Honor Roll: Bay and Glen Streets, Hudson Falls, New York

The City of Glens Falls is in Warren County, New York. It sits on a fall line in the Hudson River and was known as Chepontuc, Iroquois for difficult place to get around. It was the site of battles during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. There are several stories regarding how the city got its name. Some believe the hamlet was transferred to Col. Johannes Glen in 1788 either on collection of a debt, as a result of a card game, or in exchange for hosting a party for mutual friends.

At the intersection of Glen Street (U.S. Rt. 9) and Bay Street, is an honor roll memorial commemorating the citizens of the Town of Queensbury who lost their lives in the Civil War. (Glens Falls used to be within the boundaries of the Town of Queensbury until it was granted a city charter in 1908.)

War for the Union Memorial, Bay and Glen Streets,
Hudson Falls, New York; personal collection

Civil War

Plaque 1

Who Fell
In the
War for the Union
1861-1865

Erected to Their Memory
By the Town of Queensbury

Mark A. ALLEN, Sgt., Co. K, 153rd NYV
POW Ot 18, 1864, disease Feb 5, 1865, Gen. Hosp., Richmond, VA

Timothy BRADLEY, Pvt., Co. E, 22nd NYV
Disease Oct 14, 1862, Gen. Hosp. Smoketown, MD

Robert BRISTOL, Pvt., Co. G, 96th NYV
Disease Sep 30, 1864, Foster General Hospital, New Bern, NC

John DEAN, Pvt., Co. H, 93rd NYV
Disease Jan 3, 1863, Albany, NY

William DONEGAN, Cpl., Co. D, 169th NYV
MWIA May 16, 1864, Drewry's Bluff, died Jun 15, 1864, Washington, DC

Alonzo HOPKINS, Pvt., Co. A, 118th NYV
Disease Jul 19, 1863, Balfour Hospital, Portsmouth, VA

Isaac R. KNAPP, Cpl., Co. H, 93rd NYV
KIA Oct 27, 1864, South Side Railroad, Petersburg, VA

Philander NORTON, Pvt., Co. H, 93rd NYV
MWIA May 5, 1864, Wilderness, died Jun 1, 1864, Armory Square Hosp., Washington, DC

Charles REED, Pvt., Co. B, 22nd NYV
KIA Aug 30, 1862, Second Bull Run, VA

Charles C. TAYLOR, Pvt., Co. D, 175th NYV
MWIA Oct 19, 1864, Cedar Creek, VA, died Nov 11, 1864, U.S. Gen. Hosp., York, PA

Lavalla VAUGHN, Pvt. Co. E, 169th NYV
Disease Mar 3, 1863, Carver Gen. Hosp., Washington, DC

James WALKUP, Pvt., Co. K, 153rd NYV
Disease Oct 14, 1864 while on furlough, Queensbury, NY

Harmon L. WEATHERHEAD, Pvt., Co. A, 2nd NYVC (Veteran)
MWIA, died Aug 21, 1864, Regimental Hosp., Morgansa, LA

Plaque 2

Officers

Alexander J. KENNEY
Lt. Col., 8th Regt. Indiana Vol.
Died from wounds received at Cedar Creek, VA
Nov 28, 1864, age 31 years

Capt. John BAILEY
Co. F., 93rd Regt. NYV
Killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, VA
May 5, 1864, age 41 years

Lt. William T. NORRIS
Co. E, 22nd Regt. NVY
Killed at the Battle of Bull Run, VA
Aug 30, 1862, age 39 years

Lt. Charles CUSHING
Co. E, 22nd Regt. NYV
Killed at the Battle of Antietam, VA
Sep 17, 1862, age 23 years

Lt. Edgar M. WING
Co. E, 118th Regt. NYV
Mortally wounded at Drewry's Bluff, VA
Died while a prisoner of war at Richmond, VA
May 18, 1864, age 22 years

