Joseph Stoughton - Revision history

Brady: add muster, capture report, death reports. reg history

2013-07-14T20:46:53Z

add muster, capture report, death reports. reg history

Liz: source note from A Fixx re sources 8 Military records of Joseph Stoughton

2013-06-13T17:11:11Z

source note from A Fixx re sources 8 Military records of Joseph Stoughton

Liz: create page link for Armstrong County in the War of the Rebellion, Source 8, from A Fixx

2013-06-13T16:13:28Z

create page link for Armstrong County in the War of the Rebellion, Source 8, from A Fixx

Liz: Note from A. Fixx re. source 8 Hospital 21.

2013-06-13T15:58:31Z

Note from A. Fixx re. source 8 Hospital 21.

Liz: Source 8, image and transcript of Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW records, from A. Fixx

2013-06-12T16:32:59Z

Source 8, image and transcript of Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW records, from A. Fixx

Liz: /* Source notes */ weblink to Atwater death list for Andersonville Prison

2011-01-10T17:55:12Z

‎Source notes: weblink to Atwater death list for Andersonville Prison

Liz: revise wording re mass burials vs burials marked "unknown"

2011-01-10T16:01:27Z

revise wording re mass burials vs burials marked "unknown"

Liz: add two reference sources from Wikipedia

2011-01-10T15:52:01Z

add two reference sources from Wikipedia

Liz: add to introduction quotes from Wikipedia re Andersonville prison, burial practices, numbers dead unidentified

2011-01-10T15:47:18Z

add to introduction quotes from Wikipedia re Andersonville prison, burial practices, numbers dead unidentified

Liz: Introduction: clarification of wording re army unit: 14th Pa Cavalry, 159th Reg, Co K

2011-01-10T15:24:20Z

Introduction: clarification of wording re army unit: 14th Pa Cavalry, 159th Reg, Co K

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 | '''Military''' || enlistment 9 Sept 1862   ||Civil War || Private, 14th Regiment, PA Cavalry (159th Vol.s) Co. K  || <sup class="reference"> </sup>
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-| '''Death'''    || ~May 1865|| Andersonville Prison, GA||  || <sup class="reference"> </sup>
+| '''Death'''    || ~May 1865<br>Sept 1864|| Andersonville Prison, GA<br>Richmond, VA||  || <sup class="reference"> [3]</sup> <br><sup class="reference"> [9]</sup>
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 | '''Burial'''   || ~May 1865            ||expect interment in GA  ||  || <sup class="reference">[14]</sup>
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 |'''Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW Records''',1863<br>forwarded by A. Fixx June 2013.<br>Stoughton, Joseph; Private 14th Regiment Co. K, PA,Arm of Service (illegible).  Information Obtained From  Records of  (Illegible), Vol.40, pg 273, and (M.A.)Vol. 20, pg.180. Captured at White Sulphur Springs Aug. 24, 1863, continued at Richmond Va. Sept. 12m 1863;Admitted to hospital at  (Un?) Richmond, Va. Dec. 8/63, Diarhrea; Farmer age 23. (Remainder of form blanks not completed).<br>Note: Admitted to Hospital at:  21 Richmond, Virginia.  (if you "google" this, it brings up General Hospital #21, Civil War, Richmond, Virginia)  It was a Confederate Military Hospital and it was called 21.  He was admitted on December 8, 1863, with diarrhea.  He died of disease.
 |[[File:Joseph Stoughton Military Record 1863.jpg|50px|left]][[Armstrong County in The War of the Rebellion]]
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 =Source notes=
 * A scan of the Atwater death list for Andersonvill Prison can be seen at<br> http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/AndersonvilleprisonA/
+*  RE Military records, Joseph Stoughton: Notes from A. Fixx. <br>
 =Research Notes=

