Thumbnails of our Union Ancestors G-L
Ancestor Name: Pvt. William C. Googins
Member: Theresa Jane (Sawyer) Cobb
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Maine (1st Maine Vol. Inf. Co. E)
Term of Service: 22 Apr 1861 to 5 Aug 1861
William was born in Saco, Maine. His occupation was blacksmith. He had a fair complexion and dark eyes. His hair was light and he stood 5' 8-1/2" tall. He mustered in Portland and left the service in Portland. Died of arteriosclerosis on 17 Oct 1920. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME, Sect. J, Lot 64. No government markers of any kind.
Ancestor Name: Harley Umberfield Greenlee (aka: Harvey V. Greenleaf; Harley Greenly are various spellings for his name on his military records)
Member: Julia “Julie” L. Moore
Relationship to Member: 2nd Great Grandfather
Where Served: Pennsylvania 16th Volunteer Calvary, Company A then C, Pvt.
Term of Service: Enlisted 15 Aug 1862 until 14 June 1865, Honorable Discharge
Harley was born 18 Aug 1843 in Crawford County, PA. At age 19 he volunteered for service in the PA 16th Calvary, 161st Regiment. He fought in many battles primarily in VA and was hospitalized in Alexandria for more than 4 months on June 18, 1863. His shoulder was also severely injured July 28, 1964 at the battle of Gravel Hill, VA for which he was hospitalized. He was with his Regiment at Appomattox during the surrender of General Lee’s army and honorably discharged at Lynchburg, VA June 14, 1865 by General Order 83.
After the War he moved to Iowa and worked as a laborer for two years where he bought a quarry and began a home construction business. His father Andrew and third wife Anna Houck then joined Harley in Taylor Co. in 1868. Harley married Mary Ann Tucker 10 May 1871 and had 5 girls and 1 boy. He died 11 Sep 1906 at his home in Bedford, IA with his service conducted by the Sedgewick, IA, Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 10 to which he belonged. His wife was a Charter Member of the GAR Auxiliary until her death in 1933 when her services were handled by the Auxiliary and buried with her husband in the “old” Bedford, IA Cemetery Greenlee Section.
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Jeremiah Houck
Member: Bette (Lewis) Raup
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: New York (Co. G, 154th N. Y. Infantry)
Term of Service: 1862 to 1865
Jeremiah Houck enlisted for 3 years. He took new recruits from Alexandria, VA to the front at Culpepper. Because of exposure to cold and exertion, he developed “fits” and spent periods of time in hospitals. He was discharged in June of 1865.
Ancestor Name: Pvt. John C. Johnson
Member: Beverly Carol Goodenough
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Ohio (Ohio Volunteer Inf., 82nd reg., Co. A)
Term of Service: Enl. 17 Jan 1864; mustered out 7 Jul 1865
John C. served in the Army of the Cumberland. On 2 May 1864 he started on the Atlanta Campaign. He fought at the battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and all of the battles on the approach to Atlanta, including the bombardment of that city. He was taken sick at Atlanta of typhoid fever and was transferred to Nashville, where he participated in battle there. He followed Hood’s Army to Florence, Alabama which was then formed into a battalion of Sherman’s soldiers, and rejoined his regiment at Goldsboro. He then marched to Raleigh and was finally taken by water to Fort Schuyler, NY where he was mustered out. He was discharged at Columbus, OH on 7 Jul 1865. He married Anna E. Rarey, 23 Nov 1869, born in Franklin Co., OH. They had 6 children. He died in 1918.
Ancestor Name: Jackson Justice
Member: Rose Marie (Maggard) Warren
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky (39th Kentucky Infantry)
Term of Service: Enl. 5 Apr 1864; deceased 2 Sep1864
Jackson Justice was born in 1824 in Floyd Co., Kentucky. He married Dorcus Patton on March 11, 1849. By the1860 census Jackson and Dorcus owned their own home and had brought six of their eight children into the world. He was a farmer and she was a seamstress. Then came the Civil War. As a border state, Kentucky was divided in its loyalties. Kentucky delayed its entry into the war through a declaration of neutrality on 20 May 1861. Kentucky could remain neutral no longer when the Confederates invaded Columbus, Kentucky in September of 1861. Jackson was mustered into the Union army on 5 Apr 1864 for a term of 3 years. He left behind his wife and 7 children, with another child on the way, which is why he did not join sooner. After a successful attack on Confederate troops on 13 Apr 1864 in Paintsville, Johnson County, no rebel forces of a significant size remained in the Big Sandy Region. Jackson had barely served 3 weeks when the rebels captured him on 26 or 27 Apr 1864 in Floyd County. He went to a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia until May 31st and then to the infamous POW Camp at Andersonville, Georgia where he contracted the disease, Anasarca, defined as a “pronounced generalized dropsy” and he died 2 Sep 1864--just four months after his capture. Following his capture, little fighting occurred in the Big Sandy Region; the 39th lost 21 soldiers who were killed in action but it lost a far greater amount–173–to disease.
