Thumbnails of our Union Ancestors A-F
Ancestor Name: Pvt. James Daniel Agler
Member: Julia “Julie” Lee Moore
Relationship to Member: Gr., Gr. Grandfather
Where Served: Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 46th Regiment, Company D, Pvt.
Term of Service: 21 May 1864 (for 100 days), discharged 23 Sep 1 1864
James Agler was born in the State of Indiana on 11 Dec 1844 and moved to Iowa with his family when a boy. He married Lydia Maxfield on 8 Dec 1867 and they had seven children. He worked as a Farmer in the Bedford, Taylor Co, IA area until retirement. James and his wife subsequently moved to St. Joseph, MO where he lived with his daughter, Anna Mae Benson until his death 27 Feb 1922. He was buried in the Bedford, IA Cemetery.
Ancestor Name: Corp. Wesley Armfield
Member: Connie (Armfield) Stenhjem
Relationship to Member: Gr. Grandfather
Where Served: Wesley Armfield of Highland, Wisconsin
On 16 Sept 1861 he enlisted and mustered into "G" Co. US Volunteers 1st Sharp Shooters. He was listed as wounded 27 Nov 1863 at Locust Grove, Virginia and wounded again on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. Armfield was transferred out on 31 Dec 1864 into "A" Co. US Volunteers 2nd Sharp Shooters. On 18 Feb 1865, he transferred into "B" Co. WI 36th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 12 Jul 1865 at Jeffersonville, Kentucky.
Promotions: Corp., Intra Regimental Company Transfers: 22 Sept 1864 from company G to company D. Armfield was buried in LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa in the City Cemetery, burial site, Lot 24, Block 4, Grand Army Lot.
Ancestor Name: Sgt. Robert Aucock
Member: Valetta Jeanne Scribner (McClain) Domuret
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Co E, 88th NY Volunteers, Infantry
Term of Service: Enlisted at Johnstown, NY 11 Apr 1864; wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness on 5 May 1864; certificate of disability for discharge issued 30 Jun 1865 at Alexandria, VA; pension #214905--Madalin, Dutchess Co., NY
Robert Aucock, son of William and Sarah (Stephenson) Aucock of Corwich Snaith, Yorkshire, England was born 18 Aug 1833 in England. Robert married Catherine Ann Martin 15 Feb 1866 at Madalin, Dutchess Co., NY. Robert and Catherine were the proud parents of William Edward, William Nelson, Mary Esther and George Roberts whose baptisms are recorded at Trinity Church, Trivoli, Red Hook, Dutchess Co., NY.
Robert Aucock sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia on 5 May 1864. After hospital stays at Stanton General Hospital in VA and Haddington General Hospital in Philadelphia, PA he returned to duty on 4 Aug 1864. He received a disability discharge on 30 Jun 1865. The remainder of his life was spent in great pain and suffering. Circa 1890 Robert and Catherine moved to CT and on 20 Oct 1896 Robert died of complications of drinking “battery acid.”
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Benjamin Beckett
Member: Judith Anne Lindauer
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: 1st Battalion, Company B, Eleventh United States Infantry
Term of Service: Enlisted August 27, 1861; Honorably Discharged January 17, 1865
Benjamin Beckett was born is South Danvers, MA May 17, 1840. He enlisted on August 27; 1861and was mustered into the US service at Ft. Independence, Boston Harbor, MA as a Private. During his service in the Civil War he built officer quarters, guarded mules and wagons, guarded ferries and boats on the Potomac, and participated on the pickets of the Battles of Mechanicsville, Gains Mills, Charles City Cross Road, Malvern Hill, 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Battles of Mine Run, and Wilderness. He also was stationed in New York City during the draft riots where he was on detached duty guarding trains at Camden Street Depot with a company of 100 convalescents.
It was at the battle of the Wilderness, June 5 1864, where he was taken prisoner by the enemy. He was confined in rebel prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, VA, Charleston SC, Andersonville GA and Florence SC, being paroled and released on November 27, 1864 and sent to Parole Camp, Annapolis MD where he was exchanged. He received an Honorable Discharge at Annapolis Jan 17, 1865 by reason of expiration of term of enlistment.
He was a member of Union Post, No. 50, Department of Massachusetts, GAR in which he served three years as Senior Vice Commander.
