Company C of this one year regiment was mustered in September 16, 1864. Information
is as follows:
- Warren Cowles - captain - mustered out with command June 2, 1865, as
brevet-major.
- A. J. Sparks - lieutenant - killed Petersburg April 2, 1865.
- John M. Pelton - second-lieutenant - wounded Petersburg/died.
- William C. Smith - second-lieutenant- mustered out.
- Harvey D. Hicks - sergeant - killed Petersburg.
- H. H. Sparks - sergeant - mustered out.
- J. Shattsbury - sergeant - mustered out.
- R. A. Smith - sergeant - mustered out.
- F. B. Harvey - sergeant - mustered out.
- M. S. Sheldon - corporal - wounded Petersburg.
- Joel Hancock - corporal - wounded Petersburg.
- Eli Stevens - corporal - wounded Petersburg.
- John Smith - sergeant - mustered out.
- J. G. Otto - sergeant - mustered out.
- R. E. Gerrish - sergeant - mustered out.
- T. Thompson - sergeant - mustered out.
- S. L. Holcomb - sergeant - mustered out.
- S. R. Seamans - musician.
- N. M. Tubbs - musician.
Private troops who were wounded, died, missing or captured:
- Andrew Calhoun...............................wounded/died Petersburg.
- John Largey.....................................died October 21, 1864.
- Simon Martin...................................wounded Petersburg.
- Charles D. McKeown.........................wounded Petersburg.
- Peter W. Struble................................wounded Petersburg.
- Jonathan Studley...............................wounded Petersburg.
- Sanford Provin.................................wounded Fort Steadman,
VA., March 25, 1865.
- Martin VanSickle...............................wounded Fort Steadman, VA,
March 25, 1865.
- Henry McDowell...............................died February 1865/buried
City Point, VA.
- William Nuff....................................died February 1865/buried
City Point, VA.
- John W. Nobles................................missing at Petersburg.
- C. H. Besse.....................................captured September 29,
1864.
Private troops mustered out were:
- A. A. Acre, J. C. Allen, H. Arnett, J. Arnett
- A. R. Barnaby, E. Barton, F. S. Bradford, A. J. Brown
- M. L. Campbell, J. M. Caldwell, J. Cavanagh, M. J. Coons, William Cooper, M.
Cummings
- M. Daley, M. G. Dennis, J. Dunbar
- G. Emigh
- J. Frugen
- A. Giles, J. E. Graham, A. Gray, J. R. Greene, H. M. Gross, Reuben Gross,
Enos Grover
- A. Holcomb
- J. Jund
- J. D. Kessler, W. K. Kidder
- Henry Largey, John Leahy, Al Loop, E. R. Loop
- Thomas Madden, William McIntosh, William M. McIntosh,
J. McQuoine, A. C.
Myers, Josiah Myers
- Hymen Otto, J. T. Otto
- J. Patterson, Le Roy Paugh
- Henry, Reedy, B. F. Robbins, Benson Robbins, W. T. Ross
- F. Sanderson, A. Sharp, W. F. Stewart, A. Stockdill
- F. Thorpe
- W. M. VanSickle, W. Verbeck
- James Walshe, A. G. Walters, W. Wiley, George Wood
Henry Spearhouse was a prisoner from November 1864 to March, 1865. J. C.
Lewis was alleged to have deserted.
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- Jonathan Colegrove - enlisted Chenango County (NY) Military Company for
War of 1812 - and served at Sacketts harbor until discharged for disability.
- Patrick Kelliher - lieutenant - Twenty-eighth United States Infantry,
served with the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the war - died at Fort Davis, Tex.,
1876.
May, 1861, a Juvenile Home Guard company was organized at Smethport. Troops ranged
in age from five to fourteen years, their arms were wooden guns, and the music, tin
whistles and a tambourine.
The draft of August, 1863, met with resistance on several quarters, and near Port
Allegany, it is alleged, an organization to oppose conscription was in existence.
In January, 1864, H. S. Campbell, then provost-marshal of the Nineteenth
Military District, called for ninety men from McKean county, while five deserters,
taking refuge in Liberty township, were sought for. In March, 1864, the quota of
McKean county was placed at 153. On March 12 a meeting of citizens of Bradford
township, presided over by William Barton, with A. T. Newell,
secretary, resolved to issue bonds for $7000 to pay county troops.
In June 1863, Judge Holmes, of Bradford township, was appointed deputy
provost-marshal for this district, and he appointed Sheriff Blair, O. Vosburg, L.
S. Bard, and Thomas Malone enrolling officers, the last two being disabled
soldiers of the old Bucktail regiment, the latter working in the Citizen office when
he went into the Bucktails with William R. Rogers.
