Five Men Of the First Wisconsin Infantry

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Wisconsin First Infantry, Co. C.

Of Racine County, Wisconsin.

These five men were taken prisoners September 18, 1863. .

They were taken to Belle Isle, then to Libby Prison.

Back Roll, Left to Right.

Joseph Leach. Residence Milwaukee, Enlisted October 1, 1861; Prisoner Chickamaugh; Mustered out October 13, 1864, term Exp.

*Lemuel McDonald, Residence Rochester, Enlisted August 25, 1861; Sergeant, Prisoner Chickamaugh; Mustered out October 13, 1864, term Exp.

*Note. the ( F.) in front of his name is in error.  , 

Front Roll, Left to right.

Chauncey S. Chapman, Residence Waterford, Enlisted September 10, 1861; Sergeant, Prisoner Chickamaugh; Mustered out October 13, 1864, term Exp.

Thomas Anderson, Residence Union Grove, Enlisted September 5, 1861; Prisoner Chickamaugh; Mustered out October 13, 1864, term Exp.

John R. Schofield, Residence Rochester, Enlisted October 6, 1861; Prisoner Chickamaugh; Mustered out October 13, 1864, term Exp. 

Albert H. Welch.

Albert H Welch.

Birth: 1842, Pennsylvania.
Death: Mar. 13, 1909.

He was the son of William and Elizabeth Welch and the sibling of Robert, Mary, Nancy and Laura.

Burial: Roseburg National Cemetery, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon.

He was a Civil War Veteran.

Iowa Eight Cavalry, Co. F.

Welch, Albert H. Age 21. Residence Albia, nativity Pennsylvania. Enlisted June 2, 1863, as Company Commissary Sergeant. Mustered Aug. 21, 1863. Taken prisoner July 30, 1864, Newnan, Ga. Mustered out May 31, 1865, Davenport, Iowa.

Authors Note.  Entered the Oregon Soldiers Home, May 6, 1903, Age 61, Height 5 11., Eyes Blue, Hair light, Complexion Ligh, Occupation Blacksmith, Single, Read or Write Yes, Pension Yes.
Died in the Oregon Soldiers Home, March 16, 1909.

James C. Gipson.

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GIPSON, JAMES C, Capt. Rochester At the outbreak of the war was a river pilot on the Mississippi, and at New Orleans was urged to enlist in the Black Horse Cavalry, a Con- federate organization, he refused, and his life was threatened. His river friends smuggled him north on a steamer, nailed up between floors in the wheelhouse. On arrival at Cincinnati, enlisted in Navy, and was Capt. of gunboat Carondelet, when she ran the Rebel forts at Island Number Ten, forcing the surrender of that stronghold. Now living at Portland, Oregon.

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Richard L. Beadle.

Richard Beadle. 

Birth: 1845.
Death: Jul. 25, 1915, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

Wife: Levina C.Miller Beadle (1851 - 1918).

Married March 27. 1884.

Children: Non found.

Burial: Indiana Soldiers Home Cemetery, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

Indiana 24th., Infantry, Co. C.

Richard L. Beadle, Private, Residence Vanderburg County. Enlisted July 31, 1861; No other record.

Indiana 65th., Infantry, Co. G.

Richard L. Beadle, Private, Residence Union, Enlisted August 20, 1862, Mustered out June 27, 1865.

Soldier Home, Benton County, Indiana.

Richard L. Beadle, Age 59, Nativity Indiana, Rank Private, Service Indiana 24th., Infantry, Co. C., and Indiana 65th., Infantry, Co. G., Service in months 38., Pension $12., Read and Write Yes, Disability Rheumatism and Deafness.

Levina C. Beadle, Age 50, Nativity Virginia, Wife, Disability Asthma. 

Calvin Armenius Webber.

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Calvin Armenius Webber. 

Birth: Jan. 20, 1842.
Death: Jan. 20, 1919.

Parents: Calvin S. Webber (1809 - 1851), Thirza Mitchell Webber (1821 - 1896).

Wife's: Marrietta Bull Webber (1851 - 1911), Maria M. Stevens Webber (1853 - 1925).

Children: Ada Elma Webber Monticue (1873 - 1899), Hezekiah Seldon Webber (1875 - 1945), Lenna A. Webber (1880 - 1881), Mary Webber (1889 - 1907).

