Well after watching the Ancestry show last week and hearing about the Judd's civil war connections. I decided to look into the Damery
Civil war connections and I knew about John Damery who was born in
Ireland and came to
America with his parents and initially settled in
Connecticut some time after the
potato famine in Ireland and then joined the Civil war and after having 6 children was captured during the war and died in
Andersonville prison. His brother Richard Damery had moved to the
state of Illinois in the 1850's and finally in 1857 to Macon County Illinois when he went back to join the Civil war fight with Company B,
Massachusetts 22nd Infantry Regiment in 1864.
Always proud of those who fight for the Freedoms of the land they believe in whether they are born here or not. I am proud of the Damery heritage in the civil war and the thought that they arrived in a new land of opportunity and was able to create for them selves lives with the freedom that the United States gave them.
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2 comments:
My great great grandfather was John Damery, John and Elizabeth daughter was Eliza Jane, Eliza Jane Damery married Max Guelke, their son was George A. Guelke, my dad was George Guelke Jr, my name is Georgiana! My uncle is in possesion of the original federal pension certificate of John Damery to widow Eliza(Elizabeth) and children. Would love to hear from you.
It really doesn't make sense that Richard would have traveled from Illinois to Massachusetts to fight in the Civil War. By that time he had five children including an infant son and had a farm. He shows up in the Macon County, Ill. draft registration records (enumerated June 1863) with his brother George. His obituary makes no mention of military service. No military marker is on his gravestone. Stories about him handed down in the family do not include service in the Civil War. The family talked about his brother's service and death in
Andersonville Confederate Cemetery.
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