CSA.
Civil War Service Records Record
about Charles H. Gilkerson
Name: Charles H. Gilkerson
Company: H
Unit: 16 Virginia Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Sergeant
Allegiance: Confederate
Marriage recorded in Wayne Co., W. Va., in 1866, age 28
Parents listed as Morris & Lucinda Gilkerson
Biography listed in Hardesty's history of W. Va., pg. 230; photo w/ siblings on p. 208 in Gilkerson History.
Biography also appears in Gilkerson History by Evelyn Booth Massie
"Known as Hance, he was smaller in stature than his brothers. With an easy going manner, he was a farmer and a Methodist minister. He served in the Civil War, Conferderate Army, and was held prisoner for 18 months.
Father: Morris Gilkerson b: ABT 1816/1820 in , Cabell, Virginia
Mother: Lucinda Adkins b: 17 Oct 1824 in Virginia
Marriage 1 Nancy Adkins b: 24 Dec 1845/1846 in Cabell, Virginia
Married: 8 Feb 1866 in Lick Creek, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne County News
May 27, 1926
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TELLS OF HIS PART IN CONFLICT
The following letter has been written to Wayne County News by Uncle Hance Gilkerson, well known citizen of the Beech Fork section of this county. A picture of Mr. Gilkerson accompanies this article. In his letter which follows, he gives an intimate glimpse of his part in the great conflict between the North and South in the days from 1861 to 1865. Here's his letter:
Wayne County News
Wayne, W. Va.
Gentlemen:
I saw a request in Wayne County News for a list of Civil War veterans of Wayne county. I am one of them. My name is Charles Hansford Gilkerson, better known in Wayne county as "Uncle Hance" Gilkerson.
I have passed the middle of my 84th year. I joined the army in 1862 and fought on the Confederate side. Kindreck was captain of Company H. Ferguson was Colonel of the 15th regiment to which I belonged. Jenkins was our general.
Now I will not go into detail to mention all of the minor engagements in which I had a part, but will only mention a few of the things that might be of interest to your readers.
We left Wayne County Court House and went to Kanawha and went with Lowbern when he left the Valley. We went on and pitched camp in Roanoke County, Virginia, near Salem. We wintered there, and when Spring came we started on the raid to the North, going down the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, Virginia, the Confederates met the Union army and we routed them.
We followed on North and we had been fighting every day till we got to Gettysburg. There we had plenty to do, as you all know. For three days it was the bloodiest of bloody battles.
From Gettysburg we had to fight our way back till we got to Culpepper Court House in Virginia. At that time I got a furlough for ten days to come home. So when I went back I got with the regiment in Greenbrier County and from there we started another raid toward the border. And it was on that trip that I was taken a prisoner on the hill between Twelve Pole and Beech Fork at the John Barbour place.
From there they took me as prisoner to Barboursville and then to Charleston and from there to Wheeling and then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware. So from the time I was taken prisoner it was eighteen months until I got out of service and back home on June 21, 1865, after Lee's surrender.
Charles Hansford Gilkerson
June 10, 1926
Biography of Reverend Charles Hanceford Gilkison - Wayne Co. WV
From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 230
Rev. Charles Hanceford Gilkison - son of Morris and Lucinda (Adkins) Gilkison, was born in Wayne
county, November 13, 1842. In this county, February 9, 1866, was solemnized his marriage with Nancy Adkins, daughter of Millington and Clarissa (Gilkison) Adkins, and born in Wayne county, December 24, 1845.
Seven children were born to them, and death has taken two;
Josephine Alice, born February 19, 1867;
Valney Braxton, September 9, 1868;
Millington, July 26, 1870;
Lewis Wetzel, September 26, 1873;
Sinora, April 27, 1875; died of dropsy December 16, 1877;
Ira Henan, September 17, 1877;
Herman, November 17, 1882, died of dropsy January 4, 1883.
