PVT. FRANKLIN CAUBLE
CO C, 42nd NC INFANTRY REGIMENT
SON OF JOSEPH CAUBLE AND NANCY HUDSON CAUBLE.
ENLISTED 28 FEBRUARY 1863, ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC.
SERVED FOR A SHORT TIME AS A MEMBER OF GIBB'S PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA PRISON FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS.
SERVED IN THE BUILDING OF FORTIFICATION AROUND FORT FISHER NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE DEFENSE OF WILMINGTON AND FORT FISHER.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF NEWPORT BARRACKS, A CONFEDERATE VICTORY, BETWEEN NEW BERN AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BERMUDA HUNDRED, VIRGINIA.
CAPTURED COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA ON 3 JUNE 1864.
ARRIVED POINT LOOKOUT PRISON, MD ON 11 JUNE 1864.
TRANSFERRED TO NEWLY OPENED ELMIRA PRISON WHEN ON 15 JULY 1864 HE WAS IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK IN SHOHOLA, PENNSYLVANIA.
DIED 28 OCTOBER 1864 IN ELMIRA PRISON CAMP OF DYSENTERY.
ORIGINALLY BURIED FOR 150 YEARS UNDER INCORRECT NAME OF A FELLOW SOLDIER PVT. FRANKLIN COOPER WHO WAS ALSO IN CO C, 42ND NC UNTIL THE NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION AGREED TO REPLACE HIS HEADSTONE WITH A CORRECTED ONE.
PVT. CAUBLE'S NEW HEADSTONE ARRIVED TO THE WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY ON 28 OCTOBER 2014, EXACTLY 150 YEARS TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
PVT. CAUBLE AND PVT. COOPER ENLISTED IN CO C IN ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC ON THE SAME DAY. THEY BOTH SERVED TOGETHER FOR A SHORT TIME AS PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY PRISON CAMP FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS IN SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NC. THEY WERE BOTH CAPTURED THE SAME DAY, 3 JUNE 1864, AT COLD HARBOR. THEY WERE BOTH SENT TO POINT LOOKOUT PRISON THE SAME DAY AND WERE BOTH TRANSFERRED TO ELMIRA AND WERE IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON THE WAY TO ELMIRA. PVT. CAUBLE DIED BUT PVT. COOPER LIVED AND WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF THE WAR AND RETURNED TO STANLY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE DIED AS AN OLD MAN AFTER RECEIVING A VETERANS PENSION. FRANKLIN COOPER IS BURIED IN THE SILVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, AQUADALE, STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FRANKLIN WAS THE ONLY BROTHER TO PVT. WILLIAM P. CAUBLE, CO F "TROJAN REGULATORS", 44TH NC WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, VIRGINIA, 3 - 6 MAY 1864. WILLIAM DIED OF WOUND IN WINDER #5 CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 30 JULY 1864. WILLIAM IS BURIED IN THE CONFEDERATE SECTION OF THE HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY SECTION V, LOT 682.∼A Confederate Soldier who survived battles to include Cold Harbor and a survivor of the Great Shohola Prison Train Wreck. He only lived through battle and a terrible train wreck to die of dysentery in the Elmira Prison. He was also buried under an incorrect name and lost from his family for almost 150 years.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment, Hoke's Division. Confederate Soldier from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC.
Served in the defense of Wilmington and eastern North Carolina. Served in helping to build defenses at Virginia Creek at Topsail Inlet, Hampstead, Pender County, NC for the defense of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, NC. Fought in the Battle Of Newport Barracks, Nc, Bermuda Hundred And Cold Harbor, Va.
New headstone installed by National Cemetery Administration on 30 Oct 2014, 150 Years and 2 Days after the death of Pvt. Franklin Cauble. He was mistakenly give a headstone with the name Franklin Cooper who was also in Co C, 42nd NC Inf. Reg.
Pvt. Franklin cauble was a prisoner on the train that wrecked on Friday, 15 July 1864 in Shohola, Pennsylvania. There was a heavy loss of Confederate Prisoners and Union Army Guards lives. The wreck is known as "The Famous Shohola Train Wreck".
Thank You Note:
Many thanks to Ray Finger of the Star Gazette, Elmira, Ny for his reporting of the plight of Pvt. Franklin Cauble being buried under the name of someone else. If it were not for the reporting by Ray Finger, Pvt. Franklin Cauble would probably have never had his proper headstone. Many thanks also go to "The Friends Of The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp" for their wonderful support in this matter.
Tom Fagart
Concord, Nc
G-G-Grandson Of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Franklin Cauble was lost to all his family but now he has been found after much time, effort, and research.
