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Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

wendywillett — 2013-06-18 12:32:50Z

From Military History Online. Perhaps this will generate a lead for you:

8th Louisiana Infantry CSA Name: James Dunnicliffe Rank: Sergeant Company: A
Duncliffe, James,Pvt. Co. A, 8th La. Inf. (Creole Guards) En. June 20, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on all Rolls to Feb., 1862. Roll dated June 30, 1862, Absent. Missing since June 2, 1862. Supposed a prisoner in Yankee hands. Roll for July and Aug., 1862, Absent. Colonel's Orderly. Prisoner of War with Federals till Aug. 13, when exchanged. Roll for Sept. and Oct., 1862, Present. Apptd. Corpl, Oct. 15, 1862. Roll for Nov. and Dec., 1862, Present. Roll for Jan. and Feb., 1863. Present. Apptd. Sergt., Jan. 16, 1863. Roll dated May 14, 1863, Killed in Battle of Salems Church (Battle of Banks Ford). Md.,on the Orange Plank Road on the evening of the May 4, 1863. Born Pennsylvania, occupation laborer, age when enlisted 20, single, Res. Baton Rouge, La.
Contact Name: Russell Woodward Date Added: 6/17/2010 Link: http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/genealogy/ancestorcomme... Best wishes and good luck with your search.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

GTL56 — 2013-06-17 19:43:34Z

I'm sorry, but I don't know anything about LA dead in the War. I'm very fortunate that all of my ancestors fought for a state that now has the most complete Civil War records of any state of the former Confederacy and perhaps the USA. I do sympathize with your living in the UK and trying to do genealogy. Living in Germany presents the same problems for me. Good luck!

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

Russell_Woodward — 2013-06-17 12:54:24Z

Hi
I hope you can help me - im based in the UK and i am having problems getting info on a relative that died at Chancellorville 4th May 1863 (Salems Church / Banks Ford)
He was James (Jas) Dunnicliffe Sgt 8th Louisiana Co A - I have the 8th casualty list which he is mentioned on but cannot find where he is buried
Any help is greatly appreciated
Regards
Russell Woodward

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

phillipfazzini — 2013-06-12 11:35:40Z

try contacting the Historical Society of the place where he resided upon enlistement-prehsaps the veterans left a Regimetnal History or prehaps photographic prints of the 8th Michigan....

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

wendywillett — 2013-06-11 16:55:18Z

In the event you would find this helpful, here is a link to the official reports of the battle:

http://www.csatrust.org/Bos/or-bos1.htm

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

wendywillett — 2013-06-11 15:51:28Z

In the event this is helpful... This may present a lead for you.

480 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF BATTLES. Letter of Brig.-Gen. Isaac I. Stevens
commanding Federal forces. HEAD-QUARTERS 2D DIVISION, N. D. D. S., JAMES
ISLAND, S. C., June 18, 1862. To the Commanding General of the Confederate Forces
on James Island, S. C.: SIR: —In the action of the 16th it is known that some of our dead,
and, it is probable, that a few of our wounded were left at, or in rear of, your works. In
compliance with the urgent wishes of friends, and in accordance with my own
convictions of propriety and of duty, I have determined to send a flag of truce to ascertain
the names of the killed and of the wounded, and, if practicable, to recover the bodies of
the dead. It will be ever my determination to conform, in the most ample manner, to the
usages of civilized and Christian warfare, and I have seen to it that all of your men, who
are now prisoners in our hands, have been treated with courtesy and respect. I am glad to
learn that, on your part, the same course has been taken towards the prisoners recently
taken by you. The bearers of the flag of truce I now send to you are my division Surgeon,
Dr. George S. Kimble, and my aid-de-camp, Capt. Win. T. Lusk, and I trust you will find
it consistent with your duty to extend to them every proper facility to procure information
in regard to their missing comrades, and, if possible, to recover the remains of the dead.
We shall be glad to send money and clothing to our prisoners in your hands, and in return
will see that articles of necessity and comforts, which their friends desire to send, safely
reach your men, prisoners with us. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
ISAAC I. STEVENS, Brig.-Gen. commanding.

