Isaac Eison

His father Abraham died in 1855 and in 1860 he was a 33 year old farmer living with Hannah Eison (aunt?), 8 siblings, and 8 slaves on Hannah's farm in the Union District, SC. He enlisted there on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Columbia on 16 September as a Private in the Macbeth Light Artillery.

He was with his battery in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

We usually hauled our baggage on our caissons and on the limber chest. On the morning of the fight, when one of our caissons was blown up, a bundle of blankets was sent heavenwards. Ike Ison, who fell when the explosion took place, rose just as the blankets under the force of gravity were returning. In the confusion, he cried out, “Boys, they are shooting blankets at us!” Many of us thought it was something more solid than blankets that was doing the damage.

He was with the battery to at least the end of 1864, the latest record in his military file.

By 1880 he was farming in De Soto County, MS and in 1900 was farming with his son James and family in Hill County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 as Isaac Ison, online from fold3. The quote above from an account by a battery veteran writing as "Vidi" in the Weekly Union (SC) Times of 9 July 1886, thanks to Dan Masters. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Polena Ryan (1843-1910) and they had 4 children between 1874 and 1882).

03/28/1827; Union District, SC

02/08/1906; in TX; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Hubbard, TX