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Submitted by
Laurie Warner Jacobs on 5-31-07:
From the Record First Michigan
Sharpshooters, First and Second U.S. Sharpshooters, Company D Western
Sharpshooters Civil War 1861-1865 published by the
State of Michigan, as pertains to the dress of the Western
Sharpshooters:
"It was armed with the American Deer and Target Rifle.
The accoutrements were not of the kind prescribed by army regulations,
but consisted of a bullet pouch of bear skin covering and a powder horn
or in some cases a flask. In the bullet pouch was a compartment where
the soldier carried his screw drivers, bullet moulds and patch cutter,
singular implements for a soldier; but Birge’s boys moulded their own
bullets, greased them and patched them with as much care as an old
hunter would, and used them as effectively. It was the design of General
Fremont to give them a complete hunter dress, but this was vetoed by
Halleck, and the only thing peculiar about the dress was the hat, which
was a gray sugar loaf shaped affair, with three squirrel tails running
from both back and front and meeting at the apex of the crown in an
undescribable knot."
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Andrews, John H.
Captain
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
10-5-1861 to 6-24-1864
Wounded in action
on
5-27-1864 in Dallas GA.
Died
from effects of wound
on 6-24-1864.
From Hartford MI
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Arbour, James M.
Sergeant
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
Age 20
In service
18__ to 1-13-1862
+Discharged for disability.
From Van Buren Co. MI
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Arner, Benjamin W. OR
Wilber Arner
Corporal
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861
to 6-20-1862
+Discharged for disability
From Van Buren Co. MI |
Austin, John
Click here to view
Civil War Veterans photo in Keeler Cemetery
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Baird, Asa
d 1-12-1926 in Hartford MI
Age 88 |
Baird, Omer A. |
Baird, Walter A.
Private
Western Sharpshooters
Company G
Transferred to
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
b 5-28-1838 d 1-12-1926
Orangeville NY Hartford MI
87y, 7m, 22d
Age 23 – enrolled
in service
10-2-1861 at Hartford MI
Discharged 10-20-1862 at Detroit MI. Member of Wardsworth Post No. 49
G.A.R. Lawrence MI
Wounded in action
at Shiloh. Left thigh bone shattered and knee cap destroyed.
Discharged for wounds
Resided in Hartford MI since 1858
Information from The Day Spring,
1-20-1926 obituary notice. |
Balfour, James
1st Corporal
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service 1861 to 1862
Killed in the
Battle of Cornth MS
10-4-1862
From Lawrence MI
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Sergeant
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
Transferred to
Co. H 66th Illinois Infantry
Age 20
Enrolled in service
10-2-1861 in Hartford MI
Discharged
9-17-1864 at East Point GA
Wounded in action
Discharged
for wounds
Born in New York
From Hartford MI
Photo taken 3-14-1922
at the home of Freeman Stowe.
Photo submitted by
Laurie Warner Jacobs 5-2007 |
Barnes, Harlow G.
2nd Corporal
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to 9-24-1862
Discharged at Corinth MS
by order of Major Gen.
U.S. Grant for disability
From Van Buren Co. MI
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Beam, John Jordon
Sgt
Pennsylvania
Heavy Artillery Regiment
b 1832 d 1906
New Jersey Milwaukee WI
Age 74
Died in the
Veterans Home in Milwaukee WI
Buried in the
Veterans National Cemetery
Milwaukee WI
In service 1861 to 1865
Wounded in action
several times
+
Contracted disease-illness-disability during
service
In 1856, John moved to Pennsylvania,
then relocate to Hartford, Michigan in 1866 after the Civil War. He lived
in Hartford until about 1875 and moved to Paw Paw until 1877…then on to
Breedsville, where he continued to live until he left for the Soldiers Home
(Milwaukee, WI) in 1902.
Grandsons, Clare Herbert
Beam, Jared Earl Beam,
Garth Beam, and Francis Bernard Beam
served during WW11. John’s great grandson,
Robert (Bob)
Beam, served in the Military during Vietnam and his great great
grandson,
Richard Alan Beam served during the Persian Gulf-Desert Storm.
6-2003 Information submitted by Robert (Bob) Beam – son of Clare Herbert
Beam. Photo and updated information in 2006 by Gary A. Beam, son of
Jared Earl Beam.
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Bidlack, Gerge
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
11-16-1862 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 20
From Decatur MI |
Bigelow, George M
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
9-24-1861 to 10-4-1862
Killed in
Action
at Corinth MS
From Keeler MI |
Bovier, Ward
b 5-13-1837 d 11-26-1879
Age 42y, 6m, 15d
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Bowe, Gilbert S.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
8-18-1862 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 19
From Millburg MI |
Bowe, Prosper
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
and 66th Illinois
In service
Fall, 1861 OR 12-23-1863 (?)
to 7-7-1865 (Mustered out)
Photo taken
3-14-1922
at the home of Freeman Stowe
Originally from Coloma MI and settled in Watervliet MI. After the war, he
and Freeman Stowe did some developing of an area on Paw Paw Lake known as
"Bowe’s Landing" in Watervliet MI.
