The Confederate government was forced to rely on the ingenuity of their craftsmen and imports from other countries, primarily England.īy the mid 1850s, brothers Francis and Ferdinand Cook, English immigrants and entrepreneurs, had settled in New Orleans. The South had few large iron producers and very little industry that could readily be converted to war production. The North was the great industrial complex of the country while the southern economy was based on agriculture. More American soldiers died during the Civil war than in both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam combined. The war pitted American against American, brother against brother.
James Lockwood pension file, National Archives.The American Civil War split our great nation as has not been seen before or since. Scofield, Loomis, History of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, (New Canaan, Conn., New Canaan Advertiser, 1915). 2, 1864.īuried in Memphis (Tenn.) National Cemetery, Sherman is the only Lockwood brother with a marked grave. Emaciated, he could barely walk when he left Andersonville, according to a 6th Connecticut comrade, and died from effects of starvation in Florence on Oct. After he was captured at Bermuda Hundred, Va., on June 17, 1864, James, a 22-year-old private, spent nearly four months in prisoner-of -war camps in Andersonville, Ga., and Florence, S.C. It was the last time Lydia and Sherman Lockwood saw him. 27, 1863, two weeks before Sherman, 23, perished in the same hospital.Īfter he had re-enlisted in the 6th Connecticut on Christmas Eve 1863, James Lockwood visited his financially-strapped parents in Stamford, Conn., while on furlough in 1864 and gave his mother a present of $20. Andrew, 30, died at Union Hospital on Aug. But the brothers were indeed too ill to survive.
13, 1863, Sherman and Andrew were among the 25 to 30 soldiers in the regiment who were hospitalized in Memphis, Tenn., one of the stops along the Mississippi. He said they were too weak and it would be impossible.” On Aug. “As I was assisting the doctor, I tried to get them through. Louis Scofield recalled years later about Andrew and Sherman Lockwood. “They were very anxious to get home,” Pvt. Suffering from chronic diarrhea, two brothers in the regiment begged one of their comrades to help them. Some even died as they reached the deck of the steamer. 7, 1863, soldiers in the regiment were so sick that they could barely make it aboard the boat for the first leg of the journey on the Mississippi River. When the 28th Connecticut left the brutally hot and pestilent conditions in Louisiana for home on Aug.
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