Any F/F/Fs that were called out in the Newsletter have now been noted within the various individual state pages with links to the particular Newsletter pages in which they were mentioned. Whenever possible I have also linked the official history of that individual’s Unit was well.
Note: This symbol (the symbol for “transformation” I understand … which also looks a bit like the WWII USAF symbol) will be used to indicated anyone who died as a consequence of the war.
Interesting statistics …. if true:
On this page http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=califia1&id=I1660 the genealogist Bill Boggess gave the following information regarding the Civil War:
“There were 50 [fifty] Floras who volunteered in the of 1.05 million CSA [Confederate States Army] members and 117 [one hundred and seventeen] Floras of the 2.21 million USA [United States Army] members.” I haven’t seen this mentioned before but I find it interesting (if true) as I have not run across any Floras in my lines who served as part of the armed forces of the Confederacy in the 1861-1865 conflict.
Anyone with information to add to any of the F/F/Fs noted, please contact me and I will add it to the individual’s paragraphs in the appropriate state. (Email me at: floras@iinet.net.au for passing along such things as photos, additional information, etc.)
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Fleury, Frank Co. F, 24th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry (Union) Private
Alternate Name in USG Records: Fluy, Francis
24th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Overview: Organized at Detroit, Mich., and mustered in August 15, 1862. Moved to Washington, D. C., August 29, 1862. Attached to Defences of Washington, D. C., to October, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 5th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to February, 1865. Springfield, Ill., Northern Department, to June, 1865.
Flora, James C. Co. C, 4th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry (1st Organization) (Union) Private
Information from Daniel Flora regarding this veteran: “James C. Flora was born in Bourbon, Indiana. He enlisted in Company C, of the Fourth [Michigan] Infantry, June 20, 1861, at Adrian, for three years. Age 29. Height 5’9″. Complexion dark. Farmer by trade. Married, father of girls 8, 6 and 2 years of age. Mustered June 20, 1861. He was wounded, piece of finger taken off by a shell at Gaines’Mill, Virginia on June 27, 1862. James was reduced in rank to private for cowardice at Fredericksburg. To further his misfortune, he was wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863 … shot in forearm then inner right thigh, opening the deep femoral artery and nearly bleeding to death. Amputation of arm. Sent to General Hospital, York, Pennsylvania. Mustered out at Detroit, Michigan, badly disabled at expiration of term of service, June 30, 1864. Died April 27, 1877 of lung fever. Buried in Rickey Cemetery, Mason City, Michigan. Born in Tennessee.”
4th Regiment, Michigan Infantry (1st organization) Overview: Organized at Adrian, Mich., and mustered in June 20, 1861. Left State for Washington, D. C., June 26. Attached to Wilcox’s Brigade, Heintzelman’s Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeastern Virginia, to August, 1861. Sherman’s Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Morell’s Brigade, Porter’s Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.
Flory, William Henry Company I, 3rd Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Cavalry (Union) Private and Co. I, 8th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Cavalry (Union) Private
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Alternate Name in USG Records: Flora, William
Unit History at http://www.michiganinthewar.org/cavalry/3rdcav.htm
[NOTE: No Unit History for the 3rd Regiment, Michigan Cavalry available at this time.]
8th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Overview: Organized at Mt. Clemens, Mich., December 30, 1862 to May 2, 1863. Left State for Covington, Ky., May 12, 1863; thence moved to Hickman’s Bridge, Ky., June 1-4, and to Mt. Sterling, Ky. Attached to 2nd Brigade 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Ohio, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to June, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Wilson’s Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to June, 1865. Cavalry District West Tennessee to September, 1865.
Flury, Columbus Co. H, 1st Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery (Union) Private
Alternate Names in USG Records: Flury, Columbus H. and Fleury, Columbus H.
BATTERY “H,” 1st REGIMENT LIGHT ARTILLERY (“DE GOLYER’S BATTERY”).