Burial: Brock Cemetery, Brock, Scotland County, Missouri.

He was a Civil War Veteran, being in the First Ohio Cavalry, Co. H.

Calvin A. Webber, Corporal; Age 19; Enlisted September 7, 1861, for 3 years.  Appointed October 6, 1864; Mustered out with company September 13, 1865; Veteran.

Thomas B. Smith, New Jersey.

New Jersey 13th., Infantry, Co. D.

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THOMAS B. SMITH Was born in Erie County, New York. He was commissioned first-lieutenant August 22, 1862, a^ed 29 years. On the 14th of September, while on the march after General Lee, in
Maryland, he became unfit, by sickness, for further marching, and was left in command of an invalid corps, near Frederick, composed of sick men of the regiment, rejoining the company on the 20th, at Sandy Hook, Md.

On the 30th of October, while on the march up the Potomac, to opposite Shepherdstown, Va., he was detailed to take command of the provost guard in the town of Sharpsbnrg, Md., where he remained until November 11th, when he rejoined the company. January 18, 1863, at Wolf Run Shoals, Va. lie was promoted to adjutant of the regiment. At the battle of Chaneellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863, he was wounded in the left arm near the shoulder, and sent to field hospital at the U. S. Ford on the Rappahannock, and then to Aquia Creek, Va., from which place he received leave of absence, and went to Newark, N. J., where he re ported to Ward Hospital.

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Cornelius B. Bailey.

Cornelius B. Bailey. 

Birth: unknown.
Death: Oct. 9, 1902.

Civil War Union Soldier. He was mustered in as a Private in Company K, 3rd New Jersey Militia on April 27, 1861. He served with his unit first in the defenses of Washington, DC, then in the July 1861 First Bull Run Campaign, where it was held in reserve. He was honorably mustered out on July 31, 1861. He then enlisted in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, being mustered in as a Corporal in Company H on September 12, 1861. Reduced to Private on September 20, 1862, he won back his Corporal's stripes on November 1, 1863. Re-enlisting on January 1, 1864, he served through the conclusion of the conflict, and was honorably discharged at Trenton, New Jersey on July 29, 1865.

Burial: Elmwood Cemetery New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Authors Note.  He was admitted to the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers on April 10, 1885; Age 64, with the disability of Phthisis Pulmonalis.  He died in the Hospital on October 9, 1902; Age 69, cause of death Cedebral Selesasis.  Wife Catherine A. Bailey.

Charles Hufty.

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Captain Charles Hufty Was born in Philadelphia, July twenty-fourth, 1839, in which city he resided during the early days of his life. He passed his school life with high honors, and was noted for his probity, intelligence and high moral character. The family having removed to Camden, New Jersey, he resided with them, and was engaged in the hardware business in Philadelphia until the sound to battle, which roused the nation to unbrotherly strife ; when, impelled by a patriotic love of country, he at once hastened to join the conflict for the restoration and perpetuation of our glorious Union.

When the call came for volunteers for three months' service, he responded at once, and enlisted in the Philadelphia Grays, First regiment artillery, Pennsylvania volunteers, and left with them for the seat of war in April, 1861. Having served out his three months term, he entered the ranks of the Ninth New Jersey, then just forming. He participated in all the campaigns and battles in which that regiment was engaged, and was promoted to the captaincy of Company I; July twenty-fifth, 1864. For nearly two years he acted as quartermaster of the Ninth. Having passed unharmed through many battles until almost the close of the war,

Captain Hufty was at last fatally wounded at the head of his company in the skirmish at South- west Creek, North Carolina, March seventh, 1865. He died at the officer's hospital, Newbern, where he received every attention, and had every care that kind-hearted women could give him, but passed away from this life on the fourteenth, regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and beloved by his numerous friends for his many virtues and gentle disposition. His remains were interred at Mount Vernon cemetery, Philadelphia, April tenth, 1865.

Thaddeus M Packard

Thaddeus M Packard. 

Birth: 1828.
Death: Oct. 7, 1881, Ohio.

Died at the age of 53.

He was a Sales man.

Parents: Nathan and Emily Packard.

Wife: Maria F. Willis Packard.

Married: June 15, 1849.

Children: Francis M., Ellen M., Wales A. P., Marcus H., Chester A., E. Adelbert, ( 1858-1860 ), Thaddeus Adelbert, ( 1863-1864 ), Ida Blanche Packard, ( 1860-? ).

