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[[Image:Lucius E. Ball.jpg|300px|thumb|right|<center>Lucius E. Ball in the Civil War <br.>Copy from the collection of Allan Deitz. The original tintype is now owned in 2010 by Susan Dewitt Pyne. The photographer was apparently his brother Jerome Deitz Ball who was a professional photographer.</center>]]





























==Birth==
Lucius Edward Ball was the son of [[Robert Ball]] (B. Jan 9, 1809) and [[Anna Barbara Dietz]] (B. Oct 17, 1815, D. Oct 16, 1897). He was born in Albany<ref name="Carnival">Keating, Robert, [[h:Carnival of Blood|Carnival of Blood]]: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998</ref> Berne<ref name="Muster Roll Abstracts"> NY Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts, Ancestry.com Military databases</ref><ref name="Town and City Registers">Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War</ref>on March 14, 1843.  He was the fifth child of sixteen.

==Occupation==
Before he served in the Civil War, Lucius worked as a carpenter.<ref name="Carnival"/>

==Military Service==
{| style="color:black;background-color:#ccffff;" cellspacing="1" border="2"
|Name:
|Lucius Ball
|-
|Residence:
|Berne<ref name="Town and City Registers">Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War</ref>
|-
|Place of Birth:
|Berne<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Date of Birth:
|14 March 1842<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Names of Parents:
|Robert Ball and Barbara Dietz<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Marital Status:
|Single<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Occupation:
|Carpenter<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Term of Enlistment:
|3 years<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Bounty Received:
|$100.00<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Enlistment Date:
|1 Aug 1862<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Enlistment Place:
|Berne, New York <ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Enlistment Rank:
|Private<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|State Served:
|New York
|-
|Regiment:
|'''[[h:7th Regiment|7th Regiment]]''' NY Heavy Artillery
|-
|Company:
|Company D<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded on:
|3 Jun 1864<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded at:
|[[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]], VA<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Died on:
|6 Jun 1864<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Place of Death:
|[[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]], VA<ref name="Carnival"/><ref name="Heroes of Albany">Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, "Heroes of Albany; A memorial of the Patriot-martyrs of the City and County", 1867</ref><ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Place of Burial:
|[[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]], VA<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-

|}
{| style="color:black;background-color:#ccffff;" cellspacing="1" border="2"
|Additional Remarks:  Enlisted at the age of 21.<ref name="Carnival"/>"Killed in Battle at [[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]] June 3rd 1864  Buried on the field"<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>  Born in Albany County, NY, age 21 years, Occupation,carpenter, Blue eyes, Dark hair, light complexion, 5'7" tall.<ref name="Muster Roll Abstracts"> NY Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts, Ancestry.com Military databases</ref>
|-
|Sources Used: Ancestry.com, American Civil War Soldiers, 1865 Census, Berne, Albany Co., NY; [[h:Annual Report of the Adjutant-General|Annual Report of the Adjutant-General]] of the State of NY for the year 1898; Keating, Robert, [[h:Carnival of Blood|Carnival of Blood]]: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998;Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War
|}

==Death==
Lucius died on June 6, 1862 at [[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]], Virginia.  He had been wounded in the thigh three days before and had laid in shallow pits with [[William A. Post]] and Daniel McCollock (of New Scotland) without the availability of shelter, food or water under the blazing June sun.  By day they were pinned to their protected pit by Confederate fire and every night they attempted to move closer to the safety of the Union lines.  Only Daniel McCollock survived long enough to reach safety.<ref name="Carnival"/>

This story was remembered in the Ball family and was told to Allan Deitz by [[Clyde L. Ball]]:
Lucius and [[William A. Post]] fought side by side during the battle. After both were wounded they tried to get back to their lines by crawling at night under cover of darkness, but didn't make it. They were found together on the battlefield. <ref name="ClydeBall">[[Clyde L. Ball]] as told to Allan Deitz</ref>

Lucius's parents [[Robert Ball]] and [[Anna Barbara Dietz]] never saw all of their children together because Lucius died before he could see their last child, his sister [[Cora Ball]].<ref name="ClydeBall"/>

==Other Media==
===Newspapers===
[[h:Knickerbocker News dispatch from the field June 8, 1864|Knickerbocker News dispatch from the field June 8, 1864]] reports death of [[Lucius E. Ball]] and [[William A. Post]], both of Berne.

===Carnival of Blood===
Keating, Robert, [[h:Carnival of Blood|Carnival of Blood]]: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998
''Born: Albany [should be Berne], NY. Age 19. Occupation: carpenter. Enlisted, August 1, 1862, as private in Co. D; wounded in the thigh by a shell fragment, June 3, 1864 at [http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va062.htm| [[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]]]; lay between the lines without treatment, food, or water, until June 6, when he died.''

===[[h:Heroes of Albany|Heroes of Albany]]===
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, "Heroes of Albany; A memorial of the Patriot-martyrs of the City and County", 1867
''LUCIUS E. BALL enlisted August 6, 1862, in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment.  Killed in battle at [[h:Cold Harbor|Cold Harbor]].''

==='''Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War'''=== 
Formal name:  Complete Record Relating to Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen Composing the Quotas of Troops Furnished to the United States..in the War of the Rebellion
The registers provide military service data and personal biographical information regarding the men furnished by each town or city during the Civil War.

<gallery>
File:Ball, Lucius.jpg|<center>Note from Jerome D. Ball, brother of Lucius, concerning his death and the tin type image of Lucius</center>

</gallery>

'''Sources'''
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Researcher: Allan Deitz

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