The September 2006 column, "From the Memoirs of Andrew R. McCurdy" Allen County, IN, has been added to the Bits of Blue and Gray website [http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/september2006.htm] Mr. McCurdy, who enlisted in Co. F, 12th Regt. Indiana Volunteers, begins with the late 1860's and continues thru early 1863. Jayne [email protected] [email protected] _www.bitsofblueandgray.com_ (http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/)

A couple of months back, I corresponded with a lady named Carla re: her ancestor Labon Overstreet, who is interred in Camp Chase Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. I finally got around to visiting Camp Chase, even though I only live about 20 minutes away & took some pictures for her. However, she has not answered her E-mail. I'm hoping she may have changed E-mail addresses & I pray that nothing bad has occurred. Respectfully, Mike Peters [email protected]

Joy The pension file in which the denial was issued should be the same place you would find his pension reinstatement, if it ever occurred. The problems the pension reviewer may have had in mind are: Did he have proof he deserted in 1862 and not later? From the desertion until Feb 1864 what was he doing? Was he a volunteer or a conscript in 1864? If he deserted the CSA, didn't voluntarily reenlist and then was caught up in a conscription, he may never have gotten his pension.... It might be fruitful to go through the newspapers from Jan 1864 until Feb 1864 in Fellowsville and try to see if you can uncover the facts behind troop enlistments during that period. Mike Joy Stalnaker wrote: > How might I determine if this man's pension was ever re-instated? Here's > what I know from National Archives records and records found in WV State > Archives. > > Reedy, Eli, 37, b Rockingham Co, VA; forced to enl in Co K, 4th Virginia > Militia, CSA; deserted and went to Fellowsville, Preston Co, sometime in > 1862; enl Fellowsville, (W)V, 26 Feb 1864, in Co. E, 15th WV Infantry > (Union); mus 14 Mar 1864, Wheeling; flesh wound rt thigh, Halltown, 24? Aug > 1864; adm Sandy Hook; transf GH Patterson Park, Baltimore, 27 Aug 1864; rtd > to duty 20 Sep 1864; trans to Co H, 10th WV, 14 Jun 1865; m 27 Dec > 1866/Oakland, Garrett Co, MD; Charlotte Cozad; a farmer at Independence. > Preston Co, WV in 1896; d 13 May 1905, Independence. One son, Ernest E., b > 12 Apr 1867. Pension denied 21 Oct 1896 because "aided and abetted in the > late Rebellion against the authority of the United States by . . . Co K, > 4th Regt, 7th Brigade Va. Militia, C.S.A. Appealed, made sworn statement > and got testimony from his sister as follows: > > He lived near Cootes Store, Rockingham Co, VA, about 13 miles from > Harrisonburg. He was sick with the typhoid fever, and "for nine weeks I > was not out of the house. When I got better, I was walking around the > house for about two weeks, when two rebel scouts, Sam Shirkey and Sam > Minnick, who lived over toward Sparta, on Lymmans Creek, came to the house > where I was sick and told me they had orders to gather up all the men in > the neighborhood, for service, in the Confederate army. But I told them I > had been sick and was not physically able to go, and if they would wait > until I was able that I would go, but they said no, they would no wait; > that i had to go with them then, I tried to reason with them to wait; that, > if they forced me into the confederate army I would not do them any good, > as I would run off the first opportunity I got. but they forced me to go > with them against my will and took me to Sparta a little town on the > Winchester and Staunton Pike where to too stage to Strausburg where the > balance of the company the men belonged to were and I was to the best of my > knowledge sworn into the confederate service." > Q- At the time the two men came for you to join the > confederate army, were you in sympathy with the confederacy, and intend to > enlist at some time in said army? > A - "Honestly, I could not tell, everything was so split up I > could not hardly tell which side to go with. I told the men, as I said, if > they did not force me to go with them then, I would when I got well join > the confederate army, but they forced me to go, and I got mad and made up > my mind then that I would not stay in the confederate army. > Q - Did you intend to enter the Union army if you got away > from the rebel army? > A - Yes, that was my intention. > Q-Who swore you into the confederate army? > A-I could not tell you now, I could not tell if I was to be hung. > Q-By what