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Well, like we said a few pages back, we love a challenge!This has turned in to an interesting thread. It appears may people are getting new information about their ancestors.
Well, like we said a few pages back, we love a challenge!This has turned in to an interesting thread. It appears may people are getting new information about their ancestors.
It does appear we have many forum members who are also genealogists.Well, like we said a few pages back, we love a challenge!
That's how I started out. My family didn't come to America until about 50 years after the Civil War, but one day I was reading a Civil War diary from Andersonville where the writer left a blank where the names of the six raiders should have been. I went look up the names to fill in the blank mentally and discovered that there were 7 names for 6 men who were hanged, and off I went! By the time I solved it (one of the guys was using an alias), I had enough information for a book and a relatively unique skills set, that I mostly only get to use here and when I'm writing.It does appear we have many forum members who are also genealogists.
Assuming he was on the Union side and survived the war, he would have almost certainly filed for a disability pension. If you can get his pension records (there are services that will do this for you at a reasonable cost), there will be more detail that you ever wanted to see.My ancestor was also wounded at Gettysburg, severely per his records, but I was never able to determine the nature of his wound. He returns to the army in time to get captured in June of 1864.
I would love to know the nature of his wound there also but no luck in that quest either.
For someone in the family to know about the sacrifices he made for his country is important to me.
John
In the absence of a widow or children, a parent frequently received a pension.@Fritz1255 Thanks a lot for your comments. I appreciate any help I can get. He never married or had children and died a pow in 1864 so no pension records I am told.
Hello Arnie and welcome to CivilWarTalk. Happy to have you aboard! If anyone will know whether your ancestor was imprisoned at Andersonville it's @Gary Morgan She should see this post now that I tagged her and be along shortly to let you know of Tolley has any records at Andersonville.I'm a newbie, but yes! My Ancestor was Peleg Nelson Tolley of the 58th Massachusetts infantry Company G. There is some question as to where he actually died. He is listed in at least two books from 1865 as a casualty of disease at Andersonville. He was wounded and taken Prisoner July 30th at "the Crater".... However, there is a headstone that bears his name and Regiment in Danville Virginia. His death is noted as November 5th 1864....so there are questions as to where he actually is....or how he got there.
Thank you! Yes, Gary has been very helpful so far.Hello Arnie and welcome to CivilWarTalk. Happy to have you aboard! If anyone will know whether your ancestor was imprisoned at Andersonville it's @Gary Morgan She should see this post now that I tagged her and be along shortly to let you know of Tolley has any records at Andersonville.
@Gary Morgan is an awesome resourceThank you! Yes, Gary has been very helpful so far.
Everything that I could check for Union soldiers buried at Andersonville does not mention any TOLLEY. It seems more difficult to find the NPS list. I thought there was something on the site for the NPS POW Museum at Andersonville. If you contact the Museum they will look at their records as they have been collecting more information than what you find in the NPS Prisoner database. They can tell you if he was a prisoner there and was shipped out before it was closed. This sounds like a possibility if he was buried in Virginia.My Ancestor was Peleg Nelson Tolley of the 58th Massachusetts infantry Company G. There is some question as to where he actually died. He is listed in at least two books from 1865 as a casualty of disease at Andersonville. He was wounded and taken Prisoner July 30th at "the Crater".... However, there is a headstone that bears his name and Regiment in Danville Virginia.
I'm a newbie, but yes! My Ancestor was Peleg Nelson Tolley of the 58th Massachusetts infantry Company G. There is some question as to where he actually died. He is listed in at least two books from 1865 as a casualty of disease at Andersonville. He was wounded and taken Prisoner July 30th at "the Crater".... However, there is a headstone that bears his name and Regiment in Danville Virginia. His death is noted as November 5th 1864....so there are questions as to where he actually is....or h
I'm afraid that I haven't been following this closely--but my G+ Uncle had a somewhat similar sad experience. He was captured at Chickamauga; I found references to his dying either at Andersonville or in Danville. Researching, I found that there were transfers of prisoners from one place to the other. In the case of my relative, I found records in the Norwegian archives (he was from Norway) that it was, indeed, Danville. His friends would have known.