CORPORAL CO D 8TH CAVALRY. Entered service on Sept. 15, 1861. He was mustered in on Nov. 23rd, that same year.
The regiment was organized at Rochester, New York and left the state on Nov. 29 for Washington, D.C. He served in the defenses of Washington until March of 1962, when he was assigned to Bank's Corps, Department of Shenandoah. From June of 1862 he was in the Middle Department, 8th Corps. In August of 1862 he was assigned to the 5th Battalion, Pleasant's Department of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, and on Dec. 1, to the 1st Battalion, same department.
He was in various operations in Virginia and during the siege of Harper's Ferry (Sept. 12-14, 1862), escaped with the regiment on the evening of Sept. 15th, thru Confederate lines, and on the way, captured and destroyed Longstreet's baggage train.
He joined McClelland at Sharpsburg, participated in the Maryland campaign, thence moved in pursuit of Rebel forces to Poolville, Maryland, and from there to various operations in Virginia.
Severely wounded Nov 5 1862 at Barbee's Crossroads, VA. Sent to the hospital at Alexandria, VA, then to New York on Dec. 9. Honorably discharged on Jan. 13, 1863, at Ft. Schuyler, New York, on surgeon's certificate of disability.
Compiled from military records by Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
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Married first in 1872 to Adelaide Severance Harding, the widow of William Harding. She died in 1893.
They were the parents of Albert Lehman Brooks, born in 1874 in New York; also of Fannie and Harry Brooks, who died in infancy.
Married second in 1897 to Jennie Goodsell. She died in 1929. They had no children.
Albert's son, Albert Lehman died in 1942 in Maple Heights, Ohio. He was married to Alice Grace Hemstreet in 1899. She died in 1963 in Topeka, Kansas, where she lived with their son, Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
L.E. Brooks, Sr. and his wife, Dorothea Grace Carter also had one son, my father, L.E. Brooks, Jr.
Alice Hemstreet Brooks, L.E. Brooks, Sr. & Dorothea Brooks, and L.E. Brooks, Jr., are buried in Topeka at Mount Hope Cemetery.
The regiment was organized at Rochester, New York and left the state on Nov. 29 for Washington, D.C. He served in the defenses of Washington until March of 1962, when he was assigned to Bank's Corps, Department of Shenandoah. From June of 1862 he was in the Middle Department, 8th Corps. In August of 1862 he was assigned to the 5th Battalion, Pleasant's Department of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, and on Dec. 1, to the 1st Battalion, same department.
He was in various operations in Virginia and during the siege of Harper's Ferry (Sept. 12-14, 1862), escaped with the regiment on the evening of Sept. 15th, thru Confederate lines, and on the way, captured and destroyed Longstreet's baggage train.
He joined McClelland at Sharpsburg, participated in the Maryland campaign, thence moved in pursuit of Rebel forces to Poolville, Maryland, and from there to various operations in Virginia.
Severely wounded Nov 5 1862 at Barbee's Crossroads, VA. Sent to the hospital at Alexandria, VA, then to New York on Dec. 9. Honorably discharged on Jan. 13, 1863, at Ft. Schuyler, New York, on surgeon's certificate of disability.
Compiled from military records by Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
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Married first in 1872 to Adelaide Severance Harding, the widow of William Harding. She died in 1893.
They were the parents of Albert Lehman Brooks, born in 1874 in New York; also of Fannie and Harry Brooks, who died in infancy.
Married second in 1897 to Jennie Goodsell. She died in 1929. They had no children.
Albert's son, Albert Lehman died in 1942 in Maple Heights, Ohio. He was married to Alice Grace Hemstreet in 1899. She died in 1963 in Topeka, Kansas, where she lived with their son, Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
L.E. Brooks, Sr. and his wife, Dorothea Grace Carter also had one son, my father, L.E. Brooks, Jr.
Alice Hemstreet Brooks, L.E. Brooks, Sr. & Dorothea Brooks, and L.E. Brooks, Jr., are buried in Topeka at Mount Hope Cemetery.
