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T.S. Harrison
(1820 - 1870)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Chaplain
Unit: 126th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He was licensed to preach in 1844 and ordained in 1850, afterward pastored in Pembroke, NY. By 1860 he was the 40 year old minister of the Baptist Church in the village of Dundee in Yates County, NY. Going by Spencer, he enlisted in Starkey, NY on 2 August 1862 and mustered on 22 August as a Sergeant in Company B, 126th New York Infantry. He was appointed Chaplain of the regiment on 31 August (commissioned on 31 December).
On the Campaign
He was at Harpers Ferry with his regiment and
was on Maryland Heights [on 13 September 1862] when Colonel Sherrill was wounded, and assisted him off the Heights ...
The rest of the War
... and attended him until he reached the Relay House, near Baltimore, where the Colonel met his friends from home. Chaplain Harrison then joined his Regiment, accompanied it to [the parole camp in] Chicago, and thence back to the field againin November 1862. He tended the wounded in hospitals during and after the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and in later actions. He was detached to the Division Hospital from August 1864 into May 1865 and mustered out with his regiment on 3 June 1865 near Alexandria, VA.
After the War
In 1865 he was a Baptist minister at Starkey, NY.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and Willson,2 quoted above. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the New York State Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph from the collection of the Library of Congress.
He married Sarah Ann Couse (1826-1911) and they had 2 daughters and a son between 1845 and 1853. Daughter Lillie married former Corporal Edwin Knapp of the 126th New York Infantry in 1868; her husband and father died in the same year.
Birth
07/05/1820; Poughkeepsie, NY
Death
1870; in NY; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Dundee, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the [year]: Registers of the [units numbers], 43 vols., Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1893-1905, For the Year 1903, Ser. No. 36, p. 923 [AotW citation 35006]
2 Willson, Arabella M., and the Historical Committee of the Regiment, Disaster, Struggle, Triumph. The Adventures of 1000 "Boys in Blue," from August, 1862, to June, 1865, Albany: The Argus Company, printers, 1870, pp. 194, 364-365 [AotW citation 35007]