Civil War Ancestors

[Ozark Tracker]

I saw on a thread today several pards listed the ansestors they had in the civil war and what units they served in.

I had Great, great fathers on both sides

they served in the following units

Union- Company K 74th Regiment Missouri Militia. a Great Grandfather and a Great Great Grandfather

Union- 40th Regiment Iowa, Infantry Co F,  Great, Great Grandfather and GG Uncle

Confederate-  First Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Under Cherokee Chief Stand Watie,  Indian Territory,  GG Grandfather

Where did your ancestors serve?

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Still trying to find out, two or three of the brothers were around the right age then and lived in Virginia. Haven't been able to make proper contacts to find out which units were raised in their area. know which county, but can't find evidence of the town/village listed in our records. Do know they migrated west afterwards, Mich., Minn, and Nebraska were all stops they made.........Buck

[dangerranger]

I have several, But one sticks out. Davis Tutt, He seems to have served on both sides.His real claim to fame was being shot in a duel by Wild Bill Hickock.These are all on my mothers side of the family, dads side didnt come here till after the war.

[Dai.S.Loe]

I had no relatives in your civi war but my grand dad always talked about his uncle

It seems he was captured by the Brits at a certain post office in Dublin in 1916,

The Irish civil war.

Never checked it out properly but have been told that there was a Breen (my surname) definitely involved.

One day I will find out for sure.

Granddad was very proud of his uncle.

Dai

[Forty Rod]

Both of my dad's grandfathers were in the Confederacy.

One was a scout for General Sterling Price until he took a musket ball in the hip, making it impossible to ride a horse.  Finished the war as a recruiter.  Discharged as a Sergeant

The other one signed up with a group of other boys and was marched off to a nearby town to get uniforms, rifles, and assignments.  On the way they were captured by a Union patrol and spent the war in a POW camp in Michigan.  Promoted from Private to Sergeant...and paid accordingly the whole time...while in prison, he always "refused parole".  He was released after the war and drew a life-long pension for his service without ever having worn a uniform or carried a gun.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

The only one I remember hearing about served for the North. He died of dysentery contractd while serving.

[Gold Canyon Kid]

Gosh I have only found one Civil War Vet in our family tree, my great great grandfather but I will bet there were many more.  He commanded the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cav after the war.  During the war he attained the rank of  Brig. General and did quite well for himself in several battles.  The folks in Kansas sure thought he was OK voting him the 3rd governor of Kansas.   He resigned from the governor's office to go back to the Army and formed the group of Kansas volunteers to fight Indians. In later life he retired from the Army and finished out his career mostly as a lawyer. As an aside, he was stationed at Fort Hays when training the Kansas volunteers, and Hays is where I was born. While in Hays there was some brief interplay with another Col stationed there (that was also fighting indians) for a short time by the name of Custer.  My great great grandfather's name was Samuel J Crawford and my grandmother was a Crawford.

[J.D. Yellowhammer]

My family has lived in Alabama since the first whites settled there.  So all my great-great-grandads and uncles fought for the CSA.  In particular: John T. Dorsey who was at the Geo. Military Inst.  They were activated when Sherman penetrated Geo.  They started at Resaca, to Atlanta, and so on.  My elders (who knew him) always talked about him walking backwards to the sea, in front of Sherman.

EH Floyd was in the Alabama 14th.  They were in all the eastern battles--Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, Sharpsburg, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, and so on.  Out of over 800 who started, only 160 remained and they had to be absorbed into a different infantry.  I posted a photo of him recently with his sidehammer revolver.

Mack Cullars enlisted in Geo. and fought in southern Geo. and a big battle in northern Fla., the name of which I can't remember offhand.

When I was growing up and we visited the grandparents in Opelika and Tallassee, Ala., they talked about the war as if it had just happened.  I realized later that their grandparents fought in it and were alive well into the 20th century, so it was first-person current to them.

JD

[Silver Creek Slim]

I am currently working on my family genealogy. This is what I have found so far.

