Soldiers
American Revolutionary War
Connection: Albert Amerman is the 3rd great-grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson.
Later, on March 4, 1777, when Robert was old
enough to serve, he enlisted as a private in Captain Allen McLane's
Company in Colonel John Patton's Regiment, Continental Troops, encamped at MiddleBrook, NJ. His pay per month was 6 2/3 dollars. [Source: National Archives, Washington, DC.]
Connection: Robert Cleghorn is the 3rd great-grandfather of James Leroy Yowell.
Connection: Frederick Everhart is the 4th great-grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson.
Connection: Joseph Garshwiler is the 4th great-grandfather of Leo S Phillips.
Connection: Moses Barnes is the 3rd great-grand uncle of James Leroy Yowell.
Connection: Vachel Hinton is the 4th great-grandfather of Hazel E (Ogle) Springer.
Connection: Eleazer and Lydia Hunt are 2nd great-grandparents of Walter Thompson.
Connection: James Kennerly is the 3rd great-grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips.
Samuel Kennerly moved to St. Louis shortly before his death at the home of his son Capt George Kennerly at Jefferson Barracks on Feb 3, 1840. He was buried with full military honors at the Barracks.
Ref: "Persimmon Hill : A Narrative of Old St. Louis and the Far West" by William Clark Kennerly, Page 91
(See the US Civil War records for Samuel Kennerly's family under the Confederate Soldiers section, below.)
Connection: Samuel Kennerly is the 3rd great-grand uncle of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips.
Connection: Thomas Kennerly is the 3rd great-grand uncle of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips.
“Virginia Militia Courts Martial Record, Frederick Co. Sept 2, 1755. – (Brother) John Lloyd is fined seven shillings and six pence or seventy-five pounds of tobacco for absenting himself from one general muster within the last twelve months. More than 100 other men were similarly fined for missing muster the same day. It is believed that these men chose to stay and protect their families from the Indian uprisings during the summer of 1755, after General Braddock's defeat in July, rather than depend on the militia for such protection.”
Connection: Thomas Lloyd is the 3rd great-grandfather of Walter Thompson.
Connection: Adam Lugar is the 3rd great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
Connection: James Magill is the 3rd great-grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson.
Connection: John Malott is the 3rd great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
Following the war his son John moved with his family to Ohio. Then in 1779, Peter took the rest of the family and loaded their possessions and livestock onto flatboats and headed down the Ohio River to join his son. Before they arrived at their intended destination, they were attacked by Indians who took possession of their goods and captured several members of the party. After failing to rescue his family, Peter returned home to Maryland. (For additional family information, see the article on Simon Girty.)
Baldwin Parsons (abt 1752-1811) is listed as serving in the Continental Army as an Indian scout. (His family was listed in colonial Virginia as having married into Indian families.)
John ‘Curley’ Penrod (1726-1799) of Somerset Co., MD served as a Ranger on the western front, protecting settler's homes against Indian attacks during the Revolutionary War.
Connection: John Penrod is the 3rd great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
George Friederich Rau (1723-1780) of Snyder Co., PA served as a Private in Captain Michael Weaver's Company of the Northumberland County Militia and may also have served in Lt. Spee's party of Rangers. He was killed by Indians in 1780 at Fought's Mill, Mifflinburg, PA while serving with the Northumberland Co. Militia
Connection: George Friederich Rau (Rowe) is the 4th great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
John Frederick Row (b.1739) of Snyder Co., PA was the son of George Friederich Rau, Sr. & brother to George Friederich Row Jr. who also served with the Northumberland Co. Militi.
Connection: John Friederich Rau (Rowe) is the 3rd great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
Abraham Rundal (1716-1799) served in the Revolutionary War with the Sixth Regiment Dutchess County Militia
Jared Rundle (1750-1812) served in the Revolutionary War with the Sixth Regiment Dutchess County Militia. Jared was the son of Abraham Rundal.
Ludwig Shoup (abt. 1732-1796) of Northampton Co., PA - Ludwig Shoup (or Schaub) joined the Militia of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 11/18/1780 and served in the Revolutionary War. He was first assigned to Captain John Bush's Company, then later was assigned to Captain Seely's Company. He became a Private 6th Class and fought until 1783. On 4/17/1818 he began receiving a pension of $8/month.
John Silvers (1753-1815) of Monocacy Manor, Frederick Co., MD. John was married in 1778 to Nancy Springer, the daughter of Charles Springer and sister to John E Springer.
Service in the Kentucky frontier alongside his brother-in-law John E Springer, as described below.
Charles Springer (1728-1777) of New
Castle Co., Delaware died in battle in the Revolutionary War. Following his death, papers were issued on April 27, 1777 in the probate of his estate in Frederick County, Maryland.
John E Springer (1758-1816) son of Charles Springer of Frederick County, Maryland.
The following paragraph is from Mable (Warner) Millican's D.A.R. application: "John Springer appears on the list of Associators with his father's. About this time (1777) he married Sarah Butler, and the marriage may have taken place in Kentucky, at Logan's Fort. John Springer and John Silvers, his brother-in-law, went into what was the state of Virginia, now Kentucky and served with George Rogers Clark, under Captain Samuel McAfee, for the defense of the frontier, by orders of Colonel Benjamin Logan of Logan's Fort. They also served in the Lincoln County Militia. This service was about the time of the Battle of the Blue Licks."
Connection: John E Springer is the 2nd great-grandfather of Jesse W Springer and the 3rd great-grandfather of Leo S Phillips
Connection: John Wilson is the 3rd great-grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson.
Minutemen
John Doty (1760-1806) was the son of Micajah Doty and Roseana, his wife, of New Jersey. John married Hannah Martin in 1783 at Wantage, N.J.
"In the Revolutionary War, he was a private, minuteman in the Sussex County, N.J. Militia. They removed from Wantage about 1791, to the vicinity of the present city of Wheeling, (now WV) and here he drew with oxen, it is said, the stone to build the first stone house in that city. Later, he removed to Woodland, Marshall County, Virginia, now West Virginia."
Connection: John Doty is the 3rd great-grandfather of James Leroy Yowell.
Hessian Soldiers
Adam Lugar (1738-1837) was a young man being held prisoner of England’s King George III in a German prison when the American Revolutionary War began. He was convicted for having killed a rabbit of the "King's game” (i.e. for hunting on the British King George’s land holdings in Hanover).
