Cdoug96
Corporal
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2016
- Location
- Michigan, United States
Here are my Civil War ancestors. I will start with my direct ancestors first.
Direct Ancestors
Pvt. William Douglas (circa 1818 - 1897)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 4th Regiment Illinois Cavalry (Company D) and 12th Regiment Illinois Cavalry (Company L)
Rank: Private
Enlisted: January 14, 1864
Consolidated into the 12th: June 14, 1865
Mustered out: Oct. 27, 1865, by Certificate of Disability
Burial: Leon, Butler, Kansas
Possible Actions:
Meridian Campaign February 2-March 2 1884. (Cos. "A," "B," "C," "D"). Chunky Station February 14. Washington March 29 (Detachment). Concordia July 25. Expedition from Natchez to Gillespie's Plantation August 4-6. Gillespie's Plantation August 5 (Detachment). Cross Bayou August 6. Bullitt's Bayou August 26. Consolidated to a Battalion of 5 companies October 14, 1864. Expedition from Natchez to Buck's Ferry and skirmishes September 21-26. Expedition from Natchez to Woodville October 4-11 (Detachment). Woodville October 5-6. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., December. Grierson's Raid on Mobile and Ohio R. R. December 21, 1864, to January 15, 1865. Franklin Creek December 21-22. Verona December 25, 1864. Egypt Station December 28. Franklin January 2, 1865. Duty at Memphis till June. Expedition from Memphis to Marion, Ark., January 19-22. Expedition from Memphis into Northern Mississippi February 3-11. Expedition from Memphis to Brownsville, Miss., April 23-26. Consolidated with 12th Illinois Cavalry June 14, 1865.
Service detail: Present for duty until May and July 1865 where he is marked absent sick with chronic conjunctivitis (having first experienced symptoms in August or September of 1864). He was sent to the General Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in May and July 1865 (having first reported to the regimental hospital where within 48 hours he was sent to the General Hospital in Memphis). Honorably discharged Oct. 27, 1865, by Certificate of Disability, he was kept on the rolls of the 12th Illinois Cavalry until May 29, 1866, when he was again reported to have been discharged but that appears to have been an clerical error.
Sgt. William Myers (1832 - 1912)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 10th United States Infantry (Company I) and 26th New York Cavalry (Company G)
Rank: 1st Sergeant
Enlisted in the 10th United States Infantry: 4 May 1855
Mustered out: 22 November 1862, for disability
Reenlisted in the 26th New York Cavalry: January 28, 1865
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Probable Actions:
10th US Infantry: Duty in Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20.
26th Cav.: Organized for one year's service on the Northern Frontier of New York. Company "G" organized at Plattsburg, N. Y., and mustered in February 11, 1865. Mustered out at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 6, 1865.
Capt. William Hume Campbell (1829 - 1895)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 60th Illinois Infantry (Company G)
Rank: Captain
Enlisted: February 17, 1862
Mustered out: July 31, 1865
Burial: Hamilton County, Illinois
Possible Actions: 1862 and the first half of 1863 he was home on recruiting duty, Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 20, thence march to Columbia, Athens, Huntsville and Stevenson, Ala., August 24-September 7, and to Bridgeport, Ala., September 12. Duty there till October 1. Operations up the Sequatchie Valley against Wheeler October 1-17. Anderson's Cross Roads October 2 (Detachment). Moved to Waldron's Ridge, thence to Kelly's Ferry and guard lines of transportation till January, 1864. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27, 1863. Chickamauga Station November 26. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 24. At Rossville, Ga., till May, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Near Tunnel Hill May 5. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Rome May 17-18. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's or Vining Station July 4. Chattahoochie River May 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. At hospital at Lookout Mountain, Tennesse, August 1864, soon rejoins Company. Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Forest and Hood September 29-November 3. He is detached from regiment because he is sick November 15, 1864, sent to hospital at Lookout Mountain, Tennesse, until 31 Dec 1864 or 1 January 1865. Rejoined the Company and Regiment February 1865. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N.C., March 13. Averysboro, Taylor's Hole Creek, March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 12. Provost guard at headquarters 14th Army Corps till July 31. Mustered out July 31, 1865.
Pvt. Theodore DeKimpe (1821 - 1873)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 42nd Illinois Infantry (Company E)
Rank: Private
Enlisted: July 26, 1861
Wounded: Minnie Ball shatters one of his legs but it is not amputated, probably at the Battle of Stones River. He wears a elastic stocking for the rest of his life.
Mustered out: March 11, 1863, one record says for disability, but probably actually for wounds incurred in battle
Cause of Death: Gifted a cannon by the regiment, during a firing at a celebration in support of President Grant at Medina, Missouri, his wounds are aggravated and it kills him about 9 weeks later, Jan. 14, 1873.
