He was the son of Daniel and Mary Ann (Durans) Alderman, and was born in Cheshire, CT.
Henry stood 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with sandy complexion, blue eyes and sandy hair. He was a farmer.
During the Civil War, Henry went to Cleveland to enlist in the Army. He joined the 8th OH Infantry on June 19, 1861, under the command of Capt. Kerney. Henry was assigned to Company B. He was first an infantryman, but after becoming ill with "rheumatism," he was detailed as a teamster (wagon driver) in August, while stationed at Camp Pendleton. The following month, the regiment was assigned "among the mountains" of West Union, Doddridge County, WV, "along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where the men suffered severely from fever," said the book, General History of Cuyahoga County. "At 'Maggetty Hollow' over three hundred were in the hospital, and thirty five deaths resulted in a short time."
The regiment saw action later in 1861 and early 1862 in Romney, Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, Bloomey Gap, Cedar Creek and Strasburg in West Virginia and Virginia. Said the Cuyahoga County history, "The regiment was deployed as skirmishers before and after the Battle of Winchester. The killed and wounded during this battle was more than one-fourth of its number."
While on a march from Pendleton to Grafton, WV about the first of September, 1861, Henry's leg was broken in a freak accident. Writing about himself in the third person, he stated: "His team & wagon got mired or stuck (swamped) in the mud & while he was trying to extricate them he was [run over] by the wheel of the wagon on the left leg below the knee, injuring and fracturing the front bone of the leg & fracturing the ankle joint, that there was nothing done for the same but what he doctored it himself."
Henry bitterly wrote the following, many years later:
I went 3 or 4 times to my regimental dockter and told him how I was how I felt and he told me to go to my quarters that all I wanted was to get excused. There was not a man that worked more than I did. I was detailed as wagon master and worked night and day ... untill we got to Fredericksbur V. and thare the men built a shanty of logs in the bank and thare I grew wors and my Captain Wm. Kinney was sent for... The reason I did not receive treatment by Regimental Surgeon for nearly a year prior to going to Hospital was because I was detailed to care for Wagon train & there was no Regt'l Surgeon with us, & in trying to be nervy & hold out, to the end, I did not give up as sick until I was "played out" entirely...
Henry also began to suffer heart palpatations and later kidney problems after he "had been given charge of 16 wagons & rode on horse back, and as my leg was so swollen and pained me so that instead of letting my legs hand down, I rode with my left leg on top of the horse on a blanket, & by riding in this position, the back of the saddle injured by back and kidneys, this was during the fall of 1862. I continued to ride in this manner & care for or look after the 16 teams until my leg, heart, kidneys & hydrocele became so bad that I was taken down entirely sick & used up.
Fellow soldier and teamster Henry G. Thirwachter was an eyewitness to another serious injury that Henry suffered. Thirwachter wrote: "I was present at Newport News in the the first part of September 1862 when [Henry] was hurt by being kicked with a mule and saw him where he was kicked in the head which was cut badly by the mules' shoe and at the same time he was kicked in the groin."
George W. Crosley also saw the injury take place, and said the kick of the mule "was 3 inches, the cut being through the scalp and deep enough to reach the scull." He also noted that the mule's kick to the groin caused a hydrocele, a buildup of fluid in the scrotum. "I helped carry him back and wash him up," Crosley wrote. "He stayed with the wagon train until we got to Falmouth, Va., some time in December 1862 just after the battle of Fredericksburg when he was sent to the hospital."
In December 1862, Henry was admitted to the Second Ward Hospital in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC. A medical inspector wrote that his illness resulted "in very great enlargement of the knee and ankle joints of the left limb" and that this rendered Henry totally unfit for further military service. Just after the new year, on Jan. 3, 1863, while at Campbell Hospital in Washington, he received an honorable discharge, and began the voyage back home. His regiment went on to major action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and The Wilderness, among many other battles.
Upon his homecoming, Henry began a long recovery.
William "Henry" Alderman married on Dec. 3, 1857 to Mary Jane Miner, (1833-1871) Mary died at age 38 on Feb. 16, 1871, in Nevada Mills near Jamestown, Steuben County.
On Jan. 14, 1872, at age 38, Henry married his second wife, 33-year-old Desdemona (Baird) Briggs (1836-1909)
He is known to have attended a GAR encampment in Cleveland, OH in the fall of 1901, where he saw members of his old regiment, Henry G. Thirwachter, of Lipsic, OH and Joseph Evans of Cleveland. Wrote Evans: "He is nearly blind and has to be led about."
