* Absolom Fisher 1808-1877
Parents: Rachel Peters b. 1776 d. 1833. Lived at least part of her adult life in Wytheville VA. Married David Fisher (1777-1855)
Siblings:
George Fisher(1798-1844) (m. Sarah Jones)
Mary "Polly" Fisher b. 1800 (m. John Philips)
John Wesley Fisher 1802-1888 (m. Ann Delp) died Colo.
Sally (or Sarah) Fisher 1811-? (m. Samson Archer)
Daniel Fisher 1813-?
Isaac Fisher 1815-?
Lydia Fisher 1818-? (married James Atkins)
Abraham Fisher 1820-?
Married Judith Ory/Ora Rader
daughter of Conrad Rader son of Johan Casper Rader
Believed to be buried on farm in lost cemetery with no marker.
Picture from Diane NcGinley Gardner
NOTES
By Beverly Repass Hoch/Guest
Letter writing was a favorite pastime of soldiers during the Civil War and the chief means of communication with family at home.
Many of the letters recorded the hardships of a soldier's life and the terrors of contact with the enemy.
Just days after the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, Wythe Countian Thomas W. Fisher wrote his parents, Absolom and Judith Rader Fisher, that he had survived the battle.
He described the events of the battle after Confederate General Early countermanded an order of retreat.
It resulted in heavy losses in dead, wounded and captured.
My Dear Father & Mother,
When Wm. Pack started home Sunday night, I wrote a few lines at the bottom of the letter I sent by him stating that the probabilities were very good for a fight and that if I escaped I would write.
I felt that night just as sencibly as I ever felt any thing in my life; that we were going to have a fight and that a hard one; and I asked my God that has so often brought me out of danger, to be with me, and if consistent with his will to bring me through safe again.
Thank his name he answered my prayer.
We had the hardest fight that day (Monday) I ever saw.
I have never before since we have been in the Valley sein all our forces engaged at once.
Every division, Brigade & regiment were engaged and not to make a short story long, I will just say at once that we got pretty badly whipped & even routed somewhat.
Although I am out unhurt, there were two periods during the day that I have no idea of getting out.
I was almost sure that I would be captured; The Yankees were all around us – it looked to me like I might look which way I would, and I could see the Yankees & I had a great notion to sit down and surrender for I had had the Bowel complaint a day or two, and was so weak I could not mind much.
If I ever got into another such a place I Intend to get into a gully or sink some place, and wait for the yanks to get me.
Gen. Early acted very foolish in fighting them there at Winchester.
I think If he had fallen back here at first we could have held this position, but now I fear it is doubtful for we did not loose less than 2,000 or 2,500 prisoners besides killed and wounded, but the yankee loss in killed and wounded must be double that of ours.
Our division lost 90 as prisoners.
I think rather more than half of it is taken out of our company. Capt. [J.F.] Umbarger was severely wounded in the shoulder. Private Jack Heldrith killed, Lieut [William P.] Howard, Lieut. [Newton H.] Repass, George Walters, Fletcher Lloyd captured, Col. [Augustus Forsberg] is wounded in hands and Major [William A.] Yonce is Mortally wounded. Cameron and Jake Fisher & Jos. are out unhurt but Mell is wounded, though not very badly.
Since I have commenced writing there has [been] pretty heavy skirmishing commenced & they [attacked] us here, they will have a lively time before they get us away.
We are pretty strongly fortified, but there are so many of our men that have no guns, but if they wait til tomorrow (and it is now late in the day) we will all have guns.
If I do not get to send this out today, I will put in a few more lines in the morning.
Pray for me that my life may be spaired to see you all, that we may finally all get home to Heaven. Write soon.
Your Devoted Son, T. W. Fisher
Thomas Fisher served with the Wythe Rifles, Company C, 51st Va. Regiment, from the time of his May 1862 enlistment until his capture in March 1865 during the Battle of Waynesboro.
He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, prison.
After his release in June of that year, he returned to his Wythe County home where his wife Frances Ann and their children waited for him.
In 1908 he applied for a disability pension for his war service in which he stated he was 70 years old, that he worked some as a carpenter but hadn't worked at a trade for five years because he was crippled by a fall from a tree nine years before.
He was granted a pension of $24 annually.
Thomas died on November 2, 1921, at age 84 years and was buried at Mt. Ephraim Methodist Church in Crockett.