Franklin Cauble was lost to his family. As a child, I remember my grandfather Abbie Alexander Cauble of Ansonville, Anson County, NC telling me that his grandfather Cauble was a Confederate soldier, went off to the war and never returned. He did not know what happened to his grandfather or where he may be buried.
After much research, I found Pvt. Franklin Cauble. Even thought my grandfather Abbie Cauble did not know what happened to his grandfather, his grandmother Elizabeth "Eliza" Melton Cauble did know. After the war, Eliza Cauble made application to the state of North Carolina for a Widow's Pension and that application states that her husband died in the Elmira Prison. This knowledge of where Franklin Cauble is located died with Eliza. Franklin was then lost to his descendants.
Buried here is Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Regiment not Pvt. Franklin Cooper of Co C, 42nd NC.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, husband of Eliza Melton Cauble, father of Henrietta A., Joseph Turner, Jane, and William Charles Cauble who is buried at the Bethlehem Cemetery, Ansonville, Anson County, NC.
Prior to the war, Franklin "Frank" Cauble's occupation was a stage driver. At that time, the stage route from Albemarle was 30 miles North to Salisbury, Rowan County, NC and 39 miles West to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC.
Franklin Cauble enlisted 28 Feb 1863 in Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment at Albemarle, Stanly Co., NC. Co C then went to Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC where Company C was mustered in. Company C then spent some time guarding Union prisoners at the Confederate prison in Salisbury. Company C was then moved to Eastern North Carolina where they were engaged with Union forces. In January and February of 1864, Co C, 42nd NC was busy building fortification north of Wilmington along the NC coast at Virginia Creek, now Hampstead, now in Pender County, for the northern most defense of Fort Fisher. The 42nd was pulled out of this work and sent north to be engaged at Newport Barracks. Later they were moved to served in the defense of Richmond, VA. Franklin was captured 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va and was then sent to Point Lookout, MD and then on to Elmira Prison, Elmira, NY. There he died of dysentery and was buried in plot # 718 but mistakenly buried under the name of Pvt. Franklin Cooper.
Pvt. Franklin Cooper, also of Co C, 42nd NC was born 22 Apr 1844 and died 2 Oct 1924. Franklin Cooper and Franklin Cauble were both in Co C, 42nd NC, from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC. Both men enlisted the same day in Albemarle, NC. Both men marched off for Salisbury, NC were they mustered in. Both men served in numerous battles together and were captured at Cold Harbor, Va on July 3rd. After capture, both men were sent to the Union prison at Point Lookout, MD arriving on June 11th.
THE GREAT SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON 15 JULY 1864:
Both men were transferred to the Elmira Union prison in Elmira, NY on July 12th. Both men were on the prison train bound for Elmira, NY that wrecked on July 15th in Shohola, PA. The wreck killing at least 51 Confederate prisoners and 17 Union Army guards. There were 833 Confederate prisoners and 128 Union Army guards on 18 cars being pulled by NO 171 engine. Both men survived the wreck and arrived late to Elmira Prison on 17 July 1864. Both men suffered through the terrible conditions at Elmira, called "Hellmira" at that time.
The terrible living conditions at Elmira took is's toll on Franklin Cauble and he died of dysentery and was buried under the name of Franklin Cooper. He is buried along with more than 2,900 other Confederate soldiers. Franklin Cooper survived the living conditions in the Elmira Prison Camp and was paroled from Elmira at the end of the war after taking the "Oath of Allegiance". He then returned to Stanly County, NC where he lived to be an old man. Frank Cooper in his older years applied for a veterans pension and received it. Frank Cooper is buried at Silver Spring Baptist Church, Aquadale, Stanly County, NC. See Find A Grave memorial #48342765 for further information and photo of Frank Cooper's grave marker in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Contact has been made with the Veterans Administration administrators at the Woodlawn National Cemetery. An effort was made to get the VA to correct this name error. This effort met with no success. The VA says that the Confederate markers are historical markers, over 50 years old, and no changes will be made to correct errors.
To all of those who read this bio for Franklin Cauble, please remember his name so that he may be given at least a little respect for the sacrifice he made. No one wants to be forgotten and I know that Franklin Cauble will bless you for your thoughts of him even thought he is buried under an incorrect name.
Blessings to all who remember Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment.
Brother to Pvt. William P. Cauble, Co F "Trojan Regulators" from Troy, Montgomery County, NC., 44th NC Regiment. William was severely wounded in The Battle of The Wilderness, VA. He died of wounds in the Winder #5 Confederate Hospital, Richmond, Va on 30 Jul 1864. He is buried in the Confederate Section of the Hollywood Cemetery, Section V, Plot 682, Richmond, VA.
Tom Fagart
Great Great Grandson of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Concord, NC
CO C, 42nd NC INFANTRY REGIMENT
SON OF JOSEPH CAUBLE AND NANCY HUDSON CAUBLE.