Burial: Greenfield Cemetery, Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio.

Thirty Third Massachusetts Infantry, Co.K.

Packard, Thaddeus M., Music., Res. North Bridgewater; 34; musician; enl. and must. Aug. 8, 1862; must. out June 19, 1865, as Prin. Musician.

Seventy Third Ohio, Infantry.

Non Commissioned Staff Officers.

Chief Musician Thaddeus M. Packard. Detached from Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteers. Appointed Chief Musician, March 1st, 1864. Mustered out, June, 1865.

Lodowick Coleman Leeds

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Lodowick Coleman Leeds.

Birth: unknown.
Death: Jan. 18, 1901.

Wife: Martha B. Leeds.

Married 1876.

Children: Lodowick C. Jr., Will L., Carlos W., Jessie M. Leeds.

Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

Michigan twenty-fifth, infantry.

Leeds, Lodovick C, Oronoko. Enlisted in company C, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Aug. 8, 1862, at Oronoko, for 3 years, age 20. Mustered Sept 10, 1862. Corporal March 30, 1863. Sergeant May 14, 1864. Mustered out at Salisbury, N. C. June 24, 1865. Died in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 18, 1901.

Time to Eat.

Occasionally there were places where something good would open up. Soon after our return to Loudon, Sergt. Leeds of Co. C cast a wistful eye across the Tennessee, when a flock of sheep ran across his sight, upon which he said to " Uncle Ben ": " I wish we had some of that mutton over there." " I wish we had, too," came the answer. The times were such that nothing more needed to be said: no permission granted, no prohibition ordered — though there were standing orders against foraging except under direction of the quartermaster. The sergeant at once understood the words well enough to pick up a squad and "go for 'em." He had no difficulty in finding a boat, which, with a little repairing (soldiers always have a way of doing such things) bore them right speedily to the other shore. Landing by a farm house they stopped to get something to eat, and found a smoke house well filled with hams, shoulders and the like, to which they helped themselves and loaded their bayonets with all they could carry. In this way the mutual wishes of " Uncle Ben " and themselves were fully satisfied for the time being.

Alfred B. Cree.

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Capt Alfred B Cree 

Birth: Feb., 1831, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Death: Apr. 2, 1901, Johnson County, Iowa.

Wife: Martha A. Smith Cree (1838 - 1917).

Children: May B. Cree.

Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa.

CAPT, Co F, 22nd Iowa Inf appt Captain 07 Aug 1862 age 31 res Iowa City slightly wounded 19 Sep 1864 Winchester VA severely wounded 19 Oct 1864 Cedar Creek VA m.o. 25 Jul 1865 Savannah GA; WPA burial record as CREEDON.

Alfred was living in Iowa City by 1860, working as a carpenter and cabinet maker. He married Martha Smith there that year. After the War, he was active in the 22nd Iowa's regimental association, and with "Old Settlers" events in Johnson County.

Spanish American War. 

Captain A. B. Cree, of Civil War fame, addressed the boys in this last assembly before moving forward to the depot. He said here: "True bravery is not recklessness. Appreciate danger, do not rush into it with foolhardiness, but be prepared to meet it when duty calls. Moral character makes truly brave men, and as I look into your earnest young faces I see that nobility of character written there. I know that you will be brave and do your duty in a manner worthy the great state of Iowa, as the good, noble fathers of some of you did theirs, when in my command a generation ago. May you return to us unharmed."

Johnson County Iowa History.

CAPT. ALFRED B. CREE, a resident of Iowa City, was born February 22, 1831, in Perry county, Pennsylvania. He is a cabinet-maker by trade. He came to Iowa in 1855, and settled in Iowa City in 1856. He enlisted August 7, 1862, and was commissioned captain of Company F, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, August 10, 1862. He was wounded in the right shoulder September 19, 1864, at Winchester, Virginia, and wounded in the right leg severely, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. He was mustered out of the service July 25, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia, and returned to Iowa City, and entered the store of Mr. Nixon, and remained there until 1881, when he became a member of the firm of Hohenschub, Cree & Lee, furniture dealers and undertakers. He was elected trustee of first ward March, 1869; again, in March, 1875, and again in March, 1877, and was chief of the fire department four years. He was elected vice-president of the State Fire men's Association in 1880, and re-elected in 1881. He was married September 5, 1860, to Miss Hattie Smith of Iowa City. He is a democrat in politics, and takes a lively interest in the interests of his party.