As he aged, he was increasingly unable to work and thus earn an income. In November 1877, he began receiving federal pension payments of $6 per month as compensation for his wartime injuries. Over the years, at regular intervals, he filed appeals for increases, most of which were rejected due to lack of hard evidence.
Neighbors Monroe Maybee and Squire Bard testified that they knew Henry well, had been frequent visitors to his home, and that he was totally unfit for performing manual labor. In 1891, Dr. Levi Sanders of Bronson testified that he had tapped Henry's hydrocele:
... on an average of three times a year for the last eight years... I should think that he is fuly incapacitated for manual labor to full three fourths from leg and hydrocele. He cannot do hard labor. the work that he can do is light. He hasn't done any heavy labor since I have been acquainted with him.
In 1893, Dr. S.M. Cornell of Bronson also treated Henry's hydrocele and wrote that he "has been under my observation more or less till the last three years when I have operated by aspiration every three months & some times at shorter intervals, obtaining at least a pint or more of fluid each time."
At a date not yet learned, Henry suffered a stroke, and was stricken with paralysis. Longtime friend Wells Knapp wrote: "I visited Mr. Anderman quite often during his last sickness and allways found Mrs. Alderman doing all that she could for her husband."
Source:
http://www.minerd.com/
biominer,_maryjanealderman.htm
Henry stood 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with sandy complexion, blue eyes and sandy hair. He was a farmer.
During the Civil War, Henry went to Cleveland to enlist in the Army. He joined the 8th OH Infantry on June 19, 1861, under the command of Capt. Kerney. Henry was assigned to Company B. He was first an infantryman, but after becoming ill with "rheumatism," he was detailed as a teamster (wagon driver) in August, while stationed at Camp Pendleton. The following month, the regiment was assigned "among the mountains" of West Union, Doddridge County, WV, "along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where the men suffered severely from fever," said the book, General History of Cuyahoga County. "At 'Maggetty Hollow' over three hundred were in the hospital, and thirty five deaths resulted in a short time."
The regiment saw action later in 1861 and early 1862 in Romney, Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, Bloomey Gap, Cedar Creek and Strasburg in West Virginia and Virginia. Said the Cuyahoga County history, "The regiment was deployed as skirmishers before and after the Battle of Winchester. The killed and wounded during this battle was more than one-fourth of its number."
While on a march from Pendleton to Grafton, WV about the first of September, 1861, Henry's leg was broken in a freak accident. Writing about himself in the third person, he stated: "His team & wagon got mired or stuck (swamped) in the mud & while he was trying to extricate them he was [run over] by the wheel of the wagon on the left leg below the knee, injuring and fracturing the front bone of the leg & fracturing the ankle joint, that there was nothing done for the same but what he doctored it himself."
Henry bitterly wrote the following, many years later:
I went 3 or 4 times to my regimental dockter and told him how I was how I felt and he told me to go to my quarters that all I wanted was to get excused. There was not a man that worked more than I did. I was detailed as wagon master and worked night and day ... untill we got to Fredericksbur V. and thare the men built a shanty of logs in the bank and thare I grew wors and my Captain Wm. Kinney was sent for... The reason I did not receive treatment by Regimental Surgeon for nearly a year prior to going to Hospital was because I was detailed to care for Wagon train & there was no Regt'l Surgeon with us, & in trying to be nervy & hold out, to the end, I did not give up as sick until I was "played out" entirely...
Henry also began to suffer heart palpatations and later kidney problems after he "had been given charge of 16 wagons & rode on horse back, and as my leg was so swollen and pained me so that instead of letting my legs hand down, I rode with my left leg on top of the horse on a blanket, & by riding in this position, the back of the saddle injured by back and kidneys, this was during the fall of 1862. I continued to ride in this manner & care for or look after the 16 teams until my leg, heart, kidneys & hydrocele became so bad that I was taken down entirely sick & used up.
Fellow soldier and teamster Henry G. Thirwachter was an eyewitness to another serious injury that Henry suffered. Thirwachter wrote: "I was present at Newport News in the the first part of September 1862 when [Henry] was hurt by being kicked with a mule and saw him where he was kicked in the head which was cut badly by the mules' shoe and at the same time he was kicked in the groin."
George W. Crosley also saw the injury take place, and said the kick of the mule "was 3 inches, the cut being through the scalp and deep enough to reach the scull." He also noted that the mule's kick to the groin caused a hydrocele, a buildup of fluid in the scrotum. "I helped carry him back and wash him up," Crosley wrote. "He stayed with the wagon train until we got to Falmouth, Va., some time in December 1862 just after the battle of Fredericksburg when he was sent to the hospital."
In December 1862, Henry was admitted to the Second Ward Hospital in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC. A medical inspector wrote that his illness resulted "in very great enlargement of the knee and ankle joints of the left limb" and that this rendered Henry totally unfit for further military service. Just after the new year, on Jan. 3, 1863, while at Campbell Hospital in Washington, he received an honorable discharge, and began the voyage back home. His regiment went on to major action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and The Wilderness, among many other battles.
Upon his homecoming, Henry began a long recovery.
William "Henry" Alderman married on Dec. 3, 1857 to Mary Jane Miner, (1833-1871) Mary died at age 38 on Feb. 16, 1871, in Nevada Mills near Jamestown, Steuben County.
On Jan. 14, 1872, at age 38, Henry married his second wife, 33-year-old Desdemona (Baird) Briggs (1836-1909)
He is known to have attended a GAR encampment in Cleveland, OH in the fall of 1901, where he saw members of his old regiment, Henry G. Thirwachter, of Lipsic, OH and Joseph Evans of Cleveland. Wrote Evans: "He is nearly blind and has to be led about."
As he aged, he was increasingly unable to work and thus earn an income. In November 1877, he began receiving federal pension payments of $6 per month as compensation for his wartime injuries. Over the years, at regular intervals, he filed appeals for increases, most of which were rejected due to lack of hard evidence.
Neighbors Monroe Maybee and Squire Bard testified that they knew Henry well, had been frequent visitors to his home, and that he was totally unfit for performing manual labor. In 1891, Dr. Levi Sanders of Bronson testified that he had tapped Henry's hydrocele:
... on an average of three times a year for the last eight years... I should think that he is fuly incapacitated for manual labor to full three fourths from leg and hydrocele. He cannot do hard labor. the work that he can do is light. He hasn't done any heavy labor since I have been acquainted with him.
In 1893, Dr. S.M. Cornell of Bronson also treated Henry's hydrocele and wrote that he "has been under my observation more or less till the last three years when I have operated by aspiration every three months & some times at shorter intervals, obtaining at least a pint or more of fluid each time."
At a date not yet learned, Henry suffered a stroke, and was stricken with paralysis. Longtime friend Wells Knapp wrote: "I visited Mr. Anderman quite often during his last sickness and allways found Mrs. Alderman doing all that she could for her husband."
Source:
http://www.minerd.com/
biominer,_maryjanealderman.htm
He was the son of Daniel and Mary Ann (Durans) Alderman, and was born in Cheshire, CT.
Henry stood 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with sandy complexion, blue eyes and sandy hair. He was a farmer.
During the Civil War, Henry went to Cleveland to enlist in the Army. He joined the 8th OH Infantry on June 19, 1861, under the command of Capt. Kerney. Henry was assigned to Company B. He was first an infantryman, but after becoming ill with "rheumatism," he was detailed as a teamster (wagon driver) in August, while stationed at Camp Pendleton. The following month, the regiment was assigned "among the mountains" of West Union, Doddridge County, WV, "along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where the men suffered severely from fever," said the book, General History of Cuyahoga County. "At 'Maggetty Hollow' over three hundred were in the hospital, and thirty five deaths resulted in a short time."
The regiment saw action later in 1861 and early 1862 in Romney, Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, Bloomey Gap, Cedar Creek and Strasburg in West Virginia and Virginia. Said the Cuyahoga County history, "The regiment was deployed as skirmishers before and after the Battle of Winchester. The killed and wounded during this battle was more than one-fourth of its number."
While on a march from Pendleton to Grafton, WV about the first of September, 1861, Henry's leg was broken in a freak accident. Writing about himself in the third person, he stated: "His team & wagon got mired or stuck (swamped) in the mud & while he was trying to extricate them he was [run over] by the wheel of the wagon on the left leg below the knee, injuring and fracturing the front bone of the leg & fracturing the ankle joint, that there was nothing done for the same but what he doctored it himself."
Henry bitterly wrote the following, many years later:
I went 3 or 4 times to my regimental dockter and told him how I was how I felt and he told me to go to my quarters that all I wanted was to get excused. There was not a man that worked more than I did. I was detailed as wagon master and worked night and day ... untill we got to Fredericksbur V. and thare the men built a shanty of logs in the bank and thare I grew wors and my Captain Wm. Kinney was sent for... The reason I did not receive treatment by Regimental Surgeon for nearly a year prior to going to Hospital was because I was detailed to care for Wagon train & there was no Regt'l Surgeon with us, & in trying to be nervy & hold out, to the end, I did not give up as sick until I was "played out" entirely...