ENLISTED 28 FEBRUARY 1863, ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC.
SERVED FOR A SHORT TIME AS A MEMBER OF GIBB'S PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA PRISON FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS.
SERVED IN THE BUILDING OF FORTIFICATION AROUND FORT FISHER NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE DEFENSE OF WILMINGTON AND FORT FISHER.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF NEWPORT BARRACKS, A CONFEDERATE VICTORY, BETWEEN NEW BERN AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BERMUDA HUNDRED, VIRGINIA.
CAPTURED COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA ON 3 JUNE 1864.
ARRIVED POINT LOOKOUT PRISON, MD ON 11 JUNE 1864.
TRANSFERRED TO NEWLY OPENED ELMIRA PRISON WHEN ON 15 JULY 1864 HE WAS IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK IN SHOHOLA, PENNSYLVANIA.
DIED 28 OCTOBER 1864 IN ELMIRA PRISON CAMP OF DYSENTERY.
ORIGINALLY BURIED FOR 150 YEARS UNDER INCORRECT NAME OF A FELLOW SOLDIER PVT. FRANKLIN COOPER WHO WAS ALSO IN CO C, 42ND NC UNTIL THE NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION AGREED TO REPLACE HIS HEADSTONE WITH A CORRECTED ONE.
PVT. CAUBLE'S NEW HEADSTONE ARRIVED TO THE WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY ON 28 OCTOBER 2014, EXACTLY 150 YEARS TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
PVT. CAUBLE AND PVT. COOPER ENLISTED IN CO C IN ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC ON THE SAME DAY. THEY BOTH SERVED TOGETHER FOR A SHORT TIME AS PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY PRISON CAMP FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS IN SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NC. THEY WERE BOTH CAPTURED THE SAME DAY, 3 JUNE 1864, AT COLD HARBOR. THEY WERE BOTH SENT TO POINT LOOKOUT PRISON THE SAME DAY AND WERE BOTH TRANSFERRED TO ELMIRA AND WERE IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON THE WAY TO ELMIRA. PVT. CAUBLE DIED BUT PVT. COOPER LIVED AND WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF THE WAR AND RETURNED TO STANLY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE DIED AS AN OLD MAN AFTER RECEIVING A VETERANS PENSION. FRANKLIN COOPER IS BURIED IN THE SILVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, AQUADALE, STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FRANKLIN WAS THE ONLY BROTHER TO PVT. WILLIAM P. CAUBLE, CO F "TROJAN REGULATORS", 44TH NC WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, VIRGINIA, 3 - 6 MAY 1864. WILLIAM DIED OF WOUND IN WINDER #5 CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 30 JULY 1864. WILLIAM IS BURIED IN THE CONFEDERATE SECTION OF THE HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY SECTION V, LOT 682.∼A Confederate Soldier who survived battles to include Cold Harbor and a survivor of the Great Shohola Prison Train Wreck. He only lived through battle and a terrible train wreck to die of dysentery in the Elmira Prison. He was also buried under an incorrect name and lost from his family for almost 150 years.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment, Hoke's Division. Confederate Soldier from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC.
Served in the defense of Wilmington and eastern North Carolina. Served in helping to build defenses at Virginia Creek at Topsail Inlet, Hampstead, Pender County, NC for the defense of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, NC. Fought in the Battle Of Newport Barracks, Nc, Bermuda Hundred And Cold Harbor, Va.
New headstone installed by National Cemetery Administration on 30 Oct 2014, 150 Years and 2 Days after the death of Pvt. Franklin Cauble. He was mistakenly give a headstone with the name Franklin Cooper who was also in Co C, 42nd NC Inf. Reg.
Pvt. Franklin cauble was a prisoner on the train that wrecked on Friday, 15 July 1864 in Shohola, Pennsylvania. There was a heavy loss of Confederate Prisoners and Union Army Guards lives. The wreck is known as "The Famous Shohola Train Wreck".
Thank You Note:
Many thanks to Ray Finger of the Star Gazette, Elmira, Ny for his reporting of the plight of Pvt. Franklin Cauble being buried under the name of someone else. If it were not for the reporting by Ray Finger, Pvt. Franklin Cauble would probably have never had his proper headstone. Many thanks also go to "The Friends Of The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp" for their wonderful support in this matter.
Tom Fagart
Concord, Nc
G-G-Grandson Of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Franklin Cauble was lost to all his family but now he has been found after much time, effort, and research.
Franklin Cauble was lost to his family. As a child, I remember my grandfather Abbie Alexander Cauble of Ansonville, Anson County, NC telling me that his grandfather Cauble was a Confederate soldier, went off to the war and never returned. He did not know what happened to his grandfather or where he may be buried.
