From Find-A-Grave.
JOHN SKINNER MALLORY
BORN: 1 November 1857, Hampton City, Virginia
DIED: 2 February 1932, aged 74, Lexington, Virginia
BURIED: Saint Johns Church Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia.
Brigadier General, U.S. Army.
--Old Secesh
Continuing with Road Tripping Through History.
Other Medals of Honor:
2 from Indian Wars
1 from Spanish-American War
2 from the Boxer Rebellion
4 from Civil War (soldiers)
1 from Korea (1871)
2 from peacetime events (1872) and (1903)
Also, three Civil War Union generals and several Union officers.
--Old B-R'er
Henry Schutes received Medals of Honor for both actions. This was a new honor created in1861. t the time of the actions, Schutes was 58, making him the oldest Medal of Honor winner.
It is not clear when he left the Navy, but according to the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, a register of employees at the USNA showed him employed there as a civilian watchman in 1865. At some point in the mid-1870s, he moved to Philadelphia to the Naval Asylum, which was a home and hospital for retired seamen.
He broke a leg in 1889, but "refused to keep his splint in place and grew increasingly belligerent about eating." He died on September 10, 1889 and was buried at Mount Moriah.
The cemetery attributes his death to "general failure of willpower."
--Old B-R'er
From the Feb. 12, 2024 Aerotech News by Katie Lang.
Not much is known of Henry Schutes before his enlistment in the U.S. Navy other than he was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1804.
According to the Mount Moriah Cemetery, where he's buried, he was an experienced sailor before the war began. The earliest enlistment papers found for him was from 1858 which said he had 22 years of prior mariner experience. That meant that Schutes joined the Navy around age 54.
He initially served as a gunner's mate on the USS Don before transferring to the USS Wissahickon. By April 1862, he had become the captain of the forecastle of that ship. That was the forward upper deck where sailors slept.
That rank was similar to a current day petty officer.
--Old B-Runner
JOHN A. DAHLGREN (1809-1870)-- Admiral and commander of South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Invented the Dahlgren gun.
PERCIVAL DRAYTON (1812-1865)-- Union Navy officer.
CHARLES ELLET JR. (1810-1862)-- U.S. engineer who designed the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and during the Civil War , as an Army colonel, created and commanded the United States Ram Fleet in the Mississippi River.
CHARLES RIVERS ELLET (1843-1863)-- Charles Ellett Jr's son and colonel in Union Army who commanded ships in the Ram Fleet.
--Old B-Runner
From Wikipedia.
While researching the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, I found out it was a part of the larger Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. I figured I might as well look there for notables while Road Trippin'.
There were some, including naval officers who served during the War of 1812 which included the commander of the USS Constitution in its famed battle with the HMS Guerriere, Isaac Hull. And, there were several other naval officers from the War of 1812, Mexican and Civil Wars.
I'll write about the War of 1812 navy officers in my Not So Forgotten: War of 1812 blog.
Also, Union General George Gordon Meade, the victor at the Battle of Gettysburg is buried there.
Any naval officer connected to the Civil War will be listed in this blog.
--Old B-R'er
One thing I do when I di these blogs is take a road trip through history from time to time. That is when I take a post and see where it takes me. In this case, I'll be writing about the USS Ticonderoga, on which the good sergeant was serving and also do some research also on the cemetery where he was buried, West Laurel Hill, and see if there is anyone buried there of interest.
There is quite a long article in Wikipedia about this cemetery in Bela Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. It was established in 1869 and has 200 acres. It is affiliated with the nearby Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Quite a few notable people and there is a long list of them. I have heard of some of them and others are of definite interest.
There are several other Union soldiers who were awarded the Medal of Honor.
I will cover them in the next post.
--Old B-Runner
From Black Virginians in Blue.
Dabney (Daybury) O. Butler was born around 1823 in Louisa County, Virginia. He moved toAlbemarle County and is recorded in special census of free blacks of 1833. He next moved with his family to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he married Susan Ann Evans on December 24, 1846. The couple had at least six children together: Elbridge born around 1849, Charles 1851, Walter 1853, John 1855, Samuel 1860 and Ellen 1868.
On February 24, 1864, Butler enlisted in Company E of the 27th USCT regiment in Chillicothe. He was mustered in at Camp Delaware, on March 8. According to his service records, he was a 43-yearold laborer, with black hair, eyes and complexion, who stood five feet, eight inches tall.
The 27th saw service during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, begore being transferred in December to North Carolina. In January it took part in the capture of Fort Fisher. He mustered out with the rest of the 27th at Smithville, North Carolina on September21, 1865.
After the war, he returned to Chillicothe where he loved the rest of his days working as a brick mason. Both he and his wife received pensions from the federal government.
Butler died around 1892 in Chillicothe, two years prior to his wife. Both are buried in the city's Grandview Cemetery.
--Old B-Runner
From Find-A-Grave.
BIRTH: 1849
DEATH: 1911
BURIAL: Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.
