months Returned to his company when the expedition to capture Little Rock was organized. Was sunstruck at Clarendon, Arkansas, and nearly lost his life. The Camden expedition nearly used him up, as he was sick nigh unto death until discharged at Davenport, Iowa, September 9th. 1864, as high private, and then he thanked God his soldier days were over. He is now a robust G. A. R. man. a tinner by trade, and lives at Manchester. Iowa ; and if any of old Company G pass his way, he invites them to be sure and call.

Robert William Mays.

Robert William Mays.

Birth: Sep. 30, 1842.
Death: Dec. 7, 1918.

Parents: Henry S. Mays (1815 - 1864), Matilda Rosannah Stroud Mays (1821 - 1905).

Wife: Laura Jane Gray Mays (1856 - 1905).

Children: Emma Sam Mays (1889 - 1889), William Addison Mays (1891 - 1891).

Siblings: Robert William Mays (1842 - 1918), Samuel Hardy Mays (1847 - 1923), John M. Mays (1850 - 1871).

Burial: Jackson City Cemetery, Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.

Georgia Thirtieth Infantry Co. F, Regimental History.

Robert W. Mays

Robert W Mays was a private who enlisted when quite a boy. He was born and raised in Butts County, where he has always lived. At the battle of Chickamauga he was se- verely wounded, the ball entering the lower part of the chest and passing out near the spine, which so disabled him a board of physicians retired him from the service. After regaining his strength he reentered the service, notwith standing his exemption, and was surrendered with Johnston's army in North Carolina in 1865.

He returned home after the war to his widowed mother, his father, Henry S. Mays, having been killed in service. His home being in the path of Sherman's army, he found nothing hut debt and poverty With but a limited education, he commenced the battle of life with a spirit of pride, endurance and ambition and has accumulated property which makes him one of the wealthiest men of his county. While he has a diploma of both law and medicine, he does not practice either, farming being his favorite occupation.

He is kind and sympathetic to the weak and oppressed. He was married after the war to Miss Laura Gray, who has since died, leaving him two children, Robert Lee and John Billy. In 1880- 1881, rerepresented Butts County in the Legislature. He now lives at Jackson, Ga., where he has a host of warm friends.

Benjamin Franklin Ward.

Benjamin Franklin Ward.

Birth: Apr. 1, 1845.
Death: May 18, 1873.

Burial: Smith Cemetery #2, Calloway County, Kentucky.

Kentucky Eighth Infantry, Co. F., Regimental History.

Benjamin F. Ward, Private, Enlisted October 24,, 1861, Mustered January  15, 1862, a t Lebanon, for 3 years.

Page 212,  As usual, every man in the regiment and brigade did his whole duty. B. F. Ward, Company F, an excellent shot, succeeded in silencing a  particularly annoying rebel sharpshooter, who had secreted himself in a niche of the irregular crown of the precipice. The rapidity of his shots were only accounted for by his comrades behind loading for him. Ben maneuvered until he obtained a position commanding a view of the annoying rebel's head. As the fog lifted above the mountain, Ben's unerring rifle cracked. The rapid shooter sprang forward, and fell on a ledge of rock twenty feet below. His hat, with a bullet hole in it, came to the base of the cliff. Ben lay there a long while, but no other daring rebel showed his head*at'that point.

Pvt Benjamin W Petway.

Pvt Benjamin W Petway

Birth: 1839.
Death: 1904.

Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.

Tennessee Twentieth Infantry Co. K. Regimental History.

B. W. Petway was the only survivor of this Company present at the re-union in 1903. He was severely wounded in the knee in front of Atlanta, July 22, 1864; was left on the field and taken to the Federal Hospital. Three months later, and after recovering from his wound, he was brought to Nashville, and confined in the penitentiary ; in November, 1864, he was taken to Camp Douglas, and in March, 1865, he was sent to Point Lookout, Md., to be exchanged, reaching there April 1, 1865, where he was held until he was paroled, June 20, 1865.

Seth C Hill.

Seth C Hill.

Birth: May 1, 1840.
Death: Dec. 1, 1927.

Parents; Warren & Sophia Hulburt Hill.

Wife: Lizzie M. Kendall Hill.

Married 1889.

Children: Bell M., Delmer J. Hill.

Burial: Lamoille View Cemetery, Johnson, Lamoille County, Vermont.

Vermont Eight Infantry Co. A., Regimental History.

Page 216, Hill then turned to assist a wounded companion who had fallen at his side, when an excited enemy made a lunge at him, his bayonet gliding between the body and arm. He sprang quickly away, and by an adroit movement knocked the rebel down with clubbed musket, and continued fighting until surrounded and forced into the enemy's ranks, but refused to surrender, when a side shot tore away his belt, cartridge box, and the flesh to his backbone, which crippled him to the ground ; but when Gordon's divisions swept the spot, some of the rebels wearing blue coats supposed to be taken from Crook's men, Hill rose and joined them in the charge, shouting with the rebels, and actually firing harmless shots at his own regiment. Hill was once challenged by a rebel officer, to whom he answered that he belonged to the Fourth Georgia.

the next stand made by the brigade on the pike, Hill rushed into the Union line, although exposed to the fire of his friends as well as his foes, and continued fighting till he sank to the ground from loss of blood, fell into the enemy's hands, and was again rescued at night.

Seth C. Hill, Private, Promoted Sergeant December 14, 1863:Promoted First Sergeant  February, 25, 1865.

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Erasmus Darwin Steen.

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Erasmus Darwin Steen.

Birth: Oct. 1, 1835, Pennsylvania.
Death: Mar. 22, 1913, Illinois.

He was the son of Matthew Steen and Elizabeth Galbraith. He married Martha Fair on November 15, 1855 in Warren, Illinois.

Parents: Elizabeth Galbraith Steen (1797 - 1883).

Wife: Martha F. Fair Steen (1836 - 1921).

Children: Ernest Steen (1856 - 1922), Mary Steen Thompson (1861 - 1934).

Burial: Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Illinois 115th. Infantry, Co. B. Regimental History.

