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_John "Johnson" "Jack" Howard or Harden LOWE _|
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|--Maud LOWE
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| _Jacob "Jake" MCCONNELL ____+
| | (1827 - 1907) m 1852
|_Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MCCONNELL ___________|
(1855 - 1944) m 1874 |
|_Elizabeth "Betsy" COLWELL _+
(1837 - 1921) m 1852
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[S1385]
Beverly Fleming, RR 4, Box 200A, Shelbyville, IL 62565, descendant of Boseal
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[S1371]
1900 Census, Cold Spring Twp, Shelby Co., IL
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1910 Census, Cold Spring Twp, Shelby Co., IL
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[S1385]
Beverly Fleming, RR 4, Box 200A, Shelbyville, IL 62565, descendant of Boseal
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[S1385]
Beverly Fleming, RR 4, Box 200A, Shelbyville, IL 62565, descendant of Boseal
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Susan Garretson Daniel, P.O. Box 2489, Murfreesboro, TN 37133-2489.
_John MCCONNELL _____+
| (1773 - 1838) m 1798
_John C. MCCONNELL __|
| (1808 - 1880) m 1829|
| |_Abigail HERRON _____+
| (1776 - 1857) m 1798
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|--Elizabeth Minerva MCCONNELL
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|_Sarah H. MILLER ____|
(1811 - 1870) m 1829|
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1860 Census, Wabash Twp, Parke Co., IN
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1860 Census, Wabash Twp, Parke Co., IN
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1870 Census, Liberty Twp, Parke Co., IN
_Robert S. MCCONNELL ______+
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_Neely S. MCCONNELL _|
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| |_Frances "Fanny" SNELLING _+
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|--Fanny B. MCCONNELL
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|_Martha Jane _____ __|
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[S5782]
1900 Census, District 3, Bedford Co., TN
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[S5782]
1900 Census, District 3, Bedford Co., TN
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1850 Census, Lubec, Washington Co., ME
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[S9318]
1850 Census, Lubec, Washington Co., ME
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|_Susan _____ ________|
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1870 Census, Allegheny Ward 8, Allegheny Co., PA
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[S13958]
1870 Census, Allegheny Ward 8, Allegheny Co., PA
_Joseph MCCONNELL ___+
| (1784 - ....) m 1805
_Joseph MCCONNELL ___|
| (1806 - 1880) m 1829|
| |_Unknown ____________
| m 1805
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|--Samuel Frank MCCONNELL
| (1830 - 1915)
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|_Judith SWEENEY _____|
(1808 - 1880) m 1829|
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Medal of Honor Recipient
McCONNELL, SAMUEL
Rank and organization: Captain, Company H, 119th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Blakely, Ala., 9 April 1865. Entered service at: Bushnell, McDonough County, Ill. Birth: Belmont County, Ohio. Date of issue: 8 June 1865. Citation: While leading his company in an assault, Capt. McConnell braved an intense fire that mowed down his unit. Upon reaching the breastworks he found that he had only one member of his company with him, Pvt. Wagner. He was so close to an enemy gun that the blast knocked him down a ditch. Getting up, he entered the gun pit, the guncrew fleeing before him. About 30 paces away he saw a Confederate flag bearer and guard which he captured with the last shot in his pistol.
