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From: "mark davis" <>
Subject: Re: [IN-CIVIL-WAR] IN CW burials
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:41:33 -0500
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Kathy,

Some will never be found. He may be among those.

Chattanooga would have been my first choice to look also.

Possible burial on the field and never reinterred, or could he back in
LaGrange county,IN?


Mark




One Hundredth Infantry
INDIANA
(3-YEARS)

One Hundredth Infantry. -- Cols., Charles Case, Sanford I.
Stoughton Albert Heath, Ruel M. Johnson, Lieut.-Cols., Albert
Heath, Ruel M. Johnson, John W. Headington; Majs., Robt.
Parrott, Ruel M. Johnson, John W. Headington William H.
Vernamon.

This regiment was organized at Ft. Wayne in Aug. 1862, two
companies, organized for the 88th regiment being assigned to
it to complete its organization, and it was mustered in Sept.
10. It left the state Nov. 1, for Memphis where it was
assigned to the 2nd brigade, 1st division, Army of the
Tennessee.

It moved in the first expedition against Vicksburg, but was
forced to turn back by the enemy's capture of Holly Springs,
and was assigned to garrison and railroad guard duty at
Collierville. In June, 1863, it joined the army at Vicksburg,
took part in the siege and then moved against Jackson, where
it was constantly engaged until the evacuation.

It was then in camp at the Big Black River until Sept. 28,
when it sailed to Memphis with the 4th division, 15th army
corps, thence moved to Stevenson and Bridgeport, Ala., and
Trenton, Ga.

It was in the movement in which the left flank of Bragg's army
was turned and the enemy driven from his position on Lookout
Mountain. The regiment then marched to Chattanooga in time to
participate in the storming of Missionary Ridge, its division
gaining the crest of the hill and holding the position against
repeated assaults. The loss of the regiment was 132 in killed
and wounded.

After pursuing the enemy as far as Graysville, it was ordered
to Knoxville for Burnside's relief and thence proceeded to
Scottsboro, Ala., which place was reached Dec. 26. On May 1,
1864, it joined in the Atlanta campaign and was engaged at
Dalton, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Big
Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Cedar Bluffs,
Chattahoochee River, Decatur, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station.

After Atlanta's evacuation it was encamped at East Point until
it went in pursuit of Hood in October, moving as far as the
Tennessee River and then returning to Atlanta. As part of the
2nd brigade, 1st division, 15th corps, it moved upon Savannah
and was engaged in a desperate fight at Griswoldville, where
repeated assaults by the enemy were repelled.

From Savannah it moved by steamer to Beaufort, S. C., thence
through the Carolinas, assisting in the capture of
Branchville, Columbia, Georgetown and Cheraw, S. C., and
fought at Bentonville, N. C.

It was at Goldsboro from March 26 until April 10, then moved
successively to Raleigh, Richmond and Washington, D. C., where
it was mustered out June 9, 1865, and the recruits were
transferred to the 48th Ind.

The original strength of the regiment was 968; gain by
recruits, 86; total 1,054. Loss by death 237; desertion, 31;
unaccounted for, 11.

Source: Union Army, vol. 3, p. 172



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy & Ted Schmitz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [IN-CIVIL-WAR] IN CW burials


> Dear list, I have that same problem. Where is my ancestor buried or do we
> know?
> Maybe some were not buried.
> Kathy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colleen Knights" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:26 AM
> Subject: [IN-CIVIL-WAR] IN CW burials
>
>
> > Kathleen,
> >
> > Thanks for opening up discussions on this list.
> >
> > Mark,
> > I would appreciate it if you would check your burial data for the
> following
> > soldier.
> >
> > Edward Whitney
> > Claimed Residence in Lagrange
> > Enlist Date 15 August 1862
> > Served Indiana Enlisted C Co. 100th Inf Reg. IN
> > Killed at Missionary Ridge, TN on 25 November 1863
> >
> > If you don't have him listed, I'd be interested in any information you
> might
> > have on other members of his regiment who were killed in this battle.
> > Knowing where they were buried, might help.
> >
> > I've checked with the Chattanooga National Cemetery and he is not listed
> in
> > their records. The park historian was kind enough to check the
registers
> of
> > the National Cemeteries at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee, and
> > Louisville, Kentucky, placed on the railroad line of communications
behind
> > the Union Army of the Cumberland, to see if his body had been moved to
one
> > of those places at some point. There was no likely entry.
> >
> > Neither his CMSR or his widow's pension record notes a place of burial.
> It
> > is difficult to say where his body would have been sent - if it was, in
> > fact, moved. His wife/widow was living in Saratoga or Washington Co.,
New
> > York at the time of his death in 1863. In 1860 Edward was living with
> Edwin
> > Owen's family in Clay, LaGrange, while she remained in NY. I suspect
he's
> > related in some way to Edwin's wife, Mary and her mother, Anna Brockway,
> who
> > also lived with them. It is possible he was working for the railroad.
> Some
> > time in 1863 the Owen's moved to Van Buren so that would be another
> > possibility.
> >
> > Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Colleen Knights
> > Cincinnati, OH
> > >
> > > Wow. I forgot that I was on this list too.
> > >
> > > I have 14,000 burial sites of IN CW soldiers compiled if anyone is
> looking
> > > for a CW ancestor.
> >
> >
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