Your ancestors unit

[Locke1740]

Hello there!

I want to know about anyone's ancestors regiments! This topic has interested me for a long time and I took me a while to find my ancestors units. One ancestor was in the Cavalry of the Hamptons Legion and another one was in the 24th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

[Legion]

Jesse S Crosby, Great Great Great PawPaw
20th Georgia
Enlisted July of 61 and fought in most major battles of the civil war, He fought at Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, The wilderness.
He was wounded at Gettysburg (probably at Devils den) and he lost his leg during the wilderness.
I'm still researching the others but I'll update as I get info.

Nice family Locke, very cool stuff.

[Bravescot]

I got ancestral connections to the 79th New York

[crazychester1247]

My ancestor fought in the 5th West Virginia Cavalry as an ensign during the last two years of the war.

[A. P. Hill]

My family on my mother's side was Hill.

Any questions? :)

[crazychester1247]

Your actually related to A.P Hill?:confused:

[A. P. Hill]

Not to mention that I also have Hunt's in my family tree as well. Does the name H.J. Hunt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jackson_Hunt) ring any bells?

[Legion]

Not to mention that I also have Hunt's in my family tree as well. Does the name H.J. Hunt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jackson_Hunt) ring any bells?

So your family fought on both sides, very cool.

[Willy The Walrus]

James Faith Born in Louisville,Kentucky 1841
Regiment~10th Illinois Cavalry *Union regiment*
Rank~ quartermaster sergeant
captured during a expedition near Bayou Des Arc,Arkansas on july 14,1864 The union detachment had 225 while the Rebels had 1200
he was wounded and lost sight in one eye. July 30, 1865 paroled
Discharged~ December 30,1864 term of enlistment expired



Robert Bramley Born in Yorkshire,England 1839
Regiment~5th Kansas Cavalry *Union regiment*
Rank~Private
First 3 months of service Horse was bayoneted in battle from October 1863-May 1864 clerk at Brigade headquarters.

[JaegerCoyote]

On my mom side, my ancestor served in the 28th Iowa Infantry, he was wounded and captured at Cedar Creek, enlisted as a private and was discharged as a corporal.

[Mi'kmaq]

Abraham D. Weaver, Private, Tennessee Reserves (CSA) . Captured at Bristol, TN on December 14th 1864 and sent to Camp Chase. Released on December 25th, 1865.

Arthur Rankin Sisk, Private, 3rd Arkansas Cavalry (USA)

Calloway H. Hodges, Private, 1st Arkansas Infantry (USA)

Anson Mills, First Lieutenant, 18th Infantry Regiment (USA)

N. M. Stewart, Major, 14th Tennessee Cavalry "Neely's" (CSA)

Oliver Perry Kelly, Private, 38th Alabama Infantry Regiment (CSA). Slightly wounded in the shoulder from a shell fragment at the Battle of Atlanta. He was captured on 22 July 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio and was subsequently released in May 1865.

Elihu P. Forehand, Private, 9th Missouri Infantry (CSA). He was a drummer.

[A. P. Hill]

So your family fought on both sides, very cool.

Yeah, I still catch me arguing with myself. ;)

[Legion]

Yeah, I still catch me arguing with myself. ;)

Nice lol, a Confederate on one shoulder and a Yankee on the other, constantly fighting each other like the angel and demon lol

[BloodBeag]

15th Hussars, and three people in the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment

[Patrick Kurtz]

I looked up several names, and they were so common so I couldn't tell :(

[Locke1740]

I looked up several names, and they were so common so I couldn't tell :(

We'll have you used the National Park Service archive, you can enter the persons name and what state they were from and what side, it will give just a little info but enough

[Legion]

Fold3.com is what I use, it cost money but it gives a good deal of information, if you use it along with Ancestry.com you can know for sure if it's your ancestor and not someone with a similar name.

[JaegerCoyote]

Fold3.com is what I use, it cost money but it gives a good deal of information, if you use it along with Ancestry.com you can know for sure if it's your ancestor and not someone with a similar name.