Adam Lugar "chose" to join the Hessian Army in about 23 July 1776 and
was taken to America to fight for the British. Adam served as a soldier in the Regiment von
Knyphausen which landed in New York in August 1776 and fought against the Americans. He deserted his Hessian regiment in 1778 while
garrisoned at Morristown, where he walked across the line and signed up with
the Pulaski Legion
of the American Continental Line and then spent the next 18 months fighting
against his Hessian comrades and other British units.
Adam served as a private in Captain Celeron's Company under Colonel Posher and
General Pulaski. They marched to Philadelphia, and then to Elizabethtown and
finally to an area he called New Kirby, where they engaged with the British.
Colonel Posher was killed and a man named Fry was made Colonel. Here they spent
the winter. In the spring they marched from Pennsylvania to Charleston, South
Carolina, where they engaged the British again.
After 18 months of service he was discharged. Adam moved to North Carolina and enlisted again with the N.C. Militia and served another eight month. During this service Adam was engaged at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Connection: Adam Lugar is the 3rd great-grandfather of Lois P (Miller) Yowell.
George Nicholas Spaht (Spaid) (1759-1833) In April 1776, seventeen year-old George Spaht was kidnapped in Cassell, capital city of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, by soldiers of the Grand Duke Friedrick II, to be sold to King George III of England for military service in the American colonies. He never saw his family again.
During the winter of 1776-77, George was among captured Hessian soldiers who were sent to prison camps that were located near established German settlements; the chief camps being at Germantown, near Philadelphia, and at Winchester, Virginia. George was sent to the prison at Winchester, which was inhabited by German immigrants from the Palatinate (or Pfalz) region. In 1782 George married Elizabeth Cale (Kale), the daughter of a pioneer German whose home was on the west bank of Capon River about thirty miles west of Winchester.
Connection: George Nicholas Spaid is the 3rd great-grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips.
Simon Girty - Frontiersman & Infamous Tory
Simon Girty was married to Catherine Malott, the daughter of Peter Malott and Sarah (Tracy) Malott. (See the American Revolutionary War service record for ancestor Peter Malott, above.)
Article about Simon Girty & Catherine Malott
(From Fairmont Times-West Virginian; May 14, 1972); West Virginia Division of Culture and History; Copyright 2014
Here is a story about Simon Girty, famous traitor and renegade, and his visiting this area (Fairmont, WV) as an old man, in 1805. It comes from Peter Malotte, of Los Angeles, Calif., a descendant of Girty's brother-in-law, Peter Malotte, whose wife's father, was a long-time resident of old Monongalia County (the part now Taylor County), and lies buried near Knottsville a short distance from Grafton.
"In March, 1779, a family of French descent, by the name of Malott (Malotte), left Maryland for Kentucky. At Fort Redstone (Brownsville, Pa.), on the Monongahela, where it was general for all emigrants to take arks or boats for Kentucky, they were joined by some other families, and embarked in two boats, one of them a stock boat under charge of Peter Malott, the head of the family. Mrs. Malott and her five children were in the rear of the boat, commanded by Capt. Reynolds. Mrs. Reynolds and seven children, and others, were also in the boat.
The Reynolds boat was attacked and captured by about 25 Indians, (in the Ohio River) some 40 miles below Wheeling. Capt. Reynolds was shot dead in the first onset, and another man and a child of Mrs. Hardin were also killed. The Indians secured much booty and no less than 19 prisoners.
Catherine Malott, the oldest child of Peter Malott, was 15 years old at the time of the capture, and was carried to one of the Shawnees towns on Mad River. Here Simon Girty came across her; and fell violently in love with her. This happened about three years after her capture, and while her mother was known by Girty to be in Detroit trying to collect her family from captivity.
The Indians refused to give the girl up, but on Girty's promising to return her to them after she had seen her mother in Detroit; they let her go with him. Once in Detroit, Girty married her. They had several children, and she survived her husband many years and died at a very advanced age.
Mrs. Malott died soon after her daughter's marriage to Girty, and her husband, Peter Malott Sr., returned to Maryland, his old home, and (Draper says) there married again.
His son, Peter, Jr., in 1790, married an Indian captive, Mary Jones, daughter of Jacob Jones, then living in Detroit in the home of Gen. McCoombs. She and her husband settled on their own farm on Grosse Isle, and later moved to Kingsville, Ont., after living for a short while near Malden.
Robert Cleghorn’s Silver Watch
Locations: Wythe Co., VA; Harlan Co., KY; O'Brien Co., IA; Detroit, MI
The following story is as recorded in "Robert Cleghorn descendants and allied families", by Gertrude Cleghorn Josserand (1980).
“Here is an old tradition that has come down through every branch of this widely scattered family through the generations:
During the Revolutionary war, when Robert was very young (probably mid-teens) he and three young companions were captured by British soldiers and were to be hung as spies. They were taken by ship two miles out to sea for the night. The boys wandered over the deck listening to the plans of the British officers. Since they were sure they would be hung the next morning, they decided to risk swimming to shore. So late that night, as the tide was coming in, they slipped overboard and headed for shore.
As far as Robert ever knew, he was the only one to reach shore. He landed in hostile country, hid during the day and travelled nights until he reached a tavern where British soldiers were holding a revelry. He took one of their horses and rode to the Continental Army and reported what he had heard on the ship. The story goes that the information was relayed to General George Washington who considered it important. Anyway, when the war was over, General Washington sent for Robert and presented him a large silver watch. He carried the watch the remainder of his life.
The watch was then carried by his son Lorenzo Dow Cleghorn, early day preacher, who went to Iowa in the 1850’s. Several of Lorenzo’s grandchildren still living in the 1930’s remember holding the old watch in their hands as they sat upon grandfather’s knee and listened to this story. One of the granddaughters wrote the story and it was published in the “Youth’s Companion” (magazine) about 1910. (We have not been able to find the magazines of that year.)
Of course, we all know old traditions are exaggerated with the retelling, but every branch of this family who had no contact with each other remember hearing this old watch story. Lorenzo gave the watch to his daughter, Mary (Cleghorn) Griswold and she gave it to her son. We have never been able to find him. It has been reported that the watch was exhibited in the Ford Museum at Detroit along with other Revolutionary War memorabilia. “
Connection: Robert Cleghorn is the 3rd great-grandfather of James Leroy Yowell.
War of 1812
The war of 1812 (June 18, 1812 – February 18, 1815) was fought between the United States and a British confederacy. It is sometimes called the second revolutionary war. The English captured Washington, D.C. and burned the capital building. The Battle of New Orleans was a key victory for the Americans.
