This Day in Goodlove History, July 1
• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove
• jefferygoodlove@aol.com
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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove
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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
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• This project is now a daily blog at:
• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/
• Goodlove Family History Project Website:
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/
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• Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.
“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.
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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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July 1, 69: Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor. This consolidate of Vespasian’s imperial power helped to seal the fate of Jerusalem since the destruction of the Jewish capital was his way of proving that law and order would prevail in the empire.[1]
July 1, 70 C.E.: Titus set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.[2]
July 1, 985: In Barcelona, several Jewish residents were killed by the Moslem leader Al-Mansur. Many of them were land owners who left no heirs. According to the law, all their lands were given over to the Count of Barcelona. In Spain at this time it was not uncommon for Jews to own vineyards and other lands.[3]
July 1, 1187: On July 1, 1187 Saludin crossed the river Jordan and laid siege Christian held city of Tiberius. The Christian leadership feared a trap, but finally, urged on by many, including the Templar Grand Master, they decided to try to relieve Tiberius. The Crusaders dry and tortuous route would take them past a landmark hill called the Horns of Hattin.
At the Horns of Hattin Salidin’s army was waiting. The Christians were enveloped, and crushed. Thousands of Christians were killed and captured. Nearly all the crusaders were released for ranson, except the Knights of the military orders, the Hospitlars and the Templars.
Following the Battle of Hattin the Knights of the Temple and Hospitlars were executed. This sounds ruthless but one has to realize the Saladin realized these were dangerous foes. [4]
July 1, 1224: Duke Frederick II granted a charter to all Jews under his control which “became the model by which the status of the Jews of Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Silesia, and Poland was regulated.”[5]
1224-1250: (Werneck) between 1224 and 1250 divided first the German medal and late Konrad von Reichenberg as well as Konrad von Schmiedefeld the possession, until he finally ignored high pin to the Wuerzburg. (Translation)[6]
In 1226, Prussia was conquered by the Teutonic Knights, a military religious order, who converted the Prussians to Christianity.[7]
July 1, 1388: Jews of Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege.[8]
1388 Jews expelled from Strasbourg.[9]
The fact that the expulsion of the Israelites from Strasbourg did not take place in the year 1388, as is commonly assumed, but very likely began in 1390, says nothing against the fact that Gutleben fulfilled his agreement in the Alsatian metropolis until the its expiration in 1389, especially in view of a new outbreak of the plague which was recorded at that time in Strasburg. From this fact, moreover, one vcan indirectly infert that the physician was not taxed alon with his fellow Jews for the biannual assessment. Therefore he enjoyed freedom from taxes in Strassburg. [10]
1389
The Banishment.
In 1389, to finish, an edict of banishment was promulgated against the Jews, which prohibits forever their readmission in the city of Strasbourg. This edict, carried out with the letter, remained in force during four centuries and, only, the French revolution again opened the gates of the city to our co-religionist.
Expelled of the city and possessions, the Jews were established in general in the neighbouring villages, mainly in Bischeim, Lingolsheim and Wolfisheim.
The departure of the Jews of Strasbourg seems to be very precipitated, for they had to give up many goods, among which also liturgical objects were. Thus the Public library had, until 1870, of the Hebraic manuscripts coming from the primitive community, and some synagogaux ornaments. These documents were destroyed at the time of the fire which devastated the library.
