Westerlo during the Civil War

Civil War Drum, Westerlo, NY Town Park 09/09/06<br.> from d a murphy's photostream on Flickr

Regiments in which men from Westerlo served

7th Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery

There were at least 24 men from Westerlo who served in the 7th Regiment. Some of the Regiments major battle were at Petersburg, Cold Harbor, Weldon Station, Spotsyvania. Three of the men from Westerlo were killed in battle, or later died of their wounds. Seven were wounded. Six were captured, five of whom died in prison of their wounds, starvation or disease.

Click here for more about the 7th Regiment and a listing of the men from the Hilltowns who served in it.

Westerlo men who joined the Union Army

We are trying to collect information for a book on Hilltown men who were in the Civil War. The information is being posted here in their biographies in preparation for writing the book. While we have volunteers adding information little by little, it will still only be what information they can glean from public records. We are encouraging family researchers to post additional information on each of these men: photographs, obituaries, copies of letters home, pictures of headstones, memorabilia, etc. We hope to publish the book in 2011, the 150th anniversary of the start for the war. If you know more about any of them, if would be a fitting tribute to them if you would also create a biography of them. Until then, the only thing we can share with viewers of this page is their name.

Biography

We would like to start a biography for each of these people with the basic data about their military service and anything else you care to add under one or more of the following categories as appropriate:

• Photo
• Birth (date, place, parents)
• Education
• Military Service
• Marriage and Children
• Occupation
• Death (date and burial)
• Other Media (newspaper articles, service papers, obituary, etc.)
• Gallery (photos)

Instructions

Please add a name below in alphabetical order. To do so, first register then sign in. You will see an Edit tab to the right. Click on it and enter a name in the sample format shown below. Go the bottom of this page and click Show Preview. The name should then appear in red. If it looks OK, go to the bottom of the page again and click on Save Page. If you click on the name you can then add a biography. You need not write a biography to add a name to the list.

Click on Instructions for Entering Service Personnel for additional help.

Service Personnel

• Adriance, James A.
• Anable, Samuel L. wounded at Cold Harbor
• Applebee, John
• Barker, Wesley Thomas
• Barkman, Andrew
• Bates, Dewitt C.
• Bell, Henry T. wounded at Petersburg
• Bishop, Ambrusen
• Blakeslee, Phillip
• Boomhower, Levi
• Boughton, Smith Azor
• Bowie, John
• Boyce, Jacob
• Brate, Abram
• Brate, Alexander
• Brate, Baltus
• Brate, Francis
• Brate, George
• Brate, Jacob
• Brate, James S.
• Brate, William
• Brate, William H.
• Britton, Cornelius
• Burlingham, Daniel A.
• Calfrient, Fritz
• Calhoun, Edward A.
• Cary, Charles F.
• Cary, Daniel I.captured at Reams Station, died Salisbury
• Cheesbro, John
• Cole, Charles
• Concupont, Levi native American killed at Battle of Wilderness
• Cornwell, Lewis W.
• Cornwell, Stephen H. killed at Totopotomoy
• Craft, Alton
• Craft, John Blodget
• Craft, Thomas Jason
• Crawford, David H.
• Davis, Darius
• Decker, Jacob
• Dedrick, Spencer
• Denison, Jesse
• Finehout, John Tyler
• Finehout, William Henry
• Fisher, Gilbert E.
• Fisher, Hiram Atkins
• Flagler, Wesley captured at Petersburg, died at Andersonville.
• Ford, George
• Ford, Grant
• Fox, Jacob
• Ganesslen, George
• Gibbons, Erastus Jr.
• Gocha, Soloman Ruben wounded at Reams Station, discharged for disability.
• Green, Henry A.
• Golden, Charles Lapaugh wounded
• Griffen, Reed B. hospitalized and discharged for disability.
• Griffin, Harvey
• Guild, Simon
• Guyer, George C. Annie E. Guyer, widow 1890
• Haight, Alexander
• Haines, George wounded at Totopotomoy and again at Petersburg; discharged for disability.
• Haines, Victor
• Hale, Albert C.
• Hassell, Gideon
• Hassell, John
• Holly, John A.
• Holmes, Erastus Hamilton Corporal, wounded and captured at Petersburg; died of wounds. Heroes of Albany
• Holmes, James
• Hotaling, John C.
• Hunt, Eli
• Hunt, Silas
• Huyck, Alphonso
• Ingalls, William H.
• Irving, Frederick
• Johnson, William D.
• Knowles, George
• Knowles, Herbert
• Lake, Lorenzo
• Lamoureaux, William Harrison
• LaPaugh, Judson Clement
• Laupaugh, Alfred
• Lobdell, Isaac DM
• Lockwood, Marcus D. captured at Petersburg, died at Andersonville
• Low, John B.
• Mabie, Edmund
• Maher, John
• Maher, William
• Marshall, Benjamin
• Marshall, Eli
• Marshall, Tunis
• Newberry, John S.
• Palmer, Frederick
• Palmer, Ira
• Palmer, Seymour J.
• Peck, Orin Arthur
• Peck, William H. of Westerlo and father of Orin, signed up in Fulton Co.
• Peck, William J. wounded in battle and died.
• Requa, James H. captured at Reams Station, paroled
• Robertson, Zelum Terbush alias John Crawford, drowned in shipwreck
• Rundell, Daniel
• Schofield, Andrew
• Simpkins, Stephen Robert
• Slater, Jacob Haines
• Slingerland, Teunis
• Snyder, Homer
• Sornberger, Alexander
• St.John, John Tyler
• Steadman, Charles
• Stone, Edgar
• Sweet, James Albro
• Talmadge, Abram Robertson wounded at Totopotomoy; right arm amputated and he was discharged for disability.
• Talmadge, Martin
• Teel, Robert
• Thayer, Julius
• Tompkins, Charles A.
• Udell, James captured at Petersburg, died of survey at Andersonville
• Vanleuven, Dewitt C.
• Van Zandt, John H. wounded at Cold Harbor
• Ward, Ludlow B.
• Warner, Abram D.
• Weaver, Marshall
• Webb, James
• Weisgarver, Ezra
• Westervelt, Robert G.
• Wetzel, John a German immigrant
• Willsey, Levins H.
• Wilsey, Edgar Hart
• Wolley, George
• Wright, John
• Wright, Sylvester