Parents: Rachel Peters b. 1776 d. 1833. Lived at least part of her adult life in Wytheville VA. Married David Fisher (1777-1855)
Siblings:
George Fisher(1798-1844) (m. Sarah Jones)
Mary "Polly" Fisher b. 1800 (m. John Philips)
John Wesley Fisher 1802-1888 (m. Ann Delp) died Colo.
Sally (or Sarah) Fisher 1811-? (m. Samson Archer)
Daniel Fisher 1813-?
Isaac Fisher 1815-?
Lydia Fisher 1818-? (married James Atkins)
Abraham Fisher 1820-?
Married Judith Ory/Ora Rader
daughter of Conrad Rader son of Johan Casper Rader
Believed to be buried on farm in lost cemetery with no marker.
Picture from Diane NcGinley Gardner
NOTES
By Beverly Repass Hoch/Guest
Letter writing was a favorite pastime of soldiers during the Civil War and the chief means of communication with family at home.
Many of the letters recorded the hardships of a soldier's life and the terrors of contact with the enemy.
Just days after the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, Wythe Countian Thomas W. Fisher wrote his parents, Absolom and Judith Rader Fisher, that he had survived the battle.
He described the events of the battle after Confederate General Early countermanded an order of retreat.
It resulted in heavy losses in dead, wounded and captured.
My Dear Father & Mother,
When Wm. Pack started home Sunday night, I wrote a few lines at the bottom of the letter I sent by him stating that the probabilities were very good for a fight and that if I escaped I would write.
I felt that night just as sencibly as I ever felt any thing in my life; that we were going to have a fight and that a hard one; and I asked my God that has so often brought me out of danger, to be with me, and if consistent with his will to bring me through safe again.
Thank his name he answered my prayer.
We had the hardest fight that day (Monday) I ever saw.
I have never before since we have been in the Valley sein all our forces engaged at once.
Every division, Brigade & regiment were engaged and not to make a short story long, I will just say at once that we got pretty badly whipped & even routed somewhat.
Although I am out unhurt, there were two periods during the day that I have no idea of getting out.
I was almost sure that I would be captured; The Yankees were all around us – it looked to me like I might look which way I would, and I could see the Yankees & I had a great notion to sit down and surrender for I had had the Bowel complaint a day or two, and was so weak I could not mind much.
If I ever got into another such a place I Intend to get into a gully or sink some place, and wait for the yanks to get me.
Gen. Early acted very foolish in fighting them there at Winchester.
I think If he had fallen back here at first we could have held this position, but now I fear it is doubtful for we did not loose less than 2,000 or 2,500 prisoners besides killed and wounded, but the yankee loss in killed and wounded must be double that of ours.
Our division lost 90 as prisoners.
I think rather more than half of it is taken out of our company. Capt. [J.F.] Umbarger was severely wounded in the shoulder. Private Jack Heldrith killed, Lieut [William P.] Howard, Lieut. [Newton H.] Repass, George Walters, Fletcher Lloyd captured, Col. [Augustus Forsberg] is wounded in hands and Major [William A.] Yonce is Mortally wounded. Cameron and Jake Fisher & Jos. are out unhurt but Mell is wounded, though not very badly.
Since I have commenced writing there has [been] pretty heavy skirmishing commenced & they [attacked] us here, they will have a lively time before they get us away.
We are pretty strongly fortified, but there are so many of our men that have no guns, but if they wait til tomorrow (and it is now late in the day) we will all have guns.
If I do not get to send this out today, I will put in a few more lines in the morning.
Pray for me that my life may be spaired to see you all, that we may finally all get home to Heaven. Write soon.
Your Devoted Son, T. W. Fisher
Thomas Fisher served with the Wythe Rifles, Company C, 51st Va. Regiment, from the time of his May 1862 enlistment until his capture in March 1865 during the Battle of Waynesboro.
He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, prison.
After his release in June of that year, he returned to his Wythe County home where his wife Frances Ann and their children waited for him.
In 1908 he applied for a disability pension for his war service in which he stated he was 70 years old, that he worked some as a carpenter but hadn't worked at a trade for five years because he was crippled by a fall from a tree nine years before.
He was granted a pension of $24 annually.
Thomas died on November 2, 1921, at age 84 years and was buried at Mt. Ephraim Methodist Church in Crockett.