481 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF BATTLES. Reply of Brig.-General N. G. Evans. HEADQUARTERS JAMES ISLAND, June 18, 1862. Brig.-Gen. STEVENS, Commanding
Federal Forces, &c.: GENERAL:-Your communication, through a flag of truce, borne by
Dr. Geo. S. Kimble and Capt. Wm. T. Lusk, has just been received, and, in reply thereto,
I have the honor to state that the information desired as to the names and condition of
your wounded, in the engagement of the 16th instant, will be cheerfully furnished you at
an early hour. The wounded having been sent to the city of Charleston, it is necessary to
communicate with that place first. I have also to state that your dead, as far as found,
have been decently interred. It has ever been the custom of our armies to conform to
the "...usages of civilized and Christian warfare," and our wounded and prisoners have
been, and are being, well cared for in all respects. I send this by my aid-de-camp, Capt.
W. H. Rodgers. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. G. EVANS, Brig.-Gen.
commanding Confederate Forces.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2013-06-11 14:10:11Z

Oh wow thank you very much for this information.Sorry it taken me this long to even come on here to see what was left for me.Even though my own father never met his grandmother.He was lucky enough have his grandfather David Briggs live with him long enough to get to know his mother side of the family.And this where William Laycock comes from he was David H Briggs Uncle William Laycock since his sister was my Great Grandfather mother.And this what he always told my father that he was to young to fight in the Civil War.And to old for World War one.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

phillipfazzini — 2013-06-11 10:54:55Z

Glad to be of help

His relations can join:

SUVCW
http://www.suvcw.org/member.htm

Not sure about DUVCW though:
http://www.duvcw.org/

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

Badge3323 — 2013-06-10 23:55:21Z

Most of the Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Secessionville were not recovered by the Union army. The Confederate defenders at Secessionville won the battle and thus retained possession of the battlefield afterward, and they buried the Union dead in a mass grave (or graves).

The Confederates' earthworks at the battle site were called Fort Lamar, named after Secessionville's Confederate commander. Presumably, the mass grave for Union troops killed at Secessionville was located in very close proximity to this fort, although I don't know the precise location or other particulars. The Michigan GAR reference to Fort Lamar that appears in a website cited elsewhere in this thread refers, presumably, to the mass grave. I don't believe there was ever a formal cemetery at the battle site, at least not in the usual sense of the word.

Eventually, the Union army took control of the Secessionville battle site, and those Union soldiers who were buried by the victorious Rebels immediately after the battle were removed to the newly created Beaufort National Cemetery by contractors hired for that purpose by the Federal Government. Most of these Union bodies were decomposed and not identifiable, and so today they lie at Beaufort under headstones that read "unknown."

A search of the National Cemetery System's graves registrations database reveals that Mr. Laycock is not listed among the cemetery's known internments, and the US Quartermaster's Roll of Honor, published in the 1870s, also does not list him. The Roll of Honor does confirm, however, that the bodies from Secessionville were re-located to Beaufort.

Presuming that Mr. Laycock died on the battlefield, he surely went into the aforementioned mass grave and was later re-buried at Beaufort. If he was only wounded at Secessionville and was taken to a Rebel hospital where he subsequently died, he still likely rests beneath an "unknown" marker at Beaufort. The Rebels would not have removed him very far from the battle site if he was in a life-threatening condition, and the Federal Government eventually moved all of the known Union graves from around the Charleston area to Beaufort, including from the known locations of field hospitals, etc.

The only plausible alternative to Mr. Laycock's resting at Beaufort today would be for him to have died several days or weeks after the battle, whereupon he was buried in an individual grave in someone's family plot (as might occur if he was being treated in a private home) ... or perhaps in a wooded thicket or similar isolated location that was overlooked by the Union body recovery teams that searched the Charleston area during the post-war years.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

phillipfazzini — 2013-06-10 10:34:48Z

Also listed at
http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/records.php?action=view&id=6...
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99...

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

philipffej — 2013-06-10 03:50:04Z

Someone has submitted his name to the C W graves registration database. Just enter his name & you find the following info.
http://www.suvcwmi.org/graves/search.php

Laycock, William B 1832 16 Jun 1862 K 8 MI INF Fort Lamar (SOUTH CAROLINA) Secessionville James Island SC

Farrell - unknown solder W.Va. (Va.)

WVa_Memories — 2013-06-03 13:32:27Z

In 1958, the Rev. Shirley Donnelly, historian and newspaper columnist, wrote about the death and burial of an unknown soldier in Hurt Cemetery at Prosperity, Raleigh County, W.Va. The family cemetery is now contained within the grounds of Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.

The site was originally owned by Leah Toney Trail. When she sold the land to Blue Ridge, Mrs. Trail “had the wisdom” to preserve Hurt Cemetery, a small family cemetery located on the property.

Mrs. Trail was “a descendant of the founder of the Hurt Cemetery at Prosperity. Her great-grandparents, Martin and Jane Rogers, started the little cemetery by burying the ‘Unknown Solder’ there during the Civil War. Their graves are alongside that of the soldier mentioned.

“Very little is known of the soldier except that he was from the South and his name was Farrell. He was brought to the home of Martin Rogers which stood in the little draw back of the roadside park a quarter of a mile beyond the cemetery on the road to Oak Hill [Fayette County, W.Va.]. Room in the Rogers house was requisitioned for the very ill soldier that he might be looked after. Probably he was wounded, too. He died and was buried on the little knoll that later grew into the Rogers and Hurt Cemetery, located on the Martin Rogers farm.

“That Martin Rogers farm was subsequently deeded to William Jordan and Elvira Rogers Hurt. These were the great-grandparents of Mrs. Trail. When the Blue Ridge interests acquired this location the grave of the soldier was pointed out to them.

“Touched at the sight of Soldier Farrell’s unmarked grave the Blue Ridge people had made and caused to be installed a grave marker bearing simply the name ‘Farrell.’ That was nice of them…

“In the days of her flesh, Mrs. Arminta Toney Garten, mother of Mrs. Trail, always wound her way to Soldier Farrell’s grave on Memorial Day and decorated his grave with a bouquet of flowers. Good woman that she was, Arminta Toney Garten reasoned that he was somebody’s darling. It would be my guess that this dear old saint of God got an extra star in her crown for taking those blooms and blossoms to the grave of the boy who was a sacrifice on the altar of the Lost Cause.

“Since the homecoming of Mrs. Garten, the good work that she begun in decorating the grave of the lad from way down south in Dixie, has been continued by Mrs. Trail, her daughter…”

From “Cemetery’s forerunner holds loving memories,” “Shirley Donnelly: Yesterday and Today, A Keepsake III,” Page 52-53, Beckley Newspapers Inc., Beckley, W.Va., 1983. The article was originally published Sept. 8, 1958, in Yesterday and Today, a column in the Post-Herald, Beckley, which was written by Rev. Donnelly.

A picture of Soldier Farrell’s two markers is online at Find a Grave: Find A Grave Memorial# 86821014.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

JANEYANCE — 2013-04-10 19:59:26Z

I appreciate your reply and however doubtful it may be that we find them, I know that they are in God's hands.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

GTL56 — 2013-04-03 08:15:32Z

I've had no success finding my own ancestor, so I'm sorry, but I can't help you. I'll come back to this message and report my success, if that should ever be the case. You are not the first person to send me a message. I think your Alabamian and my Tar Heel my be sharing the same unmarked grave with many more of our honored dead.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

JANEYANCE — 2013-04-03 06:18:06Z

My GGGrandfather was Augustus A. Wall. He was a Private in 3rd Alabama Infantry, Co.I. He enlisted in Mobile, AL 1861 and died at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. Can you find where he is buried? I realized there were many dead and many unmarked graves so I am taking a chance that he may be on a list of Confederate dead or hopefully a citing of where he is buried.Thank You ever so much.

Re: looking for burial

Cindy_Michelhaugh — 2013-03-19 21:39:15Z

Yes, thank you for looking around. Now I am looking for when and where he died... :)

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2013-03-17 11:47:08Z

Thanks for let me know of about that book there on that battle that was fought.I just may do that since I can find out and knowing the library system here in my county.I would be surprise they have how much of history buffs there in my county of Michigan.So thanks for giving me idea of where to look for on that battle.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

Badge3323 — 2013-03-17 04:29:13Z

If you'd like a detailed account of the battle in which your ancestor reportedly died, you might want to obtain a copy of "Secessionville: Assault on Charleston" by Patrick Brennan. It was published in 1996 by Savas Publishing Co., 1475 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 204, Campbell, CA 95008. Their phone number at the time was 1-800-848-6585.

