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Author: jdanel3566
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I would also like to know date of death and such as well.
Here is more about John:
More About JOHN CHANCEY:
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
CHANCEY, JOHN C, INFANTRY, CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 08/18/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION A SITE 255 Click to view the cemetery map
STAUNTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
901 RICHMOND AVENUE STAUNTON, VA 24401
(540) 825-0027
Battle of Guard Hill, Front Royal VA
Civil War in Virginia
American Civil War
August 16, 1864
Kershaw's infantry division and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, under overall command of
Lieutenant General Richard Anderson (Army of Northern Virginia, I Corps) were sent from
Petersburg to reinforce Early's army in the Valley.
At Front Royal on the August 16, Union cavalry of Brigadier General Wesley Merritt's
division surprised the Confederate columns in mid-stream of the Shenandoah River,
capturing about 300.
The Confederates rallied and advanced, gradually driving the two Union brigades back to
Cedarville. After dark, Merritt withdrew to Ninevah.
Battle on the 16th at Front Royal, death on the 18th, burial at Staunton. The logical
conclusion is that he was severely wounded at Front Royal, was evacuated to Staunton and
died on the way to or at Staunton. The witness on Katie's pension application says
"killed in battle."
While disease is also a possibility, we can discount it because the route of march did not
go through Staunton. If he had been so ill as to be near death, he would have been left
somewhere along the line of march. And he would have had to be very ill to be sent to
Staunton and die within a couple of days.
From History of Kershaw: Kershaw, with his division, was ordered to
join him (Jubal Early), and on the 6th of August the troops embarked at Chester Station
and were transported to Mitchel Station, on the Richmond and Mannassas Railroad, not far
from Culpepper. On the 12th the troops marched by Flint Hill, crossed the Blue Ridge, and
camped near the ancient little hamlet of Front Royal.
The next day we were moved
about one mile distant to a large spring, near the banks of the beautiful and now classic
Shenandoah. How strange to the troops of the far South to see this large river running in
the opposite direction from all our accustomed ideas of the flow
of rivers--that water seeks its level and will therefore run South, or towards the coast.
But here the stream rises in the south and runs due north towards the Potomac. After long
and fatiguing marches, the soldiers here enjoyed a luxury long since denied them on
account of their never ceasing activity. The delight of a bath, and in the pure,
clear waters of the Shenandoah, was a luxury indeed. [On the 16th they were attacked in
the river by Union Cavalry. John Chancey died on the 18th - of wounds?] On the 17th of
August the march was again resumed, and we reached Winchester, Va., on the next day.
Remaining two days near the old city which had become so dear to the hearts of all the old
soldiers through the hospitality and kindness of her truly loyal people, and being the
place, too, of much
of our enjoyment and pleasure while camping near it two years before, we left on the 21st,
going in the direction of Charleston.
Ancestral File Number: (AFN:11LV-NXR)
Served in 10th Georgia Infantry, Company K
Microfilm M226 roll 11
John C was hospitalized for pneumonia on May 9, three days after the battle of
Chancellorsville - May 6, 1863. Then he was granted 60 days medical furlough on June 17.
He was on this furlough when the battle of Gettysburg took place. He would have arrived
home to find his 14 year old daughter 8 months pregnant and planning to elope. Legend
says he pursued the eloping couple for 7 days before he caught them. The legend does not
address what happened to the boy (unknown, but Nancy's granddaughter said he was a
cousin), but Nancy did not get married until years later in Texas to Jimmy Swan.
Age nearly 40 in Civil War. Catherine applied and was approved for a pension in Texas
#04652.
Source: 1860 Census shows he is 37, Sherrif - Planter, 2000 real estate value and 1500
personal value (Chancy). He and his father are both shown in the 1850 census in Early
county Georgia(Chancey). Solomon Chancey, his father, is not listed in Georgia's 1860
census because he moved to Woodville, Texas (Tyler county) to establish another mill - his
fourth? - on Wolf Creek across the river from Jordans Ferry.
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