Lawrence Barclay, Pvt., 49th WI Inf. Vol., Co. D, 15 Feb 1865 - 1 Nov 1865
Martin Brooks, Pvt., 1st WI Cav. Vol., Co. M, 14 Nov 1863 - 19 Jul 1865, Western and Eastern Theater, with Sherman on his march to the Sea.
Sylvester Willis (brother-in-law to Martin Brooks), Pvt., 1st WI Cav. Vol., Co. M, 5 Nov 1863 - 19 Jul 1865, ditto.
Adonijah Benedict, Pvt., 21st WI Inf., Co. A, 15 Aug 1862 - 17 Jun 1865, Pris. Chaplin Hills; trans. to V. R. C., Mar. 15, '64; disability.
Franklin Bound, Pvt., 1st WI Heavy Artillery, Co. I, 15 Oct 1864 - 10 Feb 1865, Discharged for disability
Freeman and Thomas Bound, Pvts., 8th WI Battery, Light Artillery, 23 Dec 1863 - 10 Aug 1865
Job J. Bound Jr., Pvt., 8th WI Battery, Light Artillery, 30 Jan 1864 -10 Aug 1865
Charles Case, Pvt., 16th CT Inf. Vol., Co. E
Nelson Case, Cpl., 49th MA Inf., Co. F, died in Baton Rogue, LA on 25 Apr 1863
Orrin S. Case, 2nd Lt., 31st Regt (Colored Infantry) CT Vol., Co. C, died in Petersburg, VA on 15 Aug 1864
Amos and Ezra Dakins, Pvts., 37th WI Inf. Vol., Co. B, 28 Mar 1864 - 27 Jul 1865
Van Ness R. Frisbie, Pvt., 30th WI Inf. Vol., Co. K, 24 Oct 1863 - 20 Sep 1865
Conrad Jakobi, Pvt., 6th MN Inf., Co. E, 18 Jul 1862 - 7 Jul 1865
Lucius Langworthy, 2nd Lt., 12th IL Inf., Co. D, 24 Jul 1861 - 10 Jul 1865
Harvey Lawrence, Pvt., 27th WI Inf. Vol., Co. B, 20 Aug 1862 - 20 Aug 1863, died at home of chronic diarrhea on 20 Aug 1863
George Lindsley, Sgt., 32nd WI Inf. Vol., Co. A, 14 Aug 1862 - 12 Jun 1865, with Sherman on his march to the Sea.
Milo Porter, Cpl., WI 52nd Inf., Co. C, 16 Feb 1865 - 28 Jul 1865
Pliny Allen Porter Sr.Prvt., WI 52nd Inf., Co. C, 21 Feb 1865 - 28 Jul 1865
William A. Porter, Sgt., 6th MI Inf. (Heavy Art'y.) Vol., Co. E, 1862 - 20 Apr 1864, died in a train accident at Minn. Jnct., WI, as he was returning to the regiment after his Veteran Furlough.
Sacket Sears, Cpl., 1st MN Inf., Co. I, 10 Apr 1865 - 14 Jul 1865
William Stilwell, Pvt., 1st WI Heavy Artillery, Co. I, 28 Oct 1864 - 10 Feb 1865, Discharged for disability


Slim

[Forty Rod]

Mom's grandfathers were both in Utah at the time, but both served the Union, in spite of the U. S. Army being sent to Utah to put down polygamy...seperation of church and state, you know... and having fought Johnston's boys to a standstill with no casualties (except for a mule and two horses) on either side.

One was an officer (can't find his actual rank) in the Cache Valley Minutemen.  They patrolled the roads and escorted supply wagons from California to Utah .

The other one was adjutant to the commander of Fort Douglas (different name at that time) on the bench east of Salt Lake City.

Not a lot of stories about those two...more when they fought Johnston before the war.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I really don't know how to research these names and ancestors;  I can only relate "Family legends."

Supposedly, we had a Bailey who was a (rather unremarkable) Union General as well as one Union soldier who was a deserter!

On my Mother's side, it is said that Stonewall Jackson was a very distant relative.

There may (probably) be more, but I don't know any more.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

To add to my last post, the last relative I can PROVE who served was my Papaw (grandpa) Bailey who was in the Army and was part of Pershing's force who chased Pancho Villa around.  Gramps was a muleskinner.  I have a picture of him in uniform and his Honorable Discharge paper.

But that's not Civil War;  sorry!

[mtmarfield]

   Greetings!

My G-G Uncle, 2nd Lt. James T. Marfield served in the 114th OVI. He was the first in Co. B to fall in the "Battle of Chickasaw Bayou", as he was leading his men across the Yazoo. We have a few of his personals, and {I think, but cannot find...} a photo.

                 Be Well!

                                      Matthew T. Marfield
                                             12-23-05

[Silver Creek Slim]

I really don't know how to research these names and ancestors;  I can only relate "Family legends."

Supposedly, we had a Bailey who was a (rather unremarkable) Union General as well as one Union soldier who was a deserter!

On my Mother's side, it is said that Stonewall Jackson was a very distant relative.