Epilogue: Jackson and Dorcus’ last child arrived one week after his death at Andersonville POW Camp. He is buried at grave site number 7594.
Ancestor Name: 2nd Lt. Samuel Axtel Kitch
Member: Linda Lee (Antram) Smith
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Illinois (Co. H, 7th Reg., Cavalry)
Term of Service: Enl. 10 Oct 1861; mustered out 31 Jan 1865
Samuel Axtel Kitch was born on 29 Oct 1832 in Salem Twp., Mercer Co., PA. He enrolled in the Shelbyville Cavalry of the Union Army in September 1861. He enlisted as Sergeant and mustered out 4 years later as a 2nd Lt. The 7th Reg. units saw service in TN and MS. There were 334 deaths in the 7th Reg.–267 by disease. When Samuel enrolled he took his own horse for which he was to receive $25.00. The horse was shot out from under him in battle and it was years later before he got his check for the dead horse. Samuel married neighbor Julia Ann Harbaugh in 1859 in IL. Samuel and Julia had 10 children. Children were all given middle names starting with "A" because both father and mother had "A" middle names. A baby Frank Axtell Kitch died at age 2 and is buried in IL. All children were born in Shelby Co, IL. Only son Will (my Grandfather) went to Kansas in 1883 to homestead.* Samuel and Julia followed Will in 1886 and moved the family minus one married daughter to KS. Both families built sod houses on the KS prairie.In 1887, Samuel staked a claim in Kansas under the Homestead Act of 1862. He traded his team of mules and wagon for a 160-acre relinquished homestead and built a sod house of 4 rooms. Samuel applied for and began drawing a $6.00 pension beginning in 1890. He claimed “the said disabilities are not due to my vicious habits and are permanent.” Samuel and Julia are buried in Larned Cemetery, Larned, Pawnee Co., KS. A GAR grave marker is fastened to his gravestone.
*When Will set off for KS, his Mother Julia wrote him the following letter:
It is hard to have you leave us, Will,
They are all girls but you,
that are large enough to help us some.
But I hope you will get through.
But, since it is God's pleasure, Will,
to guide you on your way,
I accept my boy, this,
and don't forget to pray.
This world is full of wickedness,
Of luring snares and sin.
And thousands madly pressing on
See daily falling.
But if you would escape them, Will,
and keep the narrow way,
Oh make God's word your counselor
And don't forget to pray.
In sickness, pain and sorrow, Will,
I will shed a cheering ray
Then let it be your constant guide
And don't forget to pray.
Goodbye! God bless you
and keep you, Will,
Shall be my daily prayer.
And if we meet no more below
God grant we may up there.
And we have this assurance, Will,
To cheer us --- that we may
If we the Bible make our guide.
And --- don't forget to pray.
Ancestor Name: Ensign/Colonel Benjamin Franklin Larned
Member: Virginia (Ashworth) Bailey
Where Served: Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin LARNED was a career Army officer. Born in Massachusetts, he was made an Ensign for the 21st Infantry in 1813. He was brevetted Captain in 1814 for gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie UC. He was promoted to Regimental Pay Master in 1815 and served until 1821 in that position. Larned moved on to Major Paymaster, Deputy Paymaster General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Department of Paymaster General in 1847. He became U. S. Paymaster General with the rank of Colonel in 1854. He died in service in 1862. It is interesting to note that, in his position, he encountered most of the officers of the Confederacy. (See Thought Silent, They Speak by Johney Larned, 2006.) These officers of both sides were active in the Mexican American War.
