James R.
Pool
June 25, 1842 - March 31,
1915
Contributed by Fran Sabo
of Valley Stream, NY
The pictures below took a long road home to Jennings County where he was
born to Isaac & Juliana (Price) Pool.
I received an e mail asking if I
would be interested in information and pictures of James Pool. Of course I said
yes! I was curious about Fran's connection to James so asked and here was her
response. "I like
to buy now and than on Ebay so decided to look at old photo. I put in
a search for Civil War Soldiers photo's so I may be able to have a piece of
that time in history. After looking at all they had at the time,
James photo came up with his name on the back of the case. I
thought that made him more personal." Fran then went a
step further and did some quite thorough research on James. So around 150
years after his service in the Civil War, pictures of James during his service
in Company "H" of the 68th Regiment of Indiana Infantry can now be seen by
those who may be researching his family and those of us who appreciate his
service. More information from Fran's research is below the
photo's. THANK YOU FRAN!
Regimental
History
68th Indiana Infantry
Sixty-eighth Indiana Infantry. —
Cols., Edward W. King, John S. Scobey, Harvey J. Espy; Lieut. -Cols., Benjamin
C. Shaw, John S. Scobey, Harvey J. Espy, Edmund Finn; Majs., John S. Scobey,
James W. Innis, Harvey J. Espy, Edmund Finn, Cyrus B. Goodwin. This regiment was
organized at Greensburg, mustered in Aug. 19, 1862, left at midnight of the same
day for Louisville and thence for Lebanon, moved to Munfordville and there
surrendered with the other troops to Gen. Bragg, being paroled and exchanged in
December. On Dec. 26 a detachment moved to Louisville, where it was joined by
the rest of the regiment on the 31st. It proceeded to Murfreesboro, Tenn., where
it was assigned to the 1st brigade, 4th division, 14th army corps. It was in the
engagement at Hoover's gap in June, 1863; moved over the Tennessee and Lookout
mountains in September, skirmishing with the enemy at Pond Springs; was engaged
in the battle of Chickamauga, losing 135 in killed, wounded and missing out of
356 engaged, Col. King being among the killed, and it was among the last to
leave the field. On Oct. 11 it was transferred to the 1st brigade, 3d division,
4th army corps, and took part at Missionary ridge, losing 82 in killed
and wounded. It then marched to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville, and later
toward Dandridge, returning soon to Knoxville and moving thence to Marysville.
During March, 1864, it was on duty at Knoxville, Strawberry Plains, New Market,
Morristown and McDonald's station. It was on garrison duty at Chattanooga from
Apr. 28 to Aug. 14, and was then in a skirmish with Wheeler's cavalry at Dalton,
Ga. It was engaged in several minor expeditions from Chattanooga until Oct. 27,
when it moved to Decatur, Ala., and was engaged with the garrison in a fight
with Hood's forces. It guarded the forces tearing up the track near Resaca from
Nov. 13 to Nov. 29, when it moved to Nashville, and was in the battle there in
December. It was in pursuit of Hood's army as far as Leighton, and from there
returned to Chattanooga. It was engaged on bridge guard duty and mustered out at
Nashville June 20, 1865, the recruits being then transferred to the 44th
regiment and serving with it until mustered out Sept. 14. The original strength
of the 68th was 905 ; gain by recruits, 112; total, 1,017. Loss by death, 142 ;
desertion, 48; unaccounted for, 5.
This Regimental
History taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company,
1908 - Volume 3
James R. Pool was injured at Missionary
Ridge and transferred to the Verteran Reserve Corps.
The
Veteran Reserve Corps (originally the Invalid Corps) was a military reserve
organization created within the Union Army during the American Civil War to
allow partially disabled or otherwised infirmed soldiers (or former soldiers) to
perform light duty, freeing able-bodied soldiers to serve on the front lines
The title "Veteran Reserve Corps" was substituted
for that of "Invalid Corps" by General Order No. 111, dated March 18, 1864. The
men serving in the Veteran Reserve Corps were organized into two battalions; the
First Battalion including those whose disabilities were comparatively slight and
who were still able to handle a musket and do some marching, also to perform
guard or provost duty. The Second Battalion was made up of men whose
disabilities were more serious, who had perhaps lost limbs or suffered some
other grave injury. These latter were commonly employed as cooks, orderlies,
nurses, or guards in public buildings.