Among the Jewish goods fallen to the hands from of Strasbourg, also a shofar was. Being unaware of the use of this horn of ram (additional preoof of ignorance or bad once of the clerks of the time), the of Strasbourg one took it fore a horn, manufactured by the Jews, in order to announce to the enemies of the city the moment favorable to an attack. The municipality made some rune two bronze specimens, vovered weapons of the city. The watchers of the cathedral were charged to sound each evening of the “Gruselhorn”, during the closing of the gate of the city, to invite the Jews which were there to leave Strasbourg. They also sounded some at midnight, to recall to the population so called treason Jews. This use was maintained until 1790. One of Gruselhorn was destroyed during the seat of Strasbourg in 1870; the other, damaged , was saved and is with the Historical Museum. Thus the first community Israelite disappeared from Strasbourg, after centuries of an often precarious and always animated existandxe [11]
1389 to 1398
Vivelin/Gutleben in Colmar.[12]
1389
Wycliff’s Lords Prayer: “Oure fadir that art in hevenes, halwid be thi name.”[13]
July 1, 1569: The Union of Lublin joins The Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania into a united country called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. This had to be an improvement in the situation for the Jews of Lithuania who were governed by statutes that read in part, "The Jews shall not wear costly clothing, nor gold chains, nor shall their wives wear gold or silver ornaments. The Jews shall not have silver mountings on their sabers and daggers; they shall be distinguished by characteristic clothes; they shall wear yellow caps, and their wives kerchiefs of yellow linen, in order that all may be enabled to distinguish Jews from Christians." During the 15th and 16th centuries the Jews of Poland enjoyed an increasing amount of political autonomy and economic well being which would come to a crashing end with the Ukrainian uprisings in the 17th centuries.[14]
July 1, 1581: Gregory XIII issued “Antiqua judaeorum improbitas,” a Papal Bull that “authorized the Inquisition directly to handle cases involving Jews, especially those concerning blasphemies against Jesus or Mary, incitement to heresy or assistance to heretics, possession of forbidden books, or the employment of Christian wet nurses.” (Jewish Virtual Library shows the date as June 1, 1581)[15]
July 1, 1651: Poland was victorious over the Cossacks. The Jews were allowed to return to their lands but the society that they had built was gone forever.[16]
July 1, 1656
The first Quakers arrive in America in Boston.[17]
1657: In 1657, after an invasion by the Swedes, Poland surrendered sovereignty over Ducal Prussia which then became the Kingdom of Prussia headed by the Hohenzollern line.[18]
July 1, 1754: The march continued while scouts came and went with regularity in front of the army. On the first day of July (July 1) they had reached Gist’s settlement and, finding it abandoned, bivouacked there. Only the officers benefitted from the comfort of the quarters here. The remainder of the army and the Indians were out of doors and spent a miserable night engaged in the impossible task of trying to stay warm and dry through a droning. persistent rain which began just before midnight and did not cease untill daybreak. [19]
Monday July 1, 1754
The Virginians and the South Carolinians arrive back at the Great Meadows after taking more than two days to march thirteen miles. The officers hold a conference and decide the men are too weak and exhausted to try and retreat back across the mountains to Wills Creek (present day Cumberland Maryland). So instead the men begin working on trenches around the stockade to improve the protection for the men. A Virginian named John Ramsay deserts and finds sanctuary with the French army. He tells the French leader, Captain Coulon de Villiers, that the British army is in very poor condition. With this report, the French decide to press on. The Algonquins, some of the Indians with the French army, leave the expedition and return to their homes as they are nervous about being this close to British territory. [20]
July 1, 1775: The New England Restraining Act required New England colonies to trade exclusively with Great Britain as of July 1. An additional rule would come into effect on July 20, banning colonists from fishing in the North Atlantic.
The British prime minister, Frederick, Lord North, introduced the Restraining Act and the Conciliatory Proposition to Parliament on the same day. The Conciliatory Proposition promised that no colony that met its share of imperial defenses and paid royal officials' salaries of their own accord would be taxed. The act conceded to the colonists' demand that they be allowed to provide the crown with needed funds on a voluntary basis. In other words, Parliament would ask for money through requisitions, not demand it through taxes. The Restraining Act was meant to appease Parliamentary hardliners, who would otherwise have impeded passage of the pacifying proposition.
Unfortunately for North and prospects for peace, he had already sent General Thomas Gage orders to march on Concord, Massachusetts, to destroy the armaments stockpiled in the town, and take Patriot leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams into custody. The orders were given in January 1775 and arrived in Boston before the Conciliatory Proposition. Thus, on April 18, 700 Redcoats marched towards Concord Bridge. The military action led to the Revolutionary War, the birth of the United States as a new nation, the temporary downfall of Lord North and the near abdication of King George III. The Treaty of Paris marking the conflict's end guaranteed New Englanders the right to fish off Newfoundland--the right denied them by the New England Restraining Act.[21]
July 1, 1754:
Mathias Celzar and Renamia ( ), of Frederick
County, to George Cutlip, (pound sign) 40, conveyed to Mathias Celzar by Peter
Carr and Mary, July 1, 1754, on Shanando, 120 acres.[22]
Ancestor Hugh Stephenson[23] to George Washington, July 1, 1767
BULSKIN July 1st. 1767
SIR!
