Chenango County Civil War Casualities - June 1862

Chenango County Civil War Casualties - June 1862

Battle of Fair Oaks

Chenango American, June 19, 1862

We give below as complete a list as we have been enabled to gather, of the killed and wounded from this County, who participated in the battle of Fair Oaks, on the 31st of May and the 1st of June.

Sergeant George A. Pabodie, of Co. E, 34th N.Y.V., was killed in the engagement of the 31st.  He was a son of Mr. Alfred Pabodie, of Preston, and formerly a student in Norwich Academy--a young man of excellent character and much promise, and the announcement of whose untimely death falls heavily upon a large circle of relatives and acquaintances.  His age was 22 years.  The Regiment to which he belonged was from Herkimer County, and is represented as having behaved admirably during the engagement, eliciting the highest praise from Gen. McClellan and other officers. Their loss was heavy--one out of every six engaged--in killed, wounded and missing.

Sanford Brooks and Edgar Willey, of Sherburne, members of the 61st, were wounded, and we learn have since died.  The former was shot through the brain, and the latter through the lung.

Sergeant Henry C. Chapman of the 61st, received a ball in his neck, while the Regiment, moving on the battle field, was passing a piece of woods, in which some rebels were concealed.  The ball entered just back of the left ear and came out back of the neck, some four inches from its entrance.  He is now in the hospital at Philadelphia, and will recover.

We are informed that a lad named John Smith, son of Elijah Smith, of this village, also of Brooks' Company, (61st) received a bullet in one of his legs, which so shattered it that amputation was necessary.

Corporal William Sheldon, of Sherburne, of Bates' Battery, Casey's Division was wounded in the leg by a musket ball, not dangerously, and has returned home.  Andrew J. Shepard, of Smyrna, of the same Company, has also returned sick.  --Norwich Union.