Cornelius B. Gold
Parents, J Swift and Catharine B. Gold.
Was one of the first in Washington to be drafted in 1863. Was a bright and sprightly youth of ill health. His friends considered him ineligible for military duty, but his patriotism was healthy and earnest, refusing a substitute when drafted. He was accepted by the examining surgeon and assigned as a recruit to Company B, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, on duty on the South Carolina Coast. After a few weeks was successively detailed as Clerk of the Company, o the Regiment and of the General Court Martial, Department of the South at Hilton Head Island; served with this Regiment in Virginia campaign bordering on the James and York Rivers in the vicinity of Petersburg and Richmond, the following summer. On October 31st, 1864, was commissioned as Assistant Paymaster in the U. S. Navy; was ordered to the Gulf Squadron until the fall of Mobile and end of the war. Received his discharge March 1st, 1866, when he returned to Washington, Connecticut, and civic life, fully restored in health by the out door life and plain fare of the soldier, and the health giving breezes of the ocean.
Was one of the first in Washington to be drafted in 1863. Was a bright and sprightly youth of ill health. His friends considered him ineligible for military duty, but his patriotism was healthy and earnest, refusing a substitute when drafted. He was accepted by the examining surgeon and assigned as a recruit to Company B, 6th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, on duty on the South Carolina Coast. After a few weeks was successively detailed as Clerk of the Company, o the Regiment and of the General Court Martial, Department of the South at Hilton Head Island; served with this Regiment in Virginia campaign bordering on the James and York Rivers in the vicinity of Petersburg and Richmond, the following summer. On October 31st, 1864, was commissioned as Assistant Paymaster in the U. S. Navy; was ordered to the Gulf Squadron until the fall of Mobile and end of the war. Received his discharge March 1st, 1866, when he returned to Washington, Connecticut, and civic life, fully restored in health by the out door life and plain fare of the soldier, and the health giving breezes of the ocean.