Civil War Years
|
Age (SCG) |
Year |
Date |
Abt |
Place (Wythe, VA unless specified) |
Event |
|
37 |
1861 |
12-Apr |
|
Ft. Sumter, SC |
Beginning of the Civil War |
|
37 |
1861 |
13-May |
|
Harpers Ferry, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Encampment at Harper’s Ferry. (#15) |
|
37 |
1861 |
30-May |
|
Harpers Ferry, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Has applied for paymaster; would like to get on General Floyd’s staff; 15,000 troops there ready for a fight.. (#17) |
|
37 |
1861 |
1-Jun |
|
Wytheville |
Letter- from: ; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: An account for $297.15. (#2007) |
|
37 |
1861 |
2-Jun |
Abt |
Wytheville |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Robert Harvey Gleaves & James Turk Gleaves, Jr; subject: Parents better than expected; names of those who have volunteered. (#215) |
|
37 |
1861 |
13-Jun |
|
Abingdon, VA |
Letter- from: A. C. Moore; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Awaiting information on his powers to appoint staff positions in regards to request for appointment of his brother (James T. Gleaves) to his staff.. (#20) |
|
37 |
1861 |
21-Jun |
|
Martinsburg, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Left Winchester yesterday; now within 6 miles of enemy; led by Col. Jackson, a brave man; burning public property; 200 from area volunteered for Lincoln army; appreciates Samuel trying for his transfer to Floyd’s brigade as an officer; Bill Cook left & all are glad; will write if they get into a fight & he survives. (#12) |
|
37 |
1861 |
3-Jul |
|
Buckle Town, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Reports on Battle of Falling Waters; have orders to march; ask Samuel to care for him if he is hurt.. (#13) |
|
37 |
1861 |
3-Jul |
|
Wytheville |
Newspaper: Gleaves son in service |
|
37 |
1861 |
11-Jul |
|
Wytheville |
Enlistment: as a Surgeon; Commission in Company S, 45th Infantry Regiment Virginia |
|
37 |
1861 |
21-Jul |
|
Manassas, Prince William, VA |
First Battle of Bull Run |
|
37 |
1861 |
26-Aug |
|
Cross Lanes, VA (WVA) |
Battle of Cross Lanes |
|
37 |
1861 |
27-Aug |
|
Camp Gauley, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: James Turk Gleaves Jr; subject: Describing battle (Kessler’s Cross Lanes); needs items from home due to difficulty of camp life. (#219) |
|
37 |
1861 |
Sep |
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37 |
1861 |
1-Sep |
|
Camp Gauley, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: James Turk Gleaves Jr; subject: Busy from battle; recovering from rheumatism; expecting orders from Gen. Lee; tell Wythe to write. (#216) |
|
37 |
1861 |
6-Sep |
|
Cross Lanes, VA (WVA) |
Newspaper: Hero in the Battle of Cross Lanes |
|
37 |
1861 |
10-Sep |
|
Carnifex Ferry, VA (WVA) |
Battle of Carnifex Ferry, VA (WVA); map showing relationship of battle area to Wytheville |
|
37 |
1861 |
12-Sep |
Abt |
Lewisburg, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Maria Crockett Gleaves; subject: In Lewisburg after Battle at Gauley Ferry; tells about battle, worse than Manassas. (#1671) |
|
37 |
1861 |
13-Sep |
|
Camp Walker, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Maria Crockett Gleaves; subject: Describes the Battle of Carnifex Ferry. (#218) |
|
37 |
1681 |
21-Sep |
|
Carnifex Ferry, VA (WVA) |
Newspaper: Battle of Carnifex Ferry |
|
37 |
1861 |
24-Sep |
|
Lewisburg, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Concern for father’s illness. (#2345) |
|
37 |
1861 |
Oct |
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37 |
1861 |
Oct |
|
Fairfax, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Promoted to orderly sergeant for company; on picket duty near Mt. Vernon; many sick. (#23) |
|
38 |
1861 |
12-Oct |
|
Green Sulphur Springs, Fayette, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Bob is with him; Big Sewell Mountain campaign; horse trading; needs pants and overcoat; tired of camp life. (#217) |