name was the organization known? > A-It was known as a militia company and Joe Jourden who lived > in Shenandoah County, Va, near Timberville, was the captain and Genl _____ > had charge of us when we marched to Winchester, Martinsburg, and twoards > Hancock. (On 6 Nov 1896 identified the regt as Co K, 4 regt Va Mil CSA) > . . . I cannot give the month but it was in the spring of > 1862, if I am not mistaken that I joined the Conf service. > Was with them about four months before I succeeded in running > away from them. I ran away three times, and was brought back and the > fourth time I got away while we were near Christly Hawes, with whom I was > then living; but he is dead. > Q-Who was some of the officers over you while in the > confederate army? > A-Perry Horn was major. I knew him before I enlisted, was > raised near his home. I cannot recall the names of the others. I cannot > recall the names of the others, they were all stranger to me. > Q-Give me the names of some more men in the company. > A- . . . Joe Baker waas one, but he is dad. He came to West > Virginia when I did. Sam Baker was another one. > A-When I ran away "I came right over the mountains from Old > Virginia, into W Virginia to Fellowsville this county and I think I was out > here, as near as I can tell about a year, I enlisted in the Union Army (on > 6 NOv 1896 he says "it was in the fall of 1861 and was here from that time > I however am not positive it may have been the fall of 1862 but I do know > that I was here when General Jones evaded (sic) W Va) > A-His organization was not in any battle. They had "a little > skirmish while in the mountains at Hancock, Md, and while several of our > mjen were wounded and killed, I did not see the union soldiers or anyone to > shoot at." > A- "It appears to me that Stonewall Jackson was in command of > the army we were attached to, but I did not see him. From Hancock, Md, we > went back to Martinsburg, thence to Winchester and back and forward several > times. We never got further into the state of Maryland than Hancock. " He > was not given a confederate uniform "I wore the same citizens clothes I > brought away from home." "They had old flint locks when I joined them. I > don't know where they got them, I do not remember whether we had bayonets > or not." > > Sister Elizabeth A. Seviers says they were living with Christly Howes at > the time the war began. She says that Eli came home for his clothes "under > guard." > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thank you, I found this online http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infidx.html it's pretty good, I found out thar Byron's father Wm enlisted also. Take care Kathy list "mom' for Blinn-L, Brauch-L, Clapper, Figiel-L, Germans-IN-HuntingtonCo-L, Germans-to-Phila-L, Germans-OH-Starkco-L, Hamby-L, Hofmann-L, Holsinger-L, Huther-L, Laughran-L, Loose-L, Paszotta-L, Riley-L, Rupsis-L, Schumacher-L, Sibel-L, Troop-L, Vollmer-L, Wedler-L, Wherity-L homepage http://community.webtv.net/kathy556/DoughertyGordonBaer http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/m/Kathryn-R-Hamby-PA/index.html >From: "Jim Gilmer" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] COMPANY G 15TH (NORTHWEST) ARKANSAS INFANTRY >BYROND HAMBY >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:44:18 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) > > Kathryn, > > > >Didn't find any more than you have an Ancestry. > > > >On-line records of those confederate prisoners who died at Alton do not >list >Byron Hamby. > > > >http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/index.html#search > > > >You might consider sending for his compliled military service record from >the National Archives, and also have a search done at the Arkansas Dept of >Archives and History, as there may be info there on confederate soldiers. > > > >http://www.ark-ives.com/selected_materials/default.asp#mil > > > >http://www.archives.gov/research/order/#nprc > > > > > >Jim Gilmer > > > >-------Original Message------- > > > >From: Michael Ruddy > >Date: 08/31/2006 06:29:08 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] COMPANY G 15TH (NORTHWEST) ARKANSAS INFANTRY > > > >Kathryn > >Military prisons during the war were not a healthy place to be. There > >Was a Pvt. Wincenton Hamby from "Company C, Bells Arkansas" (This may be > >The name of the troop) who died there of dysentery after 8 months. As to > >A pension for your soldier, that would have to be searched in the > >Arkansas state archives as he was a confederate soldier. > >Mike > > > >Kathryn Gordon