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From: "Daniel & Mary Sackett" <>
Subject: Fw: Sackett and more Sacketts
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 09:44:17 -0600


Dear Chris(and All);
Here is a remailing of an e-mail that I received in response to a question of
the names of any Sacketts in the Civil War in the United States. I hope that
it is of
Military interest to you Chris.
Daniel

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> From: Michael Ruddy <>
> To: CIVIL-WAR genealogy list <>
> Subject: Re: Sackett and more Sacketts
> Date: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 7:35 PM
>
> The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion ('OR' = 127 volumes) have
> an Index where it lists the following Sacketts followed by the volumes
> where they appear. Most large libraries should have copies of this set of
> books
> Sacket, Delos B.,
> Series I, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 11, 19, 27+, 41+, 48, 53;
> Series III, Vols. 3, 5.
> Sackett, Erastus, Series I, Vols. 34, 41.
> Sackett, F.M., Series I, Vols. 25.
> Sackett, Homer S., Series I, Vols. 46.
> Sackett, John C., Series I, Vols. 48.
> Sackett, Joseph R., Series I, Vols. 5.
> Sackett, Lee M., Series I, Vols. 35, 39, 49.
> Sackett, Orange, jr., Series I, Vols. 44, 47.
> Sackett, William, Series I, Vols. 12+, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33, 36, 40.
> Sackett, William, Mrs., Series I, Vols. 40.
> Sackett, William H., Series I, Vols. 29, 40.
> You will have to look up each entry and deduce by context who they are and
> the part they played. The OR is not genealogy, do not expect too much.
>
> The best bet is to find out what state they came from, did they serve CSA
> or US and then look at rosters for the states involved. Whatever the case
> you should be looking for a specific Sackett, not just Sacketts. Charley
> would be a good place to start. Try to deduce from your family history the
> most information possible, Imagine if you encounter 4 or 5 Charley Sacketts
> -- how will you know the one you are searching for? The more data, the more
> precise the search can be. There were 4,500,000 men (or so) who enlisted.
> That is more than the population of Ireland and there are literaly
> thousands of people searching for surnames in Ireland probably right now on
> the net, tonight! The good part is the National Archives have records of
> most all of those who served although if CSA it is more challenging.
> Mike

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