Roster of Herkimer County Officers
of the
38th Regiment, Seventeenth Brigade, Fifth Division
New York State Militia
1859
The district covered by the 38th Regiment, under commandant William La Dew, was made up of the County of Herkimer, except for the town of Stark. Stark was in the district of the 39th regiment, under commandant John D. Shaul.
NAMES | Office | Date of Commission | Date of Rank | Letter of Company | Non-commissioned officers and privates of company | Total officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, including staff | Arm of Service | Residence |
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Field Officers |
William LaDew | Colonel | May 5, 1857 | April 16, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Graysville, Herkimer co. |
James A. Suiter | Lieut. Colonel | May 5, 1857 | April 16, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Herkimer, Herkimer co. |
George W. Thompson | Major | July 30, 1858 | August 22, 1857 |
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| 3 | Infantry | Herkimer, Herkimer co. |
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Company Officers |
John F. Hosch | Captain |
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Chas. T. West | 1st Lieutenant |
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H. M. Bliss | 2d Lieutenant |
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| A | 48 | 51 | Infantry |
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Chas. H. Batchelder | Captain | July 29, 1857 | May 16, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Herkimer, Herkimer co. |
Henry H. Bellinger | 1st Lieutenant | October 18, 1855 | September 18, 1855 |
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William H. Crego | 2d Lieutenant | July 30, 1858 | July 10, 1858 | B | 40 | 43 | Infantry | Herkimer, Herkimer co. |
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Ezra D. Beckwith | Captain | April 8, 1857 | March 19, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Cedarville, Herkimer co. |
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Ira C. B. Chesebro | 2d Lieutenant | April 8, 1857 | March 19, 1857 | C | 40 | 42 | Infantry | Columbia, Herkimer co. |
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Jacob Conner | Captain | October 1, 1855 | September 21, 1855 |
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Winslow Short | 1st Lieutenant |
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John H. Miller | 2d Lieutenant | October 1, 1855 | September 21, 1855 | D | 38 | 41 | Infantry |
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John Beverly | Captain | September 12, 1857 | August 21, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Little Falls, Herkimer co. |
John G. Gilliland | 1st Lieutenant | September 12, 1857 | August 21, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Little Falls, Herkimer co. |
John H. Fralick | 2d Lieutenant | September 12, 1857 | August 21, 1857 | E | 32 | 35 | Infantry | Little Falls, Herkimer co. |
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William Coppernoll | Captain | September 4, 1858 | August 28, 1858 |
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| Infantry | Ohio, Herkimer co. |
Judson P. Legg | 1st Lieutenant | May 23, 1857 | May 11, 1857 |
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| Infantry | Ohio, Herkimer co. |
William Nicholas | 2d Lieutenant | February 28, 1857 | November 13, 1857 | F | 54 | 57 | Infantry | Norway, Herkimer co. |
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Staff |
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Non-commissioned staff |
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Note: Company D's officers were residents of Danube. "Winslow Short" above is Civil War veteran Winslow Shaut, who according to Stan Shaut, was born in the Town of Danube 21 April 1830. In the 1860 census of Danube, his age was given as 40. Also present in the 1860 Danube census were grocer Jacob Conner, age 34, and blacksmith John H. Miller, age 31.
The officers of Company A resided in German Flatts. In 1860 John F. Hosch, contractor, age 31, resided in the town of German Flatts, as did Charles T. West, age 50 and a carpenter. H. M. Bliss was farmer Herman Bliss, age 33 in 1860, also residing in the same town in 1850 & 1880, and listed as Herman M. Bliss in the 1900 census.
Source: State of New York. No. 184. In Assembly, April 7, 1859. Annual Report of the Adjutant General. (E.D. Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State of N.Y.)
"In every State there are large numbers of citizens who, from pure military zeal alone, are wiling to abstract from their vocations time enough to devote to the acquirement of military information, and from a thousand motives other than a desire to don the insignia of command, or to swell the ranks of a quasi military and a quasi social body, are ready to assume the real duties of the soldier, with the patriotic view of being ready to suppress the disorders of a time of peace, and to maintain the public liberties in a time of war.
Experience has shown that, in our State, at least, there are large numbers of such men, who, in obedience to this spirit, will organize into military bodies, whether pursuant to, or independent of law; and the State has wisely recognized the existence of this spirit.
By the act of 1846, it swept from its statute books laws which sought to foster what had been proved an impossible militia, and addressed itself to the development of a militia, based upon the predilection of the individual. By this act it inaugurated a system which, if properly sustained by the State, will accomplish the great purposes of a citizen military.
Already in lieu of divisions upon divisions, brigades upon brigades, and regiments upon regiments of tatterdemalion militia, we have condensed a mobile body of uniformed troops, comprising eight divisions, twenty-six brigades and sixty-two regiments, armed, equipped, and passibly well disciplined for service."
- Frederick Townsend, Adjutant General.
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