Chilson, Lloyd W

Notes:

gravestone
gravestone
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981

Buried:
East Hill Cemetery

married Beard, Nina M. Nina (daughter of Beard, Wesley and Bodenhamer, Sarah Linnea) was born in 1901; died in 1943; was buried in Neosho County, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

gravestone
gravestone
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981

Buried:
East Hill Cemetery

Notes:

gravestone
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981

Buried:
Lakeview Cemetery

Wesley married Bodenhamer, Sarah Linnea on 22 Oct 1899 in Neosho County, Kansas. Sarah (daughter of Bodenhamer, Henry Clay and James, Priscilla Jane) was born on 19 Aug 1881 in Neosho County, Kansas; died in 1933 in Erie, Neosho County, Kansas; was buried in Neosho, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mother's application for widow's Civil War Pension
gravestone
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981

Buried:
Lakeview Cemetery

Notes:

Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 11 Sep 1983

Notes:

In papers of the Illinois Adjutant General's Office, we find Henry
Bodenhamer described as 6' 1" tall, with light hair, grey eyes, and a
light complexion. He was enrolled on 11 Aug 1862 at Brooklyn, Illinois,
by Captain Blackburn for a term of three years. He was mustered in 1 Sep
1862 at Quincy, Illinois, by Capt Ewing.
He was a member of Company A of the 78th Illinois Infantry. This
regiment was first assigned on 19 Sep 1862, to guard prisoners in
Louisville, Kentucky, and then on 5 Oct to protect the railroad from
Elizabethtown to New Haven, Kentucky. On 26 Dec, John Morgan's guerillas
captured Companies B and C, and they were to spend more than nine months
under guard in St. Louis.
In early Feb 1863, the regiment traveled to Nashville, Tennessee via
the Cumberland River. On the 3rd, although they saw no action
themselves, their arrival at Fort Donnelson caused the withdrawal of
Confederate forces under Forrest and Wheeler, who otherwise seemed likely
to defeat the Union forces there. On the 12th, the 78th marched to
Franklin, Tennessee, where it remained four months, its first chance to
drill.
On 23 Jun, they marched to Murfreesboro, and on the 28th they
continued south, reaching Shelbyville, Tennessee on 1 Jul. From 6 to 19
Sep, they moved south past Lookout Mountain, through Rossville and
Ringgold, Georgia, and then back to Rossville, skirmishing all the way.
Their first major battle came at Chickamunga on the 20th and 21st,
where they suffered heavy losses in a charge on Longstreet's corps.
October, November, and December were spent tracking back and forth across
southeastern Tennessee, maintaining supply lines and skirmishing. They
wintered at Rossville. Their first action in 1864 came in May, with the
beginning of the Atlanta campaign. They were at Buzzard's Roost, then
Resaca, Rome, and New Hope Church. They suffered serious losses in a
failed assault on earthworks at Kenesaw on 27 Jun. July 17 found them
engaged at Peach Tree Creek, and by the 28th they were working their way
around Atlanta.
On 1 Sep, they accomplished the unusual by capturing trenches at
Jonesboro, with men and equipment; Clay Bodenhamer was reported wounded
on this day. Atlanta fell into Union hands on the 2nd. On the 29th, the
regiment traveled by train to Athens, Alabama, and then marched to
Florence, where they overtook Forrest. They were transported to
Chattanooga, and from there they once again marched through Gaylesville,
Rome, and Kingston, reaching Atlanta on 16 Nov. This time they continued
south and east, through Covington, Milledgeville, Sandersville, and
Louisville. They completed their march to the sea by taking Savannah on
21 Dec. With this they had managed to divide the Confederacy into two
unconnected parts. On 20 Jan 1865, they broke camp at Savannah and
started north, through Barnwell, Lexington, and Winnsboro, South
Carolina, destroying railways and other property as they went. By 11 Mar,
they had reached Fayetteville, North Carolina.
They encountered heavy fighting on the 19th at Bentonville, being for
a while entirely encircled by the enemy. Following this fight they
camped near Goldsboro. When the war ended on 26 Apr, they were encamped
at Raleigh, where they had been since the 10th. They then marched
through Richmond, Virginia, and reached Washington on 19 May. On the
24th, they took part in the Grand Review. They were mustered out on 7
Jun and transported to Chicago, where they received their pay on the
12th.
Of the original 862 recruits, only 396 reamained to make the trip
from Washington to Chicago. Ninety six had died on the field, 24 in
Confederate prisons, and 77 in hospitals. An additional two hundred or
so were lost to injuries.
After the war, Clay Bodenhamer returned to Schuyler County, until
about 1878, when he moved to Kansas. They had not been in Kansas many
years when the
family of an uncle was murdered, and a son of the family sent to prison.
The shock of this event undid Clay, and he was admitted to the insane
assylum at Osawatomie, Kansas. He remained there until his death, and
because the family was too poor to bring the body back home, he was
buried at the assylum.
When she applied for a pension based on his service, Jane Bodenhamer
stated that he, "while in said service & line of duty contracted severe
debility and heart disease. The same being super[?]nced & brought on
from impure vacination which continued to affect his left side, that he
died from these causes."

Henry married James, Priscilla Jane on 7 Sep 1873 in Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, USA. Priscilla was born on 16 Mar 1847 in Illinois, USA; died on 25 Aug 1915 in Macksville, Stafford County, Kansas, USA; was buried in Neosho County, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Priscilla James appears in the 1850 census in her father's household in
Eden (now Birmingham) twp, Schuyler co, Illinois. In 1870, she is in the
household of George [sic Charles T] Wheeler in Lamoin Townshipi,
McDonough County, Illinois. In 1900, she is in Neosho County, Kansas.
In 1890, when she applied for a pension based on her husband's
service in the Civil War, neighbors testified "that she owns a small
house of only 2 rooms worth not over $100. That see owns only one cow
and 2 hogs and 6 pigs & no other personal property except household
goods. We also know that she works at Weaving Carpets and other such
work for the support of her self and family, and we further know that she
has during the last two years had and received aid from Erie Post No 311
GAR and also from the board of County Comissioners of Neosho
County, Kansas."

Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 2 May 1981
Letter from Mary Ann Wheeler, 9 Jun 1981

Buried:
East Hill Cemetery