I am sorry it was not in my power to Come Down according to prommise my bisness Lay so ilconvenent that I Cold not Come which I hope your Honnour will Excuse me for not Comeing at that time and you may Depend upon my Comeing in two or three weeks at the Longest the man that Lives on the Cole Plantation be Low me is now down and is to Let me now when he returns what time Mr. Fairfax will be at home that I mant miss of him when I go Down Mr. Crawford desired me to Let you now that he had spoke to a woman to Spin for you but I do not think it is proper to send her before that he had an oppertunity to send som of her work to you that you mite see if she would sute you[24]
I am Sir your Humble St
HUGH STEPHENSON
• July 1, 1769: John Skeen (Skein) and Ingabo his wife of Frederick County to George Goodlip of same for 36 pounds current money of Virginia 100 A on Smith’s Creek in Frederick County.
• Three years later that part of Frederick County became part of the new Dunmore County, at the southern end.
• Jim Funkhouser
July 1, 1776: On July 1 and 2, Lee’s Resolution of June 7 was debated by the Congress and on the second day it was adopted unanimously 12-0 (New York not voting.)
For the next two days Jefferson’s draft was discussed, reviewed, revised, deleted., etc. The result was that the draft was unanimously adopted. (There were 86 changes, eliminating of 480 works, leaving 1,337 in final form.)
It was ordered that:
“the declatation bne authenticated and printed That the committee appointed to p;repare the declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions and committees, councils ofr safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops, that it be proclaimed tn in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.”
Only 19 of the broadsides are known to have survived , in whole or in partr.[25]
Franz Gottlop’s Regiment:
“July 1 - At daybreak we raised anchor.... By evening at sevei o’clock we lay at King’s Ferry on Staten Island where we dropped anchor [26]
In late July 1777, a 265-ship armada under General Howe's command finally arrived at the Head of Maryland's Elk River. 17,000 soldiers aboard the ships had endured a debilitating six week journey originating at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, across from Staten Island, New York. [27]
Franz Gottlop is off to the Philadelphia campaign. JG
The largest armada ever assembled in America set sail off of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It was carrying 17,000 British soldiers and sailors in over 260 ships. The armada was headed for an attack on the capital city of Philadelphia. They underwent a distressful 34-day sea-trek. The voyage took its toll in lost time, seasick soldiers, and scores of dead horses.
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Washington's troops started in northern New Jersey and shadowed the movement of the British fleet.
Washington lost sight of the fleet for an agonizing three-week period, starting when the armada moved further offshore as it passed the Delaware Capes. He feared that the fleet may have doubled back to New York to help General Burgoyne in his attempt to capture upstate New York against the Americans headed by General Gates.
Until he could determine the destination of the fleet, Washington needed to maintain a position where he could move north or south. When their destination was clear, Washington moved south to a position between Head of Elk and Philadelphia.
http://www.ushistory.org/march/phila/elk_1.htm
The Hessians, by Rodney Atwood pg. 258-259
Irvine TO WASHINGTON.
FORT Pitt, July 1, 1782.
Sir: — Your excellency’s letter, of the 22d May did not come to hand till yesterday. The 17th of June I sent one active, intelligent white man with an Indian to explore the country towards Niagara. I shall take the earliest opportunity after their return of communicating their observations to your excellency, if they appear useful. The inclosed copy of a letter to General Lincoln I will inform your excellency of the wishes of the inhabitants of this country, and also of my mode of treating their applications.2 I hope that, as well as
this way of communication, will meet your excellency’s approbation. I would not presume to go on any account without your excellency’s express orders, or at least permission, did I not conceive that before the day appointed for rendezvousing, I will receive information if any movements are intended this way, this campaign, as, by that time, it will be full late enough to undertake anything more than on a small partisan way. By the best accounts I can obtain, we may lay out our accounts to have to fight the Shawanese, Delawares, Wyandots, Mingoes and Monseys; in all, about five hundred. They are all settled in a line from lower Sandusky near Lake Erie, to the heads of the Miami, not more than seventy miles from tile two extremes. Upper Sandusky lies near the center. If all these could be beat at once, it would certainly nearly, if not entirely, put an end to the Indian war in this quarter. Should this be the case, it would be much best that soine continental troops should be convened for a variety of reasons, which I need riot trouble your excellency with an explanation of at present; which are inducements for me to think of going with so few regulars. In a few weeks, I hope to have the fort in a tolerable state of defense against small arms, so that there will be less risk in being absent a few weeks with some of the best of the troops than heretofore.[28]
Irvine to Lincoln
Fort Pitt, July 1, 1782
Dear Sir: My letter of the 16th of June informed you of the defeat of a body of volunteer militia who went against Sandusky [under CoL Wm. Crawford]. That disaster has not abated the ardor or desire for revenge (as they term it) of these people. A number of the most respectable are urging me strenuously to take command of them, and add as many continental officers and soldiers as can be spared; particularly the former, as they attribute the defeat to the want of experience in their officers. They cannot, nor will not, rest under any plan on the defensive, however well executed; and think their only safety depends on the total destruction of all the Indian settlements within two hundred miles; this, it is true, they are taught by dear-bought experience.
