During my first round of research [1990-2018], I found my Mom's great-grandfather, Aaron Crail, and two of his brothers Sylvester and John as Civil War soldiers who made it home.
Aaron had contracted consumption during the siege of Atlanta. He returned home and died from the disease in 1868, leaving a wife and six children.
Sylvester was wounded and captured, serving a brief time as a POW. He retuned home and died at the Indiana State Soldiers Home in 1898. His wound led to complications later in life and he died a shell of the young man who joined the Union Army.
John served with Aaron during the Atlanta Campaign. Conditions there led to a cold that settled in his back and, like his brother Sylvester, was in extremely ill health until his death in 1906.
Research Round 2 [2018-present] focuses on my birth family. There were quite a few Civil War volunteers, all Union.
James Clark, Thomas Arbuckle, Charles Everhart, Hiram Boyles and William Hogue all served in Indiana regiments.
Only Charles Everhart and William Hogue returned home. None fell to Confederate fire. All fell to various diseases and were buried in National Cemeteries far from home.
[to be continued.....]
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