CORPORAL CO D 8TH CAVALRY. Entered service on Sept. 15, 1861. He was mustered in on Nov. 23rd, that same year.
The regiment was organized at Rochester, New York and left the state on Nov. 29 for Washington, D.C. He served in the defenses of Washington until March of 1962, when he was assigned to Bank's Corps, Department of Shenandoah. From June of 1862 he was in the Middle Department, 8th Corps. In August of 1862 he was assigned to the 5th Battalion, Pleasant's Department of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, and on Dec. 1, to the 1st Battalion, same department.
He was in various operations in Virginia and during the siege of Harper's Ferry (Sept. 12-14, 1862), escaped with the regiment on the evening of Sept. 15th, thru Confederate lines, and on the way, captured and destroyed Longstreet's baggage train.
He joined McClelland at Sharpsburg, participated in the Maryland campaign, thence moved in pursuit of Rebel forces to Poolville, Maryland, and from there to various operations in Virginia.
Severely wounded Nov 5 1862 at Barbee's Crossroads, VA. Sent to the hospital at Alexandria, VA, then to New York on Dec. 9. Honorably discharged on Jan. 13, 1863, at Ft. Schuyler, New York, on surgeon's certificate of disability.
Compiled from military records by Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
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Married first in 1872 to Adelaide Severance Harding, the widow of William Harding. She died in 1893.
They were the parents of Albert Lehman Brooks, born in 1874 in New York; also of Fannie and Harry Brooks, who died in infancy.
Married second in 1897 to Jennie Goodsell. She died in 1929. They had no children.
Albert's son, Albert Lehman died in 1942 in Maple Heights, Ohio. He was married to Alice Grace Hemstreet in 1899. She died in 1963 in Topeka, Kansas, where she lived with their son, Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
L.E. Brooks, Sr. and his wife, Dorothea Grace Carter also had one son, my father, L.E. Brooks, Jr.
Alice Hemstreet Brooks, L.E. Brooks, Sr. & Dorothea Brooks, and L.E. Brooks, Jr., are buried in Topeka at Mount Hope Cemetery.
The regiment was organized at Rochester, New York and left the state on Nov. 29 for Washington, D.C. He served in the defenses of Washington until March of 1962, when he was assigned to Bank's Corps, Department of Shenandoah. From June of 1862 he was in the Middle Department, 8th Corps. In August of 1862 he was assigned to the 5th Battalion, Pleasant's Department of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, and on Dec. 1, to the 1st Battalion, same department.
He was in various operations in Virginia and during the siege of Harper's Ferry (Sept. 12-14, 1862), escaped with the regiment on the evening of Sept. 15th, thru Confederate lines, and on the way, captured and destroyed Longstreet's baggage train.
He joined McClelland at Sharpsburg, participated in the Maryland campaign, thence moved in pursuit of Rebel forces to Poolville, Maryland, and from there to various operations in Virginia.
Severely wounded Nov 5 1862 at Barbee's Crossroads, VA. Sent to the hospital at Alexandria, VA, then to New York on Dec. 9. Honorably discharged on Jan. 13, 1863, at Ft. Schuyler, New York, on surgeon's certificate of disability.
Compiled from military records by Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
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Married first in 1872 to Adelaide Severance Harding, the widow of William Harding. She died in 1893.
They were the parents of Albert Lehman Brooks, born in 1874 in New York; also of Fannie and Harry Brooks, who died in infancy.
Married second in 1897 to Jennie Goodsell. She died in 1929. They had no children.
Albert's son, Albert Lehman died in 1942 in Maple Heights, Ohio. He was married to Alice Grace Hemstreet in 1899. She died in 1963 in Topeka, Kansas, where she lived with their son, Lawrence Eugene Brooks, Sr.
L.E. Brooks, Sr. and his wife, Dorothea Grace Carter also had one son, my father, L.E. Brooks, Jr.
Alice Hemstreet Brooks, L.E. Brooks, Sr. & Dorothea Brooks, and L.E. Brooks, Jr., are buried in Topeka at Mount Hope Cemetery.
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