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This collection of Military Service Records includes the surnames Crous, Crouse, Forder, Hampton, Jump, Neely, Ohl, Osborn, Roman, Rugg, Shatto, Simmons, Sloper, Stockton and Woodward, starting with the Revolutionary War and ending with World War I.
Revolutionary War
American Revolution -- Jacob Crouse (Crous) Private in Captain James Bell's Company, of the 5th Class, third Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Samuel Erwin, Colonel.
"An account of the 5th, 6th and 7th classes of the 3rd Battalion of Cumberland County Militia called upon to preform a tour of duty by order of the Council, bearing date ye 1st of August 1780." Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 6, 5th Series, page 217.
He was again, summonsed, August 16, 1780, page 222 and again August 23, 1780, page 222, and again August 23, 1780, page 223.
Robert Neely, son of Hugh Neely, Revolutionary War pension application, filed in Washington County, Virginia, for service rendered in South Carolina.
Micheal Ohl (great grandfather of Mary Ohl Crouse) Member of the Committee of Observation of Northampton County, Penn., Dec. 21,1774. Captain of the First Heidelberg Company of Associators, Northampton County Penn., 1775, Penn. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 3, page 69, 1893. Anniversary history, Leheigh County, Penn., 1914, Vol. 1, page 115 - 116. Northampton County History, Vol. 1, page 132.
Henry Ohl was a member of George Shmetter's Seventh Company, 6th Battalion, Northampton County, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Col. Henry Geiger, 1782 and Major Frederick Sagler. Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. 8, page 514.
8th Battalion Chester County ilitia, Penn.
Capt. Marches Co., Class 6. Penn. Archives, 6th Series, Vol. 5, page 837.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, - Vol. I-XVII (17), Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.Volume 13, page 648
Rugg, David, Princeton (also given Sudbury) Receipt dated Cambridge, June 10, 1775, signed by said Rugg and others, for advance pay received of Capt. Micah Goodenow (service rendered in Capt. Moors's co., Col. Nixon's regt., of which company Micah Goodenow was 1st Lieutenant); also, Private, Capt. David Moore's co., Col. Nixon's regt.; receipt for bounty coat dated Dec. 20, 1775; also, Private, in a company commanded by Lieut. joseph Boynton, Col. Nathan Sparhawk's regt.; entered service August 21, 1777; discharged August 26, 1777; service, 11 days, at Bennington in an alarm, including 5 days (102 miles) travel home; also, Capt. Ephraim Stearns's co., Col. John Rand's regt.; enlisted July 10, 1780; discharged October 11, 1780; service, 3 mos. 12 days, including 10 days (200 miles) travel home; regiment raised in Worcester Co. to serve for 3 months; also, order on Henry Gardner, Treasure, payable to Luke Moor, dated Hubbardston, June 18, 1782, signed by said Rugg and others, for wages, etc., due for service in Capt. Stearns's co., Col. Rand's regt., in 1780.United States Senate report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3rd of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, Vermont Section, Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
County: Caledonia Co.
Name: David Rugg
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums Received: 914 01
Description of service: Massachusetts continental line
When placed on the pension roll: March 24, 1819
Commencement of pension: April 6, 1818
Age: 81
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks: Died October 13, 1827.
United States Senate report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3rd of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States, New Hampshire Section, Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.New Hampshire Pensioners 1835
Name: Henry Sloper
Rank: Private
Co: Grafton Co.
Annual Allowance: 20 90
Sums Received: 62 70
Description of Services: New Hampshire Continental Line
When placed on pension Roll: November 10, 1832
Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831Revolutionary War Pensioner Census 1840
New Hampshire Section page 24 Oxford
Name of Pensioner: Henry Sloper age 81
Name of head of family pensioner resided June 1, 1840: Priscilla Maxwell
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol. 4, Serial: 9661, Vol. 7Name: Henry Sloper
Cemetery: Clay Hollow Cemetery
Location: Piermont New Hampshire 32
Private in West Bradford Co., 8th Battalion Chester County Militia, 6th class.
Capt. Thos. Carpenter's Company. Penn. Archives, 6th Series, Vol. 5, page581.
War of 1812
War of 1812 -- John Crouse, son of Jacob Crouse. Private in Captain Matthew Rodger's Company, Colonel Rees Hill's Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, Miffilin County. His services commenced April 10, 1813 and ended November 5, 1813. His place of residence was Mifflin County. He was private number 56 in the quota of the 52 Regiment, 1st Brigade, 11th Division. He was Post Master on the March to Erie. Received one musket and bayonet. Record from War Department, Washington D.C. and 6th Series, Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 9, page 639.