The Soldiers' Monument was dedicated June 2, 1886, according to the G.A.R. ritual.
Lewis Emery Jr., presided, and A. W. Norris delivered the address.
A list of soldiers buried in the vicinity of Bradford, Penn., can be found in the J.
H. Beers & Co. book. This list includes soldiers from the War of 1812. List could
include unit served in, death date, age at death, entry into service, and other
miscellaneous information.
Return to the Regiment Index.
All information on the Civil War regiments was taken from the History of the
Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron, and Potter, Pennsylvania., by J. H. Beers & Co.,
Publishers 1890. If you should find any errors or have anything to contribute to
this site, please e-mail me.
NOTE:updated 3/23/98 by TBNG@aol.com
Re: CRAPSEY/ROBBINS/MCBAIN
Sgt. Angelo Crapsey (December 9, 1842 - August 4, 1864) - born in Cattaraugus County, New York.
Parents: John Crapsey (December 28, 1816 - ? but lived to be at least 85)
Mercy Rhulama Barnum Frantz (widow of Elias Frantz, September 10, 1812 - March 3, 1852;
three daughters with Elias with ages as of 1850: Catherine 17, Anna M. 15, & Ann Orilla 12);
Married John Crapsey January 1, 1852 at Hinsdale, New York
Lura (Laura) Ann Jackson Peck (widow of Nelson H. Peck, January 11, 1826 - ?;
mother of Viola Girtrude Peck; Crapsey children are Alice
(05/02/55 - ?, married a McBain), William (02/19/58 - ?), Hattie (12/20/60 - ?),
George Bayard (03/22/63 - ?)
Viola Peck married Charles H. Robbins of Port Allegany (April 19, 1844 - January 20, 1934),
also a member of the Bucktails. Their children were
Willie W., Burton W., Edwin W., Emma Alice, Angelo M., and Arthur A.
They lived for a time in Minnesota (with John Crapsey) but later moved to
Hesperia, Michigan where they were among that town's founders.
William Crapsey married a Jennie from Iowa. The only known child of the
marriage was Nellie born October 1891 in Minnesota.
After becoming a widower, John Crapsey moved to Brookfield, Pennsylvania in late
1852. That year or the next, he married another widow, Lura Ann Jackson Peck, and
about 1859 moved to near Canoe Place in Port Allegany. Crapsey was an itinerant
preacher who professed the then newly formed Adventist faith. He had skill at
glossalalia, i.e. making his congregations experience raptures and speak in
tongues. He was a controversial man whose fame (or infamy) spread far and wide and
who was almost run out of Roulette. Angelo left home to live with and work for Laroy
Lyman in Roulette, Pennsylvania. Laroy was a recognized hunter, successful
businessman, John Crapsey's most ardent supporter, and Angelo's mentor.
Angelo, bright, personable, and unusually well educated for his day, enlisted in
Thomas Leiper Kane's regiment of Bucktails. He was mustered May 15, 1861, but had
been with the regiment for a month. Thomas Kane said of Angelo, "I loved no one of
my men more than I did Angelo. He came up to my ideal of the youthful patriot, the
heroic American soldier." Angelo became on of the major entrepreneurs of buck tails
for the regiment. His supplier was Laroy Lyman.
A dedicated patriot, Angelo experienced battles at Dranesville, Harrisonburg,
Cross Keys, and Antietam (in the East Woods). He was captured on the Union left
flank at the battle of Fredericksburg and spent three weeks in Libby Prison. When
he came out, he exhibited symptoms of what later became known as post traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). His next and last battle was Gettysburg where the
Bucktails, among others, raced over Little Round Top to help stem the tide of battle
in the Union's favor.
After that, he took ill with what he called "chill fever" but was probably
enteritis. Both his physical and mental condition deteriorated severely, and he was
discharged in October 1863. He went home to live with the Lyman family. His
physical condition improved, but he was withdrawn, deeply depressed, and insecure.
He suffered frequent flashbacks and remorse over having killed so often. By
mid-summer of 1864 he had become suicidal, succeeding on the fourth effort on a
lonely hillock near Roulette where he placed a rifle barrel to his head and pushed
the trigger with a forked stick. He is buried in the cemetery near Roulette.
John Crapsey and family left the area in October 1865 and moved to first
Faribault, then Cottonwood County in Minnesota. In 1892, he lived in poverty in St.
Paul but had lived briefly in Boone, Iowa and later Hesperia, Michigan with
step-daugher Viola and her husband, Charles. John waged a three-decade- long battle
to win an army pension from his son's service.
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