William V. Taylor.

William V Taylor. 

Birth: Aug. 12, 1839, Champaign County, Ohio.
Death: Nov. 18, 1886, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio.

Parents: Joseph C V Taylor (1819 - 1867), Lucinda J Taylor (1816 - 1884).

Wife: Jennie B Smith Taylor (1853 - 1932).

Children: Merrill Smith Taylor (1876 - 1959).

Burial: Oak Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio.

Was a Civil War Veteran.

Ohio 66th., Infantry Co. G.

William V. Taylor, First Lieutenant; Age 22: Enlisted October 4, 1861, for 3 years.  Mustered in as a Private; Appointed First First Sergeant: Wounded July 20, 1864, in the battle if Peach Tree Creek, Georgia; Promoted to First Lieutenant to date July 27, 1864; Discharged December 15, 1864, by order of the War Department.

The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion.

William V. Taylor Medical History.

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General John L. Swift.

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John L. Swift.

General John L. Swift was born of good stock. He had patriotic blood, and lived many years in Boston. He was appointed United States Storekeeper at Boston Custom House in 1861, but resigned in 1862, to enter the army.

His military career began early during the civil war. Of a patriotic temperament, he volunteered as a private,in 1862, in Captain King s company, Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, Six weeks later, he was made a Sergeant. The regiment was ordered to Antietam, and, just as the train was leaving the station, Sergeant Swift was ordered by Governor Andrew to return to Roxbury, and raise a company of volunteers. This he did in ten days. He was now commissioned as Captain of this Roxbury company, which became Company C, the color company of the Forty-first Massachusetts Volunteers. The sergeant, who took Swift s place was killed at Antietam, five minutes after the battle opened.

Swift drilled his company at Lynnfield, and Boxford,having as his First Lieutenant, W. T. Hodges, of Roxbury, and Otis, of same city, as Second Lieutenant. He went South with his regiment to New Orleans, and, at Baton Rouge, was made Provost Judge. He was present at the Battle of Irish Bend, on General Grover s staff,and during the siege of Port Hudson, he was one of the" Forlorn Hope" who volunteered to storm the works of the enemy in response to the call of General Banks.He remained on the staff of General Grover as Captain and Judge Advocate until 1864. He also served on the staff of the first Governor of Louisiana, Michael Hahn,after the reconstruction of the State.

General Swift was honorably discharged from the army,in order to accept a position as Adjutant-General of Louisiana, which position he held until 1865, when he resigned.

Returning North, he re-entered the service of the United States Government at the Boston Custom House,where he was an efficient official for many years. He was in great demand as a lecturer and orator, and stumped the State during many political campaigns.He was an ardent Republican, a true patriot, a friend of education, reform and religion, and died respected by all who knew him.

Hiram Ross Marcyes and his Brass Band.

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Hiram Ross Marcyes.

Birth: September 11, 1844.
Death: March 11, 1913.

Wife; Louise Loffmaker or Lofflemacher Marcyes, 1855-1902 ).

Children;Leon G. Marcyes, ( 1898-1907 ), Claude O., Ida May, Era L., Grace E., Allie F. Marcyes..

Burial: Forsyth Cemetery, Forsyth, Rosebud County, Montana.

 History of the Minnesota Fourth Regimental Brass Band. 

The band had three different sets of instruments. It was composed of enlisted men detailed from the different companies of the regiment. It was brigade band, First Brigade, Third Division, for nine months, was in all engagements with the regiment and in many instances with guns in ranks, etc. Our band was the one that led in the grand review in Washington, before President Johnson, Generals Grant, Sherman and other dignitaries. And it was one of only a few which kept its organization from the time of going out until returning to the state. It received special mention from Generals Logan and Sherman for gallant service performed at Allatoona.

MEMBERS OF THE BRASS BAND.

Leaders.

James K. Hubbard of Company F.

Charles P. Hubbard of Company F.

James Davis of Company K.

H. R. Marcyes of Company I.

W. S. Kimball of Company K.

Members.

