. History and personal sketches of Company I, 103 , 1862-1864. Acteran at Folly Island. S. C, altertwo vears service, anrl went home on veteran furloiighabout twentv davs after the balance of the re-enlistcdmen from the company, returning aboit the last ol He was mustered out with the battalion at CityPoint, ^.a., Dec. 7, In the spring of lb(36 he accepted a position on Central Railroad, wliieh he held for about thnevears, tlien vv-as employed on the canal for about t!:^Barker. Dounce. Rose & Co. in their tinning and roonr-departinent for .i ninnber of ye
. History and personal sketches of Company I, 103 , 1862-1864. Acteran at Folly Island. S. C, altertwo vears service, anrl went home on veteran furloiighabout twentv davs after the balance of the re-enlistcdmen from the company, returning aboit the last ol He was mustered out with the battalion at CityPoint, ^.a., Dec. 7, In the spring of lb(36 he accepted a position on Central Railroad, wliieh he held for about thnevears, tlien vv-as employed on the canal for about t!:^Barker. Dounce. Rose & Co. in their tinning and roonr-departinent for .i ninnber of years, then for Losey Bros .slaters, for alH,>ut six years. lie w;!s married in tiic spririg of ISoo ; Re>cec.:.daugliter of \Vc:ie, <if Cashtou p., ooar::-vPa. Bv thi^- 54 \:i .• t: )ii£sSi. FERNAN-DO WESCOTr. { Kate Belle (Mrs. Jean Arnold, of Elmira); Jessie, of Syra-I cuse, N. Y.; Mary E., at home. Comrade Wade is living^ lu Elmira, X. Y. I . FERNANDO WESCOTT. *• Fernando Wescott was born in the township of Hector, I countv of Tompkms (now Schuyler), State of New York,I July 17, 1842. His father, Amos Wescott, was born MayI 20, 1806, and came to Tompkins county from Xew JerseyI inl818. He died May 8, 1888. His mother. SophieI Ann, was a daughter of Alexander Lyon, who in 1825^ settled on the Hector farm, now owned by Fernando The snbiect of this sketch enlisted January 15, 1862, at Elmira in Captain William M. Crosbys Company 1, 103rd N. Y. Yolunteer Infantry, and went to the front with the company, passing through the National Capi-tal, thence to Annapolis. Md., and by ocean transport toXewberne, X. C , April 1st, same year. He was with thei oxpedliion to Ev:ins Mills in May, and later in thatmonth went with, his company to Hattcras Island, X. was wit
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