But what unit?

Doing some research into my family tree, I found an Ancestor that died at Danville, Virginia as a POW on May 9th, 1863. Nowhere in the records state what unit he was with. His name was George Washington Sutor. He was born in Havre de Grace, Md. He was 23 years old when he died.

Bill

Not sure if this will be of any help....but residents from the Port Deposit, MD and Havre de Grace, MD areas joined with Snow's Battery. However, I have been unable to locate any regimental history on this battery. I do know they fought at Antietam and I believe they were then reassigned to the western theatre. If anyone has any additional information on Snow's Battery it would be greatly appreciated.

Snow's Battery "B" Light Artillery

Organized at Baltimore, Md., with the Purnell Legion September and October, 1861. Attached to Dix's Command, Baltimore, Md., Middle Department, to May, 1862. 4th Brigade, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863. Unattached, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863. Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights Division, West Virginia, to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division West Virginia, to April, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division West Virginia, to May, 1864. Artillery Brigade, West Virginia, to July, 1864. Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Baltimore, Md., and in the eastern shore of Maryland till May, 1862. Joined Army of the Potomac on Virginia Peninsula. Peninsula Campaign May to August, 1862. New Bridge June 5. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Savage Station June 29; White Oak Swamp June 30; Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing till August 15. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria August 15-22. Maryland Campaign September 6-22. Battles of Crampton's Pass, Md., September 14; Antietam September 16-17. At Hagerstown, Md., till October 29. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 29-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. With Provost Guard, Army of the Potomac. Ordered to Washington, D.C., June 25, and duty at Camp Barry till July 5. Ordered to Frederick, Md., with Briggs' occupation of Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July 8. Duty in District of Harper's Ferry till April, 1864. Moved to Martinsburg April 17. Sigel's Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market April 30-May 16. Battle of New Market May 15. Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg May 24-July 1. Advance to Staunton May 24-June 6. Piedmont June 5. Occupation of Staunton June 6. Near Lynchburg June 14. Diamond Hill June 17. Lynchburg June 17-18. Liberty June 19. Buford's Gap June 20. Catawba Mountains and about Salem June 21. Duty in District of Harper's Ferry till July, 1865. One section in operations in the Shenandoah Valley July 27 to August 8, 1864. At Cumberland, Md., and in action at Falck's Mills, near Cumberland, August 1, 1864.
Battery lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 27 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.

Good possibility then that he was wounded and captured at Chancellorsville.

Have you tried Footnote.com/ ? His record should be an easy one.

The problems with the records are that they state his death as 1865. It seems that records were not kept at the time and only recorded after or near the end of the war. The information I have is from the Sutor family Bible. I did some checking on Maryland units with volunteers from Harford County and it seems that there could be a number of possible units he was with. A lot of Harford County men joined the 1st and 2nd Maryland Volunteer Infantry, Eastern Shore.
I have also found out through various family branches that there are more Civil War Veterans in my family. As a matter of fact, I have been able to follow them all the way back to Revolutionary War veterans. Tracking down my family´s history has been really interesting. Now I just need to find the time to sit down and sort it all out.
Thanks everybody for the info.

Bill

I noticed your location just now, so I understand why you may not wish to stop by the courthouse where these soldiers lived. Footnote records are actual scanned copies of the muster rolls, hospital stays, etc. taken as the soldiers served. These have only been available for the past several months and are a wealth of information. I think you'll find paydirt?

Larry,
I´ll be back home on vacation in December. I hope I can find the time to look this up. I´ll see what `Ol HdG has to offer as to this information although I´ll be staying in the Port Deposit area while there. Got some ancestors to look up there, too. Most important, one that was onboard the USS Insurgent when it disappeared in 1800. John Callender Patterson. But the Quasi War is another story.

I pulled up Danville National Cemetery and G W Sutor was not listed as buried there but the list has issues...

http://www.interment.net/data/us/va/danville/danvnat/index.htm

http://www.interment.net/data/us/va/danville/danvnat/index_ns.htm

Here are cemetery sites and still have not found him..

http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=109398

Where is George Washington Sutor....??

Found this:


More About GEORGE WASHINGTON SUTOR:

Burial: Aft. 22 Mar 1865, Danville National Cemetery, Virginia

Census: 1850, Havre De Grace, Harford County, Maryland
Medical Information: Died in the prisoner of war camp in Danville, Virginia, in a smallpox epidemic.
Source:
Robert Stockman.

