Headstone # 205
Removed from Fort Rice, ND #94524 - reinterred at Custer in 1896.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
Volume VII - Compiled and Published by the Adjutant General - Printed at the Norwood Press in Norwood, Mass. 1933 - Page 107
Corn, Ezekiel W. - Priv., Co. "H"-Res.-; credit Boston; 33; farmer; enl. June 1, 1864, Point Lookout, Md.; must. June 28, 1864, for 3 yrs; died at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, March 4, 1865 of disease.
Per NC Troops Roster: Enlisted CSA, NC 34th Inf, Co C 3/26/1864. Captured at Wilderness, VA 5/5-6/1864. Confined at Pt Lookout, MD. Released 6/1/1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance and joining the US Army. Assigned to 1st Regiment US Volunteer Inf, Co H.
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All census records, marriage record and military records state date of birth as 1829.
Census reports and majority of military records have middle initial of "W." Two military reports, including later internment report, have middle initial of "N."
He enlisted in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Infantry on 6-1-1864. He was a Confederate soldier from the 34th N.C. Infantry Regiment, Co. C, captured 5-6-1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a Confederate prisoner at Point Lookout, Md. He joined the Union Army to get out of a Union prison. He was born in 1829 in Buncombe County (Henderson), on the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Henderson County, and died March 4, 1865, at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. - War Dept. Surgeon General's Office Record and Pension Division, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1877 It appears from the "list of casualties" accompanying the "monthly report of sick and wounded," of the 1st Reg't U.S. Vols., for the month of March, 1865, that Priv. Ezeliel Corns, Co. H, of the Regiment, died March 6, '65, at Reg't Hospl., of scurvy. The station of the Regiment at the end of that month was Ft. Rice, D.T. - died in Post Hospital at Fort Rice Dakota Territory. March 4, 1865. "This man at date of his enlistment in this organization, was a rebel prisioner of war in the hands of the U.S. Mil. authorities. Inv. of effects by Co. Commander corraborates the above data relative to death....cause "scurvy"." Source: Adjutant General's Office dated 26 June 1877.
Removed from Fort Rice, ND #94524 - reinterred at Custer in 1896.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
Volume VII - Compiled and Published by the Adjutant General - Printed at the Norwood Press in Norwood, Mass. 1933 - Page 107
Corn, Ezekiel W. - Priv., Co. "H"-Res.-; credit Boston; 33; farmer; enl. June 1, 1864, Point Lookout, Md.; must. June 28, 1864, for 3 yrs; died at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, March 4, 1865 of disease.
Per NC Troops Roster: Enlisted CSA, NC 34th Inf, Co C 3/26/1864. Captured at Wilderness, VA 5/5-6/1864. Confined at Pt Lookout, MD. Released 6/1/1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance and joining the US Army. Assigned to 1st Regiment US Volunteer Inf, Co H.
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All census records, marriage record and military records state date of birth as 1829.
Census reports and majority of military records have middle initial of "W." Two military reports, including later internment report, have middle initial of "N."
He enlisted in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Infantry on 6-1-1864. He was a Confederate soldier from the 34th N.C. Infantry Regiment, Co. C, captured 5-6-1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a Confederate prisoner at Point Lookout, Md. He joined the Union Army to get out of a Union prison. He was born in 1829 in Buncombe County (Henderson), on the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Henderson County, and died March 4, 1865, at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. - War Dept. Surgeon General's Office Record and Pension Division, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1877 It appears from the "list of casualties" accompanying the "monthly report of sick and wounded," of the 1st Reg't U.S. Vols., for the month of March, 1865, that Priv. Ezeliel Corns, Co. H, of the Regiment, died March 6, '65, at Reg't Hospl., of scurvy. The station of the Regiment at the end of that month was Ft. Rice, D.T. - died in Post Hospital at Fort Rice Dakota Territory. March 4, 1865. "This man at date of his enlistment in this organization, was a rebel prisioner of war in the hands of the U.S. Mil. authorities. Inv. of effects by Co. Commander corraborates the above data relative to death....cause "scurvy"." Source: Adjutant General's Office dated 26 June 1877.