They propose to raise by subscription, six or seven hundred men —provision for them for forty days, and horses to carry it, clear of expense to the public, unless government, at its own time, shall think proper to reimburse them. The 1st of August is the ti’me they talk of assembling, if I think proper to encourage them. I am, by no means, fond of such commands, nor am I sanguine in my expectations; but rather doubtful of the consequences;— and yet absolutely to refuse having anything to do with them, when their proposals are so generous and seemingly spirited, I conceive would not do well either; especially, as people generally, particularly in this quarter, are subject to be clamorous, and charge continental officers with want of zeal, activity, and inclination of doing the needful for their protection.
I have declined giving them an immediate, direct answer, and have informed them that my going depends on circumstances; and, in the meantime, I have called for returns of men who may be depended on to go, the subscription of pro. visions, and horses. Time distance to headquarters is so great that it is uncertain whether an express could return in time with the commander-in-chief’s instructions. As you must know whether any movements will take place in this quarter,— or if you are of the opinion it would, on many account, be improper for me to leave the post, I request you would write me by express. But, if no answer arrives before, or about the 1st of August, I will take for granted you have no objection, and that I may act discretionally.
Should it be judged expedient for me to go, the greatest number of regular troops fit to march will not exceed one
hundred. The militia are pressing that I shall take all the continentals along and leave the defense of the post to them; but this I shall by no means do. If circumstances seem to require it, I shall throw in a few militia with the regulars left —but under continental officers.
P. S.— The sooner I am favored with your ideas on the subject the better, particularly if you have objections to the plan; as, in that case, I would not give the people the trouble to assemble.[29]
July 1, 1782
During the night I had a path, but in the morning judged it prudent to forsake the path and take a ridge for a distance of fifteen miles, in a line at right angles to my course, putting back as I went along, with a stick, the weeds which I had bent, lest I should be tracked by the enemy. I lay the next on the waters of Muskingum; the nettles had been troublesome to me after my crossing the Scioto, having nothing to defend myself but the piece of a rug which I had found and which while I rode I used under me by way of a saddle; the briars and thorns were now painful too, and prevented me from traveling in the night until the moon appeared. [30]
July 1, 1863
The 18th Virginia Cavalry was organized by General John D. Imboden in the fall of 1862 and spring 1863. Many of its members—the Godloves included—had served in units formed the 1st Partisan Rangers (which became the 62nd Mounted Infantry).