|
38 |
1861 |
15-Oct |
|
Mt. Cabels, Greenbrier, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Report of Big Sewell happenings; concerns for Father’s health; sickness in Wythe men; horse trading. (#220) |
|
38 |
1861 |
18-Oct |
|
Centerville, VA |
Letter- from: James Turk Gleaves Jr; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Have moved camp to draw out Yankees. Haven’t heard from his brothers.. (#28) |
|
38 |
1861 |
Nov |
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|
38 |
1861 |
17-Dec |
|
Winchester, VA |
Death of James Turk Gleaves, Jr (age: 28 yrs) |
|
38 |
1862 |
14-Apr |
|
Wytheville |
Land deeded for a cemetery; 2 acres; now East End Cemetery where Samuel and Maria Gleaves would be buried in the Gleaves-Crockett plot. |
|
38 |
1862 |
18-Apr |
Giles Court House, VA |
Requistion for mattresses (10), blankets (10), pillows (10), sheets (4) |
|
|
38 |
1862 |
24-Apr |
|
Giles Court House, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr ; subject: Furlough to Wytheville too short to visit him; rumor that regiment is moving to Tennessee or Alabama. (#33) |
|
38 |
1862 |
24-May |
|
Salt Sulphur Springs, VA |
Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: George Wythe Gleaves ; subject: Battle at Lewisburg & results of the action; wants to move to a regiment in SW Va as a colonel. (#38) |
|
38 |
1862 |
5-Jun |
|
Cripple Creek |
Death of father: Major James Turk Gleaves (age: 74 yrs) |
|
38 |
1862 |
12-Sep |
|
Cripple Creek |
Letter- from: Robert Harvey Gleaves & George Wythe Gleaves; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: RH & GW Gleaves to pay SC Gleaves $528.82; paid Nov 9, 1865. (#158) |
|
38 |
1862 |
22-Sep |
|
Washington, D.C. |
Emancipation Proclamation |
|
39 |
1862 |
Nov |
Wytheville |
Letter- from: ?. D. Huddle; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: $60 to be paid for hire of Negro woman, Mary Jane. (#277) |
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|
38 |
1862 |
|
Abt |
|
Civil War Story: Promise to a mother |
|
39 |
1863 |
|
Abt |
|
Civil War Story: Family Traditions of a Relic of the War between the States |
|
39 |
1863 |
15-Jan |
|
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Letter- from: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; to: Capt. Robert Harvey Gleaves; subject: S C Gleaves owed & paid to R H Gleaves $256.73. (#203) |
|
39 |
1863 |
7-Feb |
|
Red Out Springs |
Letter- from: George Nye ; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: News of movements of the regiment & doctor assignments; all would like him back. (#35) |
|
39 |
1863 |
23-May |
|
Dublin Depot, VA |
Resignation: from service due to varicose veins in right leg, rheumatism of hands & arms, attack of thyroid fever. |
|
39 |
1863 |
30-May |
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|
39 |
1863 |
6-Jun |
Richmond, VA |
Reimbursement for medicine $27 |
|
|
39 |
1863 |
18-Aug |
Richmond, VA |
Collecting men for First Engineering Regiment as agent of Engineer Dept. |
|
|
39 |
1863 |
7-Sep |
Richmond, VA |
Reimbursement for expenses and board from 18-Aug through 6-Sep for $63 while agent of Engineer Dept. |
|
| 40 |
1863 |
12-Oct |
|
Wytheville |
Letter- from: M. Robinson ; to: Dr. Samuel Crockett Gleaves; subject: Received from SC Gleaves $250 for bone mill for his mother. (#208) |
| 40 |
1863 |
14-Oct |
Wytheville |
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|
40 |
1863 |
8-Dec |
|
Cripple Creek |
Death of brother: Andrew Jackson Gleaves (age: 17 yrs) |
|
41 |
1865 |
8-Jan |
Roster: Relieved by Dr. B. H. Hoyt, present |
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|
41 |
1865 |
9-Apr |
|
Appomattox Court House, VA |
Surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant |
|
41 |
1865 |
14-Apr |
|
Washington, D.C. |
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