War of 1812 -- Adam Shatto
Co: Rayen's Regiment, Ohio Militia
Induction: Private
Discharge: Private
Roll Box: 186
Roll Exct: 602
Mexican War
Mexican War -- Jacob Crouse, son of John Crouse, Private in Captain Moore's Company E., 3rd Regiment of Ohio Infantry. Enrolled June 15, 1845 at Wooster, mustered in June 24, at Cincinnati, for twelve months, and was mustered out with his company, June 19, 1847, at New Orleans, LA, aged 26 years. War Dept. Records, Washington D.C.The following is extracts from a letter written by Jacob M Crouse to his parents, addressed to John Crouse, Palmyra, Ohio. Mattimorus, Mexico, August 27, 1846
Dear Parents:
I ask pardon of you for not writing sooner. Our army is posted at this place to keep it. There are about 6000 Mexicans here at present and 1000 of us from Ohio. It is very hot and sultry. One third of our army is unfit for duty, not being able to stand the climate. I was unwell for some time with chills and fever, but have got hearty as could be expected.
The probability is that we must take up our line of march to Monterey in a few days, from what we can learn, to invade the country, and likely on to the City of Mexico which is about nine hundred miles.
Signed, J. M. Crouse.
Civil War
Adam Crouse, son of Jacob M. Crouse, enlisted Aug. 17, 1861 at Sullivan Co., MO and was mustered into service September 22, 1861 as a private in Company A., 23rd Regiment, M.V.I. Killed in action at first shot fired at the Battle of Shilo, Tenn., April 6, 1862. Record, Adj. Gen'l Missouri.
Document sent to Probate Court And now comes the said Thomas W Peckinpaugh, Guardian of said Adam Crouse, and represents to the Court, and says that he is informed and believes that the said Adam Crouse is dead; that he was killed at the battle of Shilo, in the State of Tennessee; he also says that said ward was a minor, without heirs of his body at the time of his death. Said Guardian further represents that he is the Guardian of John and Margaret Crouse, who are the brother and sister of the said Adam Crouse, deceased, and that the said John and Margaret are both minors, and that the said Guardian has this day charged himself in his Guardian account with the said John and Margaret Crouse, with the balance of moneys and effects in his hands, as guardian of the said Adam Crouse, and had, in his account with the said Adam Crouse given himself credit with the same.
Woster, March 16, 1863 T. W. Peckinpaugh, Guardian
Civil War -- Ethelbert Crouse, grandson of John Crouse, Allegiance: Union, enlisted November 6, 1863 at Ossian, Indiana, Company F, Unit: 130th Indiana Infantry Regiment Rank Induction: Private, Rank Discharge: Private, Discharged December 12, 1865 at Charlotte, North Carolina. Earned the Distinguished Service Metal. Record, Adj. Gen'l Indiana.Shows the following:
Name: Ethelbert Crouse
Name of Regiment: Indiana Infantry
Rank: Private
Company: F
Enlistment Date: November 6, 1863
Discharge Date: December 12, 1865This is a very interesting story about the experience Ethelbert had durning his service in the Civil War.
"Out of the Jaws of Death" title of an article in McClure's Magazine, November 4, 1904 by W. Henry Sheak. There is more to this story, but I have condensed it.
Ethelbert requested permission to fall out of ranks to get a drink of water. Due to the weather conditions, he was unable to catch up with the others. He and twelve others were surprised by a band of guerrillas, captured, and hurried off to a ravine. The guerrillas were not confederates but robbers. The prisoners were divided up into small groups and marched off into another deep ravine in a pine forest, where a young man about seventeen, shot them one at a time, while the rest of the robbers laughed and taunted their victims. After everyone was executed, the robbers started stripping them of their clothes and valuables. Unknown to them, the bullet that struck Ethelbert in the head, only grazed the skull and rendered him unconscious. When one of the robbers rolled Ethelbert over, he regained consciousness, and startled the robber. The man drew his weapon and cocked it, as Ethelbert looked into the man's eyes, the robber pulled the trigger. He saw Ethelbert stretch out his hands and clinch them. He thought Crouse was dead. But he did not loose consciousness this time. The bullet struck him in the throat under the jaw. It was so close to the jugular vein that it could not be removed. He carried it to his grave. In the company of one other survivor, they made their way back to the union army, through the storm and dead of night. Ethelbert was offered a discharge, but refused it, and returned to his company, after he recovered. This whole experience happened just three weeks after his enlistment, when he was only sixteen years old.**Note - Lemuel Nelson Grandstaff was the other survivor of this murder, which happened in Hickman Co., Tennessee.
Civil War -- John Henry Crouse, grandson of John Crouse, enlisted December 1, 1863, at Strafford, Indiana, by Leut. Delong, into Company F, 129th, I. V. I. Discharged September 13, 1865. Record, Adj. Gen'l Indiana.