Rev. C. H. Gilkison volunteered in Company H, 16th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate army, and served under General Jenkins, taking part in the battles of Scary, Meadow Bluff, Droop Mountain, Winchester, Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, the raid into Pennsylvania and the three days battle of Gettysburg, then all the engagements from Pennsylvania back to Culpeper C. H. He was made prisoner in December, 1863, and suffered in prison until June 7, 1865, and when released was able to walk but a short distance, so much had he endured in his captivity. He owns 350 acres on Lick creek, sixty acres cleared, in corn and wheat and grass a specialty. He raised 65 bushels of wheat on two and one-half acres, and corn in proportion. The rest of his land is heavily timbered, and rich in mineral. He has good buildings, a school-house among them on his farm, and the only school taught in Grant district in the winter of 1883-4 was in this school-house. He has pastoral charge of the Laurel Circuit (Guyandotte district) Methodist Episcopal Church.
(As transcribed directly from that source, any errors included)
Spouse & Children
Nancy Adkins 1845 – 1931
Jane F. Gilkerson 1866 –
Josephine A Gilkerson 1867 – 1948
Braxton Gilkerson 1868 – 1898
Millington Gilkerson 1870 – 1898
Lewis Wetzel Gilkerson 1873 – 1953
Sinora Gilkerson 1875 – 1877
Ira Hennon Gilkerson 1877 – 1903
Herman Gilkerson 1882 – 1883
Civil War Service Records Record
about Charles H. Gilkerson
Name: Charles H. Gilkerson
Company: H
Unit: 16 Virginia Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Sergeant
Allegiance: Confederate
Marriage recorded in Wayne Co., W. Va., in 1866, age 28
Parents listed as Morris & Lucinda Gilkerson
Biography listed in Hardesty's history of W. Va., pg. 230; photo w/ siblings on p. 208 in Gilkerson History.
Biography also appears in Gilkerson History by Evelyn Booth Massie
"Known as Hance, he was smaller in stature than his brothers. With an easy going manner, he was a farmer and a Methodist minister. He served in the Civil War, Conferderate Army, and was held prisoner for 18 months.
Father: Morris Gilkerson b: ABT 1816/1820 in , Cabell, Virginia
Mother: Lucinda Adkins b: 17 Oct 1824 in Virginia
Marriage 1 Nancy Adkins b: 24 Dec 1845/1846 in Cabell, Virginia
Married: 8 Feb 1866 in Lick Creek, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne County News
May 27, 1926
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TELLS OF HIS PART IN CONFLICT
The following letter has been written to Wayne County News by Uncle Hance Gilkerson, well known citizen of the Beech Fork section of this county. A picture of Mr. Gilkerson accompanies this article. In his letter which follows, he gives an intimate glimpse of his part in the great conflict between the North and South in the days from 1861 to 1865. Here's his letter:
Wayne County News
Wayne, W. Va.
Gentlemen:
I saw a request in Wayne County News for a list of Civil War veterans of Wayne county. I am one of them. My name is Charles Hansford Gilkerson, better known in Wayne county as "Uncle Hance" Gilkerson.
I have passed the middle of my 84th year. I joined the army in 1862 and fought on the Confederate side. Kindreck was captain of Company H. Ferguson was Colonel of the 15th regiment to which I belonged. Jenkins was our general.
Now I will not go into detail to mention all of the minor engagements in which I had a part, but will only mention a few of the things that might be of interest to your readers.
We left Wayne County Court House and went to Kanawha and went with Lowbern when he left the Valley. We went on and pitched camp in Roanoke County, Virginia, near Salem. We wintered there, and when Spring came we started on the raid to the North, going down the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, Virginia, the Confederates met the Union army and we routed them.
We followed on North and we had been fighting every day till we got to Gettysburg. There we had plenty to do, as you all know. For three days it was the bloodiest of bloody battles.
From Gettysburg we had to fight our way back till we got to Culpepper Court House in Virginia. At that time I got a furlough for ten days to come home. So when I went back I got with the regiment in Greenbrier County and from there we started another raid toward the border. And it was on that trip that I was taken a prisoner on the hill between Twelve Pole and Beech Fork at the John Barbour place.
From there they took me as prisoner to Barboursville and then to Charleston and from there to Wheeling and then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware. So from the time I was taken prisoner it was eighteen months until I got out of service and back home on June 21, 1865, after Lee's surrender.