ERASMUS D. STEEN,  First Lieutenant, Brevet Captain,U S. Volunteers. Captain Steen actively assisted in the formtion of Company B and was an efficient officer in the compny until the battle of Chickamauga. While gallantly leading his men in the action on that eventful Sunday afternoon Lieutenant Steen was very severely wounded by a musket ball through the abdomen. Supposed to be mortally wounded he was carried from the field by his comrades to save him from dying among the enemy.

However, to the surprise of all who saw him after receiving his wound, he endured the jolting of the transfer from McFarland's to Chattanooga and the weary months in hospital and so far recovered that he is now able to do some business. After returning to the regimnt his wound still so far disabled him that he was unable for duty and resigned his commission on April 20, 1865, and returned home.

He was some time in business in Shelbyville and later several years in business at Danville, ILL He then spent several years as excursion agent for various railroads,residing in Chicago. He was married before entering the amy and has several grown children, a son being in partnrship with him, a daughter, the wife of Judge Thompson of Dnville. ILL., and two daughters at home. He is now in the real estate business at Room 38 Merchants' Building, and resdes at No. 240 Hampden Court, Chicago.

James M McBeth.

James M McBeth.

Birth: Jul. 31, 1842, Ohio.
Death: Nov. 28, 1921.

Parents: William McBeth (1795 - 1854), Anna Steele McBeth (1804 - 1883).

Wife: Sarah Cornelia Turner McBeth (1852 - 1939).

Children: William E McBeth (1873 - 1874), Bertha McBeth Moorhous (1878 - 1902), Louis McBeth (1884 - 1884), J Edgar McBeth (1885 - 1886).

  Sibling: John S. McBeth (1829 - 1864), James M McBeth (1842 - 1921).

Burial: Old Monticello Cemetery, Monticello, White County, Indiana.

Indiana Forty-Sixth Infantry Co. E., Regimental History. 

Page 57, James M. McBeth, of Company E, fired upon and wounded the color-bearer of the Fifteenth Arkansas. McBeth took the colors, but inadvertantly let them pass into the hands of some
Thirty-fourth men, who had come up.

Abraham Vanderpoel

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Wisconsin Twelfth Infantry, Co. E. Regimental History.

Capt. Abraham Vanderpoel.

Abraham Vanderpoel was born in Columbia County, New York, on the 1st day of April, 1806. He was married, in 1825, to Christina Gifford.

In 1828 he removed to Oswego County, and, settling in the heavy timber land, cleared up a large farm. In 1838, with his wife and seven children  two boys and five girls he moved to the Territory of Wisconsin, and settled at Jefferson, in the county by the same name.

Two years later he removed to Waterloo, in the same county, where he lived until 1858, when he changed his residence to Newport, in Sauk County.

Mr. Vanderpoel was a member of the Second Constitutional  Convention of Wisconsin the convention that framed our present constitution from Jefferson County. This convention was in session from December 15, 1847 to February 1, 1848.

In the year 1850 he was a member of the Assembly for Jefferson County.

In September and October, 1861, he raised a company for service in the Civil War, his commission as Captain dating from Oct. 3. This company was recruited at Delton, near Newport, and was known locally as The Wisconsin River Rifles." It afterwards became Company E of the Twelfth Wisconsin Infantry. He commanded the company until May 3, 1862, when he resigned on account of ill health, his disease being sciofula. The same disease was the cause of his death, in a hospital at Fond du Lac, Wis., Sept. 28, 1874. His business through life had been that of a farmer.

Abraham Vanderpoel.

Birth: Apr. 1, 1807, Columbia County, New York.
Death: Sep. 28, 1874, Fond du Lac Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

Wife: Christina G Vanderpoel (1808 - 1889)

Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, Mitchell, Mitchell County, Iowa.

William B. Critchfield

William B. Critchfield, wife was Sarah E, Critchfield, that's all I know about him other then his military record. 

Iowa Thirteenth Infantry, Co. C.

Iowa State Records.

William B. Critchfleld, (Veteran.) Age 21. Residence Chariton, nativity  Pennsylvania. Enlisted Sept. 28, 1861, as Musica1an, Mustered Oct. 28, 1861. Re-enlisted and re-mustered Jan. 1, 1864. Discharged for promotion July 10, 1864, Chattanooga, Te

Library of Congress.
 

Veteran Administration Pension Record. 

 

 

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Robert Augustine Browder

Robert Augustine Browder.

Birth: Aug. 10, 1840, Hickman County, Kentucky.
Death: Aug. 23, 1918, Fulton County, Kentucky.

Co.A, 7th Kentucky Infantry CSA; Enlisted: 25 Sep 1861, Camp Burnett, Hickman Co., Kentucky; Rank 1: 25 Sep 1861, 5th Sergeant; Rank 2: 1863, Sergeant Major; Rank 3: Aft. 1863, 3rd Lieut.; Pension: 17 Jun 1912, #1620 - Fulton Co., Kentucky; UCV Camp: James G. Pirtle - Camp #990 - Fulton, Ky.

Parents: David Browder (1806 - 1891), Mary Browder (1806 - 1886).

Children:, Willie McDowell Browder (1872 - 1873).

Siblings: James Aldephus Browder (1828 - 1871). Margarete Browder Wade (1831 - 1852). Albert David Browder (1833 - 1854). Thomas M Browder (1835 - 1900). Arrena J Browder (1837 - ____). John W. Browder (1838 - 1839). Robert Augustine Browder (1840 - 1918). Edward Elijah Browder (1842 - ____). Sarah Catherine Browder Luten (1846 - 1903).

Burial:Fairview Cemetery, Fulton , Fulton County, Kentucky.

ROBERT A. BROWDER.

 

Kentucky Seventh Infantry Co. A, Regimental History.

Robert A. Browder was born to David and Mary (Smith) Browder in Fulton County, Ky., on the 10th day of August, 1840. A farmer, he gave four years of the prime of life to his country's call in defense
of the Southern cause. At the close of the war, returned to his home in Fulton County and on the 29th day of November, 1870, was married to Miss Phila M. Patterson. To this union were born five children, three of which have long since passed away, there remaining Mrs. Bessie Bence and Miss Jesse Hunter Browder, now living in Fulton, Ky.

