Eliza Gill Howard1

F, #38161

Family: John McKendry

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.

John Howard McKendry1

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Sarah French Tucker1

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Agnes Howard McKendry1

F, #38164

Family: Dr. Austin Holden

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Gen. Soc.DAR: #341851
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Dr. Austin Holden1

M, #38165

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Lydia Houghton1

F, #38166, b. 1822, d. 1903

Family: Henry Austin Roe b. 1822, d. 1870

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , e-mail address, Nov. 20, 2002.

Henry Austin Roe1

M, #38167, b. 1822, d. 1870

Family: Lydia Houghton b. 1822, d. 1903

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , e-mail address, Nov. 20, 2002.

Sara Roe1

F, #38168, b. 1855, d. 1940

Family: Charles Ezra Lovett b. 1851, d. 1925

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BurialFairview Cemetery, Madison Twp, RI, USA, Tomb section B3, Row 5, Stone 1
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , e-mail address, Nov. 20, 2002.

Charles Ezra Lovett1,2

M, #38169, b. 1851, d. 1925

Family: Sara Roe b. 1855, d. 1940

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  1. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , e-mail address, Nov. 20, 2002.
  2. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.

Lydia Ella Roe1

F, #38170, b. 1858, d. 1941

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Gen. Soc.DAR: #347351
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 35.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , e-mail address, Nov. 20, 2002.

Brig. Gen. Hannibal Day1

M, #38171, b. 15 February 1804, d. 26 March 1891

Family: Maria Ann Houghton b. 26 Mar 1808

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BirthFeb 15, 1804Montpelier, VT, USA
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1860 Census1860Leominster, MA, USA, H. Day, 54, US Army
DeathMar 26, 1891Morristown, NJ, USA2
BurialEvergreen Cemetery, Leominster, MA, USA2
ParentsSDr. Sylvester Day, VT, c 1775 (U.S. Army, surgeon) and ? Bliss1,3
BiographyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hannibal Day served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War, briefly commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
Hannibal Day was born in Montpelier, Vermont on February 15, 1804. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating 23rd in a class of 35 in 1823. Day was assigned to the infantry, serving in Indian wars, including the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. Day was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the 2nd U.S. Infantry on February 25, 1861. He was serving at Fort Abercrombie in the Dakota Territory when the Civil War erupted. He was on recruiting duty in the early months of the conflict. During that time of service Day became colonel of the 6th U.S. Infantry on January 7, 1862.
Colonel Day joined the Army of the Potomac on June 28, 1863. He served as a brigade commander in the second division of V Corps under BG Romeyn B. Ayres at the Battle of Gettysburg. His brigade of regulars lost substantial casualties when it was attacked during deployment into the Wheatfield on July 2, 1863. The attack was executed by the brigade of Brig Gen William T. Wofford, and it cost Day's brigade 382 casualties.[1] (Afterwards, Day's brigade was combined with that of Sidney Burbank, serving under Burbank in the Bristoe Campaign and the Mine Run Campaign. The regulars later were made part of a brigade under Ayers in General Charles Griffin's first division V Corps.)
Day was elderly, one of the oldest officers commanding at Gettysburg. (Only George S. Greene was older.) He left the Army of the Potomac on August 22, 1863 for less demanding assignments. He commanded Fort Hamilton in New York from August of 1863 until June 8, 1864. He played minor administrative roles after that. A brevet rank of brigadier general was awarded to him on March 13, 1865.
Day lived long after the war. He was one of the oldest graduates of West Point when he died, a widower, in Morristown, New Jersey on March 26, 1891. He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Leominster, Massachusetts.
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Boatner, Mark M., Civil War Dictionary, New York, D. McKay Co. [1959]. ISBN 0-8071-0882-7
Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
Pfanz, Harry W., Gettysburg – The Second Day, University of North Carolina Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8078-1749-X.[2]
Reese, Timothy J., Sykes' Regular Division 1861-1864, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990. ISBN 0-89950-447-7

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Pfanz, Gettysburg - the Second Day, pp. 297-301. Map 12-2 on p. 292.

