Like the rest of us, i also have a LOTTA dirt-farming grunts..... privates and corporals
...but also have a few commissioned gents... here are JUST the ones who fought in the Virginia theater since i happen to be compiling a list for my battlefield trip there next month:
Gr gr Grampses:
-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 (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; During REENLISTMENT furlough in Dec. 1863, he got girlfriend pregnant back home; but he would be dead by time his daughter turned 2 months old; back in unit for 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 breakout 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)
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), 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
34th NY, Co. A, Capt. Emerson S. Merriman (Brockett side) [NOT FOUND]]
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
121st NY, Adam H. Timmerman (found a Henry A. Timmerman in 121st, may be him); wounded on “break thru day,” April 2nd 1865
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.
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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)[
That list must have taken sometime to research