* Absolom Fisher 1808-1877
Parents: Rachel Peters b. 1776 d. 1833. Lived at least part of her adult life in Wytheville VA. Married David Fisher (1777-1855)
Siblings:
George Fisher(1798-1844) (m. Sarah Jones)
Mary "Polly" Fisher b. 1800 (m. John Philips)
John Wesley Fisher 1802-1888 (m. Ann Delp) died Colo.
Sally (or Sarah) Fisher 1811-? (m. Samson Archer)
Daniel Fisher 1813-?
Isaac Fisher 1815-?
Lydia Fisher 1818-? (married James Atkins)
Abraham Fisher 1820-?
Married Judith Ory/Ora Rader
daughter of Conrad Rader son of Johan Casper Rader
Believed to be buried on farm in lost cemetery with no marker.
Picture from Diane NcGinley Gardner
NOTES
By Beverly Repass Hoch/Guest
Letter writing was a favorite pastime of soldiers during the Civil War and the chief means of communication with family at home.
Many of the letters recorded the hardships of a soldier's life and the terrors of contact with the enemy.
Just days after the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, Wythe Countian Thomas W. Fisher wrote his parents, Absolom and Judith Rader Fisher, that he had survived the battle.
He described the events of the battle after Confederate General Early countermanded an order of retreat.
It resulted in heavy losses in dead, wounded and captured.
My Dear Father & Mother,
When Wm. Pack started home Sunday night, I wrote a few lines at the bottom of the letter I sent by him stating that the probabilities were very good for a fight and that if I escaped I would write.
I felt that night just as sencibly as I ever felt any thing in my life; that we were going to have a fight and that a hard one; and I asked my God that has so often brought me out of danger, to be with me, and if consistent with his will to bring me through safe again.
Thank his name he answered my prayer.
We had the hardest fight that day (Monday) I ever saw.
I have never before since we have been in the Valley sein all our forces engaged at once.
Every division, Brigade & regiment were engaged and not to make a short story long, I will just say at once that we got pretty badly whipped & even routed somewhat.
Although I am out unhurt, there were two periods during the day that I have no idea of getting out.
I was almost sure that I would be captured; The Yankees were all around us – it looked to me like I might look which way I would, and I could see the Yankees & I had a great notion to sit down and surrender for I had had the Bowel complaint a day or two, and was so weak I could not mind much.
If I ever got into another such a place I Intend to get into a gully or sink some place, and wait for the yanks to get me.
Gen. Early acted very foolish in fighting them there at Winchester.
I think If he had fallen back here at first we could have held this position, but now I fear it is doubtful for we did not loose less than 2,000 or 2,500 prisoners besides killed and wounded, but the yankee loss in killed and wounded must be double that of ours.
Our division lost 90 as prisoners.
I think rather more than half of it is taken out of our company. Capt. [J.F.] Umbarger was severely wounded in the shoulder. Private Jack Heldrith killed, Lieut [William P.] Howard, Lieut. [Newton H.] Repass, George Walters, Fletcher Lloyd captured, Col. [Augustus Forsberg] is wounded in hands and Major [William A.] Yonce is Mortally wounded. Cameron and Jake Fisher & Jos. are out unhurt but Mell is wounded, though not very badly.
Since I have commenced writing there has [been] pretty heavy skirmishing commenced & they [attacked] us here, they will have a lively time before they get us away.
We are pretty strongly fortified, but there are so many of our men that have no guns, but if they wait til tomorrow (and it is now late in the day) we will all have guns.
If I do not get to send this out today, I will put in a few more lines in the morning.
Pray for me that my life may be spaired to see you all, that we may finally all get home to Heaven. Write soon.
Your Devoted Son, T. W. Fisher
Thomas Fisher served with the Wythe Rifles, Company C, 51st Va. Regiment, from the time of his May 1862 enlistment until his capture in March 1865 during the Battle of Waynesboro.
He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, prison.
After his release in June of that year, he returned to his Wythe County home where his wife Frances Ann and their children waited for him.
In 1908 he applied for a disability pension for his war service in which he stated he was 70 years old, that he worked some as a carpenter but hadn't worked at a trade for five years because he was crippled by a fall from a tree nine years before.
He was granted a pension of $24 annually.
Thomas died on November 2, 1921, at age 84 years and was buried at Mt. Ephraim Methodist Church in Crockett.