Charles Hansford Gilkerson
June 10, 1926
Biography of Reverend Charles Hanceford Gilkison - Wayne Co. WV
From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 230
Rev. Charles Hanceford Gilkison - son of Morris and Lucinda (Adkins) Gilkison, was born in Wayne
county, November 13, 1842. In this county, February 9, 1866, was solemnized his marriage with Nancy Adkins, daughter of Millington and Clarissa (Gilkison) Adkins, and born in Wayne county, December 24, 1845.
Seven children were born to them, and death has taken two;
Josephine Alice, born February 19, 1867;
Valney Braxton, September 9, 1868;
Millington, July 26, 1870;
Lewis Wetzel, September 26, 1873;
Sinora, April 27, 1875; died of dropsy December 16, 1877;
Ira Henan, September 17, 1877;
Herman, November 17, 1882, died of dropsy January 4, 1883.
Rev. C. H. Gilkison volunteered in Company H, 16th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate army, and served under General Jenkins, taking part in the battles of Scary, Meadow Bluff, Droop Mountain, Winchester, Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, the raid into Pennsylvania and the three days battle of Gettysburg, then all the engagements from Pennsylvania back to Culpeper C. H. He was made prisoner in December, 1863, and suffered in prison until June 7, 1865, and when released was able to walk but a short distance, so much had he endured in his captivity. He owns 350 acres on Lick creek, sixty acres cleared, in corn and wheat and grass a specialty. He raised 65 bushels of wheat on two and one-half acres, and corn in proportion. The rest of his land is heavily timbered, and rich in mineral. He has good buildings, a school-house among them on his farm, and the only school taught in Grant district in the winter of 1883-4 was in this school-house. He has pastoral charge of the Laurel Circuit (Guyandotte district) Methodist Episcopal Church.
(As transcribed directly from that source, any errors included)
Spouse & Children
Nancy Adkins 1845 – 1931
Jane F. Gilkerson 1866 –
Josephine A Gilkerson 1867 – 1948
Braxton Gilkerson 1868 – 1898
Millington Gilkerson 1870 – 1898
Lewis Wetzel Gilkerson 1873 – 1953
Sinora Gilkerson 1875 – 1877
Ira Hennon Gilkerson 1877 – 1903
Herman Gilkerson 1882 – 1883
CSA.
Civil War Service Records Record
about Charles H. Gilkerson
Name: Charles H. Gilkerson
Company: H
Unit: 16 Virginia Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Sergeant
Allegiance: Confederate
Marriage recorded in Wayne Co., W. Va., in 1866, age 28
Parents listed as Morris & Lucinda Gilkerson
Biography listed in Hardesty's history of W. Va., pg. 230; photo w/ siblings on p. 208 in Gilkerson History.
Biography also appears in Gilkerson History by Evelyn Booth Massie
"Known as Hance, he was smaller in stature than his brothers. With an easy going manner, he was a farmer and a Methodist minister. He served in the Civil War, Conferderate Army, and was held prisoner for 18 months.
Father: Morris Gilkerson b: ABT 1816/1820 in , Cabell, Virginia
Mother: Lucinda Adkins b: 17 Oct 1824 in Virginia
Marriage 1 Nancy Adkins b: 24 Dec 1845/1846 in Cabell, Virginia
Married: 8 Feb 1866 in Lick Creek, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne County News
May 27, 1926
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TELLS OF HIS PART IN CONFLICT
The following letter has been written to Wayne County News by Uncle Hance Gilkerson, well known citizen of the Beech Fork section of this county. A picture of Mr. Gilkerson accompanies this article. In his letter which follows, he gives an intimate glimpse of his part in the great conflict between the North and South in the days from 1861 to 1865. Here's his letter:
Wayne County News
Wayne, W. Va.
Gentlemen:
I saw a request in Wayne County News for a list of Civil War veterans of Wayne county. I am one of them. My name is Charles Hansford Gilkerson, better known in Wayne county as "Uncle Hance" Gilkerson.
I have passed the middle of my 84th year. I joined the army in 1862 and fought on the Confederate side. Kindreck was captain of Company H. Ferguson was Colonel of the 15th regiment to which I belonged. Jenkins was our general.
Now I will not go into detail to mention all of the minor engagements in which I had a part, but will only mention a few of the things that might be of interest to your readers.
We left Wayne County Court House and went to Kanawha and went with Lowbern when he left the Valley. We went on and pitched camp in Roanoke County, Virginia, near Salem. We wintered there, and when Spring came we started on the raid to the North, going down the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, Virginia, the Confederates met the Union army and we routed them.
