Old Bay
Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2010
- Location
- Culpeper, VA
Research into my family tree on both sides has revealed fourteen (possibly) ancestors who fought in the Civil War. All but one are on my father's side which is predominately a Virginia family. My mother's side mainly hails from Kentucky. There is one member that I've asked about on here that is still up in the air as to his service. I'll update the post as I can. It will be in order in which I discovered.
Phillip Skees
1/12/1833 or 1834 - 2/15/1901 (Born and died in Hardin County, Kentucky)
Minor Glascock
4/11/1820 - 11/22/1863 (Born and died in Salem (now Marshall), Virginia)
11/8/1829 - 7/23/1910 (Born and died in Marion, Virginia)
(Post War photo, unknown date)
Nelson Jackson Robinson
1846-1908 (Born and died in Smyth County, VA)
3/22/1822 - 1/1/1885 (Born and died in Fauquier County, VA)
(Post war photo 1866-1870 with his son John Thomas)
Robert Crow Williams
9/10/1828 - 5/4/1907 (Born and died in Smyth County, VA)
2/27/1827 - 1/14/1912 (Born and Died in Fauquier County, VA)
(Post War photograph, ca. 1905)
Johnson Richard Furr
12/27/1846 - 1/17/1916
4/18/1845 - 8/6/1903
Absalom Biller
9/5/1829 - 10/19/1861
12/14/1839 - 7/2/1903
11/13/1837 - 4/29/1907 (Born in Shenandoah, VA died in Wisconsin)
(Unknown date of photograph)
1826 - 1905
4/16/1805 - 1/11/1873 (Born and died in Loudon County, VA)
Phillip Skees
1/12/1833 or 1834 - 2/15/1901 (Born and died in Hardin County, Kentucky)
- Private, 18th Kentucky Infantry, Co. K (Union)
- His name is listed on the Hardin County, KY draft registration list of February (I believe) 1863.
- No other information known.
- Phillip is my 3rd Great Grandfather (maternal line)
Minor Glascock
4/11/1820 - 11/22/1863 (Born and died in Salem (now Marshall), Virginia)
- Private, 8th Virginia Infantry, Co. K
- Service Date: 7/30/1861- 10/25/1861
- Family legend states he was wounded at Ball's Bluff, 10/21/1861
- Absent from roll on 10/25/1861 (2 sources say AWOL, 1 says mustered out/discharged)
- Minor is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
11/8/1829 - 7/23/1910 (Born and died in Marion, Virginia)
(Post War photo, unknown date)
- Private, 20th Heavy Artillery Battalion, Co. E
- Enlisted 4/23/1862
- Detailed 10/6/1862 (probably Drewry's Bluff, As wagon driver)
- Hospitalized 10/14/1863 Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, VA (With "intermit fever")
- Returned 10/28/1863 (probably Drewry's Bluff, to duty as wagon driver)
- Returned 12/4/1863 (place not stated) (From detail)
- On rolls as Present, 12/31/1864 (probably Petersburg)
- No further record - I believe he may have deserted sometime in 1865 as there is no record of him as a POW
- See unit history in post #9 below
- Samuel is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
Nelson Jackson Robinson
1846-1908 (Born and died in Smyth County, VA)
- Samuel Alfice Robinson's brother
- Private, 25th Virginia Cavalry, Co. I
- Enlisted April 4/18/1863 (later deserted)
- Nelson is my 3rd Great Uncle
3/22/1822 - 1/1/1885 (Born and died in Fauquier County, VA)
(Post war photo 1866-1870 with his son John Thomas)
- Thomas was described as having red hair, blue eyes and a florid complexion. He was 5'7" tall and illiterate.
- Private, 7th Virginia Cavalry, Co. A
- Enlisted 6/21/1861 in Charles Town, WV
- Private, 12th Virginia Cavalry, Co. A
- Transferred 6/1862
- Wounded at Brandy Station (6/9/1863)
- Prisoner of War (possibly taken at Brandy Station) and exchanged in January or February of 1864
- Paroled at Harper's Ferry on 4/21/1865
- Transferred 6/1862
- Thomas is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
Robert Crow Williams
9/10/1828 - 5/4/1907 (Born and died in Smyth County, VA)
- Lieutenant, 8th Virginia Cavalry, Co. A (Smyth Dragoons)
- Enlisted 5/27/1861
- Promoted to Full Command Sergeant on 7/21/1861
- Promoted to Lieutenant
- Wife's pension application in 1916 states Robert was a Captain
- 8th Virginia Cavalry broke through Federal lines at Appomattox and disbanded instead of surrendering
- Robert is my 3rd Great Uncle (paternal line)
2/27/1827 - 1/14/1912 (Born and Died in Fauquier County, VA)
(Post War photograph, ca. 1905)
- Private, 9th Virginia Infantry, Co. G
- Joseph is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
Johnson Richard Furr
12/27/1846 - 1/17/1916
- Private, 23rd Virginia Cavalry, Co. D
- Enlisted 4/1/1864
- Johnson is my 2nd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
4/18/1845 - 8/6/1903
- Private, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry (Mosby's Rangers), Co. A
- Paroled on 4/22/65 at Winchester, VA
- Dallas is Johnson's brother
- Dallas is my 2nd Great Uncle (paternal line)
Absalom Biller
9/5/1829 - 10/19/1861
- Private, 136th Virginia Militia, Co. G
- Died of Typhoid Fever
- Absalom is my 3rd Great Uncle (paternal line)
12/14/1839 - 7/2/1903
- Private, 136th Virginia Militia, Co. G
- Ambrose is Absalom's brother
- Ambrose is my 3rd Great Uncle (paternal line)
11/13/1837 - 4/29/1907 (Born in Shenandoah, VA died in Wisconsin)
(Unknown date of photograph)
- Private, 7th Virginia Cavalry, Co. H
- Enlisted 6/20/1861
- Private, 17th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Co. C
- Private, 11th Cavalry, Co. C
- Christian is Ambrose and Absalom's brother
- Christian is my 3rd Great Uncle (paternal line)
1826 - 1905
- Private, 12th Virginia Light Artillery Battalion, Co. A (1st) (Brooke's Battery)
- Enlisted 3/10/1862 in Warrenton, VA
- 9/63 - Sick in Hospital in Richmond
- 10/63 - Return to Duty
- 4/64 - Detailed as wagoner
- Present through 2/65, no further record
- Enlisted 3/10/1862 in Warrenton, VA
- William is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
4/16/1805 - 1/11/1873 (Born and died in Loudon County, VA)
- Private, 11th Virginia Cavalry, Co. K
- William is Johnson Richard and Dallas' father
- William is my 3rd Great Grandfather (paternal line)
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