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Union
Veterans of the Civil War--S Surnames
George
W. Sanders/Saunders was born 1839 in Fort Covington,
New York. He was a farmer when he enlisted on 9 September 1861 at Trumbull,
Ohio, for a term of three years. He was assigned to Company C, 1st Ohio
Light Artillery, but didn’t see much action. He spent most of 1862 in
a military hospital in Lebanon, Kentucky, with typhoid fever, measles,
and a respiratory ailment. He was also injured in a fall from a horse.
He was discharged 26 September 1862 for disability at Camp Chase, Columbus,
Ohio. Immediately after his discharge, he lived in Ohio and Michigan.
In 1863, he moved to Iowa, where he remained until 1872. Then he moved
to Utah and went into mining in Utah, California, Nevada and Arizona. While
in Utah, he was injured in a mine accident. Eventually he was placed in
charge of the Vulture Mines in Arizona. He was married twice. He had a
son by his first wife and a daughter by his second wife, Clara. He joined
the John W. Owen GAR post in Phoenix and was elected commander on 15 April
1903. He applied for and received an invalid pension based on his wartime
disabilities. Shortly before his death, he was injured in a streetcar accident,
the shock of which may have contributed to his demise. He died 6 February
1904 of heart failure and was buried in Porter Cemetery, Section B 35 C.
His grave has a military marker
James Guthrie Savage was born 27 November
1838 in Wisconsin. His first enlistment occurred on 1 June 1861 in Oshkosh,
Wisconsin. Assigned to Company B, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, he was promoted
to corporal on 17 July 1861. He was a Color guard at the Battle of Antietam
in September 1862 and was wounded three times during that engagement. His
first enlistment ended on 24 October 1862 and the very next day he reenlisted,
this time in Company C of the Army Corps of Engineers. He was discharged
25 April 1865 as a private, having served nearly four years in uniform.
Savage married Ella Gurnce on 19 November 1866. They separated on 21 September
1884, but were never formally divorced. Savage later moved to Arizona and
joined Ransom GAR post #4 in Flagstaff. He died 3 March 1898 of endocarditis
and was buried in the Masons' Cemetery, Section B 19 L3 G3. His grave has
a military marker.
William Frederick Robert Schindler was
born 7 October 1830 in Berlin, Prussia. He first enlisted in the United
States Army on 7 Jun 1855 in New York City. He was assigned to Battery
B, 4th Regular U.S. Artillery as a Private. He was discharged 12 Apr
1860 in San Francisco , California. When the Civil War broke out, he
reenlisted on 15 October 1861 in San Francisco and was assigned to Company
I, 2nd California Infantry. He was thrown from a mule and badly injured
in 1862. He rose in rank to be appointed regimental quartermaster on 1
March 1863. He married Rosalie Jung on 20 March 1864 in San Francisco,
and their daughter Pauline was later born there. Schindler was discharged
on 12 January 1866. In 1884, the Schindlers moved to Prescott, Arizona
Territory, and then to Phoenix in 1899. Schindler filed for and received
an invalid pension due to severe varicose veins. He died 15 July 1908 of
uremia and was buried in Porter Cemetery, Section B 34 B. His grave has
a military marker.
Edward O. Schwartz was born 19 February
1842 in New York City. He enlisted in the 8th New York Militia on 25
Apr 1861 and mustered out on 2 Aug 1861. Next, he enlisted in Company
D, 4th New York Cavalry, on 16 Jan 1862. Schwartz was hospitalized in
1862 for typhoid fever, but thereafter fought in several major battles and
campaigns, including General Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.
Schwartz was promoted to second lieutenant in Company F on 30 April 1862,
captain in Company E a year later, and major on 1 March 1864. In June
1864, he was sent to a hospital in Washington, DC, for treatment of a primary
syphilis chancre, being discharged on 15 July 1864. The standard treatment
for syphilis at the time was the administration of mercury. On 27 February
1865, his unit was consolidated with the 9th New York Cavalry. In March
1865, he was charged with having been AWOL by taking ten days of leave
when only three had been approved. However, it is unlikely that he was
penalized, since he was discharged on 17 July 1865 with the rank of major.
After the war, he moved to New Mexico where he joined the GAR post
at Fort Union, being elected commander a year later. He also helped
found the Carlton GAR post in Santa Fe. While residing in Santa Fe in 1880,
he married Angeline Flint. Subsequently, Schwartz moved his young family
to Phoenix and joined the John W. Owen GAR post. An engraver by trade,
he was elected recorder of the City of Phoenix in 1890, a post he held for
the next six years. Governor Hughes appointed Schwartz adjutant general
of the 1st Arizona Infantry (territorial militia, later the National Guard)
in 1893. The militia numbered about 300 at the time. By 1897,
that number had doubled. Although the 1st Arizona Infantry was not
called into service during the Spanish American War, many of its soldiers
enlisted and fought in other units during that brief conflict. Throughout
his years in the Southwest, Schwartz enjoyed collecting Native American artifacts.
