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SERVICE.--Duty at Yorktown until May, 1864. Wild's
Expedition to South Mills and Camden Court House, N. C., December 5-24,
1863. Wistar's Expedition against Richmond February 2-6, 1864. Expedition
to New Kent Court House in aid of Kilpatrick's Cavalry March 1-4. New Kent
Court House March 2. Williamsburg March 4. Expedition into King and Queen
County March 9-12. Expedition into Matthews County March 17-21. Butler's
operations south of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 4-June 15. Capture of City Point May 4. Fatigue duty at City Point
and building Fort Converse on Appomattox River until June 15. Attack on
Fort Converse May 20. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Bailor's Farm June
15. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 15 to December
17. In trenches before Petersburg and fatigue duty at Dutch Gap Canal until
August 27. Moved to Deep Bottom August 27. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New
Market Heights, September 29-30. Fort Harrison September 29. Battle of
Fair Oaks October 27-28. In trenches before Richmond until December. 1st
Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., December 7-27. 2nd Expedition to Fort
Fisher, N. C., January 7-15. Bombardment of Fort Fisher January 13-15.
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher January 15. Sugar Loaf Hill January
19. Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson February 18-20. Capture
of Wilmington February 22. Northeast Ferry February 22. Campaign of the
Carolinas March 1-April 26. Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro March 6-21.
Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Cox's Bridge March 23-24. Advance on
Raleigh April 9-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April
26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina
until September.
Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 79
Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 132 Enlisted
men by disease. Total 224. Source - "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion"
by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)
John Haley Cookman Virginia 01 March 1862 Priv confed, Died 12/27/82 in Northumberland County C Co. 40th Inf Reg. VA (LDS records indicate a John Haley Cookman b. 11 Mar 1843 in Northumberland County Va., parents unknown) William Cookman Virginia 01 March 1862 Priv confed Served Virginia Born 6/20/31 C Co. 40th Inf Reg. VA, farmer He spent four years in the Confederate Army, enlisting when he was sixteen and receiving his discharge in 1864. He was wounded only once, when a piece of wood, knocked by an enemy bullet, flew from the log he was shooting over and struck him. During the war (like the other soldiers) he lived off the land, fought in many battles and was more than glad when the awful war was over. He was discharged about two months before its end due to a severe attack of pneumonia, and made his way home one evening, gaunt and emaciated, on a poor old horse. The family had not heard from him for months and had feared the worst; what a reunion that must have been! When the Civil War broke out, all the men of the area enlisted--or were pressed into the service of the confederate Armies--except for a very few. [It was left to the remaining women to keep the farms going, but one of [those unenlisted men] was suspected of taking advantage of [the situation by stealing corn, hay, and coal from the families]. This suspect was shot and killed one morning as he emerged from his house to attend to morning chores. [The local] men came home when they could, slipping in and out at night, staying a week at a time, rejoining their slow-moving units [as they went], and it is surmised that one of [them] resented the suspect's actions and took the matter of revenge into his own hands. Parker Cookman served with the Confederate Armies as a cattle buyer, supply officer, and store keeper at Rockford, Harrison Co., WV. When he returned home after the war he brought with him a trunk full of money--all confederate and all worthless. |