The address and phone number appear on the title page at the front of the book, and given that the book was published 15 years ago, the information very possibly is obsolete. The good news is that today, March 17 2013, there are 6 copies being offered on Ebay ... and, of course, it's likely that there will be other copies coming available periodically, even if these six go off the auction block.

If you don't want to purchase the book, you can probably borrow a copy through the Inter-library Loan Program, assuming your own library doesn't stock a copy. Check with a librarian at your local library. Borrowing the book, of course, is free, but you'll probably have to pay the shipping and insurance cost for the book to be sent to your local branch.

I didn't count the exact number of references, but the book's index cites page numbers for the 8th Michigan about 25 times, so the regiment is discussed in detail. Mr. Laycock isn't mentioned by name, however. The book also contains a few drawings of battle action and some maps. If you're interested in discovering the kinds of things that your Mr. Laycock saw and did during the last few hours of his life, you really should take a look at this book. The narrative runs about 300 pages. It's not a bad read, as battle histories go.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2013-03-16 14:05:26Z

Found that he died during the Union fighting at Secessonville on James Island.You see William B Laycock was part of the Company K 8 Infantry Regiment of Michigan.From what I just read of the records of this Regiment in that fought battle there was 13 killed 98 wounded 35 prisoners and 36 missing.And this was just of this company alone.And this happen on June 16,1862.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

phillipfazzini — 2013-03-16 11:05:52Z

Glad to be of help

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2013-03-16 10:26:48Z

Thank you for this advice I may do this.Thanks very much for this idea of what to do next I thank you very much.

Re: looking for burial

phillipfazzini — 2013-03-15 23:38:36Z

Its possible he was a member of the GAR {Grand Army of the republic} Veterans Posts after the war. Write to local Historical Societies of where yiou think he lived and inquire if they have GAR Membership lists for those counties...

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

phillipfazzini — 2013-03-15 23:30:50Z

Write to the Adjutant General Office of the state where he enlisted and request a summary of his record with unit he served with and also a copy of the that units Roll of Honor.
Also its is possible the survivors of the regiment wrote a Regimental History....

Re: Help for correcting marker error

phillipfazzini — 2013-03-15 23:26:56Z

See VA message

http://www.cem.va.gov/hmm/

USS Monitor crew

phillipfazzini — 2013-03-15 23:20:29Z

December 31, 1862 the USS Monitor was lost at Sea.
16 crew members of the Monitor Crew were also lost.
On July 16, 2001 the turrent of the Monitor was raised from the sea. The remains of two crewman were found but are not identified. In march 2013 both crewman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The remains of two crewman were found but are not identified. In march 2013 both crewman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

USS Monitor lost crewman.
* Norman Atwater, Acting Ensign {according to Butts account Atwater managed to leave the USS Monitor but lost his grip on the US Rhode Island cathead}
*http://civilwartalk.com/threads/officers-aboard-the-uss-moni... George Frederickson, Acting Ensign
**William Bryan, Yeoman
*http://civilwartalk.com/threads/officers-aboard-the-uss-moni... Robinson W. Hands Third Assistant Engineer
* Samuel A. Lewis, Third Assistant Engineer {according to Butts and Ellis accounts Lewis was too seasick to leave the Monitor}
* Daniel Moore, Officers' Steward
* Robert Howard, Officers' Cook
* Robert Cook, First Cabin Boy
*Boatswain Mate {John} Wells Wentz http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69... John Stocking. {according to Butts account Stocking was washed overboard trying to cut hawser}
*Robert Williams, First Class Fireman
*Thomas Joyce, First Class Fireman
* George Littlefield, Coal Heaver
* James Fenwick, Seaman (Quarter Gunner} {according to Butt Account Fenwick was lost overboard trying to cut hawser}
* Jacob Nickles, Ordinary Seaman
* William Allen, Landsman
* William Eagan, Landsman

Re: Kalorama Hospital, Wash., D.C. Burials?