Thats what I use

[Snowy Owl]

I got an interesting one.
My Ancestor Frank Rouleau was a French Canadian born in Montreal, who for some reason decided one day to immigrate to Mississippi.
There he joined the 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry Company C as a Private in the summer of 1861 when the battalion was mustered, totaling 360 men.
The battalion was assigned to General Garland's and Featherston's Brigade seeing combat in Williamsburg to Sharpsburg.
In November 1862, additional companies joined and formed the 48th Mississippi Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonels Thomas B. Manlove, John G. Taylor, and William S. Wilson.
The 48th would go on to see combat at Fredricksburg to Cold Harbor and on. Frank's part in the war ended shortly before the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he deserted at the rank of Corporal.
He was be captured by the Union and took the Oath of Allegiance, afterwards he settled down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Also as a silly little addition, on every single muster card before he deserted, his last name was never spelled correctly. One even spelled it as Rolo. He was either illiterate or simply couldn't read and write in English.

Here are some links:
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=F9F479CB-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CMS0002BI01
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CMS0048RI

[Legion]

Thats what I use

Nice, does it work well for you? I recommend it to anyone looking to do some family research. it's kind of expensive, the most expensive plan cost around $40-50 a month or around $300 a year if you do it that way.

Edit: that price is for access to the whole deal, Ancestry, Fold3, Newspapers etc.
If you want just fold3 it's only about $9 a month

[Willy The Walrus]

Well my post on page one is my Grandads side I need to find my grandmothers side :/

[William F. Randolph]

This is gonna be a rich one :D

To start, my mother's side was Union, idk what his name was or anything other that he was union, I have his revolver holster :)

Now that we got the Yankee out of the way, my Great-Great-Great Grandfather is this guy here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18628720

He was a Pvt. in Capt. James S. Smythe's Vol. Cav. Co. 1st Miss. Partisan Rangers. His uncle was James Smythe, who was the Captain of the company he served in. If you look closely at the tombstone, at the bottom it has something interesting on it, says that President Davis said he was the best harnessmaker in the Confederate Army. People in that time weren't as much of liars as they are know, (as far as I know) so I'm 99% sure that is legit. Not to mention he was a Freemason.

Cool as shit to know this stuff :D

[Willy The Walrus]

This is gonna be a rich one :D

To start, my mother's side was Union, idk what his name was or anything other that he was union, I have his revolver holster :)

Now that we got the Yankee out of the way, my Great-Great-Great Grandfather is this guy here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18628720

He was a Pvt. in Capt. James S. Smythe's Vol. Cav. Co. 1st Miss. Partisan Rangers. His uncle was James Smythe, who was the Captain of the company he served in. If you look closely at the tombstone, at the bottom it has something interesting on it, says that President Davis said he was the best harnessmaker in the Confederate Army. People in that time weren't as much of liars as they are know, (as far as I know) so I'm 99% sure that is legit. Not to mention he was a Freemason.

Cool as shit to know this stuff :D

That does sound cool peasent *I'm distantly related to the english crown*

[Mi'kmaq]

That does sound cool peasent *I'm distantly related to the english crown*

As is every other American with a drop of colonial blood lol

[Willy The Walrus]

As is every other American with a drop of colonial blood lol
True

[Landree]

Regimental Adjutant Lt. Thomas Winterton
4th Mississippi Infantry Company D

[michaelsmithern]

4th and 5th North Carolina, Most were in the 4th under company A of the Iredell volunteers, but a hand full of other were in the 5th of company K i believe which is the Rowan county volunteers

[Pvt.Scott]

My ancestors sadly didn't participate in the Civil War. My ancestors were either in Ireland (or Canada?). Parenthesis because I have no idea where they were.

[Legion]

My ancestors sadly didn't participate in the Civil War. My ancestors were either in Ireland (or Canada?). Parenthesis because I have no idea where they were.