He married Susan Ellen Berry, on July 5, 1877 and had one daughter, Helen Marguerite Beckett. He died on October 2 1918 in Peabody, MA
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Michael Bursey Brenneman
Member: Nancy Lee Breneman Caldwell
Relationship to Member :Great Grandfather
Where Served: Pennsylvania (Co. C, 125th PA Regiment)
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Henry Creech
Member: Anna Elizabeth (Prince) Morgan
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky (Co. B, 14th Reg., Infantry)
Term of Service: Enl. 10 Oct 1861; mustered out 31 Jan 1865
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Albert Daugherty
Member: Alice (Troutman) Hornback
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky Mid Green River Battalion Regiment, Co. C
Albert Daugherty was born August 1841 in Kentucky and died October, 1928 in Butler, Kentucky. He was the son of William Daugherty (1803-1857) and Elizabeth Wiley(1805-1880). He married Elizabeth Christmas (1834-1920) in 1861 and they had six children. Albert was a farmer and owned two hundred and fifty acres of land in Butler County, Kentucky.
Albert enlisted 6 Apr 1865 as a private in Company C Mid Green River Battalion Regiment, Rochester, Kentucky. He mustered out 17 September 1865 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also in the same company were brothers Daniel, Foster, John and William; cousins Alfred, Preston and William. They all survived the battles and lived well into the 20th Century.
Ancestor Name: Pvt./Corp. William C. Doughty
Member: Gwendollyn (Edwards) Barshay
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: New Jersey, H Co., 4th Inf. Reg.
Term of Service: Enlisted as Pvt. 18 Oct. 1861, re-enlisted 2 Dec 1863, promoted to Corp. 23 Jan 1865, must. out 9 July 1865
William C. Doughty was born in NJ 26 Jul 1815. He married Jane McClure 30 Jun 1838. Eight children were born to the Doughty family. On 18 Oct 1861, William enlisted in the Union army as a Pvt. although he was already 46 years old. He was captured at the Battle of Gaines Mill 27 June 1862 and was subsequently a prisoner of war at Libby Prison at Richmond, VA. It gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions under which officer prisoners from the Union Army were kept. Prisoners suffered from disease, malnutrition and a high mortality rate. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes. He was also a prisoner at Belle Isle which was an island on the James River in Richmond. The island was home to about 30,000 POW's and as many as 1,000 died. Following his release, William re-enlisted 2 Dec 1863 and was promoted to Corp. on 23 Jan 1865. He mustered out 9 Jul 1865. He returned to his home and family in NJ but died 26 Mar 1868 as a result of dysentery contracted while a prisoner. His wife Jane remarried twice--outliving all of her husbands--and passed away at the age of 97.
Member: Julia “Julie” Lee Moore
Relationship to Member: Gr., Gr. Grandfather
Where Served: Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 46th Regiment, Company D, Pvt.
Term of Service: 21 May 1864 (for 100 days), discharged 23 Sep 1 1864
James Agler was born in the State of Indiana on 11 Dec 1844 and moved to Iowa with his family when a boy. He married Lydia Maxfield on 8 Dec 1867 and they had seven children. He worked as a Farmer in the Bedford, Taylor Co, IA area until retirement. James and his wife subsequently moved to St. Joseph, MO where he lived with his daughter, Anna Mae Benson until his death 27 Feb 1922. He was buried in the Bedford, IA Cemetery.
Ancestor Name: Corp. Wesley Armfield
Member: Connie (Armfield) Stenhjem
Relationship to Member: Gr. Grandfather
Where Served: Wesley Armfield of Highland, Wisconsin
On 16 Sept 1861 he enlisted and mustered into "G" Co. US Volunteers 1st Sharp Shooters. He was listed as wounded 27 Nov 1863 at Locust Grove, Virginia and wounded again on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. Armfield was transferred out on 31 Dec 1864 into "A" Co. US Volunteers 2nd Sharp Shooters. On 18 Feb 1865, he transferred into "B" Co. WI 36th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 12 Jul 1865 at Jeffersonville, Kentucky.
Promotions: Corp., Intra Regimental Company Transfers: 22 Sept 1864 from company G to company D. Armfield was buried in LeMars, Plymouth, Iowa in the City Cemetery, burial site, Lot 24, Block 4, Grand Army Lot.
Ancestor Name: Sgt. Robert Aucock
Member: Valetta Jeanne Scribner (McClain) Domuret
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Co E, 88th NY Volunteers, Infantry
Term of Service: Enlisted at Johnstown, NY 11 Apr 1864; wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness on 5 May 1864; certificate of disability for discharge issued 30 Jun 1865 at Alexandria, VA; pension #214905--Madalin, Dutchess Co., NY
Robert Aucock, son of William and Sarah (Stephenson) Aucock of Corwich Snaith, Yorkshire, England was born 18 Aug 1833 in England. Robert married Catherine Ann Martin 15 Feb 1866 at Madalin, Dutchess Co., NY. Robert and Catherine were the proud parents of William Edward, William Nelson, Mary Esther and George Roberts whose baptisms are recorded at Trinity Church, Trivoli, Red Hook, Dutchess Co., NY.