We followed on North and we had been fighting every day till we got to Gettysburg. There we had plenty to do, as you all know. For three days it was the bloodiest of bloody battles.
From Gettysburg we had to fight our way back till we got to Culpepper Court House in Virginia. At that time I got a furlough for ten days to come home. So when I went back I got with the regiment in Greenbrier County and from there we started another raid toward the border. And it was on that trip that I was taken a prisoner on the hill between Twelve Pole and Beech Fork at the John Barbour place.
From there they took me as prisoner to Barboursville and then to Charleston and from there to Wheeling and then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware. So from the time I was taken prisoner it was eighteen months until I got out of service and back home on June 21, 1865, after Lee's surrender.
Charles Hansford Gilkerson
June 10, 1926
Biography of Reverend Charles Hanceford Gilkison - Wayne Co. WV
From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 230
Rev. Charles Hanceford Gilkison - son of Morris and Lucinda (Adkins) Gilkison, was born in Wayne
county, November 13, 1842. In this county, February 9, 1866, was solemnized his marriage with Nancy Adkins, daughter of Millington and Clarissa (Gilkison) Adkins, and born in Wayne county, December 24, 1845.
Seven children were born to them, and death has taken two;
Josephine Alice, born February 19, 1867;
Valney Braxton, September 9, 1868;
Millington, July 26, 1870;
Lewis Wetzel, September 26, 1873;
Sinora, April 27, 1875; died of dropsy December 16, 1877;
Ira Henan, September 17, 1877;
Herman, November 17, 1882, died of dropsy January 4, 1883.
Rev. C. H. Gilkison volunteered in Company H, 16th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate army, and served under General Jenkins, taking part in the battles of Scary, Meadow Bluff, Droop Mountain, Winchester, Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, the raid into Pennsylvania and the three days battle of Gettysburg, then all the engagements from Pennsylvania back to Culpeper C. H. He was made prisoner in December, 1863, and suffered in prison until June 7, 1865, and when released was able to walk but a short distance, so much had he endured in his captivity. He owns 350 acres on Lick creek, sixty acres cleared, in corn and wheat and grass a specialty. He raised 65 bushels of wheat on two and one-half acres, and corn in proportion. The rest of his land is heavily timbered, and rich in mineral. He has good buildings, a school-house among them on his farm, and the only school taught in Grant district in the winter of 1883-4 was in this school-house. He has pastoral charge of the Laurel Circuit (Guyandotte district) Methodist Episcopal Church.
(As transcribed directly from that source, any errors included)
Spouse & Children
Nancy Adkins 1845 – 1931
Jane F. Gilkerson 1866 –
Josephine A Gilkerson 1867 – 1948
Braxton Gilkerson 1868 – 1898
Millington Gilkerson 1870 – 1898
Lewis Wetzel Gilkerson 1873 – 1953
Sinora Gilkerson 1875 – 1877
Ira Hennon Gilkerson 1877 – 1903
Herman Gilkerson 1882 – 1883
Civil War Service Records Record
about Charles H. Gilkerson
Name: Charles H. Gilkerson
Company: H
Unit: 16 Virginia Cavalry.
Rank - Induction: Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Sergeant
Allegiance: Confederate
Marriage recorded in Wayne Co., W. Va., in 1866, age 28
Parents listed as Morris & Lucinda Gilkerson
Biography listed in Hardesty's history of W. Va., pg. 230; photo w/ siblings on p. 208 in Gilkerson History.
Biography also appears in Gilkerson History by Evelyn Booth Massie
"Known as Hance, he was smaller in stature than his brothers. With an easy going manner, he was a farmer and a Methodist minister. He served in the Civil War, Conferderate Army, and was held prisoner for 18 months.
Father: Morris Gilkerson b: ABT 1816/1820 in , Cabell, Virginia
Mother: Lucinda Adkins b: 17 Oct 1824 in Virginia
Marriage 1 Nancy Adkins b: 24 Dec 1845/1846 in Cabell, Virginia
Married: 8 Feb 1866 in Lick Creek, Wayne, West Virginia
Wayne County News
May 27, 1926
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TELLS OF HIS PART IN CONFLICT
The following letter has been written to Wayne County News by Uncle Hance Gilkerson, well known citizen of the Beech Fork section of this county. A picture of Mr. Gilkerson accompanies this article. In his letter which follows, he gives an intimate glimpse of his part in the great conflict between the North and South in the days from 1861 to 1865. Here's his letter:
Wayne County News
Wayne, W. Va.
