TOWN OF WOODHULL. 



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Maxfield, Godfrey, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; disch. 



Oct. 1865. 

 Van Pelt, Alexander, private, 107tli Inf., Co. E ; enl. Aug. 21, 1862, three years ; 



disch. for disability, Sept. 7, 1863. 

 Wheatou, Charles L., private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; 



taken pris. ; died April 16, 1864. 

 Willard, Sagar, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Sept. 1862, three years. 

 Garvey, Henry William, private, 16l8t Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; 



disch. June 10, 1864, at Elmira. 

 Blakesley, Joel, 16lst Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 

 McChesney, Lucas, private, 161st Inf., Co. A ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; disch. 



Oct. 1865. 

 Stratton, Edward, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; killed 



at Port Hudson, May 27, 1863. 

 Brush, John, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; disch. Sept. 



20, 1865. 

 Upthegrove, Clark, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl, Aug. 1862, three years; came 

 home on furlough, Nov. 5, 1862 ; taken sick with typhoid fever, and died 

 Dec. 1862. 

 Stryker, Frank, private, 107th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 

 Weaver, George, private, 189th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 1864, one year; disch. 



June 30, 1865, at Alexandria- 

 Bellinger, George, private; enl. Jan. 1864, three years. 

 Taylor, SylvennsP., private, 161st Inf., Co. A ; enl. Jan. 1864, three years; taken 



sick ; died July 25, 186+, at University hospital, New Orleans. 

 Couch, Charles, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Jan. 1864, three years; died in 



hospital at New Orleans, Aug. 24, 1864. 

 Shults, Ezeriah, private; enl. Jan. 1864, three years. 

 Briggs, George A., private ; enl. Jan. 1864, three years. 

 Greek, Wm., private ; enl. Feb. 1864, three years. 

 R:>ymond, Wm., private; three years. 

 Hamill, Philip, private ; three years. 

 Wheeler, Wm. Henry, private, 189th Inf., Co, C; enl. Aug. 1864, three years; 



disch. June 8, 1865. 

 Cooke, Harvey Edward, private, 161st Inf., Co. A; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; 

 disch. Jan. 1863, for disability; re-eul. Sept. 1863, 1st Vet. Cav., Co. F; 

 disch, July 29, 1865. 

 Toby, Ransford, enl, April, 1864, three years. 

 Wilkius, Robert, enl. April, 1864. 

 Paris, Tyler, private, 107th Inf., Co. G; enl. July 22, 1862, three years ; wounded 



in left knee ; disch. June 5, 1865, at Elmira. 

 Brimer Hial, enl. May, 1864, three years. 



Delany, Palsey, enl. Aug, 1862, three years; sub, for Franklin J. Marshal. 

 Connelly, Daniel, must. Sept. 1864, three years; sub, for James P. Streight. 

 Murphy, John, must, Sept. 1864, three years ; sub. for Lemuel Lewis. 

 Owooney, John, must. Sept, 1864, three years; sub. for Nathan Rose. 

 Douglass, David, must, Sept. 1864, three years ; sub. for Richard M.Thompson. 

 Kelsey, Francis, must. Sept. 1864, three years ; sub. for John H. Prine. 



Bagley, Charles F,, mnst. Sept, 1864, three years : sub. for Philip Prine. 

 Saleman, George, must. Sept. 1864, three years; sub. for David H, Prine. 

 Welch, George, must. Sept, 1864, tiiree years; sub, for George E. Derrick. 

 Taylor, George W., must. Sept. 1864, three years ; sub. for Orville Thompson. 

 Shults, Merlin, private, 189th Inf., Co. C; enl. Sept. 1864, one year; disch. 



June, 1865, 

 Cooper, Ira, Jr., private, 189th Inf., Co. C; enl. Sept. 1864, one year; disch. at 



Elmira for disability. 

 White, Wm., private, 189th Inf., Co. C; enl. Sept. 1864, one year; disch. June, 



1865. 

 Morrison, David Henry, private, 189th Inf. ; enl. Sept. 1864, one year; disch, 



June, 18G5, 

 Ackerson, John, enl, Sept. 1804, one year; disch. Nov. 1864. 

 Read, Mortimer W,, sergt., 189th Inf., Co,C; enl, Aug. 1864, one year; disch. 



