On August 16, 1861 Company E of the 7th
Ohio Volunteer Infantry was engaged in the Battle of Cross Lanes, (
West) Virginia, during
the Civil War. According to the
History of Erie County, Ohio,
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, several men from the
Ohio 7th were killed, wounded or captured.
Frederick D. Ketchum, a pioneer ship builder from Huron,
Ohio, covered expenses related to attending
to the wounded soldiers from the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry after the
devastating battle. F.D. Ketchum's son, George C. Ketchum, was an officer in
Company E, of the
Ohio
7th and he survived the Battle of Cross Lanes.
Listed below is a list of names of individuals who
contributed to repaying F.D. Ketchum for the expenses he paid out for the care
of wounded soldiers following the Battle of Cross Lanes.
Transcribed, it reads:
After the Civil War, both F. D. Ketchum and George
C. Ketchum moved to
Mackinac County,
Michigan, where George C. Ketchum served as Probate Judge
of
Mackinac County from 1873-1877, and as
Postmaster, from 1877-1880. Both father and son are buried in the
Mackinac Island Protestant Cemetery.
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Thanks for sharing this! Capt Frederick D Ketchum is one of my maternal third great-grandfathers. You can read more about him and his family at my blog, Uncontained Multitudes, at robtsfamily.blogspot.com, using the tags Ketchum or Cherry.
Besides his son, George Cherry Ketchum, whom you mention, another relative of mine in the list of soldiers was William Hopkins Cherry, one of Frederick Ketchum's brothers-in-law. Unfortunately, he did not survive the war, having been killed in a railway accident in 1864.
I have an ancestor that served in the Civil War (82nd OVI) and later became a representative for the Sandusky Soldiers' Burial Committee. Do you have any resources on the burial committee (purpose, background, roles, etc)?
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