Gentlemen:
I saw a request in Wayne County News for a list of Civil War veterans of Wayne county. I am one of them. My name is Charles Hansford Gilkerson, better known in Wayne county as "Uncle Hance" Gilkerson.
I have passed the middle of my 84th year. I joined the army in 1862 and fought on the Confederate side. Kindreck was captain of Company H. Ferguson was Colonel of the 15th regiment to which I belonged. Jenkins was our general.
Now I will not go into detail to mention all of the minor engagements in which I had a part, but will only mention a few of the things that might be of interest to your readers.
We left Wayne County Court House and went to Kanawha and went with Lowbern when he left the Valley. We went on and pitched camp in Roanoke County, Virginia, near Salem. We wintered there, and when Spring came we started on the raid to the North, going down the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, Virginia, the Confederates met the Union army and we routed them.
We followed on North and we had been fighting every day till we got to Gettysburg. There we had plenty to do, as you all know. For three days it was the bloodiest of bloody battles.
From Gettysburg we had to fight our way back till we got to Culpepper Court House in Virginia. At that time I got a furlough for ten days to come home. So when I went back I got with the regiment in Greenbrier County and from there we started another raid toward the border. And it was on that trip that I was taken a prisoner on the hill between Twelve Pole and Beech Fork at the John Barbour place.
From there they took me as prisoner to Barboursville and then to Charleston and from there to Wheeling and then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware. So from the time I was taken prisoner it was eighteen months until I got out of service and back home on June 21, 1865, after Lee's surrender.
Charles Hansford Gilkerson
June 10, 1926
Biography of Reverend Charles Hanceford Gilkison - Wayne Co. WV
From Hardesty's History of West Virginia, Wayne Co. p. 230
Rev. Charles Hanceford Gilkison - son of Morris and Lucinda (Adkins) Gilkison, was born in Wayne
county, November 13, 1842. In this county, February 9, 1866, was solemnized his marriage with Nancy Adkins, daughter of Millington and Clarissa (Gilkison) Adkins, and born in Wayne county, December 24, 1845.
Seven children were born to them, and death has taken two;
Josephine Alice, born February 19, 1867;
Valney Braxton, September 9, 1868;
Millington, July 26, 1870;
Lewis Wetzel, September 26, 1873;
Sinora, April 27, 1875; died of dropsy December 16, 1877;
Ira Henan, September 17, 1877;
Herman, November 17, 1882, died of dropsy January 4, 1883.
Rev. C. H. Gilkison volunteered in Company H, 16th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate army, and served under General Jenkins, taking part in the battles of Scary, Meadow Bluff, Droop Mountain, Winchester, Bunker Hill, Martinsburg, the raid into Pennsylvania and the three days battle of Gettysburg, then all the engagements from Pennsylvania back to Culpeper C. H. He was made prisoner in December, 1863, and suffered in prison until June 7, 1865, and when released was able to walk but a short distance, so much had he endured in his captivity. He owns 350 acres on Lick creek, sixty acres cleared, in corn and wheat and grass a specialty. He raised 65 bushels of wheat on two and one-half acres, and corn in proportion. The rest of his land is heavily timbered, and rich in mineral. He has good buildings, a school-house among them on his farm, and the only school taught in Grant district in the winter of 1883-4 was in this school-house. He has pastoral charge of the Laurel Circuit (Guyandotte district) Methodist Episcopal Church.
(As transcribed directly from that source, any errors included)
Spouse & Children
Nancy Adkins 1845 – 1931
Jane F. Gilkerson 1866 –
Josephine A Gilkerson 1867 – 1948
Braxton Gilkerson 1868 – 1898
Millington Gilkerson 1870 – 1898
Lewis Wetzel Gilkerson 1873 – 1953
Sinora Gilkerson 1875 – 1877
Ira Hennon Gilkerson 1877 – 1903
Herman Gilkerson 1882 – 1883