He died 1 March 1904 of hematuria and was buried in Porter Cemetery,
Section B 37 F, with full military honors and the "the first
employment of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle salute by the National
Guard of Arizona". His grave is on the walking tour of Porter Cemetery. It has both a military marker and a private
headstone.
John G. Shermer was born 1846 in Baltimore,
Maryland. On 9 November 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 4th Ohio Cavalry,
at Cincinnati for a term of 3 years. By March 1863, muster rolls listed
him as a bugler. He was captured on 18 October 1862 by John Hunt Morgan
at Lexington, Kentucky. After a prisoner exchange, he returned to duty
on 19 November 1863. During 1864, he drove a team at Brigade Headquarters.
He mustered out with the rank of private on 25 November 1864 near Louisville,
Kentucky. Shermer came to Morristown, Arizona Territory, where he worked
as a miner. He died 8 February 1906 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix
of tuberculosis. He was buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Lot R-N, B106. His
grave has a military marker.
William Henry Harrison “Harry” Shirley was
born in 1843 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Patrick and Sarah
Shirley. He had at least two siblings, one of whom was named James. Shirley
enlisted in the Union Army on 10 June 1861 in Ironton, Ohio, serving in
Company H, 5th West Virginia Cavalry as a scout. He was discharged 29
June 1864 in Wheeling, West Virginia, with the rank of corporal. He may
have reenlisted, as he saw action near Lexington, Virginia, in early 1865;
his horse was hit by a shell and he suffered fractures to his left leg and
injuries to his back which plagued him for some time thereafter. Soon after
the war, he married Sarah C. Hooper. The cemetery files did not contain
any information as to whether she died or they were divorced. He later
married Mrs. Mary C. (Hobbs) Hackett on 23 Jan 1871 in Baltimore, Maryland.
He and his second wife had at least three children. When Shirley’s health
began to fail, he traveled to Phoenix, Arizona Territory, to stay with a
son. He was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he died on 12 August
1907 of arteriosclerosis and nephritis. He was buried in Porter Cemetery,
Section B 37 B. His grave has a military marker.
Thomas L. Short was born in 1838 in Morgan
County, Ohio. On 25 May 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army in Jacksonville,
Illinois, for a term of three years. He served in Company D, 14th Illinois
Infantry until his first enlistment ended on 4 January 1864. The very
next day, he reenlisted at Camp Owen, Mississippi, and was appointed a
musician. Late in 1864, he was captured during an action at Acworth, Georgia,
during Sherman's siege of Atlanta. He was confined at Andersonville, Georgia,
on 4 October 1864, paroled to Camp Lawton, Georgia, on 20 November 1864
and delivered to Union lines at Savannah on 21 November 1864. Owing to
his prisoner-of-war experience, he was by then suffering from chronic diarrhea.
He recovered and was ultimately discharged on 16 September 1865 at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, with the rank of private. He never married. He later
applied for an invalid pension, citing partial blindness, deafness, and
Bright's Disease. He died of cancer on 28 August 1905 and was buried in
Rosedale Cemetery, Section R-N. His grave has a military marker.
John R. Silsbee was born 1844 in Lee, New
York. He was a photographer when he enlisted on 3 September 1864. He
received a bounty for his enlistment. He served in Company A, 10th New
York Heavy Artillery, until his discharge on 23 June 1865 with the rank
of private. In 1880, he was single and living in Tip Top, Yavapai County,
Arizona Territory, where he and his brother Edward ran a saloon. He died
22 February 1890 and was buried in Porter Cemetery, Section B 33 B. His
grave has a military marker.
Andrew Simmons was born 1836 in New York
State. He was farming in Minnesota when he enlisted at St. Paul, Minnesota,
on 9 November 1864, for a term of one year. He served in Company D,
1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery, being discharged 27 September 1865 in
Nashville, Tennessee, with the rank of private. He moved to Phoenix and
joined the John W. Owen GAR post. In 1890, a horse stepped on his foot,
crushing it. Thereafter, he was unable to work. Although ashamed to ask
for assistance, he finally applied for an invalid pension. However, he
committed suicide on 8 June 1891 before the pension application investigation
could be completed. It is not known exactly where he is buried, as there
is no marker.
Cleonicus Newton Sims was born about 1840
in Bartholomew County, Indiana. (Cleonicus was the way he signed his
name; variations of the name appear in records written by others.) He was
a farmer when he enlisted on 24 August 1861 for a term of three years.