Lt. Stephen B. LITTLE
Co. B, 96th Regt. NYV
Killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA
Jun 3, 1864, age 22 years

Lt. Michael REYNOLDS
Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA
June 3, 1864, age 21 years

Lt. Harrison P. KINGSLEY
Co. A, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
Died from wounds while a prisoner of war
Nov 20, 1868, age 25 years

Lt. Michael McGEOUGH
Co. H, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters
Killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, VA
May 5, 1864, age 25 years

Plaque 3

Soldiers
Who Died from Disease

Corp. Janurieus SUPRENANT, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
George WESTCOTT, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Alonzo HOPKINS, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Henry S. HALL, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Abraham WHITE, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Abner CRANNELL, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV
Allen HUBLE, O. A., 118th Regt. NYV
Alpheus CAPRON, Jr., Co. D, 175th Regt. NYV
Samuel PEASE, Co. D, 175th Regt. NYV
Richard RICE, Co. D, 175th Regt. NYV
Marvin CARNNELL, Co. D, 175th Regt. NYV
Truman ALLEN, Co. D, 175th Regt. NYV
Amos BAKER, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV
John CROSSETT, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV
William HILLIS, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV
Philander HURD, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV
John BLACKBURN, Co. I, 90th Regt. NYV
Reuben SHERMAN, Co. F, 115th Regt. NYV
Ralph WILLIAMS, Co. F, 93rd Regt. NYV
David JOHNSON, Co. G, 115th Regt. NYV
James WALKUP, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV

John McALLEY, Co. F, 22nd Regt. NYV
Alexander TREEHOUSE, Co. H, 22nd Regt. NYV
Edward BLANCHARD, Co. H, 22nd Regt. NYV
Ambrose SPENCER, Co. D, 93rd Regt. NYV
George BRUMAGYN, Co. F, 96th Regt. NYV
Henry BRUMAGYN, Co. H, 96th Regt. NYV
Cyrenus WILLIAMS, Co. I, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
Medard HEBERT, Co. I, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
Henry SALTER, Co. I, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
Eucabe JOUBERT, Co. A, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
William CROSSETT, Co. K, Harris Light Cav.
George R. SMITH, Co. M, 1st Regt., MD Cav.
Arthur O'LEARY, 1st Louisiana Vol.
Lemuel G. HORTON, Co. A, 192nd Regt. NYV
Charles ROSELLE, Co. E, 13th Regt. NYV
Lewis VANDUESEN, Co. K, 83rd Regt. NVY
James D. PERRY, Co. I, 2nd Regt. NY Vet. Cav.
Alexander BURNETT, Co. B, 123rd Regt. NYV
George HARRIS, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV
Michael McGEOUGH, Jr., U.S. Marine Service
Seneca SMITH, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV

Plaque 4

Soliders
Who Were Killed or Died from Wounds

Martin SHERMAN, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Hanover Junction, VA, July 1863
Henry M. MILLS, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Hanover Junction, VA, July 1864
Joseph GRANGER, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff, VA, May 1864
John H. HALL, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff, VA, May 1864
Adelbert ANDREWS, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff, VA, May 1864
Charles E. COPELAND, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff, VA, May 1864
De'Estaing JOHNSON, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff, VA, May 1864
William E. HALL, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Fair Oaks, VA, Oct 1864
Sergt. Frederick F. FRENCH, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Bermuda Hundred, VA, May 1864
Joseph HILLIS, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Bermuda Hundred, VA, May 1864
Richard KEARNEY, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Bermuda Hundred, VA, May 1864
Sylvester MADDEN, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Fort Fisher, SC, Jul 1864
Dennis O'LEARY, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Fort Fisher, SC, Jul 1864
Patrick FARRELL, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Fort Fisher, SC, Jul 1864
Sergt. Dennish CORBETT, Co. D, 169th Regt. NYV, Fort Fisher, SC, Jul 1864
William H. GROOM, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff Hosp., Jun 1864
Sergt. Andrew BRUMAGYN, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Drewry's Bluff Hosp., May 1864