GreenMountainMariner — 2013-03-04 02:26:34Z

I should have mentioned. Burials from Kalorama Hospital deaths were in Harmony Cemetery, nearby. I don't recall when, but the cemetery was disestablished, civilians were moved to Harmony Cemetery in Landover, MD, and the military to Arlington National.

Re: Kalorama Hospital, Wash., D.C. Burials?

GreenMountainMariner — 2013-03-04 02:22:47Z

Yes, he is in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 13, Grave 10358.

Go to http://public.mapper.army.mil/ANC/ANCWeb/PublicWMV/ancWeb.ht...

When you do the search, use his last name, first name and year of death; it will show you on the map where the headstone is, click on it and it will give you the above information.

I will be taking pictures of Vermont CW veterans buried in Arlington this spring - if you sent me an email, I'll get a shot of it and send it to you.

My email is tomledoux.civilwar@gmail.com

Regards,

Tom Ledoux
webmaster
Vermont in the Civil War
http://vermontcivilwar.org/

Re: 1st Lt. Clark E. Dodge, Civil War

silverfox3280 — 2013-03-01 15:49:00Z

What parts?

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

GTL56 — 2013-02-20 19:42:15Z

I doubt my ggg grandfather's parents had the money to bring his money back. You're very fortunate that you can visit your uncle's grave. I have an uncle (GGG), whose body was brought back by his father in a wagon from Richmond to Taylorsville, NC. He was killed at the Battle of Mechanicsville during the 7 Days campaign. His grave is marked and I visit it when I can at the Macedonia Baptist Church. Thanks for your input.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

daviddubose1 — 2013-02-20 04:08:03Z

My 3rd great uncle Lt Edwin Cantey DuBose was also killed on the 3rd of May 1863. His body was brought back to Charleston SC about two weeks after his death. He is interred in the Magnolia Cemetery Charleston SC.

Help for correcting marker error

KatRobert1 — 2013-02-13 00:54:41Z

Having an identity crisis for one grave.

Question is... How does one get the marker to correctly ID the grave?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Salthial Smith (First names has spelling variations)
Person in question Findagrave memorial 3680449
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36...
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The Veteran hospital intake information clearly indicates a different Reg. than what is on the marker.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=nationalhomes&...
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Additionally there is a record for a marker with the correct information (see doc. on memorial), but not on this grave.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I would like to get this correct, but how?

Re: LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - even more

dzr130 — 2013-02-11 08:23:27Z

1900; Census Place: Salt Lake City Ward 4, Salt Lake, Utah; Roll: 1684; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0042
Name Age
Walter S Anderson 25
Florence K Anderson 22
Donna A Anderson 3
Max B Anderson 10/12
Adelaide Simpson 61

see
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.cemetery.us.ut/107/mb.ashx

Addie;s death certificate link - data
http://archives.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/index-oai.cgi?KEYPATH=ID...

Image http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2229571/2229571_0...

Re: LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - CSA

dzr130 — 2013-02-11 07:36:32Z

See his obit from the Salt laje Tribune 06/12/1892

see attached

Re: LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - CSA

dzr130 — 2013-02-11 07:07:33Z

Using irishgen's data
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F85V-B7D

Billion Graves link
http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/person/1844495

also

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=SI...;

Re: LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - CSA

irishgen2009 — 2013-02-10 19:43:25Z

Perhaps George B. F. Simpson is buried at Mt Olivet, Salt Lake City died 12 June 1892 according to the Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans 1879-1903 at www.familysearch.org. The record says Major, Surgeon, 62nd Regiment, NY Volunteers. There is a photo of the headstone at billiongraves.com

Re: LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - CSA

dzr130 — 2013-02-04 22:15:40Z

I am not related, just a civil war researcher;

The man below was a union soldier
Only George Simpson born in 1832 in Australia that appeared in our census is ;
1850; Census Place: New York Ward 14, New York, New York; Roll: M432_551; Page: 295B; Image: 599
Name Age
Samuel Simpson 47
Emma Simpson 40
George B Simpson 18
Harriett Simpson 13
Eliza G Simpson 6

1860; Census Place: New York Ward 21 District 3, New York, New York; Roll: M653_818; Page: 134; Image: 135
Name Age
S S Simpson 57
Emma Simpson 49
Geo Simpson 28
Harriet Simpson 22
Eliza Simpson 16
Ebbie Simpson 3
Samuel Simpson 22