Civil War -- John S Crouse, son of Jacob M Crouse, enlisted August 17, 1861 at Sullivan Co., Missouri, and was mustered into service on October 8, as a private in Company A, 23rd Regiment, M. V. I. Promoted to corporal January 10, 1865. Served thirteen months in Libby prison. Mustered out of Service July 18, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky, Record, Adj. General of Missouri.John and brother Adam enlisted the same day, and were mustered into service, as privates, in Company A of the 23 Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry. On April 6, 1862 at Pittsburg Landing, in Tennessee, during the Battle of Shilo, by 5 pm 30 privates were killed, 170 wounded and 375 were taken prisoner. Among the 30 killed was Adam Crouse, among the 375 taken prisoner, was John Crouse. In Lt. Col Quin Morton's Report on the Battle of Shilo April 6, 1862, John Crouse, PVT Co A, is listed as POW at Shilo. John spent 13 months in Libby Prison, located in Richmond Virginia. The Prison consisted of three tenement (loft style) buildings, each 110X44 feet, 4 stories high.
Milan Republican, July 8, 1881, THE RE-UNION An article about the re-union celebration of the 23rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in Milan, July 3rd, 4th and 5th, 1881. The three day celebration included a procession of Bands, Cavalry, Infantry, Select Knights A.O.U.W., and citizens, that weaved through the principal streets of the city. At the end of the procession, everyone gathered for a program that included Prayer, Choir songs, an address by a Congressman, and Band music and awards. The paper published the names of all soldiers who registered, with Post Office addresses of each as it appears on the register. There were two to three hundred names listed, from many different states. Listed was the name John Crouse Co. A Milan.
Civil War Pension Records
John Crouse
Widow - Martha Crouse
Service - A 23 MO Inf
Application Date: 1888 March 15 - Invalid - App# 645.284 Cert # 507.988 - State Filed Missouri
Application Date: 1917 Dec 22 - Widow - App# 1115.402
Head Stone reads John S Crouse Co. A 23 MO Inf (flag) no birth or death date
George W. Forder, grandson of John Crouse, enlisted Oct. 21,1861, mustered in Dec.13, at Napoleon, Ohio by Patrick H. Mooney, captain, Company C, 68th O. V. I. Appointed corporal, Mustered out Oct. 29, 1864 at Chattanooga, Tenn. by order of War Department. Ohio War Record, Newbury Library.
David M Hampton Enlisted December 13, 1861, in Indiana as a Private. Enlisted in 8th Light Artillery Regiment, Indiana, January 24, 1862. Mustered out, 8th Light Artillery Regiment, Indiana, January 25, 1865.Civil War Pension Index: David Hampton, 8th Light Artillery Regiment, Indiana. Date of filing: May 2, 1863, Application # 20259, Certificate # 106335, Claim: Mother (David had been wounded in battle)
Civil War Pension Index: David M Hampton, Widow: Rebecca J, 8 th Light Artillery Regiment, Indiana, Date of filing: February 9, 1928, Claim: Widow, Application # 1604308, Certificate # G-4-28-21, State Filed: Oregon
Frederick Osborn enlisted November 28, 1861, in Davenport Iowa, as a Private in the Union Army, and served with the 16th Iowa Infantry, Company A. He was captured July 22, 1864 in Atlanta Georgia and sent to Andersonville Prison. Frederick died from Scorbutus, November 26, 1864 in Andersonville Prison and buried there in grave # 12169. He died 2 days before his enlistment was up.Andersonville Prison
The village of Andersonville, Sumter Co., Georgia was picked for the cite of a prison for captured Union soldiers. The deep south location, availability of fresh water, and its proximity to the Southwestern Railroad, made Andersonville a favorable prison location. In addition, Andersonville had a population of less than 20 persons, and therefore politically unable to resist the building of such an unpopular facility. January 1864, slaves from local farms were used to construct the prison stockade. The prison stockade, surrounded 26.5 acres of land.Prisoner began arriving in late February 1864, and was designed to hold 10,000, and by early June the prison population had climbed to 20,000, by August the population had swelled to 33,000 prisoners. It was during this time period, November 26, 1864, that Frederick Osborn died, in Andersonville.
Handicapped by deteriorating economic conditions, the Confederates lacked the necessary materials and amounts of food for 10,000 prisoners, not to mention the 26,000 that were confined there by June 1864. Shelter was deduced to crude shelters huts of made scrap wood, tent fragments, or simple holes dug in the ground, many had no shelter at all. No clothing was provided, and many prisoners were left with rags or nothing at all. The daily ration for prisoners was the same as for the guards: one and one-fourth pound of corn meal and either one pound of beef or 1/3 pound of bacon. This diet was only occasionally supplemented with beans, peas, rice, or molasses. This atrocious overcrowding quickly led to health and nutritional conditions. Diseases such as dysentery, gangrene, diarrhea, and scurvy took many. The Confederates lacked adequate facilities, personnel, and medical supplies to combat the diseases.By September, Sherman's troops occupied Atlanta and the threat of Union raids on Andersonville prompted the transfer of most of the Union prisoners to other camps in Georgia and South Carolina. By mid November, all but about 1500 prisoners had been shipped out of Andersonville, but with transfers to Andersonville in December, that increased it to 5,000 persons. By wars end in May of 1865, durning the 14 month existence of Andersonville Prison, almost 30 percent of the prisoners confined died, 12,912 men and boys.