I'm sure if you look through all the different lines you'll find someone who fought. It took me a while but I found out that quite a bit of my family fought, at first I could only find 1 or 2 who fought, it just takes some digging

[Pvt.Scott]

Yeah I am going to start to dig up history about my family. I will post again when or if I find anything

[Legion]

Yeah I am going to start to dig up history about my family. I will post again when or if I find anything

I recommend ancestry, you can get it for free 14 day trial

[CJ1515g]

Thomas Gribble, Corporal
39th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Company I
Macon County, North Carolina

[Pvt.Scott]

Yeah that's where I went. But theres about 5000 people from the civil war with my last name.

[chamberlain]

Hello there!

I want to know about anyone's ancestors regiments! This topic has interested me for a long time and I took me a while to find my ancestors units. One ancestor was in the Cavalry of the Hamptons Legion and another one was in the 24th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

well my distant ancestor was George b McCellan he was not in a regiment as he was General of the norths army

[Locke1740]

NEW
Captain William Z Leitner, 2nd SC Infantry, Kershaw's Brigade

[JaegerCoyote]

On my dad's side, one of my ancestor's brothers served in the 30th Michigan, which was active during the last year of the war and just sat on the Canadian border as the garrison of the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers.

[Duke Of Longtree]

A lot of my family is from Louisiana and the only records we have is them serving artillery at Port Hudson

[Legion]

I know I posted some of these before but here is some of my ancestors, will update as I find more.

5th Sgt. Jesse S Crosby, 20th Georgia, wounded at Gettysburg and The Wilderness.

Cpl. Henry C McKenzie, 3rd Georgia, died in 1863 from wounds recieved at Malvern Hill. It's say's he was a color gaurd.

Pvt. Charles R Beddingfield, 38th Alabama,

Pvt. Stephen A Cowart, 43rd Georgia

1st Sgt. James J Cowart, 27th Georgia

Pvt. George W Cowart, 57th Georgia

Pvt. David Cowart, 7th Georgia Clavary

Pvt. Nathaniel C Cowart, 47th Georgia, died 1863

Pvt. Calvin Cowart, 47th Georgia, died 1862

Pvt. Thomas Cowart, 47th Georgia, died 1862

Pvt. Zachariah Cowart, 47th Georgia

Ettiene Poche, LA.

Lucien Guidroz, LA.

[Colonel Potter]

I had several relatives from Oswego County, New York in the 147th and 110th New York Infantry. Simon , Seth and Albert D. Potter (Co. E - 147th Inf) killed in action on the same day at Gettysburg July 1,1863 , Luke Potter (Co.C -147th Inf.) died earlier the same year in a hospital in Washington DC. Surviving the war - Latham Potter (Co. E - 147th Inf) & John Potter (Co.K & Co.E-147th Inf) and Albert J. Potter (Co.C-110th Inf.) & Hiram Potter (Co.C -110th Inf.) . Moses Potter (21st Battery) was captured sent to Andersonville Prison. On the lighter side , here is a picture that makes me laugh everytime I see it. Albert J. Potter is in the center the Two gentlemen on both sides of him both lost a leg in the Civil War and were brother in laws and wore the same size shoes so they only had to buy one pair and share them.

Karl Potter

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[Pvt.Scott]

Sadly it I confirmed. My family was in Ireland at the time. We immigrated in late 1800 or early 1900. And Welcome to the forum! You are near me. Welcome fellow New Yorker! ever hear of the 111th NY.

[Colonel Potter]

You are close to me ..... the 111th New York Infantry Regiment recruited a regiment of men within the Cayuga and Wayne Counties, New York which was raised in almost a month's time, and mustered into service in Auburn, New York, on August 20, 1862, Auburn is right down the road about 25 miles from me.

[Duffy]

I have two, one with the 145th PA who fell ill burying the dead at Antietam and died. The other was was a Confederate cavalryman in the 8th Tennessee cavalry, he made it through the war.