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 |'''Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW Records''',1863<br>forwarded by A. Fixx June 2013.<br>Stoughton, Joseph; Private 14th Regiment Co. K, PA,Arm of Service (illegible).  Information Obtained From  Records of  (Illegible), Vol.40, pg 273, and (M.A.)Vol. 20, pg.180. Captured at White Sulphur Springs Aug. 24, 1863, continued at Richmond Va. Sept. 12m 1863;Admitted to hospital at  (Un?) Richmond, Va. Dec. 8/63, Diarhrea; Farmer age 23. (Remainder of form blanks not completed).<br>Note: Admitted to Hospital at:  21 Richmond, Virginia.  (if you "google" this, it brings up General Hospital #21, Civil War, Richmond, Virginia)  It was a Confederate Military Hospital and it was called 21.  He was admitted on December 8, 1863, with diarrhea.  He died of disease.
-|[[File:Joseph Stoughton Military Record 1863.jpg|50px|left]]
+|[[File:Joseph Stoughton Military Record 1863.jpg|50px|left]][[Armstrong County in The War of the Rebellion]]
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-|'''Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW Records''',1863<br>forwarded by A. Fixx June 2013.<br>Stoughton, Joseph; Private 14th Regiment Co. K, PA,Arm of Service (illegible).  Information Obtained From  Records of  (Illegible), Vol.40, pg 273, and (M.A.)Vol. 20, pg.180. Captured at White Sulphur Springs Aug. 24, 1863, continued at Richmond Va. Sept. 12m 1863;Admitted to hospital at  (Un?) Richmond, Va. Dec. 8/63, Diarhrea; Farmer age 23. (Remainder of form blanks not completed).
+|'''Joseph Stoughton Memorandum from POW Records''',1863<br>forwarded by A. Fixx June 2013.<br>Stoughton, Joseph; Private 14th Regiment Co. K, PA,Arm of Service (illegible).  Information Obtained From  Records of  (Illegible), Vol.40, pg 273, and (M.A.)Vol. 20, pg.180. Captured at White Sulphur Springs Aug. 24, 1863, continued at Richmond Va. Sept. 12m 1863;Admitted to hospital at  (Un?) Richmond, Va. Dec. 8/63, Diarhrea; Farmer age 23. (Remainder of form blanks not completed).<br>Note: Admitted to Hospital at:  21 Richmond, Virginia.  (if you "google" this, it brings up General Hospital #21, Civil War, Richmond, Virginia)  It was a Confederate Military Hospital and it was called 21.  He was admitted on December 8, 1863, with diarrhea.  He died of disease.
 |[[File:Joseph Stoughton Military Record 1863.jpg|50px|left]]
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 the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, and the "Memories" memoir of Jennie S. Stoughton, forwarded to us by Jim Voltz.
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 Joseph Stoughton was born in about 1838, the second child of parents [[Barnard V. Stoughton]] and 1st wife [[Susan Harvey]].  Joseph's parents are believed to have lived in Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co. PA at his birth.  Joseph's mother died in May 1847; Joseph would have been 8 or 9 years old that year. <br> The father and children then moved to Callensburg in Clarion Co. and the father remarried. <br>
 Joseph at about age 24 enlisted as a Private with Company K of the 159th Regiment, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry,  along with his older brother [[John Elliott Stoughton]] who had the rank of Ferrier (blacksmith). They apparently enlisted in May 1862, in Armstrong Co. PA, where most of Company K was drawn from, and where brother John E. Stoughton was living at that time. <br>From the memoir of Joseph's younger half-sister [[Jennie S. Stoughton]] we learn that Joseph participated in the battle of Greenbriar White Sulfur Springs,in West Virginia (which battle occurred on 20 Aug 1863), and was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.   She says that there he survived for 21 months but died shortly before Union troops entered the prison to release the prisoners.  This suggests his death occurred in May 1865.
-Military records show his enlistment, but he vanishes then without further documentation.<br><br>Andersonville Prison - Notes on the Unidentified Dead<br> from Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_National_Historic_Site <br>"During the summer of 1864 Union prisoners suffered greatly from hunger, exposure and disease.   Within seven months about a third of them died from what was diagnosed as dysentery and scurvy and were buried in mass graves, the standard practice by Confederate prison authorities at Andersonville."..."in hindsight it is likely that the cause of (their deaths) was rampant hookworm disease, a condition not recognized or known during the Civil War."  "During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison, and of these 12,913 died."  "The prisoners' burial ground has been made a national cemetery.  It contains 13, 714 graves, of which 921 are marked "unknown".<br><br>Thus among those uncounted numbers buried in mass graves, or the 921 buried in graves marked "unknown", Joseph Stoughton may lie.  The existing list of the dead, given the circumstance of its preparation, is likely incomplete.  "A young Union prisoner, Dorence Atwater, had been chosen to record the names and numbers of the dead at Andersonville...He believed the federal government would never see the list, and was right in this assumption as it turned out...(He) secretly kept his own list among other papers.   When Atwater was released, he put the list in his bag and took it through the lines without being caught.  It was published by the New York Times when Horace Greely, the owner, learned that the federal government had refused and given Atwater much grief."   <br><br>Regarding the numbers dead, and list-keeper Dorence Atwater, Wikipedia quotes these sources:
+Military records show his enlistment, but he vanishes then without further documentation.<br><br>Andersonville Prison - Notes on the Unidentified Dead<br> from Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_National_Historic_Site <br>"During the summer of 1864 Union prisoners suffered greatly from hunger, exposure and disease.   Within seven months about a third of them died from what was diagnosed as dysentery and scurvy and were buried in mass graves, the standard practice by Confederate prison authorities at Andersonville."..."in hindsight it is likely that the cause of (their deaths) was rampant hookworm disease, a condition not recognized or known during the Civil War."  "During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison, and of these 12,913 died."  "The prisoners' burial ground has been made a national cemetery.  It contains 13, 714 graves, of which 921 are marked "unknown".<br><br>From this explanation (about 13,000 dead, about 13,000 gravestones) it appears that the mass graves were possibly exhumed and the remains reburied separately.  Among the 921 buried in graves marked "unknown", Joseph Stoughton may lie.  The existing list of the dead, given the circumstance of its secretive preparation, is likely incomplete.  "A young Union prisoner, Dorence Atwater, had been chosen to record the names and numbers of the dead at Andersonville...He believed the federal government would never see the list, and was right in this assumption as it turned out...(He) secretly kept his own list among other papers.   When Atwater was released, he put the list in his bag and took it through the lines without being caught.  It was published by the New York Times when Horace Greely, the owner, learned that the federal government had refused and given Atwater much grief."   <br><br>Regarding the numbers dead, and list-keeper Dorence Atwater, Wikipedia quotes these sources:
-* Marvel, William, Andersonville: The Last Depot, University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
+* Marvel, William, ''Andersonville: The Last Depot'', University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
-* Safranski, Debby Burnett, Angel of Andersonville, Prince of Tahiti: The Extraordinary Life of Dorence Atwater, Alling-Porterfield Publishing House, 2008.
+* Safranski, Debby Burnett, ''Angel of Andersonville, Prince of Tahiti: The Extraordinary Life of Dorence Atwater'', Alling-Porterfield Publishing House, 2008.
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 Joseph Stoughton was born in about 1838, the second child of parents [[Barnard V. Stoughton]] and 1st wife [[Susan Harvey]].  Joseph's parents are believed to have lived in Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co. PA at his birth.  Joseph's mother died in May 1847; Joseph would have been 8 or 9 years old that year. <br> The father and children then moved to Callensburg in Clarion Co. and the father remarried. <br>
-Joseph at about age 24 enlisted as a Private with Regiment 14, PA Cavalry,  along with his older brother [[John Elliott Stoughton]] who had the rank of Ferrier (blacksmith). They apparently enlisted in may 1862, in Armstrong Co. PA, where most of Company K was drawn from, and where brother
+Joseph at about age 24 enlisted as a Private with Company K of the 159th Regiment, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry,  along with his older brother [[John Elliott Stoughton]] who had the rank of Ferrier (blacksmith). They apparently enlisted in May 1862, in Armstrong Co. PA, where most of Company K was drawn from, and where brother John E. Stoughton was living at that time. <br>From the memoir of Joseph's younger half-sister [[Jennie S. Stoughton]] we learn that Joseph participated in the battle of Greenbriar White Sulfur Springs,in West Virginia (which battle occurred on 20 Aug 1863), and was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.   She says that there he survived for 21 months but died shortly before Union troops entered the prison to release the prisoners.  This suggests his death occurred in May 1865.
-John E. Stoughton was living at that time. <br>From the memoir of Joseph's oldest half-sister, [[Jennie S. Stoughton]] we learn that Joseph participated in the battle of Greenbriar White Sulfur Springs,in West Virginia (which battle occurred on 20 Aug 1863), and was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.   She says that there he survived for 21 months but died shortly before Union troops entered the prison to release the prisoners.  This suggests his death occurred in May 1865.
 Military records show his enlistment, but he vanishes then without further documentation.