Christopher Columbus Ragsdale Residence: Melville, Missouri Enlistment Date: 8 Sep 1863 Side Served: Union State Served: Kansas Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 8 September 1863. Enlisted in Company B, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Kansas on 8 Sep 1863. Mustered Out Company B, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Kansas on 22 Jun 1865 at Fort Gibson, CN.
John Shatto Civil War Enlisted: Fall of 1861 Company: I Unit: 10 Michigan Infantry Rank: Induction Private, Discharge Private Allegiance: Union John Shatto was wounded during a battle and as treated at Good Samaritan Hospital in St. Louis Missouri, where he did not recover from his wounds. He died June 14, 1862 and buried the same day in the National Cemetery in St. Louis.
Civil War information was provided by D'Ann Green -- According to the pension papers that Benjamin F Stockton filed, he was either thrown off or fell off his horse during a charge. There was no official record of Benjamin's service, however, he provided affidavits saying that he did serve in that branch of the Military, and was able to receive a small pension.Civil War Service Records Does show a Benjamin F Stockton Company H; Unit 4 Veteran Res. Corps; Rank Induction: Private, Rank Discharge: Private; Allegiance: Union; 32 Ill Vols
The Civil War Pension Index does show a Widows application was filed in the state of Missouri for Mary E Stockton on behalf of Benjamin F Stockton. The writing is not that clear, however, it appears to read C H Missouri Militia.
Daniel P Stockton; Company E; Unit: 15 Missouri Cavalry; Rank Induction: Private; Rank Discharge: Sergeant; Allegiance: Union
David D Stockton was mustered into service December 18, 1861, with the rank of Captain, originally called Stockton's Company, later changed to Company "A". The 8th Regiment, Missouri State Militia Cavalry was organized at Jefferson City, Bolivar, Warsaw and Linn Creek, on December 18, 1861, to May 6, 1862. Serving as Post and Scout duty at Lebanon, Neosho and Springfield, Missouri. A detachment of Company's A, B, D and E were sent to Humansville, Polk Co., Missouri, in the later part of March 1862. David Stockton suffered a wound on the 25th of March, during the offence and was sent home to recover. Company "A" continued on, and engaged in an additional 16 skirmishes, between March of 1862 and October of 1863. By 1865 the Regiment lost, during service, 3 Officers and 77 Enlisted men killed and or mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 131 Enlisted men by disease. David was mustered out of service on January 25, 1865.
Elkannah D Stockton; Company: H; Unit: 1st Arkansas Cavalry; Rank Induction: Private; Rank Discharge: Private; Allegiance: Union Civil War Pension Index Shows Louisa Stockton, Elkanah's mother filed and received a pension on behalf of Elkanah D Stockton, date of filing, September 1, 1884, Class: Mother; Application # 4-72184; Certificate # 312514; State in which filed: Missouri
Spanish American War
Spanish American War -- George W Crouse, son of Ethelbert Crouse, enrolled as a private in Troop E., 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, on June 28, 1898 at Toledo, Ohio, by Maj. J. E. Runcie. Appointed Farrier July 5, 1898. Mustered out with Troop at Columbus, Ohio, October 23, 1898. Record, Adj. General Ohio.
World War I
Harry E. Crouse, grandson of John Henry Crouse, enlisted April 18, 1917, 32nd Aero Squadron. Honorably discharged.
Guy Forder Jump, grandson of Jehu John Forder, enlisted in the U.S. Navy, Nov. 26,1917, at Cincinnatti, Ohio. Served in the Atlantic Fleet from June 16, 1918 to Dec. 19, 1918 on U.S. Submarine Chaser No. 261. Released from active duty Dec. 19, 1918. Honorably discharged from the U.S. Naval Reserve Force, Sept. 30, 1921.
World War I -- Harry J Simmons, great grandson of Jacob M Crouse, enlisted December 17, 1917, at Portland, Oregon, in the 2nd F.A., Hdgts Co. He was discharged February 1919.
World War I -- Kenneth L Simmons, great grandson of Jacob M Crouse, enlisted July 25, 1917, in Portland, Oregon, 147th Field Artillery, Battery B. He was discharged June 24, 1920.
World War I -- Lewis K Simmons; great grandson of Jacob Crouse of Missouri, enlisted in Portland, Oregon, in the 166th Depot Brigade, 198th Battalion. He was discharged on June 28, 1918 at Camp Lewis, Washington.
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