Hamby wrote: > > > HAMBY, BYRON D. Sgt - Enl 31 Oct 1861 at Bentonville, AR Captured 1 May >1863 > > > at Port Gibson, MS and sent to MP at Alton, IL 18 May 1863. Issued >clothing > > > 7 Jul 1863. > > > I cannot find anything of him after 7 Jul 1863 when they issued him the > > > clothes, I can't find him in any census or anything about him getting a > > > pension. > > > I found this info at http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infcog.html > > > Can anyone help me please? > > > Thank you > > > Kathy > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kathryn, Didn't find any more than you have an Ancestry. On-line records of those confederate prisoners who died at Alton do not list Byron Hamby. http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/index.html#search You might consider sending for his compliled military service record from the National Archives, and also have a search done at the Arkansas Dept of Archives and History, as there may be info there on confederate soldiers. http://www.ark-ives.com/selected_materials/default.asp#mil http://www.archives.gov/research/order/#nprc Jim Gilmer -------Original Message------- From: Michael Ruddy Date: 08/31/2006 06:29:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] COMPANY G 15TH (NORTHWEST) ARKANSAS INFANTRY Kathryn Military prisons during the war were not a healthy place to be. There Was a Pvt. Wincenton Hamby from "Company C, Bells Arkansas" (This may be The name of the troop) who died there of dysentery after 8 months. As to A pension for your soldier, that would have to be searched in the Arkansas state archives as he was a confederate soldier. Mike Kathryn Gordon Hamby wrote: > HAMBY, BYRON D. Sgt - Enl 31 Oct 1861 at Bentonville, AR Captured 1 May 1863 > at Port Gibson, MS and sent to MP at Alton, IL 18 May 1863. Issued clothing > 7 Jul 1863. > I cannot find anything of him after 7 Jul 1863 when they issued him the > clothes, I can't find him in any census or anything about him getting a > pension. > I found this info at http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infcog.html > Can anyone help me please? > Thank you > Kathy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kathryn Military prisons during the war were not a healthy place to be. There was a Pvt. Wincenton Hamby from "Company C, Bells Arkansas" (This may be the name of the troop) who died there of dysentery after 8 months. As to a pension for your soldier, that would have to be searched in the Arkansas state archives as he was a confederate soldier. Mike Kathryn Gordon Hamby wrote: > HAMBY, BYRON D. Sgt - Enl 31 Oct 1861 at Bentonville, AR Captured 1 May 1863 > at Port Gibson, MS and sent to MP at Alton, IL 18 May 1863. Issued clothing > 7 Jul 1863. > I cannot find anything of him after 7 Jul 1863 when they issued him the > clothes, I can't find him in any census or anything about him getting a > pension. > I found this info at http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infcog.html > Can anyone help me please? > Thank you > Kathy

HAMBY, BYRON D. Sgt - Enl 31 Oct 1861 at Bentonville, AR Captured 1 May 1863 at Port Gibson, MS and sent to MP at Alton, IL 18 May 1863. Issued clothing 7 Jul 1863. I cannot find anything of him after 7 Jul 1863 when they issued him the clothes, I can't find him in any census or anything about him getting a pension. I found this info at http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infcog.html Can anyone help me please? Thank you Kathy list "mom' for Blinn-L, Brauch-L, Clapper, Figiel-L, Germans-IN-HuntingtonCo-L, Germans-to-Phila-L, Germans-OH-Starkco-L, Hamby-L, Hofmann-L, Holsinger-L, Huther-L, Laughran-L, Loose-L, Paszotta-L, Riley-L, Rupsis-L, Schumacher-L, Sibel-L, Troop-L, Vollmer-L, Wedler-L, Wherity-L homepage http://community.webtv.net/kathy556/DoughertyGordonBaer http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/m/Kathryn-R-Hamby-PA/index.html

