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THE FAMILY

AND THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

[Dedicated to those who died, those who didn't, and those who wish they had...]

The Cost of War


******* Union CSA Combined
Enrolled: 2,803.3 1,064.2 3,867.5
Combat: 110,070 74,524 184,594
Wounded: 275,175 137,000 412,175
Total: 634,703 335,524 970,227
Ratio:1.8% 1.7% 1.7%
KIA: 3.9% 7.0% 4.8%
Dead: 12.8% 18.7% 14.4%
Casualty: 22.6% 31.5% 25.1%
Duration/Months: 48 48 48
KILLED/MONTH: 2,293 1,553 3,846

[Source: Summary of Statistics, United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University]

Name: JAMES H. BOSTIC

  • Occupation:
  • Residence: Cleveland Co NC
  • Enlistment:
    • Date: 1 May 1861
    • Place:
    • Age:
  • Rank/Co/Reg/State: 16th Regiment, Company D, CSA NC
  • Add'l Info: Killed 10 Aug 1861, Richmond VA

Name: JAMES W. BOSTIC

  • Occupation:
  • Residence: Cleveland County NC
  • Enlistment:
    • Date: 1 May 1861
    • Place:
    • Age:
  • Rank/Co/Reg/State: 2nd Sgt., 16th Regiment, Company D, CSA NC
  • Add'l Info: Killed, 25 May 1862

Name: Beford BOSTIC

  • Occupation:Farmer
  • Residence: Cleveland County NC
  • Enlistment: (UL type="square">
  • Date: 17 Sep 1861
  • Place: Cleveland Co NC
  • Age: 26
  • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Corporal, F Co., 34th Reg, NC
  • Add'l Info:

    Name: A.B. GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 29 Mar 1862
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 30
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Co. 55th Inf Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  AMOS KENDALL GARDNER

    Name: DANIEL GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 18 Mar 1862
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 46
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, G Company, 49th Inf. Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: DAVID GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Gaston County NC
    • Enlistment:
    • Date: 15 Aug 1862
    • Place: Gaston Co NC
    • Age: 24
  • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Co., 37th Reg. CSA, NC

    Name:  DAVID TYLER GARDNER

    Name: F. N. GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 21 Nov 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 18
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, I Co., 38th Inf Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  FRANK GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Rowan County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 19 Mar 1862
      • Place: Rowan Co, NC
      • Age: 23
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, K Co., 4th Inf Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: HEZEKIAH T. GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Mecklenburg County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 16 Sep 1861
      • Place: Mecklenburg Co, NC
      • Age: 19
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Co., 73rd Inf Reg, CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  J. M. GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 21 Nov 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 24
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, I Co., 38th Inf Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  JAMES GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Rowan County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 13 Apr 1863
      • Place: Rowan Co, NC
      • Age: 38
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, B Co., 46th Inf. Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  JAMES LAFAYETTE GARDNER

    • Occupation: Teacher/Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 18 Mar 1862
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 45
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, G Co., 49th Reg (King's Mountain Tigers), CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info: Wounded 1 Jul 1862 at Malvern Hill VA, and died 31 Jul 1865, Raleigh NC

    Name:  JEREMIAH A. GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: McDowell County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 11 Mar 1862
      • Place: McDowell Co NC
      • Age: 22
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, A Co, 49th Inf Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name:  OLIVER PERRY GARDNER

    • Occupation: Doctor
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 21 Nov 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 33
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Captain, I Co., 38th Inf Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: P. McDUFFY GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment:
      • 1861
      • Place: Greenville SC
      • Age: 19
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Company, 1st Artillery, CSA, SC
    • Add'l Info: Wounded 16 Mar 1865; returned home to Cleveland Co NC 16 Jun 1865

    Name:  RUFUS WEBB GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 10 May 1862
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 24
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, F Co., 56th Inf Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: THOMAS S. GARDNER

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 21 Nov 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 17
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, I Co., 38th Inf Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: SAMUEL S. GARDNER

    • Occupation:
    • Residence:Gaston County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 15 Aug 1862
      • Place: Gaston Co, NC
      • Age: 22
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Co., 37th Inf Reg., CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: BEDFORD HENDRICK

