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 […]
Day: April 29, 2021
Meredith T JenkinsMeredith T Jenkins
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69719546/meredith-t.-jenkins
James Albert KeetonJames Albert Keeton
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9705470/james-a.-keeton
Lycurgus Washington CaldwellLycurgus Washington Caldwell
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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 RhodesJohn William Rhodes
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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 CoffeyJesse Calton Coffey
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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 […]
Albert Curtis GroomAlbert Curtis Groom
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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 OliverThomas Andrew Jackson Oliver
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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 […]
Henry Clay BallardHenry Clay Ballard
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Not much is known about Henry Ballard, except that he was an engineer before the Civil War, and a soldier in the Confederate Army, Company F, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Fitzhugh´s Regiment, Lee Div., under the commands of General J.E.B. Stuart, Colonel Thomas Munford, and Captain William Graves. Prior to the war, Mr. Ballard had been […]