Connell Ancestor

[Mary Beth Crips]

I am researching my dad's ancestor's, Connell, in the Confederate Army. Thank you.

 

[Patrick H]

Hi, Mary Beth and welcome from Missouri. If you will post a little more information about your dad's ancestor, I think you'll be amazed at how much help you will find here.

Just post whatever you know: Full name, birth and death dates, what state you believe he lived in or served in...anything like that. Post everything you've got. Then sit back and be amazed at what these researchers will do for you!

 

[Allie]

Hi Mary Beth! Posting the pension records and cards for John M Connell, brother of your civil war ancestor, Thomas Jordan Connell. John was also a member of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Battalion, but unlike Thomas, who ended up in the 4th Georgia Sharpshooters, John became sick after a brief period of service and was sent to the hospital. According to his pension application, he was sick in the hospital until the end of the war.

I'm house sitting for someone right now and the internet here is S L O W. So finding stuff out is taking longer than anticipated!

 

[Allie]

This was a little bit different from the usual pension record... John M died at the end of the fiscal year, too late for his widow to file paperwork to claim his pension, and the Georgia legislature passed a special resolution allowing her the pension money.

 

[Allie]

Previous information about Thomas Jordan Connell was posted on this thread:

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/hello-from-wyoming.115974/

 

[Allie]

It took me a while to figure out what this next record was, since I haven't encountered this sort of record before. What confused me is that this muster roll for the 56th GA Home Guards, dated March 5, 1862, lists John M Connell even though his combined service record records him present with the 3rd infantry at the same date.

Reading the last page of the muster explained it. Georgia had a well-organized militia which overlapped with the regiments raised during the war. My ancestor William Landrum, for example, was an officer in the local militia and had to resign his militia commission before he was able to join a cavalry company. It appears that this is a record made for the Pike county militia which includes the names of all adult males subject to military service in Pike county, including those who had already joined another military unit. Note that the final count equals the sum of all the categories enumerated on the last page. So John M Connell appears here as a male from Pike County, not as a member of the 56th Home Guards.

 

[Mary Beth Crips]

With appreciation, thank you for your time. These documents are awesome to look at!