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==Military Service==
==Military Service==
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[[Category:Biography]][[Category:Military]][[Category:Civil War]] [[Category: Rensselaerville Biographies]]
[[Category:Biographies]][[Category:Military]][[Category:Civil War]] [[Category: Rensselaerville Biographies]]

Latest revision as of 07:21, May 18, 2022


Birth

Oscar Akely was born in Rensselaerville on January 6, 1841, a son of Leonard and Mary Akely [1] His family moved to Gilboa, Schoharie Co., NY sometime before 1860.

Marriage & Children

Military Service

Residence: Gilboa, Schoharie Co., NY[1]
Enlistment Date: 2 Jan 1864[1]
Enlistment Place: Troy, NY[1]
Enlistment Rank: Private[1]
State Served: New York
Regiment: 7th Heavy Artillery [1][2]
Company: M[1]
Wounded in Action on:
Wounded at: Cold Harbor[1]
Captured at: Cold Harbor[2]
Imprisoned at: Libby and Bell Island[2]
Muster Out Date: 31 May 1865 [2]
Muster Out Place:
Additional Remarks: No record of his service was found in the AG rosters, or in the military databases of Ancestry except the 1890 Veteran’s census and the Town & City registers. No mention was made of his imprisonment in the register. “In Battle of Coal Harbour was severely wounded” [1]

“Wounded right thigh, was in prison, Libby and Bell Island” [2]

Sources Used: Town and City Registers of the Men Who Served in the Civil War; 1890 Veteran’s census

Death

Oscar died in 1908 and was buried at Gilboa in a cemetery that was removed for the dam in 1925.

Obituary

Additional Research Notes

Additional Media


Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 1890 Veteran’s Census, Gilboa, Schoharie Co., NY