He died at the Regimental Hospital of "Nervous Fever". His mother, Emily D. Baker, claimed his war pension. (Emily Desdemona Baker, need Spaulding.)
Blue eyes, sandy hair, light complexion, 4'8" tall. Drummer boy. A funeral was held for him at Church of the Epiphany (Anglican), New York City, on 7 Oct 1863. According to the 1855 NY State Census, he was the son of Samuel F and Emily D Baker.
Name: Alonzo F. Baker
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment: 2nd Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Musician
BAKER , ALONZO.—Age, 14 years. Enlisted, January 6, 1863,
at New York City; mustered in as private, Co. B, January 6,
1863, to serve three years; appointed musician, date not stated;
died of disease, October 4, 1863, at Fort Woodbury, Va.
In a newspaper article in 1903, his father would mention that his son (and only child) was a Drummer boy during the Civil War. The parents had been divorced in in 1857, the wife winning for desertion. She'd gone home to Chicago to get the divorce, and he claimed that he ran away to California to hide from her attorney. The father was judged insane in California in 1858 and again in 1876 after shooting a policeman. His spectacular lawsuit (started in 1901) is all over the newspapers. What a piece of work! I find "neither hide nor hair" of the mother following the granting of her son's military pension to her in 1863 (still known as Emily D Baker).
Extract from testimony given during an Appeals trial in the insanity case of Alonzo's father, Samuel F. Baker (1901):
Now, then, your son died in about 186-- what; what was or when was it?
It must have '63 or somewhere about '63.
He went to war as a drummer boy.
Yes, sir.
And died of the fever?
Yes.
Did you attend his funeral?
His body was brought on here.
You mean brought to New York?
Yes.
And where was the funeral?
Oh, the funeral was in North Granville. His mother attended to the funeral.
Did you attend the funeral?
I did not attend the funeral.
And you went there afterwards?
I went there afterwards.
Did you cause the grave to be opened?
Yes.
Why?
Well, until I caused the grave to be opened I did not realize that I had lost my son, and when I realized that he was underground I felt like smothering. I could not endure it so I got the grave opened until I could make arrangements with the sexton to build a vault. That was the way I came to have the grave opened.
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After reading through the rest of his father's testimony, I am sorry to have to link Alonzo with him. The father was a sexual pedophile of the worst sort and everything detestable. Poor Alonzo. Poor Emily.
Blue eyes, sandy hair, light complexion, 4'8" tall. Drummer boy. A funeral was held for him at Church of the Epiphany (Anglican), New York City, on 7 Oct 1863. According to the 1855 NY State Census, he was the son of Samuel F and Emily D Baker.
Name: Alonzo F. Baker
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment: 2nd Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Musician
BAKER , ALONZO.—Age, 14 years. Enlisted, January 6, 1863,
at New York City; mustered in as private, Co. B, January 6,
1863, to serve three years; appointed musician, date not stated;
died of disease, October 4, 1863, at Fort Woodbury, Va.
In a newspaper article in 1903, his father would mention that his son (and only child) was a Drummer boy during the Civil War. The parents had been divorced in in 1857, the wife winning for desertion. She'd gone home to Chicago to get the divorce, and he claimed that he ran away to California to hide from her attorney. The father was judged insane in California in 1858 and again in 1876 after shooting a policeman. His spectacular lawsuit (started in 1901) is all over the newspapers. What a piece of work! I find "neither hide nor hair" of the mother following the granting of her son's military pension to her in 1863 (still known as Emily D Baker).
Extract from testimony given during an Appeals trial in the insanity case of Alonzo's father, Samuel F. Baker (1901):
Now, then, your son died in about 186-- what; what was or when was it?
It must have '63 or somewhere about '63.
He went to war as a drummer boy.
Yes, sir.
And died of the fever?
Yes.
Did you attend his funeral?
His body was brought on here.
You mean brought to New York?
Yes.
And where was the funeral?
Oh, the funeral was in North Granville. His mother attended to the funeral.
Did you attend the funeral?
I did not attend the funeral.
And you went there afterwards?
I went there afterwards.
Did you cause the grave to be opened?
Yes.
Why?
Well, until I caused the grave to be opened I did not realize that I had lost my son, and when I realized that he was underground I felt like smothering. I could not endure it so I got the grave opened until I could make arrangements with the sexton to build a vault. That was the way I came to have the grave opened.
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After reading through the rest of his father's testimony, I am sorry to have to link Alonzo with him. The father was a sexual pedophile of the worst sort and everything detestable. Poor Alonzo. Poor Emily.
