U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865:
Name Elisha Stockwell
Side Union
Regiment State/Origin Wisconsin
Regiment 14th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry
Company I
Rank In Private
Rank Out Corporal
Film Number M559 roll 29
Elisha Stockwell signed up for the war at age fifteen. But his father objected and his name was crossed out. Later in the year the boy ran away and joined as a soldier when the captain of a friend's company lied a little (about his age). He survived the war and went on to marry and raise a family on a small farm. After his wife died in 1927, he was persuaded to write his memoirs. He was eighty-one years old at the time and nearly blind from cataracts. Aided by a thin stick of wood to guide his hand, Elisha wrote the memoirs with no chapters, very few paragraph breaks, and little punctuation. Kept for years by one of his daughters, Byron R. Abernathy was asked by that daughter in 1951 to have them typed into readable shape. Elisha's story was published in 1958, a vital and interesting account, of the humorous as well as the dirt and death and brutality of war.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865:
Name Elisha Stockwell
Side Union
Regiment State/Origin Wisconsin
Regiment 14th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry
Company I
Rank In Private
Rank Out Corporal
Film Number M559 roll 29
Elisha Stockwell signed up for the war at age fifteen. But his father objected and his name was crossed out. Later in the year the boy ran away and joined as a soldier when the captain of a friend's company lied a little (about his age). He survived the war and went on to marry and raise a family on a small farm. After his wife died in 1927, he was persuaded to write his memoirs. He was eighty-one years old at the time and nearly blind from cataracts. Aided by a thin stick of wood to guide his hand, Elisha wrote the memoirs with no chapters, very few paragraph breaks, and little punctuation. Kept for years by one of his daughters, Byron R. Abernathy was asked by that daughter in 1951 to have them typed into readable shape. Elisha's story was published in 1958, a vital and interesting account, of the humorous as well as the dirt and death and brutality of war.
Family Members
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Leonard Stockwell
1869–1943
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Lillian Katherine Stockwell Smith
1871–1954
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May Stockwell Abernethy
1876–1915
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Nettie M. Stockwell Zielsdorf
1880–1919
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Daniel H Stockwell
1884–1970
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Orin David Stockwell
1887–1956
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Florence Marie Stockwell
1889–1912
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Howard L. Stockwell
1891–1963
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Ella Stockwell Zielsdorf
1892–1963
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