Samuel McConnel's Civil War Record
Residence: Bushnell, Illinois
Age at Enlistment: 32
Enlistment Date: 10 Jul 1862
Rank at enlistment: Captain
Enlistment Place: Bushnell, McDonough Co., IL
State Served: Illinois
Survived the War?: Yes
Medal of Honor:
Fort Blakely, AL 04/09/65 CAPTURE OF FORT BLAKELY Loyd Wheaton, Henry Merriam, Henry Nichols, Samuel McConnel, Thomas Payne FORT BLAKELY, Ala., was a place inclosed by a line of works about two miles in extent, composed of redoubts constructed of earth and timber, with ditches in front, which redoubts connected by continuous rifle pits with salients and stockade work, making a continuous line from the Confederates' left, on the Tensas River, to their right, which rested on an impassable swamp and thicket. The two principal avenues of approach were known as the Stockton and Pensacola Roads. The redoubts commanded the ground in their front, and had an enfilading fire on portions of the roads and a cross-fire on almost every point of them within the range of their guns. Three marshy ravines, entering the works at different points, were obstructed by fallen timber and traversed by stockades which connected with the rifle pits on the other side. The fortifications were mounted with heavy and light guns. Three lines of abatis encircled the works, and outside of these were rifle pits for sharpshooters. After a short siege this fort was assaulted and carried on the 9th of April, 1865. The time for the assault was set for 5:30 in the afternoon Precisely at that hour Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Vifquain, commanding the Ninety-seventh Illinois Infantry, gave the command: "Forwards Ninety-seventh !" and with irresistible dash they advanced and sprang with him over the parapet, with loud cheers charging the line as skirmishers upon the enemy. Colonel Vifquain made for the rebel battle-flag on the works, with his color-company at his heels, and being the first man upon the works immediately cut the halyard with his sword and pulled it down, while his bearer planted the Union flag beside the rebel staff. For a moment Vifquain was hidden by the folds of the victorious banner mingling with those of the rebel standard and when he had freed himself from their folds he found his brave color-bearer lying by his side pierced with a bullet. The Eighth Illinois Infantry, commanded and led on the right wing by Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Wheaton, in its assault upon the works dashed up the salient, from which a constant and fierce fire of artillery was kept up from a number of pieces, and about five minutes after the charge commenced the regiment ascended the parapet of the rebel works. Its brave colonel entered the embrasure of a thirty-pounder Parrott gun, accompanied by Sergeant Switzer of Company B, and was the first man of the regiment to enter the enemy's works. The firing of the guns was at an end as soon as he made his appearance, but the rebel infantry tried hard to maintain their ground and their fire was murderous. " In front of my regiment, the Seventy-third U. S. Colored Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Merriam commanding," says Captain Henry C. Nichols, of Company C, "was the enemy's outer works-an abatis-and at the roots of the trees of which the abatis was formed was a line of rifle pits occupied by the enemy for the protection of the fort, on which were mounted six heavy guns, and two mortars in the rear. Between our pits and the abatis was a muddy ravine with a small brook at the bottom, a sharp descent from our pits to the brook, then a plain, gradually ascending to the fort. About five o'clock, Colonel Merriam ordered an assault on the outer works by four companies, which was made in fine style, driving the enemy into their main works. " The fire from the fort was terrific, and was kept up after the assault, in an attempt to dislodge our men who were lying down on our side of the abatis, quite exposed. It was at this time that I volunteered to make a reconnaissance, the colonel wishing to know the nature of the ground he was about to charge over. I ran down into the ravine and reaching the left of the abatis stopped to get my breath. After resting about a minute I climbed into the branches of a tree and surveyed the field with my glasses. I found the ground favorable for the assault, and returning to my command on a run reported to this effect to the colonel. " Colonel Merriam then obtained permission to charge the main works-the fort-and made the assault, followed five or ten minutes later by the rest of the colored division, capturing the works on a run. The ground we traversed and which I had explored had been planted with torpedoes, but this arrangement of the enemy I was not able to detect while on my reconnaissance." Captain Samuel McConnell, of Company H, One hundred and nineteenth Illinois Infantry, tells in the following interesting manner how he captured a Confederate flag in this battle: " I had orders to lead the regiment with my company, our formation for the assault being in double rank, one rank about six paces behind the other, with the line of battle coming up fifty paces in the rear. " In this order we advanced against the fort, the bullets and shells mowing down our companions with merciless precision. My clothing was cut in several places by bullets, and when I reached the breastworks I had only one man of my company, Private Wagner, with me. The others