7Jun 2000 Fred Carlin, fred(a)NewYorkOffice.com sent this message:
Here's some updated information about Capt. James Carlin of Ohio,
1829 -
1900, courtesy of Ron Saus, buron(a)interactive.net. It appears on the
web on
the "Carlins in the Civil War" page,
http://www.attorney.carlin.net/carlin-w-civil.htm. If you know
anything
more about Capt. Carlin, please let me know so it can be posted to the
web,
and please let Ron know in connection with his research.
Thanks.
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James Carlin, b. 1829, served as Captain of Co. D., 83rd Ohio
Volunteers,
during the Civil War. He was mustered in as a First Lieutenant on July
14,
1862, at the age of 33.
He was commissioned as a Captain, Co. D., on Nov. 8, 1862.
Captain Carlin participated in Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, Chickasaw
Bluff,
and the capture of Fort Hindman. He served at the battles of Port
Gibson,
Mississippi,
on May 1, 1863; Champion's Hill, May 16; Big Black River, May 17, and
the
siege of Vicksburg from May 18 to July 4, 1863. He resigned July 26,
1863
on a certificate of disability due to chronic diarrhea and lung
aliments.
After the war, he lived in Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio, and d. in
Cleves
on June 18, 1900.
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In this context, Ron Saus writes
I am a Civil War buff and own a sword that was presented to Lieut.
James
Carlin by his friends on Aug. 5, 1862, and so inscribed on the sword.
I
have no relations to the Carlin family (that I know of).
When I came across the Carlin site, I did look at his military and
pension
records but
did not see any genelogical data. He did live in Ohio after the war.
Since he was getting a pension for himself, there was no mention of
his
wife or family. I will look it up more carefully when I get some free
time.
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Ron subsequently wrote to me as follows:
Hi Fred:
I looked again at James Carlin's military and pension file and can
tell you
only the following information:
James Carlin lived after the war in Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio and
died
June 18, 1900 in this village.
He was 33 years of age at the time of his enlistment in July of 1862.
There is no memtion of a family in the pension records or affidavits
of
witnesses to his disablilities, in spite
of the information that many of them had know James Carlin from ten to
thirty years. I am sorry that I can't
be of further help.
I would be interested in any information that your network may find on
him
concerning his pre and post war
career. - Best regards, Ron Saus