1870; Census Place: Elizabeth Ward 1, Union, New Jersey; Roll: M593_890; Page: 344B; Image: 87
Name Age
Albert N Dabb 32
Jane A Dabb 31
William Dabb 10
Maria Beattie 15
George Simpson 38
Addie Simpson 30
Samuel Simpson 13

1880; Census Place: Newark, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: 779; Page: 213B; Enumeration District: 084; Image: 0429.
Name Age
George B. F. Simpson 47
Addie T. Simpson 41
Charles R. Simpson 9
Florence K. Simpson 2

http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/Infantry/6...
SIMPSON, GEORGE B. F.—Age, 29 years. Enrolled, April 26, 1861, at New York city, to serve three years; mustered in as first lieutenant, Co. H , June 30, 1861; as surgeon, July 1, 1861; resigned, Septemiber 17, 1862; resignation revoked, no. date; discharged, December 19, 1863; see Eighth Cavalry. Not commissioned first lieutenant; commissioned surgeon, October 25,1861; with rank from August 31,1861, original.

http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/cavalry/8t...

SIMPSON, GEORGE B. F.Commissioned assistant surgeon, February 17, 1865, with rank from February 10, 1865, vice Cole, discharged; not mustered.

more at http://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/Extracts_from_New...

scroll down to page 880 for mention

I found an image of a George B. F. Simpson being a surgeon in 62nd New York Infamtry
see http://books.google.com/books?id=K1S-3sUpl9MC&pg=PA313&a...
—
same image at http://andersonszouaves.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebu...

LT. GEORGE SIMPSON - CSA

jamesmgray1 — 2013-02-04 14:51:32Z

I am looking for any available information on George Butlet Forster SIMPSON, born in Sydney, NSW, Australia on 3/02/1832, the son of Samuel Saunders SIMPSON and Emma WILLIAMS. He went to the USA with his parents around 1844 and later served with company H of the 62 infantry and company S with the 8th cavalry and was a 1st lieutenant and a surgeon. Any information on him, his life, family or military would be greatly appreciated. jamesmgray@bigpond.com

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2013-01-31 21:29:44Z

Well if this the same person who sent me a message from finding my posting also on Genealogy.com site.Heck when I start on my father family of not only his father but also his mother surname I was totaly surprise by just how many large the Briggs name.Your thinking why bring this up well the connection I have with William B Laycock is that he would've been my GGreat Uncle you see his only sister Mary Laycock was the wife of my father's Great Grandfather Charles S Briggs.He was the father to my father Grandfather David H. Briggs.With that being his own mother father and they lived together until his death in 1925 she was just the next year in 1926.Now I can tell you I do know where his sister is buried just sadly my Great Grandparents didn't have the money to put up a marker to maker her gravesite.Now the only one who had a gravesite was her own husband Charles S Briggs.It reads his name the year he was born in 1818 died 1899.The cemetery is Leek Cemetery,Alaiedon Township,Ingham Co Michigan.There is a total of there is total five graves just the left side of his stone.Without markers.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

the4thcorner75 — 2013-01-31 19:54:33Z

I am a descendant of Wm B Laycock through his daughter Inez so there are more descendants of this union soldier than you are aware of. I too wanted to get more information on his resting place. I will look for him on Findagrave and I thank you for your work in giving him a resting place and recognition on the internet. I have no photos of him but saw a tin type before it was lost. So sad.

Re: MICHAEL K. MARR

ADRIAN_HAMBLIN50 — 2013-01-28 18:55:51Z

Thank you. This info is very helpful, and will help
me fill in some of the blanks.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

djm9908 — 2013-01-04 22:56:41Z

My Gr-Gr-Grandfather Daniel Wade Hurley, was a Confederate Soldier with the 2nd N.C. Regiment, Company A and was a drummer. He died at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863 and we have never known where he was buried. Our family has always thought he was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere near there however I really would like to know for sure. Can you help me find out any additional information?

