The only Greene County soldier to win the coveted medal during the Civil War. Seward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Cummings" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] Greene County famous sons (and daughters) > Sylvia, > Another prominent Greene County figure that has come to mind is > William Plimley ( Old Route 23 named in his honor ) > Plimley was a Catskill boy who for many years made his way by setting > type in the office of the Catskill Recorder. > Later, responding to his country's call, he enlisted in1862 in the town of > Cairo as a private in Co.K, 120th NYS Regiment . In a few months he was > promoted to sergeant. In 1863 he advanced to quartermaster sergeant and > won his 2nd lieutenant bars in the spring of 1864. For meritorious service > to his country he was promoted to1st lieutenant in the fall of 1864. > On April 2,1865, as a first lieutenant, William Plimley was awared the > Congressional Medal of Honor during the last battle on Hatcher's Run. > His outstanding gallantry and extraordinary heroism in the face of a > horrendous > fire from the enemy in a last ditch stand to hold his crumbling line > before > Petersburg - rallied his men to make a last successful charge. This broke > the back of the Confederate resistance and demoralized their great corp > when > A.P. Hill, their corps commander fell along with hundreds of his gallant > men. > After the war he became Department Chief of the Board of Elections for > the City of New York. He was the originator and for two years the > president > of the Greene County Society. In 1913 he died while at his job. > > Zeke > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylvia Hasenkopf" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:12 PM > Subject: [NYGREENE] Greene County famous sons (and daughters) > > >> Folks, I am liasing with a producer who is putting together a documentary >> on >> Greene county that will air on PBS in the fall. He is interested in >> knowing >> more about Greene County famous sons and daughters. Folks who were >> inventors, like William Bullock, printing press fame, innovators like >> Henry >> Meiggs, who built Chile and Peru's railways, maggie Van Coot, the famous >> evangelist. >> >> Any others you folks know about, that I should add to the list? >> >> Sylvia >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1909 - Release Date: > 1/22/2009 > 7:08 AM > > > ------------------------------- > 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