Parents: Rachel Peters b. 1776 d. 1833. Lived at least part of her adult life in Wytheville VA. Married David Fisher (1777-1855)
Siblings:
George Fisher(1798-1844) (m. Sarah Jones)
Mary "Polly" Fisher b. 1800 (m. John Philips)
John Wesley Fisher 1802-1888 (m. Ann Delp) died Colo.
Sally (or Sarah) Fisher 1811-? (m. Samson Archer)
Daniel Fisher 1813-?
Isaac Fisher 1815-?
Lydia Fisher 1818-? (married James Atkins)
Abraham Fisher 1820-?
Married Judith Ory/Ora Rader
daughter of Conrad Rader son of Johan Casper Rader
Believed to be buried on farm in lost cemetery with no marker.
Picture from Diane NcGinley Gardner
NOTES
By Beverly Repass Hoch/Guest
Letter writing was a favorite pastime of soldiers during the Civil War and the chief means of communication with family at home.
Many of the letters recorded the hardships of a soldier's life and the terrors of contact with the enemy.
Just days after the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, Wythe Countian Thomas W. Fisher wrote his parents, Absolom and Judith Rader Fisher, that he had survived the battle.
He described the events of the battle after Confederate General Early countermanded an order of retreat.
It resulted in heavy losses in dead, wounded and captured.
My Dear Father & Mother,
When Wm. Pack started home Sunday night, I wrote a few lines at the bottom of the letter I sent by him stating that the probabilities were very good for a fight and that if I escaped I would write.
I felt that night just as sencibly as I ever felt any thing in my life; that we were going to have a fight and that a hard one; and I asked my God that has so often brought me out of danger, to be with me, and if consistent with his will to bring me through safe again.
Thank his name he answered my prayer.
We had the hardest fight that day (Monday) I ever saw.
I have never before since we have been in the Valley sein all our forces engaged at once.
Every division, Brigade & regiment were engaged and not to make a short story long, I will just say at once that we got pretty badly whipped & even routed somewhat.
Although I am out unhurt, there were two periods during the day that I have no idea of getting out.
I was almost sure that I would be captured; The Yankees were all around us – it looked to me like I might look which way I would, and I could see the Yankees & I had a great notion to sit down and surrender for I had had the Bowel complaint a day or two, and was so weak I could not mind much.
If I ever got into another such a place I Intend to get into a gully or sink some place, and wait for the yanks to get me.
Gen. Early acted very foolish in fighting them there at Winchester.
I think If he had fallen back here at first we could have held this position, but now I fear it is doubtful for we did not loose less than 2,000 or 2,500 prisoners besides killed and wounded, but the yankee loss in killed and wounded must be double that of ours.
Our division lost 90 as prisoners.
I think rather more than half of it is taken out of our company. Capt. [J.F.] Umbarger was severely wounded in the shoulder. Private Jack Heldrith killed, Lieut [William P.] Howard, Lieut. [Newton H.] Repass, George Walters, Fletcher Lloyd captured, Col. [Augustus Forsberg] is wounded in hands and Major [William A.] Yonce is Mortally wounded. Cameron and Jake Fisher & Jos. are out unhurt but Mell is wounded, though not very badly.
Since I have commenced writing there has [been] pretty heavy skirmishing commenced & they [attacked] us here, they will have a lively time before they get us away.
We are pretty strongly fortified, but there are so many of our men that have no guns, but if they wait til tomorrow (and it is now late in the day) we will all have guns.
If I do not get to send this out today, I will put in a few more lines in the morning.
Pray for me that my life may be spaired to see you all, that we may finally all get home to Heaven. Write soon.
Your Devoted Son, T. W. Fisher
Thomas Fisher served with the Wythe Rifles, Company C, 51st Va. Regiment, from the time of his May 1862 enlistment until his capture in March 1865 during the Battle of Waynesboro.
He was sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, prison.
After his release in June of that year, he returned to his Wythe County home where his wife Frances Ann and their children waited for him.
In 1908 he applied for a disability pension for his war service in which he stated he was 70 years old, that he worked some as a carpenter but hadn't worked at a trade for five years because he was crippled by a fall from a tree nine years before.
He was granted a pension of $24 annually.
Thomas died on November 2, 1921, at age 84 years and was buried at Mt. Ephraim Methodist Church in Crockett.
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