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Potter County, Chapter 7, Military
CHAPTER VII
MILITARY HISTORY
Company D, 85th New York Infantry, was mustered in September 7, 1861, with A.A. Kinney, captain; William L. Starkweather and J.E. Terwilliger (who died of wounds and is buried at Sharon Centre), lieutenants; and E.M. Bedford, first sergeant. Among the private troops from Potter were *B.F. Jones, P.C. Maxon (now cashier of bank at New Richmond, Wis.), *Henry Pierce, **A. Chappel, **L.R. Preston, **H. Mead, **J.D. Burbank, **S. Press, **W.H. Brighton, **Joe Pierce, **P. Rockefellow, **M. Hopkins, **Richard Matteson, **D. Terwilliger, **A.W. Kinney, **Edmund Duel, **J.W. Vesper, **C.H. Johnson, **W. Peterson, *Elisha T. Blanchard, **L. Allen, **Ed. Griffith, **Frank Norwood, **A.C. Barnes, **E.C. Gilbert, **M.C. Whitney, **George White, **H. Pierce, **W.E. Bockefellow, **W. Hopkins, **K. Snyder, **B. Terwilliger, **E.D. Kellogg, **H. Hitchcock, **S. Blanchard, **F. Vanliew, **W. Wheeler, **William S. Moore, **M. Sherwood, **John Peckow, **Thomas Terwilliger, George H. Leach. The company was captured at Plymouth, N.C., April 16, 1864, interned in Andersonville, where nearly all died. Capt. Kinney resigned on account of disability, but held his rank, and was attached to Gen. Foster's staff from November 27, 1862, to February, 1864, when he was sent on detached service to Roanoke, Va., shipping store, and thus escaped the Plymouth catastrophe. In June, that year, he was discharged after nearly three years’ service. The captain was the organizer of this company, beginning enlistment immediately after the first Bull Run, under commission of Gov. Morgan, of New York. Col. Davis, who organized the regiment, resided over the State line, and won to his standard many residents of northern Potter county. Zalmon Barnes, now residing near Honeoye, was in Company C, with S.J. White; Boyce Kinney served in the 2d Iowa Cavalry, died after the war; Alanson T. Kinney served two years in the 85th New York Infantry, and was commissioned captain of Company F, 210th P.V.I.
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1832 - 1864 (32 years)
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