How might I determine if this man's pension was ever re-instated? Here's what I know from National Archives records and records found in WV State Archives. Reedy, Eli, 37, b Rockingham Co, VA; forced to enl in Co K, 4th Virginia Militia, CSA; deserted and went to Fellowsville, Preston Co, sometime in 1862; enl Fellowsville, (W)V, 26 Feb 1864, in Co. E, 15th WV Infantry (Union); mus 14 Mar 1864, Wheeling; flesh wound rt thigh, Halltown, 24? Aug 1864; adm Sandy Hook; transf GH Patterson Park, Baltimore, 27 Aug 1864; rtd to duty 20 Sep 1864; trans to Co H, 10th WV, 14 Jun 1865; m 27 Dec 1866/Oakland, Garrett Co, MD; Charlotte Cozad; a farmer at Independence. Preston Co, WV in 1896; d 13 May 1905, Independence. One son, Ernest E., b 12 Apr 1867. Pension denied 21 Oct 1896 because "aided and abetted in the late Rebellion against the authority of the United States by . . . Co K, 4th Regt, 7th Brigade Va. Militia, C.S.A. Appealed, made sworn statement and got testimony from his sister as follows: He lived near Cootes Store, Rockingham Co, VA, about 13 miles from Harrisonburg. He was sick with the typhoid fever, and "for nine weeks I was not out of the house. When I got better, I was walking around the house for about two weeks, when two rebel scouts, Sam Shirkey and Sam Minnick, who lived over toward Sparta, on Lymmans Creek, came to the house where I was sick and told me they had orders to gather up all the men in the neighborhood, for service, in the Confederate army. But I told them I had been sick and was not physically able to go, and if they would wait until I was able that I would go, but they said no, they would no wait; that i had to go with them then, I tried to reason with them to wait; that, if they forced me into the confederate army I would not do them any good, as I would run off the first opportunity I got. but they forced me to go with them against my will and took me to Sparta a little town on the Winchester and Staunton Pike where to too stage to Strausburg where the balance of the company the men belonged to were and I was to the best of my knowledge sworn into the confederate service." Q- At the time the two men came for you to join the confederate army, were you in sympathy with the confederacy, and intend to enlist at some time in said army? A - "Honestly, I could not tell, everything was so split up I could not hardly tell which side to go with. I told the men, as I said, if they did not force me to go with them then, I would when I got well join the confederate army, but they forced me to go, and I got mad and made up my mind then that I would not stay in the confederate army. Q - Did you intend to enter the Union army if you got away from the rebel army? A - Yes, that was my intention. Q-Who swore you into the confederate army? A-I could not tell you now, I could not tell if I was to be hung. Q-By what name was the organization known? A-It was known as a militia company and Joe Jourden who lived in Shenandoah County, Va, near Timberville, was the captain and Genl _____ had charge of us when we marched to Winchester, Martinsburg, and twoards Hancock. (On 6 Nov 1896 identified the regt as Co K, 4 regt Va Mil CSA) . . . I cannot give the month but it was in the spring of 1862, if I am not mistaken that I joined the Conf service. Was with them about four months before I succeeded in running away from them. I ran away three times, and was brought back and the fourth time I got away while we were near Christly Hawes, with whom I was then living; but he is dead. Q-Who was some of the officers over you while in the confederate army? A-Perry Horn was major. I knew him before I enlisted, was raised near his home. I cannot recall the names of the others. I cannot recall the names of the others, they were all stranger to me. Q-Give me the names of some more men in the company. A- . . . Joe Baker waas one, but he is dad. He came to West Virginia when I did. Sam Baker was another one. A-When I ran away "I came right over the mountains from Old Virginia, into W Virginia to Fellowsville this county and I think I was out here, as near as I can tell about a year, I enlisted in the Union Army (on 6 NOv 1896 he says "it was in the fall of 1861 and was here from that time I however am not positive it may have been the fall of 1862 but I do know that I was here when General Jones evaded (sic) W Va) A-His organization was not in any battle. They had "a little skirmish while in the mountains at Hancock, Md, and while several of our mjen were wounded and killed, I did not see the union soldiers or anyone to shoot at." A- "It appears to me that Stonewall Jackson was in command of the army we were attached to, but I did not see him. From Hancock, Md, we went back to Martinsburg, thence to Winchester and back and forward several times. We never got further into the state of Maryland than Hancock. " He was not given a confederate uniform "I wore the same citizens clothes I brought away from home." "They had old flint locks when I joined them. I don't know where they got them, I do not remember whether we had bayonets or not." Sister Elizabeth A. Seviers says they were living with Christly Howes at the time the war began. She says that Eli came home for his clothes "under guard."