Son of Dabney O. and Susan A. Evans Butler. Brother of Charles Butler Sr,. His job was listed as bricklayer.
He was in the 27th USCT Infantry Regiment which fought at Fort Fisher.
--Old Secesh
From Find-A-Grave.
He was the commander of the 27th USCT.
ALBERT MILTON BLACKMAN
BIRTH: 6 March 1826, Tiffin, Ohio
DEATH: 5 August 1876 (aged 50) Cresco, Iowa
BURIAL: Oak Lawn Cemetery, Cresco, Iowa
He graduated from RushMedical College in 1859 and was a physician before the war.
MARRIED: Catherine Barbara Holtz Blackman (1830-1905) Married her in 1851.
--Old B-Runner
Still RoadTrippin' Through History. I started with where Alban Stimers was buried, which is in the Cypress Hills Cemetery. There are three U.S. Navy sailors from the war who won a Medal of Honor buried there. This is one of them.
From Find-A-Grave.
JAMES HAINES HORTON
BIRTH: 1 July 1840, England
DEATH: 15 April 1894 (aged 53)
BURIAL: Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
His true name was Joseph Horton.
While serving in the Union Navy, he was awarded the Medal of Honor when his ship was off Port Royal, South Carolina.
His citation reads: "Served as gunner's mate on board the USS Montauk, 21 September 1864. During the night of 21 September 1864, when fire was discovered in the magazine lightroom of the vessel, causing a panic and demoralizing the crew, Horton rushed into the cabin, obtained magazine keys, sprang into the lightroom and began passing out combustables, including a box of signals in which the fire originated."
This ship did not particiate in the attacks on Fort Fisher, but did enter the Cape Fear River after the fort's fall and participated in the Wilmington Campaign.
--Old B-Runner
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972): Broke MLB's Color Barrier. The first black player to play.
Mae West (1893-1980) Well-known actress.
Hiram Cronk (1800-1905) The last-known survivor of the War of 1812. An estimated 925,000 people paid their respects at his death.
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Some good quotes from Mae:
** When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
** You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
** Well behaved women do not make history.
--Cooter
I have been RoadTrippin' Thru History on Alban C. Stimers, a Chief Engineer in the Union Navy, especially in regards to the USS Monitor and many other monitors. It all started with an article about his great-great granddaughter who had a watch given him by the president of the United States in thanks for his work on monitors.
Then, I wrote about him. The other day I found that he was buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Whenever I find where a person is buried I go to that cemetery site and look to see if any other people of note or interest are buried there as well.
This is all part of my RoadTrippin' Through History that I do in my blogs. I start off with one story and keep looking to see where the story might take me.
In the next post I will write about some interesting people I found buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery. Two of them was a well-known actress from the 1930s and a baseball player who broke the MLB Color Barrier.
--Old B-R'er
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was the nation's firts veteran's organization. It was dissolved after the last member died in the 1950s. Loran Bures belongs to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), the successor of the GAR.
Bures worked with Oakwood Hills owner Corey Gaffney to confirm that Franklin was buried there and missing his tombstone.
The SUVCW is considered by the Veterans Administration as being Franklin's legal next of kin and therefore, Bures was able to apply for a government headstone. This is at no cost to the SUVCW or Bures.
Marking David Franklin's grave is also personal to Bures because his great-great grandfather, another Civil War veteran, is buried just steps from Franklin's grave. Both men were members of the Custer Post of the GAR in tacoma.
Thank You Mr. Bures and Mr. Gaffney. --Old B-Runner
From the October 6, 2022, Stars and Stripes by Craig Sailor, The News Tribune.
For the past century, a row of military graves in Tacoma's (Washington) Oakwood Hill Cemetery has had a conspicuous gap. Only a patch of grass marked the final resting place of David Franklin, Tacoma's only black naval veteran from the Civil War.
That changes this Saturday when a years-long effort speared by a Civil War historian will finally bring Franklin the white marble tombstone that was forgotten in 1920.
Historian Loran Bures' quest for that tombstone began in 2017 when he was researching Pierce County's Civil War veterans and found documents listing David Franklin and his burial at Oakwood Hill. But when he visited the cemetery, he was unable to find his grave.
Using cemetery records, he founjd that the gap in that neat row of military graves was indeed Franklin's last resting place.
"As any veteran of the United States they should receive their proper burial honors," said Bures. "That's what we're trying to rectify after 102 years."
So Proud of Mr. Bures for His Accomplishment. --Old B-Runner
From Find-A-Grave.
WILLIAM EDWARD HUDGINS
BIRTH: 14 March 1838, Matthews County, Virginia
DEATH: 27 July 1920 (aged 82) Norfolk City, Virginia
BURIAL: Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk City, Virginia
Gravestone lists him as Lieut. C.S. Navy.
Parents: Robert King Hudgins (1812-1903) and Sarah James White Hudgins (1816-1891)
--Old B-Runner