He died at the Regimental Hospital of "Nervous Fever". His mother, Emily D. Baker, claimed his war pension. (Emily Desdemona Baker, need Spaulding.)
Blue eyes, sandy hair, light complexion, 4'8" tall. Drummer boy. A funeral was held for him at Church of the Epiphany (Anglican), New York City, on 7 Oct 1863. According to the 1855 NY State Census, he was the son of Samuel F and Emily D Baker.
Name: Alonzo F. Baker
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment: 2nd Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Musician
BAKER , ALONZO.—Age, 14 years. Enlisted, January 6, 1863,
at New York City; mustered in as private, Co. B, January 6,
1863, to serve three years; appointed musician, date not stated;
died of disease, October 4, 1863, at Fort Woodbury, Va.
In a newspaper article in 1903, his father would mention that his son (and only child) was a Drummer boy during the Civil War. The parents had been divorced in in 1857, the wife winning for desertion. She'd gone home to Chicago to get the divorce, and he claimed that he ran away to California to hide from her attorney. The father was judged insane in California in 1858 and again in 1876 after shooting a policeman. His spectacular lawsuit (started in 1901) is all over the newspapers. What a piece of work! I find "neither hide nor hair" of the mother following the granting of her son's military pension to her in 1863 (still known as Emily D Baker).
Extract from testimony given during an Appeals trial in the insanity case of Alonzo's father, Samuel F. Baker (1901):
Now, then, your son died in about 186-- what; what was or when was it?
It must have '63 or somewhere about '63.
He went to war as a drummer boy.
Yes, sir.
And died of the fever?
Yes.
Did you attend his funeral?
His body was brought on here.
You mean brought to New York?
Yes.
And where was the funeral?
Oh, the funeral was in North Granville. His mother attended to the funeral.
Did you attend the funeral?
I did not attend the funeral.
And you went there afterwards?
I went there afterwards.
Did you cause the grave to be opened?
Yes.
Why?
Well, until I caused the grave to be opened I did not realize that I had lost my son, and when I realized that he was underground I felt like smothering. I could not endure it so I got the grave opened until I could make arrangements with the sexton to build a vault. That was the way I came to have the grave opened.
+++++++
After reading through the rest of his father's testimony, I am sorry to have to link Alonzo with him. The father was a sexual pedophile of the worst sort and everything detestable. Poor Alonzo. Poor Emily.
Blue eyes, sandy hair, light complexion, 4'8" tall. Drummer boy. A funeral was held for him at Church of the Epiphany (Anglican), New York City, on 7 Oct 1863. According to the 1855 NY State Census, he was the son of Samuel F and Emily D Baker.
Name: Alonzo F. Baker
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment: 2nd Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Musician
BAKER , ALONZO.—Age, 14 years. Enlisted, January 6, 1863,
at New York City; mustered in as private, Co. B, January 6,
1863, to serve three years; appointed musician, date not stated;
died of disease, October 4, 1863, at Fort Woodbury, Va.
In a newspaper article in 1903, his father would mention that his son (and only child) was a Drummer boy during the Civil War. The parents had been divorced in in 1857, the wife winning for desertion. She'd gone home to Chicago to get the divorce, and he claimed that he ran away to California to hide from her attorney. The father was judged insane in California in 1858 and again in 1876 after shooting a policeman. His spectacular lawsuit (started in 1901) is all over the newspapers. What a piece of work! I find "neither hide nor hair" of the mother following the granting of her son's military pension to her in 1863 (still known as Emily D Baker).
Extract from testimony given during an Appeals trial in the insanity case of Alonzo's father, Samuel F. Baker (1901):
Now, then, your son died in about 186-- what; what was or when was it?
It must have '63 or somewhere about '63.
He went to war as a drummer boy.
Yes, sir.
And died of the fever?
Yes.
Did you attend his funeral?
His body was brought on here.
You mean brought to New York?
Yes.
And where was the funeral?
Oh, the funeral was in North Granville. His mother attended to the funeral.
Did you attend the funeral?
I did not attend the funeral.
And you went there afterwards?
I went there afterwards.
Did you cause the grave to be opened?
Yes.
Why?
Well, until I caused the grave to be opened I did not realize that I had lost my son, and when I realized that he was underground I felt like smothering. I could not endure it so I got the grave opened until I could make arrangements with the sexton to build a vault. That was the way I came to have the grave opened.
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After reading through the rest of his father's testimony, I am sorry to have to link Alonzo with him. The father was a sexual pedophile of the worst sort and everything detestable. Poor Alonzo. Poor Emily.
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