After much research, I found Pvt. Franklin Cauble. Even thought my grandfather Abbie Cauble did not know what happened to his grandfather, his grandmother Elizabeth "Eliza" Melton Cauble did know. After the war, Eliza Cauble made application to the state of North Carolina for a Widow's Pension and that application states that her husband died in the Elmira Prison. This knowledge of where Franklin Cauble is located died with Eliza. Franklin was then lost to his descendants.
Buried here is Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Regiment not Pvt. Franklin Cooper of Co C, 42nd NC.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, husband of Eliza Melton Cauble, father of Henrietta A., Joseph Turner, Jane, and William Charles Cauble who is buried at the Bethlehem Cemetery, Ansonville, Anson County, NC.
Prior to the war, Franklin "Frank" Cauble's occupation was a stage driver. At that time, the stage route from Albemarle was 30 miles North to Salisbury, Rowan County, NC and 39 miles West to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC.
Franklin Cauble enlisted 28 Feb 1863 in Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment at Albemarle, Stanly Co., NC. Co C then went to Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC where Company C was mustered in. Company C then spent some time guarding Union prisoners at the Confederate prison in Salisbury. Company C was then moved to Eastern North Carolina where they were engaged with Union forces. In January and February of 1864, Co C, 42nd NC was busy building fortification north of Wilmington along the NC coast at Virginia Creek, now Hampstead, now in Pender County, for the northern most defense of Fort Fisher. The 42nd was pulled out of this work and sent north to be engaged at Newport Barracks. Later they were moved to served in the defense of Richmond, VA. Franklin was captured 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va and was then sent to Point Lookout, MD and then on to Elmira Prison, Elmira, NY. There he died of dysentery and was buried in plot # 718 but mistakenly buried under the name of Pvt. Franklin Cooper.
Pvt. Franklin Cooper, also of Co C, 42nd NC was born 22 Apr 1844 and died 2 Oct 1924. Franklin Cooper and Franklin Cauble were both in Co C, 42nd NC, from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC. Both men enlisted the same day in Albemarle, NC. Both men marched off for Salisbury, NC were they mustered in. Both men served in numerous battles together and were captured at Cold Harbor, Va on July 3rd. After capture, both men were sent to the Union prison at Point Lookout, MD arriving on June 11th.
THE GREAT SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON 15 JULY 1864:
Both men were transferred to the Elmira Union prison in Elmira, NY on July 12th. Both men were on the prison train bound for Elmira, NY that wrecked on July 15th in Shohola, PA. The wreck killing at least 51 Confederate prisoners and 17 Union Army guards. There were 833 Confederate prisoners and 128 Union Army guards on 18 cars being pulled by NO 171 engine. Both men survived the wreck and arrived late to Elmira Prison on 17 July 1864. Both men suffered through the terrible conditions at Elmira, called "Hellmira" at that time.
The terrible living conditions at Elmira took is's toll on Franklin Cauble and he died of dysentery and was buried under the name of Franklin Cooper. He is buried along with more than 2,900 other Confederate soldiers. Franklin Cooper survived the living conditions in the Elmira Prison Camp and was paroled from Elmira at the end of the war after taking the "Oath of Allegiance". He then returned to Stanly County, NC where he lived to be an old man. Frank Cooper in his older years applied for a veterans pension and received it. Frank Cooper is buried at Silver Spring Baptist Church, Aquadale, Stanly County, NC. See Find A Grave memorial #48342765 for further information and photo of Frank Cooper's grave marker in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Contact has been made with the Veterans Administration administrators at the Woodlawn National Cemetery. An effort was made to get the VA to correct this name error. This effort met with no success. The VA says that the Confederate markers are historical markers, over 50 years old, and no changes will be made to correct errors.
To all of those who read this bio for Franklin Cauble, please remember his name so that he may be given at least a little respect for the sacrifice he made. No one wants to be forgotten and I know that Franklin Cauble will bless you for your thoughts of him even thought he is buried under an incorrect name.
Blessings to all who remember Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment.
Brother to Pvt. William P. Cauble, Co F "Trojan Regulators" from Troy, Montgomery County, NC., 44th NC Regiment. William was severely wounded in The Battle of The Wilderness, VA. He died of wounds in the Winder #5 Confederate Hospital, Richmond, Va on 30 Jul 1864. He is buried in the Confederate Section of the Hollywood Cemetery, Section V, Plot 682, Richmond, VA.
Tom Fagart
Great Great Grandson of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Concord, NC
PVT. FRANKLIN CAUBLE
CO C, 42nd NC INFANTRY REGIMENT
SON OF JOSEPH CAUBLE AND NANCY HUDSON CAUBLE.
ENLISTED 28 FEBRUARY 1863, ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC.