> Confederacy sites cut hours, staffing in budget > squeeze > By Katie Dodd > THE WASHINGTON TIMES > Published August 16, 2006 > > Officials for the Museum of the > Confederacy and the Confederate White > House in Richmond have cut the > landmarks' staff and hours of operation > to save money. > The museum will be closed > Wednesdays between Labor Day and > Memorial Day and will lose about 10 > percent of its staff through attrition. > Also, no White House tours will be > conducted in January and February. > Museum officials yesterday > announced the changes, which are > aimed at reducing budget costs. > "These are hard times for us, but > visitors are still enjoying their > experience here," said Megan Miller, the museum's > public relations > manager. "We are > working really hard to minimize the pain to donors > and constituents." > Officials had expected a $700,000 grant from > Virginia last month, but > instead received a > $50,000 stipend. > What's more, museum visitors have been on the > decline for years. > Located in the heart of the Confederacy's capital, > the museum is surrounded by > construction and new buildings, and is practically > hidden in the > shadow of the Medical > College of Virginia Commonwealth University. > "The museum is landlocked, surrounded by canyons of > concrete and > steel," said Delegate > Bill Janis, Goochland Republican. "The magnitude of > the construction > has caused roads to > be rerouted or closed, making it very difficult for > anyone, > especially a tourist, to even find > the museum." > Mr. Janis served as the chief patron of a study > commission that > sought solutions for the > museum's financial problems. > One option includes moving the museum and the White > House from their > historic site. > "The building has become incompatible with its > environment," Mr. > Janis said. "The > purpose of having the museum on this historical site > has been > obviated by construction. It > cannot survive at its current location." > But moving the landmarks is not a universally > popular option. > Robert Lamb, a former member of the museum board, is > strongly opposed > to the idea. > "Things are tough for the museum, but there are > solutions to keeping > it at the present > site," Mr. Lamb said. "If people would get together > to fix the > dysfunctional street and > parking systems, then they would be fine to stay > where they are." > Open since 1896, the White House served as the > residence of > Confederate President > Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. The museum was > added onto it in 1976. > In addition to the staff and hour cuts, museum > officials have decided > to publish their > quarterly magazine only three times a year and have > discontinued > publishing the annual > academic journal. Dan Hogan [email protected]

This from a CW re-enactor discussion list. Dan Hogan > This is a shame... I visited the MOC a few years > ago. It was > wonderful. It is completely surrounded by massive > medical buildings > from the campus tho. If the Museum goes under - > would they have to > move the Confederate White House? (It was under > discussion I believe) > > > >Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) > >From: DEAN C MARSHALL > <[email protected]> > >Subject: Crisis Alert: the Museum of the > Confederacy > >To: [email protected] > >Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > > >To All Reenactors and Lovers of History, > > > >No doubt you have heard how deeply in trouble the > Museum of the > >Confederacy is. > >Simply, the Museum is perilously close to > extinction because of a 75% drop in > >visitor attendance primarily due to the > expansionist construction > >activities of the > >University of Virginia Medical Center and > compounded by a most > >recent denial of > >crucial funding by the Virginia State Legislature. > The bottomline, > >the Museum needs > >money immediately, and lots of it. Museum Executive > Director S. > >Waite Rawls has > >sent out a "call to arms" to rally support for the > Museum as the > >gravity of their situation is dire. My name is Dean > Marshall and I > >was a member of the NCWA's > >1st Virginia back in 1989 and was with them for the > filming of > >Dances With Wolves > >in South Dakota. I urge all members to do what they > can as the Museum of the > >Confederacy houses the world's premier collection > of artifacts and > >archives pertaining > >to the history of the Confederacy. Don't allow this > fine institution > >to become another > >victim to the ravages of ignorance and political > correctness. > >Contact them at moc.org > >or 804.649.1861 > > > >Sincerely, > >Dean Charles Marshall > >510.326.1602 Dan Hogan [email protected]

Knowledge of the siblings proximatey would depend on their ability to communicate with family and friends or the luck of running across each other. Could they write? Were they Officers? Were there friends or other relatives in the units? Being able to meet off duty would depend upon how close their individual regiments were encamped. Do you know what divisions they were attached to? I imagine rolls were called after the battle to calculate losses... If he knew his brother was in the regiment and had access... he probably would have known fairly quickly. If not, it may have been after the war before he learned. Keith Bailey ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hayt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:08 PM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Brothers - liklihood of social contact > > Two brothers, James & George SHEARS, were in the 27th Illinois infantry > and the 1st N. Y. Light Artillery, respectively. Most of the war they were > in different campaigns - the NY Regt. in the East, while the IL Regt. was > typically in the Mississippi River valley. But the NY Regt. came to > Tennessee and participated in the push to Atlanta, as did the IL Regt. > My questions are: How likely is it that James & George knew of each > other's proximity? How likely is it they were able to meet while off duty? > > James was killed May 14, 1864 at Resaca, Georgia. How long would it have > likely taken for the news to reach George, whose regiment was also there? > > I'd appreciate your input. > Thanks, > David > W. Lafayette, Indiana > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Two brothers, James & George SHEARS, were in the 27th Illinois infantry and the 1st N. Y. Light Artillery, respectively. Most of the war they were in different campaigns - the NY Regt. in the East, while the IL Regt. was typically in the Mississippi River valley. But the NY Regt. came to Tennessee and participated in the push to Atlanta, as did the IL Regt. My questions are: How likely is it that James & George knew of each other's proximity? How likely is it they were able to meet while off duty? James was killed May 14, 1864 at Resaca, Georgia. How long would it have likely taken for the news to reach George, whose regiment was also there? I'd appreciate your input. Thanks, David W. Lafayette, Indiana

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Les, WNY stands for Western New York. As for the Brokaw names, I haven't really begun to research this line yet as they are a secondary line. Someone who could probably help you would be my cousin Annette Campbell, she is more directly related to the Brokaw line. Her addy is : [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) . I will forward your email to her and she will expect your email questions. Vicki in WNY Researching these names: ARWINE, BAKER, BARRETT, BENVANSCHOTEN, BRANDOW, BROKAW, BUTLER, CARNES, CROWE, DEAN, FERRIS, GOLDEN, HAVENS, HENDERSHOTT, HOXTER, HUBER, ISAMAN, JENKS, KELLEHER, KNAPP, KOONTZ, LUNDRIGAN, MAKELEY, MCDERMOTT, MEHLENBACHER, MERRITT, NEU, NORTHRUP, O"CONNOR, OSINCUP, OXX, PATTERSON, POWERS, QUICK, RAHMLOW, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROOT, RYAN, SLAUGHTER, STOCUM, WADE, WHITE, WILCOX, WRIGHT, VAN OXX, YECKLEY, YOUNG, ZIMMERMAN.