Connection: Great grandfather of Mildred E (Smith) Thompson.
Christian Canary, Jr (1792-1890) "served as a private in the War of 1812 from Mercer County, Kentucky. On June 8, 1812, he married Nancy South, and soon afterward enlisted for service in the war, serving under Captain Lankister and General Carter. Following the war, in 1816, he moved, along with his father-in-law Henry South to what was then northern Knox County, Indiana; but which became part of Sullivan County, Indiana in the following year. With his passing in 1890, he was probably the last War of 1812 survivor in Sullivan County."
Connection: Christian Canary was the 2nd great-grandfather of Leo S Phillips.
Connection: McGannon Coghill was the great-grandfather of Walter Thompson.
Connection: John Martin Doty was the 2nd great-grandfather of James Leroy Yowell.
Connection: David Gonser was the youngest brother of our ancestor Molly (Ganser) Row. David was the 2nd great-grand uncle of Lois P (Miller) Yowell..
Connection: Capt. Sylvester Hayes was the 2nd great-grandfather of Leo S Phillips.
Connection: Half-brother of ancestor Margaret (Magill) Wilson. Thomas was the 3rd great-grand uncle of Mildred E (Smith) Thompson.
Connection: Half-brother of ancestor Margaret (Magill) Wilson. William was the 3rd great-grand uncle of Mildred E (Smith) Thompson.
"Peter Wilson during his youth left his native state of Virginia, crossing the mountain barrier into Tennessee, where he lived long enough to marry and start a family, and in 1828 came to Sullivan county with his brothers, John, Adam and George. Peter Wilson was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, himself served in the war of 1812, and members of the family have served in every important war of the nation. The Wilsons are still well represented in the citizenship of this county."
Ref: A History of Sullivan County
Indiana, Volume I; Thomas J. Wolfe, Editor; The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909; Page 76
Connection: Peter Wilson is the 2nd great grand uncle of Mildred (Smith) Thompson.
Battle of New Orleans
Captain Jacob Peacock's Company included the names of: Jacob Peacock, Capt., Levi Ridgway, Corp., Thomas Hopewell
Connection: Zachariah Barnes is a 1st cousin 3-times removed to James Leroy Yowell.
Mexican–American War
Battle of Salado Creek (1842)
US Civil War
Union Army Soldiers
Sgt. Martin V Boicourt (1837-1864/5) – 126th Indiana Vol Regiment (11th Cavalry)
Martin was a 27-year-old farmer from Graysville, IN, he enrolled October 14, 1863. He was one of 16 men of his company reported missing after the Battle of Franklin, in November 1864. Confined in a Rebel prison, he either died there (date unknown) or was paroled to St. Louis, late in the spring and died there.
Connection: Husband of Ruby Ann Marts, half-sister of Nancy (Coghill) Higdon. Ruby was great-aunt to grandfather Walter E Thompson
Pvt. Thomas C Canary (1844-1864) – 126th Indiana Vol Regiment (11th Cavalry), Company G
The 20-year-old son of William and Edith (Gilkerson) Canary from near Graysville, IN. He died on December 16, 1864 in the Battle of Nashville (TN).
Connection: 1st cousin to Anna Eliza (Burnett) Yeager (maternal grandmother of Leo S Phillips)
Capt. Charles Green Cochran (1839-1911) – 63rd Regiment; Illinois Infantry, Company G
Dr. Charles Green Cochran was born in Pickaway Co., OH in 1839 and was living in Crawford County, IL at the beginning of the war. He enlisted as a Corporal from Robinson, IL. The 63rd Regiment, Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Dubois, Anna, Illinois and mustered in on April 10, 1862. The regiment moved to Louisville, Kentucky on June 3-6. He re-enlisted as a veteran on Feb 10, 1864 and was promoted first to Sergeant and then to 1st Lieutenant. On Aug 4, 1864 he was promoted to Captain. He was mustered out on July 13, 1865.
Dr. Cochran died in Greenup, Illinois in 1911 at the age of 71.
Connection: Brother of Louisa M (Cochran) Cushman and brother-in-law to Thomas Kennerly Cushman. Great uncle to Helen E (Cushman) Phillips
Pvt. Henry W Cochran (1833-1894) – 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. IConnection: Great uncle to Mildred (Smith) Thompson
Arbaces Cushman (1839-1908) – 2nd Regiment; Indiana Cavalry, Company I / (41st Infantry)
Dr. Arbaces Cushman was born in Sullivan County. Enrolled in Company I, Second Indiana Cavalry, 27 September 1861. This was the first complete cavalry regiment raised in Indiana to fight in the American Civil War. Captured in Hartsville, Tennessee, Cushman was paroled and exchanged, and was home by October 1864.
Brother of Thomas Kennerly
Cushman.
Connection: Great uncle to Helen E (Cushman) Phillips
1st.Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman (1837-1914) – 6th Regiment; Indiana Cavalry, Company I /
(71st Regiment Volunteers)
Son of David and Catherine (Kennerly) Cushman, early settlers of Turman Twp., Sullivan County, Indiana. Prior to the war, Thomas had attended Merom Academy, taught school for four years, and farmed when he was
not teaching.
Thomas enlisted in the 71st Regiment Indiana Infantry on 26 Jul 1862 at Terre Haute, Indiana. Regiment saw action at Battle of Richmond, Ky., August 30 and at Muldraugh's Hill, Ky., in December 27, 1862. The Regiment was mostly captured in both of these battles, and was paroled each time and sent back to Indianapolis.
The designation of his Regiment was changed to 6th Indiana Cavalry on February 22, 1863. Thomas served in Co. I to the end of the war. Honorably discharged on 17 Jul 1865 at Pulaski, Tennessee with the rank of First Lieutenant.