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W. W. Milhollln of Company K.
F. Brackelsberg of Company H.
Charles Scofield of Company F.
George Scofield of Company F.
L. Siebert of Company I.
W. P. Woolson of Company I.
O. H. Wiley of Company K.
John H. Thurston of Company C.
John C. Maag of Company H.
John Bursley of Company G.
G. W. Reinoehl of Company I.
F. L. Cutlar of Company F.
R. B. Laugdon of Company F.
T. Frank Sturtevant of Company F.
J. Niebles of Company E.
C. E. Rogers of Company I.
James S. Thomas of Company K.
W. Muziy of Company H.
John Frank of Companies K and B.
Charles F. Hellberg of Company A.
John W. Morse of Company C.

E. A. Whitcomb of Company K.
A. W. Clark of Company G.
J. H. Cronkhite of Company I.
Truman Booth of Company H.

Hezekiah Fisk.

Hezekiah Fisk.

Birth: August 17, 1825.
Death: August 19, 1864.

Wife: Effie Cooper Fisk.

Children: Florence A., Effie F., Charles W., Maria L., John B. Fisk.

Note.  There should be one more child, but couldn't find.

Burial: 100F Cemetery, Indianola, Warren County, Iowa.

Iowa State Records.

Fisk, Hezekiah. Age 36. Residence Indianola, nativity Indiana. Appointed Second Lieutenant Oct. 19, 1861. Mustered Nov. 25, 1861. Taken prisoner April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn. Promoted First Lieutenant Aug.1, 1862; Assistant Surgeon March 7, 1863. Wounded in left shoulder and side Aug. 17, 1864. Died of wounds Aug. 19, 1864, Atlanta, Ga.Ford, Oscar E. Age 19. Residence Indianola, nativity Pennsylvania Enlisted Nov. 19, 1861. Mustered Nov. 25, 1861. Wounded in side April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn. Died of wounds April 9, 1862, Savannah,Tenn.

Iowa Fifteenth Infantry Regimental History.

Assistant Surgeon H. Fisk, of the 15th Iowa, was the only medical officer in the division, who was known to come out to the front every morning and attend ;personally to the men of his command, who needed his professional assistance during the exhausting, extreme heat and constant severe exposures at this period of the siege. While he daily attended the Surgeons' call in front of the commanding officer's shebang, (tent-fly raised on poles,) musket-balls from the rebel skirmishing were whizzing close bv him several times, and in two instances the balls passed between him and the patient whose hand he held in his own, studying the pulse.

On the 17th day_ of August, while in the rear of two lines of fortifications, (which had been occupied on the 1st of August.) at what was thought to be a fitting place p;for his primary hospital, he was shot in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the ball entering through his left shoulder, passing through the sixth rib, and lodging in the sacrum. Medical assistance was of no avail, and he died on the 10th. No better man, nor one who attended his duties more conscientiously, can be found in the list of the officers of the army.

How Dr, Hezekiah Fisk Dies.

During the siege of Atlanta Dr. Fisk was in ill health nearly all the time.On the 17th of August, 1864, he sent a note to me while I was detailed as one of the operators at the Division Hospital, with a request that I would come and see him, as he wanted to consultwith me concerning his health, and about getting a leave of absence.

I went to him at once, and found him in an arbor of green boughs,put up just in the rear of our breast-works. He was lying on a little bunk made of poles and covered with cotton he had gathered in the neighborhood. He told me of his poor health, and wanted me to assist about the leave of absence. I persuaded him to wait for a few days, as such an application was regarded with great disfavor except in extreme cases.

While sitting in his chair by his bedside, I noticed bullets from the rebel lines were dropping very close to me, one passing just over my head, another about two feet to my right and striking the ground about ten feet in advance of me, then another to the left. At the time I thought but little of it, supposing them to be random bullets.

After we had talked possibly fifteen minutes, Dr. Fisk being in a much more cheerful mood, I got on my horse and rode back to the hospital, a distance of half a mile. I had just arrived and dismounted when an orderly came in great haste, saying Dr. Fisk had been shot directly after I left him.

I returned to him immediately, and found he had been shot in the back near the left shoulder blade, the ball ranging down ward. He was much shocked and already considerably weakened by internal hemorrhage. I took him to the hospital and gave him every care and attention, and the next day took him to the general hospital at Marietta. He seemed to bear the ride well, and I began to hope his wound might not be fatal. But still he had that peculiar numbness of the feet which indicated a serious spinal lesion.

