Research Help

[CW3O]

Sounds trivial , but for a research project I need to find theactual middle names of the following CW officers:

Col THomas J. Harrison, 15th Ohio
LTC Samuel C. Kirkpatrick. 72nd Indiana
Maj Theodore D. Caswell, 4th Georgia Sharpshooters
Col john E. JOsey. 15 th Arkansas

Tried the usual sources without luck. Anybody got any ideas on where to look or available information on these officers?

 

[Red Harvest]

Theodore Dwight Caswell per Bruce Allardice' Confederate Colonels. He was made colonel of the 54th GA consolidated April 9, 1865.

Allardice only lists the initial for Josey.

 

[DixieRifles]

Col john E. JOsey. 15 th Arkansas

I thought I could find these in a Google Book that includes a list of officers---all Confederate. I did find this Confederate officer in the list but nothing on his middle name.

 

[shanniereb]

Working on it, but no luck as of yet. Wow, that is totally amazing.

 

[rainman409]

Sounds trivial , but for a research project I need to find theactual middle names of the following CW officers:

Col THomas J. Harrison, 15th Ohio
LTC Samuel C. Kirkpatrick. 72nd Indiana
Maj Theodore D. Caswell, 4th Georgia Sharpshooters
Col john E. JOsey. 15 th Arkansas

Tried the usual sources without luck. Anybody got any ideas on where to look or available information on these officers?

Try a google search for Ohio or Indiana or Georgia or Arkansas in the Civil War. I tried IN, but no Middle Initial. Try finding where these chaps are buried and get a death cert or burial card.

 

[Barrycdog]

Col Thomas J. Harrison, 15th Ohio. I could not find him in Find A GRave. There are many Thomas J. Harrison's in Indiana, Pennsylvania, etc. Tough find.

 

[Barrycdog]

Birth: Dec. 23, 1824
Indiana, USA
Death: May 3, 1874
Indiana, USA
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Obelisk monument reads:
"SAMUEL C. KIRKPATRICK
BORN DEC. 23, 1824
DIED MAY 3, 1874
Lieutenant Col.
72 Reg. Ind. Vols."
His wife, Louisa, is
inscribed on opposite
side of same monument.

Burial:
Wildcat Cemetery
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Indiana, USA

 

[CW3O]

Theodore Dwight Caswell per Bruce Allardice' Confederate Colonels. He was made colonel of the 54th GA consolidated April 9, 1865.

Allardice only lists the initial for Josey.

Red Harvest, You're the MAN! Thanks for the help.

Three left to go!

 

[CW3O]

Working on it, but no luck as of yet. Wow, that is totally amazing.

Shanniereb, I though it would be easy as well. Didn't prove to be that way however. Thanks for whatever help you can provide.

 

[CW3O]

Birth: Dec. 23, 1824
Indiana, USA
Death: May 3, 1874
Indiana, USA
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Obelisk monument reads:
"SAMUEL C. KIRKPATRICK
BORN DEC. 23, 1824
DIED MAY 3, 1874
Lieutenant Col.
72 Reg. Ind. Vols."
His wife, Louisa, is
inscribed on opposite
side of same monument.

Burial:
Wildcat Cemetery
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Indiana, USA

Barrycdog, thanks for the hint.

 

[yankee belle]

Try a genealog site such as Ancestry.com. Parents would be more likely to include middle names on a birth certificate than a spouse or child would on a death certificate.

 

[Barrycdog]

I saw a site that mentioned Samuel Charles Kirkpatrick but he was in Australia,

 

[Red Harvest]

There is a series of Colonels in Blue by Roger Hunt. So far he has covered: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont in one, New York in another, and Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia in another. I don't have any of these at present.

 

[Barrycdog]

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Birth: unknown
Death: unknown
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15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment-CSA-Josey's-Colonel

Burial:
Elmwood Cemetery
Memphis
Shelby County
Tennessee, USA


A painted photograph of John Josey (1831-1866) who became colonel of the 15th Arkansas in December 1862. Josey was wounded and captured at St. Francis River, Arkansas on February 14,1864 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. He died prematurely in Osceola, Florida (yellow fever?) in October 1866 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis. Since Josey was a POW and then died fairly soon after the war


JOSEY, JOHN E. Lt Col
Elected Major 14 Apr 1862. Promoted to Col 8 Apr 1863. Arrested in Madison Co, AR 14 Feb 1864 and sent to Camp Chase, OH then to Point Lookout, MD 17 Feb 1865. Paroled 15 Jun 1865 at Memphis, TN. (Commanded the Regiment)

 

[catspjamas]

This is what I've found on a John E. Josey at Ancestry.com.
An 1850 census of John E. Josey living in Oktibbeha, Miss., birthplace Alabama, age 18. Father is Emanuel Josey.
An 1860 census of J.E. Josey living in Monroe, Mississippi, Arkansas. Age 27.
An Arkansas Marriage Index, 27 Jan 1864, John E. Josey to a Clem Borum.

The information given with the painting of John E. Josey, from Cowan's Auctions, states he died in Osceola, Florida. But there is an Osceola, Arkansas, which is 54 miles from Memphis.

An 1870 census has a C K Josey living in Memphis with 2 children, Eddy Josey age 6, and Thomas Josey, age 3. If this is Clem Borum Josey, the age of the children is correct for their father to be John E. Josey.
The 1850 census of John E. Josey lists a brother, Thomas.

There would need to be more investigation to confirm everything, and to verify that this is the same John E. Josey, as Lt. Col. Josey. But I would say there's a strong possibility that the E stands for Emanuel.