While I think the conditions stated in the article are true, bear in mind that this article was written by a northerner as you read some of the author's rantings (ie he states that the north took great care of the confederate prisoners while they made our Union troops suffer horrible conditions; well we in the north had some pretty bad war prisons as well).
William H.H. Wilcox, who was first at Libby Prison apparently didn't have any luck. He was later transferred to Camp Sorghum in Columbia, SC which apparently wasn't much better in terms of the conditions. I can't upload the NY Times article to this site because it gets all distorted, but you can see it here. The article discusses the horrible conditions they suffered there and how there was a large effort to get them released (about 10,000 Union soldiers in all). At the end there is a list of names of the latest officers finally released and William is there as "Lt. W.H.H. Wilcox, RQM, 10th NY."
While I think the conditions stated in the article are true, bear in mind that this article was written by a northerner as you read some of the author's rantings (ie he states that the north took great care of the confederate prisoners while they made our Union troops suffer horrible conditions; well we in the north had some pretty bad war prisons as well).
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William H.H. Wilcox's grandfather's brother, George Eacker, was the guy who shot Alexander Hamilton's son, Philip in a duel. Well, according to this site, the pistols used by Philip, and later used by his father, Alexander Hamilton, in the famous duel against Aaron Burr were donated to a NY bank that eventually merged with Chase Manhattan Bank. Sadly it doesn't appear that they are on display but you can at least see a picture of them at that website. A real irony is that the the bank the pistols were donated to was originally founded by Burr.
William H.H. Wilcox, who was first at Libby Prison apparently didn't have any luck. He was later transferred to Camp Sorghum in Columbia, SC which apparently wasn't much better in terms of the conditions. I can't upload the NY Times article to this site because it gets all distorted, but you can see it here. The article discusses the horrible conditions they suffered there and how there was a large effort to get them released (about 10,000 Union soldiers in all). At the end there is a list of names of the latest officers finally released and William is there as "Lt. W.H.H. Wilcox, RQM, 10th NY."
While I think the conditions stated in the article are true, bear in mind that this article was written by a northerner as you read some of the author's rantings (ie he states that the north took great care of the confederate prisoners while they made our Union troops suffer horrible conditions; well we in the north had some pretty bad war prisons as well). There have been lots of new developments in various branches of the family tree.
ZEHREN SIDE: I found the death record for Peter Zehren, Margaret Zehren's (William J. West's wife) father as well as a death record for an infant sibling of Margaret's who died of cholera. Two other siblings for Margaret were found - John (who died at 16 yrs of age - can't decipher the cause of death yet) and Anna. The death record gives us a death date for Peter Zehren and a burial place (Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery). And says he was born in Germany. These records will be up on the Zehren tab. KOEHLER, WILCOX AND COLBORN: My dad and I spent some time on at the Newark Library and found some obituaries and death notices for Jennie Melville Koehler, Mabel Wilcox Colborn, Robert M. Colborn and William Henry Harrison Wilcox. Robert M. actually warranted an obit with a photo. WILCOX AND HERKIMER: I just got the research back from Montgomery County, NY on William H.H. Wilcox (where he was born) and the great news is the researcher could not find him buried in Montgomery County. This is good news because we know our William is buried in Newark with his wife so if the researcher had found a William H.H. Wilcox buried in Montgomery County, then that guy would be descended from the Herkimers and not ours. So this is looking good for the Herkimer connection. I don't know why a family history book on the Herkimer family states William was buried in Palatine Bridge Cemetery, but he's not there (although two of his brothers are). A copy of the page listing his brothers burials as well as the family history that states all of them are buried there can be found on the Wilcox page under Misc Wilcox documents. I also found someone online who has information on William H.H. Wilcox who has a tree with William having another wife and children, including Percy. Percy is listed in William's obit as a surviving son but he is not Martha's son so he must be a son from another, previously unknown wife. I haven't found much more than that yet. But the really exciting thing about William is for those those descended from him, a Civil War veteran part of the famous Libby Prison escape, you can also say you are descended from Captain George Herkimer, who (along with his brother, General Nicholas Herkimer) fought in the Revolutionary War. It is interesting that while General Herkimer famously fought on the Colonial side (and the county in NY is named after him), there has been suspicion that George played both sides. That information is on the family tree bios that you can link to from this site. KAMINCHAITIS/CUMMINGS I recently obtained the Social Security application for Joseph Kaminchaitis and we now have the names of his parents - Andrew and Anna Kaminchaitis. Unfortunately, Joseph didn't put his mother's maiden name down. So in the name repetition game that seems to run rampant in this family (with tons of Williams, Margarets, Josephs, etc) those descended from Joseph and Katrina Kaminchaitis have the happy knowledge that both Katrina's and Joseph's fathers were named Andrew. |
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