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| Notes for William Henry KNIGHT "Sergeant, 40th NY Infantry, U.S.V.A." | ||||||||||||||
| 14 June 1861 William joined the United States Volunteer Army in New York. He was enlisted into Company "B," 40th New York Infantry Regiment. He enlisted with the rank of Private. Wm. H. Knight Regiment Name 40 N. Y. Infantry Side Union Company B Soldier's Rank_In Private Soldier's Rank_Out Private Alternate Name Notes Film Number M551 roll 78 - [2] 1 July 1861 William was promoted to the rank of Corporal. 30 August 1862 William became a Prisoner of War during the 2nd Battle of Bull Run. He was paroled. 29 December 1862 William received a disability discharge from the 40th New York Infantry while in Alexandria, Virginia. His disability was listed as being a hernia. 40th Regiment, New York Infantry Organized at Yonkers, N. Y., June 27, 1861. Left State for Washington, D. C., July 4, 1861. Duty near Alexandria till August 4. Attached to Howard's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Sedgwick's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to May, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865. SERVICE.-Duty in the Defences of Washington, and on the Upper Potomac, till March, 1862. Operations on the Potomac October 21-24, 1861. Action at Ball's Bluff October 21. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862. Ordered to the Peninsula, Va., March 17. Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks May 31-June 1. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Oak Grove near Seven Pines June 25; Jordan's Ford June 29; Savage Station June 29; White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30; Malvern Hill July 1; Turkey Bend July 3. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-26. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1. Picket duty at Conrad's Ferry till October. Movement up the Potomac to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va, October 11-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. At Falmouth till April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-4. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. Wapping Heights, Va., July 23. Duty on line of the Rappahannock till October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Auburn and Bristoe October 13-14. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly's Ford November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Payne's Farm November 27. Mine Run November 28-30. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6, 1864. Near Brandy Station till May. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Laurel Hill May 8; Po River May 10; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient or "Bloody Angle" May 12. Harris Farm or Fredericksburg Road May 19. North Anna River May 23-26. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 21-23, 1864. Demonstration north of the James July 27-29. Deep Bottom July 27-28. Demonstration north of the James August 13-20. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12. Dabney's Mill, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865. Watkins' House March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. White Oak Road March 29-30. Crow's House March 31. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Sailor's Creek April 6. High Bridge and Farmville April 7. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. At Burkesville till May 2. March to Washington, D. C., May 2-15. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out June 27, 1865. Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 228 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 170 Enlisted men by disease. Total 410. - [2] William Henry, son of William Knight, was born in Harmony, Chautauqua county, New York, April 19, 1835, and removed to Los Angeles, California. He was educated in the Jamestown public school, which he attended from 1843 to 1848, and Jamestown Academy, which he attended from 1848 to 1851. He compiled "Bancroft's Handbook of the Pacific States," 1862; "Bancroft's Map of the Pacific States," 1863; was manager of Bancroft's Publishing Department, San Francisco, California, from 1864 to 1869; was partner in Bancroft, Knight & Company, publishers of music, from 1870 to 1879; was buyer for the Emerson & Fisher Carriage Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1879 to 1891, and auditor of Mt. Lowe Railway Company, Pasadena, California, from 1893 to 1896. He was also a writer and lecturer on astronomical and other scientific subjects, and a liberal contributor to leading scientific journals. He served in the capacity of president of the Southern California Academy of Sciences from 1894 to 1897, and from 1899 to 1902; secretary of the Forest and Water Society of Southern California from 1898 to 1903; secretary of the Highway Commission, Los Angeles county, California, from 1901 to 1903; secretary of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, Los Angeles, 1896-97; honorary member of Cincinnati Society of Natural History from 1891; president of Unity Club, Cincinnati, 1885-87, and president of Unity Club, Los Angeles, 1893-95. In addition to all these he was an editorial writer on the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Knight married Ella Joana WATERS, born April 3, 1846, at Woodford, near Bennington, Vermont, daughter of Elijah Dewey and Eliza Ann (Hinsdale) WATERS Seven children were born to them, four of whom surviving namely: Alfred,b 1874 Mrs. Christopher Ruess, of Oakland, California; Emerson, a resident of Los Angeles, California; Bertha, a resident of New York. - [1] [1] - New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume III [2] - National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, Names and Records of Union and Confederate Troops; http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm | ||||||||||||||
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