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Subject: [OHDEFIAN-L] Civil War records: Re: William Gould Saylor of New Athens...G.A.R. marker..Service?
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 08:59:37 -0800
I thought I'd include these three county mailing lists in this answer as it
is a general tip as many people may be wondering about this question too.
How can I find my ancestor's civil war records?
You've just been looking in the wrong places. the US National Archives &
Records Administration keeps all the Civil War records...
www.NARA.gov
also they have a genealogy section which is really amazing.....
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html
They kept very detailed records. My ancestors pay muster records and
pension application stuff was there (great genealogy detail on the
application and correspondence). you just fill out as much info about your
ancestor and they look him up by name, copy records and mail them to you.
it takes mailing to get an official form to request, takes a while, but it's
very cheap and remarkably detailed.
Rich Sewell
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Date: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: William Gould Saylor of New Athens...G.A.R. marker..Service?
I've been trying with little success to pin down the service record of my
gr-gr-grandfather, William Gould Saylor of New Athens, Harrison Co., OH. (b.
1828 Mifflin Co., PA, d. 1892 New Athens, Harrison Co., OH). He is buried
in Longview Cemetery in New Athens, with a G.A.R. marker placed next to his
stone, presumably by his widow, and FOURTH wife, Mary Hendershot Saylor.
W.G.S. is buried next to his third wife, Annie Elisabeth Fischer Saylor.
Saylor is known to have lived in WVA (then VA) as late as 1862, when his 2nd
wife, Mary Elizabeth Drummond, died in Weston, Lewis Co. His children to
that point were sent off to live with friends and relatives, and it is
assumed that he then volunteered for service during the Civil War. He next
appeared in Cumberland, MD, where in the fall of 1863 he married the above
mention Miss Fischer.
>From this point, up to their first appearance in Ohio (Belmont Co., in 1868)
where a son was born, I cannot find any record of Saylor in any branch of
service from any state. He was known in his day as "Captain" Saylor--whether
this was strictly honorific or an actual achievement of rank is unknown.
There was a William H. H. Saylor of Ohio....this is NOT the Saylor in
question. Rosters of volunteers for Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Virginia all come up negative.
I've searched through various G.A.R. "Encampment" souvenir rosters from the
1880's and 1890's at the Ohio State Archives, but to no avail. Another
researcher has recommended the G.A.R. museum in Philadelphia, but warns that
the collected material there is all but uncollated. If there's anyone out
there who has definite proof of service for William Gould Saylor of Harrison
Co., I'd love to hear from him/her.
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