My close kin who fought in the East are:
Gr gr Gramps:
-114th NY, Co. I, Charles H. Babcock (Captured by Mosby while guarding ambulance train between Berryville and Harpers Ferry, POW in Richmond til early 1865)
2nd Great Grand Uncles:
8th NY Cavalry, Co. H, Gilbert Brown, before leaving for War, he got girlfriend, Calista Parker, pregnant about July, 1861.
Gilbert joined 8th NY Cav in 3+ months later, Nov., 1862. His daughter, Cora A. Brown, was born April 10th, 1862 (a month before the 8th’s first battle:
1st Winchester); upon reenlisting he likely got a 30-day furlough to go home, at that time, March 19th, 1864 court document shows he and Calista sat before a judge...
...and Gilbert was ordered to pay the town $30, plus $1 per week in child support. He would be dead by time Cora turned 3).
Fought at 1st Winchester, Harpers Ferry (where unit famously escaped thru the besieging lines/Antietam Campaign), heavy fight/highest Union losses of day @ Beverly Ford/Brandy Station, VA
... opened day #1 @ Gettysburg under Gen. Buford; Overland Campaign/Sheridan's Shenandoah and Wilson's Weldon RR Raids, big fight:
Nottoway Courthouse, captured 6/29/64 @ Reams Station, died 10/1/64 @ Andersonville)
186th NY Capt., Co. E, Lansing Snell, heavy losses on Petersburg breakthru day, April 2nd, 1865 (He is younger bro of Clay’s 4th gr. Gramma Marg Snell – Lansing’s son Jacob and cousin Jeremiah Snell [wounded] also in reg. that same day)
76th NY, Co. B., Sgt. Henry Horton Turner, fought next to Iron Brigade evening of Aug. 28th, 1862 at Brawners Farm (88 casualties, including 17 killed) & Aug. 29th-30th @ 2nd Bull Run; also engaged at South Mountain, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (lightly), 1st day @ Gettysburg (VERY heavily: 195 casualties including 33 killed), discharged for disability Feb., 1864, dying at home that same year. [he applied for invalid pension March 1st, 1864]
Below are 1st thru 3rd cousins
1st Mass. Cavalry, Co. E, Farnum Southwick; in for over 2 yrs; @ Brandy Station, Gettysburg, heaviest fight was May 5th: Todd’s Tavern/Wilderness
1st & 10th Vermont, Col. Albert B. Jewett (1st VT, a 3 month unit, June 1861: Big Bethel) and then to 10th Vermont (2 years: biggest fight was Mine Run, VA, Nov. 27, ’63—10 killed/58 wounded in 10th VT)
2nd Conn. Heavy Art. [converted to infantry], Asahel Brockett, lost eyesight in one eye in Wilderness (went fully blind after War); HEAVY losses at Cold Harbor, 6/1/64 (84 killed/214 wounded!); other heavily engagements 6/22/64 @ Petersburg, 9/19/64 Opequon Creek and 10/19 @ Cedar Creek.
2nd Vermont, Giles Jewett Burgess, 1st Bull Run, Penin., Gburg, wounded Spotsylvania; (also, by marriage: Giles’ sis Eliza’s husband Col. James Walbridge of 2nd VT)
2nd Wisconsin, Charles Elam Jewett (Iron Brigade) 1st Bull Run (wounded), Peninsula Campaign: especially Gaines Mill/Malvern Hill, 2nd Bull Run (wounded in 3 places, Brawners Farm), Gburg (wounded and put out of War)
5th NY Cav, Co. F, John W. Claus [listed on record as “Closs”], at Cedar Mountain, killed 2nd Bull Run
5th Michigan Cav, Co. K, Henry H. Herkimer, under Custer; heaviest fighting: July 3, 63, Gettysburg, then Todd’s Tavern, Yellow Tavern (death of JEB Stewart) and Hawes Shop during Wilderness & Spotsylvania; Opequon & Cedar Creek
5th Vermont, Co. A, Capt. Jesse A. Jewett [NOT FOUND],
7th Ohio, Co. A, & then 150th Ohio, Edgar B. Burton (Jewett side), wounded Port Republic [NOT FOUND],
8th Illinois Cav, Nelson Fader
8th Mich, Co. B, James M. Himes (1st cousin Feeter side), 2 years: big losses at Seccessionvile, also heavily engaged 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, then in 20th Michigan last 3 months before dying of disease.
