The Grover Family

 

1. Newell Grover (?)

 

2. Orin A. Grover, 9th NY Cavalry (my ggrandffather) "Distinguished Service".  Enlisted 11/8/1862 from Mina, NY at age 35.  Wounded 7/8/1863 Boonsboro, MD.  Mustered out 8/19/1863.  Re-enlisted and was again wounded at Cold Harbor, VA 6/1/1864 but served to the end of the war.  He was in Charlottesville, VA on 3/3/1865.  He was at Appomatox for the surrender of Lee and also participated in the victory parade in Washington, DC.  He had 4 wives (poor guy) and Homesteaded to St. James, MO in 1869 and is buried there in the St. James Old Masonic Cemetery.

 

3. Major General George Stoneman & Staff

 

4. 9th NY Cavalry at Old Church Hotel before Battle of Cold Harbor, VA

 

5. Bathseda Church the day before the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA 5/28/1864

 

6. 9th NY Cavalry "digging potatos" before Battle of Cold Harbor, VA

 

7. Lt. Col. William D. Hyde (not related).

 

8. Robert Rownds, last surviving Civil War Vet. from (ripley) Chautauqua County, NY