Connection: Grandfather of Helen E
(Cushman) Phillips
Photo of Thomas posing in front of one of the “Benton Barracks backdrop”
- Enoch Long, 1823-1898, photographer
- Benton Barracks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_Barracks
- “The Backdrops of Benton Barracks,” Mike Medhurst and Brian Boeve, Military Images, accessed February 25, 2019 https://militaryimages.atavist.com/backdrops-of-benton-barracks-winter-2016
Cpl. John W Dix (1831-1865) – 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. I
Connection: 2nd cousin to Great great grandmother Beulah (Hunt) Thompson (grandmother of Walter E Thompson)
Regiment organized at Decatur, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 3, 1861
Pvt. Enlow died 17 Dec 1861 in St Louis, Missouri / originally buried at Wesleyan Cemetery #2 in St Louis (Centenary Methodist Church), reinterred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery prior to 1874
Connection: 1st cousin to Great grandfather William Commodore Smith (grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson)
Valentine Mendel Enlow (1847-1879) – 31st Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company D
Connection: 1st cousin to Great
grandfather William Commodore Smith (grandfather of Mildred (Smith) Thompson)
Cornelius
Baker Eno (1840-1887) – 178th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company G
Connection: Grandfather to Helen E (Cushman) Phillips
Pvt. Tyra Hunt (1837-1863) – 85th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company E – Aug 1862
Captured Mar 1863 at Battle of Thompson Station in Tennessee / died in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA
Tyra was born in Prairieton, Vigo Co., IN to Asahel and Massa (Rynerson) Hunt.
"Every morning the dead cart would back up to the door on the water street front and from the basement room our dead were piled in almost nude and coffinless, and carried away to be buried. One half of them in graves marked unknown. Xed McGahee and Tyra Hunt of Co. "E" were so carried away and buried with many others of our 85th boys."
Ref: "History of the Eighty-fifth Indiana volunteer infantry, its organization, campaigns and battles" by Rev. J. E. Brant (1902)
Connection: 1st cousin to Edmund W Thompson (Father of Walter Thompson)
Pvt. Stephen Hunt (1818-1863) –29th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company F – Aug 9, 1862
Enlistment from Taylor Co., IA; Died of disease Jun 19 1863 at the Keokuk Hospital.
Stephen was born in Guilford Co., NC to Zimri & Rebecca (Brown) Hunt of Hendricks Co., IN.
Connection: 1st cousin to Beulah (Hunt) Thompson (Grandmother of Walter Thompson)
Daniel
David Keyser
(1841-1864) – 128th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. D / died on
25 Sep 1864 at the home of parents, he "died as a result of the Civil War"
Son of Daniel Keyser & Sarah (Fisher) Keyser of Bremen, German Twp., Marshall Co., IN
Connection: Great Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
Jeramiah Keyser
(1842-1863) – 29th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. K / died at the Second Battle of
Chattanooga on 25 Aug 1863, buried at the Chattanooga National Cemetery.
Son of Daniel Keyser & Sarah (Fisher) Keyser of Bremen, German Twp., Marshall Co., IN
Connection: Great Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
Peter Keyser
(1838-1864) – 29th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. K / died from injuries received at the Battle of Nashville on 29 Mar 1864. According to hospital records, he died at General Hospital #8, which
was the old Presbyterian Church.
Son of Daniel Keyser & Sarah (Fisher) Keyser of Bremen, German Twp., Marshall Co., IN
Connection: Great Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
John Simon Lloyd (1841-1863)– 43rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. E / died on 6 Jun 1863. Brother to Keerford Lloyd who was in the same military unit as John. Died 6 months after his brother.
Connection: 2nd cousin to Edmund W. Thompson (Father of Walter Thompson)
Keerford Lloyd (1843-1862) – 43rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. E / died from tonsillitis infection at the Regiment Hospital, in Helena, AR on 27 Dec 1862. His body was returned to Indiana for interment at Little Flock Cemetery.
Connection: 2nd cousin to Edmund W Thompson (Father of Walter Thompson)
Cpl. William Edward Lloyd (1845-1917) – 85th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. G / Brother to Keerford & John Simon Lloyd
Connection: 2nd cousin to Edmund W Thompson (Father of Walter Thompson)
Capt. Joseph Lugar, Jr (1840-1913) – 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company I / 34th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company D / 153rd Indiana Volunteers, Company D
In May of 1861 Joseph enlisted into
Company I of the Twelfth Indiana Infantry as a Private from Grant Co., IN. His first service was in Virginia, and
fought at Manassas and in the battle of Winchester, and did considerable
campaigning in the Shenandoah Valley. He was raised to the rank of Lieutenant
for personal bravery in battle and in 1863 was made Second Lieutenant of
Company D of the Thirty-Fourth Indiana Regiment. He served his enlisted term
out with that regiment, and early in 1865 returned to Grant County, and raised
Company D, of the One Hundred and Fifty-Third Indiana Volunteers. Of this
company he was made Captain, and led his company until the close of the war. In
his later service he was in the armies of the West, and for forty-four days
participated in the siege of Vicksburg. After the surrender of Vicksburg he was
sent to New Orleans through the remainder of the war. He was returned to
Indianapolis in 1865, and received his honorable discharge. (Great grandfather of former US Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana.)
Connection: 1st cousin to Eliza Jane (Malott) Rowe (Grandmother of Lois P (Miller) Yowell)
William Jackson Magill (1833-1864) – 132nd Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. C / was one of twelve Union soldiers in this regiment that died of disease while serving between May 18 to September 7, 1864. These were the only casualties from this regiment, which was assigned to guarding railroad lines at Stevenson, Alabama until July, and afterwards at Nashville, Tennessee. William was a member in the military band.
(Note: His father Samuel Magill was a 1st cousin to the Magill brothers of Coosa County, Georgia, who fought for the Confederacy. see below)
Connection: 2nd cousin to Tacy (Cochran) Smith (Grandmother of Mildred Thompson)
Daniel Miller (1827-1873) – 138th Indiana Regiment, Co. E / (100 Days Service) Kosciusko County
Regiment was organized at Indianapolis in May, 1864. Mustered in May 27, it left the state for Tennessee at once. It was mustered out in Aug., 1864. Upon reaching Nashville they were assigned to railroad guard duty along the lines of the Nashville & Chattanooga, Tennessee & Alabama, and Memphis & Charleston railroads.
Daniel was the eldest of three brother to serve during the war. Daniel's wife Rosa (Keyser) Miller was the eldest sister to three brothers who were all Civil War casualties: Peter, Daniel & Jeremiah Keyser.
Connection: Grandfather to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
John S Miller (1842-1864) – 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. I / 8th Indiana Infantry Volunteers Regiment, Co. H
Civil War casualty died at Baltimore, Md. on Nov. 27, 1864 from wounds received in Cedar Creek Battlefield, East VA. He was the brother of Daniel Miller & Solomon Miller.
Connection: Great Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
Solomon Miller (1837-1925) – 118th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. K
Enlisted on the 21st day of July 1863, and was honorably discharged on the 6th day of March 1864. Solomon was injured after being ordered by his Captain to ride on the roof of a train car while moving from Indianapolis, Indiana to Cumberland Gap in Tennessee, while going through a bridge on railroad was struck on his right shoulder and was severely injured. After being dismissed from the hospital he was declared unfit for military service, so was honorably discharged. He was the brother of Daniel Miller & John S Miller.