Hannibal Day
DAY, Hannibal, soldier, born in Vermont about 1802. He is the son of Dr. Sylvester Day, assistant surgeon, U. S. army. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1823, and made second lieutenant in the 2d infantry. On 4 April 1832, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and in the same year took part in the Black Hawk expedition, but was not on duty at the seat of war. He also served in the Florida wars in 1838'9 and 1841'2, and in the war with Mexico in 1846'7. He was commissioned captain, 7 July 1838, major, 23 February 1852, lieutenant colonel, 25 February 1861, and colonel, 7 January 1862. He commanded a brigade of the 5th corps in the Pennsylvania campaign in 1863, taking part in the battle of Gettysburg. He was retired from active duty, "on his own application after forty consecutive years of service," 1 August 1863, and employed on military commissions and courts-martial from 25 July 1864. On 13 March 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general for long service.
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As Colonel, Hannibal Day commanded the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, of the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac. He was one of very few Regular U.S. Army officers to decline a Breveted General Officer’s position in the Volunteer Army during the Civil War. He led one of only two U.S. Regular Army Brigades in to the “Valley of Death”, in actions near the Round Tops at the Battle of Gettysburg and was promoted Brigadier General, Regular U.S. Army by Congress for his bravery.

(1804-91) Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Feb. 15, 1804, he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1823. He served with the 2nd U.S. Infantry in the Black Hawk War, the Seminole Wars of 1838-39 and 1841-42, and in the Mexican War. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 6th U.S. Infantry. He commanded the 1st brigade, Ayres Division, of Sykes 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, during the Gettysburg campaign. In his Gettysburg battle report, his superior, General Romeyn B. Ayres wrote that Day performed his duties with coolness and gallantry. Day escaped serious injury when he had a horse shot out from under him on the second day's fighting, on July 2, 1863. During the battle of Gettysburg, his brigade suffered 58 killed and 305 wounded. He was promoted to brevet brigadier general, March 13, 1865.

War Date Document Signed: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in ink, on imprinted letter sheet. Head Quarters Recruiting Volunteer Service in Massachusetts. Official Business. Cambridge, 7th Feby. 1862. Circular Orders. All Volunteer officers recruiting in the State under orders from this office who may not have brought from their Regiments a complete Descriptive Roll with account of Pay and Clothing, of the enlisted men of their respective Recruiting Parties, will immediately write for such to the respective Captain's or commanders of companies to which their men belong. With such papers, all Recruiting Parties will be paid regularly every two months and not otherwise. H. Day, Lt. Col. 2d In.[fantry], Genl. Supt. R.[ecruiting] S.[ervice] in Mass.

Findagrave: Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1823 (with future Union Generals Lorenzo Thomas and George S. Greene), he was posted to the 2nd United States Infantry, a unit that he would be associated with nearly his entire career. His military service in the long years before the Civil War exhibited the typical stations of a career soldier, serving garrison posted on the Great Lakes, on the East Coast and in the Western Frontier. He directed portions of his unit in the 1832 Black Hawk War (where he saw no action) in the Florida Seminole wars of 1839 and 1842, and during the Mexican War. His rate of promoted also was typically slow for a career soldier in peacetime – he was not advanced to Captain until 1838, fifteen years after his graduation as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was advanced to Major in 1852, and to Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Infantry in February 1861. Less than a year later he was promoted to full Colonel of the 6th United States Infantry in January 1862 (which was necessitated by the expansion of the Army after the outbreak of hostilities with the South). As one of the oldest officers in the Army, he was relegated to desk and recruitment posts, far from the field of action. However, events of June and July 1863 thrust him into his single combat command of the war, and his first combat field command since the Mexican War. When Army of the Potomac commander Major General Joseph Hooker resigned as its head in late June 1863, V Corps commander Major General George G. Meade was detailed to replace him, and his spot was filed by Major General George Sykes. Sykes’ First Division was then taken over by Brigadier General Romeyn B. Ayers, and Colonel Hannibal Day was assigned to lead Ayers old First Brigade, made up of Regular Army troops. Having led the brigade for only three days, and being wholly unfamiliar with his officers and men, Colonel Day was positioned on the Federal Left flank on the Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 2, 1863). When Brigadier General John S. Caldwell’s Division was thrown into the maelstrom of the Wheatfield, Colonel Day’s brigade was sent in support, and ended up at the eastern edge of the Rose Woods. His horse was killed in the action there, and his men, while lying prone, were flanked when Confederate forces pushed back the brigade in his right. He led the Regulars in an orderly retreat, but sustained 382 casualties during his relatively brief time on the field. After regrouping near Little Round Top, the brigade saw no more action. Less than a month later (August 1) Colonel Day retired "on his own application after forty consecutive years of service”. He spent the next year on volunteer court martial duty. On March 13, 1864 he received a brevet of Brigadier General, US Regular Army for “long and faithful services in the Army”. He passed away in Morristown, New Jersey in 1891.
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 39.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Day
  3. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Lawrenceville, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_747; Page: 0; line 1, dwl 840-916.

