Three sides of the monument in the Rensselaerville Cemetery contain names of those from the town who died in service. Some also have tombstones in the cemetery. The men are listed by regiment.
91st New York Infantry Regiment
Charles Bouton, 1830-1862 as a private. Charles enlisted in Rensselaerville, his home town, in November of 1861. He was married and had two children. Soon after being mustered in he was promoted to corporal and transferred from Company E to Company K. He died of an unspecified disease at Key West, April 26, 1862.
David Bouton, 1837-1862, a private. Born in Rensselaerville, he enlisted there in November of 1861. Originally in Company E he was transferred to Company K. Charles died at Key West April 28, 1862 of typhoid fever.
Charles F. Bouton, 1847-1862. He enlisted in November of 1861 in Rensselaerville as a private in Company C. He died at Pensacola July 29, 1862.
Charles F. and David Bouton were brothers. Charles Bouton was their first cousin and George Bouton, profiled in post #4, was their second cousin.
William Doty, 1838-1865. Born across the Hudson in Stephentown, New York, William enlisted as a private in Company E at Albany in September of 1864. He was a farmer who lived in the small community of Preston Hollow in the town of Rensselaerville. He died at the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland March 8, 1865. The cause of death was given as spotted fever, spinal meningitis, and epileptic fits.
177th New York Infantry Regiment
Milton Jones, 1843-1863, a private in Company C. He enlisted at Rensselaerville in October of 1862 for a nine-month term. He was a farmer. Milton died of typhoid at Bonnet Carre, Louisiana July 10, 1863.
Lorenzo Whitting, 1842-1863, a private in Company I. A native of Schoharie County, New York, he enlisted at Rensselaerville in October of 1862. He was employed as a farmer and bartender. He returned home in September of 1863, having served his term, but almost immediately became ill and died. It was determined that he had contracted the fever that killed while in the army and, as he had not mustered out, he was listed as dying in service. He is buried in Preston Hollow where his family lived.
A third man from the 177th is on the monument, though he was mistakenly listed with the men from the 7th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment.
John Greene, 1832-?. Born in Greene County, just south of Rensselaerville, John Greene enlisted in the 177th as a substitute from an unnamed man from Broome County, New York. His official records states that he enlisted at Rensselaerville in October of 1862 and deserted in December of 1862. But the notes made by the town clerk in Rensselaerville say John was taken prisoner with three others at Culpepper, Virginia. As the 177th left New York for New Orleans December 16, 1862 and served their entire term in Louisiana, it is hard to imagine how this may have occurred. The town clerk further notes "supposed to be living." John was married when he enlisted but I could find no record of his wife. How he ended up on the monument I don't know.
44th New York Infantry Regiment
George W. Schemerhorn, 1839-1861, mustered in as a fifer. He enlisted in August of 1861 in Albany for a term of three years. He died of measles that November at the Kalorama Hospital in Washington, DC and is buried there.
25th New York Infantry Regiment
George Swarthout, 1844-1863, a private in Company D. He enlisted at Rensselaerville in October of 1862. George worked as a shoemaker and was married with no children. He died of typhoid fever March 7, 1863 at Falmouth, Virginia and is buried there.