SERVED FOR A SHORT TIME AS A MEMBER OF GIBB'S PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA PRISON FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS.
SERVED IN THE BUILDING OF FORTIFICATION AROUND FORT FISHER NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE DEFENSE OF WILMINGTON AND FORT FISHER.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF NEWPORT BARRACKS, A CONFEDERATE VICTORY, BETWEEN NEW BERN AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BERMUDA HUNDRED, VIRGINIA.
CAPTURED COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA ON 3 JUNE 1864.
ARRIVED POINT LOOKOUT PRISON, MD ON 11 JUNE 1864.
TRANSFERRED TO NEWLY OPENED ELMIRA PRISON WHEN ON 15 JULY 1864 HE WAS IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK IN SHOHOLA, PENNSYLVANIA.
DIED 28 OCTOBER 1864 IN ELMIRA PRISON CAMP OF DYSENTERY.
ORIGINALLY BURIED FOR 150 YEARS UNDER INCORRECT NAME OF A FELLOW SOLDIER PVT. FRANKLIN COOPER WHO WAS ALSO IN CO C, 42ND NC UNTIL THE NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION AGREED TO REPLACE HIS HEADSTONE WITH A CORRECTED ONE.
PVT. CAUBLE'S NEW HEADSTONE ARRIVED TO THE WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY ON 28 OCTOBER 2014, EXACTLY 150 YEARS TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
PVT. CAUBLE AND PVT. COOPER ENLISTED IN CO C IN ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC ON THE SAME DAY. THEY BOTH SERVED TOGETHER FOR A SHORT TIME AS PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY PRISON CAMP FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS IN SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NC. THEY WERE BOTH CAPTURED THE SAME DAY, 3 JUNE 1864, AT COLD HARBOR. THEY WERE BOTH SENT TO POINT LOOKOUT PRISON THE SAME DAY AND WERE BOTH TRANSFERRED TO ELMIRA AND WERE IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON THE WAY TO ELMIRA. PVT. CAUBLE DIED BUT PVT. COOPER LIVED AND WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF THE WAR AND RETURNED TO STANLY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE DIED AS AN OLD MAN AFTER RECEIVING A VETERANS PENSION. FRANKLIN COOPER IS BURIED IN THE SILVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, AQUADALE, STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FRANKLIN WAS THE ONLY BROTHER TO PVT. WILLIAM P. CAUBLE, CO F "TROJAN REGULATORS", 44TH NC WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, VIRGINIA, 3 - 6 MAY 1864. WILLIAM DIED OF WOUND IN WINDER #5 CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 30 JULY 1864. WILLIAM IS BURIED IN THE CONFEDERATE SECTION OF THE HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY SECTION V, LOT 682.∼A Confederate Soldier who survived battles to include Cold Harbor and a survivor of the Great Shohola Prison Train Wreck. He only lived through battle and a terrible train wreck to die of dysentery in the Elmira Prison. He was also buried under an incorrect name and lost from his family for almost 150 years.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment, Hoke's Division. Confederate Soldier from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC.
Served in the defense of Wilmington and eastern North Carolina. Served in helping to build defenses at Virginia Creek at Topsail Inlet, Hampstead, Pender County, NC for the defense of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, NC. Fought in the Battle Of Newport Barracks, Nc, Bermuda Hundred And Cold Harbor, Va.
New headstone installed by National Cemetery Administration on 30 Oct 2014, 150 Years and 2 Days after the death of Pvt. Franklin Cauble. He was mistakenly give a headstone with the name Franklin Cooper who was also in Co C, 42nd NC Inf. Reg.
Pvt. Franklin cauble was a prisoner on the train that wrecked on Friday, 15 July 1864 in Shohola, Pennsylvania. There was a heavy loss of Confederate Prisoners and Union Army Guards lives. The wreck is known as "The Famous Shohola Train Wreck".
Thank You Note:
Many thanks to Ray Finger of the Star Gazette, Elmira, Ny for his reporting of the plight of Pvt. Franklin Cauble being buried under the name of someone else. If it were not for the reporting by Ray Finger, Pvt. Franklin Cauble would probably have never had his proper headstone. Many thanks also go to "The Friends Of The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp" for their wonderful support in this matter.
Tom Fagart
Concord, Nc
G-G-Grandson Of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Franklin Cauble was lost to all his family but now he has been found after much time, effort, and research.
Franklin Cauble was lost to his family. As a child, I remember my grandfather Abbie Alexander Cauble of Ansonville, Anson County, NC telling me that his grandfather Cauble was a Confederate soldier, went off to the war and never returned. He did not know what happened to his grandfather or where he may be buried.