About 9 o'clock I left him for a few minutes, hoping he might go to sleep. When I went back he was still awake. I gave him a small dose of morphine, adjusted his pillow, and asked him if he thought he could take a nap. He replied in his humorous way that he thought he could "make an average crop of it." The next instant he was dead, and the world had lost one of its best and truest men.

William C. Atwood.

William C. Atwood. 

Birth: Jun. 5, 1843, Cornwall, Orange County, New York.
Death: Jun. 3, 1863, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi.

Parents: Tobias Wyant Atwood (1815 - 1892), Mary Jane Robinson Atwood (1823 - 1885). 

Siblings: William C. Atwood (1843 - 1863), Samuel R. Atwood (1844 - 1863). John Robinson Atwood (1846 - 1919). Francis W. Atwood (1849 - 1891). Mary Emeline Atwood (1851 - 1929), Charles T. Atwood (1855 - 1891), Sarah Adelaide Atwood Mann (1858 - 1939), Martha Caroline Atwood Cunningham (1860 - 1949), Edward Leander Atwood (1862 - 1939), George Bennington Atwood (1862 - 1935).

Burial: Vicksburg National Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi.

Iowa Fourth Cavalry Co. K.

Atwood, William C. Age 18. Residence Henry County, nativity New York. Enlisted Oct. 21, 1861. Mustered Nov. 25, 1861. Accidentally shot and killed June 3, 1863, near Snyder's Bluff, Miss. Buried in National Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. Section O, grave 79.

Thomas Flynn, Michigan.

Thomas Flynn.

Birth: 1841.
Death: 1862-63.

Burial: Burr Oak Township Cemetery, St. Joseph County, Michigan.

Michigan 11th., Infantry, Co. G..

Flynn, Thomas, Three Rivers. Enlisted in company G, First Infantry, April 24, 1861,, at Burr Oak, for 3 months, age 20. Mustered May ;1, 1861. Mustered out at Detroit, Mich., Aug. 7, 1861. Re-entered service in company E, Eleventh Infantry, at organization, as First Lieutenant. Commissioned Aug. 24, 1861. Mustered Aug. 24, 1861 Commissioned Captain Nov. 15, 1862. Killed in action at Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.

Six John Pickering of One Family.

Captain John Pickering was of Portsmouth. He was a descendant of John Pickering, one of the earliest settlers of that town. The Pickerings had a military reputation. There were six of the family bearing the name of John. John Pickering, 2d, was captain of the militia in Portsmouth for a number of years, and Belknap describes him as a man of "a rough and adventurous spirit, and a lawyer." His son, John, 3d, had three sons, John (4th), Thomas, and Daniel. John 4th was the subject of this note. We hear nothing of him after this date. He probably died unmarried. His brother, Thomas, was killed in 1746 by the Indians, in the neighborhood of Caeco Bay. He left a wife, three sons and six daugh- ters. His wife was Dorothy Stover, born at " Cape Neddock," in 1707 and died in 1791, aged 84 years. Capt. Thomas Pickering, her second son commanded the Hamden, and was killed in an engagement with an India man of superior metal and force. Lydia, the fifth daughter, married Dea. Samuel Drown, of Portsmouth, a noted patriot of the Revolution.

Charles E. Meader

In the late summer of 1862, a group of Californians, all originally from the East Coast, had contacted Governor Andrews of Massachusetts and proposed to raise one hundred volunteers to form a separate company in a cavalry regiment that was being raised in Massachusetts. The Governor agreed with the condition that the Californians would provide their own uniforms and equipment. Officially they became company A of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, but were more popularly know as the "California Hundred".

Adjutant General of California.

First Lieutenant Charles E. Meader, after charging with his company on the enemy's lines, was killed, fighting hand to hand, " too brave to retreat, too proud to surrender." Lieutenant Meader enlisted as a private in the battalion, and by superior abilities and faithful services was promoted to First Lieutenant, and at the time of his death was in command of the "California Hundred."

Rosters of Massachusetts Second Cavalry, Co. M.

Meader, Charles E. — Sergt. — Res. Vassalboro, Ms.; traveler; 24; enl. Jany. 31, 1863; must. Feb. 5, 1863; comm. 2d Lieut. from 1st Sergt., Jany. 1, 1864; must. Jany. 25, 1864; comm. 1st Lieut., March 8, 1864; must. April 22, 1864; killed Aug. 26, 1864, Halltown, Va., as 1st Lieut. of Co. "C".