Organized at Monroe, Mich., and mustered in March 6, 1862. Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 13; thence moved to New Madrid, Mo. Attached to Artillery Division, Army of the Mississippi. to July, 1862. District of Columbus, Ky., Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to October, 1864. Post of Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland October, 1864. Post of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. Post of Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-Operations against Island No. 10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8, 1862. Expedition down the Mississippi River to Fort Pillow, Tenn., May 19-23. Duty in District of Columbus, Ky., till November. Expedition from Columbus, Ky., to Covington, Durhamsville and Fort Randolph September 28-October 5. Grant’s Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from Lagrange November 8-9, 1862. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January, 1863; thence to Lake Providence, La., February 22. Duty there and at Milliken’s Bend, La., till April 25. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Thompson’s Hill, Port Gibson, Miss., May 1. South Fork, Bayou Pierrie, May 2. Forty Hills and Hankinson’s Ferry May 3-4. Battles of Raymond May 12, Jackson May 14, and Champion’s Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty at Vicksburg till February, 1864. Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Duty at Big Black November 8, 1863, to February, 1864. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Clinton February 5. Meridian February 14-15. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., April; thence march to Ackworth, Ga., May 5-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 8-September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Howell’s Ferry July 5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Leggett’s (or Bald Hill) July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Duty near Atlanta till October. Reconnoissance from Rome, on Cave Springs Road, and skirmishes October 12-13. Guard Railroad near Chattanooga, Tenn., till November. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 15-18, and duty there till February, 1865. Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864 (Reserve). Moved to Chattanooga February 16-19, l865, and duty there till July. Ordered to Jackson, Mich. and there mustered cut July 22, 1865.
Battery lost during service 2 Officers and 3 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 42 Enlisted men by disease. Total 47.
Herzel, Louis Co. F, 24th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry (Union) Private
See also V.R.C. (Veteran Reserve Corps)
The following received from Jerilee Herzel regarding her ancestor Louis (Ludwig) Herzel:
“My grandfather Herzel on my dad’s Herzel side was very much involved in the Civil War and was wounded twice (having a thumb shot off). His name was Ludwig (Louis) Herzel whose home was in Detroit and he married Maria Heilig. Two children were born to them, a son John F. Herzel in 1859 and a daughter Mary in 1861. He died in May 1900 after being born in Berlin, Germany in 1837, coming to the United States about 1855. He enlisted in the US Army on Aug 5, 1862 and fought for the North in a number of battles with Company F, 24th Michigan Infantry. He was discharged on July 2, 1865 and returned to Detroit where he married for the second time Augusta Caroline Francis. She died in 1888 at forty-eight years old. No children were born to them. In 1889, Ludwig Herzel was married for the third time to Mary Shriber Devine and more children were born but only two survived, Uncle Fred Herzel and my father Lewis Herzel. Lewis was born in 1899 and was only a little over one year old when his father died at the age of about sixty-two years old in 1900. Then, in 1903 their mother Mary Herzel died from pneumonia aged forty-three. This was when Lewis was four and Fred was ten years old. Their mother’s half-sister Effie Shriber Landon took the boys and raised them with her own two children at Carleton Center near Hastings. Fred (my father) married Clara V. Flory in 1927 and I was born in 1929. My sister Ruthanne Marie was born in 1932 and our brother Philip Douglas was born in 1942. My father (Lewis) died age eighty-six and my mother (Clara) died at eighty-two … both in 1985.”
24th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Overview: Organized at Detroit, Mich., and mustered in August 15, 1862. Moved to Washington, D. C., August 29, 1862. Attached to Defences of Washington, D. C., to October, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 5th Army Corps, to August, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to February, 1865. Springfield, Ill., Northern Department, to June, 1865.
FLORHI+FLORY+FLORA+FLOREY+FLORIG+FLOREA 
Flora, James C., was born in Bourbon, Indiana. He Enlisted in Company C, of the Fourth Infantry, June 20, 1861, at Adrian, for 3 years, age 29. Height 5’9”. Complexion dark. Farmer by trade. Married, father of girls 8, 6 and 2 years of age. Mustered June 20, 1861. He was wounded, piece of finger taken off by a shell at Gaines’ Mill, Virginia. June 27, 1862. James was Reduced in rank to private for cowardice at Fredericksburg. To further his misfortune he was wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863 shot in forearm then interned right thigh, opening the deep femoral artery nearly bleeding to death. Amputation of arm. Sent to General Hospital, York, Pennsylvania Mustered out at Detroit, Michigan, badly disabled at expiration of term of service, June 30, 1864. Died April 27, 1877 of lung fever. Buried in Rickey Cemetery, Mason City, Michigan. Born in Tennessee.