After much research, I found Pvt. Franklin Cauble. Even thought my grandfather Abbie Cauble did not know what happened to his grandfather, his grandmother Elizabeth "Eliza" Melton Cauble did know. After the war, Eliza Cauble made application to the state of North Carolina for a Widow's Pension and that application states that her husband died in the Elmira Prison. This knowledge of where Franklin Cauble is located died with Eliza. Franklin was then lost to his descendants.
Buried here is Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Regiment not Pvt. Franklin Cooper of Co C, 42nd NC.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, husband of Eliza Melton Cauble, father of Henrietta A., Joseph Turner, Jane, and William Charles Cauble who is buried at the Bethlehem Cemetery, Ansonville, Anson County, NC.
Prior to the war, Franklin "Frank" Cauble's occupation was a stage driver. At that time, the stage route from Albemarle was 30 miles North to Salisbury, Rowan County, NC and 39 miles West to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC.
Franklin Cauble enlisted 28 Feb 1863 in Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment at Albemarle, Stanly Co., NC. Co C then went to Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC where Company C was mustered in. Company C then spent some time guarding Union prisoners at the Confederate prison in Salisbury. Company C was then moved to Eastern North Carolina where they were engaged with Union forces. In January and February of 1864, Co C, 42nd NC was busy building fortification north of Wilmington along the NC coast at Virginia Creek, now Hampstead, now in Pender County, for the northern most defense of Fort Fisher. The 42nd was pulled out of this work and sent north to be engaged at Newport Barracks. Later they were moved to served in the defense of Richmond, VA. Franklin was captured 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va and was then sent to Point Lookout, MD and then on to Elmira Prison, Elmira, NY. There he died of dysentery and was buried in plot # 718 but mistakenly buried under the name of Pvt. Franklin Cooper.
Pvt. Franklin Cooper, also of Co C, 42nd NC was born 22 Apr 1844 and died 2 Oct 1924. Franklin Cooper and Franklin Cauble were both in Co C, 42nd NC, from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC. Both men enlisted the same day in Albemarle, NC. Both men marched off for Salisbury, NC were they mustered in. Both men served in numerous battles together and were captured at Cold Harbor, Va on July 3rd. After capture, both men were sent to the Union prison at Point Lookout, MD arriving on June 11th.
THE GREAT SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON 15 JULY 1864:
Both men were transferred to the Elmira Union prison in Elmira, NY on July 12th. Both men were on the prison train bound for Elmira, NY that wrecked on July 15th in Shohola, PA. The wreck killing at least 51 Confederate prisoners and 17 Union Army guards. There were 833 Confederate prisoners and 128 Union Army guards on 18 cars being pulled by NO 171 engine. Both men survived the wreck and arrived late to Elmira Prison on 17 July 1864. Both men suffered through the terrible conditions at Elmira, called "Hellmira" at that time.
The terrible living conditions at Elmira took is's toll on Franklin Cauble and he died of dysentery and was buried under the name of Franklin Cooper. He is buried along with more than 2,900 other Confederate soldiers. Franklin Cooper survived the living conditions in the Elmira Prison Camp and was paroled from Elmira at the end of the war after taking the "Oath of Allegiance". He then returned to Stanly County, NC where he lived to be an old man. Frank Cooper in his older years applied for a veterans pension and received it. Frank Cooper is buried at Silver Spring Baptist Church, Aquadale, Stanly County, NC. See Find A Grave memorial #48342765 for further information and photo of Frank Cooper's grave marker in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Contact has been made with the Veterans Administration administrators at the Woodlawn National Cemetery. An effort was made to get the VA to correct this name error. This effort met with no success. The VA says that the Confederate markers are historical markers, over 50 years old, and no changes will be made to correct errors.
To all of those who read this bio for Franklin Cauble, please remember his name so that he may be given at least a little respect for the sacrifice he made. No one wants to be forgotten and I know that Franklin Cauble will bless you for your thoughts of him even thought he is buried under an incorrect name.
Blessings to all who remember Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment.
Brother to Pvt. William P. Cauble, Co F "Trojan Regulators" from Troy, Montgomery County, NC., 44th NC Regiment. William was severely wounded in The Battle of The Wilderness, VA. He died of wounds in the Winder #5 Confederate Hospital, Richmond, Va on 30 Jul 1864. He is buried in the Confederate Section of the Hollywood Cemetery, Section V, Plot 682, Richmond, VA.
Tom Fagart
Great Great Grandson of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Concord, NC
CO C, 42nd NC INFANTRY REGIMENT
SON OF JOSEPH CAUBLE AND NANCY HUDSON CAUBLE.
ENLISTED 28 FEBRUARY 1863, ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC.
SERVED FOR A SHORT TIME AS A MEMBER OF GIBB'S PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA PRISON FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS.
