 1825 - 1912 (87 years)
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| Name |
Nathan Lanphear |
| Title |
Sergeant |
| Birth |
1825 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military Service |
Civil War, Union Army  |
Served in the 85th New York Volunteers.
Quite a number of the Eighty-fifth regiment were killed or wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks. Nathan was wounded by the bursting of a shell, a pieces striking him on the side of his head, while two of his comrades were killed by his side. He did not realize that he was wounded until daylight came, and the scattered men of the Eighth-fifth gathered in the morning. Then he was asked what was the matter with his head, as they saw the blood had been running down his back from his head. He took off his cap only to find a hole cut in his cap and quite a gash cut in his scalp. He had been so excited in the battle that he did not know he was wounded.
On 20 April 1864 the rebels surrounded them at Plymoth, There was no chance of escape. They surrendered, and were all marched to Andersonville prison. He was confined until 11 September 1864, then taken first to Charleston, S. C., then
to Florence. He was paroled 6 December 1864, when his weight had been reduced from 164 lbs. to 90.
During its term of service the Eighth-fifth lost 36 soldiers by death from wounds, 103 from accident or disease, and the 222 died in prison. |
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Battle of Fair Oaks in more modern works often called the Battle of Seven Pines. Note the balloon in the upper left corner.
Currier & Ives print, New York 1862. |
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Nathan Lanphear Document.
Statement by Nathan Lanphear testifying to the service of Sgt Rynear Smally and the fact that he was present when the Sergeant died while a prisoner at the prison camp in Florence South Carolina. |
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Union cannoneers Fair Oaks.
Photo from a rare hand colored stereograph transparency. The photo shows Union cannoneers preparing as infantry soldiers line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, near Fair Oaks, Virginia, in June, 1862. |
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The balloon "Intrepid" at Battle of Fair Oaks. the Union Army was accompanied by the Union Army Balloon Corps commanded by Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. The tethered balloons trailed a telegraph wire which was used to communicate observations to the ground.
Photograph by Mathew Brady |
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Andersonville Prison.
Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at Camp Sumter during the Civil War, nearly 13,000 men died. |
| Death |
1912 |
| Burial |
Nile Cemetery, Nile, Allegany, New York, United States |
 Siblings |
9 siblings |
| 1. Avery Lanphear, b. 30 Dec 1815, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. 5 Oct 1866, Hopewell Center, Ontario, New York |
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| 2. Ethan Lanphear, b. 2 Mar 1818, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. 20 Jan 1903, New York |
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| 3. Hannah R Lanphear, b. 22 Sep 1821, New York d. 25 Mar 1883, Allegany County, New York |
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| 7. Mary R Lanphear, b. 19 May 1830, Alfred, Allegany, New York d. 3 Feb 1907, Allegany County, New York |
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| Person ID |
I6434 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2018 |
| Father |
Samuel Lanphear, b. 14 Oct 1785, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. 17 Jan 1860, Nile, Alleghany, New York (Age 74 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Hannah Potter, b. 29 Jan 1793, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. 24 Sep 1878, Nile, Alleghany, New York (Age 85 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Family ID |
F2158 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Burial - - Nile Cemetery, Nile, Allegany, New York, United States |
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| Photos |
 | Nathan Lanphear
From: Scenes, memories, and travels of eighty-two years : and short sketches of the Lanphear and Potter families, by Ethan Lanphear, self published, Plainfield, New Jersey 1900. |
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