New York! Researching these names: ARWINE, BAKER, BARRETT, BENVANSCHOTEN, BRANDOW, BROKAW, BUTLER, CARNES, CROWE, DEAN, FERRIS, GOLDEN, HAVENS, HENDERSHOTT, HOXTER, HUBER, ISAMAN, JENKS, KELLEHER, KNAPP, KOONTZ, LUNDRIGAN, MAKELEY, MCDERMOTT, MEHLENBACHER, MERRITT, NEU, NORTHRUP, O"CONNOR, OSINCUP, OXX, PATTERSON, POWERS, QUICK, RAHMLOW, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROOT, RYAN, SLAUGHTER, STOCUM, WADE, WHITE, WILCOX, WRIGHT, VAN OXX, YECKLEY, YOUNG, ZIMMERMAN.

Vicki & Ann Thank you for not mentioning I gave the wrong unit information. With apologies, below is the real 148th NY Volunteer Infantry unit. Luckily for me the unit served in the siege of Petersburg also, so the rest of the data ought to be all right.... Mike 148th REGIMENT INFANTRY. Organized at Geneva, N.Y., and mustered in September 14, 1862. Left State for Suffolk, Va., September 22, 1862. Attached to Viele's Command, Norfolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863. Norfolk, Va.. Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to October, 1863. Wistar's Brigade, United States forces, Yorktown, Va.; Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, to May, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 24th Army Corps, to June, 1865. SERVICE.--Garrison and guard duty at Norfolk, Va., till October, 1863, and at Yorktown, Va., till April, 1864. Wistar's Expedition against Richmond February 6-8, 1864. Butler's operations on south side of the James and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 5. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12-16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14-16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-27. Moved to White House, thence to Cold Harbor, May 28-31. Battles about Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Duty In the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front till September 27. Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve). Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Duty in trenches before Richmond till March, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. On line of Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs March 29-30. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Rice's Station April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty in the Department of Virginia till June. Mustered out June 22, 1865. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 100th New York Infantry. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 112 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 149 Enlisted men by disease. Total 267. akeegan wrote: > which State did he was his unit from? > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:25 AM > Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] State archives questions > > >> I recently sent to the archives for information on two men. One I >> knew was >> related the other was a possible. Anyway, I received them the other >> day and >> have a couple of questions perhaps some of you can answer: >> >> in the side margin before the years column is hand written E.P. M.I. R, >> What does it stand for? >> >> under the line where his info is written, there is a notation that says >> "772R-Apr 10" - 63 14 in the days column Sept in Month and 1862; what >> does this >> mean? >> >> Under remarks: Present on MR-April 10" 1863 >> M- IR Sept 14. 62 Absent, sick >> Wounded. absent since June 18"1864. 772- OR. >> Wounded in Hand. June 19" 1864 near Petersburg. Va. borne as Roberts. >> Cas-List June 1864. Ok, I know that he lost two fingers on his left >> hand, is this >> saying that he was at a field hospital in June? What is the M - IR >> in Sept >> of the previous year? What battle might have been going on in >> Petersburg, >> Va. in June of 1864? >> >> His name was Aaron D. Robertson and he was a private with Company I >> of the >> 148th Inf. He enlisted on 28 August 1862 and mustered in on 31 >> August 1862. >> He later received a pension of $8.00 a month for the loss of his two >> fingers. >> >> Any help here understanding these papers would be helpful. Vicki in WNY >> >> Researching these names: ARWINE, BAKER, BARRETT, BENVANSCHOTEN, BRANDOW, >> BROKAW, BUTLER, CARNES, CROWE, DEAN, FERRIS, GOLDEN, HAVENS, >> HENDERSHOTT, >> HOXTER, HUBER, ISAMAN, JENKS, KELLEHER, KNAPP, KOONTZ, LUNDRIGAN, >> MAKELEY, >> MCDERMOTT, MEHLENBACHER, MERRITT, NEU, NORTHRUP, O"CONNOR, OSINCUP, >> OXX, PATTERSON, >> POWERS, QUICK, RAHMLOW, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROOT, RYAN, SLAUGHTER, >> STOCUM, >> WADE, WHITE, WILCOX, WRIGHT, VAN OXX, YECKLEY, YOUNG, ZIMMERMAN. >> >> >> ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from list mode, email [email protected] >> and in the text area of the message, type only the word >> unsubscribe >> >> >> > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name > > >