SERVED IN THE BUILDING OF FORTIFICATION AROUND FORT FISHER NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE DEFENSE OF WILMINGTON AND FORT FISHER.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF NEWPORT BARRACKS, A CONFEDERATE VICTORY, BETWEEN NEW BERN AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BERMUDA HUNDRED, VIRGINIA.
CAPTURED COLD HARBOR, VIRGINIA ON 3 JUNE 1864.
ARRIVED POINT LOOKOUT PRISON, MD ON 11 JUNE 1864.
TRANSFERRED TO NEWLY OPENED ELMIRA PRISON WHEN ON 15 JULY 1864 HE WAS IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK IN SHOHOLA, PENNSYLVANIA.
DIED 28 OCTOBER 1864 IN ELMIRA PRISON CAMP OF DYSENTERY.
ORIGINALLY BURIED FOR 150 YEARS UNDER INCORRECT NAME OF A FELLOW SOLDIER PVT. FRANKLIN COOPER WHO WAS ALSO IN CO C, 42ND NC UNTIL THE NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION AGREED TO REPLACE HIS HEADSTONE WITH A CORRECTED ONE.
PVT. CAUBLE'S NEW HEADSTONE ARRIVED TO THE WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY ON 28 OCTOBER 2014, EXACTLY 150 YEARS TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.
PVT. CAUBLE AND PVT. COOPER ENLISTED IN CO C IN ALBEMARLE, STANLY COUNTY, NC ON THE SAME DAY. THEY BOTH SERVED TOGETHER FOR A SHORT TIME AS PRISON GUARDS AT THE SALISBURY PRISON CAMP FOR UNION SOLDIERS AND CONFEDERATE DESERTERS IN SALISBURY, ROWAN COUNTY, NC. THEY WERE BOTH CAPTURED THE SAME DAY, 3 JUNE 1864, AT COLD HARBOR. THEY WERE BOTH SENT TO POINT LOOKOUT PRISON THE SAME DAY AND WERE BOTH TRANSFERRED TO ELMIRA AND WERE IN THE SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON THE WAY TO ELMIRA. PVT. CAUBLE DIED BUT PVT. COOPER LIVED AND WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF THE WAR AND RETURNED TO STANLY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE DIED AS AN OLD MAN AFTER RECEIVING A VETERANS PENSION. FRANKLIN COOPER IS BURIED IN THE SILVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, AQUADALE, STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
FRANKLIN WAS THE ONLY BROTHER TO PVT. WILLIAM P. CAUBLE, CO F "TROJAN REGULATORS", 44TH NC WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, VIRGINIA, 3 - 6 MAY 1864. WILLIAM DIED OF WOUND IN WINDER #5 CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 30 JULY 1864. WILLIAM IS BURIED IN THE CONFEDERATE SECTION OF THE HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY SECTION V, LOT 682.∼A Confederate Soldier who survived battles to include Cold Harbor and a survivor of the Great Shohola Prison Train Wreck. He only lived through battle and a terrible train wreck to die of dysentery in the Elmira Prison. He was also buried under an incorrect name and lost from his family for almost 150 years.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment, Hoke's Division. Confederate Soldier from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC.
Served in the defense of Wilmington and eastern North Carolina. Served in helping to build defenses at Virginia Creek at Topsail Inlet, Hampstead, Pender County, NC for the defense of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, NC. Fought in the Battle Of Newport Barracks, Nc, Bermuda Hundred And Cold Harbor, Va.
New headstone installed by National Cemetery Administration on 30 Oct 2014, 150 Years and 2 Days after the death of Pvt. Franklin Cauble. He was mistakenly give a headstone with the name Franklin Cooper who was also in Co C, 42nd NC Inf. Reg.
Pvt. Franklin cauble was a prisoner on the train that wrecked on Friday, 15 July 1864 in Shohola, Pennsylvania. There was a heavy loss of Confederate Prisoners and Union Army Guards lives. The wreck is known as "The Famous Shohola Train Wreck".
Thank You Note:
Many thanks to Ray Finger of the Star Gazette, Elmira, Ny for his reporting of the plight of Pvt. Franklin Cauble being buried under the name of someone else. If it were not for the reporting by Ray Finger, Pvt. Franklin Cauble would probably have never had his proper headstone. Many thanks also go to "The Friends Of The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp" for their wonderful support in this matter.
Tom Fagart
Concord, Nc
G-G-Grandson Of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Franklin Cauble was lost to all his family but now he has been found after much time, effort, and research.
Franklin Cauble was lost to his family. As a child, I remember my grandfather Abbie Alexander Cauble of Ansonville, Anson County, NC telling me that his grandfather Cauble was a Confederate soldier, went off to the war and never returned. He did not know what happened to his grandfather or where he may be buried.