Four more companies were raised in California by Major Thompson, "E", "F", "L", and "M", and became known as the "California Battalion".

News From The Texas Frontier.

The following information comes from the Adjutant General of Texas, and covers the years of 1874 through 1920.  This page was made to learn what your ancestors were doing at this time in history..

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On 17th, 1876, Sergt. Jones arrested Alex. Gregory, charged with assault to murder. Turned him over to Sheriff of Kerr county.

June, 1876.—On 4th, arrested King Fisher and nine of his gang.On 6th, King Fisher and gang released, whilst Capt. McNelly was on his way with witnesses. Seven of the nine could have been indicted for murder in several cases. Had between six hundred and eight hundred head of stolen cattle and horses, which were turned loose.

December, 1875.—On 28th, a scouting party came across a slaughter house for stolen beeves, about forty miles north of Las Kuscias. Ranchero in charge arrested. After an ineffectual attempt to bribe the Sergeant, he tried to escape, and was killed in the attempt.

Capt. Cox, Company B: Reports that on May 4, 1871,  Sergeant R. V. Parker and eleven men of his company attacked and defeated a band of forty Indians on Rocky Creek, Palo Pinto county, killing ten warriors and recapturing forty horses. Four men of company wounded.

May 28 to June 12, 1874.—Capt. Waller's company (A) arrested over twenty-two cattle thieves and desperadoes,killed two murderers who resisted arrest, and captured 800 head of cattle; returned to owners.

In May last several very bold robberies of stores in Fort Davis were committed in broad daylight by a band of robbers led by the notorious Jesse Evans, the most daring outlaw of New Mexico. On receiving information of their outrages and petitions from civil officers and citizens of both Fort Davis and Quitman for assistance, I dispatched a detachment of company D from Menard county to Fort Davis by forced marches. .A few days after arriving there, they ascertained the whereabouts of the robbers, followed them forty or fifty miles towards the Mexican border, when a sharp fight ensued, resulting in killing one of the robbers, wounding one, and capturing the rest of the party. One of the rangers, Geo. R. Bingham, of company D, a gallant young fellow and good soldier, was killed by the outlaws in this affair.

The rangers had several engagements with these bands, in one of which private W. B, Anglin, of company B, was killed.

The Frontier Battalion during the last two years, is the breaking up of a most notorious band of high-way robbers, the largest, most thoroughly organized and successful which has ever existed in Texas, known as the " Peg Leg Stage Robbers," who have been engaged in robbing mail coaches and travelers in the highways,robbing stores and residences, and stealing horses and cattle in the counties on the frontier, for the last two years. Of this clan, there have been three killed in attempting to arrest them, and nine have been sent to the penitentiary.

Criminal.—Marcus Labate, killed by special force March 28,1880.
L. Varejal, killed by special force November 38,1879.
J. Smith, killed by special force November, 1879.
M. Martinez, killed by special force February, 1880.
August Erps, killed by company C, May, 1879.
Jesse Graham, killed by'Company D, July, 1880.
Jim Potter, killed by company D, October, 1880.
Dick Dublin, killed by company D, August, 1879.
D. Tutt, killed by company E, November, 1879.
O. Hare, wounded by special force November, 1879.
Jno. Potter, alias Red, wounded by company D, October, 1880.
W. A. Brown, wounded by company C, August, 1879. 

ENGAGEMENTS WITH CRIMINALS. 

December 3, 1883. Private Pike and one man, Company F, attempting to arrest Ezeke de los Bantos, were resisted, and Santos was killed.

January 1, 1884. Chris Salinas resisted arrest by Lieut. W. L. Rudd, Company F, and was wounded.

February, 1884. Sergeant F. W. DeJarnette, Company A, en route to San Augelo, in stage, was attacked by stage robbers, and a fight ensued, resulting in severely wounding one robber.

March 27, 1884. Captain Schmitt and detachment killed a robber attempting to rob James' Bank, at Wichita Falls, and wounded another.

April, 1884. Sergeant A. C. Grimes, Company C, in a running fight of twelve miles, attempting to arrest criminals who resisted, captured Bob Johnson and wounded Bill Brooking.

May 9, 1884. Privates Edwards and Shely, Company F, attempting to arrest P. Reyes and P. Salinas, who resisted, killed Reyes and wounded Salinas.