For ten years he continued in his chosen avocation on the farm, until failing health demanded a change to some business of less exposure, and in 1875 moved to Fulton, Ky., where he has lived incessantly in various avocations and serving his friends of the county as Assessor for eight years and Magistrate five years, which office he now holds. He and family are all members of the Methodist church, South, and he is adjutant of Camp Jim Pirth, No. 880, U. C. V., and has been since its organization in 1897, and has always manifested great interest in the organization and in helping his more unfortunate comrades. He is now living in Fulton, Ky.




 

Edmund A Dixon.

Edmund A Dixon.

Birth: Jan. 31, 1821.
Death: Jan. 13, 1888.

Wife: Annie P. Dixon (1823 - 1876).

Children: Annette Cordelia Dixon Stewart (1845 - 1924).

Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery,York County, Maine.

Maine Twenty Seventh Infantry Co. G. Regimental History.

Capt. Edmund A. Dixon of Company G, was born in Eliot, Maine, February 10, 1821, and died there January 13, 1888. Prior to the war of the rebellion, he was the first lieutenant of an Artillery Company, stationed at Fort Mc' Clary, Maine, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River ; but this Company was never mustered into the service of the United States. His business, both before and after his term of service in our Regiment, was that of a butcher, and for some years before his death, he was employed at this business at Brighton, Massachusetts. He was a man of an athletic make, and powerful physique, who possessed an easy and ready ascendency over his men, and who appeared to be unusually strong in their confidence, and was thus, of course, a successful company commander. I think in no Company in the Regiment was esprit de corps more marked than in this. I did not know the Captain well enough, personally, to characterize him more specifically.


 

Alfred Sickman.

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LIEUTENANT ALFRED SICKMAN,

Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, Formerly Second Virginia Infantry, Company G.

 

 

Alfred Sickman was born June 27, 1840, in a farm house in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pa. His mother died when he was about 8 years old. and his father, Samuel Sickman, married his second wife,  Miss Ann Ailes, about two years later, and removed to California in Washington county, Pa., in the spring of 1858. Alfred attended the seminary there until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he recruited what was later called the "Pike Run squad," and proceeding with his men to Pittsburgh, became a part of the Plummer Guards, and was elected first lieutenant at the organization. He was unassuming, pleasant and considerate, greatly liked by his men.

He met every duty as it presented itself, and bravely and conscientiously served his county to the best of his ability. At the battle of Allegheny Mountain. December 13. 1861, while gallantly leading his men, he was shot and fell dead in front of the enemy, dying as a brave soldier should. His remains were left on the mountain side, and were buried by his comrades, April 7, 1862, on their way to Monterey.

Alfred Sickman of Company G, who was instantly killed. Lieut. Sickman was a cool, brave and gallant officer. He ascended the mountain in a meditative mood, as if he apprehended the danger into which he was about to rush, and when the charge was made, he went into it with undaunted courage.

Burial: Grafton National Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia.

Leander Grandstaff.

Leander Grandstaff.

Birth: unknown.
Death: Aug. 20, 1864,

Pvt Co G 32nd Ohio Infantry GRANDSTAFF, LEANDER DATE OF DEATH: 08/20/1864 BURIED AT: SECTION J SITE 9840 -VA gravesite locator,

Burial: Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia.

Ohio Thirty - Second Infantry Regimental History.

On the 20th of August, 1864, Leander Grandstaflf, one of the company's bravest men, was struck by a shot from the enemy and instantly killed as he stood by the fire cooking his breakfast. Three men carried him back to a place somewhat sheltered from the bullets for burial. When the grave was about completed a vein of water was struck which flooded it. One said, "He's dead, anyway; the water won't hurt him. Let's put him in."' "No," said Stephen Kinkaid, "he shall be buried decently, if I have to dig the grave myself;" and then added: "Boys, if I should be killed, bury me decently."

Grandstaff, Leander. Enlisted Aug. i, 1861; re-enli&ted Dec. 17, 63, and was killed in action near Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20, 64. He is buried in the National Cemetery at Marietta, Ga.

Andrew A Hurd .

Andrew A Hurd.

Birth: Feb. 9, 1844.
Death: Jan. 15, 1898.

Burial: Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Waldo County,Maine.

Maine Twenty- Sixth Infantry Co. A., Regimental History.

ANDREW AUGUSTUS HURD, Private.

Page 162-163, Was born in Unity, February 9, 1844; he was eighteen years of age when he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-Sixth Maine Regiment, the 10th of September, 1862, as a private ; was mustered out in Bangor at Camp John Pope, the 17th of August, 1863. Was with the regiment in all the battles except the last seige at Fort Hudson, being unable to attend duty at that time. He contracted a severe cold lying on the ground without shelter during a hard rain storm at Opelousas ; was sick at Barers Lauding, La., was sent to Brashear City, and from there to the Cotton Press barracks Hospital, New Orleans ; was there sick until about the middle of July, lS(i3, with malarial fever, followed by chronic diarrhea, and at Port Hudson was sick with heart trouble. Captain Metcher tells an incident that happened at the battle ol Irish Pond : The company were ordered to lie on their backs and load, turn over and fire. Hurd could not load quick enough to suit him on his back so stood up to load. Captain Fletcher ordered him to "lie down," he paid no attention. Captain Fletcher told him he should shoot him if he did not obey orders, but he continued to load and fire standing, until they were ordered to retreat.

Dr. Williams of Rockland tells a story of Hurd : As they were retreating on the run in this same battle, he saw one of  the men shot down and he begged them not to leave him to  be taken prisoner ; after running on a short distance Hurd concluded he could not leave his comrade, so turned in the face of the enemy, went back and brought the wounded man from the field in his arms.

A. A. Hurd was married in Belfast, November 17, 1870, to Louise S. Cunningham ; has been engaged in the wholesale confectionery business in Belfast, since 1873 until January, 1897, when he retired from business, being unable to attend it any longer. He is now fifty-three years old. His post office address is Belfast, Maine.

