Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site

Friend Champion---I was yesterday the recipient of one of your ever welcome Mirrors, in which I found a marked paragraph stating that you wished to obtain a list of all the Union Soldiers from Delaware County in the army, and I now take the opportunity of sending you a list of the members of Company E, N.Y. 3d, or more commonly know as Van Alen Cavalry.

Rank          Name                Town



Captain       Ferris Jacobs, Jr.  Delhi

1st. Lieut.   Colon Richardson    Delhi
2d   "        George C. Stone     Margaretville

1st Serg't    George C. Gibbs     Stamford
2d  "         Herman E. Smith     Margaretville
3d  "         Herman D. Hanmer    Colchester
4th "         Julius D. Seely     Sidney
5th "         Patrick  Jeffries   Deposit

1st Corpor'l  Wm. H. Scribner     Meredith
2d  "         Wm. D. Bishop       Margaretville
3d  "         Levi Mosure         Shavertown
4th "         Samuel W. Sprague   Delhi
5th "         Abram Banker        Walton
6th "         Matthew Benedict    Sidney
7th "         Howard Gregory      Stamford
8th "         George Pellet       Deposit

Bugler        Charles Gibbs       Stamford
Bugler        George Banker       Walton
Saddler       Lee Mott            Rochester, N.Y
Farrier       Wm. A. Dibble       Delhi
Stablemas'r   Alex Bedford        Franklin
Blacksmith    James Johnson       Gilboa, Scho. Co.

Hezekiah Brandow, Kortright; Wm. M. Tomkins, Kortright; Geo. L. Benedict, Sidney; Elisha Morenus, Sidney; Harvey B. Morenus, Sidney; Henry A. McIntyre, Sidney; David Vandervoort, Sidney; Holland Borden, Hamden; John Delemater, Hamden; David Bouton, Middletown; David Brunner, Middletown; Andrew I. Knapp, Middletown; Michael Murray, Middletown; John B. Osterhoudt, Middletown; Geo. R. Ridenburg, Middletown; Julius G. Smith, Middletown; Wm. Cormack, Middletown; Gideon Blackman, Delhi; Jerry M. Dorman, Delhi; Alex Dyzart, Delhi; Wm. S. Gordon, Delhi; John McComb, Delhi; Edwin C. Markam, Delhi; John McIntyre, Delhi; Charles Nuttall, Delhi; Frank Spiers, Delhi; Henry Smith, Delhi; Peter Weber, Delhi; Burgett Banner, Davenport; George Ellett, Davenport; Lewis M. Figger, Davenport; Clarence McMinn, Davenport; Marcus L. Reynolds, Davenport; Loren I. Disbroe, Stamford; Charles Lane, Stamford; Stephen Burroughs, Deposit; Harrison H. Hall, Deposit; John P. Matthews, Deposit; Joseph B. Owens, Deposit; Orson Putnam, Deposit; Robert M. Smith, Deposit; Horace I. Wheeler, Deposit; James L. Watson, Deposit; Angervine Dougherty, Tompkins; Silas H. Drake, Masonville; Roswell H. Gilbert, Harpersfield; Richard Cronk, Harpersfield; Austin Goodrich, Walton; George Hoyt, Walton; Isaac Minor, Walton; Chester F. Wakeman, Walton; John T. Gemmell, Bloomville; James S. Humphreys, Unadilla Otsego Co.; Daniel Koman, Margaretville; James I. Vorris, Margaretville; John D. Lynch, Roxbury; Dan'l D. Tompkins, Roxbury; Rob't P. Tompkins, Roxbury; Thomas A. Lee, Bovina; Wm. H. Stott, Bovina; John L. Smith, Sanford, Boome Co.

HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE:
Darius M. Allen,   Deposit
Coriel Cannon      Masonville
Nathan Egner       Gilboa, Scho. Co.
Wm. T. Rose        Shandaken

DESERTERS:
Frank Seymour      Deposit
Wm. Smith          Deposit
Austin I. Every    Bloomville
Palmer McClure     Sanford, Bro. Co.
Squire McClure     Sanford, Bro. Co.
Melville Barnes    Milford, Ots. Co.

The foregoing, with the exception of the discharged and deserters, is the muster roll of our company as it now stands. We have lost but one man by death, Corporal David Batchelor of Gilboa, Scho. Co., at Poolesville, Md., of typhoid fever. He was buried at the above named place, with the honors of war. There are some in the list that are from other Counties, but they are all members of Company E. I also send the list of the discharged and the deserters. We are encamped a short distance back of the Capitol, anxiously awaiting orders to go somewhere; our division has gone to Fortress Monroe, both whether we will follow, we do not know.

Yours, &c.,
Samuel W. Sprague