June, 1865. 

 Gray, Charies Munson, private, 189th Inf., Co. C; enl. Aug, 1864, one year. 

 Welch, Benjamin S., private, 141st Inf., Co. K; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year; 



died Dec. 9, 1861, of typhoid fever. 

 Cormie, Robert J., private, 189th Inf, Co. C; enl. Sept, 1864, one year; disch, 



June, 1865. 

 Simons, Alva D., private, 189th Inf., Co. C; enl, Sept. 1864, one year; disch. 



June, 1865. 

 Hina, Peter, private, 14l8t Inf, Co. H; enl. Sept, 1864, one year; disch, June 



8, 1865. 

 Churchill, Daniel, private ; enl, Sept. 1864, one year. 

 Keeper, Waddell L., private ; enl. Sept. 1864, one year. 

 Hark, Chailes, private ; enl. Sept. 1864, one year. 

 Hickory, David J., private ; enl. Dec. 1864, one year. 

 Preston, George, enl. Dec. 16, 1864, tliree years; sub. for Thomas J. Gray. 

 Robeshaw, Charies, enl. Dec. 17, 1864, three years; sub. for Richard Gray. 

 Castor, Charles, private, 107th Inf., Co. K; enl, Aug. 11, 1862, three years; 



wounded May 25, 1864, at New Hope Church; disch. May 30, 1805. 

 Dowd, Ira C, private, 141st Inf., Co. C ; enl. Aug, 1862, three years ; died in 



Georgia, Dec. 1864, 

 Irons, Emir A., private, 14lst Inf., Co. E; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; disch. 



July 6, 1864. 

 Brown, John Wesley, 107th Inf., Co. G; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; disch, for 



disability. 

 Warner, Franklin, private, 141st Inf, Co. G; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 

 Drake, Edwin, private, 161st Inf., Co. A ; enl, Aug, 1862, three years. 

 Krants, Moses, private, 107th Inf., Co. G ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 

 Blakesley, Robert, private, 161st Inf., Co. I; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 

 Billings, Elisha, private, 107th Inf, ; enl. Aug, 1862. 

 Allen, Elijah Read, private, Capt. Mowers ; three years. 

 McNeal, Lyman, private; enl. Sept. 1862, three years; brought home, Aug. 



1865; died. 

 Shaut, Franklin, drafted, 1863, 

 Mowers, Belden, private, 161st Inf,; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. 



WOODHULL. 



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GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



This town occupies a central position upon the southern 

 border of the county. Its surface is a hilly upland, varie- 

 gated with forests and cultivated farms. The principal 

 stream is the Tuscarora Creek, which flows east through 

 the northerly part of the town. The general character of 

 the soil is that of a clayey and gravelly loam, and is good 

 land for agricultural purposes. 



EARLY SETTLEMENT. 



Laying back from the river-valley, and off the line of 

 general travel, the town of Woodhull presented but little 

 inducement to the permanent settler in its first years of oc- 

 cupation. Some venturesome hunter, who had found his 

 way over the hills south of the Canisteo, discovered among 

 the dark hemlocks of the Tuscarora hills a beautiful little 

 valley, thinly covered with groves of maple, oak, and hemr 

 lock, and inhabited by countless herds of elk and deer. It 



seemed to be a hunter's paradise. To the east, a gently- 

 sloping hill-side occupied the space between two streams 

 which, uniting at its base, formed the South branch of the 

 Tuscarora Creek. Westward, a point of land at the lower 

 end of the valley left barely room for the stream — some forty 

 yards in width — to find its way out. Continuing towards 

 the east in its general course, sometimes filling the narrow 

 space between the hills, and again opening at the mouth of 

 some smaller tributary into a level valley, so obstructed in 

 its course by fallen trees as to be almost impassable in its 

 downward course of 700 feet, it finds an outlet through the 

 Tuscarora Yalley into the Canisteo River, twelve miles dis- 

 tant. The first inhabitants of this town were men who 

 lived for the pleasure of the chase, and found their way 

 into this secluded spot with their families, only to leave on 

 the approach of a more permanent settlement. 



In 1804, Daniel Johnson, father of Asher Johnson, first 

 supervisor of WoodbuH, and for a number of years a prom- 