Ancestor Name: Pvt. William C. Googins
Member: Theresa Jane (Sawyer) Cobb
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Maine (1st Maine Vol. Inf. Co. E)
Term of Service: 22 Apr 1861 to 5 Aug 1861
William was born in Saco, Maine. His occupation was blacksmith. He had a fair complexion and dark eyes. His hair was light and he stood 5' 8-1/2" tall. He mustered in Portland and left the service in Portland. Died of arteriosclerosis on 17 Oct 1920. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME, Sect. J, Lot 64. No government markers of any kind.
Ancestor Name: Harley Umberfield Greenlee (aka: Harvey V. Greenleaf; Harley Greenly are various spellings for his name on his military records)
Member: Julia “Julie” L. Moore
Relationship to Member: 2nd Great Grandfather
Where Served: Pennsylvania 16th Volunteer Calvary, Company A then C, Pvt.
Term of Service: Enlisted 15 Aug 1862 until 14 June 1865, Honorable Discharge
Harley was born 18 Aug 1843 in Crawford County, PA. At age 19 he volunteered for service in the PA 16th Calvary, 161st Regiment. He fought in many battles primarily in VA and was hospitalized in Alexandria for more than 4 months on June 18, 1863. His shoulder was also severely injured July 28, 1964 at the battle of Gravel Hill, VA for which he was hospitalized. He was with his Regiment at Appomattox during the surrender of General Lee’s army and honorably discharged at Lynchburg, VA June 14, 1865 by General Order 83.
After the War he moved to Iowa and worked as a laborer for two years where he bought a quarry and began a home construction business. His father Andrew and third wife Anna Houck then joined Harley in Taylor Co. in 1868. Harley married Mary Ann Tucker 10 May 1871 and had 5 girls and 1 boy. He died 11 Sep 1906 at his home in Bedford, IA with his service conducted by the Sedgewick, IA, Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 10 to which he belonged. His wife was a Charter Member of the GAR Auxiliary until her death in 1933 when her services were handled by the Auxiliary and buried with her husband in the “old” Bedford, IA Cemetery Greenlee Section.
Ancestor Name: Pvt. Jeremiah Houck
Member: Bette (Lewis) Raup
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: New York (Co. G, 154th N. Y. Infantry)
Term of Service: 1862 to 1865
Jeremiah Houck enlisted for 3 years. He took new recruits from Alexandria, VA to the front at Culpepper. Because of exposure to cold and exertion, he developed “fits” and spent periods of time in hospitals. He was discharged in June of 1865.
Ancestor Name: Pvt. John C. Johnson
Member: Beverly Carol Goodenough
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Ohio (Ohio Volunteer Inf., 82nd reg., Co. A)
Term of Service: Enl. 17 Jan 1864; mustered out 7 Jul 1865
John C. served in the Army of the Cumberland. On 2 May 1864 he started on the Atlanta Campaign. He fought at the battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and all of the battles on the approach to Atlanta, including the bombardment of that city. He was taken sick at Atlanta of typhoid fever and was transferred to Nashville, where he participated in battle there. He followed Hood’s Army to Florence, Alabama which was then formed into a battalion of Sherman’s soldiers, and rejoined his regiment at Goldsboro. He then marched to Raleigh and was finally taken by water to Fort Schuyler, NY where he was mustered out. He was discharged at Columbus, OH on 7 Jul 1865. He married Anna E. Rarey, 23 Nov 1869, born in Franklin Co., OH. They had 6 children. He died in 1918.
Ancestor Name: Jackson Justice
Member: Rose Marie (Maggard) Warren
Relationship to Member: Gr Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Kentucky (39th Kentucky Infantry)
Term of Service: Enl. 5 Apr 1864; deceased 2 Sep1864
Jackson Justice was born in 1824 in Floyd Co., Kentucky. He married Dorcus Patton on March 11, 1849. By the1860 census Jackson and Dorcus owned their own home and had brought six of their eight children into the world. He was a farmer and she was a seamstress. Then came the Civil War. As a border state, Kentucky was divided in its loyalties. Kentucky delayed its entry into the war through a declaration of neutrality on 20 May 1861. Kentucky could remain neutral no longer when the Confederates invaded Columbus, Kentucky in September of 1861. Jackson was mustered into the Union army on 5 Apr 1864 for a term of 3 years. He left behind his wife and 7 children, with another child on the way, which is why he did not join sooner. After a successful attack on Confederate troops on 13 Apr 1864 in Paintsville, Johnson County, no rebel forces of a significant size remained in the Big Sandy Region. Jackson had barely served 3 weeks when the rebels captured him on 26 or 27 Apr 1864 in Floyd County. He went to a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia until May 31st and then to the infamous POW Camp at Andersonville, Georgia where he contracted the disease, Anasarca, defined as a “pronounced generalized dropsy” and he died 2 Sep 1864--just four months after his capture. Following his capture, little fighting occurred in the Big Sandy Region; the 39th lost 21 soldiers who were killed in action but it lost a far greater amount–173–to disease.
Epilogue: Jackson and Dorcus’ last child arrived one week after his death at Andersonville POW Camp. He is buried at grave site number 7594.
Ancestor Name: 2nd Lt. Samuel Axtel Kitch
Member: Linda Lee (Antram) Smith
Relationship to Member: Gr Grandfather
Where Served: Illinois (Co. H, 7th Reg., Cavalry)
Term of Service: Enl. 10 Oct 1861; mustered out 31 Jan 1865
Samuel Axtel Kitch was born on 29 Oct 1832 in Salem Twp., Mercer Co., PA. He enrolled in the Shelbyville Cavalry of the Union Army in September 1861. He enlisted as Sergeant and mustered out 4 years later as a 2nd Lt. The 7th Reg. units saw service in TN and MS. There were 334 deaths in the 7th Reg.–267 by disease. When Samuel enrolled he took his own horse for which he was to receive $25.00. The horse was shot out from under him in battle and it was years later before he got his check for the dead horse. Samuel married neighbor Julia Ann Harbaugh in 1859 in IL. Samuel and Julia had 10 children. Children were all given middle names starting with "A" because both father and mother had "A" middle names. A baby Frank Axtell Kitch died at age 2 and is buried in IL. All children were born in Shelby Co, IL. Only son Will (my Grandfather) went to Kansas in 1883 to homestead.* Samuel and Julia followed Will in 1886 and moved the family minus one married daughter to KS. Both families built sod houses on the KS prairie.In 1887, Samuel staked a claim in Kansas under the Homestead Act of 1862. He traded his team of mules and wagon for a 160-acre relinquished homestead and built a sod house of 4 rooms. Samuel applied for and began drawing a $6.00 pension beginning in 1890. He claimed “the said disabilities are not due to my vicious habits and are permanent.” Samuel and Julia are buried in Larned Cemetery, Larned, Pawnee Co., KS. A GAR grave marker is fastened to his gravestone.
*When Will set off for KS, his Mother Julia wrote him the following letter:
It is hard to have you leave us, Will,
They are all girls but you,
that are large enough to help us some.
But I hope you will get through.
But, since it is God's pleasure, Will,
to guide you on your way,
I accept my boy, this,
and don't forget to pray.
This world is full of wickedness,
Of luring snares and sin.
And thousands madly pressing on
See daily falling.
But if you would escape them, Will,
and keep the narrow way,
Oh make God's word your counselor
And don't forget to pray.
In sickness, pain and sorrow, Will,
I will shed a cheering ray
Then let it be your constant guide
And don't forget to pray.
Goodbye! God bless you
and keep you, Will,
Shall be my daily prayer.
And if we meet no more below
God grant we may up there.
And we have this assurance, Will,
To cheer us --- that we may
If we the Bible make our guide.
And --- don't forget to pray.
Ancestor Name: Ensign/Colonel Benjamin Franklin Larned
Member: Virginia (Ashworth) Bailey
Where Served: Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin LARNED was a career Army officer. Born in Massachusetts, he was made an Ensign for the 21st Infantry in 1813. He was brevetted Captain in 1814 for gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie UC. He was promoted to Regimental Pay Master in 1815 and served until 1821 in that position. Larned moved on to Major Paymaster, Deputy Paymaster General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Department of Paymaster General in 1847. He became U. S. Paymaster General with the rank of Colonel in 1854. He died in service in 1862. It is interesting to note that, in his position, he encountered most of the officers of the Confederacy. (See Thought Silent, They Speak by Johney Larned, 2006.) These officers of both sides were active in the Mexican American War.