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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Dennis Delaney

(c. 1815 - 1863)

Home State: Ohio

Command Billet: Commanding Detachment

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: Harrison's Company, West Virginia Cavalry

Before Antietam

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.

On the Campaign

He led the Company in Maryland.

The rest of the War

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.

References & notes

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.

Birth

c. 1815 in IRELAND

Death

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

Notes

1   Lang, Theodore F., Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865, Baltimore: Deutsch Publishing, 1895, pp. 160, 162  [AotW citation 963]

2   State of West Virginia, Adjutant General's Office, and Brig. Gen'l Francis P. Peirpoint, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the Year ending December 31, 1865, Wheeling: John Frew, Public Printer, 1866, pp. 70, 72  [AotW citation 29473]