Top photo from the Archives of Michigan. Lower photo submitted by
Laurie Warner Jacobs 5-2007. |
Branch, Vine
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service 1861 to 7-9-1862
Wounded in action
at Corinth MS
Honorable Discharge
for disability
From Van Buren Co. MI
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Breese, Hiram T.
7th Corporal
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to 9-16-1864
Honorable Discharge
Age 23
From Keeler MI
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Brewster, Dallas
1st Corporal
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 27
From Hartford MI
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Brewster, Samuel F.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to 7-24-1862
+Sent home on sick leave
Feb or Mar of 1862, died 7-24-1862.
From Keeler MI
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Buchanan, Martin V.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-13-1864 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge.
Age 25
From Bainbridge |
Burdick, William S.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-13-1864 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 23
From Millburg
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Burnett, Albert
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-13-1864 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 30
From Hartford MI
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Camp, Charles H.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
9-23-1861 to 7-5-1862
Honorable Discharge
for disability
From Lawrence MI
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Carris, Henry A.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
9-23-1861 to 9-17-1864
Honorable Discharge
Age 27
From Lawrence MI
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Chatfield, Isaac A.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
10-5-1861 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 22
From Hartford MI
Photo from Archives of Michigan. |
Cheney, Aaron D.
Drummer Boy
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to
7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 18
From Keeler MI
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Collett, George F.
Pvt – Co. G, 15th Michigan V. I, 3d Brig, 2d Div, 15th A.C.
In service
9-22-1864 to 7-31-1865
Enlisted at
New Buffalo MI at age 24.
Honorable Discharge at
Harpers Hospital, Detroit MI.
+Severely wounded during January in a collision near Cleveland,
TN while en route to Nashville TN. Consequence of this injury and typhoid
fever, was treated in field hospital near Greensboro NC, Fairfax Seminary
VA, Newfort to Harpers Hospital in Detroit MI. In 1864, served as Corp. of Provision Div., also acted as Ord. Sergeant
while in Tennessee, Asst. Adjt at Goldsboro NC. His active hostilities
were the battles of Strawberry Plains, Dutch Gap, Gum Swamp, Wise’s Forks,
and Jacksons Mills.
Born in
Cambridgshire, England.
After the war, he was an insurance agent
and resided in Hartford MI.
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Combs, John
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
8-13-1862 to 6-2-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 21
From Arlington
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Conklin, Henry Gotham |
Cook, Charles |
Cook, James R.
Corporal
85th Pennsylvania Volunteers
(may have transferred to Company D, 118th Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers)
b 1822 in Brownsville PA
Served abt 4 1/2 years
Mustered in 10-31-1861
Mustered out 6-28-1865
Move to Hartford in 1880
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b 2-20-1828 d 11-29-1903
Pvt – Co. H, 10th NY Artillery,
3d Brig, 3d Div, 18th A.C.
In service
6-26-1862 to 6-06-1865
Honorable Discharge at
Saterlee Hospital,
Brownsville NY
Enlisted at age 34
+March, 1863 was confined in Div hospital 6 months for
inflammation of the
lungs. Confined again in Campbell hospital, Washington DC, and Saterlee
hospital, Philadelphia PA. Granted honorable discharge with
granulation of eyelids.
Active in engagements at Petersburg, Weldon R.R. and Mine Explosion.
Was member of
G.A.R. Post in Hartford MI.
Born in Jefferson County, NY.
Came to Van Buren Co. MI in 1868
Contributed by
Mildred Conklin Lightner,
daughter of Richard W. Conklin with information from Presidents, Soldiers, Statesmen, Vol 11, 1895
H.H. Hardesty, Publisher
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Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
8-18-1862 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 23
From Lawrence MI
Photo taken
3-14-1922
at the home of Freeman Stowe
Photo submitted by
Laurie Warner Jacobs 5-2007 |
Cook, Sullivan
b 1835 d 1903
1st U.S. Sharpshooters
Company I
In service
1862 to 1863
Age 28
From New York
Came to Hartford in 1868
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Cox, Thomas
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
9-21-1861 to 3-7-1862 (unknown)
Took furlough at
Mettle Landing TN
From Van Buren Co. MI
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Decker, Jim
Click here to view
Civil War Veterans photo in Keeler Cemetery |
Dedrick, Philip C.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861, resigned 4-3-1863
From Van Buren Co. MI
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DeLong, Henry
b 10-19-1843 d 1-2-1926
In service
9-2-1864 to 6-10-1866
Honorably Discharged
Son of Allen and Lydia Delong.
Came to Hartford September 1855. Returned to his parents home in Hartford
Township after the war.
Married Eliza Carter
11-30-1871
The family moved to Bangor MI in 1879. Henry and brother, Silas, bought
the furniture business of CL Brown in 1881. After about 18 years, Henry
returned to Hartford for 5 years and returned to Bangor in 1905.
