Alfred Purdy CODDINGTON For sources please contact coddgenealogy at gmail d0t com
Robert CODDINGTON
(1787-1845)
Margaret MANNING
(1794-1877)
David KILBOURN
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Clarinda HAWLEY
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Reuben Purdy CODDINGTON
(1816-1885)
Harriet Maria KILBOURN
(1823-)
Alfred Purdy CODDINGTON
(1845-1865)

 

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Alfred Purdy CODDINGTON 1386,3558

  • Born: 19 Jan 1845, , , Michigan, USA 1386,3558
  • Died: 15 Apr 1865, Sherwood Cmty, Sherwood, Branch Co., Michigan at age 20 1386,3558

  General Notes:

Civil War Veteran:
Enlisted as a Private on 01 September 1864 in Sherwood at the age of 19 in Company Batty M, 1st Light Artillery Regiment Michigan. Transferred on 18 November 1864. Transferred in Batty D Regiment on 18 November 1864. Died of disease on 15 April 1865 in Murfreesboro, TN

Sources: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65. (MIRoster) Published in 1903

Regimental History MICHIGAN First Light Artillery.

It has been deemed expedient in compiling the history of this regiment to place each battery by itself.

The companies of a regiment of infantry or cavalry usually serve together as an organization, but the character of a regiment of artillery is such that the different batteries are seldom, if ever, assembled as one organization.

The batteries composing this regiment were assigned to separate armies in the field and took a conspicuous part in the western army and the army of the Potomac.

The Colonel of the regiment was Cyrus 0. Loomis, formerly Captain of Battery A, commissioned Colonel Oct. 8, 1862, and the field officers of the regimental organization were as follows:

Lieutenant Colonel Luther F. Hale, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Ross, Major Josiah W. Church, Major John J. Ely, Major Albert F. R. Arndt, Major John C. Schuetz.

A brief history of each battery of the regiment, with the military history of each member, is given in this volume.

For some reason unexplained, the field returns of the batteries composing the regiment were not made as full and complete as the cavalry and infantry organizations. The records of the Adjutant General's department show but meager returns for batteries that took conspicuous parts in many of the hardest fought battles of the war. The history of these organizations cannot be written as their merits and distinguished services deserve, because such history was not reported at the time it was made.

BATTERY M.

Battery M was organized at Mt. Clemens in connection with the Eighth Cavalry and the organization was completed at Dearborn June 30, 1863, at which date it was mustered into service with the following officers: Captain, Edwin G. Hilliar of Detroit. First Lieutenant, Charles D. Culver of Mt. Clemens. First Lieutenant, August M. Emery of Detroit. Second Lieutenant, George H. Moulton of Coldwater and Second Lieutenant, George A. Sheely of Detroit.

The Battery left Dearborn July 9, for Indianapolis, Ind., as that city was then threatened by the Confederate raider, John Morgan.

The Battery proceeded to Camp Nelson, Kentucky, and on the 24th of September marched with a division of troops under General 0. B. Wilcox for Cumberland Gap.

It took part in the East Tennessee Campaign and was constantly on the march in severe weather and over rough roads until January, 1864, when it was placed in the fortifications at Cumberland Gap.

In April, 1865, the Battery marched to Knoxville, and then proceeded to Strawberry Plains, where it remained until July, when it started for Michigan. It arrived in Jackson July 12, and was paid and disbanded Aug. 1, 1865.

Total enrollment...267
Died of disease.......8
Discharged for disability (wounds and disease)................7

Battles Fought
Fought on 18 June 1864 at Powell Valley. 1386

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census on 13 Oct 1850 in Sherwood, Branch Co., Michigan, USA. 3564

• He appeared on the census on 26 Jul 1860 in Sherwood, Branch Co., Michigan, USA. 3565

• He appeared on the census on 13 Jul 1870 in Union Twp., Branch Co., Michigan, USA. 3566




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