Gus attended school in East Madison, Morris County, New Jersey. The school is pictured with a girl standing near the flag pole.
His parents lived across the street from the Hancock Cemetery in Madison,Morris Co., NJ. It was probably a situation where they lived above his father's broom making shop. In the 1850 Morris Co. census, both his father Reuben De Forest and his older brother Amadee were listed as broommakers. The late Cleave Eimers told me that Reuben's father-in-law John C. Goldberg owned land in Morris Co. where he was growing broom straw.
Charlotte, the mother of Augustus, died of TB when he was about 13. At some point, he was apprenticed to a silversmith, which was the occupation he listed on his records during the Civil War.
In a 15 February 1998 letter from Joseph G. Bilby, who wrote "Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey from Flemington to Appomattox," which was published in 1993: "The New Jersey records indicate that Augustus De Forrest (sic) enlisted as a private in the 7th New Jersey Infantry's Company K on September 15, 1861. He deserted on January 30, 1863 and then returned to duty on May 17, 1863. He reenlisted on January 4, 1864 and was transferred to the 7th's Company C on October 1, 1864. De Forrest (sic) was promoted to corporal on May 1, 1864 and sergeant on April 15, 1865. He was mustered out of the army as a sergeant on July 17, 1865." Desertion in this context just meant that he had become separated from his unit for a short time due to the confusion of combat.
Mr. Bilby also wrote: "The 7th New Jersey was part of the Second New Jersey Brigade and fought in the Army of the Potomac during its entire military career. Augustus would have fought at Williamsburg, 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg, as well as a number of less well known actions."
If Gus & Tillie were living today, they would encourage us to read "How the South Won the Civil War" (2020) by historian Heather Cox Richardson. She explains how Lincoln's VP Andrew Johnson let the Confederate leaders and plantation owners, who started the Civil War to protect slavery, off with just a slap on the wrist. That allowed them to create a system to keep their anti-democratic Confederate ideas alive.
After being in a number of horrific battles to help hold the Union together and abolish slavery, Gus would be pleased to know that in 2021 Pres. Biden declared Juneteenth (June 19th) to be a Federal holiday.
According to what my mother told me about her grandfather, Gus would have also been glad to know that a month before the 2020 election, presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke at Gettysburg. Biden pledged to confront the ethno-nationalists as Lincoln had and to not allow "extremists and white supremacists to overturn the America of Lincoln and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass." Gus had lost both his older brother Amadee and his health to the noble cause of defending our fragile democracy from the Confederate traitors.
Gus would have been pleased to learn that in 2019 the state of Maine chose as a new state ballad "The Ballad of The 20th Maine." The song celebrates the famous Civil War regiment from Maine that fought at Gettysburg. Although Gus fought with the 7th New Jersey, it would have pleased him to know that the sacrifices of the brave men at Gettysburg hadn't been forgotten in the state of Maine.
Gus & Tillie are pictured in a crowd at a Civil War reunion they attended in New Jersey.
He married Matilda "Tillie" Bruen on 5 March 1868 in Morris Co., NJ. By 1850, they were listed in the census for Cedar Co., IA under the surname "Forrest." They later moved to Nebraska where they farmed. The photo of the De Forest home was taken on the 5th of July, 1902 near Leigh, NE. Pictured left to right are their son George De Forest, their daughter Lily De Forest, their daughter Lottie De Forest who's seated with the family dog, then Tillie & Gus are to the far right in the picture.
According to his Civil War pension file, he passed away at the home of his daughter Charlotte Galbraith in Lost Springs, Wyoming. My mother Alice told me that she remembered when her grandparents were living there. Gus was dying from bladder cancer. She said that she remembered hearing him pacing back and forth in his bedroom upstairs due to the cancer pain. Her grandmother Tillie told her that the Civil War had ruined his health.
He would have been pleased to know that the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will be removed. When it was installed, the cemetery was segregated. Most people today understand the immorality of slavery. The Confederacy had hoped to install a racial police state.