There may (probably) be more, but I don't know any more.

Call me on Tuesday and I'll git ya pointed in the right direction.

Slim

[Wymore Wrangler]

James Madison McPheron, 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the Irish Brigade, I'm at work right now and don't have access to my materials, but I believe it was Company I and later a combined company D....

[Chantilly]

Thomas W Clabaugh - Company B 145 IL Infantry, Corporal Mustered in Jun 9 1864, Mustered Out Sep 23 1864

John H Clabaugh - Company I 111 IL Infantry, Corporal Mustered In 1862 and served to the end of the war. 

James H Ross - Company A 8 MO Calvalry, Private, Mustered In Dec 18 1861, He was killed September 20, 1863 near Carthage Mo by bushwackers under the command of Robert Tusk - Livingston's Guerrillas who attacked the squad to which he had attached himself while returning to his command from furlough.  Furlough was granted to return home to resettle his family - The facts elicited from the evidence are, that the soldier was on furlough, which was apparently made necessary by the act of the enemy in destroying the home of his family (he settled in Kansas in 1854): on returning in obedience to the order of his superior officer, contained in his furlough, whether in compliance with direct orders or not he did engage in an act of military duty in defending the property of the U.S. Government.  He thus laid aside his furlough and performed an act, which was plainly his duty as a soldier, and for the failure of which he would have been subject to censure.  While engaged in the performance of that duty he sacrificed his life."

I think somewhere it was mentioned that you can obtain copies of pension records from the National Archives.  I have copies for James Ross.  There are copies of letters that were on his person when he was killed.  Because the pension was first denied his widow because he was considered to be on furlough, there was additional investigation into the circumstances of his death.  There are copies of many testimonials in the record and make for intersting reading if you can make out the handwriting! 

I have copies of pension records for Thomas Clabaugh as well.  While receiving pension, a questionnaire was sent out at one point that asked questions about marraige and children born, dates, etc.  This information was really helpful when researching the family.

[Wes Virginian]

Two of my GG-grandfathers were in the Union Army. One was Thomas R. Thomas who served in the 1st West Virginia Lt. Art. Battery "B". He enlisted at Ceredo (W.) Virginia in Oct. 61 and served for 3 years until Nov. '64. Fought in the (1st) battle of Kernstown in March 1862. My avatar picture was taken on the location in Kernstown where the 1st W.Va. Lt. Artillery was positioned.

Wes Virginian

[Ozark Iron John]

I've got ancestors who fought on all three sides, Yankee, Confederate and Their Own.  My namesake and paternal grgrGrandfather was a Northeast Missouri Partisan Ranger.  His brother served with Gen. Price in the 3rd Missouri Volunteer Mounted Infantry untill they promoted him to 1LT and shipped him east of the Mississippi River.  My grgrGrandUncle saw action in Corinth and was wounded and subsequently captured in Vicksburg.

My maternal grgrGrandfather and all of his kin were also Confederate soldiers from northeast Missouri.  They mostly served in cavalry and mounted infantry units.

My paternal grandmother's grandfather, my grgrGrandfather served in the Federal Missouri Militia and I have numerous other relatives in southeast Iowa and western Kentucky who wore the blue.

There's a story about one of my Kentucky relatives who had been wounded in Tennessee.  He was home on furlough and went uptown to get a haircut.  Some local seccessionists didn't like him struting around town in his Yankee uniform, so they shot him dead in the alley behind the barbershop.

[Comanche Kid]

My Ancestor Was George Buckley, from Townsend,Vermont. He served in the 7th Vermont Infantry and was wounded at the Battle of Fredricksburg. He was returned to service 2 months later and served the rest of the war with no injuries. I actually wrote to the National Archives and rec'd copies of all of his service record. They were very helpful.

[Brigid Tanner]

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Mack Cullars enlisted in Geo. and fought in southern Geo. and a big battle in northern Fla., the name of which I can't remember offhand.
JD

Hey JD! Was that the Battle of Olustee by any chance? It happened near the farm my dad's family had, and he said that when he was young, he heard his grandfather talk about having heard the cannon fire when he was a small child. Went to the reenactment down there several years ago...really enjoyed it.

I had one great-great-grandfather that was on the Confederate side (can't find my family records at the moment...lots of stuff still packed from the move last year) who was at the Battle of Peachtree in Atlanta. Another great-great-granddad who, according to family stories, decided he wasn't gonna go, and hid out in the hills of northwestern Alabama for a time.  I really need to get back to doing the family history research....my nephew's been asking questions and I need to find him some answers