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland Co NC
    • Enlistment:
      • Date: 17 Sep 1861
      • Place:
      • Age:
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: 1st Cpl, CSA NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: JAMES YOUNG HORD

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 27 Apr 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co, NC
      • Age: 21
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Private, C Co., 15th Inf. Reg. CSA, NC
    • Add'l Info: Wounded, Malvern Hill VA, Jul 1 1862; deserted from hospital abt Oct 1863 and never rejoined company

    Name: JAMES P. MARTIN: "Galvanized Yankee"

    • Occupation: Carpenter
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment:
      • Date: 29 Mar 1862
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 49
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Company C, CSA NC
    • Add'l Info: Absent on leave June 1862 to save grain. Captured 14 Jul 1863 at Falling Waters MD. Confined 21 Aug 1863 at Point Lookout MD. Released 25 Feb 1864 after taking an oath of allegiance and joining the U.S. Army, Company F. 1st Reg., US Volunteer Infantry.

    Name: CHRISTOPHER GOLD MARTIN

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Fallston NC
    • Enlistment:
      • Date: 17 Sep 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 27
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Pvt, Company F, 34th Inf. Reg., CSA NC
    • Add'l Info: Wounded 3 May, 1862, Chancellorville, Virginia; died 8 May 1862 from wounds received at the Battle of Chancellorville.

    Name: DAVID MILLER

    • Occupation: Clerk
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment:
      • Date: 22 Apr 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 20
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: E Company, 12th Infantry Reg., NC

    Name: JAMES MOSS

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment: (UL type="square">
    • 27 Mar 1862
    • Place: Cleveland Co NC
    • Age: 24
  • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Pvt., C Company, 55th Infantry Reg., NC

    Name: JEFFERSON PETTY

    • Occupation:
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment
      • Date: 28 Feb 1863
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 30
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Pvt., F Com., 34th Reg., NC
    • Add'l Info:

    Name: JACOB WILLIAMS

    • Occupation: Farmer
    • Residence: Cleveland County NC
    • Enlistment:
      • Date: 21 Nov 1861
      • Place: Cleveland Co NC
      • Age: 28
    • Rank/Co/Reg/State: Pvt., I Company, 38th Infantry Reg., NC

    In addition to our own, the following Cleveland County families contributed husbands and fathers and brothers and sons to the war effort. The majority of these family members served in Company C (Cleveland Grays) or Company D (Cleveland Farmers), 55th North Carolina Regiment:

    Anderhold, Arnold, Beam, Beheecher, Biggerstaff, Blanton, Bowens, Boggs, Branton, Bridges, Brown, Bryant, Cabiness, Camp, Carpenter, Carroll, Champion, Cobb, Cornwell, Crotts, Crowder, Davis, Dickey, Dillinger, Dixon, Duncan, Eaker, Earles, Elam, Elliott, Elmore, Eskridge, Falls, Fronebarger, Furgurson, Gant, Garner, Gibson, Glasgow, Gold, Goodson, Green, Griffin, Gunn, Hamrick, Hardin, Harmon, Harrell, Hastin, Heavner, Hendrick, Huffstetler, Jenkins, Jones, Kirstler, Lackey, Lattimer, Lawrence, Ledbetter, Ledford, Linebarger, Livesay, Lowrance, Lovelace, Martin, McDaniel, McKinnie, McSwain, Millins, Mooney, Neal, Nowlin, Oates, Padgett, Patterson, Poston, Price, Pruett, Randall, Ramsour, Rippey, Rollins, Runyan, Scruggs, Sellars, Sharpe, Shitle, Simmons, Smith, Spangle, Turner, Vandyke, Warlick, Weaver, Wepor, Wesson, White, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Womack, Wright, Wylie, Yates, Yarborough

    [Source: Shelby Star, 4 August 1991, pg 9E]

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    Note: The 55th Regiment was one of many engaged at Gettyburg on July 3, 1863. Of the 10,000 men designated for an assault on the Union Army at Cemetery Ridge, over 6,000 never came home again. It's been said that the trail of wounded that General Lee led back to Virginia was over fourteen miles long.

    Military Records at NARA

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    FORM 80 ONLINE REQUEST

    Snail Mail: National Archives and Records Administration, Attn: NWDT1, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408-0001.

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