He was assigned to Company G, 33rd Indiana Infantry. His military record
shows that he was absent without leave from his unit on 14 January 1863
but returned without penalty on 25 January 1863. About six weeks later,
on 5 March 1863, he was captured at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, and
imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia, for a few weeks before being paroled
on 1 April 1863. He was briefly hospitalized but later rejoined his regiment,
being discharged as a private on 19 September 1864 in Atlanta, Georgia.
He married Lucy Ann "Lutie" Mitchell on 25 September 1871 in Johnson County,
Missouri. They had three children. The Simses moved from Missouri to
Phoenix in 1888. Cleonicus died 10 May 1902 and was buried in Porter Cemetery,
Section B, 39 H. His grave has a military marker.
Isaac H. Skillen was born in 1834 in Cumberland,
Maryland. He was a miner when he enlisted in the Union Army for a term
of three years in La Porte, California, on 16 Aug 1861. He served in
Company F, 1st California Infantry. He was discharged with the rank
of private on 31 Aug 1864 in Los Pinos, New Mexico. He lived for a time
in Lordsburg, New Mexico. By 1894, he was a resident of Tombstone, Arizona
Territory. He later moved to Prescott, where he joined the local GAR Post
and applied for an invalid pension, citing chronic rheumatism, diarrhea,
and general debility. In 1897, he stole a horse and wagon and was observed
driving wildly around Prescott. Upon being apprehended, he was found to
be suffering from dementia and was brought to the Arizona State Insane Asylum
in Phoenix on 16 May 1897. He died eleven days later. It is not known exactly
where he was buried. There is a military headstone for him in the Asylum
cemetery, but also one in Porter Cemetery, Section: B 37 D.
John Y. T. Smith was born 6 September 1831
in Buffalo, New York. His family moved to Illinois, where he farmed before
moving to California in 1853 to become a miner. He enlisted in Company
H, 4th California Infantry. In the fall of 1865, he transferred to the
14th US Infantry and was sent to Fort McDowell in Phoenix. He was later
discharged with the rank of first lieutenant. He built a mill in Phoenix
and married Ellen F. Shaver on 30 Oct 1875 in Prescott. They had 3 children.
Smith joined the John W. Owen GAR post in Phoenix. He died 15 Jul 1903 of
a liver complaint while visiting in Los Angeles. He was initially buried
in the Masons Cemetery, Section B1 L1 G1, but was moved to Greenwood in 1914.
His grave has both military and private headstones.
David Washington Sparks was born 15 July
1833 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, to Joseph S. and Elizabeth Sparks.
The Sparks family moved to Bureau County, Illinois, in 1851. He was
a merchant and entrepreneur in 1861 when he enlisted in Company H, 12th
Illinois Volunteers, being discharged in July, 1862. He immediately reenlisted
in Company C, 93rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was elected adjutant
of the regiment, a position he held until his discharge on 31 December
1862. On 28 June 1863, he married Evaline Pomeroy and the couple eventually
had three children. Sparks farmed for a few years before becoming a
traveling salesman in 1867. By turns he sold cutlery, hardware, barbed
wire and shoes until 1889, when he moved to Phoenix, Arizona Territory.
He ran a dry-goods store called the Racket until 1896, when he retired.
Sparks died 2 September 1908 of natural causes and was buried in the Masons
Cemetery. On 15 October 1925, both his body and that of his wife were
moved to Greenwood Cemetery.
Andrew Missell Stauffer was born 1835
in New York State. Though believed to be illiterate (in English, at
least), he was working as a mechanic in La Crosse, Wisconsin, when he
enlisted under the name Missell in the Union Army on 4 Feb 1865 for a year.
He served in Company K, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, receiving a hernia while
carrying timber. He was discharged 27 September 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee,
and thereafter moved to Davenport, Iowa. He was using the name Stauffer
by the time he joined the John W. Owen GAR Post in Phoenix, Arizona Territory.
In February 1892, he applied for and was granted an invalid pension, citing
a right inguinal hernia and associated disorders of the bowels. He was
listed as married at the time of his death from uremia on 4 January 1900.
He was buried in Porter Cemetery Section B 35 B. His grave has a military
marker.
Samuel Chapel Symonds was born 19 February
1844 in Salem, Massachusetts. Though blind in his right eye from a
childhood accident, he enlisted as a musician in Washington, DC, on 14
January 1862 for a term of three years. He was discharged on 14 January
1865 in Washington, DC, with the rank of private. He married Sarah
E. Conrey on 13 Oct 1869 in Salem, Massachusetts, and they had two children.
Symonds built pipe organs for a living. He moved first to California
and later to Phoenix in 1886, where he joined the John W. Owen GAR post.
He applied for and received an invalid pension. He died 1 March 1906
of a coronary embolism and was buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Section R-N.
His grave has both a military and a private marker.
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