Enoch Plummer Fitch

By 1855 he was a partner with Dr. Isaac Scott in manufacturing medicines in Morgantown, VA. In 1860 he was a successful merchant there, and had been sheriff of Monongalia County, VA for 16 years. He was appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster (AQM), US Volunteers on 3 August 1861.

He was Assistant Quartermaster of General Cox's Kanawha Division on the Maryland Campaign and was mentioned by the General in his after-action Report.

He died of disease in a hospital near Petersburg, VA in May 1864.

His service information from Heitman.1 Personal details from family genealogists, a bio sketch in Butcher's Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley (Vol. 2, 1912), which has his birth in Preston County, VA, and the US Census of 1860, with his birth in Maryland. Death detail from the Army Adjutant General's General Orders No. 256 of 15 September 1864. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a portrait photo collection of General Cox and his staff, from the Library of Congress.

He married Louisa Dorsey (1825-) and they had 4 children between 1846 and 1858.

02/18/1823; New Geneva, PA

05/31/1864; near Petersburg, VA; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, WV