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• Birth	20 Oct 1827	Harpersfield, Ashtabula, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Apr 1862	Civil War Mass Grave,Martinsburg,Berkeley Co.,Virginia
  Died	15 Apr 1862	Martinsburg,Va
  Person ID	I2734	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Father	David BRAINARD, Sr., b. 5 Jul 1788, Harpersfield,Delaware Co,n.y.
  Mother	Hannah DODGE, b. 19 May 1793, German,Chenango Co.,Ny
  Family ID	F1087	Group Sheet
  Family	Lucinda MOORE, b. 13 Oct 1831, Ashtabula,Ohio
  Married	1884
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Children	> 1. Erastus Moore BRAINARD, b. 8 Aug 1850, Ashtabula Co.,Ohio > 2. Chester BRAINARD, b. Abt 1853, Ashtabula Co.,Ohio > 3. Oris Eben BRAINARD, b. 4 Dec 1854, Ashtabula Co.,Ohio > 4. Newell Conant BRAINARD, b. 20 Sep 1861, Trumbull,Ohio
  Family ID	F1085	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Ancestral File Number: 240N-KS0 Event: Wars Served In 1861 Civil War (Union) Event: 1860 Census 1860 Ashtabula Co., Ohio Military Service: 19 AUG 1861 Enlisted in 29th Ohio, company B Reference Number: 56 Note: The following transcript of a letter from Conant to his siblings was among Wallace Brainard's family research: Dear brother and sister, Is with pleasure that I take my pen in hand to write to inform you of my good health. At the present hoping these few lines will find you all the same. I am in camp near Baltimore and Ohiorailroad near Pawpaw tunnel on the Potomac river in the hilliest county that you ever saw. We have been here little over two weeks and we have done nothing to amount anything, but to stay in our tents and keep ourselves as comfortable as we could in this country where it snows or rains about every day. We are encamped on the top of a high hill in a very cold place but we get along very well. I will give you a specament of our comforts here. We had orders to march thefirst day of this month to go we know not where and we started in the eveningwith the whole division that is camped near here. There was about 16 thousand of us strung along the road together about 12 thousand caverly and 13 cannons. We started up to ---- and were about 10 miles and the order was to stop till further orders. We stopped at 8:00 a.m. the gro?nd was frozen hard. We took some soldiers wood and build us some fire to keep warm then wrapped up in our blankets and laid down on the ground to rest and sleep if we could and laid till morning then we got up and eat our usual allowance or them that felt when eating after the hard trip in the night in these mountains. The Infantry took one road and the cannon and all of the brigade to guard there and keep up with the tracksof wagons that is not a very easy thing to do but we did it. They order on me to stop then we camped in a field by the road. The soldiers wood here in this country is rails whenever we can find them we bake them to burn. We started tillalmost night then the order came to get back to our camps again. There was nonewaiting to get that order we all wanting to go on to some place where we couldget the rebels but the order came and we had to leave our camps. Started and get back at half past nine a tired set of men and horses. We put down some blankets and layd down but it began to rain hard and the water run down the tentsthen run through under our beds and we got wet through. That is was we call soldiering. Before we came to this camp we was 12 days without our tents. This twas when we went to drive the rebels out of Romny then we had the hardest time wewent on a first march to get to Romny we went in five miles of that place thensent the scouts to find out their position. There heard that we were acoming had left as we had them tracked for nothing. We came back about 2 miles then camped about and make ourselves as comfortable as we could. There was snow --- ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- ------ --- ---- --- then the boys --- -- --- --- whenwe stoppped --- --- would ---- --- ------ ----- --- and lay down in the snow to rest. Is hard to live without --- ---- days that was hard times --- --- and our regiment --- the ---- of it ---- ---- ---- ---- many of our men to the hospital for they were sick and many have died. There is a good many of our regimentthat is sick at the hospital at Cumberland but not many --- is ---- dangerous.I am sitting in with the sick ones now while writing to you. One of them is a---- Montgomery and the other is our second luitenant Andy Wilson, but I thinkthey will yet along in a few days if nothing happens to them. ----- is at Cumberland sick with the sore eyes. We have not --- from here in a few days. I wantyou to write as soon as you get them and let me know all of the news, how theyget along to Trumbull with their meetings. I have written to father and WilliamNelson's folks but havent yet a letter from eith

• Sources

  [S67] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).