Wounded in battle of DE Valle Bluff, Mississippi, Home on Furlough and acting as Recruiting officer while wounded, shot in ankle.
2 Enlistments before he finally got into service,
Enlisted for 3 years in Company C of Colonial J.W. Wilson's U.S. mechanical Gusileer Regiment which was to have been 28th Illinois, was disbanded after being held in Chicago for 5 months.
His service was in Western Dept. under General A.J. Smith. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, Battles of Champion Hill, Jackson, Mississippi, slightly wounded but not severe enough to send him to rear. Also at Fort Blakely, near Mobile-Promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2nd Lieut. and at De Valles Bluffs, Arkansas 1864 to 1st Lieut.
Regiment assigned duty of patrolling Mississippi after fall of Vicksburg until January 1865 when it was sent to New Orleans then Mobile. Discharged 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wife:
Mary A Wilson (b 1842)
Children:
Walter E Hitchcock
1868 –
Corna Hitchcock
1870 –
Wilson Hitchcock
1872 –
Fay Hitchcock
1873 –
Adda Hitchcock
1875 –
Nellie Hitchcock
1877 –
Wounded in battle of DE Valle Bluff, Mississippi, Home on Furlough and acting as Recruiting officer while wounded, shot in ankle.
2 Enlistments before he finally got into service,
Enlisted for 3 years in Company C of Colonial J.W. Wilson's U.S. mechanical Gusileer Regiment which was to have been 28th Illinois, was disbanded after being held in Chicago for 5 months.
His service was in Western Dept. under General A.J. Smith. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, Battles of Champion Hill, Jackson, Mississippi, slightly wounded but not severe enough to send him to rear. Also at Fort Blakely, near Mobile-Promoted from 1st Sergeant to 2nd Lieut. and at De Valles Bluffs, Arkansas 1864 to 1st Lieut.
Regiment assigned duty of patrolling Mississippi after fall of Vicksburg until January 1865 when it was sent to New Orleans then Mobile. Discharged 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wife:
Mary A Wilson (b 1842)
Children:
Walter E Hitchcock
1868 –
Corna Hitchcock
1870 –
Wilson Hitchcock
1872 –
Fay Hitchcock
1873 –
Adda Hitchcock
1875 –
Nellie Hitchcock
1877 –
Family Members
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Walter Ernest Hitchcock
1868–1948
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Cornelia May "Cornie" Hitchcock Patton
1870–1947
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Wilson Sylvanious Hitchcock
1872–1944
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Henry Fayett "Faye" Hitchcock
1873–1924
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Addie M. Hitchcock Nebe
1875–1905
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Nellie Louise Hitchcock Joy
1879–1953
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Grace Ora Hitchcock Waterman
1885–1955
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Grant Ollie "Bub" Hitchcock
1885–1959
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