Connection: Great
Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
Pvt Harmon K Rayl (1839-1863) – 36th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. A
He was the son of Zadock and Delilah (Hunt) Rayl from Spiceland, Henry Co., IN. Harmon was born in Guilford Co., NC into a devout Quaker family, yet chose to serve in the war. Died due to exposure (sickness due to exposure to the elements), 18 Dec 1863 in Whitesides, TN, west of Chattanooga.
Connection: 2nd cousin to Beulah
(Hunt) Thompson (Grandmother of Walter Thompson)
Adam K Row (1839-1914) – 75th Indiana Volunteer Infantry / enlisted on 19 August 1862, the day after his marriage to Eliza Malott in Wabash County, Indiana. Adam served two years and ten months in active service. On Nov. 25, 1863 he received a gunshot wound in the right shoulder in the battle of Missionary Ridge. He was honorable discharged at the close of the war on 19 June 1865. In November 1907 he lost the entire use of his right arm and shoulder due from the effect of the gunshot wound received in the war.
Connection: Grandfather to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
David Row (1841-1864) – 8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. I / enlisted on 17 October 1862; discharged on 24 June 1863. Second enlistment as a Private in 14th Indiana Light Artillery Regiment on 18 February 1864. Died of disease on 25 November 1864 after returning to his home in Wabash, Indiana. Brother to Adam K Row.
Connection: Great Uncle to Lois P (Miller) Yowell
Pvt. Zora Bable Rukes (1843-1918) – 85th Indiana Infantry Regiment Co. G / enlisted on 14 Aug 1862; received a disability discharge on May 1862
Connection: 2nd cousin to John Martin Cleghorn; grandfather of James Leroy Yowell
James Lee Silvers (1842-1873) – 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. I / discharged May 1862
Connection: Great Uncle to Jesse W Springer
Connection: Great Uncle to Jesse W Springer
Capt. Thomas B Springer (1836-1929) – 126th Indiana Vol Regiment (11th Indiana Cavalry)
Connection: Grandfather to Jesse W Springer
Connection: Uncle to Walter E Thompson
Connection: Father of Walter E Thompson
The family were strong supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Father and four sons all served during the war.
Connection: Grandfather of Walter E Thompson
Zadoc Hunt Thompson was the eldest son of James W & Beulah (Hunt) Thompson of Hamilton Twp., Sullivan County Indiana. He was single and working on the family farm when the Civil War began. The Regiment was organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered in June 12, 1861 as infantry.
On October, 1863 the regiment became part of Wilder's Mounted Brigade, Army of the Cumberland. The regiment reenlisted on January 4, 1864 and the veterans were sent home on furlough from January 22 to April 2. While on furlough Zadoc returned to his parent’s farm without realizing that the had contracted smallpox. He unwittingly exposed his family to the virus and died on 15 Feb 1864. His father and five young sisters also seccumbed to the disease. Brother Caleb remained with the 17 Regiment until it mustered out August 8, 1865.
Connection: Uncle to Walter E Thompson
Capt. William HH Thompson (1841-1872) – 43rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, Co. I
Battle of Island Number Ten / Siege of New Madrid, Mo., March 5-14.
One of four brother to serve in the Union Army: Zadoc, Caleb, William and Edmund.
Connection: Uncle to Walter E Thompson
Charles Magill Weir (1826-1866) – 57th Indiana Infantry, Co. C, PVT
Prisoner of War, died at Andersonville, GA
Son of Andrew and Peggy (Magill) Weir of Turman Township
Connection: 2nd cousin to Susan Margaret (Wilson) Cochran (great-grandmother of Mildred (Smith) Thompson)
Simeon Sylvester Yager (1844-1935) – 71st Indiana Infantry and Indiana 6th Cavalry
Was one of the last remaining Civil War veterans still alive in Sullivan County when he died at the age of 91 years old.
Connection: Grandfather of Leo S Phillips
Missouri Volunteers (Union Army)
James Spencer Barnes (1819-1864) – 44th Missouri Infantry RegimentDied at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, 30 Nov 1864; May be buried in an unmarked grave at Stones River National Cemetery, Murfreesboro, TN
His parents were from Parke County, Indiana. James settled in Missouri and was married in 1843 to Matilda Caroline Abbott. He left 10 children.
Tennessee Volunteers (Union Army)
Six brothers from the family John and Catherine Covington of Sevier County Tennessee enlisted in the 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War, fighting for the Union Army. Andrew, Benjamin, and James H. Covington avoided capture at the Battle of Rogersville. Arnold Covington and John B. Covington died in captivity at Andersonville Prison.
Connection: Martha (Underwood) Covington, wife of Arnold Covington, was 1st cousin to Susannah (Underwood) Gallion (the great grandmother of James Leroy Yowell.)
Union Navy
Adm. William Radford was the son of Dr. John Radford & Harriet Kennerly; and the grandson of Samuel Kennerly (see family members listed in the Confederate Army, below). Following his father’s death, his mother married Gov. William Clark in St Louis.
Connection: 2nd cousin to Catherine
(Kennerly) Cushman (mother of 1st.Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman)
Wilder’s Lightning Brigade
Connection: Zadoc & Caleb were uncles to Walter Thompson
Wilder's Lightning Brigade of mounted infantry and the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18 to 20, 1863. Wilder’s Brigade consisted of the 92nd 98th and 123rd Illinois Infantry, the 17th and 72nd Indiana Infantry, and the 18th Indiana Battery.
The 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in West Virginia before being transferred to the Western Theater. Members of Company I were recruited primarily from Sullivan County, Indiana.
The 17th Indiana was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, and mustered in June 12, 1861. It left the state for Parkersburg, West Virginia, on July 1, 1861, and was subsequently attached to the District of the Kanawha until September, 1861. Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to November, 1861. Governor Oliver P. Morton appointed John T. Wilder as the lieutenant colonel of the 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment three months after the regiment was organized. On March 2, 1862, Wilder became the regiment's colonel, replacing Milo Hascall, who became a general.
Sources: Souvenir, the Seventeenth Indiana Regiment (1913)
On-line copy at https://archive.org/details/03225723.3507.emory.edu
Seventeenth Regiment Assignments
Organized at Indianapolis, Indiana / mustered in June 12, 1861
Left State for Parkersburg, W. Va., July 1. Attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to September, 1861. Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to November, 1861.
15th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, January, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 15th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1862.
2nd Brigade, 5th Division (Center), 14th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863.
Wilder's Mounted Brigade, Army of the Cumberland, to November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, November, 1863.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to August, 1865
Timeline:
Battle of Fort Sumter April 12, 1861
Members of 17th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company I were recruited during a large rally held at the Sullivan County (IN) courthouse, April 18, 1861.
Muster at Indianapolis, Indiana, June 12, 1861.
Sargent James W Thompson, father of Zadoc & Caleb, honorable discharge Sept 1861, disability
On 2 March 1862, John T. Wilder assigned as the regiment's colonel
Zadoc’s Letter -
Camp, 10 miles west of Lebanon, Tenn., Nov. 12th, 1862. (see letter in separate section below)
Wilder's Lightning Brigade of mounted infantry - On the 12th of February 1863, orders were received for the regiment to mount itself. On the 18th of May the men were armed with Spencer rifles
Regiment reenlisted January 4, 1864. Veterans were on furlough January 22 to April 2.
Zadoc Hunt Thompson dies of smallpox at home, while on furlough - 15 Feb 1864
Caleb J Thompson lost his right eye at Dallas, Georgia - May 28, 1864
Caleb J Thompson wounded in his back at Plantersville, Alabama - April 1, 1865
Regiment honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana - August 19, 1865
Confederate Army (CSA)
Elias Arnold (CSA) (1829-1885) – Hampshire Co., VA (now WV)
Elias was the husband of Harriett Spaid, a half-sister to Nancy (Spaid) Eno who married Edward Eno. Nancy and Edward were the parents of Cornelius Baker Eno, who was born there in the Shenandoah Valley in 1840. At the time of the war, most all members of the Eno and Spaid families were living in this same region, located west of Winchester, Virginia. Cornelius Eno had already moved to Lebanon, Ohio in 1861 to pursue a career as a miller, and Nancy followed him to Ohio where they were married. Cornelius and Nancy Eno moved to Sullivan County, Indiana shortly after the war.
Connection: Uncle (by marriage) of Cornelius Baker Eno (the grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips)
Col. Zimri Hunt (CSA) (1820-1883) –16th Texas Infantry; Co. F from Austin, TX; George Flournoy's Infantry
Zimri Hunt was born & educated in Guilford County, North Carolina, a Quaker community with a strong heritage of abolitionism. Many in his family were leaders among the early anti-slavery movement. Zimri left home and moved to Missouri where he worked as a schoolteacher. He began studying law while he was teaching in Missouri and later on in Mississippi. He moved to Texas where he finished his law degree and went on to become a prominent lawyer and politician, eventually serving in the Texas State House of Representatives representing Austin. In the days leading up to the Civil War he was an ardent supporter of secession.
During the Civil War he served as a Colonel for Co. F of the 16th Texas Infantry, fighting for the Confederate Army. Following the war Zimri Hunt participated in the 1866 Texas Constitutional Convention that addressed Reconstruction. Afterwards, he moved to Dallas and in 1877 was elected a District Court Judge, and in 1880 he served as a Dallas City Councilman. Despite being on the losing side of the war, Zimri was able to parley his experiences and connections into a successful political career.
Connection: 1st Cousin to Beulah (Hunt) Thompson (Grandmother of Walter Thompson)
Sons of Rev Alexander and Elizabeth (Wilkie) Abernathy of Hildebran, Burke Co., NC:
Privates Alex Abernathy and George Washington Abernathy served in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War. Both died of illness while being hospitalized in Richmond, VA in 1865. The brothers are buried in the Confederate Soldiers section of the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.
Alexander J “Alex” Abernathy (CSA) - died of illness while being hospitalized in Richmond City, VA; Company K, 35th North Carolina Infantry, Ransom's Brigade, Johnson's Division, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
George Washington Abernathy (CSA) - died of typhoid pneumonia while being hospitalized in Richmond City, VA; Company K, "Burke and Catawba Sampsons", 35th North Carolina Infantry, Ransom's Brigade, Johnson's Division, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.Connection: Elizabeth (Wilkie) Abernathy was a 2nd cousin to Beulah (Hunt) Thompson. Her sons were 3rd cousins to Edmund Waller Thompson (father of Walter Thompson)
Sons of Elder Benjamin Lloyd of Greenville, GA:
Nine of Benjamin Lloyd's sons served in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War. Three of them did not survive the war:
John Franklin Lloyd (CSA) (1832-1863) - died from wounds received in battle of Chickamauga, Tenn.
Cary
Chapelle Lloyd (CSA) (1834-1917) - Co. D, 17th Alabama cavalry regiment, assistant
regimental quartermaster with the rank of captain of cavalry. Following the war he served as an ordained minister of the Missionary Baptist church, and was clerk of the Alabama Baptist association for twenty-five years.
Benjamin Lloyd Jr. (CSA) (1839-1862) - was killed during "War of Secession" in a railroad accident, near Cleveland, Tenn., September 9, 1862
William Holt Lloyd (CSA) (1841-1912)
Andrew Jackson Lloyd (CSA) (1843-1862) - was killed at the battle of Richmond, VA, July 2, 1862
Wylie Willis Lloyd (CSA) (1845-1873)
Jesse Cox Lloyd (CSA)(1846-1882)
Orren
Datus Lloyd (CSA) (1848-1887)
Milton Stephens Lloyd (CSA) (1849-1874)
Note: The father, Benjamin Lloyd (1804-1860), a Baptist clergyman, was responsible for collecting and publishing a popular book of acapella hymns used by the Primitive Baptist Church.
Connection: Benjamin’s father John Emory Lloyd was a 1st cousin to ancestors Elizabeth (Lloyd) Ramey and Sarah ‘Sally’ (Lloyd) Bridges, pioneer settlers of Sullivan County, Indiana. These soldiers were 3rd cousins to ancestor William Wesley Higdon (the grandfather of Walter Thompson)
Magill Family of Catoosa Co., GA:
Isaac Leonadis Magill (CSA) (1839-1925) - Co. F 39th Regiment Georgia Infantry
Robert McCorkle Magill Jr. (CSA) (1842-1914) - Co. F 39th Regiment Georgia Infantry, Drummer Boy
Robert Magill (CSA) (1845-1864) - mortally wounded in battle, southwest of Marietta, Ga., June 23, 1864; died at hospital, Marietta, GA., June 24, 1864. (note: 1st cousin to Robert McCorkle Magill Jr.)