In April-May 1863 the 18th Cav skirmished with Federal forces in the western counties of Virginia. In June-July General Lee sent Imboden on raids in against Federal positions in Hampshire Co., Va., Cumberland, Md., Berkeley Springs, Va., and Fulton and Franklin Counties, Pa., to protect Lee’s right flank as the main army moved into Pa. in the campaign that culminated at Gettysburg, July 1-4. During the Battle of Gettysburg Imboden’s Brigade formed Lee’s rear guard and defended the wagon trains of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia as it retreated from Gettysburg. [17][31]
Fri. July 1[32] [33], 1864
Drilled twice was very hot
Wrote a letter to M.R. Hunter
Give 50 cts to buy col Wilds[34] a sword[35]
July 1, 1920: Midway through the next week the Hopkinton Leader was able to report, “The petitions for the proposed consolidated district at Buck Creek have been generally signed and some of them have been filed. There is a due process of law to follow before the election can be held. Reports are very favorable for the success of the project”.[36]
July 1, 1926: Early each July the board scheduled an afternoon at the school when they would sit and receive bids for the various routes. As was stated in its July 1, 1926, announcement, the board reserved “the right to reject any or all bids.” In practice, though, only members of the Buck Creek Church bid successfully.[37]
July 1, 1941
A voluminous report issued by Dannecker draws a detaild picture of the Jewish population of Paris, which has fallen from 149,934 on October 19, 1940, to 139,979 in the spring of 1941. The report counts 34,557 children under 15 years of age, 24.7 percent of the total Jewish population. The numbers reported for the next age group, those aged 15 through 25, are strikingly small: only 3,838, or 2.8 percent of the total, apparently because they are prisoners of war, in hiding, or simply have refused to comply with the Jewish census.[38]
• July 1, 1941: German forces occupy Riga.[39]
• July 1-August 31, 1941: Eisatzgruppe D,Wehrmacht forces, and Escalon Special, a Romanian unit, kill between 150,000 and 160,000 Jews in Bessarabia.[40]
• July 1, 1942: The Sicherheitspolizei takes over the Westerbork internment camp.[41]
July 1, 1942
Eichmann, who commands Gestapo anti-Jewish activities in all countries conquered by Germany, arrives in Paris for a two day visit and meetings with Dannecker on the approaching mass roundup of Jews. The report on their talks is prepared by Eichmann and signed by both men July 1. The document envisages a Final Solution in France bgy the deportation as rapidly as possible of all Jews in the country, beginning with those in the Occupied Zone in convoys on an almost daily basis. The results sought are both radical and optimistic; the report asserts that the Occupied Zone presents no problems in supplying Jews and that the Unoccupied Zone will follow suit, thanks to pressures that will overcome the reticence of the French government. The report is immediately transmitted to Knochen, for whom it is really intended, and who probably has assured Eichmann at a meeting the evening before that he will exert whatever pressure is needed. The prior evening’s meeting brings together the heads of SiPo-SD and the Jewish Affairs offices in the Occupied Zone outside Paris to discuss “unifying their work and giving them policy directives.” The meeting’s minutes, attached to the Eichmann report, declare that their goal is “to purge the country of all Jews, in an absolute way, so that they only remain in Paris, where their final deportation will take place. [28] [42]
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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[4] The Knights Templar, American Home Treasures DVD, 2001.
[5] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[6] http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/werneck_synagoge.htm
[7] http://www.kolpack.com/packnet/prussial.html
[8] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[9] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm
[10] The Gutleben Family of Physicians in Medieval Times, by Gerd Mentgen, page 4.
[11] amirothe@netvision.net.il, History of the
Fews of Strasbourg Chief rabbi Max Warchawski.
[12] Die mittelalterliche Arzte-Familie,, Gutleben” page 93.
[13] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 24.
[14] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[15] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[16] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[17] On this Day in America by John Wagman.
[18] http://www.kolpack.com/packnet/prussia.html
[19] Wilderness Empire, by Allan W. Eckert pgs 245-252
[20] http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/1754.htm
[21] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-george-endorses-new-england-restraining-act
[22] EHB Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia (Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800), Chalkley, 1912, Volume III, page 391: Page 52---[22]
[Note 2: 2 Hugh Stephenson, son of Richard Stephenson, of Frederick County, was, on Washington’s recommendation, appointed in March, 1776, colonel of the regiment of Virginia riflemen, but died shortly after his appointment.]
[24] Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers. Published by the Society of the Colonial Dames of American. Edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton.--vol. 03
The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
[25] The Northern Light, Vol. 9 No. 5 November 1978, Declaration of Independence, by Ronald E. Heaton and Harold V. B. Voorhis. Page 12.
[26] The Platte Grenadier Battalion Journal:Enemy View by Bruce Burgoyne, pg 151
[27] http://www.ushistory.org/march/phila/elk.htm
[28] Washington-Irvine Correspondence, Butterfield, 1882
[29] Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield pages 174-176
[30] Narrative of John Slover
[31] [17] Jim Funkhouser email, June 16, 2010.
