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I posted this item at the Terwilliger rootsweb.com mailing list on Thursday, 29 Mar 2007
Subject: [TERWILLIGER]
Hiram H. Terwilliger>Civil War>Terwilliger's in 20th
New York State Militia-Ulster Guard (also Ellenville, NY)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007
Portion of post...
"Ellenville is a village in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 4,130 at the 2000 census. The village of Ellenville is within the town of Wawarsing. The first building was erected around 1805, but by 1823, there were only about 4 houses in the village. The village was incorporated in 1838. It is somewhat isolated, located in the valley between the Shawangunk Ridge to the east and the Catskill Plateau to the west." (Source: Wikpedia)
From "Reminiscences of a Boy in the Civil War" by Enos Ballard Vail.
Published 1915. Printed by the author for private distribution.
159 pages.
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized: June 15, 2006
"...President Lincolns first call for seventy-five thousand volunteers to serve for three months was issued on the 15th of April, 1861. A few days thereafter a recruiting office was opened in the Terwilliger Hotel. The men and boys from over the whole township, and many from the adjoining towns came to enlist. On the evening of the 23rd, I joined the army. I worked on the farm the next day, and at night, when the day's work was done, I left the plow in the furrow, and bade good-bye to farming forever. (pg.16) I made up my mind then that I did not have brains enough to ever make a successful farmer. The company in which I enlisted was known as company "E", and the regiment, the Twentieth New York State Militia, also known as the Ulster Guard. It consisted of the following officers and men
Roll of Company "E", Light infantry in the Twentieth Regiment, Eighth Brigade, Third division of the militia of the State of New York.
Officers: Captain William Lent
Privates--(long list) including:
HIRAM H. TERWILLIGER
WILLIAM W. TERWILLIGER
SIMON TERWILLIGER
H.S. TERWILLIGER
The morning of April twenty-fifth, the company of about one hundred men and boys (mostly boys) left Ellenville, bound for Kingston to join the regiment. I think that we had five four-horse teams, also the Ellenville brass band and the enthusiastic crowd to see us off. (pg18) "
"...we had drills everyday, company drill in the morning and the Battalion drill in the afternoon, each drill lasting two hours. Dress parade was at Sunset. These with a twenty-four hour tour of guard duty once in three days, or oftener, kept us fairly busy. While we were in training a strong guard was maintained around the camp, and we were not supposed to leave without a pass from the commanding officer of the company, but having had three month's previous experience in camp, I found it quite easy to run the guard. I was in Kingston and Rondout many times without permission and with my usual luck my absence was not discovered."
Note: The Huguenot Historical society list of personal and family papers has:
TERWILLIGER, HIRAM H. Civil War soldier. Civil War Picket Pass (1864). 1 item. "Guard & Pickets Pass" issued to Hiram H. Terwilliger by the Headquarters Provost Marshal General at Alexandria, Virginia on May 5, 1864, expiring May 8.
www.hhs-newpaltz.org/library_archives/collections/papers
(I don't really know the details about a Picket Pass. Citizens also received a pass to get through the soldier picket lines to go into towns for shopping or visiting. The pass might be good for two or three days and a person had to show the guard a "pass" to get through the picket lines...and also to return..)
Page 37 of Enos Ballard Vail's book, he has another roster for Company E.
HIRAM H TERWILLIGER is listed as sergeant.
PRIVATE JOHN MC TERWILLIGER
PRIVATE WILLIAM H. TERWILLIGER
(Petliah Ward, our captain)
"...we broke camp on Friday, October 25th along the Plank Road we marched, every available inch of standing room was occupied by the friends of the regiment, to bid us farewell, and in many cases it was the last good-bye in the world. (pg 38) at Rondout we embarked on the steamer "Manhatten" for New York."
Maybe Battle of Gainesville? (around August 29th, after a battle, page 77 Chapter X)
"...my own company suffered severly. Miles Anderson and Adam Bishop were left dead in the field. HIRAM H. TERWILLIGER was wounded in nine different places; in fact, when he was brought to the field hospital, the surgeon remarked to Hospital Steward Benson that he was beyond help. He poured morphine without measuring it and told Benson to give it to him, remarking that if his wounds did not kill him the dose would. He is on record in the medical department at Washington as one of the remarkable cases of recovery after desperate injuries. At this writing, July, 1914, He is still living. My own company lost fourteen men killed and wounded. How I escaped is a mystery, as men were falling all around me..."
Note: Enos was wounded on July 1, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was less than twenty years old at the time. (page 134) he wrote the military when was about 70 years old and requested the bullet they had taken out of him. They sent it to him from the goverment medical museum.
There is a wonderful site that has a lot more information about the 20th New York State Militia and the address is http://www.ulsterguard.us and source credits to
Seward R. Osborne, Historian, 20th New York State Militia.
All information below is from that site.
The periods of service for the 20th New York State Militia
April 28-August 2 1861 and
October 25, 1861-January 29, 1866.
This regiment is correctly termed the 20th New York State Militia. Although, in 1861, New York State gave the unit a new numerical designation of 80, the regiment never accepted it! The main reason the Ulster Guard would not adhere to this change, although not the only reason, was because it had a history as the 20th NYSM since 1848"
20th New York State Militia Ulster Guard (80th NYV)
Roster-Soldier name and company. www.ulsterguard.us/rosters
many names including these TERWILLIGER'S listed below.
JOHN MC TERWILLEGER (my note: this was the spelling variation on the list)
AH TERWILLIGER COMPANY H
ABRAM S TERWILLIGER COMPANY H
CHARLES H TERWILLIGER COMPANY G
HIRAM H TERWILLIGER COMPANY E
JACOB TERWILLIGER COMPANY B
JOHN J. TERWILLIGER (unassigned)
LEWIS TERWILLIGER COMPANY D
THOMAS TERWILLIGER COMPANY E
WILLIAM H TERWILLIGER COMPANY E
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