which State did he was his unit from? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:25 AM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] State archives questions >I recently sent to the archives for information on two men. One I knew >was > related the other was a possible. Anyway, I received them the other day > and > have a couple of questions perhaps some of you can answer: > > in the side margin before the years column is hand written E.P. M.I. R, > What does it stand for? > > under the line where his info is written, there is a notation that says > "772R-Apr 10" - 63 14 in the days column Sept in Month and 1862; what does > this > mean? > > Under remarks: Present on MR-April 10" 1863 > M- IR Sept 14. 62 Absent, sick > Wounded. absent since June 18"1864. 772- OR. > Wounded in Hand. June 19" 1864 near Petersburg. Va. borne as Roberts. > Cas-List June 1864. Ok, I know that he lost two fingers on his left > hand, is this > saying that he was at a field hospital in June? What is the M - IR in > Sept > of the previous year? What battle might have been going on in > Petersburg, > Va. in June of 1864? > > His name was Aaron D. Robertson and he was a private with Company I of > the > 148th Inf. He enlisted on 28 August 1862 and mustered in on 31 August > 1862. > He later received a pension of $8.00 a month for the loss of his two > fingers. > > Any help here understanding these papers would be helpful. Vicki in WNY > > Researching these names: ARWINE, BAKER, BARRETT, BENVANSCHOTEN, BRANDOW, > BROKAW, BUTLER, CARNES, CROWE, DEAN, FERRIS, GOLDEN, HAVENS, HENDERSHOTT, > HOXTER, HUBER, ISAMAN, JENKS, KELLEHER, KNAPP, KOONTZ, LUNDRIGAN, > MAKELEY, > MCDERMOTT, MEHLENBACHER, MERRITT, NEU, NORTHRUP, O"CONNOR, OSINCUP, OXX, > PATTERSON, > POWERS, QUICK, RAHMLOW, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROOT, RYAN, SLAUGHTER, > STOCUM, > WADE, WHITE, WILCOX, WRIGHT, VAN OXX, YECKLEY, YOUNG, ZIMMERMAN. > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email [email protected] > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe > > >

Vicki In regards the "EP MI R" those notes are unfamiliar to me, could be archivers notes. From the Civilwardata.com information (I included it below) one could infer that "772R-Apr 10-63" may refer to an event or document (note that 772OR [here I offer a wild guess: page 772 of Organization (muster?) Roll?] is mentioned again below) note that below it mentions "present on M[uster] R[oll]" on April 10 1863 connected somehow back to his "Muster In" date on September 14, 1862. Again in the remarks it refers back to M-IR (Muster-in roll?) and gives his muster in date. Apparently he was as you surmised absent from muster call and on a casualty list after June 18, 1864. The indication from the data says that your soldier was not present at his "MO" [Muster Out] which occurred on "in absentia" June 22, 1865 at Richmond, Virginia. The unit did not muster out until July 16, in Washington DC. The date June 18, 1864 is two days after the beginning of the Siege at Petersburg, Virgina which lasted until April 2, 1865. (see below Dyer's Compendium for the NY 146th I have guessed at what these things might stand for, it is possible you will be never be absolutely sure what was meant. I hope I helped. Mike Civilwardata.com information: Aaron Dexter Robertson Residence Yates County NY; 18 years old. Enlisted on 8/28/1862 at Benton, NY as a Private. On 9/14/1862 he mustered into "I" Co. NY 148th Infantry He was Mustered Out on 6/22/1865 at Richmond, VA (Absent, at MO) He was listed as: * Wounded 6/18/1864 Petersburg, VA (Absent, since) From Dyer's Compendium: 146th REGIMENT NY INFANTRY ("5th ONEIDA," "HALLECK INFANTRY," "GARRARD'S TIGERS"). Organized at Rome, N.Y., and mustered in October 10, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 11, 1862. Attached to Casey's Division, Defences of Washington, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, to July, 1865. SERVICE.--Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till November, 1862. Joined Army of the Potomac at Snicker's Gap, Va., November 2. Rappahannock Campaign November, 1862, to June, 1863. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15, 1862. At Falmouth to April 27, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. At Warrenton, Beverly Ford and Culpeper till October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Rappahannock Station November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. At Beverly Ford, Va., till May, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Laurel Hill May 8. Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (Reserve). Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm, September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12. Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Lewis Farm, near Gravelly Run, March 29. White Oak Road March 31. Five Forks April 1. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Washington, D.C., May 1-12. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out at Washington, D. C. July 16, 1865. Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 126 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 179 Enlisted men by disease. Total 314. [email protected] wrote: > I recently sent to the archives for information on two men. One I knew was > related the other was a possible. Anyway, I received them the other day and > have a couple of questions perhaps some of you can answer: > > in the side margin before the years column is hand written E.P. M.I. R, > What does it stand for? > > under the line where his info is written, there is a notation that says > "772R-Apr 10" - 63 14 in the days column Sept in Month and 1862; what does this > mean? > > Under remarks: Present on MR-April 10" 1863 > M- IR Sept 14. 62 Absent, sick > Wounded. absent since June 18"1864. 772- OR. > Wounded in Hand. June 19" 1864 near Petersburg. Va. borne as Roberts. > Cas-List June 1864. Ok, I know that he lost two fingers on his left hand, is this > saying that he was at a field hospital in June? What is the M - IR in Sept > of the previous year? What battle might have been going on in Petersburg, > Va. in June of 1864? > > His name was Aaron D. Robertson and he was a private with Company I of the > 148th Inf. He enlisted on 28 August 1862 and mustered in on 31 August 1862. > He later received a pension of $8.00 a month for the loss of his two fingers. > > Any help here understanding these papers would be helpful. Vicki in WNY

I recently sent to the archives for information on two men. One I knew was related the other was a possible. Anyway, I received them the other day and have a couple of questions perhaps some of you can answer: in the side margin before the years column is hand written E.P. M.I. R, What does it stand for? under the line where his info is written, there is a notation that says "772R-Apr 10" - 63 14 in the days column Sept in Month and 1862; what does this mean? Under remarks: Present on MR-April 10" 1863 M- IR Sept 14. 62 Absent, sick Wounded. absent since June 18"1864. 772- OR. Wounded in Hand. June 19" 1864 near Petersburg. Va. borne as Roberts. Cas-List June 1864. Ok, I know that he lost two fingers on his left hand, is this saying that he was at a field hospital in June? What is the M - IR in Sept of the previous year? What battle might have been going on in Petersburg, Va. in June of 1864? His name was Aaron D. Robertson and he was a private with Company I of the 148th Inf. He enlisted on 28 August 1862 and mustered in on 31 August 1862. He later received a pension of $8.00 a month for the loss of his two fingers. Any help here understanding these papers would be helpful. Vicki in WNY Researching these names: ARWINE, BAKER, BARRETT, BENVANSCHOTEN, BRANDOW, BROKAW, BUTLER, CARNES, CROWE, DEAN, FERRIS, GOLDEN, HAVENS, HENDERSHOTT, HOXTER, HUBER, ISAMAN, JENKS, KELLEHER, KNAPP, KOONTZ, LUNDRIGAN, MAKELEY, MCDERMOTT, MEHLENBACHER, MERRITT, NEU, NORTHRUP, O"CONNOR, OSINCUP, OXX, PATTERSON, POWERS, QUICK, RAHMLOW, ROBERTSON, ROBINSON, ROOT, RYAN, SLAUGHTER, STOCUM, WADE, WHITE, WILCOX, WRIGHT, VAN OXX, YECKLEY, YOUNG, ZIMMERMAN.

Vicky, What does WNY stand for? Also, do you have a James S. Brokaw in your records? He was in the 194th Ohio Inf and his wife, Matilda, applied for a CW pension in 1890 from OH. Looking for Matilda's maiden name. Les Williams Tacoma WA