Re: Seeking grave site for soldier who died in Sioux City

ncengprf — 2012-11-12 03:48:00Z

Thank you very much! This is very informative, and it helps a great deal. Calvin was my husband's direct ancestor and also a distant cousin of mine, and I will share this information with our little group of Wall researchers.

Re: Seeking grave site for soldier who died in Sioux City

Badge3323 — 2012-11-09 20:05:34Z

The US Quartermaster's Roll of Honor, an 1870s War Department publication listing all official US Government burials of Union soldiers during the war and in the decade following the war, identifies Calvin Wall as a Private in Company E of the 4th US Volunteers who died 14 October 1865, and who was buried in Sioux City.

Only five US soldiers from that era were buried in Sioux City, including two other men from the 4th US Volunteers (Hugh Black and John W. Lambert), and two Union cavalrymen (Samuel Bernard, 6th Iowa Cavalry, and Martin Nichols, 7th Iowa Cavalry). All five of these men died during the period September 23 to October 14, 1865, so it would appear the area was probably experiencing some sort of unusual disease event that autumn.

According to staff at the Sioux City Public Museum, there was no permanent fort in Sioux City in 1865 and any military presence there would likely have been an encampment of some type. If there was a military hospital, it likely was a field-style hospital, although the army might have used a building in town for that purpose. In either case, the staff member did not believe that any soldiers' graves are presently located within the area that would likely have been used for a camp, as this area has become quite developed in the intervening century and one-half.

It is possible, of course, that Pvt. Wall's remains were reinterred, either because a Federal body recovery team moved his remains to a National Cemetery (a common practice in the decade after the war), or because the site of his original grave was needed for the town's growth. In that latter case, his body would likely have been moved to Floyd Cemetery, the city's first permanent cemetery (established in 1868). The remains of some townspeople were moved in this manner, so it is possible that Pvt. Wall was moved, as well. Unfortunately, his name doesn't appear on Floyd Cemetery's list of bodies.

I believe there's a greater chance that his body was removed from its burial plot to a National Cemetery. The Federal Government removed bodies from numerous small hospital sites after the war, primarily in the east, but in the west, as well. However, Pvt. Wall's name does not appear on the lists for any of the three National Cemeteries closest to Sioux City, including the Keokuk National Cemetery, which is documented to have received a number of bodies from the Sioux City vicinity.

I believe the most plausible explanation regarding Calvin Wall's death is that he became sick while stationed at a small army outpost in a sparsely populated frontier area, then died in the outpost's field hospital and was buried alongside the other four men who succumbed to whatever ailment was spreading through the ranks.

Most likely a wooden marker bearing his name was placed at his grave, which was probably in an open field and not in a formally established cemetery, and this marker gradually deteriorated over time. Eventually his body was recovered from its initial "temporary" grave and was moved to a permanent resting place, perhaps in Floyd Cemetery but more likely in Keokuk. And with the wood marker deteriorated beyond legibility (or perhaps even missing), and with his clothing and personal effects substantially decomposed, he and the other four men could not be definitively identified. If this is what occurred, Pvt. Wall probably rests today beneath a tombstone that reads "Unknown."

Of course, it's possible that his grave was overlooked by the Federal Government's body recovery effort, and perhaps it remains somewhere in Sioux City today, not in an established cemetery but rather in someone's back yard or in an unmolested cove of trees. I'm confident that no street or building sits atop his remains, because either of those projects would have required excavation that likely would have exposed the five soldiers' bodies, resulting in a reinternment.

Finally, there is a Confederate soldier named Calvin J. Wall buried at Keokuk National Cemetery who died while being held as a prisoner of war in Iowa. It's clearly not your Calvin because the Confederate died more than a year before your ancestor did, and as a matter of policy "Galvanized Yankees" were buried with their US unit designations, not their prior Confederate identities. Still, it's an interesting piece of trivia and a good one for you to know, so that if you ever see a reference to a rebel named Calvin Wall at Keokuk National Cemetery, you won't jump to an incorrect conclusion.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2012-11-01 03:37:17Z

Well thanks for that answer of idea just what could've occured to his body.And I think that just could be what happen to him.Is that he could just be under some unknown gravesite.And since I was want to add him in my FindaGrave section.That is just what I gave my answer for his gravesite just unknown where his body is buried.Or just where his burial could possible be.I just want to make sure that he had his own page there on FindaGrave.org that way I can connected his children to there father even though only one live to adulthood and have a family of her own.

