Elmer Ellsworth and the United States Zouave Cadets-- Part 13: Some Other Members

 This is a continuation thread from a long time ago.  From December 8, 2017--  Part 12.

I was listing Ellsworth-trained Zouave Cadets who fought in the Civil War.

LUCIUS LARRABEE--  Mortally wounded July 2, 1863, at Little Round Top, Battle of Gettysburg.  Captain, Company B, 44th New York regiment, known as Ellsworth's Avengers.

HARRISON KELLY--  In 44th New York  Infantry, made up of many former Zouave Cadets.

JOHN CONANT LONG--  Became drillmaster at Camp Douglas.  Trained 50 Illinois regiments there.

JOSEPH R. SCOTT--  Mortally wounded at Stones River, January 2, 1863.

HECTOR A. AIKEN--  Captain, Co. B, 29th USCT  Severely wounded at the Battle of the Crater July 30, 1864.  Died two days later.

--Old Secesh

Road Trippin' in Laurel Hill Cemetery: Medal of Honor, USMC Commandant

Some more Civil War folks buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.

CHALES FERGUSON SMITH  (1807-1862)--  Union general.

HECTOR TYNDALE  (1821-1880)--  Union general.

PINKERTON R. VAUGHAN  (1841-1866)--  Medal of Honor, USMC, on USS Mississippi at Port Hudson.

LANGHORN WISTER  1834-1891)--  Union colonel.

JACOB ZEILIN  (1806-1880)--  Commandant of USMC in 1864.

--Old Secesh

More Road Trippin': Laurel Hill Cemetery's Civil War Connection

Wikipedia.

I wrote about Philadelphia's West Laurel Hill Cemetery earlier.  That cemetery is a part of the larger Laurel Hill Cemetery in that city.

According to Wikipedia, hundreds of era persons are buried there, along with 40 Civil War-era generals.

HENRY K. BIDDLE  (1841-1912)--  Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient.  Forwarded personal effects of mortally wounded Confederate General Armistead to his old friend, Union Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.

ULRIC DAHLGREN (1842-1864)--  One of leaders of famed 1864 attack on Richmond and son of Union Naval Admiral John A. Dahlgren.  His father is also buried there.

SAMUEL GIBBS FRENCH (1818-1910)--  Confederate general.  Buried in Florida but family has a cenotaph on family plot.

GEORGE GORDON MEADE  (1815-1872)--  Hero of Gettysburg.

JOHN C. PEMBERTON  (1814-1881)--  Confederate General who surrendered Vicksburg.

Kind of interesting to have two Confederate generals remembered in the cemetery.

--Old Secesh

Road Trippin' Through History: Civil War Notables Buried at Philadelphia's West Laurel Hill Cemetery

Here are four other Civil War folk:

OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL  (1839-1921)-- Claims he was the first Union soldier wounded by enemy activity in the war after receiving a bruise on his head after being hit with an object thrown by a Confederate sympathizer as his regiment marched through Baltimore to relieve Washington, D.C. on April 17, 1861.

CLARISA F. DOYLE  (1832-1921)--Army nurse during Civil War.  President of National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War.

JOHN TROUT GREBLE  (1834-1861)--  First USMA graduate killed at Battle of Big Bethel.

HERMAN HAUPT  (1817-1905)--  Union general and engineer.  Revolutionized U.S. military transportation, particularly with the railroads.

--Old Seceh

Road Trippin' Through History: Civil War Notables Buried at Philadelphia's West Laurel Hill Cemetery-- Part 1

One thing I like to do is take a Road Trip Through History, starting with one article and seeing how far and where I can follow it to.  This started in my Running the Blockade blog when I wrote about Marine Sgt. Richard Binder who received a Medal of Honor for his service at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.  He is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

That means that I look through lists of people buried there and find anyone of particular interest.  I have been doing this in my Cooter's History Thing blog already.  Plus, I wrote about four other Medals of Honor recipients buried there in my Running the Blockade blog.

Here is one notable of interest who are buried with Sgt. Binder.

ROBERT COOPER GRIER (1794-1870)--   Associate Supreme Court Justice 1846-1870.  He would have been involved with decisions during the war.

I found three others which I will write about in the next post.

--Old Secesh

James Cantey, CSA-- Part 2

With the coming of the Civil War, he helped form the 15th Alabama Regiment and was elected its colonel.  The regiment participated in Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign where they showed great valor during the Battle of Cross Keys.

They were still with Jackson during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond.  After that, he was detached and served around Mobile, Alabama, from January 1863 to April 1864. where he organized a brigade consisting of three Alabama and one Mississippi regiment.

They were transferred to the Army of Tennessee and appointed brigadier general.  He was frequently absent from duty because of sickness.  His brigade fought in the Atlanta Campaign and in Hood's Franklin-Nashville debacle.

Cantey and his brigade fought at the Battle of Bentonville in the closing days of the war and surrendered with Johnston's forces at Durham Station.

After the war, he returned to his plantation near Fort Mitchell, Alabama.  He died at his plantation on June 30, 1874, and is buried in the Crowell Family Cemetery in Fort Mitchell.

--Old Secesh

James Cantey, One of Those Confederate Generals Born in Kershaw County, S.C.

From Wikipedia.

In the last post I listed the names of six Confederate generals born in Kershaw County, S.C..  One of them was James Kershaw (so I wonder if he had something to do with the county's founding).  I was familiar with James Chesnut, Jr., but only because of his wife Mary's diary from the war.

I was not familiar at all with the other four.

Here's one of them.

JAMES CANTEY (December 30, 1818 - June 30, 1874)

He served as an officer in the Palmetto Regiment during the Mexican War.  In one battle he was severely wounded and left among the dead until his enslaved servant retrieved the body to be buried at home and found him still alive.  He saved James' life.  James offered him his freedom for that, but was refused.

After the war, he moved to  Alabama and bought land, becoming a  planter in Russell County.

--Old Secesh

Six Confederate Generals Born in Kershaw County, South Carolina

From carolana.com.

Major General Joseph B.  Kershaw

Brigadiers

James Cantey

James Chesnut Jr.  Wife was Mary Chesnut who wrote the famous diary.

Zachariah C. Deas

John Doby Kennedy 

John Bordenave Villepigue

Old Secesh

About Those Discarded Rifles at Gettysburg

After the Battle of Gettysburg,  the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington, D.C., to be inspected and reissued.

Of the 37,574 rifles recovered, approximately 24,000 were still loaded; 12,000 had two rounds in the barrel; 6,000 had three to ten rounds in the barrel.

One rifle, the most remarkable of all,  had been stuffed to the top with twenty-three rounds in the barrel.

That Is Sure A Big Oops.  --Old Overloaded Rifle