Hi again, INGRAM list members. Here is the result of some research the past few years on a son of Warren County, NY (touched on in other post made today), John H. Ingraham, who died in the service of his country. The National Battlefield Park in Yorktown, Virginia, is of course the scene of the final major battle of the Revolution (1781). If you have been there, you know that today it is still a quiet, reverent place. Within site of the Park's Visitor Center, is a very well maintained cemetery, a National Cemetery maintained I think by the Park Service vice the DVA. The cemetery contains not Revolutionary dead, but U.S. and Confederate dead from the Civil War. At least one son of Warren County is there, John H. Ingraham (although his name is misspelled on the stone a little). The Underwood cemetery in Adirondack, Town of Horicon, is the final resting place for Melissa Barton Ingraham as well as other Ingrahams and includes a Civil War memorial marker for her son, John H. Ingraham, who was born in Horicon and started working as a lumberer at a young age (like the Underwoods). Thanks to the good work of some historians in Warren County you can see the list of those buried there on the Warren County Page. Also, although I am an Underwood and have direct ancestors buried there (to include John H. Ingraham's parents - I'm an Ingraham too), I don't think there are any Underwoods buried there. On 27 January 1861, claiming to be 20 years old, 5�6" tall, blue eyed with brown hair John H. Ingraham enlisted as a private soldier in Company I of the 96th New York Infantry (I/96/N.Y.) in Pottersville for a three year term of service. Actually, John H., who was born 26 May 1844, was only 17. About 50 of his neighbors enlisted at the same time, under the command of C.H. Burhans. John H. was killed in combat on or about 31 May 1862, at or near Yorktown, Virginia, and his name appears on the burial register at the National Cemetery, Yorktown (he is buried in plot number 562) as noted above. (And, as noted, little more than 80 years before, the United States had won its independence on the same ground.) According to I/96/N.Y. records received from the National Archives, John H. was reported sick in Washington beginning 12 April 1862 and declared (in error) absent without leave 18 August 1862 (after his death). He had apparently been separated from his I/96/N.Y. and reassigned to another unit when he was killed (without his own unit�s knowledge). He was (in error) declared a deserter later in 1862 and was administratively mustered out of I/96/N.Y., at City Point, Virginia, 6 February 1886 (nearly four years after his death). Justly, albeit belatedly, the Adjutant General�s Office of the War Department, issued the following order from Washington, D.C. on 20 March 1888: John H. INGRAHAM, Co. I, 96th Regiment, N.Y. Vol�s, Notation "of Nov. 8. 1887 is canceled. All charges of absent without leave and desertion against this man, subsequent to April 30th, 1862, are removed. He is supposed to have died on or about May 31st, at or near Yorktown, VA, as his name appears on the burial register and Roll of Honor of the National Cemetery, Yorktown, VA." (John H. Ingraham�s brother, Orange B. Ingraham (1846-1931), served in Company B, 46th Regiment, New York Volunteers and was wounded in the battle of Petersburg, Virginia. Orange H. Underwood, my grandfather was named after Orange B. (Orange not being a popular name for kids) By the way, the stone itself has the name John H. Jugraham, but it is clearly John H. Ingraham. I have thought about ways to rectify this as it seems, even so many years after the fact, the right thing to do. Footnote: History of Warren County. 1885 (republished 1981), p.242, "The Ninety-Sixth, in the early stages of its services, was severely depressed, through the unfavorable auspices by which it was surrounded, but after the brave and accomplished Gray (Charles O. Gray, lieutenant-colonel) was placed in command, the regiment rapidly attained a very high reputation. It had been precipitated by ill-advised councils into active service without the advantages of adequate drilling, and was hurried into the peninsula campaign before the habits of the troops were adapted to field duty, and why they were yet unacclimated. From this cause and some dissensions among officers, the efficiency of the regiment was much impaired for a period." We can speculate that for this reason, i.e., rushing untrained, undisciplined troops into combat without proper leadership - there probably wasn't much of this anyplace at the beginnin of th war, young upstate NY men died on the Virginia peninsula, in John H. Ingraham�s case, within a week of his 18th birthday. Bob Underwood Phnom Penh, Cambodia