Lavinia Day1

F, #38173, b. circa 1847

Family: Major John Van Renselaer Hoff b. 11 Apr 1848

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 39.
  2. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Lawrenceville, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_747; Page: 0; line 1, dwl 840-916.

Major John Van Renselaer Hoff1

M, #38174, b. 11 April 1848

Family: Lavinia Day b. c 1847

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BirthApr 11, 1848Mt. Morris, NY, USA
Milit-BegU.S. Army, surgeon
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BiographyWho's Who in NY2
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 39.
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David Holt1

M, #38175

Family: Dinah Bayley b. 24 Sep 1775

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 39, p. 211.
  2. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 48, p. 114.

Ralph J. Holt1

M, #38176, b. 1812, d. 1891

Family: Sally Ann Towne

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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 39, p. 211.
  2. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 48, p. 114.

Sally Ann Towne1

F, #38177

Family: Ralph J. Holt b. 1812, d. 1891

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Biographydau. of John Towns and Nancy Heaton
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  2. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 48, p. 114.

Maria Adelaide Holt1

F, #38178

Family: Benjamin T. Howes

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Benjamin T. Howes1

M, #38179

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Ebenezer Pratt Marsh1

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Laura Abigail Houghton1

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Ella C. Marsh1

F, #38182

Family: Oscar D. Esterbrook

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Oscar D. Esterbrook1

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Lydia Welch Lane1

F, #38184, b. circa 1832

Family: Franklin Burr b. c 1827

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1880 Census1880Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 53, supt. clothes mfg3
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 41.
  2. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Boston Ward 5, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_521; Page: 503; line 32, dwl 576-912.
  3. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_560; Family History Film: 1254560; Page: 279.2000; Enumeration District: 756; line 28, dwl 13-81-90.

Franklin Burr1

M, #38185, b. circa 1827

Family: Lydia Welch Lane b. c 1832

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1880 Census1880Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 53, supt. clothes mfg3
ParentsSTheophilus Burr and Hannah Leavitt
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 41.
  2. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Boston Ward 5, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_521; Page: 503; line 32, dwl 576-912.
  3. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_560; Family History Film: 1254560; Page: 279.2000; Enumeration District: 756; line 28, dwl 13-81-90.

Annie Lane Burr1

F, #38186, b. circa 1859

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1920 Census1920Medford, MA, USA
Author1925first cousins; "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and some of his descendants."2
Notable1925NEGHR article on John Houghton descendants
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Research1925NEGHR: "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and some of his descendants."; only published genealogical article
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  1. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 41.
  2. [S117] Burr & Gage, "John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass." , pp. 392-400.

Sarah Cummings1

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Family: David Locklin b. 9 Apr 1782

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Sarah Adeline Lockling1

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Silas G. Richards1

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Lucius D. Richards1

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