Military service: 24 May 1864, Civil War

He was my G.G. Uncle

I'm sure you're aware by now that this "hobby" you've undertaken is a long slow march as opposed to a sprint. If all details were immediately discovered, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun. Best of luck with your continued quest.

I went to this site and again did not find G. W. Sutor....attached to any Maryland units US or CSA...

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm

I not finding what Robert Stockman found.....

I found one in WW one



Maryland in the World War, 1917-1919: military and naval service ...: Volume 2

Stuart Symington Janney, Karl Singewald - 1933 - Snippet view
Hon disch 3/13/19 SUTER, GEORGE WASHINGTON c 908 Sarah Ann St., Baltimore Baltimore, Md. ; 22 yrs NG 4/23/17 pvt 1 Sep Co Md. Inf; Co I 372 Inf Hon ... 8/9/18 Hon disch 2/13/19 SUTOR, ALBERT F 625 Stokes St., Havre de Grace, Harford Co. ...

Small pox was a problem....at Danville


Newspaper Item during the Civil War.....
Two Union soldiers who have escaped from Danville, Va., prison, and arrived at Cincinnati, state that the entire number of prisoners in the Danville prison was estimated at about 4500, of whom about 500 had died. The small pox had prevailed for some time previous to their escape, and some of its victims had been found dead in the prison, being allowed to remain there several days without the benefit of medical assistance.

A letter was written in February 1864 to the Secretary of War "James A. Seddon" by the townspeople of Danville. It contained a petition asking for removal of the Yankee prisoners to some other place, because the sick prisoners who were located in the middle of town were infecting the entire population with smallpox and fever.

Using Nicholas Albert Sutor supposingly same family tree -- He was in the 2nd Maryland Infantry Eastern Shore


http://www.2ndmdinfantryus.org/usinf2ES.html

Thanks for the info Fish. I had just found Nicholas Albert Sutor before I read this. I still have to make the connection of where exactly he fits in. He was Company H, 2nd Maryland Eastern Shore.

Larry,
I have been doing this for about 5 years now and I know what you mean. Turns into a real "Mud March".

I found this George Washington Sutor family tree.....dad & mom...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NICHOLAS SUTOR (Johan Nicholas Sutor) born 03 May 1800, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland; died 01 May 1862, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]married MARGARET COEN 30 June 1827 in Washington, District of Columbia. Margaret was born between 1800 - 1810 in Harford County, Maryland, and died about 22 March 1840 in Harford County, Maryland. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Not: MARGARET COEN was the daughter of THOMAS COEN and MARY RICHARDSON of Harford County, Maryland.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NICHOLAS and MARGARET (COEN) SUTOR had 2 children:[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]UNKNOWN SUTOR, (Nicholas Sutor, Johan Nicholas Sutor) born between 1828 - 1830, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland; date and location of death unknown[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]GEORGE WASHINGTON SUTOR, (Nicholas Sutor, Johan Nicholas Sutor) born 22 March 1840, Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland; died 22 March 1865, Prisoner of War Camp, Danville, Virginia.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]married MARY HOWLET 03 November 1840 in Harford County, Maryland. Mary was born 11 May 1817 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and died between 1870 - 1880 in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Note: Mary Howlet was the daughter of Matthew Howlett and Elizabeth Mitchell.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NICHOLAS and MARY (HOWLET) SUTOR had 6 children:
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Here is the links....

http://www.sutor.org/pages/LocatorPages/FamilyTreeG01.htm

http://www.sutor.org/pages/LocatorPages/FamilyTreeG02.htm

http://www.sutor.org/pages/LocatorPages/FamilyTreeG03.htm

http://www.sutor.org/pages/LocatorPages/FamilyTreeBeyond.htm

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Larry,
I have been doing this for about 5 years now and I know what you mean. Turns into a real "Mud March".[/QUOTE]

I started in high school <1965. Have fun. Take some water with you.

In reference to Company H 2nd Maryland Infantry Eastern Shore:
This is a tombstone that is part of an old forgotten cemetery in Havre de Grace. The cemetery has been recently "re discovered" (although I have known about it since the 1970´s) The tombstone marks the grave of Casper Smith, Company H, 2nd Md E.S. Inf.

Fish,
Thanks for the links. They are very helpful. Both G.W. Sutor and Nicholas A Sutor were my G.G.(whatever) Uncles but they were step brothers. Their sister, Mary Francis Sutor was my (whole bunch a G´s) Grandmother.

Thanks again
Bill