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Sylvester McAninch, Union Veteran – |
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Two Units, Two States, and 18 Different Name Spellings ! |
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Acknowledgment: Much of the information presented here was researched originally |
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by Nancy Emery [1], especially his pension file, although this article is my responsibility. |
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Sylvester Danley McAninch was born circa 1846, Crawford County, Ohio. He was the second son of John (?Bunyan) and Elizabeth (McLain/McClean) McAninch, who came from central Pennsylvania. |
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John McAninch married Miss McClean [sic] in 1833, according to the Path Valley Presbyterian Church records, Path Valley, Franklin County (adjacent to Huntingdon County), Pennsylvania [2]. From later census records, John was born 1801-1803, and Elizabeth was born 1814-1815, both in Pennsylvania. |
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In the 1840 census, John McAninch is still in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters [4]. Circa 1840-1841, they moved to Ohio; the 1850 census finds them in Crawford County, Ohio, listed as “John McWinch” [McWench?] [5], with 3 children, youngest is Sylvester Danley, age 4. |
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Between 1850-1854, they moved to Indiana; in the 1860 census they are in Porter County, Indiana [6]. |
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John McAninch, spelled correctly, age 59, his wife, Eliza, age 46, and Sylvester, age 14, born in Penn. |
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(Porter County is in the north-west corner of Indiana, on Lake Michigan; Valparaiso is the county seat). “John McIninch” [sic] and Elizabeth are still in Porter County in the 1870 census, without Sylvester [7] |
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During the Civil War, Sylvester served in units from two states (Illinois’ 9th Cavalry, and then Indiana’s 128th Infantry Regiment), mustered-out in April, 1866 (1866, not 1865), and collected his pension later, in Minneapolis. The following chronology of events is based on his pension file [8] and other sources. |
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1861, 10 Sep. |
Enrolled as Private, Capt. Buel’s Co., Company G, 9th Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, at Valparaiso [Porter County], Indiana, for 3 years |
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Description: age 19, 5’ 3”, light complexion, eyes blue, hair light, born Ohio, occupation Farmer [lied about his age?] |
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1861, 09 Oct. |
Muster in (on rolls as McAninch, McAnnich, McAnich) |
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1861, 30 Nov. |
According to the Regimental History [9], Company G was organized as an |
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Independent Company (not from a specific county); the 9th Cavalry mustered |
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in November 30, 1861, and moved from Chicago to Benton Barracks, Missouri. |
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1862, May |
Attached to Steele’s Division, District of Southeast Missouri, to May, 1862 |
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1862, July |
Unattached Cavalry, Curtis’ Army of Southwest Missouri, to July 1862. |
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1862, Sept. |
District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Missouri, to December 1862. |
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1862, 30 Sep. |
Sent to hospital at Benton Barracks, Missouri [St. Louis] |
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1862, 20 Dec. |
Discharged [from 9th Regiment, Illinois Cavalry] for disability, Benton Barracks, St. Louis [Missouri] – valvular [sic] disease of heart, pulmonic direct murmur and second sound at apex, some edema of feet. |
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1861 / 1862 |
“McAnaich, Sylvester, 9th Illinois Cavalry, Company G, [mustered in ] Pvt., |
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[out] Pvt.”, original “McAnneck, Sylvester”, also “McAnnick” and “McAnnench” |
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1861 / 1862 |
“McAnonck [sic], Sylvester [Co.] G 9 Cav [Residence] Union, Indiana” |
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[official records, Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, spelled “McAnonck”; believe that Residence was actually “Union Township”, (Porter County), Indiana]. |
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McAninch Family History NL, V-4 November, 1997 Copyright Frank McAninch page 1997-34 |
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