Comrade A. A. Hurd died at East Belfast, January If), 98, and was buried in the cemetery at Belfast. His death resulted from disease contracted in the service of the United Sates in the Twenty-Sixth Maine Regiment.)

John Wellman Lyman.

John Wellman Lyman,

Birth: Mar. 6, 1830.
Death: Jan. 13, 1865.

Burial: Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania 57th., Infantry Regimental History.

Dr. John W. Lyman, a resident of Lock Haven. Pa., who was appointed surgeon of the 57th when the regiment was orgonized in 1861, and had been with it constantly, resigned September 16, 1864, in order to accept the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 203d Pennsylvania volunteers. While serving with that regiment he was killed in the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 15, 1865. Dr. Lyman was a excellent surgeon, kind and genial, and had endeared himself in the hearts of the men of the 57th. who were deeply grieved when they learned of his death.

Henry Washington Wise .

Henry Washington Wise.

Birth: Nov. 19, 1839, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.
Death: May 22, 1917, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana.

Enlisted in Company C, Indiana 99th Infantry Regiment on 11 August 1862. Promoted to Full Sergeant. Mustered out on 23 May 1865.

Wife: Eliza Catherine Alyea Wise (1845 - 1927).

Married 1868.

Children: Henry C., John J., Lula M., Adah M. Wise.

Burial: Maplewood Historic Cemetery, Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana.



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SERGEANT HENRY W. WISE, COMPANY C.

1862.

Born November 19, 1839, in Crawford county, Ohio; came to Lake county, Indiana, in 1849, and it has been his home ever since. Enlisted in Company C in August, 1862, and served through the war. From 1884 to 1887 belonged to Third Regt. Indiana Legion. Married Eliza C. Alyea December 25, 1867, and they have two sons and two daughters, the youngest being 22 years of age. His ancestry were Pennsylvania Dutch; his great grandfather, born in 1751, served in the Maryland cavalry during the Revolutionary war. His grandfather, born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1786, served in the war of 1812. Comrade Wise taught eight terms of school in his younger days, but his principal occupation has been that of brick and tile making. His regard for his old comrades and interest in their welfare is manifest at all times, and he attends all the reunions he can. The picture above shows him as he was in the army, while the one on page 161 shows him as he is now.



 

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DECATUR M. BOYDEN

DECATUR M. BOYDEN.

Rhode Island Seventh, Co. E., Infantry.

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Sergeant Decatur Morey Boyden, son of William C. and Emily Morey Boyden, was born near Chestnut Hill, Smithfield, Aug. 31, 1840. He was the fourth of a family of eight children. Aug. 2, 1862, he married Frances Louisa Poland. They had three children, a son, since deceased, and two daughters. Mr. Boyden was a woolen finisher by trade and labored chiefly for the Harris Woolen Company at Woonsocket, and for the Blackstone, Mass., Mills.

 

He first enlisted in Company E, of the Fourth Rhode Island, but lost a finger and therefore was discharged March 10, 1862. He enlisted in the Seventh July 26, 1862. He was slightly wounded at Fredericksburg and again severely in the side at the Wilderness, because of which he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps Sept. 30, 1864. He was admitted to the Chelsea Soldiers' Home June 11, 1896. Mrs. Boyden resides in Somerville, Mass.

Richard McCann

Richard McCann.

Birth: 1821, Canada.
Death: Jul. 22, 1887.

In the Company all Called him" Dick".

Aged: 65 Years, 4 Months, 21 Days.

Wife: Susan Kidd McCann (1824 - 1874).

Children: Lucy McCann (1854 - 1907), Edward F. McCann (1856 - 1856), Emma McCann (1860 - 1920).

Burial: Buffalo Grove Cemetery, Buffalo Grove, Ogle County, Illinois.

Illinois Ninety Second Infantry, Co. D, Regimental History.

Page 33, Dick McCann, of Company D, of Polo, was ferociously attacked by a tame deer, and while making a wild retreat, the deer, with his sharp antlers, helped Dick along. Dick was the first man wounded in the Ninety-Second, and the only one who ever retreated without orders

Illinois Civil War Detail Report.

Name: MCCANN, RICHARD. Rank; PVT. Company: .D. Unit: 92 IL US INF.

Personal Characteristics. Residence:: POLO, OGLE CO, IL. Age: 41. Height: 5' 5. Hair: BLACK. Eyes: BLUE. Complexion: DARK. Marital Status; MARRIED. Occupation: STONE MASON. Nativity: LENARK, CANADA.

Service Record. Joined When: AUG 19, 1862. Joined Where: POLO, IL. Period: 3 YRS, Muster In: SEP 4, 1862. Muster In Where: ROCKFORD, IL. Muster Out: JUN 9, 1865. Muster Out Where: LOUISVILLE, KY. Remarks: SICK AT LOUISVILLE KY LOST HIS LEG AT ADAIRSVILLE GA JUN 4, 1864.

Henry St. John Young

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Henry St. John Young.

Birth: unknown.
Death: Jan. 3, 1863.

Aged: 19 years; Co. C.65th. Ohio Infantry.,

Killed at the Battle of Stone River.

He was part of Sherman Brigade,.

Regimental History, states he was killed on December 31, 1862.

Burial: New Haven Cemetery, New Haven, Huron County, Ohio,

Henry L. C. Ramage.

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Henry L. C. Ramage.

Birth: 1840.
Death: 1864.

Parents: John and Mary C. Ramage.

Brother: John S. or A. Ramage.

Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.


Henry L. C. Ramage was a Confederate soldier being a Private in the Tennessee First Infantry Co. C.
He was  killed at Kennesaw Mountain, June 29, 1864.
                         

 

Levi M. Smith.

Levi M. Smith,

Birth: Aug. 2, 1838, New York.
Death: Nov. 15, 1918, Fredericksburg, Chickasaw County, Iowa.

Wife: Antoinette D. Mearl Smith (1847 - 1921)

Married May 29, 1866, Chickasaw.

Children: Myrtiel B. Clark Smith, Fay M., Ray L., Marie A., Nina H., Florence B. Smith.

Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Chickasaw County, Iowa,

Levi M Smith was a veteran of the Civil War, being in the Iowa Fourth Cavalry, Co. B.H.

He enlisted in Chickasaw County on 10 Nov 1861 at the age of 21 years. Mustered in Co B 4th Iowa Cavalry on 23 Nov 1861. Transferred to Co H 4th Iowa Cavalry on 1 Jan 1862. Re-enlisted and re-mustered 21 Mar 1864. For the greater part of his service, Levi was detached from his company as an ambulance driver. He mustered out with his company on 8 Aug 1865 at Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Iowa State Records. 

 

Smith Lev' M. (Veteran.) Age 23. Residence Chickasaw, nativity New York. Enlisted Nov. 10. 18G1. Mustered Nov. 23, 1861. Transferred  to Company H, Jan. 1. 1862. 

 

Smith, Levi M. (Veteran.) Age 23. Residence Chickasaw, nativity New York. Enlisted Nov. 10, 1861. Mustered Nov. 23, 1861. Re-enlisted and re-mustered March 21, 1864. Mustered out Aug. 8, 1865, Atlanta, Ga. See Company B.

 

Iowa Fourth Cavalry Regimental History.

 

Smith, Levi M., Chickasaw Co. Enl. Nov. 10, 1861, in B; transferred to H, Jan. 1, 1862.

 

Second Sergeant Levi Smith, Oskaloosa. Enl. Oct. 17, 1861; prom. 5th Serg. Dec. 1, 1861; 4th Serg. Sep. 1, 1862; 3d Serg. Oct. 11, 1862. Reenl. Vet. Dec. 12, 1863, and reapp. 3d Serg.; prom. 2d Serg. Jan. 1, 1865. Mustered out with Co. 

 

Smith, Levi M., Chickasaw Co. Enl. Nov. 10, 1861, in B; transferred to H, Jan. 1, 1862. Reenl. Vet. March 21, 1864. Mustered out with Co. Was detached from Co. as ambulance driver the greater part of his service.

 

John E. Healy.

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John E. Healy.

Birth: unknown.
Death: Oct. 15, 1921.

Wife; Abbie Belle Tracy Healy.
Married 1875.

Children; Arthur E., Emmett J., Tracy K., Charles B., Hettie Healy.

Burial: Saint Bernards Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. ,

Connecticut Ninth Infantry Co. G.

The Irish Regiment.

HEALY, PRIN. MUS. JOHN E., a native of New Haven, Ct., born Aug. 16, 1847; son of Patrick and Julia Healy who were from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. John E., enlisted in the Ninth, Sept. 20, 1861, a drummer boy of Company B, became drum major in 1862, and was promoted to be principal musician of the regiment, Jan. 1, 1863. His entire period of service, with regiment and battalion, covered three years and eleven months. He was mustered out Aug. 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's Mirror of Ireland" and toured the country, with the same, four years. He subsequently organized the Hibernian Minstrels and for six years visited the principal cities with his troupe. He married Belle Tracy of Rockland, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Healy have had five children, four sons and one daughter. He is now engaged in the real estate business in New Haven.

John Reynolds Whitford

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John Reynolds Whitford.

Birth: 1852,
Death: May 9, 1915, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.

Parents: Amos Whitford (1819 - 1893), Mary Desire Lillibridge Whitford (1830 - 1870).

Wife: Hannah T. Church Whitford.( 1840-1893.)

Children: Mabel Ella Whitford, Isaac James R. Whitford.

Siblings: John Reynolds Whitford (1852 - 1915).
Sarah Ellis Whitford Tefft (1854 - 1936)..
Eunice Emma Whitford Kenyon (1857 - 1884).
Amos Edward Whitford (1858 - 1917)..
Addie Melissa Whitford Greene (1860 - 1932)..
Infant Daughter Whitford (1864 - 1864)..
Clark Amos Whitford (1868 - 1929),

Burial:John Whitford Lot, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.

He was a Civil War Veteran.

John R. Whitford. Residence, South Kingstown; enrolled Aug. 4, 1862; mustered in Sept. 4; 1862; transferred to 2d Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, Sept. 10, 1864; mustered out as of same June 30, 1865.

JOHN R. WHITFORD.

Rhode Island Seventh Infantry, Co. G.

 

Sergeant John R. Whitfokd was born in South Kingstown Feb. 19, 1837. He spent all the early part of his life in Southern Rhode Island. He enlisted originally in Company I, Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, but was discharged therefrom on account of illness March 26, 1862. He regained his health soon after returning home and married Hannah T., daughter of Capt. Isaac M. Church, of the Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers. Upon the organization of the Seventh he again enlisted and was appointed a sergeant in Company G. He was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps Sept. 10, 1864, and mustered out of service June 30, 1865. He is now a carriage blacksmith and resides at Davisville.

 

John Francis Trask.

JOHN F. TRASK.

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Sergeant John Francis Trask, son of David and Caroline M. Buffington TrasK, was born Oct. 3, 1833, in that one of the manufacturing villages of Warwick some-times designated "Old Lippitt." He attended school at Cranston, Allen's Village, and Scituate. Later he was employed in cotton mills at various localities, but in the all of 1860 was spinning at Arctic. In response to the first call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the Rebellion, he enlisted in the Westerly Rifles, Company I, First Regiment Rhode Island Detached Militia, April 17, 1861.

At the first Bull Run, July 21, 1861, he was seriously wounded in the left lung and left upon the field as dead. However, he revived, was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., eleven months. As soon as he was exchanged he returned to Rhode Island, took a brief rest and enlisted in Company H. He was mustered as sergeant.

His confinement in Libby and the wound in his lung had so impaired his constitution, that, ere long, it was evident he could not endure the hardships of active campaigning. Accordingly, Oct. 31, 1863, he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and stationed at Indianapolis, Ind. On June 30, 1865, he was mustered out as first sergeant, Company F, of the Seventeenth Regiment of that organization. For a while he was proprietor of a cigar store in that city, then for thirteen years a member of the Merchants Police force, and, finally, a hay and grain merchant.