Henry also began to suffer heart palpatations and later kidney problems after he "had been given charge of 16 wagons & rode on horse back, and as my leg was so swollen and pained me so that instead of letting my legs hand down, I rode with my left leg on top of the horse on a blanket, & by riding in this position, the back of the saddle injured by back and kidneys, this was during the fall of 1862. I continued to ride in this manner & care for or look after the 16 teams until my leg, heart, kidneys & hydrocele became so bad that I was taken down entirely sick & used up.
Fellow soldier and teamster Henry G. Thirwachter was an eyewitness to another serious injury that Henry suffered. Thirwachter wrote: "I was present at Newport News in the the first part of September 1862 when [Henry] was hurt by being kicked with a mule and saw him where he was kicked in the head which was cut badly by the mules' shoe and at the same time he was kicked in the groin."
George W. Crosley also saw the injury take place, and said the kick of the mule "was 3 inches, the cut being through the scalp and deep enough to reach the scull." He also noted that the mule's kick to the groin caused a hydrocele, a buildup of fluid in the scrotum. "I helped carry him back and wash him up," Crosley wrote. "He stayed with the wagon train until we got to Falmouth, Va., some time in December 1862 just after the battle of Fredericksburg when he was sent to the hospital."
In December 1862, Henry was admitted to the Second Ward Hospital in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC. A medical inspector wrote that his illness resulted "in very great enlargement of the knee and ankle joints of the left limb" and that this rendered Henry totally unfit for further military service. Just after the new year, on Jan. 3, 1863, while at Campbell Hospital in Washington, he received an honorable discharge, and began the voyage back home. His regiment went on to major action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and The Wilderness, among many other battles.
Upon his homecoming, Henry began a long recovery.
William "Henry" Alderman married on Dec. 3, 1857 to Mary Jane Miner, (1833-1871) Mary died at age 38 on Feb. 16, 1871, in Nevada Mills near Jamestown, Steuben County.
On Jan. 14, 1872, at age 38, Henry married his second wife, 33-year-old Desdemona (Baird) Briggs (1836-1909)
He is known to have attended a GAR encampment in Cleveland, OH in the fall of 1901, where he saw members of his old regiment, Henry G. Thirwachter, of Lipsic, OH and Joseph Evans of Cleveland. Wrote Evans: "He is nearly blind and has to be led about."
As he aged, he was increasingly unable to work and thus earn an income. In November 1877, he began receiving federal pension payments of $6 per month as compensation for his wartime injuries. Over the years, at regular intervals, he filed appeals for increases, most of which were rejected due to lack of hard evidence.
Neighbors Monroe Maybee and Squire Bard testified that they knew Henry well, had been frequent visitors to his home, and that he was totally unfit for performing manual labor. In 1891, Dr. Levi Sanders of Bronson testified that he had tapped Henry's hydrocele:
... on an average of three times a year for the last eight years... I should think that he is fuly incapacitated for manual labor to full three fourths from leg and hydrocele. He cannot do hard labor. the work that he can do is light. He hasn't done any heavy labor since I have been acquainted with him.
In 1893, Dr. S.M. Cornell of Bronson also treated Henry's hydrocele and wrote that he "has been under my observation more or less till the last three years when I have operated by aspiration every three months & some times at shorter intervals, obtaining at least a pint or more of fluid each time."
At a date not yet learned, Henry suffered a stroke, and was stricken with paralysis. Longtime friend Wells Knapp wrote: "I visited Mr. Anderman quite often during his last sickness and allways found Mrs. Alderman doing all that she could for her husband."
Source:
http://www.minerd.com/
biominer,_maryjanealderman.htm
Henry stood 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with sandy complexion, blue eyes and sandy hair. He was a farmer.
During the Civil War, Henry went to Cleveland to enlist in the Army. He joined the 8th OH Infantry on June 19, 1861, under the command of Capt. Kerney. Henry was assigned to Company B. He was first an infantryman, but after becoming ill with "rheumatism," he was detailed as a teamster (wagon driver) in August, while stationed at Camp Pendleton. The following month, the regiment was assigned "among the mountains" of West Union, Doddridge County, WV, "along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where the men suffered severely from fever," said the book, General History of Cuyahoga County. "At 'Maggetty Hollow' over three hundred were in the hospital, and thirty five deaths resulted in a short time."
The regiment saw action later in 1861 and early 1862 in Romney, Hanging Rock, Blue's Gap, Bloomey Gap, Cedar Creek and Strasburg in West Virginia and Virginia. Said the Cuyahoga County history, "The regiment was deployed as skirmishers before and after the Battle of Winchester. The killed and wounded during this battle was more than one-fourth of its number."