Connection: 1st Cousins to Susan Margaret (Wilson) Cochran of Cass Twp., Sullivan Co., Indiana (Great grandmother of Mildred (Smith) Thompson)
Family of Samuel Kennerly of Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia:
Samuel Kennerly (1755-1840) was originally from Culpeper County Virginia and had served with distinction in the American Revolutionary War (see entry above). He was 1st married to Mary
Talbot (Hancock) Radford, sister to Col George Hancock of Fotheringay House, Montgomery County, Virginia. Col. George Hancock remarried to Margaret Kennerly 'Peggy' Strother, the daughter of Samuel's sister Mary Kennerly.
Connection: Samuel Kennerly was the brother of James Kennerly, of Augusta County Virginia - James being the 3rd great grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips. Samuel's children were 1st cousins to James' son John Kennerly, the father of Catherine (Kennerly) Cushman.
Samuel's children were 1st cousins, twice removed of 1st Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman of Sullivan County, Indiana.
Children of Samuel Kennerly:
Capt. George Hancock Kennerly (1790-1867) – son of Samuel Kennerly. (see separate entry for his family, below)
Harriet (Kennerly) Radford Clark (1787-1831) – daughter of Samuel Kennerly and Mary Hancock. Harriet was married to Dr. John Radford in 1806. She was the mother of Rear Admiral William Radford, who remained loyal to the Union (see Union Navy entry above). Harriet was also the mother of Mary (Radford) Kearny, who was married to Mexican-American War General Stephen Watts Kearny, an uncle to Major General Philip Kearny (Union Army).
Mary (Hancock) Kennerly died while Harriett was young, and Harriet was thereafter raised in the household of her uncle, Col. Hancock, and was devotedly attached to her 1st cousin Julia Hancock who was one year younger. (note: Julia and Harriet were double cousins: they were 1st cousins through the Hancocks, and Harriet was a 1st cousin to Julia's mother through the Kennerly family).
In 1806, Harriett married John Radford in a double ceremony with her cousin Mary Hancock (sister to Julia) and John Caswell Griffin. One year later, Julia Hancock married General William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame). When Harriett's husband John Radford died in 1817, she moved to St. Louis where her brother, James Kennerly, was serving as the private secretary to General Clark, who by then was the Territorial Governor of Missouri.
Julia (Hancock) Clark died in 1820 at the Hancock estate in Virginia at the age of 28 years old, the mother of six children with William Clark. She preceeded the death of her father who passed 3 weeks later. A year and half later, William Clark was remarried to Harriet (Kennerly) Radford in St Louis.
Great Grand-nephew of Samuel Kennerly:
Gen.
Meriwether Lewis Clark (CSA) (1809-1881) – Civil War Confederate Brigadier General Meriwether
Lewis Clark served in the Army of Northern
Virginia under Robert E. Lee and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Sayler's
Creek, VA. He was the son of Gov. William
Clark and Julia (Hancock) Clark; and was the great grandson of Mary (Kennerly) Strother, sister to Samuel Kennerly.
Family of Capt. George Hancock Kennerly of Jefferson Barracks, St Louis, MO:
George Hancock Kennerly (1790-1867) of Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia was the eldest son of Samuel Kennerly and Mary
Talbot (Hancock) Radford Kennerly. He was named after his wealthy uncle Col George Hancock,
his mother’s brother.
Capt. George Hancock Kennerly was married to Modeste Alzire Menard, daughter of Pierre Menard the first lieutenant governor of Illinois. He moved to St Louis, where he established a lucrative business as the sutler for the military camp at Jefferson Barracks. His business was conventiently situated immediately outside of the north gate of the camp.
Children of George Hancock Kennerly:
Capt. Lewis Hancock Kennerly (CSA) (1831-1900) - Captain, Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant General for the 1st Missouri Infantry. He served under Gen. Albert SidneyJohnston
Lt. James Amadee 'Jim' Kennerly (CSA) (1843-1872) - 1st Missouri Infantry
Major General John Stevens Bowen (CSA) (1830-1863) - Gen. John Stevens Bowen was the husband of Mary Lucrecia Preston Kennerly, daughter of George Hancock Kennerly. John distinguished himself in battle and moved up the ranks in the Confederate Army, but was unsuccessful in negotiating a surrender of Vicksburg with General U.S. Grant (an old neighbor from St Louis). He was paroled and died shortly thereafter of dysentery contracted during the final defense of Vicksburg.Major
William Frederick Haines (CSA) (1829-1902) - husband of daughter Abigail Frances 'Abbie' Kennerly. After the war he returned to his home in the Carondolet neighborhood of St Louis.
Connection: George Hancock Kennerly was the 1st cousin to John Kennerly, the 2nd great grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips. His children were 2nd cousins to Catherine (Kennerly) Cushman, mother of 1st. Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman
Family of Judge Simon Turman of Tampa Bay, FL:
Lt. Simon Turman (CSA) (1829-1864) – Co. E; 7th Florida Infantry Regt; died of battle wounds received at Atlanta, Georgia. Simon was a newspaperman from Tampa, and had been a delegate to the 1861 Florida Secession Convention from Hillsborough County. Simon was born in Sullivan County, Indiana to Judge Simon Turman and his wife Abijah (Cushman) Turman. He was the grandson of Benjamin Turman and Sarah (Harbour) Turman, pioneer settlers of Sullivan County, Indiana. In the early 1840s his family had relocated to the pioneer settlement of Tampa, Florida where his father was appointed as the first Judge of the Probate Court there in 1844. His father was named for frontiersman Simon Kenton, who was a friend of Benjamin Turman. Ref: Find A Grave Memorial# 35109714
Connection: Simon was a 1st cousin to Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman (grandfather of Helen
E (Cushman) Phillips)
Col.
John Alexander Henderson (CSA) (1841-1904) – Co.
B; 7th Florida Infantry Regt;
Husband of Mary (Turman) Henderson,
the daughter of Simon Turman and Abijah (Cushman) Turman, who was born at Turman's Landing, in Hillsborough County shortly after her parents moved to Florida. Mary died during the Civil War at the age of 21 years old, leaving behind a 20-month-old daughter, Flora Abijah Henderson. After the war, John was remarried to Mattie Ward, an heir to the Southwood Plantation estate. John moved to Tallahassee and pursued a successful career as a corporate lawyer.
