Dennis Delaney

In 1860 he was the 45 year old sexton/superintendent of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, OH. A year later, giving his age as 43, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, First (West) Virginia Cavalry on 8 August 1861 at Clarksburg, VA, was promoted to First Sergeant, date not given, and commissioned Second Lieutenant on 16 October 1861.

He led the Company in Maryland.

He was promoted to Captain on 1 March 1863 after Captain Harrison was dismissed, but was killed in action - "shot through the head by a musket ball" - during the raid on Wytheville, VA in July of that year.

Service details here from Lang1 and the Adjutant General;2 his Company often seen as "A" of the First Cavalry. Personal details from family genealogists - also as Denis Delaney, the US Census of 1860, and Henry & Kate Ford's History of Cincinnati, Ohio with illustrations and biographical sketches (1881). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His widow Maria L. Brown Delaney (m. September 1858) of Cincinnati, OH applied for and was later granted a "half-pay pension" in August 1863. She stated they had no children.

c. 1815 in IRELAND

07/18/1863; Wytheville, VA; burial in Saint Joseph New Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH