Amanda Matilda Colburn Felch-- Part 1: Served As Nurse

From Find-A-Grave.

12 November 1833 to 31 December 1893.

Buried at Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery in Canon City, Colorado.

From July 1861 to May 1865 was a nurse with the 3rd Vermont Volunteers with her brother Henry Colburn.

She was present and served at the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and other engagements. Later served with Dorothea Dix.

Received a pension from the government 13 March 1891, by Special Act of Congress.

--Old Secesh

Robert A. Cameron-- Part 4: Very Active in the Development of Colorado

Cameron finished the Civil War in command of the Department of the Gulf, based at Thibodeaux, Louisiana.  On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted to major general and resigned his commission June 22 of that year.

After the war, he went west and established farm colonies in Colorado where he promoted the economic development of Colorado and was very involved in its politics.  In 1870, he was influential in the establishment of Greeley, Colorado and then he became the superintendent of a new colony which became Colorado Springs.  He was also involved in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Later, he moved to San Francisco, but returned to Colorado where he served as a postal clerk in Denver. He died on his farm near Canon City, Colorado, and is buried there at Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery.

--Old Secesh

Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery, Col.-- Part 2: The GAR Monuments and Amanda Farnham Felch

Both Union and Confederate veterans are buried in the cemetery.  Of interest, the Confederates are buried in the north part and Union in the south.

A large pile of stones is all that remains of the GAR monument to Union soldiers, but an impressive monument to the Confederates remains.  This was paid for by the local GAR.  An example of the joining of the former Confederacy with the United States after the war.

Also, Amanda Farnham Felch and her husband Marshall are buried in the cemetery.  Both were Civil War veterans.  She was an Army nurse who served from July 1861 to May 1865 with the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry and the 6th Corps of the Army of the Potomac.  She was at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and many other battles.  Later, she served under Dorothea Dix.

--Old Secesh

Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery, Canon City, Co. Civil War Connection-- Part 1

From the January 19, 2001, Interment.Net  "A Short History of Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery."

Canon City, Colorado

I was looking for information on War of 1812 and Mexican War veteran Milby Smith.

Brevet Major General Robert A. Cameron, 34th Indiana, who later helped found the cities of Colorado Springs, Greeley and Ft. Collins is buried here.

--Old Secesh