THE 81st NEW YORK AT LIBBY PRISON 58 YEARS AGO
Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, who was a sergeant in Company B, 81st New York Volunteers recalls that just 58 years ago today, on Monday, April 3d, 1865, about eight o'clock, the 81st Regiment marched into Libby Prison, the first of the Union regiments to enter that famous prison at Richmond, Va.
On April 4th Sergeant Ensworth was detailed to carry the toys of the prison cells and see that the 1,600 men held there were fed. This he did until the last one was paroled, about April 15th, 1865.
Source: Sandy Creek News, April 5, 1923
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Military honors were accorded Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, Civil War veteran whose funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Munroe funeral home in East Fourth street at 1:30 o'clock where, the Rev. J.J. Barrett, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in the family plot in Orwell cemetery where at the grave the ritual of the G.A.R. was conducted by members of Elmira Spencer Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans. A firing squad and bugler of the 28th Infantry, Fort Ontario, fired the final volley and sounded taps. Mrs. Ninabelle Maloney sang "Beautiful—Isle of Somewhere." Nephews of the deceased acted as bearers
source: Oswego Palladium Times, Sept 16, 1935
Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, who was a sergeant in Company B, 81st New York Volunteers recalls that just 58 years ago today, on Monday, April 3d, 1865, about eight o'clock, the 81st Regiment marched into Libby Prison, the first of the Union regiments to enter that famous prison at Richmond, Va.
On April 4th Sergeant Ensworth was detailed to carry the toys of the prison cells and see that the 1,600 men held there were fed. This he did until the last one was paroled, about April 15th, 1865.
Source: Sandy Creek News, April 5, 1923
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Military honors were accorded Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, Civil War veteran whose funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Munroe funeral home in East Fourth street at 1:30 o'clock where, the Rev. J.J. Barrett, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in the family plot in Orwell cemetery where at the grave the ritual of the G.A.R. was conducted by members of Elmira Spencer Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans. A firing squad and bugler of the 28th Infantry, Fort Ontario, fired the final volley and sounded taps. Mrs. Ninabelle Maloney sang "Beautiful—Isle of Somewhere." Nephews of the deceased acted as bearers
source: Oswego Palladium Times, Sept 16, 1935
THE 81st NEW YORK AT LIBBY PRISON 58 YEARS AGO
Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, who was a sergeant in Company B, 81st New York Volunteers recalls that just 58 years ago today, on Monday, April 3d, 1865, about eight o'clock, the 81st Regiment marched into Libby Prison, the first of the Union regiments to enter that famous prison at Richmond, Va.
On April 4th Sergeant Ensworth was detailed to carry the toys of the prison cells and see that the 1,600 men held there were fed. This he did until the last one was paroled, about April 15th, 1865.
Source: Sandy Creek News, April 5, 1923
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Military honors were accorded Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, Civil War veteran whose funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Munroe funeral home in East Fourth street at 1:30 o'clock where, the Rev. J.J. Barrett, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in the family plot in Orwell cemetery where at the grave the ritual of the G.A.R. was conducted by members of Elmira Spencer Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans. A firing squad and bugler of the 28th Infantry, Fort Ontario, fired the final volley and sounded taps. Mrs. Ninabelle Maloney sang "Beautiful—Isle of Somewhere." Nephews of the deceased acted as bearers
source: Oswego Palladium Times, Sept 16, 1935
Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, who was a sergeant in Company B, 81st New York Volunteers recalls that just 58 years ago today, on Monday, April 3d, 1865, about eight o'clock, the 81st Regiment marched into Libby Prison, the first of the Union regiments to enter that famous prison at Richmond, Va.
On April 4th Sergeant Ensworth was detailed to carry the toys of the prison cells and see that the 1,600 men held there were fed. This he did until the last one was paroled, about April 15th, 1865.
Source: Sandy Creek News, April 5, 1923
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Military honors were accorded Dr. Horace B. Ensworth, Civil War veteran whose funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Munroe funeral home in East Fourth street at 1:30 o'clock where, the Rev. J.J. Barrett, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in the family plot in Orwell cemetery where at the grave the ritual of the G.A.R. was conducted by members of Elmira Spencer Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans. A firing squad and bugler of the 28th Infantry, Fort Ontario, fired the final volley and sounded taps. Mrs. Ninabelle Maloney sang "Beautiful—Isle of Somewhere." Nephews of the deceased acted as bearers
source: Oswego Palladium Times, Sept 16, 1935
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