Henry and Eliza had one daughter, Lissie. In about 1891, she married
Maurice F. Russell, editor of
the Bangor Advance.
Information provided by Eric DeLong, GG grandson of
Nathan DeLong.
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Delong, Nathan
In service 18__ to 18__
Nathan was the grandson of
Francis Delong, the only
known
Revolutionary War soldier
to have lived in Hartford. |
Dennis, Joseph
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-19-1864 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 18
From Bainbridge MI
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Disbrow, Edward J.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
11-2-1862 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 20
From Bangor MI, former residence
was McDonald MI. |
Dix, Franklin M.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-25-1864 to 7-11-1865
Honorable Discharge
Age 19
From Decatur MI
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Dix, Percival R.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
10-20-1861 to 7-11-1865
Transferred to Co. H
Age 21
From Millburgh, MI
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Dowd, Jefferson S.
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company DTransferred to Co. H
In service
9-23-1861 to 9-17-1864
Honorable Discharge
Age 26
From Millburgh MI |
Doyle, Patrick
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
2-22-1864 to 5-27-1864
Killed in
Action at
Battle of Dallas GA
Age 35
From Hartford MI
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Draper, Willard E.
Musician
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
d 2-14-1903 in Detroit MI
Age 26
In service
Enlisted 3-11-1862,
Mustered
3-26-1862 at Dowagiac MI
to 7-11-1865 at Goldsboro NC
Honorable Discharge
From Lawrence MI
Photo from Archives of Michigan.
*States discharge shown as 4-4-1865. |
Duncombe, Stephen
W.
1st Lieutenant
Birge’s Western
Sharpshooters
Company D
In service
1861 to 7-16-1862
Resigned
Buried in Keeler, MI cemetery
From Keeler, MI
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Dyer, Newcomb Thomas
28th Michigan Infantry
Company H
b 9-17-1831 d 2-27-1912
+Disabled toward end
of war
Buried in Maple Hill Cemetery,
Hartford MI.
Thomas Newcomb Dyer is a great grandfather to Nancy Dyer Huffman,
Robert Dyer, and
William
(Bill) Dyer. Robert and Bill served in
the Korean War.
Other grandchildren are
Dorothy Dyer Martelle
Helen Dyer Hauck
Jack Dyer (deceased)
Marge Dyer MacKenzie
Lila Dyer Michael
Jim Dyer
Susan Dyer (married name ?) Mike Dyer
Photo and information provided
by Bill Dyer in 2002.
Additional information provided
by Helen Dyer Hauck 5-1-2003
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Lorenzo Barker
»The communities of Hartford, Keeler, Decatur, Lawrence,
Bangor, Millburg, Bainbridge, and Arlington have been added to the Civil War
Veterans listed above because of the close proximity to the
Hartford-Keeler area. The Birge’s Western Sharpshooters listed above were from a
"History of the Regiment" by Sergeant Ren Barker, of Company
D." and were found listed on the internet site
http://www.michiganinthewar.org/sharpshooters/western.htm.
Many of the names show "Van Buren Co." as the hometown; some
were definitely from the Hartford area, but the actual home town of others
are unknown. This is the reason for inclusion of the Van Buren Co. names.
Other local communities in Van Buren and Berrien Counties are also
listed at this site.
»Updated information is from With
The Western Sharpshooters Michigan Boys of Company D 66th Illinois
by Lorenzo A. Barker 1905. New edition information with additional material,
1994, was provided by William (Bill) Dyer in August, 2002.
»As
the Michigan men who volunteered exceeded Michigan’s quotas, many men
joined units in other states.
»The Michigan Calvary Brigade was made up of the 1st,
5th, 6th, and 7th units under the command of Brigadier General George
Custer of Monroe Michigan. At the conclusion of the war, some of
these regiments were kept in federal service against their will to suppress
the Indian uprisings in the west.
Lorenzo Barker photo is from
the Archives of Michigan.
Read the entire Lorenzo
Barker’s Civil War diary online at
http://seekingmichigan.org/ under the Civil War Manuscripts
Submitted by Laurie
Warner Jacobs on 5-31-07:
From the Record First Michigan
Sharpshooters, First and Second U.S. Sharpshooters, Company D Western
Sharpshooters Civil War 1861-1865 published by the
State of Michigan, as pertains to the dress of the Western
Sharpshooters:
"It was armed with the American Deer and Target Rifle.
The accoutrements were not of the kind prescribed by army regulations,
but consisted of a bullet pouch of bear skin covering and a powder horn
or in some cases a flask. In the bullet pouch was a compartment where
the soldier carried his screw drivers, bullet moulds and patch cutter,
singular implements for a soldier; but Birge’s boys moulded their own
bullets, greased them and patched them with as much care as an old
hunter would, and used them as effectively. It was the design of General
Fremont to give them a complete hunter dress, but this was vetoed by
Halleck, and the only thing peculiar about the dress was the hat, which
was a gray sugar loaf shaped affair, with three squirrel tails running
from both back and front and meeting at the apex of the crown in an
undescribable knot."
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entered as soon as possible.
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