|
created May 16, 2006 |
|
typed and emailed to me
by Kathy Mills
listed here be sure to email me. Click on my new graphic to email me. Thanks! additions, corrections, are always more than welcome. Thanks!
Information below was emailed to from Barbara Mc Coy if you would like more information on these two gentleman you can email Barbara by clicking on her name. Also, anyone having a veteran from Illinois can get their ancestors information and from the cyberdriveillinois.com data base Illinois in the Civil War. If you are a resident of the state it will not cost anything but a self addressed stamped envelope. Out of state I'm not sure as they were going to change that and haven't checked to see if they have or not. Thanks. |
|
Foxie,
I'm sure you
don't want all of this, but better too much than too
little. John West was my
ggrandfather's brother. Barbara--- Barbara,
never assume I wouldn't want anything. cuz that's when I
would want it. if that makes any sense. But I believe
all of our Veterans from previous wars should be
remembered throughout time and space.
At the IL
State Archives, CYBERDRIVEILLINOIS.COM, in a database of
Illinois Civil War Details, John is listed as
joining the Union Army on Aug 2, 1862 for 3 years,
joined by J. S. Burkhalter. He was mustered In on Aug
27, 1862 in Peoria, IL. He was 18 years old, 6' 4" tall
with brown hair and hazel eyes, fair complexion, single,
and a farmer born in Maquon, Knox Co., IL. He was
mustered out in Springfield, IL by Capt Montgomery and
in remarks it says "paroled prisoner." He was a Pvt in
Co. F, 86th IL US Infantry.
Served as a
private in the infantry of the Union Army. Captured at
Kennesaw Mt., GA, imprisoned at Andersonville, and
paroled on 04/28/1865 at Jacksonville, FL From his
obit: "He saw service at Chickamauga, at Missionary
Ridge and other places until the battle of Kenesaw
Mountain, where he was captured by the Confederate
forces and taken to Andersonville prison in Georgia near
the little town of Americus. This was on June 27,
1864. For ten months and eighteen days he was confined
with 35,000 federal soldiers on 20 acres of unsanitary
prison grounds. Treated like dogs and with a limited
supply of water and no conveniences or equipment they
languished until, without explanation, they were
suddenly conveyed by rail outside the prison to an
unknown region and turned loose. He walked barefooted
for 22 miles over an old railroad bed filled with
sandburrs, to reach the northern lines and find that the
war was over. "
And more from
the National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors site at
www.itd.nps.gov:
Side Union
Unit Name 86 Illinois Infantry Regiment 86 State Illinois Function Infantry Company F Rank Private Type Held at Andersonville and survived Capture Date 06/27/1864 Capture Site Kennesaw, Ga Remarks PAROLED ON 04/28/1865 AT JACKSONVILLE, FL;
Unfortunately,
we don't know what John had to say about his time in
Andersonville, but another said, "It is hardly possible
to conceive of greater accumulation of woes . . .than
fell to the prisoners of Andersonville." By August,
1864, 33,000 prisoners were packed into the enclosure
with more than 100 deaths each day. No shelter was
provided - prisoners had to build makeshift tents and
lean-tos out of whatever material they could find or
scavenge. A single stream flowed through the camp, but
it served as an upstream garbage dump for the guards and
a hospital.
Rations were very small and very poor wrote one of the Union captives. "The meal that the bread is made out of is ground, seemingly cob and all, and it scourges the men fearfully . . .Hundreds of cases of dropsy. Men puff out of shape and are perfectly horrible to look at." Lack of adequate medical care increased the mortality rate at the camp. While the exact number of deaths at the prison is unknown, 12,912 soldiers were buried in the cemetery outside the stockade. (The Civil War Chronicle, Publications International, Lincolnwood, IL 2004, p.247. Here is a short history of John's unit: 86th Illinois Infantry Dyer's Regimental History Source - "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer
Organized at Peoria, Ill., and mustered In August 27,
1862. Moved to Louisville, Ky., September 7, 1862, and
duty there till October 1. Attached to 36th Brigade,
11th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 36th
Brigade, 11th Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the
Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division,
Centre 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to
January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 2nd
Brigade, 2nd Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the
Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division,
14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and Army of
Georgia to June, 1865.
