Hi Carl...this is the last message I've recv'd from you...i miss your interesting responses on the Coes and wonder if i somehow fell off the list....need to re-install myself somehow, but not certain how....thanks and aloha, jan sing CARL R COE wrote: > Date: 11/2/98 6:20 PM > > RE: COE, William A. b. 1844 AL USA > > Sheran, > > Received your package today. The mail is apparently in working order > between here and Custer City. > > After a little study I was able to decipher the script from the 1890 > census. It states "Soldier - W.A. Coe; Rank - private; Company - A; > Regiment - 6 US In (Infantry); Date of Enlistment - 17 Mar 1863; Date of > Discharge - 15 Mar 1866; Length of Service - 0 Yrs., 11 Mos., 28 Days." > > You are correct. The March 17, 1863, is clear. But it must be a mistake. > The discharge date of March 15, 1866, is equally clear. A March 1865 > enlistment date would match with the "11 Mos., 28 Days" length of service. > >From service records its clear that William A. Coe of Alabama joined the > Union Army in 1865 in Columbus, OH. > > I'm more convinced than ever that the William A. Coe of Columbia, AL, and > your William A. Coe of Henderson County, TX, are one and the same person. > > I'm a little confused as to the branch of US service to which he was > attached. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War indicate that he joined the > Union while in prison at Camp Chase and was transferred to "Naval > Rendezvous," Chicago, IL, March 20, 1865. The census entry indicates that > he was in the infantry. > > If it was known that he had switched sides and joined the Union, I doubt > that things were very comfortable for him back home in Alabama. That may be > one reason for his removal to Texas. > > He obviously left Alabama some time after 1870 and was in Henderson County, > TX, by > Oct. 27, 1879, when he married Susan Litchfield. > > Do you know in which county the Litchfields lived in Alabama? Is it > possible that they knew each other before moving to Henderson County, TX? > Did you say her parents were Thomas H. and Mahala Jane Litchfield? > > There was almost twenty years age difference between William and Susan. > Not so unusual, but makes me wonder why he did not marry until he was 35. > He seems to have kept to himself. And as noted earlier, if he's the > Columbia, AL, William A. Coe, he spent time under arrest and in the guard > house while serving with "The Mobile Cadets." > > Perhaps this led to his transfer to the Louisiana Infantry. According to > his service records, on March 1, 1864, at Mobile, AL, he was "transferred > from 1st Alabama Heavy Artillery" to Company G, 4th Louisiana Infantry, > Confederate Army. > > With that regiment he was captured Dec. 17, 1864, at Franklin, TN. Received > at the military prison at Louisville, KY, December 22, he was transferred > on to Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, Jan. 2, 1865. From there he signed the Oath > of Allegiance to the Federal Government and enlisted for US military > service; transferred to Chicago, March 20. > > Just 16 or 17-years-old when he first joined the Alabama Artillery in > February 1861, he was a seasoned veteran by the time the war ended. > > I will send the request for military records to the National Archives. If > we're lucky they'll be able to find a record. If we're real lucky, in his > file will be an enlistment form which will include personal information > which should prove invaluable. > > I must admit that I'm not overly optomistic. But let's keep our fingers > crossed. > > Carl Robert Coe > > ==== COE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the mail-mode list, send a message to COE-L-request@rootsweb.com Type the word unsubscribe in the body of the message.