BFD, right?
I don't know that much at all about my ancestry, but this morning I got started on ancestry.com with my dad.
We found a G G G-father with the 26th Missouri Infantry- Company A..... Solomon F Kessinger. He died in 1865 but I don't know the date so I can't match it with a battle.
I'm pretty excited!
Twenty-sixth Infantry
MISSOURI
(3-YEARS)
Twenty-sixth Infantry. -- Cols., George B. Boomer, Benjamin D.
Dean; Lieut.-Cols., John H. Holman, John McFall, Theron M.
Rice Majs., L. E. Kaniuszeski, Charles F. Brown, Richard C.
Crowell, Theron M. Rice, John Rees.
The 26th was organized in Dec., 1861, and soon after being
mustered in joined the expedition under Gen. Pope against New
Madrid. It then participated in the battles of Tiptonville,
Farmington, Corinth, Iuka, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson,
Champion's Hill Black river, the siege of Vicksburg,
Missionary Ridge, and the several engagements of the Atlanta
campaign, after which it was with Gen. Sherman on his march to
the sea and through the Carolinas.
In Jan., 1865, Companies A to G. inclusive, were mustered out
at the expiration of their term of enlistment, and the
veterans were continued in service until Aug. 13, following.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 265
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George B. Boomer
Enlisted on 9/1/1861 as a Colonel.
On 9/1/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff 26th MO. Union Infantry Volunteers
He was Killed on 5/22/1863 at Vicksburg, MS
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