Ancestors in the War

[Armchair General]

I know there is a forum similar to this over at MMG, but I figured I'd post one here.

As for my ancestors in the war, I know there were at least a half dozen, but the one I know most of is Monroe Quint.

Monroe enlisted in August 1862 to the 17th Maine, and arrived at Washington in September. The regiment could hear the combat at Antietam but their baptism of fire was at Fredericksburg, where they spent the night hunkered down near the railroad tracks at Prospect Hill. They're next test was at Chancellorsville, where Monroe received the Kearny Cross for bravery, but I can't find out what he actually did.
Monroe's last battle was at Gettysburg, where he fought at the Stonewall in the wheat field where the 17th Maine gained fame by holding off a rebel attack single-handedly for a while, allowing more troops from the 2nd Corps and more Union troops to occupy the field. Monroe made it unscathed through the fight, but during the Rebel bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge a shell flew over Cemetery Hill and exploded in the rear, where the 17th Maine had been moved to. It wounded three, and killed two soldiers, including Monroe. He was 19 years old.


Anyone else have any stories of their ancestors?

[Hancock the Superb]

Two for me:

One in the 1st Wisconsin Heavies, battery B at Chattanooga

One in some Pennsylvania regiment.

Their regiment was the ONLY Union force south of the Potomac during the Antietam Campaign.

They were the first regiment to be attacked at Cedar Run: my ancestor was captured and lost a leg there. He was sent to Libby.

[Edwin Jemison]

Well, I had a great amount, on both sides.

David Touvell, Sr./David Touvell, Jr.

174th Ohio vol. infantry.

Both fought at the battle of Kinston, NC and Fort Fisher. I believe the older contracted a stomach illness that killed him. I believe that was the son.

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James Knox Polk Harrington

41st NCT/3rd NC Cavalry

Enlisted in Danville, VA in May 1863 at age 18. Served in Eastern NC up to mid-1864 when the unit moved to VA. Fought at Petersburg and Five Forks, Va. Unit disbanded prior to Appommattox C.H.

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McNeill's

All of Co. H 26th NC. Only one survived through the Gettysburg campaign, Alexander McNeill, and no records of this group are found after Aug. 1864

Archibald McNeill
Malcolm McNeill
Alexander McNeill
Malcolm McNeill(different one)
2 others

[louie raider]

I have one that I know of:
Louis Roeder, 1st NY light Arty, Battery L - though there probably is an error in how his data was transcribed by my family members, as i know he was from Buffalo, which doesn't make sense because Battery L came out of Rochester.

Battery I (Wiedrich's Battery) was from Buffalo and was composed of German-Americans, of which Louis was one... he was a 33-year-old shoemaker from Wiesbaden when the war broke out. i don't have any data on his personal record but i do know he survived the war; one of his daughters married into my father's branch of the family tree, taking my last name (which isn't Raider, fwiw)

so i'm thinking that someone along the way wrote "L" instead of "I" when transcribing his data so what i have in my geneaology info is probably wrong... i need to take a trip to NY and poke around in their Civil War records and see if i can't dig up more info on ole Louie.

[Hancock the Superb]

Hey, almost like Louie Raider...


or...


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