[32] Stationed at Charlestown, West Virginia, July-August 1864.
(Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part II Record of Events Volume 20 Serial no. 32. Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmington, NC 1995.)
[33] Iowa 24th Infantry; 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. Tennessee, to August, 1863. and Dept. of the Gulf to June, 1864. District of LaFourche, Dept. Gulf, to July, 1864.
[34] John Q. Wilds was born at Littleton, Pennsylvania, October 24th, 1792. His ancestors, who were among the elarliest settlers in the Keystone State, belonged to the old line whig school of politics. When seven years of age, death deprived him of the counsel and advice of a kind and indulgent father. This threw him, comparatively, upon his own resources, and he was tossed like a foot-fall upon the orld’s great highway, to battle with the stern realities of life. Although unable to obtain a classic educationk, he secured for himself by perseverance and hard study, a general knowledgeable of the the common English branches, which , combined with sound Judgment and good business tact. V. as the talisman of his success in after life. His earlier years were spent as a tiller of the soil, one of the most honorable and independent avocations in which man can embark. From 1850 to 1854, he was enganged successfully in mercantile pursueits at his native town. But he soon became restless. “No pent-up Utica” like the crowded cities of the east afforded charms form longer, and bidding farewell to home, friends, and the scenes of his childhood, he turned his gaze westward. Iowa was his choice among all the northwestern states, and he soon found himself within her borders, without the remotest thought that future events would at one day lead him to add luster to her reputation, and defend her honor and integrity would at one day lead him to add luster to her reputation,, and defend her honor and integrity with his hearts blood. Settling in the thriving and pleasant village of Mount Vernon in Linn county, he engaged in selling goods and speculation in lands, and as every honest man will do, he met with almost unbounded success. It was at Mount Vernon where the writer of this sketch became acquainted with John Q. Wilds. When a small boy I was emploved in his store, and it was then I learned to love and respect him for his kind manner and gentle disposition, the recollection of which can nerer be readicated from my memory. During the Kansas troubles, I well remembered the interest he manifested in behalf o f the cause of freedom and humanity, and it was with the greatest difficulty that his friends dissuaded him from rushing to the arena of combat. For a time he was engaged in merchandising with Messrs. Waln and Griffinn, two estimable gentlemen at Mount Vernon; after which, if I remember rightly, he was alone in business again. In 1857, he was united in marriage to Miss Rowena Camp, a yound lady of excellent qualities of head and heart, who with their two pledges of married life, passed away to the land of shadows in the fall of 1864. The war came and John Q. Wilds’ patriotic impulses would not permit him to stand aloof when the liberties of his country were in peril Sometime during the summer of 181, he was elected captain of company “A,” 13th Iowa Infantry, theregiment being commanded by the lamented Crocker. Serving with this regiment a short time, he resigned to accept the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 24th Iowa Infantry, which was raised under the President’s proclamation of July 2d, 1862, calling for three hundred thousand volunteers. This regiment was sometimes called “ The Iowa Temperance Regiment” or “Methodist Regiment, “ because of the strict piety of so many of its members, and their supreme contempt for the god Bacchus. The reimant rendezvoused near Muscatine with the 35th at Camp StrongWhen medical inspection took place it was ascertained that the regiment was more than full, and the excess was transferred to the 35th. On the 20th of October; Col. Wilds proceeded with the regiment to Helena, Arkansas, where they remained during the winter, goin out occasionally on expeditions in search of the enemy. On the morning of January 11th, 1863, the regiment embarked with ‘Gen. Gorman’s White River Expedition, enduring great trials and hardships. After the return to Helena a general reorganization took place preparatory to active spring operations, and the 24th was attached to the 13th corps. Having been subjected to the skillful instructions of Lieut. Col. Wilds, it added materially to the efficiency and discipling of the corps. Lieut. Col. Wilds took part in the campaign against Vicksburg, and was engaged in the battle of Port Hudson; after which, himself and command did much “marching, skirmishing and foraging.” In the battle of Champion Hills, which was fought on the 16th of May, and undoubtedly one of the hardest fought battles of the war, the officers and men composing the 24th, displayed a bravery and gallantry unexcelled, losing one hundred and ninety five killed, wounded and captured, out of the four hundred and seventeen who entered the contest. In the siege of Vicksburg, no less famous than was that of Antwerp, the regiment acquitted itself nobly. About this time the Colnonel of the regiment, E. C. Byam, an excellent gentlemen and fine officer, “was compelled to leave the wervie by reason of ill health.” Lieut. Col. Wilds then took faithful conscientious charge,” and led his command through the Red River Expedition and battle of Sabine Cross Roads.
