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From: "Judy Lantz" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] REsearching CW enlistees
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:32:31 -0500
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I found a reference to this draft in Lowdermilk's History of Cumberland,
1878 edition, pg. 415. July 1, 1864 "At this time about one hundred men
were drafted for three years' service to make up the county's quota under
the last call, and 170 were drafted for the one hundred days' service."

Hope this helps.

Judy Lantz

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Subject: [MDALLEGA] REsearching CW enlistees

to research all 170 men listed. I would
assume there were many more than just these listed on this date, in
other
newspaper editions, etc. I could help in transcribing these 170
names, but
it wouldn't seem to be a complete list to me, and I wonder if there
would
already be another source out there with a list. I wish we knew where
these
16 districts placed on a map. It would help to locate where these men
lived
within Allegany Co.

Heh gals, The first place to start looking would be a possible
history of the county that includes a roster of all regiments and
names. (Lake/Geauga counties in Ohio had an 1878 history of the
counties produced by the Williams Bros. - I do not know if they only
did Ohio, or other states.) Pennsylvania regimental history was done
by Bates.) GOOGLE and try searching for Maryland regimental rosters
and see what can be found.
ALSO - ancestry.com has the CW databases - some of them you can
search by county - don't key in any names, just search for Allegany
county Maryland - see what you get. Or if you can search by town, do
that , town by town -

Another place is the 1890 Pensions List - that can be searched by
county, and will give you all living in Allegany Co. MD that is
receiving a pension. REMBEMER tho, that this is any pensioner living
in the county - so he could have moved from another county or state.
All this has to be proved.
Their also is an 1883 pensioners list - I think there are 5 volumes -
available on google books. (this version is MUCH easier to use than
the same books found on ancestry.com).
Local county libraries, historical societies also have local
regimental history.
Also check various scrapbook collections at his. soc. I checked our
scrapbook card file for a CW vets name, and found an 1880 roster that
had been printed in the local paper, when they were erecting a
monument. Each town in the county had submitted their CW veterans
names and regiments.
Also, once you know regiments, you can search online and so many
people have dedicated many years to researching the regiments, and
have loads of info online and SOOOO very willing to share.
ALSO - how many researchers on this list have data on their own
ancestor that they would be willing to share????
IF this project would be undertaken by a group of you (IT DOES TAKE
MORE THAN ONE RESEARCHER -) decide in the beginning where the project
will wind up - historical society? )
The project I am involved with will have a WALL OF HONOR in the
historical societies main hall , listing all proven veterans names.
For those killed in battle there will be a code and another code for
those who died of their wounds.
THEN any additional data we locate (photos, mini bios, b/m/d, obits,
death certs., etc.) will go into a database, that will be accessible
thru the history centers website.
As I said we started with 2800 names for the two counties, and I have
to prove which were from my county, which should be between 1363 and
1800. And all others will be deleted. Our list will only include
those who lived in the county at time of enlistment.
If anyone needs further sources, just holler - will be glad to assist
all I can. I have learned more about the CW in the past 4 months,
than I ever thought I wanted to know.
Ruth


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