Connection: Mary (Turman) Henderson was a 1st cousin to Lt. Thomas Kennerly Cushman (grandfather of Helen E (Cushman) Phillips)
Zadoc Hunt Thompson’s Letter
Correspondence from the Front Lines - 1862
Troops are "not willing to suffer three or four years of a campaign and the folks at home quarreling about Federal politics"
The following letter, written in 1862 during the Civil War, by Zadok Hunt Thompson, a Union soldier from Sullivan County, Indiana serving in the 17th Indiana Volunteers, addressed to his brother-in-law, John McKinney, also of Sullivan County, was found in 1943 by Mrs. Cora Hull of Los Angeles, a daughter of John and Margaret (Thompson) McKinney. Mrs. Hull mailed a copy of the old letter to Charles W. Thompson of Shelburn, who had it printed in the local newspaper:
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Camp, 10 miles west of
Lebanon, Tenn.,
Nov. 12th, 1862.
Dear Brother:
I take the present opportunity to inform you that I am well and doing well, and Caleb is well also. I am on picket and we are near the enemy and are expecting a fight soon, unless the Rebels run as usual.
We came to this camp on the 10th of this month and our regiment was left back to guard a provision train and we had to march * * * and some of our boys gave out and stopped on the road and the secession cavalry got them. Our company lost four men and some of the companies lost fifteen and twenty. I don’t know how many we lost, for I have not heard an official report.
I have not heard anything from home for some time. I think the folks at home could do better, for they have a chance to write any time, and I can only write when I can get a chance.
We have just heard that France has recognized the Southern Confederate States of America.
November 13th— I will now proceed to finish my letter, as the weather is fine and I can sit out in the sun and write.
Some of our boys were out only a half mile from camp this morning and they were taken prisoners. The Rebels are all around us, and something must be done soon, for we can’t stay here and them all around our camp, taking our men all the time. I think we will get them soon where they will stay for a while.
We are south of the Cumberland river twelve miles, camped at the Silver Springs. We haul fence rails off of the farms to make fires, and all of the farm buildings we pass are left in ashes and all their property destroyed. I don’t like this plan, although I don’t know but it is as good a plan as to leave it for them to prolong the war with. All we take is for out benefit, and their loss, and it may do some good in that way and none other.
I understand there is a great deal of excitement in Sullivan county. I think it is time for all to join or do something to stop the war, for something must be done soon or we will be a ruined nation forever. I understand that half of the North is one way and half the other, and that will not put down the Rebellion. The Secessionists are ten times worse than they ever were, and the whole country is full of guerrillias. The war will never come to an end as long as that kind of war lasts. We can whip then easy if they would stand and fight us, but they will not do that; they always keep out of the way and slip round us, and we can’t get a fight out of them unless it is an accident.
I believe it will take the last man in the North to put the Rebellion down, and then they will have enough to do. The Rebels are encouraged by Northern Secessionists and they think that soldiers will be raised from western states to help them fight their battles and they will prolong the war as long as possible. We are for fighting them until the last day, if the folks at home will assist us; but we are not willing to suffer three or four years of a campaign and the folks at home quarreling about Federal politics. I will say no more at present.
I send my best respects to you and Margaret.
I remain yours
ZADOK H. THOMPSON,
Co. I –17th Regt., Ind. Vol
Silver Springs, Tenn.
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Repository: Sullivan County Public Library, 100 S. Crowder Street, Sullivan, Indiana 47882
Ref: Dr. James B. Maple Scrapbook No. 14 -- Page 97
Zadock Hunt Thompson was born on 5 Feb 1836; and died of smallpox on 15 Feb 1864, age: 28
He was the eldest son of James Washington Thompson and Beulah Ellen Hunt of Sullivan Co., Indiana.
Buried: Prairie Creek Cemetery, Prairie Creek Twp., Vigo Co., IN
James W Thompson, the father, came from Nelson Co., Kentucky to Sullivan Co., Indiana as a teenage boy sometime prior to 1830. James was the young ward of Oliver ‘Ollie’ Bridges and his wife Sarah ‘Sally’ Lloyd. They were part of a large group of settlers from Kentucky who were to found the Little Flock Baptist Church in the north-central part of Hamilton Twp., Sullivan County.
Zadock was named for his grandfather Zadock Hunt (b: 1783) of Guilford Co., North Carolina who was an early settler of Fairbanks Township, Sullivan Co., Indiana in 1820. Zadock Hunt and family were among a large group of Quakers who migrated from North Carolina to Indiana in the 1820s, to avoid persecution for their anti-slavery stance within their home state.
Civil War Resources
Spanish-American War
Solomon Frank Miller (1867-1937) – 157 Ind. Infantry, Co M / father of Lois (Miller) Yowell
World War I
William H.H. Thompson (1890-1974) – Cpl. US Army / brother to Walter Thompson
Jesse Ward Springer (1886-1973) – Sgt. US Army
Leo S Phillips (1902-1983) – PFC USMC / was on
duty at Arlington when the 1st Unknown Soldier was laid to rest
World War II
Sherrill J Thompson (1924-2018) – S.Sgt. US Army
/ service in Europe and Philippines / son of Walter E Thompson and Mildred (Smith) Thompson
Norman W Thompson (1925-2004) – Cpl. US Army / son of Walter E Thompson and Mildred (Smith) Thompson
John Gordon Thompson (1914-1944) – Sgt. US Army / Killed in Action in Belgium by sniper fire - Purple Heart recipient / nephew to Walter E Thompson
Robert Higdon Thompson (1925-1988) – RM2. US Navy / nephew to Walter E Thompson
Edward Wilfred Thompson (1923-1992) – PFC US Army / nephew to Walter E Thompson
James Hobert Thompson (1926-2010) – PFC USMC / nephew to Walter E Thompson
William Robert Thompson (1924-1981) – Sgt. US Army / nephew to Walter E Thompson
Dr. Gale Ammerman (1923-2009) – 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, 436th Troop Carrier Group / US Army Glider Pilot participated in the Normandy Invasion / 1st cousin to Mildred Thompson
Owen Kenneth Ellis (1915-1945) – Corp. US Army 9th Div. / Killed in Action, Germany / 1st cousin to Mildred Thompson
Robert Christoph Keup (1915-1945) – TEC 5 US Army / Killed in Action, Philippines / 2nd cousin to Sherrill Thompson
Korean War
Robert H Phillips – infantry US Army
Maj. Charlotte J (Phillips)
Politano (1930-2016) – USAF Nurse, Korea & Vietnam