While on a march from Pendleton to Grafton, WV about the first of September, 1861, Henry's leg was broken in a freak accident. Writing about himself in the third person, he stated: "His team & wagon got mired or stuck (swamped) in the mud & while he was trying to extricate them he was [run over] by the wheel of the wagon on the left leg below the knee, injuring and fracturing the front bone of the leg & fracturing the ankle joint, that there was nothing done for the same but what he doctored it himself."
Henry bitterly wrote the following, many years later:
I went 3 or 4 times to my regimental dockter and told him how I was how I felt and he told me to go to my quarters that all I wanted was to get excused. There was not a man that worked more than I did. I was detailed as wagon master and worked night and day ... untill we got to Fredericksbur V. and thare the men built a shanty of logs in the bank and thare I grew wors and my Captain Wm. Kinney was sent for... The reason I did not receive treatment by Regimental Surgeon for nearly a year prior to going to Hospital was because I was detailed to care for Wagon train & there was no Regt'l Surgeon with us, & in trying to be nervy & hold out, to the end, I did not give up as sick until I was "played out" entirely...
Henry also began to suffer heart palpatations and later kidney problems after he "had been given charge of 16 wagons & rode on horse back, and as my leg was so swollen and pained me so that instead of letting my legs hand down, I rode with my left leg on top of the horse on a blanket, & by riding in this position, the back of the saddle injured by back and kidneys, this was during the fall of 1862. I continued to ride in this manner & care for or look after the 16 teams until my leg, heart, kidneys & hydrocele became so bad that I was taken down entirely sick & used up.
Fellow soldier and teamster Henry G. Thirwachter was an eyewitness to another serious injury that Henry suffered. Thirwachter wrote: "I was present at Newport News in the the first part of September 1862 when [Henry] was hurt by being kicked with a mule and saw him where he was kicked in the head which was cut badly by the mules' shoe and at the same time he was kicked in the groin."
George W. Crosley also saw the injury take place, and said the kick of the mule "was 3 inches, the cut being through the scalp and deep enough to reach the scull." He also noted that the mule's kick to the groin caused a hydrocele, a buildup of fluid in the scrotum. "I helped carry him back and wash him up," Crosley wrote. "He stayed with the wagon train until we got to Falmouth, Va., some time in December 1862 just after the battle of Fredericksburg when he was sent to the hospital."
In December 1862, Henry was admitted to the Second Ward Hospital in Alexandria, VA, near Washington, DC. A medical inspector wrote that his illness resulted "in very great enlargement of the knee and ankle joints of the left limb" and that this rendered Henry totally unfit for further military service. Just after the new year, on Jan. 3, 1863, while at Campbell Hospital in Washington, he received an honorable discharge, and began the voyage back home. His regiment went on to major action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and The Wilderness, among many other battles.
Upon his homecoming, Henry began a long recovery.
William "Henry" Alderman married on Dec. 3, 1857 to Mary Jane Miner, (1833-1871) Mary died at age 38 on Feb. 16, 1871, in Nevada Mills near Jamestown, Steuben County.
On Jan. 14, 1872, at age 38, Henry married his second wife, 33-year-old Desdemona (Baird) Briggs (1836-1909)
He is known to have attended a GAR encampment in Cleveland, OH in the fall of 1901, where he saw members of his old regiment, Henry G. Thirwachter, of Lipsic, OH and Joseph Evans of Cleveland. Wrote Evans: "He is nearly blind and has to be led about."
As he aged, he was increasingly unable to work and thus earn an income. In November 1877, he began receiving federal pension payments of $6 per month as compensation for his wartime injuries. Over the years, at regular intervals, he filed appeals for increases, most of which were rejected due to lack of hard evidence.
Neighbors Monroe Maybee and Squire Bard testified that they knew Henry well, had been frequent visitors to his home, and that he was totally unfit for performing manual labor. In 1891, Dr. Levi Sanders of Bronson testified that he had tapped Henry's hydrocele:
... on an average of three times a year for the last eight years... I should think that he is fuly incapacitated for manual labor to full three fourths from leg and hydrocele. He cannot do hard labor. the work that he can do is light. He hasn't done any heavy labor since I have been acquainted with him.
In 1893, Dr. S.M. Cornell of Bronson also treated Henry's hydrocele and wrote that he "has been under my observation more or less till the last three years when I have operated by aspiration every three months & some times at shorter intervals, obtaining at least a pint or more of fluid each time."
At a date not yet learned, Henry suffered a stroke, and was stricken with paralysis. Longtime friend Wells Knapp wrote: "I visited Mr. Anderman quite often during his last sickness and allways found Mrs. Alderman doing all that she could for her husband."
Source:
http://www.minerd.com/
biominer,_maryjanealderman.htm
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