After much research, I found Pvt. Franklin Cauble. Even thought my grandfather Abbie Cauble did not know what happened to his grandfather, his grandmother Elizabeth "Eliza" Melton Cauble did know. After the war, Eliza Cauble made application to the state of North Carolina for a Widow's Pension and that application states that her husband died in the Elmira Prison. This knowledge of where Franklin Cauble is located died with Eliza. Franklin was then lost to his descendants.
Buried here is Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Regiment not Pvt. Franklin Cooper of Co C, 42nd NC.
Pvt. Franklin Cauble, husband of Eliza Melton Cauble, father of Henrietta A., Joseph Turner, Jane, and William Charles Cauble who is buried at the Bethlehem Cemetery, Ansonville, Anson County, NC.
Prior to the war, Franklin "Frank" Cauble's occupation was a stage driver. At that time, the stage route from Albemarle was 30 miles North to Salisbury, Rowan County, NC and 39 miles West to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC.
Franklin Cauble enlisted 28 Feb 1863 in Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment at Albemarle, Stanly Co., NC. Co C then went to Salisbury, Rowan Co., NC where Company C was mustered in. Company C then spent some time guarding Union prisoners at the Confederate prison in Salisbury. Company C was then moved to Eastern North Carolina where they were engaged with Union forces. In January and February of 1864, Co C, 42nd NC was busy building fortification north of Wilmington along the NC coast at Virginia Creek, now Hampstead, now in Pender County, for the northern most defense of Fort Fisher. The 42nd was pulled out of this work and sent north to be engaged at Newport Barracks. Later they were moved to served in the defense of Richmond, VA. Franklin was captured 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, Va and was then sent to Point Lookout, MD and then on to Elmira Prison, Elmira, NY. There he died of dysentery and was buried in plot # 718 but mistakenly buried under the name of Pvt. Franklin Cooper.
Pvt. Franklin Cooper, also of Co C, 42nd NC was born 22 Apr 1844 and died 2 Oct 1924. Franklin Cooper and Franklin Cauble were both in Co C, 42nd NC, from Albemarle, Stanly County, NC. Both men enlisted the same day in Albemarle, NC. Both men marched off for Salisbury, NC were they mustered in. Both men served in numerous battles together and were captured at Cold Harbor, Va on July 3rd. After capture, both men were sent to the Union prison at Point Lookout, MD arriving on June 11th.
THE GREAT SHOHOLA PRISON TRAIN WRECK ON 15 JULY 1864:
Both men were transferred to the Elmira Union prison in Elmira, NY on July 12th. Both men were on the prison train bound for Elmira, NY that wrecked on July 15th in Shohola, PA. The wreck killing at least 51 Confederate prisoners and 17 Union Army guards. There were 833 Confederate prisoners and 128 Union Army guards on 18 cars being pulled by NO 171 engine. Both men survived the wreck and arrived late to Elmira Prison on 17 July 1864. Both men suffered through the terrible conditions at Elmira, called "Hellmira" at that time.
The terrible living conditions at Elmira took is's toll on Franklin Cauble and he died of dysentery and was buried under the name of Franklin Cooper. He is buried along with more than 2,900 other Confederate soldiers. Franklin Cooper survived the living conditions in the Elmira Prison Camp and was paroled from Elmira at the end of the war after taking the "Oath of Allegiance". He then returned to Stanly County, NC where he lived to be an old man. Frank Cooper in his older years applied for a veterans pension and received it. Frank Cooper is buried at Silver Spring Baptist Church, Aquadale, Stanly County, NC. See Find A Grave memorial #48342765 for further information and photo of Frank Cooper's grave marker in Stanly County, North Carolina.
Contact has been made with the Veterans Administration administrators at the Woodlawn National Cemetery. An effort was made to get the VA to correct this name error. This effort met with no success. The VA says that the Confederate markers are historical markers, over 50 years old, and no changes will be made to correct errors.
To all of those who read this bio for Franklin Cauble, please remember his name so that he may be given at least a little respect for the sacrifice he made. No one wants to be forgotten and I know that Franklin Cauble will bless you for your thoughts of him even thought he is buried under an incorrect name.
Blessings to all who remember Pvt. Franklin Cauble of Co C, 42nd NC Infantry Regiment.
Brother to Pvt. William P. Cauble, Co F "Trojan Regulators" from Troy, Montgomery County, NC., 44th NC Regiment. William was severely wounded in The Battle of The Wilderness, VA. He died of wounds in the Winder #5 Confederate Hospital, Richmond, Va on 30 Jul 1864. He is buried in the Confederate Section of the Hollywood Cemetery, Section V, Plot 682, Richmond, VA.
Tom Fagart
Great Great Grandson of Pvt. Franklin Cauble
Concord, NC
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