SERVICE - Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-16.
Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to
Nashville, Tenn., October 16 - November 7. Post duty at
Nashville till June 30, 1863. Moved to Murfreesboro,
Tenn., June 30. Return to Nashville July 18, and duty
there till August 20. March to Chattanooga, Tenn., via
Brentwood, Columbia, Tenn., Huntsville and Bridgeport,
Ala., August 20 - September 16. Battle of Chickamauga,
Ga., September 19-21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
September 24 - November 23. Chattanooga - Ringgold
Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23.
Tunnel Hill November 24-25. Mission Ridge November 25.
Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. March to relief of
Knoxville, Tenn., November 28 - December 17. At Lee and
Gordon's Mills, Ga., till May, 1864. Demonstration on
Dalton, Ga., February 22-27, 1864. Tunnel Hill,
Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February
23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Tunnel
Hill May 6-7. Demonstration against Rocky Faced Ridge
May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca
May 14-15. Rome May 17-18. Operations on line of Pumpkin
Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and
Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5. Operations about
Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 - July 2.
Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault
on Kenesaw June 27. (Here is where John is captured).
Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July
19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22 - August 25. Utoy Creek
August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
Battle of Jonesboro August 31 - September 1. Lovejoy
Station September 2-6. Operations in North Georgia and
North Alabama against Hood and Forest September 29 -
November 3. March to the sea November 15 - December 10.
Louisville November 30. Cuyler's Plantation December 9.
Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the
Carolinas January to April, 1865. Averysboro, Taylor's
Hole Creek, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March
19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on
Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his
army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va.,
April 29 - May 19. Grand Review May 24.
Mustered out June 6 and discharged at Chicago, Ill.,
June 21, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 73 Enlisted
men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 93
Enlisted men by disease. Total 175.
From a list at the 1888 Reunion in Peoria, IL attended
by John West. Found at the RootsWeb site "Illinois in
the Civil War."
West, John, mustered out July 22, '65, was prisoner.
Knoxville, Ill
Name: John West , Residence: Maquon, Illinois Enlistment Date: 02 August 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE State Served: Illinois Unit Numbers: 411 411 Service Record: POW Enlisted as a Private on 02 August 1862 Enlisted in Company F, 86th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 27 August 1862. Mustered out Company F, 86th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 22 July 1865 |
|
|
 |
|
Foxie, Hear you are: John West's picture, plus a couple of extras. They are pictures of the Illinois Monument on Kennesaw Mountain at the battlefield park there in Kennesaw, GA. I don't have a picture of him in uniform.
Barbara
caption for the above pictures and where & whom they are from. Thank you Barbara for remembering your gg Uncle John West from Knoxville, IL.
|
|
Foxie,
Here is a more distant,
but interesting relative. I do not have a picture. John Jones,
son of Peter and Caroline Fink Jones. He was b 8-12-1828 in
Rochester, NY, and d 1-18-1912. He m Mary R. White 11-2-1854 in
Knox Co., IL, daughter of John White.
In the 1899 Knox Co. History,
page 950,Chicago, Munsell Pub. Co. is the following: "He
served three years and came home as First Lieutenant. He helped
organize a colored regiment at Fort Donelson, and was offered
the position of Lieutenant-Colonel but declined. At Fort
Donelson he acted as Adjutant General for four months and was
then made Quartermaster of the Post. He was a strong
abolitionist, and spoke his views fearlessly. After the war he
farmed until 1876, when he located in Maquon, where he has been
Postmaster for fifteen years. He spent four years in California
as a miner and merchant. Mr. Jones is a Liberal in religion.
In politics, he is a republican." It also says that he spent
four years in California as a miner and merchant, but does not
say precisely when he went, but presumably around 1849-50.
Also, it states that his father was Peter Jones and his paternal
grandparents were Phineas and Hannah (Harris) Jones who were
natives of VT. It says he came to IL in 1835 with his parents.
From the Civil War Soldiers
and Sailors website of the National Park Service:
John Jones
Regiment Name 83 Illinois Infantry Side Union Company G Soldier's Rank In 2 Lt. Soldier's Rank Out 1 Lt. Alternate Name Notes: Film Number M539 roll 46 |
|
|
|
Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:12:37 AM Updated |