Descendants of James R Pool
Generation No. 1
1. JAMES R POOL Was born 25 Jun 1842 in Jennings County,
Indiana, and died 31 Mar 1915 in Jennings County, Indiana.
He
married (1) MARTHA A MONROE 15 May 1865 in Jennings County, Indiana, daughter of
GEORGE MONROE and NANCY CHAMBERS. She was born 1845 in Jefferson County,
Indiana. In the 1860 census George & Nancy Monroe and family are living in
Campbell Township, Jennings County as was James R. Pool.
He married (2) NANCY REGINA DAVIS 25 Aug 1901 in Jennings County, Indiana. She was born 1853 in Indiana. Nancy was first married to George W. Pool, Jan 1, 1846 - Nov. 27, 1879. She was his widow when she married James R. Pool.
More About JAMES R POOL:
Residences from census records:
1850, Vernon, Jennings, Indiana; 1860 Campbell Township, Jennings County,
Indiana; 1870 Sandcreek Township, Decatur County, Indiana; 1880 Columbia
Township Jennings County, Indiana; 1900 Center Township, Jennings County,
Indiana; 1910 Campbell Township, Jennings County, Indiana. When James died in
1915 he was buried in Brush Creek Cemetery, Campbell Township near many of his
relatives.
More About MARTHA A MONROE:
Residence: 1880, Columbia,
Jennings, Indiana, United States
More About NANCY REGINA DAVIS:
Residence: 1910, Campbell,
Jennings, Indiana
Children of JAMES POOL and MARTHA MONROE
are:
1. i. MADORA A "DORA"4 POOL, b. 1869, Sardinia, Decatur
County, Indiana.
2. ii. JOHN M POOL, b. 1873, Jennings County,
Indiana.
3. iii. JEREMIAH T "JERRY" POOL, b. 1875, Jennings County,
Indiana.
4. iv. JOSEPH W POOL, b. Jun 1877, Jennings
County, Indiana.
Generation No. 2
1. MADORA A "DORA" POOL was born 1869 in Sardinia,
Decatur County, Indiana. She married EDWARD "ED" CLARKSON, son of GEORGE
CLARKSON and CARRIE. He was born 1864 in Jennings County,
Indiana.
Children of MADORA POOL and EDWARD CLARKSON are from census
records:
i. HAZEL D CLARKSON, b. 1897, Jennings County,
Indiana; d. 09 Sep 1996; m. UNKNOWN FERDINAND
ii. LAWRENCE CLARKSON, b. 28 Oct 1898, Jennings County, Indiana; d. Dec 1981.
iii. ENID CLARKSON, b. 1901, Indiana.
iv. CAROLINE M CLARKSON, b. 1903, Indiana.
v. ALPHA CLARKSON, b. 1904, Indiana; m.
CHAT? ROWEN.
vi. JOSEPH CLARKSON,
b. 1907, Indiana.
vii. GEORGE CLARKSON, b. 12 Mar 1908; d. Oct
1983.
viii. ALMA J CLARKSON, b. 1910, Indiana.
ix. JAMES CLARKSON, b. 1915, Indiana.
2. JOHN M POOL was born 1873 in Jennings County,
Indiana.
3. JEREMIAH T "JERRY"
POOL was born in 1875 in Jennings County, Indiana
4. JOSEPH W POOL was born June 1877 in Jennings County, Indiana
Notes:
In 1900 census, Center Township, Jennings
County there is an Eldo Pool age 17 living with Joseph and John all are
listed as saw mill workers and employees of a J. B. Stearns who owns a mill.
They are all living with Mr. Stearns and next to Dora and her husband Ed
Clarkson, their father James R Pool is living with the Clarksons.