May 28, 1884. Sergeant T. W. Morris and two men. Company F, attempting to arrest Burt Wages, who resisted arrest, wounded Burt Wages.

February 15, 1887—Mrs. E. E. Johnson, of Kerrville, asks for protection for herself and children from murderers, who killed her son. Capt. Jones, Company D, ordered to go and investigate.

March 31, 1887. Captain Wm. Scott with his company (F) while searching about daybreak in Sabine County for the Conner gang of desperadoes• were suddenly fired upon by the Conners from behind trees at a distance of twenty or thirty feet. The Conuers had not been seen owing to the brush and it was scarcely daylight. Private J. H. Moore fell dead at the first volley. Captain Scott Sergeant J. A. Brooks and Private J. H. Rogers fired two or three shots before being disabled. Scott was shot through the lungs. Brooks had three fingers of the left hand shot on and wounded between the first and second fingers of the right hand. Rogers was wounded in the right side and arm the ball passing through his arm. Bill Conner was killed and another Conner wounded. A pack horse of the Couriers was shot and four dogs killed.

There has been only one death in the service since my last report, that of Private Tom Goff, of Captain Rogers' company, who was killed by a prisoner in his charge in Brewster county,
on September 13, .1905.

On February 4, 1908, Ranger Homer White, of Captain Johnson's company, was killed at Weatherford while attempting to arrest a man named Clark, who was abusing a woman at the railway station. Ranger White had been in the service only about two months. He enlisted December 1, 1907, from Colorado City. He was 27 years of age, and was born in Bell county.

Capt. Geo. J. Head, with Company L, 2nd Infantry, was ordered out to assist civil officers at San Benito, in searching for the parties who ambushed and killed Ranger Q. B. Games, and Deputy Sheriff M. Lawrence, and wounded Ranger Pat Craighead and a citizen, Earl West, who was serving with the officers. The assassins escaped into Mexico. Period of service July 31 to August 3, 1910.

1910-1911, Privates Puckett and Williams of the Hospital Corps were shot and killed by Private Phil M. Firmin of Battery A, Field Artillery, while on train en route to Dallas, a short distance south of Hillsboro. The circumstances connected with or the cause of this unfortunate affair are not known to me. 

I deeply regret to record the death in action of Eugene B. Hulen, on May 24, 1915, near Candelaria, Texas, and of Lee Burdett on June 8, 1915. near Fabens. Texas. Both of these rangers belonged to Company B and were killed in line of duty by Mexican bandits.

Captain Henry Ransom having been killed August 30th, 1917.

CASUALTIES.

I deeply regret to record the death of the following Rangers during the last few months:

Captain H. L. Ransom, accidentally killed, March 1, 1918.

Sergeant Delbert Timberlake, killed in line of duty, October 11, 1918.

Private Joe R. Shaw, killed in line of duty, August 21, 1918.

Private .L. T. Sadler, accidentally killed in line of duty, September
15, 1918.

Private Ben L. Pinnington, died of influenza, October 12, 1918.

Private E. P. Perkins, killed in line of duty, November 7, 1918.

Private John A. Moran, died of influenza,. December 12,'1918.

Private Charlie Hyde, died, disease, April 10, 1918.

Private Dudley White, killed in line of duty, July 12, 1918.

Private W. I. Rowe, wounded in line of duty, July 12, 1918.

Those who gave up their lives were killed by Mexican bandits in the discharge of their duty on the Mexican border. They died as brave men should in upholding the law they had sworn to defend.

On the night of July 29-30, 1920, Private J. C. Tyer, 4th Provisional Cavalry Troop, 7th Cavalry, went on duty as a sentry on Post No. 2, Camp Hutchings, fired upon a moving automobile and shot and killed the driver, the only occupant of the car. Private Tyer was immediately put under arrest by order of the Commanding General.On the succeeding day civil authorities demanded that he be handed over to them for trial, which the Commanding General refused to do. Tyer was tried before a general court martial which convened on August 2, 1920, at Galveston, Texas. The testimony established thefollowing uncontradicted facts:

Captain Herbert A. Robertson, who was driving the car, was challenged four times by Private Tyer. Captain Robertson paid no attention to the challenge and continued to drive on. Private Tyer fired, according to his statement, at the rear wheel of the car. There was but one shot fired and the shot struck and killed Captain Robertson.  The General Court Martial acquitted Private Tyer