Marquis DAVIS, Co. A, 118th Regt. NYV, Fort Harrison Hosp., Jun 1864
Corp. Charles La'ROSE, Co. G, 93rd Regt. NYV, Wilderness, VA, May 1864
Robert MARTIN, Co. F, 93rd Regt. NYV, Wilderness, VA, May 1864
Wilbert F. BUSWELL, Co. E, 22nd Regt. NYV, South Mountain, MD, Sep 1862
Patrick JOHNSON, Co. E, 22nd Regt. NYV, 2nd Bull Run, VA, Aug 1862
Benjamin HENDRICKS, Co. F, 22nd Regt. NYV, 2nd Bull Run, VA, Aug 1862
Andrew La'POINT, Co. F, 22nd Regt. NYV, 2nd Bull Run, VA, Aug 1862
Joseph WHITFORD, Co. F, 22nd Regt. NYV, Antietam, VA, May 1864
William A. AKIN, Co. E, 123rd Regt. NYV, Atlanta, GA, Jul 1864
James MEHAN, Co. H, 93rd Regt. NYV, Wilderness, VA, May 1864
Henry McALLEY, Co. F, 93rd Regt. NYV, Wilderness, VA, May 1864
Sergt. Marcus A. ALLEN, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV, Richmond, VA, Feb 1865
Daniel R. MOSS, Co. K, 153rd Regt. NYV, Alexandria, VA, Dec 1864
Frank AUBIN, Co. E, 22nd Regt. NYV, South Mountain, MD, Sept 1862
Edgar George STORER, Co. E, 123rd Regt., NYV, Chancelorsville Hosp., VA, May 1864
Barney LANGDON, Co. H, 93rd Regt. NYV, North Anna River Hosp., VA, Jun 1864

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.

The "Black Death": Story of True Hero

While researching the life and military service of Henry Johnson, I came across an interesting article in the Hutchinson News, on page 3 of the 14 August 1918 edition. Though race relations in our country are far from perfect, we’ve come a long way from 1918 when this article was acceptable.

A reporter was writing to his aunt and uncle and related a story about Henry Johnson as he heard it in the field headquarters of the Army press section. He wrote most it as a play:

Page 3 of the Hutchinson News, 14 Aug 1918

STORY OF A TRUE HERO

Corporal Rush Norwood Sends Story of Henry Johnson

A COLORED DOUGHBOY

Who, With Pardner, Accounted for 24 Germans in Hand to Hand Fight

Corporal J. Rush Norwood, who enlisted from his hometown of Slyvia, is now with the Press Section of the American Expeditionary Forces and in a letter to his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Waddlee, he encloses the story written telling of the experiences of two dusky heroes on the firing line. The story written as it was related in the office and the army field clerk and Norwood got it together to send home. Norwood's company is now over in France. He recently saw his brother, Alan, who is in the hospital corps and Alan was wearing his gold stripe denoting six months of foreign service.

A Colored Doughboy's Feat

I am going to attempt to give you the benefit of one of my recent experiences provided me here at the Field headquarters by Henry Johnson, a colored doughboy, who with Robert Robinson, also colored, both of New York, received both French and American war crosses for their heroic action in the Argonne Region some few weeks ago. They were outpost sentries and were attacked by a large German patrol. The two U. S. fighters held out against the superior number of the enemy hurling grenades, firing guns until ammunition all gone, and used bayonets, automatic pistols and finally bowie (trench knife). Robinson fell wounded and Germans attempted to carry him off as prisoner but Johnson went to his pal's rescue and freed him from captors. Both were rather severely wounded in action which netted them about 18 Hun casualties.