However, in the conflict only a portion of the regiment was engaged. After this battle, which occurred on the 8th of April 1864, the regiment went by sea to Fortress Monroe, thence by steamer to Washington City, thence to the Shenandoah Valley where it joined Gen. Sheridan and fought the battle of Winchester. In this contest, Col. Wilds, Major Wright, and in fact, all the officers and men fought with the most undaunted courage. Among many others who were wounded was Adj. Daniel W. Camp of Mounty Vernon, brother in law to Col. Wilds. The next engagement in which the regiment participated, was Fisher’s Hill. The loss of the regiment was the 19th of October the battle of Cedar Creek was fought, and in which the subject of this sketch was mortally wounded. He was removed immediately to Winchester, where after much suffering, death closed his earthly career on the 18th of November 1864. Speaking of the part taken by the 28th Iowas in the battle of Cedar Creek, Mr. Ingersoll in his well written “Iowa and the Rebellion”, says: In this engagement there were two regiments besides the 28th from Iowa, the 22nd, Col. Harvey Graham, and the 24th Col. John Q. Wilds. These were prominent in the action and lost many officers and men hors du combat. Col. Wils on this field received this wound from which he soon afterwards died. It is a melancholy fact that soon afterwards his name can onlylive in the grateful recollection of his countrymen, who can never forget his long career of usefulness and gallantry.” His regiment, by which he was almost idolized, held a meeting at Camp Russell, Va., on the 22nd of Nov. 1864, take action concerning his death, Lieut. Col. Wright having been called upon to preside, T. L. Smith was elected Secretary. Brief and appropriate remarks were made by several persons, while many shed bitter tears of anguish over the loss of their fallen chief. The following resolutions were presented and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, that the death of Col. Wilds has filled our hearts with grief; has torn asunder associations of respect and affection, which, extending back throught the perios od our organization has only deepened and strengthened as time passed. In Col. Wilds, we remember an officer who was alsays at his post, and ever filled his position with true soldierly dignity. During the existence of the regiment he has had but few days of relief from duty, and in the severest of its campaigns, and in the bloodiest of it engagements, his skill and courage have inspired its actions In addition to these qualities of the soldier, we remember especially those kindly feelings, that warm personal interest and sympathy which he extended to every member of his command. Truly unselfish, and delicately sensible to the trials and hardships of the soldier, he has left in the hearts of us all, indelible impressions which will ever cluster gently around the memory of our commander and friend.
Resolved, That we accord to the relatives and friends of the deceased our deepest sympathy in their lass, and the sorrow it must cause; while at the same time we sould remind them that the death of our mutual friend was one of honor that he gave his life, as he had his service, to his country for the preservation of those institutions and that government through whose instrumentality our freedom and happiness can alone ge secured.
John Q. Wilds was considerably above the medium height, tall and wiry in form , very much after the Lincoln style of man. Possessing a keen scrutinizing eye, he never failed to observe all that was transpiring around him, and being an excellent judge of human nature he was enabled to form accurate opinions of those with whom he ws thrown in contact. Fank and free in his manner, yet reserved on all proper occasions when discretion demanded reticence. He was one of those men who would never knowingly wrong his fellow man, and his generosity led him +to sympathize with all those in misfortune. In truth, he was beloved and respected by all who were fortunate enough to make his acquaintance. No man was more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of patriotism than he. But he has gone! A brave and noble spirit has passed away to the land of the hereafter. A record has been left behind pure and spotless, untarnished by any dishonorable act during his eventful career. In order to did in the preservation of the fairest and noblest babric of constitutional freedom ever erected by man, he has lain down his life with that same sublime heroism which renders man almost immortal in every age and clime where human liberty is revered:
“As the bird to its sheltering rest,
When the storm on the hills is abroad,
So his spirit has flown from this world of unreal, to repose on the bosom of God”
James P. C. Poulton
Annals of Iowa, July, 1866. http://wwwpast2present.org
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