Headstone # 205
Removed from Fort Rice, ND #94524 - reinterred at Custer in 1896.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
Volume VII - Compiled and Published by the Adjutant General - Printed at the Norwood Press in Norwood, Mass. 1933 - Page 107
Corn, Ezekiel W. - Priv., Co. "H"-Res.-; credit Boston; 33; farmer; enl. June 1, 1864, Point Lookout, Md.; must. June 28, 1864, for 3 yrs; died at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, March 4, 1865 of disease.
Per NC Troops Roster: Enlisted CSA, NC 34th Inf, Co C 3/26/1864. Captured at Wilderness, VA 5/5-6/1864. Confined at Pt Lookout, MD. Released 6/1/1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance and joining the US Army. Assigned to 1st Regiment US Volunteer Inf, Co H.
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All census records, marriage record and military records state date of birth as 1829.
Census reports and majority of military records have middle initial of "W." Two military reports, including later internment report, have middle initial of "N."
He enlisted in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Infantry on 6-1-1864. He was a Confederate soldier from the 34th N.C. Infantry Regiment, Co. C, captured 5-6-1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a Confederate prisoner at Point Lookout, Md. He joined the Union Army to get out of a Union prison. He was born in 1829 in Buncombe County (Henderson), on the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Henderson County, and died March 4, 1865, at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. - War Dept. Surgeon General's Office Record and Pension Division, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1877 It appears from the "list of casualties" accompanying the "monthly report of sick and wounded," of the 1st Reg't U.S. Vols., for the month of March, 1865, that Priv. Ezeliel Corns, Co. H, of the Regiment, died March 6, '65, at Reg't Hospl., of scurvy. The station of the Regiment at the end of that month was Ft. Rice, D.T. - died in Post Hospital at Fort Rice Dakota Territory. March 4, 1865. "This man at date of his enlistment in this organization, was a rebel prisioner of war in the hands of the U.S. Mil. authorities. Inv. of effects by Co. Commander corraborates the above data relative to death....cause "scurvy"." Source: Adjutant General's Office dated 26 June 1877.
Removed from Fort Rice, ND #94524 - reinterred at Custer in 1896.
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
Volume VII - Compiled and Published by the Adjutant General - Printed at the Norwood Press in Norwood, Mass. 1933 - Page 107
Corn, Ezekiel W. - Priv., Co. "H"-Res.-; credit Boston; 33; farmer; enl. June 1, 1864, Point Lookout, Md.; must. June 28, 1864, for 3 yrs; died at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, March 4, 1865 of disease.
Per NC Troops Roster: Enlisted CSA, NC 34th Inf, Co C 3/26/1864. Captured at Wilderness, VA 5/5-6/1864. Confined at Pt Lookout, MD. Released 6/1/1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance and joining the US Army. Assigned to 1st Regiment US Volunteer Inf, Co H.
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All census records, marriage record and military records state date of birth as 1829.
Census reports and majority of military records have middle initial of "W." Two military reports, including later internment report, have middle initial of "N."
He enlisted in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Infantry on 6-1-1864. He was a Confederate soldier from the 34th N.C. Infantry Regiment, Co. C, captured 5-6-1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a Confederate prisoner at Point Lookout, Md. He joined the Union Army to get out of a Union prison. He was born in 1829 in Buncombe County (Henderson), on the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Henderson County, and died March 4, 1865, at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. - War Dept. Surgeon General's Office Record and Pension Division, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1877 It appears from the "list of casualties" accompanying the "monthly report of sick and wounded," of the 1st Reg't U.S. Vols., for the month of March, 1865, that Priv. Ezeliel Corns, Co. H, of the Regiment, died March 6, '65, at Reg't Hospl., of scurvy. The station of the Regiment at the end of that month was Ft. Rice, D.T. - died in Post Hospital at Fort Rice Dakota Territory. March 4, 1865. "This man at date of his enlistment in this organization, was a rebel prisioner of war in the hands of the U.S. Mil. authorities. Inv. of effects by Co. Commander corraborates the above data relative to death....cause "scurvy"." Source: Adjutant General's Office dated 26 June 1877.
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