Members Helping Members!!...

Here's how it works.. If you are trying to get photographs of a gravesite or battlefield, to collect for your Civil War ancestor research and records, then send us a request and we will post it here... Other members seeing your request and being in the near vicinity, and are willing to assist can email you direct (this protects your privacy) and work out the details. We HIGHLY recommend the "Requester" pay for all film costs and any postage involved for a helping member. This is intended to be a "Free" assistance between members (with the exception of defraying film and postage costs). Do unto others as.... you know :-) Keep us posted on how this is working, so we can share them in the "Fireside"!! 
GFS Jim

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SusiCP 
[OHBELMON-L] Ohio Units in the Civil War 
From: wild1cat@worldnet.att.net (Jeffrey Laird) 
To: OHBELMON-L@rootsweb.com 
I am trying to find out information on Company I of the 173rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. My gggrandfather Alexander Palmer served. Is there a roster available somewhere or someplace I could get records? 
Regards, 
Peggy 

{{{Susi}}}} Thanks for forwarding this request. We'll see if anyone knows a Website with the Roster list.

Susi - ran across these sites on the Internet. See if they connect you to anything you're looking for.......170th Regiment Ohio Vol. Inf. hliggett@ald.net 173rd OH,... Http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/civilwar.html 1st Ohio In


From: Phreyor

Hello friends: I would like some information about the Veterans Reserve Corps, or the (V.R.C.). What is their history, what was their functions, where were they located, that sort of things. I had a wounded relative who spent the last year of the War in Saint Louis in the VRC. But I know nothing about it. Please help out if you can. Thanks! Phreyor. P.S. I love the stories and history given by all. Please keep up the great work. 

{{{{{Phreyor}}}}} Thank you so much for the kind words. They let us know we're doing something right!! Though I send it to you, I decided to include the write-up here also about the Veterans Reserve Corp as I thought maybe others might be interested. 

Veterans Reserve Corp 

Source: The Civil War Dictionary by Mark M. Boatner III

In Apr. '63, the Union Army established the "Invalid Corps" to consist of officers and men unfit for full combat duty but who could perform limited infantry service. Those who could handle a weapon were put in the 1st Bn. and used for guard duty. The worst crippled formed the 2d Bn and were used as nurses and cooks around hospitals. Six companies of the 1st Bn. and four from the 2d Bn. made up a regiment in the corps after Sept. '63. In December the corps. numbered over 20,000. A total of 24 regiments and 188 separate companies were eventually raised, freeing many able-bodied soldiers for combat duty. Since the initials of the Invalid Corps coincided unfortunately with the "Inspected--Condemned" stamped on worn-out government equipment and animals, the name was changed in Mar '64 to Veteran Reserve Corps. A small pamphlet entitled "Field Record of Officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps" (Washington: Scrivner & Swing, n.d.) (copy in West Point Library; shelf No. UA37, F45) gives the following information on many officers of the corps: name, age, battles, nature of disability, date he entered the corps, and rank. "The officers of this Corps were sent to the rear, wounded and mutilated, from every battlefield of the war," says a note in the pamphlet, "and after passing an examination which fully tested their capacity for a proper performance of military duties, were placed in their present positions, not only upon the recommendation of their regimental and brigade  commanders, but, also, by the distinct approval of the following distinguished officers;.  " There follows a roster of 74 Maj. Gens. and Lt. Gens. Scott and Grant. 

From: PAnder4636

I need some help on an execution of a soldier that i can find no information on . The execution was a soldier in the 7th Kentucky Infantry and it was over the killing of another soldier, but there is no account of it in the records. Also the execution was conducted without the signature of the president. Who would have kept the records of this trial

Phyllis

{{Phyllis}} thanks for your request.... Do any of you 7th Kentucky Inf. historians have any knowledge of this one...? Or..... where Phyllis could go research ??

Phyllis, I received this site from several different sources this week and you might want to check it out  http://www.rootsource.com/civwarex.htm  The New River Company's Genealogy and History Research Site. I looked quickly through the list and found 3 men from the 7th KY who were executed.. one of them might be your soldier.

From: mawtyfed@adelphia.net (Martin Fedchak)

As always, I'm enjoying the weekly fireside...

Unfortunately, I am no longer able to get to the chat room. We switched internet servers and no longer have aol. For some reason, my server won't let me get to the room by way of the only address I have: (aol://4344:167.genenew3.1406912.528564696). 

Would you be so kind as to send me a link to the chat room and the genealogy forum area? I would be most appreciative!!

Keep up the good work and thanks for your help!

Bonnie (mawtyfed@adelphia.net formerly bjfedchak@aol.com)

{{{{{Bonnie}}}}} Thanks for the nice words about the Weekly Fireside!! Unfortunately only AOL members can get into the chat room , but we'll keep you on the distribution of the newsletter. Over 10% of our distribution are non-AOL users, which makes us feel good!!! Our newsletters seem to "get passed around" and then we get requests from folk to be added. Gosh, we must be doin' sumptin right!!!!! <G>

Bonnie, the Chat Rooms offered by The Genealogy Forum are not yet available to the full web.  However many of the other areas of the Genealogy Forum are available at http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/search.html - including many of the file libraries.  Hope to see you there, Host GFS Gary, Resource Center Manager


From: WJHF 723

Hello,
You have always been such a source of good information I thought I might impose and ask one more question. We recently went to some old family gravesites in Galesburg Illinois. There we came across one that would belong to a great great uncle of mine. On seeing the developed pictures we can see he served in an Illinois unit during the Civil War but cannot make out which one. Company K and either 45 or 49 Ill.Inf. My question is do you know where I might search to see if his name (George Holyoke) is listed on the rolls of either company and where they might have fought? I look forward to hearing from you, Thanks, 

Jobeth Fjell

{{{{{Jobeth}}}}} As I told you in email, I did a quick check in the Illinois Database for your George Holyoke and didn't find him so I sent you the URL http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/datcivil.html  so you could do some checking of your own. I also forward you email to IllinoisCW our "resident" Illinois Civil War expert. And now I'm putting it out to all the "faithful" to see what they might come up with... Anybody out there able to help Jobeth???

Once again the "faithful" comes thru!!

From: IllinoisCW
To: WJHF 723

George T. Holyoke enlisted in Rock Island in Co K - 45th Illinois. 
Depending on when he mustered into the unit and when he mustered out of the unit - he could have fought at the following battles.
Fort Henry, Tennessee - Fort Donelson, Tennessee - Shiloh, Tennessee - Siege of Corinth, Mississippi - Grand Gulf, Mississippi - Port Gibson, Mississippi - Raymond, Mississippi - Champion's Hill, Mississippi - Big Black River, Mississippi - Seige of Vicksburg, Mississippi - Marietta, Geogia - Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia - Jonesboro, Georgia - Sherman';s March to the Sea - Siege of Savannah, Georgia - Columbia, South Carolina - Bentonville, North Carolina and the surrender of CSA forces at Raleigh, North Carolina. They were also involved in the Grand Review in Washington D.C. 
As you can see the 45th was a very active unit - called THE LEAD MINE REGIMENT because it was formed in Galena, Illinois where the lead mines were very much a way of life for the men and families. They mustered out of the service in Louisville, Kentucky on 7/12/1865.
Hope that helps/ Be glad to try to answer any other questions you might have as you find more material.

Frank

{{{{{Frank}}}}} Thank you from me and WJHF 723

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