The wound received in battle proved the ultimate cause of his death, for from time to time he experienced severe hemorrhages from the lungs. For several years he sought a pension, and, at length, one was granted (139,878) the very week he died. He passed from earth Oct 15, 1880. His remains were interred in Brown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. Nov. 23, 1865, Mr. Trask was married by Rev. Henry Day, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church in that city, and earlier professor of civil engineering in Brown University, to Abbie Beaty, who was ten years his junior.

No children blessed their home. The widow subsequently married a Mr. Thomas. The bullet that perforated Mr. Trask had been recovered and was highly prized. In 1892 the widow's home was burglarized, and, as it was kept with a lot of jewelry, it disappeared also. A portion of the goods, however, were recovered, among them the treasured bullet. When the National Encampment of the Grand Army was held in that city, Mrs. Trask gave it to a cousin of her late husband, who was a comrade of that order. All that knew "Johnnie" were attached to him, so genial and so generous were his ways.

Lorenzo D. Cutler.

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Lorenzo D. Cutler.

Birth: 1842.
Death: Jul. 24, 1863.

Parents: Timothy B Cutler (____ - 1875), Freelove Cutler (____ - 1904).

Siblings: Mary J Cutler (1835 - 1909). Henry Cutler (1837 - 1840). Marcus M. Cutler (1840 - 1896), Lorenzo D. Cutler (1842 - 1863).

Burial: Cutler Cemetery, East Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont.

Vermont Thirteenth Infantry Co. C., Regimental History

SERGEANT LORENZO D. CUTLER, volunteered for and counted on the quota of the town of East Montpelier and when Company C was organized was appointed 5th sergeant, which position he filled with credit and honor during his term of service. On his return to Brattleboro, Vt., to be mustered out was obliged to go into the hospital and there died July 24, 1863.The Gettysburg campaign was too strenuous for his rather delicate constitution . It is said that he was buried in the Cutler Cemetery, East Montpelier, Vt. He gave up home, ambition, friends, everything, even life, that his country might not pass away without accomplishing the ends secured by the heroes of 1776.

Joseph Sawyer Sweatt

Rhode Island Seventh Infantry Regimental History.

JOSEPH S. SWEATT.

 

Sergeant Joseph Sawyer Sweatt, eldest son of Ira and Mary S. Sweatt, was born in the town of Boscawen, N. H., Oct. 28, 1843. He was fitted in the schools of that town and of Fisherville (now Penncook) for the Tilton (N. H.) Seminary, which he left for the purpose of enlisting in the Second New Hampshire, a three months' regiment. He was thus present at the First Bull Run.

During the retreat he was one of the many who were lost from their regiment and was reported killed, but, at length, he found his way back to his command. Upon his muster out he immediately joined the Second New Hampshire (three years) Volunteers, but soon after was taken sick, discharged, and sent home.

A little later he went to Woonsocket, R. 1., where an uncle resided, the late Enoch Sweatt, railroad contractor, and was by him employed as an assistant civil engineer. When the call came for "three hundred thousand more," he enlisted as an orderly sergeant in the Seventh Rhode Island. He was wounded at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862, and was taken to Windmill Point Hospital, Md.

There his father visited him, and, after fourteen days, was able to remove him to Washington. After a brief rest he took him home to New Hampshire, but he lived only ten days after his arrival. Yet he was very thankful to gaze once more upon familiar scenes, and to die among his friends. His final and fatal illness was typhoid fever, to which he succumbed March 6, 1863. Three older sisters survive.

George Chester Beckford.

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George Chester Beckford.

Birth: 1834, Rhode Island.
Death: unknown, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Wife: Minerva (Cook) Beckford.

Married January 9, 1853.

Children: Georgianna, Sarah J. Rankin Beckford, Carrabell, Hattie Beckford.

Enlisted in Company D, Rhode Island 7th Infantry Regiment on 04 Sep 1862.Transferred from Co D to Co I on Feb 1 1865. Mustered out on 09 Jun 1865 at Alexandria, VA.

Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Seventh Infantry Regimental History.

Page 36, The washout was Company D's cookhouse, whence George C. Beckford regularly shouted, Company D, fall in for your salt horse, pea soup, beans, rice and tea or coffee !'' as the occasion required.

Page 279, It was a custom of the cooks late at night to visit the well just outside the stockade entrance and fill their camp kettles for the next morning's coffee. It chanced on a certain bright moonlight night the well-known and popular comrade George C. Beckford, who at that time was cook for an officers' mess, went out with his kettle at the weird hour of eleven p. m. Near the top of the slope up from the well were some scattered graves.

Now just as this man had raised his filled kettle to the well flooring he chanced to glance toward the graves, and there he saw or thought he saw a ghost looking over one of the wooden headboards. As he had been a sailor, this was too much for him. He dropped his kettle, rushed back to the fort and to his quarters, threw himself upon his bunk, drew his blanket over his head and never again went outside the fort after dark.

Page 364, During one of the terrific bombardments to which Fort Hell was constantly liable the lieutenant had the good fortune to arise from his bombproof couch just in season to escape a sixty-four-pounder mortar shell that penetrated his apartment, and, plunging directly through the bunk and its covering of blankets, buried itself several feet in the earth, and then exploded making a complete wreck of the habitation.

Cook Beckford of his officers' mess dug over the ruins and recovered what of his belongings he could discover. Among other things he brought forth an army blanket, perforated >through the center by that shell, which to-day is exhibited as evidence of a fortunate avoidance of death.



 

Elisha M. Palmer.

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Elisha M. Palme-18r.

Birth: 1843.
Death: Jul. 17, 1909.

Wife: Sarah M. Palmer ( 1846-1893 )

Children: Cranston-S Palmer, Leonia Thurston Palmer,1869-1940.)  

Burial:First Hopkinton Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Seventh Infantry, Co A, Regimental History.

 

Elisha Maxson Palmer

Elisha Maxson Palmer, son of Hezekiah Palmer and his second wife, Lydia Rathbun, was born in Hopkinton. Oct. 2, 1843. He had one sister, Mary Elizabeth, who married John Ackley of Potter Hill. They were grandchildren of Elder Phineas Palmer. Elisha received a common school education and then became a stone cutter.

