Reading Cursive, Identifying Officers

[Stryker65]

J. E. Klumph is listed as a major in an index of Missouri Volunteers. His residence is given as Mobile, AL. Confederate Officers Card Index says he is J. Eby Klumph. A Mary C. Klumph applied for a pension in the name of Joseph E. Klumph from Mobile in 1907. She could only say her husband served under General Forney.

Found him.

 

[Stryker65]

There was a surgeon named James F. Heustis with the 22nd Alabama. 1860 Census shows him living in Mobile.

Maury's medical director, as it turns out.

 

[lupaglupa]

Captain F V Cluis (Frederick Victor) born in France, died 1865. 21st Alabama Infantry. Here's his Find a Grave - it has a bio.

CPT Frederick Victor Cluis (1815-1864) - Find a...

Captain, 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Commissary of Subsistence aide to BG Richard Lucien Page & MG Dabney Herndon Maury. The 21st Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in October, 1861, and served there during the winter. Its members were recruited in Mobile and the counties...

www.findagrave.com

 

[Stryker65]

Captain F V Cluis (Frederick Victor) born in France, died 1865. 21st Alabama Infantry. Here's his Find a Grave - it has a bio.

CPT Frederick Victor Cluis (1815-1864) - Find a...

Captain, 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Commissary of Subsistence aide to BG Richard Lucien Page & MG Dabney Herndon Maury. The 21st Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in October, 1861, and served there during the winter. Its members were recruited in Mobile and the counties...

www.findagrave.com

You sure he died 1865? The findagrave thing says 1864...

 

[lupaglupa]

You sure he died 1865? The findagrave thing says 1864...

The CSA officers card said 1865. There's probably an obituary - I will check.

 

[Stryker65]

The CSA officers card said 1865. There's probably an obituary - I will check.

Sorry, not trying to undermine you: It makes perfect sense based on the parole records, I just want to check.

 

[lupaglupa]

Well humph. No obituary and no death record. I did find a business notice from July of 1864 with his name, which seems would not be there if he were dead.

The Alabama Civil War service database says Cluis was paroled May 15, 1865 which also seems like it wouldn't have happened if he were dead.

On Ancestry someone shared a notice of the funeral which shows the date October 17. They say it's from 1865. I could not find the notice myself using their information. Several trees have the 1864 date with Find a Grave as their source but we all know how reliable that is.

In the city directory of 1866 his wife is listed as Mrs F.V. Cluis.

 

[lupaglupa]

Okay - found an obituary. I clipped it with the date -

 

[lelliott19]

60. A captain and assistant commissary of subsistence from Mobile, Alabama

60. F V Cluis is Frederick Victor Cluis of the 21st Alabama

CPT Frederick Victor Cluis (1815-1864) - Find a...

Captain, 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Commissary of Subsistence aide to BG Richard Lucien Page & MG Dabney Herndon Maury. The 21st Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in October, 1861, and served there during the winter. Its members were recruited in Mobile and the counties...

www.findagrave.com

EDIT TO ADD: Sorry. I just saw yall had already explored him. My bad.

 

[lupaglupa]

60. F V Cluis is Frederick Victor Cluis of the 21st Alabama

CPT Frederick Victor Cluis (1815-1864) - Find a...

Captain, 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Commissary of Subsistence aide to BG Richard Lucien Page & MG Dabney Herndon Maury. The 21st Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in October, 1861, and served there during the winter. Its members were recruited in Mobile and the counties...

www.findagrave.com

EDIT TO ADD: Sorry. I just saw yall had already explored him. My bad.

Better to answer twice than not at all!

 

[Stryker65]

@lupaglupa you found four of the last six in an hour! much indebted to you!

266 is clearly S. T. Ely, but there is no record of somebody by that name; the closest find to that was Captain L. F. Ely, Ninth Texas. Transcription error?

54 is just ... unknown

 

[lelliott19]

54 is just ... unknown

W Hough? That's how I read it anyway. Looks like the name was originally written on the ledger as Huff - but the prisoner provided corrected spelling and it was overwritten as Hough. Apparently this man?

Possibly the same as Dr. Joseph W Hough?

 

[Stryker65]

W Hough? That's how I read it anyway. Looks like the name was originally written on the ledger as Huff - but the prisoner provided corrected spelling and it was overwritten as Hough. Apparently this man?

Found him. It's Warwick Hough.

Only 266 left...

 

[Stryker65]

I just realized there's four more officers whose names are completely readable, but there's no record of them anywhere in their regiments.

 

[Seduzal]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this awesome piece of work. Another piece of Civil Wars' history mysteries found.

 

[lupaglupa]

I just realized there's four more officers whose names are completely readable, but there's no record of them anywhere in their regiments.

Because of course there's not <sigh>

 

[lelliott19]

I just realized there's four more officers whose names are completely readable, but there's no record of them anywhere in their regiments.

Maybe their records are somewhere else -- not with their regiments. Can you post again the last four that are missing? I'm sorry but have not been keeping up as closely as I intended.

 

[farrargirl]

View attachment 490088
Pizarro was a nickname! No wonder I couldn't find him anywhere! Found on the roster of Company A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry.

Pizarro Johnson from Selma, Alabama. Gotta be a story there

 

[Stryker65]

Because of course there's not <sigh>

Maybe their records are somewhere else -- not with their regiments. Can you post again the last four that are missing? I'm sorry but have not been keeping up as closely as I intended.

(Supposedly 2nd Lt. S. N. Penlon (?), Company B, 39th North Carolina, but no record of any such soldier)

(Supposedly 2nd Lt. J. W. (?) Webb, Company C (?), 46th Mississippi, but no record of any such soldier)

(Supposedly 2nd Lt. A. Longston (?), Company I, 10th Texas Cavalry, but no record of any such soldier)

(Supposedly S. T. Ely, no rank listed, can't read the staff position either, of Ector's Brigade staff, but no record of any such soldier)

(Supposedly 2nd Lt. S. Skipwith (?), Company A, 38th Alabama, but no record of any such soldier)

I suppose Ely would make it five, since although his name, unlike the others, is completely readable, there is no record for him.

EDIT:
Skipwith comes from this County, I can't tell which it is:

 

[Stryker65]

On Lieutenant Penlon, the closest I was able to find was Private J. M. Penland, K, 60th NC, who was cited for gallantry at Chickamauga, and may have received that commission, which was not uncommon.