His parents lived across the street from the Hancock Cemetery in Madison,Morris Co., NJ. It was probably a situation where they lived above his father's broom making shop. In the 1850 Morris Co. census, both his father Reuben De Forest and his older brother Amadee were listed as broommakers. The late Cleave Eimers told me that Reuben's father-in-law John C. Goldberg owned land in Morris Co. where he was growing broom straw.
Charlotte, the mother of Augustus, died of TB when he was about 13. At some point, he was apprenticed to a silversmith, which was the occupation he listed on his records during the Civil War.
In a 15 February 1998 letter from Joseph G. Bilby, who wrote "Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey from Flemington to Appomattox," which was published in 1993: "The New Jersey records indicate that Augustus De Forrest (sic) enlisted as a private in the 7th New Jersey Infantry's Company K on September 15, 1861. He deserted on January 30, 1863 and then returned to duty on May 17, 1863. He reenlisted on January 4, 1864 and was transferred to the 7th's Company C on October 1, 1864. De Forrest (sic) was promoted to corporal on May 1, 1864 and sergeant on April 15, 1865. He was mustered out of the army as a sergeant on July 17, 1865." Desertion in this context just meant that he had become separated from his unit for a short time due to the confusion of combat.
Mr. Bilby also wrote: "The 7th New Jersey was part of the Second New Jersey Brigade and fought in the Army of the Potomac during its entire military career. Augustus would have fought at Williamsburg, 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg, as well as a number of less well known actions."
If Gus & Tillie were living today, they would encourage us to read "How the South Won the Civil War" (2020) by historian Heather Cox Richardson. She explains how Lincoln's VP Andrew Johnson let the Confederate leaders and plantation owners, who started the Civil War to protect slavery, off with just a slap on the wrist. That allowed them to create a system to keep their anti-democratic Confederate ideas alive.
After being in a number of horrific battles to help hold the Union together and abolish slavery, Gus would be pleased to know that in 2021 Pres. Biden declared Juneteenth (June 19th) to be a Federal holiday.
According to what my mother told me about her grandfather, Gus would have also been glad to know that a month before the 2020 election, presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke at Gettysburg. Biden pledged to confront the ethno-nationalists as Lincoln had and to not allow "extremists and white supremacists to overturn the America of Lincoln and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass." Gus had lost both his older brother Amadee and his health to the noble cause of defending our fragile democracy from the Confederate traitors.
Gus would have been pleased to learn that in 2019 the state of Maine chose as a new state ballad "The Ballad of The 20th Maine." The song celebrates the famous Civil War regiment from Maine that fought at Gettysburg. Although Gus fought with the 7th New Jersey, it would have pleased him to know that the sacrifices of the brave men at Gettysburg hadn't been forgotten in the state of Maine.
Gus & Tillie are pictured in a crowd at a Civil War reunion they attended in New Jersey.
He married Matilda "Tillie" Bruen on 5 March 1868 in Morris Co., NJ. By 1850, they were listed in the census for Cedar Co., IA under the surname "Forrest." They later moved to Nebraska where they farmed. The photo of the De Forest home was taken on the 5th of July, 1902 near Leigh, NE. Pictured left to right are their son George De Forest, their daughter Lily De Forest, their daughter Lottie De Forest who's seated with the family dog, then Tillie & Gus are to the far right in the picture.
According to his Civil War pension file, he passed away at the home of his daughter Charlotte Galbraith in Lost Springs, Wyoming. My mother Alice told me that she remembered when her grandparents were living there. Gus was dying from bladder cancer. She said that she remembered hearing him pacing back and forth in his bedroom upstairs due to the cancer pain. Her grandmother Tillie told her that the Civil War had ruined his health.
He would have been pleased to know that the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will be removed. When it was installed, the cemetery was segregated. Most people today understand the immorality of slavery. The Confederacy had hoped to install a racial police state.