Robert Aucock sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia on 5 May 1864. After hospital stays at Stanton General Hospital in VA and Haddington General Hospital in Philadelphia, PA he returned to duty on 4 Aug 1864. He received a disability discharge on 30 Jun 1865. The remainder of his life was spent in great pain and suffering. Circa 1890 Robert and Catherine moved to CT and on 20 Oct 1896 Robert died of complications of drinking “battery acid.”
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Benjamin Beckett
Member: Judith Anne Lindauer
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: 1st Battalion, Company B, Eleventh United States Infantry
Term of Service: Enlisted August 27, 1861; Honorably Discharged January 17, 1865
Benjamin Beckett was born is South Danvers, MA May 17, 1840. He enlisted on August 27; 1861and was mustered into the US service at Ft. Independence, Boston Harbor, MA as a Private. During his service in the Civil War he built officer quarters, guarded mules and wagons, guarded ferries and boats on the Potomac, and participated on the pickets of the Battles of Mechanicsville, Gains Mills, Charles City Cross Road, Malvern Hill, 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Battles of Mine Run, and Wilderness. He also was stationed in New York City during the draft riots where he was on detached duty guarding trains at Camden Street Depot with a company of 100 convalescents.
It was at the battle of the Wilderness, June 5 1864, where he was taken prisoner by the enemy. He was confined in rebel prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, VA, Charleston SC, Andersonville GA and Florence SC, being paroled and released on November 27, 1864 and sent to Parole Camp, Annapolis MD where he was exchanged. He received an Honorable Discharge at Annapolis Jan 17, 1865 by reason of expiration of term of enlistment.
He was a member of Union Post, No. 50, Department of Massachusetts, GAR in which he served three years as Senior Vice Commander.
He married Susan Ellen Berry, on July 5, 1877 and had one daughter, Helen Marguerite Beckett. He died on October 2 1918 in Peabody, MA
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Michael Bursey Brenneman
Member: Nancy Lee Breneman Caldwell
Relationship to Member :Great Grandfather
Where Served: Pennsylvania (Co. C, 125th PA Regiment)
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Henry Creech
Member: Anna Elizabeth (Prince) Morgan
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky (Co. B, 14th Reg., Infantry)
Term of Service: Enl. 10 Oct 1861; mustered out 31 Jan 1865
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Albert Daugherty
Member: Alice (Troutman) Hornback
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky Mid Green River Battalion Regiment, Co. C
Albert Daugherty was born August 1841 in Kentucky and died October, 1928 in Butler, Kentucky. He was the son of William Daugherty (1803-1857) and Elizabeth Wiley(1805-1880). He married Elizabeth Christmas (1834-1920) in 1861 and they had six children. Albert was a farmer and owned two hundred and fifty acres of land in Butler County, Kentucky.
Albert enlisted 6 Apr 1865 as a private in Company C Mid Green River Battalion Regiment, Rochester, Kentucky. He mustered out 17 September 1865 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also in the same company were brothers Daniel, Foster, John and William; cousins Alfred, Preston and William. They all survived the battles and lived well into the 20th Century.
Ancestor Name: Pvt./Corp. William C. Doughty
Member: Gwendollyn (Edwards) Barshay
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: New Jersey, H Co., 4th Inf. Reg.
Term of Service: Enlisted as Pvt. 18 Oct. 1861, re-enlisted 2 Dec 1863, promoted to Corp. 23 Jan 1865, must. out 9 July 1865
William C. Doughty was born in NJ 26 Jul 1815. He married Jane McClure 30 Jun 1838. Eight children were born to the Doughty family. On 18 Oct 1861, William enlisted in the Union army as a Pvt. although he was already 46 years old. He was captured at the Battle of Gaines Mill 27 June 1862 and was subsequently a prisoner of war at Libby Prison at Richmond, VA. It gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions under which officer prisoners from the Union Army were kept. Prisoners suffered from disease, malnutrition and a high mortality rate. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes. He was also a prisoner at Belle Isle which was an island on the James River in Richmond. The island was home to about 30,000 POW's and as many as 1,000 died. Following his release, William re-enlisted 2 Dec 1863 and was promoted to Corp. on 23 Jan 1865. He mustered out 9 Jul 1865. He returned to his home and family in NJ but died 26 Mar 1868 as a result of dysentery contracted while a prisoner. His wife Jane remarried twice--outliving all of her husbands--and passed away at the age of 97.