Elbert Fowler —————————————- Birth: 24 Nov 1843, West Virginia2,18 Death: 23 Feb 1885, age: 41 Death Memo: Murdered Occ: Lawyer, Newspaper Editor Elbert Fowler served in the cavalry during the Civil War. He was captured at Moorefield, Virginia in September 1864, imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio for nine months until after the surrender. He was a prominent lawyer of …
Monthly Archives: April 2021
William Toliver Hart
Enlistment: March 1862, Fredricksburg, Virginia William’s pension application states 2 March 1862, although multiple muster rolls state 12 March 1862. His pension application was dated July 1906, a full 50+ years after service. Certainly understandable to be off the exact day. Unit: Co. H 47th Regiment Virginia Infantry ~ A.P. Hill’s Light Division, Army of …
Meredith T Jenkins
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James Albert Keeton
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Lycurgus Washington Caldwell
Lycurgus was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1823. Son of a newspaper publisher and grandson of a Partiot of the Revolutionary War, he was well educated in private schools. At age 17 he left for Washington D.C. to find employment. He obtained a position with Dr. Col. Samuel F.B. Morse as a laboratory assistant. In …
John William Rhodes
Rhodes, John W Private—Enlisted in Co. D, 10th Arkansas Cavalry, at Camden, Arkansas, October 25, 1863; present, February 29, 1864; captured at Longview, Arkansas, March 29, 1864; confined at U.S. Military Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, until released on oath of allegiance on May 7, 1865; previously served in Co. C, 15th (Johnson’s) Arkansas Infantry; born …
Jesse Calton Coffey
Jesse Calton Coffey was born 21 Apr 1827 In Burke County, North Carolina To Rev. Reuben and Rachel Hayes Coffey. By The outbreak of the Civil war he was married with seven children and living in Haywood County, North Carolina. On 17 Aug 1861 At the age of 34 he enlisted in Company E of …
Daniel B. Dorris
Albert Curtis Groom
Albert Groom was taken prisoner, along with his brother-in-law, James T. Goode. They were both incarcerated at Elmira POW camp. James Goode and his brother Washington Goode died and are buried at the Elmira POW cemetery. Albert survived Elmira and was released 19 June 1865. He was in such poor health from the depravity of …
Thomas Andrew Jackson Oliver
Thomas AJ Oliver was called a traitor by some of his neighbors, but it appears more likely that he simply refused to re-enlist when his unit got order to leave Gloucester, Virginia and go to the defend of Richmond late in the war. This speaks to the point that he had never traveled outside of …