Gus attended school in East Madison, Morris County, New Jersey. The school is pictured with a girl standing near the flag pole.
His parents lived across the street from the Hancock Cemetery in Madison,Morris Co., NJ. It was probably a situation where they lived above his father's broom making shop. In the 1850 Morris Co. census, both his father Reuben De Forest and his older brother Amadee were listed as broommakers. The late Cleave Eimers told me that Reuben's father-in-law John C. Goldberg owned land in Morris Co. where he was growing broom straw.
Charlotte, the mother of Augustus, died of TB when he was about 13. At some point, he was apprenticed to a silversmith, which was the occupation he listed on his records during the Civil War.
In a 15 February 1998 letter from Joseph G. Bilby, who wrote "Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey from Flemington to Appomattox," which was published in 1993: "The New Jersey records indicate that Augustus De Forrest (sic) enlisted as a private in the 7th New Jersey Infantry's Company K on September 15, 1861. He deserted on January 30, 1863 and then returned to duty on May 17, 1863. He reenlisted on January 4, 1864 and was transferred to the 7th's Company C on October 1, 1864. De Forrest (sic) was promoted to corporal on May 1, 1864 and sergeant on April 15, 1865. He was mustered out of the army as a sergeant on July 17, 1865." Desertion in this context just meant that he had become separated from his unit for a short time due to the confusion of combat.
Mr. Bilby also wrote: "The 7th New Jersey was part of the Second New Jersey Brigade and fought in the Army of the Potomac during its entire military career. Augustus would have fought at Williamsburg, 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg, as well as a number of less well known actions."
If Gus & Tillie were living today, they would encourage us to read "How the South Won the Civil War" (2020) by historian Heather Cox Richardson. She explains how Lincoln's VP Andrew Johnson let the Confederate leaders and plantation owners, who started the Civil War to protect slavery, off with just a slap on the wrist. That allowed them to create a system to keep their anti-democratic Confederate ideas alive.
After being in a number of horrific battles to help hold the Union together and abolish slavery, Gus would be pleased to know that in 2021 Pres. Biden declared Juneteenth (June 19th) to be a Federal holiday.
According to what my mother told me about her grandfather, Gus would have also been glad to know that a month before the 2020 election, presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke at Gettysburg. Biden pledged to confront the ethno-nationalists as Lincoln had and to not allow "extremists and white supremacists to overturn the America of Lincoln and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass." Gus had lost both his older brother Amadee and his health to the noble cause of defending our fragile democracy from the Confederate traitors.
Gus would have been pleased to learn that in 2019 the state of Maine chose as a new state ballad "The Ballad of The 20th Maine." The song celebrates the famous Civil War regiment from Maine that fought at Gettysburg. Although Gus fought with the 7th New Jersey, it would have pleased him to know that the sacrifices of the brave men at Gettysburg hadn't been forgotten in the state of Maine.
Gus & Tillie are pictured in a crowd at a Civil War reunion they attended in New Jersey.
He married Matilda "Tillie" Bruen on 5 March 1868 in Morris Co., NJ. By 1850, they were listed in the census for Cedar Co., IA under the surname "Forrest." They later moved to Nebraska where they farmed. The photo of the De Forest home was taken on the 5th of July, 1902 near Leigh, NE. Pictured left to right are their son George De Forest, their daughter Lily De Forest, their daughter Lottie De Forest who's seated with the family dog, then Tillie & Gus are to the far right in the picture.
According to his Civil War pension file, he passed away at the home of his daughter Charlotte Galbraith in Lost Springs, Wyoming. My mother Alice told me that she remembered when her grandparents were living there. Gus was dying from bladder cancer. She said that she remembered hearing him pacing back and forth in his bedroom upstairs due to the cancer pain. Her grandmother Tillie told her that the Civil War had ruined his health.
He would have been pleased to know that the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will be removed. When it was installed, the cemetery was segregated. Most people today understand the immorality of slavery. The Confederacy had hoped to install a racial police state.