Burial: Adair, Adair County, Missouri
Possible Actions: Joined Fremont at Tipton, Mo., October 18, 1861. Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo., October 18-November 9. Duty at Smithton, Mo., December 13, 1861, to February 3, 1862. March to St. Charles, Mo., thence moved to Fort Holt, Ky., February 2-20, 1862. Operations against New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, Mississippi River, February 28-April 8. Engagement at New Madrid, March 3-4. Actions at Island Number 10, March 15-16 and 25. Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Action at Farmington May 3. Reconnoissance toward Corinth May 8. Action at Farmington May 9. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Skirmish at Rienzi June 3 (Detachment). Reconnoissance toward Baldwyn June 3. Camp at Big Springs June 14 to July 22. Moved to Iuka, Miss., July 22, thence to Courtland, Ala. Skirmish at Courtland August 22. Duty along line of Memphis and Charleston R. R. till September 2. March to Nashville, Tenn., September 3-12. Action at Columbia, Tenn., September 9. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 6. Repulse of Forest's attack on Edgefield November 5. Duty at Nashville till December 26. Hardin Pike near Nashville December 3. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Expedition to Columbia March 5-11.
Cpl. Albert Eugene Terwilliger (1844 - 1922)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 138th New York Infantry/9th New York Heavy Artillery (Company B)
Rank: Corporal
Enlisted: August 14, 1862
Regiment Redesignated: December 9, 1862
Wounded: September 19, 1864, at the Battle of Opequon, in the shoulder
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Clayton, Lenawee, Michigan
Possible Actions: Organized at Auburn, N.Y., and mustered in September 8, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., September 12, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Defences north of the Potomac, Defences of Washington, to December, 1862. Designation of Regiment changed to 9th New York Heavy Artillery December 9, 1862. Garrison duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till May, 1864, during which time built and garrisoned Forts Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines and Foote. Relieved from garrison duty and ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field May 18, 1864. Rapidan Campaign May-June. North Anna River May 26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 18-19. Siege of Petersburg June 18-July 6 Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 6-8. Battle of Monocacy, Md., July 9. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28 . Near Charlestown August 21-22. Charlestown August 29. Battle of Winchester September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Kernstown till December. Moved to Washington, D. C., December 3; thence to Petersburg, Va. Siege of Petersburg, Va., December, 1864, to April, 1865. Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Amelia Springs April 5. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Expedition to Danville April 17-27. Duty there and at Richmond till June. Moved to Washington, D. C. Corps Review June 8. Mustered Out July 6, 1865.
Direct Ancestors
Pvt. William Douglas (circa 1818 - 1897)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 4th Regiment Illinois Cavalry (Company D) and 12th Regiment Illinois Cavalry (Company L)
Rank: Private
Enlisted: January 14, 1864
Consolidated into the 12th: June 14, 1865
Mustered out: Oct. 27, 1865, by Certificate of Disability
Burial: Leon, Butler, Kansas
Possible Actions:
Meridian Campaign February 2-March 2 1884. (Cos. "A," "B," "C," "D"). Chunky Station February 14. Washington March 29 (Detachment). Concordia July 25. Expedition from Natchez to Gillespie's Plantation August 4-6. Gillespie's Plantation August 5 (Detachment). Cross Bayou August 6. Bullitt's Bayou August 26. Consolidated to a Battalion of 5 companies October 14, 1864. Expedition from Natchez to Buck's Ferry and skirmishes September 21-26. Expedition from Natchez to Woodville October 4-11 (Detachment). Woodville October 5-6. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., December. Grierson's Raid on Mobile and Ohio R. R. December 21, 1864, to January 15, 1865. Franklin Creek December 21-22. Verona December 25, 1864. Egypt Station December 28. Franklin January 2, 1865. Duty at Memphis till June. Expedition from Memphis to Marion, Ark., January 19-22. Expedition from Memphis into Northern Mississippi February 3-11. Expedition from Memphis to Brownsville, Miss., April 23-26. Consolidated with 12th Illinois Cavalry June 14, 1865.
Service detail: Present for duty until May and July 1865 where he is marked absent sick with chronic conjunctivitis (having first experienced symptoms in August or September of 1864). He was sent to the General Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in May and July 1865 (having first reported to the regimental hospital where within 48 hours he was sent to the General Hospital in Memphis). Honorably discharged Oct. 27, 1865, by Certificate of Disability, he was kept on the rolls of the 12th Illinois Cavalry until May 29, 1866, when he was again reported to have been discharged but that appears to have been an clerical error.
Sgt. William Myers (1832 - 1912)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 10th United States Infantry (Company I) and 26th New York Cavalry (Company G)
Rank: 1st Sergeant
Enlisted in the 10th United States Infantry: 4 May 1855
Mustered out: 22 November 1862, for disability
Reenlisted in the 26th New York Cavalry: January 28, 1865
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Soldiers Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Probable Actions:
10th US Infantry: Duty in Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines' Mill June 27; Turkey Bridge June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 28-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Shepherdstown Ford September 19-20.
