Israel Pickens Grasty

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their rented farm at Pigeon Run in Haywood County, NC. He enlisted in Waynesville, NC on 22 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 25th North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 11 October, sent to the paroled camp there on 18 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He returned to his company about January 1863.

He was sick with remittant fever in a Richmond hospital from 17 August to 1 October 1864, and deserted to the enemy on 26 December near Petersburg, VA. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States at City Point, VA the next day, and was in Washington, DC on 30 December 1864, where he was provided transportation to Cincinnati, OH. There is no later military record.

In 1870 he was farming in Manchester, Dearborn County, IN with a wife and 2 small daughters (all born in Ohio). In 1880 he was a farm worker on the George Diggs place in Madison County, IA. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was living there with his son William.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1920; the 1850-1870 Census have his birth about 1843/44, supported by his enlistment at 18 years in 1862. In later records he gives his age as 10 years older and, in 2 cases, his birth in New Hampshire. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his marker has his name as Isreal and his birth in April 1833.

He married Dell (?, c. 1846-after 1870) in about 1865 and they had 2 daughters. He married again, Elizabeth Cooper (1856-after 1875) in about 1870 and they had sons William (1871-1963) and James (1875-), both born in Indiana. He married third, Anna E Houk (1857-) in Ottumwa, IA in October 1878. He married fourth, Sarah Ann Bird (1832-) in October 1883.

His brothers Joseph (1842-1922) and William (1840-1926) were also in Company C; Joseph enlisted in 1863, but William enlisted in 1861 and may have been in Maryland with Israel in 1862.

c. 1844; Haywood County, NC

01/24/1925; Patterson, IA; burial in Union Chapel Cemetery, South Township, IA