Scott K. Snively, 13th., New York, Cavalry.

Scott K. Snively.

 Civil War Service. 

SNIVELY, SCOTT K.—Age, 18£ years. Enlisted, March 22, 1864, in Seventh district, New York; mustered in as private, Co. M, March 24, 1864, to serve three years; appointed sergeant, May 2, 1861; wounded, October 17, 1864; discharged for disability, July 13, 1865, at Alexandria, Va.

Medical Pension.

CASE 330. Sergeant S. K. Snively, Co. M, 13th New York Cavalry, aged 22 years, was wounded at Piedmont, Virginia, October 17, 1864. He was treated in the regimental hospital, and Assistant Surgeon J. F. Burdick, 13th New York Cavalry, gave, April 4, 1866, the following account of the case while in his charge : " Gunshot wound of the right hypochondriac region ; a musket ball entered three inches to the right of the umbilicus ; the direction was internal and toward the left and downward, injuring the right lobe of the liver; the seat of lodgement of the missile could not be determined, although it still remained in the body.

The treatment consisted of the local application of compresses dipped in tincture of opium ; morphia internally in large and frequent doses, alternated with tincture of veratrum viride. The patient suffered with nausea and retching, and had painful hsematuria. A catheter was introduced into the bladder thrice daily." Records on file show that this patient was treated in regimental hospital, at Camp Relief, from March 31, 1865, to May 14, 1865. He was discharged at Alexandria, July 13, 1865, for "gunshot wound between the seventh and eighth ribs, near the sternum, and shell wound of lower third of tibia ; disability total." He is a pensioner, and was last paid December 4, 1872.

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.