He enlisted in Co. A, of this regiment Aug. 8, 1862; a half-brother, Henry C. Palmer ( Whose mother's maiden name was Abby Maxson) was a member of the same company. Tlie latter who resides at Potter Hill, has a brother Daniel also abiding there, a sister Abby J., living in the west, and two deceased brothers, Tracey A., and Edwin M. Just before the battle of Cold Harbor, Elisha was detailed as orderly at brigade headquarters where he remained until mustered out.

He was beside Major Peckham when he was shot, April 2, 1865, and was sent with him to City Point, where he continued to minister unto him until his death next day. Once more at home, he wooed and won Sarah A. Gardner of Niantic, whom he married Nov. 18, 1866. She died at Providence, Dec. 22, 1895, leaving a son Cranston Tucker who still resides in that city, and a daughter, Sarah Leona, who died in 1896. Elisha's homes have been at Niantic, until 1885, at Providence for four years, at Oakland. Pascoag, where he superintended a quarry one year (1889), at Niantic again, until 1897, and since then at Westerly.

Lewis W Boren.

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Lewis W Boren.

Birth: 1834.
Death: 1892.

Occupation: Laborer.

Wife: Ruth H. Boren. (1843-1923).

Children: Logan M., Lawrence M., Albert Burr, Louis M., Anna L., Lulu Minnie Boren.

Burial: Anna Cemetery, Anna, Union County, Illinois.

Illinois Fourteenth Cavalry Co. G. Regimental History.

First Lieutenant Lewis W. Boren, born in Pulaski county, Illinois, December 11th, 1835; brought up a farmer. At manhood entered a dry goods store as clerk. Enlisted October, 1861, in Company "A," 60th Illinois Infantry; was appointed duty sergeant; was discharged for disability June, 1862. Enlisted in 109th Illinois Infantry, Company "K." In August, 1862, was transferred by  promotion as 1st Lieutenant Company "G," 14th Illinois Cavalry. While in Kentucky service was captured and escaped at Lafayette, Tennessee in June, 1863 ; was wounded at Bean Station December 14th, 1863. Lieutenant Boren was one of the most skillful and bold line officers of  the regiment. He was often employed on hazardous duty. He resigned December 12th, 1864.

Henry M Buel

Henry M Buel

Birth: Jan. 27, 1817.
Death: Apr. 4, 1892.

Wife: Mary Herr Buel (1820 - 1884).

Burial: Old City Cemetery, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

Illinois Ninth Cavalry Regimental History.

CAPTAIN HENRY M. BUEL.

 

Henry M. Buel, Captain of Company G, Ninth Illinois Cavalry, was early in  the field recruiting a part of his Company at Valparaiso, Ind., and came to Chicago with his men about the middle of September, 1861, expecting to join Colonel Brackett's regiment of " First Western Cavalry," but when it was found that it was to be an Illinois regiment, he gracefully accepted the situation, and was mustered in with his Company October 9, 1861.

Captain Buel was a faithful soldier and long in command of Company G, and at times commanding a battalion; was a man ever ready and anxious to do his duty. In some of the expeditions in Arksasas he was assigned a prominent place, and after the regiment moved into Tennessee in 1863, he was in command of  a battalion that encountered the rebel General Forrest's troops, defeating them on  the Coldwater.

The Captain was constantly on duty with the regiment during his term of service, and at Scnatobia, Salem and Moscow, with many otherplaces, did effective and good service for the cause against the Confederate troops, and on the famous West Point expedition in February, 1864, Captain Buel with his battalion was the first to march into West Point, and drove the rebels from the town.

Captain Buel was a man kindly in speech and manner, and, by his honest fjdelity to duty and promptness in all matters under his care, gained the esteem of  many in the regiment, was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service, returning to his old home at Valparaiso, Ind., his present address, 1888.

Isaiah Albert Curry

Isaiah Albert Curry.

Birth: Jul. 16, 1835.
Death: Jul. 12, 1902, Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana.

Wife: Mary Catherine Thomas Curry (1840 - 1921).

Children: Alfred R Curry (1862 - 1885), Fayme A Curry Moxley (1871 - 1907).

Burial: Park Cemetery, Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana .

Indiana 99th., Infantry Regimental History.

Captain Isaiah A. Curry.

 Captain Curry was born near Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana, July 16th, 1835, where he has always resided, living on a farm and being a farmer by profession. He was  married to Miss Mary C. Thomas, in December, 1857. He  enlisted as a private in Company B, but was soon after appointed 1st Sergeant, which rank he held until January 1st, 1863, when he was appointed 2d Lieutenant.

On March 20th, 1864, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and April 19th,  1865, he was mustered as Captain, which position he held at the muster out of the regiment. He served faithfully through  all the campaigns of the regiment, and was promoted successively through each grade in his company. His residence is three miles north-east of Greenfield.

Joseph R. Doolittle.

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Joseph R Doolittle.

Birth: May 23, 1842.
Death: May 25, 1927.

Occupation: Machinist.

Wife; Cornelia H. Paddock Doolittle, (1841-1903)

Married January 20, 1865.

Children: Lewis J. and Gerald B. Doolittle.

Burial: Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Connecticut First Battery History.

JOSEPH R. DOOLITTLE.

Southington. Served three months in Rifle C. . C, 3d C. V. Enlisted Light Battery Oct. 18, 1861 discharged Feb. 17, 1863. physical disability. Reenlisted Jan. 2, 1864; promoted Corporal Nov. 20, 1864. Mustered out June II, 1865.

Page 158, Comrade Doolittle says that at one period when ammunition was running short he had got " about half way to the caissons when we saw Capt. Rockwell with some other officers standing by the roadside. The Captain saw us coming. He ran towards us, waving his sword as high as he could and shouting: 'Halt! Halt!' Then he asked, 'Where are you going?' We had halted, and I answered that we were going back after more ammunition. He smiled and said, 'All right, I thought you were running away.'"

John V.M. Sutphin.