Now the hero of that incident, Corporal Henry Johnson, himself who is convalescing at a nearby Base Hospital, rather unexpectedly dropped in at the Field Headquarters of the Press Section here and very willingly gave a vivid and awesome story of the event. I am to try to offer it to you as I heard it. Quite contrary to the well known newspaper phrase "told his story blushing and stammering as a school girl" Johnson gave a rapid and vivid story inserting all the gestures of the fray.

WESTERN THEATER CIRCUIT
FIELD HEADQUARTERS
PRESS SECTION, A. E. F.

NOW PLAYING
Corporal Henry Johnson, Albany, N. Y.

"Count Those Dudes Out There"
A one-act, hair-raising, realistic, side-splitting melodrama
(No intermission)

LEADING MAN--Corp. Henry Johnson (costume courteously provided by U. S.)

SCENE--An American outpost in France once sought by the "Huns"

TIME--Present but mostly future (such plays to be extensively developed by future A. E. F. performers)

AUDIENCE--Press Officers and Clerical Personnel, including Yours truly

Prologue

Corp. Johnson in his khaki uniform, amply ornamented with the highest French and American honors, carrying cane and limping somewhat "but with a sunny Southern smile" as a contrast to his convalescence, strolls into Press Headquarters and now the setting is complete.

"Yessah, ma name's Johnson. Dis is Johnson, what's left of 'im.

"Yah must a read all about Johnson and Robinson, shure ya'll did it was in all the papers.

"Dere's a silver plate right dere (pointing to his left foot) yessir right dere they pushed a bayonet thru ma laig and shot me in de right arm. Day want to send me home, but Ah ain't goin home. Ah gonna stay here till ma company goes home. I'm a good man as any of em. Dose Germans can't fight.

How It All Happened

"Twas a cloudy an rainy night and me and ma pardner was at this here outpost. Bout two in da mornin we see a bunch a Germans comin at us. Ah figured maself as good a man as any of em an I says to ma pardner we're goin to stick right here. He says 'I'm with yah to da end.' So stead of treating to our lines we cut loose grenades and fired way all our ammunition. Roberts was wounded in da laig at de start and fell to de ground still throing de grenades at de Huns. Two of em tried to carry way ma pardner on a stretcher. Ah took ma rifle, a French gun just like dis, and hit a Dude right on de haid and broke the rifle right here.

"Ah went after de Dudes carryin way my pardner. Ah reached reached for ma bowie (trench knife) and hit one feller right in de haid. I pulled it out and bout faced all round and give it to nudder in the guts. I pulled it out an had mo guts and brains in ma hands dan you ever saw.

(NOTE--At this point one of the audience withdrew.)

"Den de lootenant comes runnin in an says 'Johnson's what's happend?'

"I says it's all over, lootenant.

"Ah had 16 automatics and mo stuff piled in front of ma.

"I says 'Go dere an count dose Dudes.'

"The lootenant takes his pocket light and looks over the ground and comes back.

Accounted for 24 Germans

"For heaven's sake, Johnson, there's 24 of em!"

"Yessah and if dey hadn't a got ma pardner here, dey would a been a lot mo.

"The lootenant says 'Johnson are you hurt?'

"Ah says, 'No sah.'

"Yes, you is," he says, 'look, youse all bloody.'

"O," I says, 'dats from de dudes.'

"Yessah, I figured maself as good a man as any of dem and if dey hadn't got ma pardner we'd a cleaned up."

At this point one of the listeners inquired:

"Johnson, where are you from?"

"I'm from Albany, sah."

"I'm from Albany, too," was the reply.

"You ought a know me. I'm Henry Johnson, the boy who used to drive a horse for Hartman's on __________ Street."

This ended the dramatic offering and Mr. Johnson was warmly congratulated by his attentive audience.

Daily as Corporal Johnson strolls the streets of the village on his convalescent limp he is stopped by both French and Americans who congratulate him and inquire as to his heroic deed. He is becoming a popular character about the place and many await the appearance of his partner, Robinson, to see the pair which scored such an extraordinary win against heavy German odds.