8th Mich, Co. B, Lester E. Jewett (1st cousin Jewett side), @ 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, then transferred into Co. B, US Army Engineers
8th Mich, Samuel P. Jewett (2nd cousin), 4 years (big losses at Seccessionville, also heavily engaged 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, off to TN for 5 mths, then back for Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon RR)
10th NY Heavy Art., Co. G, Alexander L Timmerman, in front of Petersurg most the time, quick Cedar Creek trip/fight (3 captured), then back for heaviest losses April 2, 65 @ Bermuda Hundred
12th Mass Col. Fletcher Webster (2nd cousin, son my 1st cousin statesman Daniel Webster), lightly engaged @ Balls Bluff, Peninsula, Cedar Mountain, killed during Longstreet’s massive charge at 2nd Bull Run
16th Mich, Co. K, Lt. Wallace Jewett, (1st cousin), Peninsula/heavy losses at Gaines’ Mill (231 casualties including 64 killed), Malvern Hill; heavy casualties @ 2nd Bull Run; engaged at Dec. 13th, ’62 Fredericksburg; killed during defense of Little Round Top
17th Mich, Jonas Porter Jewett, “Came home almost a complete wreck”, unit suffered heavily at South Mountain (140 casualties including 24 killed), Antietam (90 casualties including 15 killed), then by train to TN, then back east: heavy losses in Wilderness, Spotsylvania
22nd NY Cavalry, a Morris Loucks, Joined Feb., 1864, in Grant vs. Lee battles; captured (date unknown), died at Andersonville 10/13/64
81st NY, Co. I, Maurice A. Graves [Brockett side]; In Sept. 1862, wounded @ Swift Creek near Bermuda Hundred, thru Cold Harbor (211 casualties in unit, including 54 killed), “promoted to musician”, transferred to Vet Reserves 1/14/65
103rd Ohio, Francis H. Burton (Jewett side), died of disease after 1.5 years [NOT FOUND]]
107th NY, Co. K, Corp. Reuben Zimmerman, pretty heavily engaged @ Antietam, discharged before Chancelorsville
115th NY, Orville Snell, captured with 12,000 other Union soldiers at Harpers Ferry, wounded Olustee, FL, back north, in Bermuda Hundred engagements; Cold Harbor; captured/paroled 6/16/64 @ Deep Bottom (6 killed/46 wounded that day), Chaffin’s Farm; in front of Petersburg rest of War
115th NY, Alonzo Smith (also in Feeter line), killed at Olustee, FL
121st NY, Lt. George H. Snell disasterous losses at first big fight: May 1863 Salem Chuch/Chancelorsville Campaign (116 casualties including 73 killed!); engaged in Nov. 1863 Mine Run battle, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Opequon & Cedar Creek (11 killed/34 wounded), and Sailors Creek
121st NY, James Alfred Brown, disasterous losses at first big fight: May 1863 Salem Chuch/Chancelorsville Campaign (116 casualties including 73 killed!); engaged in Nov. 1863 Mine Run battle, Wilderness; killed May 10, 1864 @ Spotsylvania
121st NY, Co. A, Milton Snell (3 years; same path as Lt. George Snell, See above)
121st NY, Charles E. Snell (1st cousin; same path as Lt. George Snell, accept Charles discharged after being wounded at Spotsylvania)
121st NY, Sgt. Henry A. Timmerman, (3 years; same path as Lt. George Snell, See above); wounded 3 times: at Fredericksburg, Wilderness and Petersburg
123rd NY George T. Ketcham (1st cousin, s/o gr aunt Gertrude Timmerman) in heavy fight, May 3rd, 1862 Chancellorsville, then Culp’s Hill/Gettysburg, then West to Atlanta, March to Sea, Bentonville.
152nd NY, Henry Eldred, defense of Suffolk, VA then in July, 1863 was ordered to New York city during the draft riots, then w/ Grant for heavy fighting May 5-6, 1864/Wilderness (10 killed/48 wounded) and May 12/Spotsylvania (10 killed/52 wounded), May 3/Cold Harbor (9 killed/16 wounded), he was captured July 22/Weldon RR, died at Andersonville
152nd NY, Lyman Snell, musician/soldier defense of Suffolk,VA; ordered to New York city during the draft riots of July, 1863, then out before ’64 Grant vs. Lee battles)
152nd NY, Lt. Franklin Snell (all 3 years; for battles: see Eldred, above, for path)
152nd NY, Abram Vedder wounded May 5th, 1864, Wilderness (earlier “deserted” from 93rd NY)
157th NY, Joram [listed as “Jerome Timerman”] Timmerman (killed in his first battle: Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863; the 157th suffered 116 casualties)
157th NY, Joram’s bro Walter Timmerman [listed as ‘Timerman”] (fought at Chancellorsville; was 1 of 94 in his regiment captured at Gettysburg, July 1 & 2, 1863; paroled July 3, then listed ad “deserted”)
186th NY, Sgt. Jacob Snell (1st cousin/son of gr uncle Lansing who was Capt. of 186th)
186th NY, Jeremiah Snell (cousin; wounded Petersburg 4/2/65)
193rd NY, Co. A, Robert H. Coppernoll