Need Civil War Stickers - All union

Question

Hello, I would like to have Civil war stickers added to these family profiles:

Scoville-402, Bolewine-11 (died at the Battle of Wilderness), Bolewine-12, Bolewine-15, and Scovill-253, died in Andersonville Prison. If there is a special sticker for this one, would be nice to have.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I added stickers for all but Bolewine-12. I wasn't sure what unit he was in based on what I saw in the profile.

Answer 2

Yes. There is a special category for Prisoners of War held at Andersonville. That is in addition to the general died as a Prisoners of War sticker (the sticker only places him the POW category, but not Andersonville).

I added the categories for POW Andersonville, Andersonville National Cemetery, stickers for POW, Died Disease (stickers add those categories. I added his death record from Andersonville. Added some service info. Added his wife. I also added the photo of his grave marker at Andersonville. The photo is courtesy of Kevin Frye, Andersonville Historian. He has given permission for the Civil War Project to add his photos to our profiles.

I could not find a pension file for Joseph Scovil. I expected a widow's pension and minor child pension. Did not find those. Searched under Scovil, Scovile, Scoville. Not there.  Widow remarried, but there still should have been something for his child, William.  

After the Connect-a-thon is over, I will go back and review his profile to see if I missed anything.

Andersonville prisoners went through Hell. So, we should give their profiles all the attention we can. They earned that respect.

Comments

Thank you. My husband and I were discussing Andersonville, he said this profile deserves a proper memorial sticker.

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Now that the Connect-a-Thon is over, I have some time. I will work on William Bolewine (Bolwin).

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On William Bolewine.

The Pennsylvania Adjutant General record showed him missing in action at Wilderness with no further record. I did not find him listed in the Andersonville database. Doesn't mean he was not at Andersonville, just that no record of him exists there. I am pretty confident he did not die at Andersonville.

At Andersonville, I searched both under the 40th Regiment and the 11th Reserves. Some sources list the 40th as the 11th Reserves (like National Park Service). Only Sgt Daniel Webster Luke from the 40th. He was captured at the Wilderness. No records for 11th Reserve at Andersonville.

My gut feeling he was injured and left on the battlefield. Likely buried as an unknown by Confederate forces. May have died there or shortly thereafter from the wounds. That would account for the lack of information.

I did find a pension index card for him. His mother filed for a pension in 1880. So the military accepted he was dead. The full file is not on Fold3 because it was filed so long after the War. However, if you can get access to the file, there will be some record showing why the government accepted that he was dead and perhaps when, where and the cause of death.

I organized the military information into a military service section. Also added record notes for further information. I added a Died in Military Service category/sticker. Given the lack of information, I could not confirm he was a Died as a POW, Killed in Action, Died from Wounds. Most likely some of those apply. Just not enough information to confirm. To acknowledge his death I used the Died in Military Service.

If you have some information that he was in fact at Andersonville, I can ask a couple acquaintances to check their records. Both have extensive records not available to us. (both are authors and speakers about Andersonville).

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On Henry Bolewine. I added a Civil War box and categories for both Regiments.