26th Cav.: Organized for one year's service on the Northern Frontier of New York. Company "G" organized at Plattsburg, N. Y., and mustered in February 11, 1865. Mustered out at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 6, 1865.
Capt. William Hume Campbell (1829 - 1895)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 60th Illinois Infantry (Company G)
Rank: Captain
Enlisted: February 17, 1862
Mustered out: July 31, 1865
Burial: Hamilton County, Illinois
Possible Actions: 1862 and the first half of 1863 he was home on recruiting duty, Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 20, thence march to Columbia, Athens, Huntsville and Stevenson, Ala., August 24-September 7, and to Bridgeport, Ala., September 12. Duty there till October 1. Operations up the Sequatchie Valley against Wheeler October 1-17. Anderson's Cross Roads October 2 (Detachment). Moved to Waldron's Ridge, thence to Kelly's Ferry and guard lines of transportation till January, 1864. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27, 1863. Chickamauga Station November 26. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 24. At Rossville, Ga., till May, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Near Tunnel Hill May 5. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Rome May 17-18. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's or Vining Station July 4. Chattahoochie River May 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. At hospital at Lookout Mountain, Tennesse, August 1864, soon rejoins Company. Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Forest and Hood September 29-November 3. He is detached from regiment because he is sick November 15, 1864, sent to hospital at Lookout Mountain, Tennesse, until 31 Dec 1864 or 1 January 1865. Rejoined the Company and Regiment February 1865. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N.C., March 13. Averysboro, Taylor's Hole Creek, March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 12. Provost guard at headquarters 14th Army Corps till July 31. Mustered out July 31, 1865.
Pvt. Theodore DeKimpe (1821 - 1873)
Relationship: great, great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 42nd Illinois Infantry (Company E)
Rank: Private
Enlisted: July 26, 1861
Wounded: Minnie Ball shatters one of his legs but it is not amputated, probably at the Battle of Stones River. He wears a elastic stocking for the rest of his life.
Mustered out: March 11, 1863, one record says for disability, but probably actually for wounds incurred in battle
Cause of Death: Gifted a cannon by the regiment, during a firing at a celebration in support of President Grant at Medina, Missouri, his wounds are aggravated and it kills him about 9 weeks later, Jan. 14, 1873.
Burial: Adair, Adair County, Missouri
Possible Actions: Joined Fremont at Tipton, Mo., October 18, 1861. Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo., October 18-November 9. Duty at Smithton, Mo., December 13, 1861, to February 3, 1862. March to St. Charles, Mo., thence moved to Fort Holt, Ky., February 2-20, 1862. Operations against New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, Mississippi River, February 28-April 8. Engagement at New Madrid, March 3-4. Actions at Island Number 10, March 15-16 and 25. Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Action at Farmington May 3. Reconnoissance toward Corinth May 8. Action at Farmington May 9. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Skirmish at Rienzi June 3 (Detachment). Reconnoissance toward Baldwyn June 3. Camp at Big Springs June 14 to July 22. Moved to Iuka, Miss., July 22, thence to Courtland, Ala. Skirmish at Courtland August 22. Duty along line of Memphis and Charleston R. R. till September 2. March to Nashville, Tenn., September 3-12. Action at Columbia, Tenn., September 9. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 6. Repulse of Forest's attack on Edgefield November 5. Duty at Nashville till December 26. Hardin Pike near Nashville December 3. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Expedition to Columbia March 5-11.
Cpl. Albert Eugene Terwilliger (1844 - 1922)
Relationship: great, great, great grandfather
Regiments: 138th New York Infantry/9th New York Heavy Artillery (Company B)
Rank: Corporal
Enlisted: August 14, 1862
Regiment Redesignated: December 9, 1862
Wounded: September 19, 1864, at the Battle of Opequon, in the shoulder
Mustered out: July 6, 1865
Burial: Clayton, Lenawee, Michigan
Possible Actions: Organized at Auburn, N.Y., and mustered in September 8, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., September 12, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Defences north of the Potomac, Defences of Washington, to December, 1862. Designation of Regiment changed to 9th New York Heavy Artillery December 9, 1862. Garrison duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till May, 1864, during which time built and garrisoned Forts Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines and Foote. Relieved from garrison duty and ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field May 18, 1864. Rapidan Campaign May-June. North Anna River May 26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 18-19. Siege of Petersburg June 18-July 6 Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 6-8. Battle of Monocacy, Md., July 9. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28 . Near Charlestown August 21-22. Charlestown August 29. Battle of Winchester September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty at Kernstown till December. Moved to Washington, D. C., December 3; thence to Petersburg, Va. Siege of Petersburg, Va., December, 1864, to April, 1865. Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2. Amelia Springs April 5. Sailor's Creek April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Expedition to Danville April 17-27. Duty there and at Richmond till June. Moved to Washington, D. C. Corps Review June 8. Mustered Out July 6, 1865.
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