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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 16

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 16 consists of at least 6 veterans of the Civil War.


Lot. 4. Allen Ripley Foote served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry and Aaron Foote in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.



Lot 5. Edwin Montague served in Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.


Lot 9. Isaac Whisple of Company C 8th Michigan Infantry.


Lot 13. Calvin Ashley of Battery C 1st Michigan Light Artillery.


Lot 20. John McGowen of Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics

 


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Monday, May 18, 2026

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 15

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 15 consists of at least 11 veterans of the Civil War, which includes (possibly) one cenotaph (Hubbard).


Lot 3. Dr. Zenas Bliss began the war as assistant surgeon of the 3rd Michigan Infantry (along with his brother Dr. D. Willard Bliss). He was transferred to the regular army and at one time commanded Armory Square Hospital in Washington, DC.


Lot 5. Jacob Hoch (or Hock) of Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.


Lot 6. Colonel Thaddeus Foote commanded the 10th Michigan Cavalry.


Lot 7 William B. Martin regimental quartermaster 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 12. William Frederick Cornelius Van Beynum. Sources report him to be a veteran but he is not found (under Van Beynum) in the Michigan regimental index.


Lot 14. Morris Johnson Sgt of Company A 9th New York Heavy Artillery.


Lot 5. 2nd Lieutenant James Bigelow of the 3rd Michigan Infantry (reorganized).

Lot 17. Lieutenant D. C. Hubbard. Findagrave lists his name as Daniel Coman Hubbard; other sources report him as Captain Delville Hubbard of the 1st Michigan Infantry. But that Delville Hubbard died in 1884 and is burie din Oakridge Cemetery, Marshall, MI.


Lot 18. Colonel Perrin V. Fox of the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.


Lot 20. Daniel Bryan of Company F 13th Michigan Infantry.


Lot 28. Holmes Roys of Company D 10th Michigan Cavalry.



Sunday, May 17, 2026

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 14

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 14 consists of at least 3 veterans of the Civil War.

Lot 4. Captain Lewis W. Heath of Company K 11th Michigan Infantry



Lot 14. Ogden H. Patten of Company F 42nd Illinois Infantry.



Lot 15. Robert Milton Orser of Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.




Saturday, May 16, 2026

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 13

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 13 consists of at least 13 veterans of the Civil War.

Lot 1. William D. Thayer Company D 29th Michigan Infantry.



Lot 7. Jacob Rauch of the U.S. Navy.



Lot 18. Jabez Darwin Dennison of the New York 14th Infantry.



Lot 19. Louis Sutton of Company F 29th Michigan Infantry.



Lot 22. David E. McVean of Company B 6th Michigan Cavalry.



Lot 23. 2nd Lieutenant Asa Slayton of Company B 25th Michigan Infantry.



Lot 33. George Moore of the 102nd U.S.C.T. Three George Moores are listed in the regiment's history.



Lot 42. Orlando Gilson of Company D 19th Wisconsin Infantry.



Lot 43. Andrew Scott of the 32nd Indiana Infantry.



Lot 52. James Richmond of Company K 19th Michigan Infantry.



Lot 65 Alexander Zacharias of Company K 7th Michigan Infantry.



Lot 71. Joseph Warner Welton of 128th Ohio Infantry.



Lot 81. Hiram E. Freeman of Company A Maine Coast Guards.



Friday, May 15, 2026

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 12

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.

Block 12 consists of at least 14 veterans of the Civil War, including at least one cenotaph (George Pierce).




Lot 2. John Boeye (Boyer) formerly of Battery E  1st Michigan Light Artillery and John Oppeneer who served in Company A 1st Engineers & Mechanics.



Lot 9. Kommer Esveld of Company B 21st Michigan Infantry.



Lot 14. Elias Hall, former Ordnance Sgt of Company B 5th Michigan Cavalry.



Lot 18, Andrew McReynolds and Benjamin Franklin McReynolds, both formerly of the 1st New York Cavalry. Also known as the Lincoln Cavalry Andrew helped organize the regiment. Benjamin had the distinction of being in Ford's heater the night Lincoln was shot.  




Lot 22. Leonard Semeyn of Company H 1st Michigan Infantry.



Lot 26. Frederick Randall, formerly of Company F 3rd Michigan Infantry (reorganized) and Thomas Reed, a veteran of Company B 21st Michigan Infantry.




Lot 30. William H. Chamberlain formerly of Company A 3rd Michigan Infantry. He was brother-in-law to Edwin Pierce, brother of Byron Root Pierce who is in block 11. Also buried with Chamberlain are two of Edwin's children.



Lot 32. John Smith of Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Lot 33. Captain Heman Nickerson Moore of Company K 7th Michigan Cavalry.



Lot 34. Thomas Mitchell, former 1st Sgt of Company H 4th Michigan Cavalry, died 16 January 1863 of wounds received at Stones River, TN; his body was returned to Grand Rapids for a funeral and was interred in the Peirce family plot. Also his nephew George C. Peirce (not Pierce) who served in the U.S. Signals Corps.

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Lot 35. Captain James Dorset Earle captain of commissary subsistence for U.S. volunteers during the war.