His parents lived across the street from the Hancock Cemetery in Madison,Morris Co., NJ. It was probably a situation where they lived above his father's broom making shop. In the 1850 Morris Co. census, both his father Reuben De Forest and his older brother Amadee were listed as broommakers. The late Cleave Eimers told me that Reuben's father-in-law John C. Goldberg owned land in Morris Co. where he was growing broom straw.
Charlotte, the mother of Augustus, died of TB when he was about 13. At some point, he was apprenticed to a silversmith, which was the occupation he listed on his records during the Civil War.
In a 15 February 1998 letter from Joseph G. Bilby, who wrote "Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey from Flemington to Appomattox," which was published in 1993: "The New Jersey records indicate that Augustus De Forrest (sic) enlisted as a private in the 7th New Jersey Infantry's Company K on September 15, 1861. He deserted on January 30, 1863 and then returned to duty on May 17, 1863. He reenlisted on January 4, 1864 and was transferred to the 7th's Company C on October 1, 1864. De Forrest (sic) was promoted to corporal on May 1, 1864 and sergeant on April 15, 1865. He was mustered out of the army as a sergeant on July 17, 1865." Desertion in this context just meant that he had become separated from his unit for a short time due to the confusion of combat.
Mr. Bilby also wrote: "The 7th New Jersey was part of the Second New Jersey Brigade and fought in the Army of the Potomac during its entire military career. Augustus would have fought at Williamsburg, 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg, as well as a number of less well known actions."
If Gus & Tillie were living today, they would encourage us to read "How the South Won the Civil War" (2020) by historian Heather Cox Richardson. She explains how Lincoln's VP Andrew Johnson let the Confederate leaders and plantation owners, who started the Civil War to protect slavery, off with just a slap on the wrist. That allowed them to create a system to keep their anti-democratic Confederate ideas alive.
After being in a number of horrific battles to help hold the Union together and abolish slavery, Gus would be pleased to know that in 2021 Pres. Biden declared Juneteenth (June 19th) to be a Federal holiday.
According to what my mother told me about her grandfather, Gus would have also been glad to know that a month before the 2020 election, presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke at Gettysburg. Biden pledged to confront the ethno-nationalists as Lincoln had and to not allow "extremists and white supremacists to overturn the America of Lincoln and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass." Gus had lost both his older brother Amadee and his health to the noble cause of defending our fragile democracy from the Confederate traitors.
Gus would have been pleased to learn that in 2019 the state of Maine chose as a new state ballad "The Ballad of The 20th Maine." The song celebrates the famous Civil War regiment from Maine that fought at Gettysburg. Although Gus fought with the 7th New Jersey, it would have pleased him to know that the sacrifices of the brave men at Gettysburg hadn't been forgotten in the state of Maine.
Gus & Tillie are pictured in a crowd at a Civil War reunion they attended in New Jersey.
He married Matilda "Tillie" Bruen on 5 March 1868 in Morris Co., NJ. By 1850, they were listed in the census for Cedar Co., IA under the surname "Forrest." They later moved to Nebraska where they farmed. The photo of the De Forest home was taken on the 5th of July, 1902 near Leigh, NE. Pictured left to right are their son George De Forest, their daughter Lily De Forest, their daughter Lottie De Forest who's seated with the family dog, then Tillie & Gus are to the far right in the picture.
According to his Civil War pension file, he passed away at the home of his daughter Charlotte Galbraith in Lost Springs, Wyoming. My mother Alice told me that she remembered when her grandparents were living there. Gus was dying from bladder cancer. She said that she remembered hearing him pacing back and forth in his bedroom upstairs due to the cancer pain. Her grandmother Tillie told her that the Civil War had ruined his health.
He would have been pleased to know that the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will be removed. When it was installed, the cemetery was segregated. Most people today understand the immorality of slavery. The Confederacy had hoped to install a racial police state.
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