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4.
McAninch, Milton G. [NARA: "54th Ind. Inf Co [l?]
Lee’s [not |
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[June 1862 to Fall 1863; actually Milton C., not G., brother of John, who also joined |
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the 54th; John and Milton sons of Elisha and Barsheba Scott McAninch, and |
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grand-sons of Samuel and Polly (Skidmore) McAninch] |
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The 54th Regiment... [described under "McAninch, John W.", above] |
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and [his second unit, 1864]: |
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McAninch, Milton G. [NARA: "133 Ind Inf, Co.H, 100 days 1864 pvt pvt"] [May 1864 |
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to (? Sep. 1864); same Milton C, "G." transcription error?] "The 133rd Regiment, |
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raised at Richmond [Wayne County, on the Ohio state line] on the 17th of May, 1864, |
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under Col. R.N. Hudson, comprised nine companies, and followed the 132nd." |
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[book, p.176] [see 132nd Regiment, described under "McAninch, Joseph", above] |
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5. McAninch, Sylvester [NARA: "128 Ind Inf. Co. E cpl sgt"] [Mar. 1864 to (?) 1866; |
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this is Sylvester Danley McAninch, b. Abt.1846, Ohio, son of John and Elizabeth |
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(?McLain/McLean) McAninch from Pennsylvania (John b.Abt.1801/1803 in PA), now |
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living in Porter County, Indiana [see “Sylvester Danley McAninch, Union Veteran -- |
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Two Units, Two States, 18 Spellings”, McAninch F.H.NL, Vol.V, No.4, Nov. 1997, p.34] |
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"The 128th Regiment was raised in the Tenth Congressional District of the period, and |
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mustered in at Michigan City [La Porte Co., on the shores of Lake Michigan, adjacent |
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to Porter County], under Colonel R. P. DeHart, on the 18th March, 1864. On the 25th |
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it was reported at the front, and assigned at once to Schofield's Division. The battles |
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of Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Jonesboro, |
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Dalton, Brentwood Hills, Nashville, and the six days' skirmish of Columbia, were all |
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participated in by the 128th, and it continued in service long after the termination of |
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hostilities, holding the post of Raleigh, North Carolina." [Note 2, 1885 book, pg. 175] |
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6. McAnich, William [A.? H.? K.?] [NARA: "91st Ind. Inf. Co. K pvt pvt"] [(?)1863 to |
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June
1865; "-ich" sic [ |
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Daniel (J.?) and Dorcas (Burks) McAninch, Putnam County] [this is William Alexander |
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McAninch from Morrow County, Ohio; see MFHN Vol. IX No. 1, Jan. 2001, pg.2001-04] |
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"The 91st Battalion, of seven companies, was mustered into service at Evansville |
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[Vanderburgh County, Indiana, on the Ohio River], the 1st of October, 1862, |
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under Lt. Colonel John Mehringer, and ten days later left for the front. |
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In 1863 the regiment was completed [Co. K?], and thenceforth took a very prominent |
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position in the prosecution of the war. During its service it lost 81 men, and retired |
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from the field on the 26th of June, 1865.” [Note 1, NARA; Note 2, 1885 book, pg.168] |
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7. McAninch, William S. [NARA: "Ind Light Art'y 18th battery cpl sgt"] |
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[Aug. 1862 to June 1865; "William S." correct, same man also indexed] |
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[NARA: "McAninah, William L. 18th battery Ind. Light Arty cpl sgt";] |
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[William S. (Skidmore) McAninch is from Hendricks Co., born 5 March 1835, at |
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Newcastle, Hendricks County, Indiana; he was the youngest child of Samuel and |
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Polly (Skidmore) McAninch, went to Ringgold County, Iowa, after the Civil War.] |
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"The Eighteenth Battery, under Capt. Eli Lilly, left for the front in August, 1862, but |
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did not take a leading part in the campaign until 1863, when, under Gen. Rosecrans, |
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it appeared prominent at Hoover's Gap. From this period to the affairs of West Point |
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and Macon [Georgia], it performed first-class service, and returned to its State on the |
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25th of June, 1865." [Note 2, 1885 book, pg.186 (and Mikki McAninch in Des Moines)] |
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Sources: |
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1. ["NARA"] ten service cards, National Archives, Laguna Niguel, California |
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2. book, History of Hendricks County, Indiana, with Brief History of the State of Indiana, originally pub. 1885, re-pub. 1973, Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville IN 47711 ["1885 book"] |
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[+] [and, see Draft Enrollment List of 1862, and Other Civil War Records in Indiana, |
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MFHN Vol. VII No. 1 Jan. 1998, p.1998-04] [forward reference added May 2003 /fm] |
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McAninch Family History NL, Vol. III, No. 3, August 1995, pg. 6 page 1995-27 |
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[original contents (except as noted); change font for online presentation (May 2003)] |