Company C 2 US Sharpershooter help

[Gettysburg Bullet]

Hello
I am doing research on the members of this Unit, trying to find Birth/Death/grave site (do they have A Unit tombstone or a GAR Star), stories, obituaries and pictures. I know in 64 Company C went into the 105th PA. I have used Ancestry/ Fold3/ National Grave Registration database but have run into a brick wall trying to find information on the following:

Abbott, Jared - Potter County PA
Dickens, Daniel - Bradford Co PA (?)
Johnson, Obediah (Obadiah) Johnson- Potter Co. PA
Kelly, Thomas - ? Yea, I know, millions of Kellys'
Liness, Thomas B - Clearfield Co PA
Long, Thomas - Jefferson Co PA
McCullough, William - Jefferson Co PA
McMurray, John - " " " " '" '" "
Mulkins, John B - ???
Quinn, John - Ireland
Riddell, Edgar Eugene - Clearfield Co PA
Thompson, Wesley (Westley) C - Jefferson Co PA
Watts, James - """" " " " ' " " " "
Williams, Samuel F - Clearfield Co PA (?)

Grateful for ANY HELP out there.

Can provide email address if you're willing to share……

 

[Stryker65]

No idea where the roster is. I checked Bates and he surprisingly doesn't have a roster for the PA companies, even thought I think the NY rosters include the NY companies in the USSS. But I went through the 105th's roster and located two of the names in your list: Privates Edgar E. Riddell and Samuel F. Williams of C, 2nd USSS were transferred to C, 105th PA on February 20, 1865 and served out their time there.

 

[Stryker65]

Thomas B. Lines joined Company C on March 16, 1864 and went MIA at the Battle of the Wilderness two months later on May 6, 1864.

The histories of all three of the above men can be found in this website for Civil War soldiers from Clearfield County: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/aldrich/chapter-12.htm

 

[Stryker65]

Thomas Long had previously served in Company I, 8th Pennsylvania Infantry (a three-months unit).
https://occgs.com/projects/rescue/locations/pennsylvania/VARIOUS CO._PA_MILITARY.pdf

 

[Stryker65]

William McCullough was wounded and captured at the Battle of Second Manassas. His rifle was recently for sale.
https://www.rockislandauction.com/d...-antique-american-percussion-halfstock-rifles
He was the first blacksmith to operate a shop in his hometown of Brookville, and died in August of 1884.

https://www.pa-roots.com/jefferson/katescotthistory/chapter32.html

 

[Fairfield]

You've set your self a challenging task! I checked HDS and couldn't find

• Daniel Dickens (there was a William Dickenson)
• Thomas Kelly (or Kelley, Kellie)
• Thomas Liness
• John Mulkins
• John Quinn
• Edgar Riddell

Those on the list that I did find had almost no information but I can add something on Obediah Johnson. His widow Betsey filed for a widow's pension in 1864 which sounds like he didn't survive the war.

I'll go down your list in other places in the morning but, if I were you, I'd check:

• Pension Files
• 1890 Vets Schedule
• SUV Graves (https://www.suvcwdb.org/)

 

[Stryker65]

Wesley C. Thompson was captured at the First Battle of Fredericksburg. He was sent to Libby Prison and later paroled.
https://www.west-penn-families.com/venango/f319799.htm

 

[Kyle Kalasnik]

Jared Abbott- http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/Vets_CivilWar_A-I_Potter.htm
O. Johnson -

Civil War Veterans J-Z

Civil War, Veterans, Potter County, PA, Pennsylvania, genealogy

www.paintedhills.org

 

[Gettysburg Bullet]

Wesley C. Thompson was captured at the First Battle of Fredericksburg. He was sent to Libby Prison and later paroled.
https://www.west-penn-families.com/venango/f319799.htm

Thank you sooo much with your help! I will continue to try and find information on the rest of my missing guys

 

[Fairfield]

I didn't do very well . Of the entire list, only 3 were on the HDS roster of the 105th (at least that I spotted: Thomas B Linas, Edgar E. Riddell and Samuel F. Williams. All in Company C. And maybe Thomas Kelly (Co. E), mustered out in DC.

Linas and Riddell both were wounded at Wilderness and both disappeared thereafter from the records.

Samuel F. Williams, however, mustered out in DC on 7/11/1865. He went back to Pennsylvania where he married Margaret (Truby?). According to the 1870 census, he was born c. 1831. Sometime after 1871, he moved late to Grant, Nicholas, WVA. In 1890 he submitted an entry to the Vets' Schedule (claiming an ailment called "malarial prisim". He filed for an invalid pension from WVA in 1892. He's on the 1800 census but not on the census of 1900; he may have died sometime between 1892-1900. He and Margaret MAY have had a son--born 1871 in PA--named George Tecumseh Williams.

 

[Gettysburg Bullet]

Jared Abbott- http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/Vets_CivilWar_A-I_Potter.htm
O. Johnson -

Civil War Veterans J-Z

Civil War, Veterans, Potter County, PA, Pennsylvania, genealogy

www.paintedhills.org

Thanks for your help

I didn't do very well . Of the entire list, only 3 were on the HDS roster of the 105th (at least that I spotted: Thomas B Linas, Edgar E. Riddell and Samuel F. Williams. All in Company C. And maybe Thomas Kelly (Co. E), mustered out in DC.

Linas and Riddell both were wounded at Wilderness and both disappeared thereafter from the records.

Samuel F. Williams, however, mustered out in DC on 7/11/1865. He went back to Pennsylvania where he married Margaret (Truby?). According to the 1870 census, he was born c. 1831. Sometime after 1871, he moved late to Grant, Nicholas, WVA. In 1890 he submitted an entry to the Vets' Schedule (claiming an ailment called "malarial prisim". He filed for an invalid pension from WVA in 1892. He's on the 1800 census but not on the census of 1900; he may have died sometime between 1892-1900. He and Margaret MAY have had a son--born 1871 in PA--named George Tecumseh Williams.

Thanks for your help! I'll accept any help I can get