went over a little distance away from us. At the point where we reached the breastworks was an angle containing three large guns, which were dealing out death at an alarming rate, and making the atmosphere so smoky that we could see for only a short distance. Nevertheless we at once began to scale the breastwork, and had almost reached the top when the guns were run out for another discharge. We were so close to the muzzles of the guns that when they were discharged the air pressure thus created knocked us back into the ditch. But we immediately sprang up and managed to climb over the works before the rebels could reload. " Seeing us come over the breastwork, the gunners turned and fled, and some surrendered, leaving us in undisputed possession. " We started to our left and soon came in rear of what seemed to be a color-guard with a flee. When within about thirty paces they faced about and fired on us, but their shots missed. I then fired the last shot from my revolver, hitting the color-bearer, and as the rest fled, rushed up and captured the colors. " Down at Mobile, Ala., I was decorated with the Medal of Honor in the presence of my regiment in front of General Smith's headquarters, and I enjoy the pleasant sensations of that day yet." First Lieutenant Thomas H. L. Payne, quartermaster of the Thirty- seventh Illinois Infantry, not wishing to remain behind during the assault on the fort, asked to be assigned to the command of Company B, which was without a commissioned officer. He says: " When the bugle sounded we rose out of our rifle pits. Having advanced our lines the preceding night, we were about five hundred yards from the fort, and before the rebels could depress their guns sufficiently to train them upon us we had pressed forward and were well across the open space, had reached the fort and were climbing as best we could upon it. " We had to climb over lines of brush and trees piled very high and then across a wide, deep, dry moat, filled with brush, before we could get a foothold on the works. All the ground over which we charged was covered with hidden torpedoes, making it doubly dangerous. I struck out for a corner of the earthworks, shouting, 'This way, Company B!' and luckily found a place where a fallen tree formed a foot-bridge across the moat. I crossed upon this and a few of my company followed. In a minute I found myself inside the works within a few feet of a number of Confederate gunners. I ordered them to surrender as the boys came rushing along, and they actually seemed glad to do so. I think that perhaps for a couple of minutes I was the only man of our regiment upon or within the works. " As our color-bearer, Sergeant Morrell, could not get upon the works, I took the flag from him, planted it on the side of the fort and held it until he climbed up, and thus the flag of the Thirty-seventh Illinois was the first on the fort." Source: Deeds of Valor, p. 533
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company H, Illinois 119th Infantry Regiment on 07 Oct 1862. Mustered out on 26 Aug 1865 at Mobile, AL.
Birth Date: 1 Jun 1830
Death Date: 26 Mar 1915
Death Place: Havelock, NE
Sources: Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men Deeds of Valor. How our Soldier-heroes won the Medal of Honor Medal of Honor Recipients 1863-1994
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[S874]
1850 Census, Union Twp, Clermont Co., OH
[10372]
[S874]
1850 Census, Union Twp, Clermont Co., OH
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[S11948]
1860 Census, Prairie City, McDonough Co., IL
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1860 Census, Bushnell, McDonough Co., IL
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Ancestry.com Civil War records
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[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
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[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
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[S11949]
1870 Census, Mound Twp, McDonough Co., IL
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[S874]
1850 Census, Union Twp, Clermont Co., OH
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[S11945]
1885 Census, Soap Creek, Davis Co., IA
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[S11944]
1890 Census, Pleasant Home, Polk Co., NE
[10382]
[S9265]
1900 Census, Pleasant Home, Polk Co., NE
[10383]
[S876]
Nancy Larson, email: nl60447@navix.net.
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[S968]
Nancy Larson McConnell, Box 147, Funk, Nebraska, 68940, email:
_James MCCONNELL ____
| (1765 - 1829) m 1798
_John MCCONNELL _____|
| (1801 - ....) m 1835|
| |_Margaret _____ _____
| (1777 - ....) m 1798
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|--William B. MCCONNELL
| (1841 - ....)
| _Reuben BRACKNEY ____
| | (1787 - 1867) m 1813
|_Julia Ann BRACKNEY _|
(1817 - ....) m 1835|
|_Susannah _____ _____
m 1813
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[S4657]
1860 Census, Clay Twp, Auglaize Co., OH
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[S5245]
1850 Census, Clay Twp, Auglaize Co., OH
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[S4657]
1860 Census, Clay Twp, Auglaize Co., OH
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[S10465]
Civil War Draft Registration
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[S4660]
1870 Census, Moulton Twp, Auglaize Co., OH