tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2104437978466596073.post7280043536540468905..comments2024-01-07T10:10:22.350-05:00Comments on Lumbee Indians and Goins Family: Cumberland County, NC Early RecordsTracy Hudginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10502298023195214555noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2104437978466596073.post-86620701186094830182018-02-07T16:56:28.311-05:002018-02-07T16:56:28.311-05:00Benjamin A Gowan 3rd Lt G Company 51st NC Inf, was...Benjamin A Gowan 3rd Lt G Company 51st NC Inf, was captured during the Siege of Petersburg VA, imprisoned at Point Lookout MD and Fort Delaware DE, used as a human shield at Morris Island SC, and died after being returned to Fort Delaware. <br /><br />Point Lookout records differ slightly as to whether he was captured 15 Jun 1864 at Petersburg VA and transferred to Fort Delaware on 28 Jun 1864 (v358, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5QV-947N) or captured 16 Jun 1864 at Bermuda Hundred VA and transferred to Fort Delaware on 23 Jun 1864 (v363, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95S6-SYW). The two locations are about 16 miles apart on modern roads. These were the opening days of the Second Battle of Petersburg, during which Union forces under William "Baldy" Smith crossed the Appomattox River toward Petersburg, and the 51st NC (as part of Hoke's Division) was withdrawn from Bermuda Hundred VA to reinforce the defense of Petersburg. His commanding officer's account makes explicit mention of Union forces capturing his lookouts during the movement on the 15th, making that date seem more likely (http://www.beyondthecrater.com/resources/np/postwar-np/np-18740318-our-living-our-dead-nc-clingman-rpt-june-16-18/).<br /><br />Unfortunately for Benjamin Gowan, North and South would soon be embroiled in a dispute over the treatment of prisoners of war during the Siege of Charleston SC, and he was one of 600 Confederate Officers transferred to Morris Island, under the Confederate guns in Charleston harbor, and fed starvation rations (see http://www.ncwbts150.com/NorthCaroliniansAmongImmortal600.php). They were at Morris Island 21 Aug-20 Oct 1864, then moved to Fort Pulaski, Savannah, GA (https://www.nps.gov/fopu/learn/historyculture/the-immortal-six-hundred.htm, https://www.nps.gov/fopu/learn/news/immortal-600-living-history-event.htm). <br /><br />Benjamin Gowan was presumably returned to Fort Delaware 12 Mar 1865, where he died of dysentery 22 Mar 1865 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10360587).<br /><br />Historians of the "Immortal 600" identify his residence as Whiteville, Cumberland Co, NC (see p343 in https://archive.org/stream/TheImmortalSixHundred1911VersionWithWilliamEppsNotesAndNewsArticle/The_Immortal_Six_Hundred_1911Version_withWilliamEppsNotesAndNewsArticle#page/n425/mode/2up).<br /><br />The National Park Service found that he entered service as a sergeant (https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=C57348A2-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A), which might suggest some earlier service, but he does not appears in the rolls for the Mexican or Indian Wars.jamisongraffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04968555508841160124noreply@blogger.com