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Corp John V.M. Sutphin.

Birth: 1843.
Death: 1914,

Wife: Frances C Moore Sutphin (1845 - 1909).

Children: Anna A Sutphin (1869 - 1954).

Burial: Neshanic Cemetery, Neshanic, Somerset County, New Jersey.

New Jersey Ninth Infantry Co. F., Regimental History. 

Corporal John V. M. Sutphin was eighteen years of age when he enlisted in Company F, having been born in May, 1843, at Reaville, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He was with his company at Roanoke Island, and in the battle of Newbern he received a shot in his breast his life being preserved by his blankets, cartridge-box belt and apparel, through which the bullet passed before entering his ftesh. He participated in all the battles in wich the Ninth engaged in North Carolina, and was detailed to act as a sharpshooter. When the regiment went to North Carolina, Corporal Stphin won the prize offered by Captain Appleget to the one making the best shot lying down. He was in every engagement with his company from Walthall in May to Petersburg in the latter part of August, 1864, when a piece of shell, which struck him on the right leg below the kee, disabled him for life. Despite this he was kept at light service in the hospital, and was not discharged until the end of the war. Corpral Sutphm still lives (1889), with happy remembrances of the services performed by him in the battles for the perpetuity of the government.

 

Arthur Longman.

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Arthur Longman.

Birth: 1845.
Death: 1916. Burial:

Wife: Sarah Longman.

Children: Robert, Frank, Raymond, Gratia Longman.

Burr Oak Cemetery, Athens, Calhoun County, Michigan.

Arthur Longman.

Michigan Seventh Cavalry, Co. H.

617 Oak St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Arthur Longman born in Yorkshire, England, October 6th, 1845; enlisted at Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Mich., August 18th, 1864, as Private in Co. "H," 7th Michigan Cavalry,; wounded in right leg below the knee by kick of horse while marching at night near Petersburg about March 25th, 1865; mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, July l7th, 1865, and honorably discharged.

Alfred Sickman

LIEUTENANT ALFRED SICKMAN.
Fifth West Virginia Cavalry Formerly Second infantry, Co. G..
 

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Alfred Sickman was born June 27, 1840, in a farm house in Mifflin township, Allegheny county. Pa. His mother died when he was about 8 years old, and his father, Samuel Sickman, married his second wife. Miss Ann Ailes, about two years later, and removed to California in Washington county, Pa., in the spring of 1858. Alfred attended the seminary there until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he recruited what was later called the "Pike Run squad," and proceeding with his men to Pittsburgh, became a part of the Plummer (Aiards, and was elected first lieutenant at the organization.

He was unassuming, pleasant and considerate, greatly liked by his men. He met every duty as it presented Itself, and bravely and conscientiously served his country to the best of his ability. At the battle of Allegheny Mountain, December 13. 1861, while gallantly leading his men, he was sliot and fell dead in front of the enemy, dying as a brave soldier should. His remains were left on the mountain side, and were buried by his comrades April 7, 1S62, on their way to Monterey.  The remains were subsequently removed and lie in the National cemetery at Grafton. 

Burial:Grafton National Cemetery, Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia.

LIEUTENANT JAMES. M. SIMERAL

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James M Simeral.

Birth: Mar. 12, 1822.
Death: Oct. 25, 1902.

Wife: Martha W. Simeral, ( 1823-1900.)

Children: William,  Edward W. Simeral (1854 - 1928).

Burial: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska.

Iowa First Cavalry.

LIEUTENANT JAMES. M. SIMERAL Company L. Was born March 12th. 1822, in Smithfield, (a Quaker community, )  Jefferson county, Ohio. Was educated at Franklin College. New Athens, Ohio. Was deputy auditor and auditor of his native county over five years. Was married to Miss M. Wood, June 22d, 1852 all of Steubenville. Jefferson county, Ohio. Emigrated to Dubuque, Iowa November 1854. Is engaged in the real estate business at Omaha.

Iowa State Records.

Simeral, James M. (Veteran.) Age 38. Residence Dubuque, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted June 13, 1861, as First Sergeant. Mustered Aug. 1, 1861.

Simeral, James M. (Veteran.) Age 38. Residence Dubuque, nativity Ohio.  Promoted Second Lieutenant from First Sergeant of Company G, Sept. 23, 1861. Promoted First Lieutenant March 1, 1863. Mustered out
Feb. 15, 1866, Austin, Texas.

Francis Downs, Wusconsin.

This is a picture of Corporal Francis Downs, I found him interesting looking and was going to do a post on him. But after starting researching him I was unable find any personal information on him  I was able to find his service record, but was unable to find any family information other then his mother was Mary Wells.

I was hoping you readers could help fill in the blanks.

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Wisconsin First Artillery.

 

Francis Downs, Residence Gale, Enlister or Mustered August 27, 1861; Corporal; Mustered out October 11, 1864, Term expired.

 

Wisconsin 49th., Infantry, Co. C.

 

Francis Downs, First Lieutenant, Residence La Coese, Enlisted or Mustered  March 6, 1865; Second Lieutenant, January 27, 1865 Mustered out November 11, 1865.

John Jacob Hess.

John Jacob Hess.

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Birth: Sep. 17, 1840, York County, Pennsylvania.
Death: May 23, 1913, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,

John Jacob Hess was the son of Jacob Hess and, in 1860, was a wheelwright presumably living in York Borough, York County.

He stood 5' 9" tall with light hair and gray eyes. A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in York November 9, 1862 (although that date leads to the possibility that he enlisted as a substitute), and mustered into federal service there November 11 as a sergeant with Co. D, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"). He was honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863. He then enlisted in York January 26, 1864, and mustered at Harrisburg January 28 as a private with Co. B, 187th Pennsylvania Infantry. Promoted to corporal December 1, 1864, and honorably discharged with his company on August 3, 1865.

He married widow Julia Ossman, née Harvey, May 30, 1871, in York. They had no children, but Julia brought son William Ossman (c. 1862) into the relationship. By 1890, John and Julia were living in Harrisburg. Wife: Julia Hess (1836 - 1905).

Burial: East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.