Re: Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

Badge3323 — 2012-10-31 23:47:52Z

All of the Union soldiers who died during the war and who were subsequently buried in National Cemeteries, including those buried before the war's end and those buried in the decade or so afterward, were listed in the "Roll of Honor," a publication of the US Quartermaster's Department. An index to the Roll has been prepared, and I checked this index for Mr. Laycock without success. There were just three Union soldiers with the Laycock surname who are known to have been re-buried in National Cemeteries during the war and post-war years ... Allen B. Laycock, buried in Pennsylvania, and two men named John Laycock, both buried in Missouri. There is also a soldier in the index named Richard Laycox.

The fact that your ancestor William Laycock is not listed doesn't prove that he isn't buried in a National Cemetery. If he was buried on a South Carolina battlefield or hospital site during the war and his remains were recovered by Union re-burial teams after the war, it is likely that his body was reinterred as an "unknown."

Most bodies were not embalmed during the war, most headstones (if one was placed) were simple pieces of scrap wood with a soldier's name crudely etched onto the surface, and most soldiers did not carry durable identification on their persons (dogtags were not yet issued by the Government, as they are today). Consequently, after the wood headstones were stolen for firewood or deteriorated in the elements, and after the soldier's clothing and personal papers decomposed in the ground, there was little prospect that his body could ever be identified, even just a year or two later.

Of course, as you stated in your initial message, your ancestor's family may have recovered his body and taken it back to Michigan. Personally, though, I'd put my money on "unknown," unless William was an officer and his family had access to the kind of money that would be needed for the body's embalming and return trip home. And, of course, his death would have to have occurred under such circumstances, and in such place, that it would remain in Union control until the body's recovery and transfer could be successfully completed. After all, Southerners weren't in the habit of allowing Northern families to come into their communities to recover the bodies of men who they regarded as invaders and criminals.

Burial Site For a Great Uncle William B Laycock Died On James Island

busybody84 — 2012-10-31 15:04:42Z

I have posted a message of this back in 2011 in the state of Michigan area.Now I am doing it here since we know that he died on June 16,1862 on James Island,South Carolina.Just not sure if his gravesite is down there.Or my Great Grandparents were able to have him come home to Michigan to be buried.If this true then we don't have any idea where here in Ingham Co Michigan his gravesite would be now the thing is he was born in New York.But was living here in Michigan when he join the Union Army.His wife was here with one living child of at this time.

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

Ila521 — 2012-09-30 18:38:31Z

My g-g-grandfather died May 14, 1864 from wounds received on May 6, 1864 in the Battle of the Wilderness. After he was wounded he was taken to the field hospital at Parker's Store, where he finally died of tetnus.

I know he was more than likely buried in the Parker's Store area until the war was over.

Do you have any idea where those buried at Parker's Store would have been taken?

He was William W. Sosebee, Georgia 24, Co. K.

Any help at all would be appreciated more than you can know.

Very sincerely,
Ila Sosebee Lark

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

GregLittle56 — 2012-09-24 12:06:50Z

Thanks for the information. I'd really appreciate a look-up for:

John W. Honeycutt
NC 28th Regiment Company D

Thank you again for your trouble!

Re: CSA Dead from the Battle of Chancellorsville

gonova7276 — 2012-09-24 03:19:40Z

Many of the dead from the Battles near Fredericksburg were buried either in the Confederate Cemetery in Fredericksburg, OR the Confederate Cemetery at Spotsylvania Courthouse. Let me know if I need to look up a specific name, and from which State he came...

Re: looking for burial

dzr130 — 2012-09-04 04:41:53Z

are you aware of this;
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VYCM-B1C
Name: Robert Meiklehaugh
Event Type: Census Event Date: 1841
Gender: Male Age: 15 Birthplace: Kirkcudbrightshire
Parish: Kirkcudbright County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Estimated Birth Year: 1826 Film Number: 1042844

Source Citation

"Scotland Census, 1841," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VYCM-B1C : accessed 04 Sep 2012), Robert Meiklehaugh, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; citing (http://Findmypast.co.uk : 2012); National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh.