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From: Priscilla Engeman <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] REsearching CW enlistees
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:37:41 -0800
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Good Job!
Thanks!

Priscilla
On Nov 7, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Judy Lantz wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:
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> On Behalf Of Ruth Sprowls
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:18 PM
> To:
> 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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