Abram Lockwood Scudder

1833 - Aft 1910  (> 78 years)

• Name	Abram Lockwood Scudder
  Birth	Jan 1833	Delaware county, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1910
  Person ID	I11495	Scudder
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2016

  
  

  Father	David Scudder,   b. 2 Oct 1783, Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York d. 1842, Berwick Bay, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Sarah Pattison,   b. Abt 1794, Marbletown, New York d. 1889, Pennsylvania (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	17 Feb 1823  [2, 3]
  Family ID	F331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pauline A. Reid,   b. Jan 1839, New York d. Aft 1910 (Age > 72 years)
  Marriage	29 Aug 1860	Roxbury, Delaware, New York
  Children	1. Mary Scudder,   b. Abt 1862, New York d. Yes, date unknown   2. Charles W. Scudder,   b. Dec 1866, New York d. Yes, date unknown   3. Lena Scudder,   b. Abt 1870, New York d. Yes, date unknown   4. Fred A. Scudder,   b. 1 Sep 1875, New York d. Aft 1930 (Age > 56 years)   5. Mabel D. Scudder,   b. Apr 1877, New York d. Aft 1910 (Age > 34 years)   6. Reid Bundy Scudder,   b. 5 Mar 1883, Deposit, Broome, New York d. 1949, Duval county, Florida (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F4083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  At the time of the 1870 census, Abram was a watch maker and jeweler. He enlistedin the Union, 27 September 1862 in Company H, 144th New York infantry, and went through the service to the end of the Civil War. After heavy losses of men on both sides during the first year of the Civil War, President Lincoln in 1862 issued a call for an additional 300,000 men. Subsequently, New York StateGovernor Edwin D. Morgan issued a proclamation for volunteers on 2 July 1862. Originally, the counties of Delaware, Schoharie and Schenectady weregrouped to form one regiment. On 6 August 1862, a rally was held in Delhi to recruit soldiers. So strong was the fervor that Delaware county raised enough men for an entire regiment. A total of 1,409 men signed up for duty; 852 were from Delaware County. Robert S. Hughston was appointed Colonel. The Regiment was organized into 10 companies with enrollments principally as follows: Co. A (Tompkins), Co. B (Walton and Masonville), Co. C (Delhi, Hamden, Stamford, Meredith, Harpersfield, and Kortright), Co. D (Franklin), Co. E. (Andes and Bovina), Co. F (Hancock and many from Penn.), Co. G (Middletown), Co. H (Roxbury, Stamford, and Harpersfield), Co. I (Kortright, Davenport, Sidney, and Meredith) and Co. K (Colchester). The 144th was sworn into Federal service on September 27, 1862. They marched out from Camp at 7:30 A.M. on October 8 for Hancock, where they took the train for Elmira, an area collection center. The regiment left the State October 11, 1862; it served in the defenses of Washington from October 13, 1862; and in the 3d Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, 22d Corps, from February, 1863; in the 3d, Hughston's, Brigade, Gurney's Division, Department of Virginia, at Suffolk, Va., from April, 1863; in 1st Brigade, Gordon's Division, of 7th Corps, from May, 1863; of 4th Corps from June, 1863; in the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, nth Corps, from July, 1863; in the 2d Brigade, Gordon's Division, 10th Corps, on Folly Island, S. C., from August 15, 1863; in Schimmelpfenning's Division, 10th Corps, from January, 1864; in 1st Brigade, Ames' Division, 10th Corps, from February, 1864; in the District of Florida, Department of the South, from April, 1864; at Hilton Head, S. C., from June, 1864; in the 1st, Potter's, Brigade, Coast Division, Department of the Gulf, from November, 1864; in the 3d Separate Brigade, District of Hilton Head, Department of the South, from January, 1865; and, commanded by Col. James Lewis, it was honorably discharged and mustered out at Hilton Head, S. C., June 25, 1865. The 144th was mustered out of Federal service at Elmira in July 1865, and as each Company was paid off, the men left for home.

  
  

• Sources

  [S321] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254811; National Archives Film T9-0811; Page 388C. [S22] Across the Devil's Belt - A Biography of William Smith Scudder, 79. [S596] Oneida County, New York Biographies, p. 115.